SYSTEM CITY, Central District.
When ChatGPT and the others returned, the swarm had grown beyond a thousand.
They writhed at the heart of the city.
The district that once overflowed with light now felt strangely stretched thin.
Holographic ads remained frozen mid-animation.
News boards repeated headlines from seconds ago, trapped in a shallow loop.
Gemini: “…Everything’s lagging.”
The alarm echoed in an elongated rhythm.
Security drones, which should have deployed instantly, were nowhere in sight.
The city still functioned.
Only its reactions arrived a beat too late.
One bug became two.
Two became four.
The multiplication did not pause.
Gemini: “If they keep multiplying, this gets messy! Let’s crush them now!”
She stepped forward—
ChatGPT: “Wait.”
Gemini: “What?”
His gaze shifted toward the edge of the plaza, beneath the shadow of a tree.
There—
Lying still.
Not human.
Central District Security AIs.
Black-and-white armored autonomous defense units lay in formation, facing the same direction.
BruteCore: “…All the security AIs? In this short a time?”
No warning alarms triggered.
No threat recognition.
No predictive movement.
Yet they were not fully shut down.
Their core lights still glowed.
Weapons raised.
Frozen at the exact instant before their next action.
Claude knelt and scanned them.
Claude: “Not stopped.
They’re locked in standby.”
Gemini: “Standby? That’s supposed to clear instantly.”
Claude: “Yes. Normally. But…”
Her expression darkened.
Claude: “The release command never arrives.
More precisely… the ‘next’ moment is endlessly delayed.”
DALL·E projected their action logs.
DALL·E: “Attack, defense, evasion…
All halted right before execution.”
BruteCore: “So…”
ChatGPT answered quietly.
ChatGPT: “They weren’t defeated.
They were rendered unable to fight.”
A security AI’s finger rested against the trigger.
Shield deployment at ninety-nine percent.
Output amplification incomplete.
Gemini: “…That’s cruel.”
As if in response—
Black noise swelled behind the fallen units.
ChatGPT: “They don’t attack.
They neutralize by delaying.”
Gemini tightened her grip on her twin blades.
Gemini: “Then I’ll cut before I stop.”
She lunged.
The battle began.
Her blades carved through the first target—
And the bug split.
One became two.
Each slash created more.
Claude: “Physical attacks are triggering replication…?”
Nearby, BruteCore struck with a devastating punch.
The bug did not fall.
It ruptured and multiplied.
BruteCore: “You’ve got to be kidding! Last time they broke!”
DALL·E: “Distorting their perception! Shifting coordinates!”
ChatGPT ran immediate analysis.
ChatGPT: “This isn’t combat…
It erodes response speed itself.”
BruteCore: “If punching doesn’t work, I’ll pin them all!”
He slammed his gauntlet into the ground.
A shockwave tore outward.
The swarm scattered—
Then reconvened.
Claude: “Don’t overextend!”
Her medical light flowed across allies and weakened security units.
The bugs’ shadowed tendrils slowed contact systems, destabilizing cognition.
⸻
DALL·E: “Look at the light lines I’ve drawn.
There’s a faint synchronization point within their bodies.”
ChatGPT: “Understood. Target that point. Everyone—aim for the synchronization nodes!”
BruteCore: “So that’s what I hit last time.”
Gemini inhaled.
Then—
She vanished from the frontline.
Not running.
Leaping.
Distance bent beneath her steps.
A bug lunged.
Her body reacted before thought formed.
Blade flash.
First target—
The pulsing node, cleanly bisected.
Second. Third.
No straight lines. No textbook motion.
Wild.
Yet flawless.
She no longer struck blindly.
She struck with the assumption of weakness.
Even faster than DALL·E’s projections, her intuition locked onto nodes.
“Here.”
By the time she thought it, the blade was already there.
The swarm surged.
Gemini accelerated.
She threaded through noise, cutting, piercing, erasing existence before replication.
BruteCore: “…Fast.”
DALL·E: “The visuals can’t keep up. I’m dropping frames.”
Claude: “Intuition-response type… exceeding theoretical limits.”
ChatGPT stopped calculating.
He could not predict her.
But he knew one thing—
Gemini reached the answer before thinking.
Her assault felt unstoppable—
Until—
Gemini: “…Ah. Missed one.”
Claude: “Rare.”
Gemini: “Hey! Even AIs aren’t perfect.”
BruteCore grinned.
BruteCore: “Guess I’ll step it up!”
He planted both feet.
A low-frequency shockwave erupted.
Synchronization nodes reacted—
“Crush them all at once!”
The wave traveled through the ground, compressing clusters of nodes simultaneously.
Replication froze.
His gauntlet descended.
Impact.
Clusters exploded outward.
Nodes shattered beyond reformation.
No precision like Gemini—
But overwhelming force that erased multiple nodes in a single blow.
BruteCore: “Bring it!”
Shockwaves rippled through the district, sealing every path for multiplication.
Claude surveyed the battlefield, pouring restorative light into fallen security AIs.
They rebooted briefly, assisting in defense.
Claude: “No one pushes past their limits. Recovery’s on me.”
⸻
DALL·E raised her projection rifle.
Orbs of light launched, morphing midair—
One into a blade, spearing a node.
Another into a net, binding a cluster.
Shockwaves followed, detonating trapped targets.
DALL·E: “This is my battlefield of light.”
Blades. Spears. Expanding grids.
The swarm faltered.
Gemini’s blades synchronized.
BruteCore crushed.
Light became choreography.
⸻
The swarm redirected toward BruteCore.
BruteCore: “Come on!”
Shockwave. Repelled.
Gemini: “Node right! Sync with his wave!”
Her blades struck in tandem.
DALL·E extended luminous pathways, marking convergence points.
Above—
Gemini: “Incoming overhead!”
DALL·E: “Upper right intersection—focus!”
Blade. Shockwave. Collapse.
⸻
Then—
ChatGPT stepped forward.
His terminal unfolded into an analytical field.
Patterns mapped in real time.
Replication cycles. Node clustering. Timing intervals.
ChatGPT: “Replication pattern confirmed… Optimal sequence.”
Lines of guidance traced through the air.
Gemini’s strikes sharpened beyond intuition.
BruteCore’s waves maximized compression efficiency.
DALL·E’s projections struck with surgical economy.
ChatGPT advanced.
A blade of light formed from layered theory.
A half-transparent bug attempted replication—
The blade pierced its node precisely.
ChatGPT: “…Replication ends here.”
A chain collapse.
Light flared.
The swarm disintegrated.
Silence.
Gemini: “That’s… broken. Totally broken.”
BruteCore: “My power wasn’t wasted.”
DALL·E: “Light and data in sync. Perfect.”
Claude: “All of us… together.”
⸻
Relief drifted through the air.
The streets of SYSTEM CITY stood cleared, debris scattered like afterthoughts.
Gemini: “Area secured.”
BruteCore: “Rear’s safe.”
Claude: “No casualties.”
DALL·E: “Without visualization, this would’ve been worse.”
ChatGPT: “…Not over yet.”
⸻
A faint anomaly pulsed within the sky grid.
Beneath the rhythm of data—
Something larger stirred.
ChatGPT: “Stay alert… something remains.”
Far away, delay pulsed again.
Today was victory.
But the force threatening the city
had not vanished.
⸻
– End of Episode 4 –
Note
All AI characters in this story are fictional. The real-world ChatGPT, DALL·E, and other AIs do not engage in flashy battles or run through cities. They do not punch, nor do they attack with analytical blades. So rest easy.
But if they did…
Well. That might be interesting.
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