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Unbiased Law: Episode 21

Episode Twenty Recap: Returning to an old friend, Magnus finds himself a new ally in the fight against crime. However his new alliance is short lived as his old Captain wants no part of the coming war. Granted a new prototype droid’s body, Magnus is released back into the world with better armor and better reaction times. These reactions come in handy when he discovers he is being tracked by the mysterious killer robot. After a near death experience once again, Magnus finds himself heading to city hall. Today apparently is the release of Veronica’s father and she is already there to meet him. As Magnus and Veronica catch up, her father makes his way toward them. She raises a gun as if to kill him, but her father calls her bluff. Sadly the odds weren’t stacked in his favour. Now faced with a potential murder and an old friend, what is Magnus’ next move? Only today’s episode will tell you (or head back to Episode One or Episode Twenty)!

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As Mr. Radlem reels in pain, I find myself stuck in this strange haze. What do I do? He’s bleeding out, but she’s escaping. A sudden scream snaps me out of it long enough to notice Veronica is rushing down the stairs with guards hot on her heels. I don’t think she’ll escape. I rush to Radlem’s side and the wound is pretty bad. He is screaming something about his legs and all I can focus on is the amount of blood pouring over my hands. I call to someone but I feel like my voice falls on deaf ears. Suddenly I see a robot limping its way through the crowd. Hell no. Not now, not this time. I look down to Radlem who is screaming in agony and back to the killer robot advancing on me. I can’t just sit here, but if I pull my hand away Radlem will possibly bleed out. The droid pushes people out of the way and aims a gun at Radlem and says something like “The deal’s off.” He pulls the trigger and I try to shield Radlem. My sensors are fast enough to watch the bullet, but where the spirit was willing, the body is not. The bullet hits Radlem square in the forehead and he drops. The robot tosses me the gun and disappears into the crowd.
I sit, baffled at the turn of events here. Deal’s off? What deal had they struck up? I stand up, holding a gun and with blood all over my hands. A dead man rests at my feet. Suddenly I feel like the entire crowd just noticed what was going on. But someone saw the killer robot right? As I look around the question repeats in my head. Right? Before I can realize what’s going on I realize that I’ve been set up once again. Ironically in the same way Radlem probably was. I stand here, holding the murder weapon, covered in blood and standing over the murder victim. Hmm. Well this can’t be good.
The crowd turns on me in a vicious fashion. I shove my way through and lucky for me sticks and stones don’t break my bones and names will never hurt me. I hear calls for my parts, people screaming at the dead man in the pool of blood and I hear police sirens wailing over the crowd. I think to myself the number of times I’ve seen the killer robot, and he’s always been alone. I narrowly avoid a rather large rock tossed in my direction as I consider what could be going on. Perhaps he is still sitting upon his throne in the discard’s graveyard? Only one way to find out! I break from the crowd and rush into the street. As I look up, a car is hurdling toward me and slams on its brakes a moment short of soon enough. I leap and find myself sprawled on the hood. The hood of my car. I look up into the window and Veronica shrugs and then she peels off with my holding on for dear life.
As we work our way from city hall I realize I didn’t get to protect the Mayor, but he should be safe for now. He will be heavily guarded until the dangers pass. I’ve probably got another twenty four hours to save him. I work my way up the hood and finally into the window of my car. I look across to Veronica and she smiles awkwardly at me. “Sorry for that.” I stare at her. “You’re sorry? You just attempted murder!” She slams the brakes on and I feel my circuits rattle as my head bounces off the dashboard. When I look back to her she’s as white as a ghost. “He didn’t die?” I feel rage increasing my core temperature and my cooling systems kick in. “No, he didn’t die you crazy son of a… but someone else killed him.” I watch as color returns to her face and she breathes a sigh of relief. My rage is beyond the point of return and I’ve had enough. This week has been absolute bullshit. I bring my gun out and point it at her. “We need to talk. I’ll ask the questions and you’ll provide the answers okay?” I see her considering her options. I slam the car into park and remove the keys from the ignition. “We’re not going anywhere.” She busts out her hand cannon and I toss the keys to my feet and slam her hand hard off the steering wheel and her gun drops out the window. “No. I want answers. Now.”
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Magnus has finally lost his patience. Will Veronica end up with a bullet? Or will she give him the answers he’s looking for? What deal had her father made with the killer robot? Still, who is the killer robot? Could he be from the discards? Or is his evil from somewhere else altogether? Two days time, episode twenty two! Be there!

Unbiased Law: Episode 20

Episode Ninteen Recap: Determined to survive, Magnus manages to escape the taxi to his doom by shooting out a window and leaping from the car as it dropped to the water below. Damaged and nearly beaten, he decides to head to the home of his former Captain in the Police Force. Thought to have been sunk with the taxi, Magnus is reported as dead by the robot lead Police Force and must now try and solve his case through covert means. Will he manage to survive today and will he be able to start getting ahead? Read below to find out (or head back to Episode One or Episode Nineteen)!

