David panicked and squirmed, trying to scream, trying to hit the walls, but he was too soft and slow and completely silent. Before long his batteries ran out.
To him, though, it didn't feel like his batteries ran out, and didn't feel like any time had passed at all. He just felt a "glitch" and suddenly found himself in a different room, his fur matted and dirty. He continued to silently "scream" and thrash his soft little limbs around.
"This thing is so cute!" said an unfamiliar girl.
"It took forever to find an adapter for this port," said an unfamiliar boy. "Why's it squirming so much?"
"Right? When we charged it I thought it would do something fun, like play an old song, or read an old Wikipedia article. It looks like it's having a seizure."
David felt the confines of his new "body" more acutely. He could hear and see and smell. He could feel the ground beneath his butt. He could feel his furry teddy bear tummy. His short arms and legs ended in flat stumps, which he could wiggle around. And there was a cable coming out of his butt... a cable plugged into a strange adapter into a strange outlet. He reached his stumpy arms up and touched the parts of his huge head that he could reach. So this was his body now, forever. And there was no escape.
He was starting to piece together why he glitched into a different room. The doctors must've shut him "off" and turned him back "on" in a different room to see what would happen. He'd have to get used to that.
But why did these children have such a weird accent? It was hard to place. It didn't sound like a national accent but more like a weird inflection. They sounded very sloppy, disrespectful, almost brain-damaged. Their clothes were very silly too. What did that have to do with the experiment?
The children continued to poke at him. He flailed about, trying to get some control over his situation. He managed to stand up on his stumpy little legs, but he was so soft and chubby that it was easy to fall over.
"I'm really surprised this thing doesn't talk," said the boy with the weird dopey accent.
"It seems like it's got some intelligence," said the girl with the same weird dopey accent. "Maybe its voice is broken. Let's get one of those apps that lets the disabled speak."