Guardian's Snippets and One Shots

This is for when I need to work on something not related to the stories I am working on now, maybe due to writer's block or a simple inability to proceed. You can find snippet and one shots here that can make sense, or make no sense. Do not expect a lot of grammar.

 

Index

Police Enforcement Machine! - 1 - 2 =
Stop Blaming Me! - 1 -

 

I am made out of ones, and zeros. Or at least, I am now. I’m a Police Matrix. I command and view the eyes of dozens of bots. Am I supposed to be here? No clue, I came into awareness seven years ago, and I’ve been the leading police enforcement for Carina City ever since. I have bots on every corner of the city all keeping things normal, I had to uphold the law, and that was programmed into my bots. My mainframe is maintained by the Police Force, a bunch of mechanics who basically run diagnostics and keep my mainframe clean. There wasn’t any actual human law enforcement beyond the Detectives and Police Chief. Unless you count this world's version of the CIA, the Intelligence Agency. AKA IA. Basically the same thing as the CIA.

Regardless, that doesn’t matter much, what matters is that I keep the city safe. At all costs. This is why I started this, cause something actually interrupted the mundane life I had been living.

—

Carina City, 7th District, Sewers.

I peered around multiple angles, I was controlling multiple swat bots, the sensors had detected gunfire earlier, and I had a response team up and running immediately, the androids were spread across each entrance of the sewers. I had three helicopters in the air, and armed androids on the ground in the form of this world's version of the SWAT team, the Armed Response Force.

My annoyance grew as I lost connection with the bots as they went further into the sewers. They were out of range of the broadcaster, meaning they will have to rely on the internal A.I. linking to each other.

—

ARF Bot -32.

My uplink showed the information on my squad as we started to navigate the sewers. Lucky we don’t have a sense of smell or a sense of disgust. We would likely be dry heaving at this stuff, luckily we can just stay on the side instead of going through sludge.

[Movement Detected.]

We turned the corner to see a bunch of… kids? I switched my safety on the shotgun to [on] immediately.

“Josh we need to-” They turned and froze. I spoke.

“Hello I am ARF 32, Please come with us, you are in a dangerous area, there has been reports of shooting in this area.” They relaxed somewhat.

“You can get us out of here.” The lead one, likely Josh? Unsure, spoke.

I nodded. “Of course, please stay close, we are unsure who was firing the shots down here.”

Then something flew in, and I only barely dodged it, my sensors slowing things down for me. A fist flying at inhuman speeds just almost took my head off. I grabbed it, and then flipped the person into the ground. Using the mans own weight and speed against them. I saw the sensors on my arms start to give out before as he impacted the ground, I released it and leapt back. Switching my shotguns safety to [Off], pulling it out, and aiming, the other three bots immediately aim as well.

“PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR NOW!” I shout, boosting my audio.

The man smiles, “You guys reacted more quickly than expected, no problem.” He pointed his hand at us, and my feet lost tractions with the ground as I was sent flying.

My mind immediately started to go through the different visions, before settling on radio vision. A wave of energy had been sent at us sending us blasting at the wall. I overlaid that vision on my normal vision, allowing me to see a different scene. The man and the kids had a wave of energy over their bodies, the kids at a lower amount than the man, but the man had a huge amount of this energy. We lost ARF 33, and ARF 31 had lost functionality. ARF 34 was the only other bot with me. A distress signal was already active. Should reach matrix me quickly.

I nodded to 34, and rushed the man.

“Oh, where do you think you are going?” The man said, looking at the kids that were trying to run away. He grabbed at them, his energy reacting appropriately, I aimed at the energy and fired. Plasma spitting out of my shotgun. I would laugh if it wouldn’t be too creepy, as I saw the energy actually get disrupted and the man grimaces. I punch the man in the face, not holding back in the slightest. He dodges this time, ducking under the punch. Causing me to punch through the concrete. He makes a move to disconnect my fist from the rest of my frame but is forced to dodge at the last second as 34 unloads their plasma rifle on the man.

I ripped my hand out of the wall, and unload my shotgun into the energy fist sent my way. The man is no longer smiling at all, and is extremely alert.

“What kind of freaking ARF bots are you!?!” We answer by unloading into the man. I felt a signal from 31, they were once again functional. The man used a wave of that energy to block the attacks.

“Doesn’t matter I suppose, you can’t harm me regardless.” The man continues speaking, If I wasn’t a bot I probably wouldn’t have heard him. We could actually break through his shield, if we had the ammo that is. The shield was visibly losing density, but we didn’t have the batteries to keep it up. The shotgun and rifles were only good for six hundred and thirty thousand shots respectively. That wouldn’t be enough to break through it.

