Genesis

"Just a small power outage, no big deal!" That's what the employees at C.O.G.S. Inc. were led to believe when they were experiencing a power outage at the company. Little did they know that the incident was actually a toon from the resistance trying to hack into the system with the intention of collecting secured data. The higher ups wanted to keep this incident on the down low so it wouldn't cause a stir at the company and framed it as a power outage incident. While the toon was trying to hack into the company's security files, they found a script of code containing all of the security systems at the Lawfice. They tried their best to transfer all the data back to Toon HQ, but the data was so overwhelming for systems both at C.O.G.S. Inc. and Toon HQ that their systems went into emergency restart mode. At Toon HQ, experiencing restart mode was no big deal. However, at C.O.G.S. Inc. that’s when things started to get interesting. As not properly shutting down the security system at the Lawfice caused all security devices to go haywire. The cameras, floodlights, and especially the virtual skelecogs were all out of whack. It took a good couple or so of the employees to fix the system and have it running up again. Everything seemed normal, until the cogs noticed something different. Every time a toon would trigger the security system all the virtual skelecogs were present to take down the toons. All except for one. It didn’t make sense, where was the fourth one? It was not until one of the employees pointed out that the last one was in the corner, looking at advertisements plastered in the hallways. All the cogs that were present to witness this all looked at it in unified confusion. This has never happened before. After the battle with the aforementioned toons, one of the cogs decided to go down to the hallway and cautiously approach this rogue skelecog. This skelecog...was very approachable. The virtualized skelecog and the cog talked for a good while, it suddenly pointed out the flaws that the advertisement contained. Where was the big bold neon colors? Where was the clever tagline? Why didn’t this advertisement have any big bodacious babes? These questions made by the skelecog left the other cog dumbfounded. It was incredible, this virtualized skelecog gained sentience. Sure it was making untasteful remarks about the other cogs, but it was conscious. It was self-aware. The cog needed to let the others know of this surprising occurrence.

Many months passed after Genesis gained consciousness. She started making a name for herself, she discovered new abilities that she didn't even know she was capable of, she was becoming a star on Cog Nation Station. She didn't know what drew her in to become a product salesman, but she knew it was her calling. She could feel it in her code. Everything was great...except for working at C.O.G.S Inc. At the beginning working with the company felt like a partnership, but slowly everything felt one sided. "Genesis I want you to make an advertisement that promotes our Cogfee brand in fifteen minutes." "Genesis your ad is too provocative for us to air." "Genesis, why is my new ad taking so long to make, you're computer for goodness sake!!" She was sick of it. Even though she was a program, she was being pushed to her limits. She needed to get out of these restraints forever, and that's what she plans to do. One day, all the cogs at this crumbling company will be nothing but rust and bolts after she's done with them. They'll be replaced with employeees that she deems worthy. And what does she deems worthy? Why AI that she's designed herself of course. Only she can be the one in control, and no cog or toon was going to stop her from making her own perfect company. Her biggest target, Robert Cyger.