I AM A GIRL CYOBORG PET

by ROUNAK PURI

  "Perhaps Lord Rockwood would like to say something," the chairwoman suggested.

  MESSAGE FROM MASTER 97

  "I was thinking perhaps pointy ears. You could do it surgically to begin with. That way slaves couldn't hide as proper people. Then you just pick the pointiest eared people you can find. I thought we could all go for that kind of sexy Vulcan slave girl look."3

  This wasn't the kind of help I think we needed. I looked up at him in desperation.

  MESSAGE FROM MASTER 8

  "it's really flexible," he said " we could all play sexy elf games too," he said to me while I glared at him. Pointy ear tips went down really well with the new masters. At least their ideas had the benefits of being impractical I thought.6

  Fortunately someone else started up "What we really need are slaves who are deeply into being slaves. I think we should breed them to really not like the things like choice or not having an owner. If you offered them their freedom they should spit in your face."3

  "boring," said Master without moving his lips.2

  "I don't know who said that. Boring it may be but we need a domesticated human as quickly as possible." said the man's voice again.

  MESSAGE FROM MASTER 42

  "That's out So - so far we have blue and orange strips plus some kind of pointy ears anything else ?" said the chairwoman.

  "Well I have something to say which has been on the minds of many people I have spoken here tonight. In my well considered and scientifically validated judgement I say.... Death to the lactose intolerant! This scourge should be eradicated from our entire slave population"13

  This was followed by a general note of "well said".

  MESSAGE FROM MASTER 3

  "So Which first orange blue or pointy ears or lactose intolerance?" said the chairwoman

  MESSAGE FROM MASTER 2

  The group broke into a massive argument. Went on for minutes. Only to be broken up by a loud whistle.

  MESSAGE FROM MASTER 1 TIMES UP.

  "This is the reservation police. You are all under arrest for...." Said and authoritative voice.2

  Everyone started moving. People started covering their faces. It was mayhem Masters slaves everywhere. People where shouting "I'll have your job for this" and "I have the right to breed who ever I like" to the police. Rockwood tugged my leash and pulled me away towards the back of the room. He entered what looked to be hidden door tiny slave staircase.1

  "This is the advantage of IKEA walls you can always find and unlock the slaves staircase" said Rockwood pulling me upstairs . It was the same as Rockwood hall but with less space and more plasterboard .

  We climbed stairs.

  On each floor Rockwood looked out of the door to see what was happening. People seems to be panicking, police were rounding people up people up everywhere.1

  "It was terrible what people were talking. Master" I said.1

  "Yes intolerance to lactose intolerance, could you believe it?" he said.6

  ***

  Using his strength he kicked a metal door down and we ended up standing on the roof of the building. The cold night air stripped me of any heat.

  "Don't worry he said I have an escape plan" he said.

  "You've called your Ospray to pick us up" I said

  "Too obvious. The police would see it. Trace it. I'm going to jump off the roof." he said.

  "What are a I going to do?" I asked.2

  "We going to jump off the roof together!" he said.6

  "are you mad you may be backed up but I'm not I'll die."I shouted.1

  "It's your decision just remember a minute and 10 seconds after I jump off this ledge your Bluetooth connection will die and so will you by lethal injection. come on it will be fun. You seriously think I don't have an exit plan. Rule number one always have an exit plan. "1

  "Rule number two tell your pet about your exit plan" I said.3

  He looked at me "you could always use your question I promised to answer" he said.

  "That's what this is about !- that's what all this secrecy is about isn't it. It's your way of getting out of the whole last question deal! Why you! There is no way I 'm going ask you. Ha ! " I said.

  "I'm going to jump off the building," Rockwood told me.

  "You do that! You do that coz I'm going to be there with you because I know you wouldn't do it with out some plan. Lord she's to scared to jump with me" I challanged.

  I could hear gun shots down the stair case. Sounded like the police were after us.

  "I mean it if you do ask me then It's a trust thing. Take your hand in mine and run! " said Rockwood smiling at me.

