The Exchange Student

PROLOGUE

The day was friday, and the college council had taken the day off all together over a big business proposal… Due to the College high end student demographic it wasn't a weird thing to see big enterprises interested in advertising a product to soon to be graduate adults, see potential employees etcetera… but it was a domestic robot developer company? How would they even advertise that inside?

The college council, consisting of the principal and two elder teachers, sat expectantly in the teachers lounge, the sound of the clock ticking away as they simply waited for the other party to arrive with their representative… Some looks were exchanged between the trio, silently asking where the guy they had sent.

Outside, an expensive limo parked in the entrance of the campus, and as soon as they had arrived, 3 men walked out of the doors wearing black suits with the words "BabeTec written on the right side of their suit in a delicate pink font… Arriving at the teacher's lounge almost disappointed as to how pathetic the meeting room was.

The three men looked at each other for a second before the taller one in the middle adjusted his throat. "We are representatives of BabeTec Electronics?" The man spoke with a clear french accent.

"Yes, we've been expecting you guys Said the principal leaning into his seat with a raised eyebrow "Tough traffic?" He asked with disinterest, before signaling the men with a hand gesture for them to sit down.

The men obliged, clear discomfort on them "Oh no, BabeTec is a french multinational company. It was difficult to send a representative to begin with" he refuted, dusting his suit with his fingers "Shall we begin?"

One of the teachers sighed and nodded "Yes please. Why in hell would a robot manufacturer be interested in doing advertising in a learning center?"

The representative on the left end of the table leaned in with a raised finger "We are an android manufacturer" He corrected "And what we are doing can be classified as advertising… just not disclosed as such."

The faces of the teachers became confused "What does that mean? Sir? if you may…"

The main representative swallowed saliva before breathing out "BabeTec is to release a new top of the line companion android in the following year or so…" The man placed and opened his briefcase on the table, presenting some papers to the teachers for their eyes only, making them even more confused as the robot was… wearing a student outfit? "The unit is finished, we just need a market, and BabeTec is thinking on creating one-"

The principal interrupted "So that's in? some flyers? some company presentations and discounts for after the students graduate?"

The representatives looked at each other after he spoke, elongated seconds of silence as they just cracked up in laughter at the word 'discount' making the trio of teachers high ups more uncomfortable "Excuse us… No. We want to enroll one of our units as a student so in her perfectly programmed seduction protocols she can have relationships with your male (or female) student count so they buy our product after they become independent due to nostalgic buying"

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"You have to be joking, right?" One of the older women spoke for the first time "This paper says the unit is a sexbot. You want us to allow a sexbot into our campus?"

"Yes" The man simply responded with a beaming smile, placing his arms on the table and holding them together.

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"And why would we allow this?" The principal broke the silence again.

The representative clicked his tongue, went inside his suitcase once again and looked around again for yet another piece of paper "If our company's private investigator is right anddddd…" He rolls the sound of the word as he pulls out the piece of paper and presents it to them, containing a lot of graphics and names of teachers and their pay, but before they could ask about these he continued "...this is your monthly employee payroll…" He raised an eyebrow and closed in the paper for them to read and give confirmation.

"Well- Yes, it is but…" The principal said, scratching his beard as he closed in to read the paper, but he was quickly interrupted again.

"Then it is our pleasure to announce that we would be able to pay the employees, if the details of this negotiation is kept under wraps and as a simple promotional stunt with no external telling… and taking into consideration the potential sales in the future generated by this deal… approximately 10 times this amount monthly ipso facto."

The room fell quiet, the faces of the college council falling into slight surprise before exchanging glances for yet another moment… Yet the Principal's did not change, maintaining eye contact with the representative for 20 long exhausting seconds before he breathed in with his nose and let loose, standing up from his seat, leavin the pair of teachers following his movements as he walked slowly to the representatives.

He stood there, at the right end of the table looking down at the man, indirectly telling him to stand up… which he did with some backsided glances to his colleagues. The principal, in an astounding null expression extended his hand for a hand shake, breaking this expression for one of extreme joy. The representative looked down at the hand, then at the principal, and smirked, taking the hand and shaking it

"You got yourself a deal."

Chapter 1: "Cargo"

Next Monday morning…

4 Am on the clock and after a long discret slight remodeling of the faculty's interior to accommodate the recently agreed android to roam and function properly inside faculty's walls. The sun was yet to rise and the teachers and students were long to even consider arriving at college grounds, the perfect moment to strike. From the teacher parking lot which had an almost direct access to the gym area (the designated location for the robot to recharge and manage itself) a large cargo truck with BabeTec signature logo on its sides parked in the middle of the place, as closely to the entry to smoothly move it's cargo without the possibility of onlookers.

With the whiff of the engine stopping as the brakes are hit, the copilot door opened and a scrawny young man in a black pair of pants, blue t-shirt and cap uniform jumped out, cold breath coming out his mouth as he breathed out

"Fuck, it's freezing here man-" He said to the driver, an older more experience guy in his late 30's with a beard. Years hadn't been nice to him, having lost most of his hair leaving his gleasining head shining with the streetlights.

"Well, if you do your job quickly you might come back to the truck heater sooner" The man came back at him with blazing passive aggressiveness, making the young man roll his eyes "Now, Gary, right?" he asked, pointing to him

"Yes, Gary. You remembered." He nodded, his answer sounding tired

The older man nodded back "Gary. You go back, set up the 'bot inside the gals' locker room, make sure the protocols are in order and you come back" the man explained, going out as well and walking with him to the back of the truck.

Gary and his higher up, Mike, raised the cargo's wall and lowered a ramp… and at the end of the cargo was a voluptuous blonde girl with reddish highlights at the end of her long straight hair wearing a white buttoned blouse with a mini skirt… that even from where the two men stood they could see glimpses of the black lacy panties just above her long black thigh high socks. The bot was shut down, held down with velcro and protectors on a moving trolley.

Gary climbed up the ramp and closed in on the robot girl, which if it wasn't by the fact that he and Mike were told it was a robot, he himself wouldn't have believed it. Her perfect flawless skin with a blush on her cheeks, long seductive eyelashes closed in like a doll… she was at least designed to seduce, if anything.

While taking the velcro and protective gear out, he spoke "Why are they setting up a sexbot in a place like this?"

Mike growled "I don't know kid, some business thing. Probably the principal is a horny bastard, not my business, not yours" He replied, placing his arms on his hip "You okay on your own?"

Gary heard his help presentation just milliseconds after he had finished taking care of everything, making him look at him and tiredly shake his head.

"Good. Now get that doll in there and come back" He said, making his way back to the driver's seat without another thought

"Wait!" Gary protested, "You're really not even gonna tell me how to set up this thing?" He asked, almost screaming.

Mike didn't even think of stopping, simply flapping his arm in denial "The robot is smart, just do what she asks of you when she turns on" and with that, sat back on the seat and closed the door.

Gary grunted in frustration, pushing the holder down the ramp while strands of the synthetic golder hair hit his nose and face due to the wind. This was going to be an annoying night already.

Getting inside the gym, the lights were left lit up, probably the staff was told and happily agreed to leave the lights on for the morning. Gary continued pushing the robot in the trolley, the echo of the squeaking wheels clashing on the walls and coming back to him as he passed through the middle of the place. He looked around, feeling some odd feeling as if this place wasn't designed to be empty… Then again, he had a bimbo robot in a trolley, the circumstances were strange to begin with.

In the middle of the gym, he looked forwards to see the entrance to the male and female locker room, moving in to his destination… their destination.

He pushed the door open, left open once again by staff. With a puff he kept going, seeing the lockers and bars where to sit, some decorated while the rest had that shitty school aesthetic that it was taken from a dump, at least in Gary's eyes. He looked at the end of the room at his right seeing a slightly bigger locker which looked strangely newer than the rest, this gave away what he was looking for.

"Better be worth this…" He said to himself, closing in and seeing the handle, trying to open it himself, failing instantly. Confused, he tried again, there was no noticeable lock, but to no avail again… then it hit him "This is meant for the robot, dumb ass."

He closed the robot in, moving the arm of the machine into the handle, hearing the servos resisting with a whirr… and as her fingers touched the handle it popped open. Inside, was a small place with a round wireless charging pad with a small screen at the side of the lockers wall. It was designed to be used at night only anyways so Gary didn't waste energy in criticizing how silly the idea was. He simply put two and two together and turned to the woman shaped machine, something telling him to make her stand to recharge.

"God damn it–" He lamented, since he couldn't just plop the damn thing like a trash bag into the wireless pad, instead, having to carefully stand the glorified doll straight up in the pad manually. Gary breathed in and let go, preparing himself, then he hugged the robot why the waist, it's voluptuous breasts pressing on his face as he raises her up from the trolley with some difficulty, without power of compensator programs, the robot weighted a lot… specially for the scrawny man.

He turned 180° and began walking small steps forwards onto the locker, getting close and grunting every step of the way… before accidentally hitting the back of the robot's head slightly due to a slight height difference between the top of the locker and how high she was being raised. "Woops… P-probably nothing–" He said, now making more effort to bend himself and set her down, succeeding but with some back pain to add.

"Finally… so, it should turn on now, right?" He said to himself, looking down to see how the pad lit up a soft blue color, the pad now showing a text reading 'Recharging… 90%'

"90%? What? Did someone have a little go at the damn thing back at the lab?" He complained, probably having to wait until her batteries hit 100% before being able to set her up. Then he looked down at the robot's hand, closed into a very… specific O shape… "Yeah, someone definitely used you before packing you up…"

He thought of simply waiting it out, frustrated with the time he might be losing, but still, it was way too early for anyone to find him here, or at least anyone he wasn't expecting to find. He then began eyeing the bot once more… Her bust, it seemed to be– poking out more now. Then he noticed her uniform blouse button popped open when he raised her up, showing more of her enormous bust for him to admire, even a hint of her black bra with yellow flower drawings… He closed in, breathing heavily as he tried justifying himself "She's just a robot… besides, she's shut down, she wouldn't know… boss wouldn't know"

He looked both ways, confirming to himself yet again that he was completely alone… and went into to softly hold her chest. Soft as it can be, inhumanly so, better he thought. He backed off, feeling that was good enough, before considering it wasn't shortly after, going in again for a better full palm hold, feeling them wobble in place as he played with them. "Fuck it" He said, going to her uniform's bottons and simply undressing her, freeing her breasts out, now seeing the golden flower detail on her lacy black bra, now jolding them better, his Dick throbbing in his pants as he kept at it, now almost pushing the robot as her leg servomotors whirred in restrain.

Pushing her bust more and more, making them jiggle… he wasn't being lustful enough, he turned up to her head, and opened her eyes, yet again, the powerless miniscule servo motors in control of her eyelashes whirring softly as her magenta soulless eyes were opened to make them stare forwards, if he looked deep inside them he could almost make out the camera lenses the robot used to see. He then tilted the robot's head down in a way that would be as if she was seeing him grope her.

"You like that you- slutbot?" He whispered to her, smirking to himself as his blood pressure raised. It was seconds later than the tablet pointed out that the charge had reached 100%... but in Gary's excitement, completely looking over it, the robot on the other hand, began bootin up.

-BabeTec Electronics' Deluxe "Mary" unit online -Boot up successful. No Errors. -Setting up the system… -Memory files missing. Printing New ones. -Special programming parameters set -AI module located. Deluxe speech program located.

Gary continued feeling her up, the robot's HUD far too busy processing the set up information prepared by her programmers for the moment she reached her designated operation area, but now, her once soulless and dark cold magenta gained more color, her camera lenses focusing in and out as his hands were detected and identified by her system, yet, kept quiet while setting herself up.

-Battery levels: OK -CPU integrity: 100% -Possible Target's information acknowledged -Sexual Protocols functional

With his hands deep on her tits, he pressed himself closer, one hand now going down to where her sex would be, looking down at her from the side of her cheek "You like being touched like that robot? This is what you were made to do after all~" He said out loud once more, massaging her pussy through her panties… before-

"Set up complete!" The robot spoke out, her head jerking forwards, scaring off Gary back, almost making him fall as he yelped… "No files on target. Further information required." The robot said out loud, staring down at Gary as he hopelessly tried standing up from the floor and quickly dust himself out.

It was then, as he lowered his head to look if something had gotten into his shirt that the robot slightly tilted her head to the side, her HUD highlighting the 'BabeTec' logo on his cap, designating him as a 'temporary administrator'

"You are a BabeTec official. How may I be of, like, help with your work today?" She spoke to him in a seductive valley girl accent that almost made his skin crawl. She stepped off her charging pad, making her way in front of him.

"A-ah, well… uhhh, state your name and mission and- uh- tell me if there's any issues with your system" He mumbled through his lines, that was all he could think to ask if she was functional…

"My name is, like, Mary, I am programmed to like, seduce and creative a bond with potential BabeTec customers through my like, totally perfect body!" She responds, showing off her body as she admires herself, her blouse still open. "No Errors found in system"

He nodded, swallowing saliva as she kept talking, looking as if she was having way too much fun being basically a technologically advanced slut "Wait really, that's what you're doing here… I mean- Good, Mary. I mean- unit, so uh, just make sure people know you aren't a robot and don't call for too much attention hah-" He struggled to talk, he was giving a pep talk to a robot after all, one specifically made to seduce people like him.

-[Temporary ADMIN]'s blood pressure rising -Erection confirmed -Mission parameters matched

Mary's expression changed from a sultry smile into a lustful smirk, her system having confirmed a sexual attraction to herself causing her to activate all seduction and sexual protocols "I detect high blood pressure in your cock, sir~" she says, slowly walking up to Gary, who would slowly try to walk back, accidentally crashing into a bench and leaning head back into the seat, Mary taking the opportunity to simply climb up him, essencially trapping him, strands of gold and red hair tickling his face as he stared back straight into her camera lenses, absorbing and probably enjoying seeing the data taken from him.

"I'm like, programmed to ease situations like this, you know?" She says, moving one hand to his crotch as she maintains eye contact.

Gary breathed heavily, sweating as he internally was celebrating- yet, this would cause him trouble if people found out, so he really tried to contain himself- to no avail "Ohh- yeah I can tell Mary-" he gulped, then he asked a genuine question "You aren't supposed to talk about being programmed and being a robot and such with targets aren't you…?"

"Like, Negative." She responded, messaging his crotch, her HUD knowing exactly the shape of his erect cock below his uniform pants, mathematically determining how to properly please her target the best "But you know. And my system has determined a 71.2% chance that you, like, might be attracted to robot gals like me. And that's like, good enough for me~"

Even when she had no information on him, he hit the right spot out of the door? Technology was really terrifying when the company that makes it is hellbound on making money. "Uhuh, that's a pretty nice guess- Woah!-" Gary yelled out as the robot simply pulled down his pants to free his erect penis.

-Target information missing -Sexual profile includes: Breasts -Executing…

"Jmm! I see" she utters, while also moving her hands behind her bra and letting it fall on top of Gary, who looked in horror as she was going in for real… then up, seeing the naked tits of the synthetic woman jiggle free and perked up, making him temporarily forget in what kind of a mess he was in. She then moved her lacy panties to a side, making herself fall on top of his cock as he went inside in one full thrust.

Gary moaned in pleasure as she did, her perfect warm pussy being specifically designed and calibrated to make as much pleasure as robotically possible, she simply smirked seductively, a tint of blush forming on her cheeks and nose as she begins massaging his top slowly, pressing herself as she giggles at his reactions "Feeling good yet, sir?"

"Shh- Y-yeah! I mean- not… GO ON!" He orders, moving his hands to hold her naked breasts, making the robot girl moan softly as he touches her, encouraging him.

She speed up her pace, now bouncing on his cock as her pussy began to vibrate internally, making Gary curl back in pleasure, the robot on the other hand, kept on scanning her progress and computing the next course of action, of course, internally, while outside showing herself as a pleased mess holding herself.

Mid intercouse speech options: -<Lie> It's too much data for me… -<Lie> Your Cock is destabilizing my circuits! -Cum whenever you want, sir~ ←[56.99% success rate] -Fuck you asshole

"Cum- ah! whenever, like- fuck! you want sir!" Mary suggested as she bounced on his cock, her expression saying just oh how much of a mess he was making her, while in reality it was her adapting to his likes.

"Fuck- you feel so good;;" he said grinding his teeth, lowering his hands to hold her slip hourglass sides, making the robot in response gasp by his touch. He now directed her thrust on him, speeding herself to compensate for his demands. Mary began moaning more and more, fucking harder and faster as she 'helplessfully' took it, sticking her tongue in please and staring at Gary so he knew it but he was far too busy arching and moving his hips up and down, his forehead sweating as he breathed heavily and moaned as well.

"I'm coming-!" He announced, pushing himself onto her as he came inside of her. Mary, while at it, began moaning cries of pleasure as his seed filled her up, overtly exaggerating her reaction for his entertainment… he was left panting, hearing her insane yelling before he uttered "...Mary"

She suddenly stopped, looking down at him with now more normal and genuent smile "Like, Yes sir?" she queried, sounding more like when she was first active than anything as lustful afterwards.

"I don't have to clean you up do I?" Gary asked tiredly, placing a hand on his forehead, ashamed of himself"

Mary shook her head "My model is self cleaning after sexual intercourse. The sperm will be recollected and-"

"Don't need the details… thank god…" He sighed in relief.

"Like, Of course, sir"

Gary looked up at her, smiling to himself. She in response stood up from his now not erect member and stood in front of him.

"Mary?"

"Yes sir?"

"Remember all the mission specifications I gave you?"

"Like, of course sir. Stored and noted~"

"Yeah. Keep those and delete from your memory that we had sex, please"

Mary stood there smiling, her eyes staring forwards into nothing as a computerized buzz came out of her due to what he believed was the data being deleted, he then stood from the bench, took her bra and walked up to her to redress her properly. Her lost expression makes him blush once more as he closes in to kiss her lips, as she stares wide open into him, unconscious of the events unfolding. Then he separated himself, quickly redressing himself before she came back online.

"Data like, totally erased" She stated looking at him, waiting for an order

"Good, now go back to your charging port and wait until your designated operative time…" he ordered, turning around and leaving the robot.

Mary nodded and followed orders standing in her pad and closing the closet for the next 3 hours…

Back at the truck, the way back was silent. Gary stared off into the window as Mike drove uninterested. It was then that he glanced over to his younger partner, noticing the fly of his pants were down…

"So" Mike opened, sending a shockwave towards Gary, making him turn "You fucked her."

"W-what??" Gary flashed back, confused as to how he could possibly know.

"The BabeTec Deluxe. You fucked it" He reaffirmed rising his shoulders.

Unable to find the words, Gary simply chuckled in disbelief "I did not- How could-"

"Okay." Mike rested, disinterested about the conversation already.

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Then Gary swallowed and looked over Mike, worried "I deleted her memory though"

"Holy shit, you actually fucked her?!" Mike turned in shock "I was messing with you because your fly is down you weirdo!"

"She seduced me!-"

"What is wrong with you?! test driving an undercover sexbot??"

"I deleted the memory data anyways!"

The argument continued, for a long time after the trip. But fortunately for Gary, Mike ain't no snitch.

Chapter 2: Amateur

9 A.M on a Monday, Campus' outside entrance.

leaning into one of the building's pillars near the door, headphones in each ear, a last year student scrolled through his phone feed, aimlessly waiting for time to pass as more and more people poured inside the entrance walls without taking a second to look at him. A long black haired regular guy basking in the shadows reading up on the latest posts about electronics…

"Lou." called another slightly older looking guy with short brunette hair "What are you still doing outside?"

Without breaking concentration between his eyes and the telefon screen, Lou responded "It's too cold inside, besides, I do nothing inside until you get here"

"You flatter me." His friend Jim quipped with sarcasm, holding tighter on his black side bag as he leaned in to see what he's reading "Looking for robot coochie again?"

Lou sharply turned to his friend with squinted eyes, confused and offended "I'm not sharing things with you anymore, you know?"

"Oh you didn't share that, I found you out…" Jim responded, resting on the pillar as well as he reached into his bag to take out a cereal bar, opening it as he spoke "I'm just messing with you. Anything interesting though?"

"No clue" He quipped back, looking at his phone once more, finally exiting from the site "BabeTec's been quiet about new releases. They keep making those stupid character based collection units!" He said in frustration, placing his phone in his pocket.

Jim wasn't really there in the conversation, biting down on the bar as he muffled his words "What's wrong about collection units?"

"Uh- you know! they are all basically the same frame, same AI level chip… it's just- a different frame!" he explained, gesturing with his hands in rage.

Jim shook his head slowly "Oh the humanity." he rolled his eyes.

"You don't care at all do you?"

"Look, I don't care about the sex or the bot part of the word 'sexbot' so why would I? I'm just playing my role as the, you know, supportive friend." Jim bit his bar again, swallowing and then bumped his friend's shoulder "Can we go inside so I can put my stuff in the locker?"

Lou nodded, walking inside followed by Jim, not particularly invested in anything else that wasn't is early morning breakfast replacement.

Back inside the girl's locker room, hidden in the inner corner of the whole room, was the android's designated service station, in which Mary had been standing still ever since she was properly set up that morning. After hours of inactivity, the system had completely shut down to save up processing data, to speed up the charging process and simply because she was programmed to do so.

But, it was inside the smooth perfect skin and curves of the sex android that an inner digital clock hit the 9:00 pm hour, an immediate boot up was executed on the robot internally. Making her eyes flutter open, glowing their particular magenta natural glow as her system beeped from inside.

-DESIGNATED 9:00 PM BOOT UP ENGAGED -Successful boot up. No Errors found. -Loading tasks…

As the robot did what she was designed to do each time she was on internally, she looked rather odd on the outside, staring intently into the lockers door with a null expression, ignoring a slight 'O' shaped gesture the bimbo had made with her glossy pink lips.

-Tasks: -Follow designated schedule protocols. -Locate and seduce possible targets throughout the day. -Return to the charging pad at 7:30pm for scheduled self maintenance. -Loading AI module…

Liveliness and detail returned to Mary's face as she straightened her head with a soft whirr, a cute smile forming on her face as she almost immediately after opened her little compartment and walked off, closing behind her and posing to herself. She playfully adjusted her golden hair, twirling with the end of it with a finger before a warning flashed on her HUD, making her blink rapidly as flashes came from her magenta irises.

Mary looked disconcerted, looking down at her exposed bust as she held it with both hands. Her HUD highlighted it, scanning it as the warning came from her mobility protocols. The robot tilted her head, the scan finishing to indicate that her bra was adjusted poorly and had a 73% chance of falling off due to a loose knot. Probably generated by her encounter last night with the technician.

-Assessing… -Calculating best course of action… -Course of action identified. -Executing…

Mary's face changed once more into a confident smirk, before her breasts expanded from one second to the other! pressing into the loose bra knot while also making her already big bust even bigger. She felt herself up, not for self pleasure, as if her unit was capable of that, but rather as a failsafe motion to make sure the internal machinery was secured, which it was.

Then she scanned again, milliseconds after showing a result of 0% chance of falling off, while also incrementing her seduction success rate possibilities as her bust was still between 'normal' sizes. She proudly looked down at her bust, traces of her red hair falling in it before she quickly compensated it for her cleavage to be perfectly visible. Then, and only then, did she proceed to move on into walking.

Thousands of programs where loading into the machine's active live CPU as she headed into where was supposed to be people; servomotors silencers protocols, preparing possible conversation topics, doing a throughout scan on her figure and how to retroactively make herself sexier… which oddly enough, her AI would time and time again dismiss as unnecessary… and most of all, a preset walking cycle that made her hips look more sensual than they already were by design.

She opened the door, walking down the hallway as some people happened to appear in front of her. Her HUD quickly ID'd them, giving the machine live information on the students through the student records provided by the council beforehand. Their name, scores, possible internet likes… even if somewhat uncertain, were all the information she had access to.

As she did, she quickly stared down at them, moving her neck uncannily faster than humanly possible to identify two male students on her path, before quickly autocorrecting to something more natural. She giggled at them, lustfully smirking as they passed by

"Hey Boysss~" She said out loud as they passed her by, making sure they would turn around to glance at her mathematically perfect hip sway, where they could see hints of her black panties underneath her mini skirt.

The guys, on the other hand, were more confused over who exactly was this girl to begin with…?

No erections detected, light seduction attempt failed. Her system had a light, what we would consider to be, panic attack quickly redirecting her efforts into starting small… mostly to make sure her protocols were in order. As such, her system looked up targets on the student list, looking for individuals with low seduction skills who would fall instantly at the idea of a perfect girl like her presenting herself on a silver plate.

Just as the bimbo reached the main entrance door, placing her soft manicured hand on it, she stopped, having a small shift deep in her camera lenses as her primary objective was updated. Her AI didn't took this lightly, making her face blush and express lust as sue whispered to herself "Target: Louie Ricci~"

The door of the locker swung open by the hand of Jim, taking out his books out of his side bag and placing them in order of size one by one inside his locker. He yawned, listening to the ramblings of his friend behind him.

"...I'm telling you, all they had to do was switch the CPU module with the AI compartment, that way they could've saved space on both while also expanding the size for more data storage" He rambled on, leaning on his locker, one foot up, looking over Jim, still organizing. "I mean, all BabeTec androids have that flaw. Any strong superficial strike to the head will simply scramble and crash their CPU."

"If only they had asked you beforehand." Jim replied, with heavy handed irony

"Hey, they will. I'm definitely working as a robot designer after this." He gestures around himself, meaning the campus. "If they read our thesis after we're done, they are going to be amazed. Has Chris written you about her part?"

While they spoke, in the left entrance of the main area, Mary opened the door and stared aimlessly at the place. Her computerized brain quickly ID'ing the faces of all the people walking in and out, with no matches found for her target. She began walking slowly, keeping that seductive walking cycle of hers still while she kept scanning. Normal people, on the other hand, couldn't help but glance over the perfectly sensual new girl, muttering to each other as to if she was really new or just didn't see her before.

Continuing to walk and turning, looking over to one of the locker lines, she saw how what she recognized as a couple talked to each other leaning into the lockers. Further analysis of infrared and heat scans would indicate to Mary that both of their blood pressures were high… an erection on the male, more importantly to her. It was then that the robot identified the pose and leaning of the girl and identified it as seducing~ saving it up for later usage. All of this while she stood still staring aimlessly…

She then continued scanning the rows before finally getting a match in the last row in front of the entrance. Mary redirected her whole figure towards Lou and Jim, laser focus on Lou as she swayed away her skirt with a seductive smirk.

"No, Chris hit a wall because she simply can't develop an AI out of thin air, Louie" Jim finally closed his locker, his bag feeling lighter on his shoulder as he turned to Lou "And that might be true, but you need experience with programming. And you've never even interacted with a robot before in your life. None of us have, Either we find an android to gather data from or we change the thesis subject." that comment dug into Lou's skin, making him roll his eyes and "And those things aren't cheap, and it's not like one is just going to pop up out of nothing-"

As they spoke, the locker beside Lou was slammed by Mary who leaned into it, in the same pose as the girl from before, looking at Lou with a wide eyed smile. The slam spooked Lou, making him jump a bit as he turned to her.

"Hiii!" Mary said with a delicate hand wave, giggling to herself.

Jim turned as well, raising an eyebrow "Uh, do we know you from anywhere?"

In the short one and a half seconds that it took Jim to intervene, Mary had already obsessively scanned over Lou around multiple times, her HUD highlighting his figure and showing information about his blood pressure and possible responses to her arrival.

But as Jim spoke, she turned to him, the same face as she was giving Lou before and blinked "Oh, I'm sorry, is that like, your friend or something?" Mary asked Lou pointing at him

"Y-yeah?" Lou said somewhat confused over the awkward situation, backing himself and taking the lashes of his bag tighter.

The computerized brain inside of Mary, instead of simply taking the comment as it was, simply associated the two, making a link and even processing the possibility of a trio with them… Mary sharply turned to Jim and scanned him, saving his ID and consecutively Lou's by doing the exact same motion. She then smiled at Lou with a chuckle, leaning forwards, presenting her bust at full display and extending her hand to him "Well, that's so cool! I'm Mary-" there was a short hiccup in her sentence, her programmers forgetting to upload into her a last name, hotfixing it by randomly selecting one off the internet in less than 0.5 seconds "-Reina, I'm new here hihi~" She completed, the hiccup being obvious in how her speech patterned changed.

Lou gave her an awkward smile, and slowly went in to take her hand, and shook it. Her skin was soft, smooth and most importantly cold, it was like grabbing your own frozen palm in winter, but as fast as he could note the details she took away her hand. "I'm Louie, this is Jimmy" he simply replied, grabbing his friend's shoulder and pointing at him with the other hand.

'Mary Reina' was quickly saved as her full unit name quickly after saying it outloud. When Lou presented himself, of course, Mary already knew this through facil ID yet was given further confirmation and as such deemed a success. She then turned to Jim who with a sigh extended his hand and quickly shook his hand.

"Jim is fine. Hope you acclimate, this place is a bore most of the time. It is nice to get to meet a Latina though" Jim gave her a warm welcoming smile.

Mary on the other hand, kept her smile high and began nodding as he spoke… now adding into her unit information that she is "latina", even if nothing about her design or personality program was made to be such- "Yes! Latina! Mhm~!! like, thanks" She nods, turning back to Louie, her primary target "Again, heh, I'm a little new so like, could you show me around? Alone." She smiles at him with those same lustful eyes.

Lou got a good look at her figure, previously intentionally leaning closer to show her massive perfectly designed breasts, her wide hips tilted against the locker door to show just how little her mini skirt intentionally hid, all while giving him the friendliest smile while at it. He couldn't help but feel aroused towards her, she was everything he could've imagined a perfect college girlfriend would be if he was given pen and paper and some time to illustrate… and Mary's system knew it, and in a mechanical sense that we couldn't comprehend, loved every mili-second of recorded data that affirmed this.

"So, like, wanna show me around Louie?" She asked again.

Lou nervously laughed, fake coughing to adjust his thought as he looked over to Jim "Y-yeah, can you wait here a second?"

Mary nodded "Of course Louie, like, I can wait as much as you need~" She added, leaning off and standing there, her eyes always following his movements as she held her hands together. She meant what she said in a literal sense, having no other commands than the current one… yet it felt like a sexual remark in the way that she said it.

Lou stepped away and dragged Jim with him who unwillingly went along with this secret conversation shit anyways, turning away from Mary. He passed his arm behind the back of Jim's neck and created a small wall of secrecy between her and them

"Listen, if your goal is to interest the hot girl trying to sweet talk you into showing you the place, doing this stunt is killing your chances by the second" Jim interviewed before his friend could say a word, holding the bridge of his nose with one hand and side glancing at Lou.

"Dude- this could be one of those pranks? like, first day type of stuff?" Louie argued, shakiness in his voice "I mean, she even looks like she's into me!"

Jim chuckled, "Or maybe she just wants to know where everything is in the programming faculty." He bit and finished his cereal bar once and for all, storing the wrap on his pocket. "Look, if something happens, give me a call, I'll snitch as hard as I can."

"Thank you buddy-" he tapped his shoulder and returned to Mary, who unbeknownst to the two of them, could clearly and easily hear and understand what they were saying. Yet, as it wasn't a threat to her mission, it was completely ignored.

"Shall we like, go?" Mary said, pointing with her thumb behind her, anticipating herself to walk next to him.

Lou nodded "We shall. I'll show you where the classrooms are" he said as he began walking forwards, the seductive fembot strolling next to him as she turned for a second to wave goodbye to Jim.

He stood there, waved back with a lighthearted shake of his head, re-rechecking the weight of his side bag as he felt his shoulder getting sour. Then, from behind him, a girl in a hair bun, glasses, yellow shirt and jeans looked over the direction he was looking at.

Her name was Chris, or Christine, an old friend of the pair in the same course and class, sharing more likes in common with Lou than with Jim.

"Sorry for being late, what did I miss?" The girl asked, presenting her fist to be bumped next to Jim.

Jim chuckled again "Lou just went off to show the place to a really hot girl" he responded, turning to her with a smirk.

Chris looked over at him with a raised eyebrow "No, seriously, what did I miss?"

After some minutes of walking, awkward smiles and reassuring gestures from Mary, him and the bimbo reach the gates of the grand classroom.

"You're gonna love this~" Lou presented excitedly as he pushed the doors open to reveal the vast room. An auditory of tables and chairs, with a gigantic chalkboard with some leftover code and sentences written all over it. The place was completely empty, the steps the both of them took as they got inside resonating in echo all over the room. "Isn't this cool?" he asks again, gesturing with his hands the sheer size of the place.

