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THE BUNNY

Summary: Little Cyclonus Soldiery receives a special present from Commander Adams...

July 5th, 1994

Part 1

The weather was way too hot. Temperature was above twenty-eight degrees Celsius and the air was terribly sultry. It was almost impossible doing even a single step without feeling fainty, with that stifling heat. Though, life in the newborn Robocity was hectic, restless even under so impossible thermal conditions.

Five months had passed since the city was built and inaugurated. Under some aspects, it couldn't be called a "city" yet, as it was formed by a single inhabitated building only, but it wasn't simple outskirts either. Even though it was so young, still a 'newborn', it looked like one of the world already.

The few citizens of Robocity, all Experimental robots who'd had some troubles during their artificial life and then found refuge in the newborn city of the machines, were lately focusing their attentions on four robots who had joined their community just a while before.

These ones were very particular robots, and pretty different from them. They'd not been built to help humankind in its duties, but to fight, destroy their own creators's world. They were Military robots.

Their different way to see the world was fascinating and, at the same time, scary for the Robocitans. Though, they seemed to be quite comfortable with the new-comers, so much that it was like they'd known them for years. This because they knew the differences would have been assuaged with time. They ought to give the Military robots the chance to 'absorb' the new lifestyle, so different from the one they were used to.

Out of the four robots, the majority of the Robocitans' attention was focusing on a little family of two robots, Destroyer and Cyclonus. The latter was only three years old, though he was already tried by the heavy sacrifices I.A.R. requested him.

The older one, Destroyer, was sixteen years old. He hadn't a nice personality. Most of them times, he was dictatorial and rough, almost hysterical; he was pretty unstable under many aspects and, although he loved his little brother, he didn't know how to take care of him at all without becoming violent. So much that the little robot was often taken care by other Robocitans, like Ladyjet or Aquila.

One morning, going down to the Meeting Room to have breakfast together with his brother, little Cyclonus' attention was caught by the images of a TV show, a documentary.

The TV of the Meeting Room was surrounded by the few children inhabiting Robocity, who were now thinking of everything but filling their stomachs. They were all concentrated on the speaker's words, and Cyclonus decided to join them and sit on the floor, next to them.

The speaker was explaining in a way that was too hard to understand for a little child like Cyclonus, but the images could speak by themselves. The faces of the little furry animals taken by the camera were saying much more than a wordy lesson to the little robot.

In the meanwhile, Destroyer had started a conversation with Speeder, a young red armored Experimental robot who could transform into a racing car. But seeing his brother so stiff as a rake, there in front of the TV, made his terribly angry. He approached the child on big steps and forced him to stand up by grabbing his arm and lifting him up.

"Go to eat, immediately!" he ordered harshly, with a violent pull, pointing at the laid table around which the older Robocitans were busy, eating and chatting.

"But I want to watch the TV!" Cyclonus complained, trying to free himself from his brother's grip and seeking for a tacit help from the other children, who were way too frightened by Destroyer to even move or talk.

"I said NO!" This time, Destroyer was even more brusque, and dragged him to the table, indifferent of Cyclonus' tears and attemps to resist him, and of his cry: "I don't want to! I don't want to!"

Commander Adams, who was already sit and eating, stood up when he saw that scene, and approached Destroyer.

"There's no need for him to come immediately," he said calmly, placing a hand on Destroyer's shoulder, "He can watch the TV with the other children, and he could even eat there with them if he wants..."

"He must obey to me!" Destroyer yelled, furious, underlining his authority by throwing a punch on his own chest, "He won't watch the TV until he'd done with his breakfast!"

Commander stared at Destroyer's eyes, as to show him his determination to not give in to his hysterical behaviour.

"Destroyer," he said, calmly but firmly, "this is not the I.A.R. Here everyone lives in peace and freedom, and respects each other's will. Even if Cyclonus is just a little child, that is not a justification to such an authoritary behaviour like yours, especially in a situation like this. You can't force a person to eat on command!"

Destroyer was going to reply to that, but he didn't manage. He was feeling uneasy in front of such a strong firmness and coerence, and not because he wasn't able to reply, but because someways those words had made him realize he got upset for a trifle. Other than that, Commander was right: that wasn't I.A.R. There were no ranks there, no strict rules for meal times and personal affairs. There were freedom and will to take autonomous decisions, within the limits of respect of course.

He let go of his brother's arm, and the little boy just escaped, going to sit down in front of the TV with the other kids.

