Chapter 9.
"THERE THEY ARE!"
Elis and Matt did not looked back, grabbed still weak M around his waist and by his arms and dragged him with all their might to the other side of the room.
The army was slower than them because the robots and their spare parts were catching them by the ankles and tripping them so they had to shook or shoot them off. Somehow they let Elis and her friends go without shooting them into their backs.
They run into the preparation room, which had the same strong metal doors with a keylock and a big window next to it.
Elis swiped her stolen keycard in the slot and all three fell inside on a big pile.
"Close the door!" commanded Elis and while Matt was trying to close the heavy door, she stood by the controlling panel right under the big window. It looked complicated but she noticed labels that said "Light" and "security". She pressed both of them.
Suddenly all lights in the main hall went off and a terrifying hissing sound of a thousands of a metal straps opening up echoed through the room. Matt closed the door right on time. Just a second before they heard and un-human snarls and howls followed by a commands and shooting. A few of those bullets glanced off the window and the metal door.
"What have we caused," cried Matt.
"A distraction. Hurry out!" called Elis and picked M who was able to just sit up and nothing more. They opened another secured door to the next room. It was a silent and dark preparation room in the section "N". There was no one there; no robots, no humans. The giant room was completely empty.
They dragged M across the room. Thankfully since this room was still not in use, it was not closed. They slipped into the hallway.
A heavy gunshot and a screams of pain were heard. Most of the time the screams belonged to the soldiers. The M-bots were really pissed off.
They both were dragging M as fast as they could. M tried to help and walk by himself but his circuits were still numb and half of them were off or fried.
Elis stopped, causing Matt to almost slip. "What!?" he hissed, looking back if any of those soldiers noticed them.
"I can't leave them here."
"WHAT? WHO?!"
"Them." Elis pointed at the door on the opposite side.
The J-bots were still pressed on the glass, scratching the surface of it. They looked so scared. So desperate.
"Take him to the stairs. I will be right there!" she threw M to Matt who almost fell over.
"There is no time to play a heroine, Elis!" called Matt.
"Just run!"
Matt listened and carried M as fast as he could to the fire exit at the end of the hallway.
Elis run to the J-bots room and swiped her key card in the slot. The door opened. The bots moved away, scared.
"Come out. Freedom." she pushed the door open. A few of them walked slowly outside, looking all around.
Elis raised a hand to one of those bots. He slowly put his small white hand into hers and let her pull him out of the room. He was kinda damaged, he was missing one eye and a half of his other hand, but he looked happy being out. His twins were quickly following them outside. In a mere of minute there was at least 50 of them out in the wide hallway.
Suddenly one of the soldiers noticed the anarchy outside. They get away from the M-bot room and faced the J-bots in the hallway. They were scratched but they raised their weapons at the harmless bots without thinking.
Elis tried to run towards the army and stop them but the J-bots closed the way for her and stood in a firm formation. Two bots pushed her the other way back to the fire exit.
"I can't leave you here!" she called at the bots, but they were looking at the army without a fear. One of them looked back, smiled and gestured her to get away. Then the whole army of a robots made their way to the humans who started to open fire.
Elis ducked and run as fast as her legs could carry her to the fire exit.
Matt was already at the second floor helping M who was supporting himself on the railing. She run to them and together they get to the lowest floor. They heard a noise coming from upstairs.
"Do you have that fucking keycard?" asked Matt.
Elis reached into her pocket. But there was no keycard there. She checked all of her pockets but the card was gone.
"Now we are really fucked."
"No we are not" said Elis "we just have to find another way out. What about the front? I am sure that the receptionist is long away since there is an emergency."
Matt shrugged "it is worth a try, we have not many choices.
A quick look at the map Elis took with her showed the reception was right behind one normal wooden door and across the small hallway between the offices.
They kicked the wooden door open and dragged M through the hall.
A loud noise was heard and the floor shook. A few pieces of a wall fell off.