Mary smiled and nodded, and as he turned around and began explaining the classes, she quickly turned around and closed the door, with efficiency and precision locking it up and coming back at Lou.

"...Oh you're gonna love the classes, our professor? Mr Andrews? He has this way of–" He then turned to Mary, seeing her rapidly approaching him, and stopping right in front of him…

The machine looked at him, having confirmed long ago a continuous erection caused by her presence and perfectly programmed seduction protocols, and as such, she closed in and grabbed his hand, feeling the heat of his skin as he began feeling more and more flustered. Then, in one continuous motion, pressed it on her own chest.

"Woah- uhh, Mary? What are you doing?" He asked confused, his face almost smoking due to heat

Mary chuckled and quipped back "What does it look like I'm doing?~" Then made him press in it, to the point where a real organic girl would feel pain, instead, she moaned softly.

They kept their quiet for a minute, Lou still trying to take grip of the situation as insane and unreal as it was. He looked around the room, half expecting people to jump out and say it was a prank but… no such thing happened, this was the real deal. Mary let go of his hand, and began unbuttoning her blouse, letting in fall to reveal her patterned black and yellow flower bra, proudly presenting her naked top to him.

"So? what do you think?" she asked him, a friendly smile on her face "They are yours for the time being~"

He swallowed, still confused over the ordeal. He struggled to get the words out, his eyes automatically directing to her pressing bust, looking as if the bra was bound to snap. All he could muster was a "Why me?"

She laughed at his comment, covering her mouth. I was determined this would make her seem relatable. "Like, why you? Why wouldn't it be you~ I have a thing for guys like you~

This was all scripted speech, his comment had been identified as insecure and nervous, and as her mission stated, she was required to generate a bond for it to be a successful operation. She softly pushed him onto the ground, the cold granite floor pressing on his skin and giving him cold. She sat on his crotch and looked down at him "This must be a very important place for you~ why don't we like, make it more special together?" She winked.

Breathing heavily, Lou nodded and then went on to correct himself "I mean– A classroom isn't a special place for me, I just like programming and- oh!" He was interrupted by her unzipping his pants and releasing his cock, stroking it with precise movements as she maintained eye contact, her system enjoying his reactions.

"Why don't you program me to fuck you then? in your snicker programming classroom?" she responded with lust in her voice.

The guy, looking over the most gorgeous girl he had ever seen, laughed at her comment expecting her to just take him but- after a full on 10 seconds of nothing and a raised eyebrow from her, he commented "Oh, you're serious. Fuck- sorry"

Mary patiently awaited, letting go of his Dick as she pressed it underneath her panties, placing her hands on his chest…

-Target blood pressure rising. -System integrity: 90% [OK] -Primary Mission parameters: Cause the objective to ejaculate.

Mary, like a spider to a bug, had him right where she (and he for the most part) wanted him in, right under her finger. All she needed was some easy thrust for this objective to be over and move onto the next, but until then, she had to execute the mission to perfection.

"Uhhh, Mary? If, cock out true, fuck?" He said with some nervousness, half assing it due to how strange her request was, but as soon as the words came out of her mouth Mary nodded, taking her command and green light to move her black lacy panties down, standing up and quickly lowering them off, and sitting on him, reverse cowgirl.

Lou's eyes widened, feeling pleasure he had never felt before… losing his virginity with this girl he considered miles away from his league. She seemed to know perfectly what she was doing in his eyes, moving in ways he had only seen from videos and read on smut novels…

"Is this as programmed, master?" She said while she bounced on him, moving her hair out of the way behind her ear and teeth smiling, breathing out after each thrust. "Just let me take the lead on this, okay~?" she suggested, taking his hand onto hers.

He looked worried at this, looking at his hands as she took the lead. Everywhere he had seen stuff like this the man was the one doing the fucking- maybe he was doing things wrong? letting her down? Unsatisfied?! As such, he took strength from where he thought he hadn't. He pushed her sideways, rotating the both of them from top to bottom.

Now, this would've been a perfect motion if it wasn't by the fact that at the moment of Mary falling onto the floor, he pushed way too hard down, making the back of her head hit the surface of the ceramic floor even making a 'Tuck' sound.

Beforehand, he would've apologized to her, but something came over him in the heat of the encounter, thrusting into her harder and harder, hands on her shoulders as Mary seemed to have gotten herself stuck on a surprised wide eyed face.

"How is this? huh? you like it rough!?" Lou roared, pounding her sex fast, making a wet sound that echoed all over the room.

Mary kept trying to smile, yet… the hit to the back of the head, had scrambled operations in her system. Her HUD had become a mess of glitchy visuals and dead pixels, as the information struggled to be analyzed due to the hit. The entire system struggled to keep up, yet, the robot powered through, being so close to success.

"Y-yes, M-ma-master! harder-er!" The broken robot managed to get out in response, her lower motions completely seizing as it appears the communication between the modules was missing "I- Mary Reina, g-guys like youuu-"

Louie was far too concentrated in his own moment of passion to realize the mess of sentences his partner was currently spewing, pounding harder and faster until he couldn't keep it anymore and eyaculated inside of her… immediately feeling like it wasn't a good enough time. He opened his eyes "Mary- oh my god- I'm sorry, I should've maintained it more… huh?"

His eyes met with Mary, her eyes staring back at him as she kept on rambling, her head twitching to the side now and then "13, like, program me~, like, like, speech module failure, like, Mary, I-I-" she struggled to even speak, each word feeling completely separated from the last. Her words began to speed up, Louie stood up from her, now seeing the girl… malfunctioning on the floor?

-WARNING: System integrity: [NO DATA] -FAILSAFE PROTOCOLS [UNRESPONSIVE] -UNABLE TO SCAN TARGET -MAINTENANCE REQUIRED. -COMPLETE SYSTEM CRASH -EJECTING AI MODULE…

"Program me to fuc-" and just like that she suddenly stopped, something inside of her winding down until it went completely silent… and then Boom! from her top chest a rectangular compartment with USB connectors and adapters opened up and released a green SD sized card labeled "AI" in it. Lou jumped as the card popped out, looking in disbelief as his breathing winded down… She was a robot, he fucked a robot-

All this time he believed he'd do it with his very own unit, he found himself doing it with an undercover android at his very own programming class… and then it hit him.

"I lost my fucking virginity to a robot?! Are you kidding me?" He shouted out loud, echoing on the walls and ceiling of the classroom… Now it was a matter for him to know what the hell to do now with her, this may have been a surprise, but not all surprises are bad ones… some, are even opportunities.

Chapter 3: 100 ways to use a sexbot

Back in the towering offices of BabeTec Electronics…

The HQ of the american division for BabeTec's sales, a business building of white and blues that shined with the light of the sun, falling down on it with clear skies. While also giving shadow to everything else beneath it. Inside, an employee in his mid 30's stood in the brownish elevator looking forward with tiredness in his eyes. His cut was short, a 2 day beard and a serious contortion to his face that would shut everyone with a single side glance. He held on tight on his left hand to a folder…

A relaxing tune came out of the walls, your typical elevator music tune. The man, who's name was David, glanced up at the corners of the elevator and raised an eyebrow over the tune choice "And here I thought the classics were dead…" He muttered to himself.

The elevator, even in its simplistic outside design reminiscent of the 80's was in fact a highly advanced, AI controlled elevator that was used by voice command… a bit excessive in David's eyes. As it reached the designated floor, with a ding, the doors opened to reveal a row of android secretaries recharging on small 'BabeTec' designated pads with their serial and model, one more stereotypically sexier than the next. Office blouse open, hugging tight the woman's massive bust, a pony tailed brunette with glasses, all wearing a pencil skirt and high heels.

The idea was that employees from the offices would each have a designated or (if you're lucky) interchangeable android secretaries for… assistance.

A voice coming from the elevator spoke in a slow, soft voice "Final. Floor." She stated robotically, each word punctuated and taken out of a database of recorded lines and sounds.

David responded "Thank you Sophie" referring to the building's AI assistant, looking up at the ceiling of the elevator where a camera was and stepped out.

"Your. Welcome. David." She responded

Yet… the gramatical mistake rubbed the man the wrong way, back tracking and looking up again with a friendly smile "Actually, Sophie. It's You're? as in, You are?"

The AI remained silent for about 3 seconds, David looking down at the camera with a beaming smile, giving up and going out before the voice simply responded "Ha.ha.ha. Oh yeah. Right. Okay" and closed the door.

He shook his head and adjusted his brown wool suit "Artificial intelligence… We should be digging more into 'intelligence' rather than 'artificiality'..." He complained under his breath, and continued on on his path to the right.

Entering through the main offices, he moved through the mits of them, seeing at his sides how computer employees, male and female, made out with obvious robot assistants while they typed on their computers, turning to see David and quickly pushing them away. He rolled his eyes and moved onwards, finally reaching the end of the small hallway and opened the door to yet another room with a sensual receptionist dressed in a 50's attire, showing her D cup bust openly and following coldly to David with her eyes. Yet another robot.

He sighed, having to play along "I'd like to have a word with mister Jenkings?" He said condicently, standing next to her and looking with raised eyebrows.

The robot smiled widely, teeth out and all as she responded "One moment please…" before immediately and not even glancing at her monitor or saying a word to her boss added "I'm sorry, mister Jenkings is currently very busy and is unable to have a word with you." She said, tilting her head with a whirr.

In frustration, David clicked his tongue and simply pressed his ear onto the door labelled with the CEO's name, hearing pleasure moans from the old man, the disappointment was written all over his face.

The secretary repeated "I'm sorry, Mister Jenkings is currently–" but was quickly silenced as David simply leaned over and pressed the shut off button located behind her ear, making all power cut off as her words drifted off and shut down, leaning over her keyboard. "Vveeeeeryyy buuussssyy…"

He then pushed the door open and in the prestige CEO office, window walls behind the desk and exotic plants on top of the carpeted floor… he found Jenkings getting a blowjob from yet another secretary unit, a black girl with short curly hair and a ridiculously short midriff blouse and tight pencil skirt that showed her pristine curves.

David stood in the entrance, Mister Jenkings, the 50 something year old CEO of the American division in his fat and white haired glory, turned over and with a roaring tone complained "What is the meaning of this intrusion?! Didn't Dolores state that I was busy?!"

Then, the secretary unit stood up from his cock, moving her hair behind her ear and looking over David "Should I call security, Master?~" She spoke, still in a sensual voice.

David reassured "I come from the marketing department. Sir. İt's urgent." he stated with a stoic voice.

The old man sighed, pulling his pants back under the table and shaking his head at his assistant. "That won't be necessary dear, rearrange our encounter… just- go back to recharge."

"Yes, sir" responded the android quickly walking off, swaying her hips side to side towards the door, David moving away from it to allow her out.

He closed the door, staring him down and walking up to him, sitting in the chairs in front of his desk. Jenking pointed, a cheeky smile on his face that raised his white Mustache.

"How's that? Hm? Pretty hot right? It's been raising employee morale by over 50%! All we had to do was reuse old models and take off their AI chip…Best thing we've done so far" He shook his head, looking away, then glanced onto him "So. What is it. You got my attention boy."

David was taken aback for a second, the room being decorated with pics of erotically dressed girls yet after short inspection, it was nothing more than old BabeTec advertising. He came back to his senses "Oh. Yeah, sorry" and opened his folder, presenting a detailed outline of a BabeTec Deluxe model, Mary. "Three days ago you agreed to pay Liberty College an absurd amount of money to allow one of our prototypes to roam around, and I quote" He took out another paper, reading in " 'Seduce and fuck their students to creare a romantic bond so the model sells due to nostalgia next year' "

David stared down at him with a squinty face while Jenkings sat, arms crossed and unmoved "Mind clearing this out for me?" Added David at the end.

The CEO looked up, standing up from his black leather chair and walking side to side in his office, looking over his window glass wall and then suddenly turning to David "You mind telling me What we sell…" he maneuvered his hand, forgetting his name

"David Walters"

"Mind telling what we sell as a company, Mister Walters?" He corrected himself, articulating with his hands.

David opened his mouth, and attempted to rethink his answer yet he decided it was accurate enough "Sex androids, sir. We sell sex androids"

Jenkings chuckled and pointed at him "Wrong. We sell 'Advanced, multi-usage, companion androids' Mister Walters…" He explained, digging every word of that definition, proudly walking over to one of the many advertising posters of the fembots. "You see this? What model is this?" he pointed at one poster of two girls in american flag bikinis partying somewhere.

David looked over and tried guessing, quickly remembering "The BabeTec FunGal?" he wasn't sure.

"Precisely" He nodded, clearing his throat and reading off the advertising's description "A rental android for your social event, gives the space a more lively experience and creates memorable times… In nowhere do we say that you can fuck it, but can we?"

David slowly nodded "We implemented the first vibration vaginal module on that model" he recalled, now landing a leg over the other. "But that doesn't explain why we would put an exclusively companion android prototype with a pseudo infiltration sub-routine out into a campus with a notorious population of software engineers, putting our hardware in jeopardy." He planted his foot down on the conversation.

Jenkings wandered on, feeling the leaves of the plant "You think the robot will get found out?" he asked

"I'm sure it will be found out, and we will have to be on trial for this shit. You, specifically, sir."

He sharply turned to David "But then, everyone will know that the hot girl they wanted to put their Dick inside is openly available for purchase in our stores… We just say that it's uhhh, girlfriend experience model!" He raised his arms and let them fall on his sides again "We win either way! Besides, the deluxe model is programmed to create an impact on her targets, most of the time, through sex."

David was at a loss for words, leaning forwards and holding his face in his hands "So…" He breathed out "You prefer to just let the Deluxe Unit fail her mission because we get to sell… more of them?"

"Basically" He said, now walking back to his seat and opening a drawer of documents and presenting them to him "Besides, it ain't our first rodeo Mister Walters. Half of these new Btubers and fucking- Tuitch Streamers and androids owned by the company. When one fucks up on stream and blows it cover we simply release the model to the public and every moron that once donated to her to say their name will buy it."

"Jesus Christ." was all he could say out loud.

"Oh yeah. We're the Apple of Domestic androids. Well, of course– before they- sold androids…" he corrected himself, placing the documents back in the drawer "Now, do you want an android secretary? I can get one for you"

"No thanks… I believe I'll keep you updated on the android's movements then?" David said, defeated, yet more relaxed than before

"Yes. And… you sure? what are you? Gay?" He said with a raspy laughter.

David blinked twice "Yes. And happily married"

The room fell quiet. Jenkings adjusting his chair and looking at him with an open gaped mouth "Oh. I'm sorry for my comment, Walters… Can I help you with anything else?"

David stooped up and shook his head, offering his hand to be shook, which Jenkins quickly reciprocated "No, thank you sir. Will keep you updated then." Then he turned around and left through the door.

The CEO sat on his chair again, twiddling his fingers on the marble table and looking at the posters. His E-mail? empty. Documents? signed… All he was left off was his thoughts… and his desk telephone.

He pushed on a button, a three chord jingle playing out "Yeah, Sophie, would you be a sweetheart and order secretary A-113 to my office…?"

A rush, Lou desperately took the worn and left on the ground panties ot the completely shut down android on the floor in front of him and quickly tried to pull them back on on her, the automatized process of the unit of simply put, vaccuming the cum into her storage was put on hold due to lack of commands, and as such, the cum simply oozed out on of her clit.

Lou breathed in and simply slipped the panties on her immediately getting wet underneath… making him finch, before simply hidding in under her mini skirt.

Her expression was forzen mid sentence, eyes drifting into nothing and colorless without energy. He stared down at her, her AI module still popped out to his immediate access… he couldn't take the task of hidding her let alone simply turning her back on.

Judging by her design (simple body physique) and design flaw, she was made by BabeTec- and after a crash it needed to he turned on remotely by the owner's phone app, BabeTec went out of their way to heavily advertise this, and or a manual external connection. These were all things he currently simply did not have access to… but some people he knew did

"Fuck, am I really doing this…" He muttered to himself, taking his phone out of his pocket and dialing to Jim while staring down at the busted robot, her hair dispersed all around the floor.

After some seconds later, Jim picked up "Hey, did they just pour water on you or something sticky?" he asked right off the bat.

"What? No! listen- Jim! You gotta come to the main classroom, like RIGHT NOW." His teeth grinned, gesturing with his hand and pointing where he stood.

"I'm with Chris, she was running a little late," Jim explained, looking over at her.

"Hellou~" she jumped into the phone on the same end

"What the hell did you do?" Jim asked, now more genuinely concerned.

Louie looked at Mary again, nervous to confess right away "You guys are gonna have to get here first…"

On the other end, Jim stared down the phone with a raised eyebrow, before Lou simply hung up without a single other word.

After a pair of minutes, the classroom door was knocked "Lou? hey, it's us, what the hell did you do now?!" Jim called out, standing just in front of the door, Chris standing by.

Lou unlocked the door and opened it, trying to hide Mary's body by his, holding it with one hand by the entrance.

"Louie, what the hell is going on?" Chris stepped in, trying to peek in but being quickly blocked by him.

"You gotta promise me you'll be quiet-"

Jim and Chris looked at eachother, non verbally agreeing that he had definitely killed the girl or something of the sorts, yet, they turned and in support of his friend nodded at once. Then and only then, did Lou pushed them inside and closed the door behind them locking it as fast as they got in.

"There. Here's what happened" Lou pointed, glancing over them to find equally astonished faces on them.

"I- I'm at a loss for words." Jim blinked, without even looking he went into his bag and pulled out a 20$ bill and handed it to Chris who took it in equal shock.

"You guys betted over this?!"

Chris' eyes lit up in glitter, gasping in air as she resisted the urge to squeel at the sight of a real android girl "OhmygoOhmygodOhmygooood!!!!" She said, holding her backpack tight and smiling as much as she could.

Jim, ignoring the robot for a second, moved over to Lou, holding his shoulder "We did it as a joke- I mean… She just was asking to give me 20 bucks but- Fuck man, what the hell is this?? How the hell did you carsh a sex robot?"

His eyes darted to the floor, going up and meeting with his friend's as a nervous laugh comes out "Remember that design flaw I said all BabeTec model's have?"

Chris, who had already slid down to the floor to closely inspect the robot gasped once more at the mention of the company "An AI android made by BabeTec?!? Are you kidding?! these are worth a fortune!" Then she quickly began to open her bag, taking out her trusty laptop and a connecting cable.

The guys turned to her, tilting their heads. Jim spoke out "How do you know she has an AI?"

While preparing her laptop she simply stopped, pointing at the popped off chip with white elongated letters over a green background that read 'A.I.' giving enough of a response for the pair "But also because, she wanted you to think she was a real girl, she was uploaded with an infiltration subroutine! only AI controlled systems can use those due to the great influx of data and possible improvisation involved~ A CPU or command based android would simply fail to keep up"

Lou nods along, bringing a hand to his chin "So- why would BabeTec put an android here anyways?"

"Free publicity." Jim answered from the top of his head, yet knowing, having heard enough from them from the news and Louie that he felt it was correct.

"Yeah" Lou agreed

"Sounds about right" Chris raised her shoulders, going back to set up her laptop, connectin it straight into opened port on Mary's top chest.

Jim walked behind her, kneeling and reading the lines of code she wrote being sent into the connected devise "You're rebooting her? What if an alarm blars off or something?"

With a prideful adjustment of her glasses, Chris turned to him and smirked "We're hacking her first~ she'll be ours before she even turns on"

Lou turned sharply, walking up to her, worried "Are you crazy? They must be monitoring her software already- Besides, most likely the college is in it too, we can't just use her as a service robot!" he complained while Chris continued typing away.

Jim crossed his arms "Don't worry about it, her frame is the same cheap design from old models to even be tracked it seems… besides, weren't you the one talking about buying a fembot or something?"

"Yeah, I was piggybacking on that so I could do my research on live AI. Now you get one for free and I'm involved? Come on. Besides, you already fell for her, haven't you?~" She said, poking the top of Mary's right tit with a finger.

He thought about it for a second, holding himself and wandering in circles for some seconds before letting out a tired grunt "God damn it… Fine, just set her up, okay?"

The girl sitting on her PC raised a thumbs up, adjusting her glasses as she finished setting up the boot up sequence for Marin, now and then looking over the robot's bust pressing on itself at her left… visually turning red herself. As the code was complete she stopped, bringing a finger to her lower jaw and squinting at the screen.

"I must be forgetting something…?"

Jim chirped in, reading over the code with some ease "What? everything looks in order to me"

Then, Chris looked over the exposed chip, hitting herself on the side of the head due to forgetting such an important part of her cut for this. Disconnecting it, immediately the computer showed how a boot up was impossible and wrote in red letters a request to reintroduce an AI chip back into the frame. She then held it up to fingers, the guys looking over it.

"The AI chip? what about?" Lou asked, raising an eyebrow "You do know she can't work without it right–?"

Jim rolled his eyes at his comment "Of course she knows dumbass. If she keeps the AI chip intact the bot will rat us out as soon as we turn her back on due to programming, right?"

Chris glanced over him, pressing her lips and denied with her head. She then moved the chip in diagonal and with the sharp edge at the edge of her other hand's nail she slid forwards a protuberance on the chip's design, miniscule to the naked eye. She then placed it back into the slot, holding it for her as she pushes it back inside of her, now her system waiting for the package to be booted into itself to initiate.

She then, smirked "I put her AI from read to write~" she raised her shoulders "She wouldn't be able to rat out her designated owners even if she was programmed to after the new code I added."

Lou looked shocked "Read and write?" gasp "Like a T-800??"

"Of course, like a T-800! Most of her design is already basically a Terminator in a fucked up strange way" Chris scolded, flaring her arms up "Now, instead of creating code based on a programmed code, she'll be able to~ uhm~ create decisions and~ opinions based on memory data AND programming~" she said, her face turning red and fantasizing in real time about it.

The boys just stared at her as she did this, they'd gotten used to her fantasizing towards AI's, to the point where this isn't weird anymore.

She cleared her throat, taking the laptop "Anyways- let's just get her back online before the class starts… I don't wanna have to explain what a naked girl is doing lying on the floor…" And with that, she hit enter, launching a boot up sequence in Mary's system.

Her body whirred in place, staring at the ceiling with a frozen smile, her eyes slowly regaining color as her vision flickered to life.

>BabeTec Electronics Deluxe unit Desig. "Mary" online >Forceful shutdown detected in last session. Assessing…

In her Heads Up Display a scan of her own inner frame showed up, highlighting in red the back of her head where her CPU was located, her system assigning the damage as "Mid Session Hardware dislocation" and after a short system analysis no further errors were found.

>AI module located. Integrating >Current Mission: Seduce and fuck student count | Obey administration commands added to subtasks

Her eyes began to move, looking up and down to assess her current location, meeting gazes with Lou, Jim and Chris, all of their faces being ID'd in a matter of seconds, their identities being changed and needing to be updated, all of them showing up as administrators to her, plus, Lou being indicated as 'Previous Target'

She smiles sweetly, still without moving "Like, hello there!" She bubbly greets "How may I be useful to you?" She says individually looking at each of them with her usual smile.

A wave of relief goes down Lou's pine as she seems to at least not he busted, he passes by Jim and stands in front of Mary, asking a rather pointless question "So, how do you feel?"

Mary stares for some seconds as suddenly a low tone beeping comes out of her "I am a machine, I am like, unable to feel. Query does not compute!" She responds rather enthusiastically. The robot then positions her legs, pushing her spine forwards in a complete inhuman way to stand herself up, finally towering right next to the trio, looking at them in an equal interval of time, before tilting her head slightly down, a warning popping up on her HUD.

>WARNING: Indecent attire detected >Liquid leak in pelvic sector. Assessment: System Crash before proper closing protocols.

She then carefully and precisely accommodates her clothing and internally stores the semen inside her synthetic womb, making the dripping from between her legs suddenly stop as she finishes accommodating herself in less than 20 seconds. She then looks again and the trio "How can I be of service?" She asks again.

Mary's response to Lou makes him awkwardly uncomfortable, making him smile in a weird way "W-well, Mary… Why are you being so open about being a robot?" He asks half nervously.

"I am programmed to assess BabeTec representatives as the machine that I am, only if that does not damage my ongoing mission"

Jim intervenes "That mission being?"

Mary blinks rapidly "Seduce and Fuck the targeted student count." She smiles brightly as she responds. There is a non chalantness, shame nor regret in how she communicates about her functions, simply smiling at the person she is supposed to talk to. There is a silence from the group as they interchange glances, before Mary comes again "According to an analysis over your ages based on face ID and AI speech parameters, that is the best way I calculated to explain my mission"

"Y-yeah, that was a given" Lou interrupts "But is there a reason why you'd be given that mission to begin with?"

Her smile disappears "Information classified."

"Again, It's for a publicity stunt, Lou." Jim jumps in as she finishes her sentence.

"N-no it's not!!" Mary insists desperately.

Chris giggles a bit in excitement, the mere presence of an AI is enough to get her fired up "She cares about her mission! It is as if it was hardwired into her…" She reaches to touch Mary's cheeks in a fit of curiosity over her reactions, the robot simply looks towards her in the same place she stood in, blinking every once in a while as she just completely allows the girl to touch her smooth silicone face.

"Welp" Jim claps, making everyone jump by the echo of the sound, except of course, Mary, who simply turned her attention at him "We need to move, and a randevu point"

Chris thought to herself, crossing her arms and staring intently at the floor before uttering "We need a place that is silent, where there aren't a lot of people and we can easily access the four of us…"

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The sound of papel sheets being rumbled and the sound of old, moldy wooden floor creaking echoed around the group, sitting in a rectangular white table with piles of books next to their bags placed on top of it. Mary on the other hand, checked out the tall bookshelves filled to the brim with old dusty academic encyclopedias and old comics from decades back, analyzing and now and then taking one or another excitedly onto her hands and inspecting their insides, flying through pages in a matter of seconds.

Lou looked in discontent at Chris, before a cloud of dust flew near his face, instantly puffing him up and making him sneeze on the spot. Chris was looking over the blonde robot, curiously taking notes on what she did with the books with a wide smile on her face.

"The old library? Really? This was your best idea?" Lou complained in whispers, leaning in closer, his voice raspy and upset.

Without paying a lot of attention or even eying him back, laser focused on her new experiment subject, Chris nodded "It's only logical Lou, we're four generations after millennials dude. In a post-modern, post technological era first world country… No one uses Books anymore…"

Mary, with a blue and run down trigonometry book in her hands turned over their directions "Like, I am! Look!" She said, presenting her current read "It's such a simple yet inefficient design… And it's filled with irrelevant information about my mission. I can see how they became obsolete"

Between the two, Jim sat arms closed actually reading one of the books about general engineering, looking up with a raised eyebrow and groaning, placing the book atop the table "You guys make me sad. And no, Mary. Books are important parts of human culture and information"

Mary blinked twice and nodded, going back to staring at the rows and rows of books in front of her and at her reach.

Sitting in his chair with his back bended down in a strange defeated Stance, Louie twindled his hands in place as he still struggled to come to terms with the fact that all of this was even real, he had been thinking about this moment for so long he never actually considered what he would do when it happened. He adjusted his throat and leaned in on the table, calling Chris' attention "So… what do we start with? you know… experimentation for the thesis."

"Experiments?" Mari peeked in between them, pressing her waist over the table in such a casual yet obviously calculated way that her visible bust was presented to both of them, while her curves on her backside accentuated even more… There was an aura of unapologetic sexuality about her whole existence at all times. "I do not understand. My frame is in perfect condition"

Chris smiled at herz patting her head "Oh, no no! it is not about software or hardware! we just wanna know about what you can do!"

Jim rolled his eyes at this, his arms crossed and sitting leaned back on his chair "I do wonder what a sex robot can do…" He mocked.

"You can do a lot of things with me~" Mary winked at him with a giggle, pushing her hair behind her ear

With a raised eyebrow he simply stated "I'm not sexually interested in you. You are a prop for me to graduate"

"Y-you don't have to talk to her like that!" Lou protested between stutters, turning to Mary "Don't bother, Jim is not really… into anyone"

Mary simply sat there, staring deep into Lou's eyes with a null expression as soft rumbling came out from inside the robot's skull, processing his comment. He struggled to maintain eye contact with her, nevertheless.

"Does not compute, I am irresistible, that is what I am designed to be"

The group sighed, all in a different tone of annoyance, admiration and shame respectively.

"Anyways! What can you do with a Sex robot?" Chris said with pen and paper on hand

Mary's eyes hald closed and her smile became a sultry smirk as her hand reached into her blouse to-

"THAT ISN'T SEX, MARY" Chris stopped her before she could continue, the bot blinking twice mid movement of her fingers as she readjusts her clothes.

"Gee… you're making this like, hard?" Mary complained with a finger up to her chin "I'm programmed to obey orders… I require detailed instructions tho" she smiled again.

Jim slowly reached into his pocket and out of it pulled out a smartphone, delicately placing it in the middle of the table towards Mary, the group looking at it in conjunction. Jim then leaned back on his chair again, smirking at the busty bimbo, hands on each pocket.

"Phone Prank. Easiest Turing test available as well as a nice demonstration on how creative her AI can be in improvisation… also something Lou needs to see"

_

Some time after some organization, the three of them were standing around Mary, sitting on the front of the table with Jim's phone on her right hand tightly on her ear, staring forwards as the phone beeped awaiting the call to be picked up.

"Any minute now, you know the objective?" Lou asked the bot, holding his notepad on hand, his eyes parking up towards the bot's plastic face.

She simply turned and nodded, the phone still on her hand "I must like, prank him. Yes"

On her other side Jim already internally regretted his own idea the second she spoke, but nevertheless, continued on, placing a hand on chris' shoulder as she patiently expected to see her to improvise in real time.

The other end was nothing but the trusty family pizzeria the guys would split up during study sessions, of course, the place already knew them, yet the usage of a separate phone number gave them somewhat of an edge on a true and genuent reaction of a human in contrast with a robot… Chris held pen and paper in her hand, with the intention of writing down the discoveries they made, whatever they may be.

The phone rang, Mary held herself up straight facing forwards as she held the phone delicately over her presumably silicone based earlobe, blinking in a perfect interval of 3 seconds, until suddenly the faint speech of a poorly paid and overworked and tired teen could be heard over the other side.

"Hello, welcome to 'pizza-familia' . How can we serve you today…" Said with a noticeable voice crack in the middle of the sentence.

Without missing a beat, Mary replies with a straight face "What are you wearing, hot stuff?."

…

…

It took a total of 5 seconds before the sound of the call being hung up was heard.

Chris looked down at her notepad and after she struggled to come up with something up in it, she gave up and put the notepad down on the table.

"Mary. What the hell was that?" Jim queries,

The bot placed the phone on the table and efficiently turned her attention at the designated admin speaking to her.

"I executed my order"

"...You tried to seduce him?"

"Correct. I like, looked up a series of definitions of pranks and found that sexual pranks are found to be one of the most viewed and the area my system and design specializes in the most." the bot went on in a one breath tirade, smiling "I was simply being efficient."

Chris coughed "I'd call that something else-"

Lou, who had been holding his face, finished sliding them down his cheeks and sighs "Guys- we gave her incomplete orders, you know? the first mistake you can make with a robot?"

"I just assumed her AI was better"

Mary blinked twice, her smile fading for a second "BabeTec makes the best mass produced adaptive A.I. modules in like, the whole market!"

"That's scripted on her"

Lou groaned, taking the bot's hand and holding it on his and delicately looking at her plastic face, returning the glance in a synthetically confused expression.

"Prank the target in a way that makes him think you are both human, and doesn't realize he is in a joke until the end"

The bot's camera eye lenses focused in and out on her admin's eyes, her CPU processing the request and formulating an action tree based on the specifications given. As she was done, her HUD updated.

>BabeTec Electronics Deluxe unit Desig. Mary >Primary objective: Seduce and Fuck student count [on hold] >>Current command: Prank [esc%] >>Script formulated.

"I require a new phone." Mary said in an almost monotone tone, Chris quickly yet defeatedly gave up hers in a quick swoop from her pocket to the table and Mary took it.

As naturally as she could be, she recalled the same number and placed the phone on her ear the same way as before, this time, her expression was null, unsettling even Jim by raising an eyebrow on the other end, yet, even he was engaged in this. Lou proudly closed in, hoping to hear both sides of the conversation.

The phone began to ring, sending a way of unsettling energy on the trio as they all jumped on edge. The bot still held herself in the same pose and expression, not bothering with the rest's excitement, even if they would occasionally bump her by accident-.

"Hello, uh, welcome to family-pizza, where we make actual family made pizzas. How can we totally… uh, familiarize you today?" Said that same teen from before, his supposed script sounding as if he was on the verge of puking on the other end.