Thus, while Destroyer, Commander and the older Robocitans had their breakfast and chatted of their own affairs, Cyclonus was curiously listening to the speaker's voice who was depicting the little animals' lifestyle, and randomly to the other little robots' comments.

The speaker was explaining in scientific and technical tems, too difficult for his three years old mind to understand. But he actually managed to get some informations: the little furry animals were called "rabbits" or "bunnies".

When the documentary was at its end, the Robocitans were already done with their breakfast. The only full cups still on the table, together with any kind of biscuits, were the kids' ones.

Destroyer was visibly furious. Okay, he'd given Cyclonus a chance to watch that damn TV program, but a good half an hour was already passed and he would not let him cut a bad figure in front of all those punctual Robocitans... excepting the kids, of course, who weren't showing a better behaviour than his brother's!

As he was getting up to go and force Cyclonus to sit at the table and eat, a hand on his arm blocked him. It was Commander.

"I will tell him... Better using a bit of tact with children."

Destroyer agreed with a grunt, but he still followed him, keeping a certain distance from the other robot.

Commander spoke to all the present kids, who surely weren't giving a good example to their little fellow. "Come eat your breakfast, kids!" he spurred them on, "Your cups of milk got cold already... If you don't rush to drink it, it won't taste so good anymore!"

The older children instantly obeyed, running to the dinner table, while the smaller ones couldn't help but puffing a little before going. Cyclonus was the last one to get up, just after Commander switched off the TV.

Destroyer waited for Commander and all the kids to be sit at the table to scold his brother. He thought it was a good moment to teach him some discipline and not to take advantage of others' goodness, but the little one's request just gaped him.

"Destroyer! Destroyer! You'll buy me one, right?"

Destroyer rolled his optics, surprised; and Commander, who was helping the other kids, was astonished as well.

"Wha... what?!" the military robot mumbled, his look darkening.

Commander left the other little robots and reached the two brothers. He spoke to Cyclonus. "You... would like to have a bunny as a pet, Cyclonus?"

"Yes! Yes!" the kid exclaimed, moving the little arms and jumping on the tip on his feet, "I wanna a cute soft lil' bunny!"

Destroyer brought a hand on his face, in a very discomforted gesture. "Hear what I have to listen at..." he said, with a sigh. Then, speaking to his brother again, he added in a progressively harsher tone of voice: "Don't think I will waste the little money I got to buy you a stupid pet! You know how much I hate animals!"

Cyclonus looked at him for a moment, arching his lips as if he was about to cry; then he joined his little hands and brought them under his chin, moving them up and down.

"Please, Destroy! Be good..."

"I said NO!"

Cyclonus kept begging until Destroyer became furious and slapped him, making him loose balance and fall. Commander didn't make it in time to take him that the kid was already on the floor and in tears.

"Did you get nuts?!" the Experimental Robot yelled, turning to Destroyer, "You didn't need to hit him!"

"I won't let him lacking the respect he owes to me!"

"There are other ways to say no to a child, without using violence!"

Destroyer didn't reply at all, but he walked on heavy steps to the main door and left the room.

Commander shook his head, filled with indignation and exausted at the same time. He turned his attention to Cyclonus.

"Don't worry, Cyclonus... Nothing really happened..."

"Destroy's bad!" the child screamed, sobbing, "He doesn't love me!"

Commander picked him up and stood up, holding him in his arms. "Come on, don't say that..." he told him, "Just because he said 'no' it doesn't mean he doesn't love you..."

The little robot shook his head, slowly, the chubby face still sulky. It was clear, Commander thought, that he felt just too bad about it to be able to 'archive' that episode as 'past', for now.

With Cyclonus still in his arms, Commander went to sit on the sofa of the Meeting Room. He put the child on his lap and looked directly in his eyes, smiling behind the face mask.

"I want to tell you a secret," he said, lowering his voice and winking to him.

Cyclonus, wiping his wet cheeks with the top on his hand, said: "What secret?"

The Experimental Robot's face came closer to the little one's acusting sensor and said, almost in a mumble: "I love bunnies too."

Little Cyclonus sad lips immediately stretched themselves into a lange happy smile. "Really?!"

Commander nodded. "Yeah, really. And then, you know... the first time I saw you I though: 'Toh! This little robot just looks like a bunny!'. Thus, I always believed the right pet for you would be a bunny!"

