And then… Something incredibly despairful happened. He wasn’t wrong, I wasn’t gonna forget this. After all, I’m remembering and narrating this detail to detail, am I not? The sky turned red like blood, dark clouds populating it with a fair distance from one another, and thunder striking the castle before all that was left from it was nothing but mere bricks. It was done for, there was no castle anymore. Just… me. Not even the man or the device were anywhere. Fortunately, I was able to keep something with me. Keep it from being destroyed. That skunk… I shielded it with my body.

“Holy… hell! You… you okay little guy?” I took a look at him. He just looked at me with a strange look on his face, and jumped off my arms, running away.

“H-hey! What are you doing? It’s okay! It’s safe now! I saved you!” But he wasn’t listening, he wasn’t coming back, he just kept running, as if he didn’t recognize or want me anymore… If I was able to cry, I would be crying myself out, but I can’t… Because I’m a robot. And I hate it!

Sighing, I. Stood up and cleaned the dust off my chassis. I groaned, and screamed, suffering. I punched a block of rubble into little pieces and dust.  “What did that machine do besides destroy this damn castle and make him disappear?”

I wandered around the streets of the kingdom, if anything, it was weirder that none of the citizens were trying to find out what the hell just happened.

Either way… The dark clouds started to make it rain. What a convenient mood setter…

Wandering around, with the only sound being that of the rain and my footsteps… At least at the time it was a completely new experience. But nowadays… That feeling of despair ironically made me feel alive. Nowadays, I barely feel a thing… All I saw was people collapsed to the ground, not moving an inch. I couldn’t believe it at first, but the fact that they all were that way… There was no doubt about it. That disgusting… device had made them perish in mere seconds.

That would be it, really.

Some stories, like this one, have no happy ending. My life ever since then is a recurring nightmare that will never end… Live forever and see people die before your very eyes. Lose the things that matter to you.

That is, unfortunately, how my life is.

All I could feel was a growing hatred inside me, images from that inventor and his voice talking to me. As if he was controlling my entire being.

But even then, I still have some hope.

Now with nothing programming to stop me, I will give it my very best to stop planet Meex from being destroyed by Emptiness.

Believe in me, I believe in myself, we’ll do this. We’ll make it through.

I… believe…