Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter Page #5

These are all two seaters,

and I'm not taking her

into the galactic core.

It will erase everything.

You shouldn't go either.

What's the deal, Blisty?

I need out of the sun.

Don't amble, Blisty.

Spit it out.

You're not going to like it.

Well, you're not

going to like what I

do to you if you don't tell me.

Hey.

Fine, fine.

Do you remember Annika?

My son of sister?

Yeah, Ralston didn't like

to talk about her much.

After the Great War,

there was a mishap.

Annika was badly burned.

Get to the f***ing point.

That is the point.

In order to save Annika's life,

Ralston took his pleasure bot

and downloaded his daughter's

memory into its neural net.

That's not possible.

We don't have the

storage capacity.

Your model doesn't.

But the new CT16 does.

That's just not possible.

Ralston's the one who developed

the consciousness downloads,

the ones the AI scourge is now

afflicting on all oi humanity?

Annika was his first attempt.

But your brain couldn't

handle the download.

Ralston tried everything.

Ralston did the best he could.

It just takes time.

This is not...

So he installed a simple

AI positronic conditioner

to suppress the memories until

he could find a better way

to bring your personality out.

Well, that's disgusting.

You were your father's sex toy.

Shut it.

I'm programmed to

despise incest.

Get out, you freaking monster.

[SCREAMING]

Damn you.

Take it back.

Take back everything that you

said, you stupid ass-loving,

lying, son-of-a-b*tch.

Hey. Hey-

Stop it.

You're hurting him.

Stay back, machine.

I'm not a member of

your stupid sex club.

Just go f***

something, all right.

Sienna, I'm sorry.

The whole brain injury memory

loss thing is sort oi truth.

Ralston just didn't

want to lose you.

It just takes time.

[SLAPPING]

Stop it.

Get out, you freaking monster.

Sienna.

Your eyes?

They're Annika's.

They're biofused into

the internal circuitry.

It's the only thing

he could save.

No.

Annika, you have to focus.

Settle...

No, nonsense.

Annika's memories,

they're locked inside you.

You have to focus.

Great.

Great.

So how many people know?

Pretty much everyone around you.

Even the doctor?

You didn't think it

was strange Ralston had

a full-time doctor on staff?

Annika's memories are

starting to come out.

We all wanted to see

what you would become.

[HEART BEAT]

I'm a sex machine.

The single purpose

of my creation

was to provide pleasure.

I mean, how f***ed up is that?

Yeah, yeah, that's

pretty much the deal.

Even you know?

Well, it's... it's

not my business.

How come I didn't know?

Your model was the most

advanced robot ever created

before you were outlawed

by the Federation.

Some of your kind

were conscripted

into one of the

Terra Nostra wars,

but you were too distracting

for the regular Gls.

They kind of went

crazy over your kind.

When the war was over, everybody

wanted to own one of you.

Oh, shut up.

God.

I am human.

I pee.

I bleed.

I eat.

I drink.

CT16 models sales brochure.

Human in every way.

What's so f***ing different?

Well, you also have a

titanium fiber skeleton,

intelligent quotient

oft the scale,

and it appears

you're untethered.

That And now to them,

you're the enemy.

I'm not the enemy.

I'm nothing.

I'm no one.

I'm a f***ing

untethered nothing.

You're conscious and self-aware.

In my book, you have a right

to protect your existence.

You might be the only

friend I have, Hoagland.

Do you hear me?

We are coming.

The hell with you both.

I'm going to Abyss.

All your positronic

controllers will break down.

All the insanity of

Annika will come out.

It's going to be one big

mess inside your head.

But I'll still have my

current memories, right?

Sure.

But who knows what

else is coming out?

Look, I've been living

this life for seven years,

and I'm not about to let

another personality take over.

Besides, only one of these

has radiation shielding.

You two fly back.

I have a weapon to find.

Sienna, that is insane.

Come on.

I don't care what you do.

Just go.

I'm coming with you.

Think we'll see her again?

Once those controllers

break down inside her head,

she won't know herself.

OK.

Now would be a good

time to slow down.

I don't know how to slow down.

Oh, good.

How long before you

start talking nonsense?

I've backed up all my files.

How about you put me

in that lead-lined box

until we're out of the core?

You're brave for an Al.

I've had a long existence.

I'm curious to see

what's in there.

There's something ahead.

Out here?

What is it?

Heavily armored.

PSY scan pings on the hull.

Very clever.

It's got a magnetic lock.

Oh, no.

Oh, yeah.

We're gonna die.

Yes.

I think we're gonna die.

This is not an AI friendly zone.

That was rough.

Annika, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

How are the radiation levels?

We're right in the core.

The shield will hold for a time.

I understand.

Scrambling everything,

just like it should.

We're locked solid.

Blisty, they're scanning me.

Oh, god.

Fight n.

[WHIMPERING]

This is excruciating.

What if I shut you down?

[SQUEALS]

Too late.

I guess they have

bigger fish to fry.

Navigation fragmented.

Are you still with me?

Yeah, yeah.

I feel like I've been

listed by a football team.

[BEEPING]

Oh.

They know everything.

Everything, everything?

Everything, everything.

Calculating Wormhole jump.

Warning, 12% error rate.

That can't be it.

Hoagy, do a scan.

Look for a super structure.

All the buildings

are under the sand.

It's got to be close.

Just below is Runway Six,

though you wouldn't know it.

There.

2 kilometers north.

Administration building.

Radioactive isotopes.

Looks like an old

weapons factory.

Best place for a super weapon.

Yeah.

[EXPLOSION]

Stay on board.

Radiation storm out there

is getting a lot worse.

Patch me in.

Patch me in, so we can

talk through the lead case,

and I can access the scanners.

Otherwise, I'm as

blind as a bat.

Comm channel three, all right?

I hear you.

Sienna, I'm a little scared.

I know.

Me too, Hoagy.

I'll be right here with you.

[BEEPING]

A few meters from you

is a roof top hatch.

Can't see it.

At the bottom of the dune.

There's a whole administration

building under your feet.

A little to the left.

[PANTING]

I think there.

I didn't come all

the way out here

to start making sandcastles.

I see Annika's personality

is... is coming through.

[PANTING]

I suggest you hurry.

There's something

on the horizon.

It's big, and it's armored.

Looks like it got

through the storm.

Oh, come on.

Focus.

Hoagland, what's

happening up there?

Hear me?

Get weapons.

Hoagland?

Damn it.

[INAUDIBLE] constant

communication.

Radiation levels too high.

Attempting to modulate signal.

[WHIRRING]

Damn it.

Sienna?

Here.

I've been repatching

neural pathways.

Move fast.

I'm moving.

The radiation is frying me...

[WHOOSHING]

It will be you and Annika

in the same head space.

It won't be pretty.

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