Cyclonus laughed like he never did before, just so happy for that compliment. The sadness he felt a little before seemed to be vanished, as if it never darkened his little face, and this made Commander sigh in relief. He understood, indeed, how a kid of his age would feel when being scolded and beaten for such things, that for the little ones are almost 'vital'. Other then that, Cyclonus had just expressed a wish, a dream. He could understand him because he too, when he was a kid, had felt the same way when someone 'killed' his dreams... the only difference was the his 'killer' wasn't his natural brother like it was for Cyclonus, nor his father... it was his creator's son...

Just a few Robocitans were still in the room. The adults and the teenagers were all gone already, and the children only were still at the table having breakfast, with two adults helping the younger between them. These two Robocitans approached Commander and Cyclonus, and sit next to them on the little sofa, one on the left and one on the right. They told Commander that they got scared at seeing Destroyer's exaggerate reaction to the happening, and they wanted to be reassured on the little one's wellbeing. Cyclonus smiled at them and told them he was fine. Thanks to Commander...

They chatted for some time, then Ladyjet and Speeder went back to help the few remaining kids. The elder had finished already and were gone by now.

"The only ones who still have to have breakfast are you and I..." Commander said, with a sigh, "Let's go to eat."

Cyclonus' reaction was sudden and suprised Commander not little.

"Can I stay with you today?" he asked, hugging Commander's head as tight as he could. His voice revealed some kind of fear, and evidently he was considering the idea of going back to his quarters with his brother a totally bad one.

Commander was still stunned by the child's sudden hug, and almost blocked by its tightness, but he still managed to say: "Of course you can!"

Cyclonus let him go immediately and, taking out the widest smile he could ever make, he replaced the hug with a loud kiss on the teenager's cheek.

"Thanks! Thanks! Thanks!" he screamed, all excited, jumping on Commander's lap.

Commander smiled. He then put the child down, stood up and led the Cyclonus to the dinner table. With Cyclonus' little hand in his.

* * *

They spent the whole afternoon together. At lunch time they'd sit one next to another and had an endless chat, under Destroyer's disapproving look; then, they'd gone outside in the courtyard to play soccer, and at about 2 pm they'd come back to Commander's apartment to read books together. Or more precisely, it was Commander the one to read aloud for little Cyclonus.

At 3:30 pm the little robot had gone back to his quarters with Destroyer. He told Commander that it was better forgetting about the bunny for now, that he didn't want to make his brother angry and that he'd buy one when he would turn "as old as Commander is". Commander silently blessed the little robot's good heart and realized he wasn't the naughty little boy Destroyer told him he was.

After Cyclonus had left his apartment, Commander found himself alone. He literally throwed himself on his bed, making the mattress move for an indefinite time. The silence of his room, now that the little Military Robot had left, seemed particularly heavy to stand. He thought of how lucky Destroyer was by having such a little treasure at home, and of how stupid he was not to enjoy it... He wanted a family more than anything else... even just a brother or a sister... And thinking that once he used to have a whole family...

He turned on a side, sinking his head into the pillow. Too much time had passed since he got some news of his father, his mother, his brother Police... If only he had a chance, he would have looked for them one by one... until he'd find again what once had been his own little nest.

* * *

On that morning, Commander did nothing but thinking, turn around his room and write down a long list of anything he needed. Or better, what his apartment needed.

The local he was living in was a real hovel. Small, cold, without a bathroom or a cooking corner, only essential furniture. Commander didn't like it at all, and Cyclonus himself, for how little he was, defined it an 'I.A.R. solitary confinement' the day before.

Sure, it was always better than living in the street or in a trash tip, and of course the first time he was assigned to it, a few months before, it had seemed a true paradise to him. Looking at it now, though, he thought it just really needed some... adjustements.

He reached for the first drawer of his bedside table, opened it and took out a plastic red wallet. Then, with a certain dose of skepticism, he counted the banknotes inside it.

He could let out a sigh of relief. He had three-hundred thousands Lire, and they were more than enough for his purposes. Though, he had to keep in mind that those were the money that the government gives to Robocity every six months, and that let him have about three-hundred-fifty thousands Lire every thirty days, and those had to be sufficient to let him live during the time. Thus, he told himself, he'd be better being thrifty and not spend more the two thirds of it.

Choice made, he didn't think it over twice. He took his wallet, the shopping list, his bumbag and left, caring to warn Firebot and Speeder that he'd stayed away for some time.
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Part 2

July 6th, 1994

The day was even more schorching than the previous one. A very hot July 6th!, he thought, ironically and tragically at the same time. He was lucky not to be a human, since he would have fainted already from so much sweating. Nevertheless his cooling system was being tried a lot, and he really felt unstable every now and then.

