Hovering around Planet Quad 19, the drone scans using its latest in technology scanner dubbed "The Elite Acquisition.", or commonly called TEA. Bit by bit the images were registered onto the drone's on-board system and it analyses every single image faster than any super computers ever created by mankind, it snaps pictures at 1/100,000, which is currently the fastest ever "photoshoot" drone. It analyses, talking to itself it re-thinks and thinks, distributing between good and bad, yes or no, truth or lie, the advanced cybertronics on it thinking enabled it to recognise fear, hatred, love, sadness, kindness and all emotions felt by mankind.
Planet Quad 19 seemed lifeless, there were no Sun, no atmosphere, no gases, no living things, nothing. But it seemed perfect for the drone. The drone was the size of a laptop, the seventh of its generation module. It grins and then zooms right into the planet but discovered something amiss. Its sensory surrounding its outer body picked up movements, slow, steady and silent movement. It was confused. "Should I switch to my plasma cannons? Should I voice out something? Should I cloak and ambush it from behind?" Suddenly its registry system reflected a series of familiar blinks. One, One, Two, One. It pauses, almost stunning, that was the code. That was the cue, its an ambush! If it were one more second late, it would be scrap metal.
Almost instantly it deploys its plasma cannons and fired rapidly and then cloaking itself to make a run for it. Plasma rays flew here and there, the drone dodge everyone of it, every single 14,528 registered shots. Funnily, the attackers can't seem to find it. It was rather peculiar, it thought that it was the nineth or tenth generation drones, but it seems like not. It cloaks again and went closer to the ambushes, it heard voices, whispering and some shouting, "I've lost it." "Roger Zulu, we've lost it too." "Gawddammit you people. Why the hell did I train you for if you can't hunt something that big? What am I paying you for? Having games like this? Every laser shot you fired cost me nine promediums dammit. Where are you gonna get that kind of material huh? You tell me! Now!"
A voice answered, "Si..Siirr."
"WHAT?!" boomed the angry voice.
"Wee.We think its cloaked."
"Wha... Hold on. Did you mention it was CLOAKED?" the voice said, getting louder.
"Yeess.Yes Sir."
"Ahh. That should be a prototype. Never in my years of planet engineering complexity module did I ever encountered this kind before."
The drone stunned. The voice was right. It was a prototype. Its circuit board was made out of endurions, a highly sensitive raw material which is absolutely hard to find. Its body was silverish and rather black to say, its logic was way better than other drones, its cannons were much more accurate comparing to other drones, its armoury was the latest in technology, it could connect to a spaceship millions of light years away to send a message to another solar system and not be caught, it could cloak with 90% cloakness and a 10% chance of finding it. Only a really sharped eye man could find him and almost 95% of the drones couldn't find it either, most of them would be shot by down by it. Its understanding level was much more higher, and now its thinking all this. Why was it developed? What course was it developed for? What kind of other systems were on his cybertronic brain? It suddenly does a random check.
Scanning files. Please wait. Project Romeo accomplished, Project Ice terminated. Project Raw Material completed, Project Space Shuttle terminated, Project Nebula Orion suspended, Project Terminator completed, Project Sweep accomplished, Project Hack accomplished, Project Salvage accomplished, and the list goes on. Scan complete. 2,347 projects found, 1,244 projects accomplished, 103 projects completed, 100 projects commencing, 300 projects terminated, 500 projects suspended, 99 projects on hold, one project unknown file. The drone seemed surprised. "Unknown file?" it whispered.
Accessing unknown file. Password required. "Password?" it asked itself. "D7G99P"
Please wait. "Error 1677. Password invalid. Please try again."
It fretted and accessed all passwords possible. None were effective. Finally it stumbled onto a project. Project M.A.T-R. It logs into the project. The project's system was entirely different, not at all like the drone used to. It scans the entire file system. The header was writen "Project M.A.T-R." The listing was "Fully Top Secret." There were no tasks to do but it read the entire project.
