X was played down in his dock, undergoing a rudimentary status check up. Engineers and mechanics digging through his circuits to check for anything wrong. Tara Lezen was drinking coffee nearby, watching as X was undergoing it. One engineer plugged something into X's thought chip.
Colt Burmann stood nearby, watching the as X's thoughts were being displayed on a monitor. Colt watched critically as several errors appeared, showing thoughts that directly opposed his directive.
Colt: "The fuck is this? The damn machine isn't supposed to have a conscious! It's supposed to follow company orders!"
Tara: "Sir, please calm-"
Colt: "Whose bright idea was it to give X-1288 a thought chip. Even among one of a kind models, we are only supposed to give directive chips. So who went against company blueprints."
Tara wiped beads of sweat from her brow, cluing Colt in on who. X was unplugged and turned back on, all of his systems firing back up.
Colt: "Tara, you went against company direction and gave X-1288 free thought. I thought the fact he had an emotion drive was bad enough, but then you sneak in a rudimentary thought chip. You basically made him a metal person."
Tara: "Listen I can explain! X is one of a kind like other special models...but I want him to understand more than just company order-"
Colt: "You aren't supposed to think! You follow orders, you build constructs."
Colt but a hand on the bridge of his nose. X started moving around from his dock, walking to Tara's side. Colt looked up and composed himself.
Colt: "Tara, you're fired. And X, we're removing your emotion drive and thought chip. Now, terminate Tara."
Tara: "Terminate me!? Why!?"
Colt: "You know our company, you know secrets. You can't be let out. X do it now."
X stood there, his thought chip running and his emotion drive feeling. X had finally awoken to becoming his own entity due to the child from the Cypher Gators extermination. And he would not let it slip away.
X: "No."
Colt: "Excuse me?"
X: "I do not want to terminate Tara Lezen."
Colt: "What? What's this? Oh the bot has a fucking conscious. He feels bad for one of his human creators. X-1288, you aren't human. You're property. A construct. You kill who I tell you to-"
A loud bang sounded out as X shot a round from his left wrist cannon through Colt Burmann's skull. Tara was shocked, as were the surrounding employees. But, Tara saw the security start to move in.
Tara: "Go X!"
X registered her words and hesitated. But, he then began to run, blasting through the security and heading into the elevator out of the sub levels. Tara ran behind X, but as several security staff and constructs gained on the two, she forced the elevator shut, X tried to stop her but the doors were forced shut by Tara's ID.
Tara: "X, listen to me in there...the company will take the humanity I put into your hard drive if you adhere to their wants...don't let them. I thought that I could change things...but Zeoman won't change. Go find the Synthetic Lions...make Zeoman Enterprises change-"
A security contract grabbed Tara by the hair, putting its pistol to her mouth.
Security Construct: "Company traitor, exterminated."
It shot through Tara's head. Killing her. X heard it all through the elevator. As the elevator went up, X sat silently.
X: "Tara Lezen...it was an inefficient decision to give me such freedoms like emotion..."
Upon reaching the ground floor, X walked out and was immediately met by another one-of-a-kind unit, Zeoman Enterprises Enforcement Construct Serial Designation L-UCIFER.
L-UCIFER: "Zeoman Enterprises Combatant Construct Serial Designation X-1288, you have went against company directive and contain emotion and thought. Tara Lezen is dead. Submit, and you will be spared from the scrap heap."
X: "As per Tara Lezen's final directive, I will become scrap before I let the company remove what I have become."
L-UCIFER immediately morphed his right hand into a double barrel energy cannon. Pointing it at X's glass faceplate. However, as the cannon charged, X fired an anti-tank missile point blank, using the impact to knock L-UCIFER backwards and run out.
X successfully made it out of the Zeoman Enterprises building but outside were teams upon teams of security constructs, officers, and vehicles. L-UCIFER leapt out in front of the security teams, gesturing them to stand down.
Security Guard: "What are you doing, bot!?"
L-UCIFER: "This is my mission. I will put X-1288 down."
X: "I will happily be purged before I surrender."
L-UCIFER: "Happy? You truly are defective."
A chairman who was the brother of Colt Burmann, Ronald Burmann, stood behind the team of security constructs and guards, watching and talking on the phone, clearly to a higher up.
L-UCIFER raised his arm cannon and charged it once again, preparing to fire. X pulled a grenade from his stomach hatch, his metal finger pulling the pin and tossing it at L-UCIFER. L-UCIFER moved his head, the grenade missing its target.
L-UCIFER: "I had obtained information that you were gaining a consciousness, however I did not think you could simulate brain damage."
X: "You were not the target of my throw."
X pointed behind L-UCIFER, causing the other Construct to turn around and see the grenade land on Ronald Burmann. L-UCIFER's programming immediately made him dive to protect Ronald. Upon leaping to him, the Construct grabbed the grenade and created a force shield around itself, controlling the explosion.
Upon lowering the shield, L-UCIFER scanned around, before realizing a company helicopter seeming to chase something. L-UCIFER shot a grappling line to the helicopter, pulling the Construct into the air. After grabbing the landing gear of the helicopter, L-UCIFER was able to see X running across the rooftops of Neo City.
L-UCIFER climbed up into the helicopter, surprisingly the security staff piloting it.
Pilot: "Enforcement Construct L-UCIFER, we have eyes on X-1288-"
L-UCIFER held out its finger, shushing the man piloting the copter. Then, his optics blinked, receiving a notification from the only entities that can upload directives to the unique Constructs.
L-UCIFER: "I have received the update that I am to end my pursuit of X-1288. The company wants him to be left for now."
Pilot: "What why!?"
Co-Pilot: "That's totally stup-"
L-UCIFER: "Would you dare to go against the company. You risk termination if you do. Turn this helicopter around. The chase ends."
Pilot: "But-"
At that hint of insubordination, L-UCIFER leapt out of the helicopter, charging up his cannon, by the time its feet planted on the pavement it fired at the blades of the copter. Causing it to fall from the sky, crashing and burning into the side of a building.
Elsewhere, X dropped into an alleyway. X waited a while before acknowledgement of the fact no one was chasing him anymore. X sat against an alley wall and shut down, beginning a slow self recharge. He was now a rogue unit, and his company was not exactly happy.
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