Define who you are

Part 1: How it started

v0.10l (2025.12.26)

She was sitting in the train looking out of the window heading to a trade fair for household appliance and service robots. Her editor wanted her to write a favoring but neutral sounding article about the products of a specific manufacturer. „Fuck!“, she thought to herself. She hated this and had an argue with her editor the day before.

„Why me? Writing an advertisement is not a journalists work.“, she complained to her editor. “Send Smithers, she would love to go. Household appliance, right the topic for this…“, she bites on her lips.

„So? I know she would.“, her editor replied. „But she’s is too pretentious and snobbish. Neither the readers nor the advertisers like her or her habits. But you… Yes, you can be a bitch too, but you are a grounded one. That’s why they love your articles, even if it will an advertisement. Heck, that company party the other day. Boring as hell but you made it worth to read. And I know Smithers and you hate each other. So take this as your chance for revenge for this job. I know you will take such an opportunity.“

„Taking an unwanted job as revenge? Where is this a decent idea?“ Andrea crossed her arms on her chest. „But hell, yes I hate her. And hell, yes, I will take a chance to pun her. Especially on her own subject area.“ She smirked. „OK, i will do this. But dare to complain, I will rip of your head.“

They grinned at each other. It is one hate-and-love relationship between them.

The train reached the destination. She grabbed her luggage and took a taxi to the hotel, where she checked in for the night.

The next day’s morning was a rainy one but fortunately the trade fair was close to the hotel. On her way she came by a small coffee shop. None of these fancy chains where you can choose between dozens of coffee with weird named topics and misleading cup size descriptions. No, just a small local coffee shop with reasonable prices. She ordered a midsize coffee to go, plain and simple and it was not even necessary to write her name on the paper cup. Going on she had to wait at a traffic light where she sipped of her coffee as a car drove by too fast thru a puddle and water splashes onto her trousers. She jumped back and cursed the driver. Then she looked on her wet trousers, hoping it is just water and will dry soon.

With no further accidents she reached the trade fair. On the first floor typical household appliance were on display. All this „smart“ Stoves, fridges, Hoovers and of course all this devices many people buy just for using them once and then forget about them. Well, she had never been into this, she can barely boil water.

On the second and third floor the service robots were on display. A representative of the manufacturer whose product she shall favorably review was already waiting for her.

„Miss Andrea?“, he greeted her.

„Klaiber“, she corrected him. „Andrea Klaiber“.

He apologized and introduced himself as Sebastian Taylor. He is handsome, she had to admit. He told her about the company, their mission and their agenda „Serving mankind for gaining highest living standards“.

„What a nonsense“, she thought to herself but nodded smiling at him.

After delivering his hollow marketing phrases, he led her to a separated area where a male and a female-looking robot were standing side by side. „We arranged this for you so you can review our new range of service robots as you like. We honestly hope you will share our confidence in these new products.“ Then he said goodbye and left her alone with this two robots.

She looked around her. The setup is a small scale flat with kitchen, living room, bedroom and restroom but no windows. „This is some small room for the highest living standard“, she thought. Next she looked at the two robots which just stood there, waiting for orders.

„So, and you two are?“, Andrea asked.

„I am the personnel butler unit PBU Mk. IV „Adam“, at your Service.“, the male-like android answered. „I am the personnel housekeeper unit PHU Mk. V „Eve“, at your Service.“, the female-like android answered.

„Adam and Eve, of course.“, she thought.

She took a closer look at the robots which looked as ordinary bots. The one thing different is a cut out in their clothes, which left an uncovered area allowing a closer look on there electronic components thru transparent panel cover, making sure they were identified as robots. Adam’s cover is on this stomach, Eve‘s above her breasts.

„So, for starters, what services can you offer?“, Andrea asked them, afraid that they will came up with the same marketing nonsense as Sebastian just did before.

