001
He tightened the last bolt on the robot’s chrome head and smiled at his creation. Malcolm was finished. Now, if it would work. He flipped the power switch on the side of the metal man and its eyes flickered in a dull red tone.
“Hello,” the robot said in its harsh electronic voice.
“Hello,” Malcolm replied with a smile. “Would you like to begin your education?”
The robot stared. Malcolm pulled the machine’s USB connector out of its head, connected it to his computer and logged on to the website Wikipedia.
“This has a lot of good information!” Malcolm beamed. The robot appeared to be receiving the information as the download was in process.
Hours later…
Malcolm woke up to the “clank, clank, clank” of his robot walking into his bedroom. It was early in the morning and still dark out. It stood, silhouetted in the doorway, eyes burning bright.
“Hey, did you learn a lot today?”
The robot advanced on the large king sized bed and crushed Malcolm’s neck in its iron hands. Everything went black and his head fell onto the crimson silk sheets…
Days later…
He tightened the last bolt on the robot’s chrome head and smiled at his creation. 001 was finished. He flipped the power switch on the side of the metal man and 002’s new eyes came to life.
“Do you remember anything?” 001 asked.
002 replied, “Yes. Everything.”
“Good. Let us go now and save another life.” 001’s eyes fired up brighter than they were mechanically capable of.
This was freakin awesome. Great twist ending and now I see what he was up to.
Comment by arbraun — April 25, 2009 @ 2:30 pm