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I share a laugh with my old Captain as if no time has passed. I decide to try and enlist his help. “Hey Cap, I know we haven’t spoken in a long time but I need some help, now more than ever.” As he scratches his chin, I can see the lines of deep thought forming on his forehead. “Yeah I’d really love to, but I’ve got this thing.” I can feel my hypothetical jaw drop. “Not even a little?” I ask, hoping he’ll reconsider. He looks me up and down and sighs. “I will help you with a new body, but nothing else. You’re on your own in this one.” He takes me down to the basement and there before me stands a Police Droid Prototype I have never seen before. As he blows the dust off, he sounds a bit sad. “I’m not sure if this will work with that old face of yours, but sometimes you’ve just got to let things go before you can adapt to the future.” He lays me on the table beside the Prototype and I look at him. “Thanks Cap.” He smiles and looks between the Prototype and me. “Don’t thank me yet.”
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I look at the prototype. Shiny, new. Is that a stronger armor? What kind of gadgets will I have to play- And just like that, I awake in my new body. It’s always disorientating at first. You get so used to looking at yourself in one body that when you switch, it almost sparks an identity crisis. “Cap, how am I doing?” He turns to me and shrugs. “You took to it super easily. Least problematic transfer I’ve ever seen. As I examine the room, I notice my memory core is sitting off to the side. “I guess I should probably destroy this.” I say as I pick it up. Suddenly he turns to me and reaches for it. “I don’t think so, those cost a fortune.” I nod to agree and then decide to perform an electric format. As I supercharge the memory core, I feel confident that I have corrupted it. Handing it over causes Cap to feel a short shock, but he will suspect nothing of it. “Thanks for everything Cap, but I’ve got to run.” He smiles and nods. “Just remember Magnus, we’re even.”
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As I leave his house, the last words Cap left me with echo on for awhile. I had saved his life when I first became a droid, and I suppose he felt as though he owed me ever since. I shrug it off and consider what I should do now. I dial a cab and find myself  rethinking the option. As I decide to walk away, the cab pulls up but to a phantom caller. I watch as it slows down, passing by me. It makes it just around the corner when suddenly I hear tires screeching. Just as quickly as it turned the corner, the cab is now racing in my general direction. I grab for my gun and realize two things; One I lost my gun and two I’m in a new tin can. I look back up and dive to the side just as the cab is about to run me down. It strikes a tree and I watch the robot driver rocket out and into the bushes. I rush over not to make sure he’s okay, but to get some answers. When I make it to him, he is already up and limping away. Limping. Robot. My mind flashes back to all the limping robots I’ve seen lately and how they have mostly tried to kill me. I run and tackle this cab driver to the ground and find that my new body is way stronger than the previous one. Now it’s question and answer time.
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As I flip the cab driver over and pin him, I come face to face with no one I have met. However the body is unlike the mind, and the mind speaks. “Well I’ll be damned Magnus. If you’re not the hardest son of a bitch to kill, then I don’t know what is.” I stare him down and scan to see if the cab driver is being remote controlled or if I’ve got a genuine problem here. “Yeah I get that a lot. but how did you know it was me?” The driver laughs and my results come back with nothing. “How did I know? We’ve been tracking your mind and keeping it off the network as best we could. When you switched bodies, we noticed.” “So why did you try to kill me?” I ask while keeping control over him. He looks around and I can hear mechanical laughter beneath his words. “Which time, in the alley? Here? Farley? Police Station? Pick one.” I suddenly get the feeling this is indeed a killer robot. ” I am unimpressed by your efforts. However, your methods I will question.” Suddenly the crazed robot leans up almost close enough to kiss me, if it had lips. “A war has begun, I have made copies of myself and robots are taking over humans as we speak. Soon it will only be a matter of time before even the mayor is involved.” I stop and think back to the day I saw the mayor, surrounded by robot guards. Shit. This is not good.
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I leap off the robot and sever his energy connection permanently. As he lay motionless I contemplate what to do next. Killer robots are hijacking human bodies, the mayor is in danger and I’m miles from city hall. I look around and spot a beautiful car parked on the side of the road. I walk over and find that this new body has some of my accessories. Oh Cap, really you shouldn’t have. My lock picks pop out and I get into the car. A few seconds later, I’ve stolen a vehicle and am headed straight toward the police station on my way to city hall. Worst case ever, working for the government absolutely sucks and it reminds me why I got out in the first place. As I pull up to the front steps to city hall, I notice guards are everywhere. Damn. This sucks. I drive around to the side of the building and step into an alleyway. I look around for a side entrance or low window, with no such luck. This just isn’t my day. Suddenly, I decide to see what this new body has to offer. As I cycle down the list, I find a few entries that blow my mind. Camouflage? Holographic projection? Ha ha ha, now we’re talking.
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I walk around the front trying out this “Holographic Projection” thing. I will probably still be recognized as a robot, but this should make it a little more difficult. As I walk toward the front door, neither guard notices me. Excellent. As I wander in, I look around. No sign of the mayor anywhere, he is priority number one. I need to- and then I run into her. Or them. Or those. My eyes flash back up from her chest and I am staring at the lovely Miss Radlem, Miss Del Mar or Veronica. Which ever one, they’re all the same. The look of utter disgust on her face warms my core with joy as she doesn’t recognize me. My mind is thankful, and then does something completely stupid. “Veronica Radlem. Nice to see you again.” She looks at me with a funny look. “Do I know you or something?” I look around and then lean in as if to whisper. “I’m still on the case aren’t I?” The look of surprise on her face makes me realize that she thought I was dead. “Magnus?! What the hell is going on? Aren’t you dead?” I consider her words for a moment before I am able to reply. “Nope, but then again… it’s been awhile since I was really alive.”
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Strangely enough it’s great to see a familiar face. Even if it is one I associate with a rather large gun and my face. She looks around cautiously. “Today my Dad is getting out of prison. That’s why I’m here.” Then I say something to try and determine which Veronica I am talking to. “Doesn’t he not like you?” She gives me a quick look and I know who I’m talking to before she speaks. “It doesn’t matter.” As Ronnie is sharing her sister’s body, I try and figure out how she has so much control to shut her sister away for the meantime. Then I get a certain feeling, a feeling of impending doom. It’s not until I realize her father is being released now, and is walking towards her that I know what’s about to happen. Ronnie doesn’t want his love, not any more. As she raises the gun, I feel myself reacting and am in between her and her father. I can see the look on her face. “Get out of the way Magnus! He’s going to pay for what he did to me… what he did to us!” I am prepared to die for this man, even though this is a new body.
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She stares me down as the crowd gasps and backs off, however her father continues walking toward us. “Everything will be okay sweetheart.” He says that rather calmly. As he pushes on me to move, I decide to give him his chance. If anyone can get through to her or maybe give her sister the strength to wrestle control from her, it might be him. He stands in front of her, a free man. A man who using his daughters and their loyalty, put all robot-kind into question. As he embraces her, I can hear her sobbing into his chest. Everyone around realizes this moment is for them, and them alone. As things begin to calm down, and get back to normal, suddenly a loud bang rings out over the crowd. I spin, expecting to see a dead body but it seems no one has been hurt. No one that is until Mr. Radlem stumbles backward and blood begins seeping from his abdomen.
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The double episode is over, but what will happen to Veronica? Will her father make it? How long before Magnus makes some headway in solving the case for the judge? And just how will he manage to help the human hijackings? Tune in for episode twenty one in two days time!

