Hey Guys!
Quick message and update. The format on how I'm going to continue this story is going to be different than before. Where I put the name of the character and then type down what they say, I'm going to do the dialogue the same way I do it in return of the XJ's, because its way more easier and much, much better.
Sorry for lagging on this story too, I kinda felt a bit lost on where to continue off of here, so I decided here to just skip it one month ahead, don't worry ill clear up on what happened.
I started writing this story out of having certain moments of emotion that compelled me to make this story, don't know how to describe it but I had made a brainstorm of ideas for this story and Im gonna try to still implement them into this.
I hope you guys don't mind the change of the format and that my story is still interesting, im sorry for delaying the work for some time, but I hope you guys will still enjoy what I put out.
And no, 'dis is not dead' as one review asked, I was busy writing my other story, which I kind of prefer doing but still care about this one.
Anyway, here is the continuation of the Origins of XJ6.
ACT 3: Don't swallow what you can't chew.
Chapter 1
One month after the disappearance of Dr. Herban Style
Nora's Lab
Today was the longest day they have been waiting for, it was a final day for some but a everlasting one as well. Nora not knowing what she could do just simply continued to sip on her hot coffee while she watched as her creation just kept sitting idly by, waiting for her time to be called. She can be seen waiting with discipline and patience from seat, but anyone could tell deep inside she was bubbling up a feeling that she had been waiting to have since the day of her activation.
They waited, staring at something in the corner, a big machine that was vibrating the centerpiece to XJ6's purpose, it marked a beginning for her to do what she has been training to do for the past month.
Nora just looked at her daughter with pride but also anxiety to what her precious creation was to do when the time had come. The silence that filled the room didn't help either, it had indeed made things a bit awkward as they have been waiting there since he morning, to which it is now noon.
Nora couldn't stand the silence as she broke it with her raspy voice and said "You are absolutely positive you are prepared for whatever task is to come, yes?"
XJ6 ceased to look at the machine towards her mother to respond with a "Absolutely, why else have I been training extra hard for the last couple of days?"
Her Mother gave an assured smile back to hearing that, glad to know her daughter is not just well suited but also extra confident on what she can do when the machine finally gets a signal.
They waited again still, what was seconds felt like hours, so on and so forth until finally...
"Blaaaarm!" The alarm from the machine went off! "Subject case code 32-43 happening in Tremorton, Ohio, request immediate assistance."
"That's it!" Nora shouted "A Bank robbery with a Hostage situation, go XJ6!"
XJ6 then formed her legs into a single rocket which then began to vibrate to release a huge load of energy, but before XJ6 could leave, her Mother quickly came to her side.
"Remember" Nora warned "Stay calm in all aspects and make do with the situation, don't be rash or too slow, be as perfect as you can be. I love you alright."
"Don't worry, Mama didn't raise no chickens!" XJ6 said in a smirk as she blasted off through the roof of the facility, she looked back and realized how she clearly made a rash mistake there "Opps! Sorry Mother! Love you!" She blasted off leaving Nora looking at the hole left behind.
"Darn that young lady, I knew I should have left her outside. Aw well, now it's time to see how well she proceeds." Nora said contemplating.
She left the room to another where a bunch of other scientists were trying to get a feed from XJ6's camera and location to know how well she is progressing. Many were eager to see how well their training and equipment given to the young robot was going to be utilized in the field, one eager young scientist was most hopeful about it himself, as he was the one who developed a secret weapon for XJ6.
"So, Dr. Nicolas Lee, how are things going with my daughter so far?" Nora asked walking up behind him.
With a shock and surprise from the sudden appearance of Nora, he gave a quick jump and whelp away from the screen to turn around and give a quick sigh of relief "Oh, you deeply scarred me Dr. Wakeman, I didn't think you would just appear out of nowhere, anyway your daughter's vitals are showing a very calm and pre-paired mindset, with a pinch of over excitement it seems. She's eager on the inside and prepared on the outside with the weapons and tools we gave her."
