Robotic Son

Chapter One - Fatherhood

Entry One: "My name is Kazuichi soda and this is my 6th attempt to make a family, I call her A6-G0. Sadly she's not turning on, but I have faith in her, and if all fails I can turn her into a motorcycle."

Entry Two: "My name is Kazuichi Soda and this is my 7th attempt to make a family. I'm going back on C3-D0 but he seems to be failing me. His flashlight eyes are working, but he won't move and he keeps printing pictures of Sonia Nevermind, I mean, I'm not complaining though. It's been ten years since I last saw her, but I guess I did program him to think she's his mom."

Entry Three: "Okay, I'm depressed now. I have tried 8 times now, and I've tried to fix the others but none of them will work, at least I have a lot of nice cars. Now I just sit here thinking about Sonia. geez, ten whole years."

Entry Four: I've noticed that K1-B0 has made some improvement. Everything is working just fine, but he's just not turning on.

I've finally given up. I'm never going to have a real family. I walk over to the fridge to see if I have any coffee left, but I doubt it, I haven't slept for days. I open the fridge but there are no cans of coffee, just some empty bottles of fuel, oh hey wait, there's one left.

"Dad, I'm tired." What, Whose voice is that? Am I hallucinating? I slowly turned my head to see the most beautiful sight I've ever seen; A small young child rubbing his eye with his miny, medal hand, he had white hair, big beautiful blue eyes, and black lines running down his cheeks. In his arms, he held a big fluffy purple bunny, and his eyes were glowing. I hesitate, but I manage to say something.

"K1-B0?"

"Ya, dad." I feel a tear run down my eye. I take my grey beanie off of my dirty pink hair and kneel down.

"Let's get you plugged in, Keebo." I lean in and squeeze him in my arms. I feel his small robotic arms wrap around my waist. "Keebo, I love you."

"I love you too dad." I did it. I created my own son.

I turn the recorder on. "I think this will be my last entry. It's been 5 days since Keebo came online, and there seem to be no problems with him. But he did tell me he had a dream, well, a nightmare, he probably just found a video on the internet and played it by accident. He's come so far, so I think I'm going to put him in school next week. It will be good for him."

Knock knock.

I shut the recorder off and yelled out to Keebo. "Come in." The door slowly creaked open, and a small Keebo walked through. He was clenching his purple bunny tight to his chest, and he was shaking all over. "Keebs? What's wrong?" I open my arms and Keebo comes running into my lap, burying himself in my arms, I could feel him shaking through my arms, he was scared.

"Daddy, I'm scared." I start to stroke his soft white hair that seemed to glow in the low light.

"Why are you scared?"

"What if my dream comes back!"

"Keebs, it's just a dream, it's not real. No one will come and scrap you for parts."

"But what if they do!" I sigh, I had no idea what to do. "What if I charge with my lights on?"

"Keebo, I told you already, you have a hard time powering down when your lights are on."

"But-But-" He looked at me with his large blue puppy dog eyes, how could I ignore that!

"Fine. You win, bring your charger to my room, and make sure to put it on mobile mode." Keebo's face lit up with the biggest smile I have ever seen, but I can still feel him shaking, then he hopped out of my lap and raced out of the room to do what he was told.