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“Robot, this place Is beautiful,” Penny said. “If you had to leave him somewhere, you found a good place.”
They were gliding over a deep blue ocean. Penny was standing next to the window, watching the surface below. For as far as she could see, there was nothing but water, dotted with beautiful green islands beneath a near cloudless sky. Robot was standing in the center of his ship, gripping the controls. They had left Alpha Centauri four days earlier. Robot had created the rift as soon as they were out of the planet’s atmosphere. When they had come through the rift and this planet was already in view, Penny knew how worried Robot was. They normally had weeks to travel before reaching their destination once the rift was open.
“He’s on one of these islands?” Penny asked.
Robot pointed ahead, where a small island rested between two larger ones that were both several kilometers from it.
Robot guided the ship to the island and hovered above a narrow beach. The jungle beyond was dense, with a rich green canopy. “I just hope you’re okay, little brother,” Penny mumbled to herself as the ship descended toward the white sand.
Once on the surface, Robot powered the ship down and Penny hurried to the hatch. She started to press the control by the door, but Robot said, “No.” She stopped, and he walked in front of her, pressed the control and the hatch opened downward and formed a ramp.
When they stepped out on to the beach, Robot took long strides, walking so fast Penny had to practically run to keep up. She kept looking along the tree line for any signs of her brother. “Will!” she shouted.
Robot spun toward her. “No,” he said.
“Danger?” Penny asked.
When he just looked back at her, she said, “Maybe danger? You’re not sure?”
“Yes.” He turned and kept walking.
It seemed strange to Penny. Normally Robot could sense danger.
“Robot, can you feel him?” Penny asked. But Robot just kept walking ahead.
After a few minutes Penny saw the beach was interrupted by a small body of water that cut in toward the jungle. A ridge of rocks or coral separated it from the sea, though the ridge was barely above the water line. Penny didn’t know if it was high tide or low tide. She assumed the planet had tides like Earth, but regardless, waves splashed over the small ridge, maintaining the water level in the lagoon.
“Wow, Robot, it’s like paradise,” Penny said, as they walked up beside the aqua green pool. She turned to him. “Is Will close?”
Robot pointed across the lagoon into the trees on the other side. A little way back she saw it. “A lean-to!” It looked just like the ones their father had taught them to make so many years ago, when they would go camping in the back country.
“Let’s go!” She said.
But Robot kept pointing and made no attempt to walk forward.
“What? Now you want me to go on by myself?”
“Yes.”
“What’s wrong, Robot?” But she decided she knew what the problem was. He could not sense Will, and he was afraid of what they were going to find.
“Oh shit,” she said, looking back across the lagoon. The last thing she wanted was to find her brother’s corpse inside the lean-to. The heat and the jungle and whatever wildlife and insects that lived here could have been at it for days. Weeks, if he had died long before she had the feeling that something had happened to him. But she had no choice.
“Okay,” she said. “I’ll go on myself.”
She began walking around the lagoon toward the jungle. When she was at the camp, she saw there was a fire ring, with the glass from the face of Will’s radio lying on a stone beside it.
She sniffed the air and was grateful she picked up nothing but the sweet smell of jungle flowers that grew along the edge of the water on this side of the lagoon. She walked over to the lean-to and dropped to her knees. There was a grass woven flap covering it. She threw it up and her brother was lying there, nothing on but a pair of badly cut shorts. He was tan and his hair was long, and he was sweaty. But he was breathing.
“Will! Will are you okay?” She touched his arm gently. Shook it. “Will?”
Something crawled across his body from the other side. She screamed and fell back on her butt and the lean-to flap closed. As it began to lift, she crab crawled backward, trying to get away from whatever the thing was. But once on the outside, it just stopped, rose up on its back legs and sniffed the air toward her.
It was an animal, maybe the size of a raccoon, but completely hairless. It had a round head and face and was the ugliest creature she had ever seen. But after just looking at her and sniffing the air, it turned back to the lean-to and scratched at the flap.
“Jesus Christ,” Penny said. Her heart was pounding. She looked back across the lagoon where Robot was just standing motionless, watching her. “Did you know about this thing?” She called.
Robot didn’t answer.
“Yeah, he knew about it,” she said to herself. “Okay. Thanks. Thanks a lot.”
