Destroying Theft
Based on:
"Little Robots"
Everything belongs to Cosgrove Hall et al.
It was daytime in the robots' little land, dawn in the outside world. To Tiny's suprise, as he walks up to the Sparky Twins, a pretty big piece of their roof is suddendly scrunched and taken up and over somewhere, from what they see. Quickly, everyone else notices it. "Whaah!" Scary yells. "Our home is being destroyed! Where is that part of our roof going?" Then, they hear a very scratchy and loud sound and the bat flies right out to see, it's a destruction machine which "their" scrap is being put into. He flies back to the others. "A machine is destroying our scrap home...it's gonna be gone forever.' he finishes solemnly and sadly.
Then, two more pieces of their globe surroundings are taken away, almost at once. Tiny says, "We'll have to move away from here." Sporty comes up to him and asks, "Why don't we move in with some humans? If we choose them smartly, they will accept us in." The twins say, "Yeah, several humans already know we exist, including some more right now!" They run out of the hole open from the floor level up and out into the actual scrapyard. Some of them look at another machine, which one of the other pieces is being pounded under, they can see it's to re-shape the scrap they 'used'. One man working on said machine sees them and yells out to them, "Stay gone, you stole our scrap and claimed you were only using it!" "I'll take your message, sir!" the boy yells back at the man, who smiles in acceptance at that. The robots eventually get out of the yard, the bat first, of course.
They are accepted into certain people's houses in several sections of the city, to general happiness and, again, content.
THE END