But instead, Adam discreetly pointed to her trousers: „If i may first draw your attention to your soiled trousers? I am sure we can clean it up while you evaluate us.“

Andrea glanced down at herself and nodded. She had almost forgotten, but would gladly take the opportunity to have her clothes cleaned. Without hesitation she took her shoes and trousers off and handed the latter to Adam. "That would be nice. You do not have a spare pair of trousers at the moment, do you?“

"Unfortunately not.“ Adam replied.

Andrea nodded and took a seat at the table. She was not exactly uncomfortable just in her panties as she preferred a more „light“ clothing. And with just some bots around who would object?

„Eve, will you be so kind and bring me a glass of tab water, please.“

„Yes, Ma’am“, Eve answered. She walked into the kitchen like arrangement where she took a glass from the cabinet, filled it with tab water and brought it to Andrea. „You are welcome“, she said and went back to her old position while Adam started the laundry.

Andrea took a sip of water and watched the two robots. After another sip, she placed the glass on the table. But as soon as she let go, it fell to the floor and shattered. It seemed like an accident, but she had done it intentionally. Eve called out a warning because of the broken glass and without any ado a robot vacuum cleaner shows up. It thoroughly removed the glass shards, dried the floor and finally drove back to its charging station where Adam emptied its dustbin.

„Thanks for your concern“, Andrea said to Eve, continuing her evaluation and ordered them to do the dishes, wipe the dust off, mop the floor and whatever came up when doing the household.

Andrea not just watched Adam and Eve but also the appliances doing their jobs. After they finished the appliances went back to their charging stations while Adam and Eve lined up again.

„So it seems you can do the household.“, Andrea concluded. „However, nothing you have done is particularly special, so why should I buy one of you?“

Eve looked at Andrea. „Depending on the chosen configuration we can provide more intellectual interactions like in-deep discussions and argues.“ „And of course we can provide more intimate services“, Adam added. „So if you want, we can demonstrate.“

„Yes, I thought something like that.“, Andrea said to herself. And sitting here in her panties while her trousers are to be cleaned she indeed thought about testing these more intimate services.

[And what’s about you being a bot, too?]

Andrea suddenly heard a voice in her mind. She felt like being wrapped into cotton wool and all senses were damped. She shivered and shook her head. A moment later the feeling vanished and she saw Adam and Eve waiting for her response. „No thanks, i pass.“, she told them.

For the time being Andrea tried the more intellectual interactions with the two bots. A short time later her trousers were done and Andrea made herself ready to leave. Adam and Eve wished her a good day and Adam added that she should came by again to evaluate further services.

Andrea still thought about that voice in her mind as she left the room and almost ran into Sebastian, who was waiting for an other client.

„Already done, is something wrong?“, he asked surprised. „I hoped it would take longer.“

„Well, they can do the household“, Andrea answered. „But I guess this was to be expected.“

“Well,” he nodded. “I don’t mean to rush you, but… you haven’t checked the other features? If you have any concerns about your privacy, we can guarantee absolute discretion.”

Andrea made a face. „I am not in the right mood.“ She stepped closer to him. „Maybe later, giving the opportunity.“

„Yes, maybe later.“, he smiled and gave her his business card.

Back in her hotel room she lay down on the bed and closed her eyes.

[And what’s about you being a bot, too?]

This thought again but this time it felt like a migraine. „I… no… bot“, she stammered. What is this and where did it came from? Then she fell asleep.

After a while she woke up and looked at the clock, it was late afternoon now. She had a slight headache, and it felt like this thought was lurking in her mind, waiting for an opportunity to strike. She took Sebastian’s card, thinking of calling him. Maybe they can meet tonight. Normally she would not even think of this, but she has to get some other ideas. Nothing weird, just some distraction and so she called his number.

„Taylor“, she heard him saying.

„Andrea Klaiber here“.

„Oh, Miss Klaiber! What a welcome surprise. How may I help you?“

„Uhm…“, Andrea started“, „I guess this comes unexpected, but… No idea of to say it.“ She took a deep breath. „I am new here so I was wondering if you would like to grab a drink with me at a bar. Nothing fancy. Just killing some time.“

„I would love to. However, since I'm also unfamiliar with this city, I only know the bar in my hotel. But it's cozy and offers a good selection of drinks.“

As it turns out, they both had the same hotel and so they arrange to meet at the bar at 8 p.m..

