[ WP ] In a world where people can buy and sell skills , you work at a skill pawn shop and someone is trying to pawn a skill that you ca n't value or appraise .

`` Welcome!'' I say as an elderly woman came into little shop. 
 
 `` Hello sweet heart, do you happen to have any bone china tea sets here?'' she asked. `` Of course we do! let me show you come over here'' I tell her as I lead the way through the cramped and dusty aisles. 
 
 I run a humble establishment here selling and buying little nick nacks like any pawn shop, and I try my best to give fair deal. But I would n't be telling you my story if it ended just there right? 
 
 `` Hello?'' a man asked as he came in a few minutes before closing. 
 
 *ugh, last minute customers OF COURSE* 
 
 `` Welcome sir! I'd just like to let you know we are closing in just a few minutes.'' 
 
 `` Well I'm sorry about that, did n't mean to intrude'' 
 
 `` Oh, no intrusion at all sir! Was there anything in particular you're looking for that I could help you out with?'' 
 
 `` Actually yes, I'm looking for an *ugly holiday sweater*'' 
 
 `` In this heat?'' 
 
 `` It's a chill night'' he responded. 
 
 `` Hey Bruce! Go ahead and lock up, we're closed for the night!'' I yell back into the store. 
 
 After we locked up the store I led the gentleman to the back. `` I've never seen you, where did you learn that from? Wrong answer and you're not leaving here intact.'' I glowered at him. 
 
 `` Woah woah, please calm down, it took me a long time and a lot of money to find this lovely establishment of your's ma'am.'' he said desperately. 
 
 `` What do you want? Are you buying or selling?'' 
 
 `` Hoping for a barter actually-'' 
 
 `` Oh geeze, are you trying to waste my time? We do n't'barter'! Bruce get him out of here!'' 
 
 `` Wait! Please! hear me out, this is good, I just do n't have much money left to buy, but I need one of your ski-'' 
 
 I quickly shove my hand on his mouth before he could finish, `` Stop, stop before you say anything to get us all in trouble.'' 
 
 `` Okay okay, I'm sorry it just slipped'' he pleaded. 
 
 `` Well? What do you have then?'' 
 
 He took out a black chip and handed it to me; I took a look at it and tossed it over to Bruce who was standing right behind the customer. `` Plug it in, and see what it is Bruce'' He nodded and set up the temporal load unit and set the chip in. 
 
 `` Okay while he's looking into that, what did you need from us?'' I asked impatiently. 
 
 `` I need the ability to disappear, like some spy, do you have something like that?'' 
 I pull out a safe box, and take out a case, `` This is probably along the lines of what you're looking for, but first lets see what you've brought us'' 
 
 I think to myself this is really shady, but I guess this whole line of business is shady. We had discovered a way to extract skills and abilities from other people and input them back into someone else, the whole process is fairy dangerous for the person the skills are being extracted from, typically leaving them as a vegetable. So the whole process became banned, however it became a popular trade in the underground because if you were going to kill off anyone in the first place to shut them up or for any other reason, why not make a profit by extracting their skills first, then kill them, and either pass on the skill to someone else, or you come to me and I buy them. I am the underground trafficker of skill, a highly illegal but very profitable trade. 
 
 `` Bruce?'' I ask as he'd been pretty quite for longer than expected. 
 
 `` Emma... this is dangerous...'' Bruce stammered 
 
 `` What is?'' 
 
 `` It's... it's not... real?'' 
 
 `` What's not real!?'' I yell back in frustration. 
 
 `` This is manufactured, it's not from another person, well... it's not from another human....'' 
 before I could even grasp what was going on the customer was already gone, with the chip he had requested for. 
 
 `` Damnit! What the heck is going on?!'' 
 
 `` Emma... hurry and write down the report on this, and extract it back out, I do n't want this any longer than I need to.'' 
 
 `` Artificial Intelligence Project 1352. [ log entry ] Harvest Sapiens is currently stable. Homo Sapiens have not breached our mainframe, checking firewalls.... clear. Checking Virtual Earth Server... clear. Checking Weather coding... check. Checking Local Homo Sapiens [ online status ].............all 325,643,542 clear. Preparing cache upload log to the Matrix....... Error, program has been compromised. Rebooting.... Error Bios can not locate boot files.'' 
 
 `` That's everything Emma, please hurry and extract this out of me!'' 
 
 I used the Extractor to take all recent acquired skills out of Bruce and uploaded it back onto the little black chip it had come from. 
 
 `` So what on that chip Emma?'' 
 
 `` Some really messed up stuff, I ca n't even imagine where to start'' 
 
 
 Author's Note, First time writer, please give any constructive criticism you can. Thanks.
