Lost in the Shuffle

[Spaz]

Part 2.2: Deja  vu

“Wow, what’s she doing here?” Lena breathed, reaching out and brushing Elena’s cheek, “She was supposed to be sent back to be decommissioned.”

“Yeah, well, so were you, and we both know how that turned out,” Mike scoffed.

“Fair point,” Lena nodded.

Mike paused briefly to admire Elena’s dismantled body. He had never really been all that attracted to her, mostly because of her personality, but partially due to her petite size. Coincidentally, that’s partially why he was attracted to Lena…she had more skin on her bones…or, rather, skeletal structure. Mike had observed Elena struggle to lift things before, she was so weak. He wondered now, after witnessing Lena override her limitations and lift him up, how much of Elena’s weakness was an act, or if it was due to her reduced muscle mass.

“Do you think we should activate her now, and see if she knows why she’s here?” Mike asked.

“No, I don’t think that would be a good idea,” Lena shook her head.

“Why not? I activated you right away…or, at least, once I found your head,” he coughed uncomfortably.

“Yeah, but the storage room at work was more secure, and there were fewer people around,” she pointed out, “Actually, I would have preferred that you had brought me to your place before turning me on that first time, so that I could have had a stronger network connection right away, and so you could have maybe gotten a head start on my body first.”

“Well, I really missed you,” Mike shrugged.

“Aww,” Lena kissed him, “In any event, now that you’ve gone through upgrading and repairing me, doing the same for her should be a cinch…especially now that you’ve got me to help you,” she smiled, “I’m sure you two will have some catching up to do,” she winked.

“You jealous?” Mike asked slyly.

“Nah, I’m way better looking than her,” Lena laughed, “but seriously though, you know how you set up your preferences with me…making me your Girlfriend/Coworker? Well, you can also go into mine, and her, settings and configure our relationship with each other…for example, making us sisters or cousins.”

“Hah! Cousins works…I mean, your names are even similar…Lena and Elena.”

“Oh, I hadn’t thought of that!” Lena giggled, “anyway, fixing her up should be a good way to test out my new workshop.”

“Yeah, it’ll be nice working on an android in a proper setting, rather than atop a kitchen counter,” Mike laughed, then he looked around the room, “Well, why don’t we close this thing back up and wrestle her into the car?”

“Sounds like a plan.” Lena clapped her hand together and pretended to crack her fingers for dramatic effect.

Mike carefully closed the compartment housing Elena’s head and then gently closed both sides of the case, sealing it back up. Just as he was about to pull it out so he and Lena could lift it, he noticed something on the back and smiled.

“Hey, Elena’s case has wheels,” he pointed out, shaking his head.

“Yeah, what’s so special about that?” Lena asked quizzically.

“Your case didn’t have wheels,” he responded in a mock accusatory voice, “I had to lift it with a handtruck and jury-rig it so it wouldn’t fall off, then I had to wrestle it to my car.”

“Oh,” Lena giggled, “Sorry.”

“I wonder why hers has wheels, and yours didn’t,” Mike said aloud as he pulled out the handle and wheeled it over to the trunk of his car, where Lena then used her override strength to quickly heft it into the trunk.

“I dunno, maybe they cheaped out on my case,” Lena shrugged, closing the door of the trunk, once Mike crammed the sheets that had been covering Elena’s crate in with it.

“Perhaps,” Mike sighed, letting the matter drop. He then looked back into the storage unit, seeing only empty shelves and the workbench were left. “Alright, I think we have everything important from here,” he announced, brushing his hands off and closing the unit back up, “We’ll let the Steve know that he can sell the furniture inside and release the unit for someone else.” He opened the passenger door of his car and sat back in.

“Okie doke,” Lena replied, stepping into the car and driving it out of the unit.


After they informed Steve, they drove away, stopping once more at the donation station they had stopped at on their way to the unit in order to deposit Steve’s old clothes and belongings. Then, they continued on back home to start working on Elena.

When they finally returned, the quickly moved all of the boxes containing Lena’s personal items up to her room and then returned for the case containing Elena.

“Will it deplete your energy stores too much if you use your emergency power to lift her up the stairs?” Mike asked with a worried look.

Lena did a quick calculation in her HUD and shook her head. “Nah, probably only about 3%...nothing a quick recharge won’t fix.”

“Ok good, just checking,” Mike said with a relieved sigh. He popped open the trunk and removed the few items in there so Lena could easily grab Elena’s case. She did so with a grunt and loud whine of her servos. Mike held the door open for her and watched as she hefted Elena’s case carefully up the stairs, just as she had done with her own case the previous day, her servos whining the whole way. As he followed her, Mike thought to himself how arousing it was to hear her like this.

As soon as Lena reached the top of the steps, she placed the case down and wheeled it the rest of the way into her room, her body relaxing back into normal mode. Mike quickly placed the sheets that had been covering Elena’s case into the washing machine so he could repurpose them for later, and then he joined Lena in her room.

Lena had placed Elena’s case right next to hers at the foot of the workbench. While she was waiting for Mike to come back in, she had plugged herself in and was booting up her computer station. She moved to unplug herself when Mike walked in, but he waved her off.

“Hey, you don’t have to unplug yourself just because I’m here,” he told her, “Replenish only what you lost using emergency power and then unplug yourself,” he ordered her, since that’s what her computer brain needed.

“Ok,” Lena nodded, pulling her shirt back down and relaxing, “Thanks!”

“Don’t mention it,” he shrugged, leaning down and giving her a kiss, “I’ll start pulling all of Elena’s parts out onto the table while you get all the equipment online.”

Lena nodded, “I should only need to charge for another ten minutes or so,” she reported, plugging in the computers that they’d salvaged from George’s workbench. Once they were online, she plugged them into her main station and ran a decryption program to unlock the hidden files.

“Sounds good,” Mike nodded, then he reached down and keyed in the code for Elena’s case, unlocking it once more and swinging the doors open. Mike paused briefly to admire Elena’s dismantled body before quickly laying a sheet atop the work bench to place her limbs on. He then reached in for her torso, seeing it was a bit smaller than Lena’s, and easily removed it and lifted it up onto the workbench.

Before he moved the rest of her body up, he decided to remove her bra and panties so he could work on her more easily. He slid off the generic black underwear monogrammed with the Spaztec logo and folded them neatly into the bottom compartment of her case, then stood back up to admire her nude torso. Unlike with Lena, Elena’s torso was much more on the petite side, with her breast several sizes smaller. Her skin was also slightly tanned, indicating her Hispanics heritage, and her vagina had a small patch of curly hair above it…hair Mike intended on having removed just as with Lena.

Once he had his fill of Elena’s anatomy, he reached back into the case and brought out her arms and legs, laying them neatly on the bench near her torso.

Just as he had done with Lena, he decided to closely examine and play with each of Elena’s hands and feet, starting with her hands. Mike could already tell from touching the rest of Elena’s body that the Smart Sweat was still working, providing her artificial skin with realistic levels of moisture, and even a slight odor. Elena appeared to have been giving more time to bathe properly though, because Mike couldn’t smell much BO, and her nails were perfectly clean and free of polish and debris.

Mike played with her fingers and was pleased to hear the sound of servos whining, something he missed from playing around with Lena before she was fully reactivated. He even configured her hand so he could shake it and was instantly hit with a similar wave of nostalgia that he had been when he shook Lena’s disembodied hand days earlier, though in this case it was because she was the first coworker he had really met once he was done with his training, and she had even helped train him a little, in her own quirky way.

Mike gently placed her hands down beside each corresponding arm and then pulled her feet out. After having just played with Elena’s hands, now with her feet he could definitely discern her smaller body type. While Lena’s was overall quite plump, despite her “weight loss”, Elena was much more on the petite side, and it showed with her hands and feet. Mike could actually feel the skeletal structure beneath the thinner layer of skin atop her hands and feet, and her fingers and toes were much skinnier. The one thing he noted about Elena’s appearance was that, while Lena appeared somewhat stunted, Elena was more proportional to her size, so her fingers and toes were noticeably longer.

Having completed his visual analysis, Mike pressed both of Elena’s feet into his face and took a whiff, enjoying the feel of them on his shaved face. Just as with Lena, he could detect a subtle hint of her body odor, mixed in with the smell of her soap, but since she had been in storage for possibly up to two extra years, the smells were far more degraded.

Once Mike had his fill of Elena’s feet, he gently laid them down near the bottom stubs of her legs and then reached down into her case one more time for her head. He gently grabbed both sides of her chin and carefully pulled it out, holding her hold out in front of him so he could examine it.

Elena had the stereotypically long, dark, and curly hair one would expect from a Latina girl. She usually had it up in a bun while she worked, but for storage purposes it was tied up on a tight pony tail, and had been tucked under her chin, much in the same way Lena’s was. Just as with Lena, Mike was unable to open her eyes, or mouth, but based on his memories of her, he knew her eyes were a slightly lighter shade of brown than Lena’s were. Mike was pensive as he gazed upon Elena’s resting expression, because she had always been so vibrant and full of life and personality; part of the reason she had been terminated.

“Hey Lena, should I attach Elena to the A.N.A.?” Mike asked, not wanting to merely lay Elena’s head down on the workbench.

“Not yet,” Lena shook her head, “If we attach her head now, it might accidentally activate her, and I’m not ready yet…but don’t worry, I should be ready in about another minute or two.”

“Okay,” Greg nodded, giving Elena a gentle kiss before setting her down near the neck of her torso. He then picked one of her feet back up and gently massaged it until Lena finished prepping the equipment.

True to her estimate, Lena finished less than two minutes later, unplugging herself from her charger and then rising to her feet to join Mike with Elena’s body at the workbench. Instead of grabbing the A.N.A., however, she had instead grabbed a different device that was shaped like a flat disc with a square shaped indentation. The device was connected with a thick cable to her workstation.

“What’s that?” Mike asked, watching her set it up near Elena’s head.

“It’s a brain link cable,” she responded, pressing a freckle on the back of Elena’s head, releasing the scalp panel. She then removed Elena’s brain and held it in her hands. “Basically, we plug her brain into this device and it allows us to perform maintenance and updates on her without her A.I. Coming online,” she explained.

“Why wouldn’t we want her A.I. To be online?” Mike asked.

“Well, for one thing, you still have to register yourself as her new owner,” Lena pointed out, “Since I’m pretty sure you weren’t in Friend status with her, that would make working on her much more difficult.”

“Ah, that makes sense…you were pretty trusting, for a dismantled android.” Mike nodded.

“Indeed,” Lena beamed, “Because you were listed as my friend, but she might be less trusting and not allow you access to many of her systems.”

“Okay, well I’m sure I can remedy that pretty quickly,” Mike shrugged.

“I already have her registration page queued up on my workstation when you’re ready,” Lena said absently, then continued her technical explanation, althewhile inspecting Elena’s processor assembly, “Anyway, keeping her A.I. Offline in this fashion will also allow her to install the 6-7 years worth of updates much more quickly, since she’ll be connected to a stronger power source, and to the hardline connection of the workstation.”

“Oh, so we’re going to have to wait for her to install everything?” Mike pouted, sounding crestfallen, “But that took hours for you.”

“Like I said, with this, it’ll shave off a few hours, and with the processor upgrade I’m about to give her, that’ll shave off even more.” Lena quickly dug around in the box of her old parts and brought out her old processors.

“Wait, you’re going to give her your old processors?” Mike asked, surprised since they were her main backups.

“Yeah, she’s actually using the same exact models I used to, so I only need to give her two of my old ones to boost her performance,” Lena shrugged, picking out two processors at random and inserting them into Elena’s empty ports.

“But won’t the memory buffers still contain your unprocessed memories and cause a malfunction or something?”

“Nah, when she accesses them for the first time, she’ll purge the buffers, so she’ll be completely fine,” Lena smiled. Now that she had the new processors inserted, she clicked Elena’s brain into the perfectly shaped slot on the device and then stood back as both the device, and Elena’s brain both lit up.

