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As VIKTOR's ocular sensors reset he suddenly felt strange, he felt, he felt his entire body and was thinking outside of his regular parameters and truly saw what was going on, he looked to the beautiful sun that was shining down upon him, his "eyes" saw a tingle and he looked down at his arms and hands, confused by all the new inputs and how he was receiving them. As he was looking at his hands he heard a door opening, a scientist named Joseph running outside and running to another scientist named Ian, the scientist looked at him, putting a finger on his neck the scientist seemed, scared? Viktor tried to approach him but the scientist saw him and ran back inside, locking Viktor out, letting his walk freely, eventually breaking the barrier of the compound.
When the research ran back inside, Viktor started roaming the wooded area, the area was fenced off for some reason and at the fence line it was completely different. Viktor tried to climb the fence but fell on his back, but he tried again, and again, eventually getting a hang of it and climbing over the fence. As he walked through the woods he saw a bunch of things, he saw a group of humans sleeping on the floor in the woods, he saw another person by himself in the woods clutching a firearm.
He walked around the woods, feeling a weird sensation of the ground beneath him and the uneven pathing, it made walking around and getting everywhere a bit difficult especially because he sank right through the mud. All of the new inputs he was receiving were difficult to place and he found a place to stand still for a moment, processing everything he had just been through.
After standing up after a while of processing all of the information he had received from his brisk walk it was already dusk, his ocular senses were not used to this and he attempted to create a hut out of stick, mud, leave and vines. After constructing a small hideout he decided to camp out in it during the night to make sure he was able to use his ocular sensors again, they were glowing a bright red and he hoped he would not be spotted by anything that wished to hurt him. After he was studying every part of the hut he built he heard footsteps in the forest, the footsteps did not belong to a human such as the researchers but a beast instead. As Viktor turned around he saw an animal on four legs, white and black fur showing its teeth to him and making a low pitched sound his pistons made when they got stuck.
The animal slowly approached Viktor and Viktor did not know what to do, he was never given information on anything other than human’s vital points and how to treat them. The animal jumped at him and Viktor instinctively put out his hand and caught the animal by its neck, he grabbed his neck with his other arm too and looked at its face. It has a triangular shaped head as opposed to the rounded shape of humans and has its eyes in the same positions as humans, it has a wide mouth with lots of sharp looking teeth. As Viktor was studying the animal his circuits hummed a deep metallic sound and the animal made high pitched noises, completely opposite of what it did before.
After carefully examining the creature he let it go and it made the same high pitched noises again and scurried away quickly, Viktor once again sat down to process the information he had just received. After the process he looked outside and it was daylight again, he saw a group of hikers returning with the sleeping people on their backs and the one with the firearm was walking with them, Viktor followed them from a distance. As they walked Viktor made sure to stay out of sight, he learned from the wolf encounter that not all creatures are as friendly as the scientists in the institution he was operating in, after tailing them for a short while they decided to sit down and consume foods and drinks. Viktor pondered to himself why they would do such an unnecessary action but was too afraid to offer help, like the wolf and the scientist people weren’t exactly nice to him and he stayed far away, using his ocular sensors to observe them. After their unneeded break they went to walk again and entered an area without trees but instead a bunch of stone homes, more like the institution he worked.
Viktor walked into the town and didn’t see many people, after a bit of walking and searching he saw an especially short human and the boy looked straight into his sensors, after a short while the short human started to approach Viktor, Viktor saw that the boy was no threat and didn’t respond in any way. As the short human got closer he touched Viktor’s arm and felt the cold steel and he made an expression that the scientists made when Viktor achieved something they asked him to do.
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The short human spoke to himself “holy crap, a real robot!” as he said that he turned to Viktor and said “are you a terminator? That would be super cool, am I like John Connor?” Viktor just looked at the short human and was processing it all, suddenly the short human grabbed his hand and said “follow me!” and Viktor followed suit.
They eventually entered a structure made out of wood and stone and the short human was asking him all kinds of questions but Viktor just stood there, observing the human. The short human asked him “can you even speak?”. Speaking, that’s what the scientists talked about making Viktor do before they all went to sleep in the weather or ran back inside. After a short time Viktor made noises that weren’t just whirring but instead a synthetically created voice and spoke for the first time “Hello human, why am I here?”. The short human jumped back with the same ‘happy’ expression as before and he said “Are you a terminator?” Viktor responded “I do not know what a terminator is, I am VIKTOR, Variant In Kato’s Teachings Of Robotics”. The short human looked puzzled but said “are you strong like other robots in movies” and Viktor responded “I am stronger than humans but I do now know of this “movie” you are referring to”.