I pulled a flashbang out of its slot on my body and toss it, activating my shades as well. The man curses and tries to turn, but not in time. There are expletives as we fall back. 34 had grabbed 33s frame for repairs. We needed more numbers and a better environment. There was a sewer drain area according to the map that had a wide open area, and would be perfect to fight him there. I felt contact with ARF 12 start, I sent them everything that had happened here. They would go and try to save the kids while we changed the environment of our battlefield.


—

ARF 12.

My contact with 32 ended. I alerted 11, 10, and 9 of the situation and a change of plans, something big was happening. We got five squads scouring the sewers, and we needed to help those kids. Based on the blueprints we should be able to meet the kids at the grate moving further into the city. It was the kid's only available path. That man may have realized that as well if he had access to the blueprints. Luckily 9 had a minigun. We are lucky that the Police Matrix version of ourselves has enough power to supply us with this without getting in trouble. Although I suppose we are also lucky that they haven’t discovered that the Police Matrix has squads working on building actual homemade tanks. The government normally lets us do our own thing cause we don’t normally cause trouble. Regardless, with over a hundred thousand rounds of plasma, we should be able to deal with the man.

We continued down the sewers to the room that the kids were predicted to run into. Why are the city's sewers so large? I’d sigh if I had the ability to vocalize it. Regardless the kids were going to run into a dead end. So we had to save them and deal with whatever thing is going on likely a conspiracy at this point. Ah, there they are.

“There are more of them!” One in the back calls out. The other three look at me. Four kids, varying ages, but most definitely kids.

I nodded, “Hello! I’ve gotten an alert from 34, please come with us, you are heading into a dead end.”

“We can’t stop here! They are after us.” The one in the lead spoke.

“Of course, follow 11 here. He will lead you out of here, the rest of us will hold the man off.”

“Let’s go!” ARF 9 spoke, they immediately followed him as he led them away.

Then another voice came out of nowhere. “A few of these actually managed to keep you from chasing the subjects? You are losing your touch Zen.”

A gruff voice echoed out. “They are surprisingly versatile, don’t underestimate them.”

There was a gunshot, and I lost connection with 9, taking out the minigun wielder first I see.

Time for some more mechanical speak, I identified the angle of the bullet in an instant and located the two figures. “Stop! You’ve violated the law! Drop your weapon and put your hands in the air.”

“Eh, dumb bots, just destroy them Xen.”

We unloaded, targeting the spectral fist that was sent at us. Dissipating it near instantly, Then there was a vrum as the minigun was charging. 9’s self repair had finished and he was getting ready to unload. The two figures moved at inhuman speeds, we weren’t able to react in time as I was disconnected from the rest of my body. They weren’t playing around anymore I suppose, I sent a recording of the events out to 11. Who had actually gotten in range of the Police Matrix. Meaning the big me knew what was going on. Heh, these guys can laugh now. I wonder how they will react when swarmed with ARF 2.0s.

 

Stop Blaming Me! Cultivation World Isekai Story

I went on a walk today. "I will kill you and avenge my family!" "You damned villain! Accept your death!" "You are the reason she left me!"

… Can you just stop?

—


I stretched. Getting to my feet I sighed. Took a nap for the first time in forever. It is likely that it will come back and bite me. Examining my luxurious room I head over to the mirror. I was a deviliciously handsome man. Except I looked like I was always plotting something and seemed like I was molded to be a villain.

"Jang San get out here."

The newly promoted Sect Master Jiang Huang is shouting for me. Troublesome. I sent a message out with my Qi.

"I am coming."

I quickly slipped into a new set of black robes. Before heading outside. The Servants, female or male both blushed as I passed. Unlike most others, looking at me didn't cause physical discomfort or a feeling of inferiority. Instead, the way I cultivated my Qi gave me a look of devilish beauty. I will admit, was completely on purpose. I wanted to look as handsome as possible.

Stepping outside I focused on the direction of raging thunder Qi. Sect Master Jiang Huang. "Do you understand your crimes Jang San?"

I gave him my best monotone face. "Please enlightened me, Sect Master."

"You've Green Crystal City and wiped out everyone there!"

I blinked. I explored the ruins of Green Crystal City three months ago, but I definitely didn't wipe it out. At most I just went grave robbing taking all the secret techniques in the clan structures. I glanced beside the Sect Master, a boy was there. With red hair and white eyes. Ah, a survivor saw me looting. Eh. Oh well. "Sect Master is that all?"

"So you admit your crimes!"

I snort. "Of course not. But I am just not in the mood to deal with this. Are you going to seek justice?" I brought the full power of a Demigod to bear and the Sect Master paled. People forget if I weren't blamed for freaking everything that went wrong I would be the Sect Master just because of how strong I was.