She pushed herself up and walked slowly back to the lean-to and dropped on her knees beside the little animal. She cautiously reached toward the flap, not taking her eyes off the small creature beside her. It stopped scratching the flap and looked up at her.
“Why couldn’t he get a dog like most boys,” she said to the animal, but mostly to herself. She pulled the flap up and crawled inside. The creature scurried in and moved next to Will’s body.
“Will,” Penny said quietly. “Will can you hear me?” She put her hand on his arm and nudged him gently. “Will.”
If he was hurt, she couldn’t see any injury. But he was soaked with sweat and his skin seemed clammy.
“Will, honey, can you hear me? It’s Penny.”
She nudged him a little harder and touched his cheek gently. “Will.”
He opened his eyes slowly. At first it looked like he didn’t recognize her. But then he said, “Penny!” He sat up and hugged her.
“Oh, God, Will, I’m so happy to see you.” She hugged him tightly against her body. “I was afraid I would never see you again.”
When he didn’t answer, Penny started to say something else, but she realized he was crying. “It’s okay, Will. It’s okay. I’m here now. Everything’s going to be okay.”
But after a minute, he let her go and started to push her away.
“What’s wrong?” she asked.
“I’m not safe.”
She just put her arms around him again and pulled him to her, though she could feel him still resisting. “I don’t give a fuck. If you blow up, we’ll blow up together.”
Finally, he relented and hugged her back and this time they both started crying. They held each other for a long time before letting go.
“Will what happened to you?” She asked as she dried her eyes.
“So many things, Penny. And I had the craziest dreams. But what are you doing here?”
“We came to find you. Me and Robot.”
He looked at her without answering for a minute. He reached out and put his hand on her arm. “You’re always coming to find me, Penny. I don’t know what I would do without you. I thought I would never see you again. Anyone again. I can’t believe it.”
She smiled. “How bout you stop doing this shit?” Then she scooted back as the animal climbed up in Will’s lap between them. “And what the fuck is that thing!”
“This is Sméagol. But I changed his name to Alex. I think I like that better. He’s harmless.”
The animal pressed himself against Will’s chest and rose up and licked his neck. Will stroked its pale back.
“That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen,” Penny said but she reached out and touched it, and it turned its head around and licked her hand.
“Come on, Will, let’s get you out of here. You’re covered in sweat.”
She backed out and held the flap up and Will crawled out beside her, Alex following.
They both looked across the lagoon where Robot was still standing looking at them.
“Robot!” Penny called. “He’s okay! Robot!”
But Robot stayed where he was.
“What’s wrong with him?” Penny asked. “He’s acting weird. I asked if he could sense you and he didn’t’ answer. I don’t think he even knew if you were alive. He didn’t want to come with me to look.”
“I don’t think that’s it Penny. I think he didn’t want to try and connect with me. And I think I know why he’s standing over there. But Penny, how did you talk him into coming here?”
“Something happened to you, Will. I felt it. Like when that thing had you. I felt you die. At least it felt like you died. Robot felt it too. So we came here to find you. But you’re okay? Nothing happened?”
“I got stung by something and it poisoned me, I think. I’m okay now.” But he couldn’t shake the dream. It all seemed so real to him. Like when he first had the dream of dying in the water, and then of watching Judy and Don arguing in the alley. He knew the whole thing was impossible, but he couldn’t understand why it was happening and what it meant, if it meant anything at all. And as strange as it was, he felt a deep longing to be back there with the Judy in his dream. What would happen when she found he was gone? She was so broken. They all were. But he had brought her a little bit of happiness. And she had helped him get past the loneliness and feeling of loss that he had experienced since he left Alpha Centauri. Maybe since he had been on the planet where that thing had captured him. It was as if, they were taking care of each other, even in his dreams.
“I’m going to get in the water and cool off,” he said. “I probably smell horrible.”
“Well, since you mentioned it…”
“I’m sorry,” he said.
She laughed. He was obsessive about cleanliness, and it probably mortified him to think she could smell him.
He pushed himself to his feet, but he stumbled when he stood. She quickly stood beside him and took his arm to steady him. “Are you sure you’re okay?” She asked.
“Yeah, just weak.”
She walked with him until they were on the sand beside the lagoon, and he said, “I’m fine now, I think.”
He walked on by himself and she sat down on the beach. Alex climbed into her lap. “Oh shit!” She said. “You scared the hell out of me!” But the animal curled up and laid down and she stroked its back. “You harmless, ugly little guy.”
