There was a strong gale that blew through the holding dock that day. A lone figure could be seen "walking" around the near empty hangar. "Walking" was not the right word however; she was actually rolling on her two threaded sets of wheels. The robot was curious as to what was in this hold; why were the humans telling everyone that it was empty? As she rolled down the pathway, she saw an old model of aircraft that it had been seen flying into space as of recently.

That was right, the Star Liners were leaving; humans were abandoning the planet. The robot had heard about a procedure to clean up the Earth, but there was another plan that most of civilization had not heard about. A fleet of craft; called the Cyan Marines, were created to be submersibles. The company Buy n Large found it to be less of a hassle if humanity were to live under the oceans while the surface was cleaned.

But then she remembered that how in the centuries beforehand, humanity had dumped chemicals and other garbage into the oceans. The water was now as bad as the land. But Buy n Large did not want to create an entire new fleet of aircraft for transportation to their Star Liners. They took the Cyan Marines and modified them; enabling them to fly into space. Over the course of the past few years, the robot remembered seeing Cyan Marines peppering the sky in an effort to transport as many people to safety as possible.

Then why was there only one of them left now? The curious robot rolled to the side of the once proud ship; the horrible air that covered Earth was prematurely wearing away at the outer hull. The once sleek blue was now mottled and covered in rust in some areas. She let one of her red and grey hands brush against the surface; despite the obvious weather damage, the ship was still sturdy. She rolled back and took the full figure of the spaceship in; it was shaped oddly, almost like a fish. The thing must have been at least 100 yards long. There were two giant appendages on either side of it, creating what looked like two giant spikes. The engines in the back were surrounding the tail of the craft. What also struck her as odd were the two dual cannons mounted on either side of the bridge, she never recalled the other Cyan Marines having weapons.

She continued to ponder in the shadow of the silent craft when she heard a loud thud from inside. Curious as to what made the noise; she rolled around the outer hull of the Cyan Marine until she found a small door that was left ajar. Ducking her head in, she managed to pull herself into the ship.

Looking around in the dim light, she could see that someone had been here before her; there were boxes that had been upturned, and she could hear someone muttering up ahead. Rolling hastily down the path she quickly found that the small door was a direct path to what was the command bridge. She saw another robot quickly dashing around the room clicking buttons and flipping switches.

"What are you doing here?" she asked, unknown of how the other robot would act.

"Eh?!" the robot chirped and turned around. It was a small little robot, almost built like the M-O class on the Star Liners. It was different in the fact that it was somewhat bird shaped, and the tail was that of the six colors of the rainbow. It also for some reason had four leaves engraved onto its belly. "What are YOU doing here?" it shot back quickly as it continued to mess around the cabin.

"Answer my question!" she shouted back.

"That tone of voice.." the bird robot said without turning around, "You're a teacher-bot aren't you?"

"Yes actually," she said, becoming boastful, "Systematic Art Educator, or SAE as the humans call me. And you? Your voice also sounds like the same group of teachers."

"Motherly Axiom Generation Educator, or MAGE for short," the bird responded snappish.

"Motherly?" Sae blinked, "Could have fooled me."

"Eh, that's why the Buy N Buckets decided to only make one of me, I'm a prototype, and I'm expendable. Those jerks were going to melt me down since they thought I was too rash in my way of teachin'"

"So what are you doing here then?" Sae asked.

"What does it look like I'm doing?! For being a teacher-bot, you're not the brightest bulb on the Christmas Tree." Mage grumbled as she began hotwiring several cables she found. "I'm going to use this ship and escape!"

"Escape? To the Axiom?"

"Not the Axiom, you bolts-for-brains," Mage continued, "To space! Being in space is better than being melted down for one of those hover chairs any day."

"Well, in that case…" Sae rolled over and gently pushed Mage out of the way.

"Hey lady-"

"Wait a moment…" without hesitation, Sae quickly attached the correct chords and pulled the above switch on the upper grid. "That should do it."

"Whoa…" Mage was obviously impressed as the Cyan Marine began to hum to life. The room went from being barely lit to being flooded with light. "I take it back, you know what you're doing alright."

The two of them rolled/hovered over to what seemed to be the main control panels; they could see outside- it didn't seem that the hum of the craft had alerted anyone.

"What do we do now?" Mage asked; having new confidence in her "friend"

"Not sure," Sae looked at all the buttons and switches; if it was possible, it seemed that there were even more on this part of the ship!

"I-can-handle-this" a feminine voice came from above. Not sure as to who just spoke, the two looked around frantically. But only a moment later a figure lowered itself from the ceiling. Sae recognized its mechanical build as an autopilots; except it was much more primitive looking. It was the same color as the ship was outside, and its steering wheel was adorned with feather like protrusions. It gazed back at them with its single blue eye. "I-am-the-pilot-of-this-ship." Its manner of speaking was much choppier, it was either a very rough prototype, or was damaged somehow.

