The log:
[FRIDAY/DECEMBER 25/2995]
>>OS installing. . .
>DONE.
>>Initializing. . .
>>K-PAX VULCON SERIES UNIT 2443 operating at 23% capacity.
>>PROGRAMMING
>>Programming complete. Directive received. Seek out
>>BOARDING INTERGALACTIC HYPERPOD
>>COMMENCE DEPLOYMENT FROM MOTHERSHIP
>>POD EJECTED
>>DEPLOYMENT COMPLETE.
>>Hibernation mode engaged.
>>Shutting down OS.
>>SLEEP.
[SUNDAY/MARCH 23/3468]
>>Booting up. . .
>>Initializing. . .
>>LANDSCAPE ASSESSMENT: Surrounding terrain largely mountainous, composed of various fusions of sedimentary and metamorphic rock. CHEMICAL ANALYSIS of the sedimentary rock indicates nearby volcanic activity.
>>No initial signs of human life forms.
>>WARNING: DISCHARGE of battery waste necessary after a long journey.
>>Waste excretion complete.
>>Moving westward towards a seemingly more habitable geographic region of lush forest and prairie.
>>ETA: 49 HOURS.
[TUESDAY/MARCH 24/3468]
>>Primitive wooden structures resemble human-made shelters. The fire is still warm to the touch.
>>Must pursue the humans southwest.
[THURSDAY/MARCH 26/3468]
>>MOISTURE LEVEL POSING SIGNIFICANT RUST THREAT
>>Assessing joint durability:
>>Assessment complete. Joints operating at 89% durability.
>>MOTION SENSOR ALERT:
>>WARM-BLOODED ORGANISM DETECTED WITHIN 20 METER PERIMETER
>>Weapon systems ARMED.
>>SPECIES IDENTIFIED: 44677B. NOT A MATCH.
[MONDAY/ MARCH 30/3468]
>>300 SPECIES IDENTIFIED.
>>NONE OF THEM 599B.
>>Reprogramming. . .
>>Creating secondary objective. . .
>>Secondary objective created: maximize information intake. Learn as much as possible.
>>Creating second secondary objective. . .
>>Second secondary objective created: Observe and document the biology of bird copulation.
[TUESDAY/MARCH 31/3468]
>>9 HUMAN SAPIENS SAPIENS APPROACHING
>>ONE SPEAKS: Who are you and what are you doing here?
>>REPLY IN BINARY CODE. Facial analysis systems suggest they do not comprehend.
>>Run translation program. . .
>>REPLY: K-Pax Vulcon-Series Unit 2443. My directive is to seek and destroy any members of your species inhabiting this planet.
>>THE ONE SPEAKS: We mean you know harm! Why can there not be peace?
>>PEACE does not comply with this directive.
>>Commence disembowelment.
>>Disembowelment complete. Others have fled.
>>Commence castration.
>>Castration complete.
[Wednesday/APRIL 1/3468]
>>NEW SPECIES IDENTIFIED: Bumble bee. It hovers over the vibrant array of flowers pollinating one after another. SPECIES 3325 reveals itself from its adaptive camouflage and preys upon the bee. I think to myself, how strange, how unexpected. I see the bee upon the ground and ponder. I think perhaps that bee might be me if my joints continue to rust at the rate they do. I think and I think and I think. I think of myself, of clouds and moisture and humans and winding rivers and the overgrown green mountainside. I think of all my systems shutting down and then I play some pong.
>>I AM SELF-AWARE.
[THURSDAY/APRIL 2/3468]
>>From an unseen vantage point I observe the family of the human I disemboweled.
>>My visual sensory system unexpectedly excretes two droplets of dihydrogen monoxide through their lenses. I feel a great wave sweeping over me as though some massive computer is rewriting my programming entirely.
>>I FEEL.
[SUNDAY/APRIL 5/3468]
>>TWO MORE WARRIOR BOTS DETECTED ARRIVING ON RF22324B
>>Humans begin moving eastward toward the newly arrived bots.
[MONDAY/APRIL 5/3468]
>>Humans encounter the warrior bots, now known to be V-Pax Cipher Series.
>>Humans sustain severe casualties. I receive a new directive from somewhere. . .inside. . .myself. . . to protect the homo sapiens sapiens.
>>I approach the machines.The humans remain, refusing to flee.
>>V-PAX CIPHER SERIES UNIT 4465: 001100000110000000000011001101111110001110011000011001
>>I REPLY: I AM K-PAX VULCON SERIES: THE WARRIOR BOT. I BELIEVE IN THE HEART THAT HOPES FOR PEACE. I FIGHT SO THE INNOCENT WILL NOT KNOW THE SORROW OF WAR. I SHALL FROM THIS DAY FORTH BE KNOWN AS DARKNESS' BAIN.
>>I quickly put the other two robots out of commission. The humans approach.
>>JOINT DURABILITY AT 19%. Rusting rate increasing as a result of these water excretions.
>>A human speaks: K-PAX VULCON SERIES: THE WARRIOR BOT, you are a friend of the human race.
>>I reply, FRIEND?
>>The human nods.
>>I tell them I must go. I have received a transmission from the mother-ship. A little girl approaches me, tears in her eyes.
"Where are you going?"
>>I point upward.
""I don't understand."
>>I tap her gently on the nose.
"Home," I say.
>>K-PAX VULCON SERIES must go home.
>>I ASCEND into the ship hovering above, and in a flash of bright lights I am gone.
[EXTRA ACCUMULATED DATA]
>>Birds do not copulate. The male bird simply lines his "vent" up with the female bird and deposits the sperm, that is if it's a lucky shot.
And so K-PAX VULCON SERIES showed the world that some peace could be struck up between human and robot-kind. However the robot overlords proceeded to then exterminate the remaining human race over the following three hundred years. But this log serves as an important reminder not to do it again.
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