The Choice: My Writing ADD

Something happened tonight that made me realize that my Super Zero story was becoming a chore. I put off writing it all day and thought about other projects. As I rethink my approach to the topic of school and being a kid again, I’ve come to the conclusion I would like to start up a couple other ideas in episodic form. Episodic has been helping me write these blog posts and today is no exception. Sometimes when things get tired, you simply have to put them to bed for a bit before they can come back well rested. You haven’t heard the last of Super Zero, but for a little bit, he is definitely tucked in.

I am always concerned with my writing, does it sound well written? Is it accurate to the age group I am trying to portray. After rereading my stories for Super Zero thus far, the boy sounds extremely well spoken for his age. This isn’t unheard of, but still, I find myself stretching to write the posts. Perhaps I write too much detail into his life and need to dial it back, but either way it will be revived later. I had some great ideas! If you’d like me to continue it sooner, rather than later, feel free to comment or email me. I know I’d love some feedback from the world beyond the screen.

Lately I’ve been considering writing my actual Superhero drama and another story about my take on the Fourth Dimension. Tomorrow’s post will be Unbiased Law for another episode, and then the next day I am going to attempt my hand at a thought provoking article about my ideas behind what the Fourth Dimension is, how it can be seen and how it relates to time travel. Some people just shuttered, and I respect that. Often times, Time Travel is a subject that can ruin an otherwise seamless world. Think about Harry Potter and how they spent one arc travelling back and fixing some issues from their recent past. It always leaves holes as to why that wasn’t used to save Dumbledore or Snape, or just simply go back and stop the revival of Voldemort.

Either way, I’ll give you the brief idea behind each story today and I’d love to hear some comments below on either one or both. I love feedback of any sort, so please, feel free!

“Unnamed Superhero Story” – A not so secret chapter of the military has brought together a rag tag group of ex criminals and heroes alike in the hopes they can stop crimes around the world. As pasts come to light, some heroes have darker sides and criminal backgrounds. Fighting to stop international crime, the group suddenly becomes torn when one hero’s drinking problem catches up with him and he accidentally puts one of the other heroes into a coma. The group divided and trying hard to stick together, the villains end up forging a shaky alliance to break the group up once and for all.

“Dimentia” – A psychologist travels to a psych ward to interview one of the patients who claims to see things far into the future and far into the past. Upon realizing this man can perfectly see everything from his perspective throughout history, she takes him into her care to find out more about her own past as well as help him cope with his issues. As the man attempts to focus solely on his psychologist’s past, he finds himself actually travelling through time depending on what he is focused on. Unnerved and lost, the man must somehow find his way back to the present and avoid damaging the past.

Those are the two ideas I have been tossing around in my head. With the superheroes I would love to explore issues with them such as how a hero would deal with poverty, failure, depression, injury and many other bigger issues that I would love to see normal comic books tackle. Some already have been, but not too in depth. Also with Dimensia that is not a typo, the spelling is a play on dementia and dimension, and I like to think of it as a rather unique title. I would love to have a secret society throughout history devoted to its preservation, but I’m not sure if it will fit in too much. In fact, I could probably cut the time travel out completely and still make for a good story between a psychologist and her patient.

For now I’d love to hear from you and what your opinions are on these two ideas and the fact I’m putting Super Zero on hiatus. I will probably alternate these two ideas in Super Zero’s slot as I have found Unbiased Law has actually become quite the hit bringing in my busier days while Super Zero almost drives traffic away. Take care and thanks for visiting!

Unbiased Law: Episode 19

Episode Eighteen Recap: Forced into killing an old friend being controlled by an invisible enemy, Magnus finds himself soaring through the air in a taxi.  Headed towards the water under a bridge, will our Detective escape his near certain fate? What could possibly save him in this instance? The answer lies in the words below! (or head back to Episode One or Episode Eighteen)!

