[STORY] The Grey Planet [Kill me]

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Lalam24:
Love it so far, keep it up.

Tayasaurus:
Snno swallowed and picked her words carefully, watching MATT's metal hands as she spoke.

"I need help. I don't understand him. We need to know where they took the Blackstar... you... you helped us yes? You mean no harm?"

MATT absorbed the input flowing from Snno's speech patterns and translated it in his head. He paused for a moment, a whirring noise going on somewhere on his person.

"I am not programmed to harm without cause. Blackstar? Please define the object." He replied, giving a bit of an inflection on his first word to indicate a question. Snno blinked confusingly for a moment thinking about the word "programmed" and decided to ignore that, focusing on the question part of his sentence.

"It's... our lives, our... heritage. It's where we came from. It's our god in a way? Without this star with which we were blessed, we might fade away forever. You saw it, in the evil ones hand did you not?"

MATT once again went into mechanical silence, processing her words more quickly this time.

"I have."

The short answer irritated Snno and decided to try and push for more. She was floating in a raging torrent without an anchor, and her best options were beginning to dwindle. She sucked up her pride.

"Can you help us? Will you speak with him?" She said, pointing to Kabr, still standing tensely in the circle of spears. MATT processed again and opened with a question.

"What will I speak about?" he asked.

"Where they took the blackstar! Where they are going! And if we can get there." Snno said frantically. She couldn't beleive it, wasn't he paying attention?

MATT's core processing was beginning to heat up due to the lack of coolant which he had lost prior. His clock speed was staying at a steady pace, to prevent damage though hampering his ability to respond elaborately. He had been piecing the situation together little by little and finally finished his brown townysis. For the first time in a long time, an Objective filled his HUD. Although it was crudely created by his own decision, it was something to keep him going nontheless. The words "Obtain the Blackstar" flashed on his internal screen.

"Ok. I can get it for you."

MATT walked past Snno towards Kabr and the mob around him scattered. Snno stared in disbeleif. Really? It was that easy?

Tayasaurus:
Kabr finally had opportunity to rest his arms by his side now that the robot had broken up the crowd and gave him some space. His upper shoulders ached with soreness from tensing up in the face of spearheads. He took short breaths out of fear of spores entering his system from the unfiltered air and jungle brush. His chest had a sharp pain no matter how short of a breath he took. Something was definetly broken, but being able to deal with it will have to wait for now. MATT finally stood before him and bathed him in an orange glow from his visor.

Kabr looked around for a moment trying to think of what to open with.

"Uh, hello. Remember me?"

MATT stared at him for a little longer before responding.

"I do. I have yet to be aquainted with your partner but I'm sure we'll get to that part eventually."

Kabr put his hand behind his head and laughed nervously

"Heh, yeah... Sorry about that. Vikki is meticulous."

"Where has your commanding officer gone?"

Kabr stopped smiling and started thinking about MAXX.

"Away."

"This information is inadequate. Where has your commanding officer gone?"

Kabr threw up his hands in front of him.

"Slow down! I have some questions myself! May I ask some questions?"

MATT froze for a moment still staring.

"Commence your inquiry."

song bird:

--- Quote from: Tayasaurus on January 27, 2017, 07:36:35 PM ---I named the character long before you came into existence. Thankfully this story isn't about you

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Wow mean and hurtful : (

Tayasaurus:
Kabr wracked his brain for security codes he had memorized prior in case he had run into older robots like MATT. If he could guess the correct one and sprinkle it in his questions he might get lucky and gain control of the old rust bucket.

"You don't seem to be connected to the mainframe anymore. Happens to a lot of older machines... what is your serial number?"

MATT probably would have blinked at him if he had eyelids. Serial number... he felt he should know but he just didn't.

"I do not know."

Seriously? Kabr thought to himself. This isn't the typical response you get from CTC machines. What kind of AI is this?

"What is your primary directive?" He asked, trying to follow up on MATT's personal information.

MATT suddenly began to question himself. What am I suppose to do again? What is my original directive? He tilted his head at Kabr.

"I do not know. Enough questions, you will now answer mine. Where has your commanding officer gone?"

Kabr was taken aback. He was unable to gather adequate information about this robot to even begin guessing his security code. A machine without an objective much less having forgot his own information was a definite curve-ball. Did the creatures here in the village somehow modify him? He really is at the mercy of these freaks if they have that much knowledge. Better to just answer honestly and hope they don't execute him. The leading creature is lingering behind the robot already giving him the murder-look.

"My commanding officer as you call him went back to the city, to finish his work. Listen, if anything were to happen to me bad things can happen. He'll be sending someone back for me and it could be a lot worse than what happened here."

MATT paused for a moment and processed his words into a translation for Snno. He turned and shared his statements with her as Kabr watched, a worried look stretched over his face. Snno bared her teeth and stated something unintelligible to MATT. He turned back to Kabr.

"She says, don't worry. We're going to be going to them first."

Kabr wore a confused look.

"Just how do you think you're going to do that?" He asked, immediately regretting the question.

Snno looked at him as if she understood the question and gave him a sharp toothed smile.

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