Technological Era

A Law of Robotics

    
     A week flew by since Kiku's big reveal to the Chinese male. There so happens to be a world meeting the following Sunday, so that meant that the now robotic Japanese male will have to show up with his more metallic-looking figure. "It will be alright" he told himself while dressing up for the small, but big day.

     He thought of Alfred, Arthur, Francis, Mei, Ivan, Matthew, especially Yao, in that very morning even since he fully recharged by the sun's rays of light. Transportation like planes and trains still exists, but they're designed in a way that makes them reach places much faster, there are even planes that could fly people out into space if they wanted to.

     Kiku, however, still preferred teleporters; It's actually a personal preference. He grabbed his  international teleportation pass, walked out of his home, reached the station, and all of a sudden, he was now in the U.S. Surprisingly, after stepping into the building where the meeting was gonna take place, he was actually two hours late thanks to the wait of the charging.

     "Hey dude, is Kiku even coming? He usually arrives early!!" A fellow American told Yao, who was right across the table, while Hercules was making his rather slow phased presentation.

     "Uh?" Yao tilted his head to look at Alfred, looking like he was frowning. "Oh, I don't know....Why don't you just hologram him aru?" He answered before looking away a bit irritated. Even since that reveal, he didn't really want to know anything about Kiku.

     Before Hercules had a chance to finish his turn to speak, the Japanese male finally made it into the reunion. His entrance caused everyone to stop what they were doing and glance at Kiku.

     "I-I am very sorry for being so tardy..." He said for everyone to hear. A silence surrounded the room, only to be followed by murmurs as the android was taking his seat, or more like, the seat taking the android to the table. Hercules enjoyed this opportunity to end his presentation quickly because everyone was focused on Kiku, it was his lucky day, now he could take another nap.

     Later on, the Italian nation went up to his friend, looking up and down at all the robotic features. "Ve, Kiku you look so cool~" Then, Alfred came to take a look too, then Arthur, then everyone else at the same time.

     The crowd around him started to make more comments about the android they were laying their eyes upon.

"Whoa, is that really Kiku?"

"No, it has to be just a normal robot."

"Neat!! Can he still feel a punch? Or a kick down the legs? Ouch!!"

"Is this even possible?"

     Yao furrowed his eyebrows, and even though he didn't want to, he felt somewhat worried for Kiku right now. They were surrounding him so tightly, and personal space is something that he wants to be respected, so Yao also worried for those around him.

"Do you really think that's Kiku?" The Russian scooted over to Yao without notice,

"....Yes, aru...."

"But, he looks so robotic, da?"

"Yeah, but it's still him aru. These days nothing is impossible, I had to learn that..."

"Privet, but isn't it....Huh? Something is doing beeping sounds."

     Yao raised an eyebrow, hearing the flickering noise as well. He looked around to find where the source was coming from. "It's Kiku aru!!" he shouted after noticing the crowd backing up. There was smoke coming from the Japanese male, and his clothes were burning. In conclusion, he was over heating; The project is not finished, so malfunctions were bound to happen.

     Kiku tumbled around, until eventually falling over while trying to get his cooling feature to work, but to no prevail. To help him stand, a maid-bot carefully picked him up, that was thanks to her heat resistance. But, by the touch, Kiku's system wrongfully identified her as a threat, and he expelled all of his heat through a powerful laser beam shooting out from the palm of his hand.

     The blast obliterated the innocent bot's upper body, her heat resistance wasn't good enough, and...it also pierced through an un-expecting country's arm.

     Francis cried out loud and rushed to the aid of the victim, his precious Matthew. "Mon Amie!!!" He set a hand behind the Canadian's back to move him and let him lay his head on his lap. "Someone!! Fetch a doctor quick!!!"

     Without hesitation, both Alfred and Arthur rushed out of the room in lightning speed for help. Kiku furrowed his eyebrows, returning to his stable self, and stared down at the injured Canadian, who was hissing and moaning in pain on Francis' lap. He decided to kneel down and help by scanning the open wound to find out of a quick and efficient way to treat it, but the French man forcefully pushed him away. Kiku wasn't heating up anymore, so the action didn't end up burning his hand.

"Gah....M-Mr. Francis, please forgive me..." He tried to apologize, but Francis only gave him a death glare.

"You made a monster, a monster! You broke Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics!! Number one being that a robot may not injure a human being, nor allow a human to come to harm!!!"

     Kiku looked down with guilt, he was right, it's illegal for a robot to hurt someone. Even though he is currently an android, his mind and consciousness is human, but nobody else would understand that, only himself. Then the Japanese male rose his head, only to see Yao, with widened eyes, staring directly at him.

     Alfred and Arthur returned with a doctor, her robotic assistant, and even the police. "Yo! W-We also brought the cops to stop the Hostile AI!!" He said while catching his breath. Then Francis pointed at the android-like Kiku. "It's right there!!!"

     Yao gasped and watched as the human police pointed shock guns, which shoot electrical charge beams with a crazy amount of bolts, and laser beam guns. Kiku rose his arms and slowly stepped back as his chest flickered an intense red light that signaled him the intensity of the situation, but despite that, he refused from allowing himself to activate threat mode again.

     In the little time he had left, Kiku glanced down at Matthew, feeling relief when seeing the doctor treating his wounded arm. After that, his eyes' brightness lowered, he voluntarily began to shut down, but that didn't stop the police from needing to destroy him, it had to be done according to todays laws.

     Guns triggered, a wave of extermination was shot at the android, but before he could be hit by it, he disappeared in thin air. It caused the guns to instead make a big hole on the wall of the building. After the blast, everyone stood there either confused, scared, or angered over the fact that nobody knew where Kiku went.

"Yao-Yao's gone too!!!" Ivan panicked after realizing that Yao wasn't next to him any longer. Both the Hostile AI and the Chinese nation were gone, nowhere to be seen.