5T3V-3N82, or Steven as he likes to be called, was sleeping. He had been for hundreds of years. Of course he wasn't really sleeping but instead trying to preserve what little energy he thought he had left. Still his mind wandered. Which was... Strange. He was supposed to be a robot, a perfect being who was the very image of efficiency. So why couldn't he control himself? His only theory was 'Mother', a rogue A.I who had gained controlled over every robot in the solar system, including himself, and turned against humanity. However, 'Mother' should have been destroyed and A.I with his level of sentience should have no longer been in production. Unable to figure out the the solution he could only think back to his home in Listras, the week the meteor struck, the Week his life changed.
Jack had bags under his eyes, he always did, ever since his wife, Jasmine, died. Who could really blame him? He had to juggle his job as a scientist, his role as a single father and trying to protect Steven in court from families who were broken apart by the 'Rebellion'. Even if Steven tried to help where he could there was a limit to what a robot who was not even allowed to walk in public without supervision could do.
Whilst Steven was thinking about his friends circumstances He heard a Jack say "Steven, could I ask you to look after Amelia whilst I'm on my research trip, the foods in the fridge and i will be back in a week." Obviously Steven agreed, he owed his whole life to Jack, he saw him as his brother. Without him Steven would be scraped for parts the moment he was discovered, such was the life of a sentient automaton. However, Steven still wished for more. He looked back fondly on the times Jack brought him along for his research and often reminisced about his time away from society even if Jack's co-workers saw him as nothing more then a glorified lab.
"Papa where are you going?" Amelia questioned in an excited tone as whilst she hated when her father was away she always liked the many exotic souvenir he would return with.
"Alfrezar, just up north of here, I'll get you a special surprise for you birthday. Okay sweetie?"
"Okay!" Amelia exclaimed with the brightest smile Steven had ever seen"By the way, why are you going?"
"Just a gravitational anomaly. I will be back before you know it." Replied Jack seemingly with a sense of pride that his daughter could follow in his footsteps to become a great scientist like himself.
"You spoil her too much you know." Steven said under his breath.
"I can't help it, she's all I have left of Jasmine. She has the same crimson hair, the same hazel eyes the same cheerful attitude the sam- sorry I'm getting ahead of myself what I'm saying is I need to spoil her enough for two people."
Steven laughed before saying "that make no logical sense, can not compute." in an overly robotic voice.
Jack merely stared at Steven before he started laughing "Ironic isn't it, to think it would take you talking like an average smart device before I could realise just how human you really are"
"I'm so hurt, to think after all we've been through together you could still only see me as a robot until now" Steven said it sarcastically but he was genuinely hurt at Jack statement.
"Any way good luck on your journey, after all this is the last one before we go on vacation isn't it?" Steven questioned to which Jack simply nodded but Steven could tell that his friend could barely hide his excitement, he had not seen the sea since he was a child and even then the Martian sea could not compare to the ones on Earth oceans, as whilst the Martian landscape was terraformed to be formulaic and rigid Earth still kept the disorder and fluidity of a simpler time. A time before humanity started terraforming planets and moons a time when Earth was considered humanities home and not just the home of the wealthy. However, that time was long gone. As humanity learned how to change nature they also sought to rule it and more then a few wars had been fought over even the smallest moons, let alone one as intriguing as Titan.
"Well then, I'll be going now" Jack said whilst exiting the house "Goodbye sweetie, see ya Steven
"Bye Bye Papa, I love you" Amelia shouted
*thud*
Once again Jack had left to go on one of his adventures leaving Steven alone with Amelia and whilst the two were never happy when Jack went away they eventually learned to deal with it.
"Mr Stevie, could you Pleeaase tell me about one of your and Papa's adventures?" Pleaded Amelia
"Isn't it a bit late for you?" Steven replied to which Amelia could only attempt to use her infamous 'puppy dog eyes' to get Steven to oblige" Puppy dog eyes don't work on a robot but I guess it is the last week before the holidays so I guess I'll tell you a short story." As soon as Steven said that Amelia's face lit right up
"On holiday? Where are we going?" Amelia responded earning what would be a face of fear on Steven if not for the fact that it was physically impossible.
"Urh..T-the Moon, where going to meet your grandma there" Amelia didn't seem fully convinced but she decided that if she kept pressing she might not be able to hear Steven's story. "Anyway, so we where in the Martian dessert when our E.W.D (Emergency Warning Device) sent a type 3 broadcast in our location. It was a sandstorm, one bigger and perhaps more deadly then any I or Jack had ever seen before. Luckily, your farther's quick thinking skills saved us from impending doom by going to the nearby ravine that was far to deep to ever be Terra formed and allowing the sand storm to quite literally pass over us. It was rather lucky that Jack brought his E.W.D that day since he usually forgets it, needless to say Jack never left his E.D.W again. Now Amelia, I believe it is time for you to go to bed."
