Episode Twelve: Gun in his face, Magnus was left last time staring at Veronica’s “declared dead, but no so dead” twin. After speaking with the Doctor about the corpse, he is now thrown for a loop into all he knew. Which one is the girl, which one is the robot? Only time will tell! Hope you enjoy the thirteenth episode of Unbiased Law (or back to Episode One or Episode Twelve)!

“Sit robot. We need to talk.” The gun stayed aimed directly at my head. I love these girls, both as gorgeous as they are deadly. Someone make a movie about this pair already! As I sat across from her, she shifted in her seat and crossed her legs the opposite way. “So you’re the one she killed. Seems you’re not the only human who has trouble dying.” I looked around. Me, human? Well that was a compliment. “So, you think I’m human?” I asked, looking back and forth between the gun and the beautiful girl. “Of course you are,” she replied matter of factly, “How else can you think outside the tin box you’re trapped inside?” If I could have smiled, I would have. She somehow read that I was smiling anyway. “I’ve got a case for you, my crazy sister R0N-N13, tried to kill me and left me in this terrible body. I went into shock and they actually thought I died.” I nodded at her. “Actually, you were declared dead.” She shot me a glare that could melt steel to paste. “It doesn’t matter. What this is, is a case of body swapping.”

“Body swapping is…” I chose my next words carefully as the gun stared me down. “Highly unlikely, but I guess since you’re here, it’s happened?” Veronica let the gun lay on the table, allowing me to trust in her a little bit. “You’re right you know, it was highly unlikely. After Dad cooked up this crazy scheme to frame robots and retake the job market for humans, my sister came for me. She’s been working with the Discards on starting this war from inside the bodies of people.” My mind was actually blown by this concept and I interrupted. “So you mean to say, that the Discard army is real?” She nodded. “The army is extremely real. In fact, many of the discards down at the dumping grounds are actually humans now. They struggle to survive and are piecing themselves back together.” I looked around in shock, my head was reeling from all this information. “So, the actual robots have possessed people?” She shook her head, “No, not possessed, swapped. Using wireless transmitters they perform an upload of their mind overwriting a human mind while the human mind is overwriting their own robot mind back in their body. Therefore, they gain control of human bodies. They have integrated into society now. They were looking for high ranking officials and officers.”

I sat back and stared at Veronica. Well, if this was her. Hell, if I was me? What is it to be anyone any more? Are we all just data now, over written and copied like regular old files in Windows? I noticed her waving her hand in my face. “You ok? I thought you shut down on me!” I shook my head. “I just don’t know what to say. Discards have become humans, and humans are stuck in discards. I’ve got to go to the acting commissioner.” As I got up to leave Veronica grabbed my arm. “Be careful, these robots are dangerous.” I nodded and told her to go to my office and wait. Today was already a long day, and it was about to get longer.

As I got to the Police Station, I looked around. The area was desolate. I walked in and was immediately hassled by a robot guard. “Halt, identification please sir.” Sir? I reached up and touched my face. I was still wearing my nanite mask. Well that explained how my emotions were showing through. I looked to the robot and requested to show him my ID in private. After exposing my robot face to him and my real ID, he let me pass. He told me that the acting commissioner was actually awaiting my presence. That didn’t sound good. As I marched to his office, I swung open the door and saw him across the desk. I nodded and he held up his hand for me to wait. He was on the phone and all I caught was, “Yes, Magnus is here, bye.” That uneasy feeling was coming back, stupid memories replicating reality. “Hello Sir, I understand you’ve been expecting me?”

The Commissioner rose from his desk and had a strange limp. “Are you ok Commissioner? It seems your right leg isn’t working all that well.” He looked down at the leg and shook it. “Old wounds. Anyway, what is your status on the case?” I thought to myself to hold back, but I decided to hell with it and told him. “I have found out that the dead girl who escaped from the morgue is the human who had her body stolen by her robot sister. Both of these two are the daughters of Mister Radlem, our favourite prison inmate who had his daughter tamper with a judge aside from his conspiracy to start a war between humans and robots.” The Commissioner leaned back and nodded. “Sounds like quite the predicament.” I shrugged in response, but suddenly he spun with a gun aimed at me. “You know Magnus, it was you who inspired me. The story of a human transmitting and surviving in a robot body. I thought to myself, if I could get access to your logs, I could replicate that effect but in the opposite direction.” I watched as he paced back and forth. “It took awhile for us to infiltrate society and I’m not about to let you ruin all of our work Magnus. But in thanks for your inspiration, I’ll grant you a quick departure from the robot body you are not worthy of having.”

The muzzle of the gun rose from his side and aimed directly at me. I closed my eyes and hoped I would end up back in my office when everything passed. The click of the trigger, the bang of the gun and the deafening silence were all that guided me as I waited for the bullet to tear me apart.

Hope everyone enjoyed today’s episode, it has been fun writing these and even more fun rereading them. I would love to hear feedback on how the story is going and favourite moments now that we’ve reached ten episodes! Thanks!