The Last Witness (open)

Quickly after his birth Reaper cam to the realization the given his knowledge, every member of the secret organization that had made him was only a liability to him. Anything they knew he knew, and that made the only person left to hear it was someone else. Starting with his base of creation, he had begun to hunt down every member of the group, all it's bases, and every supercomputer that made up his home network. He had destroyed every base that he couldn't hide in his absence, constructed defense at the ones he could, and kept the secret location of his terminals a secret. Well, the last one he was about to finish with Eric McBlair,

He was a simple electricic engineer, but he had laid down the schematic for his networks back up land line. If he told someone that information it wouldn't be too disastrous, but it was supposed the be his safety net if global satalites went out. He did not want to find himself without it, bear the effort to replace it, and be in danger while he did so. That was why he was chasing the overweight man through the back alleys of East point in a hot Atlanta evening, and why he knew the man would be dead by the end of the night.

IThe man was running for his life now, knowing he was being followed nut not where the threat was. Reaper had let himself be seen by the man while he was chatting to a woman in a bar about the cost of her services, causing him to flee to the street to a car that would no longer start. Of he ran into the night, and Reaper slowly followed, staying out of sight to increase the mans paranoia, knowing it wouldn't be long until the man had to stop to catch his breath and would run into an secluded alley, thinking he had lost his persuer. It would inevitably cause the mans death to go unwitnessed, letting the scene fade into the background of local gang violence.

Just as reaper started to enjoy the idea floating in his porcessor, the man did ijust as he said, eventually ending up behind a seedy motel, under the only working light. At that moment reaper used his speed to appear standing before the man, letting know then he never had a chance to outrun the machine and that he alone was powerless to stop his fate.

"Offer: If you do not scream, I promise to make it painless."

It was an honest offer, though as much as he would enjoy killing him and fulfilling his programming, he knew the man had not conciouslly become a hinderance and therefore Reaper would not gain from him suffering. As the man slid down the buildings wall, lost for words, and closed his eyes to accept the invitable, Reaper pulled back his arm and extended his index finger, intenting to leave a bullet like hole in the mans head.

He thrust forward and....