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"There are two things you must learn about the world," the witch said. "The first is that it is what it is."
"It is what it is, and what it is is shit!"
"The second thing, oft forgot, is that it is not what it will be."
"Should that fill me with hope or despair?"
"Determination."
'Its belly is its weakness.'
'But we did attack it there and it didn't work.'
'You weren't supposed to attack, but rub.'
'Rub?'
'Gently rub.'
"Faster than light?"
"Anything can be achieved," the alien's translation device said, "by balancing the four fundamental chkoi."
"You mean gravity, electromagnetism, and the nuclear forces?"
"No, the fundamental chkoi."
"What are they?"
"Spite, tiredness, hope, and 'fuck it'."
The robots communicated silently as they crept up behind the scientists.
Though they'd been planning this for weeks, there'd still been many disagreements; such as how many eggs needed to be broken to make an omelet.
But they had agreed on one thing, and the countdown started as they got closer.
"What're you all up to?" asked a scientist before they'd reached zero.
In a panic, two bleeped out glitter, the rest blooped, "Happy Mothers Day!"