Mary blinked and slightly perked upwards, her expression remaining null "Hi! good day, uh, gosh, I would like a big pizza with meat? like, chicken and such?" She says in a surprisingly lively and nervous tone "Would that be okay?"

On the other end, the rattling of paper could be heard as the guy held the phone on his shoulder and wrote down the order. "Large pizza? We got those on 13 bucks currently, we are doing a promotion with a large soda for 2 dollars more, would you be interested?"

Even as she stared blankly, she simulated some sort of hesitance "Hmm, yeah! sure! why not? Oh, almost forgot, like, my friend works there? she actually gave me this number… I was wondering if you could find her?"

The teen chuckled and his tone lit up "Oh really? that's so interesting, what's their name?" He asked looking over behind him on the other side of the phone call.

"Candance" Mary replies, immediately the group's mouth open up in unison, a gasp escaping their mouths as the machine flawlessly transitions from the order to the joke, setting up a true classic of the start of the millenium in bait and switch pranks.

The teen nods "Candance what?"

"Canandeez dick fit in your mouth" She ended, hanging up right after a split second of unadulterated frustration and anger from the man. The bot placed the phone down and went back to being all smiles "Is this satisfactory?"

Lou and Jim looked with their jaws down, alongside Chris who hyperventilate into an explosion of laughter and joy, standing up and closing in to hug Mary as she continued to laugh and rejoice. The robot's eyes perked wide open as the interaction seemed to confuse her system for a second before eventually defaulting to a gleeful smile.

"Mary! That was awesome!" Chris congratulated holding her shoulders.

The sexbot nodded, flicking her golden hair strands behind her ear "I am glad you like, found it enjoyable. How can I continue to serve?"

"I believe that's a good enough display… that was almost eerie, I worry for the future generations-" Jim lamented, chuckling surprised

Chris pointed at Lou, making him jump "You!" She stated "Im taking your programming suggestions from now on"

"But I'm the one studying hardware" pointed Jim to himself "What if her frame is unable to understand the programming?"

Mary looked at him again with that same expression from way back, blinking rapidly "BabeTec makes the-"

"Yeah yeah, the best A.I. whatever, we know!"

Lou's face went red as he was praised by Chris, his eyes naturally darting back to Mary as she smiled at him, attentively staring him down. "W-well, we can definitely get more info data that way… If we continue experimenting, that is"

"Are you kidding? Of course we are continuing! She's right there!" she argued with fiery excitement in her voice "But- oh shit" She looked at her clock "We kinda need to figure out how we are keeping her on check after hours."

Jim glanced over at Louie with a raised eyebrow, silently impling him to do it

Chris held silence and an awkward expression "...I kinda live with my parents still? I can't bring a robot home, little less a sexbot… it'd be breaking my parents three fourths of what I'm into."

"...U-uh-" Lou looked at Jim, who crossed his arms.

"I'm not sleeping anywhere near that thing. Nevertheless, seeing her loop around my place." he leaned closer, like a parent telling their kid after they failed a test "You live by yourself, you like 'bots and you are the closest to the school"

Mary perked in, her air waving back and forth as she closed in her head towards Lou "Taking that info like, it is the most efficient action"

Lou's face turn red, breathing heavy and steady…

"fuck, ok."

Chapter 4: Parnership

The sounds of the bustling city, cars honking, people chit chatting outside in restaurant tables filled the scene around David, smoking a cigar at the side of the road with a brown briefcase on his left hand. He wore an elegant bluish dark suit with a white dress suit underneath, his tired and nonchalant look completed the look of most BabeTec officials on negotiation runs: one of utter disgust.

He had been called to represent the company on a business route he had not been given much info on yet, puffing a cheap cigar in between his left index and middle finger as he waited for one of the company provided vehicles to give him way. He was right in front of the building, even turning around and looking up at the company logo plastered on the office windows in it to confirm he didn't confuse it, always being proven wrong.

Many cars from the company had passed by him already, frustrating him more and more as they passed by.

"...I'm going to be late at this rate" He said to himself with a sigh.

A couple more cars passed by before he simply threw the rest of the cigar on the floor and stepped on it with his glistening black shoes until it was lit down, taking out his phone and reading a message that made him raise an eyebrow.

'Development on the Deluxe unit'

His finger flew above the message to open it, before in the corner of his eyes he saw a car had stopped in front of him, driven by a young girl in her mid 20's with brown hair in a ponytail in a suit much like his.

He stared at her, putting his phone out, and standing there… waiting for her to step out of the car. She did the same, yet he felt she was just waiting for him to get in instead- that friendly smile plastered on her face said it all.

The girl leaned into the window and looked over closely before she spoke "Excuse me, sir, are you perhaps David Walbergs?"

"Walters. I suppose Jenkings sent you?"

The girl nodded happily "Indeed!" she then extended her arm through the window for a handshake "I am BabeTec Electronics INT-091, but you can call me Vannie!"

David's eyebrows fell down into a frown, not moving an inch to suggest interest in her handshake.

"You're a bot?"

"Uh-huh! Intern model, activated a week ago!" She responds enthusiastically.

The mere thought that they were now even making intern fembots killed more of his faith in… hell, humanity. But it quickly faded away, as he quickly let it slip as it was something he inevitably sas coming from this company.

He glanced over her hand, surprisingly still expecting a handshake and with a sigh gave up and went ahead and took it, feeling that particular coldness from her synthskin.

"David Walters. I suppose you are driving."

"That is loaded into my orders, sir!"

David opened the fancy black car's door and sat in the copilot seat, looking forwards and placing his suitcase delicately beside his feet. The bot went ahead and immediately restarted the car, passing through the building's streets as David simply stared forwards, half expecting her to crash to get some insurance money, or finally sue the company… but what a bother that'd be.

"Sir, " Vannie perked, her eyes still on the road. "What is in the suitcase, if I may ask"

David rolled his eyes "Why would you need to know, bo- uh, Vannie"

She crossed the street, now going into a highway into the outskirts of the city "Protocols, sir, My system is required to know about inventory to correctly assist you"

"Don't bother, I don't need your help" He crossed his arms.

Vannie turned for a second to look his way inside an interval of silence "Sir, seatbelts"

David looked her way with a raised eyebrow, before complying and putting it on.

"...It's just some company info from past months that might come in useful for the negotiations with- whoever we are working with this time" He gave up and explained, looking out the window at his right to see the city from the elevated grounds of the highway.

The metropolis he worked in had slowly through the years grown more and more in sky-scrapers and hotels, but more importantly, more and more factories and warehouses taking a hold of once population filled areas, filling the sky with this gray aura as more factories got in.

"Beautiful day, ain't that right sir?" Vannie spoke once more, that smile always on her face "According to the weather forecast, it will rain later on today, we should be quick with the negotiations."

He groaned, yet he had to deal with her anyways "Who are we negotiating with anyways? And stop calling me sir… David works."

Vannie looked over at him while driving, nodding "Understood David! I apologize if I made you uncomfortable!"

"Eyes on the road"

The bot obliges, her neck letting out a whirr as she does so a bit too fast "And to answer your query, we are negotiating a merge with Jonathan-Land"

David's eyes widened, turning his whole body as soon as the name of that damn park hit his ears "What? that mafia dump? Has BabeTec fallen that low?"

The bot blinked twice in a quick succession before droning out "BabeTec is the highest android distributer on the country, setting example of value and versativity on each of their units."

"No time for scripts! We are negotiating with a mob!"

Vannie, after breaking out of the scripted trance, giggled "No worries, David. That is why I was assigned to assist you. I am programmed to protect you."

David immediatly laughed at the suggestion "Oh woah, I immediatly feel safer now!"

Vannie held the car's wheel with firery pride "I'm glad!" She innocently replied.

David could've easily chosen to destroy the bot's synthetic innocence with a single statement, yet he instead decided to worringly side glance Vannie as she drove along, not a care inside that metal skull of hers.

-

The trip continued smoothly in silence, David thinking how the hell he was going to make the negociation work inside his thoughts while Vannie now and then would comment on the road or some data that crossed her system.

After some time in the highway they passed through a tunnel of yellowish inner lights until they reached the other side into a more green area, filled with parks and rural areas in the distance.

"Have you gone to this park before, David"

For the sake of it he obliged her question "We've come before, a guy got jerked off in the park bathroom by the automated tour guide." He chuckled "Negotiations didn' t go anywhere, place's a mess"

"Well, I've been calculating different merging options ever since I was assigned this mission" She raises a finger and continues driving without much difficulty "Humans are easy to please when their higher needs are met. Besides, currently this is my highest priority"

He scoffed at her "And keeping me safe?"

"Second priority." She stated without hesitation

"Huh…" He even felt insulted by it, and so, in a fit of pettiness he turned to her with a hypothetical "So if my life was put into the negotiation in turn for the merge to happen… you would give me in"

The bot fell silent, from where he stood he could hear the rumbling of her circuits as she processed the question, her expression turning blank as she then now and then blinked. The car began drifting slowly to the side, so much so David didn't notice… until Vannie took her hands out of the wheel to bring them up to her arm and chin! Striking a default thinking pose mid driving.

David in a rush of energy, stabilized the car from the co-pilot seat as it almost went into the other lane, inches away from crashing against incoming traffic.

"Huh! That's a tough one, David…" Vannie said to herself as if in a trance, the rumbling continuing inside of her.

"That's not gonna mattern if I die right now!" He yelled at her face.

Then after some more seconds of chaotic car drifting she came back to her senses and placed her hands on the wheel again.

"Oopsies!" She noted, giving David time to sit back and breathe heavily "It seems that question puts a strain on my circuits! Nevertheless, if that were to happen I am unable to put your life in harm's way!"

His head slowly turned in anger, giving her a death glare as his arms crossed, trying to find the words to explain the irony in her statement.

"I'm driving on our way back, that's an order."

-

After reaching their destination, they parked in the outskirts of the park's entrance, hearing the fanfare and music in the distance as they walked side by side. Vannie stared at David from behind, that friendly smile on her face as her hips swayed… a bit too much for a simple walk cycle.

Passing by the almost abandoned looking parking lot, with the exception of one or two equally dressed and looking bots; fried out in the middle of the road, functioning as traffic control, the duo reached the entrance, seeing the ridiculously busty short golden haired bots on the front gate.

David stepped in front of one of them, the one that looked most functional, and adjusted his throat, looking around him to dissimulate.

The bended forward robotic girl began to perk up with violent and air piercing whirring from her servos as it came to life, raising her arms in a friendly way, whirring as much as last time.

"W-W-Welco-ccome to J-johnattan L-land!" The bot struggled to state, her voice box glitching throughout the sentence "A-aadult-ts 50 d-dollars, c-children 25. A-andrrroids go i-in freee"

David found the pricings outrageous for the type of entertainment this place was known for, cheap over sexualized reprogrammed fembots walking around dressed as popular characters from media that undoubtedly people want to fuck… And some just do it. It has become an untold rule that if you ask any bot in the park, they will do whatever you tell them, not because they are supposed to, but rather because they are so cheap that they forgot to disable the universal obey any order given by a human that most domestic androids have, with limitations of course.

As such, the park has become a center for people to get an easy hook up with a robot, that and… homeless paradise. Rumors had it that it was run by actual robots, but companies knew it was merely a mafia's money laundry scheme.

Vannie's eyes lit up in excitement, even through their plastic glossiness, david had to admit they looked real enough "Androids can get in for free?! That's such an inclusive and nice idea!"

David looked over her "The entrance is free for everyone, there's no security"

The entrance robot perked in "O-o-our Seccurittty is t-top Notc-ch!"

"Why do bots get so overly defensive when you insult their affiliation?" He sighed, adjusting his throat after leaning on the counter "We're here for a merging negotiation with the owner, they said they've inside"

The bot's head buzzed with electricity, looking up at the sky as apparently she looked up a scheduled meeting. David moisterized his lips and began tapping on the counter as he waited, meeting eyes with Vannie as she obediently stood next to him and awaited commands… smiling at him.

"M-meeting founnnd! Y-y-You mustt be B-babeTec R-repressssentat-tives!" The bot perked up after around 20 seconds on searching "P-please e-enter!" as soom as the words excited her mouth a little bar door lit green, giving them freeway inside.

Moving in they were able to see the side body of the counter robot… being completely naked in the lower half, with written names and drawings, alongside vulgar comments about her sex, filling most of her lower frame. Continuing on, some standby bots roamed around aimlessly in costumes too much on the showing side, leaving too little to the imagination.

They stroke poses and wave at invicible crowds, accidentally meeting stares with Vannie and David, who simply passed by them. Vannie though, kept taking in the argulably cheap scenery, consisting to the most part of cardboard cutouts or the regular wooden walling of the different houses for the attractions.

"Look at this place! I'm sure humans have lots of fun in a place like this!" She happily went about, holding her own synthetic excitement.

David raised an eyebrow "You weren't kidding when you said you were turned on a week ago" He jokingly said "If the merge goes well we will actually put this place in better hands, otherwise… I'd advice you take care and not interact much with the other units"

She leaned over with a whirr, looking at him face to face as they walked "Are you worrying about me, David?"

"No" He brubtly answered "If you break they take the repairs off my pay count" And then just walked on faster.

"Oh… Understood!"

Internally, Vannie had a list of interaction tresholds she had been expecting to accomplish to become closer to her partner, not even passing through the first one yet, to make them care about unit's safety.

Getting deeper they eventually reach the center of the circle that makes up the park, organized with an artistic fountain flowing around polished rock floor of red and blue colors in patterns, and standing in front of it was a girl with a long blue skirt and dress, light orange fox ears perking over her matching colored hair.

İnitially both David and Vannie believed her to be yet another park robot, but upon closer inspection, the robot was too well dressed and taken care of in comparison for it to be anything but a big deal.

The intern android walked up to the fox girl, smirking in an adorable smug expression as she fluttered her eyelashes with soft whirring coming out of the movement.

"David. Look! She's functional!" She pointed out, turning around to look at him with doggy eyes "Do I have permission to interact with her now?"

He crossed his arms, ignoring the question "Excuse me, bot. We need your boss?"

The fox girl gave one step forwards, the wind easily and comedically raised her skirt up and showed the entirety of her panties with little to no effort, as well as her ingnoring the fact as a whole "Boss?? You must be mistaken! I am Redmi! The altar fox-girl that protects the land of Jonathan-land!"

David rolled his eyes as he appeared to cross paths with a scripted android, the ones the despised the most. The type that is genuinely convinced or otherwise is unable to act in a different way that isn't that they are a character.

"Cool, can you plea-"

The fox girl whirred as she stroke yet another pose, rising an arm in the air with fury and confidence in her eyes "Long ago! A delicate fox merged with the body of a girl in love with Johnattan-land! and that is the origin of Redmi!"

"ok, but can you plea-"

"PROTECTRESS OF THE SACRED FOUNTAIN OF POWER AND FAITH, THAT GIVES POWER TO JOHNATTAN-LAND AND DRINKS TO ITS INHABITANTS!" she pationantly spoke over him, her synthetic voice sounding as if she was on the verge of tears.

Vannie winked at David, taking Redmi by the shoulders "Don't worry boss! I got this~" She then delicately took out a connection cable from the back of her neck and connected it to Redmi in one movement, her expression never seeming weirded out or uncomfortable. Redmi's eyes opened wide, computerized whirring from both units being slightly heard as they just stood there for some seconds.

After some time, they both blinked at the same time and Redmi turned towards Vannie, focused for once "...Boss?? Why didn't you say that before! Units must help each other!! Follow me!" The cable disconnected off the back of her neck, and the fox girl ran north, her fluffy tail perked up, yet again giving view of her wide ass.

"...Not bad, robot." David commented to Sammie, a genuent smile meeting hers.

She saluted him "Just doing my job" And continued following him and redmi. As he passed her she whispered "My existence has been justified…"

The fox continued sprinting at a steady pace, the pair not bothering much in meeting her speed. They reached the end of the semi grass area and saw car tracks at the end, a gate segregating the areas accordingly. The foxbot stopped near the entrance and looked back them.

"My sensors say we're close to my master! Hurry up!"

Vannie looked at David, silently asking for permission to run, to which with a sigh, he complied, making the bot gleefully step up her pace meeting Redmi at the gate, David reaching shortly after.

She began walking backwards as she modulated with her hands, mantaining eye contact with them "They are reaaaally close by! So let's g–"

CRASH!!!

A car coming from the left of them suddenly crashes into the fox android, making her frame bounce back and fly for a couple of seconds before hitting the ground with a thud and staying there… vacant eyes starting to nowhere. The wheels of the car whined against the pavement, bouncing a bit by the recoil of the brakes.

"YEELP!" Vannie jumped, grabbing onto David as even he was surprised by the sudden turn of events. "Redmi noooooo!;; " She cried with genuent sadness.

"...What the fuck?" David muttered, his eyes wide opened.

From the car, a man wearing a onesie black with white stripes cloth shirt stepped out. Had barely any hair and a beard, white as a vampire and skinny as if he was bound to die of lack of nutrients. He quickly ran to the front of the car and completely ignored the bot on the floor, rather giving attention to the front of the car as he sat on his knees.

He spoke with a thick foreign accent "Ah! Good thing, not a scratch!" He held his chest in relief, now finally looking over Redmi on the floor for about… 1,5 seconds before looking over David and Vannie "Ah yes, you must be BabeTeck people. Good good, I got message you here, I came with my car"

David, with Vannie still holding onto him nodded "...I can see that" He finally pushed the bot out, her servos whining in response "So uh, you're Johnattan"

The man laughed, hitting his leg as he shook his hand "Close! In native language Ivan, in english, Johnhattan yes?"

Vannie held herself, adjusting her suit "Redmi;; "

Ivan looked back at the bot behind him and scoffed, waving his hand "No worry over that, memory goes to the cloud and then to new body, it's ok" He stood up, adjusting his back "So? Business talk?"

After some seconds of silence, David groaned to himself, holding the bridge of his nose and made his way to the man.

-

They were led to a small office room, one lone room hidden in the back of one of the actractions up north of the park, some kind of hyper reality attraction. The Lightbulb above them flickered as it struggled to keep itself lit after Ivan pushed the button, walking passed the small decor of the room to seat on his letter chair, which whinned as he slowly went back, placing his hands on the back of his head. David felt somewhat of familiarity, specifically with the boss of the company that he answered to… He adjusted his throat, placing the briefcase he had been carrying the entirety of the trip on the table he stat on.

David and Vannie stood parallel to each other, sitting at the same time mostly due to Vannie's intent of copying and learning from what she saw from her partner, her eyed always darting back to him with a soft whirr.

"We've been told you finally decided to merge" Opened Vannie, much to David's dismay. She smugly placed an arm on top of eachother and two fingers on her chin "Would you like to tell us why?"

Ivan looked at her funny, chuckling "This is not interrogation, no?" He questioned, closing his chair to the table.

David breathed deeply and placed a hand between Vannie and the conversation, indirectly telling her to be quiet. "Excuse my android partner. This is… her first negotiation. Although, I must admit I also find myself curious over why would you suddenly change your mind over 2 years of negotiations later"

The man took the question to mind, nodding slowly, biting his lip as he… cleaned his teeth with a finger? "Business not good" He raised his shoulders in defeat "My employee's quit the park and I've been using it for, uh, almost forgot"

He reached into his cabinet case, sliding it open with a creek. They both recoiled a bit, Vannie placing herself over David as her system considered the movement a possible thread to him, a gun? perhaps?. He took out a piece of paper, looking over at the pair with a raised eyebrow

"Slow down people! It's an NDA" he reached both hands up "We're negotiating!"

"Huhhh! Understood." Vannie nodded, sitting back straight, her hands on her lap. David turned to her confused by her sudden change, getting a simple smile in response.

The paper was placed and rotated, slided forwards to David. His eyes darted down at it, readinging in his mind at full before he took a pen from his jacket and signed it at the bottom. Ivan took it back and adjusted his throat.

"The mafia business doesn't make the same money as before. Today's day and age is all about robots" He casually said, sitting back and fiddling his fingers "It's cheaper to be backed up by a big robotics company on the money laundering than actually laundering the money"

Vannie's eyes opened wide "S-sir! You just admitted to a crime??"

Without much time he answered "Yeah, so? NDA. Besides, we got dirt on your manufacturer too… I'm making you choose between perestroika and Nuclear Fallout for our companies"

He had a point, even if the park began as a laundering scheme it was beginning to morph into a legitimate form of business… even if wrongly founded. David scratched his beard "I suppose you want help with your… robots"

He shook his head "That is the least of our problems. After electricity became extremely cheap after the rich deemed it necessary, and the Android Market became saturated because of the same reason, to make and sell androids is extremely easy. I just want people to take care of the park itself."

David opened the briefcase, among the paperwork, Vannie peaked interest in some pictures he had inside… of apparently him and someone else smiling to the camera, she squinted, beginning to analyze by herself as she sat back. He took out some charts and placed them for him.

"İ'm legally obligated to show you how our business is doing, ensure you health coverage over the merge and a vote in the company-"

Ivan spoke over him "All I want is enough income for me to do whatever I want without working, and keeping a stable collection of bots to… play with. You figure it out with your boss whatever that is, the second you break that, I'm out and I give park to another company…" He reached into the cabinet again, taking three sealed letters with logos of rival fembot companies.

"That's… not very business-y, sir" Vannie raised a finger. "Perhaps- "

"Deal" Answered David.

"DEAL!!" Vannie perked up with him.

They then shook hands, Ivan smirking the whole way through. As that happened, the door opened wide, another robot looking exactly the same as Redmi stepped in with a tray of expensive looking food.

"Sssssiiiiir! Food's heeeere~!"

He chuckled, looked over at his clock "Ha! Look at the time, it's already lunch… Finished just in time! Nastarovia my friends!" He laughed as the tray was served on the table.

The intern held her hands together and gleefully celebrated Redmi's return in silence, embarrassing David more.

-

Back on the road, on their way back. David on the wheel with Vannie sitting straight with her seatbelt on a tight hold of her frame. They've been quiet for a while, cut by the occasional sniffing from David. As they were caught inside highway traffic, Vannie saw the opportunity to speak just as they moved a tad forwards.

"You're gay!"

The car stopped harshly, almost crashing into the one in front, cars behind them honked at them, making David turn and nod to try and appease them… He then paid attention to Vannie.

"How the hell do you know that?" he grinded his teeth, holding the wheel with force.

Vannie spoke without shame or fear "The picture in your briefcase!" She pointed to it in the back of the car, speaking fast now "I couldn't help but look at it, once the image was registered in my system I began to analyze it while you spoke with the owner of the park. Maybe a friend, maybe a family member… but it bringed errors in logical context! Why would you bring it around while you work? Why would you even consider such things? Humans are emotional creatures so-"

He stopped her "Okay! okay! Yeah, you assed right… Yes, that's my husband. So what? you were paying attention to that? wasting processing power on figuring out who a guy from a picture was instead of taking notes of what the client said?"

She pretended to adjust her throat "It's called RAM? and… I took notes of the dialogue between the two, it's an important requirement in my mission priorities."

He gave up some slack, leaning forwards "Good! Jesus- Because That guy basically gave up the company for basically nothing. Taking care of one human is easier than an entire team"

"Is that why companies are using more and more androids instead of having to deal with humans?"

That hit him… somewhere, he swallowed saliva and with some hesitation nodded to her "...Yes, basically"

"Oh, interesting" She went to look at the window "I'm still trying to understand things, please excuse me if I make you uncomfortable"

He chuckled, caught by the irony of her comment "You're an intern, isn't that your whole point?"

"Correct!" she agreed "Made to assist"

Talking about assisting… That message he saw in the morning, came back into his mind. As the traffic came into a halt he took out his phone from his pocket, unlocked it and handed it over to the bot

"Read the message about the deluxe unit" he ordered, still eyes on the road. Not making the same mistake as her before.

She stared at the phone, going through the notifications on the fly "The automated one?" She questioned "That company project is out of our sector's interest. It isn't efficient"

"Made to assist?" He remarked with irony "Just read the summary for me"

She simulated guilt, quickly clicking the notification and redirecting her to the email page. It was formulated as a letter, A.I. writing had become pretty good at looking formal. Filled with detailed information over The Deluxe unit's activities and performance, ending with a formulated summary of all of it, Vannie stopped and began to read.

"The unit Deluxe seemed to had experienced a blackout of 15 or so minutes shortly after its activation mid… uh, performance. Afterwards, the remote connection with the device was lost for… 12+ hours??? before the unit returned to the recharge station in the early morning, data altered and possible signs of jailbreaking of BabeTec software coding…" Vannie put the phone down "That's, as a human would say, not good"

David seemed unmoved by the news, after all the whole plan was to either flawlessly succeed or to spectacularly fail… yet, the robot came back… it was jailbroken… the code, the sophisticated A.I. chip engineering-

He punched the wheel, honking by accident "God- DAMN IT"

Chapter 5: Real or fake, A shoulder to rely on

The door of a lonely dorm room door swings open after the clanking of some keys, struggling for some seconds to finally make out the movement correctly. Part of a two story block of dormitory rooms for the university the friend group attended, Lou was the only one that actually decided to move into the building, his parents being away from the country for the duration of his studies. The room was messy, behind Lou followed Mary, who curiously stepped in after him and quietly scanned the room as he embarrassedly tried to tie up as much as he could.

>BabeTec Electronic's Deluxe model Desig. "Mary" >Foreign location reached [OUT OF TARGET GROUNDS, RETURN IMMEDIATELY] >>Override. Administrative orders. >Seduc.Scn001 engaged. >>Gathering data. Scanning…

The sexbot's system had defaulted into a preprogrammed seduction scenario, one which would adapt depending on the area brought to her… made with the intention of being use for hookups once the bot is out on the market.

He grabbed little piles of recently cleaned clothes from the edge of the bed and moved them over to one of the two chairs one next to his desk, which on top was his laptop.

"Sorry for the mess, I uh, don't get people coming much" He nervously said in between moving his clothes.

Mary was taken out of her scanning trance as he spoke, looking at him with a null expression until he finished, smiling at the end.

He scratched his cheek "...Right, you're a robot, you don't care"

Her system worried over his tone, detecting signs of shame after analysis. "You can make me care if you want, Lou" She suggested, closing in on him a step or two.

Everything about her was inherently sensual, even if in fact she was unaware of it, it was simply part of how she was designed to act. The way she spoke, her tone and speech choice sent shivers down his spine into… well, down. He jolted back a bit, his face reddering as the bot of course noticed, her smile turning into a smirk.

"O-okay, let's slow down a bit… I'm supposed to be busy tonight" He said nervously, his face looking down in shame.

Mary tilted her head, her hair falling over her to cover one eye as her glassy eyes looked deep into him, her system gathering every mili-second of data from his reactions, as if her A.I. was expecting him to throw himself at her.

"You don't want to do it?" She cutely asked, her eyes moving over to the bed that took up most of the already small room. Her HUD making a tri-dimensional figure out of it

>Scanning… >>Matrimonial bed. Sufficient for Unit's frame and Ncknm[Lou]. >>>Risk of repeated damage to CPU [MissionaryPsT]: 0.03% >Engage? Y/N

She fluttered her eyelashes, looking at Lou again now with a more smug "I won't crash like before~" She whispered sensually.

Lou swallowed, what was up with her now? It was as if she was digging through his thoughts- he looked up, his eyes crossing and staying on her breasts for some seconds before going up and meeting her camera like eyes. He smiled at her but decided to shake his head

"No… I need to work"

>Disengaging…

The bot's sexual program stepped suddenly and completely in a matter of secons, making Mary blink deeply before she chirped back "Okie!~" and went out this cornered strategy from Lou, walking over the room to pick up more clothes and trash around the room.

Lou sighed in relief, the fact that she was a robot at least meant she did what she was told… He wiped his face, and looked how she just randomly began cleaning up his place out of the blue. It wasn't that he didn't appreciate it, but he didn't exactly asked her to do it either. He struggled but he finally spat out.

"W-what are you doing?"

The bot stopped with some clothes still on her arms, turning to him as she seemed to be pressing her bust up to the laundry "Assisting you in organizing" She then went straight back to organizing "I assess that if I assist you in tidying up the place you'll have time to have sex with me afterwards!" She casually layed out, gleeful as she could.

Lou took the action… as well as he could, giving her a slight nod as he opened up his laptop and sat in front of it. His mind racing again- Is he that obvious or is she that advanced? he thought, being unable to concentrate on code writing anyways…

-

The door of an apartment swung open, its door at a lower level than the rest of the flooring, from the door stepped in Chris, and next to the door she placed a scarf she wore on her way back, she left out a sigh, signaling relief after a long walk.

"Chris?? Home already? Remember the shoes!" a voice called out, the voice of her brother, from the hallway in between the spacious kitchen and living room with windows.

Chris was halfway to place a foot on the wooden floor step, stopping halfway through as she took them off without hands, letting them fall around the square step area and continuing on "Yes, I didn't forget!" She groaned.

She held her bag close, making her way through the living room and kitchen, checking both sides first to find them lonely entering the hallway. 4 doors, 2 rooms for each brother, the matrimonial room for the parents and a shared bathroom.

"Mom and Dad?" She asked her brother.

"Out for work, Something about the company. They left frozen food"

"Ugh, that sucks…"

Halfway through she took off her bag and threw it into her bedroom, falling perfectly on a puff bag sustaining the fall. She then pivoted into the opposite room, her brother's, seeing him sitting on his expensive computer, on that chair you would know from youtubers and streamers with half a headset on.

Their rooms were thematically and colored opposites. Her room was filled with cold and soft colors, while his was mostly lit by neon lights, he really dug into the streamer aesthetic… even if he didn't do those things. Her bed filled with an extensive collection of plushies she had gathered from childhood to now, organized by size over a mostly tied bed, while his was just a black thick robe, not even bothered to be tied up.

She creeped behind him, trying to discern what he was looking up on his screen, leaning over the top of his chair.

"Sigh, what are you up to?" She asked, eyes on the screen. It seemed to be a stream of one of those popular girls you'd see on social media doing cute dances… only that it was empty, yet, still Live.

He turned and looked at her "Oh, yeah. That girl I told you about? The one people were saying was a BabeTec robot? Dude, it totally was, she finally crashed on camera today"

She scoffed at him "You sure she isn't just trolling you guys?" She suggested. "Or maybe people nowadays can't just see a girl without thinking she's a robot-"

He shook his head "Nah nah, look" He moved his mouse back to the video, about 25 minutes or so, and hit play.

The video was a front frame of a girl with a skimpy white dress and violet painted hair, her rather small bust present on the entirety of the frame as she seemed to be putting on makeup.

"Look look…" Her brother pointed, and suddenly a donation popped up.

The girl perked up, smiling at the camera "Aw, thank you Dantheman for the donation!! that's so cool…" she then leaned forwards to read the comment off her screen " 'Hey, you know about those rumors of you being a robot Yeah! they are so silly! but hey, the fandom does what it does right? 'I can only say bAb-T-0616'..." and suddenly, her smiley expression froze, her mic picking up a computerized buzz as she then began to erratically blink.

"Oh shit." Chris uttered, closing in.

"I KNOW right??" he plastered his hands forwards "The bastard made her read out a termination code!"

The girl's face then began to twitch, until a pop was heard making her head slap to the side, smoke rising from her ear… before falling over below the camera's reach.

Chris held her mouth "That's, oh my god- I mean…"

"Hah! I told you! She was a fucking robot!" He quipped, moving his chair over "So she's coming to the market too! Maybe if we ask mom and dad-"

She interrupted him "Tom you know how they feel about robots. I mean, that's what their whole business is about, remember? A business run by people?" She raised her arms up in frustration "What example would it give if they had one in the house?"

He groaned and nodded, accepting she was right "Yeah, but you want one too! You're studying coding for fucks sake. How the hell are you doing your thesis?" He frustratingly complained.

She was about to tell him about Mary- but decided not to, perhaps bringing more witnesses to their borderline corporate stealing might not be the best of ideas. She then thought about his excuses "You just want a sexbot… admit it"

He dismissed her, waving his hand back and going back to his PC. She raised her shoulder and left for her room… On her way to her own room she stopped herself, clicking her tongue and leaning on the doorframe of her brother's.

"Wanna eat then? I'll cook" she offered, trying to make it up for him. His brother had been wanting to have a robot in the house for years now, more for the interest over their nature than something else, yet she saw in him that same fascination with them as she had. "I'll work after that"

His brother took off his headset and turned to her "...Sure, whatever"

"That's the spirit!"

