The early years of the 21st century was marked by the rise of the legendary hero who was destined to change the history of the world, for its better – the Samurai Code Jack.
When he was born, he was visited by a prophet who after spelling some mantras, raised up, looked stunned and said “He is the ONE”. Code Jack turned around and said “No sir, I am zero, and the world is binary”.
The prophet was diagnosed with a severe heart attack later.
When kids of his age learnt holding cricket bats, Jack was wielding code. He spewed code, more code and went on coding for hours, days and months together. He captured the worms, killed the bugs, raised new viruses only to slay the rest.
As his prowess spread across the towns, the master coder Mi Chi Shu visited him.
“Son, what will you do if you want me to my cookies?”
“I will send a cross-site scripted html message”, Jack answered without taking his eye away from the monitor and continued typing.
Mi Chi Shu smiled.
“Impressed. You are almost there my son. You need to learn to send it like a Google Ad, people will click blindly no matter what it says”
Jack turned around and tears rolled out of his eye.
“How did I miss that?”
“My son, mortals need more than just a plain message. You need more training”
Jack immediately joined Mi Chi Shu, for he knew this was what he was always looking for. Together they travelled all over the world. Redmond, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, San Franciso and finally came to Bangalore.
By then they had exploited PC, routed Macs, hacked twitters, brought down googles, and turned the web upside down. They stood over an artificial cliff of some unknown campus that had sprouted from nowhere.
“My son, what have you learnt after all this”
“It’s easier to hack than write code that cannot be hacked”
“You are enlightened! The time has just come. Go ahead and complete the mission of your life.The evil forces shalt try to thwart you from your mission, but that shouldn’t stop you. ”
Mi Chi Shu, picked a netbook from his Jolna and gave him.
“Jack, this is small, cheap yet very powerful. Believe me, this will rule the world. This is my gift to you”
Jack Code, it was then, did he become the Samurai. He raised the netbook, and felt his intellectual power flood the whole place.
“It’s time for me to leave my son!”
“But..”
Mi Chi Shu smiled, raised up and was transforming himself into 0’s and 1’s before he eventually disappeared completely. Jack realized all the time Mi Chi Shu was using tele-presence.He realized how unappealing the experience was, returned home and started coding again.
He coded for days together. So intense it was that every time he compiled the entire city would go without electricity. He went on coding for months and eventually he hit code complete, ZRB and ZBB!
And then….. he pressed F5!
It ran, and it ran like a magic, like a bird that would just fly away in the morning without making any noise, so peaceful was it!
It was running on Silverlight and the CPU made no noise. It was all just too smooth for the world to believe.
He had just created an actual second life, tele-presence made actual presence.
And all this time, he was pinged almost every day but he had little time to look into it. Now he was pinged again.
“Hiii!!!”
“Hi”
“How are you? :)”
“Whoever you are, you are still conversing the old non-sense way, try this!”
They went into the Third Life, and they went around the world, galaxies, universe and beyond without meeting each other. And finally just when they had nothing new to see, they saw each other, at the top of the most beautiful of the mountains. The sound of the falling water was the only thing they heard.
She looked like a most beautiful music one would ever hear. She was just fabulous and neither Jack nor the author had no better words to describe her. Any word that they could think of is clichéd and would falter badly in describing her.
“Hiii!!!”
“Hi”
“So…”, she smiled.
“I love you!”
“I know!”, she pulled him by his side and kissed him!
So immersive was the experience that at that moment, realized Jack, that very moment was what he was waiting for, the moment of moksha, salvation and realization. He knew his Third Life had done it’s job to perfection :P