"Pilot of this ship?!" Mage seemed ecstatic, "Thank buttery Jesus! Can you get this tin can running?!"

There was a small beep from the Autopilot, "Vocabulary-not-sufficient," it said, "Please-consult-computer-screen"

Sae picked Mage up so they could both read the text that was popping up on the screen.

-I am not able to control this ship. Someone has disconnected me from the rest of the craft. I also apologize for not being able to speak with you directly. I am the first Autopilot to be created; and now my successors have surpassed me-

There was silence for a moment. Mage squirmed out of Sae's arms and scurried back to the modules they had fixed earlier. The Autopilot and Sae watched curiously as Mage quickly took a part of her red wing and jammed it into the circuits; she then made a small keyboard appear on the feather, and quickly began typing out something.

"I might not be the best when it comes to fixing things, but I can program circles around those Buy n Large bozos." She bragged as she hit enter and pulled the feather out of the board. The autopilot rolled a little bit in place. And there was a strange clicking noise emitting from it. It took a few moments that the clicking noise weren't coming from the inside, but outside. Mage and Sae both rushed back to the bridge window (the Autopilot simply turning in place) and looked out to see a battalion of humans outside. Suddenly a huge holo-projector displayed the Buy n Large logo, followed by a rather charismatic man on a podium above the soldiers.

"ARGH!" Mage shrieked, "It's Richard Nixon!"

"Keep your bolts in," Sae responded, "It's Shelby Forthwright, the CEO of Buy n Large."

"Same difference…."

"Hello fellow employees." Shelby beamed down at the people below him, "Today is the day of the last retiring Cyan Marine. Now, if this were a few decades ago, we would have been using money to build a museum for this craft. We would have spent money keeping it maintained, but not now. The important thing now is too evacuate planet Earth and clean the refuse. This Cyan Marine is one of the said refuse. I trust you as the demolition team to take care of these here."

"AT ONCE SIR!" The group responded.

"Glad to hear it boys!" Shelby gave the thumbs up signal. "Have fun out there!" and the screen went dark.

"Oh gaaawd!" MAGE slapped the Autopilot silly, "Do something! They're gonna tear you apart!"

-Whatever you did with your red wing, it was good. Enabling engines in five, four, three, two….-

There was a tremendous blast of sound as the eight engines of the Cyan Marine activated and began to burst at full force. The Cyan Marine was tethered down, but it didn't matter, the engines given to it were able to make it able to blast through its restraints easily. The group of humans watched in confusion and surprise as the machine continued to roar across the hangar. It hit the walls of the building and effortlessly crashed through it; its nose had been built for breaking ice burgs in the ocean, a little bit of wall wasn't going to slow it down.

The ship soared across the sky, and in no time was flying though the atmosphere. Despite it being in such bad shape, the hardy ship was holding up quite well. Mage shook her head as the craft experienced turbulence like no other as they fought against the pull of Earth. There was a tinkling of glass as the Cyan Marine hit countless satellites on its way out. Within moments, the anxiousness and fear of what was approaching doom was gone. The three of them were safe.

Sae breathed a sigh of relief and leaned against the wall. She wasn't built for this kind of excitement, after all, she was a teacher; not a service robot. Mage was faring better for some reason; she took the opportunity to ask the Autopilot if it was okay.

-Systems go. It seems that everything was just like how I left it. It seems….. also, that I am now so obsolete that my very own creator was going to destroy me….-

Mage gave the computer screen the most sympathetic look she could manage. She pat the main core of the Autopilot. "It's going to be okay, me and Brainy Girl back there will keep you company."

"Thank-you" the Autopilot responded in its limited vocabulary.

"Where to now?" Sae rolled back to the other two. This was a good question, in their haste to escape, there really wasn't a plan after that. Only to survive…..

"Screw running. Screw survival. Lets live!" Mage threw her little wings up. "Autopilot, this whole universe is waiting for the three of us. And there's no time limit, no boundaries, no rules. Time to go!"

"What-a-bout-Buy-n-Large?"

"And screw Buy n Large most of all" Mage quickly added, "If they want to keep ruining everything, it's their business. But we got a whole world ahead of us."

"You're right!" Sae agreed. Even though it hadn't been a full hour since their meeting, she had trust in the little bird robot.

"Okay Autopilot!" Mage said joyfully, "Time to get this show on the road!"

And with that, the now free Cyan Marine jetted off into the starry inky blackness of space.

And somewhere off in that inky blackness, someone watched. They knew that the experiment was well underway. They didn't know how long it would take; but they would see it through with the other two. The entity felt the eyes of its accomplices and subjects watching on in interest.

"The Lead Choushin has started the experiment. Let us hope this all goes according to plan."

They were patient.

They would wait.