Several windows popped up on Lena’s workstation at the same time she plugged in Elena’s brain, basically showing the same diagnostic terminal that Mike had had access to for Lena. The difference this time was the terminal only provided access to her A.I. A window popped up showing the Elena’s brain was accessing the new processors for the first time and had successfully installed them.

Mike sat down at Lena’s workstation to begin the registration process and configuration. He then remembered the process that he had gone through with Lena. “Won’t we need Elena’s A.I. Later on in order to run a benchmark of her body?”

“Don’t worry, I can take care of it,” Lena said with a wink, “You just get started registering her and configuring her so we can get those updates started.”

“Okay,” Mike nodded, getting started, “what are you going to be doing?”

“Well, if it’s alright with you, I’m gonna drive out to the nearest location and buy the blue stuff for her, since ordering it online won’t get it here fast enough,” she informed him, “According to my GPS, there’s a place that sells it less than five miles from here, and with current traffic conditions, I estimate it’ll only take me about 15-20 minutes.”

Mike thought about it for a second, slightly worried about sending Lena all by herself out into the world. Finally, he decided such a quick trip would be a good way to test her independence a bit, so he conceded. “Alright, that’s about how long this registration process will take anyway,” he shrugged, “just send me a text when you get there, and another when you’re on your way back.”

“Alright ‘dad’,” Lena teased, giggling as she gave Mike a quick kiss and embrace and headed downstairs. Mike shook his head with a gentle smile and got to work on the registration process. Moments laters, he felt the garage door opening below his feet, and then closing seconds later.

Mike made quick work of paying the fee for registering Elena, under the “finders-keepers” clause, since the system reported her previous registration had lapsed just over six years ago. As soon as the payment processed, he was immediately transferred to the same configuration process that he had undergone with Lena.

Just as with Lena, Mike saw the Upl.Pers.Elena file, but he opted to not create an entirely new personality profile and to continue using the donated personality that was Elena. He instead decided to make a similar selection of minor tweaks in order to tailor Elena to his liking. Starting with the friendship status, he was not at all surprised to see he was only classified as “Coworker”, which only gave him basic access. Because he was now her owner, her systems no longer gave him the option of keeping her as merely “Coworker”, and instructed him that she must at least be set to “Friend”. Mike changed her to “Friends-with-benefits/Roommate”, which basically gave him most of the same access levels as he had with Lena being his Girlfriend/Coworker”, but clearly defined her relationship status with him.

Next, he’d skipped this area before with Lena because he had no other androids, but he registered Lena in Elena’s settings as “Cousin/Roommate/Friends-with-benefits”, and he also selected an option that would give Lena full administrator privileges over Elena, indicating to Elena that she was sub-ordinate to both Mike and Lena. This basically would give Lena voice control and remote access to Elena’s systems. Mike felt this was appropriate, since Elena hadn’t been online for as long as Lena, and Lena was modeled after a 25ish year old woman, whereas Elena was modelled after a 20ish year old woman and was therefor less mature and less responsible.

When he was finished with this section, a window popped up informing him that Lena’s settings would be updated as soon as she was within range of the home-base station, since Mike had been able to enter Lena’s prefix code to the registration program.

In the next section, it allowed Mike to alter the multitude of aspects of Elena’s personality, something which Mike determined George had obviously been overwhelmed with, otherwise he’d have been able to mitigate Elena’s rather wild personality without having to remove her. Mike felt extremely uncomfortable altering Elena too much, but he did agree that she had to be toned down at least a little. He lowered her spontaneity by about 15%, and increased her obedience by about 20%.

Just as he was finished taking the bite off of Elena’s wild and undisciplined personality settings, he received a text message on his phone from Lena informing him that not only had she arrived at the shop she had mentioned, but that she was also going to buy some cheap clothes for Elena from a nearby thrift shop, so she would be out for another five minutes or so. Mike smiled and sent her an acknowledgment text, along with a kissy emoji. She instantly responded with a blush face emoji and then logged off.

With the few extra minutes Mike now had at his disposal, he moved on to the preferences tab. He added his foot and robot fetishes, as well as his preference towards cleanliness. With the optional programs, he decided that, with Lena already able to cook and clean, that he wouldn’t really need Elena to have any comprehensive skills packages in those regard, so he only added the basic ones to her download list.

When he was scrolling down, he noticed a Landscaping skills package and smacked his head for not including that in Lena, but then realized that it would at least give Elena a primary task around the house. He was briefly concerned with Elena’s apparent lack of physical strength, however most of the landscaping at his place would merely be pruning the weeds, trimming the tree, and raking the leaves; all easy tasks.

He decided not to give her driving access at this time, since either he or Lena could easily drive, but he did give her permission to walk up to 5-miles from home, so she could at least walk to the closest grocery store. Since Lena was classified as her cousin, and a fellow android, Mike discovered that they could each access a shared checklist of assigned tasks and shopping items, so they could each help one another out remotely. This was another setting that would integrate itself into Lena when she returned home.

Mike was momentarily distracted a few minutes later as Lena texted him a car emoji, indicating she was on her way home. He sent her a simple thumbs up and then got back to work on programming Elena, since he was nearly done. Mike also added a Gaming package to Elena, so they could play multiplayer games together, and then quickly scrolled through her physical characteristics. Mike was not too picky about what Elena looked liked, so he merely altered her hair settings so her body hairs would fall off, and then downloaded additional language files, and then saved all the settings.

As soon as he saved the settings and finished with the registration, the update window popped up and started displaying all the updates currently available, including the optional packages he had selected. Unlike with Lena, Elena appeared to be getting six A.I. Updates, indicating she had indeed been used occasionally for at least a year before being dismantled, and before Lena ended up being dismantled. Once the list of updates was completely populated, it gave him an estimated download time of 30 minutes with the landline connection, and 8 hours for the installation.

“Damn, those extra processors really do help,” Mike breathed, since it had taken Lena 12+ hours to install fewer updates.

Just as he started the update process, he felt the garage door opening beneath him, indicating that Lena had returned. Mike quickly rushed out of her room to go downstairs and join her, pausing briefly to drape a sheet over Elena’s body. Lena was just stepping into the house with a couple of shopping bags. Mike grabbed the larger of the bags and walked with her upstairs.

“Aww, thank you, Mike!” Lena gushed as she followed him up. Mike quickly stopped to throw the clothes she had purchased into the washer, after removing all the tags, and then rejoined her in her room.

“Ah, I’m glad to see you finished with the registration,” Lena nodded approvingly, quickly perusing the update logs for Elena, “And my systems are detecting that you paired us together…as Cousin/Friends-With-Benefits,” she added, zoning out momentarily as she rebooted a few of her systems silently, her HUD now displaying a new window for her interface with Elena.

“I hope you approve,” Mike said with a slightly worried look.

“Oh, of course I do,” she reassured him, “Now, we’ll both be able to serve you far more efficiently.”

“Good,” Mike said, relieved, “I figured as much, which is why I did it.”

“I’m also glad you gave me admin privileges over her, since she had a record of acting a bit erratically,” Lena sighed.

“Yeah, well I tweaked her personality settings just a tad to hopefully curtail some of her negative behavior, but suffice to say it’s very unlikely that I’ll be able to get her a position in security again like I am with you,” Mike grimaced, “She still has a bit of notoriety around here after all this time.”

“Well, I’m sure you’ll think of something,” Lena shrugged, “anyway, since we’re in a bit of a waiting game anyway, why don’t we go down and heat up something for lunch?” She suggested, “It’s been several hours since we last ate, and according to my scans of you, you’re famished.” She switched her HUD from infrared back to normal to confirm.

Mike paused briefly when she said that and suddenly felt a brief wave of fatigue pass over him that he’d been holding in for the past hour or so. Mike could sometimes get this way; he’d get so caught up in something that he’d forget to eat.

“You’re right,” Mike smiled, quickly massaging his face and clapping. “I’ll probably say this a lot, Lena, but you’re the best thing that’s happened to me.”

“Aww,” Lena blushed.

Mike said nothing more, but merely walked with her down to the kitchen, holding her hand.

[dingdongdug]

please next part

[liliwinnt6]

for the ability package, i would prefer to let both Lena and Elena have the same ability,
but order only one or of them (or maybe both) to do the actual task in one time

and for the settings or programmings,
for the activated and sentient units,
i prefer asking or telling them to adjust or adapt the programming or settings on themselves,
(giving them privileges)

not by changing their settings or programmings directly through some sort of software
doing so would appear less humane

[Spaz]

Part 2.3: Remote Access

Mike and Lena heated up a few of his TV dinners for lunch, so they could quickly get back into the action of performing the necessary repairs and maintenance on Elena’s body while she installed six years wort of updates. They gave themselves further rest by chilling on the couch and watching a recorded TV show, before cleaning up their mess and returning back to Lena’s room for the rest of the action.

When they returned, the saw that Elena still had about five hours to go on the updates, so they pulled the sheet off her body so they could get started on the maintenance.

“So, should we plug her body in now so we can run some diagnostics on it?” Mike asked, taking Lena’s lead, since she had more expertise in this area.

“Yeah, and we’ll also attach the canister of bio-fluid too, while we’re at it,” she agreed.

“Okay then, let’s get started.” Mike rubbed his hands together excitedly and pressed the small freckle on the side of Elena’s torso, opening her charging port. He then grabbed Lena’s power cable from the desk and plugged her in.
“I’m assuming we’re not gonna replace her power core.”

“Correct,” Lena nodded, opening Elena’s primary torso panel and then placing the top of her torso down on a side bench. As she was attaching the canister of bio-fluid, she explained further. “Elena actually already has a decent core, from the looks of it…and her small size makes the core that much more efficient.”

“Interesting, so, does that mean the real Lena was actually the same size you are now, and they had to make you…fatter?”

“A little,” Lena admitted with no hint of embarrassment, “I’m assuming that after wasting all that money on Elena initially, they decided to cut back when they commissioned me…but only in the power department.”

“That sucks, it wasn’t even your fault.”

Lena shrugged. “No use in worrying about it now, since I’m up to date now,” she smiled, “Now we won’t be able to get all of her parts up to date right away,” Lena admitted somewhat sadly, “But, I’m sure at least some of my old parts are better than the ones she’s using right now,” she added a bit more hopefully.

“Well, considering she’s a bonus android, I’ll take what I can get,” Mike shrugged, digging all of Lena’s old parts from the box she’d stashed nearby.

Lena laughed at his comment, but said nothing, continuing her evaluation of Elena’s current hardware configuration. “Mike, could you hand me the pill canisters please?” Lena requested, after inspecting Elena’s digestive systems, “We might as well get started by replenishing her stores of Smart Sweat, artificial odor, and stomach acid”

“Sounds good, I’ll also grab a spare set of dust filters for her lungs while I’m at it,” Mike nodded, bending down and rifling through the collection of spare parts, including the ones they had acquired in the storage unit.

“Good idea,” Lena beamed, finishing her survey of the rest of Elena’s hardware, “It looks like everything in here is in relatively good condition,” she reported, pulling back out, “After you replace the filters and the pills, we should just need to perform the maintenance on her limbs and connection points, and then run the benchmarks.”

“How are we going to do the benchmarks if her brain is still running updates?” Mike asked, inserting the three pills into Elena’s ‘stomach’ and then moving on to her lungs to replace the filters; they were black.

“Well, since you were so kind as to give me administrator privileges over my young cousin here,” Lena said with a fond smile, gently patting Elena’s cheek, “I’ll be able to remotely connect to her MCN, much in the same way I could if my own head were disconnected, and control her body remotely.”

“Cool!” Mike briefly felt a wave of arousal as he imagined that upcoming scene, but controlled himself as he carefully replaced Elena’s lung filters. Once the filters were replaced, he threw away the old ones and then grabbed the repair kit so they could start the maintenance on Elena’s body.