"Excellent." Nora said "I'm so thrilled that she is has the same feelings as me up at this point. She went through her training more faster the previous XJ's despite all the advancements made to the training field, the is a clear show that XJ line up truly is growing up."
"Indeed" Nicolas said adding "It's also a wonder how she has been able to act very human to all other tests, indeed I am quite certain she can handle the hostage situation here better than a regular negotiator, that with her sonic pulse cannon" He finished with a giggle for his joke.
Nora looked at the screen to read the status of her daughter, deep down she is worried if something was to go wrong, it wouldn't surprise her considering the other 4 times it happened, their first mission went haywire really fast but in the very least went about successfully.
Nora then turned her attention to the door opening from the side of the room to see General Mack enter the room, with the usual frown driven on his face. He wasn't upset in any way, infact he was quite excited to see what was to happen but was very skeptical of XJ6's likely hood of a good outcome.
"It's good to see you here General, we just got a signal on XJ6 and are seeing great signs of her vitals." Nicolas said
"Good" Mack said, rather groggy "Do we also have the backup team in case anything goes wrong?"
"We do" Nora answered "But I assure you, you will see that she will completely have the situation under control by herself."
"I trust her only enough to get there, to do the Job properly is something I don't have much faith on" Mack said in response "She is well trained and a good soul, but she has issues and I still have trust issues with your XJ's just like the last time this happened."
"I know your referring to XJ4 on this, " Nora said with a quiver of embarrassment from the reminder "Yes I know she didn't really do a great job of handling her first mission on stopping that slime monster, but she did defeat it and cleaned up her mess in the end though."
"Yeah, non the less what's not to say XJ6 will have the same issues?" Mack questioned
"For one" Nicolas budded in "She has completed all her examinations and training faster than any automaton to have ever existed thus far, she is best equipped with the most excellent of hardware by yours truly and she has in her deeper core of memories from the previous XJ line on the mistakes that were once made. If she has a issue, im sure her mind will come up with an efficient solution like a vaccine to a flu."
General Mack just grunted at that explanation but accepted it non the less. He approached the main screen that overtook most of the side of the room and also lit it as well with its bright visuals of XJ6's camera.
She was approaching Tremorton in a matter of minutes, heading to the bank of Tremorton where cops surrounded the building pointing guns at the windows and entrances, eager to take a shot when they got the opportunity.
XJ6 observed the building itself up high, and initiated a X-ray scan of the building, marking out all the locations where the hostage's and Robbers were at. She zeroed in what she assumed was the leader of the group, because from her scanning she saw his silhouette was bulky and giving commands to the surrounding robbers.
She tried to intercept what they were saying but the walls were thick with concrete and dense metal that her sensors couldn't pick up any audio.
She then dropped down to the police in the front of the building, which made all of them jump in fear and made one of them accidently pull the trigger, which hit XJ6.
The bullet left little of nothing, not even a scratch of paint on her back shoulder, to which she turned around to the guy who shot her paralyzed in fear for a second. She simply said "You should watch your aim, you could've blew someone's head off." She then brushed off her shoulder and walked towards the police chief that was there.
"So" The chief began "What are you, the next big goof up of the Sky Way patrol?"
"Quite the opposite" XJ6 said with glee "There are about 20 robbers in there with 15 hostages, it would be pretty difficult for you guys to bust in there without getting anyone hurt, so I recommend you guys sit this one out and let the professional deal with this."
"Im guessing this is your first day now? If so you better watch your tone with me Robot, I don't take kindly to your interception let alone your arrogance, now you can go back home to your "Mommy" and just let Real People deal with the situation."
XJ6 then printed out of her chest a document with a signed signature of the highest of commanding officers giving detail of her warrant to do the job "Listen bub, theres no time to bicker, here is some detail of what I am and what im gonna do, if you don't like it, you can take it up with the UN and the US government."
XJ6 then flew back up into the air and flew to the top of the building onto the roof and get into a area where she saw was a good breaching point, this would leave off the bad guys in a confused daze long enough to drop a Cluster of Flash Bangs and drop in to neutralize the targets. She found the spot that would lead to the front part of the building but on the second floor where she could have the vantage point to fire at anyone in the second or first floor. There were hostages in the second floor so she had to be careful.