"What the fuck was this about?!" sweared Matt.
"It sounded like a bomb. Or a grenade. We should get going!"
Matt widened his eyes, adjusted his hands around M and moved faster.
When they were in the middle of the hall the way was blocked by the army. They came from behind the corner and quickly took a formation. All of their guns pointed at those three.
"Drop that robot! It's a private ownership! Do it or we will shoot!" called their commander. Matt immediately dropped M and raised his hands, leaving Elis with M in her arms alone.
"Lady! Drop that robot asap!"
Elis firmed her hands on M. "Never!" she called at them.
But M got up. "My turn, milady. You did enough heroic things today." he gathered all of his strength and straightened up into his full height. A few soldiers made a step back but their commander pushed them back.
"Just run away. I will hold them." M said.
"Bro we came for you, you can't just let yourself be shot to bits!" Matt almost facepalmed himself.
M looked at those two behind him "Trust me I know what these guys are capable off. If you let me go, they will put you two in a cell and I will be destroyed anyway. This will at least save you two." then he turned at the soldiers and shielded Matt and Elis with his body.
"ROBOT!" called the commander "obey the first law!"
"I will obey my own rules!" M called back, leaving the commander in a big shock. He was supposed to listen and obey his commands! All of his soldiers clicked their guns.
"What now?" asked Matt.
"The best thing we can do. Run." she grasped his hand and run back where they came from sheltering their heads. Perhaps there would be another way out.
On their way there they found another hallway leading right. They ran that way since from the big hallway in front of them a horrible sounds and a gunshots were heard. What scared them the most was a few different types of robots coming through those door.
Elis recognised some of the F-bots and C-bots there, walking side by side towards the enemies. They almost did not noticed running Matt and Elis. They headed front where the shooting was heard. It seemed like the J-bots found her keycard and freed their brethren from the other rooms.
Matt and Elis made a sharp turn into the next hallway. It lead on the other side of the reception hall that was still on their right hand. They made a big run around the fighting soldiers and her beloved M.
When they sneaked out into the main hall they saw a complete massacre.
There was another main stairs leading up to all of the floors. The steps were covered with blood and a different colours of oil, mixing and slowly dripping from step to step. The hall was filled with dead soldiers and robots who were mostly shoot into a complete unrecognizable rubbish.
But a few faces were still recognizable. Elis noticed the J-bot's peaceful face without its left side, buried in the middle of one big bulky K-bot's chest and tangled in the long brown hair of an C-bot. They were destroyed in such a force their metal bodies practically merged together and died like that.
Elis turned away and she felt herself puking on her own boots.
"We...have to go away. ASAP!" stutter Matt.
They were quickly jumping and dancing around the dead bodies trying not to step on someone. The main glass door was covered with bullet holes but it was not broken, just a big cracks appeared onto it.
In front of the door there was a huge pile of a broken robots who were too desperate to get out they were shot into a big pile of metal right there on the spot. Not a single one was able to get out.
"Help me. We have to clean the door!" called Elis and tried to move some of the metal parts away. She cut her hand on a many places by that sharp and sometimes hot metal corners.
Elis almost jumped out of her skin. A hand next to her started moving. It was an arm chopped off somewhere above the elbow. It moved like a snake. Elis jumped backward and bumped into Matt.
Suddenly the hand moved itself to the big pile and started pulling some parts out and throwing them behind itself.
"Is that thing doing what I think it's doing?" asked Matt.
"It seems like it."
The army in a nearby hallway stopped shooting and their voices moved deeper into the hall, searching for the survivors and the robots. Thankfully they had a few minutes for good.
Elis turned back to the hallway. She has to at least look at him. She run back to the hall where M was holding the line for them.
She found him in the middle of a broken bodies of his older versions. He was shot almost into pieces. He was laying on his fallen comrades like in a nest. It looked like they were trying to protect him. She saw a few C-bot ladies and their F-bot friends holding M by his arms and two of the J-bots were covering his legs.