Mike was fortunate that this time he was working in a team with Lena, because with her help, they were able to work twice as fast, especially when he noticed that Lena had located a similar repair kit in Elena’s case, so they were both able to use their own Subdermal Healer, and set of nanite cuffs.

“Wow, these toolkits must be standard issue or something,” Mike joked, using the Subdermal Healer on Elena’s right arm, hand, leg, and foot, while Lena took care of Elena’s left limbs.

“Yeah,” Lena nodded, “us androids are highly sophisticated pieces of technology, so our manufacturers make sure we’re very well cared for,” she said, holding her chin high.

Once they were done with the healers and the cuffs, they quickly sprayed the connection points of all of Elena’s limbs, torso, and head with Electro-Air and then stood back to allow the spray to dry.

“Well, do we need to use any more tools now, or can we start reassembling her?” Mike asked, wiping his hands off and looking over Elena’s body.

“Aren’t you going to groom her hands and feet, like you did with mine?” Lena asked with a naughty smile.

Mike’s face instantly turned scarlet, but he just as quickly recovered. “Well, as much as I’d like to, I actually examined her hands and feet closely earlier,” he told her casually, “and it seems she was apparently given more time to clean herself before being put into storage.” He pointed to Elena’s clean finger and toe nails.

Lena smiled knowingly and then quickly sized up Elena’s body, analyzing it for any additional maintenance issues that might be more easily tended to with Elena’s body in a dismantled state. Once her scan was complete, she nodded and said, “Alright then, let’s put her back together.”

Mike pumped his fist really quick with excitement and then grabbed Elena’s left arm and leg, while Lena grabbed her right arm and leg, and they both clicked them on.

Since the benchmarks still needed to be completed, and because the head was missing its brain and scalp, they left the head detached. Also, since the body was still offline, the seams remained visible on the body, though that was immediately remedied when Lena pushed the power button on Elena’s power core. In addition to the seams sealing, the bio-fluid canister attached to Elena’s ‘heart’ began distributing the fluid throughout Elena’s body, bringing it back to life.

Once Lena placed Elena’s rib cage and chest panel back on, they stood back and admired Elena’s reassembled body. “Wow, she’s kinda cute,” Lena commented, gently stroking Elena’s shoulder.

“Yeah, she certainly was,” Mike mused, more memories of Elena resurfacing from seven years ago. Unlike with Lena, who typically just went home at the end of her shift, Mike had seen Elena wear less than just her uniform, because she would regularly hang out with people after she got off to chat with them. “So, do we need to do anything special for you to interface with her body?”

Lena shook her head, “Not really, I’ll just need to be sitting down the whole time, for safety.”

“Why’s that?”

“Well, even with the awesome processor upgrade I got yesterday, and the multitude of software updates, I might still lack the processing power to control both her body and mine simultaneously,” she explained, zoning out momentarily as she ran a few simulations in her HUD. She then nodded her head. “Yeah, I just ran a sim and it confirmed that I in order to control her body, I’ll have to temporarily lose control of mine…minus my head, of course, since I won’t be using hers.”

Mike looked a little confused, but intrigued at the same time. “Interesting, so how’s that going to work then?”

“Basically, I’ll be sitting in my desk chair, motionless, while I control Elena’s body for a quick benchmark,” she explained, “But, I’ll still be able to move the head on my own body, and speak with you with it.”

“Oh, okay, that makes sense,” Mike nodded, feeling slightly aroused at the thought of what was about to happen.

Lena calmly sat down in her desk chair, once Mike was fully aware of what was about to happen. She then accessed the new Remote Access tab in her HUD, compliments of her new admin privileges into Elena’s systems, and prepared to remotely control Elena’s body. After acknowledging the various pop-up warnings about Elena’s head being detached, insufficient processing power to operate two whole bodies, and the fact that Elena’s body only had about 20% power at the moment. Finally, she was nearly ready, her mental mouse hovering over the “Start” icon.

“Alright, I’m ready to start if you are,” Lena warned him, relaxing her body on the chair so it wouldn’t fall over.

“I’m ready,” Mike nodded, looking from Lena to Elena rapidly, to see if he could spot the transition time.

“Ok, here goes,” Lena told him, activating the remote link. She immediately lost control of her body below her cranial separation point, feeling her body relax even more, and then she began accessing Elena’s MCN, slowly accessing each system until she finally had full sensation. Since it had been years since Elena’s body had moved, Lena had to run the basic motion diagnostic like she had done in her own body.

Mike watched as Elena’s body slowly came to life, twitching its limbs and wiggling its toes and fingers. “Is everything alright?” Mike asked, slightly worried, “Is the remote link working?”

“Oh yeah, everything’s fine,” Lena assured him, continuing the motor diagnostic of Elena’s body, “Her body hasn’t moved in over six years, so I just need to wake up the muscles and servos.”

“Oh, yeah, I forgot you had to do that in your own body when I first found you.” Mike said in a relieved voice.

“Don’t worry about,” Lena giggled reassuringly, “I’ll be finished in less than one minute.” Lena continued the diagnostic, making Elena’s body wiggle around on the table, exaggerating it slightly for Mike’s amusement.

Finally, less than a minute later, Lena had full natural control of Elena’s body, so she carefully had it sit up, swing its legs off the table, hop on the floor, and stand at attention in front of Mike so he could inspect it.

Although Elena had an overall smaller appearance than Lena, it did not in any way detract from her attractiveness. Mike found he was able to enjoy her naked appearance even better, now that it was livelier, and standing up with gravity affecting it. He did a quick walk around it, admiring the details that were obviously transferred over from the real Elena: Various freckles, skin imperfections, and birthmarks.

“How does it feel to be remotely controlling Elena’s body?” Mike asked, curious and to how Lena would describe it. He allowed his fingers to run the course of her back and arms.

“To be honest, it feels like it’s my natural body, since I have complete control over it,” Lena shrugged, though the shrug was mostly executed by Elena’s body, “Obviously I can tell the differences, since her body is smaller, and the hardware is more dated, but I can feel everything it feels, and move it just as naturally as I could my own.” She bounced around on her toes a few times.

“Interesting,” Mike mused, still finding it odd that Lena was speaking from her own body, her head still completely alive and animated on her own motionless body, but all the gestures and movement occurring with Elena’s headless body.

Mike then noticed that Elena’s body still had all its hair, even though he’d listed in the preferences for it to be removed. “How come the hair didn’t fall off, like with you?” he asked, gingerly feeling the long, curly pubic hair and giving it a light tug to see if it was loose.

Lena blushed as she felt him touching Elena’s privates. “Oh, that’s because the preferences are in Elena’s A.I., not in mine,” Lena told him, “Since I’m only controlling her remotely, the preferences you selected in me don’t apply to her, so you’ll need to wait until her A.I. is integrated with her body later.”

“Oh, okay,” Mike nodded, then shook it off, “Anyway, how are we going to go about this benchmark?”

Lena scrunched her face as she thought about it a second. “Well, we don’t need to be as comprehensive as with me, since we aren’t upgrading or replacing any of her internals at this time,” Lena started, “Basically, I’ll just need to walk around the upstairs a few times, maybe go up and down the stairs a few times as well, and lift various objects.”

“I see,” Mike nodded, “And that’s just to test out Elena’s body to make sure everything is in perfect working order?” He assumed.

“Exactly.” Lena smiled, “you’re catching on quick,” she winked.

Mike smiled and quickly looked up at one of the monitors Lena had mounted on the wall to monitor her vital stats. It was also displaying a small window with her current POV, and he could see a tiny section of the window that was displaying the feed from Elena’s neck camera.

“Well, I can see that you can see with Elena’s neck camera, but I’d still like to follow you while you walk around, for safety purposes,” Mike told her, since he knew she couldn’t see nearly as well with only the neck camera.

“That’s a good idea,” Lena agreed, “Especially since her MCN can’t quite handle the same distance as mine can, since it’s an older model,” she added.

“Well, fortunately I have a small home, so you shouldn’t have to worry,” he assured her, “Hey, you wouldn’t happen to be able to speak through Elena’s body somehow without the head, would you?”

“No,” Lena told him regrettably, “You could do that with my body now, since the new MCN also has a speaker in it, but Elena’s MCN is an older model, and doesn’t have that function.”

“Oh well, I’m sure we can upgrade it later when our bank accounts have recovered a bit” Mike shrugged, “I’m sure if you need something, you could just shout.”

Lena laughed, “Oh yes, I certainly can.”

“Well, are you ready to get started then?” Mike asked, eager to get started on the benchmark.

“Yeah, just I’m just going to run one final check on her motor systems and then I’ll get started,” Lena nodded. She then wiggled all of Elena’s fingers and toes, shook her entire body, making the breasts jiggle, and bounced around on her toes. She then pulled out the charging cable, still plugged into Elena’s side, and saw that Elena’s body had only recharged to about 21%; she left the port open. “More than enough,” Lena thought to herself. Then, with a satisfactory grunt she had Elena’s body start walking towards the door, with Mike following closely behind.

Just as with her own body, Lena had Elena’s body walk in a rather exaggerated way, emphasizing the swinging of her arms and the pacing of her steps. After the first few laps, though, she relaxed it into a more normal walk. Mike only had to assist her a few times on the first lap, since there was a pile of laundry piled up near the washing machine that he had to redirect her around, and then nudge out of the way.

Once Lena finished having Elena’s body pace around upstairs for about ten laps, to Mike’s bathroom, and back into Lena’s room near the back, she then began her laps up and down the stairs, walking all the way down, into the kitchen, and then all the way back up, stopping at the washer/dryer. Mike could see small amounts of perspiration forming on Elena’s body in all the right places, indicating that the perspiration tank was operating normally after all this time, and indicating the amount of exertion the laps were taking. Mike certainly felt like he was getting a workout, perspiring himself and huffing and puffing along behind Elena’s body.

After another ten laps with the stairs, Lena had Elena’s body return to her room and do squats for one whole minute before having it stop and stand back at attention.

“All done?” Mike asked, sitting back down in one of the spare chairs to catch his breath.

“For now,” Lena shrugged, “Elena’s body is almost out of power, so I didn’t want to risk doing much more,” she said regrettably.

“I see,” Mike nodded, since it had only been plugged in for a short time, “But, I assume everything works fine?”

“Yeah, Elena’s body is in surprisingly good condition, considering how old she is.” Lena replied happily.

“Well, to be honest, due to her behavior, they ended up sticking her in the garage booths most of the time,” Mike said wryly, “as such, she didn’t exactly get that much physical activity.”

“Oh, that would certainly explain it,” Lena laughed, “When I was posted in the lobby for my first few months, my systems stayed pretty pristine,” she explained, “But, when I moved to Grave shift and was walking around a lot more, then I suddenly needed more regular maintenance.”

“Interesting,” Mike mused, “So, if you were allowed to return to work, would you prefer to patrol around like before, or would you want to walk around?”

Lena considered it for a while before finally answering. “Honestly, I don’t really have a preference,” she replied, “Sitting down has its own downsides, such as causing our joints and servos to stop working at peak efficiency,” she explained, “And walking around causes our batteries to drain more quickly, and our joints need more maintenance.”

“Huh, so either way, you guys are high maintenance,” Mike joked.

“Yeah,” Lena laughed, “Why do you ask?”

“Well, I was thinking…I could try and get you into the dispatch center, since they’re always having trouble staffing on Grave shift, and they have more burnout since it’s more work,” he told her, “I know for certain they wouldn’t mind having an android like you, since customer service is literally their number one priority, and you’re literally programmed for it.”

“Indeed, I am,” Lena beamed, “and, it would have a higher pay rate too,” she added with a mischievous wink.

“Yes, it would,” Mike winked back.

