It was from the Internet that Daneel now discovered that he was in the midst of a recruitment campaign for the “Creature Wrestling federation” Xeality show. He also knew that the only way out of this hellhole would be to enter the competition and not only wrestle well but become crowned champion of this competition. Perhaps then he could use his power to get himself home. Or that’s what he thought.
So far he had managed to download everything he needed to know about wrestling. All he needed to do now was actually practice these moves until he could do them at a level where he could win matches against the creatures he had seen on the wall in the locker room earlier. Daneel shuddered at this thought.
He moved over to the feeding creature at the other end of the ring, put his mechanical arm around the creature’s neck and pulled it tight. The creature let out an ear piercing scream as the strangle hold tightened around it’s neck. Suddenly the screaming stopped. Daneel opened his eyes to see why and realised that he was now holding a severed head. The rest of the creature, blood spraying from the severed neck, ran blindly towards the ropes, arms waving as it careered out of control until it hit the ropes, bounced back into the ring and lay on it’s back, arms and legs twitching uncontrollably as the last remnants of blood oozed from the severed arteries on to the ring mat.
Daneel look down at the severed head he was still holding and was sure it winked at him. He had forgotten just how strong he was with the cyborg implants in his body and, to be honest, he was both shocked, and, to his alarm, mildly turned on by the violence he had just inflicted on this creature.
“what now?” he thought to himself and simultaneously that thought appeared in his internet chatroom.
He look up just in time to see a rather alarmed looking man striding purposely towards him with a large brown envelope.
“Daneel Olivaw, if you would car to follow me, your limo awaits”
Puzzled, Daneel followed the man out of the arena and into the waiting limo.
Inside the limo, Daneel looked out at the passing scenery. Simultaneously, the live feed on http://www.vesaliusproject.com was being viewed by close on 1000 users.
Over the last half an hour or so news had spread like wildfire through the blogosphere and the usenet chatrooms were abuzz with the news that the human cyborg project, Daneel Olivaw was stranded in an unknown location in mortal danger while his assistant Dr Calvin had mysteriously vanished off the face of the earth.
Even with 1000 users spread across the length and breadth of the United States, Canada and Mexico, no-one could identify where Daneel was. He was in the U.S.A, that much was clear. But where? Well that was the mystery! Even the other month, when Daneel input the wrong I.P address into his uploader and ended up in Hazzard County facing sheriff R.P.Coltraine, the chat room users managed to get a fix on him and download him successfully back to base.
But now he was stranded. He believed the only way out of this place was to fight or to die.
The limo pulled into the driveway of a smart looking mansion. Daneel waited for the door to be opened for him and then stepped out into the blinding glare of several tv spotlights. A microphone was harshly shoved into his face.
“Welcome to the CWB4Pro Xeality Show. I’m your host, Alexander Arcane…. EXCITED?”
“Well, er……..” Daneel spluttered.
“Good, good. Please stand over there with the other contestant, BRAND X”
“Hmmm, so that’s the lunatic’s name is it?” Daneel thought and instantly that thought appeared in his chatroom: #Olivaw on the DALnet irc server.
He moved over to stand next to Brand X who seemed to be extremely excited to see his “old” friend.
“What now?” Daneel both spoke and thought. 1000 users watched the live video stream on his website and collectively held their breath….