"Night night Mr Stevie"
The next day was rather hectic of course he had to do help Amelia get ready for school make breakfast etc etc... But most importantly something strange happened "Mr Stevie is that Papa's E.W.D" and lo and behold a small black Transceiver was right in front of Steven. It seemed that 'Jack never left is E.W.D again' doesn't apply when he's too giddy about going to earth.
*Sigh* "Amelia get on my hover bike I'll drop you off at school. Go and see if you can arrange to have a sleepover at one of your friends house."
Steven wasn't very worried about his friend, why would he be? 99% of the time nothing happened and even if it did his co-workers had their own E.W.D with them so unless something happened before they got to the gravitational anomaly he had nothing to worry abou-
Warning meteors have a 79% chance of impacting in Alfrezar within the next 3 days please evacuate the area immediately."
After hearing this, Steven stopped his hover bike and told Amelia to get off before speeding up Alfrezar was a couple days away from Listras and the emergency evacuation shelter was slightly closer so he would stop there to see if Jack had met up with any of his co-workers before he reached his destination.
Before Steven could go to Alfrezar he had one problem. The Dome guards. Each habitat on semi-teraformed worlds like Titan were protected you a dome, these domes stopped the elements from affecting humanity Before the atmosphere was fully adjusted. No the outside of the dome wasn't a problem for Steven but the guards who were closer to boarder control officers would be a much larger obstacle cal if they weren't convinced.
"Oi, robot what are you doing out here without your master." Steven sighed of all the dome guards it could have been why did it have to be Him, the most anti-droid person is Listras.
"I Don't have time for this, Fredrick," Steven said whilst holding up a the E.W.D "If I don't get to Jack in time his blood is on your hands!" Whilst riding to the edge of the dome Steven had been thinking of a speech that would be able to convince most of the guards, after all Jack had done to much for the community to just let him die. But Fredrick was different...
"And what if don't ,Robot."
*tch* desperate times call for desperate measures and this could most certainly be described as a desperate time so Steven did something that he knew he would come to regret. As he was thinking the air lock closed and a look of abject horror was plastered on Fredrick's face.
"Don't tell, b-but that's illegal, you would risk your 'life' just to be able to save your master? Well I suppose I shouldn't have expected better. All you Robot's are cut from the same cloth any way"
Steven had hacked into the city main frame and used it to open the door. 'An artificial intelligence was not allowed to access the internet directly' as per Article 94 of Inter planetary Law 'any who do are to be scrapped immediately' and Titancea law states that 'any person(s) caught hacking into a city main frame are to face a prison time of 15 to 30 Earth years' but Steven didn't care anymore. Saving Jack was primary objective.
The ride to Alfrezar's emergency evacuation shelter had been relatively uneventful other then a noxious gas cloud that could have suffocated a human. Once Steven got to the shelter and went through the air lock
"Is there a Jack Wilfred in here" Steven shouted trying to get the attention of as many people as possible to Which a man named Mark Olson ,one of Jacks co-workers, Stepped up.
"Lab, It's you! I thought he went back to Listras." Mark said before realising that there was a E.W.D in my hands. "Dammit, I always knew that his aloof attitude would get him in trouble one day and now he's gone"
"Your condolences are appreciated but he's not dead yet."Steven turned to leave but not without not without noticing a small tear in the corner of Mark's eye. "Goodbye Mark, hope you do well."
After this point it was all a blur for Steven. Perhaps his memory card was damaged, Perhaps he didn't want to remember. However, he did remember one thing Jack said "Live your life Steven, not the life of a servant, a droid or anything else but your, Steven Wilfred's life."
The next thing Steven could remember was Darkness, a never ending void. Until...
[MAGIC HAS ENTERED YOUR WORLD, DUE TO THIS MONSTERS WILL SOON APPEAR. BUT DO NOT LOOSE HOPE FOR THE SYSTEM WILL CONVERT SAID MAGIC INTO STRENGTH FOR ALL SENTIENT BEINGS SIMPLY SAY OR THINK STATUS TO SEE HOW POWERFUL YOU ARE. GAIN TITLES AND SKILLS BY DOING CERTAIN ACTIONS. LEVEL UP BY KILLING MONSTERS. AT CERTAIN LEVELS YOU WILL BE GRANTED CLASS UPS AND EVOLUTION.]
To which Steven could only think 'What the actual hell is going on here?'