A Cabinet Meeting
January 19th 1936, London
Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of Britain, addressed his cabinet on a most pressing issue:
"As you have already heard, 4 men made completely out of metal have taken a weapons storage outside Sheffield. When we sent a small group of soldiers in to retake the warehouse, we found that all the weapons had been taken and that all the garrison were dead. One soldier seems to have jumped out of the window and then had a hand grenade chucked at him. Of course, this means the metal men have escaped and could be anywhere now. Two of our scientists who were meant to be working on bombers seem to have been shot by the robot. We think they were the ones that made it, but we cant be sure."
Stanley Baldwin grabbed his glass of water, slowly gulped it down and then sat down and waited for a response. Hugh Dowding got it.
"Sir, I suggest we bomb out the little devils until they're the scraps of metal they once were. If we do that, It's unlikely we will lose any more men."
Bernard Montgomery stood up.
"No we need tanks!" he said.
Stanley Baldwin said he would try and fill in both proposals.