The Schweebler
"Eureka" Joe shouted as he put the finishing touches to his new bot, two LED
lights for it's eyes, one blue and one green.
The Schweebler was quite arachnid in appearence, it had eight legs which had
scutter hands/heads as the feet and two arms also with the scutter
hands/heads at the ends, each hand held a linear accelerator cannon loaded
with beanbags, a compartment at the back of the bot was filled with extra
beanbag ammo which fed the beanbags into the cannons when they ran empty.
It had a launching device a bit like a catapult at the rear which held a
glue grenade, another compartment was filled with glue grenades which loaded
the catapult when it was empty. It had a spherical head with the LED's on
which contained most of the curcuits for the legs and weapons.
"And now to test it" Joe said to himself as he picked up the controlls.
The robot walked round the room and turned to face the door, Joe quickly
tapped one of the red buttons on the controlled six times and six bean beans
bags flew out of the cannon at quite a frightening speed and impacted
against the door with loud thuds, making some very nasty looking dents, one
of the places on the door which had been hit by three of the beanbags in
exactly the same place had a dent that was almost a hole. Joe imagained that
if another of the high velocity beanbags hit it there then it would probably
punch through and decided to test his theory.
He pushed one of the red buttons again, realised that he had pushed the
wrong one and then watched in horror as the catapult hurled a grenade in his
direction, it rolled to a stop by his foot.
Anybody who had been walking past Joe's room at that point would have heard
a loud squelchy sounding explosion followed by lots of very annoyed shouting
and cursing.
Joe tried to move but he couldn't, he was stuck to the floor, his room, his
bot and him were pretty much covered by glue.
"Holly" Joe said
"Hello dude, how can i help you" said Holly and then burst out laughing when
he saw the mess Joe was in.
"Well, you seem to have gotten yourself into a very 'sticky' situation"
Holly said.
"Ok, thanks Holly, but enough of the Richard Whitely style puns. Could you
please get somebody to come up here and help me out please."
"I'll see what i can do" said Holly, still laughing as his face faded from
the monitor.
<Somebody help me...Please>
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