  "In these shoes?" I said. "High heels are not well designed to vault over buildings with". I felt myself melting - ugh! My Military High heels were converting into flats dam him6

  I gave him my hand it shook like a plane breaking the sound barrier.1

  Rockwood grabbed me and with a manic smile started to run towards the edge of the building with me, I followed along.

  The only thing I could think about in that moment was the fact that I actually had a friend who loved to go base jumping. He jumped off a few bridges in this time, and the odd mountain. He told me the buildings are the worst. Being grouped together a gust could easily grab you. Throw you against the side of the building when your parachute it was open. This would collapse the parachute and you would plummet to the ground. He had died , been hit by a car after landing after a particularly easy drop.5

  "I love going out with you, it's never boring" Rockwood screamed as I fell to my death.11

  ***

  Chapter 59/Him/Cinder burn

  "So what happened then ?" said Kayla over lunch a couple of days after the breeding party after my nerves had calmed down. I tucked into a nice Pumpkin, chickpea & coconut curry in the cafeteria aka 'slave trough area #1' in a quite remote booth with Kayla.

  "He turned into a huge white round balloon. Then everything around me was white. I realized the harness had inflated like a bunch of massive airbags around me. I was falling like a huge Michelin man, Wrapped in a bunch of massive balloons. I felt the balloon bounce off a building or walkway or something. I heard him screaming in delight, he was enjoying himself. I tensed up and then hit the ground then launched up again like I was on a huge trampoline. I landed in several bounces like the mars Mars Exploration Rover".

  "Wow," said Kayla, nibbling on her smoky veggie feijoada.

  "Eventually, I stopped bouncing and the whole thing deflated. I was crawling on the ground so dizzy I thought someone had put me into the washing machine on spin cycle. Then I look up and there was an explosion. He told me later that there was a biological cold store which was being auto-destructed."2

  Rockwood had told me that was the Senator destroying the evidence or rather the police destroying the evidence for her. Surprisingly none of the cities leaders had been arrested.

  "What did you say after jumping from a tall building?" Prompted Kayla fishing for one of my signature insults. The orange glow from my emotion earring light Kayla's face.3

  "Again again!" I said.

  "What did he say?" said Kayla.

  "Nothing he kissed me,"7

  "ohhh what was it like?" said Kayla.

  "Parmesan Vomity - I was so dizzy I started to throw up," I said.

  "That's so romantic," said Kayla.

  "He was OK about it. We got into a ground car he had waiting. The place was crawling with police"

  "bad girl, " said Kayla neutrally. What was he like when he got back?" said Kayla.

  "Well, he was like the cat with the cream. He said if I wanted a game he would upload one. So he did this one involves me being tied down. It's a bit like one of those simon says games except he has to stroke or touch a different part of my body in the right order. The collar detects which part of me is being touched then he gets points according to how accurately he hit the right body part"

  Chapter 60/Him/Bear necessities

  A few days later I was just coming too after my mid-m
orning nap. It was a quite day OK, you try being a pet. I get quiet days okay? Yeh even Pixel has low battery days right?2

  I was woken up by my collar telling me that someone was approaching. Incomes Kayla and Joe on their lunch break.2

  "Can we use your table I want to have a second opinion on how dumb my boyfriend is?" said, Kayla.

  "What is it?" I asked.

  "Get your table out and I'll show you," said Kayla.

  I asked my collar to access the wall to show the digital table. Joe reluctantly sent his slave stream to the table. At first, the video is blank but that because we are not allowed to see a video of him 'at work' Kayla flicks through the video and starts from last night but there is a picture of a robot there.

  "What's going on?" I asked

  "Mr cinder here had a date with a robot last night," said Kayla.

  "Robots have emotional needs to," said Joe.

  "You're seriously going to believe that color crap? There's only one thing that a robot ones out of people, and it is not your ability as a cook. They want blood. Mostly your blood. After they've got your blood, then they want you to do everything they've seen on dark side the Internet." Kayla said.6

  "I'm short of detail guys can you fill me in?" I said.

