Lucid Future

Project: Lucid Future by Snow Scales-Ice Dragon Genre: Sci-Fi Note: This idea probably exists but whatever

~Prolouge~
Emmar Sunner walked down the crowded halls of Lucid Labs with a relaxed look on his face. If anything messes up, he will bring out his mean face. No one will want that.

After a long walk to the other side of the Lab, he finally reached his destination. He made a mental note to bring a segway next time he intend to walk that far.

If everything goes to plan, and if his volunteers aren't the cowardly type, Project: Lucid Future will take action tomorrow. He entered room 201, and saw heads whip to his direction. Out of the 200 participants in the room, there were plenty of kids that belong in eighth grade, along with their parents.

Sunner was dressed in a stereotypical white lab suit and glasses, but the thing that stood out from the rest of the scientists was his robotic eye, swiveling around in his left eye socket. He chose not to paint it like a normal human eye, because he liked seeing the fear and uncomfort in everyone. But if he tells the truth about how he lost his left eye, everyone will rolling on the ground in laughter. As the boss of the most important project ever done, he needed everyone to take him seriously.

Sunner waited for the talking to die down, before he began. The volunteers quickly noticed his eye, and was silenced immediately. He cleared his throat, and bagan to talk in a clear voice, "Before I begin, I want you to understand that the project you will be participating is a long and serious one. If you cannot keep a secret, if you will blab and ruin everything, if you can not handle to be in this project for more than two years, and if you can not handle being separated from the outside world, there's the door." Sunner pointed to the door he just entered.

Out of the 200 people who volunteered, none of them moved. Sunner smiled, which was unsettling given his appearance.

He continued to speak, "This project is designed to see how far AI, or robots, will go before they realize exactly what they are." The kids looked at each other, as if giggling about how funny this is, despite the speech Sunner gave them about how serious this is. He continued in a sterner voice, "The rules I will ask you is to one, treat the robot as an actual human being. That means no looking at it weirdly, or having a prejudice against them. If you choose to, be kind to it, or harass it if your heart feels the need to." Sunner directed this towards the kids. "The laws in this experiment are the same as the laws you are used to in real life, and have common sense. Second, I want you to not tell the robot that it is a robot. You will be responsible for the downfall of this expensive project, and that will require some consequences." That shut everyone up quickly.

"Third, I will need to take any communication devices from you." As expected, everyone started squabbling like chickens. Sunner sighed, and said louder, "I promise you, they will be one hundred percent safe in a room designed specifically for this purpose. Once the project is done, you will find them with better quality, faster loading time, more space, better virus protection, and overall a much better preformance. You will also find 50,000 dollars inserted into each participant's phones, or as cash for those who wish for that." The crowd calmed down a little, but a few were starting to go to the door.

"IN THE MEANTIME," Sunner said loudly to get their attention, "Each of you will get new phones and other devices for the experiment. You can do anything you want on them, download whatever games and apps you want, BUT BE WARNED!" Every participant jumped at the sudden outburst, "You are being closely monitored by every one of our scientists," Sunner motioned to the wall behind him, and suddenly