Universe Strain A11: The usually orange walls of the small little cavern were blanketed red as the candlelight turned it into a shimmering tapestry of shadows and firelight. Johne-13BA was quite proud of the fact that he had got enough real candles to not need to use fluorescent lights. Afterall a traditional wedding needed candles.
His clawed hands stretched out to arrange the bubble caps that would clamp down over the candles if the C02 levels in the room got too high. The tablecloth was stark white with black plates and utensils sitting primly on it. He was glad that they had chosen green as their third wedding color. He had run himself ragged, making sure that when his sister had chosen red as her wedding colors that it didn’t look pink. Afterall pink was only appropriate for funerals. He adjusted his cloak he didn't find a good enough shirt for the occasion.
There was none for the original 6 wheeled body he was in. It annoyed him sometimes when he came across issues like this he was just told to change bodies but the Parents couldn't change their bodies so why should he? He shook his head, focusing on his speech. He fiddled with the tray the cutlery was on raising and lowering it. He tried to stop his motors from stilling as the door opened letting in the guests. There were a variety of robotic forms all tightly dressed up. His eyelid raised up in a smile seeing so many friends, his rover form didn’t have robotic facial expressions after all he had his natural ones.
Dave-B2 hadn’t admitted it but he was worried nobody would take his wedding seriously but Johne-13BA was pleased that was not the case heck there was someone in a serpentine body! His eyelid faltered as more and more guests came in. He hadn’t realized there would be so many people.
He had only spoken to a crowd bigger than fifty once before and it had not gone well. His wheels squealed back and forth a little bit. As he prepared his speech Johne-13BA waited for everybody to quiet down and waited and waited a little bit more. He got fed up with waiting. His right claw had an issue where if he rotated it really fast it would make a lou- the screech of metal on metal alloy cut everyone off mid sentence. Glad that they couldn't see his expression as he blushed furiously. There had to be a better way to get everyone's attention but how did you get everyone's attention with a plate?
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“Thank you for coming to Dave-B2 And Layaa-3E’s wedding! My name is Johne-13BA. And I have been Dave-B2’s friend for most of my life. Now I wasn’t there when they met but! I think I was there when they became more than acquaintances. So this took place when me and Dave-B2 worked at a wildlife reservation. It only had some plains for deer, wolves but our job was mainly dealing with the terrible water system.So the reservation was two big caverns one just plains and the other with a small forest with dozens of small rooms dedicated to the lights and water. So we had this work enemy who for the sake of simplicity let's call Kevin. Now Kevin was a ‘supervisor’ who started taking credit for our working and inflating his hours. So we decided to play a little prank on him. We got a bubble cap and little timer and stuck it into a pipe to block the water. Now after he feeds any animal he would wash his hands. But today Layaa came in instead of kevin we ducked behind the crates we were hiding behind and watched in horror as Layaa confused as why no water was coming out, looked directly in the hose and at that exact moment the water came rushing out to meet her. Then Dave got up and blurted stop when she was already soaking wet. She asked if he did this and he said yes but it wasn't supposed to happen to her she looked at the still gushing hose then looked at him then sprayed him. A couple moments later they were both grappling for the hose and laughing their heads off. So this is the moment I would say they became friends and eventually fell in love and I was blessed to be their friend while they did it. And I know they may not have an easy life but they will have a happy one because they know how to laugh while soaking wet.”
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Endling smiled as he watched the little wedding well as much as you could smile when your face is filled with tubes intended to keep you alive. He turned his gaze to a different set of monitors with a very different scene with rover archaeologists close to uncovering an ancient cavern. It always made him smile when they called themselves rovers.
He glanced out his pressure sealed window at the city though he doubted he could call that it anymore. The buildings lay in ruins crumpled and pulled apart like a house of cards what buildings still stood were crumbling shells of themselves slowly being eroded by the acidic winds.
He knew what the cavern contained after all he had built it. The contents are a complete history of humanity their parents including their final moments when we at the height of our power turned on each other destroying our world. But it also contained one crucial piece of knowledge the way to breathe life back into worlds hopefully they would come one day in the future come to earth the origin of life and give it back and with that thought on his mind Endling watched the sunrise on a dead world and died still smiling.