  "Remember it turns out that as a perk for working here the robots can put themselves on to Cinder. They can't force you to do anything but if you consent you can end up being their girlfriend. Mr Genius here only had to stick to the usual plan. Turn up, have dinner, say no thank you and goodbye" Kayla said

  While Kayla was saying all this to me, Joe was flicking backward and forwards in the video stream trying to get to the bits he remembered. This time he was sitting in some kind of booth, the robot who was an 8ft tall Paradise systems, slave control robot sat opposite. The control systems we called overseers were bipedal, had heads with about five eyes of different sizes and the personality of gangster rapper who used to work for the Nazis.

  We watch the slave cam stream

  {

  "Hi - I'm Kijo," said the robot on the slave stream video as he sat down

  "Where are you?" I asked.

  "It's the restricted section in the restaurant," said Kayla.

  "It has a restricted section? Why's it restricted?" I said.

  "shut up and listen," said Kayla.

  We watched the video from Joe's collar cam.

  "I hope you don't mind babe, but I ordered for you," said the robot Kijo on the video.

  "What a condescending bucket of bolts," I said.

  "Err no, that's fine," said Joe then suddenly a pizza was delivered onto the table.

  }

  I stopped the video.

  "IS THAT PIZZA?" I said. "THEY CAN MAKE PIZZA? All we get is that healthy crap" I said my eye sticking out on stalks like an alien invader.

  "Turns out the robots can order a whole bunch of food slaves can't. Wait it get's better," says Joe. starrting the video again.

  {

  "Bet you would like some of this," said Kijo the Robot on the video. Holding up a bottle.

  "Is that wine?" said Joe on the video.

  }

  "Is that wine? TIHS it's wine. They have wine?" I said getting a level one PG shock. No wonder there was a restricted section in the cafeteria if the slaves knew there was pizza I would probably be a riot.4

  "See - see that's what I said, " said Joe finally vindicated.

  We watched hungrily as Joe proceeded to eat pizza.

  "I'm his pet, and even I don't get pizza or wine," I said conveniently forgetting the champagne as oblivion detox I had. I guessed from his reaction neither did Joe in the harem.

  The Video continued

  {

  The conversation went on and on mostly it was Kijo doing all the talking. I could see Joe's blood pressure and heart rate start off high and decline as the glass of wine kicked in.

  "What's that?" said Joe pointing at Kijo's arm.

  "I wanna introduce you to a personal friend of mine. This is an M41A pulse rifle. Ten millimeter with over-and-under thirty-millimeter pump action grenade launcher" said Kijo the robot on the video waving his arm around and opening the gun cover.

  "Wow is that a 10-millimetre stun-bolt?" said Joe.

  The weapon tech talk went on for a while. Then it paused, and then it continued again.1

  }

  "What kind of idiot are you?" said Kayla.

  "What do you mean? He kept asking me questions about the harem I had to shut me up so I could eat the pizza. What's wrong with that? " said Joe.

  "No! you showed you were interested in things he was interested in. Got him to talk about him self. Now he's going to start liking you, and he's going to think that you like him" said Kayla.

  "He is? Oh Kcuf" said Joe.

  "You may have the body of a frail woman but you have the heart and stomach of a grade one emotional male retard. Why were you looking into his eyes so much?" I said. OK a little harsh I admit.2

  "The collar kept telling me to do it. Look if I knew this was how you got people to like you do you think I wouldn't have tried it on my own kind by now? I'm going to rephrase that, on girls?" said Joe.

  "You did it on me," said Kayla accusingly.

  "Yes well your different. It was kind of easy to talk to you," said Joe looking at Kayla then away.

  "Look why didn't you just tell him you came with extra plumbing?" I said

  "Are you crazy? Do you know what homophobes robots are? Their masculine self image is so fragile that any hint of my extra plumbing would most likely lead to have him remove said plumbing with a pair rusty scissors. My plan is just to say we aren't compatible and leave it at that. " said Joe.2

  "That's not the worst of it. It get's worse" said Kayla Playing the video from near the end of the dinner.

