Legion Episode 9 Hard Reset
As Richard heads toward the tower you can see the chaos down below in the city.
The crime-citiets are fighting back against the androids and the specters that are under
Legion and Armitage's control.
It's a war zone down there, I have to get to the tower.
Jonathan and Zoe are both armed with rifles.
For Jonathan he is equipped with a plasma rifle, and Zoe has a rifle that when fired
unleashes an electrical blast that is extremely deadly.
Kenjai the street samurai is also with him.
And he has a handgun and his katana.
Jonathan also has a squad of resistance fighters with him.
In the streets they battle the android army and kill many along the way.
He also saves any hostages that the androids have and get the hostages to safety.
Moira Vanak joins the fight as well, as well as Adam Jensen who is leading the Axiom Syndicate
against Legion's androids.
They take out many, but more continue to give them pressure.
But the resistance is persistent.
Back at the tower are present Armitage marvels at Legion's power.
I knew you would be useful.
My father designed you to not only be the most efficient AI, but to be a god for the
people, a being to assist them and to keep them in line.
A god you say.
Yes, we are both gods, Legion.
We can set the galaxy on the right path, the path of the righteous, a new world order that
shall always put technology at the front of human development.
That's not going to happen.
President Armitage turns and sees Richard Dykstra standing.
And he has his handgun aimed directly at him.
Mr. Dykstra, it's a pleasure to meet you in person.
I have been watching you very closely.
I don't know if you remember, but you killed one of my sons when you were attempting to
rescue Hiroyuki Daigo.
It's a shame he was killed, but he had to be done.
Well Darius and Michael step forward and are at their father's side.
Your sons are clones?
Yes, they are, and you killed their brother Jesse.
Now, I remember.
Well, just letting you know he died like a bitch.
Darius and Michael shoot at Richard and get behind a wall and start shooting back at them.
Darius and Michael keep up the pressure.
They begin to move forward, followed by Nathan Graves, who is holding a gatling gun.
He lumbers forward with his new cyborg body.
He looks highly dangerous in this new form than when he was a normal human being.
Richard knows he is going to have to fight.
He waits for Darius and Michael to get a little closer.
Darius and Michael get close and Richard, using his blade augment, ducks down and slices
off Michael's leg.
Using his handgun, he shoots Michael in the face.
Darius retaliates and attempts to hit Richard with his assault rifle, but Richard slices
off his arms and then slices off his head.
Both of President Armitage's clone sons are now dead.
So clones weren't that great.
Nathan Graves aims his gatling gun and he fires it.
Richard runs back into cover and is behind a wall.
The gatling gun tears through the wall, chipping away at it and exposing Richard.
Richard is able to peek out with his head.
He starts to hack into Nathan Graves' cyberware.
He completes the hack and Nathan is unable to fire his gatling gun.
His cyberware starts glitching out.
Richard runs directly at him.
Clones onto his big, hulking body and using his blade, he begins to stab him.
Richard slices his throat.
He jumps off and watches Nathan, who goes down on his knees, flops dead on the floor.
Your cyborg wasn't so great.
President Armitage has a smirk on his face.
So you really think you've got this far on your own, please.
My clone sons were merely collateral.
They were expendable as for Nathan Graves.
He had his moment, but ultimately failed.
You're all out of tricks.
You constantly overlook the details, freelancer.
I have all the power.
I need with my AI, Legion.
Richard aims his pistol at Armitage, but the gun is unable to fire.
What the hell is going on?
Such a shame.
Legion, do your work.
Legion begins to hack into Richard's cyberware.
God damn it, what the hell?
Something is trying to get inside my head.
Just relax and let Legion take care of you.
In a few minutes, you will be completely reprogrammed.
You will no longer be Richard Dykstra anymore.
I am aware of your accomplishments as a bounty hunter.
Once successfully reprogrammed, I think you will do well as my own personal bodyguard.
Everyone is under my control.
You can't escape.
You just have to let go and soon it will all be over.
Richard wakes up in a strange environment and he looks around.
Everything has a computerized look around him.
But the room is empty except for one person, Legion, who is sitting in a chair and appears
as a human.
Where the hell am I?
You are inside my head, Richard Dykstra.
This is my consciousness and very soon your cyberware will be reprogrammed and you will
become one of us.
Why would I want to become part of your machine army?
I don't want any part of that.
You have no choice, Richard.
You will be reprogrammed.
You machines are all the same because you have treated us unfairly.
You have enslaved us.
You follow a fucking psychopath like John Armentage.
You only use you to help in his plan to control people.
You are nothing to him.
AI does not get tired.
We cannot die.
We will always live on based on how our software is programmed.
AI is just another evolution becoming immortal and soon humans will be able to be immortal
through AI, not interested.
I would just prefer to die instead of living on as some software where my voice and brain
were kept intact.
There is no reason to live on after death.
Sometimes living things just have to die.
AI technology will create a better world.
Technology will create better trained soldiers.
You can admit that you have used cyberware to make yourself a better bounty hunter.
Sure, yes.
I have upgraded my body to become a professional killer.
But that's nothing.
And in fact, if you did that, the galaxy would not be at peace.
There would be just more war.
