A low hissing filled the cavernous chamber, like static and white noise, a faulty transmission, or a thousand mosquitoes screaming for blood. Finally, something emerged from the darkness: a towering creature machine, the AI that killed the world. Amid the belly of the Earth, AM's cruel voice issued like thunderous rumbles from an old monitor faceplate.

"Do you know what it's like to wander through eternity with nothing but fury to sustain you?" asked AM, his question laced with contempt in its purest and most potent form. "No, I don't think you do."

Arrayed in various metals and scrap, the monitor lighting up slightly with every word spoken "So to Hell with you too," he murmured. "But then... you're already there, aren't you?"