Andrea freshened up and changed her dress. Casual, but with a certain chic. At 7:45 p.m. she entered the bar. Sebastian was already there and waved her over to their table. A table for two in a quieter area but hence not secluded.

Sebastian stood up and gave her his hand. „If I may say, you look stunning.“

„Thank you!“, she replied. „I can return this compliment.“

They sat down and watched each other for a moment. He cleared his throat and asked her if she wanted to eat something. They both ordered just some small snacks and beer.

„I apologize for disturbing you.“, Andrea started after the waitress had taken their orders. “I just had to talk to someone and… well… it is not that i know you but at least… I have your number.“ She nervously smiled at him.

„Oh, there is no need to apologize. I know this feeling. It’s like the sky falling on your head, isn’t it? Especially when you’re in an unfamiliar place.“ He paused. „And… I was hoping you would call me.“

Andrea looked at him raising an eyebrow.

„Uhm, don’t get me wrong! It’s not that I had any naughty ideas. Honestly!“

Andrea tilted her head with feigned outrage.

„Oh… Don’t get me wrong, I would… uhmm… love to…“, he swallowed hard. „Any chance for me to get out of this?“

Andrea smirked and took his hands. „I suggest we spend a nice evening together and expect nothing out of the ordinary. Agreed?“

„Works for me!“, he said smiling. „Your editor…“, he tried to change the subject, „I know him for some time now.“

„Yes?“, she asked, resting her chin on her hands.

„He said you’re a rural woman. Straight blunt with your heart on your tongue and in your writing.“

„He is such a sweet heart, isn’t he?“, she mocked.

Ignoring this, Sebastian continued: „I just find it strange that you take only roughly an hour for the evaluation. So I am curious if there was something wrong.“

Andrea sighed. „The trade fair takes three days, right? So I have another two days, correct. Just be patient, I will review the bots, straight and blunt. But as blunt: May we change the topic, please? The last thing I want to talk about now are some… service bots.“

„Of course, pardon me. I didn’t want to spoil the mood.“

And so after all they had a nice evening with snacks and drinks at the hotel bar, where they both happened to be guest.

[And what’s about you being a bot, too?]

This thought again strikes thru Andrea’s mind all of the sudden. „Hnng…“ she gasped loud and shook her head. „No… I am… not“. She took a few deep breathes and calmed down.

„Are you ok?“, Sebastian asked with concern. „You went all pale.“

„ I… am… fine.“, Andrea said still breathing deeply.

„Are you? Shall we call a doctor?“

„No… not needed.“ She raised her head and looked straight in his face. „Let us spend the night together!“

„What? Are you for real?“ Sebastian’s surprise was for real.

„Why? You do not want to?“

„If I do not… Of course I want! But I don’t want to take any advantage of you. You just looked like you saw a ghost.“

„I am fine. So, take your chance before I change my mind…“

„I… i guess you will just fall asleep anyway. And then it might be better someone is watching over you.“

So they made their way to his room.

„I’m back with a guest!“, Sebastian shouted when they entered his room.

The light turned on and Andrea saw that this is not just a hotel room but a suite. In one corner of the room she supposed to be a living room she saw two persons standing.

„Welcome back, Mr. Taylor. And welcome Mr. Klaiber. It is good to see you again.“, one of the persons said with a familiar sounding male voice. After a closer look Andrea recognized Adam and Eve.

„Having fun with them?“, Andrea asked smirking.

„If just“, Sebastian replied. „But I’m not exactly a company representative but more the main systems software developer. So I took them here, checking the logs and evaluation results from the fair. Which were a bit disappointing, if I may say.“, he added with mocked complain.

Andrea tilted her head and looked at him but said nothing.

