A court case?
Why do I have to take part in a court case? I’m a 4-ton Rescue Bot MK3! And how am I supposed to get into a courthouse? At the size of a small compact car, I certainly can’t fit through the door. Maybe the carport has a wide hallway?
My name is Bob, well technically "Search and Rescue Robot MK 3-808". And I have been called as a key witness in a civil suit.
Aside from my concerns about how I’m going to fit into the court room, I also have to deal with lawyers. I HATE lawyers. Especially the lawyers from Dewy, Cheatem, and How. I swear they got body-sculpted to look like sharks. That ain’t natural. I don’t care what their lawyers say.
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Super Soda-Pop was worried. She was nervously sitting in the defendant chair as Captain Handsome's attorney droned on and on about civic responsibility and duty. She sat, her lawyer next to her, and waited.
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I need to give testimony about what happened at E&P on the 21st of last month. Shouldn't be that hard Bob thought to himself. I’m a machine, I can just replay the memory. I just don’t understand why “I” need to do it. There were 6 of us present. Well 404 was there...in theory... so 7 of us?
This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.
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Looking back at it, She (Super Soda-Pop) and Brown Bear were in combat with Monkey Wrench and The Luddite, at the local E&P lock and power dam. It had been a warm, sunny day, with a slight breeze that barely ruffled Brown Bear's fur. The Lock & Dam had just been updated (50 years late) from vacuum-tube to “modern” circuit boards, and The Luddite had taken offense.
In a not-unheard-of twist (it mathematically happens 2.6741 times out of 3 in these situations), Monkey Wrench (an Eco-terrorist and known womanizer) had been staking out the dam as a point of destruction because it marred the “scenic river” and made fish spawning runs almost impossible.
Monkey Wrench had started his attack run with a heavily overladen boat on a collision course towards the dam portion of the Lock and Dam. Meanwhile, unbeknownst to Wrench, The Luddite was walking out onto the dam, after knocking out the security guards with the feedback he caused on their radios.
It was after The Luddite knocked out the power station on the dam that the call went out over the police hardline (after Luddite showed up the first few times in town, the locals insisted on buried land lines aka “Hard-lines” for all of their emergency calls). The police, ESR (Emergency Search and Rescue), fire services, and heroes on call all came as soon as they could.
Super Soda-Pop was the first on the scene, followed by Search and Rescue Robot MK 3-808 (also called Bob) and finally everyone else.
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Bob (sworn in as Search and Rescue Robot MK 3-808) was on the witness stand...well a monitor showing him relaxing in the vehicle bay, anyway.
He played back his recording of the day in question.
