Chapter 53

After Beck and White had wrapped up their little conversation a creak came from the door. Call and Trinity moved out of the its way to let it open and Sanda came in. He had a smile on face as he entered and looked around at everyone.

"What's going on in here? Are you all having a party without me?"

White just let out an airy breath at him with a small smile on his face.

"Please if anyone around here was to ever throw a party it'd be you."

"Haha, you'd be right."

"Anyway, I've come to talk to you about the city's construction."

"The plans for the city have been coming along well and things are underway."

"Good to hear, but I was hoping get some more details on it."

"I'll send you copies of the construction documents and some plan changes that I think will help us save time."

"I'd appreciate that, tell me if you any help okay."

"Will, do. How's the robot reform coming?"

Beck cut into the conversation with a look of confusion on his face.

"Robot Reform? What's that?"

"Well, why you all have been working on the city's repairs I've been busy with the PRSI."

"What've been going on with them?"

"Since the…"

White seemed to take a minute to figure out what to call it.

"incident was caused by my creations. Along with the city work, I've been assigned to part of their volunteer researchers group."

"Like doing community service?"

"In a way yes."

"I'll be helping them out for a while, and together hopefully we can make new discoveries and advancements. One of the projects we're working on is called the Robot Reform. Where we're trying to find a way to prevent anything like the virus, we experienced, from ever spreading again. And if it somehow does, to find a quicker way to neutralize it."

Beck let out a little "oh" and Trinity let a few beeps at it. Call didn't say anything and only pulled up a holoscreen to start sending copies of the documents to White's email. Sanda and him started another conversation as Call wrapped her little mini job. She could hear a commotion happening outside the room. Many voices echoed down the halls and heavy metal steps came with it. To which Beck and Trinity perked up at. Beck walked over and tapped Call on the shoulder, motioning to her to follow him. He then did the same thing to Trinity, and they all quietly left the room.

They headed down the hall towards the noise, and it became clearer and louder. The words we more understandable, and when they opened the door to the big meeting room they were greeted by all the Mighty Numbers.

"Hi ya Beckers! Howdy to you too Call and Trinity."

Avi loudly yelled, and drew the rest of the Numbers attention to them.

"Hey, what have you guys been doing?"

"We've been very buzzzzzy."

"With what?"

Number One replied this time.

"We've all been out trying to gain back the people's trust, and I do believe it's working."

"That's great!"

Beck gave them a big thumbs up and a big smile. Shade leaned against the wall and said,

"It's slowly happening, but it's happening at least."

Number 5 butted in as well as he waved around his cannon while talking.

"Just wait till the colosseum is rebuilt, then we'll regain it for sure."

Number 4 let out a hearty laugh and yelled,

"We'll give um such I show; their jaws will touch the ground."

"You guys need to calm down and take a chill pill."

Number 2 said as she created an ice column and sat on it. While those three started to bicker, 8 chuckled a little at them and looked at Beck.

"You going to join us little doggy?"

"You know it! It'll be nice to fight, without us trying to kill each other."

Number 3 floated over to Trinity and Call, and buzzed around them.

"So, Trinity will you be joining uzzzz azzzz well?"

She shook her head no.

"What will you do then?"

She rubbed her chin for a minute thinking before snapping her fingers. She looked around the office before grabbing a brochure and pointing to the patch bot on the front of it.

"I zee, are you going to help the Professor like the patch botz do?

She shook her head no and pointed at Call.

"Oh, you're going to be an assistant like Call."

She nodded her head yes and let out a happy beep. Call looked at Trinity's happy expression.

"If you ever have any questions or need help, then feel free to ask me."

Trinity eyes, somehow, filled with even more happiness. She clapped excitedly. Before giving Call a hug. That she returned, but not as hard as Trinity was squeezing her. The Numbers continued to talk about what they did, before getting into an argument about who fought Beck the best. Leading to the little boy robot stuttering and trying not to answer the question. He had tried to get Call to help him out of the situation, but she only shrugged at him.

