Forces of Dominion

The Robot Guide

– [Ten minutes earlier] –

...song humming... 

Madison kept staring at the lifeless robot and admiring it's form while making some melodious notes in her vocals. The head of Optimus had a spherical shape but it's face mask looks rectangular, coupled with ears made of steel but these have internal antennas having multiple functions according to Gabriel's already  installed program. The ears were pointed backwards like that of a fairy and the entire parts of its body patterned like a man but robotically cylindrical at the abdomen, hexagonally prismal along its arms and legs, having a resemblance like diamond on its chest region with each part linking to another of apparent length as a humans body could be. The gold titanium alloys covered a greater part of its chest, the mask on its face, arms, thigh and feet, whereas, it's forehead and the rest part were made of silver titanium alloys: a perfect image of a man and indented creativity. 

Madison kept admiring the designs and feeling very proud of Gabriel without caring if it works or not. After a while, she got tired of waiting for Gabriel to show up for her to ask him what he placed at the center of the robot that is shinning with great intensity of light as the sun, for it was turned on immediately Gabriel left and she could not stop wondering what it was and why it will begin to shine so bright without the robot showing any signs of being alive. She was moved to touched it and so stretched forth her right hand slowly but before her fingers could touch the palladium core, a voice spoke so audibly she withdrew her hand in fear,

"What are you doing?" 

"Jesus! It talked!" She exclaimed, jittering... 

"Is there a problem with me talking? And what were you trying to do? I saw you stretching your right hand towards my chest. You look nervous too." Optimus uttered hastily and inquisitively she could not stand it anymore she got up immediately and ran towards the stairs that leads out of the basement, screaming aloud, saying,

"He is up, Gabriel... Optimus is alive!" 

Gabriel ran towards her direction and they both met at the entrance to the basement, Gabriel exclaimed excitedly, 

"Are you sure!" 

Madison embraced him the minute she saw him in a way that he knew she was rather scared than thrilled...

"He was talking, Gabriel. He was talking so fluently like a normal person!" She uttered a high-pitched cry as she lifted her face from his shoulders to look at him. 

"Of course, he talks that way. I have heard him speak before now. I told you it talks. Come on let's go see it. Isn't this what we have been waiting for? Don't be scared, Optimus is totally harmless to us. I know what I made, alright. I hope it did not go off again?" Gabriel asked with comforting words as he embraced her a second time and held her left hand while leading her down the stairs to the basement again. 

"I don't think it went off this time. Do you have eyes on Optimus?" Madison asked with a soft nervously breaking tone of voice on their way down the basement and kept lagging behind Gabriel. 

"Optimus! Hey, hey..." Gabriel called audibly and ran towards Optimus who was still sitting down. Optimus lifted his face slowly as they approached him. It really expressed a level of sadness that they both could feel even from the look in it's blue lighted eyes. 

"Master Gab, you are here." Optimus muttered sadly. 

"Yes, umm... Yeah. Why are you looking so gloomy, come on, cheer up! I'm glad you are very much alive." Gabriel asserted happily, placing his hands on Optimus' shoulders as he sat down on the chair in front of it to closely examine it. 

"But your friend here doesn't look excited and she doesn't seem happy to see me awake." Optimus replied. Gabriel turned his neck to look at Madison who was standing beside him and expecting her to say something already.

"No, no, Optimus, it's not what you think. You see, I was not expecting to see you talk because as at the time we powered you up, we thought the processes failed. That was actually why I ran out to call Gabriel to let him know that the booting processes worked. Gabriel he has emotions! Why did you equip a robot with emotions?" Madison drew near and knelt down close to it while talking and after she was done speaking to Optimus, she whispered in the ears of Gabriel. 

"I don't even know how I did that! I can't explain it." Gabriel whispered back. 

"I understand now. I initially thought you were scared of me. Master Gab has instructed me never to hurt anyone until he ask me to and until I am being attacked. And as for you guys thinking the boot process's failed, that was not true. I actually heard you trying to calm master Gab down when he was staring right into my eyes and waiting for me to say something..." Optimus uttered. 

"Then why did you not say anything then?" Gabriel and Madison asked at the same time with eyes with open in surprise. 

"...I was going to speak but I was currently processing, calculating and transferring the multimillion data in my drive to initialize the entire process for better interpretation and communication and the information were quite numerous it could take humans an estimated time of seven hundred years to complete..." Optimus kept talking. 

"What is he talking about?" Madison asked Gabriel with just a whisper. 

"I think it's the entire information on g****e search engine." Gabriel whispered back as they kept listening to Optimus.

"What! That is a very crazy thing to do, Gabriel." She exclaimed with a voice nearly a whisper. 

"...is there something wrong?" Optimus asked when it notice they were consistently whispering and probably not listening to it. 

"No, Optimus. We were just talking about how special you are. You know what, let's talk about it some other time. For now, what would you like to do?" Gabriel asked Optimus and winked at Madison immediately with a smiley gestures to let her know that he would explain better in private. 

"Well, I would love to see the world as I am being notified there are places outside this room we are in. I would also love to cook, I love the colorful pictures of what you call food from what my search engine is showing me." Optimus replied. 

[Hearts throbbing] 

Gabriel and Madison looked at each other and for the first time, they both felt thrilled about the existence of the robot sitting right in front of them.