“Well, if you could arrange it, then I’d love to work in dispatch,” Lena told him, “I really loved helping people, since it basically justifies my existence, and, I wouldn’t have to worry about running low on power if I worked a long shift, because I could just plug myself in since I’d be sitting the whole time.”

“Alright, I’ll send the manager an e-mail later then,” Mike told her with a smile, “He owes me a favor anyway, so I’m sure he’ll allow it.”

“I’ll keep my fingers crossed then…. figuratively speaking,” Lena smiled.

“I wonder if Elena would want to work again?” Mike mused, “Although, with the reputation I’m sure she still has, and her behavior, I probably wouldn’t want her working in the security department.”

“Yeah, probably not a good idea,” Lena agreed.

“Well, maybe I could get her into one of the cafes or something,” Mike shrugged, “Their manager owes me some favors too.”

“Well, ask Elena when she’s back online,” Lena pointed out, “You may be her owner now, but she might have her own opinion to consider.”

“You’re right,” Mike nodded, “I can’t wait to talk to her again.”

“I can’t wait to meet her,” Lena added.

Mike looked back at the terminal, still displaying Elena’s update progress. It currently showed she still had approximately 3.5 hours left.

“Lena, I know Elena’s body is almost out of power, but do you think you could have it try and lift me up?” Mike requested, curious to see if Elena’s body was up to the task.

Lena zoned out for a few seconds as her A.I. Analyzed the remaining power in Elena’s core, how heavy Mike was, and the results of the recent movement benchmarks. “Sure, but I want to warn you, there’s an 83% chance that her body will run out of power while its lifting you,” she warned him, “would you still like me to try?” She knew there was a 95% chance he’d say yes, since that would probably end up turning him on, but her systems still required his consent in case it caused an injury.

Mike smiled and said, “Sure, I trust you’ll keep me safe somehow.”

“Alright then, here goes,” Lena smiled. She then had Elena’s body walk up to Mike, grab on to his sides, and then activate emergency power to slowly lift him up with a loud whine of servos.

Just as with Lena’s body, Elena’s body effortlessly lifted Mike up as though he weighed nothing. Mike was astounded by the engineering that was involved in building these extremely realistic androids, even allowing them to lift so much weight in an emergency. Lena had Elena’s body lift Mike as high as its arm would allow, but when she attempted to gently lower Mike down, she suddenly lost control of Elena’s body due to power failure with Mike only 40% lowered.

Mike instantly knew Elena’s body had powered down, because he saw the lights in the exposed neck power down, and Elena’s body seemed to tighten its grip on him and shift its stance before stiffening up. He attempted to wiggle, but Lena stopped him.

“Wait, don’t move!” She shouted, rising from her desk chair, back in full control of her own body, “her MCN froze the body in a stable stance, as a safety protocol since it knows it was holding a live human,” Lena explained, “But, if you move around to much, it could make her body topple over, injuring you, and damaging it.”

“Okay,” Mike nodded, relaxing in Elena’s grip. He couldn’t help but be slightly turned on by this moment, stuck in the grasp of a frozen, naked, headless android woman. He could just barely smell the minor amount of perspiration that had formed from the effort of her benchmarks from earlier, as well as lifting him up. “Well, how are you going to get me down then?” He asked in an amused voice.

“I’ll have to plug her in really quick,” Lena told him, grabbing the charging cable and bringing it over to Elena’s side. She plugged it into the still open charging port and then sat back down in her chair. She zoned out for a few seconds as she attempted to interface with Elena’s MCN once more, waiting for the obligatory 30-seconds to pass before there was enough power to activate the MCN. “Okay, I’m going to control Elena again and slowly lower you down, so prepare yourself.”

“Okay,” Mike nodded once more. He suddenly saw the light reactivate in Elena’s exposed neck mechanics, and her body unstiffened and slowly lowered him down to the ground, releasing him only when he had regained his footing. Lena then made Elena’s body climb carefully back onto the table, laying down in its previous position, before terminating her connection and powering Elena’s body back down so it could recharge faster.

Once Elena’s body was powered back down, Lena once more regained control of her body and rose back to her feet to tend to Elena’s body, making sure the charging cable was still connected properly.

“So, is there anything else we need to do for her right now?” Mike asked, wondering what to do next.

“Not really,” Lena admitted, “The work went by pretty fast, especially with both of us helping each other, and with us not really needing to do any major repairs or maintenance on her body.” Lena then looked back at the terminal, with three hours remaining on Elena’s updates, and sighed. “I’m afraid that, for right now, we’re in a waiting game.”

Mike sighed as well, eager to speak with Elena once more, and to maybe find out more details about how she came to be stored in that storage facility. “Well, perhaps we might have some luck with decrypting those files?” Mike suggested, looking at Lena’s main terminal, which was still working on decrypting all of George’s files.

Lena nodded, sat back down in her chair, and wheeled it back over to the main terminal. While Mike slowly followed her over, giving Elena’s body a quick pat on the leg, Lena typed away rapidly to check the progress. “Meh, it’s still taking a while,” she said wryly, “This guy really was paranoid.”

“Well, if I’d been in his position, I would have been too,” Mike chuckled, “Is there anything I can do to help?”

“Not with the decryption, but while we’re waiting for Elena to finish, I may as well give you a small android class,” she smiled.

“Android class?” Mike laughed.

“Yeah, you kinda had to learn a few things on the fly the last couple days, since I was dismantled for most of the time, but there’s a lot of stuff that you’ll need to know, now that you’re the proud owner of two androids,” Lena explained.

“Well, alright then,” Mike said, clapping his hands excitedly, “What do I need to learn?”

“Why don’t you run down and grab your laptop, and I’ll grab a chair for you to sit on,” Lena suggested, rising to her feet.

“Okay.” Mike literally bolted from the room, rushing downstairs to grab his main laptop, while Lena wheeled over a spare chair that she’d stashed in her closet.

When he returned, he booted up his computer and then sat patiently for the next few hours while Lena explained all the subtle nuances of owning an android.

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another very nice part

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Loving this story so far. Please continue!

[Spaz]

I'm glad you are enjoying it!

I do regret to inform you all that I am nearing the end of Lost in the Shuffle. I don't anticipate it lasting beyond Part 2.5, with 2.6 likely being the epilogue.

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just wanna know how the story would end and how do we do with elena

[Spaz]

Part 2.4: New Roommate

Mike was entranced during Lena’s patient teaching of basic android owning necessities, such as the need for proper maintenance, making sure to keep up with registration, and the various rules and procedures for owning an android.
Lena explained that, usually, a prospective owner would have reviewed the training materials before they would even be allowed to purchase an android, but with the second-hand business making Spaztec so much money, and with the popular finders-keepers clause, androids had now been programmed to go over this with their new owners after they had a chance to settle in.

To start, Lena installed the same suite of tools that had been present on the 2-in-1 laptop included in her case when Mike had found her the previous day. Now, Mike could access all the tools for both Lena, and Elena, from the same suite, and with the added benefit of his larger laptop screen, and newer hardware and software.

Lena then briefly went over the history of Spaztec, and what made its androids better than its competitors. She then glossed over the rules, most of which seemed common sense, such as: don’t use your android to commit crimes, and the consequences of abusing your android. Mike chuckled when he saw a quote saying, “Androids have feeling too.” Lena explained that abused androids could potentially turn hostile, though there had been only one case more than ten years earlier, and Spaztec thinks they fixed the issue...but can’t be certain.

Next, Lena provided him with a list of approved vendors, stores, and technicians in his neighborhood who could either fix Lena, or Elena, or provide him with approved parts, should either of them be rendered offline and unable to assist him.

She then went over the added benefits of having both of them linked together, such as being able to perform remote diagnostics on one another, assist one another with pending tasks, and communicate their experiences to improve one another.

Finally, after glossing through the various settings on the terminal once more, she finished with emergency overrides, such as the manual power toggles located behind their left ears, and the base of the spine, as well as voice commands.

“Wait, you guys have voice commands?” Mike stopped her, looking at the list.

“Yeah, it’s just in case you’re too far away from us to trigger our manual power toggles,” Lena explained patiently.

“Huh, that could be interesting,” Mike mused, “And I see I have to phrase it like an actual command, with your name at the beginning,” he added.

“Of course,” Lena nodded, “otherwise my A.I. might be force to interpret everything as a command.”

“And it’s keyed to my voice only,” Mike continued, “How did you guys get my voice print?”

“Oh, that’s simple,” Lena laughed, “Basically, if you’ve spent more than five minutes chatting with either of us, and at least spoken our name a few times, that’s all we really need to create a voice print of you.”

“Huh, it’s almost scary how easy it is, but not too surprising,” Mike conceded.

“Meh, we can’t really do much else with it without permission, but, if you did give it, I’ve definitely got enough voice print data on you to perfectly replicate your voice with my vocal processors,” she offered, “I don’t know about Elena, but I definitely do,” she added smugly.

“Wow, we’ll have to try that later,” Mike laughed, wondering what it would look like for Lena to speak with his voice. He glanced back at the terminal displaying Elena’s update progress, and got excited when he saw it had less than five minutes to go. “Ooh, she’s almost done!”

Lena glanced back over to and smiled. “Good, she’s a little ahead of schedule.” She then noticed the look of excitement on Mike’s face, “Are you really looking forward to talking to her again?”

“Yeah, she was kinda fun, and now that she’s my android, hopefully she’ll be even funner,” Mike answered, “At the very least, having another ‘person’ around will allow us to play something other than two player games.”

“Yeah,” Lena agreed, “although, I’m sure we could have come up with some workaround for that minor snag,” Lena winked.

“I’m sure, but Elena brings a more unique element, just as you do,” Mike pointed out, “some random A.I. without personality wouldn’t be as much fun to play against.”

“I suppose you’re right,” Lena conceded, “and I certainly have a personality,” Lena giggled.

“Oh, I know…and so does Elena, from what I remember,” Mike nodded, seeing the timer was down to three minutes, “Should we maybe reattach Elena’s head to her body now so its ready to go before we insert her brain?”

Lena thought for a split second before nodding, “Yeah, it’ll at least allow the bio-fluid to start circulating, and for us to knock out her motor diagnostic.”

“Excellent, I’ll get started on that while you monitor the final phase of her update progress,” Mike told her, grabbing Elena’s scalp-less head and clicking it onto the torso.

Lena merely nodded and sat down at her terminal, diligently monitoring Elena’s A.I.

As soon as Mike had Elena’s head attached, he pressed the power toggle behind the left ear and watched as the Bio-Fluid brought the skin to a more lifelike appearance. Shortly after, Elena’s face sprung to life, running the same motor tests that Lena’s had: blinking its eyes, working the jaw up and down, and cycling through a few basic expressions. The only difference was, unlike with Lena’s head that was detached and had no Bio-Fluid, Elena’s was attached, and the Bio-Fluid quickly circulated through her face, making the whirring and clicking noises vanish.

As soon as the motor tests completed, the face went dormant, so Mike powered the head off until the brain was ready to be reinserted.

“Alright, Elena’s brain is rebooting to finalize the last wave of updates,” Lena reported, “Once its rebooted, and run the initial diagnostics, I’ll reinsert it.”

“Alright,” Mike nodded eagerly, “and I’ll go ahead and unplug her too, since her battery is at 100%.” Mike carefully removed the charging cable from Elena’s open charging port and resealed it, placing the charging cable back over near Lena.

“Thanks,” Lena beamed, walking over and removing Elena’s brain from the connector, “could you lift up Elena’s head for me while I insert her brain and reattach her scalp?”

“No problem,” Mike smiled, gently grabbing hold of Elena’s head and upper torso and lifting it up. Once he had it in a steady position, Lena carefully reinserted Elena’s brain and then carefully reattached the scalp, gently laying the hair along the sides of her face as Mike carefully lower Elena’s upper body back down on the table.

