Snippet #828132

AMANDA had been led beneath the combat testing chamber and outfitted properly. A greasy and dirty looking man with a scar running down his right cheek had handed her a simple long sword made of steel. She had already run all the mathematical calculations required to determine it’s swinging arc, and it’s balance (finding it to be 2.2 grams heavy on the blade, something her mechanical arm could easily correct). No firearms were given, but all her defensive and offensive systems and protocols were now online.
Two large double titanium reinforced doors began to open up in front of her but the heavy doors were slow and it gave her some time to think, so she ran a few diagnostics on various combat systems to make sure everything was running smoothly and without delay. Response time in battle was everything; even a millisecond could be the difference between life and death. Though, she thought, death didn’t really apply to her. AMANDA suddenly started wondering what would happen if she ‘died’ or if she even could. She came to the conclusion that it would be similar to being powered down and was nothing to fear; though she did have a strange desire to keep that from happening.
When the doors had opened fully she stepped out into the arena. The Android stood in a circular room, precisely 100 feet in diameter and, other then the mirrored glass windows that ran along the walls of the room, it was completely enclosed. One of the windows had heat signatures behind it, and AMANDA determined at least four people were behind it.
Gazing to the other end of the battlefield AMANDA saw five Genma, all looking at her with a slightly bewildered look. She reasoned that Genma must have a natural ability to sense life, since they seemed to have a predetermined desire to destroy it, and that since she wasn’t technically ‘alive’ it may be slightly confusing to a Genma without higher brain functions.
Raising the long sword, AMANDA stood in a perfect defensive stance, completely still and waiting for the Genma to make their first move. She had already formulated numerous strategies for attack depending on how the five Genma reacted and most of her combat systems were on standby, ready to activate when the bloodshed began.