Bit of Trouble in Zone No. 7

General Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | Forbidden Planet (Movie 1956)

Gen | for meownacridone | 100 words | 2022-09-10 | the lamb | AO3

Altaira "Alta" Morbius & Robby the Robot

Altaira "Alta" Morbius, Robby the Robot

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel

"Why, you've never been afraid to look at me, or tried to touch me in any different way, or tell me that I...lack response to stimulation. I know you're a robot, but you've always understood me perfectly. Why should they know something you don't?"

"I only know that which has been programmed into me; that which I can analyze by that same programming. If you were an incomplete model in their estimation, I could not tell you."

Alta grinned, stretching up ankles and toetips. "That's right - because you're all I need. I don't think I am incomplete, after all."