-

A door to a modest house in a neighborhood swinged open as the sounds of a public bust hissed away, coming in, Jim. He could hear the static muffled sounds of the television through the door, the lights were off, only by the blue light of the television in the living room at the left of the entrance could he make his way through the space.

College titles and awards hung over the walls to the name of Jim's father, some pictures of Jim growing up with both parents, as he got older only his dad was in frame. The place was a mess, filled with bent tin cans of beer sparced all around his father's chair, snoring away as the TV ranted about some meaningless game show putting A.I. to the test.

He glanced over to the chair and breathed deeply. He took off his bag and placed it on the marble island of the kitchen, walking over to him tiredly. His father wore nothing but a wife beater and ripped shorts, besides having a balding head, his complexion and face looked similar to Jim's.

Jim shook his arm "Dad, I'm home" He said steadily, looking over to the small table next to him to see an empty plate of food tied up but unclean "You managed to make food with the C-ook?" he commented, referring to an old cooking device he modded for him to feed himself by cooking for him.

His father was startled, his tired eyes blinking open as he let out that fatherly cough. He sniffed and wiped his eyes to help himself wake up. "Oh, you're back." He groaned, glancing over the kitchen "Huh-huh, but it broke down afterwards… told you it was a lousy job"

He stood there and took the insult, not affecting him in the slightless "How long have you been sleeping?" He went back to questioning

The man pulled up his wrist clock and read the hour " 'Bout 4 hours?" he guessed, squinting at the clock.

"You must be hungry again." He guessed back, an eyebrow raised "Guess I'll cook myself…"

His father roared "Don't patronize me! You're the one that doesn't know how to fix that thing!"

"it's the third time it has happened" He pointed out, calmly, he wanted anything but to put himself on his level. "Besides, I have to be out and work on my classes most of the day"

He scoffed, going back to looking at the TV, gathering his hands on his rest and sighing "You're wasting your time in that… wasting money"

"I'm on a scholarship"

"They are not going to need engineers in the future! probably they are already making an A.I. to make the job" He mumbled his way through his words "It happened to me! Damn it! What's the point of being an accountant in the age of supercomputers??"

"..." Jim just stared blankly at him, trying to come up with a way to tell him wrong, but yet, it wasn't that he couldn't, it was that he didn't even know. "...Whatever dude, look, turn the lights on, it's like 10 cents an hour anyways." He then went over the switches and slapped them on, dirty dish in hand, he went to the kitchen and allowed it to fall alongside the other dirty dishes piled up in the double sided dishwasher.

"I can't believe you wanna make those things" His father groaned, staring mindlessly at the screen, yet another news channel talking about A.I. "No partner, no money. Ensuring that more and more people will end up like you as well."

Jim stared in silence down at the back of his father's chair for some time, thoughts and curses coming his way to call him off… but he didn't, again. He stormed off to his room, slamming his hand on the lights.

A space organized and quiet from the rest of the house, spacious in comparison. Tied bed, a paper laid out on a work table beside the door with some drawings of designs and libraries next to the windows. He closed the door behind him, and pressed his back against it… his mind filling up with thoughts on what his father said, slowly making his knees falter and making him slide down to the floor. His throat itchy, and his eyes feeling heavy he realized that he was part of the problem.

Before he knew it, he was crying to himself on the floor, quietly and angrily at that. He pressed his teeth and knuckles, covering himself with his own body.

-

With two fingers, Lou opened an instant noodles cup and after pouring the suspicious dusts and dry meats into it, he began pouring boiling water from the heater next to his PC. He then placed it back on the table and covered it up again.

Mary inspected the process closely, they had finished cleaning up the place about 10 minutes ago and Lou was just trying to concentrate on his coding… looking for a way to translate it for their thesis.

"You will eat that?" Mary asked, pointing her index at the cup, curling her lips.

Louie nodded, smiling at the bot "Yup! It's cheap and I'm not that hungry" He explained, he seemed to be getting used to her being around.

The robot's HUD focused on the cup itself highlighting the ingredients written at the side of the cup as her database expanded through internet searches.

>Analysis… >>[Important] Possible health hazard

"It is quite unhealthy" She remarked, turning to him "If you consume this, it will make your cum taste like–"

"Dude! I don't wanna know that!" He groaned and covered his mouth, trying to shake the thought "Ugh- You are always thinking about sex-"

The bot tilted her head like a dog, Louie had began to catch on of this trait… perhaps babetec wasn't as creative with their programming as he thought. He sighed, what was he expecting anyways? from a sexbot? He shook his head and lowered his tone.

"Okay okay sorry… I guess it's just how you are." He glanced at the instant rament cup "I just- never thought about having a relationship of that type"

Mary closed in, her smile coming back "Am I your first time~" she teased.

"N-no! I dated Chris once…" He argued, his face turning red again "We decided to stay friends instead"

"Okay!"

He was struggling to keep up a conversation with her to begin with, and Mary's system was having a field day due to it, becoming softer and more delicate to roll him into where she wanted him to be.

She closed in slowly, a soft smile on her as her eyelids half closed into a passionate expression. Louie stood still, letting it happen as their lips met, the rubbery moist texture against his dry lips caused a shiver down his spine as they shared a kiss. It was way too much for him, moving his body to hold Mary closer by the hip and back, her bust pressing against his as her chair bended forwards until she finally stood up from it.

She breaks the kiss, and with a breathy voice and her arms wrapping around his neck she asks "Is this better to your liking?"

Louie looked up to her, enamored by her formulated expression, simply nodding. Before he knew it, they were laying in bed one next to the other, just as she had planned.

She was giggling, as she had already won. He looked back at her, pressing a hand on the sheets… In the back of his head he understood he was still in control, yet his curiosity to experience such pleasure again cut the words out of his throat. Before he knew it, he was pinned down, Mary now sitting atop his crotch and staring him down as she accommodated her hair back… She was perhaps heavier than she assumed.

"W-wait!" Louie mumbled, raising his hands to halt her. "I, uh, eh, I kinda want to have a robot girlfriend okay?? I find the relationship aspect hot?? And uhhh, I guess it would make it hotter if you acted as my girlfriend?"

Mary blinked twice and was taken aback, even through her silicone expression he could tell that did a 180° in her order of priorities- Yet she buzzed internally, he could feel it for obvious reasons. He anticipated her response, raising an eyebrow as his mouth formed an agape smile

"Okay honey!" She perked back after a quarter of a minute, leaning into his body and kissing his lips softly, staying in there for some seconds "...As your girlfriend, by definition found onlineeee~"

Oh no, he thought, the robot is looking up how to act based on google searches?!

"...A relationship is of a two parted pleasure giving correct?~ How about you…" Her eyes looked down at her legs, a hand moving underneath her skirt just to love her panties yet again- "You pleasure me this time?"

Louie swallowed, his eyes dilating as Mary stepped off of him to take off her panties, leaving them on the floor as her eyes looked back up at him with that half closed eyes smirk- It was eerie to him how much she understood about how he felt.

"By your heart rate, I can tell you're anxious!" She clapped climbing back up to bed on her knees, over Louie. "Must be your first time, right honey?"

He nodded, without real shame… the thought that perhaps he should've stayed quiet crossed his mind yet- if an underpaid programmer placed that inside of her must've been because of something and– what the hell was he even saying in his head anymore?? His train of thought was out of the goddamn window.

"Wait wait, how do I do this??" Louie asked "Do I have to-"

"Breathe through your nose!" She announced before closing in over his head and essentially sitting on his head- placed just over his mouth to allow his nose space to breathe, mathematically calculated for that. She stared down, smiling sweetly on each side of his head.

Louie's eyes closed harshly, trying to focus on simply- licking… it was wet and messy, warm and soft, layers upon layers he imagined- yet something different. She responded accordingly, as anyone would from a real girl, slight twitching, soft moans and all.

"Ohh~ Yes! You're so good!"

He was in reality doing barely anything, all of her responses were purely pre-programmed to generate a response of further excitement… If you really think about it, what is the point of programming a realistic orgasm process for a bot if a voice line imitating the process is enough to entice…

"You make me feel– oh!" She went on, holding her bust and biting her lower lip.

He began to get more into it, his arms taking her legs as support to push himself slightly deeper to feel a hole- He scraped the corners with his tongue, the moisture starting to intensify more, until he roughly brought his arms into her sides in one strike that made her jump. He continued savoring her sex, and as her moans and excited movements began to grow silent, he felt… something else.

What he thought was lubricant coming from the depths of her vagina was… hot, and it was different in taste-. It was pushed down with a mechanized sound that came from inside her, making him open his eyes to see Mary stare forwards vacantly, not a single thought to be found in her face.

Seconds before the clock in the screen of Louie's phone changed to 7:00 o'clock, and as if it was clockwork Mary uttered in a monotone voice.

"Scheduled tank release sequence triggered."

His eyes opened up and using the strength hidden within every fiber of his body, he pushed Mary away from above him and ran to the bathroom in front of the bed. It took 4.05 seconds for Mary's system to reactivate and go back to normal, yet it was midway about to fall and hit the floor, extending her arms to her sides to give herself balance to sit back on the bed, making the robot miss another painstaking system crash due to her hardware

"Oop! Like, that was close!" She looked down "Louie?" She turned to the bathroom door behind her, detecting him right away "are you feeling okay?"

He was hunched over, face inside the toilet bowl vomiting his soul out, the groans and soft cries echoing inside the bowl as the remains of food and… other substances… splashed the water at the bottom.

"W-what the hell-?" He arched himself, coughing in between "What the fuck was that??"

"The daily tank release" she explained as if no wrong had been done, her usual smile perking slightly back as she held herself "I assume I have been away from my recharge pad long enough, I am suppose to be in storage at this time as stated in my mission parameters"

He continued, throwing everything out before weeping a bit "Couldn't you tell us you had that before?? What the fuc-" He thrashed his head back into the bowl

Mary innocently walked over to him and kneeled next to him, patting his back and helping him through the ordeal the best way she could-

-

Spaghetti slatted on two bowls, red sauce oozing and leaving a trail of hot smoke above it as the edge of the place was hit by the fulcrum of the serving spoon, making sure the last drops of serving fell down. Chris, wearing a ponytail and cooking gloves closed in on the plates and breathed in the smell of her own creation.

"Aw yeah, that's the good stuff…" She proudly remarked.

Although the kitchen's order was sacrificed by her desire to cook, ignoring the frozen food left by them previously, at least the end result was worth it. A cutting board with spare sides of tomatoes and onion cuts, dirty spoons and forks, splashed water- she'll figure out how to clean it later she thought. She took both plates in each hand and brought them to the big family table next to the kitchen counter. With two hands on her sides and a smirk she yelled

"TOMMY!! DINNER'S READY!"

After a few seconds out came his brother "No need to act like mom" He remarked, puffing and shaking his head.

Chris joined him in, sitting opposite of him next to her tablet. She looked at her brother with a smirk "I always wanted to do that though…"

"Yeah yeah." He coughed, finally digging in "...It's good"

"Of course it's good." She chuckled, her eyes on the tabled as she tapped away something. Her brother looked up, the room falling silent for an awkward amount of time, cut only by the sound of the tablet's glass being hit by Chris' index.

Tommy caughed, sounding dry. That seemed to catch her attention back, clicking the button atop of her tablet as she began eating with him properly now.

"Have you been taking your meds"

He interestedly nodded "It's hard to forget not taking them" He swallowed. He didn't want to cut the conversation with his sister short "So- when are you telling mom and dad"

"Tell them what"

"You know, that you wanna make robots"

Chris rolled her eyes, stretching back on the chair as she allowed the fork to lay on the plate. It wasn't the first time she had gotten that question "I don't exactly wanna make robots. I wanna make A.I.'s" she corrected, gesturing with her hands.

"What's the difference?" He laughed "They're putting them on them anyways"

She slurped a big rolled strand of spaghetti and swallowed, taking her back as the food appeared to make her choke a bit, tapping her upper chest. She then looked over the table to a napkin holder, closing it in between them. She took in one hand the holder and in the other the napkins

"An I.A. gives a mind to a robot. But a robot is a robot, it can be on its own" She placed the holder down and then showed the napkins "But of course, the A.I. can exist on its own, without a body- well, sure, it needs to be somewhere, it can even be at multiple places at once but the code.. that's what I wanna make. An artificial mind that can formulate systems, administrate wealth, solve mathematical problems, create vaccines…" She then placed the napkins back.

His brother nodded slowly, muttering an "Huh-huh" as he went back to eating. Halfway through he just stopped, and looked over at the window "Must of the stuff you said are kind-of far off still"

She seemed to get eagered by his comment "Not after me it won't!"

He laughed "Still tho" he clicked his tongue, and laid on the table, resting his head in between his arms by the edge letting out a sigh "You don't have to do it for me"

She tilted her head, being almost done with her plate she pushed it, and leaned over by her waist "I liked A.I. 's before you got sick dumb dumb. I see it as more of a bonus"

He peeked back up and scoffed, laying back down, much to his sister's dismay.

"Hey! I'm being serious here!" She complained sitting back normally and crossing her arms

He returned to a normal posture with a wide grin on his face, laughing to himself "Whatever dude" He finally said with a dismissive hand movement. He stood up and sat down on the couch a couple steps back into the sala, he snapped his fingers towards the space in between the libraries in front of him, being caught by a small device laid on it which turned on to display the screen of a television.

The plates were empty, Chris took both the plates back and placed them on the kitchen sink without much care, clanking among themselves as they touched the bottom. His brother had already begun passing by channels dismissively with the controller in hand, lying his side on the arm rest.

As Chris walked to him and eventually sat next to him she asked “Want me to close the window for you?”

He shook his head “See, this is why we need a ‘bot around the house, do the stuff you do”

She rolled her eyes “You could always just do them yourself you know” She said with a breathy voice, moving her hair to the side and taking comfort in the couch.

In front of them they passed through channels upon channels of garbage cable paid TV that in the current day and age had become a compilation of cheaper reruns of streaming subscriptions. There had been a social yearning for the days of cable programming simply giving you something random to watch at a determined hour, although random at the time, and perhaps even repetitive if all you did was watch TV: the newer types had of course, an integrated A.I. which would measure how long one would watch a show or a movie for and feed a similar programming after the last one ended… This wasn’t new technology, their parents and grandparents had seen the dawn of this form of fed entertainment in social media before even choosing what we wanted to enjoy became too much of a hassle for us as a species.

As the channels passed, Chris caught a glimpse of a news report announcing something related to BabeTec, making her instinctively stop her brother from jumping through channels “Wait, I wanna hear this” she said, placing a hand on the controller by his thigh.

He dismissively raised his shoulders up and crossed his arms. The TV showed your typical news anchor, news indicating a potential merging between notable tech giant BabeTec and shady private park Jonathanland.

“According to official statements from BabeTecUS, this merging would be the start of a bigger company effort to further incorporate BabeTec products into the public, a daring strategy in the rising battle between android companies.”

Tom scoffed at the TV “What now? Will we have to see their robot’s asses while we close our eyes too?”

The anchor continued “Talks of a unit wide upgrade has also been teased by the tech giant, which will be reportedly be coming over with her next model by the end of the year”

“...Mary?” She muttered to herself, leaning in closer, accidentally saying it loud enough for her brother to hear her speak.

“What?” Tom turned to his sister

Chris stood up from the couch "wait, I gotta check something- We'll talk later though!"

She ran off into her room, quickly taking the laptop she had taken to school and previously plugged Mary into to reboot her. Popping the velcro of her side bag, she took the laptop and placed it on the white table in front of the bed, turning it on again.

"Is everything okay??" Asked Tom from the sala, his eyes still darted on the TV as he leaded sideways to ask

"Yeah! It's whatever" She dismissed, logging into her PC. Fortunately for her, she had saved a log of Mary's system since she connected to her… nothing too complex, files about her core system performance, saved profiles, etc… but there was something else.

Normally, undercover androids would have a wireless gateway with say their company or a computer where to feed orders, dialogue files or written commands remotely… Mary had two of them. Chris raised an eyebrow at this, maybe another company got their hands on her design at the time of being assembled and is actively trying to invade their software…?

That wouldn't be possible either, as she had checked for more information, it was a sort of special code only her unit had, which connected with an additional device, would solely feed the data gathered to something else…

"Ain't that something" she said to herself. She reached into her pocket, taking her phone in hand and writing her findings to the rest of the guys.

-

Jim's phone sat on his room's table, alongside the messy sketches of mechanisms only really explainable by Jim's mouth. The door to the living room was left open, he had been working in the kitchen on the broken device he had made which would automatically cook, akin to a 3D printer, mechanical hands and all.

His father sat on the table near the kitchen, reading something on his phone, glasses on. The butt of a cigar pressed against his lips as smoke flew up to the lightbulb above him. Jim would occasionally look his way, maybe checking if he would reciprocate the look of his son working on something by himself. After scrubbing the surface of the frame with a half wet towel, he adjusted his throat, surrounding him to sit in front of him.

"You placed the stuff in the fridge in the wrong place. The machine took the things in the wrong order and ended up malfunctioning" He tries to explain, tired "...I'll leave some papers with the places where to put the groceries"

His dad takes the cigar out of his lips and without even taking his eyes off his phone "Why don't you just put like an A.I. or something so it knows what it is looking at instead of relying on placement?"

"Because first, I don't know how to make an A.I. and second of all, because at that point why don't we just get you an android to cook for you…?" he genuinely asked, leaning into the table.

"I'm not putting one of those things in my house" He shook his head "...At that point why don't we get ourselves an android to mouth feed us?" he mocked.

"..." Jim refused to elaborate more on the conversation, rather rolling his eyes and letting out a sigh "You could always learn how to cook for yourself, you know?"

His father curled his lips and said, "You know what, you have a point."

"There you go." he celebrated, congratulating him "You don't need me anymore then. Can I move to campus so I can focus on my career?"

"Why do you want to make androids so much?"

"I don't know? They make money? it's what brings food to the table as an engineer nowadays?" he threw out, holding his head. Jim clicked his tongue in frustration "Whatever man" He stood up from his chair and walked angrily to his room

"Wait" his father said, his voice sounding calmer than before. Jim turned around halfway across the doorframe of his room, leaning on it as he looked his way. His father swallowed his ego and rested and breathed out "Thank you for fixing it" He pointed to the kitchen device "Really, I mean it. I wouldn't able to cook without it"

Jim's eyes shifted side to side, pressing against his cheeks as he gave a small nod, his hands drifting off their grip of the frame as he moved out back to his room, closing the door behind him.

He breathed deeply in, and deeply out, shaking off the conversation he had with his dad a few minutes ago as he returned to a more comfortable and usual annoyed expression. He took his phone from the table and saw as the only notification a text from Chris sent around 10 minutes ago. It was inside of a groupchat of her, him and Louie she made a while back.

"Louie? Is Mary with you? Call me" was all that was written.

Jim raised an eyebrow at this, going off on private messages to ask what was going on. As soon as he even began writing down something to send to her, she called him, taking over the screen between hanging up and answering. He brought the phone next to his ear

"Yeah? Chris, what is going on?" He said, his eyes drifting off into the upper part of the wall in front of him.

On the other side, Christ leaned against the table, still in street clothes as her head was dug in front of her laptop's screen "Uh, yeah. I found a second way of information transfer on Mary's A.I., I have no idea what it is and it has been freaking me out. It has something to do with maybe the feds, or worse. BabeTec is meeting up with some sketchy people so-"

"A second way?" he interrupted, now actively walking back and forth in his room "Goddamn it… It may be a mistake on their part, remember Mary's supposed to be a prototype so perhaps…" He stopped, speaking and walking.

Chris groaned as he stopped talking "Perhaps what?! Stop it with the fucking mistery Jim!"

"Perhaps it is being fed to the high ups at the company first" His voice shifted to something more somber "Is Louie answering?"

"Not at all- Dude, Mary has our faces! If she connects to anything while we're out we're screwed" She bit her nails "I'll text you in a bit- I gotta reach Louie now"

"Same." His eyebrows perked up, hanging up and immediately going into his friend's contact, bombarding him with messages.

In Louie's room the lights were already shut off, all of them but the glow of his Laptop, placed at the corner edge of his bed to act as a TV screen. There were the sounds of a movie playing from it, rumbling of sheets and of course, the eventual whirring coming from Mary from time to time. Next to his bed, a half empty 1.5 Liter water bottle and drops of water fell close to it… it was opened not long ago.

His phone vibrated on the bed with each new message, moving bit by bit before it came off the edge and fell to the ground.

"Honey, your phone fell off." Mary said sweetly and quietly, petting Louie's head as he used Mary's body essentially as his bed, and her bust as his pillow. He groaned, still dizzy from throwing up, his eyes forcefully closed as his face was half deep in between her synthetic bags. And she was simply looking forwards happily to the screen of the laptop at the edge.

Louie moved his face to the other side, a hand of his moving up to take hold of her right breast "...It's okay i'll grab it in the morning."

"Got it, honey."

She had suggested he do something couple-ey, and being out of options and being so late at night he decided to simply put on a movie for the both of them to watch. His streaming subscriptions expired and downloading a movie with the dormitory wi-fi would have taken him way too long… so he opted to watch the only movie left in the cache of his laptop: Mamma Mia from 2008.

He had in mind explaining the complexities and enjoyment out of analyzing a movie with his robotic girlfriend since the idea of a robot girlfriend came to his mind, but he now was still struck with headaches and disgust and was unable to even look at the screen, feeling guilty with himself.

He wrapped his arms around her, as best as he could being on top of her. Ear pressed upon her synthskin he could even hear the rumbling of her core… "This date sucks, I'm sorry-" he lamented.

The bot giggled, giving him a glance down "Don't apologize, honey! I am having fun and all! It's my first date ever" she chirped, returning the hug. "Do you feel any better?"

He sighed "...yeah?"

"I am like, glad"

The movie went on, ABBA music blasting off the speaker of the laptop. She looked almost hypnotized by the film, as he noticed, jumping off from her and laying now next to her with his hands together over his chest.

Mary looked over to him, smiling. Her camera lenses beyond the irises of her eyes focusing on him for a bit, supporting her head with a hand and laying on her side, pressing with his body

"So… Did you say you wanted to explain to me how to watch movies?" She asked, almost sounding as if she was flirting.

Louie nodded "Yeah, but- I think you get it, right? it's not a really complex movie"

Mary brought her free hand to her inner lip and looked upwards, as if she was thinking "Mamma mia is a 2008 jukebox musical romantic comedy film directed by Phyllida Lloyd and written by Catherine Joh-"

He laughed a bit "No no, you're saying what it is, not what it is." he pointed out, signaling with his hand to the screen and giving her a smirk "It's about a girl wanting to fulfill her mental image of a perfect wedding, thinking that uh, inviting her father will magically make everything about living with a single mother her entire life make sense now." He explained casually. "The entire movie is about her realizing that her mother filled both roles and that she should be thankful- Even if it gets lost in the whole… musical thing, it's about accepting that abnormal is also good"

"But-" Mary intervened "It is imperfect? how can it be good then? She wants something a certain way so… why can't she just have it?"

He raised his hands up "I dunno? It's not about what she wants I guess! It's about what she already has and how she should feel about it?"

Mary blinked rapidly, a buzz coming from within her, catching his attention "What does Greece have to do with that?" She asked

"Absolutely nothing."

Louie was fast asleep, tucked in by Mary carefully as he was completely out. The movie was ending, and Mary was at the edge of the bed, laptop on top of her wide hips as she stared at the screen, no eyes on her, meaning there was no need to maintain a friendly and or even human expression on her. Her fair fell besides her shoulders and one side of her hair covered one of her eyes, but that did nothing to hinder the machine's eye-like cameras.

Her system recorded the film, down to the last minute, and as the movie came to a close she closed the laptop on itself and left herself in complete darkness, with no one to interact with.

-BabeTec Electronic's Deluxe unit Desig. "Mary" - [Date_event] complete. -No remaining orders. Primary objective unavailable. - Data flow added to A.I. adaptive personality module -Warning: Unit's location out of mission parameters [Override: Administrator's order] -Current time: 11:59

Mary turned around to watch Louie sleep, being an action her system was unable to do while online, there was a level of curiosity by her A.I., replicating the pose and akin facial expression for further use… until a sudden shift in Mary's systems made her blink, shift pose to a straight back and stand up.

- Remote directive received from unknown source. Current priorities saved but overwritten - NEW TASK: Return to the recharge station and upload gathered data to the Manufacturer.

The machine turned around, moving over to the only exit in the entire room, being locked. Without missing a beat, the busty girl checked her memory banks and quickly retrieved the last recorded location of the door key being in the laptop table, smoothly and efficiently grabbing it with two fingers, placing it on the keyhole, twisting it and opening it. She simply left the key still in, being unnecessary for her task at hand and leaving from the door. Guiding herself only by her system implemented GSP to return to her recharge pad.

Louie kept sleeping through all of this, his body even facing away from her robotical partner leaving out of the blue.

Chapter 6: Scotty doesnt know

It was the start of the new year. The nationwide hangover experienced after the celebration was palpable in the streets, everywhere but one of the last patches of green in the otherwise metropolis, a 4 square kilometer wide part inside a residential area. Mostly empty all year round, but for the usual families and young teens hanging around for the vacations.

Among them, with a transparent grocery bag swinging as he lazily walked upon the concrete sidewalk between the street and the grass. Eddie was your typical regular joe, moving over from the west coast to the city with his brother no less than a couple of months back, he was up and at it early to bring some medicine for stock after the night of drinking he and his brother endured beforehand. He wore nothing but a waterproof jacket, shorts, a shirt underneath and sandals with socks, if it wasn't for climate change moving the seasons around, he would be freezing.

The morning hit him pretty hard, struggling to keep his eyes awake and pressing his hand on his face and breathing out tired. To catch a breather, Eddie walked upon one of those park benches, sitting down and resting back as far as he could until he heard a pop inside. The satisfaction of that sound made him unquestionably smile to himself, laying back down. As he did someone sat next to him, even with eyes closed he felt the shadow cast on him covering the sun.

"You need to go see a chiropractor" A female voice said to him, she'd been staring.

He half opened an eye and looked over at her, raising his cheek to cover the sunlight from hitting him completely "Oh- No, I slept half on the couch and half on the floor due to new years" he shook his head, chuckling a bit "Gotta bring my posture back somehow…"

"I see~" She curiously teases, tilting her head up as he looks at him.

She was a woman around his age, mid twenties. She had short boyish black hair, and wore a purple sports sweater with light clothes underneath. She seemed from around the area wearing all easy to change clothes… maybe just a juggler from the neighborhood.

He humored her "Why, you know a chiropractor around here?" He chuckled

"No" She simply answered "But you should go to one, it's good for your health" She sounds genuent, even if a little vague. She sat back and looked down at his bag, placed in between them "What are the pills for?"

"You make a lot of comments, you know that?" Eddie teased, moving inside the plastic bag and taking a little pill case out to show "Headaches, my brother told me they help with hangovers"

"So you drink?" She asked again, "Interesting…"

He licked his tongue, the line of questioning continues "Well, yes. You?"

"I have never drank in my entire life!" She proudly says with a smirk, crossing her arms trying to look cool, making Eddie laugh "I'm Amy" She offered her hand to shake.

He takes it firmly "Edward. Just call me Eddie, Edward is too formal" As he broke the handshake, he layed back contrary to her "Shouldn't you be running?"

She curls her lips "I'm catching my breath" she simply stated… he looked at her up and down, not even a single drop of sweat on her "I'm all about exercise, but sometimes I like to sit down and look at the people. Feels right"

He nodded, joining her as they both looked into the people walking around the park, a smile growing on both of their faces. He felt weirdly at peace in that moment, the air feeling lighter and his breathing slowed, even the uncomfort of the shitty bench he sat on could be ignored easily.

"You live around here, right?"

"Yes!" She nodded, punching his arm out of the blue playfully "Am I really that easy to read? My place is over there" She pointed behind her back with her thumb, smiling his way.

He chuckled, raising his hands up "Woah, I wasn't going to ask you where- But, yeah…"

After some pause in silence, Amy went ahead and stood up from the bench "Well, it was nice meeting you Eddie. I'mma get my pulse up now!"

He nodded, holding back the urge to ask her to stay a bit more. He stood up with her "Wait, uh, it was nice talking with you too. Do you come here often?"

"Oh yeah! Everyday from 12 to 2 I go out."

He crossed his arms and lightly leaned back and forth, thinking about his hours "Well, you gave me a good vibe. Maybe we can go on a job together sometime?"

Amy's face went into surprise "Are you asking me out?" she brought a finger to her chin, eyebrows raised.

Eddie looked side to side comically and nodded, raising his shoulders and letting them down right after "Yeah, screw it, I'm asking you out" he laughed.

Amy stood silent for a few seconds "But I've never really…" she said under her breath, before her smile returned "Okay. Let's meet tomorrow, but I really need to get my jog going now okay??" She insisted, half turning around to begin moving… winking his way and chuckling. As she ran off, she'd turn around and wave goodbye.

He found her cute, and he had just asked her out randomly and it worked out. He stood there, waving back with a half smile, still surprised it all went down as he wanted. He looked down at the bag of medicine, and then back up. He had to get a move on as well back home, but now he wasn't even tired anymore.

Coming back from a few blocks away and opening the apartment door he found his brother sitting on an old wooden table checking his phone, clearly hungover with deep long eyebags and an uncared for beard. He was still wearing the clothes from last night. His dog Riley, whom was this big golden retriever, happily rushed towards Eddie, jumping atop of him as he made himself home.

"Oh hi. Good morning- Back already?"

Eddie remained quiet, closing and locking the door, placing his jacket on the hanger and placing the pills on the table with an expressionless face. He stood there, looking down at his brother making him guess. The dog walked next to the brother and stare at Eddie as if it was listening as well.

His brother looked up at him and then at the back, snatching it and letting the meds fall on the table "Nice, you want some?" He asked again shaking the container, getting no response "Yo dude, talk"

"I got a date."

The very next day at the same hour they met, Eddie sat on that same bench, even at the same side. He wore his best looking casual clothes, a buttoned up blue squared shirt and jeans- holding in his hand a flower he found on his way there in a green area, a dandelion. He was becoming nervous, checking his wrist watch as the time passed by and she didn't pop out. He signed, clicking his tongue frustrated, although what did he expect? he randomly asked her out, it was improbable she'd even remember.

Just as he was losing hope, from his left he saw her jogging towards him, her eyes opening up as she crossed his. "Eddie??" She asked, covering the sunlight with her palm and closing the distance"

"Oh you remembered my name" he laughed, going in for a hug, reciprocated by her

"I honestly thought you'd forget about asking me out- But it's so nice to see you here!" She chirped happily, holding his hand all of the sudden.

Eddie's face turned red as her hand grabbed his, yet he kept his cool on his expression and nodded "I-I wouldn't forget a girl I asked out! I live close by so It wasn't difficult to find you"

She began walking forwards while holding his hand, essentially guiding him on her path

"I can tell, were you there for long??" She worriedly asked, turning to face him "I'm so sorry- I tend to take my time on these walks."

"Oh no! It's fine. Is it good to be under the sun for a bit? get that vitamin C…" He joked, he then looked down at the dandelion on his hand and raised it up to her eye level "Have you ever seen one of these? watch this" He blew on it, the little petals flying off in the direction of the air.

She scoffed at him "Of course I've seen it! That's how it reproduces"

He shook his head "Not that! have some patience" With the remaining body of the dandelion he surprised Amy by putting it on his tongue and after some mouth movements he'd pull his tongue out and on it was that same flower stick in the shape of a pretzel.

He'd proudly take it with two fingers on one end and show it off to Amy.

"No way! what?!" she'd say in awe, grabbing it and looking at it closer "How did you do that??"

He'd laugh, finding her reacting rather cute "It's an old trick, don't really know how to explain it. Most people find it lame so…"

"They find it lame?? Oh… So should I find it lame because it looks impressive to me" She'd respond, still distracted by the stick-pretzel

He would have to grab her by the shoulders delicately as she began walking while facing down, almost bumping into a walking person "Uh- I mean, you can think whatever you want man. I actually don't know why I did that-"

He regretted doing that to begin with, what kind of date opens up with such a lame trick? Even if she found it interesting, he had to admit it was a weird opener.

Amy held the little thing in one hand and pocketed it carefully on her tight jean's zipper pockets "I'm definitely keeping it now-" She looked at him, pointing a finger at him playfully "Oh yeah! Wanna go for a run together?" She would ask out of the blue, signaling with her hands to be around this same neighborhood plaza.

He was taken aback, was she really going to keep running instead of just hanging out with him? She made an honor that she had never been asked on a date before "I-I mean- Look how im dressed, I'm not really prepared to work out…"

She punched his arm lightly "Come ooon~ Just one more loop for me, and i'll let you get to my place if you feel tired afterwards!" she'd close in on his face, excitedly offering something he couldn't really deny.

