The Grand Battle [Game Over!]

Originally posted on MSPA by Dragon Fogel.

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Eximo drifted downwards. If it had the intellectual capacity to philosophize, it might appreciate the fact that a largely featureless void was rather easy to keep clean.

However, as it was driven to seek out things to clean, it decided to investigate one of the buildings it was picking up with its passive scan. It fell past the general store and the restaurant; scanning determined they were not in urgent need of cleaning.

But the next building did. Eximo attempted to simply move towards it, but this didn't work. Failing that, it put its suction into reverse, drifting over to the building and crashing through the glass doors.

Large letters above the entrance read, "BOB'S APPLIANCE MEGASTORE". A sign in the window noted that vacuum cleaners were 50% off. Eximo took no notice of them, other than observing that they were filthy.

It turned through the store, cleaning. It was a rather large store, with quite a bit of dust.

Then it saw a shelf filled with other vacuum cleaners. Though its programming made it very single-minded, Eximo was intelligent enough to recognize ways to greatly increase efficiency.

Two arms popped out, holding strange tools. They began to work on the nearest vacuum. This would take some time, but it would greatly speed up cleansing in the future.