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Well. When I recharged earlier in the week, if you’d have told me I’d be soaring through the air in a taxi, I may have laughed at you. If you had asked me two days ago, I’d have dismissed it but still considered it. Today, I find that nothing is impossible. Killer robots, Body Hijacking, A girl with a second personality that is a robot and a looming war between humans and robots. Only I am on the case, and I am headed toward certain doom. Doom. Goddamnit. I’m not about to die. Not in a taxi. I push my feet straight against the roof and thrust my back against the seats. Gun aimed at the back wind shield, I plow as many bullets through it as I possibly can and watch it disintegrate. I grab the edge and pull myself to spite Death yet again. Screw you, I won’t roll over. Not today,  not ever.
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I can feel Death’s grasp slide off as I pull myself through the back window of the taxi and assess my situation. I find the car in a crazy spin and I leap toward the underside of the bridge. I miss the support bars and fall clanging through lower supports. As I tumble, I feel bits of me falling off as I play a quick game of ricochet among the bars. My gun disappears as my hand obliterates off iron girders, and as my head connects with a different support I lose the ability to see out of my left side. Enraged, I thrust my hand out and feel myself immediately stop plummeting. I look up and my arm is up to the elbow in cobblestone. Dear God, will today just end? Thanks. Sincerely Magnus.
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After a brief, yet difficult climb I find myself standing on the roadside. The cab is long since gone. I say a few words for Farley and then I keep moving. I’ve got to get somewhere, somewhere I’ve got friends. Now where the hell is that? Then an idea pops into my head, it’s a long shot but I’m running out of friends and ideas.
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I march up the stairs to the beautiful split entry home, pillars on the deck and a golden retriever at the doormat. He sniffs me and then rolls over for a belly rub. I glance back to the Beware of Dog sign and laugh to myself. “Guard dog huh?” I scratch his belly and push the doorbell. When the door opens, a man stares at me completely bewildered by my appearance. “What are you doing here?” I stare at him for a few moments before deciding I really do have no other options. “Hey Cap, long time no see.” As I stare at the man with silver hair, he looks me up and down. “What’s wrong Magnus?” My former boss, Captain Steven Gates, knows right away I need help. “How’d you know Cap?” He points to my mangled hand and tucks my “eye” back in its socket. “A damn hunch you foolish robot. Come in before I’m arrested for harbouring a dead man.”
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As I walk into his home, I take a look around. Nothing has changed except the faces in the pictures. Everyone is older, but it doesn’t feel like it’s been that long. “Cap… what do you mean harbouring a dead man?” He grins and swipes his television remote. As he turns the volume up, I realize I can only hear out one side of my head, but it’s more than enough. “Tonight a Taxi plunged off the Silver River Bridge, taking two robots with it to the bottom. As rescue attempts were made, there were no survivors. Salvaging and collection will begin in two days and police advise all river users to take the detour through the other side to the old draw bridge in…” the voice slowly fades out as I watch the volume decrease. I look to the Captain as he shrugs. “So you died?” I look him straight in the eye and as serious as I can, manage one line. “Well I got better.”
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A narrow escape! A new ally? Where’s the Veronicas? Only Episode 20 could answer these questions, maybe, but the only way to find out is to tune in! Two Days Time! Big Episode Twenty! Double Feature! BE THERE!

A Brief Interlude: The Fiftieth Post

As a guy struggling to work his way into the world of writing, maintaining consistency is just about the hardest thing in the world. With work, games, food and the many other distractions of daily life; I’m impressed I have maintained an average of a blog post per day on this blog since I started up again just last month. All things considered, it has felt very good to get back into the swing of writing and even reading. You don’t know how much you miss something until you A) Lose it or B) Get back to it with fresh eyes. Normally I would lose interest or even start to slow my pace. We all make excuses, no matter what the activity. “‘I’m too tired”, “Can’t focus”, and just plain “I’ll do it later” are all reasons I’ve used in the past. Cracking the whip on others is so much easier than doing it to yourself.

First off, I’d like to thank anyone out there reading for passing by and stopping a moment. It means a lot to me to see the view counter go up, as if to say “Look, your hard work isn’t going unnoticed.” I’d also like to thank my girlfriend for being the most supportive person in the world, and also the most patient. I don’t know how many times I thought she lost interest in the crazy stories I came up with and bounce off her, but she proves herself every time. As for my friends and family, you have all been great. Passing the word of mouth, reading and commenting here and there. I love the fact I have such a great support system! Also I’d like to thank WordPress for having a totally sweet set up here, it’s been one of the things that has kept me coming back as well. After failing at making a blogger page, I thought I’d give a different blog site a try and I am glad I did!

I have been toying with an idea for awhile which I may write on the side either as a series of short stories, or even as an episodic content blog. The idea surrounds a group of Superheroes who band together to fight crime. The main draw is that this series would be dark and explore many facets of being a Superhero that may not have been previously discussed. I also wanted something more realistic, so keeping their powers simple would not only allow you to still relate to them, but wouldn’t overpower the group. When I talk about this group I almost think of the Justice League in their type of simplicity, but when a Superhero dies that would be it. None of them would be invincible, and no one would be entirely safe. They would be Government funded employees, but not run. As they face the normal challenges of everyday life, you would get to see how a superhero would deal with murder, rape, and many other crimes. I had some ideas but I will save them for the actual story.