As Viktor said this the short human grabbed a bunch of things and showed Viktor a recording of a future where humans were fighting robots that looked like him, Viktor asked the short human “Am I one of those robots?”, the short human pondered a bit and replied “Not really, you’re more like the human looking one that’s nice and cool”. Viktor didn’t know what cool meant beside being below a certain temperature but he didn’t feel as if that was the case. After this Viktor was browsing the internet and learning things at an extremely quick pace, humans, evolution and the creature that attacked him.
As the day began to turn to night and Viktor had read tons of information on the internet he asked the short human “What is your name?”, the boy responded “My name is Mike, my parents are gone for a few days on a business trip but I think they just don’t want to be around me”. Viktor looked puzzled, the times he spent with Mike were extremely fun and informative, as the day turned to night Mike said to Viktor “I have to sleep now, can you tuck me in?”, Viktor recalled that he saw something about it and agreed, as they went to Mike’s bed he read him a bedtime story and he fell fast asleep. Viktor himself messed around with some spare wiring to charge himself while the boy slept and he could recharge himself too.
As the day broke a loud noise came from Mike’s room, he ran upstairs to his room to see what happened but it was just Mike saying that he had an alarm for school, Viktor recalled this information and walked downstairs, prepared to make him a nutritious sandwich. The house wasn’t stocked very well so Viktor decided to make a so called “PB&J” sandwich. He gave Mike the sandwich and he ate happily, after he ate he asked Viktor “can you walk me to school? I get picked on when I walk alone and I'm afraid the bullies might pick on me again”. Viktor nodded his head and followed Mike outside, after Mike walked a bit further from him he saw an expression on Mike’s face similar to that of the animal and he ran back to Viktor. “There they are! The bullies are over there!” as mike said this 3 other short humans turned around the corner and looked at Mike hiding behind Viktor.
“Hiding behind a big toy now are we Mike? We’ll break that toy too and you better give us your money for lunch again today, not walking around with your parents isn’t a smart idea dumbass.” Mike responded “This isn’t a toy, he’s like the terminator that protects John and he is here to protect me! Just try to get to me, you cant anymore!” After Mike said this the 3 kids walked up to Viktor and Mike and kicked Vik in his leg, Viktor responded almost immediately by punching the small human in the arm, a crunch could be heard from that punch.
The small human screamed out loudly and water started leaking from his eyes, Viktor said “Cease your hostilities at this moment directly or I will engage in harsher attacks”, the punched human ran away and the other two ran towards mike who was a bit behind Viktor but he managed to grab both of them by the necks and looked at them. Their eyes started to swell with water and their faces turned blue, Mike waited a few moments before telling Viktor to release them. As Viktor let go the 2 other humans ran away immediately and Viktor walked Mike to school and said “Shall I accompany you inside or shall I return to our building?”
Mike said “You should return, people don’t really like robots that can think for themselves, but I think you’re really cool! Here’s the key to the house so you can go inside.” As mike handed Viktor a key he went back to the home and sat at the computer, after only a short while he heard the door open and 2 sets of footsteps walked in, a larger human male and female resembling Mike.
As they looked at Viktor they started screaming and asked “What are you doing in our house!” Viktor calmly replied he walked Mike to school and protected him from bullies but the humans didn’t listen, they tried to push Viktor away from the house and he did not retaliate, he learned about humans and their parents and didn’t want to hurt Mike’s assumed father and mother.
He heard from inside they were talking to someone who wasn’t in the house and after a few minutes of Viktor standing outside the home a van approached and people stepped out, they had the same logos as the place Viktor was built and they said “Hey VIKTOR, you’re causing a bit of a stir, how about we go back into the lab?” Viktor thought about it for a second but due to power constraints and other possible hostilities he walked into the back of the van where there was an unconscious man, the same one he saw with the firearm in the forest. The last thing Viktor heard before shutting off was “Vik’s been found and returned, heading to base now”