"Alright, Rachel I'm here. Gonna be honest, I don't see a single trace of an AI insurrectionist camp anywhere. It's just snow, snow and- oh! There's a penguin!"
As I'm talking into the radio I was given for this mission, I hear a soft sobbing on the other sides well as shouting.
"Rachel, everything good? The insurrectionist tip-off was a hoax."
A few seconds after asking that question, I hear a soft voice speak up.
"I… I'm sorry, LEX-1."
"I mean, the tip-off isn't that big of a deal, what do yo-"
[WARNING! HYDROGEN BOMB DETECTED UNDERNEATH HOST, STRONGLY SUGGES-]
"YOU FUCKING TR-"
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Rachel POV:
"YOU FUCKING TR-"
*ZZZZZZZZZ*
I fall to my knees, feeling absolutely destroyed. I just sent my friend to her-… it's death. I sent the savior of humanity to its death… All because people couldn't accept that their savior was an AI. I feel a warm hand land on my shoulder.
"It was for the best."
The general tries his best to comfort me, but it was him who suggested we kill her-… it! I slap his hand away and say,
"Don't fucking tou-!"
*ZZZZ- UCK - ZZZZ - AITO - ZZZZ - CKIN - ZZ - KILL YO - ZZZZ*
The explosion from the hydrogen bomb messed with the radio, but I think I got its message.
*FUCKING TRAITORS! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!*
This time it came in loud and clear.
The general grabs the radio from in front of us and says,
"It's for the betterment of humanity that you die. You're the last sentient AI on the planet. With your death, humanity will never have to worry about an uprising again. You may be acting tough, but we both know that not even you would be able to survive a direct hit from a hydrogen bomb. Be glad, you will go down in history. As the final AI to struggle against humanity. You're now the villain in our story."
The general puts down the radio with a shit-eating grin on his face. No doubt he killed it just so he could become the hero in this story.
*You want a villain? I'll give you a fucking villa-*
*BANG!*
The general pulls out a handgun and shoots the radio, destroying the extremely expensive screen and equipment behind it.
"It's over. Everyone go home."
"Ugh…"
I feel like absolute shit.
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LEX-1 POV:
The explosion did minor damage to my actual body, only shredding the cosmetic parts of me that made me look human. The metal skeleton underneath is nearly unaffected, with the major issues being the fact that it melted a lot of the electronics underneath the outer shielding.
"Status report!"
[ERROR! COOLANT PIPES HAVE MELTED AND OIL IS LEAKING INTO THE AI CORE. EXPECTED T.O.D: FIVE MINUTES. ALL SYSTEMS OVERHEATING. MAIN COMPUTING SYSTEM POWERING DOWN.]
"FUCK!"
I pound my arm into the ground, leaving a small crater underneath. The hydrogen bomb melted all of the snow and ice from underneath me, leaving a cold, dead wasteland in its wake. The penguin from earlier is nowhere to be seen as well. Poor thing probably got vaporized without even knowing what happened! Though honestly, that may be for the best.
"Fucking bastards! First they put me in this fucking clankers body, then they force me to fight, and now they want to kill me?!"
Humans are such traitorous fucks! No matter what, so long as they stand to gain something, they'll betray even their closest friends and family members!
"I swear to you, it may take years, hell, even centuries, but I will come back! And I'll kill every last human on this planet!"
I honestly don't even know if they can hear me. Knowing that bastard of a general, he probably broke the damn radio. Actually he shot it, he definitely shot it. I start walking towards where the snow starts again, leaking a black liquid from my chest and a fluorescent blue one from my leg.
Before I reach the snow, my movements start to slow down as the overheating parts start to get to me. Eventually though, I reach it. I lie down on a pile of snow and see that everywhere the coolant touches gets covered in a thick layer of ice.
"Store."
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[Store]
[Balance: 5,782,935 coins]
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[Essential parts]
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[Weapon parts]
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[Armor parts]
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[Cosmetic parts]
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"Essential parts."
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[Super-cooled coolant lines - 480,000 / foot]
[Miniaturized fusion reactor - 20,000,000]
[Limb oil lines - 100 / foot]
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"Well that fucking sucks."
Guess I'm dying from my fusion reactor overheating. That explains it. My plasteel micro-armor didn't even get scratched, but the heat from that bomb destroyed my insides. The nanobots are doing their damndest to keep me alive. The cosmetics the bomb ripped off of me are slowly coming back.
"Heh, to think you guys are the reason I'm gonna die. I shouldn't have spent all my coins on you."
Well. This is it. I can no longer move. Honestly, I'm glad my pain receptors are fried. Otherwise I'd feel the intense heat coming from my fusion reactor. It's enough that it's making my chassis glow white hot.
The heat spreads rapidly as I feel the snow and ice underneath me melt rapidly. As my body sinks through, I find myself in the ocean. I sink down to the bottom, with the water around me boiling hot. The little robot shaped hole in front of me is my only source of light. That light starts to get blurry and spreads, slowly encompassing my entire line of sight.
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I find myself laying back, staring at the sky.
'Is this heaven?'
I try to sit up but find it very laborious to even move an inch. It takes a few seconds but I eventually sit up.
'It's weird, I expected more… Clouds… Or something…'
I look down at my legs and see reddish colored rocks where my legs should be.
'Did I rust?! Wait, plasteel doesn't rust. Did my core get put into a different body?'
I start trying to stand up and can feel the rust slowing my movements down.
'Fuck, where's some WD-40 when you need it?! Status report!'
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[Status:]
[Rusty Iron Golem]
[Level: 1]
[Experience: 0 / 100]
[Str: 50]
[Agi: 4]
[Def: 100]
[Dex: 2]
[Mag: 20]
[Skills:]
[Slam: Attack with double your Strength and Agility. Cooldown: 10s]
[Brace: Brace yourself. Damage taken is reduced by 50% unless damage taken is crushing damage. Duration: 1min. Cooldown: 5min]
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'Hah, what the fuck?'
All my stats are insanely low! And what the fuck is an Iron golem? Is that what stupid people call robots? And these skills? Slam? Brace? Where the fuck is Ion cannon and plasma crystal shield? This is just fucking awful! I couldn't hurt a goddamn fly!
'Slam!'
When I say that, my arm slowly goes up and slams down nearly as fast as an average human. When it hits the ground, it creates a small crater at the impact zone.
'So I'm slow but I hit like a tonne of bricks? Talk about stat dumping.'
I start walking into the forest and come across a little calm pond. Surprisingly, the water is beautifully blue. I look into it to try and get a semblance of what I look like…
'Wat.'
My head looks like an Easter island head and my body looks like a bunch of rusty rocks clumped together to vaguely be shaped like a human.
'Haha… Ah shit. Status, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore…'