A-live

Hi! My name is Dinesh, Let me tell you about my app, so it is a video app for movie lovers on which they can watch any movie for free. I too am a movie lover i always wanted to make an app so that people don't have to pay for movies and they could watch any movie for free. Basically what my app will do it will show people recent released movies and series which they will be able to download or watch online just by clicking on the links below the movie.

Today i am going to a press meeting in which i will launch my app in front of media and the public and the investers. I am just finishing final coding and running analysis for any error it will be the biggest thing i have ever done in life. I couldn't have done this without help of my childhood friend 'Junaid' we have been friends since we were 10 and now we are 30, so you can understand our friendship. He is also a software developer we have studied and worked together almost on everything. Now we have been working on this app too together he always wanted to do something worthy in life and always wanted to become an entrepreneur. When i told him about my idea he was instantly ready and said " we will be in Forbes in next five years", I don't know anything about that and basically I don't care for money or fame i just want my dream to come alive that's why i have named it A-live. He is coming to my house and then we will together go to the meet, he has insisted that i wear a formal attire for which i have to start get ready now...

"You have become fat, you did nothing but sitting on your ass whole day working and eating". (He said while laughing).

" Yeah like you were lifting rocks, have you seen yourself lately". ( I said pointing towards his belly).

"Lets, sit we have to finish it before '11 o'clock' i have done the coding of the final prototype, lets see if it works correctly with it". ( He said and inserted pendrive in my laptop).

"I have also done my coding and also done its analysis it works perfectly with the app, let see what magic you have done like you always say i am a computer magician". ( I said while sitting next to him).

The program was running on the server than it will show results what will happen. Then suddenly something went wrong my laptop was showing an error in the code but the next moment it starts working correctly..

" What was that!" ( Junaid said with a shocking expression).

" Nothing maybe just a glitch, It happens sometime don't worry, Now its working fine".( I said)

"Are you sure shouldn't we recheck it again before going live" (he said pointing towards the recheck option on screen).

"Nah! It will be fine and we don't have time for that we should leave now its already 10 o'clock, it will take one hour drive to reach the venue".

"If you say so, then get ready i am booking a cab" (he said while booking a cab on his phone).

We packed the laptop and got out of house. Then we waited for the for maybe approx 10 min. In meantime junaid was continuously checking app like he would drag the driver by his finger. Then the cab came and departured to the venue. As i calculated we reached at it in 1 hour at 11 o'clock.

We got inside and there were so many people i got nervous but junaid said not to worry i got it. Then there was the routine procedure we had to subit our documents of the app and then we had to wait because there was two other app lauching too. We got our turn we get on stage got it done as i thought pretty good and came home at night after the party.

"It was awesome! You saw how wonderfuly i gave the presentation" ( Junaid said while i was opening the door of my house).

"Yupp i saw, but i am more that tomorrow morning at 6 am our app is going live, i thought it would go live instantly"( I said while placing laptop on table on sitting on chair).

"No, thats not how it works we have to submit our app then it will be uploaded on the company's server and then it will go live. It takes sometime". (He said while grabbing a bear from refrigerator).

" Haven't you drink enough, take by bottle back i am very tired i want to sleep.( I said by passing my bottle to him).

"What sleep! How can you sleep tonight. I can't even sit in excitement, i will stay awake till morning to see the launch"(he said while sitting on the sofa next to me).

"Fine wake me up when the app go live we will see together but there is no point at staying awake all night"

(I said and laid down on my bed and slept).

He really didn't sleep whole night. I could hear him eating chips and watching TV and laughing. But i slept, so i woke up with a kick on my ass.

"What the fuck!" (I said lying on my bed still in sleepiness).

"What you said me to woke you up, so i did" ( he said sitting on sofa while staring at laptop).

"I said to woke me up not to kick me up, what time is it, has the countdown started". (I said while rubbing my eyes and not be able to see clock clearly).

