I am securing myself with strong cargo netting, onto the wall in the small room at the end of the container.

The various pipes leading from Alicia's room. The fresh water container, geyser and the generator providing the power is also here. I put the metal woven sack over my head. My thoughts unfold

Unlike Alicia. I'm a real "robot" I have also have a body, head, arms and legs. But you can clearly see, I'm a machine. My silver metal body shining brightly and my silver head housing large round green insect like eyes. My face looks mask like. I have no mouth, nose or ears. Still people don't fear me. Even though I have studied many courses and done lots of tests. I do stupid stuff all the time. Alicia always laughing at my awkwardness. Insisting on playing rock paper scissors with me. Laughing each time I throw scissors.

Still I worry about her. She is one of the most advanced machine ever produced. You can even call her an android. Yet she still keeps on living an indecent life. Not that I am jealous. I just think of my past and how I had grown to where I am today. Mega man used to easily beat me. Everyone was always laughing at me. Dr Wily was disappointed in me, for being so weak. Still I was able to rise to where, I could protect people with my own strength.

She just keeps on doing. What she was made for. The money she brings, is it for me? Does she see me as her owner? The abuses she suffered, from when the triad traded her around. Broke her "mind". Somedays she is well and we can talk. She is smiling and speaks so finely. Her laughter I believe it is genuine. Then other days she is staring blankly out the window, pushing the buttons on her mobile console even if it is not on. I have followed her before and when she is at "work". She talks and acts like a human .You would never think she is a machine. I believe she has friends and might even have boyfriends! They are unable to discern it and her body is crafted so finely. Only if you could cut her open. Would you see she is not "real".

I hear the door open. I feel "sad". It's starting again.

"Cutman. I'm alone come with me. Take of your clothes. Get on the bed."

I don't like this, but I don't want to see her sobbing.

See starts licking me. I can't feel it.

See touches me. I cant feel it.

She kisses my mask like face. I can't feel it.

She rubs her naked body on mine. I can't feel it.

She grinds on me. I can't feel it.

She finishes till she climaxes, then she lays on top of me. I can't feel it.

She starts crying. I hold her. This feeling I know.

"When will it stop Alicia? What can I do to see you smile forever? Somethings I can't understand. I'm not "real". Help me please."

"Cutman, I don't want to smile around you."

My "heart" breaks again.

"You will leave me, abandon me then. If I'm fixed you will send me away, to live with someone else. I love you Cutman. I'll always come cry here. Then you won't send me away. Won't you Cutman?"

"No Alicia I wont. I'm going to my room..."

I close the door. I take my metal sack and put it over my head. All my sensors go dark. Its a special container to carry equipment that must not be detected. No communication can penetrate it.

I'm "asleep"...I am laying on the ground on sand. Suddenly I remember everything. I stand up. There are two suns shining in the sky. I am in a desert. The sand is made of three colours purple, green and blue. They don't mix. The dunes extending endlessly around me. The sky is pitch black. But the light of the suns are shining on the desert. The heat must be intense. I see the heat mirage in the distance. Even standing still the heat bends the air into vortexes making it look as if the sand is moving even when standing still. I would definitely melt in this heat or would not function anymore all my oils evaporating instantly. I don't want to even think what a living being would suffer in this heat.

I'll walk towards the light again. The same one that formed my dream body. Where the colours rushing inside me came from. How many years could it be. I've been walking so long each night . When I "sleep" it feels like a thousand years in my inner world. The light does not move, I am getting closer. I start walking. On my body there is writing. I look suddenly dread fills me. I have to remember it no matter what. When I wake up I must tell everyone this! I MUST REMEMBER! I run desperately towards the light. This continues for many years. I can tell the time. The smaller sun following a certain pattern. On my body I marked the calculations I did hundred's of thousands of years ago. This must not happen...I have to save Alicia even if I can only save her..."

"Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep"

I take the bag off my head. I MUST WRITE IT DOWN NOW!" I reach out in front of me. Why was I reaching out...

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Someone opens and closes the shower door. The waters tap is turned on. I hear the muffled sound of water falling inside the shower. I put my hand on the wall directly behind the shower as if touching something there on the other side. I knock on the door leading into Alicia's room. I open it slightly. The steam hiding her naked figure in the shower. "I'm going job hunting again. Is there something you need?"...silence again..."good luck"..."Thank you Alicia."

I am at the PD again. The boss called me in. "Sorry CM even after you left. We were fighting trying to get you back." "Thank you Boss." "But CM there is one thing only you can do. I know we don't have the right to ask you anything anymore. But CM nobody can replace your ability to assess risks and take appropriate action in cases of disaster. You have the strength and endurance of 10 police officers. You also know all the laws and protocols. But most importantly you are fearless and will risk anything to save people." "Boss..." "Not only our PD but the counties around us were going to strike. So the bigwigs at HQ had to bend to our demands. I will now deputize you as a first responder. Lets go outside everyone is there."

I'm putting the special parking sticker on my bike's windshield. Normally I'd have a meltdown putting stickers on my bike. It reads "First Response Unit." In a large brown envelope. I flip it open slightly. See the PD's official mark. The photo I took with everyone is also inside.

"ALICIA COME LOOK!" suddenly she drops the game console, probably shocked by me entering. I show her the newly framed certificate and photo. I'm shocked her blank look disappears and she is smiling genuinely at me. Before I can even think about what it means. I get a call, it started again. The Power Rangers mech is forming there is going to be a battle and it will be inside the city!

I grab Alicia I open the door leading to the tent outside. I open the door leading to the house underneath Alicia's room. As I'm running down the spiral stairway into ground. I cover her head with my hand and fold her inside my arms. We enter the underground part of our house.

When I bought the plot in the harbor. They had said a general store was built there many years ago. They could not build safely there. Without doing a lot of work and that it would not be worth the trouble. Our first container fell through the roof of the hidden storage basements of the structure. I have reinforced the structure. It can safely take and house 100 people in case of an emergency.

The battle is being fought at the center of the city. It is to far away. And there are shelters closer to that area. It's only Alicia. I open the safe room. "Please Alici...""I won't leave no matter what. I'll wait for you. I won't even open the door, if it's not you Cutman."

I have never felt this sensation.

I look at her. She kisses me on my eye. "Please be careful Cutman." Her eyes are full of life. She pulls the thick doors close. I can hear she's locking it from the inside. The tab outside shows a red signal closed. The door engages the words locked are shown. The intercom speaks. "I'll wait for you, I won't leave. You'll have to come fetch me." I look through the door she is grabbing a blanket and cushion and crawling underneath the bed inside.

The first time I have felt that she is really safe and won't wander off by mistake. I start my motorcycle.

I ride towards the city center. I see the mechs fighting.

Many people are going to die...

Finish.