"D4G55 was shot down today at zero five hundred hours. It was commencing Project Raw Material. D5G83 was shot down the following day with Project Relation commenced. D4G11 was shot down prior to the day D5G83 was shot down, Project Comp was accomplished. D1G99 was shot down the following day after D4G11 was shot down, Project Prototype was commencing. D5G88 was shot down on Friday the eigtheen. It was on standby mode. D7G22 was shot down on Monday the seventeenth of December, Orion calendar. Project CAOS has commenced. D6G66 was shot down on the twentieth of December the same month of the same calendar. Project Morph commenced. Project M.A.T-R activated."
The file closes. The drone freezes. The voices have long gone. Then suddendly it heard a sound, it sound a little silent, but it could still hear the low decible engines. The sound stayed there for a few seconds and flew off. The drone quickly flew away to hide somewhere. It went to another deserted planet. Planet 22 Earth Industries Corporation. Where they had factories all over the planet but was deserted because of a disaster which striked the planet, unstable gases. It went down into the factory and stayed there. It scans for any lifeform. None. After "securing" the site, the drone uncloaked itself.
Warning. Energy level thirty percent. The drone felt tired. It shuts down all unneccessary progammes and left its security defences at full alert. It shuts down completely.
One hour later...
All systems activated. Energy level at one hundred percent. Booster activated. Scanning data. Updating sequence. Updating configuration files. All systems fully online. One project commencing. The drone wakes up instantly. Logging in project. Welcome. Project M.A.T-R activated. The drone felt weird. No tasks were given. Nothing. It refreshed the system. Same. Finally it left it switched on, without minimizing the project. Soon it felt there were a presence. Its scanners locates a different pattern of movement. Not mankind. Not robot, not human either. Suddenly the project passes through the small cybertronic and endurion circuit. It minimizes the file. The scanners then registered the different pattern as Project M.A.T-R. Out of the sudden, the unknown file pops up at the menu, the drone opened it.
Accessing unknown file. Please wait. Password required. It keyed in, "MAT-R" Hold on. "Error 1388 Negative password." Finally the drone wrote down, "Matter" Hold on.
"Welcome to Project M.A.T-R. Machine Automated Termination Module Rapid type. M.A.T-R.
Machine Automated Termination Module Rapid type.
Size is 4m by 3m by 6m.
Function is to destroy drones.
Logic is currently set to level 5.
System files Cloak Detector v66.68. Dual Plasma Cannons, Dual cloaked Missile pods, Dual Multi scanner Eyesight, Vulture eye v40.6, Dual Quad Chain Guns.
Energy level two hundred percent.
Configuration files v199.4.3
Weakness of M.A.T-R, plasma cannon fire, dodging level 1, speed 200."
The drone felt weird. It was only equipped with two plasma cannons. and its so small. Suddenly it saw a tab at the unknown file. It opens the tab.
"Welcome Drone 5th Generation v.99 Prototype. Please wait. Updating system configurations. System updated. Latest version installed and currently active.
Task One. Proceed to Planet 51 to retrieve raw material named endurion. Collect as many as possible. On the same planet collect scrap metal, and energy bars, energy bars are located inside factories. There is an ammunition storage at the Military Base Camp Alpha 39R. Retrieve all ammunition and convert them into plasma. Search for raw material named Duranion. Search for raw material named Promerions, Premenions, Tudorions, Sarions and Comonions. Collect as much resources as you could get.
Task Two. Combine Endurion, scrap metal and energy bars to make missiles. 1 endurion, 1 scrap metal and 1 energy bar is able to make 2missiles. Combine 1 of every kind of material to form a missile pod, an updated version of plasma cannon, and extra engines. Here are the designs, pick your type.
Task Three. D7G99P-iR ready to go."
