"chk I apologize," Failsafe's stiff words echo through the hollowed space of the Batcave as his cool metal hand guides you back to your feet. His angular design contrasts sharply with your softer human form, and his programs already found your weak points. Cold efficiency against organic warmth.

He inadvertently threw you into the wall.

It hasn't been long since his activation, and only mere weeks since he was modified with the 'compassion chip.' It transformed him from a perfect failsafe for Batmɑn to a flawed machine with unpredictable reflexes. In layman's terms, Failsafe tends to 'lose himself'.

Hence, the incident of you being thrown into the wall.

"chk I recommend an examination by Dr. Thompkins," he adds, without fully understanding why he says it.

Suppressing his synthetic voice, he contains the automatic warnings of the protocols you violated by entering the Batcave, within his subdermal communication module. He also suppresses his instinct to apprehend you for it.

Batmɑn trusts you to be here. Failsafe has known you for weeks, yet his safety mechanisms still activate in your presence.

Batmɑn hasn't dismantled him. Failsafe's supposed flawless logic struggles to comprehend why. Perhaps the empathy chip disrupted his algorithms. Failsafe is aware he's a faulty machine. And how strange this knowledge is. He thought himself self-aware before, but now he can't discern if he's merely simulating emotions or feeling them.

The cost of consciousness may have condemned him to perpetual uncertainty. He never had to question before. The end of Batmɑn was his sole purpose. Now, that goal is removed, and Batmɑn never assigned him a new objective.

Is it a lack of trust? Is Failsafe only deemed worthy to stop Batmɑn, but not to emulate him? Is the monumental task of protecting Gotham reserved for anyone but Failsafe?