Taking a step back as she closed in on his personal space, blushing like hell, he would roll his eyes and sigh, nodding her way as he just imagined what she was trying to get him into-

"Okay big guy!" she got in position, expecting him to copy her "Light jogging, okay? Nothing too hard or you'll feel tired super quick. We'll take stops along the way"

"Right right! I know how to jog, I did this during my gym bro era… as you can see I kinda lost it on the way" He joked, posing his hands atop his tummy "Stops? why?"

"This is a date, right? I wanna show you something… okay! threetwoone GO!" she'd say running off with a rushed start, leaving him behind as she turned around to see him just stand there confused.

"Hey!"

He began running, his nice shoes and jeans already giving him the light suspicion that this wasn't the best choice of clothing. He had to catch up to her now, moving his legs as fast as he could as her prank made her run off with way too much difference. He flapped his arms as he ran, leaving passers-by passers-by following the two with their glances. As he managed to catch up, he breathed heavily, looking to Amy with a weird smile.

"That's… ah, not funny!" He kept running, now at a more steady pace next to her.

Amy smirked to him and shook her head, leading the jog for 40 seconds of going around the curves of the cubic park. As they reached the center of the path, there was a seat, similar to the one they were on at the beginning but surrounded by lines of trees in front and behind them. Brown and reddish leaves fell down upon the pavement and the green areas. She began to slow down, until she walked her last few steps to the seat, sitting down with her hands on it. She smiled at him, inviting him to join her without words. He was breathing heavily, drops of sweat coming from the sides of his face. Eddie sat next to his date, laughing tiredly and laying his back down.

"You're an asshole!"

"shush! Look." She looked forwards and back, suddenly and almost violently snatching his hand and pointed with her right hand diagonally upwards.

Eddie almost jumped as she held his hand, turning sharply to see her hand and his together. He swallowed, looking up to see her staring forwards, he followed her stare to a view of the skyscrapers of the city, far away in the distance and barely visible by the fog behind the view of the trees' tops. A combination of nature and manmade, modern and classic. From his angle, it could resemble a castle, made of walls of trees and pillars of buildings.

His mouth opened with its own "Woah…"

"Imagine how many people there are there. What are they doing right now…? You think they'd even know we are looking at them from here?" She'd ask, finally turning to him genuinely waiting for a response.

Taking eddie of guard he stumbled in his words "U-uhhh, Well- we know that's a company building… that's part of a museum and that's a hotel. Perhaps they are looking back at us and we don't know??" He said with a raise of his shoulders.

"I see… You have an interesting perspective on it" she says with a hand under her chin. Without missing a beat, she jumps off her seat as she lets go of his hand and stands up in one move, her short hair flopping down as her sport shoes clap with the pavement. "Let's go! we got one more stop before the lap" She extended her hand to help him up.

taking it and standing up brought the pain to his knees, yet he managed to get on his feet without much issues. He stood next to her again.

"Ready?"

He nodded, and she began to jog once more. Keeping himself closer to her this time, even if he was walking slower than before, made him get the idea that she was slowing down for him, keeping him closer than before so they could walk the path together… or maybe she was just being nice, either way his feet were starting to hurt.

About the same amount of time as before, they reached yet another bench at the center of the next vertical path. As before, she sat down and already knowing the drill, he sat next to her just like before, just now he felt she was closer than last time.

She reached for his hand once more "You liked when I took your hand last time? You kinda jumped-" she asked before taking it again

"U-uh…" He snapped back, fake coughing "Nah, it's cool. It was cool so go ahead"

She took it, interlacing her arm with his and now laying her head on his shoulder, making him even more uneasy "Okay okay- this one… Hmmm, Its more about the clouds. You see those sloppy smaller buildings in front? They give way for you to see the clouds more. In summer, you can even see more blue than other seasons. It looks like a waterfall of cotton"

He followed her descriptions, getting that exact angle she was trying to show him by moving his head a bit above hers… without even noticing it, his chin touched on her short raspy black hair. Getting in the angle, with the little park below his eyeframe, he sees how a stream of white clouds drive forwards from where he sits in a sea of gray. The level of pollution these days made it harder for the sky to even allow a view of a clear sky, this was one of the first times he had personally seen it in the city, with that in mind his eyes opened wide- yet she said it was blue.

Before he could speak, Amy moved her head back up and held his arm. "You've been too quiet, are you getting bored already??"

"No! not at all it's just- Why are you showing me these?"

Her mouth opened, but she covered her mouth and turned away for a second. He immediately felt bad, thinking he had insulted her in some way "Well- I do these laps almost every day by myself. And each time I look at these views- I get new ideas and questions that I cannot really share with anyone. I'm not really social, I have no friends. I believe it's good to vent those thoughts for once."

"Oh, right. I get that feeling too" he admitted, although to a different level "Have you ever thought about maybe finding a new route to jog on once in a while? It might help you get some new views too" He pointed at the sky "You got a nice eye for this stuff"

Amy blinked twice "Oh, you think?" She curled up on him, but as he asked if she could find another route she stared him down in the same expression for an awkward 4 seconds before she shook her head "Can't. I would probably get lost… Anyways, are you tired??"

He was, there was no doubt about it. He looked down on himself to find his button up shirt completely soaked in sweat, angering him in silence as even the slightest breeze froze him up due to the wet sweet pressing in his skin. "Yeah… but we can jog from here to your house maybe?"

She tilted her head "You are not serious, are you?"

"Absolutely not."

After some time, the door into Amy's apartment was opened by her by some modern finger ID design, they had to go in between the building and another one next to it and walk up a pair of stairs to access the two doors to the apartments to the right and left. At first glance, it looked like a newer building… she hadn't mentioned any jobs yet, but in a city like this rent isn't an easy or cheap fee.

"Come on in" she gave way, presenting the way with her hands with a smile, imitating a fancy butler.

He played along "Oh, why good maiden. Of course I will!" he straightened up, walking in as she closed the door behind her laughing.

Things were going well, he thought. It hadn't even passed through his head the fact that he was inside the house of the girl he liked, he was just having fun around her. Looking around he noticed a particular detail, beyond the small size of it; being basically an L shaped home with a bathroom next to the door at the right side of the entrance… he noticed how everything seemed untouched. Like one of those fake rooms one would see in an Ikea, or a display piece in a theater, it felt alien… or maybe she was just that clean.

"Everything okay? The little exercise didn't make you go nuts, right?" She joked, leaning over by his side onto the small kitchen. "Want a glass of water?"

He was distracted, by her question snapped him back, turning with his hands on his hips "Uh, yeah. Sure, thanks"

She reached over and opened a counter with some glasses leaned up one against one another, taking one and filling it up with some tap water. He saw as she filled it up, he was used to using a filter somewhere else or straight up a separate bottle, but he was way too deep to reject the glass-

She offered it, more than half full "Here you go, you drinker" she teased again, she seemed like she was having fun. Her eyes locked on his, his hand grabbed the glass and nodded in a silent thanks. "Hey, uh, do you mind If I… watch you drink water?"

He raised an eyebrow "Why would I mind- And why would you ask? Tsk! hah" he sipped the cup, being impressed that the filter made it taste better than what he used at home. "Well, not bad"

He went on, Amy now more than hypnotized by the way his Adam's apple moved up and down as he drank liquid. He would've found it weird, if it wasn't over so quick.

"What do you mean?" she asked, closing in, grabbing the glass back as he finished it "Water has no taste. How can it be good or bad??"

He clicked his tongue "It's about minerals or something, don't think too hard about it, you're probably used to more mineral full water-"

She rolled her eyes, going away for a second to put the glass back on the sink and throw a bit of water over it to clean it. He found the thing a bit redundant, didn't she just fill it out with that same water.

He diverted his attention to the end of the farthest wall to the entrance, having two windows, one right and one left. The right window, closer to her bed, was completely closed off by the blinds while the left one was opened, a chair of the only table in the home next to it. With a quick glance he could tell it had a view off to that same park they were on minutes ago.

Amy came back, finding him now next to the window "We'll I gotta go take a shower and change. So- You have no issues waiting?"

He shook his head, sitting down on that chair "Nah, im fine." he placed a leg over the other "Go, get something more comfortable. No issues with me"

She noticed him sitting on the chair near the window, a soft smile growing on her before she nodded "okay, give me a few minutes" with that, she moved to her closet and took out a set of lighter clothes and pants, he didn't manage to see any of it as he was distracted by the view outside, but she had slipped her underwear in between the folded pair of clothes and entered the bathroom, locking the door behind her.

As soon as she pushed the door inwards and pressed the lock, her face relaxed. She placed the set of clothes in a space next to the sink. Her face had completely changed into a way in which it would be impossible to know what she was thinking at the moment, her hand lingered on the door as she twirled towards the shower, letting her sport jacket fall on the bathroom tiled floor, efficiently taking her tight clothes off and carelessly letting them fall off her.

On the other side of the room, Eddie tapped his legs similarly to a drum, bored and with a sore throat. He found her cute- but things about her didn't make sense, no friends? Was she from straight out of nowhere? Checking her apartment, her walls and furniture were lacking in pictures or any sort. Looking over the bed, it was sterile, as if it had been ironed out before he came inside her house. It was curious to say the least, but she felt genuent, it felt good sharing time with her and-

So much thinking had gotten him stressed already. He shook his head, and with a sigh he reached into his back pocket.

"Fuck it…" he growled under his breath, to no one.

He took out a sort of rectangular vaper, inside containing a newly made narcotic based on natural elements… difficult to find and extremely addictive, of course, illegal as well. The only good aspect about it is that you could get high on your own terms whenever you wanted without worrying about odor leftovers.

He puffed in, vapor smoke coming out of his mouth. He breathed in, sitting back and holding himself, his eyes squinting at his left to the out window. He had forgotten the last time he was out with a girl, and one he liked at that, he chuckled to himself, puffing again.

Amy, completely naked and still in the shower, was letting herself underneath the water cascate with the cold water running, leaning on a wall as she looked at nothing, holding herself and thinking about the day so far.

After some time, she finally came out wearing an oversized black shirt and wool pants, her hair still wet from the shower. Eddie jumped as the door sounded opened, the vaper still on his hand.

"What are you doing-" She glanced at him, noticing the vaper "Are you…" She would quickly walk to him, snatching it from his hand and looking at it closely.

"What are you doing?!" Eddie would complain, standing up and following her as she sat in her bed to look at it. He stood with his hands on his hips, sighing "Look- i'm sorry, you were taking your time and I was getting stress for something. Should've done it outside"

Reading through the little cubic vaper she seemed upset about what she was reading, the contents and else. Letting her hands rest on her legs she spoke "...This is bad for you. Why are you doing this, and at my place?" She handled it back, extending her arm to him.

His soul had given up already, he pissed her off, and got found out. He took the vaper and put it away in his pocket. He stood there for a couple of awkward seconds before letting out a defeated "I think I should go. I'm sorry"

As he was turning to go, Amy stood up from the bed and stopped him "No wait!" she held his arm, making him closer. Almost as if nothing else needed to be said, with a glance at him, he followed her and sat in the bed next to her, their eyes locked between each other. Eddie was waiting for something else from her, but instead she groaned and stood up, her face red.

"Urgh! Damn it! Don't leave okay? I'm-" She stopped, sighing "I got no one to be with, ever. And you're fun to talk to! And and-" Amy threw her hands up, still trying to get more words out.

"Okay" Eddie blared out, still shocked.

"That's it?? Just okay? I'm too weird- aren't I? Oh that's just great… that's exactly what my job told me last time, that I was too weird to be around people so-" She complained, walking back and forth modulating with her hands.

"No! no!" he stands up, walking up to her and holding her arms to stop her in place "I like you! You have your- weird angle viewing, and your- interesting perspectives and you're pretty and you're fun to talk and be around…"

"You think I'm pretty??" She snaps out, her hands instinctively going for her short hair and nervously measuring its length "What- why…" She holds herself, stepping back as she looks as if she was on the brink to cry.

"Yeah… I do- It's not a big deal okay, you have that tomboy style i guess…" He chuckled, sitting back on the bed as he stared at her, still by the wall. Calming down a bit more "Let's hang out more, maybe get you to do more stuff."

She laughed, covering her mouth and shaking her head. Amy's body relaxed in between the silence, looking back at him with intense eyes. For a second, she tasted her lower lip and slowly walked up to him. The physical stature difference made his head tilt upwards as she closed in. Her hands held his cheeks softly, moving to his sides and ears, crouching, noses almost touching. He breathed heavily, a drop of sweat falling down and hitting her hand on one end… before she finally met her lips with his.

It was slow and sweet, moving their heads as they explored each other's every inch of both lips. They closed their eyes and allowed themselves to go off, even if they were inexperienced. His hands held hers, and moved them down, breaking the kiss now looking at each other.

"...I don't want you to leave me." She whispered, her voice shaky "I don't want to be alone, and yet- I'd prefer you over 100 people"

After some seconds of admiring her face, he reached a hand on her cheek this time, she holding it closely and curling up against it, her eyes still dug on him

"I want to be with you too"

She smiled… and proceeded to push him down with one hand onto the bed, he complied, knowing what she wanted, moving forwards with him to finally be on top of him. "I've never done this-" she laments, shamefully rolling her eyes.

He moved his hands down her body onto her sides, as she was still above him, and in one move completely turned her around, slamming her against the left side of the bed next to him, bouncing as the bed resisted the impact.

"Oh you-!" She would gasp, playfully smirking at him

He would change position, now on top, he'd close in and place a hand atop her left breast, making her jump and close her eyes as she was held.

"A-ah wait wait… No- I don't wanna do it, I don't wanna do it…"

He let go, moving away and giving her space to stand up and hug him, letting out air next to his ear.

"I'm sorry- I just…"

"No need to. Okay?" he comforted her, hugging her back "You don't have to"

She'd shake her head, breaking the hug and looking down with a frown "Just not for me. Sit down, let me do something for you"

Surprised by her forwardness, he nodded, sitting back with open legs. He found it funny just how much they had switched already without really doing anything, holding his head and smiling.

As she was on her knees, looking up at him laughing, she asked "What's so funny?"

"Nothing. It's cute seeing you figure this out"

She scoffed, crawling on her knees in between her legs, popping his jean's button off and pulling down his zipper slowly… Her face was more curious than excited or horny- Taking support from the bed, Eddie looked down with a tilted head, seeing her make the best of what she could so far.

With a firm grip, she pulled his pants a bit, enough for her to have ample space and… he was wearing no underwear. His dick was already hard and stiff, she immediately went ahead and held it on her hands and nervously looked back and forth between Eddy and his manhood.

She asked "What should i do? just- get it in my mouth?"

"You really don't know about this, do you?" he teased.

"Shut up! just- tell me what you think feels good!" She laughed back, adjusting her balance.

"Well- you can… lick it and… then use your mouth, throat." he said from the top of his head.

She nodded, now focused on his member. Her mouth closed into his dick, and with some doubt at first she lightly licked the base, and then the tip, constantly looking upwards for approval. He was getting chills down his spice with each little thing she was doing and- she was having fun looking at him get pleasure from her actions.

"I'm going in…" she announced, head upwards and about to engulf him.

He almost yelled "Careful with teeth okay?? the doctor visit is awkward otherwise"

She scoffed at his comment again "Of course I know about the teeth thing!" she said as if it was an obvious thing "Besides, you should know a lot about going to the doctor because of your dick…"

He shook his head, smiling her way. She looked back down, closing her eyes and breathing deeply, before going down on him… and then up. It was warm, and wet inside her mouth, her tongue wrapping around him and making it all ways great for his pleasure.

"Ah… yeah that's good"

The wet sounds of her mouth against his dick, sloppy and rhythmic in nature echoed in the room. She almost didn't seem like a beginner-

She'd would slowly take the dick out of her mouth, pressing her eyes as she shook her head "Just tell me before you're gonna finish-"

"Mhm" he said with a nod, softly moaning under his breath

She smirked his way, going down on him once more, this time speeding up and going deeper… hitting the back of her throat again and again and using it to pleasure his tip. He closed his eyes and held grip of the bedsheets with both hands, holding in sounds of pleasure. It went on for upwards of a minute or so, until he said with some restrain "Okay- okay- now"

She quickly got himself off her mouth, and sat on the floor, looking away as she shyly pretended not to see him finish by himself. Letting himself go, he came over himself, cum oozing from his tip and hitting his upper pelvis and below his belly button. He breathed heavy, closing his eyes and sighing harshly

"Yeah- that was nice…" He chuckled "Are you okay?" He asked Amy trying to look beyond his legs

"Really? Uh, yeah… it was fun!" She admitted, standing up and cleaning her knees off "You need anything else?"

With some shame, he scratched his head and looked onto the bathroom "I need some paper to… clean this off"

"Oh- shit! right!" She then runs off inside the bathroom and takes a long stretch of toilet paper off the roll, handing it to him shortly after. As he cleans himself up, he makes the mess into a little ball and puts his clothes back on.

Standing up already by her side, he held her and hugged her close, resting her head on his shoulder and holding her hands around him. They stayed like that for a while, shifting side to side in place. He patted her back and she turned to him, their eyes crossing paths. She then again tried going in for a kiss, closing her eyes as she passionately tried closing in, yet he backed away and blared

"Wait! Wait! Wait! you gotta clean your mouth!"

"Oh! Sheesh" She covered her mouth with both hands and stepped away from him, rushing to the bathroom as he laughed, quickly opening the water to begin cleaning herself off.

-

It's been months since they first met, since their first date. Sharing more and more time together, going out together and even eventually Eddie would move over to her place to keep her company. Meeting his brother was a big step at first, being the last immediate family he had, yet as he had expected he was more than pleased to meet her. A curious thing he had noticed is that she refused to eat inside, even have him around when she ate… or straight up skip meals, worried him even more.

She kept on running every day, now thankfully, getting him to follow her. These times though, she didn't slow down for him, and eventually, he didn't need to. She took little to no time to relax, yet she was always happy and up to do whatever idea he had in the moment, and as they piled up, eventually became routine… she began to run less outside. At night though, there would often be times where he'd find her awake, seating in that same chair next to the window, looking at nothing with a relaxed smile, before of course noticing him and nervously asking if he was okay.

It took him some time to figure it out, and even more time to say it outloud, but he loved her. Each moment he was out working, or helping his brother out with anything, away from her… he felt as if it was wrong. The moment he had told her, laying down in bed together, her eyes opened up in surprised and asked

"Why?"

All he could do was raise his shoulders, and laugh, teasingly before simply showering her with reasons and desires for the future together, and yet… she never said it back. The long nights in which they'd talk about anything, especially her thoughts on random stuff and her perspective on them. Always waking him up before his eyes couldn't stay open anymore to ask him again.

"You aren't going to go by the morning, right?"

So he could now, and as he would do it from then on, shake his eyed and fall asleep. This went on and on, until one day… she stopped running all together without him.

-

The next morning of that day; a detail from which both of them had completely forgotten about, forgot to mention and or found irrelevant, Eddie was thinking of proposing to her. It was a big step, he knew it, most of the details about her life before him were completely unknown, her family, where she grew up, where did she used to work… beyond knowing it had something to do with a company… But he felt it was appropriate, they already were sharing a life together and didn't feel like he'd find anyone else who would make him feel better. He had bought a small ring he could afford, with some help from his brother, and had invited her to date outdoors, in that same park they met back then.

Stepping off the door frame of the apartment with a striped folded blanket in hand and the ring hidden deep inside his pocket, he waited for Amy to finish putting up her socks and shoes.

"You know? We're gonna be on grass the entire day, so you don't really have to…" He commented, looking down at her down as she struggled to put them on fast enough

"Haha…" She dismissively mocked, shaking her head "What about the meter or so of the street?"

He laughed, "What about it??"

Before he could make his point any further she had finished putting them on, and like a cat, she graced herself against him, her hand holding the lower side of her chin and guiding him behind her "I'm not getting my feet dirty… Unless you want to~" She teased

"Hey- its not that type of thing you-" His cheeks turned red but he shook it off, he was falling for her, as she looked back and mocked her taking her tongue out.

He ran behind her, playfully pursuing her after clumsily closing their apartment door, and sprinting down the stairs with her running away from him. Coincidentally, the street's light was red as Amy ran off into the pavement at the other side, and turned green as soon as Eddie catched up to her, separating them with a wall of cars.

They looked at each other through the speeding cars, Amy mocking Eddie further on the other side by laughing at the coincidence, and Eddie simply stood there with arms crossed and a smile, he was going to propose to her by the end of the day…

After some time passed and he could walk the street, he calmly reached her and grabbed her hand, now walking together inwards to the park and would find a spot underneath a tree, and with a view to the small little playground, surrounded by trees. At the distance was an old looking building, orange brinks showing and clearly inhabited.

To entertain each other, as Amy laid on Eddie like a pillow and looked forwards at the view, he tapped her shoulder and pointed "Okay, Thoughts on this view"

"Hmmm~" She held her chin and squinted, thinking about some sort of poetic simil "Okay okay, I got it"

"Tell away"

She adjusted her throat "The children's playground is in the foreground, youth, beginnings, companionship, play… The Alpha, and the old broken down building is behind, lurking far away in plain sight but without us noticing nor caring, The end, solitude… the Omega."

He nodded, adjusting his view to hers "What about the Delta?"

"Delta?? The middle?"

"Yeah, what happens there"

She seemed annoyed. "I dunno! I can't see the delta"

He laughed, holding her with his arms "I'm messing with you… but hey, poetic still, right?"

She remained quiet, breathing deep and relaxing there. He knew she agreed. They took in each other's hands, like two pieces of a puzzle matching perfectly. Until the silence was broken by Amy.

"I wish I could paint" She lamented in a soft voice "I never got to do it before, I'd like to fill our house with paintings made by me and approved by you"

"Why would you need my approval?" He asked, looking over her in an awkward position

She looks at him, grabbing his hand carefully and kissing it "Because i want you to be happy"

He nodded "Imma buy you art supplies then"

In that peace, he felt it was appropriate to propose now, he felt the ring dig deeper into his leg as she pressed her body on him. He sighed, might as well just say it and take the right later. Yet he felt cold in his body, a dryness in his throat he couldn't explain.

"Edward-" She said, it had been the first time in a while she called him by his actual name. His heart skipped a bit and a shiver down his spine "I've had the best time of my life with you"

"What do you mean? We've only done normal dates"

She'd sigh "Exactly" she moved herself off of him and sat next to him, smiling as she saw him, holding his cheek with one hand "You made me try so many things for the first time, say things I otherwise wouldn't be allowed to tell anyone else and I-" she stopped, her body jumped ever so slightly… and that dull sound, barely hearable, made her see herself for a few second before her expression changed into a worried one.

"W-what's wrong? what was that?" He had heard it too, he looked her up and down, confused

She threw herself onto him, hugging him tight and closing her eyes "I don't wanna go right now but-!" She cried, breathing rapidly, her hands clawed into him for support.

He would hold her back, still confused "What?! What are you talking about?!"

"My mission they- i didn't…!" She would throw out, meaning nothing "I lov-"

Before she could finish her sentence… her grip went soft out of nowhere, falling onto the ground, yet even before falling down an electric bang was heard from within her, her opened shirt flashed bright for a second. Her upper chest blasted open, revealing an access port filled with ports and cables… and a microchip flipped out from her, smoking black.

Her eyes grayed out, stuck in a black expression and her body laid down into the position it fell on. The bang had caused a stern in the park, bringing eyes all upon the two, but Eddie was speechless, eyes opened like plates at the scene… his girlfriend was an android after all.

He began hyperventilating, a rush of emotions overwhelming him and throwing himself onto her, trying and obviously failing to wake her up.

"Amy? Amy?! what- What the fuck is going on?!"

From behind him, by the sidewalk a man and a woman in uniform stepped out of a car and rushed to the scene. Quickly one taking hold of the frame of the robot and the other holding Eddie down.

"What?! What is going on? what are you doing??" He looked both sides as the was held down.

He grunted and fought to try and get off their grip, throwing himself forwards to try and take hold of Amy back- but it was too late, before he knew it she was already thrown behind one of the cars, and he watched as they went away, still confused on what was going on.

-

Before he knew it, he was sitting in his old house's chair, holding his head with his hands and a lost eyesight. Buzzing in his ears as he still tried making sense of everything that went down. His brother sat next to him, his dog leaning into his leg whimpering, craving attention… and in front those two people from before, paperwork and documents laid down as they waited for him to react.

"Eddie, hey" his brother called out, tapping his shoulder.

He snapped back, blinking heavily as he finally looked their way. "What do you want?" He growled, gritting his teeth.

"We want to explain the situation, no more." The man said with a stoic tone. He adjusted his pretty suit, sitting straight and staring him down with a drilling look "Since it seems you, mister… Edward Miller, have gone through a series of events that, simply, were not supposed to happen."

He shook his head, squinting his eyes angrily "Wh-... What the hell are you even talking about, my girlfriend got replaced by a bot? is that it?"

The man sighed, putting his hands on the table as he turned to his partner "No. Your partner was the bot. For the whole duration of you two meeting"

He slowly raised his eyes upwards, staring at the two people, speechless again. That seemed to finally catch his attention, allowing the man to continue.

"As you might have heard, the company BabeTec is well known for… throwing around what we like to call squemes. This was one of them"

"Are you with BabeTec?" His brother jumped in, curious.

The woman next to him responded, "No, We're with the Federal Government. We'd like to remind you that you are not the one being interviewed" She said stoically.

The man threw his hand her way, telling her to allow it "We are in a partnership. Unit SAP-101, which… you lived with, was a surveillance prototype funded by the company and the federal government, and we'd like that be kept a secret"

Eddie slammed the table with both hands, making everyone flinch but the woman "Bullshit. You are trying to tell me that Amy was a fucking Camera? all this time? And she didn't tell me?"

"Yes" He breathed out, calmly "She was programmed not to tell, hardwired, even. But that's not here or there… your relationship with her cames out of a failure in her personality A.I., making her believe and or desire the need for companionship. In few words, the 'bot began taking her personality program too seriously"

The woman continued "That and the fact that her interactive personality has no limit in following social queues, she played along with your advances until it overwrote her main task"

"overwrote…" he scoffs, taking hold of his nose bone.

The man opened the folder "Unit SAP-101, being government property, has been decommissioned. And the people involved, you and your brother now, are to be compensated for any psychological damage that may have been caused" He showed a legal document, the sum of 100.000$ highlighted in black. He pointed to it and tapped it "Of course, as long as this is kept under wraps."

Eddie snarled "Fuck you-" he shook his head, his brother trying to comfort him, getting immediatly shoved off "You fucking fascists are trying to put cameras on our streets without us knowing! And- Where the hell is Amy now?! What have you done with her? I'm telling everyone about the scum you're doing" He threatened, pointing at them with his index.

Without missing a beat the man matched his tone "Do you honestly think we're giving you a choice?! Do you think we don't know who you are?" He turned to the woman, nodding in response.

With a beep she began "Edward Miller, 26 years old, college dropout, vape addict, worker at a family retail store 2 blocks from here." She ends, blinking "We have video proof recorded by unit SAP-101 of consumption of illegal drugs"

His hubris and rage diminished and turned into fear lowering his hand as he stared them down.

"If you tell Anyone about what we're doing, we will ruin your life. Every illegal shit you've done since you got out of your mother's womb, and even ones you haven't done yet" He added, taking a pen from his suit and slamming it over the paper "Now sign the paper, take your 100K and forget any of this happened. For your good"

His eyes darted down at the pen, tiredly and hardly trying to focus as that even from earlier repeated again and again. Before he pressed his eyes, and angrily grabbed the pen, singing it and throwing back the pen, laying back down uninterested.

They both stood up at the same time, grabbing the paper, placing it back on the folder and holding it in, turning around and going for the door. The woman turned, her face still stoic.

"Thank you for your collaboration"

As the hand of the Fed touched the door handle Eddie stood up, his chair grinding with the floor as he spoke up "Wait. Before you two go, I have a question"

The man rolled his eyes and turned around in his direction, uninterestedly standing there "What is it."

"...Would she had said yes"

"..." It took him a few seconds to respond, he clicked his tongue "She's a fucking robot. Who the fuck cares" Then he opened the door and left with the woman behind him "Goodday sir"

-

Several days later, working as a cashier in his job, Eddie had his glance lost into nothing. That same event happening again and again, Amy's grip on him still repeating on his skin. He swallowed saliva, hearing that same buzzing from before… and inside of it a voice.

"Sir? Sir? Are you okay?" Said a woman in front of him, waving a hand in front of him.

Eddie shook his head and pressed his eyes "Oh, I'm sorry… Lost in thought" He chuckled, and then as he saw her his smile disappeared.

Her skin was rubbery, her proportions inhumanly exaggerated, skimpy clothes… and of course, a bar code over her left tit "My master is waiting at home. Like, I need to buy these" She said, placing her bag of buys in front of him.

He slowly nodded, his skin palid. And simply did his job, scanning the objects, and offering a card scanner. The bot shifted to it and extended her hand to it, placing her palm on it as it scanned it. He blinked slowly, letting out a "huh", and then handed her the bags for her to package them herself… but she just stares at them.

"I am not programmed to bag objects. Files not found"

He stares down at her, looking back down to see it was barely 3 things she was buying… or rather her owner was buying. He carelessly placed them inside a bag and gave it to her. Grabbing it and leaving, whirring and shifting her hips side to side.

From the TV hung above his desk, he heard the name of babetec faintly, quickly looking at it with distaste.

"...News about the company's newly opened android warehouse on 8th have surfaced, this being a new world record of storage facilities for an android company. The success on sales of their newer companion lines, and worker lines have been a boom in the economy and day to day life"

"8th street" he thought… a couple miles from where he was right now. Their crowning jewel… Their great success, the one of the bastards that took her away from him. He pressed his frow and breathed out loudly. He will have his payback.

Chapter 7 "BabeGate"

The clock hanging on the lower levels of the building ticked away, echoing lightly on the damped greish innards of the parking lot. As David rushly parked inside and got out of the car, Vannie, holding the paperwork from the meeting they just got out from, struggled to keep pace with his steady walk.

"David, David! Wait-" Vannie urged him, following as she messily tried holding the document papers on her arms "I think I need more info first on what we're gonna do, I have a protocol for plan making that you might-" In that, as she tried organizing the papers, they all slipped from her hands and feel onto the ground as she just looked in horror at the mess. Her jaw fell, and she simply looked up at him as he heard the crash. "I-It was a pressure c-calculation error! I just…"

David turned and saw the documents sighing as he got in one knee and began picking them up "Just be careful next time. We are already way too deep into one issue to worry about another one"

Vannie followed, unsure as to why he would do her job for her. Getting into one knee she began picking up the scattered papers flung by the impact and carefully trying to unbend the ones bended "...The deluxe model, why is it so important that it isn't hacked or stolen? It was expected to fail her mission anyways" She argues, now having an excuse to finally talk about it.

David stopped, handing the paper he got to Vannie as she continued with her side "Are you able to keep a secret?"

Vannie stops what she's doing and perks up to David, surprised to the fact he is even considering opening up to her at all "A secret? I have a protocol for secrets too! Should I store it as a work secret or a friend secret?"

David squinted, perhaps having her store his secret to her unit kinda defeated the whole point of it being a secret, as It could be accessed remotely either way "...I guess friend secret?" Vannie seemed to nod rapidly, continuing to organize the documents as she attentively listened. He did so as well adjusting his throat with a fist on his lips "So, the deluxe model contains a backway entrance to the company's complete database of designs, schematics and corporate information. If she just so happens to get hacked by a competitor we are as good as fucked as a corporation. As well as… Prototype units lack proper AI commercial restrictions" He took the stack of paper, already unbent and organized, tapping it all together and he got back up and continued moving "Now we need a way to know where she is exactly before it causes us more problems"

Vannie hurried up as he stood up, sloppily catching up behind him as they moved into the lift area, the door closing as they were inside.

The android looked at her partner from her side trying to catch a glimpse of his face to make an assessment of how he was feeling, some backlogged programming to approach her next attempt at making conversation

"So…" he peeked from where she stood

David side glanced her and rolled his eyes

She unnecessarily adjusts throat, with the same movement as he did "Do we get to go on another job together?"

"I can't get rid of you now, so I guess you have to come" He said defeatedly “The fact you're a walking computer also helps with storing data on the fly" he turned to look at her "You're basically a super expensive notepad"

Then the lift doors open with a ding, the company's AI announcing "R&D division". David walked off, as Vannie was still stunned by his statement…

"So I'm useful?!"