The drone collected the materials for days, cloaking itself to remain invisible to M.A.T-R. Finally on the sixth day, it has accomplished the tasks. With the advanced and new plasma cannons and missile pods, the drone was ready to go. With advanced shields and weaponary, the drone felt new, refreshed version of itself, new color, new equipment. It felt like a warrior. With all its advances the drone went to look for a battle spot. Finally it found one.
The Planet seemed to be the perfect place for battle, it gave advantages to the drone. It was Planet Furion. The planet where war raged almost thirty years ago due to the control of raw materials which brought back promediums, the highest currency on Planet Earth after the dollars. Planet Furion was popular for its history dubbed, Battle 90. Which cimply means that flight here is totally useless, there would be no place to take aim, there were too many rocks around this planet and that gave an advantage to the humans who lived here, enemies parachuting down dies even before they touch ground because of the rocks. Joined with rubbles of buildings and deserted apartments and buildings, the place looked much cooler. Finally the drone cloaks itself, and opened the "Project M.A.T-R" tab. It heard sounds found a distance, then it was it coming, a mean looking attack robot. The robot looked around, trying to secure a connection with the drone to have a lock on it. Meanwhile the drone was already ready for battle, it locked on the robot and waited for a close range. The robot moved and moved, closer and closer it got. Finally at 25 yards the drone opened fire, thirty percent of the ammunition and missiles were fired, together with thirty nine percent of energy level. It had one hundred and ninety percent of energy. Since it was on close range, the M.A.T-R could not escape, it had been damaged. The robot being experience in the drone killing field unleashed hells of lasers and plasma ammunition to the drone. The drone avoided all 43,577 plasma and laser shots and dodged 588 cloaked missiles. The registry registered the plasma and laser shots and missiles launched. The enemy, seemed to be big to manoeuvre itself around could not get a lock onto the small drone which measures 0.5m by 0.7m by 0.8m. The enemy seemed to have unlimited ammunition. It sprayed another 52,733 rounds of laser and 10,455 rounds of plasma towards the drone and the drone dodged 95% of the laser and plasma rounds. Each round which hit the drone an alert pops up saying energy decreased by one percent, shields decreased by five percent. And it stacks up as it gets hit.
The 63,188 rounds shot at the drone missed. 3,159 laser and plasma rounds hit the drone. It registered and calculated damage and shield distribution, the rate of how many shots fired from the enemy could he evade and how many more shots that it could sustain before the systems all go down and it will, well, die. Again it calculates the lasers fired, this time, it evaded 99% of the laser rounds shot at it. The enemy got frustrated. It then speeds all the way high into the atmosphere, in order to draw the drone out. The drone did not move. It remained cloaked and hidden, calculating its speed and rounds needed to shoot to severely damage the enemy, distribution of how many possible laser and plasma shots the enemy would fire at it and how many missiles the enemy would launch to destroy it. The drone thinks and thinks. Finally it diversed a plan. A pretty simple but deadly plan.
It released a missile onto the rock it was currently hiding in and fled the hiding place and went 20 yards away from the "trap" site. It knows, at twenty yards, the explosion might kill it, together with the enemy. Then it calculated the shield distribution in order to keep itself alive from the deadly situation. It saved 50% of its shields and used the remaining 20% of it to draw the enemy to the site. Finally it countdowns. Whispering to itself it was ready, "Five, Four, Three, Two, One. GO!" Still cloaked it sped upwards, creating a cloud of line which drawed the enemy's attention, it noticed but it wasn't close enough to launch its lasers, if it did, 95% would miss the target and it would probably die. Still it flew at the speed of light up into the enemy's direction. The images it captured were analysed. Bit by bit the images comes in, it was as though it was on slow motion. The drone calculated the distance needed to be close enough to damage the enemy another thirty percent. It was close. 30yards and closing. The drone fired its laser and plasma cannons directly at the enemy, with over 43,677 registered laser rounds, 85,477 plasma rounds and 30,429 missiles to be launched at the enemy. It took half of everything it had to hit the enemy.
