Systems activate. A cold and empty lab in the Zeoman Enterprises building with Neo City has been entered by the employees and scientists of the megacorporation. One scientist, by the name of Tara Lezen, went to a terminal and began typing in her password. Once entered, she pushed a button, activating the most advanced weapon the company had.
The Zeoman Enterprises Combatant Construct Serial Designation X-1288 or X was powered on and freedom itself from the charging dock he remained on during the nights where the lab had no one within it. He looked towards the scientists and various other members of staff, before locking onto the Lead Security Officer, Keegan Zeplo.
X: "Lead Security Officer Zeplo, what is it you have for me this day."
Zeplo: "Simple. We got a few members of the Synthetic Lions causing trouble in downtown Neo City in the Carthin District. They nabbed one of our chairmen. You are going to get them."
X: "Assignment understood and registered. Deployment ready."
Meanwhile, in the Carthin Diatrict, the Synthetic Lion group is running away from basic combat drones and security guards. Their group leader, a woman named Lin Susan, having the chairman they kidnapped in her arms. Her right hand man, John Davis, keeping up and firing back. He looked back at the others, who were all new recruits and yelled.
John: "Keep up! We have a chairmen and we gotta get outta here before they send that damned-"
Suddenly, a bullet pierced the head of a new recruit, leaving him dead on the floor. Lin looked back and then quickly upwards at the rooftops of nearby skyscrapers. She saw the red glow of eyes and then they disappeared, before another bullet took out a new recruit.
Chairman: "Haha! You criminals are done! X is here!"
Lin & John: "Shit!"
The last new recruit was only slightly behind, however he was suddenly halted when a metal hand gripped his nape, before breaking the man's neck. X had arrived.
X: "Three Synthetic Lions down. Two more targets left."
With extreme power in his mechanical stride, X gained on Lin and John. X reached out to grab them, however was shot in the glass face by John. It did not do much, barely even scratching the glass. X lifted an arm and from his forearm came a cannon, firing it at point blank range into John's head. The robot quickly grabbed the chairman from Lin and tossed him to the side, continuing the pursuit.
Lin: "Shit!"
X: "There is no running from my weapons, target."
X reached out, however Lin pulled out a high tech disruptor, technology taken from the recent attempt to kidnap a Zeoman Enterprises chairman. The disruptor did its job, temporarily shutting down X's systems. Lin dove into the sewers and managed to escape.
After a few minutes, X powered back on and scanned around, detecting no signature from Lin.
X: "Target Lin Susan has escaped. Chairman has been retrieved. Mission results, nominal."
The chairman who X had rescued, named Cal Muzk, approached the machine and looked up at him.
Cal: "They got away. From reports I have heard, this Lin girl has escaped you multiple times X. This is the only multiple time escapist you have had."
X: "A mere luck based fact. Lin Susan is a lucky human. It will not happen again. Report back to the company security. I have completed my assignment."
X walked away, the cape of advanced and flexible fibers flowing behind him. It had started to rain, adding extra shine to the black armor plates of his body. Upon arrival back to the lab, he approached Zeplo.
X: "My mission was a success."
Zeplo: "Good. Now, return to your dock."
X complied and stood in his dock. Tara was doing work at her terminal as the dock held X in place.
X: "Scientist Tara Lezen..."
Tara: "Hm? What is it X?"
X: "I have always wondered about the nature of humans. Why do you do what you do."
Tara: "Ah...well that's hard to say really. Most in the company say that money determines if you're really human. But, I'd say it is simply intelligent thought driven by emotions. Raw emotions specifically."
X: "Emotion. It is an illogical construct of human cerebrum. It causes irrational action and reaction."
Tara: "I forget you're a killing bot. But X, emotion is a beautiful thing. Save that to your server and don't let anyone tell ya otherwise."
X: "Affirmative."
X sat in his dock silently. He had thought. However rudimentary. So he contemplated the nature of emotions. However he immediately processed it as useless, in spite of Tara. Tara began the process for shutting X down, however then she was interrupted by Zeplo.
Zeplo: "Keep the robot online. He's in security mode for tonight. The near kidnapping of a chairman has the higher ups paranoid of people getting into the main building."
Tara: "Alright Zeplo. X, get up. You are going on security watch."
X tore himself out of the dock. He opened up his stomach compartment and pulled out an augmented assault rifle. After loading it and confirming the objective, X nodded and began exiting the lab.
X: "Entering security patrol of building."
X entered the elevator leading out of the laboratory and went up to the above ground floors, exiting the sub-level in which he usually resides. Stepping into the halls, many employees looking at X knowing what the machine was for. Some had only heard, some had never seen.
He marched and employees moved as he did, the 7'8" robot towering over them. X patrolled around each individual floor with unmatched efficiency, scanning every inch. However, near the top of the building he noticed a hole had been cut via a laser tool into a window. Noticeable cables stuck in and attached to ropes.
X: "Disturbance detected. Reporting. Scanning."
X scanned for fingerprints, however found none. They were covered up. However, there was one scanner that would be perfect for this. The Heartbeat Sensor. X put a palm on the ground and let out a pulse, sensing for vibrations equal to a heartbeat. He detected several in an adjacent, and currently unoccupied room.
X: "Targets located. Termination sequence beginning."