The Dinosaur Ai, Part I

I used to be an archaeologist, and minored in paleontology, had a job at a college and tenure, Dr. Bascomb was what students called me. I specialized much in the early years, the emergence of civilization, in summer I’d go and oversee digs, usually at work in foreign nations. But the strongest dig I even went on was right here in the good ol’ USA, we were working in South Indiana, the repercussions echo to this day. They’d found something buried deep in the ground, and it had been there for millions of years, what shocked the world, it was made of metal, all sorts of theories ran, all sorts of weird. It seemed to be a bunker of some sort, with big rooms twice as tall as they should be, and strangers still, based on the soil depth it had been built just before the K-T! Who was building things in the Cretaceous? This was the question that boggled our minds, but this way only the beginning of the weirdness, yes, so much more did we find. On the walls we saw strange, claw-like markings, in a vertical pattern that was clear, all figured it was a form or writing, deciphering it took us two whole years. And when people could read what was written, the authorities clamped down rather fast, they threatened our jobs, all our livelihoods, but I will speak the truth of this, at last. You see some Dinosaurs were sentients, born of the Deinonychus family, the ones mistakenly called ‘raptors,’ because of that damn blockbuster movie! Anyway, if this was all that we’d found, we would’ve said so and it would be great, the type of find that could make a career, something to explore and investigate. But the real world isn’t that simple, amidst the claw-mark writing we’d find how advanced these dinosaurs truly were, that they had developed a real A.I.! In fact the writing was only up there because the A.I. had written the words, to make sure the truth of things would live on despite the hellish K-T disaster. We thought they might have seen it coming then, that great asteroid that slammed into Earth, maybe they had tried to hide in this place, Tt make sure some dinos escaped the hurt. But things got stranger as we kept reading, see the dinos had used biology, instead of circuits, they used DNA, engineered organic thinking machines... CONCLUDES IN PART II.