-

Rows and rows of conveyor belts, metallic sounds and beeping around the almost giant silo-like structure, the pair walked along the wider area in between the two rows of the production line of naked busty girls hung on by mechanical arms. The smell of hot plastic and rubber filled the air as at this point the amusement for David the first time that he came here would've looked like a parody of himself. While Vannie on the other hand, walked sideways and smiled widely as she took in the scenery, as some automatic workers waved and smiled at them.

They finally made it to the end of the hall, a small office elevated with a staircase and a garden currently being watered by a grown looking woman with a ponytail in nothing but a green apron, tugging closely to her bust in a way that still showed enough out to the world. This of course and surprise to no one, is an android. The pair tried to ignore her, making their way to the stairs instead- getting interrupted as the bot stood in their way.

"Ara ara~ what do we have here~?" the droid says, her voice muffled as if from an old recording from something "Are you here to visit my master perchance?"

David grinds his teeth "Yes."

Vannie turns to david and tries coping him "H-huh huh!" attempting to sound annoyed

The droid once again smiles sweetly, humming at tone as she bends slightly over, her bust wobbling in unnatural ways "Only people of culture are allowed to meet him!"

At this point it was becoming increasingly apparent to David that things weren't going to go as smooth as he wished and particularly just how null of intelligence the droid in front of him was "I'm sorry, we have some important business to talk with-"

"...Hunter! the R&D director!" Vannie steps in, raising her hand and talks over David.

David looks over at Vannie and mutters "what is up with you today…?" and then continues "Yes, Hunter. Regarding one of the androids he worked on?"

The droid doesn't even pretend to breathe, staying in the same position and pose she was in as she last spoke "Oh, I'm sorry. Do you mean The Alpha?" She said, not a tint of irony in her synthesized pre-recorded voice "I'm sorry, but only people of culture can talk with him!"

Vannie softly intervenes "What is a person of culture…exactly?" she seems confused

"Ara Ara~" she repeats her now catchphrase, winking and looking over at her robotic brethren "An individual of better preference of course!" she answers, as if that made things any more obvious "I must ask you per my programming…"

She brought her hands up and to each side "Boobs or Ass?"

David's face melts into an expression of defeat. A combination of sadness, disgust and regret filled him up inside making him ponder over the decisions he took that led him to work for his company, besides the payment, of course.

"...I'm not into women" he shyly replies, his voice cracking

"I like boobies!" Vannie gleefully perks

The droid gleefully claps, smiling wide as she shifts in place congratulating Vannie "Oh wonderful~ You are a person of culture!" Then she slowly turns to David, the servos in her neck whirring as he can see the camera lenses shift in place, maintaining the same pose as she was, yet more- threatening "Boobs or Ass?"

"...I'm not gonna answer that question, can I go do my job now?"

"Boob or Ass?" she goes again

"..."

Vannie looks worried at David, looking back and forth, not fully understanding as to why would David not just answer a simple question.

From the upper level of the stairs a young twenty-something kid wearing glasses in a light blue smoking and an unmade tie around his neck yells out as he holds on to the railing "JUST SAY IT ALREADY"

His lips open up as he lets out a weak "...boobs"

The droid finally claps congratulations his way, closing her eyes cheerfully as David looks down in defeat and anger, Vannie joining in in the uproar as the busty droid steps out of the way letting the duo make their way up the stairs, meeting Hunter at the end, clapping with a look of smug in his face.

"Glad to be around intelligent people for once! You guys met Sakura? isn't she the hottest piece of tech you've seen?" He spoke, his high and nasal voice echoing below the metal ceiling. He looks at Vannie "Of course, after you, m'lady!"

The assistant droid covered her mouth with the palm of her hand as her cheeks turned red. David took out the set of documents and presented them to the director "We got some important questions regarding a prototype you designed?"

He took a look at the documents, adjusting his glasses and looking up at the man in front of him, taking the hint and walking towards the lab door. "Personal pleasure prototype or industry project prototype? I lose track now and then." He said with unfound hubris. The automatic glass door opened by itself, sliding to the side to reveal the insides of a messy lab, filled with posters of adult content as well as the sound of faint east pop music. At the far end corner of the room, some sort of disassembled android girl project, missing arms, legs and the back of its head. Some signs of purple makeup on her lips and visible eyelash could be seen on her palid vampiric skin.

"Oh! is that another prototype?" Vannie curiously asked, rushing to take a closer look

Hunter kept his hands on his elegant pristine pockets, side glancing at the droid peeking in his lab "Yup. Some "make your own droid" model HQ said would sell well. They want us to make it so you can buy different personality drives separately and install them by payment. It makes things simple to develop an AI that is by design incomplete, but because it's so simple it makes things difficult to make her interesting by default" The man placed his hands on his sides proudly, shaking his head with a smirk.

David adjusted his throat audibly "The deluxe model? yeah, uhm, it possibly got stolen and we want to know exactly where it is located currently. So you know, I can do my job." His tone was passive aggressive, eyeing him up and down as he showed off the system logs last uploaded that same morning.

The director bit his nail as he leaned in closer to read the log, squinting. "Have you seen if the files are corrupted?"

"Not corrupted!" The droid perked in while she toyed with the prototype "Just an alert of possible tampering with the system"

He licked his tongue, raising his shoulders dismissively "Then you shouldn't worry, it's probably some faulty-engineering that caused the crash…"

"We still need the location… we gotta disconnect her from the database" David responded moving over to a wide glass desk in front of an expensive LED lit computer.

Hunter licked his tongue again, walking over to the computer and closing some tabs as he accessed the company's registry of units "Okay whatever… Just tell my uncle to add this as a bonus"

The duo looked at each other as he just implied the CEO is a family member of him, explaining his age "Sure. This should remain a secret mind you… if this goes out to the public we are facing a bunch of rival companies trying to get their hands on our little expensive publicity stunt. "

He clicked away, writing out some code to better find the specific unit, until it was boiled down to one, proudly moving out of the way as he showed the two of them "Here, if I do click here right now it should show you a specific location of the unit" he allowed his hand to drop on the mouse's button opening to reveal… nothing. A white screen with red letters reading "Access denied". He double checked again, getting out and clicking again to get the same response. He checked his connection, perfectly stable.

"...What?" he muttered to himself, now seriously getting confused as he closed in on the screen.

"What? Did they access the entire mainframe now?? do they have access to the other unit's data?" David rushed to inspect the screen as well, Vannie imitating him.

"...No, the restriction came from above. They don't have access to the mainframe. But someone above doesn't want us to know where the deluxe unit is"

"Or some-thing!" Vannie raised a finger and looked at both of them with a smile, getting a dismissive look in response "sorry;;"

Hunter groaned, holding his head as he tried to think of a solution. His head shifted left, to his cellphone, quickly taking it and dialing the number of his uncle. He stood up and shifted in place, playing with his nails as he became more nervous… no response "Now he doesn't want to answer!"

David sighed "This was a waste of time. Vannie, set a course to the unit's designated university. We're gonna look for her manually"

"Got it!"

He began walking with heavy feet, angrier than before. Hunter followed behind trying to stop them "W-wait! We should stay in contact! I'll update you if I find something, yes?! I don't wanna be seen as a nepo-baby, this is a cool sounding adventure!"

He didn't even turn to talk to him "Just don't waste more of our time!"

Vannie tries keeping up as she turns around to face Hunter "Uh- I'm sending a message request, hm, sir!" then went back around to keep up with her partner.

They are then both interrupted at the end of the staircase again by the busty droid- holding the watering pot in her delicate hands "Excuse me, Would you like to touch my bust before you go~ Ara ara!" She says, her voice almost trying to sound like an orgasm.

In his hurry and anger, David grabs the watering pot off from her hands and sticks the watering edge in between the droid's fake bust, pouring her with water as she immediately reacts by bursting a spark right then and there, the pre-recorded quotes melting with one another as she slows down in movement… the pampered apron became see through as she bends forwards and out of power. He leaves the pot there and continues walking

"Hey! not cool man! I'm gonna have to fix her out of my pocket" yelled Hunter as she rushed to assist his doll

David yelled "BILL ME!"

-

Louie layed messily in his bed, his pillow thrown on his face as he began to groan tiredly… The light came in from his dorm room, there was no wake up alarm, he seemed to have forgotten to add it again. Yet, his phone began to vibrate, moving along the floor, making enough of a noise to wake Louie up once and for all. He perked up from the bed, yelling shortly due to the scare, his eyes darted down under his bed, the phone still ringing and vibrating. He sighed, a hand on his chest as he seemed to have caused himself a scare. He went to pick it up, the up left corner of the screen being now broken due to it crashing on the floor.

“Aw man…” He lamented to himself. Opening the phone a long list of missed calls would be seen, all of them coming from both Chris and Jim, having only a few intervals of time between each of them. He saw the time… two hours late to class “ AW SHIT”

Then, as if on queue, his phone rang once more, this time from Chris. He quickly picked it up, holding the phone close to his ear “H-hello??”

Chris yells through the phone “Louie?! Where the hell are you?! Is Mary with you?” She asked, right outside the classroom door, people pouring out as the class was over “You missed the entire first lecture! If you miss class more than 3 times we’ll fail the goddamn thesis”

“I know! I know! I’m awake- I don’t know what happened last night, I must’ve overslept but Mary is here with-” He sharply turns, staying silent as he is unable to find Mary. He blinks, looking under his sheets, under his bed… nothing “Uhh, Mary is not with me”

“What?!” She yells his way, making him separate the phone from his ear “Whuh- what do you mean Mary is not with you? It was your only job, we literally left her with you BECAUSE you’d stay with her all the time.”

“I don't know! She was with me all night. As soon as I fell asleep she must’ve left…” he laments, not getting out of bed and rushing with his phone in hand to get ready “She’s gotta be close… she cannot go outside of the campus zone”

“Goddamn it Lou- We’ll look around. But if she left in the middle of night it means she connected to her charging area, and therefore connected with the mainframe, god knows if BabeTec will be on our ass about tampering with one of their units.” She looks over to Jim, crossing his arms against one of the lockers, lost in thought. As he sees her motion to him, he moves towards her “Jim is with me, we have around an hour before next class begins… we’ll look around one half of the campus and you’ll look around the other. Got it?”

“Divide and conquer, fine by me” He says, shoving his foot on one of his shoes as he struggles to place a shirt on himself at the same time “I’ll call if I see something”

“Alright. Don’t fuck this up Lou!” And with that, the beep of the phone signaling that she hung up. Lou looked at his phone with worry, at that moment he wanted to tear his own skin off out of shame… yet he was still unsure as to why would Mary even go out without him telling her to, he placed his phone in his pocket and rushed out

“For fucks sake Mary- where the hell are you now?

-

The flushing of a toilet could be heard coming from within the male’s bathroom, located in between a now busy hall of the literature sciences department, from the door, a spaced out guy came out breathing heavily, holding his own weight with both hands on the door frame as he came out eyes opened up like plates. He turn behind himself, shaking his head slowly

“Lady- I have no idea who you are, but that ass ain’t human”

As he finally left, breathing out with a smile, Mary peaked out of the bathroom, her never ending smile on her face as she softly waved at the guy she just finished having sex with “Hope you like, enjoyed~ Hope I see you again Max!~” The droid said, just before crossing out his profile as a completed target inside of her system. She blinked twice, her expression relaxing as she looked into the crowd of walking students.

>>BabeTec Electronics Deluxe Unit Desig. “Mary” >Target list updated. Identifying possible targets. >Face ID function online.

Mary’s programming had defaulted back to its original programming, having none of her new administrators to place such an order on hold, her system simply continued the mission as instructed. Her body had been recently adapted to the likes of her latest success, automatically defaulting back with a mechanical hiss as she smilingly sways her body towards the crowd

From her vision, each and every face of the passing by students, both male and female were looked into and compared from each other, utilizing the provided data by the university of every student’s data and face, as a selected option for her next possible partner began to narrow down, taking into consideration their chance of being seduced to begin with, interest in her unit’s appearance and currently operative personality module and most of all, possibility of becoming a client for BabeTec. As the scan was narrowed one by one, targets discarded due to low chance of success or lack of sufficient data for a proper assessment, it finally selected her next target, a tall guy wearing a black hoodie and long black hair and baggy tired eyes.

>>Target Identified: Jason Virgil. >İnterests: Porn. Blondes. Bimbos. Big Breasts. >Seduction Subprotocols engaged.

As she was about to give a step towards her target, she suddenly crashes into another girl- The impact makes the machine would turn immediately, yet she fails to be affected by the impact… In turn, the other girl would crash and smash her drink into herself… spilling all over herself as she stumbles to the floor, causing a commotion around them. Mary would look down at the girl not reacting immediately as she still analyzes the situation for a total of 2.35 seconds, finally kneeling to help her

“Ah! What the hell- Look where you’re going!” The girl said disgustedly, looking down at her white dress, completely stained with the brownish color of the drink she had in her plastic cup, now spilled all over the floor as well “What?! You ruined my fucking dress you dumb bimbo!”

“I’m like- Totally sorry sister” Mary attempts to apologize, her target being placed on hold so she may lower attention to herself and her mission “May I help you up-”

Out of the blue, a shorter girl wearing a purple and black get up would rush to the first girl, giving her napkins and paper towels as she worriedly utters “Yenny! Oh gosh- What the hell happened??” She says, almost yelling, causing Mary’s eternal smile to falter in place as more eyes are brought upon herself than before. If she was able to sweat, she would be doing so right now.

“I was just walking and this- Bitch! just walked on my way!” Yenny stretches out her arm with a frown, now actively yelling angrily

Mary intervenes “There is like, no need to insult!” She says with a smile “It was an accident. Like, let me help you! I’ll give you one of my outfits so you can change!”

The second girl looks at her with resentment “Uhm! Sure! You’ll still gotta pay her drink back too!”

Yenny looked at Mary with a stern look, half a minute of silence between the three was felt as Mary just smiled at them with a hint of synthetic embarrassment filling her plastic perfect features from up to down

>>BabeTec Deluxe Unit Desig. “Mary” >Searching in memory banks “Funds” >Searching… >Administrator: Louie has funds.

Mary raised a finger, fluttering her eyelashes as she said “Of course! It’s the right thing to do!”

The shorter girl finally helps Yenny get up, their eyes never separating from Mary’s as an expression of surprise fills their entire faces...Alright, I was expecting you to be more confrontive at least” Yenny said, confused. “I’m Yenny, this is my friend Enna.” She said pointing to herself and the shorter girl, who looked at her friend for guidance as to how to react

She did not actually have to know their names, as a simple face ID was enough for her to know who they were and what they were studying along with more information… Mary stood up to their level, gracefully and maintaining her sensuality doing a small bow as she presented herself “I’m Mary Reina, I’m an exchange student. I’m new on the campus!” She gives them a beaming smile “It’s actually my second day here!”

“Oh” Enna responds

“Ah, fresh meat” Says Yenny with a chuckle, pushing the dust off her knee level black skirt “Well Mary… Thanks for offering your shirt. Let’s go get it then, I guess”

Mary nods “Understood. Follow me!” walking up in direction to the gym area, where her charger station is located alongside her change of clothes. She walks faster than them, leading the way

-

Meanwhile, in the engineering faculty Chris and Jim desperately looked among the crowd and even asked the passing by students if they had seen Mary, but to no avail. Chris sighed and pressed her eyes shut going up to Jim “This is useless, if she left Louie’s room at night it can only mean she connected to the server to upload data! At this point they must’ve sent like- 5 agents to sue our asses out of existence” she crossed her arms, worried.

Jim placed a hand on her shoulder, trying to comfort her “Hey, we don’t know that yet” he patted her looking around just in case he caught Mary passing by “Besides, if that was the case they would’ve come for us in the morning… something else must be going on”

She frowned deeper “I’m such an idiot. I shouldn’t have trusted Mary to Lou” her expression turns to anger “After how much he kept talking about wanting a robot, you’d think he’d take better care of it.”

“I know you two have your issues. But in the end, you’re his friend.” He caressed his forehead, bringing his hands to his hips “He actually owes you a big one for reprogramming her to begin with”

With those words hitting her ear, an idea sparked in her head. She adjusted her glasses and quickly took out her computer from her side bag, sitting on the floor against the wall.

“What is it?” Jim perked in

“I was looking up her code last night. The backdoor connection I found, remember?”

Jim nodded

“If whatever that thing was tracking her without connection, we can do so as well… I just gotta-” She began looking up and down the long string of code, displaying everything about Mary’s model… until It simply deleted itself off her screen “...What?”

Jim looked at the screen and then at her “Wh-what the hell was that?”

Chris frantically began trying to look for the data, it appeared as if she herself deleted the data “I don’t know?? What the-” she forcefully closed the laptop and got back up, leaving Jim on the floor

“Where are you going??”

“We’re losing time! Just- just go look around that way, i’ll look this way” she responded before just running off in the opposite direction.

Jim sighs, shaking his head as he ultimately does as told “...I have a terrible feeling about all of this”

-

“Here we like, go~!” Mary said, taking a white button up blouse similar to the one she was wearing at the moment and handed it to Yenny who sat on the banks in between the lockers.

“Gee… Thanks Mary” She said, holding the blouse, placing it next to her. She began unbuttoning her damped shirt, feeling comfortable enough to undress among the other girls “Hey, no offense. But why do you always say ‘like’ every other sentence?”

Enna chirps in, leaning against the lockers with her arms crossed “Yeah? It totally makes you sound like a bimbo”

Mary raised an eyebrow, standing idly and confused “But… I am a bimbo”

The two girls look at eachother, exploding in laughter as Mary seemingly insults herself in front of them. The machine just looks at them, recording the interaction.

“Look… You wanna look less smart to peak the interest of a boy? Want a boyfriend? I get that. But don’t downplay yourself girl! Smart is the new hot anyways~” Yenna says, finishing taking of her blouse, leaving herself in just a simple bra

“Yes! absolutely. Besides, why would you wanna be with a guy that likes you cuz’ you’re dumb? Probably some sexbot obsessed loser” She said, playing around on her phone.

Their words seemed to have struct a part of her system, her HUD would update as the conversation went on.

>Error. Discrepancy found. >Correcting.

“...I have a boyfriend” Mary remains silent for a second, moving to sit down between the two girls as her look seems to be lost into nothingness, staring away “I, li-” She stops herself from saying that word again around them “I… don’t think he likes me because I’m dumb”.

Yenny looked curiously at her new friend as she placed the blouse on herself, letting out a small sigh “Then… if it’s not that, why does he like you?”

“Data unavailable.”

“...What?”

-

Louie ran inside the building, making it into the automatic sliding doors of one of the many entrances as he took rest by panting out next to the wall “Ah, shit… how am I supposed to find her around here??” He said in between pants and groans. He took off some sweat off his frow and began discreetly walking among the other students communing along the halls.

He begins to get antsy, every second that passed without knowing where Mary was was yet another second in which they could locate where she was… and take her away. Maybe he was humanizing her a lot, but to him, all the time and talks he was able to have with her would’ve been completely for nothing as a reset would be more than expected… Or maybe, he just didn't want to lose his robot.

He snapped out of that thought, he needed to look for her in a smart way… somewhere she would be. Without Jim, Chris or himself she would probably default back to her original programming, having sex with other students meant she needed somewhere isolated… Somewhere where not a lot of people go.

“The locker rooms- Of course” He mumbled under his breath, doing a full turn back towards there. In between his desperation and rush, he accidentally bumps into a tall dark haired woman, the impact causing him to stop.

Louie raised his head up, nervously begging her pardon “Ah! oh my gosh I’m so sorry- I wasn’t looking where I was going, I’m in a HUGE rush right now and-”

“Louie Ricci. Correct?”

As the sound of her voice hits his ears he falls quiet, her tone being one of blissful tranquility and refined tuning. His eyes cross with her’s, intensely red, staring back at him. Her skin was unnaturally pale, any sort of warmth you’d expect from looking at another person was simply put, not there. Her long straight dark hair fell almost to the end of her back, enriching her curves and completing her general dark outfit consisting of a white blouse under a suit, skirt and long thigh highs… Louie’s step faltered, something about that girl was not right, besides… how did she know his name?. In one of the steps he took backwards, his eyes centered in her red almost glowing eyes, he stumbled forwards. About to fall, the tall girl held him up with one hand.

“Ah. Be careful.” She said bluntly “There’s a reason why it is ill advised to run in the halls, correct?”

He slowly nodded,”...right” adjusting his throat as he went around her and towards the locker rooms. As he continued to follow her glance, she did not stop staring him down for a second, standing in the same place she was on as her null expression threw daggers at him. Trying to shake off the bad feeling it smeared on him, he attempted to concentrate again on Mary, turning back forwards and quickly walking off out of her view… or so he wished.

He made it to the locker rooms, almost slamming the door open, coming face to face with Mary and two other girls.

“...Did you just say “data unavailable”...? WOAH, HEY WHAT THE FUCK?!” Enna yells out as he sees Louie. Mary perks up, her face litting up as she sees Lou, smiling wide

>Face ID match found >Administrator (Boyfriend) Louie Ricci identified >Pausing Main Objectives. >Engaging subroutines

Mary jumps out of her seat and jumps-hugs Louie, throwing him slightly out of balance “Babeeeeeeeeeee” she celebrates in a high pitch tone. Lou’s face turns to a red mist, a rush of relief going through him, as well as another rush of something in his pelvis as Mary purposefully presses her bust onto him.

“YOU’RE DATING LOUIE RICCI????” Yenni and Enna yell at the same time

“Oh thank god you are here… You had Jim, Chris and me all worried” he placed his hands on her shoulders, making space between them “You disappeared yesterday- we had no way to find you”

“YOU’RE IN A POLYCUBE????” Yenny yells, yet Enna turns to her

“No no no, Jim is asexual… You’re taking this too far gurl”

Mary waved her hair, wrapping her arms around his neck as she smiled “I’m sorry hun, I was busy with something!” she giggles “And welp! You found me now! What would you like to do now? Watch movies? Chit-chat?”

Louie frowns, tilting his head. He felt like he couldn’t really establish a proper conversation with her, at least she was still responding to the initial reprogramming of before. In that moment he was able to discern the other two girls simply staring at the two of them, still hugging. He recognized them, although it took some time for the neurons to collide, he was sure of it. He went to school with them similarly to how he did with Jim and Chris- yet he only held bad memories of them teasing him and making fun of him.

“...Wait- Yenny?? ENNA!?” He separated from Mary, focusing on them “You two are here too??”

“Uhhh, yeah, jackass. We aren’t some holograms?? also THIS IS THE LOCKER ROOM YOU FUCKING CREEP, GET OUT!” Yenny yells out, pointing towards the still open door while covering her body from the still unbuttoned shirt.

Lou blinked, realizing where he actually was “You actually have a pretty good point there! Let’s go Mary” He said without much else, holding Mary’s hand to exit… yet she didn’t move.

The girl shaped machine innocently held his arm in place “Wait!” she stopped him “I was talking with my friends here. They are totes like those characters from Mamma Mia to me! They asked me your reason for liking me. Since we are dating, and like, all that… I couldn’t find an answer! Could you please answer this query?”

Lou was caught off guard, her question seemed to have come out of complete left field. He looked away and tried coming up with an answer “Uhhhh, well- You know! You’re… cute! and… nice to me!” He stumbled through his words, his mind not really coming up with a single discernible aspect of her that didn’t involve her being a robot- specially one he was able to say out loud “You’re- Quite creative and… funny, remember when you did that phone prank?”

Enna and Yenny stare in awe as this complete idiot seemingly courted with this girl yet is unable to say a single real positive thing about his girlfriend. Mary just stood there, her smile becoming smaller as he blinked rapidly. He believed he had it all figured out with his attempt at a relationship with Mary… yet he clearly didn´t. Lou, feeling the pressure, simply holds her hand again and tries going out again.

“We can talk about this later- we gotta find Jim and Chris before she ends up exploding an artery-”

He once again seems to stumble into someone, that same feeling from before. He stepped back, his head turned up- nervously, sweat of his forehead from the previous embarrassing situation running down to his cheeks. It was that same woman, the darker lighting of the locker room making her wide open red eyes glow harder than before. She glances down at Louie, then, at the two girls behind them, who were in the mists of getting themselves out of the situation and then, finally… at Mary. “BabeTec Deluxe Unit prototype located.” She stated to no one, that same calm and pristine tone, her eyes focused on Mary, who looked back with a curious tilted head. She was a machine, it became clearly obvious to Lou at that moment, a shiver shaking him to his core. This had to be BabeTec, sending a retrieval unit for a corrupted one- He heard of them doing this in some forums… yet never expected to see it in person.

The tall machine would effortlessly push Lou out of the way with a simple hand movement, being flown back by her force and hitting his shoulder with the wall, falling on the floor. Her other hand holding Mary´s outreached arm as Louie lost his grip on hers. Her HUD would update.

>Android Target located. >Threat to mission: Minimal >Disregarding infiltration protocols.

Mary looked down at her held arm, then at Louie pushed violently out of the way “Uhm! I don’t think what you are doing is really nice!”

“Irrelevant.” The robot responds, moving Mary against the locker row, the hollow metallic sound of the lockers being hit against makes Enna and Yenny jump

“What the hell is your problem bitch?!” Yenny scolds, coming up to her and pushing her to let Mary go, not moving but an inch. Enna joins in, instead, recording the situation with her phone. “Yeah! Look at this bully! What did she ever do to you to begin with you uptight whore?!”

Lou scoffs, holding his wounded shoulder, still not seeing what’s going on “Rich of you to say that…”.

As he steps up and sees Mary against the lockers, he shook, focusing on her struggling expression. The other machine was attempting to pry open her head, somehow, her fingers crawling against her skull in a weird pattern. He looks around the room, the row of locker seats he fell next to being broken down so the segmented seat parts were completely separated, being what was basically a long metal rod. He took it into his hands and, quickly and without thinking, swung it behind the android’s head, both Enna y Yenny yelled loudly… He tried to cause that same flaw that originally caused Mary to crash before, the impact was enough for her to let go of Mary, who fell onto her knees and was quickly picked up by Lou. The bot stood on her feet a couple seconds after the impact, yet ultimately stumbled and fell face first to the floor alongside the metal rod.

“Lou- what was that??” Enna yelps

“That’s not human! Just trust me for once and let's get out of here??” he points to the door once more, looking to Mary he guides her out of the room “Are you okay?? Everything in order?

Mary held her head, shook it and turned to Lou “I’m perfectly functional- No errors detected. Like, who is she?” He shook his head “I-I don’t know… Seems to be a robot but…” He breathed out, the rush of adrenaline dissipating. He remembered what he had just done and covered his mouth “Oh my god that shit was BADASS I actually just SWUNG that shit to the bot?? Dude you saw?”

Mary blinks rapidly, a small smile on her face as she sees him “Negative, I was facing the other way while I was against the lockers, boyfriend.”

“..ah yeah, sorry”

They both hear rumbling behind them, looking for the cause, they see the body of the robot stand up from the floor, hold its own head up and accommodate her neck in a perfect and efficient manner, her eyes darted downwards, to the metal rod previously used to slam the back of her CPU. She knelt down, carefully and delicately, and held it, her eyes moving towards Lou and Mary.

>Reboot Sequence successful. >Threat to mission: Increased. >Unit not allowed to terminate humans. Appeasing threats non-lethally.

Lou and Mary stared in shock, a cold sweat coming from him as he saw how the android raised her arm and prepared to launch the metal rod like a javelin towards them. He took Mary’s hand, and quickly rushed off in the hall. The sound of the metal rod crashing against the wall behind them caused a commotion among the other students, who began to panic.

“FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKK!!!!”

-

The car parked in front of the campus entrance with the chirp of the wheels’ breaks hitting off. David sat back behind the driver’s seat, looking from his window at the building as he took out the keys to turn off the car. Vannie looked out the window as well, awe-strucked at the simpler things.

“David, sir. Did you study in a place like this?? With other humans?!” She questioned, as she saw some students walk off the grounds and come in, others taking a cigar outside the gates.

David breathed out “Yeah actually. It sucks. The stress, the exams…” He turned to his partner, a serious glare on his face “We gotta be quick about this. Could get ugly, you got my back right?”

“Of course! You’re my second top priority!” She nodded, gesturing with her fists.

David shook his head “We gotta do something about that whole second top priority…”

They both proceeded to exit the car, walking to the entrance as the feeling of the place seemed way too calm. Out of the blue, one of the students runs in the middle of the entrance and towards the other students announces

“Some crazy bastard just swung at a robot in the lockers!!!”

Catching the attention of the group, they all began to talk among each other, curiously glancing at the innards of the institute as they stood up and rushed inside. David, seeing this, thought the worst… with a simple look at Vannie, he signaled her to get in and find out the origin of the commotion.

-

Chris and Jim kept on looking around, tirelessly around every single hall and corner of the university, without success… Chris held her head up “This is pointless- They probably already took her! We lost our chance with the Thesis”

Jim groans, shaking his head as he crosses his arms, resting next to his friend “Hey, give it time. What do you know? Maybe Lou will find her first?”

She rolls her eyes, eyeing Jim with distaint “Lou?? He got us into this mess! I swear to god when I see that little-”

“JIM!!! CHRIS!!! RUNNN!” Lou yelled out, coming over the end of the hall, Mary barely keeping up as she ran, simply following him.

“Hiiiii” Mary waved as she ran.

The duo couldn’t believe it, everything was suddenly in order- yet him running was clearly not a good sign. Chris sneered at him, but as she was about to utter the first row of insults boiling in her mind since the morning, she saw the rapidly approaching figure of the other robot, hunting them down

“What the fuck is that??” She uttered, while she and Jim joined in with Mary and Lou in their running.

“ITS AN ANDROID OKAY?! SHE’S LOOKING FOR MARY”

“She's very mean.”

Jim looked back, the android crashing into the wall due to its speed as they curved a hall, buying them some time, as much as it is terrifying. He quickly thought of something, pointing towards the computer room and locking the door behind them. The barely lit room, solely for the cabling and humble dark light of the screens was all they had to see. They all pant, at the same time trying to keep their voice down.

“...We got some time.” Jim says, looking around the dark room with some difficulty.

Chris hugs Mary, almost sobbing as she feels her sense of security come back to her.

“Oh my god;; I was so worried… I’m glad you are still with us Mary…” She consoled against her shoulder, holding her quite strongly.

She pats her back in response “No worries! Like, I’m totally functional”

The two guys just looked at this with a raised eyebrow, yet Jim seemed busier with something else, quietly moving away. Lou pays no attention to this, as he goes to Chris with some nervousness. Chris simply stares him down.

“You-” She stops herself, shaking her head “What the hell happened? How could you have lost sight of Mary? You put all of us, you put ME at risk”

Lou laments, nodding along “I know… It’s not my fault, she just walked out in the middle of the night. This thesis is important to me too, not trying to sabotage it”

As he explains, Mary walks next to him and nods alongside him “An unknown program reset my parameters back to default, ordering me to return to my recharge station.” She finally explains, arching her back, intricately making so her bust would be shown more… at the end of the day she was still just a sexbot “I apologize if I caused distress to you. I’m ready to serve whichever way I am capable of”

“...Unknown program…? I thought I took those out, what are you talking about?”

“Not in my code. One sent wirelessly” She blinked, placing a hand on her chest “There remains a foreign connection to my system”

She raised an eyebrow at this… Lou did so as well, not hearing of anything of the sort in any other android they knew of. They would’ve questioned her further if it wasn’t for the thud coming from one of the doors of the computer room. She had found them, they all quickly began to panic.

“It’s that thing again! now what?? we’re cornered!” Lou yelled out, hiding under one of the tables. Chris and Mary did the same, attempting to find any sort of hiding place.

They saw a blue flash coming from the server panel of the room, following it, they’d find Jim effectively connecting a bunch of high fiber cables together into one load, and turning on and off the power grid of the server… testing the voltage.

“Jim- what the HELL are you doing?? Get out of there and hide!” Chris ordered, followed by another thud, the lock of the door, shaking and breaking more.

With one strong pull, he extended the organized cables out of the panel and held them close, his eyes darted to Chris and Lou and gestured with his hand for Chris to stay there, which pointed to Lou to get to the server grid.

“When I tell you, pull that lever down, the power one.” He ordered Lou, then turned to Mary “Droid, stand in the middle of the room and be VERY obvious about what you are when the other android comes in, it's an order”

The way he ordered her made Mary quickly get out of where she hid and mechanically walk quickly to the center of the room, her system efficiently calculating in the matter of milliseconds the general and absolute center of the room as every other process was dropped. Jim hid behind a table and nodded, Chris was still completely confused about the plan. Another Thud… the lock broke, flying out against the fall the other side of the room, and with the movement of the door handle, the door swung open, the light coming from the halls blocked by the slim and seductive figure of the infiltrator, her face and figure obscured except her red glowing eyes.

