Robin knew that they wouldn't be able to keep it under the wraps if they went after the officials separately and individually. So they hatched a plan to bringing everyone together and assassinate them. After they were killed, Sigret could announce that these officials had gone abroad and could only contact them through calls and video conferences.
This would help them hide everything and by the time the secret would be out, it would be too late.
"Who are you? What happened to my brother? Where is he?" The dead man's sister asked in horror. Her legs were trembling with terror and her teeth clenched.
"So many questions. But I am in a good mood so I will reply... I am Sigret, an android made from forbidden technology. He is my master, Robin and she is also an android which goes by the name Myrene. In the unlikely event that you had played games before then you know her by another name, 2B. About your brother, he died in agony along with his debauched wife. His body is right now being disintegrated by the drones." Sigret replied.
"No.. No.. He can't die.. I.. I can't die.. What do you want? I can give you all my money and land. Please don't..." before she could complete her words, Robin took his shot and killed her. Sigret, who was ready to have fun with this vicious woman who was known for more brutality than her brother, died.
"My master, you seem to be very excited."
"Keeping her alive is of no help. We need to get rid of the bodies before this place reeks of death. Help me get rid of the bodies." Robin complained
"Ewww... I am not going to touch them. And the drones aren't enough."
Robin stiffened and looked at Myrene who had turned her head and was whistling. Robin face-palmed at this.
"You decided everything with your super computing ability and still didn't think how to dispose of the bodies?" Robin asked, annoyed at this.
"I did think. And that is I suggest you start bringing more androids out. We both are women. We are not made to do such hard work." Sigret pouted.
'Oh god! Now these two women have developed personalities of their own.' Robin didn't actually care if the two women helped or not. In all honesty, a part of him was also happy that even Myrene had started expressing herself a bit more. This meant that her subservient personality is giving way to an independent one. She has started forming her own thoughts and ideas. This was good progress for her.
Robin took out his laptop and opened a game that could help him in getting rid of the bodies and also add more androids in his team. With a few clicks he opened one game that had always fascinated him. A free to play game that is famous all over the world and they hold tournaments on this game just like Counter Strike.
The game was Overwatch.
Most particularly Overwatch 2.
This game was a 5v5 game and had a huge fan following which had characters with your unique moves. Some were good at defense, some at offense while others were there for support with healing powers. Robin had started the game and chose a character that was great on offense.
The character is called Bastion. This character was almost like a mini Transformer. It can use guns, transform itself into a ground turret and even could change itself into a tank. If this guy was placed in the Transformer universe, he would be proudly welcomed by the Autobots since he loved nature and only went into attack mode when there was an enemy.
Robin inserted his hand, brought out the small robot that looked like a fat Peacekeeper from Apex Legends and placed him on the ground. Within seconds, its size grew rapidly and reached a height of 8 feet. The figure of Bastion was like any typical humanoid with hands and feet, but its chest had outgrowth which looked like the hood of a tank.
There various metal parts caused grinding sounds as it stood high and upright. It turned its head around and then looked down.
Robin and others had to bend their head upwards to look at this new guy.
"Can you understand us?"
*beep* *beep* *boop*.
Robin was puzzled and didn't know what the huge robot meant and looked at Sigret.
"Yes, this tin can understands."
"Cool, Bastion please take care of the bodies that are in this room and in the master bedroom. Take these bodies out and burn them in the garden outside."
*Beep* *beep*
Bastion immediately got to work while Robin and the duo went to get some fresh air and get away from the rancid smell that had filled the whole Hall. It was winter and it was around -15 degree Celsius (5 degree Fahrenheit) at night so it was hell of a cold outside. The sky was overcast and there was a slight snowfall.
After coming out of the palace, Robin could easily see many bodies lying on the ground painting the white snow with red patches everywhere. Many people had been massacred today and this was the first time Robin had seen dead bodies lying around.
It looked like a huge battle had occurred but nothing of that sort happened. These guards were killed in silence and they didn't even know what had hit them. Sigret and JARVIS had already replaced all the communications and made sure that nobody knew what had happened.
Robin hadn't switched off the laptop after coming out and proceeded to bring multiple Bastion out after loading the game multiple times. These were robots to begin with and it didn't matter if there were multiple ones.
After bringing them out, Robin ordered the Bastions to take these bodies on the side of the huge compound and burn them. Burying them might prove a little hassle so it was better to just burn them into ashes.
There were at least 10 Bastions that had been brought out, and the characters were first very excited to see each other. In the Overwatch universe, all the Bastions had been hunted down and dismantled but here when one Bastion saw someone of their own kind, it did invoke some happiness in them.
But as usual they were bound to Robin and thus one of the most feared robots did leg work and took bodies over their shoulders and placed them on the side of this huge compound which had multiple gardens with a small forest of its own.
Robin just overlooked everything and now slowly the adrenaline that had been pumping in his body had gone down. Soon it dawned on him that he had committed murder and the weird part was that he didn't feel bad. He hadn't seen the videos and the pictures of the horrible things this regime had done but he could already guess.
And unlike the suicide incident, he didn't feel an ounce of guilt. In fact a part of him would have liked to torture them more, but he was afraid hat he might be traumatized a bit later. He didn't want any kind of PTSD in his life. Even the toughest soldiers suffered from this and didn't want another name to be added on that list.
"How does it feel to get the first blood?"
"Surprisingly, quite liberating and not gonna lie.. A little exciting. This was a successful plan and we took over the country in a matter of a few hours."
"If you want, we can do that in other countries too." Sigret gave a wide devilish grin.
"No, I know that managing a country will be easy for you and JARVIS but if we do this in an open country, one day or other people will know that their leaders had been assassinated. This will just make the political situation unstable and make things more difficult for us. It is better we bend them to our wishes, until they break and give us their autonomy by themselves."
Sigret didn't try to convince more as what Robin had said was right. It was better to wait and develop their own forces. The next hour all Robin saw was the Bastions moving around and collecting the dead bodies with sounds of metal clanging against each and thumping sounds on the ground. It was late at night but he could see everything. He didn't go to sleep because he wanted to see the bodies being burnt.
And it didn't take much time. Soon the bodies were piled over each other and after pouring inflammable liquid over their bodies, they were burnt. There were multiple piles around and burning the bodies late at night brought light in this dark, snowy night.
Robin just looked at the burning bodies with unblinking eyes. He hoped that with this fire, the sufferings of this country would be washed away and give rise to a new world which would have lesser suffering.
Robin pledged while looking at the fire that he would do everything possible to make humanity upright and a race that would stand tall in the universe.
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