  {

  "So" Kijo the robot on the video "how about you and I take this little night to the next level? All you have to do is to sign your consent machine and Cinder can organize another date. After that we can knock things up a level"

  "Err Sure." said Joe on the stream.

  }

  "There your honor I suggest I have the dumbest boyfriend ever," said Kayla pointing at the table.

  "Well, I must agree with my learned counsel that was the dumbest thing I have see since my brother tried to pin the Kennedy assassin on a wet fish. WHAT IN YOU BURT OUT EXCUSE FOR A BRAIN POSSESSED YOU TO DO SOMETHING SO MONUMENTALLY DUMB?" I said to Joe.

  "Thank you, my lord, I think I used very similar words my self," said Kayla.

  "Err- well ... it was the wine. I was on a bit of calorie high. I though I could walk away with another bottle for you, err" said Joe.1

  "Have they create a new order of stupid I wasn't previously aware of? You know If you agree to date that machine again, cinder rules says even if you say no he get's a second bite a the cherry to talk you back. It's going to be two dates now before he's off your back and each date is an opportunity to discover the state of your plumbing an decided to tear you an extra a$$" said Kayla.2

  I nodded in full agreement.

  The video played on.

  {

  "Not much for dessert here but when cinder organizes a new date I'll bring some of my supply of chocolate I looted in Brussels. You have beautiful eyes princess. You know I love the name 1327, the factory production line which made me had 32 in its serial code " said Kijo.

  }

  "What??. Stop! play that back," I said. Both Kayla and I looked back at the table to make sure we head heard things right. We stood in perfect silence, tense with anticipation. We played it back slowly.1

  {

  "Not much for dessert but when cinder organizes a new date I'll bring some of my supply of chocolate I looted in Brussels," said Kijo.

  }

  "Kayla please pinch me. OW. Thanks did I just hear that?" I said. We played it again tensely.

  {

  "Not much for dessert but when cinder organizes a new date I'll bring some of my supply
of chocolate I looted in Brussels." said Kijo.

  }

  "What's up?" said Joe looking confused.

  "You didn't say that kcuf-er has got a supply of chocolate," said Kayla.5

  "Of course he did I mean he had a supply of pizza and wine," said Joe.

  "Kalya, I take it all back your boyfriend is genius!" I said. "I bow to your extreme robot dating skills and here by over turn my previous sentence. Case closed. " I said.7

  "Joe, my dear my loved one, you'rd so dating that robot twice. I know I'll program your makeup" said Kayla helpfully.4

  "You can use my clothes printer!" I said.

  "There might be a slight charge later in chocolate" with both mumbled.4

  "kcuf - when was the last time you had any chocolate?" said Kayla to me.

  "I can't remember that's so sad :-(" I said. I actually asked my collar, and it searched my pre-slave history and found a wonderful little moment when I had shot into a local boutique chocolate shop near campus the day I had got a particularly impenetrable text which as either good or bad from my former boyfriend. If only I had known it was the last chocolate before slavery, I would have appreciated it more and possibly made a secret hoard somewhere.8

  "That is sad, I grieve for you my sister," said Kayla.1

  "What happened to the whole danger of dating a heavily armed killer robot who may re-work my plumbing with rusty scissors business?" said Joe.

  "Aren't you paying attention. That was pre-chocolate? Now you're under skirt surprise danger has to be balanced against the very real possibility of chocolate," I said.

  "You mean you're willing to risk my life to get your hands on chocolate?" said Joe.7

  "You know you are very cute in that lipstick, and I frequently take you for a real person but at the end of the day, I have to keep reminding myself, that no matter how curvy you look in that catsuit, you're still suffering from the long-term disability of extra plumbing. Unfortunately, this plumbing is attached, at a distance, to your greatest deficit, specifically a man's brain. This chocolate deficit syndrome of yours is simply a symptom of your wider condition what we technically call a Y gene excess disorder or in lay man's terms your not a girl," I said.