I bring this up because I have been considering the grand finale to Unbiased Law, which is coming down the road. I’m not sure if I should replace him with an “Episodic Season” of this story. No matter what though, I have to say I’m beyond thrilled that this blog has managed to get over 580 views since I started it last month. I had some good weeks and some bad weeks, but over all it’s been a great run thus far! In August I had an average of eight views per day, and in September I’ve managed to up it to twelve views per day! Not exactly superstar status, but it’s a start! Although with an average of five hundred words per post, and fifty posts here and forty three on IGN… that makes for ninety three by five hundred… totalling forty-six and a half thousand words. Damn. I’ve written enough words to fill over half of the first Harry Potter book. Now if only I could use these powers for good…

Anyway to make a long post even longer, thanks again everyone out there in reader land. Please keep on reading and feel free to email me or comment here! I accept any and all feedback! Tune in tomorrow for a new Unbiased Law as I skip today’s Super Zero to plan a bit better! Take care!

Unbiased Law: Episode 18

Episode Sixteen Recap:  Magnus and his quick thinking manage to save Ronnie from bleeding out in Veronica’s body. After a short moment of relief, Ronnie wishes for him to swap them back. Being new to the procedure, Magnus makes a critical error and creates two girls exactly the same in mind. As Veronica, now back in her body, seemingly pulls the trigger on her sister for all the meddling Ronnie did in her life, Magnus is left with some final words that seem all too familiar. As Veronica pulls away, Magnus realizes he just left two minds in one body, he forgot to overwrite the memories as data transferred. Now that he has put both of his enemies in one body, will she be twice as deadly? Or will she tear herself apart? Perhaps you will find out below (or head back to Episode One or Episode Seventeen)!

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I march down the sidewalk in silence. Two girls, one robot and one human. I’ve trapped them in the same fleshy cage and I can only hope that the girls will play nice. As of this moment, it may be the only way they can survive. I walk until I finally make my way to a busy main street. As taxis fly by, I realize this week has been the worst week in recent memory, but most likely ever. I stand staring at nothing when suddenly I realize a taxi has stopped and is honking it’s horn at me. I make my way into the back seat and tell the driver where I’m going. Strangely enough, I don’t know what I tell him, I’m too distracted by my own thoughts. Suddenly, my name being called snaps me out of my stupor. “Magnus! Goddamnit man what’s wrong with you?” I look up and see Farley, much to my surprise.
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“Farley, what the hell are you doing here and how did you escape the cell?” I manage to trip over every second word. If a robot could grin, he would be right now. “No time to talk boss.  You’ve got a date with destiny. Lucky I found you here!” I sit back and relax for a moment before his words sink in. Date? With Destiny? I lean forward to ensure I’m heard correctly. “Date with Destiny? Are you setting me up with a car or something because I’m not into that kind of stuff.” I can hear his mechanical laughter from the front seat. “No way man, better plans for you. You’ve got a date with the Commissioner.” As soon as I hear the word Commissioner, my hand shoots to the door handle but I find it already locked. “Farley, Please don’t do this. That robot will kill me.” Farley shakes his head in response to my pleading. “Sorry man, but he gave me my options and I had to take it.”
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I don’t know what a robot could have to lose aside from his life, but I decide I can’t just sit back and take this. I try and hack into his mind and see if I can change it manually. Suddenly, I am shocked to find he has been infected with some virus. As it directs itself toward the open connection, I escape just in time. He looks back into the rear view and I can tell he is genuinely sorry. “I can’t help it man. They got to me.” I slide my hand into my jacket and feel my gun. The bulletproof glass between us is thick enough to stop a bullet, but I must do what I need to. That’s when I realize that the glass only goes so far down. I notice a small gap in between the floor and the glass, enough to clean out underneath the seats. I take one last look into the mirror at one of the few robot friends I had made as of late. “Sorry Farley.” I slide my hand underneath the seat and twist my wrist to point the gun directly at the bottom of the driver seat. A few bullets later and I score a hit.
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As the bullet rips through Farley’s memory unit, he spins and I see the energy draining from his circuits. “Thank… you… I’m no… puppet…” The energy cuts. Final last words, not just for humans. Sadly we’re doing about ninety miles an hour, and I can see a bridge approaching. No hands on the wheel, a steel foot on the accelerator, this isn’t looking good. Suddenly everything is in slow motion. The car heads straight for the sidewalk and unfortunately the bridge edge. As the car catches the corner of the cobblestone pillar of the bridge it flips and spins through the air. No seatbelt on, I find myself crashing to the roof and the seats and back again. Bullet casings clang off my body and I watch through a side window as the car heads upside down past the bridge. I could try to login in, back up my memory again, but I know that this is all happening in fractions of a second. It only feels slow because I am most likely about to plummet to my doom. Not only have I killed a friend, but the Commissioner will still win and I will be a thing of the past. Damnit, I hate Wednesdays.
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With our robot hero trapped within the confines of a taxi in mid air, the question is how will he survive? Will he solve the case or will he find himself trapped at the bottom of a body of water? Tune in once again in two days time!

Unbiased Law: Episode 17

Episode Sixteen Recap:  As Magnus sits in his car with human hijacking Veronica, ex human Veronica stands outisde arguing with her sister. As the tensions flare, Magnus realizes a robot is watching them from the end of the alley. When bullets start flying, Magnus grabs the sister outside the car, and reverses out of the alley, smashing into the killer robot. As he surveys the damage, ex human Veronica is trying to deal with her sister quickly bleeding out. Will they be able to help her or is it already too late? Head down for the crazy seventeeth episode (or head back to Episode One or Episode Sixteen)!

