Parts of my robot story

Princess In Distress


No one knew of her existence. As history would have it, she had left Phoenix long ago.



The robots had come to Phoenix on one of their many trips to visit Cal. It seems with RoboGold being on hold for the time being, they needed to get away. Robert had agreed that it would be a good time to take a trip to Phoenix.



Canada is very cold during the winter months and anyone who knows anything at all about robots knows that the moisture in the air isn’t good for them.



........ Robots arrive in Phoenix

Cal was happy to see the bots. It had been New Year’s Eve when they had last been here. With her son and his family living with her, she hadn’t much time to think about her robot family. It was a treat to see them pull up.

Cal had heard the rumors about the castle being found. She suggested to Linus that it might be a fun outing for the bots to see what the big hullabaloo was about. It had been plastered all over the papers and it had been a great find for history.

As the story goes, the castle had burned down centuries ago. It was in such a remote part of Phoenix that the find was indeed remarkable. The shrubs, bushes, weeds, trees and greenery were unbelievable in the Phoenix area. No one would ever have known except for the car accident.

There had been numerous papers written on the Princess of Phoenix.

PRINCESS IN DISTRESS

The princess lived in the high tower of Phoenix. She lived alone for hundreds of years never aging and always longing for her knight ’in shining armor’ to come to her rescue. (Unknown to anyone how shining armor might present itself.)

On occasion Phoenix would crash and burn only to be rebuilt around the tower where the princess resided.

Much the same as the princess the tower seemed to be indestructible. It would survive violent flames and never burn when all about it crumbled.

The princess longed for companionship and to grow old naturally. She spent many hours on the phone connecting with people all over the world. Making friends came easy for her as she was a true people ”person” and could empathize with most everyone she met.

The only problem with the invention of the phone system was that she would make friends and time would pass and the friends would disappear. As the princess never aged, she never understood, much the same as Puff the magic dragon, her friends would pass on and she would be left wondering.

She often times connected via conversations and craved the touch of another. In all of the hundreds of years, it evaded her. She often thought that in past lives she had angered the gods and this was her eternity of punishment.

There were times, like now, when she longed for a one on one interaction.

Had the princess only known what the day had in store. Had she known that history was about to be made in the form of an SUV full of RockinRobots.

.............the story begins

The princess, sitting high in her tower had resolved herself to a life time of loneliness and was virtually sipping on her second cup of coffee when she heard the SUV pull up. She was used to the tourists by now, the accident had happened a week ago. It had been chaos.

The city had sent over a crew to clean up the litter and another to cut the weeds, shrubs, trees, and vines. Boy, were they in for a surprise when they came upon the structure. Who would have thought that there was a castle hidden away behind all of the greenery.

The robots excitedly got out of the SUV. R2INU was driving today as Goldie had wanted to view Phoenix this time instead of drive.

LINUS seemed quieter than usual and had any one of the robots been noticing, he seemed to be in a trance (that’s quite a task for a robot, but none the less, he was not exactly LINUS-like today.)~~~ For any of you newbies out in storyland, LINUS is the manager of the robots and on the quiet side. He’s always in the shadows watching and making sure our famous robots are carrying on in an acceptable manner.

As this was not so out of character for LINUS, the other bots went about their business.

LINUS looked up at the window where the princess was watching. As he gazed upward a spot of moisture appeared near his eye socket maybe a drop of moisture from the sill above.

LINUS moved slowly toward the archway. His memory bank was going over and over information. Somewhere he knew there was information concerning this place. He stopped and he seemed to be thinking........ 0110001010001010100010110101010.

LINUS flew into action. The other robots were startled, they had never seen LINUS move so fast in all of the time they had known him. He ran past Robbie, R2INU, and Golda. He almost knocked Goldie down as he plowed right into her and when he ran past m0bot, he knocked off m0’s little digit on his left hand. m0 didn’t flinch, he had been there before. He leaned down and picked it up and put it in his pocket and made note in his memory bank to have R2 stop by RobotsRus on the way back to Cal’s place.

LINUS ran up the stair case and into the master bedroom. Princess Olivia still sat on the balcony. She turned when the intruder threw open the door. She was taken aback, who was this creature? Princess Olivia shook her head as if to clear the cobwebs. She recognized this strange looking robot.

When the princess awoke, she looked around. There stood Goldie, Golda, and m0. She seemed to be dazed. As she looked at the female bots, she recognized herself in each one. She saw Golda, with the red hair and she thought of her own mother bot.

When she looked at the outrageous clothes that Goldie had on, she could see her aunt Bara bot looking back at her.

She saw LINUS standing near the door and once again she felt light headed. She put her hand to her forehead and wondered if she was dreaming.

Who was this robot that brought back something from Olivia’s past? She knew him and he had brought these familiar fembots to this place.

The princess reached up and switched the on/off key into the off position. She was now at peace. Her programs would be safe and her memory bank could do the search.

LINUS walked over and asked that the bots please leave them alone. He left Olivia’s switch off until the others had gone.

He hesitantly turned the switch to the on position. She opened her eyes and stared into his. She smiled that robot smile that he knew so well. He gleamed, as if just having an oil change.

OliviaBot struggled to an upright position. LINUS helped her to stand. LINUS brushed her golden tresses away from her face. Olivia smiled and turned to walk away. Not before LINUS saw the moisture on her golden cheek beside her nostril.

LINUS cleared his throat. ”Princess, princess, Princess Olivia, come to me.”

The princess strolled out the door away from LINUS. She yearned to know the other bots. She wanted input, who were these robots that looked like her family of bots?

The years disappeared and Olivia was running down the stairs in the castle. Her love, the King was at the bottom of the stairs and Olivia nearly crashed into him.

”PaPa, where are my children bots?” Olivia inquired. (She often times called the King PaPa as that is how she referred to him when speaking to the children.)

The KING flinched. How could he tell his beautiful princess (he hated the word Queen and he always referred to his love as his princess, except in public when it was required) that the need for the robots had come to an end. How could he tell the love of his life that he would save her but their babies had to be stored?

Thus began the story of the princess that you are reading today. Queen Olivia had been the only one of the Royal family to survive the budget cuts. The KING had made sure of that. He had his servants switch her to off and hide her during the time the children had been taken. He had Goldie impersonate her mother when the time came to leave. The imbeciles that had been sent for the robots didn’t have a proper count when they arrived.

Unbeknownst to the Queen, Goldie had been built by the servants of the castle under the King’s guidance.

He never trusted the government and had spies in important places to keep abreast of hidden political agendas.

............. back to the present

When Robert and Dennis had decided to create RoboGold they had gone to a warehouse that stored robots and robot parts. Robert had a strange feeling when he came upon LINUS, it was almost like a premonition. He felt warmness in his heart. Dennis had been aloof but when he met LINUS, he too felt something akin to De javu.

When Robert insisted on the robots, Dennis agreed without hesitation hence, the RockinRobots. ............... to be continued