Though it was harder than she would have liked, Sarah was happy to be doing something again. Between her seizure, the concussion and the threat of her injury worsening, Kelly had taken all the necessary precautions. While Sarah was still feeling a little tender and still had a mild headache from the concussion, she had gotten Kelly to agree to let her get back to work as long as she promised to take it easy and stay with someone.
Fortunately, Nate was also one to come to work early. He seemed to be waiting for her when she walked in.
"Back so soon?"
"Are you kidding? When I was a Ranger, I'd have been in at least one fight by now."
"But you'd have powers to protect you from the injury," Nate said. "I'm fine waiting another day or so if..."
"I'll die of boredom," Sarah shook her head. "So where are the Beast Bots?"
Nate led her over to where she would be working. She saw some blueprints out on her desk, with some writing on them and then some symbols or pictures underneath so Sarah could understand what he wrote.
"The programming is done," Nate told her. "They'll have training lessons, they'll have the ability to speak and respond, they'll be able to assist in battle if needed and adapt to any situation. I've also programmed them with their own individual personalities. I chose to have their personalities contrast those of the Rangers a bit to strengthen the Rangers individually."
"So these will be sentient?"
"Neat, huh?"
"Yeah! RedBot will be excited! And maybe a bit jealous," Sarah nodded. Nate frowned.
"Who's RedBot?"
"A teammate. A sentient robot friend of ours. He lives with Mick, Dane, Brody and Levi."
"You already built a Beast Bot?"
"No. He's just a regular sentient robot," Sarah assured Nate. "No animal DNA involved."
"But you built him?"
"No. I... I'm not sure how he was created. He, Brody and Mick escaped Galvanax's space ship together with the Nexus Prism. We met him when we got our powers so there was enough weird stuff going on that I guess we never questioned where he was from. For all I know, there could be a whole planet of RedBots out there."
Sarah noticed Nate deflate a little bit and realized he was likely proud he had managed to find a way to create sentient robots. Man kind was making progress, but so far, no one had the technology or the understanding for how to create a robot that would act, feel and respond to humans and robots, just like a human. Nate's work was revolutionary.
"But, uh... the animal part is still unheard of."
Nate gave a shrug and then pointed to the blueprints. "I gave an idea for the design, but I'm not an engineer. All I know is that I want the Beast Bots to look like the animals they'll take after and I need them to be able to function in the cockpit of the Rangers Zords."
"So they need to be able to help on and off the battle field? And with normal and giant monsters? Do you think they'll be a threat with Blaze, Roxy and Evox?"
"Can we risk assuming they won't be?" Nate asked and Sarah shook her head. They weren't completely sure of the threat the Rangers were faced and since every other team of Rangers had needed Zords, it was safe to assume this team would too.
"I can make it work. Might take a couple of days."
"Start with Jax if you need an easier time. He's smaller in design and there's more room in the frame to work. Take all the time you need to get it done."
"On it."