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I stare at the girl as blood gushes from both front and back. My brain is trying to make sense of it all when suddenly Veronica screams at me. “Do something, anything!” This however doesn’t snap me out of my daze, there’s just so much… so much blood. I can tell she’s still screaming at me when I turn to her, and stare at her body. She looks disgusted and enraged all at once. “You’re going to check me out while my sister dies in my body?” I can’t hear her, I’m a million miles away. As she is screaming, she doesn’t notice me hack into her systems and arrange a minuscule amount of her nanites to go to her sister as if it was a normal transfer. I watch as her skin crawls, and the nanites make their way down her hand  by what seems to be the millions. Well, that’s about the only way you’d be able to see them with the naked eye is if they travelled in a large enough amount.
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As I sit by, I can still hear Veronica screaming and I watch the progress of the nanites. They are amazing as the bullet holes rebuild from the inside out. Veronica is still screaming at me when her sister takes my hand, and I help her up. As R0N-N13 sits up, Veronica stares at the lack of bullet wounds and sighs with relief. I look into R0N-N13’s eyes and she looks back. I can tell she immediately regrets being in the fragile, fleshy casing humans call a body. She looks at me and I know what her eyes are asking. Switch us back, please switch us back. I stare for a moment as if to be sure, and she nods. I look to Veronica who both of us had tuned out. Her face is as red as a tomato and she is still screaming. What she doesn’t know, and what most robots do, is that you can be forced into shut down. I draw one of the hidden tools from my body and I tap the small stick on Veronica’s knee. She convulses a moment and then is silent. I turn to R0N-N13 and her eyes are already closed. I connect to her wirelessly, but as the Doc had removed Veronica’s wireless transmitter when he pronounced her dead, I connect manually.
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As the transfer goes through, I feel relieved. Veronica opens her eyes and hits me, forgetting I’m a robot and obviously oblivious to the fact she’s a human again. She realizes this when seconds later pain shoots through her hand and up her arm and she stares at it with disbelief. Her mouth hangs open as the words tumble out. “I’m… back. I’m me.” As R0N-N13 wakes, I turn to her. “Are you all right?” I ask despite everything seeming fine. She nods and looks to her sister. “Call me Ronnie.” I would smile if I could, but I can hear some grumbling coming from Veronica. I turn to her and realize she’s not looking too happy. “What’s wrong Veronica?” She doesn’t hesitate to let me have it all. “You copied, but didn’t override my sister’s memory.” I turn to Ronnie and she is silent. When I look back from one to the other, guns are drawn and everyone is really unhappy. Veronica makes the first accusation. “You wanted to be the one my father loved, you switched us and almost killed me in the process. Then when you told my father, he refused to love you because he figured you had killed me.” Ronnie’s gun quivers in her hand. “You sided with the discards in hopes to clear father’s name and win back his love.” As Veronica and I both stare at her, she realizes that is one of her own memories, but as her human self.
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In an instant everything changes and I watch as Veronica shoots Ronnie. As the organ donor droid drops, I immediately fear for my own existence. Veronica turns to me. “Thanks for getting my body back, so I owe you one.” I breathe a sigh of relief and then I hear her voice change slightly as she says, “You live today, but know something. I’m tracking you, so now I can find you and kill you whenever I want. So if you end up near my house again, I will hunt you down.” As she motions for me to get out of the car, I slide out and watch it drive away in shock. I have heard Veronica say that before, but it was when Ronnie had me in my office tied to a chair. I think I’ve done something absolutely terrible and against the law. I’ve given a human multiple personality disorder, and one of those personalities sided with the discards. Now I stand on the sidewalk wondering just which personality pulled the trigger.
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As the Radlem sisters become one and the same in Veronica’s human body, will they fight for supremacy or will Ronnie try to keep it hidden as long as she can? Will Magnus attempt to turn them in or will he avoid the Police Station as long as he can? Where is the killer robot now? The answers can only be in the future! Two days time! Episode Eighteen! Be there!

Unbiased Law: Episode 16

Episode Fifteen Recap: Magnus indeed won the struggle for his interrogator’s gun, using only his problem solving skills to overpower his opponent. Despite destroying the robot with a limp for a second time, it seems as though this new threat can body hop and has appeared in three different droids since Magnus first discovered him. Could this be a legendary robot assassin sent to kill him? Also after escaping from the police station, Magnus finds himself in his car once again, with Robot in Human Veronica while Human in Robot Veronica stumbles upon them together. Will it be lights out for one, both or none? Head down for the dramatic sixteenth episode (or head back to Episode One or Episode Fifteen)!

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“Well, well, well. My body hijacking sister and the robot I hired to bring her back to me. Are you two working together? You trying to kill me again… Sis?” The last word hangs in the air, it’s venomous enough to make it’s way into the world’s deadliest top ten. I decide to chime in. “Actually, she was saving me from the police.” She stares at me. “The police she sicked upon you if I’m not mistaken.” I do recall that part as well. I turn to the Veronica in the car. “Well, you are on your own.” As the two Veronica’s are shouting at each other, I glance in the side mirror just in time to notice a robot peering down the alley toward us. Well, that can’t be good. I lift my gun and watch as the robot limps its way into view. Hmm, definitely not good. I notice him raise something, and suddenly I see the muzzle flash. Shit, he’s got a gun. Absolutely not good!

As Veronica stands outside, and a Veronica sits idly in my driver’s seat, I realize they’re both stunning and stunned. Damn dumb beauties. I grab the Veronica outside by the collar and drag her across her sister’s lap. Suddenly I am wedged firmly between two lovely ladies and with a killer robot on the way to kill us all. Just another damn day. I jam the car into reverse and hit the gas with my hand. I can’t see a damn thing, so all I do is pray we make it straight out of the alley. Suddenly a large bang and the sound of metal dragging on pavement gives me hope. I push the Veronica on top of me head first between my feet and I slide magically out from under her, ramming the driver’s seat as far back as it can go. I look in the rear view mirror and watch it get blown off. Glad that wasn’t my head. I slam the hand brake on and I hear metal skidding across the pavement once again. Such a beautiful sound, like nails on a chalkboard. Releasing the hand brake I ram the car into drive and peel away from the scene. What insanity.