Eventually Call snuck away from everyone and finally realized how late it had gotten. It only seemed like half an hour ago they had been at the park, but now it was dark from the sky turning blue. She didn't pay it much attention though and just went back to Sanda's office. She knocked a few times and heard him say come in. Sanda stood alone in the office in front of the windows. She shut the door behind her and quietly walked to stand beside him.

"Beautiful isn't it?"

The sun was setting creating a mix between the hot and cold colors. The sun's red, orange, and yellows slowly were folding into the blue. Together they became light pinks and purples that diminished into the dark navy color. All the while, the city was becoming a blueish black silhouette to it. A few small yellow dots of light coming from windows, were the only things to show that they were still buildings and not just some stiff mountains.

"It's really coming along well."

Call looked over at what used to be the dark section of the city, some lights were on and others were turning, meaning that electricity had reached it finally. The buildings that before had seemed to be ready to collapse, now stood tall and strong.

"Hopefully soon, we'll finish with that area of the city and move into our own. Not that I hate our little box kingdom, but I'd like to have to worry about the roof."

She nodded yes at him understandingly. For their building still hadn't been repaired, the ceiling was leaking in a few places and all the boxes they used to sit on where still lying around. After beating Trinity, everyone was in too good of a mood to clean up and that had turned into procrastination.

"Still, it's nice to see the fruits of our labor showing…. Which reminds me, thank you Call."

She tilted her head at him puzzled, to which he gave her a smile.

"Thank you for helping me."

"It was no problem, after all I was built to assist you."

"Yes, that's part of the reason."

She kept her gaze on him as the sun fully set, and the only thing that lit up the room was a desk lamp.

"May I ask you a Question?"

"Go on."

"Question: Besides assisting you, why was I built?"

He looked surprised at her question.

"Why you were built?"

"Yes, however if you wish not to tell me than I understand."

"No, I just…. I guess I never really told the other reason now did I?"

"No."

"I've known White for a long time, and together we helped each other grow. From our personality to our actual work skills. Our tastes and ideas about machine were close to each other's, so it only seemed natural that we worked together when we got older. We wanted to make something that no one had ever made before. To create robots that would change the world; however, the problem was about what that robot should be. While White drove to create one that could grow on its own, I didn't want that. I wanted to make one that grew but it would grow alongside people. So, when White dove right into making his machines, I took my time. I studied people and emotions to create a program that could identify feelings. Ways that people grew and their reactions, it did earn me a minor psychology degree. Year later, after the first Trinity and Ray incident, we studied what went wrong. He seemed to only focus on the program, but I looked at the way the robots responded. Which eventually led me to create a special robot. One that would assist people, and learn how to read emotions. Learn how to react and respond just by spending time with others. One that grow with them, benefiting both sides. Allowing them to finish work, and be happy with each other."

He smiled fondly at Call and gently ruffled her hair while saying,

"I think you can guess who that special little thing was."

"I can connect the dots."

He lightly chuckled at her and ruffled her hair a bit more playfully. He moved towards the door and she followed him.

"Come on Call, let's go home."

They headed down to the parking lot and got in the car. Neither one saying anything for they didn't have to. They took off for home cutting through the city. A city that was now fully lit and seemed to be spreading its lights into the sky. The fully man-made structures' blinding lights under the sky with its bright stars. An electronic city and a natural sky.

The End

Author's Note- Wow, it's over. This has been a great year and I can't thank you enough for your support. I really didn't think that this would go on for, well a year. It originally was just going to be around 10 chapters and honestly, it wasn't looking too well. But here we are on Chapter 53, on the verge of 2018. So, thank you. If there's any specific requests, perhaps there can be a little spin off, just made up of one shots. But for now, it'll rest. Thanks for staying with me through my first fanfic and thanks for reading.