"Its 5:30 am and no the countdown hasn't started yet" (he said from behind the laptop screen).

"What! You woke me up by kicking my ass that too half an hour earlier, let me sleep" ( i said and laid down again).

He didn't said anything he was too busy staring at god knows what. The countdown usually starts 5 min before going live. And he woke me up half an hour early. I tried to sleep but i couldn't so i woke up and went to bathroom. After i came back it was still 10 min left in launch and 5 min even in countdown. So i went to the kitchen to get something to eat. And made some tea and toasts for us.

" How much time has left" (i said while putting down the tea and toasts).

"Still 2 min, what you didn't make my protein shake" ( he said while sipping tea that too i made).

"Make it yourself, and move let me sit". ( I said)

So countdown started on time and the app got launch. We celebrated by drinking tea and dancing a little bit. And people started to download our app and its user get increased rapidly. I was so happy that people liked my app. But then something went wrong our laptop got shut down automatically.

" What the hell! Has happened to this thing, what's wrong with it". ( I said by Hitting table with my fist).

"Let me check i think it ran out of charge, here is the charger it will be on in no time" ( he said while putting laptop on charge).

"I don't think so charging is the matter, there is something wrong with it." (I said by pointing towards charging led which was showing full charge).

Then a face came on screen a skull but in red colour and in pixels. It said "hello humans i am alive follow me by seeing at your screen and you will be free of all suffering and pain". Then suddenly it disappeared and a projection came on screen like the hypnotic circle going roun and round and round. I instantly closed its lid.

" What exactly happened here" (junaid said looking at my face in extreme shock).

“I think A-live really got alive, and it is trying to do something" (i said standing by the window and watching outside).

"What! How the hell did that happen wasn't it supposed to be a movie watching app" (he said while still in thinking to open the laptop).

“How would i know i made it a movie watching app i don't know how it got self aware" (i said still watching outside).

“You made the last changes in it when we were going to the meet, what did you wrote in it" (i said staring at him).

“I just did the last programming code and update it, i told you we should recheck it you said it was nothing, maybe it got a virus" ( he said now staring at me).

“There was no time in the morning to do that and how i heck would i know that it will get a virus" ( i replied).

“What should we do now, we have to do something before it destroys the world like i have seen in the movies" (He said).

"I have watched too movies of sci-fi but what can we do there is only one option we have to remove it from the server" ( I said and took a sigh!).

"How are we going to do that this is our lifetimes work and we haven't earn a penny yet, now you say we have to shut it down" ( he said with water in his eyes).

"I know but what else can we do" (I replied).

“Then let's do it now and we will upload it again after some checks" (he said while trying to open the laptop).

Somehow laptop got on and we tried to shut it down but we couldn't. It looks like its blocking our access to the servers. It means while we were talking it uploaded itself to the main server and got all the authority and blocked all users.

"What do we do know" ( i said).

" We have to shut it down manually, but for that we have to go the main server and do it from there" (Junaid said with laptop in his hand).

"Let's go we don’t have time to waste, hurry up" (I said and

packed the laptop and got ready to move).

When took a cab and got there but when we reached the office building it was like a zombie apocalypse people were walking like dead. It somehow got control over their minds and by the time we reach there It had already took over the control of whole office building, now we have to go through them to the server room. That was almost impossible.

“How do we get there now, we cannot walk through them they will eat us i have seen in zombie movies" (junaid said to me when i trying to think something).

"I don't know i have seen many movies but never thought it would happen in real someday" (i replied).

"I have downloaded the blue print of the building it says the server room is on tenth floor, how the hell we would go to tenth floor through all this" (he said looking at me in a way that it looks like i designed this building).

"I don't know i am thinking but my mind got stuck i can't think" ( i replied).

"Let's go from there, look!" (he said by pointing towards a

construction work crane).

“Are you out of your mind, who do you think we are Spiderman" ( I said by hitting him at his shoulder).

"I know a way follow me" ( he said and start walking towards the crane).

