"Princess." Said one of my Nanny-bots. I don't looked up from my favourite book. In the last time I ignored the robots. I just do it because the last time one special robot had attacked me. It was a prototype of the peacekeeper. He had a constructional defect and attacked everyone who he had see. Now the real peacekeeper was always with our Minister Stone. I don't liked Stone. He was a kind of creepy.
Before the Prototype could kill me Dr. Tenma had appeard and rip off the fuse-box on the back of the prototype. For this father made him the head of the Ministry of Science.
Today father had a meeting with Dr. Tenma. He wanted him to build special weapons. They should protect Metro City from Attacks of the Aliens.
"Princess!" Shouted the Nanny-bot now. I closed my book with a loud noise and looked angrily at the Nanny-bot.
"What is it?" I asked not very friendly.
"Wouldn't you go outside for some time? I'd like to clean up here."
I sigh and stood up. I don't like it when my Nanny-bots clean up my room. I liked it when it looked here like a catastrophe had happened here.
I went out of my messy room and the long hall down to our big garden. Our garden was the only place in Metro City with so much green. The gras was green, the leaves on the trees were green and the bushes were green. There were also colored flowers and a little river through the garden. The river flow down from the cliff on the Earth into a lake.
Around the garden was a fence. The fence was built because some years before kids had played football here. Now there was a piece of grass behind the fence and there the kids are playing football now.
But there was just a boy on the piece of grass with a football. He had black hair with spikes and brown eyes.
He looked sadly, but this was a normal boy. I sat down by the river and opened my book on the place where the Nanny-bot had interrupted me.
But I couldn't concentrate myself on the story and looked over and over again to the boy.
When I looked the eight time up to him he kicked the football up into the air and the ball flew over the fence and to me. I avoid the ball and it flew into the river. The water split on me and I get wet.
"Hey! Watch out!" I shouted and looked angrily at the boy. He looked around to me.
"Sorry." He said.
I sigh and lean over to grab the ball before it could flow down on the Earth. When I turned around the boy had climbed over the fence and went over to me.
I gave him the ball.
"Why are you alone? Haven't you friends?" I asked. The boy grabbed the ball and looked down on his feet.
"Not really. My father had a meeting with the King." He answered. I wince.
"Are you... Dr. Tenma's son?" I asked. The boy looked up to me and nod.
"Yes. I'm Toby. And you?"
Toby may be one year younger than me... or he was in my age but just too small. I was twelve now.
"Clarissa... but that's not really my name." I answered and looked at the cover of my book. Toby looked amazed at me.
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"The real princess had died some days after her birth. But then he found me and thought I'm the princess because of I'm looling like her. The Nanny-bots told me this." I answered and smiled. This was the truth. The real princess Clarissa had died and in the night after this the king found me in this garden here. Nobody knew where I came from but because I looked like the princess he kept me. When I was ten the Nanny-bots told me that I wasn't the princess.
"That's crazy." Answered Toby. I smiled.
"You're right. That's crazy." Then I saw that Toby looked over to the building. "Hey, do you want to go in and look what you father's doing?"
"Yes! I just stayed outside because he said I shouldn't go in with him." Said Toby.
"He's worried about you. Like every father is." I said and walked towards the building. Toby followed me.
Father and Dr. Tenma were in the laboratory around a table. With them were solidiers.
We stood on a brigde made of steel. The bridge was high up by the wall. From there you can look down and see the big laboratory.
"I think this would be good for this special city, Dr. Tenma. But where should we built them?" Asked father. I called him father because he had acted like my real father. I could do him the honor. He had deserved it.
"I thought over to place them on the highest buildings here in Metro City. When Aliens attack us then the lasers could reach them. And when there's an attack from the streets the guns could reach them, too." Answered Dr. Tenma. He stroke with his forefinger over the plan on the display.
"That's a really good idea, Dr. Tenma. I..."
But father was interrupted by Stone. He appeard and went into the laboratory with his solidiers and the peacekeeper.
"Good day, supremeness." Said Stone and take a bow in front of father.
Father was some years before the president. He was nine times in a row the President of Metro City and when he'll be chosen one more time he'll became the king. His adversary was Stone.
Father was chosen one more time and became the king. Stone had just became the Minister.
How he was angry and mostly ignored what father said.
"Stone, what do you want here?" Asked father.
"I wanted just say that we'll sample the peacekeeper with the cores." He said. Father turn his head around to him.
"We'll begin with this in a moment, Stone. First I need to talk to Dr. Tenma." He said and went off with Toby's father.
"The cores? What were these?" Asked Toby. He had been quiet while his father were in the room. Now he looked interested at the peacekeeper.
"There were the blue and the red core. The blue one is filled with good energy, the red one with bad. They were two energy spheres mined from a comet which produce energy which can power robots via positive and negative energy, respectively. Do you understand?"
"Yes, of course. I get my intellect from my father. I have get hundret points in a sudden test about Metro City in school." Answered Toby.
"Blowhard!" I said and tousled Toby's hair.
"Hey!" He shouted and stroke over his hair. I chuckled.
