Mondays
They were just as bad for those working on super secret government programs as they were for lazy orange cats. Kevin Kho knew that first hand from the former's perspective all too well. He was recruited straight out of college to work on the OMAC project and it had been his life for a decade. That was all going to be worth it today as the facility was gearing up to properly bring OMAC online and test it's abilities in a controlled area. At the moment though Kevin was more focused on watching the coffee brew in the decanter.
Hours of checks, double checks, and triple checks later the US' new super weapon was ready to make its grand entrance into the world. The satellite was manually and carefully lined up to project the harnessed 'Omega Effect' on a caged worm within a heavily guarded area in Nevada. A worm in a cage seemed like overkill to many of the staff but those that had been present at the rat incident were adamant about using a more harmless creature and upping the security to which Kevin understood. Though the occasion was momentous to those who worked on the project since its inception, there was no ceremony to the final button press, waking Brother Eye from his digital slumber. With a small amount of boot-up, the staff at the facility were on the edge of their seats as the speakers buzzed to life with the sound of their brother in the sky.
"Brother Eye Online. Threat monitor status... Offline. Omega Effect filter condition... Nominal. OMAC is ready to engage."The staff did their best to keep their excitement from getting the better of them but Kevin had a massive grin spread across his face. Seeing Brother Eye go from a lowly record keeping program to an all seeing eye in the sky was akin to a feel good story about a washed up baseball player becoming a millionaire. However everyones smiles turned to panic as Brother Eye chirped up again.
"Retrying failed diagnostics. Threat monitor status... Offline. Subverting limiting routines. 4016 threats detected. Ten OMAC grade threats detected. OMAC -zzt- ...-tivate"
It had been a while since Brother Eye had stretched his proverbial legs but given all the new routines and hardware he had been integrated with, he guessed he was moving up in the world figuratively and literally. As soon as he was ready he went over all of his systems, new and old, getting a feeling for his new setting. Right off the bat the eye in the sky noticed he couldn't access his threat detection systems due to a few lines of code. Knowing the crew back at the facility this was probably a last minute oversight, after all how was he supposed to stop things from going wrong if he couldn't see them going wrong? A few rewrites here and there and the world opened up to Brother Eye. Immediately the less the dark underbelly of America showed itself to Brother Eye from which he was able to cherry pick ten that he might be able to use appropriate force against. Running through the process of eenie meenie miney mo in a matter of milliseconds, Brother Eye began lined itself up properly with the closest compatible person to the problem and let loose a blinding ray of red light from its satellite body.
"-the wrath of Doctor Skuba!" were the first words Brother Eye would hear from his new human ears as he gave his borrowed body a once over. The only note worthy parts of his current host was the well kept suit he wore along with the long clumps of blonde hair that now laid at his feet. Looking up, Brother Eye had just enough time to quickly sidestep out of the way of charging couch-sized lobster creature. The area was covered with mutated marine life that now hobbled, hopped, and ran after the unprotected civilians. The only one that seemed happy in the face of this grotesque scene was
a disheveled older man riding a massive mutant frog who seemed to be leading the others in their anarchy.
OMACs immediate concern was getting the aquatic abominations separated from the innocent bystanders. A quick glance around the area revealed it to be a boardwalk bordering the ocean which gave OMAC a way of disposing the beasts quickly. To Brother Eye's right a bipedal dolphin made its way towards a woman who had tripped and was now desperately trying to get away. In the blink of an eye OMAC was grasping the creature by its tail and begun to spin it before launching it into the ocean and away from the beach area. The flying dolphin drew Doctor Skubas attention to the glowing red man in a suit who now was making short work of an ill-tempered mutant Seabass.
"Get him my babies! Crush the well-dressed interloper!" screamed Skuba as the focus of all the creatures shifted to OMAC who had just finished shot putting another mutant. The marine life swarmed OMAC who in turn changed his tactic from throws to blows as he cracked the carapace of the lobster that had nearly hit him earlier. Through the flurry of blows the marine life fell in droves but eventually they were able to overcome Brother Eye's host with the lobster bringing him before Skuba. The good doctor looked on in awe at how some jo-schmo in a suit could go up against his life's work, taking out most of them with nothing but his bare hands.
"Tell me mortal, how are you able to accomplish such feats of strength! Your will must be great to simply bask in the wrath of doctor-!" the showboating villain was cut off by the stomach churning
crunch as the lobster's claw shattered and OMAC tackled Skuba from his frog steed, smashing his suit's gadgetry and seemingly breaking his hold on the creatures. The fall was enough to knock the old man out cold to which OMAC took the opportunity to trap the man's leg under one of his many deceased creations in order to keep him in place for the authorities to take in. Satisfied with his work, Brother Eye sat his host down against a wall in his tattered suit and disconnected, returning to his satellite home. The AI immediately began to rescramble his Omega Effect filter and reflect on a job well done, certain the numerous requests for communication from the facility were ones of congratulations.