The Professor's Vessel

The Professor's Vessel

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The professor stared at the displays, and at the data that Sally had sent him.  After all of those years with Maxton1EA-349-H, it would seem that the cyborg would have to be defeated and destroyed.  Two others were on their way to do just that.  While staring at the data, he thought back at others in his employ, without which he wouldn't have known of the damage that could be perpetrated by the cyborg Maxton1EA-349-H, until after the disaster would have occurred.

The professor had many assistants in his employ.  Few of them could be trusted with special assignments, and of those, only two were truly trustworthy with anything and everything.  One was Sally, who was one of the professor's laboratory assistants.  The other was Gil, who was the mechanic and pilot of the professor's vessel.

Sally was misunderstood.  That is what her brother said on his sister's graduation day.  She graduated second to the last in her class, and wasn't expected to do much with her studies.  Being forgetful and a natural daydreamer, many of her classmates would joke as to what type of dog catcher's outfit she would wear as a career.

Poor Sally knew what they would say, and her instructors were often in on the cruel jokes.  Often, the professor would notice her weeping in the gardens that lined the southern edge of the campus.  It was there where he first took notice of her, and it was then when the professor realized that he had discovered a valuable, and potential part of his team.  Sally may not have been a stellar student, but she did have great potential.

On graduation day, the professor was given the opportunity to speak, as he did on every graduation day for the previous seventeen years.  On that day, he would choose one graduate that would be given the opportunity to work in his laboratories.  It was a prestigious moment for the graduate with the highest scores, and with the most potential.  It was a shining moment for the student who would stand and walk up onto the stage to shake the professor's hand and accept the internship amidst flashing cameras and video recording. 

On that day, he stunned the crowd by offering the position to Sally Wri, the daydreamer.  Working in the professor's robotics laboratories was a dream job for any student new to the working world.  The sight of Sally jumping up, un-snagging her gown from her chair, and hobbling her four-foot three and ninety-nine pound frame up onto the stage to accept the offer, brought open jaws and looks of disbelief across the small sea of assembled faces in the university theater.  Envy and anger could be seen hovering over the heads of many graduates and some instructors as well, but the professor had made his decision, and none would dare to question it.  

Needless to say, that moment ended all jokes and snickers from the graduate's class and instructors, and Sally had been working for the professor ever since.  She was not the head of the laboratory, that position was Clara's, but of all of the laboratory assistants, Sally was the one that the professor's truly trusted.

Gil was a mechanic.  It seemed that he was born to be a mechanic.  At an early age, he showed an interest in it, and his father, being a mechanic and pilot himself, proudly encouraged him.

Gil had been a stellar student, and he excelled at everything to do with repairing, modifying, and building machines.  When he first modified an aging plane and broke the sound barrier with it, most were in awe.  When he built his first vessel that could reach the ocean floor, he received accolades.  It was when he built the Sovereign, which would become the team's vessel, that the professor was personally impressed, for he knew that Gil's potential was just unfolding.

Gil was a master mechanic, and when the professor himself offered him a position, Gil jumped at it.  He became part of the team, and the only other trustworthy member at that time.

It was Gil and Sally who discovered that Maxton1EA-349-H had been contaminated, and that it now had a sub-mission, which was to retrieve the child, and to destroy the cyborg that protected her.  Unfortunately, the subtle signs of the contamination were discovered after the cyborg had been dispatched on it's assignment.

Maxton1EA-349-H had left for the intercept, and other cyborgs were on their way as well.  

The professor, accompanied by Sally Wri, and her little friend, Fitz-00-DJE-27, a very small catlike robot, strode quickly to the awaiting vessel.  "Ready to move, professor!" Gil's familiar voice boomed over the arid landscape that housed the professor's hidden laboratories; a place of wild dust storms and bleached bones.

The newly forming team were soon on their way to join the cyborgs James88032-N and Victor-4L-383B1K in confronting the eldest and most dangerous of cyborgs.

From a far distance, a figure sat in his chair and watched.  He watched through the eyes of the contaminated cyborg.