All of Space and Time

Error Reported

"What are you doing with those? Those are company artifacts!" Judy exclaimed. "Was this down to you?" She pointed to Charlie.

"More urgent question," Ryan said and I looked over to him. "If everything's automated and all the power's shut down, why is that robot still active?" He asked and we looked over to the door and there was a teammate. He just stood there and stared at us.

"Well that can't be good." I said moving to stand by the Doctor.

"Oh, good question. Back behind me, everyone." She said using her arm to push me behind her.

"Error reported. Error reported." He said slowly approaching us. It looked like it wasn't just going after us, it looked like it may have been targeting someone.

"Hey, Charlie, don't, mate." Graham said and he pushed forward.

"No, I can... I can look at it." He walked towards the robot and reached for it. I couldn't tell for sure but it almost seemed if the robot had targeted him.

"Error reported. Error reported." The robot continued to say. As Charlie touched it he ducked as the robot tried to take a swing at him. The robot punched a whole through the wall and hit an electrical cable. "Investigating." He said picking Charlie up by his neck. The Doctor ran over to try and help shut down the robot.

"Charlie!" She shouted and I ran after her.

"Investigating." The robot continued. She pulled out her sonic and scanned the back of the robot's head. I tried my best to pull against its arm to help loosen its grip on Charlie.

"You better do something fast!" I said fighting against the robot with all my strength.

"I'm trying! The receptor codes are.." she began scanning it again.

Suddenly the robot stopped and fell to the ground. Judy has pulled its head off. She put the head down and moved to Charlie's side. "Are you all right? Deep breaths, now. You sit." She said to him. "This has never happened before with any of the robots." She explained as the Doctor began scanning the head.

"Your wrong." Yaz said. "When Dan Cooper went missing, there were three of those, dressed in those postman uniforms, walking the shelving. They came after us." She said gesturing to me and her.

"Well, that... that's not possible. The delivery bots never leave dispatch. We'd know. The system would tell us." Judy said.

"Unless it isn't telling you." I said. "What if that's what's happening with the power draining? The system going rogue, or fighting back against something." I said and the Doctor nodded at my theory.

"Could be, but until we find out for sure. I would respectfully suggest that you can't trust your system." The Doctor said picking the head up. "Oh," she said as the power flickered to life. "And we're back online. But the receptor cells on this thing are blown out."

She moved over to the desk and the head began to spark. "Hey, Doctor, be careful." Ryan said as she pointed her sonic at it again.

A few more sparks flew from the head as she began to look at the reading. She then moved over to the computer system and used the sonic on that as well. "Oh, it's as if the system's suddenly channeled all its energy into this one, single teammate."

"The system is attacking us?" Yaz asked.

"(Y/n), you might be right. It's like the system has gone rogue."

"Of course it's gone rogue." Judy said. "Nobody would do any of this deliberately." She said and that didn't sit right with me. Why would the system go rogue? What was done that made the whole system of Kerblam fight back?