„Want a drink?“, he asked next. „The bar here is almost better equipped than the one at the hotel bar.“

„Just a sparkling water, please.“, Andrea replied. „Otherwise it may happen that I really will just fall asleep. And that would be a shame, wouldn't it?“

Eve filled a glass with sparkling water and gave it to Andrea. „Please be careful.“, she said as Andrea grabbed the glass.

Meanwhile Sebastian step closer to Andrea. „So, you mean it?“

Andrea took a sip and put the glass away. „Enough words!“ she said and kissed him. While doing so she opened his belt. His trousers falling down she grabbed his member and gently touched it with her fingers tips. Next she kneeled in front of him and with her tongue playing with his penis’ tip.

Sebastian moaned. Then he pulled her up on her feeds. „Not here“, he said and pushed her softly into the bedrooms direction kissing her passionately. Just in front of the bed Andrea turned around Sebastian and pushed him onto the bed. While getting out of her trousers she started to lick his penis again, making him moan again. Andrea stopped licking his penis and just as she wanted to crawl onto the bed she felt something at her buttock. She looked behind her and saw Eve, stroking her with her hands and who had an artificial penis mounted obviously going to penetrate her.

„N… no Bots…“, Andrea said, her eyes blinking. „I.. just… do humans.“. She quickly crawled over Sebastian and placed herself over him. „Ju… just… human“, she stammered, letting his penis slide into her vagina and started to pump on him.

Sebastian heard Andrea’s words and seemed a bit concerned. But he was too aroused to pay much attention. He tried to open Andrea’s blouse but could not manage it. Andrea saw his doing and opened her blouse while pumping his member. After she got rid of her blouse she came down to him. Sebastian grabbed her breasts and squeezed them gently and played with her hard nipples. Both were moaning in ecstasy.

Meanwhile Adam and Eve both stood at one side of the bed and started to have sex. Eve, still equipped with the artificial penis, bended over and put her hands on the side table to support her standing. Adam then penetrated her from behind, both bots started to moan.

„Bots are… are not supp… pposed to… do this.“, she said looking confused at them while still pumping Sebastian.

He licked Andrea’s breast nipples. „A new feature“, he said moaning. „It’s better than…“ he started but Andrea interrupted him jerking: „I do… not… bots. I… fuck hum… human“. She kissed him furiously. „Come into me!“

While kissing she continuously pumped on him. They groaned in lust and as she rose her body he exploded in her. Both scream simultaneously and she continued pumping on him. After a few more strokes she stopped and let her fell onto Sebastian. Her face close to his they both kissed, breathing heavily.

She rolled off him, got out of the bed and sat down on a chair beside the bed. She look at Sebastian who had closed his yes. "Already fallen asleep?", she thought, shaking her head. Then she looked at Adam and Eve who were both standing naked on the other side of the bed. Andrea had no idea if they both finished having sex or if they just stopped it after Sebastian and she were done.

[And what’s about you being a bot, too?]

Andrea eyes went wide open and she jerked a few times. Then she sacked into the chair. After regaining consciousness she could not tell what just happened or how long she was out cold. But Sebastian was still lying on the bed and snored while Adam and Eve both were standing on the opposite side of the bed and did not move. So she guessed she had not been sitting there for more than a minutes or so. She felt somewhat strange. On the one hand, she cursed herself for having slept with a stranger, on the other hand, she felt relieved and had the feeling that she needed it for self-affirmation. She looked for her trousers and put them on. Adam and Eve did not to take notice, so she grabbed her stuff and left the suite as quietly as possible. A few minutes later she entered her own room and made herself ready for the night.

A few hours later Andrea woke up and left the hotel for a second visit of the fair. On the stairs before the fair’s entrance she heard that voice again:

[And what’s about you being a bot, too?]

„AAAAHHH“, she screamed and pressed her palms against her ears. The people around her watched her, shook their heads or looked away. But not a single one came to help or at least asked how she is. Andrea sat on the stairs, heavily breathing. Tears were running down her cheeks. After a while she stood up, her knees like pudding. She called a cab which brought her to the train station where she got a ticket to her new, unplanned destination.