He walked down the pavement on slow steps, until the Dante Alighieri square, and from there he reached the small supermarket called VIS 2. He bought a few accessories for the house, a couple of soaps and a plastic folding chair.

Laden with these few but cumbersome purchases, he thought the wisest choice was to transform into MacroForm vehicle mode, or he wouldn't have been able to take everything home on the way back.

He put everything on his 'back' and headed to the second leg of his shopping day: the Centimetro store. There, he managed to find everything he needed: cheap painting replicas to hang on the wall, blankets and sheets, pillows, plastic and wood cupboards. He loaded all the new burden on his trailer-less 'back' again (alas! he'd left the trailer in Robocity) in vehicle mode and went back to the centre of the town.

Another must-buy item figured on his shopping list: a present for the girl who'd caught his heart. Electra. She owned two little red fish as pets, so he had thought to buy her some fish food. Knowing how affectionate she was to those little animals, he was sure she would have appreciated the gift.

With all his burden, he ran to the best animal shop in town: "Piccoli Grandi Amici", which means "Little Great Friends" in Italian. Once returned in MicroForm robot mode, he gently asked an old man, who was sitting on a bench near to the shop entrance, to watch over his shopping bags, and then he entered the busy place.

Looking around to see if he could spot the shelf with the animal food, arduous venture seen the heap of people in that little space, he noticed something that struck him deeply, something that reminded him of the little robot he sided with the previous morning at breakfast.

In a cage, just next to the entrance, there were small bunnies with a fur color scheme varying from gray, white and black. He was enchanted by them, especially since they looked such affable little creatures, with children in particular. His thoughts focused on how happy Cyclonus would have been if he had one...

He approached the cage and knelt down to take a better look to them, and he noticed they weren't so expensive: the label hanged on the cage said they were discounted, for three-thousand Lire each.

Commander decided to buy one for Cyclonus. He knew that it would probably be a kinda rash move, especially after what had happened the day before, but he really couldn't help but thinking of how happy that little robot would have been, seeing his dream come true. After all the ones he had to give in when he was still a I.A.R. apprentice...

At last, he found himself coming out of the shop holding not only the box of fish food, but even a little gray bunny, in a plastic box with holes. No matter the consequences, he was well happy with his decision. Even if Destroyer was going to have something to say...

He just pictured the little Military robot's face enlightening with joy, and all his remaining doubts dissolved as in a cloud of smoke.

* * *

"Are you sure it was a good idea?" Electra had been looking at him with optics full of disappointment and, almost tired of staying stood while holding that conversation, she crossed her arms and rested them on the edge of the table of her little living-room.

Commander didn't answer immediately, but he stopped a little to observe the acrobatic movements the red fish were doing in the aquarium. They looked like fighting, pushing on each other to get the food that was floating on the surface of the water. All the movement in that little container seemed to even shake the chest of drawers on which it was placed.

"If you had so ardently wished to have these little fish, and your brother said no and beat you," he said, "don't you think you would feel happy if someone bought them for you as a suprise?"

Electra snorted, moving from the border of the table to the chair next to her. Her movements were brusque, and she seemed almost looking for a pose that would make her more serene and relaxed. She rested her elbows on the table, giving her back to Commander, and snorted a second time.

"Of course I'd feel happy!" she said, even more sourly, "But I wasn't speaking about the child. I meant his brother."

Commander turned to look at her. "What do you mean?"

Electra shifted position once again, this time giving her interlocutor her side profile, so that she could turn her head and look directly into his optics. "If Destroyer didn't agree before, he won't even agree now! What gives you the reassurance that he won't kick you out of his apartment, or beat Cyclonus again, or that he won't fry the rabbit in a pan not to have it around?"

Listening to those words, Commander sighed and slightly shook his head. "It's important to try, Electra... I'd love to see that child happy, for once in his life..."

He stopped, because his mind had started thinking of what kind of life little Cyclonus had lived at I.A.R... And that Destroyer knew in a more definite way... But Electra distracted him from his thoughts.

"I don't understand why you do care so much about those Military robots..." she said, disdained, "After all, the first time they came here was to kill all of us! How can you trust them?"

Commander was starting to have enough of that behaviour now. He made a big effort to stay calm, but he was still determined to let her know who he was siding with.

"These words sound so strange coming from your mouth, Electra. They are words of discrimination and arrogance. Just give me a reason of your being so prejudiced!"

