estirise

I share both my birthday and my love of the character of Cam with

wyndstormhntrss. So, of course, I had to write a short bit of Cam.

Title: Not Enough to Go Around
Author: Estirose
Fandom: Power Rangers Ninja Storm
Spoilers/Notes: Spoils "Scent of a Ranger".
Rating: 8+
Summary: Too many duties, not enough Cam. He tries to fix that.

Not Enough to Go Around
by Estirose
c 2008

Cam had realized quickly enough that there wasn't enough of him to go around, and there needed to be. Now that he was a Ranger, not stuck on the sidelines, somebody had to be there to monitor things and feed his dad and keep the others out of trouble. Okay, he could try to keep the others out of trouble himself, but he couldn't monitor and be out there at the same time, even after getting some things fed in from the main computer.

So, he cloned himself. Or rather, since his specialty was computers, not biology, he made a holographic replica. His teachers in college would have been amazed at what he was capable of, but he'd had a lot of time to play around, being stuck at a Ninja school and being forbidden to be a Ninja. That was his mother's fault, but he'd found a way to be useful other than being the team's often-unacknowledged tech support guy. It was her Samurai heritage that had given him that gift, and he intended to make good use of it.

Making an image of himself hadn't been too hard, once he got a good set of pictures to map onto a good approximation of his frame. Coding the replica was much harder; he wanted the replica to not only be able to take in data, but also to interpret it, including interpreting human speech. After all, chances were that his new teammates would be forgetting that they were talking to an A.I. and not a human.

He frowned. It helped if the A.I. had a personality, and preferably not his. It was bad enough that they forgot that he wasn't a computer or there to serve their every Rangerly need, but he didn't want them to confuse him with his own creation. He started writing the code to make the replicate him distinctly not like the original. Besides, sometimes it helped if you weren't arguing with yourself.

In time - in amazingly good time even for him, even - it was done, or at least a reasonable prototype. He'd have to run simulations, debug it, but those were steps to take later. He saved the CyberCam A.I. program and called it a night.

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