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Epilogue: Something
Learned.
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Cain stretched slightly, his legs straining before he let them flop back onto the sand, as he sat perched under his sun umbrella. Before him was a long stretch of sun-coloured desert, large curving rock formations sweeping across the landscape. The sky was a brilliant vibrant blue faded to a light shade around the horizon, fading far off landmarks into a deep indigo.
Sprawled around him were his little digger robots, going through their cycles of digging as they collected rocks and fossils, chirping and beeping away. And amongst it all was X, standing with his own holo-pad of information, helping direct the robots that swarmed around his ankles. He looked up to the scientist, smiled with a wave, before working back on his pad. Cain gave a brief smile with a wave of his own, before looking glumly at his own pad.
It had been three weeks already before he, X, and Tryne escaped the Ogani Tech laboratory and into the city, leaving the unconscious Miss Maquin behind. Tryne quickly volunteered to search inside X to retrieve the tracking chip, which was removed and destroyed. He handed over a copy of X's scanning data, the only back up that existed, smiling thinly, "You should take care of it. It's up to you what you do with it."
Then he left, and he hadn't seen them again since. Although Cain mused he was rather busy, turning to his nearby screen of the news, detailing how a whistle-blower had just given blueprints of highly illegal military robots over to the authorities and media. Miss Maquin was currently under detainment, and Light Industries under investigation. He could care less.
What worried him was X. In a matter of hours the robot had taken a large step in maturity and shown he understood his education better than anyone realized. Underneath the guise of a naïve, helpful robot, he was certainly someone who wanted to do the right thing. But afterwards he had gone back to being a shy little robot again, as if somewhat disturbed himself over his own actions.
Which was why Cain took him back to his own private home in the Haemeda hills, away from prying eyes and baffled stares that seemed to follow the robot everywhere. X accompanied him on his expeditions, and his behaviour improved dramatically – being locked in a lab seemed to stunt his progress. He learned more and became more human every day until he was almost unrecognisable from the monotonous robot Cain first met.
It didn't matter in any case, in the end. X was a person who needed someone to keep an eye on him from here on out, and while Cain was not proud on his past performance, he was going to keep an eye on X until the day he died. No matter what the future contained.
END.
------------------------------------Author notes: This only only part one of a series, so don't worry, it doesn't end here ;)