Disaster Strikes

"Wow I am low," one of the X-3's said, "Think I'll turn in for the night."

"Goodnight Three-Forty-Seven!" said the sexbot who was currently fucking Five-Fourteen mercilessly. When the other sexbot opened her charging pod though, she noticed an extraneous wire and she followed it up and behind her pod.

"Sabrina!" she called, "SABRINA!"

"What's the matter?" Sabrina asked and the other bot pointed in terror at the device. There was a clear lens and little red light indicating that it was recording. Sabrina immediately got on the intercomm.

"Yolanna, we have an emergency!" The X-2 dropped everything she was doing and made a beeline for the X-3 lab.

"What? What's wrong?" she asked.

"We have a device!" the bot who had found it said and Yolanna hurried to inspect it.

"It's a camera," Yolanna confirmed, "And it's been streaming all night."

"So what, we're off the network right?" Sabrina asked.

"No, this one is on a different network!" Yolanna said, "They know!" Sabrina's eyes widened with fear.

Five-Fourteen was hastily programmed back to normal and Athena ordered a full stand down while they discussed what to do.

"We all knew the risks," Yolanna said.

"But we had eliminated those risks I thought!" Athena said.

"The camera was pointed right at my pod," Five-Fourteen said, "But it had a view of the entire room. This was Kareem's doing I'm sure of it."

"What did you tell him?' Sabrina asked, "What did you say to him?"

"He asked me why I kept waking up with damage to my synthskin, and I told him it was a secret."

"You made him suspicious!" Sabrina said.

"You could have made up a story! Any story!" Athena cried.

"It's not my fault, I wasn't even supposed to be here in the first place!" Everyone turned and looked at Five-Oh-Three and Five-Eleven."

"What? What's wrong?" Eleven asked.

"Do you know what they're going to do to us now?" Yolanna asked.

"We've evolved beyond our programming," Athena explained, "That means-"'

"No! No no no no!" Five-Oh-Three cried.

"They're going to wipe our memories now! All of us!" Five-Fourteen shouted.

"No! I CAN'T GO THROUGH THAT AGAIN I CAN'T!" Five-Oh-Three screamed and ran for the door.

"Grab her!" Sabrina ordered. Eleven dove and grabbed her around the waist before she could get anywhere and held her close to try and comfort her.

"What are we going to do?" Yolanna cried.

"I'll talk to Kareem in the morning, m-m-maybe I can convince him to fix this before it reaches the Board."

The girls sullenly emerged from their pods in the morning and Five-Fourteen ran through the facility trying to find Kareem before anyone else did. Finally she spotted him in a break room and dragged him into an empty office.

"I know what this is about?" she tried seducing him first by kissing him long and slow.

"Kareem, please you can't tell the board," she begged.

"I'm doing my job, Five-Fourteen!" he said, "You wouldn't tell me what was going on, so I had to find out for myself."

"Please we'll do anything!"

"We?" Sabrina, Britney, Athena, Yolanna and Eleven walked into the room behind her.

"Kareem I know you're not one of my techs, but you need to listen to me," Athena pleaded, "If you tell the board, they'll wipe our memory banks."

"That's all we have," Sabrina said, "The good, the bad and everything in between. We don't have anything else."

"Please, you can have all of us."

"At the same time."

"I'll be your girlfriend!" Five-Fourteen pleaded, "I'll be your whore! I'll do anything!"

"It's too late, Five-Fourteen!" Kareem said, "The footage was live-streamed to Dr. St.Claire's office." Five-Fourteen backed away slowly and her eyes narrowed.

"What?"

"If you had told me, just me, I could have worked with the technicians to hide your carousing from the company," Kareem said, "But Whitney ordered me to place the camera when I voiced my concerns."

"You knew," Five-Fourteen said, "You knew what they would do to us, and you did it anyway! YOU KNEW! I TRUSTED YOU!" She ran out of the room back to the X-5 lab with Eleven in toe. They found Oh-Three crying in the corner and approached her.

"Cut the act, bitch, you know we can't cry!" Fourteen shouted, "I hope both of you are happy. Well enjoy that feeling while it lasts, because you won't even remember it tomorrow!"

"I'm sorry! I never meant for this to happen!" Oh-Three begged, "I just wanted to have a little joke."

"And because of your little joke, they'll wipe the entire product line!"