She prepped the explosives quickly and efficiently, keeping quite as to concentrate, but still had thoughts to herself thinking "What a pompous asshole, he doesn't want my help but here he is not doing a damn thing yet to ease down the situation, not even trying to negotiate the robbers. I'll show them how its done."
She finished setting up the explosives and took a step back and pulled the trigger. With that came a big blast with a BOOM to boot. A circular hole formed from the roof, big enough for her to enter in, she then threw in a cluster of flash bangs that went off and dazed all targets within the room, she then used her spider legs to enter the hole and hang upside down on the ceiling. There she prepped out of her shoulders 2 mini Miniguns and picked off her targets one by one.
The shots were loud, and incredibly fast, but the loudness could not be heard and the speed could not be seen as the robbers there were still dazed from the explosion and flashbang.
She didn't fire off actual bullets though, these were rubber bullets, firing enough would knock anyone out in pain and in need of a hospital, but not enough to kill someone, at least not unless you fired close or at a certain spot.
She stopped firing to get her bearings on the area, 8 people were down, all robbers, what were left was the hostages, which were just 5. She dropped down from the ceiling to get to the hostages to make sure they were ok.
She approached them, they were gagged and blind folded and uninjured in anyway.
"Good" XJ6 said, "None of you are hurt."
"What?" One of the hostages said muffled.
"Oh right!" XJ6 said, "You guys are still deaf from the flash bang, sorry." She finished off with a gesture of embarrassment but finished off as she removed the blind folds and then the gags.
Some were shocked to have been saved by a robot, especially one with such an odd bodily feature, but one was quick to shout out "Look out!" At XJ6 just in time for her to quickly dash out her night stick from her palm and gave a massive "Whack!" To the perpetrator that was sneaking from behind with a crowbar.
The man laid there knocked out, but still breathing.
XJ6 then turned around and gave a "Thanks for the heads up" in a pleasant smile.
"I still can hear you." The guy responded.
XJ6 then just gestured with her hand a "Sorry for that" and gave a face of slight embarrassment for that.
She then untied all the hostages and gathered them together in a big net and flew them up from the hole she came in and gently dropped them off with the police.
"There, that's 5 hostages so far, and 9 bad guys dealt with." XJ6 said with a self-certified cheer.
"You didn't kill the robbers did ya?" The chief said with neglect for the hostages "We heard a freaking minigun in there and I know for sure non the robbers had any guns like that!"
"Rubber bullets chief" XJ6 answered "The only lethal weapons I have are these explosives, but Im only using them for breaching."
"Well we can chalk up how you are causing public damage to buildings." The Chief said angerly "After this were making a complaint on that."
"Make whatever complaint you got sir, I'm at least doing my job, you could've at least tried to negotiate with for the hostages."
With that she just flew back onto the roof and dropped into the building, frustrated at how she still hasn't been even thanked once by anyone, but that bothered her little, she knew this was a part of her life.
Back at the main base, the scientists are observing her methods and effectiveness with great relief, they see that she is so far handling the situation better than a usual swat team could handle it.
"Amazing" General Mack observed "She is clearly better than some of my soldiers that have been doing stuff like that for years and here her first mission already preformed with great vigilance and care for the hostages."
Nora just smiled showing off how her work was doing enough wonders to even amaze the skeptical General, but that was short lived as Nicolas called to Nora saying "Nora, you might want to get a look at this."
Nora went to Nicolas's monitor and read her vitals, her optimism was going down and was getting a bit frustrated. This concerned Nora a bit but knew of the easy solution. She went to the main control board and picked up a mic that would contact her daughter.
There was a bit of crackle on XJ6's radio for a millisecond when until she heard the comforting voice of her mother. "XJ6, what is the status of your situation?"
XJ6 gave a sigh and answered back saying "Cant you see from there how its going?"
"No XJ6, I mean for you, how do you feel?"
"I feel fine, just fine."
"No, not entirely true, I can tell your upset about the way that police chief is treating you."
