Flying Burger by Jared Martin

another alien in their native tongue. This micro-chip was such a common thing that it had become an indispensable clothing accessory for intelligent life forms in our Milky Way galaxy.
    Another faint signal was received, a distress signal. “This is robot B1287-AT, save me. I am drowning. Save me. Quick!” An image of B1287-AT flying unsteadily appeared on the Big Screen in the command deck of BURGER123. This signal was lost rapidly.
    “DATA, locate this robot and beam it onboard,” Captain Baldwin ordered.
    “Affirmative.”
    B1287-AT lay at the bottom of the dark ocean waters all by itself. At this instant, a ray of light pierced through the dark depths of water. It shone on B1287-AT and locked onto its co-ordinates. This tractor beam lifted B1287-AT out of the waters and brought it to BURGER123, its point of origin. In the transporter room below the command deck, the humming sound of machinery could be heard. B1287-AT was brought in via conveyor belt from a trapdoor on BURGER123 after being pulled in by its tractor beam. It laid motionless on the platform. It looked a pathetic sight.
    “It’s not moving,” Samuel said.
    “It’s dead,” Antonio said.
    “Its hands are badly corroded,” Melissa said.
    “There’s water flowing out from its mouth,” Nikita said.
    “Poor robot is falling apart, look at its arm dangling by the side,” Mrs. Andersen said with pity.
    “Let me try to salvage this robot,” Chen Wei said confidently. Nikita was full of admiration for him.
    “DATA. Please do a technical scan,” Chen Wei ordered.
    “Affirmative.”
    After five minutes had elapsed.
    “Scan complete. Robot technology is highly advanced. The motherboard belongs to the Vekon Chip family eighth generation. Water is present in abundance,” DATA reported.
    “Do we have this motherboard in store?” Chen Wei asked.
    “Affirmative.”
    Chen Wei went to the storeroom quickly and got all the things he required. When he returned to the transporter room, he opened up B1287-AT using tools from his toolbox. He took out the old motherboard. There was much water inside B1287-AT. Next, he took out a power suction pump from his toolbox and sucked out all the water inside B1287-AT. He then went on to use a hair dryer to evaporate all remaining water inside the robot. Next, he fix a new motherboard inside B1287-AT and secured all the wire connections. After that, he closed up the opening on B1287-AT’s body and screwed on firmly its dangling robotic arm. He took a small tin of metal polish from his toolbox and began to polish the robot hands. The two robot hands were badly corroded.
    "Mmm...,wonder why this robot skin is not affected," Chen Wei muttered under his breath as he polished the corroded robot hand.
    "Robot must have a thick skin," Melissa blurted out.
    After fifteen minutes, Chen Wei switched on the power. B1287-AT came back to life. It opened its eyes slowly and looked at its surroundings with curiosity. It moved its robotic arms a little and then stood up slowly.
    “There you go, as good as new,” Chen Wei said with a sense of accomplishment.
    Everybody was overwhelmed with joy.
    DATA walked into the transporter room at this moment, followed by Captain Baldwin. She stood several steps away from the alien robot.
    "I have been instructed by the Captain to communicate with this robot," said DATA.
    DATA lifted her hand and directed a faintly visible communication beam at B1287-AT.
    "Communication negative. Unable to proceed," said DATA after a short while.
    "I thought we are able to talk to aliens. Let me try," volunteered Melissa. She touched her collar-pin device to make sure it was there and walked closer to robot B1287-AT.
    "Helloooo..., are you there?" asked Melissa.
    No response from B1287-AT. Melissa turned her head towards her companions and grinned sheepishly.
    "The collar-pin device is for communicating with living aliens. Robots only understand machine language. My language protocol can only go down to