Purposes
Rock sat on his bed. He began to…examine himself…in the same way that he does any tool he comes across. It was ironic, he was a machine designed to use machines. Still though, he could not find a particular function for his existence. It was…distressing to him.
He got up and walked towards Dr. Light's lab. "Hey, father?" he asked.
"Yes, Rock?" Asked Dr. Light, who was trying to solve some complex algorithm on a whiteboard mentally.
"I was wondering, if maybe…I could go out?" asked Rock.
Dr. Light considered "Well, sure, just be back before dark"
Rock began to walk out, putting on a coat. Roll approached him. "Mind if I go with you? I don't see the city very often!" she said.
"Uh…sure…" said Rock.
The two androids walked down the streets of Monsteropolis.
"So, how's your day been?" asked Roll, cheerfully as always.
"Fine, I guess" said Rock, without much enthusiasm.
"Are you ok, Rock? Something bothering you?" asked Roll.
"Yeah…I just…I just feel like I'm some useless machine with no real purpose. I want to do something with my life. I want to be special!" asked Rock.
"You are special, to me and to Dad" said Roll
"Do you think I might be reading too far into this?" asked Rock
Suddenly, they both bumped into Lan.
"Oh, hi Lan!" said Roll. "Rock, this is Lan! He's chief of security at Dad's workplace. Lan, this is my brother Rock"
"Rock and Roll, eh?" said Lan, shaking their hands, suspicious. "No idea there were two of you"
Rock was about to spill the beans, when Lan got a call. "We have a security issue here at Light Industries. It's an emergency, please report immediately". He was hearing these words in his head only, through brain implants.
"I got to go, see you later?" said Lan.
"Yeah, why don't you meet me at my Dad's place later today?" said Roll
"Sure thing" said Lan.
…
Lan walked into the high rise building that was Light industries. A man in uniform greeted him.
"So what's the problem?" asked Lan.
"Someone hacked our mainframe" said the guard.
"That's impossible, It's a twenty digit code and you get locked out with one wrong try" said Lan
"Well, the only two people who know the password aren't supposed to be here, so it must have been done by an outside part" said the guard.
"Well, what did they do? Did they steal from our bank accounts, what?" asked Lan
"I don't know." said the guard.