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I must protect
I was to late

I was to late

No... no, no, NO!!! This can't be! I came to protect you. Don’t die please... don’t leave me alone. I said as I held the still burning bodies of my wife and daughter. 

How could this be. I did everything possible to protect you, and I still failed... please don’t die, I can’t live without you, please... my skin on my legs was burned off and, in some spots, you could see the underlaying layer of muscle. 

As my lungs filled with burning and choking smoke, I started to lose consciousness and as my whole body burned to ash, I had but one wish... 

If only I could create a world without danger 

*How? * Asked a cold robotic voice. 

By always being there to protect! 

*How? * It asked again 

I’ll make sure that I will build the perfect world. Without war, decease, hunger or disaster! I exclaimed while mentally hitting myself over the death of my child and wife. 

They didn’t deserve to die there, if only it had been me!  

My eyes were filled with tears and my mind with regret as the voice spoke again in a voice oddly resembling that of my late wife’s. *I know you can make that world, so here take this gift. You'll need it* 

My mind was instantly flooded with a collection of random words I did not know the meaning of. 

CREATOR: (immortal one, shaper of earth, omni-conduit, giver of strength, material assimilation, MIND, protector) 

I felt my body become ice-cold and then my sense of temperature completely disappeared, the pain of my burned body disappeared as well 

all I could think was “i couldn’t save you in the end, but maybe I am able to in the next life” 

As this thought left my mind, I noticed something akin to the feeling of wet grass on a cold morning, and as I opened my eyes, I noticed I was lying in the middle of a pine forest. I tried to take a deep breath but found myself unable to, I thought I would choke but no feeling of suffocation came, I didn’t even feel the slightest discomfort.  

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Then when I lifted my hand to feel if I even had a nose and mouth to breathe through, I froze in shock. On my hands was what looked like bronze and brass plates of armor that fitted tightly around my hand, so tight in fact that it looked like it WAS my skin. And when in touched it to confirm this theory I noticed that I could feel pressure and temperature with this metal just like it was normal skin. 

At the discovery of this revelation, I stood up to search for a river to look at my face but found myself at eye level of the tops of the large pine trees, this would mean I’m either about 20 meters tall or this is a forest of very small trees. I found the answer to this question quite quickly when I found a river of miniscule fish (actually they’re normal, I'm just massive) I also found a cold robotic like face when I looked in the river... this confirms it, I' m a giant robot!!! 

Normally this would have been the discovery of the ages, but the death of my wife and daughter were not things one can forget in the blink of an eye. 

As that fact dawned on me again, I got up from the rocky riverbanks I started to walk through the forest and as got to the end of the forest I kept walking, now in a grand meadow with relatively tall grass my mind was thinking of nothing but the memory of my dead wife and the absolute horror of never being able to hold my lovely daughter ever again. 

I walked like that for three days straight. I never tired, I never hungered, and I never ceased thinking about them, until I heard something in the distance. It sounded like people screaming in fear combined with the sound of fire and loud screeching by something I could not identify by sound alone. 

As I rushed over the sounds became louder clearer, and as I approached a large clearing in the forest, I saw a group of tiny people in a small town surrounded by a rickety wooden wall, they were guarding the town from a creature I could only describe as a bear with the spiked armor plating of a dark blue lobster. It was currently attacking the gate of the village as some of the townsfolk threw what looked like homemade spears which just bounced off the armored creature. 

Then the bear thing raised one of its spiked paws like it was going to smash something, but instead of bringing it down on the gate or people it just kept it in the air. When the village people saw this all hell broke loose as people started screaming and running in every direction, in the commotion a little girl that lost her parents caught my eye, she was holding some kind of toy and crying her eyes out, then I started seeing a small spark appearing just In front of the bear's paw, the spark quickly grew to a fireball about three meters in diameter,  

*Snap* my mind went blank as I realized what was going to happen. 

 I don’t know what it was, but my mind was filled with nothing but rage... 

Maybe it was the fire, or the girl that looked like my daughter. 

But in this moment, I was back standing In front of my burning house with my family still inside. Only this time was going to be different! This time I will make it before they die, and I will extinguish the fire that put them in danger! 

I took off in a sprint faster than any other I had ever taken before, closing the distance of 800 m in just 5 seconds, and as I balled my fist and tensed my muscles, I could feel that this time would be different. The beast had now noticed me and aimed the ball of death that had now grown to be 4 meters in diameter at me, but it didn’t matter my fist was already about to hit his face. And with the fury of a grieving father, I threw the mother of all punches strait into his face. 

It gave no resistance, as its hardened armor and skull shattered under the immense weight of my metal fist. Its body turned into a ragdoll due to the bone fragments that were once his skull shooting into his brain. The lifeless ragdoll body then flew about 30 meters before finally coming to a halt In front of a massive oak tree that made it look like it was his gravestone.  

When I snapped out of it, I was still standing in my striking position like time had frozen the moment my arm was fully extended, and as the blood dripped from my hand to the ground, I took a more natural stance and looked over at the village where the people were slowly coming out of hiding to take a look at the metal behemoth that saved them, and as I saw the little girl with the toy taking shelter in her father's arms, I for the first time since coming to this world felt the wait of my failure lift just a bit. 

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