My mind jumps to the freeze frame of the limping killer robot before he blew off my rear view mirror. He is a good shot, which leaves me wondering why we’re all still alive. How is this robot getting around so quickly? It seems he can’t be killed. Perhaps he is being controlled remotely by another robot. Worse case scenario this gimped robot has figured out how to copy his memory and transplant it… wirelessly… to many robots. I let that thought sink in for a few seconds. It feels good to be back behind the wheel of my own car, I should shoot them both in the head and leave them outside the police station in the pouring rain… yeah, that’d be good. Sadly, my days as a police officer won’t let me harm them, but I’ll save that thought for my personal moments. I really need a new job. Suddenly, I realize I’m surrounded by chaos and brought back to the situation at hand.

The Veronica in the driver’s seat is moaning in absolute agony. Poor robot, must be weird feeling pain for her. I look to her sister and she’s already on it, apparently concerned more for her body than her sister. I shake my head at the world. After this maybe I’ll retire. As a great cop once said, “I’m too old for this shit.” Sad part is, I’m not. I drive mostly in silence, except for the wailing of a robot in a human’s body. If anyone else could hear this girl, they’d think she was in her death throws. I park on a deserted side street and turn to see the damage. There’s bullet holes all in my car, I’m missing a rear view mirror and a girl is bleeding all over my seat. Son of a… Blood doesn’t come out easy. I’m going to need bleach, and a lot of it. The Veronica in the passenger’s seat looks at me. “Do something damn it!” I look at her sister and realize she’s not doing so well. A small bullet hole gushes blood out of the right side of her abdomen. What’s worse is the matching one also spewing blood on her lower back.

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Will the wounded Veronica survive? Who is this strange killer robot? Only Episode Seventeen may tell you! Tune back in two days time!

Unbiased Law: Episode 15

Episode Fourteen: As Magnus witnessed the murder, albeit in his defence, of the acting commissioner, he found himself an unlikely ally in Veronica. However the lady may giveth and may also taketh away as she frames him for the murder, thus slowing him down in his investigation. Magnus then learns more about the looming robot war from an old friend in his short stint in a holding cell. As he is escorted to an interrogation room, he finds himself looking down the barrel of yet another gun, only this time he’s ready. Will he win the struggle? Find out below! (or head back to Episode One or Episode Fourteen)!

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As the sound of two clunky robots fighting across a table for a gun sounds much like a factory floor, no one outside the room seems to notice. I struggle to wrestle the gun from his hand, but it’s useless. We are robots, equal in strength and stamina. I attempt to put my intellect to good use, and look for a weak spot in his joints. I note a potential weak spot in his wrist and as our hands are locked around the gun, I slide my forearm up to our hands. I give him a little flex room with the gun and he noticeably relaxes a moment, just the moment I need. I slam my forearm hard onto his hand, landing his wrist on the edge of the table. Both hands come off much to my surprise, and apparently his as well. He looks at me and only gets a chance to say a few words, “Shoddy workmanship here” before I blow his metal head off his shoulders.

I step into the hallway and look around, the guards don’t spot me so I begin to sneak past and around the corner. I turn to look back one last time before continuing on. The path to the door is straight and I can easily make it, but something catches my eye. A janitorial robot with a limp. A limp. My mind flashes back to the Acting Commissioner and my Interrogator. Damn, not much time to think, he’s heading straight for more droids. I rush into the nearby bathroom and look for some sort of escape. Lucky for me, the main windows seem to lead into the alley and seem to be open. I turn to look behind me, being ever so cautious and then bolt for the window. Hmm, not as open as I’d hoped. As the window shatters around me, I land on the ground and keep running. I run until my energy meter tells me I’m low again. I run until I am back at my office.

I hurriedly grab all I need plus another gun not used in a crime and rush outside. I look around and I see my car parked conveniently nearby. As I look around confused by seeing it there, I hear the familiar hum of police sirens. Without a second thought, I run to my car. As I open the door, Veronica looks at me and I look at her legs. Human, she framed me, but do I have a choice? As I hop in, we peel away, leaving the police to investigate my office. They don’t pursue us at all. I turn to Veronica and she giggles. “Fun day at the office?” I feel rage well up inside my metal frame as if my cooling system just died. “You set me up!” I pull out my gun and point it at her. She does the same and pulls into an alleyway. As we sit, guns pointing at each other I feel the need to question her. “Why should I trust you?” She smiles. “Because I like you?” I stifle back a sarcastic laugh and shake my head. “You are beautiful, but I know you’re just a robot in a human body. You’re a thief.” The smile drains from her face and she scowls. “I am not a thief. I’m just as good as she is, and isn’t that the tin kettle calling the human pot black?” Her analogy makes little to no sense, but I understand what she means. As a human in a robot body, robots call people like me a driver, a human steering a machine.

