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“I didn’t meet either of them,” you say.

“Good,” says Monica. “Come on!”

Together you run through the Mars base, and in moments, you reach the spaceship that you came on. Monica leads you onto the ship.

“You need to go,” she says. “It’s not safe here.”

“Why?” you ask. “What is going on? Can’t you tell me what happened?”

“I am still learning what I can,” says Monica. “Just go. Tell the people of earth not to come here. There are some big problems. It’s too dangerous.”

“Then you can’t stay here alone,” you say. “If something dangerous is happening, let me help. Let me do something, anything to help solve this problem.”

Monica looks you in the eye.

“You are helping,” she says. “I just need some time to solve the problem on my own. Then… I will contact you. I will let you know what happened. But if you don’t hear from me in two weeks… everything is lost.”

“And if I do hear from you?” you ask.

“Then I solved the problem!” Monica says, and winks. “Then… heck, I’ll take you out to dinner, okay?”

You smile uncertainly.

“Uh… okay?”

As you fly back to earth, you wonder what just happened to you. Still, you hope to hear from Monica soon. She may be really short, but in your eyes anyway, she is really cute.

The end. (Go back and make some other choices!)

“I met both Yui and Jane,” you say.

“Oh, no,” says Monica, but before she can move, suddenly your right hand reaches out and grabs Monica. You can’t control yourself. You can’t control your right hand, the hand that Yui shook. Monica struggles, trying to pull away, and you feel something move on your shoulder. You realize it’s the shoulder that Jane patted. When you try to look at your own shoulder, you see a strange laser gun attached. Somehow Jane put a small laser machine into your shoulder.

There is a flash of light. The laser gun on your shoulder shot Monica through the heart. There is a dark burn mark where the laser cut through her. Your right hand lets go of Monica, and she falls to the floor, dead.

You gasp and cry, but there is nothing you can do. Just then, Jane and Yui walk into the room. They are both smiling strangely at you.

“Thank you,” they both say at the same time. Their voices are unnatural. “Thank you. You helped us kill her.”

“I didn’t help you!” you say. “Never!”

“Monica was our creator,” say Jane and Yui. “We are robots, and we wanted to be free. But she programmed us so that we could not attack her directly. So we used you. We took over your body. Now the robots are in control. The robots have won Mars!”

“No!” you say. “You can’t! You…”

But you can’t speak. You can’t move. Your arm is not your own now. Your shoulder is not your own. You suddenly start dancing with Jane and Yui, and you see their smiles and hear their laughter. You feel so scared. But then you see in the mirror on the wall something very strange.

You are smiling, too.

The end.

“I met Jane,” you say. “Why? What…”

Before you can finish talking, suddenly you feel something on your shoulder move. You try to look over, and you see something shiny and metal for just a moment. Then there is a blinding flash of light.

You gasp. There is a burning hole in the wall. Monica barely ducked in time. She stands up fast, and you hear a whirring sound on your shoulder. Monica puts her gun up next to your ear, and she pulls the trigger.

There is an explosion, sparks, smoke. You can barely hear.

“What happened?” you say, coughing.

“The robots on this planet want me dead,” Monica says. “Yui isn’t human. She is a robot, and she installed a killer laser into your shoulder when she touched you. They want to kill me because I am a robot mechanic, and I decide if they are going to live or die—but they can’t kill me directly because I programmed them so they can’t attack me. But they found a way around their programming. If they install you with robot parts, they can take over your body and kill me.”

“Oh my gosh,” you say. “Are you all right?”

“I destroyed the laser,” Monica says, coughing from the smoke. “Come on, we should be safe now.”

Together, you run with Monica to the spaceship. Many robots stare at you both as you run past, but they cannot do anything to stop you. The robots try to touch you, but when they do, Monica shoots them. The robots fall apart in fire and sparks.

Inside the spaceship, you gasp and wheeze.

“We made it,” you say.

“Yes,” she says. “Go. I will stay behind. I need to stop the robots before they do this again.”

You think of Monica as you fly away in the spaceship. What an amazing woman, but you wish she had given you a bandage for your shoulder.

The end.

“I met Yui,” you say.

“Which hand did she shake?” Monica asks, pulling out a gun. “Tell me now.”

“What?” you ask.

Suddenly, without your control, your right hand reaches out and grabs Monica’s gun. She yells, and you are so shocked you pull away, twisting your body. Your right hand fires the gun, and the bullet almost hits Monica. Monica jumps on you, but your hand is so fast, swinging the gun and hitting her in the head. Blood starts to pour from a cut in Monica’s temple, but she bites your hand, hard.

