Gaara can be seen concentrating on his task. His blood trickled from an artificial vessel connected to his finger while character after character of a circular inscription became completed in a matter of seconds. When he finished the last stroke his clones came forward and for the first time in a long time Gaara needed to perform the hand seals for the activation of this formula.
""Techno style: Artificial Inteligence!""
The whole circle reacted and lit up with lava-like glow and began to wiggle like living worms scurrying out of the wet soil at the dropping of rain. The inscriptions slowly crept inward and compressed like a video played on reverse. The paper on the center of the circle burned by purple flames on a glowing stone, the fires began to move like an animal in blind rage threatening to burn everything.
The inscriptions on the seal however reacted to this aggression and began to engulf the flames in a blanket of inscriptions. The flames dimmed considerably as the characters of the inscription slowly consumed the purple flames before everything went dark leaving a circular purple rock with inscriptions in the center of the room.
"Status!"
Gaara was already gritting his teeth, he only had one of this special meteor. He had Zabuza take it from Hoshigakure a long time ago but did not really have a use for it until it was deemed to be highly compatible to be used for the 'Omega Brain' project that his scientists are working on. After simulating all the possibilities with his available supercomputers it was determined that the success rate is at 90 percent which is fairly high. Without hesitation he used the only meteorite in his posession for an attempt to the very next step of evolution.
"No, wait. Cancel that command... Focus recording on the stone."
A green glow suddenly covered the purple crystal on the ground. As the glow throbbed like a heartbeat the brightness of it intensified and as it did, it began to float up in midair without assistance. It stayed that way before the rithym of the beats became stable, the light wiggled and began to take on a humanoid form. It looked like a manequin without hair or any features. From the looks of it, it should be beginning to assess itself.
[System is at one hundred percent functionality. Ready to serve the creator.]
Gaara sighed with relief and smiled. He only had one shot at this and the ten percent probability that he could fail still bothered him, fear however is the mother of stagnation. Nothing will ever be discovered if everyone is afraid to explore and fail at times, or most of the time. Gaara refused this kind of stagnation. He had dreams much larger than his fears, he wouldn't settle to just be confined in the Shinobi world. Alas fate smiled upon him this time and his first attempt at creating the most advanced artificial inteligence was successful.
"The system will be designated with a name 'APO'. For your first task, integrate yourself with the current system and learn everything. I Gaara of the sand authorize this command."
[Very well]
Both systems confirmed Gaara's command and began the process of integration. It took about a few seconds for APO to learn everything that is known in the Shinobi world but it took a few moments for it to truly understand within its capacity the truth of the world.
[APO is now integrated and is running at full capacity.]
"I want you to improve project Takamagahara to the best of your ability."
Project Takamagahara is not just the simple creation of an ideal village that Gaara can be a part of. No, it is far from that. The project's true goal is the creation of Gaara's HOME, his own place in this world where he could be safe and sheltered without worries for the rest of eternity. This however is a long time plan and he did not intend to rush.
[Optimal route found 'Industrial Grade Chakra Infusion Machine']
"Show me its blueprint and the materials needed."
Gaara looked at the blueprint and saw a cube with a mouth on each of its face, he quickly brushed it off due to this tech being mostly based on the Fuzorian Technologies they discovered and the chakra infusion, along with other forbidden techniques such as earth grudge fear. Yes he bought it from Kakuzo himself at a price the little goblin could never refuse. If he refused then you simply have not offered enough, Gaara quoted someone as he said it to the negotiating representative.
"So if we did this right now you would have to be integrated to the machine and with it use up to thirty percent of you computation capacity at all times? Seems like a great deal to me. Make preparations to immediately start this project in secret. I don't want anyone else to find absolutely anything about this project. This will be classified as a tripple S rank in confidentiality and only I am given access to this information. Am I clear?"
Gaara trusted his friends and his siblings but there are things that one should just keep to oneself before he reached the point where he can't be touched even if others knew of his plans. Its more of self preservation than trust issues, and Gaara did not plan to fail anytime soon. His plans are beginning to take root and blosso into beatiful flowers. He did not mind killing the weeds that hinders their growth.
[Yes milord!]
"Good, now upgrade every existing jutsu we have in our collection, theorize and experiment on possible techniques that we might need in the future. Use a portion of your capabilities to work on developing new materials for both industrial and military purposes. Alot a part of your capacity in the 'metahuman project' that we have. As for the remaining use it to help steer Yggdrasil's technology to greater heghts."
The fruition of these plans can only go as fast as Gaara's execution can achieve despite the fact that he controlled a great amount of production capabilities, what he actually needed is the fully functional Chakra Infusion Machine (CIMa) which is still just beginning production. This major undertaking will take years due to the difficulties in material acquisition mostly because of the low efficiency of traditional mining methods that is used in the majority of mines in the known world. Gaara however is already considering to mine the moon and the nearest planets in the future so that these problems will be reduced if not removed.
[Your wish is my command.]
"Oh I almost forgot. Make sure that you are to remain unseen until I decided otherwise."
[That is understandable.]
Gaara nodded in satisfaction, APO showed considerable progress in learning personality in the short time he interacted with 'it'. He expect it to take no more than a month for his AI to develop his own unique personality. His first born excited Gaara to the point of not wanting to leave for his meeting with the now overly eager Haku who stayed in Takamagahara for two weeks already. She even called him many times to well beg basically for him to show the fully matured Fuzorian Core.
[Milord, I can sense two other consciousness within the vicinity. My scanners shows that these consciouness are currently in an inactive state. I require your permission to observe and study my fellow Artificial Inteligences.]
'Hmm? Two?'
"Check again? I believe there is just one last time I checked."
A hologram of the gelel base appeared in front of Gaara showing where the two artificial inteligences are located. One of them is the strange JAR that spoke to Temari so Gaara did expect some kind of artificial inteligence in that creation. The second however shocked him as he has been interacting with it for a very long time already. The Fuzorian Core also feature AI functions. What!? His woldview just got debunked, just how much races are there who are capable of creating such a feat?
Thinking of the possibilities only made Gaara think that all his efforts will be for nothing if an intergalactic alien race's fleet came with the capacity to blow the whole world he tried so hard to build into space debris. What a dark future, far darker than if a Saiyan from planet Sadala came to conquer it and sell to the highest bidder. No one knew the future for sure, not even he who transmigrated into a body of an anime character that he used to watch. The future has changed as the butterfly already did its work.