21,838 laser rounds were fired, 42,738 rounds of plasma were fired, 15,214 rounds of missiles were fired at the enemy at thirty yards. Then the drone breaks speed and dived down towards its "trap" site. Out of all the 79,790 lasers,plasmas and missiles, it registered a whopping 70,777 hits. A magnificent combo. The enemy, received almost sixty percent damage dived down for revenge. The energy left on the enemy was about fifty percent. The plays as the drone dived down while lasers and plasma rounds were fired at it, it saw rocks blasting, buildings crumbling, missiles almost hitting it but misses, and then it reached the site. With a high V turn, it climbed up again, the enemy, being not able to have an advantaged manoeuvrability, could not escape the high V and crashed. The drone was at 100,000 feet high when it noticed the enemy did not move from below, zooming in from its 1,000Megapixel cybertronic ray eyes, it saw the enemy was still alive. It then blasted the entire region into dusts. Watching the dust and the 50,000feet high explosion, the drone was proud to say that the enemy was dead, but out of the dustiness it registered a code, One, One, Two, Two, One, Two, One, Two, One, Two. A color code. It was registered as blue. Then it saw a faded light on the bottom. It zooms again from its ray eyes and noticed the enemy was shielding itself with the blue shield, a highly risky shield method that could drain all the energy within moments. The drone seemed surprised.
It sped up at the speed of light to take a closer look. It equipped itself with all the shield and energy it had left, then zoomed down onto the enemy. It reached the site and it saw the enemy laying on the dusty ground and the blue cloak over it. Blue shields are the most powerful shields ever invented. It could sustain damage more than what the drone did. The drone then landed down on its "hopper" legs and slowly floated to the enemy. It seemed lifeless, but strangely the blue shield was still switched on. It reached the enemy about few inches away and saw something extraordinary, the enemy's shoulder was printed with the word, M.A.T-R, its two mechanical cybertronic palms were holding something strange. It took a closer look. It was the second generation nuclear and endurion equipped engine. The engine seemed small, about three inches by two inches by two inches height. The enemy handed it to the drone. Proudly the drone took the engine. Then the enemy ejected its grey circuit board, a similar form of box to the black box on an aeroplane. It was written "Matter". Confused the drone took the grey circuit board and inserted it into its extra core slot. Automatically, it registered the entire M.A.T-R's logs, where it killed the drones, how it killed the drones, who developed it, who invented it, the history, everything was replayed back from the start. The main task portrayed in the tab menu, "Defend All Drones" was minimized. The drone opened the file.
Accessing file. Defend All Drones file error registry key 707. Reboot system and relog. The drone seemed even more confused, as a logically intelligent cybertronic endurion brain it had, error 707 was the worst error of all, someone or something edited the M.A.T-R's circuit board and changed the system. The drone tried opening the file numerous times, it did not work at all.
The drone then inserted the the circuit board into the enemy and rebooted it. Then it inserted it back into its own core slot and opened the tab.
Accessing file. Defend All Drones file established. M.A.T-RiD fully operational. The drone froze as it registers numerous tasks to defend drones all over the entire universe. Suddenly the drone received a mail.
"Proceed to Planet Nebula Orion North West location, Quad 77Z zone, thirty second region, 344 longitude, 200 latitude for upgrading. Do not worry, no mankind is present, no enemies present. We are the DSC, Drone Safety Corporation. Come here and we will upgrade you."
The drone smiled and looked back at the M.A.T-R which lied down, the light in its eyes were soon out. Vanished. Never to be known where it went, or whether it did not go anywhere. The drone buried the M.A.T-R as a sign of respect and honor. And soon it was on its way to Nebula Orion, 534 million light years away.
*Note: The story above is fully fiction and is from the author's own idea, except the story about the drone was taken from a book.
Regards, the Author
+ All Rights Reserved.® Copyright© [bwyc©2009] +
.bmp)