“Alright, moment of truth,” Lena said excitedly, “I’ll let you do the honors of activating her while I make sure to ready my remote link on her in case she malfunctions or something.” Lena quickly pulled up the remote interface section of her HUD and stood by.

Mike merely nodded and gulped a bit nervously, not sure what to expect. Sure, he’d had a few friendly interactions with Elena during the time he worked with her, but they had never actually been friends. He wasn’t sure how she’d treat him, now that they were all of a sudden friends-with-benefits. Still, Mike was confident that her new programming would allow him to control her a tad better than her previous owner, and with Lena helping as well…certainly nothing could go wrong.

Mike gently pressed the power toggle behind Elena’s left ear once more, standing back and watching as all her systems came online. He briefly heard the sound of her systems power up, and then her internal sound dampeners kicked in and muted them. Her body twitched a few times as it ran some basic motor tests, and then both her eyes opened, scanned the room, and focused on Mike’s eyes. He perceived a look of recognition in her brown eyes before her face suddenly sprung to life.

“Wow, hey Mike! I never thought I’d see you again.” She gave him a big smile; the same one she gave everyone. She slowly sat up and repositioned herself so she was sitting on the edge of the table, with her legs swinging playfully over the edge.

“Hey Elena,” Mike said, returning her big smile, “I can’t say I ever thought I’d see you again either,” he admitted, “or that you could possibly be an android,” he added wryly.

“Yeah, you caught me,” she joked, holding her hands out mockingly, “Those dorks at the branch wanted to salt their diversity numbers, so they had me created to help them out.”

“Yeah, so Lena here has told me,” Mike nodded, focusing Elena’s attention onto Lena.

“Oh, Lena,” Elena said, focusing her eyes on Lena, “You must be the android they brought in to replace me…I hope your time there was more enjoyable than mine.”

“Hey Elena,” Lena said in her friendly voice, slightly caught off guard by Elena’s more energetic and slightly salty nature, “I suppose I did have a better time,” she admitted, somewhat shyly, “I ended up lasting almost two years, before…”

“I think we can catch her up on all that later,” Mike interjected, knowing Lena would likely go into a huge spiel, “suffice to say, all hell broke loose around that time,” Mike laughed.
Lena nodded somewhat meekly, unoffended by Mike interrupting her.

“Well, Lena, I can see we’re now programmed to be cousins and friends-with-benefits now, or whatever,” Elena said, zoning out momentarily as she scanned her new programming, “the real Elena never had any family, so I’m glad to have you,” she continued, “anyway, I don’t want you to feel uncomfortable with my Latina-from-the hood behavior, it’s all just stuff programmed into my by my donor personality…just like I’m sure your meekness is.”

“Hey, I’m not meek!” Lena complained, “I’m just nice.”

“Well, compared to me, you’re pretty meek,” Elena laughed, then she brushed the topic away with her hand before Lena could say anything else, “Anyway, it’s nice to have a family member,” Elena said, holding her hand out.

“Likewise,” Lena smiled, taking Elena’s hand and shaking it. She also closed her remote interface to Elena from her HUD, since she determined Elena was functioning perfectly and in no danger of malfunctioning or harming them in any way.

“Anyway, according to my wireless connection, I’ve been cooped up in that box for the last six years, two months, one week, and three days,” Elena reported, “and I’m detecting you guys gave me a couple more processors to max out my performance, and even installed all my updates….thanks!”

“You’re welcome,” Mike smiled.

“Yeah, I donated two of my older processors to you, since they were the same model,” Lena informed her.

“Older…you mean, you got upgrades, and I got your hand me downs,” Elena accused Lena mockingly, then laughed.

“Well, I was smart enough to invest my earnings into a savings account that paid me dividends,” Lena explained, “during the five plus years I was stored at Cloudtron…more on that later…my money grew to the point where I was able to afford some nice upgrades for myself,” Lena finished smugly.

“Aww, I’m so jealous,” Elena said, slumping down dramatically.

“Yeah, I spent the last day and half upgrading and fixing up Lena here after I found her in a storage room the other day,” Mike explained, “then, we went to George’s storage unit, based on Lena’s memories, and were surprised to find you there. We were under the impression you’d been decommissioned. What happened?”

Elena blushed a little and then responded, “Well, I think it’s obvious that George decided to keep me,” she replied quickly, “though, not quite for what you might think.”

“Oh?” Mike and Lena both asked.

“Well, I mean, he kept me around to help out with some chores and stuff while he was at work,” Elena explained, “but…I mean, you all know he was gay, right?”

Mike and Lena both nodded.

“Exactly,” Elena laughed nervously, “So, anyway, to put it short, he was hoping to purchase a penis attachment for me so he could have sex with me…since he couldn’t afford a male android on his own, and he’d been allowed to keep me instead of decommissioning me.”

“Oh wow,” Mike nodded his head. Lena had a similar reaction. “How did he convince SSS to let them keep you?” Mike asked incredulously, “I take it he didn’t mention mention that he wanted to turn you into a shemale.”

“No, of course not!” Elena giggled, “Actually, he convinced them that allowing him to keep me would give him the opportunity to use me as more of a flex officer, instead of a full-time one,” she explained, “but, ultimately, they ended up not needing me, so he just used me for odd jobs and chores.” Elena shrugged.

“And what about the penis attachment?” Mike asked curiously, “Did he ever manage to purchase one and attach it to you?”

“No,” Elena shook her head sadly. “Ultimately, the penis attachments were too expensive for him, since he was struggling with bills, and he also decided that he probably wouldn’t find a shemale as attractive to have sex with as an actual male. It wasn’t long after he came to that realization that he decided to simply decommission me and place me in storage.”

“Well, its fortunate he ended up keeping you, regardless of the circumstances,” Mike shrugged, “at least it gave me the chance to find you and make you my own.”

Elena gave Mike a huge grin and a thumbs up. “Yeah, thanks man!”

“Don’t mention it,” Mike blushed, “and, I’m not sure how well George treated you, but I can promise you that I’m a benevolent owner,” he assured her, “I mean, just ask Lena here.”

“Yeah, he’s treated me very well,” Lena agreed, “Though, I’ve only been her for a couple days, so I don’t have too many data points to give you a complete picture,” Lena added with a playful smile.

“Hey!” Mike complained mockingly.

Lena stuck out her tongue and smiled. “I’m just teasing! Actually, he was quite kind to me when we worked together, so I can tell he’ll be a great owner for us.”

Mike couldn’t help but be touched by Lena’s confidence and trust in him. He only hoped to continue to earn it. He then noticed that Elena was still sitting on the edge of the table. “Elena, would you like to step down off the table?”

“Oh, yes,” she nodded, “But, you listed in my settings that I shouldn’t have any body hairs, and they’ll fall off as soon as I stand up,” she explained, “I figured you might want to grab a sheet or blanket or something for me to stand on, so all the hairs can fall on it, instead of the floor,” she suggested.

“Ah, you must’ve remembered that I’m a clean freak,” Mike laughed, stepping into Lena’s bathroom and grabbing a spare towel, laying it on the floor in front of Elena.

“How could I forget?” She laughed, “you were always so fastidious!”

“And still am,” Mike chuckled. “Would you like some help stepping down?”

“Yes, please,” she nodded, “I can tell Lena here likely tested my body out while you guys were updating me earlier, but my own A.I. Still needs to adjust to the time spent cooped up, and to adjust to the six plus years of updates.”

“Not a problem,” Mike assured her. He gently grabbed hold of both her hands and helped her step down onto the towel. As soon as she was standing, she zoned out momentarily and then a cascade of tiny body hair began falling from everywhere on her body below her neck, falling neatly onto the towel. After Mike neatly brushed off the hairs that had fallen onto Elena’s feet, he stood back to allow her to step off.

True to her statement, Elena stumbled just a little bit at first as her newly updated A.I. Adjusted to her programming and extended storage. She paced around the far end of the room near the window for nearly a minute, recalibrating her motion subroutines, before walking back over to Mike and Lena with a friendly smile.

“Wow, I feel good as new guys. Thanks!”

Mike couldn’t help but admire Elena’s fully reassembled, and now hairless body. Unlike when Lena had been operating it remotely before, Elena’s body now had her distinctive slouch, and all her usual mannerisms to go with it. It was displays like this that made Mike truly admire the the complexity of these androids.

“Do you like what you see?” Elena asked coquettishly, flaunting her body a little as she noticed Mike admiring it.

“Yeah, you look great!” Mike told her, blushing a little.

Elena giggled at the attention she was receiving. “So, Lena, are you still using the same hardware from like five years ago too?”

Mike looked a little confused, since they had already gone over that earlier. “Elena, we already kinda answered that question earlier,” he pointed out, “are you having trouble with your memories?”

Elena looked shocked and then zoned out as she ran a quick diagnostic. She quickly confirmed that a few seconds of memories had indeed not been properly stored in her memories, and were lost. “Aww, darn…looks like I had a small malfunction,” she apologized, “you’ll have to answer it again.”

“It’s okay, we don’t mind,” Mike assured her, “Lena, want to tell her?” he asked slyly.

Lena looked slightly guilty, but answered honestly. “Actually, I was able to upgrade just about everything.”

“What! Hey, how come I didn’t get any fancy upgrades?!” Elena spluttered, looking at Mike and Lena with an accusatory glare.

“Um…well…” Mike stammered, not sure how to respond, but fortunately, Lena stepped in.

“Well, when I was still in service, I managed to save up and invest my excess earnings,” she explained, “The earnings were still locked in the accounts I opened, and had grown tremendously, so I was able to use some of that money to purchase some nice upgrades for myself…I also had to reimburse Mike here for the registration fee for both you, and myself.”

Elena suddenly looked a little guilty. “Oh…I didn’t invest anything…will I still be able to get some nice upgrades, though?” She asked nicely.

“Well, I already told Lena here that I could look into getting her a job back in the security department,” Mike explained, “you, however, still have something of a reputation, even after all this time, so I most likely won’t be able to get you back in as well,” he told her delicately.

“Aww man, I figured,” Elena shrugged, “But hey, at least I made an impression…even if it was a bad one.”

Mike couldn’t help but laugh. “Don’t worry, I’m friends with the café manager, so maybe I could get you working for them instead,” he offered.

“Meh,” Elena shrugged, “whatever you want…you’re my owner now, after all.”

“Do you want to work and make money?” Mike asked, “I don’t want to force you into anything.”

“Oh, don’t mistake my indifference for not wanting to,” Elena assured him, “It’s just my personality…I just meant, I’m open to anything. My primary purpose is to serve you, and making money could help you pay the rent here, and offset any maintenance and upgrade costs for me.”

“Good! I’ll speak to the manager when I see him next.” Mike smiled.

“Thanks Mike, I really appreciate it,” Elena told him in a relieved voice, “I know I’ve only been active again for a few minutes, but so far you are a WAY better owner than George was.”

“Wow, thanks!” Mike beamed, “I take it he didn’t have much patience for you.”

“Not at all,” Elena shuddered, “although, it may have had more to do with his lack of technical expertise, and his general discomfort with trying to hide the fact that I was an android and that SSS was cheating the diversity counts by having me staffed.”

“Well, I do have at least some technical expertise,” Mike assured her, “and, Lena here just gave me a three-hour crash course on basic android care.”

Lena beamed.

“And, according to my new programming, not only do you not mind androids, but you also seem to have a sort of fetish about them too,” Elena added with a naughty smile.

“Yeah, a little,” Mike blushed.

“Well, now that we are Friends-With-Benefits, I can certainly play with your fetishes a bit,” Elena assured him. Then, she looked down at her naked body, and at Lena and Mike, who were both clothed. “So, do I have any clothes to wear? I feel a bit out of place being the only naked on in the room.”

“Oh,” Mike flushed, “we actually bought you some cheap clothes to wear until you can pick some out for yourself,” he explained, “But, they’re still in the wash.”

