My Mother
Chapter one: Who is she?
Astro POV
It was a nice spring day in Metro city, after Robotonia and Tenma's arrest; it's been pretty calm as of late. Dr.O'Shay told Zoran that this coming fall she'll too be in school , this summer we'll be in the tropics with Yuko and her uncle. School life is pretty epic last week we took a field trip to a neighboring City, Gamma City Zoo. Then a few days ago it seems after this one day I've been dreaming about a woman with brown hair and eyes like my human counterpart, Tobio, it dream begin with my old home but the next scene it different from the last. One Friday I went to Kennedy's house to play. When we were I his room lounging on his bed reading comics, I could bare not be silent so I asked him.
"Ken, can you answer something for me? I asked
"Sure…shoot"
"Well, lately at night, I would wake up in tears after a dream about a brown haired woman and I don't know who or what she is" I explained
Kennedy snickered and laughed
"What did I say that was funny? I asked curiously
"Astro, has O'Shay told you yet about boy human to girl human relationships? He asked
"No, I don't think he has come to think of it" I answered
"Well that explains that bit" he said in his usual way
"What?
"My mom and dad told me this sort of thing it is called inter human relationship in other words back in the days Tenma used an affair with a girl once upon a time"
"How does that work?
"Some people say its natural, others would say hormones, but in truth its called human nature"
I looked at Kennedy confused but he humouredly smiled
"Human nature is how a human or humans behave, think, and act"
"Oh, well that computes"
"When talking about relationships like that the reasons behind it is unexplainable and undetermined its one of those things about humans that we can't figure out yet"
"But what about the woman that I've been dreaming about who could she be?
"The woman your describing could be Tobio's mother I think, if not you can ask Dr.O'Shay" he suggested
The rest of the after noon I spent it in Kennedy's room playing with toys or reading comic books. When it came around time for me to go I thought about asking Dr.O'Shay about it. As usual I walked the way home. When I entered the door Zoran came jumping on me like a pole.
"Hello, BIIIIIG BROTHER! Welcome home" She proclaimed
She saw the sad look on my face as if all life was drained from me. Without me knowing she followed me to my room. And creaked open the door finding me sitting on the banister by the window looked down with knees and legs tucked in to my chest. She shyly asked me
"Astro, what's wrong? Why are you so sad and silent?
"ZORAN GET OUT AND STAY OUT I DON'T NEED YOUR HELP" I yelled and cried furiously
She ran from my room in tearful and fearful pace to Dr.O'Shay's study and banged on the door repeatedly when he opened the door he found the robot girl sitting with her legs spread out crying and suffocating.
"Doctor…Doctor…Doctor O'Shay its Astro and he's upset about something and I asked him then he yelled at" She cried
O'Shay POV
I was quiet shocked ,in my time with Astro and Zoran I have seen them fight and argue over various topics, Zoran only cried the first day and that was a misunderstanding then later on she never cried until today that is. Astro would yelled and banter at her but it would usually was moderate elder sibling behavior but it never in anyway made her cry as far as I know Astro was never ferocious when it came to Zoran. I told her to go to her room to get ready for her bath. I walked to Astro's room to consult him about his unusual behavior. I knocked on the door and asked
"Astro is something the matter? Zoran told me that you yelled at her and that you were upset about something" I said
"GO AWAY DOCTOR I DON'T NEED HELP" He said
I took my and walked into his room He was there on his bed looking like a wrapped up little lump, unfortunately his two spikes gave him away. I took the blanket off the boy and saw his face soaked in tears and his eyes weary from cry vigorously. I used my hands to lifted the boy up from the sheets and sat him back down he was already PJs but I knew something was on his mind. So I asked
"Astro, tell, what is the all this melancholy about? Was it another fight?
He nodded no
"Was it a memory of Tobio?
He nodded yes
"Doctor, for past few weeks I've been dreaming about a mysterious brown haired woman, I told Ken about it and he thinks its his/my Mother" he said
"Come with me I think I have something"
He got off the bed and followed me to my room and stood there by my desk as I took out a box of old photos. His eyes were wide as he would allow them to be as he saw a box of photos, I searched the box for the photo of the woman he described I took out five photos of brown hair women. And set them in front of the Astro.
"Astro, which one of these photos is the one that you have described?
"That one… the last one at the right side" he pointed
I took that picture as the put down the others and said
"Astro, do have any clue who this woman is?
He nodded no
"Her name was Amelia Maeyumi, she was one of the best Scientists of the day aside from
Tenma, and she was working on a program project that later finished by Tenma, would be called Kokoro. She was a brilliant Scientist and friend to everyone she met. I met her when she came to ministry as a simple robotics tech then everyone discovered her unique talents. That happened in her free time she would take her computer and work on the project assignment, the program they found was brilliant. Tenma and the others were amazed by her talent for robotics and machinery, and gave her a new position in which to continue her work then a year later she introduced her crowning glory her project: Human Facial Aesthetic or HFA, her project earned her more money then Tenma would earn in five years on steady pay. Years after the ministry her works have industrialized the way we live and robots work, After that not much the information came from a friend I knew that worked with her" I explained with a heavy heart
"Doctor, is there any other people who knew her friends… family? He asked
"Not that I knew of, her friend told me that the only person who knew her better would be …"
"How would he have known her and why him unparticular was she special to him?
"Back in his term as Minister, she was a unique kind of genius that even matched up to Tenma but what made her more unique was that she had a strong sense of morality he never understood the recognition but she put in a sense that he understood with that she had him remember a fact that scientists neglect to consider"
"What?
"We are human"
"Can I go the Sky prison and ask him?
"I don't think that is very wise"
"Why?
"Her friend also mention that he and her were very close, and that she was more special to him then his work and afterwards he was never the same"
"Astro, if you go to the prison it is best not to mention her"
"Ok…yawn…" he yawned
"I think your circuits would like for you to sleep"
"Yeah"
"However Astro, you should go apologize to Zoran you did upset her" I told him
After the apology, he and Zoran went to sleep as fast as their head touched their pillow and were already dreaming, the rest of the night of calm and stress free. I went to bed however with a conscience that Astro will go to the prison to talk to my worst fear, Dr. Tenma.