(ECHO Data Recollection Files... activated...
NAME: Dr. Watson Oppenheimer
PASSCODE: *****
SV001, Robin Edge was given his powers as SonicRed after learning of the Galtean threat. Dr. Oppenheimer repaired his neural net after a loss in battle. The doctor then remembered how this started a year ago with the signing of the fourth Treaty of Paris. The battle for peace begins...
End transmission.)
(The scene: a phone call between Dr. Watson Oppenheimer and Senator Raybin.)
Dr. O: Don't tell me that this sudden attack hasn't affected you one bit.
Raybin: What attack?
Dr. O: The one that occurred yesterday near Brooklyn. It is on all the news windows.
Raybin: I don't have time to view the news. I'm too busy making news.
Dr. O: Sometimes I think you're too big for your job, Raybin.
Raybin: You know what, Oppenheimer? That makes two of us.
(Raybin slams the phone shut as Dr. O does the same. Raybin picks up the receiver again and dials an eight digit code - 2-7-2-2-4-6-3-7-7--which spells "ARACHNESS" on the keyphone.)
Arachness: Make this important, Raybin.
Raybin: Dr. Oppenheimer knows about the attack.
Arachness: So does every human in New America. What makes Dr. Oppenheimer any different?
Raybin: I don't know. Somehow I think he knows a bit too much.
Arachness: I shall check into this matter. Nothing should come between the Galteans and the ultimate plan. (disconnects as Argox enters.)
Argox: What was that about?
Arachness: I don't know. If I knew that Senator Raybin was going to be a skeptic, I wouldn't have made him our Earth contact.
Argox: He says he has the necessary connections as Senate Majority Leader to facilitate our plans.
Arachness: Watch him for any sudden changes. Somehow, I trust him less than I did before.
(Back in Oppenheimer Labs. Rob is playing chess with the onboard computer, Echo.)
Echo: (robotic arm moves knight into striking position) Check, Robin.
Rob: (moves his queen to capture Echo's knight and trap its king) Mate. This was of maximum enjoyment, but I have to do something before Dr. O comes back.
Echo: Acknowledged.
(Echo changes screens to a mindform for the next Biodroid. The screen was previously filled with data for SV 004, SonicBlack. Rob saves this data and clears it from the cache. Next he fills in the data for SV 001, SonicWhite.)
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F.NAME: Sydney----
M.NAME: Ann
L.NAME: (Rob fidgets with a chess piece) BishopSIM.AGE: 17
SIM.IQ: 168BIO.CODE: 011101010111010100010100101000101001010101000101
(Rob continues to make the adjustments while Dr. O walks in the front door with spare parts.) Dr. O: Are the motherboard CPUs ready?
Rob: One is. I am currently working on the other one. I am adjusting her martial arts ability to include a gymnastics protocol.
Dr. O: Interesting. Take a break for a while. We have to get to work on SonicBlack. What was his name?
Rob: Kevin. Kevin Christopher King. Simulated age, 21. Simulated IQ, 154. Dr. O: You definitely need a break. You can even bring your guitar if you want to.
(Rob and Dr. O put on their protective gear and move into the cybernetic generation lab with the motherboard for Kevin. There is a casted model of a human, an obviously built male, that contains a neoskeleton for his main body form. The bioflesh compound is ready for entry, but first, the CPU must be inserted.)
Igor, fetch me a brain!
Rob: What?
Dr. O: It's "Frankenstein".
Rob: According to the main cultu-share database, those lines are nowhere withing that specific gothic text.
Dr. O: Forget it. Just upload the dataclusters into the main core unit.
(Rob types data into the digitouch™ keyboard, and information begins to stream from wires into the body's head.)
Echo: Transfer in process. Transferring 13 kiloquads.
Rob: Data transfer in progress. Beginning data reboot.
Echo: Transfer complete.
Rob (typing more data into the Digitouch™ keyboard): Data inserted. Closing all ports and disconnecting main silicon feed.
(The wores pop out from the data ports in the body as the face locks into the position. Steam hisses out of the hairline crack.)
Echo: Auto-engagement sequence initiated.
(The body begins breathing.)
Rob (with awe in his eyes): It's alive! ALIVE!
Kevin: Where am I?
Dr. O: You're in Robotics Alpha inside Oppenheimer Techlabs. My name is Watson Oppenheimer. I'm... your creator.
Kevin (confused): You're... my gods?
Rob: Wow. I'm a god.
Dr. O: We're merely your... technicians. You're your own being; a fully sentient device.
Kevin (staring with awe at his flexing hands): What am I, exactly?
Rob: You're... WE'RE... biodroids. Robotic machines designed to emulate the actions and beliefs of humans. My name's Robin.
