Fraught Iron

the Assault Unit for Terrestrial Operations, or A.U.T.O is a combat automaton. such humanoid machines have long fallen out of favour in war, left to rust or scraped for parts. those that have survived for this long are driven purely by there secondary objective; sustain self. Unit-1610 has sustained itself on bounties to repair itself, a cycle of violence it feels no particular way about. a bounty has brought Unit-1610 to Ganymede. but something gives it pause, conflicts with what it is meant to think, its programming tied in knots to explain itself.

A short story about a robot and a dog. I think it's good :)