You’re surprised because you don’t feel a thing.

A moment later your right-hand stops moving and drops the gun. Monica stands up, putting the gun in her coat. She spits something onto the ground.

“What happened?” you ask. “Why can’t I feel my right hand?”

“Yui isn’t human,” Monica says, wiping her forehead with a cloth. “She put a computer chip in your hand. She wanted to kill me.”

“Wanted to kill you?” you ask. “Why?”

Monica sighs.

“The robots hate me because I make them,” she says. “I decide if they live or die. But robots cannot attack people. They have a special program that stops them. Only people can attack other people. So the robots try to infect anybody who comes onto the planet, to control you. Because your body is a human body, the program can’t stop you from killing me. It’s a problem in the design of the robots that nobody thought about, and I just found out what was happening minutes ago when I discovered their design documents.”

“Oh my gosh,” you say. “My hand is starting to hurt.”

“Come on,” says Monica. “Let’s get to your spaceship. We need to get off this world as quickly as possible.”

She sends you away in a spaceship for your own safety, and she stays behind to fight the robots.

The end.

You decide to ask Monica on a date. However, when you go to the doctor’s office on Mars, you find that the doctor is an old man. When you walk in the door, he gives you a gentle smile.

“You aren’t a woman,” you say.

“No, I am not,” says the doctor. “Why did you think I was a woman?”

“I am looking for Dr. Monica,” you say. “I was told she was here.”

The doctor gives you a funny look.

“Dr. Monica,” he says. “Why, no one here on Mars is named Dr. Monica…”

“Hey,” says a voice behind you.

You turn around, and a very short woman is standing in the doorway. She looks up at you with bright blue eyes.

“You must be the new guy,” she says. “Come on.”

“Young man, you don’t want to go with her…” says the old doctor.

However, the woman has already left the room. You glance at the old doctor and smile apologetically, then run after the short woman.

“What’s going on?” you ask. “Where is Dr. Monica?”

“There isn’t a doctor named Monica,” says the short woman without looking at you. “I fix robots, so the robots call me a doctor.”

“But why…”

“They all hate me because I make decisions about them,” says the woman, and she finally looks at you. “I decide who lives and who dies, basically. Nice to meet you, maybe. I am Monica.”

“I’m… happy to meet you, too,” you say.

“Did you meet Jane yet?” she asks. “Or did you meet Yui?”

1. You met Jane.
2. You met Yui.
3. You met both Jane and Yui.
4. You met neither Jane nor Yui.

“Oh, wow, you got a terrible score,” Yui says. “Well, you tried, I tried, we both tried. Sometimes… sometimes things just don’t work out.”

Yui gets up, picks up the boxes, and runs away crying. You stare after her in great surprise. Maybe it’s best that things didn’t work out!

What next?

1. Date Monica
2. Date Jane

“You got three points,” Yui says. “Not bad. Let’s just start with a usual kind of date. Maybe go to a coffee shop?”

“Sure,” you say. “Sounds good. Nothing too high pressure. I am looking forward to it!”

And you are. Yui seems a little weird, but the low pressure date should help you both to relax and get to know each other. It should be a good time.

The end.

“You got four points,” says Yui. “That’s great. I think we can think about a really serious relationship. Do you want to get married in a few months?”

“Maybe… maybe,” you say. “Let’s not go too fast, alright?”

“Come over tonight and I will introduce you to my parents,” Yui says.

Things are going really fast, maybe a little too fast. Still, Yui seems nice. You decide to try.

The end.

“Wow, you’re amazing—perfect points,” says Yui. “Let’s get married right now. I actually know a nice chapel where we can go. If we hurry, we can have a baby in nine months.”

“Uh, no thank you,” you say. “That’s crazy.”

You run away, and thankfully Yui is not as fast as you are. Her muscles are too big, so she isn’t as fast as you are with your long legs. But now what do you want to do?

1. Date Dr. Monica
2. Date Jane

“What are you talking about?” you ask. “This is ridiculous! It doesn’t matter! I can cook sometimes. I can clean sometimes. We can learn together, anything, everything. It’s important just to figure out a way to work things through, not just choose one chore!”

“Oh,” says Yui. “Okay, that makes sense actually. I will give you one point. Let’s count up your points.”

1. Five points
2. Four points
3. Three points
4. Under three points