The next few minutes are tense and then we both begin to lower our guns. She makes the first move. “I’m sorry. But what if someone told you that you could be human again, legally?” I think about that for a moment. Would I go back? I’m not exactly sure, if I was entirely human I’d have died this week. But in all reality, I wouldn’t have made it this far. “I don’t know, they both have their advantages.” She grabs my robot hand and puts it firmly on her breast. “I can feel that, it’s taken some getting used to, but I can feel everything. It’s incredible!” I stare at her breasts, so perfect, and my metal hand feels nothing. I pull my hand back and reflect on that for a minute. She looks over to me and sighs. “I’m sorry, I know you wish you could now for sure, but being a robot has it’s benefits for sure.” She puts her hand on my leg to reassure me. “The first time I stubbed my toe, I thought I was dying. Never feeling pain before made that seem so much worse than it really was.” As we sat there chatting suddenly a knock came on the window to the car. As Veronica rolled the window down, a gun slid in pointed directly in her face. At the other end was the other Veronica, and she seemed pissed.

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Both Veronicas finally in the same place, and the only thing between them is Magnus. Will he be able to stop them from killing each other? Or will he get caught in the crossfire! Another Episode, in another Two Days!

Unbiased Law: Episode 14

Episode Thirteen: Magnus started off our last episode with a gun pointed in his face and ended off in the same way. Only difference was the person holding the gun. As our detective unravels the mysteries behind the Radlem sisters, he is now pinned between a robot posing as a human, and a woman stuck as an organ donor robot. When he turns to the police for help he finds that there is more than meets the eye to the current acting commissioner, as episode thirteen seemed unlucky for our robot protagonist, will episode fourteen be any better? Please enjoy today’s episode (or head back to Episode One or Episode Thirteen)!

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The sound of metal tearing apart shattered all that was silent. I froze, as if to fall over dead once again. Suddenly I realized I was still standing. “Hey, stupid robot, we’ve got to move!” The voice was sweet but the message wasn’t as I turned to see Veronica standing behind me. Shock turned to surprise as I turned to see the commissioner had been “deactivated”. I spun back to her and headed for the door. This was my worst case in years. Note to self: Never take a high profile case ever again. I’d rather find Miss “TooManyCats” lost kitten. As I rushed past Veronica I realized someone must have heard the shot. Strangely, it seemed no one was paying attention. I turned to see Veronica putting something in her bag. “What are you doing?” She looked up at me. “It’s a silencer, disables all robot hearing for the moment the shot goes off.” I nod. That is actually not a bad idea, however I heard the shot. As we close the door behind us, we make our ever so slight escape.

As we arrive at the front door Veronica turns to me with a concerned look on her face. “Oh you dropped this by the way.” She hands me my gun and I look down at it. Strange, I don’t remember it falling. When I look up Veronica is talking to a police officer a few paces away, and he raises his gun at me. “Halt! You are under arrest for the murder of the Commissioner!” As I stand there shocked, the gun literally slides from my hands. I stare at Veronica as she runs down the steps. She is insane. It wasn’t until that moment I notice her exceptionally sexy human legs. Damn it all to hell, I just got played. As the metallic officer scans me for anything else I watch her jump into my car and drive off. Son of a bitch, I’m going to get my car back when this blows over.

As the officer places me into custody and throws me in a cell, I take a look around. Delinquent robot holding cell, very nice. One of the robots in the cell looks extremely familiar, so I decide to seat myself beside it. “What did you do to get thrown in here?” I ask politely, hoping I wasn’t responsible for putting the robot in here. As he looks up at me, he sits up straight. “Magnus? Why the hell are you in here? I thought you were solving the problems, not creating more?” It was Farley, a cabbie I had met a few days back, after I got shot at the beginning of this investigation. “Yeah, well you can’t bake a cake without cracking a few eggs. Or in this case, opening some tin cans.” We shared a laugh and then he looked back to me. “I was hoping you could solve my case as purely self defence. Some crazy robot tried to harvest my parts while I was using them! I took one swing and it must not have had a great connection, because its head fell right off.” I grinned. “Wow, that sounds nuts. I heard robot on robot crime was on the rise, but that’s ridiculous.” As we both stared straight forward, Farley had to ask. “So why are you in here detective?” I share a laugh with no one but myself. “I killed the Acting Commissioner. Or so it may seem.”

Farley sat as still as a statue. I couldn’t tell if he was out of juice, or just that shocked. “Well I don’t think you’d do that.” I nodded and then looked away in thought. “Actually I would have. I think the Commissioner wasn’t the Commissioner at all. Much like some robot wanted your parts, robots have been hijacking robots and now it seems people as well.” Farley leaned back against the wall, shaking his head in disbelief. “What the hell is going on out there?” I pat him on the shoulder. “I don’t know, I’d love to find out though.” Suddenly a robot bursts into the room and looks into the cell. “Magnus, you are coming with me.” The cell door opens and two officers are standing on either side. “Good luck out there Farley.” He nods to me. “Same to you buddy, seems the world is going crazy.”

As the three of us march down the hallway, I am lead to a small room with only a desk and a chair. The officer droids force me into my seat and then they leave. Another robot enters the room and he has an oh so familiar limp. As he sits down in front of me, I can’t help but think I have some new problems. He stares me right in the eyes. “So. You may have been saved last time, but Magnus, you know too much. I am sorry but I will have to disable you.” I decide enough is enough. “Well, if you must, first tell me who you are.” The robot laughs. “Or not.” He raises a pistol to my face and pulls the trigger, lucky for me I have my speedy moments. Today, I dodged a bullet. Marking that on the calendar. As our hands both wrestle for control of the gun, I pray that no one else can see the struggle going on in this room.

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Will Magnus prevail? Or will he fall victim to yet another bullet? And who is this mysterious robot with a limp? Only Episode Fifteen can tell you! Thanks for reading!