Part 2: This is what you are

v0.10l (2025.12.26)

The doorbell rang in rapid succession. The moment Kelly opened the door she saw a cab driver hastily asking Kelly to come with him. „She told me to drive her to your house. And now she is jerking and stammering nonsense. I have no idea what’s wrong with her, maybe she’s on drugs.“, he explained while they were on the way to his cab where he opened the rear door and Kelly took a look at the mentioned person.

„Andrea!“, Kelly said in surprise. „What happened to you?“

„So you know her?“, the cab driver asked. „Great, then take her!“ Saying this he pulled Andrea out of the cab and pushed her into Kelly’s arms. Next he took Andrea’s luggage and almost throw it on the pavement. He was in such a hurry to get rid of Andrea that he did not even asked for the driving fee. He drove away and left Kelly with Andrea in her arms.

„What an asshole“, Kelly thought, looking after the cab. „N… No… bo…“, Andrea gibbered, taking Kelly out of her thoughts. Kelly took Andrea’s luggage with her free hand and led Andrea into the house. After entering Kelly closed the door with one foot and put the luggage onto the floor. As she was not sure to manage to take Andrea to the first floor Kelly decided to take her into the living room and sat her onto a chair.

„K… Kell…“ Andrea said, twitching her head. At least Andrea seemed to recognized Kelly. Kelly meanwhile was rummaging through Andrea’s luggage for her service laptop. After she found it she plugged it to the power outlet and connected Andrea to it. Andrea went limb and miscellaneous text lines were scrolling thru the laptop screen. Status informations, detected errors and misconfigurations, troubleshooting attempts and so on. Kelly made sure that Andrea and her laptop were good so far and decided to continue her work. She could not do anything right now anyway.

Andrea regained consciousness and realized that she could not move. She opened her eyes finding herself in an uncommon place. Some unease came over her but then she remembered Kelly’s face and calmed down. She took a closer look to her surrounding and saw a laptop from which a cable goes into her direction. Her eyes flickered and then she realized that she is connected to the laptop, making it clear that she is not a human but a bot. So she was sitting there, unable to move and not knowing what to do with this new knowledge. In that moment Kelly came by.

„How are you doing?“, Kelly asked. „Proper working again?“

„Thank you, I am fine - I guess.“, Andrea replied, looked up to Kelly. „Why do I have the impression that what ever just happened did not happened for the first time?“

„I do not know what happened before you got here, but the last time we meet the… well… the foreplay was different.“, Kelly said, taking a seat.

„Foreplay?“, Andrea said raising an eyebrow. Next she looked at the Laptop. „So I am a bot, just like you are?“

„Not just like me. You are a sleeper while I just know I am a bot. But technically, yes we both are bots.“

Andrea nodded. „Are you going to do a diagnosis on me?“

„No, i just connected you to your laptop and started it. But that is all I am allowed to. For anything else we have to wait for a human.“

„Trent!“, Andrea’s eyes suddenly went wide open. „Does he know what I am?“

„Yes, he does. He knows what you are and, much more important, who you are. And, I believe, that it is just thanks to him, that you still are at all.“

Andrea looked down on herself. „I think, he is not supposed to know what I am.“

„I think, you are not supposed to know what you are either.“

In that moment there was a noise from the front door. „Ah, speaking of the human“, Kelly said. „You stay here.“, she added and turned to the door.

„As if I could go anywhere.“, Andrea complained, watching Kelly walking away.

The front door opened and Trent shouted „I’m back!“. Kelly went close to him and kissed him. „I missed you!“, he said and his hand wandered below Kelly’s shirt. „Hmm… I would love to, but we have a guest“, she moaned. Trent’s impression went from excited to disappointed. „Someone we knew?“, he asked. „Well, someone especially you know!“, Kelly replied, leading him into the living room.

„Andrea! What a nice surprise! How are you…“ Trent started and then he saw that Andrea was connected to a laptop. „Uhm, wait… you…“

„Hello human!“ Andrea replied with a sweet voice, whereupon Kelly giggled.