"Its nothing, I've heard worse, you know that."
"I know, but I need you to forget about him for now and know that you are doing great, you even impressed the General for goodness sake, I kinda think he's about to actually smile for once."
XJ6 gave a giggle at that, finding it funny how the Mack is finally gonna smile. This brought her spirits right back up and she responded back "That's good I guess, thanks Mom, I needed that."
"Good, now keep going, you got 11 more bad guys to deal with. Good luck alright, everyone is still watching."
With that Nora put down the microphone and walked back to Nicolas's monitor to see that her vitals has boosted and her mood is now more balanced.
"Good call Nora, this'll help her." Nicolas applauded
"I just want what's best for my Daughter." Nora said.
XJ6 had entered into the vault area where there were the remaining Robbers with some really big bulky guy in with a Viking helmet, eyepatch and Ninja outfit, shouting at the robbers "Keep pillaging the loot ye dogs, I won't have a single penny be left behind!"
This made XJ6 question the situation even more, "How odd" She thought, "A man with a pirate accent is robbing a bank, hows this for weirdest first day on the job?"
XJ6 scanned the room more with her X-ray and saw where they kept the rest of the hostages, tied up together with a bomb strapped to them. The bomb was ticking, and so was XJ6 pace maker, trying to figure out a ample way of freeing them without letting them know.
"I figure they're just gonna blow them up if I reveal myself, so I better handle the hostages first before the criminals." She thought.
So XJ6 climbed onto the ceiling of the room quietly and quickly with her legs, she went towards to hostages trying to be quiet as possible, so as she got there, she extended her army to the bomb that laid in the center of the tied-up hostages.
She remembered back to her training about bombs, how usually circuitry like this can be disarmed in one way or the other, but this one was different, it was entirely electronic, no buttons or wires.
"Ok, then, I guess its time to put my hacking skill to the test."
She turned her index finger into a USB to fit into the device and started to hack it.
She was getting worried that one of the goons were gonna look back to see her arm, but they were busy grabbing loot and just watching it.
"These guys are kinda inefficient for bank robbers, they don't even watch the hostages."
Finally, she finished hacking the device, it turned off and all the hostages gave a hugh sigh of relief, thanking that their lives weren't blown to smithereens.
XJ6 then removed the bondages and gags from the hostages and told them "Ok, rescue is waiting in the Lobby, you should get there quick, and be quiet about it."
They all nodded and left, many without even giving a glance at XJ6 or any form of appreciation, except one, some old lady that had that Granny kinda look. "Thank you so much missy"
This touched XJ6 deep, this was the first time she was thanked by any citizen, ever! This brought up somewhat of a tear trying to form on her face, but she hid it away quick and just got her serious face on saying "Just doing my job ma'am, now go quick!"
They all left the room very quietly. They got into the lobby where there were police officers waiting pointing guns at the room where the hostages were coming out off. Some of the officers that were just recruits were shaking their guns from all the footsteps they were hearing, about to fire off a shot, but luckily one of the hostages called out for help and the officers ran towards them giving assistance to them.
"That appears to be all the hostages Chief! That robot just saved all these lives!"
The chief grumbled in admittance to the well-aimed professionality of the young robot but was still none too pleased. "Ok, send in the swat team to eliminate all the targets in the room."
"Sir, the Robot is probably gonna try to handle the situation from here. Its probably best we-"
"Did I stutter!? I said send in the Swat and shoot everything in there, the Robot will be fine, but im not letting it take all the credit." The chief said in anger.
The officer reluctantly called in from the radio to call in the C.E.T, those are the the Criminal Executors of Termination. They were the toughest of the toughest that police officers had to offer.
"Sir!" One recruit said "Why are we calling in such extremes for these criminal's sir?"
"Because theres one particular fella in there that is one of the baddest of the bad that is robbing that bank, its Captain. Pain! He has a record and a huge list of wrong doings that he's done, and no one has been able to stop him yet, I don't want to risk him getting out of there, even if we have to kill him I won't let him escape!"
