Molly's
Android Returns to 1910 ©2015 Walt Barrett
Segment
14
Molly's
Android found the lantern and lit it. She didn't need it because she
had full infrared night vision, but she lit it in case anyone at the house
was watching. Then she started off very surefooted making her way down the
hill to the farm house. It was as though she had lived there all her
life.
Her
Bioelectronic brain fully primed with all the knowledge of the known
world and very specific knowledge about Molly Stirling's family. The
Stirling's will never realize that the real Molly is off exploring
space a thousand years in the future in Century 31. As she reaches
the barn she puts out the lantern and let it cool off a couple of
minutes and then hung it up. Then she walked across the dooryard and
slipped in the kitchen door. She immediately noticed a very large
German Shepard dog sitting in the corner. It got up immediately and
walked over to her. Molly scanned the dog and said telepathically,
“You are not a dog, you're a shape shifter. What are you doing
here?”
The
Shape Shifter Responded, “Jennifer Starfield sent me here to watch
over you and the rest of the family. They think that I have always
lived here. I am also an android like you and will always have your
back. Please just call me Jeff, and by the way, I have a medium size
space cruiser parked on the far side of the moon with a robot crew manning the controls. It is fully
protected by Android security. We can summon it any time we need
it.”
Her
mother, Sarah, who was still cleaning the kitchen after the evenings
dinner asked, “Did you have a good time dear?” Molly answered,
“Yes mom, it was wonderful up on the hill tonight. You really
should come with me some time.” Molly Android stood looking at her
mother. Behind her eyes where the hidden sensors were buried, Molly
Android was evaluating Sarah Sterling. It only took 30 seconds to
scan Sarah's entire brain and body. The evaluation came up. Sarah
was 35 years old and was prematurely gray, she has had many children,
she was missing 12 of her teeth, she suffered from early
tuberculosis, and was generally run down from overwork and having too
many children.
Molly
messaged Jeff telepathically, “I just scanned her and she is in
terrible shape.”
Jeff
replied, “I know, and well have to help her or she won't make it
another ten years.” "The whole family is in terrible condition.
Molly
said, “Do you have spare medical chips on board the cruiser?”
Jeff,
“Yes, we'll get them tonight when everyone is sleeping. We can call
the ship and have them transported down to us along with medical
sleeper kits. They'll never know what happened. We might as well do the whole family. ” Getting back to her
mother in that split second Molly said, “Oh Mother, Haley's Comet
was so beautiful! I didn't want to miss it because it won't come back
for about seventy-five years. I want you to come up the hill some
evening before it leaves.”
Sarah
spoke softly, “Yes Molly, I promise and you better get up to bed now
Molly, because 5 AM comes early and you have your morning chores to
do before you walk to the mill.”
Molly,
who never really slept said, “Goodnight Mom” and went up the
staircase to her room. She would come back down later while everyone
was asleep and she and Jeff would get the medical chip kits and apply them to the whole family while they were sleeping heavily from the
effects of the knock out spray. It took them several hours to implant all of the medical chips into the entire family.
Molly
said, “There, in three weeks they'll be as good as new!”
Jeff
replied, Yes, but in 200 years they'll still be walking around town as
good as new.”
Molly
laughed and said, “Well maybe we'll just take them all back to
Rachel in the future. In the meantime these people are terribly poor. Maybe we can
help them to make some money.”
©2015 Walt Barrett
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