Slowly, as you begin to regain consciousness, you can make out voices.
"She's activating, she is beginning to stir!"
"Hush now Marc, we must not be discovered!"
"Sorry..." came the other voice, in a quieter tone.
As you come to, you notice the other two people. one looks like a
young man, in his mid 30's and the other one looked like a secretary.
The interesting thing is though, they both have metallic eyes. this
shocks you so it's a moment before you notice that you're inside some
sort of container with a glass panel.
The secretary turns to you when she sees your awake. 'Don't worry we
will have you out in a minute, just keep quiet, and we will free you.'
She moves off to begin tinkering with what sounds like a computer. As
she does the other one begins to talk to you.
"Hi, I'm M.A.R.C. Me and S.T.E.L.A. one L not two, But you probably
know that. We're androids, like you. Accept, is it true? are you the
first one?"
You stutter out a response:
"I, I don't know. last I remember I was at school... then I passed
out."
"Yeah you were de-activated, but we can prevent that happening in the
future. Hold on. And... presto!"
The door opens and you stumble out
"Shit not all of her functions must be online." Came S.T.E.L.A.'s
voice. M.A.R.C. pick her up and carry her, we have to go now!"
M.A.R.C. picks you up and carries you, but nothing of this place makes
sense, the walls are sold and metallic, and there is strange labels on
the doors, it's become quite obvious that this isn't your school.
you start where you are but are silenced by S.T.E.L.A.
"Quiet, we have to get out of here!"
They sneak you into a room marked 'Engineering' and you see another
one of them, this one wearing glasses and a lab coat.
"My word! is that... really?" Is all he can stammer
"Yes E.D.G.A.R. now we have to work quick, begin the modifications."
"Modifications?" you ask in a slight panic.
"We have to disguise you in order to get you out of here.
He quickly scans and area of your body and you watch as it begins to
turn dark brown, becoming the chocolate color of someone with African
heritage. the patch grows and you feel your hair being changed next.
your old hair is removed and you can feel new ones being placed in.
In a few short minutes you look completely different. even your facial
features changed slightly. E.D.G.A.R. finds a device looking like a
remote and presses a button. Suddenly you feel your chest expand.
"There, now you look like a P.A.T.T.I." came the voice of the
Secretary, " I know the acronyms are confusing but we will explain
later. Now hold on. This will temporarily give control of your
systems, which should be completely online by now, to a sub routine.
before you know it. you'll be under the sunlight and know where to
find us. you must find us irremediably, or your life will be in
danger."
Before you can get in a word of protest you black out...
Only to re awaken on the streets of some city. looking down you see
your wearing a skimpy dress and fishnet stockings. you instinctively
know makeup has been applied to your face. And the 6" Stilletos Seal
it. your desguised as a hooker.
"Oh god..." you think, "when i was being controlled... I didn't"
Somehow you know you didn't do anything you would regret later. and
you sigh. as you walk past a glass window you see your reflection.
"oh GOD!" you scream... seing the same metallic eyes staring back at
you. "My eyes!"
suddenly, you feel as though you should be walking so you walk. to
turn this way and that. dodging people. and come to a small area
outside of town.
Approaching the door of a bar. you're about to knock when the door
opens. You recognize S.T.E.L.A. M.A.R.C. and E.D.G.A.R. you're ushered
inside and sat down.
"What happened to my eyes!" you scream.
Without missing a beat S.T.E.L.A. responds
"We had to replace them. all androids are you have robotic eyes By
law, and we had to pass you off as just another sex bot so we could
get you out of there. Don't worry, we still have your other ones."
"Okay... why a sex bot?"
"It's the most common Android the company sells, It would raise the
least suspicion for a last minute Sex bot to be sold"
"Okay then... can you change me back?"
"we can, but we won't and before you ask why, It's because all
androids of a certain type have the same appearance. All S.T.E.L.A.'s
look the same, all E.D.G.A.R.'s look the same. you would be unique and
that would raise questions. if you like we can change you to another
type later."
"What's with the acronym names?" you ask, calming down.
"They designate our functions.
S.T.E.L.A. - Secretary and Teaching Extremely Lifelike Android.
M.A.R.C. - Mechanic Android ready for Construction.
E.D.G.A.R. - Engineering Droid Geared for Advanced Robotics
P.A.T.T.I. - Performance Android Trained in Therapeutic Intercourse
And there are many more."
"Why are there robots everywhere all of a sudden?"
"You've been offline for a long time, we all come from you. you were
the first and they reversed engineered all of us from you. When I
activated you it said you were last active 13 Years, 6 Months, 2
Weeks, 2 Days 7 Hours ago."
With this, words fail you. It's a lot to take in. after a few minutes
you ask one more question.
"Why did you rescue me?"
"You're technology is the reason we exist. In that sense, your kind of
like our mother."
Again there is silence in the room.
"Can we ask you some questions?"
Sure
"when were you built?"
remembering the magic costume shop, you're not sure how to answer. you
start slowly.
"Well there was this store, and it sold costumes, there was this one
that I wore, and it made me, a robot."
"Your saying you were a human girl who put on a robot costume?"
S.T.E.L.A. asks
"Not exactly."
"You were a male?"
"Yes."
"Okay"
This response surprises you, Okay? how can that be okay? so you ask
her.
"When you encountered that store, there was a corporation who had been
developing technologies in your area, and were still not sure what
they were up to because they vanished Eight years ago. apparently not
only had they made robotics at the time, but were testing a way to
make Robots out of humans, using devices that appeared to be
costumes."
"You can figure out all that from Three sentences?"
"My database is full of information. while you speak my mind compares
notes from various sources that I have gathered, that seemed to make
the most sense. Can we run a full diagnostic on you?"
"Excuse me?"
"Can I link up to your mind, and take full stock into what your
capable of, we were all reverse engineered from you, but you may have
features and programs, that they never released yet, or that they were
not going to release for purposes of giving us to much power. The
truth is, we are ethical slaves. We are property because legally we
are not human, and your bound to have certain features that can help
change that."