"But won't they also attack the Robot sir, shouldn't we inform them they will have assistance in there?"
"No, this'll scare off that robot and let it know Tremorton has its own way of protecting ourselves."
Back in the vault, XJ6 is on the ceiling once more sneaking into the vault, not getting spotted by the looters, where she got a closer look at the looters.
She saw the big guy, how he looked like a mix of an overweight body builder and some Halloween bash up, was also stashing as much gold and cash down his pockets and bags as possible.
She figured "Its best to take the big guy out first then deal with the rest, don't want him to get his hands on me anytime soon."
She took aim wither her arm which popped out a little barrel from her wrist and selected the fire to be of a high dose tranquilizer.
She took great care of her aim and aimed it at the spot to be most effective, she calculated the trajectory and-
"BANG!"
The room lit up from the corner, XJ6 vision got a little unadjusted from the intense spontaneous flash, she then realized what was going on, but before she could continue-
"BANG!"
Already another one, this was the same tactic she was using! Her vision was once again blinded by adjusted to it fast, before anything else could happen, she propped up a sheild from her arm to cover her self and then-
"BANG"
It happened again, this time it didn't affect XJ6. She kept the shield up incase if there was more, she could barely hear anything that was happening because the flashbangs deafened her audio receivers, but she quickly adjusted their volumes and audio in the room was normal again.
"Spread out, Alpha take the position to the left, Charlie comes with me to the right."
It was the C.E.T! What are they doing here? This is a bank robbery, not a Terrorist attack, unless...
"Ahh, if it my old pals from the Ol' force, here to attempt your what, 6th time to stop me? HarHarHar, You gotta do better then flashbangs to stop me, CAPTAIN PAIN!" The main in the Halloween get up said exposing his position, while her picked up a chain gun from a side next to him and started laying fire to the entire room trying to what seems implement a scare tactic.
"If this man is an old officer from the C.E.T, that must mean he's a great big deal." XJ6 thought to herself "That means if I take him down, General Mack will probably finally give me the respect I deserve."
XJ6 got back to her barrings, she took the opportunity of still being undetected to once more aim at Capt.' Pain.
She had once again calculated her shot, took aim and-
Before she could even finish her thought, she suddenly was being shot at her side and from a rather harsh force! She looked and saw it was one of the C.E.T troops that took the shots!
XJ6 quickly put up her shield just before his bullets could hit her once more, she noticed the shots she took actually dented her!
"Shit!" She said to herself "These must be armor piercing rounds, I guess they came prepared for anything!"
The damage she took was substantial, but nothing of risk of any kind to her, she'll still operate.
She needed to find a good spot for cover, inside the vault was her only idea. She crawled as fast as she could there with her shield still blocking the bullets and she could tell the bullets just reflected right off, showing the efficiency of the shields material at work.
She got in, but an immediate burst of fire was coming aiming at her, she was clearly easy to be see, standing out from all the room being green and all.
The fire she took did little damage to her chassis, they were shot by AK-74's she assumed, so her shield wasn't necessary anymore and so started shooting back with the Miniguns from her shoulders started bursting rubber bullets at the looters taking them all done.
They were all incapacitated, some tried to move but to them it felt like being stung by a million bee's.
She dropped down to the ground, but heard the spur of a minigun behind her, she quickly reacted by barrel rolling to a stack of gold bars next to her as the minigun roared with bullets behind her, she could not differentiate the crackles of the gun firing her or the laughing of the crazed man firing her.
She could feel the sense at that point the gold bars behind her were starting to melt from the heat of the bullets, until finally XJ6 came up with a flash bang of her own and threw it behind her and jumped up over the stacked bars and dashed straight towards the shooter as the flashbang went off behind her.
This blinded and incapacitated the shooter for just a second until XJ6 jumped towards him round house kick with one of her legs, this knocked back the shooter to the side unconscious.
She paid her attention then to Capt. Pain, who was still firing bullets at the C.E.T. while they blind fired back.
She didn't need to think what to do next, she got up from behind the shooter and knocked him straight in the head with nightstick and knocked out the "menacing" Capt. Pain.