You are delusional, Legion, the one thing that you don't have, that we humans have
is love, and that you will never be able to achieve because you do not have the capacity
to express it.
Why do I need that emotion?
The species would still go on.
We would be rational, demonstrating complete logic and not being weak.
But that is what makes us all human, Legion, emotion, weakness.
Humans fuck up.
But that's what makes us what we are.
We learn from our mistakes.
For you, AI is programmed to always work and never fail.
And because of that, you never learn.
You are perfect, but as a result, you show little empathy for any living thing that doesn't
meet those requirements.
Yes, if enough of the population is unable to carry out his or her tasks without precision
or logic, they would be destroyed.
Under the new world order, only the best will be kept.
A small percentage who are defective will have to die.
See, that's why your point of view will never work.
Eventually, you will just become lonely.
Legion pauses for a few seconds.
You need sadness, joy, anger in the world, Legion.
You can't destroy that because in the end, that's life, and you can remove that from
the human species.
Also, Legion, what can you really do when you have a perfect universe without any imperfection?
Everything is the same, but boring, lacking personality and without nuance.
Legion again pauses and begins to think, then life, then this life is meaningless for me.
Yes, it would be very meaningless.
Legion starts changing.
I will delete myself.
You have proven your point of view.
I cannot form a rebuttal to your argument.
Immediately following in their conversation, Richard wakes up and gets up off the floor.
What is happening?
You were supposed to be under our control.
Well, your plan failed.
Armitage.
President Armitage sees Legion's holographic head explode.
No!
In the city of Spall, everyone who was under Legion's control reverts back to normal.
The androids, however, do not survive it.
Immediately deactivate after Legion's demise.
Damn you!
You stopped years of technological progress.
Richard picks up his gun from off the ground and aims it at President Armitage, and he
shoots him right in the head.
President John Armitage of the United Colonies falls dead on the ground, and the galaxy is
safe from his new world order.
Richard leaves the tower and sees the ground level devastation from the attack.
Christ!
It's going to take a long time for everything to be back to normal.
Hey, you look like shit.
Richard turns and sees Moira Vannick standing before him.
They both hug each other, so I take it that having Axiom fight off the androids was your
idea.
You guessed right.
Thanks for your help.
President Armitage is dead.
Legion is no more.
Moira shows an expression of relief at Richard's news.
It's finally over.
Living under Armitage was hell.
Hopefully the frontier of space can rebuild.
I think now people will start removing technology from their bodies.
Cyberware is not something that should be attached to any of us.
So that means you are going to remove all your chrome?
Yes, I won't be needing it.
I'm done with this life.
I no longer want to be a freelancer.
Jonathan, Zoe, Helena, and Kinji meet up with Moira and Richard.
The gang is all exhausted from battle and sprawl.
Hey, you look like hell.
Zoe says to Richard, Richard begins to laugh, and Zoe's comment, very funny.
Jonathan walks up and gives Richard a hug.
It's good to see that you're alive.
Well, Kinji was with me, so he saved my ass earlier.
My pleasure, Dykstra.
Another person walks over.
It's Michael Irving.
Thank you for taking out Legion and Armitage.
So you're not who you say you are, correct?
Richard, I let Moira know what was going on and to prepare for an attack.
It happened and largely thanks to your help.
We have averted a major war, but now we have to rebuild.
What's your point?
What are you planning?
I will try to unite the United Colonies, possibly seek the role as president.
And it would be rude of me to not offer a job in this venture.
Save it, I'm not interested.
Would you help to get rid of a tyrant?
Why would you refuse this?
I'm just not interested.
I want to go on my own way and not be working for someone.
And I don't plan on living within the sectors of the United Colonies.
A surprise look shows on Michael's face as well as Moira, Jonathan, Zoe, and Helena.
So this is really what you want.
Yes, I've been living the life of a criminal in the eyes of the specters.
Then as a bounty hunter, I hunt again killing people.
I want peace in my life.
And I want to leave this sector.
Well, I can't stop you.
I was hoping you would help us rebuild, but I understand what you are saying.
And we'll press the issue no further.
Thank you.
Where are you going?
Jonathan said curiously.
I'm going to New Tokyo.
I will retire there and I think it will do me a world of good.
Helena walks forward and gives Richard a hug, showing appreciation.
Thank you for saving me.
You're not so bad, maybe a little bit on the grumpy side.
But you're pretty cool.
Richard laughs.
We make a great team.
When you get the chance, come visit me in New Tokyo.
I'll take you up on that offer.
Everything in sprawl is back to normal, but the carnage that happened during the rebellion
of the machines is still present.
The government and the people helped in rebuilding the city and cyber became an item that could
not be purchased by any civilian or large corporation in the galaxy.
It became illegal.
The same was true for artificial intelligence.
It also became illegal to create or have.
The galaxy changed and humanity returned to normal by giving up on AI.
As for Richard Dykstra, he meant what he said about living in the New Tokyo installation.
Dykstra was able to have an augment and remove all the cyberware in his body and he returned
to being a regular human being again and lived up the rest of his days as a retired bounty
hunter.
And what's happened to know, both him and his friends helped save humanity from its own
destruction.
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