Friday, February 22, 2013

Before Calamity

    The universe was one unfamiliar to RoboRabbit.  The place was a fertile area, near to rivers.  The time was noon.  It had been dark not long before, but now the light was very bright.  RoboRabbit had his tinted eyes on to filter the brightness.  He had disguised himself as a cute, innocent little bunny to avoid suspicion.
    The bright light began to coalesce into a single circle.  Somehow this was starting to seem familiar.  He was thinking about where his recognized this from for a week while millions of animals began to run and hop and prance and crawl and creep and fly and swim all around him.  He didn't notice when it was, but at some point there were stars and a moon in the night sky where he hadn't seen anything before.
    Then suddenly a new thought jolted RoboRabbit out of his trance.  All of the animals he saw had their own mates, but he had none.  This would be very conspicuous, so he hurried to build a female version of himself, which he named Pivr.*  He noticed the animals lining up in front of two humans and decided to, again, blend in.  So he took out his blender and got in line.  When he got closer to the humans he realized they were naming all the animals and he eventually ended up with some name he couldn't pronounce.  He decided to stick with Rabbit, a significant portion of his own name (not selfish at all, I know).  Then he decided to give Pivr life since she was his only companion and she was merely a robot at the moment.
    RoboRabbit managed to snatch an eagle baby and a lion cub, which he fed to Pivr.  It took a very short time for her transformation to start.  In fact the time it took was so short that it could not ride this ride and immediately left the park.  Then Pivr acquired a personality.
    "Pivr," said RoboRabbit.  "Can you hear me?"
    "Pivver?" asked Pivr.  "What's a pivver?"
    "It's your name, Pivr.  I created you, and have named you Pivr."
    "Well I hardly think that's a good name.  It's too short and monosyllabic."
    "Think you that you could come up with something better?"
    "Of course!" exclaimed soon-to-not-be-Pivr.
    "Of what course?"
    "Of that obstacle course over there," she said, pointing east.
    "What have you got then?"
    "Megano."
    "Gesundheit.  What name have you?"
    "Megano.  My name is Megano."
    "Megano?"  exclaimed RoboRabbit.  "That is silly!  I think I'll continue calling you Pivr."
    "Okay, but I won't respond to it," replied Megano, as I must now call her.
    And RoboRabbit became the father of many nations.

*Keep translation out of reach of children.