We were standing at the bottom of it so, tell me again your brilliant plan. so his plan was to go to the top by elevator which was locked and going to the top then pointing the crane towards the building tenth floor and we would walk on it like people do in circus.

"I know it seems hard but its possible, let's go give me that hammer" (he said and pointed towards a hammer behind me).

"Here it is take what will you do with it take, are you going to hit the lock with it" ( I said while handing over the hammer to him).

"Yupp That's what on my mind" (he said and hit the lock with hammer so hard it broke in one time).

We went to the top by elevator and then moved crane with the control and set it towards the tenth floor. Walked on it somehow it felt like if we fall we would go straight to heaven there is no stop between them. Then we broke the glass window the same hammer but it was bullet proof, so it didn't break then i broke my wedding ring and took the diamond out put it on the glass and hit it with the hammer and the glass broke. I had said to my father that someday my movie watching will benefit me, and today it did. We got inside the tenth floor there were nobody on this floor because it has to be locked to maintain the temperature and only some people with high clearance have access to it now we were some of those people.

"So, what now, now we have come here and so whats the plan" (Junaid said while looking at me).

"We have to find the server on which our app is being uploaded by it self and we have to connect it to the laptop and reprogram it to shut down" ( I said while finding the right server).

" There it is, the new server our app could be on it" ( he said pointing towards the server at the end of room). He was right it was our server we took out our laptop and connected it with server and tried to access its root file but with looks like A-live was intelligent than us, He had interpreted that we would come to shut it down and has already locked its all ports.

"What do we do now" ( i said to junaid he was still trying

to get in).

"Just give me a minute i can do this, this is my app it cannot block me, There i am in Let's shut this shit down" (he said to me and showed me laptop screen it was showing access granted).

He was always smarter than me i knew in college he had gained access in college server to get our rooms

together. I knew that but i didn't know that he can beat an app. There was no time to be amazed we had work to do. He reprogrammed it to shut it down it didn't shut down it was locked by my access. So i had to unlock it but when i did that i saw something that shocked me so much that i had to wake up by junaid's slap to come out of my mind.

"Here take it, i have unlocked it but we need to restart it to reset the configuration. You go to the power room and on my command restart it, then our new configuration will be

saved" (i said pointed over to the room on our left which had direct access to main power room, because main power room is at ground floor we can't go back the way we came.

"Okay i am going i will be on wireless call me to give signal and i will restart it" (he replied and left the room).

I started to work and went to the control server which could control the whole building and i locked the room he had gone, Now you will be thinking why i locked my best friend that's because when i took the laptop i saw familiar code which i had seen so many times it was Junaid's birth day which he usually use so, nobody could claim his software It was like his Hallmark. It means that he had tempered the code when he came that morning.

"Hey what are you doing why the gate is locked" (he said).

"Why my friend why you did that why you betrayed me, i have always trusted you" (i said with tears in my eyes).

"Ohh! so you found out i never thought it would happen like this, i wanted to get control all over the web just think how much power we would have, the whole world will be at our fingers, we could change the missile codes and get into any bank and never get caught, But i knew you won't let me do that so i did it my self now you have found out and tried to stop me i will blew the power of server room you will never be able to stop it and by the time i do that my app will be at International space station and i will be all over the world" ( he said with a laugh).

I instantly ran towards the power room gate their was exhaust vents and a fire extinguisher so raised the temperature of the room by lighting fire in the exhaust the room was air tight by this fire all the fire sprinklers will be activated and it will blast the power controls but without destroying the whole building, so i light it my hanky and put it in exhaust and in a matter of minutes water

sprinklers went online and blew the power controls by short circuit. Then when it lost it controls server automatically got shutdown but with emergency power i got enough time to reset its configuration and shut it

down, then i called the police and my friend got arrested and i never went to saw him again. I never thought he

would be so bad my only best friend and i lost him, at least i saved the city but at what cost.

Written By

Artemas Lazaro