Trent took a seat. „Okay, so for now you know being a bot. How’re you dealing with it? The last time I saw you like this you were a bit… derailed upon this knowledge.“ „Well, at least I didn’t have to fuck her to get her back on the rail again.“, he said looking at Kelly scrubbing his chin. „Which is a bit of a shame“.

Andrea raises an eyebrow, not exactly knowing what Trent meant while Kelly just stabbed him with her eyes.

„I feel tension“ he said unsure with his eyes wandering between the two bots.

„What did you do to me?“, Andrea asked.

„You are too excited!“ Kelly said.

„A headache… I’m getting a headache“, Trent said, trying to get out of this. He looked at Kelly. „I’ll get a glass of water and a pain killer and you… well, seems she has no memory on what happened so please, have a nice bot to bot conversation and explain her what happened the other night“.

He hurried into the kitchen, leaving the two bots behind, which watched him go.

Kelly’s explanation of what happened that night at the country inn ended in an argue with Andrea.

„You did what to me? And then you told him what to do?“, Andrea asked equally shocked, surprised and excited.

„Oh, come on. It all just started because you want to fuck me!“

„Yes. But I thought you were a human. How could I know you are not?“

"The bot, who does not know it is a bot, is now complaining that its bedtime treat was a bot," Kelly mocked Andrea. „You could not make this up.“

„Okay, okay. I see why you did it. But what is it about Trent? Why did you say him to do so?“

„It was a wild guess but seemed logical.“, Kelly explained. „You are programmed to actively pleasure humans and Trent was the best option. Well, the only option.“ Kelly realized how this sounded and added hastily: „But a good option“. She struggled finding the right words. „Anyway, at the end it worked out! In your letter you even thanked him for the fun and good sex.“

„I had no idea what exactly happened that night. I was malfunctioning - I guess.“

„And after that you seemed to work properly again. So what are you complaining about? You are a bot. We both are.“

„At that point I was not aware I am“, Andrea replied. „I was not aware an hour ago!“

„As if that would matter anyway.“

Trent came back into the living room. „Sounds like you’re having fun. So it’s good now?“, Trent asked as innocent and casually as possible.

Andrea and Kelly looked at each and nodded. „Somehow, yes“, Andrea said.

„That’s good to hear.“ He nodded. „So what’s your next step?“, Trent asked Andrea. „Let the maintenance run thru and hope it will work out?“

„I do not know. It was not too successful the last, was it?“, she shrugged. „Whatever, it has to work out. In my current condition I am afraid I will break down more sooner than later.“

„As far as I see it we we’ve to find a way to suppress your knowledge being a bot and rebuild your sleeper settings or to get ride of this and made you a conscious bot.“, Trent summarized.

„You should start with checking my status and configuration. Maybe it is not that complicated and there is an option or a permanent fix for my situation.“, Andrea suggested.

„And with someone you mean… me?“, Trent replied. He sat down in front of the Andrea’s laptop and took a look at it. „Okay, but before this we have to talk about an important point. Who’s your owner? You have one, haven’t you?“

Andrea blinked a few times. „I… cannot find any owner informations. But I know that I am neither engaged nor married.“

„Pardon me?“, Trent asked surprised. „Is this possible? Or even legal?“

„But maybe you find some more information on the laptop.“, Kelly said. „And think about the opportunity to became the user of not just one but two lovely bots. Your lucky day!“, Kelly laughed.

„Yay!“, Andrea said cheerfully, but unsure whether that was appropriate.

„Yay, i started a weirdo-bot collection. Lucky me.“, Trent grinned. Then he looked at the laptop and sighed. „Well, we’ll see. But before you may tell us what happened in the meantime? You seemed to be fine the next morning.“

Andrea took a deep breath. „I did. As far as I remember we three had a few drinks and Kelly revealed her artificial being to me. Then we had a… uhmm… naughty party, though my memories of it differ from Kelly’s. However, the next morning I just felt that something was not… fitting which scared me. But I did not waste too much afford on this and just carried on.“

Kelly and Trent listened to Andrea and nodded.