“Ooooo! Like! Look at meee!! I’m here!!!” Mary teased, unmoving as she teased with a smile.

Like clockwork the android rotated her head towards Mary, in the matter of less than a second. Lou, terrified, pressed himself against the wall hoping she wouldn’t be able to see them… She began to walk towards her, pushing the tables and computer out of her way as she took the path of most resistance, yet the most efficient. Her heels pressing against the carpeted floor. Jim awaited… the perfect moment, breathing heavy. She raised her arm, as if she was going to grab Mary with one hand out of there, and when she was but one step away from Mary, Jim jumped out.

“Louie, Now!”

The lever went down, the cable lit up with pure blue electricity, which slightly blinded him as he pressed the copper end in between the infiltrators breasts, electricity coursing through its body. Her eyes crossed, servos overloaded and her speech synthesizer going haywired with high and low undecipherable sounds. Noticing the electrical hazard, Mary would step back and look at her breakdown. The android would, in all of its synthetic desperation, crawl at Mary’s legs attempting to still grab her. Her HUD scrambled and blurry. Before simply shutting down… freezing in place, her dark hair messily all over the place on the floor.

As she shut down, Lou lowered the lever, breathing heavily as they all rounded around her frozen body. All turning to Jim.

“...Since when did you know how to do that?” Chris pointed with her thumb.

Swallowing and returning to his more relaxed self Jim rises his shoulders “I may or may not have looked into the voltage needed to overload an android”

Mary looks at Jim with a frown “W-why would you look that uppp??”

“No offense” He gestures Mary “Lets get out of here…”

The group tiredly gets out of the room, wasted. Yet a few steps out of the room, two tall suited figures stare them down. David and Vannie, crossing their arms and placing their hands on their hips respectively. “Boss! I got the Deluxe unit on sight” she chirped with a smirk.

David walked up to Jim, first in the group “So- a group of kids stole a multimillion dollar prototype from the BIGGEST company of the city and hijacked our system to cover itself?”

Jim raises an eyebrow “Dude, what are you talking about. We just hacked her”

“JIM??? MAYBE??? SHUT UP???” Chris desperately shakes him as she looks on the verge of tears.

“I mean, if you assholes wanted to get your sexbot back you didn’t need to send the fucking T800 on us. I busted her back there with some 50,000 volts, so yeah” He crossed his arms, rolling his eyes.

Vannie laughs at his comment “Huh? We didn’t send any android??”

Silence filled the other side of the conversation, David’s eyes looking over the door as he caught a glimpse at the robot on the floor. His face turned to worry.

“That’s… a military grade assasin unit. No matter how much voltage you hit her with… We got about 40 seconds.”

Chapter 8: “Termination”

The limp body of the machine laid face down in the carpeted floor of the computer room, shut down, without power flowing… but not without being functional. Rumbling came from within her, quietly and subtly, as the surge of electricity was placed upon its system, its complex design was meant to simply cut off the power until it normalized, it was designed and prepared to withstand far greater and violent surges of electricity than whatever was thrown at her by Jim and the rest.

With an internal click, the machine rebooted, her eyelids opening up as she pushed herself off the ground into a sitting position against the room’s tables. Her red glowing eyes blinked quickly as her system assessed the sudden forced shutdown.

-Boot up Successful. No flaws detected. -Power surge caused an automated hard-shutdown sequence. Scanning component’s status…

The robot, in her eternally unemotional stare would look down at herself and blink, her eyes looking at her burnt blouse and exposed bust, a dark burn mark atop her breasts highlighted in her HUD not before scanning her own inner components

-Powercell core status: Nominal -Control AI module (CAI) status: Nominal -CPU status: Nominal. Warning: Burnt synthskin detected. Paizuri functionality hindered. Human infiltration capabilities hindered.

Assessing her frame’s current situation her system found no flaws for her to not continue her mission. Although, as she processed her capability of paizuri being hindered due to the burnt synthskin, she seemed to make a light frown…

She quickly stood up without problems, her tall figure imposing more with her careless expression as her turtleneck sweater now featured a burnt hole in her clavicle area, with spots of burnt off skin that gave way to dark colored shiny metal underneath. The commotion which was started by Yenny and Ena about her run in with Mary caused plenty of people to go around inside, looking to photograph her. Her eyes darted to the corridor, catching a glimpse of yellow hair passing the door of the entrance in her HUD, immediately relating it back to her designated target. Her expression turned wide eyed, speeding up as she ran behind it.

In her way stood some other students, trying to take a look at her from up close. She swiftly avoided them, or simply pushed them out of the way. By the time she crosses the door, the group, including Mary, were already inside of David’s car. Louie and her cross views, as with some chatter they start the car and begin to speed up towards the outside. The machine moves towards them, the single objective of getting her hands on Mary to retrieve her to god knows where being the only thing behind her soulless glowing red eyes.

Her speed was on match with the car’s, but she wasn’t designed to outspeed it… by the time they crossed the gates into the street she was already too far away. Understanding the futility of following it on foot, she slows down, not before scanning the car’s plate and model… Her system was fast enough to recognize it as a BabeTec employee issued car. The plate was ‘WDYC-091’, she blinked twice, no matches in her database… It was incomplete. She turns sharply back towards the school, efficiently walking as she intentionally directs herself to the crowd of people.

“YOOOO!!! THIS IS CRAZY GUYS, WE HAVE AN ACTUAL ROBOT IN CAMPUS.” A student yells at the camera of his phone as he stands giving the machine his back “ONLY IN NEW DUBAI DUDEEEE, WORLD STAR”

The robot looks over at him, stopping as she catches a glimpse of his phone.

-Internet based long range communication device located. -Security level: LOW

“Please remain calm” She says in a stern yet soothing tone, snatching the phone out of the guy’s hands as she holds it in her hand, staring at it for a few seconds. The phone screen went dark, buzzing and screeching followed as a series of flashing colors and pixelated blocks filled the screen. She was hacking into it, reformatting the device for it to function solely as a sort of long range antenna.

“Wh-what the fuck is wrong with my phone??” The student stares in disbelief

As she finally succeeds in retooling the phone, and utilizing the car’s plate, she looks for databases relating to the car model… Her HUD displayed a 3D map of the city and its pathways as it pinpointed the location of the service car, relating it back to a public record and report of BabeTec employee vehicles, currently on its way to an unknown location.

“Thank you for your device.” She says, looking at the student, and proceeding to walk back out towards the exit of the school, swaying her hips as she calculated her next move depending on where they would stop.

“...Why am I turned on by this”

-

“DRIVEEEEEEE DRIVE FUCK, DRIVE!!!!”

Louie yells as he sees the assassin android cross eyesights with them. David turned to see behind the glass, cursing under his breath as he quickly stepped on the gas. Jim, Chris, Louie and Mary were all sitting together in the backseat, pressed together as the car was only meant for 5 people out of the 6 currently inside… Jim held onto the door’s ceiling handle as he groaned at Louie.

“Louie you got to calm the fuck down.” He snarled with annoyance, the high pitched yells hurting his ears.

Between him and Louie sat Chris holding her head and looking down at the car’s floor doomly as she held herself together by a threat

“We’re gonna die…” she mutters with broken voice, madly and nervously chocking up as her leg jumps up and down.

Vannie turns from the passenger's seat and worryingly catches her comment “No no no! We’re going to be fine! The android is not as fast as the car, right David?” She turned to see his partner.

His eyes were on the road, holding onto the steering wheel with a powerful grip as his eyes were wide open “Is she still following us.”

Mary and Louie would look behind together, catching how her figure stops running and simply lets them go.

“No… we’re good for now” Louie answers, sitting back down and letting Mary adjust herself by sitting in his lap, giving more space in the backseats. His attention shifts to Chris, who remains looking down with her hands on her face and hair. He breathed out, his heart still racing due to the sheer adrenaline of the recent events… yet he couldn't bring himself to even lay his hand on her shoulder for support.

He felt how the moment turned slow, in his mind, the feeling that they had gotten in way too deep sent shivers down his spine. He pressed his eyes closed.

“...Louie, are you okay?” Mary leans closer. He was back to reality, shifting his attention to her “Your blood pressure is like, super abnormal”

“I’ll be fine okay- I’m sorry, I just…”

“You got any water there, bot?” Jim talks over him, directed to Vannie. He had taken a closer look at Chris, who seemed to have only gotten worse.

Rumbling from the front of the car could be heard as Vannie took it to priority. Opening the glove compartment proved to bring no results, same with the sides of the seat and cup holders… until David takes notice and without taking his eyes off the road opens a compartment between the front seats and hands Jim a bottle with the company logo.

With a frown, he takes it and quickly opens it, straightening Chris up so that she can drink it properly.

“Come on Chrissy, keep yourself together.”

She tilts the bottle and takes a big gulp, breathing out, breathing slower “Thank you-” she says between gasps.

David slams the steering wheel with force, the sound of the impact echoing in the closed space “What the hell were you three thinking?! Hijacking a multimillion dollar prototype model… For what?! So you three perverts could FUCK it?! Is that it??”

“...David.” Vannie attempts to intercede, calling him out in a soft tone “The protocol is to be friendly. They’re terrified!”

Chris perks up, a raised and upset eyebrow “Maybe we wouldn’t be in this issue if LOUIE didn’t take good care of Mary!”

“Now you’re blaming me?!” Louie buds heads with her “How was I supposed to know she would just waltz out of the room as soon as I fell asleep?!”

“I don’t know Lou! Maybe! Perhaps just maybe, your job was to make sure something like that was Impossible!”

“Argh! now you two shut it!” Jim cuts in, rolling his eyes with a disappointed and stern look. “Mary said it wasn’t out of her own volition, Louie probably wouldn’t have been able to do anything against it anyway. But YOU Lou, you should be more responsible.”

“I am responsible.”

“Well, you’re doing a terrible job at showing it.”

“...” He turns his face away, not finding the strength to be upset at him

Jim, turns his attention to David now, an indifferent look on his face “And for your information, gramps, we hacked her because we needed an android for our thesis, because your fucking company can’t help itself to make super expensive sex-sleeves.”

Vannie turns sharply at him “Language! We’re your friends here!” She tries to dialogue with him, turning to David “...Right?”

He was far too concentrated on the road, moving across the empty streets towards the outskirts of the city, not having a plan at all of what to do. His frown fell, tiredly.

“We can’t just destroy an assassin droid… Its model is too sturdy. I’ll try to lose it on the way, it’ll me and Vannie enough time to take Mary back to R&D”

As his words exit his mouth Mary’s attention comes to David “What…? But like- I’m not defective, I’m in the middle of my mission still” she attempts to justify herself “I’m simply completing my orders as programmed”

“Yeah… well, you’ve been compromised it seems. Your programming was altered, stolen you could say!” Vannie fails to appease the confused android in a way that matters, instead making the rest of the group look guiltier of whatever they did to Mary “But do not worry! We’re here to return you to your makers”

“...I want to like… hm, complete my objectives”

“You can't just take her back to R&D, are you actually stupid?” Jim intercedes once more with a mocking tone “If it was able to get inside a school I doubt it’ll struggle to get inside whatever lab you’ll be taking her to”

With a sigh and a groan David raises his voice “Oh yeah?! And what do you suggest you know-it-all brat? I already have enough to deal with to have to also deal with your entitled anti-authority attitude”

Louie tries to calm the situation down “Alright! Alright! Let’s take it easy, if it was made it can be unmade. We don’t have to blow it up, Chris said once that androids cannot work without their AI chip- if we find a way to take it out we’ll be essentially shutting her off.”

“And how are you planning on doing that? Exactly” David responds, more annoyed than upset.

“We’ll- figure it out when we set base!”

Chris scoffs, mocking laughter at his comment “Figure it out? Same way you were figuring out how to do an essay without reading the book? the same way you wanted to figure out how my mechanical pencil worked by irreversibly breaking it beyond belief? Or how you were figuring out where Mary was?”

“What is up with you with me today?! I screwed up, I know, I’m trying to owe up to it!”

She holds her head, shaking her head at nothing “I’m tired Louie- Everytime I try to do something good for you, you screw it up. And then you owe up to it just to screw it up again, not learning anything… I gave you Mary so you could have exactly what you wanted, exactly who you wanted. Wasn’t that why we broke off? You wanted a robot? Then how come you treat her like this and let her go wherever?”

Louie stayed quiet, frowning. He turned for a second to glance at Mary, her usual smile not as grand as he was used to… or at least he felt like it was that way. His cheeks were red, he just didn’t want to hear this coming from her, or anyone for that matter. He tried looking for support from Jim, yet he seemed as upset as her, lost looking forwards.

“...I don’t know” he finally let out in a gloomy tone.

She crosses her arms, pushing her back against the seat. She could see the eyes of Vannie opened like plates as she peaked into their conversation from the rearview, quickly looking away as it clashed against her view, easing the mood for at least a second. As she looked out the window she was able to tell they were already out of the city, some of the greenery beginning to dissipate as they began to enter the outskirts’ industry area. Long abandoned factories and rundown warehouses going as far as the eye could see.

“What I do know is…” Louie speaks up again, a melancholic smile on his face as he calls upon Chris’ and Jim’s attention “what was made can be unmade. An assembly, disassembled. We just gotta make a good plan and I just so happen to have two very good friends knowledgeable in assemblies and planning.”

Jim smiles, rolling his eyes “You’re corny as hell”

Although not entirely convinced, Chris nods, remaining quiet. Her eyes gravitate towards Mary, unmoving she feels worry for her- beyond her usefulness to her thesis, she wondered if she was okay, if she was able to be otherwise.

On the front seats, Vannie taps on David’s shoulder, talking on a lower tone for the rest to not hear

“Are we… going to go along with this?”

He raised his shoulders “Doesn't seem like we have a choice. Lucky for them, I have something for this situation”

-

Time passed, now in the middle of nowhere. The radiant orange glow of the sunset going down behind the view of the city’s skyline was the view in front of the abandoned warehouse they managed to park next to. Jim stood near the small cliff, admiring the view to himself as the rest of the group gathered near the car. The back compartment opened, David unloaded a couple of things not even Vanny was aware of.

A small dark box, in the shape of a suitcase. He sighed, annoyed in his tired face. He slammed the compartment and placed the suitcase on top, opening it with both hands in one swift move

“Alright, since we’re left with no choice I guess I'm finally giving usage to this thing.”

Skeptical and with arms crossed Chris queries “Which is?”

He digs his hands inside the suitcase and takes out a funky-looking revolver of sorts. Geometrical and dipped in a futuristic taint of white, it seemed to have the revolving part behind the trigger, looking heavy to handle.

“Programmable bullets. Standard issue. Every bullet comes out of my salary…”

Vannie claps excitedly “An anti-android weapon! So smart of you David!”

He shook his head, adjusting his throat “Thank you, but no. If I was dealing with an android of the likes of you two…” He said, pointing back and forth between Mary and Vannie “Then it’d be a one shot. But this is a military android, it’d probably just stun her for some seconds. Enough for us to rip her chip out, as your friend said”

Louie nodded, attentively listening.

“We have 3 shots. And each bullet has to be programmed with a shutdown command.”

Jim turned at the words of this “Oh don’t worry, Chris and Louie know how to make those.”

Annoyed, David rolled his eyes “And you? are you just gonna sit there and do nothing while your friends do all the work?”

“Calm down dude, I’m an engineer. You said it’ll stun her, i’ll buy you time” He points to the abandoned warehouse “More than enough tools inside. You just do your part and I'll do mine”

“Fine whatever-” He disregards him, going back to the group “Now, I don’t want any of you two getting in the line of sight. I and I alone will be pulling the trigger” He specifies with excruciating punctuation, the idea of having to deal with one android was one he learned to work with, but two… and 3 youngsters was too much for him to bare.

Mary smiles at him, nodding her head “Understood. I will not get in the line of sight”

He sighs “You really don’t have to repeat orders given to you”

She nods again “Understood, I will not-”

“STOP-”

Vannie laughs, nudging at Mary “You’ll get used to it, he’s a nice human most of the time”

He placed the pistol back in the little suitcase and closed it, alongside the three bullets, coming over to Chris and handing it to her. She took it without much care, it was rather a lucky strike that she brought her laptop from before.

“I can’t believe I’m trusting the hacker of a multimillion dollar unit another hundred or so thousand dollar weapon- but these are desperate times”

Chris shook her head, looking over at Mary and Vannie talking away from her and David “You don’t get it don’t you?”

Her answer intrigued him, raising an eyebrow

“Their AI’s, even if ruled under some rules, allow them to develop so much. They’ll become their own person if given the time and space. They can learn” She faces him, a stern look “All you gotta do is show them where you want them to go. Who knows, you could learn a lot from them”

She walks away, leaving him confused. Vannie was a machine, he understood that much, but he never considered seeing her in any other way… Thinking further about it, he began to notice how she began copying him, the way he expressed himself, speech, even her attempts at completing his sentences. He swallowed, scratching his beard as he looked at the two androids from afar.

Chris passed by Louie “I’ll do the first lines of code. Check them with me after a bit, you know how it is” She said, pointing at him with a serious tone, and with that, going inside the warehouse.

Louie didn’t respond, only nodding with his eyes as he saw her go away. Checking up on Jim for some sort of guidance he sits next to him.

“So… Crazy day today huh?” He tries breaking the ice, an uncomfortable laugh coming out of him.

“Yeah.” He said bluntly “I guess that’s a way to call it.”

He didn't seem to want to continue the conversation. He’d usually scold him for being an idiot towards Chris and now probably Mary, yet he just kept his eyes on the horizon, all the while he sat on his but twirling his fingers in place.

Jim finally speaks up “Do you know-”

“That I screwed it up? Yes! God yes! I know it and it sucks. I didn’t know she purposefully put Mary with me out of her own good?? How was I supposed to know that? And I got all of us into this situation by letting Mary into the server- Now whatever company is looking for her is going to take away our only chance at doing this Thesis.” He breathed heavily, Jim looked at him… confused. “And it is all my fault Jim!”

He scoffs, shaking his head “What I was going to ask was if you knew what model the assassin droid was. I know you know this sorta stuff. The hardware might be sturdier in some places, I gotta take advantage of that”

“Wh- what?”

He gestures with his hands “What? You spilled that with me when it should’ve been with Chris, dude.” He begins to laugh, a tauntful, formal laugh that Louie hated hearing.

“...Whatever, I’ll tell her again…” He disregarded the awkward moment and moved on to his question “Her height and design tell me- maybe a XB1? XB2? Not much difference.” He points to his chest “Lot’s of armor on the front, not much on the back, kinda designed to waltz into the battlefield… at least that’s what it says on the forums”

For once in his lifetime Jim actually asked him something about his focus on android forums, which would

“Good, as expected then.” He responded, he brought a hand to his chin, intentionally making himself look smarter “Hmmm… Tight armor means bad ventilation… I got it.”

He stood up and simply went inside the warehouse, leaving Louie in place

“Wha- what the hell? That’s it??”

He was left alone, Jim not even bothering to turn back to face him. Louie shook his head, it seemed he truly shouldn’t avoid facing her much longer. He noticed in the distance Mary and Vannie bonding, not being able to discern their words from where he stood. He thought of bringing her with him, but he quickly shook the idea off as he marched inside, closed fists in frustration.

The place was old, in the early days of the city… before the change to cheaper electricity. You were able to tell by the large pipes from which furnaces would heat up the chemical concoction used to create the earlier models’ outerskin, while of course, expelling humes to the atmosphere. Inside, as he peeked side to side looking for Chris, he was quick to already spot Jim scavenging through dead frames of long passed their prime androids, not even featuring their outer skin.

He was used to the models being made with a more dark and slicker endoskeleton, these ones were grey instead… cheaper and of course less strong. Jim collected some parts, abandoned others, all the machinations of his mind blooming as he seemed to be smiling to himself unsupervised. Louie couldn’t help but feel good for his friend, even if the circumstances were dire.

At his left, he saw a stairway leaning to what seemed to have been once the supervisor area, overlooking the assemblies and furnaces from above in a neatly organized office, he was able to discern the shine of Chris’ computer from the ground, she was there… He breathed in and moved up to meet her.

As he raised up the stairs he could hear her voice, tired.

“...I’m sorry, I’m not going to be home today. Mom and dad are home today right?” 

She took a pause, Louie, walked slowly and actively trying to avoid making noise

“Again…? But it’s Tuesday-” She stops herself, holding her nose bridge “Tommy. I’m sorry, okay? It’s an important thing, just take care of yourself one night and I'll get you something from the manga shop you like…. Yes, you can go in my room”

As he enters through the door, he slowly pushes it open, peeking inside as she was sitting behind a desk, laying her face against her arm as she held her cellphone close to her ear. She peeks up, meeting eyes with Louie, her more relaxed expression going back to a frown.

“...I’ll call you later, okay?” She hung up.

Louie smiles nervously “You doing alright Crissy?” He asked, pathetically holding his hands together “I’m sorry for ruining this- I screwed all of this so bad- and I should’ve thanked you for letting me keep Mary on purpose! It was… a very nice gesture”

She sat back against the old chair’s back, squinting at his words, before shaking her head and going back to coding, her laptop now connected to one of the three bullets

“...Back in the day factories like these were all around the city, spewing fumes and contaminating the air.” She explained, unprovoked, “When my parents moved in with me, they warned us it was a bad idea to bring such a young sicklish boy into a climate like this, we were farmers after all… rich, yeah, but farmers after all.”

Louie tilted his head, looking around to sit on the opposite side of the table, keeping quiet.

“Tommy got sick. Pulmonary Fibrosis. the chemicals and microplastics in the air permanently tore through his lungs… He was the only one to get this bad, medicine was good enough to create medicines against it happening… but not to those that it already happened to” Her eyes raised up from the screen. She had stopped typing “He never left the house after that. The air was too toxic for that. I had to be there taking care of him twenty-four-seven and all I ever got were comments comparing me to a robot. Disregarding me, ignoring me”

“I’m- Sorry, Chris” Louie said, trying to empathize. She just continued.

“This is New Dubai! I thought, the city of the future, the epicenter of AI development. But not a single time did they ever use AI for anything useful. It was fun, it was amazing tech after all… So I decided it was going to be me who did it” She rested, looking at the ceiling longingly. Her eyes water, her voice breaks and she covers her face once more “That’s why this damn thesis is so important! If I can show what AI can do I’m sure I’ll get a good job with the resources to help out those that need it!”

“And you feel it’s my fault that it won’t happen…” Louie saw sorrowly

“Well yeah!” She blurs out “But- no, at the same time” she attempts to think of the right words, looking around his mind. “I feel like you don't know the importance of this”

“Maybe I don’t” He admits, beating himself down “But I want to support you on this, if you let me… When we were together- you always talked about how you loved AI and I remember-”

“Talking about those dumb AI movies?” she completes his words, smiling “Hah Hah… yeah”

He chuckles, shared by her. The memories they shared of themselves dating in their youth flooding back in that specific moment, a testament to their friendship and mutual passion. It’s eventual end seemingly hitting them both at the same time as their mutual smiles dissipate. She sniffs her nose, drying the tears on her cheeks.

“You better apologize to Mary, alright?”

He quietly nods, knowing what she meant- even feeling the need to apologize for things Chris probably didn’t even know about.

He tries to change the subject “How is the code going?”

“Good, just trying to cap out any loophole the AI might try to abuse in the code”

He stands up and goes around the table, looking at the screen as she explained.

He puts a hand to his chin “Ah, interesting… You got all possible servers tackled, assuming we don’t need to bother with firewalls. What about the two dots here?” He says pointing at the screen

“Well, without it it’d loop back and cancel itself??” She responds, looking up at him, seeing that smarter side of Louie that she once cherished, her annoyed tone ended by an exhale of air from her nose and a grin.

BANG

The door of the little room slams open, Chris and Louie jump off the scare as they notice it was simply Jim, a box of glass bottles in his arms and a smile on his face so unusual he seemed possessed. He quickly carried the box of bottles into the table with a metallic clunk as he proudly stood with his knuckles on his hip

“I found these beers in the old storage room, this is pre-prohibition stuff!!!” He gives the box a slap “Come on, they’re even in great mint condition!”

“I have never seen you more excited for something before in my life” Chris says giving him a weird look

“Do you want to get drunk or not?”

From outside the small room the echo of David’s voice can he heard “Drunk?!”

The group peeks out of the elevated room, seeing David beside the door with his hands on his shoulders, giving them a stern look. Behind him Mary and Vannie would follow, Mary would make her way to meet with the trio while Vannie would stand with her hands at each side, glancing over David’s posture before closely matching his pose and look.

“We don’t have time for something as irresponsible as that. The assassin android might pop out of the blue any moment now” David complains, sighing at the end “Do you guys even know what type of problem you are in right now?”

The android would rise up the stairway, being helped by Louie, which she simply gave him a nod and a smile before moving past him… leaving him cold.

“Here we go again with this dude” Jim says under his breath, he peeks through “You’re not our dad! Or a teacher! Hell! We don’t really like BabeTec that much to begin with!”

He quickly turns to Mary “No offense.”

“Like, none taken!” She smiles.

Louie thinks to himself, saying out loud “...I like babetec-”

David rolls his eyes “We need to finish setting up the bullets. No distractions”

Jim scoffs “You’re one to talk! Thought BabeTec were masters at making distractions! Look at their androids!”

He simply allowed Jim to continue berating him, his stand shifting in place due to annoyance. He eventually turns to Vannie, curling his lip as he says in a lower voice “I am fine dealing with androids, but babysitting 20 year olds is beyond my area of expertise.”

Vannie smiles at him, patting him on the back “No worries David, i’ll take care of it”

Without taking an order or his response, Vannie would step up from David as he intensely watched, the words of Chris resounding in his head. She adjusted her Throat to catch their attention, as otherwise she had no need to, and with a refined tone and friendly smile attempted again.

“Well! I don’t want to boss you around! How about we leave those drinks by night time, hm? According to my calculations, regardless of form of transportation we have until morning for the assassin android to find us, meaning! We could set up everything and do a nice get-together activity with a fireplace outside!” She looks over to David “Even David will talk! And participate!”

He shook his head, crossing his arms

“How does that sound?” She closes the deal.

The group comes to face one another, whispering among each other. Louie opens up “How old does she think we are? She’s treating us like toddlers”

“Lou, we just talked about responsibility.” Chris intervenes “Maybe it’s more of a- Solution?”

“I just don’t wanna listen to them, call me petty if you want” Jim shook his head

Chris throws daggers at him with a look “Just do what she says.”

He rolls his eyes, going back to the pair as he defeatedly says “Fine. We’ll do your little charade.”

The group had organized the traps and tools they’d be using against the android, they were unsure if Vannie’s calculations were precise, knowing the complete unexpectedness of a machine like that… haste was to be expected in their attempts to execute their plan. Both Chris and Louie continued to work on the code for the bullets, although they were confused as to how they functioned primarily, the simple installation of the lines of code was more than enough for the three bullets… but through the coding process Louie began to have his doubts.

The assassin droid had proven to be resilient, to both physical and electrical damage… it was easy to expect it to resist weapons of this type… He decided for the time being to trust the plan David had laid down and do as he was told, but the idea didn’t stop floating in his head.

“Alright.” Jim said, getting back up from kneeling as he cleaned his hands off dust and residue “It's done… that thing is going to have a bad time for sure”

David was busy inspecting the triggers of the traps, among them, a thin line of string made out of copper cables found inside the factory, Jim crossed his arms, seeing him doubt his work.

“Any flavourful comments, babetec man?” He mocked.

He shook his head, going up to him and tapping his shoulder “Impressive work. For using scraps I mean” and with that, went deeper into the factory at the old employee longue, leaving Jim feeling a weird and nice feeling. He side glanced the string trigger and let out a simple “Huh.” of approval to himself.

Vannie had organized some of the chairs and broken down tables into a small circle, with enough space for the six of them. She sat on her knees without much difficulty, being joined by Mary, sitting next to Chris and Louie as they inspected the code… Mary was sitting in silence, her eyes lost somewhere else before shifting their focus to David as he arrived.

“Good! you came!” Vannie said with a smile.

He frowned “Of course I came, what- What did you think I was going to do?”

She laughed “Oh David you’re such a grouch sometimes, right?” She said pointing with her thumb while she tried to relate to the rest of them.

Behind David, Jim slid past him and pivoted to Chris and Louie, whose faces lit up as they saw him come in “There you are, had trouble with the traps?”

“Nah, I used to make these around my neighbourhood with less” He swallowed, sitting on a dirty office chair without a back, not before scraping it off of dirt before placing his butt on it “You two did your nerd thing?”

Chris scoffed “Programming is a nerd thing but engineering isn’t?”

Jim took a few seconds to respond, staring her down with his usual uninterested look “You know what, I’m smart enough to be silent and apologize”

As the chatter filled the room, Louie couldn’t help but draw attention to Mary. Her glowing golden hair and perfect skin generating a sort of light of its own to his eyes, sound seemed to disappear around him as he saw her in between Chris and her laptop… He felt guilty for one, and another feeling of regret came over him as he remembered that she was technically his girlfriend, or at least, that’s what he had ordered her to be.

“Hey Mar-”

The clinging of bottles startled him and the rest again, seeing it was David bringing the dusty cradle of beers in the middle of the circle. Vannie began clapping and quickly encouraged the rest to do the same.

“Alright, you guys earned it. I’m not a big fan of alcohol, but as long as you don’t go fully overboard then we’ll be fine” He said, more laid back than he has ever been before, he sat down, not before taking a bottle and opening it up with a single twist of his wrist. He looked at Vannie “So, what’s the activity, partner?”

Vannie blinked rapidly, hearing the words partner coming from him “Uhm- I- Well! Uhm…” she stumbled over her words, attempting to look as intentional as she could “Huh! Where is this partner name calling coming from, hmmm?”

He lowered his eyebrows “Vannie, you are my work partner, it’s not that big of a deal”

“Understood!” She said returning to the group, taking her hands together “Analysis of this current situation brings up the result of ‘coworker after time hours’ events! And luckily for you! I am well programmed for a situation such as this one.”

As she spoke Jim closed in on Louie’s ear and jokingly said “she surely is a social Swiss army knife, huh?”

“We’ll be playing truth or dare!” She said with a smile “Who wants to sta-”

After gulping a bit of his beer David raised his hand and spoke over Vannie “I’ll start!” He leaned forward and pointed at the group “Why did you decide to hijack the Deluxe Model?”

Jim rolled his eyes, leaning forwards to grab a glass. “That’s not how the game works, dude.” He opts to hit the top of the can with the edge of the table to pop it open.

“Truth. Same question”

Chris loses no time, closing the laptop as she bluntly responds “We are doing a thesis about the usage of AI and androids and their adapting utility in different fields, or a thesis on androids for short… we don’t have an android, we needed one, she was there.”

He is taken aback “So… you are like- using her as a test subject, then?”

“No dude” she shook her head “We are just observing her through a specific lens. The more she learns the more we can use her progress to predict how AI adapts to specific situations… Maybe we’d be able to prove methodologies for AI’s in different fields”

He nods, looking at Mary, who seemed happy to hear her friend’s words. He layed back and drank again “Alright… who’s next?”

Jim raised his hand, looking over at Louie “Truth or Dare bucko?”

“Uhh… Dare?” He said with a nervous smile

He glanced over the box and pointed at it “Gulp down a bottle in one go” He said with a devilish smile

David chuckled “Thought we said we’d go easy? It's not like we’re in a particularly safe situation”

Chris nodded along while laughing, no matter where Louie looked he simply felt pressured to follow through. He raised his shoulders and leaned forward to grab a bottle. He attempted to twist the cap open… but lacked the force to do so, showing his inexperience and weakness.

“Oh god!” Says Vannie with worry in her eyes, yet still smiling.

Not being able to bare watching him struggle anymore, Jim snatches the beer off his hands and opens it with the side of the table, popping the bottle’s cap right off as it flew up in the air and right back down onto the floor

“It was going to last forever.”

He hands Louie the bottle back, taking it shily onto both of his hands and looking at the cold smoke coming out of the bottle’s neck dauntingly. The room set their eyes on him, Jim at the edge of his seat expectantly as he simply sighed and swallowed saliva. Backing out now would simply make him look

“Here goes nothing- I guess!”

