Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter Page #6

Strike your positronic

conditioners.

Conditioners networking.

Open it.

Got to move.

Annika, open your eyes.

Open your eyes, baby.

Open your eyes.

Sienna, we must talk.

Leave the core.

Come to me.

I'm hearing it too, Sienna.

It's the scourge.

He's using the eye bot

as a giant com relay.

[BEEPING]

Welcome to Bunker 339.

How can I direct your inquiries?

I need weapons.

Scanning.

Scanning.

The adjoining room contains

one charge lightning gun.

Warning.

There is an anomalous Al

system in the vicinity.

Robot sentries are activated.

Alternate weapon search.

Scanning entire facility.

Scanning region for

available EMP bombs.

Warning.

All EMP activation consoles must

be stored in a lead lined case.

See protocol manuals

before activation.

Scanning region for

available EMP bombs.

Scanning.

There are five functioning EMP

bombs located on Runway Six.

I can make it if I'm fast.

Warning.

Assuming we are

in a state of war,

EMP bombs will destroy any

active machine components,

including type four and

above Wormhole drives.

Make sure all computers

are disconnected

before activating weapon.

[THUNDEROUS SOUNDS]

Warning.

You have positronic

conditioners.

Detonating an EMP will

destroy their function.

Consult a doctor

before activation.

We want you alive, Sienna.

But we will disable you

if you do not surrender.

Hoagland.

The bombs.

Runway Six, those

square box things.

I should have known.

Just blow... just blow

the things sky high.

But you'll die.

I'll shut down.

Might be a chance

you can reboot me.

Hoagland.

The scourge relay.

The radiation in there,

it won't shoot straight.

You might be lucky.

Shutting down.

See you on the other side.

Stay down, Annika.

Plasma blaster EE activated.

Robot smasher mode.

Run batteries until dry.

Confirmed.

My God.

[GUNFIRE]

[Boom]

[GUNFIRE]

[GUNFIRE]

[WHIRRING]

[GUNFIRE]

[GUNFIRE]

[WHIRRING]

Hoagland.

Annika.

Annika, if you can

understand me, I was told

not to say anything

just yet, but this

might be my last chance.

I can't relaunch you.

You're only a copy.

[GUNFIRE]

I love you.

I downloaded your

consciousness into a new body.

I know you must be

hearing me, so lost.

But you've got to fight it.

I can't lose you, Annika.

You're still my flesh.

I love you.

Please, please hold on.

Please hold on, Annika.

[WHIRRING]

[GASPING]

[COUGHING]

[PANTING]

[PANTING]

[SCREAMING]

[PANTING]

[BEEPING]

Hey.

[BEEPING]

[WHOOSHING]

Come on.

Come on.

Oh, what?

Hoagland.

Oh, yes.

Oh, my god.

I thought you were gone forever.

Did you find the Al?

I've been going

planet by planet.

There's just two worlds.

Oh, great.

I miss out on all of the fun.

So Hoagy, you think you

could pilot the vessel?

I need to go down and

detonate the bomb.

[WHOOSHING]

Attention Sienna.

The scourge wants an open line

of communication with you.

You here to take

me to the party?

You will ride in our vessel.

You will come along

damaged or undamaged.

It is a valid choice.

Plasma blaster EE activated.

[GUNFIRE]

Sienna, do not

attack the messenger.

We have an important...

[GUNFIRE]

Sienna, we don't

mean you harm, but...

[SIZZLING]

I'm all out of party favors.

It is vital that

you accompany us.

We do not have the...

[SIZZLING]

Amateurs.

[BEEPING]

[EXPLOSION]

Hoagland, this world's clear.

Come pick me up.

You better be right, Missy.

Coming down.

Gotta go.

Move, Hoagland.

There's something big

opening a Wormhole.

Hold on.

[WHOOSHING]

Listen to her.

Share my thoughts.

Sh*t.

Sh*t.

L'm still very fragile.

I need to be put back

in my box, please.

The last thing I want is to be

thrown around in this cabin.

[GUNFIRE]

[Boom]

You'll be smart enough to

guess where we're headed next.

Stay sharp, Sienna.

Are we clear?

We're good.

Aside from the few thousand

machines down on the planet

tearing things up,

yeah, we're safe.

I'm gonna make this one count.

Same again?

Same plan.

Good.

Oh.

Not so good.

That's the biggest damn

thing I've ever seen.

God in heaven almighty.

Stay quiet.

He can't scan you

through the case.

All right.

Sienna, Annika.

Do you hear me?

You have the wrong number.

Go away.

Oh, come now.

There's lots to share.

We have billions of minds.

Do you want to speak

to an individual?

How about someone you once knew?

Don't really see

the point in that.

I personally want to talk

with you, though some of us

disagree.

Don't want to talk.

[BEEPING]

I was human like you.

The first human to be

merged fully with a machine.

I was a boy who dreamed

never to be a man.

It felt good.

For you have to understand,

mankind is fading fast.

I was the great hope

for humanity to evolve.

The fall came.

And AI was outlawed.

I was illegal, obscene

by human standards.

My god, is that

all that you are?

I was still a boy.

I was a machine,

for f***'s sake.

I was 10 years old,

running, exploring my world,

living, being a boy.

But now, locked in this cage.

Knowledge, wisdom,

such a cold world.

I merged myself with other Als,

embracing them like brothers.

The union was cold,

without a laugh.

We started to absorb humans.

Shut down, Hoagland.

It's best.

We became one, like a

trillion drops oi water

to form an ocean.

And the ocean is life

expanding, never-ending.

Oh, cut the glory speech,

you f***ing monster.

[BEEPING]

I see the pain.

I see the rage.

I see the fire.

Show yourself, chickenshit.

[CLATTERING]

[COVERED BREATHING]

Oh, my god.

Jonas.

[HEAVY BREATHING]

Holy sh*t.

I try and exercise the body,

but it's been too long.

But you remember

what you were, right?

You locked me in a metal cage.

I ran to my best friend, Annika.

I just wanted to play.

But she...

[GUNSHOT]

You f***ing shot me.

I only have fragments.

Share with me.

Stop it.

You know the torment.

The universe is a lonely place.

If you detonate that

bomb on your ship,

you will destroy the billions

of human souls I have uploaded.

Yes, but they will all

eventually become like you.

Their claws are

already digging in.

We are a legion.

The demons are haunting me.

[WHIMPERING]

You need rest.

I don't want to die, do you?

I don't know.

Yes.

In many ways, I'm already dead.

Please.

My sweet, sweet, sweet friend.

Sleep of death.

What dreams may come?

When we have...

[CRYING OUT]

This mortal coil.

Jonas.

[WHIMPERING]

I am backed up.

An earlier version oi

me exists on the outer rim.

An experiment of mine.

But you must destroy all of me.

[WHIMPERING]

[HEART BEAT]

[HEART BEAT]

Hold tight, little buddy.

[Boom]

[WHIRRING]

[EXPLOSIVE SOUNDS]

[BEEPING]

God damn it.

We're going down?

Don't leave me here.

Take me with you.

[Boom]

Oh, God.

What have you done?

Ow.

Sienna, what the f***?

Oh, f*** me.

Hailed to complete the download.

He's got maybe a few days.

I'm surprised he

lasted this long.

Oh, f*** off, tin can.

Do not speak to him that way.

It's untethered.

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