"You boys. You hate it when girls are tousling your hair."
Toby wanted to say something but father and Dr. Tenma returned and we looked down again. Dr. Elefun, a colleague of Dr. Tenma, followed them. He had two cylinders in his hands. They were made of glass. In one of the cylinder was the red core and in the other was the blue core.
I was fascinated. They looked very interesting.
"So." Said Dr. Elefun and put the two cylinders with the cores on the table. He pushed buttons on the cylinders and they opened. The cores still flew over the opened cylinders.
Dr. Elefun, father, Dr. Tenma, Stone and the solidiers went some steps back, behind the white line through the whole room. Over the line in the ceiling was bulletproof glass which came down when a roboter get out of control.
"I like the red core." Said Stone.
"Watch out. We don't know what the peacekeeper would do when he'll insert the red core." Said Dr. Tenma. But Stone ignored him and went over to the red core.
"Wait!" Shouted Dr. Elefun but Stone placed the red core into the peacekeeper's 'heart' in his chest.
"Red core accept." Said the Peacekeeper with a mechanical voice. He raise up his arm and it changed into a laser gun.
"Everyone behind the white line!" Shouted father and he pushed a red button. The bulletproof glass begun to came down.
"No!" I shouted and begun to run. I run around the brigde to get to the other side of the room, behind the white line. Toby followed me.
"What's happening?" He shouted in panic.
"We have to get behind the white line!" I shouted back with tears in my eyes. When we won't reach the white line, we'll die!
"Activate the weapon drones!" Shouted father while the bulletproof glass reached the floor. And I crashed into it.
"No!" I shouted and pant. I lay my fist on the bulletproof glass and looked to Toby. "We're too late. We have to return the way we came. Or the robot will kill us!"
Toby looked horror-stricken at me and then at the robot.
"Quick!" I shouted and pushed him the way back.
Suddenly one of the drones attached itself to the chest of the Peacekeeper and started to fire on the other drones. I looked amazed and puzzled at it. How is the robot using the drone on the other drones?
Father looked horror-stricken at the peacekeeper.
"How is the peacekeeper using that drone against the other ones?" He asked.
"It's called adaptive technology: It can absorb and control the things he absorb." Explained Dr. Tenma.
Not good. We have to run quicklier but the room was too long and some of the drones flew in our way.
"Well." Said Stone. "I may have flunked out of college, but I was right about the red core! You scientists think you're the only ones with the brains!"
I don't understand this. I don't understand what Stone was saying. I concentrated myself on pushing Toby and avoid the drones and listening to this what they said.
An apparent stray shot from the Peacekeeper crashed into the wall behind the father, scaring General Heckler, Stone's aide. The Peacekeeper then turned and looked at the assembled people.
And up to us.
The peacekeeper raised up his arm with the laser gun and pointed at us.
"Getting purchase order: kill Romi." Said the peacekeeper. I wince and when the laser smashed out of the arm and I avoid it.
"Clarissa!" Shouted father. I looked around to him with tears in my eyes.
What was the order of the peacekeeper?
Kill Romi.
Romi... was this my real name, Romi?
"Toby!" Shouted Dr. Tenma. Toby begun run by himself.
"Dad!"
"Toby, run!" I shouted but then a laser destroyed the steel bridge and we fell down on the ground.
Somehow I managed to land on my feet without any wound. But Toby land on his back.
I grabbed the sleeve of his shirt and pulled him up on his feet.
"Everything all right?" I asked. Toby nod.
"Yes. It hurts just a little." He answered.
"Clarissa! Exit the room right now!" Shouted father but I couldn't listen to him. The peacekeeper get closer and he was really big.
"Purchase order: getting ready to kill the object." Said the peacekeeper. I couldn't move, even when Toby tried to drag me away. He pointed with his lasergun-arm at me and fire. I quickly close my eyes but the attack didin't reach me. I opened one eye and looked at the peacekeeper. The attack had been repelled by a rainbow colored barrier around me and Toby. The peacekeeper get his own attack back and flew trough the room. The barrier disappeard.
I take the chance and begun to run. Toby followed me but not really quick.
The peacekeeper begun to load something up. It looked like he want to attack with a bomb made of energy.
"Come on, Toby! Quickler!" I shouted but it was too late. When I reached the floor the attack go off and for some time the room was like I'm looking straight into the sun.
"Ghh!" I hold my arm in front of my eyes. "Toby!"
The attack disappeard and with the attack Toby. I went some steps into the room and fell then on my knees.
Toby had disappeard. The peacekeeper had did something that let him disappear. I just saw that the peacekeeper made a hole in the bulletproof glass and wanted to attack the group with it, but Dr. Elefun put the blue core in his chest. The peacekeeper give a loud screech and explode. A part of him smashed against my forehead and I saw now just the darkness.
Hey, Astro boys!
I watched in german TV the movie from 2009 and my brain created Clarissa/Romi (?). I have no plan what hair color or eye color she should have. I just saw a beautiful twelve years old girl with two long streaks of hair next to her face and the rest of her hair was short.
Have fun, sorry for grammatical faults and please comment!