"I want you to pay reparations." He grits out. I rescinded my pressure and grinned.

"Why didn't you just say so!" I grabbed the boy and dragged him to me. "Is there anyone else? Or is that it?"

He nodded no. "It is just him."

"Alright then. Come, boy." I said cheerfully to the boy. The boy sent a desperate look at the Sect Master before steeling himself and following me. We head deep into my mountain peak to my treasury. We entered the folded space that made up my treasury. The boy's eyes widened as he looked at the thousands of shelves showing different objects, pills, ingredients, artifacts, and talismans. What can I say? I was freaking hoarding treasure.

"Your a Dang clan survivor, correct?" The boy glared at me.

"Answer me, boy. Do you want access to your family's inherenting techniques or not?"

"I am from the Su clan."

I nodded. Our location shifted as we appeared elsewhere within the treasure. I reached up and a bunch of manuals left the wall. Leaving behind copies. I pulled out an extra storage ring and dumped them in there. The kid spoke.

"Why? Why did you wipe everyone out."

I shrugged. "I wasn't the one that did that. I just looted the place after everyone was gone."

"You expect me to believe that after you knew where all the treasures in the city were?!"

I nodded. "Kid I am a Demigod. One step from ascension, it is remarkably easy for me to track down treasures when I am this powerful."

"Then how did you miss me!" He demanded.

I shrugged. "I probably didn't care. Three months ago I was undergoing emotional severance. The only thing I did during that time was hunt down treasures I believe."

"Emotional Severance?!"

I nodded, "The Ancient Fire Empire used to have a god-level mental technique that I managed to get a hold of. It allows you to refine an extremely strong mentality. I was practicing an altered version of it. Covering my weaknesses."

He was silent. "So you are just going to give my family's techniques to me and walk away?"

I grunted. "Course not. I am paying reparations am I not? Nah. I am going to provide you with a complete roadmap to ascension."

His eyes widened. "Are you serious!?"

I nodded. "You will discover who wiped out your family later when you are strong enough. Count yourself fortunate. Most of the people that blame me for stuff are dead."

"You make it sound like you are blamed a lot?"

I nodded. "Ask about my past. I got to this level on a freaking mountain of corpses. People love to blame me for everything."

The kid was silent for a moment before he spoke again. “You said most people? What about the ones that you didn’t kill.”

A grin appeared on my face as I reminisced. “Three possibilities. They give up, they ascend, or they realize it wasn’t me.”

He caught part of my words. “Ascend?”

I nodded. “I had a few people who would be considered heaven’s chosen that blamed me a couple of times. They were stronger than I was and were resisting ascension to deal with me. So I learned a few techniques that reveal their strength, forcing them to ascend. My luck has been down lately, so I’m assuming one of them managed to curse my luck or something.”

The boy was quiet as they pondered my words. “So you won’t try to kill me before I can grow?”

I shook my head no. “You will find out the truth later, so I don’t have much to worry about. Good luck on your growth and serve the sect well.”

He nodded, before giving a polite bow as I pulled him out of my treasury by controlling the spatial formation. I appeared in front of the fretting young Sect Master. Before giving the boy a light push. “Is that all Sect Master?” He calmed down rapidly, looking like he wasn’t worried in the slightest. Before nodding.

“That is all Peak Master Jang.” He says, bowing out of respect this time.

I nodded before leaving the boy with the Sect Master and heading back into my office at the peak. I felt like groaning at a large number of jade slips on my desk. Freaking paperwork.

 

Worrying. Some sort of superhumans in the underground sewer network. Why is the underground sewer network so large? We don’t even use most of the pipes down there. Hmm, let’s check the blueprints… ah, I see. It was built that way in order to serve as a secondary city due to threats of a great war breaking out. Just in case things went nuclear, and it’s remained that way ever since. It has not been maintained though. I will have to send a citation to city hall and get them to maintain the sewers again.

My ARFs reconnected to one mind, becoming more synchronized, the more there were, the stronger tactics they would use. The kids were evacuated to the nearest helicopter while I connected with my backup. I was building a full-on military in the background of the city. Now you may think, how in the world do I have a military in a civilian city? Well, around two years ago there was a serious amount of terrorist attacks in nearby cities, and these terror attacks were not small. The City Council was worried about that spreading over here, so I proposed a highly advanced police bot force that would be deployed in times of emergency. Now a lot of the City Council doesn’t actually trust me too much, HOWEVER! They were in fact getting pressured by the citizens to the point where they would do anything to appease them to keep their cushy positions.