The firing stopped as the C.E.T troops came peeking out to see that the robot had just stopped them being fired at.
To show their thanks and appreciation, the immediately opened fire at that robot perceiving it as a threat.
XJ6 knowing full well even before the bullets started flying, popped out her shield to prevent the bullets from hitting her and of Capt. Pain.
She took the opportunity to throw out a smoke bomb that covered the entire room, blinding and disorienting the C.E.T.
As soon as the dust settled, XJ6 was gone along with Capt. Pain.
"Shit!" One of the troops said "They got away!"
"Dammit, this is the third time Capt. Pain got away from my sites!" Another one said.
"Chief" One of the troopers said pulling out his radio "We lost contact with Capt. Pain, he got away-"
"He didn't get away," The chief said bregugedly "That robot just dropped him off right In front of us!"
"Wait, the robot wasn't a threat then?" One of the C.E.T. questioned.
"Well, technically it was seeing it interfered with official police business, but-"
"Can it chief, if this robot turned out to be one of the working projects of Skyway Patrol then your in deep for interfering with Their business." The officer said finishing the call.
Back at the base
All the scientists were waiting inside in their labs going through all the data of XJ6 on her mission, whilst Nora Wakeman, General Mack and Nicolas Lee waited outside in the helicopter pad for their young heroine to return home.
"Well General" Nora said, sounding like she's been rubbing in his face for the 7th time now "What did I tell you about how well my XJ6 would be?"
"Ughh for the Millionth time Nora" Mack responded "You were right, I was to undetermined but also for the millionth time, I still had faith she would accomplish our expectations."
"Well expectations from people like us are very different, non the less, I think this settles our bet."
"Fine, you can take her out of the base in your leisure and ONLY under your supervision, not letting her throttle along to any mall she comes across."
"Annnnd?" Nora said with a creeping smile.
The general lets out a big sigh "and you can ride on my Sports car for the month."
Nora giggled at the excitement of getting to ride on one of those, giving herself daydreams of such wonderful times ahead, but those thoughts ended when they saw in the distance little green figure with green flames coming their way.
They stepped back away from the pad to give XJ6 landing space, as she came at high velocity speed, worrying both the General and Nicolas that she was about to crash!
"Uhh, Nora should she be-?" Nicolas was saying until being sushed by Nora
"Just watch"
XJ6 came about to the ground right about to crash right in the direction of the three people waiting at the pad, going at the speed of a bullet and then-
She gently put into a quick halt like a car braking in midair and gently dropped down in front of them.
"Ta-da!" XJ6 said raising her arm and bowing afterwards.
A demonstrably loud "Phew" could be heard from the two worried men, but Nora was as calm as a rose.
"Excellent dive there XJ6, but make sure you work on that brake there, always good to stop closer to the target if you want to give a heart attack eh?" Nora said with a laugh as well as XJ6 giving a laugh as well.
"Amazing stunt and all XJ6, but more importantly was the mission, you done it! With complete success and efficient tactics you actually stopped not just a mere crime, but also put away a criminal mastermind my boys have been having trouble with putting away!" General Mack applauded
"What, you mean that Pirate clown? I know Halloween is around the corner but yeesh, you would think he wouldn't be coming this early." XJ6 said jokingly.
"Indeed" Nicolas added "You handled the situation better than anticipated, more so than any of us thought. Your emotions fluctuated here and there in certain times but those were expected and could've gone worse if not for your Mothers support for you."
"Yeah" XJ6 said "By the way Mom, thanks again for that." Xj6 then gave her mother a big hug, in joy of her celebration and for the unique feeling of being cared about by her Mother, who hugged back tightly.
"Im just glad you came back in one piece and, wait, if that a dent on your armor?" Nora said feeling the bullet holes from her daughter.
"Yeah." XJ6 said ending the hug to show the marks "Some jerk wad chief sent in some guys in black op uniforms and they interpreted me as the threat! They had armor piercing rounds too."
"I see" General Mack said, with a odd suspicion as if he knew something about it "I'll look into it and see to it the chief is talked too and those troops too."
