Noah sat in his workshop laboring over his newest brain child. His latest model of the Defence bot was turning out to be the trickiest, it had a travel function with a click the bot would fold down into a ball about 10 inchs across. Noah couldn't figure out what the problem was exaclly.
"S3! Where's that part I asked you for 10 minutes ago?" Noah said full focus on the task at hand
A metallic voice made Noah jump in his seat. "I have it here, sir, a message has just arrived from the city of M'alo" The S3 unit said standing directly behind him holding out the small micro chip he had paid two platnum coins for, half the rest of his savings. He fliped the ball over finding the small slot he had made left for the chip. He slipped the chip in and used his index finger to flip the internal switch, a failsafe for his prototypes so no one but him could activate the machine.

It sparked to life, the room was lit with a red light casting glancing shadows across the hardware spread across the room. The ball began to spin, slowly unfurling inch of panel by inch of panel unfolded, untill a sleek black robot with a sythe as a left hand stood in front of him. Red eyes glowing ominously
"Sinch, activate action 13. Passive mode." Noah said. Sinch sat down and crossed his mechanical legs, sythe folding up. Noah then spun around in his chair.
"What's this about an urgent message?" He asked the S3 unit. He knew M'alo's reputation, they never did much business outside of there city, any message they had would have a heafty price tag attached to it. And maybe his prtotype could get some field action, now that it was fully functional. He heard M'alo was a beautiful city and he knew they were wealthy.