Lone Unit

Chapter 4: friends across dimensions

It was around noon on the barren wasteland of the remains of Earth and Sythical and the unknown man were standing awkwardly in the middle of an island on a lake. The unknown man was mostly in shock, having still unanswered Sythical's questions of who he was and where this is. Sythical only knew he was on earth and Earth was supposed to be a green and blue planet, not a brown and gray one.

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-Sythical pov

"Hello? Are you just going to stand there or are you going to answer me?" I was slightly concerned about this man. He looked as if he had no emotions yet still showed heavy confusion. Before I had time for more thinking, he answered... "oh... sorry about that... my name... you can call me Dr. A. And as of where you are? Earth... after way too many things happened... basically the entire planet died." Well, that was news. The planet is dead and multiple wars had been fought by themselves. No robots or anything from what I can see. Especially no protogens.

"I don't have much of a job but I do make robots for a living. I'm also one of the best scientists left on Earth out of the few surviving groups of people. In fact, I think this is the largest group of people alive on Earth..." Said Dr. A, "what do you do as a living?"

"I... would be at my assigned planet, defending it from any oncoming attacks... I was released because of my weapon choice though." I couldn't make that up. If I wanted to lie, it would be way too obvious with how long it would take to come up with one.

Dr. A seems to be observant, unlike most people I've seen "I would assume that weapon choice would be your katana? Makes sense that you would be kicked out for trying to bring a knife to a gun fight..."

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Dr. A pov

I had called this "Sythical" out on choosing a katana in a battle of cyber-warfare and he didn't seem to pleased... but still... nanotech? I had already made nanotech. There is a bunch of spare in my room, not to mention, I've made multiple robots with them as well as a few guns.

Sythical seemed very confused as to where on earth he is. I don't blame him when everything looks the same. Dead. I didn't even know the answer to the question when he asked but I think I remembered someone else in the bunker say it was in Germany... I could easily figure it out, I just didn't want to find out how far away I am from home...

Then out of nowhere, I hear a loud banging from the bunker door. Great... he's here now too? Then, as I expected, the shouting... "DR. A IF YOU DONT OPEN THIS DOOR RIGHT NOW YOU ARE DEAD!" So I did what a reasonable person would do. I sent the protogen to open the door. Once opened, the protogen jumped back at the man who came out.

"Dr. A is this another one of your robots? It looks... interesting." After the man had said that sythical looked at him in disgust.

"No, Dr. S, this is not one of my "robots" this is sythical the protogen. A synthetic lifeform who's species has inhabited a floating space island."

Sythical chimed in, "and for your information, I am not a robot... I am 30% organic and 70% machine with advanced intelligence."

Well... that went about as well as expected with Dr. S. He's never really been the happiest of people but he is smart... I still don't believe him when he said he is a God... even if he can fly.

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Sythical pov

According to Dr. A, he was alone in the bunker. Turns out it's not just him and its technically a facility... and this Dr. S guy? Instantly hated him... Dr. A didn't even warn me about him! So it was going great... and I already have so many questions.

"Who else is here? What kinds of robots do you make, Dr. A? What exactly do you do, Dr. S?"

"One question at a time, damnit" is all that came from Dr. S while we entered the bunker facility thing.

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Well would you look at that. I'm already experiencing writers block. Welp... time to slowly get into it while summer creeps around the corner as slow as about 24 days. Hope you enjoy the book!