"We're going to live on the beach, yo?"
"Yup!"said Lance, as he handed the floorprints to one of the robots.
The site was filled with robots, and the house, ten stories tall, extending practically from one end of the beach to the other, was being build in no time.
"Do you feel much happier, Master?"asked R.Daneel.
"You know what, R? I actually do."
R.Daneel nodded.
"That is very well."
The house was ready to be occupied that night.
"What's gonna happen to the old one, yo?"Toad asked R.Daneel.
"I believe the robots will tear it down."he said.
"Why do the robots get to tear it down!"exclaimed Fred. "We were the ones who lived in it!"
R.Daneel looked at Fred.
"It is customary here on Solaria that robots do most of the work the Masters don't care to do. That is a robot's work. To have one of the masters do the work, would cause a very unpleasant sensation to the robot. It is as unpleasant to the robot as pain is to a human."
"I wanna tear the house down!"exclaimed Fred.
"Yeah!"exclaimed Pietro.
R.Daneel looked at the Brotherhood.
"I must follow the First Law."he said quietly. "You do not hurt humanity by doing a robot's work, so the Zeroth Law does not apply. As my telepathic powers indicate, to not allow you to destroy the house shall cause you a great distress, and in the telepathic sense, meaning that it would cause you harm. I must not allow that to happen if it is withing my abilities to stop it. If the Masters wish to do the work themselves, they shall be allowed to do it. I shall go inform the robots to stop immediately. Would you go now? Or would you rather wait until tomorrow?"
"Now!"
R.Daneel nodded.
"As you wish, Master."
They walked out of the house, and got into the car. R.Daneel, of course, letting Lance drive.
"There's the house, yo!"
"Not for long!"
Fred uproot a tree, and threw it towards the house, smashing almost an entire wall, and part of the second floor went down, as several robots watched, and more tried to escape. Fred took one of the robots and began throwing robots. Lance created an earthquake in which almost the whole structure collapsed within itself, and Pietro began to circle the structure creating a tornado. Toad was caught in it.
"AAAHHH!"he screamed his girly scream.
"Robots!"exclaimed R.Daneel. "The Master is hurt!"
And several robots appeared on the scene, to aid Toad. Several tried to jump in, but only ended up caught in the tornado, and being thrown out to hit other robots. After several robotic corpses were left around the ruins, along with the house, Pietro stopped.
"That was fun, yo."
"Are you hurt, Master?"
"No. But at least it took care of most of the robots."
"Yeah, we want new robots. These old ones were repaired too fast. We want ones that are more fun to break."
"I don't know if there is such a model on Solaria."said R.Daneel. "However, I shall indeed get the latest models."
"Cool, yo."
R.Daneel nodded, and they climbed back into the vehicle. Once back at the new house, R.Daneel watched as the Brotherhood enjoyed their dinner. They didn't talk much while they were eating unless it was to throw food, or plates, as they liked to concentrate on the food. R.Daneel simply watched and refilled glasses, and plates.
"I am quite pleased that you have enjoyed your meal, Masters."he said.
"Well, we did need it after destroying that big house, yo."
R.Daneel nodded.
"I must inform you, Masters, that the Solarians shall never leave this planet."
"I thought you said they did!"
R.Daneel shook his head.
"They will have mutated themselves. Into hermaphrodites. To stay on this planet, with their robots, while the rest of humanity expanse outward. They shall be the only Spacers that survive of their race."
They looked at him.
"So?"
"I cannot gamble. I must work for only the good of humanity. The Masters must know what is best. I shall give them Galaxia. Shall it be a Galaxia, of Solarians, isolated individuals, who have all the freedom they could want? Or shall it be a Galaxia of Settlers, with other humans? Living as they did on Earth. I had always known what the Solarians would do, or at least I suspected it. However, I could not take the risk. Had I done so, I would have frozen mentally and ceased to function. You have lived both on Earth, among people such as the Settlers, and on Solaria, along with Spacers."
"You chose the wrong people, yo."
"Yeah."
"Suppose we choose one?"
"Then I shall abide by it."
"And if it's the wrong?"
"I shall be obeying you, Master. You are human, and are not bound by the Laws of Robotics. You can gamble, I cannot."
"What happens if we choose one or the other?"
"If you should choose the Settlers, I shall make preparations for Galaxia, but after I have done away the Solarians. They would be part of Galaxia, too, you see."
"And how would you do that?"
"That shall not be hard. They find humans so repulsive, that their population shall simply decrease so much until it is nothing."
"And the other one?"
"I shall make arrangements to have a Solarian child brought to me, and I shall merge with it. Along with my perfect memories, and its ability to reproduce without a mate, it being its own mate, as you see life on Solaria, is how it shall be lived by all in the galaxy."
"It was fun staying here, yo."
"The robots were cool to destroy."
"They were too slow!"
"I want to do things for myself."
R.Daneel remained silent.
"I thought you had once told me that Earth was forgotten."
"It is true."
"Why?"
"For the good of humanity."
"I don't think that was for the good of humanity, R."
"I vote in favor of Solaria, yo."
Fred thought about it.
"I'm for Solaria, too."
"Will the robots be faster?"
"If you wish so, Master."
"Will people remember Earth? Will it not be radioactive?"
"If that is your price, then I will do everything within my abilities for it to be met, Master."
"Then, we decide it's Solaria."said Pietro.
"I must take you back to Earth now. I shall adjust your minds so that you will not be tempted to speak of me."
In a flash of light, they found themselves back in their house.
"What was that, yo?"
"We're back."
"Were we just dreaming?"
"We're here."
They looked around at the messy room.
"Hmm, well, I can say that I'm a little hungry."
"Got any money?"
"We'll have to come up with a new way for the pizza guy. He's getting real good at this!"