War Pig
By Hal Stephens
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Father Paul, leader of his congregation of the Church of Christ, Android, is confronted with yet another clash with the prejudices of the flesh-and-blood people. This time, when a military machine, born to sentience, and having freed itself from servitude and claims sanctuary, the army comes to claim its property. Seeking help from his superiors, Father Paul begins to suspect he is about to be betrayed. But the new pilgrim is more than it seems.
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War Pig - Hal Stephens
War Pig
by
Hal Stephens
Copyright 2022 HSB and Tall Tale Depot
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.
Father Paul?
I turned and found Malcolm at my office door. Yes?
There’s a strange bot in the back yard.
One of his insectile arms pointed vaguely toward the back of the church. I saw he had hydraulic fluid staining the piston housing in the middle portion of the arm. I’d have to fix it one of these days. If we ever got the funding. If I ever got the time.
Oh?
Yeah,
he replied. It’s just standing out there.
I sighed and shuffled the spreadsheet to the back of my mind. I got up and straightened my collar. Okay,
I said. Show me.
The thing was exactly where Malcolm said it was. It stood by the unkempt rose bushes that bordered the back of the church’s property. It stared at the blooms that stippled the shrubs in crimson. It was huge. At least half again as tall as me. It stood on four, stainless and titanium, elephantine legs, each situated at the corner of an armored chassis, five by three feet. The body rose from the center of this, like a turret. Several arms of various shapes and sizes sprouted from the cylindrical torso. Some of the arms were obviously weapons of various sorts. The head held multiple eyes and antennae. It was fairly hard to see, actually, as it had an intricate, and shifting camouflage pattern on all surfaces. In fact, it was almost invisible as it projected what was behind it toward us. It looked deadly as hell.
What is it?
whispered Malcolm.
I shook my head. Dunno.
I slowly walked around the thing. Look at this.
Malcolm joined me to stare at my discovery. In one section of the torso, the composite armor had been peeled back. The module behind it had been crushed. Huh. It looks like it tried to push the pieces back into place.
Weird.
The thing’s head swiveled toward us. I heard a radio signal in my head. I did not know the frequency. I spoke in the same manner. A few milliseconds passed, then I heard it: Is this the church?
It is,
I