Alien Omega (Omega Series Book 2) by Marc Landau

Author:Marc Landau [Landau, Marc]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-10-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

The bot’s eye slits started blinking more rapidly than a hummingbird who’d just found a flower overflowing with nectar. All of its lights and appendages flickered and flopped. Soon it looked like it was having a convulsion. The entire bot started shaking, rocking and rolling like Elvis on twenty cups of espresso.

It was a sight to see. I wished I could’ve recorded it and shown the bot later how goofy it looked. Even Poka just stood there wide-eyed, watching in amazement.

Then it suddenly stopped. All of its lights went out. And everything was dead quiet again.

Shat. It didn’t work.

Poka slowly moved closer, the way she did when she saw something new and different that fraked her out. She did what I called her scaredy-cat investigation. She had that “What the hellvian is it?” look on her face. She’d take a cautious step closer, stick her schnoz out to sniff it, but was always ready to jump backwards in case anything happened.

When cats do that, if you make any sudden moves they jump straight up a hundred feet in the air. It’s impressive. They don’t even bend their knees. They shoot straight up like a rocket. Dogs either bark or run for the hills.

Poka got close. Real close. She gave the bot a big dog sniff right on its face appendage. It was enough to tell her the bot was not threatening. Once she realized that, she gave the walrus a big ol’ Poka kiss right on its mouth hole.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

The bot wiped its mouth. “Biohazard detected.”

Ha. That was the second time in a day the walrus was wiping saliva from its face. Poor walrus. It was probably dying to take an hour-long ion bath and clean the bio-material off its pristine mechanical elements. There was not much that the bot hated more than biological substances. It was repulsed by them. It was a mech-snob.

“Humans have too many fluids, mucous, and overall wetness.”

We were too wet and it hated wet. I get it. We are pretty disgusting. I can admit it.

I didn’t care. I was so excited to see the dang bot again, I jumped right in with Poka and kissed the thing on its mouth hole. I’d totally forgotten that the reset might not have worked and the bot might wake up and try to zap us again. Now I was sure it would zap me either way. I deserved a zap for kissing the thing.

But it didn’t power up its orange hand. It was too busy wiping our saliva from its face.

“Why are you attacking me with saliva?”

“We’re just happy to see you.”

“I did not go anywhere.”

“Oh, boy, you certainly did.”

“Where did I go? I have no recollection.”

Shat! Was this a total memory wipe? I couldn’t bear the thought of having to reinstall its systems and update its data. There just wasn’t enough time for that. Then it struck me that it knew me so at least it wasn’t a total wipe.

“The dog’s saliva has E. coli

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