After the time travelers prevented the End of the World, the robot powered on in his accustomed future, with no evidence that anything strange had occurred save for the data in his memory banks.
Without proof of their adventures, they might as well have been a glitch in his core processor. He stayed silent, and remained watchful. He considered it his last duty to his comrades, scattered across time.
His fellow robots had gone wrong in the post-apocalypse. Without the calamity, he didn’t know if they would still revolt. But he would protect the world, even if he was alone.

“robots!” by joyquality is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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