Kevin: Robin.
Rob: I'm your... brother. And your father.
Background Technician: I think I hear banjos playing.
Dr. O: Very funny, D'angelo.
Kevin: Do we have a purpose?
Rob: Affirmative. We are to be a counter-attack to a possible threat posed by the Galteans.
Kevin: Galteans... the colonization force from the Gamma Quadrant, correct?
Rob: Right.
Kevin (standing upright): I'm ready. What do I have to do?
Dr. O: First of all, get dressed. Then, we meet in the commons.
Kevin: Right.
(Kevin heads out the door, but stops and turns around.)
Where exactly ARE the barracks?
Rob: Down the hall to the left.
Kevin: Thank you. (heads off)
Rob (to Dr. O): Takes after his old man, don't you think?
Dr. O: Which one?
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(A little while later, Kevin, dressed in one of Rob's black shirts, heads through one of the corridors when one of the bays explodes. Debris flies out and smoke pours out.)
Kevin: What the... Holy crap!
Echo: Internal laboratory fire in sector three.
(Kevin heads in and spots a girl standing inside a glass sensory deprivation tube, surrounded by large, raging fires.)
Kevin (screaming, so that the girl might hear): HEY! CAN YOU HEAR ME? (No response.) Oh, come on! (Kevin heads to one of the Digitouch panels and starts typing in engagement codes.)
Echo: Autoinitiation sequence engaged.
(Steam rushes out of tube as it opens up. The girl inside begins to cough.)
Girl: Can't... (kaff) breathe....
Kevin: Whoever you are, we've got to evacuate this bay now!
(Kevin helps her down then they head to the door, but are stopped.)
Echo: Autoinitiation is now in progress.
Kevin: Damn, the fire protocol forcefield must be up. (spots a cel phone-type walkie-talkie and uses it) Dr. O! Rob! Get in here!
(Kevin turns to the internal door control and begins messing with the controls. Eventually the force-field lowers and the two head out. The instant they step out, an explosion blows them to the floor.)
Kevin: You alright? You're...
Girl: Yeah, I know... cold.
(Rob and Dr. O, along with a team of technicians, arrive at the site.)
Rob: Force-fields are snuffing the fire-- Kevin, are you OK?
Kevin: We both are.
Rob: Both?
Dr. O: Sydney?
Girl (Sydney): Yes.
Rob: I don't get it. She shouldn't be functioning.
Dr. O: Kevin must have accidently activated the startup sequence when he deactivated the technostasis tube.
Sydney: Excuse me, what are you people talking about?
Rob: Sydney, I'm Rob. Um, let me say this right. You're not supposed to be active yet. You're missing 8 kiloquads of information from your neural net.
Kevin: You mean, she's an android too?
Sydney: Android? I'm mechanical? I don't know what's going on here, but...
Dr. O: Ahem... (everyone faces Dr. O) Everyone, conference room. NOW.
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(In Arachness' throne room, Argox steps inside and bows.)
Argox: My mistress, we have information about Oppenhiemer's projects. It seems he is dealing with a new breed of biotechnology.
Arachness: Robotics? We cannot allow him to continue. If he gains information about our little... arrangement..., then he can use his detestable FINDINGS against us!
Argox: Fear not, my queen. I have a creature to attack their laboratories. Allow me to introduce Robotex.
(A white, box-shaped automaton steps out from behind, clutching katanas and laughing evilly.)
Robotex (in a deep, powerful voice): Greetings, my empress. What are your wishes?
Arachness: Attack Oppenhiemer Techlabs. Find anything remotely automatic and BRING IT BACK HERE.
Robotex: As you command, it shall be done!
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(Back in the Conference Room in Oppenhiemer Techlabs. The three androids are seated in special, curved obsidian chairs. Everyone's looking at Sydney, now clothed, and thinking about what effects this premature activation might have. Dr. O is displaying schematics on the main screen while he talks to them.)
Dr. O: This wasn't even supposed to happen yet. Kevin, you were the only other android near completion stage, so we just accelerated that.
Kevin: What about Sydney?
Dr. O: As we said earlier, none of this was intentional. Sydney still had three months of technomaturing ahead of her. When you activated her so you could save her, she lost data and important maturity isotopes.
Sydney: So, I'm a retarded intelligence automaton?
Rob: Don't say it like that. We can upload your required dataclusters another way, but without the biolab, we can't do it effectively.
Kevin: That fire took out a great deal of the biolab. It might take as long as a week to fix it.
Dr. O: (Pacing while thinking) There's another way, but you'r enot going to like it.
Sydney: What is it?
Dr. O: We deactivate you and reconstruct your entire neural net.
Kevin: Wait! You're going to KILL her?
Dr. O: I said you wouldn't like it.