Will stopped by the water and looked across to Robot. “Thanks Robot,” he called. “Thanks for coming back for me. I think I’m okay now.”
Robot just looked back at him.
Penny watched, and wondered what was going on. Will said he thought he knew, but why didn’t he tell her what it was?
When Will was at the water’s edge, he pulled his shorts off. He sunk under the water, ducked his head, scrubbed his body all over with sand, then came back up. He splashed around for a while, then called to Penny, “Toss me my shorts, please.”
She placed Alex on the sand beside her, walked to the water’s edge, picked up his shorts and tossed them to him in the water. He sunk under again, pulled them on, then waded toward her.
“So, why take them off if you were just going to put them on in the water?”
“Habit I guess. I think I almost forgot I wasn’t alone, since I have been for so many weeks. As soon as I went under the water and came back up I remembered you were here. Sorry about that.”
“I’ve seen your ass before, Will.”
He smiled and sat down in the sand. She sat beside him.
“So tell me what happened,” she said, taking his hand in hers.
“Something stung me and I got really sick. I think I almost did die. And, I felt it too. It was weird. I was so scared, then there was this moment when I realized the time had come, and I just sort of welcomed it, and it was okay, you know? It wasn’t like I wanted to die, it was like, I just was okay with it. And I remembered thinking, I wonder what happens next.”
“Where were you stung?”
“On my foot.”
“I thought you were limping a little. Let me see.”
He turned and put his heel on her leg so she could see. “There was something here. How did you take care of it? There are four little marks around the hole. Like something was placed here. Did you find a way of extracting the venom? It looks like there was a bandage of some kind too. I can see tape marks. How did you do this, Will?”
Will stared at her for a minute, then looked away. It couldn’t be real. None of it could be real.
“You had a bandage with you?” She asked.
“Yeah, an old one tucked in my pocket. I was lucky to find it.”
“But what about these marks around the wound?”
“I…I really don’t remember, Penny. But I think I’m going to be fine now. I had this strange dream. But it seemed so real.”
“Tell me,” Penny said.
“No, it was just a dream.”
“Will, come on. You seem shaken up. Was it the dream?”
He sighed. “Okay, but it was just a dream. Remember me telling you I dreamed that I had died in the ice? When I was on that planet?”
“Yeah.”
“It was the same dream, but it was almost four years later, and I saw Judy. She’s the one who took care of my foot. I really think I was dying and somehow that dream saved my life.”
“Will, I don’t know what happened, but you really think you were able to fix the wound because Judy showed you how in the dream?”
It’s stranger than that, he thought. “I don’t know what to believe anymore, Penny. Things are so weird, you know?”
“I know, Will. But you’re alive. I was so afraid it would be too late before I found you this time.”
“See, that’s what I mean. That’s twice you’ve gotten these feelings about me, and both times you were right. When that thing had me, and now, when you thought I was dying.”
“And when Robot showed you what happened to your heart,” she reminded him.
“Yeah, and that happened to Judy too. So, this dream seems to be part of it all. I think there’s something happening to all three of us, and I don’t think we have control of it. I just wish I knew what it was.”
“Well, we’re together again. Can’t we try to figure it out together?”
“Not if that means you might die. Nothing has changed about what the aliens put in my heart.”
“You might die too! You probably would die without us! So yeah, I might die, but I don’t care. We need each other.”
“I saw you too,” Will said. “In the dream.”
“You saw me? How was I?”
“Not good. The family had broken apart since I died in the ice. And you tried to hold it together, but no one else was willing to try, so you…you just weren’t doing very well. It was hard to see you that way. But we went out to the farm. It was nice, the two of us went out there and remembered what it was like growing up and spending time at the farm.”
“I wish I really could do that with you, Will.”
He squeezed her hand, “Me too, Penny.”
Will thought about Judy, the Judy in his dreams. Why did it look like someone had doctored his foot? He had done nothing except crawl up to the beach. Though at some point he must have been aware enough to make it from the beach to the lean-to. He couldn’t remember doing that at all. And now he wondered if somehow the dream was real and that world really existed. Would Judy go to find Penny? There was nothing he could do about that now. He had a sudden feeling of hopelessness. He looked over at Robot. His friend had gotten no closer.