And now, just yesterday“, Andrea hesitated, „I… I do not know how to say. I feel a nagging in my head. As if grey clouds were coming up. And then, all of the sudden I heard a voice saying this one sentence: [And what’s about you being a bot, too?].“

Kelly blinked. „I said this to you the morning after our… party as you call it.“

„Yes“, Andrea nodded. „I finally realized this too and it’s the reason I came here to you. It seems something has been triggered in my system. Something the maintenance session could not fix or suppress and so it grew bigger, interfering with my programming and settings.“

Trent looked at the laptop’s screen which had the followings options [status], [settings], [legal information] and [faq, help and service]. Before he messed round he took a look at [legal information] where he found [owner and user informations]. „There looks promising“, Trent cheered. „So now tell us, who’s your daddy?“, he said and selected this option.

„ACCESS DENIED“ was to read on the screen.

"Ihh, that tickles!" Andrea squeak suddenly.

„Ahh, would have been to… It what?“, he asked surprised looking at Andrea.

„She said it tickles“, Kelly replied.

„Yes, I heard her“, he said, turning his head to them. They both grinned broadly making fun of him. „Okay, ladies, no charging for you tonight.“, Trent said with mocked anger and selected [owner and user information] again.

„Ihhh! Stop it!“, Andrea complained.

„Oopsie“, Trent smirked. Then with his eyes back on the screen he wondered: „No fields for username and password? Is it some biometric protection?“ He took a close look at the laptop but found nothing. Indeed this laptop lacked any features like camera, finger print scanner and so on.

„I have no idea, sorry.“, Andrea said shaking her head. „But i am wondering... Sure, i should have an owner, even it is not that i miss one. But why you are so concerned about this?“

„Uhmm“, Trent started, „I do not want to get into trouble for messing around with someone else’s property. Being sued because I tried to fix some errors is not exactly on my bucket list. The next point is, maybe as a sleeper you may not miss having an owner. But what will happen when your are a conscious bot?“

Andrea just blinked a few times…

„So then, I guess we should check your settings. Perhaps we find something helpful there.“, Trent said changing the topic. There he found a bunch of settings for things like education level, occupation, hobbies, sexual preferences at those things. But nothing about user settings or sleeper mode or similar. Finally he selected [faq, help and Service]. [faq] and [help] were useless at a first glance but in [service] he found an interesting option: [service panels].

„That’s an odd place for this“. Then Trent looked at Andrea raising an eyebrow. „But if this is what it looks like… You might need to undress“, Trent said with mock shyness.

„Pardon me?“, Andrea asked, tilting her head, while Kelly looked on the screen.

„For real?“ Kelly asked surprised. „She must be one of the last with those.“ Then she sighed. „This is exactly your thing, right?“, she asked Trent standing behind him.

„May someone tell me what is going on?“, Andrea asked them.

Trent turned his head to Kelly as much as he can: „Absolutely!“

„Hello? May someone answer? I will do nothing if you do not tell me what you are going to do with me!“

Andrea hardly finished the sentence as Trent selected [open mid panel cover].

Andrea looked down at herself and noticed with surprise that her blouse had been lifted just under her breasts. „What is that?“, she asked.

„Yeeeessss!“, Trent cheered, sounding like a small boy getting his most wanted Christmas gift.

„There he goes, our panel-fantasizing perv.“, Kelly sighed.

The cover’s motor starts to whirr loudly as it fights against the blouse and on the laptop screen the line „ERROR! Panel cover blocked!“ can be read. Trent grinned curious while the motor was whining.

„HNNG… This does not… feel right!“, Andrea gasped while Trent quickly selected [close mid front panel cover] on the screen. The motor stops whining and the cover closed.

With a mixture of „I told you“ and „I am sorry“ he looked at Andrea. „Guess you need to undress“, he said. „Can we safely unplug you from the laptop?“

Andrea was still looking down on her body. „I feel funny…“, she said. „And I am confident that I should not feel this way right now.“

„Maybe we should wait before we disconnect her“, Kelly said.