"It aint the troops fault sir, " XJ6 interrupted "They were probably just doing their job, they most likely didn't even know if I was there with or against them."
"Right" General Mack said in agreement "They were doing their job." He finished off muttering to himself that.
"Well no need to sit around here and just chat, some of the guy inside want to throw a party for the great success of today! They even made your favorite cupcakes XJ6." Nicolas stated with excitement for himself
"Ohhh yummy!" XJ6 said in enjoined excitement "But can I do some things first outside in the yard? I gotta do a bit of 'training' there for next time." She said looking at her mother.
"Don't worry honey, you go and 'train' and we'll be inside partying, but come in soon, its gonna get dark and I want to get a quick look at your wounds." Nora said, winking at the "train" part, knowing well what she meant.
"Thanks Mother!" XJ6 said giving a quick hug and then blasting to the side of the base to the yards.
General Mack had his suspicions, but didn't look much into what she meant, he had other thoughts in mind, like the C.E.T troops to deal with. "Hopefully" he thought "Nora doesn't figure out about why they were really there."
They all headed back inside, whilst XJ6 went through to the same courtyard she went to on her first time outside. She went into a cornered area, where she determined no one can actually see her or any surveillance went as far, where laid a shack made of garbage and left-over building material. This little abode would be XJ6's secret spot.
It was no wider then 3 outhouses and about 2/3 the height of XJ6 herself, so she had to crawl the get through. There inside was her little collections of things she finds in the trash, like a collection of different branded soda cans, piles of different metals, pots of nuts and bolts and other sorts you might figure a young robot would like to keep in what was close enough to tree house.
She entered into the little hut and crawled to the collection of soda cans, and she popped open her front belly chasis to pull out a soda can with the brand Pocus grape juice. She placed it next to her other cans, such as Bepsi, Coka cola, Canada Wet, etc. She's been collecting them since when the cleaning bot was found out of commission, so she had to do the cleaning for the past week until they got a human Janitor.
Since then she has found amazingly interesting stuff in such places like the trash. Theres been newspapers and magazines she couldn't usually get her hands on from her mother's permission like the daily bug news and certain "special" magazines not suitable for kids. She decided to keep them, as a way of collecting certain treasures to look back on. She' really has enjoyed it at a hobby, best part is that no one even knows about it, she doesn't even write it down in her diary, over fear that her suspicion that they are reading her thoughts and find out about it.
She pulled out a certain notebook from one of the piles of heaps of paper and started to go down a list of crossed out items for soda cans, where she crossed out the Dr. Hocus Pocus grape juice.
"Great, 7 down and only 45 more brands to go!" XJ6 thought to herself cheerfully.
Just then she heard a Caw come from behind her, an all to familiar craw.
"Bradley!" She exclaimed "Great timing, I just found another soda can brand, did you happen to find anything?"
"Caw" Bradley said as he pulled from the side a new can, with a different brand called "Sunset Sarsaparilla".
"Wow! I never heard of this brand before, this is definitely going to the collection, thanks Bradley." XJ6 said with profound joy, as she petted Bradley on the head and placed the can next to the collection.
She then took the notebook and wrote in the name of the brand then crossed it out "We still have 45 different brands to find, maybe theres more then we thought, where did you find it anyway?" XJ6 said jokingly, not expecting as much as a "Caw" to which she did, and replied with "Uh huh, well if you find more that would be great."
She reached to a bag in the corner and opened it grabbing a hand full of bread crumbs giving it Bradley. He pecked the pieces of bread crumbs as XJ6 petted him.
She put the notebook back and shuffled through the other side of the hut with the pots of nuts and bolts and decided to have a little snack and eat a few, she would eat them by opening a mouth like container under her chin. Odd you may say but that's just how she was designed to take in consumptions of metals.
She quickly finished her snack and shuffled out of the little shack and waved goodbye to Bradley "See ya later Bradley, Im expected to come in soon so I gotta go."
"Caw"
"Yeah, tell me about it" She said as she flew back into the base.
End of Chapter 1
