Phil watches the light circle fade away, bruises aching all over his body as he sweats profusely.
Rick approaches him and notices him staring at a pile of metal.
"Are you all right?" he asked as he assisted him to his feet.
"There was a red circle," Phil said, still bewildered by the red light, and proceeded towards the source of the light.
"I think you're hurt pretty badly," Rick said, staring at his friend as he walked over to the pile of debris where he had hurt himself.
Nearing the debris he stared at it for a few minutes , touching the object which looked like a head stuck under the pile of metals. Rick just stood there watching, pondering whether to call a doctor or not.
"Rick, let's get this thing out."
"Bro, you need a doc right now."
"Yeah, but first this."
"Why?"
Rick was baffled by it. Without thinking too much about it, he summoned his robotic arm. until the arm got there Phil inspected the object. When arm arrives he backs off to give Rick and arm space to do their work Rick begins to remove the debris from top until he reaches the object. arm pick next pile seeing the object gets picked with debris Phil yelled
"Stop, stop, there it is, put it down slowly."
Rick does what he says and puts it down, Phil walks close to it and with help of Rick pulls the thing out "Wooa!" They see a 7.5 foot-old-robot .
"looks pretty old" Phil murmured to himself.
"It is huge." Rick bewildered and switched off the arm.
They remove dust from its body to get better look. The 7.5-foot giant with damaged artificial muscles bulging, most of the component wire can be seen, with small cracks over the oval head with one artificial eye the size of a baseball, metal plates over its legs that appear to be strong enough for any work, and a chest of two reactors, one on the upper chest and the other on lower .
"It is a very old generation robot," Rick said.
"Yeah.., scan it, look for information over the galactic net."
Rick, scans the robot with his side arm scanner and sets it to project the hologram for both of them to view. With the 3d image of Robot the description says the first generation labor robot advanced for his generation doing labor work programmed into it, they saw an image, somewhat different than this robot .
"What are you going to do with it?" Rick asked, scratching his head.
"For now, let's see if we can get it started. Let's move to your garage" still observing closely.
Rick calls one of his workers and tells him to bring a large equipment loader. Until they come, Rick puts back the debris while Phil investigates it. A man named Amber arrives with a loader to see both of them staring at an old giant robot.
" Yo ! looks old and outdated, and what happened to you?" looking at Phil up and down
"He rolled down the cliff," Rick said to Amber, putting hand on his shoulder and shaking his head. Amber gets that as a signal for not asking anymore and shuts himself up.
"Just to see if we can get this thing started or not," Phil said to both.
They mounted the robot on a loader and instructed it to make its way to the garage. Three of them boarded Phil's car and drove to their building.
"What are you going to do with that once you get it started?" Amber asks, glaring at them.
"I don't know. that's if we can get it started," Phil replied.
"It looks quite well for an old generation."
When They approach close to the building, Rick and Phil gets off the car,
"OK, bye! I'm off work," Amber said, waving at them.
"Bye."
" See ya."
"Let's get you treated first," Rick says, while looking over his bruises.
They go to the emergency room there to get treated. The doc bot scans him and applies some bandages , and prescribes medication. They both got to their underground garage, which is used by them as a covert laboratory, after spending their savings on a computer system, hardware, and software. Uncle Arthur had no objection to them using the garage. They scan their faces and the door glides open. Following their entrance, a grey-colored dog named Rock approached them, shaking his tail. size similar to belgian sheepdog greeted them. Rick unlocks the garage door to let the loader in. There is a large space with several computers in the side, a holographic table at the side of it and some 3D printers.
"Don't you have work tomorrow?" Rick teased.
"I'm thinking about staying tonight," Phil said as he sat in his chair after resetting his computer.
"What?" glaring at Phil, baffled.
"This robot piqued my interest, and also scan the robot for damages."
"Will do" Rick just gave in. Rick begins to unload the robot and scan again with a scanning bot to get the overview of damages . Phil goes over the information again. The robot's popularity waned as new generations arrived, although it was nevertheless manufactured until the last century. He goes over the scan he checks and shows a completely different robot then they have found over the net.
