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Chapter 4
by Alexleigh
Haunt: This choice has consequences
Never skip leg day
When it comes down to it, mobility beats strength any day of the week. Doesn't matter how strong your opponent is if you can tire them out. Prodding around, you deem the work feasible. It has been ages since you gave PR073-C70R's legs any sort of proper check-up, its definitely not lubricated well enough to support the amount of stress being put through its gears. On that note, you haven't really updated your ravaged by crush fantasy in a long while either. Might as well drift off and do a bit of fixing on your own lubrication...
"Shiva!" Crush shouts from atop the cliff, naked, their glorious mane fluttering in the wind. Their hot bod' naked and... hot and stuff...
"You!" You shout, "Oh please, save me from these non-acid spitting wolves, which are still very dangerous, though reasonably manageable as opponents."
They look down, disappointment painstakingly painted on their beautiful, sexy face, "Alas, even in fantasy you do not dare dream too big. Fear not, I will overpower your antagonizers. And then..."
"Yes?" You whisper longingly.
"What did you say!?" Crush shouts.
"I whispered 'yes' in a sexualized way!" You shout back.
"Why... Why would you whisper? You're imagining me atop a cliff." Crush looks around bewildered, "Actually, how did you imagine this scenario going?"
You feel your cheeks redden in a very unsexy way. You don't know why you're imagining that, but you are. "Uh, that you'd jump down and beat up these wolves. Then... you know."
"Then what?"
You make a vague gesture. "Then you'd... ravage me."
Before your crush can reply, an obviously annoyed wolf says "I can hold my tongue no longer!"
Another wolf chimes in apologetically, "Please don't Steve."
"No, Abigail! I will not! I'm tired of these damsel in distress fantasies. Shiva, girl, why aren't you the one saving them?"
You look down at the ground and mutter, "Do we really need to go there?"
Half screaming, your Crush replies, "I think we do. These cliches are tiring. Where's your progressive, adventurous spirit!" The wolves nods in agreement. A few of them even adds their opinion to the growing chorus of questions from the pack. God. Is this for real?
Is your sexual fantasy... making you cry?
Jesus, you're being really mean on yourself. Sure, you never had a friend friend, but that doesn't make you weird or anything. Does it?
You're suddenly torn from your fantastically mean fantasy when, suddenly, the robot's eyes begin to glow and its LED display flickers to life. An exclamation mark followed by a brief intelligible message flashes across it Then, it speaks.
"Detecting INTENSE hearth palpations in USER SHIVA" PR073-C70R's voice is shrill and uneven. Whirring to life as it's hydraulics starts pumping. Plates retracting from their open Repair position to their_ tightly closed Active_ state with loud thumps and a lot of unnecessary spinning. If only that was the worst about the robots eerie design. No, much worse is its comfort directive.
Last time you forgot to turn it off, you couldn't sit or bend over for a week straight. Despite no one knowing what happens, it's still an incredibly humiliating experience.
"Initiate emotion de-escalation routine." PR073-C70R's upper body swings around, it's lower body lagging slightly behind. The unfinished hand reaching for you, a grim reminder of work still to be done.
"No, need. I'm fine," you plead. Hey, maybe it'll work this time!? Didn't work last time. Or the time before that, but- this time?
"Initiate emotion de-escalation routine." PR073-C70R insists, pulling you towards it. You squirm in its grip, but it's no use. Not only does it have unimaginable strength compared to your small human frame, it also has several kilos of steel as leverage.
You can do nothing as it initiates its humiliating "comfort" directive. Resistance is futile. PR073-C70R draws you in slowly, deliberately - an attempt to ease victims into a state of relaxation - to not further agitate those it is meant to comfort. Whoever designed this was an idiot, you manage to think through a panicked haze of thoughts. Nowhere to run. PR073-C70R lifts you off the floor, as its LED display flickers between several 'Emoticons' and vistas of a quiet seaside villages, water lapping a beach, the sound of a distant seagull squawking. Pretty sure that's not supposed to be there.
Firmly holding you, PR073-C70R lifts you up in front of it. The way you're dangling makes you feel naked and exposed, helpless at the hands of an unfeeling machine. Then... It hugs you.
"Tell SIR ROBBINGTON all of your WORRIES. All of your IMMEDIATE concerns causing you MAJOR distress. I care for you USER SHIVA. SIR ROBBINGTON is here to PROTECT and CARE for you." Ugh, why does this feel so awfully nice. Some sort of conductors on its plating emulating human body temperature? PR073-C70R's embrace feels like it's going to make everything alright, hush, baby- it's all right, PR073-C70R is here for you.
"Stop, PR073-C70R." You try to wrestle out of its, admittedly, warm and friendly embrace. "Really, I'm fiiiiiiiiiiineeee!"
"SIR ROBBINGTON does not recognize designation PR073-C70R. Please address unit by user designation," It demands. If you have to hang for an eternity, so be it, back pain be damned!
Sir Robbington was a dumb name you entered into it's system way back when you discovered a way to reach the internal variables in PR073-C70R's programming. You've tried changing it back since then, but either you're too stupid to understand ancient man's programming languages or, more worryingly, PR073-C70R simply refused any new input.
You don't know how much time passes. Not really unusual, but something about the hug makes your anxious thoughts quiet down. Leaving your usual mental battlefield empty and boring. Defeated, dangling in its arms, you sigh, "User Shiva has adequately calmed. I'm fine Sir Robbington, you can let me down now."
Gently, Robbington releases you back onto the workshop floor and ruffles your hair condescendingly.
It's a piece of work, the robot. You can't imagine its intended purpose. A lot of drunk nights have been spent, beverage in hand, loudly speculating this issue with your friends. After a lot of arguing, you reached a sort of almost consensus. You all agreed that there's no way Robbington's only purpose could have been hugging. Despite the fact that it took some serious convincing in order to get it to comfort wildlife to ****, by whacking it repeatedly with a makeshift-sword.
Must have been twelve or something, when you and the gang found it. Still had most of its original plating attached - before needing replacement due to a lot of wildlife comforting. It had been the sort of design that signalled an open, friendly guardian... or something.
What's next?
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Dawnbreaker
What Remains
Humanity did a tiny apocalypse. No one really knows what happened - robot uprising, plague, maybe an invasion of weather balloons. What matters is that humanity still stubbornly lingers around earth like a drunk after closing time. You're Shiva. A twenty something girl caught between freedom and responsibility. Living your life, exploring the world with your friends or working in your father's workshop for all eternity. It shouldn't be a tough choice for most. Then again, no one else has your unique talent of intense self-loathing with an added dose of over thinking every single decision you've ever made. TW: To be added
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Updated on Oct 6, 2019
by Alexleigh
Created on Sep 16, 2019
by Alexleigh
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