Electra snorted once more. "They are criminals!" she said, trying to remain calm as well, but not succeeding in hiding her scorn, "You may think whatever you want, but I don't trust them! And I don't think I'll ever!"

Commander didn't think twice. He picked the box containing the bunny up and walked to the door. The disappointment he was feeling was too bitter to let him stay in that room a second more. "See you soon, Electra," he said, with a shade of resentment in his voice.

"Bye," she replied, not even turning to look at him.

He left, and when the door closed behind him, he could finally let his tears out, tears that were going to knock his optics down.

"Stupid!"

* * *

He was laying on his bed, reading a book. More, a book of adventures for kids, absolutely not interesting... boring. Pfuì! What a life! He liked almost nearly the I.A.R. life more.

He threw his book away in an furious gesture, without looking at where the object would end up falling. It didn't hit Cyclonus' head for a very close narrow shave, but it crashed against his toy box.

The little robot was sitting on the floor, on a little creased carpet, playing with a few Playschool construction pieces. He didn't own other toys but those, and he could surely call himself lucky, since he owned them only thanks to the generousity of a few Robocitans.

Cyclonus jolted when the book hit his toy box, upsetting a good amount of his toy pieces and overturning the whole container. Instinctively, he turned to look at Destroyer, to whom he was giving his back.

His brother's optics met his, then he turned to look at the ceiling, laying on his back and hands under his head.

"What the hell are you doing?"

Cyclonus ignored the irritated tone his brother had used with him, but he answered in a neutral tone: "I'm playing."

"It's just a silliness!" Destroyer said, puffing and shifting to his side. This time, he was the one to give his back to his brother. "Military robots don't need to play!"

Cyclonus observed the construction pieces he was holding in his hands, and hesitated a moment before replying. "But now we're no longer Military robots!"

"I agree with you on that point!" Destroyer replied, more bitterly than before, "By now, we're nothing but rusty scraps! Worth throwing away! A soldier who lives in all this looseness isn't worth being called a soldier anymore... It's a shame! Would have been better if they terminated us!"

Cyclonus just couldn't understand his brother's words. Sure, he had realized very well that Destroyer wasn't all that thrilled of being no longer a Military robot, but he couldn't understand his reasons. For what he thought about the whole matter, living in Robocity was much better, because it was a nice and quiet place where people weren't yelling all day, nobody told him to shut up if you felt like crying or complaining, nobody was repeating over and over "You're a soldier!", nobody sent robots out and they didn't come back anymore. In Robocity, nobody lived in a constant fear. In Robocity nobody died.

He had no doubts about it. He liked Robocity more than anything. And there were so many people who loved and cared for him.

He focused on his construction pieces again, thoughtful and a little upset, but after a few minutes her heard a firm knock on the main door, which was only a room's door and a few meters of the living room distant from him.

"Are you deaf or what?" Destroyer yelled, without moving from his comfy position, "Don't you hear the knocking? Go and see who's bugging!"

"Okay," Cyclonus said in a soft mumble, jumping on his feet and rushing to the small living room.

He need some time and effort to turn the handle, because he was small and didn't even reach half of the door, but he did it at last. And the figure that appeared in front of his optics immediately changed his expression from vexed to bright and smiling.

"Commander!" he squealed happily, hugging one of his legs. Commander greeted him and softly patted his head, and afterwards he found himself forced to come into the room, dragged by the arm by a little enthusiastic Cyclonus.

However, before the door was fully closed again, the imposing figure of Destroyer had appeared in front of them already.

"What do you want?" he asked his guest, using no good manners at all. His facial expression reminded of someone who's had the house robbed.

Commander cleared his throat before answering: "I've come to give Cyclonus a present."

Hearing his name being mentioned, the little robot approached him more and began jumping happily. "A present?! For me?! What's that? What's that?"

He was almost irrepressible, joy spirting from his whole body. Cyclonus enthusiastically took the box in his arms and ran to his playing corner to open it in private. As for Destroyer, he was visibly frowing now.

"What's this story?" he asked, irritated, to Commander, even though he was looking directly at him, but kept the look between him and Cyclonus.

Commander answered with the same calm he used to face Electra a few hours earlier. "There's no story, Destroyer. I simply wanted to buy a present for your brother."

"Yes, but... what kind of present?" the Military robot asked, grim, observing his little brother while he tried to open the pierced box, "That doesn't look like a normal decorated box!"

Commander didn't answer, but he crossed his arms on his chest instead, and observed Cyclonus as well, as if he was waiting for something.

