Challenge #8
Incorporate elements of Mecha and feature and Accidental Hero; one must be inverted.
I actually gave up today. And then I did this.
Max had waited for this moment since the day he’d been first activated. So what if the Council had subsequently determined that his model was too unstable for actual combat and repurposed them as crossing guards. Max had been created to be a hero, and no amount of reprogramming was going to stand in his way.
Granted, his first two attempts hadn’t gone exactly as planned. There was no one to actually save in the first fire he set. He made sure there were at least five in the second, but some dumb X9 model had beaten him to it and got all the credit. Not this time, though. This time had been perfect. Plenty of heartstring-tugging potential victims, the nearest X9 units experiencing temporary technical difficulties, and a news crew with a perfectly timed tip.
And it’d worked. Exactly as planned. In the end, he’d only gotten out four of the twenty, but that was more than any human could do. If he’d had a face, he would have been beaming from ear-to-ear.
‘Do you have any words for our viewers after your amazing rescue?’ the reporter asked while the building still blazed behind them.
‘Just doing my duty, ma’am.’
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