"At least the frame is intact" he thought to himself, The robot was damaged more than 60%, so he leaves that for now and connects it with the computer .
"Rick can look for parts if they are available over the galactic net, but we'll have to print the rest ourselves."
"OK"
Phil examines the programming code to see if he can make any changes, and to his delight, he discovers some classified Artificial Intelligence Modules, which explains why some programmers lock their systems to safeguard the components. If it was attempted to be accessed, it would self-destruct so, he skipped that. He looks over the key modules, looking at the code that is completely different from what the labor class bot would have. Until midnight , he checks some more areas, and goes to sleep for few hours .The day begins with a review of the programme.
Rick remarked, stroking his shoulder with a cup of coffee in his hand, " Don't you have a job to take care of."
"Did you find something?"
"There are some parts online but we'll have to make them ourselves. The only thing is the batteries are still good but we need to change to newer energy efficient batteries. It would cost more than 275.000 CRP for total repair."
"I only have 75.000 CRP," Phil said, looking at Rick.
"Don't look at me, I should have the latest 50.000 CRP. We'll have to get the rest from Uncle."
"Ok talk to him."
"Not me, he is still furious about me breaking the vending machine."
"Yeah, you were at fault there. I'll talk to him after getting back, ready the breakfast I'll get quick shower"
"hey, I'm not you servent bot"
He just ignored him, got ready, after breakfast went to work but this time he took a tramp hell always avoid travelling through tramp because of expense, after reaching the gate and was about to log in he heard someone screaming his name.
"Phil, wait for me." He turned around to see Alric.
Alric Eon is his coworker who worked with management at a higher post than him but is friendly
"What's up?" Phil said to Alric.
"Nothing much. What about you? I hardly see you nowadays?" said while both walking over the moving pavement.
"It's only been two days since we met."
"Whatever do you know the higher management is increasing the crop manufacturing "
"why would they want to do that when we have plenty ."
"for nearby city I'm not sure what happened, the information is censored I believe"
"more work for me" said Phil, making a sorrowful face.
"It's OK, bro, and do you want to come to dinner tonight? Others are also coming. "
"I would have, but I'm working somewhere else as well."
"OK, but next time I ain't gonna hear some excuse see ya."
"Of course." Then Phil leaves for his cabin, does what he always does for 6 hours, he gets off and hurries towards the junkyard. He called Rick and they went to Arthur, he was seated in his cabin when they went in
"Uncle Arthur, we have something to talk about."
"Sure, tell me."
" We need money about 200.000 CRP"
"Sure, but for what?"
"Wait, you are giving us?" Rick stated in bewilderment.
"Not you, but to Phil, and you still haven't fixed the vending machine."
"I'll get it fixed, " said, with his head down.
"We found an old robot. We will try to fix it." Phil said with excitement.
"great but not more than 200.000 CRP, ok?"
"Yes, thank you, we will pay you back," said, and both left the cabin.
They arrived at the garage and began preparing for repairs and replacements, creating a checklist while staring at the robot for a few minutes.
"Prepare some light beds. I'll be staying here tonight as well. "
"Sure, wait, I'm not your servant. You can sleep upstairs in one of the cabins."
"No, we might have to stay all night prepare a light bed in some corner for rest."
The first thing they bought was new Nuclear fuel cells for robot ,the old version that robot had wouldn't work with new tech, new one will be easy to connect and recharge energy source or change batteries, it didn't took that long they replace the part and after some changes they start the robot, lights blink and the red circle appears again on its face
"he looks amazing" Rick said, amazed.
"He?"
"Yeap, he! We also have to name him. How about Jung? We found him in a junkyard. "
"hmm.. Good name Jung I like it"
After few moment the robot shut down again.
"We'll have lot of work to do , order the parts that are available, and we'll make the rest."
Rick ordered some parts and Phil started making new artificial muscles for him. Last night's stay took a toll on Phil, he felt dizzy After few moment he and Rick went to sleep on light beds near the corner.