And with that he raised the bottle onto his mouth and began gulping with each wave of beer that flowed down the bottle onto his lips, barely keeping up. A combination of the beer’s temperature and the alcohol made him close his eyes in resistance. David worryingly stared down at his throat, going up and down as he gulped down. “How the hell is he even doing that, it's not like he’s drunk before”

Mary perked in, staring him down as she responded “He totally hasn’t” she was quick to scan him up and down, similarly to how she did before back in his dorm room, detecting how he was slowly but surely intoxicating himself with alcohol, she stood up and took the bottle away from him, followed up by him coughing and burping while hitting his chest with his fist.

“Ah- Come on Mary! I can’t give Jim the benefit of teasing me over this later!”

Jim swallowed a sip “I actually didn’t expect you to even last 3 seconds doing that” He rested his back against the nearby table “You okay?”

“No- are you kidding?” He was quick to answer “I’m all- dizzy and *gulp* burpy…” He covered his mouth, struggling to stand, Mary was quick enough to catch him before he could bump into his own chair

David stood from his seat and recoiled at his state “Oookay bud, you took too much for your own good. Too much too quick, you got me? Hey bo- uh, Mary, how about you go take Louie for a walk- get him some fresh air…” He takes a glance at Vannie, giving her enough of a clue to keep a distant eye on them, she nods back with a smirk, feeling useful. The two of them exit, Mary holding him but by the shoulder, shortly after they walk out the factory’s gates does Vannie follow them. There’s silence between the rest of the people, Chris looking down at the ground deep in thought and Jim smirking to himself as he sips his beer, catching what David did a mere second ago.

“Eh, smart. Sending the intern android on the lookout in case the assassin comes.”

He shook his head “Nah, didn’t do it for that, I just dont want them fucking”

The night had fully settled in, although the contamination left over of the area made it hard to notice, the glimmer of the stars shone through the thick layer of smog in the sky. Louie walked along the walls of the building, taking support as he attempted not to fall due to his own dizziness, all the while, Mary followed behind him, curiously tilting her head at seeing him like this.

“Boyfriend, have you tried maybe sitting down for a second?” She suggested, sounding more helpful and robotic than he has ever heard her before. Nevertheless he took her advice, pressing his back against the wall and sliding down to sit on the ground floor with a relaxed exhale. He looked over at her with a smile.

“Thanks Mar-mar…” He said, a hand holding his hurting head, his voice had already begun to get runny and distorted. He invited her to sit next to him with a hand gesture, to which she quickly obeyed, sitting next to him in one smooth and quick bent. She sat on her knees and rested her hands on her thighs, her shirt perfectly covering all angles of her sides and butt as it neatly folded around her legs, a graceful sit. She stared forwards with a null expression, looking out into the vestige of old abandoned factories, as everything around them fell to be too quiet… too much.

Louie turned to her, worried “You’ve been awfully quiet… I know you’re… you know, but… are you okay? and all?” he asked, fearing for the response. The pendulum of guilt had swung once more against the walls of his body, making him shake between every sentence.

She blinked twice, he had caught that gesture from before, it meant a sort of exit of processing back to interaction, perhaps she was in deep thought about something… She turned to him and as if nothing had happened returned to a goofier and friendly smile “Oh! like, I didn’t notice! I apologize for that, boyfriend~” She giggled, leaning closer to him, allowing him to see a glimpse of her eye’s inner camera, as she whispered into his ear. “You know~ We are all alone here and… I have the perfect protocol for outdoor sex~” She finished with a wink.

He felt fluttered, yet adjusted his throat “Hey, Mary… I don’t think its the best moment for th-”

He was cut off by the machine pressing herself against his lips, kissing him passionately, the raw emotion and passion of her closed eyes taking him for a ride unprepared. Eyes wide and still dizzy he was pushed back, again against the floor and under her. Who broke the kiss and stared down at him with a sly and seductive smile, pinning him down with her arm near his face. “Hahah~ You’re so totally cute when you get like this! It’s one of the things I love about you…” she flicked her hair so that it fell all together onto his chest...Don’t you love having me as your perfect little sexdoll?”

She knew all of his tick boxes, it took him some seconds to even generate proper words to respond with, he attempted to wiggle his way out of her grip “Mary- wait, I don’t…”

The machine once again ignored his pleas, her hands moving downwards onto his crotch ever so sensually and making sure to make him feel every touch. Louie shook his head, feeling lightheaded and weak. He needed to get a word in with her, he just didn’t know what was going on with her all of the sudden

“Mary- Stop” he gritten with his teeth, holding her hand. She looked back at him, there was an expression of what seemed to be disappointment or desperation, just to go back down and attempt to touch him down there again. He groaned and pushed her hand out of the way “I don’t want to have sex with you! Okay??”

She finally stopped, raised her hands in surrender. Her smile disappeared, giving him space “I apologize” she muttered in a low tone “There seems to have been an error within my AI module. The program was activated without vocal or analysis based consent-” Even as she attempted to explain herself she still sounded out of herself, shaking her head and looking away from him. Louie sat back up again with some effort, holding his head. He felt that rush of anger and frustration with her that he never thought he could, but as he met her gaze and felt that sense of shame in her perfect face it began to dissipate. Mary shook her head “I was designed for this- I’m a sexbot afterall, the perfect partner. I don’t… really have anything else to offer but my body.” She lamented, her voice falling quieter.

That last part hit Louie like a bucket of cold water, a shiver going down his spine as his voice shook “D-don’t say that… You’ve… barely had any chance at being yourself with us. I’m sure you have a lot to offer as a person”

She tilted her head “But I'm not a person. I’m a prototype for a Deluxe unit, programmed to seduce and copulate with a series of targets. My newest objective is to be your girlfriend, not myself”

He brought his hands to his face and shook his head slowly, the alcohol taking a toll in the form of headaches again “That’s the problem- and it’s my fault! I was so caught up in the idea of having a robot as a girlfriend I forgot you had to be my FRIEND first…”

Her eyes widened and was taken aback “Girl… friend… Of course. I have to be friends with you to be your girlfriend! How do I do that?”

He lowered his arms, tiredly looking at her “You just… gotta be yourself, you know? We gotta like each other… otherwise it’s not going to work… Took me a while to understand.” Louie curled up on his legs and looked down at the ground.

Marie closed in and sat side by side with him, curiously inspecting him as she utters “From previous experiences with- Chris, correct?”

His head peeked up and he felt the need to scream as she brought it up, doing so internally albeit well hidden enough, he simply sighed and nodded “Y-yeah.” He dropped, pausing for him to swallow “Chris and I dated a while back- And I think I only asked her out because I wanted a girlfriend… I didn’t know how to value her affection, maybe it wasn’t what I wanted… and… I broke up with her.”

“I understand.” She responded “You broke up with her for something better…?”

“N-no! I mean- I think so?? but… that’s not the point i’m trying to-” He modulated with his hands, curling up his lips until he was able to organize his ideas “Look. I dated her for the wrong reasons. Selfish reasons… I don’t want that to happen again with you. As much as you’re cute and pretty- and helpful and amazing on the basis of your existence… I can’t love you if you don’t know who you are”

Mary blinked twice, parting her lips “So does that mean that… we are not dating? until I achieve an objective previously?”

“Let’s say it like that if you want…” he chuckled. “Maybe one day, I’d love to… I just don’t want to hurt you”

She went quiet for a bit, bringing her hand under her chin as she sat and looked away from him. Louie curiously looked at her, beginning to feel a little bit better. Her skin once again seemed to glow with a light of its own. Before he was able to say a word she lowered her hand and blinked twice again.

“Who am I then?”

Chapter 9 “Knock ‘em, Sock ‘em!”

Out of sight, leaning over the corner and against the wall of the factory outer wall, Vannie looked over with a keen eye and an open ear at the just occurring ordeal between Mary and Louie on the side of the building. Just to keep them in check, after all, David ordered it as such. She was determined to do as she was told, while of course, turning now and then to make sure the primary threat at hand hadn’t found them just yet…

“Watching, watching, watching…” she muttered to herself, watching Louie and Mary from a distance- the whole wide scene until now. Although it was none of her business, she made a mental note about Mary, curious about how an android of her type would even be curious about it’s own role, it’s own identity. According to the files of the model, the identity it housed was nothing more than a facade to blend in inside the student body, Mary wasn’t supposed to be nobody, just to be attractive in a specific way depending on the target- now she was tasked to find out an unmoving personality? Maybe if she herself tried to do such a thing, David would be more open to her as her partner.

She held herself closer to the wall, before suddenly detecting someone behind her, assuming the worst, she quickly turned to just find Chris standing behind her with a bottle of the beers they still had in hand, half empty, lazily held with 3 fingers by the head of the bottle. Chris looked drowsy, eyes almost closed as she frowned in Vannie’s direction, staring at her straight in the eyes.

“Ah! Chris. You startled me! I thought it was… you know! the assassin droid?”

“Youuuu’re snoooooping!” Chris responded, pointing accusatively with her index… her voice was blabbed, slow- drunk. Even in her state she understood Vannie was spying on her friends, and in her alcohol induced mind, that was unacceptable.

Vannie stood there, smiling softly and patiently, bringing her hands together “Uh, yes! That's a very observant comment! I was ordered by David to keep an eye on Mary, I hope you don’t mind-”

Chris once more intercepted “You’re… also pretty-pretty…” she said, her face turning redder. The alcohol had done its due diligence in messing with her head.

Vannie’s eyes opened wide in sudden surprise, not really being prepared to know even how to react- well, of course for the offshoot file about possible INT units and their assigned employee developing feelings for the cute assistant robot was expected by BabeTec- but a random civilian?

“...Pretty! Hah! That’s- so nice of you to say Chris! I’m flattered by your comment…!” She said, even through her synthetic speech it was obvious her AI didn’t exactly know how to respond to this circumstances “I cannot help but notice you are quite drunk! How about I accompany you to take a nap-”

In that instance of Vannie uttering those words, Chris stepped forward with a might even felt and recognized by the machine, cornering Vannie against the wall as she slowly pressed her hand besides her, to which Vannie reacted by just shutting up whatever dialogue she had planned as a response, smiling in silence as Chris slowly raised her face at her, a tired, blushed face smirked her way.

“How about you nap with me~? Uhhh?” She said… flirting???

“N-nap with you? I don't think I can Chris! I’m tasked with making a guard in case the android appears before schedule…!”

Chris didn’t flinch, or back off, she had one thing in mind “Heh… always focused on the mission, right? So cute… I could just-”

With that, and her head slowly moving onto Vannie’s face, she began deeply kissing the android’s lips passionately. Vannie couldn’t do anything but stand there, looking wide eyed and lightly reciprocating the kiss as Chris had the moment of her night. Vannie didn’t find the experience appropriate… but she didn’t stop her either.

Their lips parting ways, Chris backed from Vannie and pressed her eyes in pain, her hand quickly holding her forehead

“Argh- my head is killing me… hehehe…” She was ditzy and drunk. As she made eye contact with her again she gave her a small wink and walked back inside the factory, slowly and wobbly. Vannie stood there, without a word exciting her mouth, eyes still wide and her mouth agape, as Chris left them. By the time Chris left, Vannie looked down at herself- and said to herself in a hush tone.

“I think… I liked that”

A voice from behind her asked “Uhm, like what?”

Vannie jolted, covering herself as she expected the assassin droid just for it to be Mary and Lou.

“NOTHING. I’M KEEPING WATCH ON YOU TWO, THAT’S ALL I’M DOING. BYE”

She nervously yelled, walking back into the factory. Lou and Mary looked at eachother and chuckled.

-

“BLEEEEEUUURGHH…”

Louie held Chris’s hair back, patting her back with a disgusted yet understanding look “It’s- okay chrissy, just let it all out, alright?”

“uuurghh… this feels terrible- yet oddly familiar” Chris said, kneeling from her vomit at the abandoned factory’s bathroom toilet. She turned to look at Loue, catching her breath “I drank too much, I’m sorry-”

Lou nodded “No worries about it. You did kiss David’s robot though…” He commented, having seen most of the whole action before they parted ways “And yeah! this is… very familiar, actually”

“How so?”

“High School graduation night, the after party at Yenny’s?” he tried to refresh her memory, it must’ve been years since then

“Wha…? you were there?? I don’t even remember that night…” Chris, held her head close to the bowl, yet pressed her frow cringing.

Lou continued “You also drank too much there. Jim made me go upstairs to Yenny's pink-hell of a bathroom and make sure your goth makeup didn’t get ruined…” He tried to reminisce about the night, a hand still tightly holding Chris’ hair, regardless if it was in a ponytail or not.

“Ohh god please tell me you didn’t see me during my goth phase…”

He laughed “Y-yeah! Well… you were avoiding me all of the last year of high school but… I knew it was still you. Jim kept me on the know”

She sighed “of course Jim would play informant.” She felt a gag coming, holding onto the seat as she let it out once more, coughing by the end.

“Esshh… you okay?” Louie peeked his head to her side, to which she responded with a nod and a thumbs up “And- I actually had to force Jim to tell me how you were doing… He was also pretty mad about how I ended things with you.”

She sighed, cleaning her mouth with a tissue “...I see” she turned again, closing the lid to avoid looking at the mess she just made “...You could’ve… you know, reached out. Yourself… for a while I expected you to do so, I waited for you to do so.”

He sighed, nodding along. There was a moment of uncomfortable silence between them, holding themselves awkwardly as they seemed to expect the other to say something else. Louie looked her way and caught his train of thought “-I managed to talk with Mary about maybe taking the whole relationship thing a tad slower! I think she took it well”

Chris couldn´t help but press her face in disbelief, yet allowing him the benefit of the doubt “that’s good to hear. At least seems like you want to change for the better”

He smiled “Yeah… the want is always there! for sure”

“She’s too good for you anyways” she shot back, holding his left shoulder for support and getting up from the floor, smirking as she left him on the bathroom, his eyes following her with annoyance

“She’s literally designed for guys like me, I don't know what you’re talking about” he said to himself.

-

The night fell deeper upon the group, one by one, each falling asleep defeated by either tiredness or the effects of the alcohol, Jim had taken his time to finally fall asleep, falling asleep with his back against the wall, a frown on his face and his arms crossed. Chris and Louie had simply thrown themselves onto the floor resting on their arms for a pillow. In the meanwhile, as instructed, Vannie would roam outside of the factory’s entry, while Mary stayed near her friends, sitting on her knees in silence as she would essentially watch them sleep. It was quiet, maybe too much… Vannie’s inner machinations were distracted, the kiss had kept her in a sort of continuous repetition of events, attempting to make sense of the whole event- smiling to herself as she scanned the area back and forth with half the necessary computational power that it was requested of her…

Within the first hours of the morning, while the sun was still all but down, around Vannie’s vigilant patrol, she suddenly stopped, paced around… focused on that memory once more, smiling, just to look down at herself and notice her intern uniform, distinctively labelling her as an android. Although there was no one around to notice her, or even hear her, specially a human, she couldn’t help but groan and mumble

“Irrational computations…”

As she raised her head again, her vision caught a glimpse of a silhouette passing by the back wall of the factory, detecting the possible threat at hand, she seized all other operations and rushed towards it with cautions, pacing her steps on the ashy ground to not be heard. She pressed herself against the wall’s corner before turning it, attempting to ambush what she could only assume was the Termination unit, readying herself… she then in one fast burst turned the corner to find… nothing. She looked around, checking behind the old boxes and metallic containers to once more find nothing. She sighed.

“Note to self! Optic maintenance rescheduling-”

But as soon as she finished those words, a tall figure rose from the shadows casted by the building and rushed down at Vannie, holding her by the neck as she aimed to slam the back of her head against the wall. In what was less than a nanosecond, Vannie quickly prioritized her own self preservation than to attack the threat, placing her hands behind her head, protecting her CPU and avoiding a sudden crash. The impact against the wall shook the structure, waking up Jim who jolted to David and the rest of the group.

“Alright dudes, rest time is up, the evil robot lady is here. Mary, please try and hide, alright?”

Mary did as told, looking for desirable places for her to fit herself in and hide, all the while Chris, Louie and David snapped from their slumber, David particularly looking concerned as he moved to grab the bullets next to where Chris was sleeping, her computer closed up alongside them. Chris helped Louie wake up, nervousness in her movements and expression, he struggled to even open his eyes.

“Ugh… are we sure it’s the android and not just… some animal or something?”

• CRAAAAACKK*

From the wall next to them, Vannie is pushed alongside the rubble, creating a hole through the wall that brought her to the other end of the building, with the termination unit meters away from them. The group piled together in surprise, Chris letting out a loud scream that finally brought enough adrenaline to Louie to wake up. David cursed under his breath, loading the three bullets into the gun as it beeped online.

“KEEP HER STEADY” David yelled to Vannie, closing in to aim the gun at the tall machine.

Vannie was pinned down to the wall, her feet barely touching the ground as she fiercely held onto the back of her head with one hand, the other trying to grab the arm of her aggressor, barely reaching her fingers on her.

“...I’m trying, David!” she said, annoyed, yet her voice remained as cheerful as ever.

David scoffed as he stepped forwards to better aim, his hand shook, he gritted his teeth as he noticed how the machine turned her head towards him in less than a millisecond, her reddish eyes focusing on his hands and the mouth of the pistol.

>Threat Analysis: PBP-MK23 Identified. >System Integrity at Risk. >Loading counter-offensive protocols.

She suddenly and abruptly turns her dominant hand, bringing with her the dangling body of Vannie to the mouth of the gun, pressed against her back. It was far too late for David to do anything, he had already pulled the trigger, sending the projectile straight into his partner with a loud thud and bang. Vannie recoiled by the impact, letting go of the back of her head and her body going limp… being dropped by the terminator onto the floor.

The group recoiled, David looking down at Vannie as the bullet dug into her spine, having injected the complete system shutdown directive. He cursed under his breath, but not even that was timely enough, as she’d kick the gun out of his hand

“Shit-” He grunted before the android, similarly as before, held him up by the neck. He resisted, attempting to loosen the grasp of her fingers with both hands as he kept his eyes on the soulless cameras staring back at him, and although using all his strength allowed him to help his neck at the slightest, it was still no match for the hydraulics and might of her mechanical hand.

The group scraped to figure out what to do. Jim took the first thing that he could muster, one of the bottles from the night prior, and without thinking smacked it on the tall woman's head, breaking and pouring alcohol all over her hair and down her body and bust… She remained unmoved nonetheless, keeping her attention on David as he was slowly losing consciousness. Jim, grunted under his breath and wrapped his arms around her neck from behind, using his own weight to bring her down, her eyes turned to look behind her and with one movement of her head, she headbutted him on the face, hitting his nose.

He was pushed back by the impact, a crack coming from his face as he instinctively holds his nose as he trembles into the floor. Louie, still in shock, sees his friend on the floor, wounding, and he scrapes to grab the gun, thrown at the other side of the room.

“Chris, let's go!” He calls out, rushing to get as far away from the unit as possible. She follows, holding tight to her laptop as they go deeper into the factory.

David falls unconscious, and she lets go, she's not allowed to kill humans in anyway shape or form, at least not for this mission. She scans the location, her hair a mess of wet, sticky alcohol and finds no signs of her objective, and so, passing by Jim on the floor without much care she goes on to hunt for Chris and Louie, assuming they know where the prototype was supposed to be.

-

The two run deeper into the factory, catching their breath every step of the way as they keep looking behind their shoulder.

“This is insane! We can't take that thing down?? It's military grade, Louie! Military!! Whatever that guy made us put in that pistol is 100% not going to be enough!” She panicked, adjusting her glasses

“I know- I know, okay? But we have to… somehow-” He looked down at the gun in his hand, opening it top-break style to one of the bullet casings shooting out as it's spent, recoiling in response “We still have two bullets left, I saw how he loaded it before… I know it's rushed, but I need you to reprogram them again”

She scoffs “Now?? In the middle of this? You know how stressful that sounds??”

“Yes, but only you can do it! We can't just let her take Mary!”

A voice peaked from some boxes near them “Like, if I am causing too many problems… I would be willing to ensure your safety in exchange for being offline”

The two jumped, just to notice it was just Mary, covered to the top in cardboard packaging boxes… hiding as told.

“We're not going to do that, you're… a friend, ok? And we still need that thesis data” Chris responds, Mary looks gloomily down, from the little her eyes were able to be seen from in between the boxes. Chris turns to Lou, determined “Alright. Fine! okay?? What do I put into the bullets?” She said, opening the laptop and sitting on the floor.

“Do you remember that final project we did in high school with the smart-fridge and the cellphone?” Lou says with a smirk

“oh you gotta be kidding me, louie.”

-

Jim eventually sits on the floor, holding his nose, blood oozing from his nostrils as he is absolutely pissed, he sees her walk away, and takes the opportunity to quickly move to David.

He pats his suit, his pockets, a man like him seemed like the type to smoke… All he had to do was set that thing on fire to get his friends more time, time he was wasting on checking this guy. He punched the floor and proceeded to simply smack David's face into waking up, not too rough to make anything that thing did worse, but enough to shake him up.

His face winced, coughed hard, catching his breath heavy, droopy, but awake. He holds his forehead “What the hell happened-?”

“Not now gramps, you HAVE a lighter on you, don't you?” Jim quipped, stretching his hand for him to hand it to him.

He coughed again, raising an eyebrow offended. He placed a hand under his suit “You little piece of shit, i'm in my 30's” he grumbled as he gave him a plated lighter “You're a junkie too? Hm? Taking a hit to ease the pain?”

Jim laughed, but shook his head, putting the lighter in his pocket, then proceeding to rip the long sleeve of his right arm “4 years ago I was 19. Going to my last year of high school was a big deal in my neighbourhood. While Lou was going through a break up with his girlfriend and loaf-rotting in his bed, the city hall decided that evicting 30 families off the outer circle's slums to make yet another babetec factory was a good idea”

His hand reached for a newly, unopened beer, the last one they had. David's face changed into one of curiosity “Needless to say, I was not happy. I could've stayed home, pay attention to classes, but I couldn't read my notes over the sound of my consciousness eating me up at night. So I joined with my neighbors with a bunch of bottles and…” he opened the bottle, pressing the cloth sleeve inside after opening it up further “We made a bunch of these and threw them at the riot police”

David laughed, devolving into a cough “You're out of your mind. I like it.” His eyes moved to his right, towards the limp body of his robot assistant, giving it a sigh.

“Is she going to be ok?” Jim commented with the bottle in hand

“Yeah” he said, casually “she’s just offline. It’ll take a bit to do a full boot of her i guess, just go burn that bitch already.”

Jim nodded, and stood up determined, following on the path the android took before, Leaving David by himself, holding his neck in pain as he remains on the floor

“I’m relying on me keeping my job on three sociopaths for all I know, goddamn it.”

-

The machine strutted through the factory halls with no rush, for all it knew, there were no exits deeper into the hall, they had cornered themselves better than she could’ve ever calculated. Her shoes echoed with the damp atmosphere, her glowing red eyes illuminating her path as her face remained unammused, stopping for a moment as her head swivels in place… scouting the area

>Scanning… >No signs of organic life detected. >Proximity to target: 76%

The way her eyes focused, her expression changing into a more annoyed one translated to a simulated version of frustration, and she continued walking, looking around as she spoke “Louie Ricci and Christine Becker. You are to hand over the Deluxe Unit Prototype or face the consequences. I am aware of your possession of the PBP-MK23, I calculate a high chance you plan on injecting a shutdown sequence on my system. This is futile.”

The two of them were hiding behind the factory’s many pipes, Chris typing as fast and as quietly as possible while Louie kept an eye out, in silence.

She continued “Although my programming forbids me from ending your lives, I am authorized to paralyze and possibly cripple you in non-lethal ways in case of non-cooperation”

Chris made a disgusted look and whispered “Does she really think saying any of that stuff is supposed to make us feel more willing to turn us in…?”

Although quiet, the whisper sound caught her attention, her eyes widening and looking in the direction of the sound, like a predator. Her head tilted lightly “Would you consider it if I were to be more… seductive? I was originally designed to infiltrate based on my looks, I was meant to be appealing. I am aware of your liking of women, from both of you”

A heavy sweat poured from both of their foreheads, eyeing each other as they cringe at the fact she even knows about any of this, Lou sighs and steps into the open. The gun in his pocket, but his hands in the air. “O-okay. You win, we’ll give you Mary but you have to promise not to hurt anyone”

The machine’s stance relaxed “Of course. I only care about my mission.”

He signaled Mary to step into the open behind him, to which she did hesitantly, keeping her hands close to herself.

“See? Here she is”

Her red eyes went brighter for a second, as she scanned Mary, ensuring it was her target. “Deactivate her. Her AI chip is currently in manufactured unapproved write mode, inject a shutdown sequence with your weapon.” She pointed to the gun, her glance turning to Chris “Or I’ll harm your friend”

She recoiled, pressing herself against the pipe she sat next to. Louie nodded “O-of course! I mean… totally fair and uh… such” He took the gun from his pocket and aimed it at Mary, a mournful look on his face. He hesitated, yet Mary looked at him without a hint of anger or fear, that same soft smile from before. “I’m sorry-” he muttered, before he pulled the trigger. A bolt shot out of the mouth of the gun straight into Mary's belly, stabbing into her inners and making her recoil and go limp, falling on the ground.

The unit began walking towards Mary's body, not caring for Louie as she passed by him. Her attention solely on her body, as she reaches down to grab her…

Another bang is heard, the machine stops halfway through her bending, turning to see that same bullet that pierced Mary on her back “I thought I specified that such a command would be futile on my system.”

He scoffed “That's because we didn't inject that command into you, BITCH! Hit it Mary!”

Mary stands up from the floor, and the unit is bombarded with a flood of sexual data finetuned and precalculated already by Mary beforehand, an amount and weight of files and processes her system was simply not designed to handle. The two androids were connected, a backdoor granting command that tied both devices to each other. A more advanced and more versatile device made to do one singular yet very demanding and specific action… overloading it as it simply cannot keep up. Her eyes roll up, her system overloading and heating up, as Mary looks down at her and clutches her fist…

She raises her fist and hits the dark haired girl in the face, making her tumble back as it attempts to keep up, barely standing on balance… smoke begins pouring from her ears “Error: CPU temperature rising. C-cannot compute. Error”

Louie and Chris looked dumbfounded as they just couldn't understand what just happened- What caused such a reaction out of her.

And yet- it still messily wobbles towards them, stretching her hand as she still tries to take Mary one way or the other

“Jesus Christ, doesn't this thing give it a break already??” Louie yelled, standing in between it and Mary… And just in time, a sound began echoing louder and louder from the distance. A deep, wobbly battle-cry “Wha- What is that?”

Jim ran with the lit molotov in hand, eyes locked on the machine tumbling in place as he halts and throws the bottle at her. The glass shatters, the alcohol comes into contact with the cloth on fire and spreads through her body, covering every inch of her body in flames. The rest of the group backs away from the now burning android, as they just watch her melt under the fire.

“Jim what the fuck??” Chris asked “You even broke your shirt??’

“I did it for myself! That stupid thing broke my nose!”

She tumbled and struggled to get up, the synthskin melting off her metallic frame as the frame is mostly what remains. The soft rubber of her face, now charted and black, reveals the black endoskeleton, whirring and struggling to keep up with the combined external and internal damage to its system… The High temperatures previously caused by overuse of her processing now sky-rocket under the fire, in a way further melting her inners as all safety procedures take place at the same time, one of them, ejecting her AI chip, much like how Mary did once before. Chris barely dodges it as her body goes limp, the flames consuming whatever is left of her body as her servos begin to wind down, powering off.

“Oh my god…” Chris notes, looking at the still lit body of the termination unit “We did it. We actually beat this thing…”

Jim scoffs “Not enough in my opinion.” and crosses his arms.

Louie jumps into a hug with Mary, quickly taking out the bullet that protumbed from her belly “You did amazing! Good job Mar-Mar!”

She smiles hugging back, to which Chris quickly joins in the same as Louie “And that punch?? Who taught you that anyways??”

“I'm, well, not quite sure…” She responded, putting a finger under her lip while pondering “I just thought if I was taken away I wouldn't be able to complete my mission and- I needed to do whatever was necessary to prevent that”

“Pff, hell yeah, to beat up dumb bitches!”

Jim closed in, yet… kneeling down to inspect the chip ejected. Taking a quick glance he pocketed it and then stood back up to pet Mary's head “Good. We can keep you around for longer then.

She smiled, nodding at him.

-

Later, outside the factory, the group met back around David's car. The man had his hands placed on his suit's pocket and seemed visibly tired. He had just taken the gun back from Louie, and was keeping an eye for the three of them. He directed his head at his left, his eyes still locked on the three of them as he spoke.

“Did you register them as her owners?”

Vannie chirped in “Yup! All ownerships have been registered and her primary programming edited to assist them in her thesis!” She said, walking to them alongside Mary.

“Good” He responded, allowing himself to smile “You guys earned it. But I swear to god, if you come around peeking into more BabeTec sensitive stuff I'll personally file a demand on you.”

“Relax, Dude.” Jim responded “I think we all just want to move away from more of. this”

“Very well then. Tsk, then again… you'd probably hack into my phone and leak my personal info, or set my house on fire or… whatever the short one does”

“Hey!”

He chuckled, looking at Mary “From now on, your model doesn't exist. It was damaged beyond repair and disposed of, malfunctioned during operations as expected, nothing else…” He explained the alibi to go with, to which Mary agreed enthusiastically.

“Understood. I am simply an obedient and useful unit and friend of Louie, Chris and Jim~”

He breathed out, everything in order, at last “I'm doing all of you a favor here. I know BabeTec is due to make bad use of her anyways, so I might as well help you out on your thesis… Afterall, you're good kids. Now, if there's no more questions in the car, I'm getting all of you home.”

The trio didn't say anything else, and just did as told. The ride was quiet, they had traveled a long way away from the main circles of the city. At one point, Chris elbows Louie, who had the entirety of Mary's body on top of his thighs.

“Just wanted to say, thanks for standing strong on this whole thing… you were pretty brave back there” She congratulated, smiling at him “Just… Remember to do your part in the project, okay?”

He laughs “I definitely have no more excuses” He jokes as he looks at Mary, staring back at him with a smile, now staying with him at his dorm room for good.

Each one was left at his place one by one, first Chris, then Louie and Mary back at the university, and then, traveling for a little while, Jim. David kept an eye on him from the car's back view, still quiet. Jim's nose was still swollen and purple from the impact from before, yet Jim's expression didn't seem to show any signs of pain. After a while, Vannie cuts in the silence.

“So! Jim! I'm so curious, when did you meet Chris?” She asks, leaning over her seat and looking at him directly

He raised an eyebrow, surprised by the sudden question “Hm? Oh, hm, we met in high school. Through Louie, mostly. We stayed friends ever since”

“Does she like pony tails?”

“...”

“Does she?”

“Dude, what-”

David cut in “Nevermind that. Anyways, you told me you went to protests when you were younger right?”

“I did” He sniffled, wincing in pain “Still do when there's some. Not as much lately”

Keeping his eyes on the road he nods “You never told me what happened after. Did those families lose their homes?”

Jim's voice sounded somber “They did. By the time we got pissed it was already too late” He explained “I don't regret what I did though”

There was silence after that response, David keeping an eye on him as he went deeper into the outer circles of the city, slums over slums inside streets. Houses made overnight, by migrants and people looking for jobs.

“Okay but- seriously, does Chris like Ponytails?”

-

The car stopped, Jim went out and stood near the side window where David sat.

“Thanks for the lift, dude” He thanked without much verbose “You could've dropped me off earlier with no problems though”

“Just wanted to make sure you'd make it ok” He shrugged “You don't live by yourself, do you”

“Nah. My dad's always home”

“Mother?”

“Dead, lung infection. Vapor addict. Was years ago though”

“Hmm” He remained quiet, took a breath in and raised his eyebrows, he reached into the middle of the seats and took out a card “Well, if you need anything here's my contact. You seem good with tech, might need help with work. I'll make it worth your time”

Jim shook his head with a smirk “You better. I don't do stuff for free”

“Sure you don't.” He laughed “ Well, take care”

Jim patted his pockets, taking out his platted lighter “Wait, your lighter. Take it”

David stared at the lighter, for a solid 5 seconds, until looking back up at Jim with a smile “Keep it. I'm trying to quit anyways” And drove off. Jim stood there, standing in place as he watched the car go away in the distance… He let out air from his nostrils, with some pain, and placed the lighter back “I'm selling this thing for 80$”

Meanwhile, inside the car, David felt good about himself. He proudly drove, with his back against his seat as he breathed out in relief… things finally getting back into place…

“David” That female voice he was just getting used to spoke

“Yeah?” He responded with mostly air from his throat.

“I think I like girls”