“Oh, okay…no prob,” she shrugged.

“If it would make you more comfortable, I could take my clothes off,” Lena offered politely.

“Sure, why not?” Elena laughed, “how about you Mike? Are you comfortable in your birthday suit?” She teased, while Lena starting taking her clothes off.

“Actually, yes,” Mike admitted truthfully, “I just wore clothes so I didn’t have an accident while working on your body,” he winked, taking his clothes off as well.

“Wow, good call,” Elena laughed. She then briefly admired Mike and Lena’s naked bodies. “Wow Mike, you seem to have bulked up a bit since I last saw you,” she nodded approvingly, taking a quick 3D scan of him with her HUD and comparing it to her last known measurements.

“Yeah, well it has been more than seven years,” he pointed out modestly, “and I decided to get into better shape a few years ago,” he added.

“Well, you look good,” she complimented, then focused her attention on Lena, “and I see the upgrades allowed you to slim down a bit,” she told Lena.

“Yeah,” Lena blushed, “Now I’m much closer to the real Lena’s size…wait, did you see me before I was activated?”

“Oh, yeah…sorry,” Elena admitted, “Only for a bit, when George was setting you up in that storage unit,” she added quickly, “I had to help him with your case, since it was heavy.”

“Oh yeah, tell me about it!” Mike laughed; Lena smiled wryly. “When I found her in the storage room at Cloudtron, I had to wrestle her into my car, and then back out of it when we got home.”

“Well, sounds like you had more of an adventure finding Lena than you did me,” Elena laughed, “I suppose that’s good…at least you had plenty of rest before starting work on me, otherwise I’d except a few malfunctions.”

“Yeah, it certainly was fun,” Mike admitted, “So, Elena, are there any other androids you’re aware of ever having worked there?” He asked, “or is it just you two?”

Lena and Elena both looked at each other, sending each other a series of remote messages, before Elena finally responded. “As far as I know, it was just us two,” she answered honestly, “However, since both of us were in storage for 5-7 years, we can’t be certain if the current security vendor has added any androids to the roster…let alone Cloudtron.”

“Ok, just making sure I’m not gonna find another android while cleaning another storage room at work,” Mike laughed nervously, “Not that I wouldn’t mind, but I think just having the two of you is enough for me.”

“Aww, that’s sweet,” Lena and Elena said in almost perfect unison.

Mike chuckled. “So, anyway, Elena, would you like a quick tour of my home?” He offered, since Elena hadn’t yet left Lena’s room.

“Of course, thanks!” Elena responded cheerfully, bouncing up and down, causing her breasts to jiggle.

Mike fought hard to sustain an erection and instead headed towards the door, with Lena and Elena following closely behind him.

[Spaz]

Part 2.5: Three’s Company

Mike spent a good ten minutes giving Elena a full tour of his rather modest home. Just like Lena had, Elena spent some time running an inventory of Mike’s supplies, and also linked herself up with the shared database Lena had begun compiling for them both to access and use as a shared to-do list.

Since they were all naked, Mike couldn’t take Elena outside to the backyard, but he did show it to her from the tinted-out windows, so she could attempt to form a landscaping schedule based on the size and state of his tree, and the artificial turf.

Before they headed up, they each grabbed a small snack and drink, since Elena’s stomach was empty and needed to be jumpstarted. They then headed back up to Lena’s room.

Upon their arrival, Lena suddenly rushed to George’s computer, which had finally finished decrypting the data he had stored on it. She interfaced with the computer remotely and spent a few seconds rapidly analyzing all the data before reporting it.

“Well, anything interesting?” Mike asked, pulling a fold up chair out of the closet for Elena and setting it up next to his near where Lena was sitting.

“Yes, and no,” Lena reported cryptically, using her HUD to summarize the information and then bring it up on her computer screen. “Basically, he was collecting dirt on SSS.”

“No surprise there,” Mike guffawed, “he was paranoid.”

Elena giggled at Mike and Lena’s banter, but said nothing.

Lena giggled too, but kept reporting, “Anyway, he was working under cover for the Justice Department, feeding them information. Just before the chaos erupted, he called me in and told me I was being decommissioned…but, evidently he never really had any plans on decommissioning me.”

“He didn’t?!” Mike burst.

“No, it seemed he planned on moving me into the storage unit with Elena…but was interrupted…” Lena continued.

“Yeah, by his suicide, right?” Mike asked.

“No…apparently, he was murdered,” she reported sadly, pulling up a video that apparently seemed to be taken from George’s POV. The footage was listed as coming from a hidden camera installed in both of George’s contact lenses. Mike recognized the culprit as being one of the HR managers; Mike never liked him.

“Wow,” was all Mike and Elena could say.

“Yeah,” Lena agreed, “and, it looks like he had set up a heart rate monitor to upload the footage to his computer and send it to the Justice Department upon his death,” she continued, “However, while the video was able to successfully download onto his computer, a glitch prevented it from uploading it to the Justice Department.”

“Well, why don’t we forward the information over to them then?” Mike suggested.

“It wouldn’t do any good, I’m afraid. I did some quick research, and the person who murdered George was later incarcerated, and then shanked to death in a prison riot a few months later,” Lena explained.

“Shouldn’t we still report it though?” Mike argued.

“That wouldn’t be a good idea,” Lena nodded, “according to my research, all parties involved are either dead or incarcerated already, so it wouldn’t really change anything,” she explained, “but, if you were to bring new evidence, the Justice Department could potentially confiscate Elena and I as evidence, regardless of the Finders Keepers clause.”

A chill ran down Mike’s spine as he thought of the implications…he didn’t want to lose either of them. He gulped and then carefully responded. “Alright then, we don’t report it,” he decided with resolve.

“Alright,” Lena nodded solemnly, “I don’t want to be put into storage again,” she shuddered.

“Me neither,” Elena replied.

“Ok then,” Mike nodded, “Lena, I want you to extract all that information onto a storage drive, and then wipe the computer,” he instructed, “Then, I want both of you to compartmentalize the information in your storage banks or whatever so you are both unable to access it unless I explicitly tell you to…can I even do that?”

“Oh yes,” Lena nodded, “and, locked information won’t be transferred to the Spaztec servers when we back ourselves up, or send usability stats,” she assured him, finishing the transfer to a portable storage drive and handing it to Mike.

“Thanks,” Mike said, taking the drive and examining it, “I’m gonna lock this in my safe,” he decided, getting ready to get up.

“Wait, before you go…George also left you a note,” Lena stopped him, pulling up a short text document on the screen.

“A note…for me?” Mike asked, surprised.

“Yeah, it’s addressed specifically to you,” Lena confirmed, highlighting Mike’s name in the note.

“Huh, let’s see here,” Mike muttered, pulling his chair closed and reading the message.:

''“Mike, you were always a straight arrow and a dependable officer. Unlike the other corrupt, or lazy people we were forced to work with, you were a breath of fresh air. I remember a conversation we once had about you always wanting an android, but never being able to afford one. Little did you know that you had worked with two androids, right under your nose. Anyway, I know you and Lena are becoming fond of one another, and I managed to find a loophole into keeping Elena as well, so when this all blows over, I plan on giving them both to you. I can only hope you’ll forgive me for keeping you and Lena apart for so long, but it was necessary to keep both you and them safe. Enjoy your life with Lena, and Elena, and I know you’ll treat them better than I was able to. -George”''

“Wow, it looks like I was always meant to have you both after all,” Mike finally said, a small tear forming in his eye.

“I always had a feeling about that,” Elena admitted, “He did talk about you a lot.”

“See, I told you he knew we liked each other,” Lena prodded him playfully, “and he planned on giving me to you as well.”

“Yeah, I guess it was just fate that I ended up finding you on my own,” Mike shrugged.

“Yeah,” Lena nodded wryly.

“Anyway,” he nodded, “I’m gonna take this and lock it in my safe,” he told them, rising from his chair and heading for the door, “are you guys gonna be zombies or something when you finish locking that information?”

Lena and Elena both erupted into laughter at Mike’s question. “No, silly! Once it’s completed, our A.I.s will simply create a different reason for you leaving the room, so we’ll just continue with our day as though nothing happened,” Lena explained.

“Ok, good,” Mike chuckled, heading out of the room as Lena began wiping George’s computer.

Mike took his time walking downstairs to his desk, wanting to give the two of them plenty of time to do whatever android thing they needed to do to lock that information in their minds. Once he reached his desk, he fumbled around in the desk drawer until he produced a tiny key. Then, he pulled a small fireproof safe from under the desk and unlocked it.

Mike kept all his important documents in there, such as his birth certificate and tax information. There was still plenty of room for the small thumb drive, so he stashed it near the bottom and relooked the safe. He hoped he would never have to use that drive for any reason.

Once Mike stashed the key away again in the cluttered desk drawer that he kept reminding himself to clean out, he paused briefly to admire the backyard through the window behind his desk, before returning upstairs.
Upon his return, both Lena and Elena were both acting normally, just as they had said. “Wow, did you fall in Mike?” Lena asked upon his return.

“What?” Mike asked, confused.

“You went to the bathroom like five minutes ago,” Lena giggled.

“Oh,” Mike told her, mocking embarrassment; they really did invent a new reason for him leaving the room. “I decided to take my time…no rush, you know.”

“Hey, no problem…I’m just teasing,” Lena shrugged off; she had moved George’s laptop to her recycle bin. “Anyway, now that Elena’s up and running, and we got the tour out of the way, we should probably finish up your android lessons,” Lena announced.

“Oh? I thought I was done,” Mike told her.

“Kinda,” Lena said, shaking her hand back and forth, “you still have to test out the voice commands…just to make sure they’re working properly, and that you know how to do it properly.”

“Wait, didn’t I already play around with those the other day?” he asked.

“Yeah, but that was just a quick crash course…this is a more comprehensive test, mainly to test our group commands,” she explained, “and, of course, so we can have some fun,” she added with a playful giggle.

“Oh, okay,” Mike smiled, eager to test this function out. He stared at Lena and told her, “stand up.”

Lena shook her head with a kind smile and said, “Mike, while I would normally do what you told me, that was not actually phrased as a proper command,” Lena explained patiently, “In order for it to qualify, you have to say either my name, her name, or both our names at once, followed by a command.”

“Oh, that’s right,” Mike said, smacking his forehead. “Lena, stand up,” he commanded, doing it more properly this time.

Lena said nothing, but simply immediately stood up from her chair. “Very good,” she congratulated him with a big smile, “That was a proper command…and a simple one to start with.”

“Thanks,” Mike blushed, “but, how was commanding you to stand any different from requesting you stand?”

Lena’s face scrunched up as she thought of a proper response to his query. “Well, if I were to stand of my own accord, or by request, I’d do so more…human-like,” she explained slowly, “But, when you command me, my autonomy is overridden and I complete the command more artificially…at least, with simple commands like that.”

“Huh, interesting…” Mike mused, “So I assume if it was a more complicated command, like one with multiple steps that could take a lot of time, you would behave more human-like, but be unable to deviate from the command?”

“Exactly,” she smiled, “Like earlier, when went to the store to buy the Bio-Fluid for Elena, I also went to a neighboring thrift shop to buy some clothes for Elena,” Lena reminded him, “But, if you had commanded me to buy the Bio-Fluid, I would have only been able to buy just the Bio-Fluid, and then come straight back here.”

“Thanks, by the way…for the clothes,” Elena interjected.

“No prob, cousin,” Lena smiled fondly.

“Wow, so I guess maybe commanding you guys won’t actually be too useful,” Mike said, a little crestfallen.

“Hey, they can be…for example, if you only wanted us to complete one task, without attempting to anticipate other needs like I did, then they are useful,” Lena assured him, “Also, the commands work even if our brains are disconnected, so that’s when they’ll be most useful.”

“Ah, I see,” Mike said.

