“Burn, baby
burn!”
Smokey the
bear*
Worked on
Writers of the Future story. Hope this one does good. They didn't
like Fate's Keys so I hope this one does well. I'm thinking it will.
Anyway onto the flash fiction!
The Robot
King and the Magical Mafia
“This is most
curious meeting I've ever had,” said Mr. Drake smiling showing off
his dragon teeth. He puffed a bit of smoke. “I couldn't imagine why
the Robot King of all people would want to meet me.” Most people
would freeze in fear if the Robot King asked for them any warning.
Even people in the highest positions in government all over the many
universes. But Mr. Drake showed up with confidence in his ten
thousand gold coin suit. People didn't know where the unique,
unsettling black came from. It was from the fact it had been made
from demon skin. The power and risk needed to get the skin justified
its cost. Mr. Drake came to the meeting with four associates of his.
They were powerful wizards of the highest caliber. He met all of them
at an elven court and with enough money they became his best friends.
“Welcome to
my throne room Mr. Drake.” The Robot King would look like a simple
male android. Realistic yes, but simple looking. He had no obvious
weapons so why would he be scary. But the robot had political sway
and over its long lifespan before politics it had traveled many
unvirses and gathered much knowledge. And the Robot King kept the
philosophy of spying and knowledge gathering. A saying came to be:
“You never know what the Robot King knows.” Often when a
politicians secrets are suddenly revealed its assumed that the Robot
King revealed some hidden away blackmail. But even without blackmail
the Robot King united many robotic kingdoms under his rule. He
operated as a sort of controlling head while they acted under him.
Almost like a parent and children. Blackmail was the peaceful way he
fixed his problems. He had his armies. “I haven't seen someone so
calm in front of me in such a long while.”
“Why would I
be afraid?” Mr. Drake continued to smile and flicked his large,
thorny tail. His tail was incredibly long for his species. Another
oddity of his was the fact he stood on his hind legs. Perhaps it was
because of all the “business” he did with creatures that stood
that way. “You're not going to hurt me.” Mr. Drake looked at the
sixteen massive robotic guards around the king and all the turrets
pointed at him and his wizards.
The Robot King
grew angry. “Are you taunting me?” He felt like the dragon should
be the most afraid of him. “I don't need courts to prove you're
guilty to throw you in prison. I don't need them to execute you. I'm
King! Lawyers and deals can't save you like in your home universe.”
“Exactly if
you wanted me dead I would be already. My wizard friends here just
helped me on the way here.” The dragon pointed his claw at each of
them. “Now what could one of the most powerful, um, people in the
universe want with a simple business man dragon like me.”
“I need one
of your products. Details of it must be private. Guards escort the
wizards out of the room then leave me and the dragon alone. All
turrets will power down along with all room cameras.” The guards
looked baffled though the turrets, without much in artificial
intelligence just followed the order. “Do it now!” The king of
machine's speaker volume exploded.
Mr. Drake
looked at the machine and whipped his thorned tail. He approached the
Robot King. “Now I'm curious.”
“It's a
simple matter,” The Robot King said. “I need to get something for
me. I will naturally pay.”
The mafia
dragon scratched his chin with his claw. “What could I possibly get
that the great Robot King could not?”
“Something
that requires your connections to the greatest of criminal wizards. I
need you to get me a Soul Reconstructor. A Dark Magic product I know.
You can have whatever you want in exchange for it.”
“By all the
rifts why would you want a Soul Reconstructor? You're a robot! Why
would you want something that repairs human souls so badly you'd
offer me anything to get it?” Mr. Drake thought for a moment.
“Unless, no, you have a soul!” Mr. Drake had heard the tale of a
scientist who made a child of his own by implanting a robot with a
human soul with the help of a wizard. The dragon let out a small
chuckle. “No wonder you wanted that kept a secret. That would be
bad publicity with the other soulless robots.”
“You're
assumptions mean nothing. Will you or will you not provide me with
it? Full secrecy that you are providing this to me must be kept.”
The Robot King rose from his throne.
Mr. Drake could
see desperation in the Robot King. Just in the way the body of the
robot stood in the throne room and the android face looked at him. He
knew he had control. He wondered how far he could push the king.
“Alright. I want you're entire kingdom.”
“As long as I
enough resources to change my identity and flee you may have it.”
The Robot King gave a hurried answer. He wanted the conversation over
as quickly as possible. “Hurry getting the Reconstructor. I will
admit you're right. My soul is dying. Not my body like a human. I'll
be erased, not go to the afterlife.”
Mr. Drake
couldn't believe the king just accepted the offer. He expected a
threat in return. When a deal became too unreasonable with other mob
bosses that's what happened. Drake didn't actually want a kingdom
that large. Robots wouldn't accept them as a leader. He wouldn't know
how to run it without getting assassinated. “I was kidding.” He
said with a puff of smoke. “I'll accept ten billion gold coins.
Well paid in magical artifacts of that cumulative value. That amount
of coins moving on its own would be suspicious.” Mr. Drake gave it
more thought and remembered this wasn't the normal business
transaction. “On second thought I'll get you it for free. It'll be
a favor.” The dragon decided he wanted to be on the King's good
side.
Mr. Drake then
began thinking of his own habits of “elimating” loose ends and
realized that since the king was so concerned about secrecy if the
king would eliminate him after he supplied the Soul Reconstructor.
Wouldn't be the first time he had to leave town. Though the Robot
King had far longer reach.
Author Comment:
Fun fact this story is a sequel to two of my earlier stories. I
decided to do that for kicks. The Robot King and Mr. Drake are each
from their own stories. (Though the Robot King isn't so much the
protagonist in the story he was in since he was kid being made by the
scientist)
Here's the story
Mr. Drake appeared in:
http://langdonflashfictions.blogspot.com/2012/11/todays-flash-fiction_20.html
Here's the story
the Robot King first appeared in(it's an olllldddd one):
http://langdonflashfictions.blogspot.com/2012/06/todays-scifi-fantasy-blog-short-story_21.html
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