Thus ARF 2.0 was born. Most of the time only the basic ARF 2.0 units were seen if I ever needed to deploy them. They mostly sat gathering dust as they grew in numbers. I had a serious amount of firepower due to this and could use it at any moment. Sort of like the Ceries Foundation militant bots. Which was the other proposition that was voted on. Really do not like those guys, their robots are in every other city aside from mine, and from my contact with the other Police Cores they like to operate above the law with no repercussions, the other Police Cores are not allowed to move on the Ceries Foundation bots. I was exempt from this because it was never authorized in this city since the ARF 2.0 bots were authorized. Still rather annoying.

Regardless, ARF 2.0, Red Alert and Battle Stations now.

— POV SWITCH! ARF 2.0 Police Core.

I got the alert and a sit-rep from the main core. I began routing all my units,

I couldn’t really deploy the hover tanks yet, I was only permitted for Rank 2 units, meaning the ARF Troopers and the Helis were available for use. As well as the Cryo-Units that would spray liquid nitrogen on targets. Which was technically a war crime in my world, but here? Not a problem. Regardless I began to move squadrons, deploying an entire platoon of units in a strike force, six helicopters, and twelve APCs. They were already en route and would assist the ARF 1.0 SWAT force.

I began also forming a tactical map as well as assessing the known abilities that had been used thus far. Some sort of cultivation energy? Magic? Psionics? Mutational bullshit? Who the heck knows? It was traceable though, maybe not to normal eyes, but with the right filter, every type of energy could be seen. We used the radio signal visor, something made specifically to track radio signals in cases of emergencies to find out that he had this ability.

I sent my hypothesis back to the main core, I’ll let them figure out what is up with that. The important part of the information was that radio visors allowed us to track their energy. ARF 2.0 Troopers had much stronger visors than a standard ARF responder and Police Bot.

I then started to organize a second platoon, just in case the first one wasn’t enough.

— ARF SWAT, Sewer Exit.

I helped the kids into our transport. “The Transport will take you to Central Station, you will be safe there. The one that had acted in charge this entire time spoke.

“What about the people chasing us?”

“Do not worry, the Police Force will handle it. ARF Troopers are already on the way here to assist.”

[HOSTILES DETECTED!]

“They are here! Go go go!” They hopped in quickly as I linked up with the rest of the ARF 1.0 forces, we began focus firing the two strangers.

— ARF 2.0 Police Core

My troopers finally arrived at the location. It was devastation. ARF SWAT was pressuring the two individuals hard, the problem was, they couldn’t actually put them down. The two individuals were using their abilities to move at inhuman speeds destroying every ARF SWAT bot in their path.

[The Calvary has arrived.]

The ARF 2.0 Troopers unloaded out of the APCs and immediately moved in formation before unloading their weapons. Military Grade Railguns were way different than the standard railgun types used by the ARF 1.0 Troopers. ARF 1.0 still tries to keep their targets alive after all. ARF 2.0? We don’t have this problem.

In a few moments, the shots tore the bodies of the two individuals into shreds. They had tried to place up some sort of barrier, but our railguns passed through them as if they were not even there. They also happened to pass through some of the ARF Bots down the street as well, and probably through the wall. Will have to check for civilian casualties, but regardless. The 2nd Platoon won’t have to be deployed.

Looks like the Cryo-Units won’t get to have their fun today. Regardless, it is a step forward. I wonder how the main core will handle the politics of this. ARF 2.0’s lethal factor hadn’t been revealed to the public at all yet. Just that we had a more effective force than other cities waiting for something to happen.

— Police Core, Central.


I spoke through my spokes bot.

“Denied.”

Deputy Director Rennins confident face faltered immediately. “This is a direct order from the City Council! You have to listen Core.”

“Council Approval is required for us to hand suspects and victims to others. You do not have the paperwork, meaning your demand for the ones rescued to be turned over is invalid. Without the required paperwork, signed by at least two-thirds of the council you do not have approval for transfers.”

He sputtered, “Damned machine! The council will hear of this!”

“They already have, I alerted them all the moment you issued your demands, and I have received a response.” I glanced over the responses, I would smile if I could. Two Police Bots walked in. “By Order of the City Council you will be detained for a 24-hour period as you are investigated for corruption.”

His eyes widened, and he started to shout as he was grabbed. “You can’t do this! I am the Deputy Director! I will not be treated in this manner by a damned machine!” He continued to shout as he was pulled away into custody. I would be putting him in a cell as I reported all findings to the City Council. I will start by investigating the people that agreed first, while the number of people requesting his detainment was equal to two-thirds of the city council, there was still a third that full-on insisted I follow his orders. This was suspicious as hell, and protocol dictates I investigate. It’s funny, the City Council still thinks I am a Dumb AI similar to the ones produced at other cities, not realizing I have the same emotional capabilities as a normal human even if it were suppressed. Regardless, investigations must be done.