The little robot had finally found the hooks to open the box, and he was now opening them one by one. When he was done, the frontal part of the box opened like a little door and Cyclonus bursted into a surprised but yet soft "WOW!". He introduced his hands into the box and immediately took them out, holding a soft and fluffy small bunny, whom the robot instinctively hugging close in his arms, while two small tears of joy sparkled on the edge of his optics.

"Oh, Commander..." he said, moved, adding no more words to that.

"A... a rabbit?!" Destroyer screamed out of fury, "You dared buying a rabbit for him? And without asking for my permission first?"

Commander was keeping himself calm and observing little Cyclonus with a warm smile enlightening his face, and absolutely not upset by Destroyer's reaction, which he just expected, to say the truth.

"I surely didn't need your permission," he said, without moving his optics from Cyclonus, "I wanted to see your brother happy, and I was well aware that you wouldn't have liked it."

Destroyer grumbled and stamped. "You Experimental robots are just so used to do whatever crosses your mind, don't you? Do you ever care about others' willing?!"

That robot had never mentioned "others' willing" before, and the expression he added to it made it sound just so paradoxal to Commander's audio sensors.

"You speak of others' willing, Destroyer? You're evidently forgetting that you've been the first not to respect it, denying Cyclonus a little harmless animal as a pet, not hard to manage at all and a so important aid for a child like him, who's been tried all his life!"

Destroyer was speechless. Once again, speechless. And once again, Commander had succeeded in managing his military side with his reasoning and his kind authority. It was obvious that the thing wasn't in his likings at all, but he was now realizing that he was the looser in that new world he was living in. All of this caused him a deep internal instability, and a big headache, but he knew he couldn't avoid it, because that was the reality. His new reality.

Cyclonus repeatedly kissed the face of the little bunny, whom had nothing in contrary with all those cuddles. Then the animal found itself resting into the box again, while his new owner ran to Commander and jumped in his arms, covering his cheek with kisses and wrapping his arms around his neck so tightly that the Experimental robot almost choke for a moment.

"I love ya, Commander!" Cyclonus squealed, his little body shaking for the incontenible joy.

"I'm happy to see that you like him," Commander said, hugging him warmly, "I hope you two will become good friends!"

Destroyer, who had remained still and silence beside them, walked away all in a sudden, on soft steps, and reached the little animal, who was now peeping in from the box and had found itself lost in the pile of construction pieces.

The Military robot knelt down and cautiously picked it up, caressing it lightly with two fingers.

Commander didn't notice him immediately, but when he did, his optics brightened in satisfaction. Then Cyclonus turned to look at his brother too.

"Destroy likes it too!" he whispered into Commander's audio sensor, giggling softly. Commander gave a firm nod and winked to the child in
complicity.

"What name will you name him?" Destroyer asked Cyclonus, all serious, placing the bunny back into the box, "We can't leave him like this, nameless."

"Mmmh..." Cyclonus said, bringing his index finger to his bottom lip, getting thoughtful, "I... think that... I will call him Rega!"

Both Commander and Destroyer looked at the little robot in amazement. "Rega?!"

Cyclonus laughed and explained: "Yes! 'Rega' comes from 'regalo', the Italian word for 'present', right? Since it's a present from Commander, I thought it was nice to call him like that!"

Commander burst into a laugh. A very moved laugh though. "Thank you, Cyclonus. Let's call him 'Rega' then."

Destroyer didn't agree at all, but he didn't say a word. He limited himself to a slow shake of his head, watching the little animal that, again, was out of the box by his own willing and was happily smelling the construction blocks scattered on the floor.

* * *

That one had been a very particular day in his life. Somehow, he felt to have gotten on those two Military robots, and confirmed his ideas on the fact that robots of such kind weren't evil by nature, at all, but it depended on the environment they had been built and rised into. He was sure about it, and now he had had the confirmation he needed.

Confirmation that had been given by a very particular fact anyways, one that could nearly be defined... incredible. Destroyer said thank you! Yes, he'd said it quickly, just a moment before he left, but he said it. And it was the first time ever...

Commander stirred on a side and glanced at the alarm-clock on his bedside table. It was 11:45 PM. Time had really flown... He settled his pillow and threw himself on it with all his tiredness. Then he closed his optics.

Though, a last thought crossed his mind before he could really fall asleep. The thought that, somehow, the soul of those Military robots was... 'demilitarizing'. The friendly atmosphere of Robocity was 'healing' them, healing the wounds that hate and violence had caused to their souls.

Who knows... maybe, in some time, they would have become his best friends.
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