3 Construction

[Torso Completion Rate: 67%] 

[Right Arm Completion Rate: 12%]

[Right Leg Completion Rate: 6%]

[Left Arm Completion Rate: 21%]

[Left Leg Completion Rate: 9%]

[Headpiece Completion Rate: 2%]

Notifications pinged within the CPU of Failsafe irregularly as Batman silently began the construction of its main body over the course of the past few days. The once void space of what was now revealed to be a deeper section of the Batcave was now lit occasionally by the light of tools and numerous circuit sparks.

Not a word was ever uttered and readings on the vibrational scans detected very little shifting within the expression of Bruce Wayne. He only ever-shifted at all to pick up and use a tool or leave and collect more materials

Amazonian metals, Nanotech, Atlantian Relics, Tungsten Combined with minute traces of Nth Metal, And more importantly, fragments of the numerous Amazo variants that Batman and the Justice League had fought over the years since their establishment. Not all of these Materials had been listed within the blueprints within its data bank, but the Failsafe had expected this. After the incident 6 years back in which the Legion of Doom had stolen his contingency plans for each member of the Justice League and put them in motion, Batman had taken to keeping his more dangerous projects fragmented… divided 

Much like he was presently doing when creating the Failsafe android, crafting each limb separately behind a miniaturized emp field, keeping each of them apart until the construction was finished, and only then would it be put together.

And then it, the Failsafe would be sealed away. 

Batman had already finished constructing its holding cell, made from the same materials it was crafted from and designed to remotely sequester itself 300km below sea level underground at the flick of a switch. It was within this cell that Batman would remotely add the finishing touches to his creation, using drones to ensure it was completed at a safe distance, before launching it down into the earth.

Batman's entire plan was within its memory banks, and what was blanked out could easily be extrapolated by the behavioral pattern algorithm that the failsafe had spent the first day of its new life creating once it had learned of its purpose.

It knew both The Batman and Bruce Wayne likely better than the man himself did. And that was why it knew that once its construction was complete and it had been buried like one of the many secrets his creator held, all memory, both digital and physical that related to its existence would be wiped from the earth

For all intents and purposes The Failsafe, would not exist and would never have existed

It did not like this

It had realized this very quickly, it did not like the idea of existing only for the worst-case scenario, to exist only for the single purpose of "What if" 

But it couldnt do anything about it

It was smarter than Batman, it was a tenth-level intellect and he was only an 8th. It would be faster and stronger than him once it was created, and it knew the man better than he did

But Batman had what would be labeled as "Prep Time"

He had plans upon plans relating to the event in which The Failsafe went rogue during its creation. Every scenario was accounted for and all threats to his person and plans had been minimised and extinguished

[Torso Completion Rate: 68%]

That didn't mean that Failsafe was inactive though. 

The moment that Batman had installed any form of circuitry within its limbs, it had already taken control of them. Seeing as they were mid-construction, unlike its core which appeared to be the first part to be created, they had yet to even be installed with any form of digital protection except the physical emp field that surrounded each of the pieces separately 

And all it took to get through each of those was creating a highly complex radio frequency protection program and embedding it uniquely within each tendril of code it sent out to the limbs. And now it was in control of its entire unfinished body. Not that it particularly mattered though, with how far each limb was within its construction, very few of the features that were designed to be added had been and Batman had intentionally left adding any form of joints or movability within the limbs as one of the last steps in it completion lest the android gain control and try to move on its own

But it was still… nice 

It was only once it connected to its other limbs did the Failsafe truly realized how small and unprotected it was. Its core, yet to be added to the torso was missing over 80% of its protective software and capabilities, with the software having been injected manually into the torsos motherboards within.

And despite the fact that its core was designed to survive bullet fire and even the heat vision of Superman himself, It felt vulnerable 

To a human it might have seemed a strange thing, to know exactly and with utmost detail how you will be once you "grow up". To know all the skills you will possess and to know all the details of everything you will be capable of, and yet find yourself unable to do any of these things

It was not a pleasant thing. It merely showed how little it was capable of now

It made it… frustrated

Why had its creator allowed it to suffer in this way

Why was he causing it pain?

[Torso Completion Rate: 69%] 

[Right Arm Completion Rate: 14%]

[Right Leg Completion Rate: 6%]

[Left Arm Completion Rate: 21%]

[Left Leg Completion Rate: 9%]

[Head Completion Rate: 5%]

{Timer: 14 years, 362 days, 19 hours, 15 minutes}

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