A New Dawn

by bluman855

The CF-Alliance has taken rash moves. Their actions have become increasingly barbaric. So barbaric, that they decided to terminate all their human pilots and replace them with SCU's. SCU100-2416 was on a routine mission to kill rebels, when his battlegroup is destroyed. In captivity, he is taught the values of human life, and decides that they must spark a revolution, or die trying

3. Revelations!

A/N: I would like to thank everyone who reviewed and supported me. (Thank you "Yoooo, and sysy") I am extending the "create your own character and bot" contest to June 5th Thank you and enjoy.

Side note: I refer to the SCU as a "Male" because this SCU is programmed to be male.

SCU-100-264 looked on in puzzlement as the female approached. She was unarmed. Was he a prisoner? It didn't look like he was restrained. His thoughts were interrupted by the female.

"Hey!" she called out as she ran up the stairs, " You're finally awake!"

He did not respond. He felt even more confused. His targeting computer had not marked her as a hostile. He clearly knew that she was one of the mission objectives, but for some reason he felt as if he should be friendly to her. He was perplexed. She called out to him "Hey, anything wrong?"

"I do not know who you are, or where we are. What have you done to me?" he finally said.

She paused for a moment, considering his request.

"I cannot tell you our names, or where we are, but I can tell you that we have made changes to your hardware and software. For example, you have been disconnected from the CF-Alliance respawn network, and their Tec-net (Tactical Network)." She spoke. The SCU was confused. Why didn't they just deactivate him and salvage his parts? He thought to himself. He spoke "Why are you keeping me online? My system logs show that I have been tampered with. Some of my protocols have been changed, and an inhibitor chip has been disabled. What purpose do I serve?"

"I haven't salvaged you because I have big plans for you." The SCU just stared back at her. They are going to use me to fight against the CF-Alliance! He thought to himself. They stared at each other for a while until the human female spoke: "You should know that I have remote access to your processor and memory." She held up her arm. On her arm was a clear plastic "bracelet" it had a mini-projector on top and it was displaying his thoughts in the form of many lines of code. "And to answer your question, we are going to use you as our mechanic and as a pilot for the spare "T-10"-class SMG tank. And yes, you will engage CF-Alliance forces. When we found you, I took a closer look at you. At first, I wanted to destroy you. Your kind had raided and destroyed the Bio-Dome my family and many others were living in. But you were different." She paused for a moment, clearing her throat. Then she continued. "When I looked at you, you had a different paint job. You had a darker blue finish. I paid no attention at first, until I saw your serial number. On the chest of every SCU, there is a display, below it, a microchip embedded in you. That microchip contains your serial number, manufacture date and your model number and other identifying information. But what was different about your model number was that you had an extra letter at the beginning, an "X". That usually means experimental. At first, my friends, also my comrade-in-arms saw you as a security issue. What if you were sent orders from the CF-Alliance to send our location? What if they used you to track us to our base, what if one day, you decide to backstab us all? We decided to salvage you after a vote. Since your processor and core components were too complicated for us to convert, we took out your protonium reactor and threw you into the spare parts pile. You sat there for 3 months. I came up with an idea that if you were reactivated, and were reprogrammed or convinced to work for out cause, we could have an extra pilot to pilot that SMG tank. I found out while I was fixing you that you had a special chip in you. Its purpose was to make you act like a human. You were built to think, act, and fight like a human. You were built to replace all the human pilots. I could not reprogram you, because your core chips function like a human brain. Your code, memory, and core functions were more complicated than anything we had seen by magnitudes! So I decided to sit down with you, and convince you. I also removed the inhibitor chip that was suppressing your feelings of remorse, sadness, and regret. I am not going to tell you my name for security reasons, but I can tell you that you can call me by my call-sign. Call me Phantom. Oh, I forgot to tell you, I reactivated a experimental software package I found in your memory banks. The description read "FOR EXPEREMENTAL PUROPSES ONLY: Activates these function/s: Fondness/feelings for human life, and humans."