CHAPTER 1: GOODBYES

“But I don’t understand why you need to go again,” said the whiney winged woman as she wrapped her arms around her boyfriend. With her arms around his metal neck, she wrapped her large wings around the two of them to hide her display of affection.

“I’ll miss my little yellow botfriend,” whispered the woman as she held onto him. The yellow legs of her botfriend could be seen next to hers from beneath of her wings.

Her botfriend spoke with a mechanical voice, “The Special Forces have ordered me into Out World to find the lost tomb of an ancient warrior.” “And what are you going to there?” she asked him. He was quick to reply, “That information is classified.” She wrapped her long slender tail around his right leg and she asked him again, “For me Cyrax? Tell me why you need to go.”

The lights green lights on his left chest plate shined a bright green, before he told her, “Only for you Nitara will I tell you that I am being sent there to make sure the warrior does not rise from slumber.” She huffed at him and said, “That is such a trivial task. That is busy work that the humans can be doing!”

“If the warrior is awakened, there will be even more turmoil in the realms,” continued the robot. After a pause, he mentioned, “Sonya has chosen me to go there, because I do not need rest as a human does.” Nitara then spoke up, “Sonya, Sonya, Sonya. Talk about me some more.”

“You have been my girlfriend for so long that everything feels the way that it should be,” stated the yellow robot. Nitara agreed with a statement, “I know. You are what I adore all night when I awaken. You are what I dream as I sleep in the day.”

Nitara then dragged one of her claws along his shoulder as the two kept their embrace. She then asked him, “So why can’t Sonya go and leave you here?” Her botfriend then retorted, “With my arm panel, I can open a portal to other realms while the humans cannot!”

She rolled her eyes unseen by Cyrax in their embrace, “Humans are so deficient. No wonder why they are only used as blood cattle.” Nitara opened her wings from around the two of them as her eyes grew wide when she realized, “I just thought of something,” and Cyrax stated with a mechanical voice, “That is not a surprise.” “With the gemstone pendant around my neck, I can open my own portal and go with you!” she exclaimed with a sharp toothed smile.

Her botfriend told her though, “That thought had come across my processes. It is advisable that you do not follow me.” She then had a follow up question, “Why not?” Many thoughts ran through is brain quickly to tell her. Thoughts like, it’s dangerous, this is official business, it is for your own safety to stay, but the best thought he had was, “Spiders! There will be spiders in the tomb.”

“Oh. You know I hate spiders!” hissed Nitara, who then elaborated, “Even the tiniest spider I hate them all!” “Yes I know,” said Cyrax, who then pointed out, “Which is why I killed all of the spiders in your cave for you on our first date.” “I remember it well,” said Nitara as she wrapped her large wings around the two of them once again. “I also remember that night too,” she added.

“Do you remember that night?” she asked to her metal boyfriend who then pointed out, “I am a cybernetic organism, and nothing is ever erased from my memory banks. Everything is stored in backup files.” He paused before he told her, “It is the night you discovered that you do not like the taste of my motor oil.” “There are much better fluids to drink,” said Nitara with a wicked smile as she added, “But that is why I can’t date humans. Their blood is just so drinkable.”

She whispered over his shoulder, “I’ll miss you so badly. I will get lonely without your cold metal to scratch my claws into each night.” Her botfriend then told her from within his metal helmet, “You have my number to call whenever you want.” “I do,” she agreed with a slightly sad face, “But a telephone does not make me feel any closer to you. Sure they can build something as advanced as you, but when will these Earth beings come to realize that holographic technology lets you get so much closer to someone than the audio of a phone.”

Nitara then unwrapped her wings from around her botfriend and she lost the closeness she had felt. She stood with her arms still around his neck, until her warm wings wrapped around his steel body. She let out a warm sigh of love, before she slowly took her wings away from his body once again.

Her arms dwelled around his neck for a bit longer, until she told him, “Now go.” She took her arms from around him, so that he could turn to his side and push a few buttons on his left forearm pad. She told him to, “Do not get disassembled by one of those Out Witches and remember to call me every single day!”

Once Cyrax entered the sequence of numbers into his forearm pad a blue beam of light jumped from his arm and created a large circle in front of them. It was a portal of swirling blue clouds that lead into another realm.

Nitara took a step back from him and noticed all of the claw marks on his back. She smiled, knowing they were from her and that no human could ever leave them.

Without even looking, Cyrax stepped into the swirl of blue clouds and into the portal. Nitara waved him goodbye as the portal continued to stay open for a minute after her botfriend had stepped through.

She waited for the portal to close, before she turned away from it. Nitara let out a minuet sigh and then looked to the dark sky above. Then she bent her powerful legs and with a mighty force she sent herself into the air with her wings! Soon Nitara had flown into the clouds and disappeared from anyone’s sight.