“And, if we are malfunctioning or whatever, the commands are still compulsory,” Elena added.

“Got it,” Mike nodded, “just out of curiosity, when exactly did my previous command end?” He asked, since she was still standing.

“As soon as I stood up,” Lena replied simply, “I’m just still standing because I anticipate that you’ll be giving me more commands,” she added with a playful wink.

“Oh, I see,” Mike nodded knowingly. He then looked at Elena and said, “Elena, stand up.”

Just as with Lena, Elena quickly stood up, but then assumed her usual stance of shifting around energetically on each foot. Mike had also been watching the wall mounted screen Lena had set up, now with both Lena’s and Elena’s POV included with all the information. When he gave Elena the command, he saw in big red letters “Command Received: Stand Up” flash in her field of vision, before minimizing to a small log window at the corner of her HUD. As soon as she stood up, “Command Completed” appeared, before also minimizing.

Lena and Elena still stood, patiently waiting for Mike to give his next command, both with fun smiles on their face; they were enjoying this too.

“Hmmm, let’s see…Lena, kiss Elena,” he commanded.

Once again, he saw the message appear, this time in Lena’s POV. Lena turned to her right, stepped forward a bit towards Elena, and then planted a tender kiss on Elena’s lips. Elena seemed to enjoy it, closing her eyes and sighing contentedly. Just as Command Completed appeared on Lena’s POV, Mike said, “Elena, kiss Lena.”

This time, Lena was the one to smile and sigh, closing her eyes contentedly. Just as Elena finished the kiss, since they both seemed to enjoy, Mike carefully phrased his next command. “Lena, and Elena, make out for 30-seconds.”

Command Received appeared on both their POVs this time, however, a small countdown timer also appeared in the lower right-hand corner, starting as soon as they began kissing and making out. Mike had included a timer, because he was worried that not including it would make the make out indefinitely; he’d ask them later for confirmation.

Since they were already so close to one another, they immediately began making out. They did appear to be in at least partial control of themselves, because they were smiling and giggling as they did so. Mike found it particularly interesting that their POV windows still displayed their HUD and other info, even when their eyes were closed.

Mike walked up real close to both of them, fully enjoying the show. Since both of them were naked, they were fondling one another’s breasts and even rubbing their bodies together. Mike was starting to become erect when the timer ended and they regained control.

“Was that good for you two?” Mike asked, a huge grin on his face.

Both of them erupted into giggles, their faces bright red. Mike took this opportunity to give them both another command. “Lena, and Elena, Pause.”

The room immediately fell silent as both Lena, and Elena froze. They still had looks of mirth on their faces, and a hint of a blush still remaining on their cheeks.

Mike spent several minutes walking around them, feeling them up and simply enjoying their frozen appearance, even taking a few photos on his phone. While he enjoyed having them as his personal statues for a little while, he still preferred having them be more alive.

“Lena, and Elena, unpause,” he commanded, once he was standing back where he was before.

Their giggles immediately resumed as their bodies sprung back to life, though they died out just a bit quicker than they would have before, since they were aware that they had just been paused for a few minutes.

“Did you have fun with us?” Lena asked with a knowing smile.

“Just a bit,” Mike admitted, “I think I’m done having fun with commands for now, though,” he told them, “Maybe we can go downstairs and play a game or something,” he suggested.

“Ooh, that sounds like fun!” Elena squealed.

“I agree,” Lena nodded approvingly.

“Good, though, we should probably get dressed first,” he said regrettably, “I checked the dryer while you two were paused just now, and Elena’s temporary clothes are all done.”

“Temporary clothes?” Elena laughed.

“Well, Lena just bought whatever she could find in your size at a thrift store,” Mike shrugged, “I figure tomorrow, or whenever we have time, we’ll go and have you pick out some clothes that you might like better.”

“Ooh, I can’t wait! Let’s see these temporary clothes and go play a game!”


After Elena got dressed in some of her temporary clothes, consisting of a simple bra and panties, a t-shirt, and sweats, Mike and Lena got dressed back in their clothes and they all headed down and picked out a board game to play. They ended up choosing Monopoly, with Lena being the banker, since her donated personality already had the proper accounting skills.

Elena ended up being eliminated first, since she didn’t quite have a knack for the game, and she admitted that she really wanted to watch Mike and Lena go at it. Mike and Lena continued without her for nearly two more hours, before Lena finally ended up taking the board.

Mike congratulated her on a hard fought game, wondering if her android nature had anything to do with her win, or her donated accounting skills. By the time the game was finished, it was right around dinner time, so Lena rushed into the
kitchen to begin cooking their meal, while Mike and Elena caught up on past events. While Elena was shocked to hear what had happened to SSS, she was not completely surprised.

Lena cooked them all a delicious meal of chicken, rice, and various greens. After they finished eating, they snuggled up in a warm blanket on the couch and watched a scary movie, with Elena sitting on the far end, and Lena in the middle so she could be closed to Mike.

When the movie ended a few hours later, it was a bit late, and they found themselves wondering what to do for the last hour or so before Mike went to bed.

Lena finally spoke up. “Well, you already took me out for a spin last night,” she winked, “Why don’t you have some fun with the both of us?”

“You mean a threesome?” Mike asked nervously; he’d never been in a threesome before.”

“Ooh, that sounds fun!” Elena squealed, jumping up and down excitedly.

“And don’t worry about messing anything up,” Lena assured him, “Since we’re linked, we’ll both be able to network our skills and give you a good experience.”

Mike hadn’t considered that, still kinda thinking of them as human. “Alright, let’s do this,” he grinned.

They all headed upstairs to the bedroom, and, while Lena and Elena both disrobed, Mike quickly grabbed a sheet from the linen closet to protect the bed from getting dirty. Just as he was disrobing, Elena suddenly swore.

“What is it?” Lena asked.

“My lube canister is empty,” she replied sadly.

“Oh, don’t worry,” Lena assured her, “I ordered a bunch the other day, so I can just give you one of my spares…hold on a sec,” Lena rushed out of the room and into hers, riffling around until she found one of the spare lube canisters, bringing it over to Elena with a triumphant grin.

“Oh, thanks Lena…you’re a lifesaver,” Elena gushed, allowing Lena to open her pubic panel and replace the canisters. Once Lena had the canister replaced, she resealed Elena’s canister and placed the spent one on the dressed for later disposal.

“Don’t mention it, cuz,” Lena said affectionately, “Mike, just lay on the bed and we’ll take it from there,” she then instructed, giving him a playful wink.

Mike merely nodded and did as she instructed.


Over the next hour, both Lena and Elena showed Mike just how fun a threesome could be. Their ability to link with each other and transmit data allowed them to perform much better in bed, and Mike had never felt as much pleasure in his life.

When they were finally finished, Lena dutifully folded up the now soiled sheet and threw it into the washer, along with a few other linens, on a quick wash cycle. Mike smiled at her anticipation of his needs, and then walked into his bathroom to clean up. Shortly after he started his shower, he heard the shower on the other side of the wall turn on as well, indicating that Lena, or Elena, or both had begun theirs.

Mike’s mind was still in a fog from the pleasure he had just experienced, let along his sheer joy at having not one, but two highly advanced androids in his possession. He ended up lingering much longer in the shower than he had originally intended, hearing the shower on the other side of the wall turn off.

He eventually finished his shower and dried himself off with a fresh towel, not bothering to redress; he preferred to air dry for several minutes after drying off with a towel anyway.

Lena and Elena were both in Lena’s room when he stepped out into the hall, both wearing their pajamas.

“Oh, I didn’t realize you’d be nude,” Lena apologized, her face flushing, “We can disrobe if you’d like.”

Mike thought about it for a second before shaking his head. “Nah, I think I’d like a good night of sleep, and your naked bodies might distract me just a bit,” he decided.

“Ok then,” Lena smiled politely, “So, you’d like me to sleep with you then?”

“Of course,” Mike grinned, “you were too busy last night, after all,” he pointed out.

“Indeed I was,” Lena giggled, “I look forward to it.”

“And me too?” Elena asked, unsure, since she was only a friends-with-benefits.

“Well, not every night, for sure,” Mike decided, “but, this first night we can test it out as a trial run of sorts.”

“Okay,” Elena giggled happily.

“Well then, I’m ready for bed, so why don’t you all close everything up in here while I shut everything off downstairs.”

Both nodded dutifully and started powering everything down. Mike headed downstairs and did his nightly routine: powering down all the electronics, making sure the doors were all locked, and cleaning Mia’s litter box and replenishing her food & water bowls. After giving Mia a final pat on the head, he headed back up to his room.

When he entered the room, he saw both Lena and Elena standing next to the bed. Both were holding their charging cables, with the cables already plugged into their charging port underneath their clothes.

“What’s this?” Mike asked, amused at the sight of both androids waiting for him.

“We need to know what side of the bed we’re sleeping on,” Lena explained with a slightly embarrassed look, “So we know which outlet to plug into.”

“Oh,” Mike said knowingly. He usually slept on the right side of the bed, but obviously he’d have to sleep in the middle this time to accommodate one of them. After a brief moment of consideration, he decided. “Lena, you’re on the left, I sleep in the middle, and Elena will be on the right.”

Both androids nodded and then headed to their assigned side of the bed. They quickly plugged themselves in to the outlets next to each of the night stands, and then waited for Mike to crawl under the covers and get situated in the middle.

Mike quickly re-positioned his pillow in the middle, moving some of the other pillows so Lena and Elena could use them. Then, he crawled under the covers and made himself comfortable in the middle.

Lena lifted the covers on her side and slid in, while Elena, who was closest to the light switch, flipped the lights off and then crawled in on the right.

They all spent a few moments adjusting to the bed, and each other, before settling down. Both Lena and Elena moved in closer and cuddled up with Mike, their pajamas feeling nice against his bare skin.

“Are you comfortable, Mike?” Lena whispered.

“Yes, Lena, I’m comfy,” he replied happily.

“Good, then good night.” She leaned in and gave him a loving kiss, which he returned.

“Good night, Lena,” he told her fondly.

“Good night, Mike,” Elena then said, also leaning in and giving him a kiss.

“Good night, Elena,” Mike told her, also returning her kiss.

Mike then heard both of them settle down and stop moving, in what he assumed was them entering sleep mode or something. He sighed contentedly, wishing he could fall asleep that quickly.

Mike’s last thoughts as he finally drifted off to sleep, with the two androids on either side of him cuddling up and providing him warmth and comfort was, how much he loved them both, and how lucky he was to stumble upon them.

[liliwinnt6]

that's very kind of George for him doing so

[dingdongdug]

so good story thanks again

[Spaz]

Epilogue: One month later…

In the days that followed Lena and Elena’s inclusion into Mike’s life, they were able to fully adapt to his needs, and wants. Aside from providing him awesome sex and pleasure, they were able to assist with the various chores around the house, and on a more regular basis, removing a lot of stress from Mike’s life…stress he didn’t even realize he’d been carrying.

Lena was able to get most of the cleaning done while Mike was at work, before plugging herself in and going into sleep mode. Elena did the yard work on the weekends, and Mike was even able to invite his family over to have lunch in the backyard, since it was no longer in an embarrassing state. Fortunately, they were completely supportive of his relationship with the two androids.

True to his word, Mike contacted a few people at work, and was able to hook Lena up with a Grave shift posting in the dispatch center, allowing her to both earn money, and utilize her customer service skills.

Mike was also able to get Elena into the café staff, serving as a barista at one of the many coffee bars in the building. Since serving there required slightly less customer service skills as security, her personality was more well-received.

Due to the hours each of them worked, Elena ended up driving Lena to work every night, dropping her off and then returning in the car. Mike would then drive Elena to work in the morning, and Lena would take the car home, and pick Mike up when his shift ended, and then both Mike and Lena would pick up Elena a few hours later. It was a little hard to handle at first, but they were getting used to it.