What was a surprise was a one half rusty A-bot who was still twitching, covering M's blown up chest with his rusty arms.
Elis was afraid to touch any of them since they were sparkling and she was scared to get a electric shock. The floor was slippery from all that differently old oils and fluids mixing there.
M was full of holes and scratches. Half of his face was missing and his left eye was not in the socket. He lost right arm under the shoulder and only a tangly long colourful wires and a ripped plastic muscles were hopelessly hanging from the hole there.
His chest was open and full of oil so the insides were almost invisible.
Elis started crying. She had no idea she could develop a feelings for a robot. For a fucking toaster.
She started laughing when she thought about that.
It was a sad laugh.
Suddenly the shooting at the other end of the hallway stopped. But the loud noises of a steps remained. They were coming closer.
Just before Elis could do anything a huge wave of robots appeared behind the corner.
There were mostly consisting of M-bots but there were some older versions too. The first row was made of the bulky K-bots who looked like wild bears on hunt.
Elis took a step away with her hands up so they would not see her as a threat.
The big bots stepped away and the M-bots came out and circled their fallen friend. Elis was gently pushed aside by the C-bot ladies. She tried to look over but the robots were too tall.
"Please don't hurt him." she called scaredly.
Someone held her. It was Matt. He made his way to her and he tried to pull her away from them. But she did not let him. She had to see what was going to happen.
The robots lifted M from his weird nest of his fallen brothers as softly as they could. Suddenly one of the M-bots in the circle ripped his right arm off and handed it to the others. They quickly took M's broken hand and replaced it with the new one given by one of his twins. It looked like the donor did not bat an eye at the fact that he had only one hand now.
Another one took out his left eye. The robot on the left sacrificed his fluids. His two brothers were holding him while he collapsed and shut off. He gave all of his essential fluids to M. They started looting the insides from the most broken comrades of their own kind.
She saw an M-bot in a pink sweatshirt with a huge golden R on it. He gave away his fingers M was missing on his other hand. The robots popped the fingers on M's hand like they were pieces of a puzzle.
Elis and Matt looked on it in awe and shock. The robots were quickly and systematically putting her M back together.
Since there was more than thirty of them there were dozens of healthy fresh parts. After a few minutes M was released from the grip of his brothers. He opened his eyes, both of them, and blinked a few times. Then he took a deep breath and stuttered. His twins held him so he did not fall.
"Are you...alright?" Elis tried to ask.
"I feel fantastic." said M and hold a few of his twins in a hug. They were all missing at least one of their part that ended in M's body. All of the parts he was given looked like he had them all the time. He was complete at last.
They heard a gunshot from the office hallway. It looks like the enforcements arrived.
The robots turned and with a few looks back they made their way back to face the new enemies.
M came to Elis and Matt and hugged them. Matt was surprised but Elis wrapped her arms around Ms neck and did not want to let him go.
"Now we can finally go. Quickly before they see us!" M grasped their hands and forced them back to the lobby. With his help they cleaned enough space so they could crawl around the broken robots through the door and back on the fresh air.
After that horrible time in a room filled with the smell of oil and gunpowder it was a nice change.
The police cars were mostly around the side door where they entered the Google factory in the first place.
Something grabbed Matt's ankle. He yelped and almost fell over.
One of the half broken J-bots was desperately clinging onto his leg. His big blue eyes wide in fear. He had all limbs but a few of his wires were sticking out of his neck and a hip. He was probably buried alive under the tons of a metal made by his fallen brethren.
"Let go!" Matt tried to shook the robot off but Elis stopped him.
Together they freed J-bot's stuck leg from the metal pile and helped him to stand up. He was shaking. M took care of the bot. He had so much strength now he carried the smaller robot in his arms. Elis run next to him to be sure J and M are both all right.
They hurried up to get away as soon as possible.
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