“Why is he still over there?” Penny asked.
“Maybe he just wants to give us some time together,” Will said.
“I’m not an idiot, Will. Something is going on. He wanted to come back as quickly as I did once he felt you were in danger.”
“I think I know what it is, but something else is wrong isn’t it?”
“You can tell?” She asked.
“I can feel it. It’s about Judy isn’t it?” Will saw tears well up in her eyes. He grabbed her by the shoulders, gently. “Is she…”
“I think she’s still alive, Will. I have to tell you what happened though.”
“Tell me everything.”
Penny told him what had happened from the time he had left the planet with Robot, until she left with Robot to find him.
“So, Grant was somehow involved, and knew about these things?”
“Yeah, I guess his whole mission was an intelligence thing. Will, I don’t know what to think. Mom and Dad have gone back to Earth because Mom thinks there will be some clue to where you are. Don is hurt. And Judy—we have no idea where she is or how to find her.”
Will looked back across the lagoon. “Robot doesn’t know?”
“No. He had no idea. But you should have seen him. He was amazing. The aliens had weapons of some kind, but every time they fired at him, he moved just before he was hit. I’ve never seen anything move so fast.”
“Like he could almost see where they were going to fire,” Will said. Now he had no choice. He knew what he had to do if they were going to find Judy. And he knew the risk.
“Well, yeah. Like that,” Penny said. She looked across the lagoon to Robot, then back to her brother. “What’s happening here, Will?”
“Penny,” Will said. “I love you so much for coming to find me. Again. But I have to ask you to do something. And you have to just do it.”
“Don’t put that on me, Will. I don’t even know what you’re going to ask.”
“You see the high ground over there?” He pointed to the West. “The hill? I need you to go there and wait while I go talk to Robot.”
“Fuck that.”
“You have to.”
“Why?” She asked.
“I need to talk to him alone. And if I’m right, we might be able to find Judy. If I’m wrong, you could be in danger.”
“Jesus, Will…”
“Penny, I don’t think that’s going to happen. That you will be in danger. But I’ve been wrong before.” He rubbed his chest. “If I’m right, we’ll come and get you and see if we can find Judy together. If I’m wrong and I...you need to go back to Alpha Centauri and wait for Mom and Dad to get back. I think I know a way for you to do that. Maybe Mom’s right and they’ll be able to find out something too.”
“They went to Earth to find out something about you. They don’t even know Judy is gone.”
“I think it’s all part of the same thing, Penny. And it all involves me.”
“Why?”
“These things took Judy, and they were going after you, right?”
“Yes.”
“But Don was hurt and they just left him there. So they didn’t want Don. They wanted my sisters.”
“Because of you?”
“Yes. Because of me.”
“Everything isn’t your goddamn fault Will!”
“I didn’t say it was my fault. I said it was about me. And I really believe it is. Penny, please do this. Go through the jungle and to that hill and wait there.”
“But Will, I just found you!”
“I know. And I think this will work, but…but it might not. I can’t risk your life too.”
“Will…”
He stood and pulled her by the hand until they were both on their feet. He put his arms around her and hugged her.
As she hugged him, she whispered, “I remember when we were stranded, and I hugged you and told you you weren’t in this by yourself. But you were, Will. You always have been. And no matter what I do, I can’t help you with it, can I?”
“You’ve helped me so much, Penny.” He whispered back. “I couldn’t do anything by myself, and I still can’t. Whatever happens today, it doesn’t change that. You came here and talked Robot into coming back, when I know it’s the last thing he wanted to do. So if we find Judy, it’s because of you.”
“And if you die here?”
“Then there was nothing you could have done to stop that.”
They finally released the hug, and Will took her hand and led her between the trees. “Go that way. It’s about an hour. There’s nothing in the Jungle to worry about. A few small animals and more of the ones like Alex. But they’re all harmless.”
“I love you, Will.”
“I love you too, Penny.”
“I can’t fucking believe I’m leaving you again,” she said, wiping her nose on her sleeve.
“Not for long,” Will said. “Fingers crossed.”
She kissed him quickly on the cheek, then walked off the direction Will had pointed without looking back. He waited for her to disappear in the trees, then he turned and walked back to the lagoon, and began to make his way around to Robot.
When he was on the other side of the lagoon, Robot began to step back from him.
