Smash the Bot!
"River, the copycat! Always stealing from our genius, and now you’re trying to frame him? Shameless!"
"Adrian posted his data first. How dare you fake evidence to make it yours?"
They humiliated me, and I swallowed it all, channeling my fury into an overnight rebuild of my robot, determined to prove myself at the competition.
However, when I rolled out my new design the next day, Adrian’s robot was once again identical.
I became a public joke. They jeered at me in the arena, and even threw water bottles at my feet.
Still, I refused to back down. I powered up my bot, ready to showcase my dynamic anthropomorphic design…