The spaceship Eto and his friends were traveling on was flying through the dark space with Etoile as their destiny.

Inside, Eto had decided he wanted something to do so he took a look around the ship until he found something.

He had entered a small room where a lot of machines and parts were lying.

It kinda looked like the house where they found Hawk but more advanced and filled with more stuff.

Eto didn't know what to do with the machines or tools and he was sure the professor would yell at him for touching his stuff.

But he did find something in between some crates that grabbed his intered. He decided to bring it with him to the cockpit.

'What is this?' he asked with great joy.

Hawk turned on the autopilot and turned to see what he meant.

Eto had laid down a little cube with an antenna attached to the top. When Hawk saw it, he started to smile.

'Well, it feels like ages,' he said and he took the cube in his hands.

He studied it, remembering that it still looked exactly like how he got it.

'It's a robot. I got it on a planet that wasn't technology advanced. When the locals knew how to build a robot, I just had to take one with me to study it. Too bad other stuff demanded more priority.'

Veronica stepped in and examined the cube, just like Eto did.

'TYO, can you run a diagnostic of the robot?' Hawk asked. The AI of the ship started talking. Eto jumped up from the sudden voice which made the professor laugh.

'Surely professor,' a voice said from the speakers and a blue light coming from a black orb on the ceiling scanned the tiny cube.

'Conformation. I can enter the cube if you would like me to?'

Hawk looked at the cube. 'For diagnostics? Sure,' he answered and TYO confirmed it.

'Entering the cube,' the voice said and everybody saw how through tiny lines and holes on the robot, a blue light erupted from within the cube.

On the bottom a hole opened with some sounds and a tiny wheel came out. From the sides to little arms with grappling hooks attached appeared and in the middle of the front, a little window opened. Behind it was a lens that was shaped as an eye.

'TYO?' the professor asked and the eye on the robot started to move, looking from the professor to Eto and Veronica.

'It's so cute,' Veronica said with a squeaky voice and the robot started looking at her. She laid her hand on him to rub the metal surface.

'I'm 78% sure you are telling the truth, based on your facial expressions,' the robot said. It was the voice of TYO but younger and more robotic.

'Well now I'm not so sure' Veronica said, who was shocked by the sudden voice and pulled her hand back.

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'54%' the robot said and he started to stand on the one wheel underneath him. He looked at Eto who, like always, was looking at the robot with much admiration. After that he looked at the professor.

'TYO, is that you?' Hawk asked, confused. The original voice of TYO started to talk through the speakers.

'No, even though I am connected with the robot, it shares a different personality. Something written deep within the codes of the robot. I'm trying to find and translate it but it's rare, even for my knowledge.'

Hawk grabbed the robot and studied it, while the robot kept making eye contact.

'What do you know? Seems those creatures did have some interesting ideas.

I would very much like to take it apart and study it,' Hawk said and with those words, the robot jumped out of his hands and landed on the floor, seeking shelter behind Eto his leg.

'Please don't, thank you very much,' the robot said, still holding on to Eto's leg.

'I'm sure that you are 67% more interested in taking me apart than keeping me together for my sake,' the robot said worriedly and it made Eto laugh. Hawk started to laugh too.

'Well, I do want to know how you work, but who am I to break someone apart who doesn't want it to' he said with a smile as he looked at the robot.

'51%' the tiny robot mumbled.

Veronica dropped to her knees and reached out her hand at the robot.

´What is your name?' she said with a smile, hoping to gain the trust of the robot.

The robot looked back and forth from the hand to Veronica's face.

'TYO' he said and it confused everybody.

'No, that is the name of my AI. You must have another name,’ Hawk said, thinking the robot was confused.

The robot didn't respond but the AI did.

'I'm sorry professor but the robot is telling the truth. He has no name in his codes and with my personality mixed within, he gained the same name as me.'

Hawk looked at the computer, as if TYO was there.

'Can it look inside you? Into our archives?' he asked, a little worried.

A moment of silence followed until the AI started to talk.

'No. He is connected and with more capacity he should be able to but I'm not reading any motifs for him to do it.'

'Good,' Hawk responded. He looked back at the robot with a more relieved expression. Eto also dropped to his knees and grabbed the robot with a smile and swung it in his arms.

'Are you going on our adventure?' Eto asked while still swinging the robot.

'Why am I 97% sure that you are not gonna let me decide?' the robot asked and Eto started to laugh, thinking about a new friend he made for their adventure.

'Does it include any dangers? Anything that can make my body break?' the robot asked and Eto nodded with full confidence.

'Yup, we won't know what we will find on our path,' Eto said and from the robot came a sound that sounded like a sigh.

'Then an adventure is nothing for me,' the robot named TYO said but Eto ignored it.

'Yes, you are coming with us,' he said and the robot saw that he could not change Eto’s decision.

'So, we have a new ally named TYO,' Veronica said calmly , who looked at the robot and smiled.

She would almost feel bad for the little guy but on the other hand, a robot could be quite handy.

'Ship is prepared for hyperjump, ready for coordinates,' the AI spoke to them.

'Alright,' Hawk said and he jumped back to his chair and Veronica followed him to sit next to the professor.

'To make it to Etoile, we have to jump to another Solar system,' he said with a more serious tone.

The thought of leaving this system where her home planet is, made Veronica a little scared but she wouldn't turn back. She looked back at Eto who was too busy with the robot and to the professor. She had a feeling she didn’t want to interrupt their plans by telling how she felt about going further away from her parents. And why would she? She decided when they left Borner that she wanted to bring Eto to Etoile.

Thinking about it, she decided to stick with her decision, even though it was tough.

'Alright,' Eto said and he jumped in between them with TYO in his hand.

'Etoile, here we come!' he said with a huge grin, looking through the window to the stars in space outside.

Outside the glass they saw how the stars around them started to twirl and how the ship jumped into a hole to travel to another solar system.