“Robot,” Will said. “Friends, right?”
“Friends Will Robinson.”
Will started walking toward him again. When Robot started to take another step back, Will said, “No, Robot. Stay there. Please.”
“No.”
“Robot, listen. It’s the only way I can figure this out. It’s the only way we can find out where Judy is.”
“Danger.”
“I know. Danger. So much danger. But we’ve been here before, Robot. I think I can do it this time. I have to try. If I don’t figure this out, I think I’m never going to be the same anyway. I don’t want that. And I have to help Judy if I can. They took her because of me. I’m sure of it.”
“Danger.”
“Trust, Robot.”
Robot didn’t say anything. Will took another step forward, and Robot stepped back.
“Please, Robot. I think I know what was happening to you. What is happening to you.
The patterns in Robot’s face shield seemed to be whirling in different directions.
Will took another step forward. This time Robot stayed where he was.
“It started happening after we left the planet, didn’t it? When you began to see my past?”
Robot didn’t answer, but Will knew what the answer was.
“Had you been able to do that before?”
“No.”
“Did you know what was happening?”
“No.”
“It made you feel closer to me, though, didn’t it?”
“Yes Will Robinson.”
“Me too, Robot. When I was away from my family, seeing those memories were important. You were right about that. Thank you.”
Robot didn’t answer.
“But it started changing after that, didn’t it?”
After several seconds, Robot answered, “Yes.”
“It wasn’t only my past you started seeing. It was my future too, wasn’t it?”
When Robot didn’t answer, Will said, “You saw me fall off the cliff, just before it happened, didn’t you?”
“Yes.”
“Could you see further than that? Years from now?”
Will tried to connect with him, but he felt something stopping him. He had never felt that before. Sometimes they couldn’t connect, but he had never felt like he was being blocked before. “You don’t want me to read what’s in your head, do you?”
“No.”
“Okay. Don’t worry. We’re friends. I wouldn’t do that if you didn’t want me to. But you don’t really know if you can see my future years from now?”
“No Will Robinson.”
Why. Why would that be? That was something he would need to think about, if he survived this day.
“Robot, after you att…after the Resolute, you were told to crash your ship and wait for me in the tree, weren’t you?” He was thinking about what his dream sister had said. It couldn’t all be coincidental. Especially him climbing the very tree Robot had gotten stuck in.
“Yes.”
“SAR commanded you to do that, didn’t he?”
“Yes.”
“He could see what would happen, couldn’t he?”
“Yes Will Robinson.” He paused. “No Will Robinson.”
What did that mean?
“I don’t understand, Robot. He could see my future, or he couldn’t?”
“Hope,” Robot said.
“Hope? I don’t understand. Do you mean, he could see something that he hoped would happen?”
“Yes.”
“It didn’t happen the way he hoped, did it? He didn’t expect us to become friends, did he?”
“No.”
“So he thought something else might happen when we were in the tree?”
“Yes.”
“What, Robot? What did he see that he hoped would happen?”
“Danger Will Robinson.”
“He thought you would kill me, didn’t he?”
“Yes.”
“He sent you to the Resolute to find me?”
“Yes.”
“He wanted you to kill me on the Resolute.”
“No Will Robinson.”
“No? You weren’t on the Resolute because of me?”
“Yes Will Robinson.”
“I don’t…wait…you didn’t go to the Resolute to kill me, you went to the Resolute to capture me? To take me back to SAR?”
“Yes.”
“But then he wanted you to kill me when you couldn’t capture me?”
“Yes.”
“It was about me? Everything was about me?”
“Yes.”
“People died because of me?”
“Yes.”
“Why Robot? What is it about me?”
Will had started shaking now, and tears were flowing down his cheeks.
Robot finally took a step toward him, put a hand on his shoulder.
“Do you know why SAR wanted to capture me, or why he wanted me to die?”
“No Will Robinson.”
“You only know what you were told, or programmed to do, don’t you?”
“Yes Will Robinson.”
“But now you are seeing my past. SAR could do that, couldn’t he?”
“Yes.”
“And you are starting to see some of my future. Like me falling off the cliff, right?”
“Yes.”
“When you left, you said it was because of danger, and I thought you were talking about the bomb. That being near me put you in danger. But that wasn’t it, was it?”
“No Will Robinson.”
“You put me in danger, don’t you?”