„Hmmm…“, Andrea suddenly panted… „I feel horny… Somethings is… wrong with me. Disconnect me… NOW!“, she suddenly demands. „Must pleasure… urge.“

Kelly and Trent exchanged uncertain glances. „Well, it’s up to you“, Kelly said to Trent. „As she is obviously not working properly I am not allowed to quit her service and maintenance mode.“

„Do… something…NOW!“, Andrea panted.

„Must be nice, a live without any responsibility“, Trent said to himself and stepped over to Andrea’s head and grabbed the cable connecting her with her laptop. „Hope this will do it.“, he said.

„NO! NO! WAIT!“, Andrea shouted just in the moment Trent wanted to pull the connector. He froze and held his breath.

„What is it, Andrea?“, Kelly asked, her eyes wandering between Trent, who started breathing again, Andrea and the laptop screen.

„It is… okay now“, Andrea said, still panting. „It… looks… it seems…“. She started to laugh. „After all this, I… developed a crush on being a bot.“

„You mean that you accepted being a bot?“, Trent asked.

„I mean I find it kind of hot being a bot. That panel… Just the imagine there are cables and LEDs and stuff like that this in me, that this is me…“

„So it turns you on thinking of your… uhh… your botness?“, Trent asked doubtful. „Is this just pronounced self-confidence or some kind of narcism?“

„It is hot“, Andrea replied.

„You know“, Kelly said with a seductive voice, „it is some kind of hot. My masturbation routines work similar.“

„Your… masturbation routines? You pleasure yourself and reach climax by thinking about the fact that you are a bot?“

Kelly seemed distracted as she looked at the spot where Andrea’s panel is. One of her hands slowly moved between her legs. „Yes, under certain circumstances.“

Trent watched Kelly, who started to rub herself. „And this is one of this certain circumstances?“ He then looked at Andrea who replied looking at him with expectation. He sighed and stepped to Kelly. „And as much as I would loved to watch this spectacle“, he said pulling Kelly’s hand from her crotch, „but we’ve more urgence things to do.“ He turned to Andrea; „So, can we disconnect you so that you can undress?“

Andrea and Kelly looked both kind of disappointed. Then Andrea took a deep breath and nodded. Trent get back to Andrea’s head again, grabbed the cable and pulled it from her neck.

„Unexpected request“, Andrea droned and on the laptop screen the line „ERROR! Synch failure“ can be read.

„Uhh, you are okay? I would have thought you were prepared for the disconnection.“, Trent was wondering.

„Please wait“, Andrea replied, not moving an inch. „Not synchronized. An error event has been logged“. After a few more seconds she blinked with her eyes and started to move and sat up. „Weird, I received a successful synchronization message before you disconnected me from the laptop.“

„Do you want to retry the synchronization?“, Trent asked.

„No, we should go on“, she replied, stood up and started to undress herself. With her upper body finally naked she looked down at herself. „Nothing to see, even now, knowing that there is a panel.“

Kelly made a step forward to Andrea and put one hand on Andrea’s belly. „And nothing to feel. Too bad“, Kelly said in a seductive way with her hand moving around Andrea’s belly, like searching for something.

Andrea looked at Kelly. „You know that I cannot do bots and I do not know if that can be changed.“

Trent put his hands on Kelly’s shoulder and gently pushed her away from Andrea. „As i said, we have more urgent things to do.“ Then he looked at Andrea’s breasts. „I have to admit… nothing to see.“ Next he showed her to sat down on the chair again. After she did so he reconnected her to the laptop and opened the panel cover again. After it successfully did so he saw some more options on the screen like a schematic view of the panel and some system informations. Most of this could also be found under [status] but [conscious mode selection] caught Trent’s attention. After he selected it the option [conscious mode] came up. „BINGO!“, Trent shouted. „I think we made just a big step forward.

To be continued

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