↠The awakening↞

Booted up, the switch was flicked, woken up as expected. Woken up as all his brothers did before, the robot looked around in both admiral and confusion as he started to settle in. He was definitively awake.

It was a very simple designed robot compared to his bothers, he had a rectangular face and two circular eyes, one had a clock hand attached to it, and the other looked like a stove knob. Two speakers looking cones were attached to the laterals as ears. His head floated a few centimeters over a conical neck.

His chest had a clock where the heart should be and it has a little clicking noise to it, almost unnoticeable unless you came closer; he had sphere shaped shoulder pads like joints, slim arms and three boxy beige fingers in each hand.

A black hat rested over his head, thanks to a series of magnets it managed to float in a same fashion as his head did. He was painted in a mate grey and beige color scheme.

The robot stood up, he looked at the room, it was a fairly messy room filled with trinkets and robot parts. An old man then taped his shoulder, surpising him.  

“I see you are awake, good. Don’t be afraid as I am your father” said gently. It hesitated a bit before his gears started spinning, a voice modulator started working as the robot started to curiously ask “W-where am I?”. His mind was filled with thoughts and stimulus, all the shapes, noises and light were starting to overwhelm the newly born creature.

“You are home, this is the place where you will live from now” replied the man. The robot nodded, still dazed by the huge amount of information.

The old man smiled at him and left him alone for some hours to let him settle in and accept all this newfound feelings, he has done this before with the other siblings that awaited next to the room, impatient to meet the new member of the family. Before he left, he added: “Your name from now will be Tic, and you shall call me father”. The door creaked behind him, heaving the robot alone in the room, drown in one million thoughts.