“No.”
No? Will was confused, but he quickly realized he had asked the wrong question.
“SAR puts me in danger, doesn’t he?”
“Yes Will Robinson.”
“SAR isn’t gone, is he.”
“No.”
“Being around me, makes him start to come back doesn’t it?”
This time Robot hesitated before saying, “Yes.”
“Robot. Let SAR come back.”
Robot took his hand off the boy’s shoulder and quickly stepped away.
“Robot, let him come back,” Will said again.
“No.”
“Robot, listen to me. I have to know. I have to know what he wanted with me.”
“Danger Will Robinson.”
“I know, Robot. I’ll never forget it. And without my family and without you I would have died. And if you let him come back, no one will be here to help me. But you have to let him come back.”
“No.”
“Robot, please listen and please try to understand. A lot of people have died. Judy and Penny almost died on that planet when they went back looking for a clue to how to help me. People on the Resolute died. Judy’s missing, and I think it’s because of me. All of this is because of me. And there’s only one thing that I know of that can give me answers. And maybe he can tell me who took Judy and why.
“Robot, this might go back a lot further than I even imagined. I dreamt of Judy being taken by something, when I was back on Earth. It scared me so badly. Something had her and it wanted me to go find her in my dream. I think I was dreaming of this.”
Still Robot just stared back at him.
“Robot, Judy has taken care of me my whole life. Judy has protected me. On the bridge, she was ready to die for me. I have to do this. If there is a chance at all, I have to help her.”
Robot still said nothing.
“Robot, I need to talk to SAR. If I die here, then no one will know. And it won’t matter anyway. But if there is a chance at all, I need to see SAR. I need to talk to him. I need to find out why I’m so important. Why so many people had to die.
“Robot, listen to me. You know I will die someday. I’m human. We will all die. We…we don’t know what happens after that, but…there’s nothing we can do to stop it. There’s nothing you can do to stop it. And then…you will be alone. You know this is true. You know it.
“I’m organic, Robot. I can’t stop my death. So…so if SAR kills me here, all that means is it happened now on this island on a planet no one had ever been to before you and I came here. And, those days with you here on this island, they were good days Robot. I don’t want to die now either, but if I was going to choose a time and a place, this is okay with me. Here, with you. And maybe I won’t. I think…I think SAR stabbed me for a reason we just can’t understand. And I have to understand. I need you to do this Robot. If you love me, I need to see SAR. I need to talk to him.”
Will stepped forward and took Robot’s hand and placed it on his chest, over his heart. “Robot. Trust.”
Robot just looked back at him for a long time before finally stepping up and putting his arms around Will and hugging him tightly. Will hugged his friend back. “Robot, if I never see you again, I love you. Thank you for everything you have done for me and my family.”
Robot squeezed him tight, then let go, stepped back a little, put his hand on Will’s chest again, above his heart. “Love Will Robinson.”
“I love you, Robot.” Will wiped tears from his eyes.
“Robot, can you do something else please? Before you do this…in case I’m wrong…can you send Sally the coordinates of this planet to come for Penny? I don’t think SAR will hurt her. I’m what he’s always wanted. I asked her to hide just in case. But she needs to get back home. You’re entangled with Sally, right?”
“Yes Will Robinson.”
“Can you do that, please?”
“Yes.”
Robot moved his hand from Will’s chest and stood in place for a minute as the lights in his face shield began making different patterns. Will knew his friend had done as he asked, and his sister would be okay. Then he heard a sound that he had never forgotten. Metal on metal as the blade slipped from Robot’s hand.
Will looked at the shiny steel, remembering the pain and trauma of the first time SAR had stabbed him. “Robot, it won’t detonate the…the bomb…will it?” The second time SAR had stabbed him there had been little pain, other than when it had pierced his skin. Will had known then the blade didn’t need to go all the way through his heart to connect to whatever it was Robot had placed in it to save his life.
“No Will Robinson.” Still, he hesitated.
Will reached out and took Robot’s hand. The hand that held the blade. “Thank you, Robot.”
He pulled Robot’s hand toward his chest. Robot still hesitated when the blade touched Will’s bare skin.
The boy kept his hand on Robot’s, while looking in his face shield. “Trust, Robot.”
Robot slid the blade into his chest.
“Nooooo!” Penny screamed from the trees where she had been watching the two of them.