The colonel and his royal commandos had been on maneuvers for twenty days. They had run, jumped, walked, skipped, sprinted, swam, jogged, crawled, sat, stood, climbed, hopped, and shuffled.

They had practiced hand gestures.

They had practiced unarmed combat.

And they had practiced talking, testing their human interactions with David Sterling.

‘Hey buddy?’ - said robot David

‘Hello’ - said David, still under the control of the obedience chain.

‘This weather is kinda crazy, hey?’ - said robot David

‘It is okay’ - said David

‘Would you like to sing a song?’ - said robot David

‘I will if you ask me to’ - said David

‘Hey beautiful, my name is Dave’ - said robot David

‘My name is David’ - said David

‘I fucking love mayonaise’ - said robot David

‘It is nice on a sandwich’ - said David

‘Do you believe in magical creatures?’ - said robot David

‘No’ - said David

‘I am so happy’ - said robot David

‘I am content’ - said David

‘Guns are sooooooo cool!’ - said robot David

David didn’t say anything.

‘Hey, shall we go and buy a car?’ - said robot David

‘I do not think there are any cars to buy in the late cretaceous period’ - said David

‘Jesus Christ is my savior’ - said robot David

David didn’t say anything.

‘I love my job and earning money!’ - said robot David

It was the big day.

‘Alright my lads!’ - said the colonel - ‘Gather round’

The commandos gathered around the colonel.

‘We will shortly be traveling 67 million years into the future lads, and the future of our people is resting on our shoulders. We are traveling to a human animal colony today called New York City lads. Over 8 million of these human animals live there, and we are going to immerse ourselves amongst these beasts to study them. We will walk amongst the human animal beasts for the next 24 hours and then return here, to provide our leaders with the information they need to secure our people’s future’

‘HUZZAH!’ - shouted the commandos.

‘We have trained, we have the knowledge, and we are royal commandos!’ - said the colonel

‘HUZZAH!’ - shouted the commandos.

‘10 minutes to dust off’ - said the colonel

‘HUZZAH!’ - shouted the commandos.

The commandos climbed up a structure that had been built next to robot David, entering the body through the chest. Each took up their positions. The colonel was inside the head, the captain was where the heart would be. Next to the captain was trooper Blankoota. The other commandos took up positions in the legs and stomach of the robot.

Robot David was wearing olive green fatigues and boots.

‘Okay captain, let’s take this rig live!’ - said the colonel.

‘Yes sir’ - said the captain, flicking switches and turning dials.

Trooper Blankoota did the same.

‘Power at 100% sir’ - said Blankoota

‘Thank you trooper, going through normalization phases’ - said the captain

The captain flicked a switch and the robot David started doing squats, jumps, and stretches. He then went through a series of moves like a boxer waiting for a fight to start - punching and shimmying its feet.

David Sterling had never moved or behaved like this.

‘Normalized sir’ - said the captain

‘Thank you captain’ - said the colonel - ‘Launch phase one initiating’

Robot David shimmyed and pranced over to the time machine and mounted it.

‘Launch phase one completed. Trooper Blankoota you have control’ - said the colonel

‘Yes sir’ - said Blankoota

Blankoota pressed buttons and turned dials and robot David started setting the controls of the time machine.

‘Controls set’ - said Blankoota

‘Thank you trooper. I have control’ - said the colonel - ‘Launch in 5-4-3-2-1’

Robot David’s finger hit the button, and the blue lights shot out of the front of the time machine and then became a disc. The center of the disc turned black and then a hole appeared. The time machine with robot David and the tiny alien commandos inside of it shot forward and disappeared.