Kevin: Look, Sydney is a living being, like me. You can't kill her. Not now.
Technician Shmidt: Well, there's a possiblity that we can downlink her requirements through her neural internet link. It shouldn't take but a few moments.
Dr. O: Good thinking, Shmidt. I like your thinking. Rob, Kevin, let's head to...
(The room shudders and the alert sirens go off.)
Kevin: What on Earth is that?
Rob: Alarm. (Rob moves to a panel) Looks like some sort of a machine. Location: A hundred metres and closing.
Dr. O: It looks like it's time for the Sonic III.
Kevin: The Sonic WHAT?
Dr. O: I'll explain later (places a Sonic Charger on Kevin's and Sydney's belts).
Rob: People, let's get ready.
(The three line up in formation.)
Rob: Sonic... Pentium... Charge! Red!
Kevin: Black!
Sydney: White!
(The three insert their command cards and thrust the transformers forward, then the three transform.)
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(A hundred metres off Oppenheimer Techlabs: Robotex is heading towards the lab buildings, knocking public structures out of the ground.)
Robotex: Ha ha! Target acquired!
(Suddenly, a couple metres in front of him a large explosion occurs and three Sonic Warriors run out. They are dressed in Red, Black, and White.)
SonicRed: (poses) Look out, here come the Sonic III!
SonicWhite: (poses) Let's get this thing.
SonicBlack: (poses) Right! Let's go, team!
(The three leap into the air and simultaneously punch Robotex in the chest. He falls back and shatters a traffic light.)
Robotex: What the?
SonicRed: Digital SoniKick!
(SonicRed leaps up and high-kicks Robotex, causing sparks to burst out.)
Robotex: You'll pay for that.
SonicBlack: Not likely.
(SonicBlack takes out his Bioblaster and fires it on Robotex. 'Tex, unfortunately, blocks with his glossed hands and deflects the shot to hit SonicWhite.)
SonicWhite: Ugh!
SonicBlack: Hey. You tricked me!
Robotex: Well, duh! What are you going to do about it?
SonicBlack: I'll show you! SonicCannon, activate!
(From his back (seemingly) appears a large, bazooka-type weapon. He aims it at the aggressor when SonicRed stops him.)
SonicRed: What do you think you're doing?
SonicBlack: It's called dispensing justice, Rob.
SonicRed (imitating what Kevin just said): It's called dispensing stupid, Kevin! If you blast your cannon, he'll deflect it at Sydney again, causing even more damage!
SonicBlack: Do you have a better idea?
SonicRed: As a matter of fact, yes. Stay here and defend Sydney.
(SonicRed flips to the air and behind Robotex. Robotex instantly turns around.)
Robotex: What do you think you're doing?
SonicRed (remembering Kevin's words): It's called dispensing justice. Kevin! Now!
(Kevin charges his SonicCannon for firing at Robotex. He aims to deflect Kevin's blast when he is blasted himself from behind!)
SonicBlack: Sweet move, bro!
SonicRed: Rob! My name is ROB! Now let's get Sydney back to the lab so she can really help us!
SonicBlack: Got it! Black Speeder, activate!
(Another motorcycle, similar to Red Speeder, appears on the street and carries both SonicBlack and SonicWhite back to Oppenheimer Techlabs. Meanwhile, Rob is snagged from behind!)
Robotex: Not so fast, you!
SonicRed: What?
Robotex: Allow me to show you! (begins to slash the lone biodroid until he begins to feel weak again)
SonicRed: This... isn't supposed... to happen... (falls over)
Robotex: You're coming with me, Sonic boy...
(Robotex grabs SonicRed and takes him to the Galtean base in Canada.)
As you have commanded, I have successfully captured one of them, your highness.
Arachness: Excellent. Now go back and get the others.
Robotex: Yes, Arachness. (teleports out)
Arachness: So, Divit, what do you have to say about him?
(Divit, the technological mastermind of the Galteans, observes the android.)
Divit: It seems to be technologically and biologically superior to any lifeform on Earth.
Argox: What shall we do with him?
Arachness: Hold him. He shall be a test subject for another of my monsters.
(Back at Oppenheimer Techlabs, Sydney begins to rouse from a hurried data link.)
Dr. O: How do you feel?
Sydney: Better. Where's Rob? Kevin?
Kevin: Rob? You know, that's a good question. He was behind me as we were coming back here.
(On the TV screen)
Arachness: I can easily tell you where he is... Or maybe, HE can...
(Rob is tied onto a diagnostic table in the background with a group of Lexicons watching him.)
Dr. O: What are you going to do with him?
Arachness: Nothing. Not yet, that is. It depends on what you will do for me...
SONIC V STAND BY...
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