The War of Robots

Service Legion

Casualties: 1,548

Robot Army

Casualties: 795

Blue was tired, wars did that to people, hero’s especially. He wasn’t programmed for this, but he’d fought beings that could cut through the hardest metals in the world, electrocute an army of elephants, melt a skyscraper into a puddle, freeze the very air around us, cause earthquakes with a stomp, toss nukes the size of bowling balls, literally slow down time, and generate enough oil to power Africa. Rocky defeated every single one, gaining their abilities through his adapt drive, and now he entered Dr. Coyote’s flying castle amusement park to finish the job.

His companions waited for him at the jump point.

“Are you sure about this?” Mayl asked. She loved him, not sure if it was like a friend or more, but she knew she did in some capacity, as much as a robot could love.

Dr. Thomas stood next to her, but didn’t say anything. He was possibly losing a son for the second time and knew that if he said anything he was going to try and stop Blue from going in there, the odds of winning were, and this is hard for the good doctor to admit, incalculable.

Blue looked at her in her pretty pink dress, she’d been with him since Dr. Thomas booted them up. “I was made for this.”

She frowned. “No, you weren’t.”

He hugged her goodbye then jumped toward the castle, toward his doom.

“You were made for me,” Mayl whispered.

“Aaaggghh,” A miner bot yelled from one of Blue’s shots then went unactive.

“I hope that’s the last of them,” Blue panted. “Man this place is a fortress. I feel like I’m fighting every robot I already took out.”

“More accurate than you’d think,” A voice came from behind.

Rocky turned to see a tall blonde man in a red coat with twin scissor blades in his hands.

“Cutter!” Rocky yelled.

“Miss me?” Cutter smiled down at his old foe.

“I took you down forever ago.”

“Dr. Coyote gave all of us a back-up drive in case we didn’t take you down the first time.”

“Dr. Coyote is dead, wait a second…” Blue frowned. “All of you?”

In response, the remainder of the robot generals appeared. The seven generals of the Robot Rebellion: Cutter, Jolt, Scorch, Mr. Construction, Dynamite Dan, Clockwork, and Rig. Each one made to operate a sector of AC City and each one deadlier than the last. Rocky looked upon them and smiled.

“You guys must be a glutton for punishment.”

They moved, but Rocky moved first with one well-placed magma shot in Clockwork’s chest. Then, using Clockwork’s own ability, slowed them down. He targeted the fastest first, Jolt was the only one moving after the time freeze, but one of Cutter’s cut-blades relived him of his legs. The fight was short work from there. Bomb ball at Mr. Construction, thunderbolt at Cutter, oil spill on Dynamite Dan, and so forth. The seven generals were down again and rocky stood in the castle victorious.

“It’s over,” Blue sighed.

“Not quiet,” A voice said.

“Dr. Coyote?”

Blue looked up to the top of the castles tower to see the man who’s death set off this war.

“But you—

“Died?” Dr. Coyote finished. “Dr. Willis Coyote, the kind elderly entrepreneur co-creator of T&C Robotics that revolutionized the world, who decided to build a theme park in his retirement? Tell me Blue who builds a flying castle fortress for a theme park?”

“But the Robot generals killed you at the opening—

“Ah, yes. The first victim of the robot army’s rebellion against humanity. A necessary ploy didn’t want you ruining my game?”

“Game?” Blue repeated. “This is a game to you? People have died.”

"Robots have died."

"What?"

"Think about it," Dr. Coyote was now right in front of Blue and our hero had the strong urge to punch him, but couldn't. "Who responded to the army."

"Dr. Thomas had a contingency plan he made the remaining service bots into-

"Casualties?" Dr. Coyote finished. "I wanted to see if old Tommy boy could respond to my game and he did so well first with the service bot army which gave him time to make--

"Me," Blue finished.

"I must say your power access ability is something to behold, watching you defeat my robot generals, not once, but twice, was amazing I can't believe we-

"You can't get away with this."

"Oh, sweet Blue I already have. No court will find me guilty when I explain this was all a rudimentary test for our upcoming line. The fans will love it. We might even start doing this annually. Not like those silly robot boxing matches on TV, but real wars between our toys."

Blue wasn't really listening to Dr. Coyote anymore, instead thinking of the faces of the robots that got destroyed. Service bots like him, miners, waiters, soldiers, even the robot generals, did they know or were they were serving Dr. Coyote for evil or just programmed to serve, like Blue.  "We aren't toys.

"You're whatever I say you are, you little... what are you doing?"

Blue pressed the release hatch in the middle of his chest and reached into the hole that held a glowing Blue sphere inside.

"Put that down, I've wanted a look at Tommy's power matrix design for a while but if you break that thing you'll-

"Explode," Blue finished.

"Exactly and Robots can't kill humans."

"I'm not killing you," Blue said, then squeezed.

Dr. Coyote's castle began to fall from the sky.

"He did it," Mayl said, but Dr. Thomas was to busy crying to respond. Mayl felt a wetness on her face, she was leaking from her eyes like the doctor, she'd ask him about this when he was done.

The War of Robots

Service Legion

Casualties: 1,549

Robot Army 

Casualties: 795

Human

Casualties: 1