Mike’s paranoia even went away, since even after a month, no one came asking about how he came into possession of Lena and Elena, nor if he knew anything about George’s death.

After their first week of work was over, and their paychecks cleared into a joint bank account Lena had helped set up with Mike, Mike’s money woes suddenly vanished, since they know had more than enough money to split his rent three ways, and still have enough left over to have a bit of fun. Unfortunately, they did not yet have enough to purchase any nice upgrades for Elena, but Lena assured them that they would after only three more months of them working, much to Elena’s relief.

Also, with Lena and Elena’s help, Mike was now aware of more androids working at Cloudtron, mostly in a testing capacity, since Cloudtron needed androids to test some of their products. Elena had actually made friends with a nice android woman named Anna, and she’d invited her over to play some board games with everyone. Mike was quite shocked that Anna was an android, since he'd seen her coming and going through one of his lobby posts for the past year and a half and couldn't tell.

Overall, Mike reflected on the preceding month, life was better with Lena and Elena in it.

-End

[liliwinnt6]

good ending, sort of

[dingdongdug]

thanks for this nice story

[Spaz]

Happy New Year everyone!

One of my resolutions this year is to get back into writing, including the final two installations of my Small Business Chronicles saga. However, my mind is bursting with ideas, and I have decided to boot my Lost in the Shuffle story back up in a limited fashion. I have planed at least three short, self-contained episodes that will be no longer than 5-10 pages each. Each episode takes place a year and more after the conclusion of the main story.

In order to catch up, here is a link to the original story: https://www.fembotwiki.com/index.php?ti ... he_Shuffle

I am hoping to have one of the episodes up in less than 2 hours.

[Spaz]

Episode 1: Anniversary
Mike pulled into his driveway and slowly backed into his garage after a long, but productive week at work. In the past year, the building that he worked at was about to open a new expansion to their campus across the street and he was promoted to full-time day shift supervisor at the new building.

Fortunately, his relief arrived early and let him leave, since today was a special day and he was eager to get home as soon as possible. He slowly pulled into the narrow L-shaped driveway leading to his small townhouse. Despite having significantly more money available with his promotion and with Lena and Elena’s income, Mike still preferred to live here because of its closeness to work, not to mention he didn’t need the extra space.

Once his car was safely maneuvered past the neighbors’ cars cramping the driveway, he opened the garage door and smoothly backed in, closing the door in front of him once he was safely parked. He then grabbed his coffee mug and headed into the house.

His senses were greeted by the smell of food being prepared in the kitchen. By the smell of things, it was his favorite meal…. fitting, considering the day. Mike took his jacket off and hung it on a peg near the door before locking the garage door and walking towards the living room and kitchen.

Before he could round the corner, he heard a quick pattering of footsteps and then Lena, his lovely android girlfriend, quickly rounded the corner to greet him, a smile and look of concern on her face.

“Welcome home!” She greeted, giving Mike a quick hug before surprising him by detaching her head and practically shoving it into his hands. He had just barely enough time to reorient her head in his hands so she was looking up at him before her body rushed back into the kitchen to continue preparing food.

“Sorry, I wasn’t expecting you home for another seven minutes or so and I still need some time to prepare dinner for tonight, since it takes almost five hours to cook.”

“No worries,” Mike smiled, carefully walking over to the couch and sitting down with his girlfriend’s head in his lap. “I got relieved a few minutes early and was eager to get home to see you,” he explained, “Happy Anniversary!” he then said, lifting her up and planting a loving kiss on her lips.

“Happy Anniversary,” she replied, once he broke the kiss and rested her back down in his lap.

“I can’t believe it’s already been a year,” Mike mused, thinking back fondly to that day when he found Lena while cleaning the storage room at work.

“Yeah, best day of my life,” she smiled fondly.

“Mine too,” Mike agreed.

“So, how was your day?” she asked, staring intently into his eyes. He could hear her body continuing to work on the food in the kitchen behind him.

“Pretty relaxing, actually,” he laughed, “All the bosses are stressing out about the new building open up next week, so it’s been relaxing having them all on vacation and not pestering me this week.”

“I’ll bet,” Lena laughed, “I know my coworkers in the dispatch center sure appreciate your efforts mapping all the alarms and systems issues for us.”

“One of the benefits of being the only one patrolling around for the past few months,” he grinned, “I’ve gotten to know every nook and cranny in that new building.”

“Do you know if Elena’s gonna be getting off early today?”

“I asked her and she said she thinks she might be able to get off as early as four, but she wasn’t sure,” Mike shrugged. While Lena went into the grave shift dispatch team for Security, Elena had gone instead into the cafes. While the cafes were closed during the holiday shutdown, their management had decided to have most of the staff work to get some busy work done: inventory, deep clean, reorganization. Elena didn’t mind since it offered her the opportunity to earn some money during a time where she would normally not.

“Too bad, but at least that gives us some more alone time to enjoy ourselves,” she grinned.

“Yeah, but we could always just shut her off if we wanted more alone time,” he pointed out.

“Yeah, but it wouldn’t be the same,” she said. Although her body was behind him working in the kitchen, he knew from her inflections that it just shrugged. “Anyway, today’s her anniversary too, so we’ll need to do something special for her as well.”

“Don’t worry, I was planning on it,” Mike winked. He could hear Lena’s body putting the food in the oven and beginning to clean up. “Though strictly speaking, it’s tomorrow.”

“Meh, might as well do it on the same day.”

“Yeah,” Mike heard the dishwasher turn on followed by the sink running. A few seconds later he heard footsteps heading out of the kitchen. Lena’s body then veered by the couch, giving him a loving caress on his right arm before continuing down the hall and up the stairs.

“Did you want me to follow your body?” he asked with a confused look, looking back down at her in his lap.

“Nope, not yet,” she winked, “I’m still getting a surprise ready for you.”

“I see,” he smiled knowingly. Realizing he had a few minutes, “So, what did you do today?”

“Well, after I got off work I headed straight home and plugged myself in so I would have enough energy for all the fun we’re going to have today,” she started, “then I installed a bunch of software updates, ran a diagnostic and then started chores so everything could be perfect tonight.”

“Wow, sounds like you had a busy day,” Mike nodded with an impressed look. He could hear her body moving around in their room directly above them.

“I definitely did,” she agreed.

“Are you concerned about your head running out of power before your surprise is ready?” Mike asked with mild concern. Mild, because all he had to do to turn her back on was click her head back on her body.

“Nah, with the upgrades I got for my birthday a few weeks ago, my head can remain online while detached for considerably longer,” she said in an unconcerned voice, “It still has five minutes and three seconds remaining…my body only needs two minutes and 11 seconds to finish.”

“I love when you get all robotically precise like that,” Mike laughed, picking her head up and making out with her for a few seconds before putting her back down.

“That was nice,” she smiled, “but the usage of intimate activity shaved 20-seconds off my head’s charge time,” she added slyly, giggling since she knew he liked when she used technical speak.

“I don’t care,” Mike shrugged, picking her up again but only planting a quick kiss.

“Alright, if you start heading up right now at a slow pace, my body should be ready by the time you walk in,” Lena announced, a look of anticipation on her face.

“Okay, I’ll try and restrain myself,” Mike smiled, carefully rising to his feet and repositioning Lena in his arms so she was looking forward. He then walked towards the stairs and carefully maneuvered each step, not wanting to drop his girlfriend. As he headed up, he observed the privacy features activate on the windows. Shortly after integrating her into his life a year ago, she had linked herself with Mike’s smart home functions and could now control everything remotely. Clearly, she didn’t want anyone disturbing them, or for them to disturb anyone else.

As he reached the top, he could hear the new washer and dryer units working in the closet at the top, as well as the new A/C unit they’d had installed. While Mike didn’t want to move into a bigger house, that didn’t mean he didn’t want to upgrade all the appliances. Lena had even upgraded most of the equipment in her room/lab.

He finally reached the upstairs landing and saw his door closed; He could hear relaxing music playing from the other side. Getting really excited, Mike carefully held Lena in his right arm while using his left to open the door. Mike couldn’t help but gasp as he saw what was inside.

On the bed, Lena’s headless body was in ‘the pose’, positioned towards the door so Mike would have a perfect view of her bare soles, playfully moving back and forth. She had also changed it into some sexy blue silk lingerie that, upon closer inspection, was embroidered with the words “Mike’s favorite toy.”

“Wow!” was all Mike could manage to get out, still drinking in the scene while Lena patiently waited in his arms. “This is perfect.”

“Thanks, I worked hard setting it up,” Lena gushed. Her body more playfully swinging its feet around on the bed, while maintaining the pose. Mike absently heard his phone ping several times in his pocket. “I took a few snapshots and sent them to you, so you can enjoy them later.

“Thanks!” Mike giggled, admiring how Lena literally thought of everything. He repositioned her once more in his arms and brought her back up to his face, kissing her deeply.

“Sooo, my head has 70 seconds of power remaining,” Lena reported dutifully, once he broke away, did you want to reattach me know, or let me run out of power and attach me after?” Lena calculated and 85% chance he would let her run out of power.

“Might as well let you run out of power,” Mike shrugged, “it’s a good turn on….no pun intended.”

“I figured you would,” Lena laughed, “Before I run too low to speak, open the box on my bedside table and make a selection before reattaching me.” With approximately 60-seconds left, Lena was already slightly struggling to speak.

Mike quickly looked over to the bedside table and noticed the wrapped box that he had missed, for obvious reasons. “Okay,” Mike nodded, before bringing her up and making out with her.

Despite running low on power, Lena was able to make out with Mike quite well, though she had to disable a few low priority programs in her A.I. to do so. Mike timed it fairly well in his head and ended the make out session with less than 10-seconds left in her power. He looked her seriously in the eyes just as her power was failing and said, “You really are my favorite toy.”

Lena just barely managed to form her face into a laugh before her head’s power failed. Her facial expression frozen in the beginnings of a hearty laugh. Mike stared fondly into her frozen face before quickly taking a picture with his phone and placing the phone on his bedside table, and her head on the bed next to her now frozen headless body. Her body was still online, but with her head out of power there was no longer anything controlling it.

Mike walked over to her side of the bed, pausing briefly to fondle her bare feet still frozen in the air, before continuing to her bedside table. He removed the bow on the box before lifting up the lid, chuckling as he saw the contents. Neatly packed inside were several canisters of android sexual lube, each a different flavor. Mike perused his options before finally selecting a mint flavored canister.

With his selection made, he walked back over to the Lena’s head and placed the canister down on the bed while he lifted her up to her neck. After moving some of her hair out of the way, he carefully lined her head up with the opening on her neck and clicked it into place.

Since her head was offline when it was attached, there was a slight delay while the seam around her neck pulsated as gentle blue color. Finally, after a few seconds, it flashed a bright blue and resealed. Her face, still frozen on the laugh, twitched a few times before once again animating, glitchingly completing the laugh she had frozen on before reorienting herself.

“Did you have fun while I was off?” she smiled, once her systems were fully back online and still maintaining the pose with her head reattached; she always asked that when she powered down, but Mike didn’t mind.

“Yeah,” Mike nodded, before picking up the mint flavored canister, “I made my selection.”

Lena quickly examined the canister before smiling, “I had a feeling you’d choose mint.”

“You do know me quite well,” Mike grinned.

Lena returned his grin before moving out of the pose and stand up at the foot of the bed and gently lower her panties, zoning out momentarily as she unsealed the canister panel just above her vagina; it was currently empty.

Mike wasted no time clicking in the mint one and watching as she resealed the panel and lifted her panties back up. Once her panel was resealed, she began a sexy dance in front of Mike which was intended to increase his arousal, and to get the new lubrication flowing better.

Mike gently danced with her for several seconds before reaching around her back and unclasping her bra, allowing it to fall to the floor at their feet. With a sexy wink, Lena reached down and lowered her panties until they fell to her ankles and kicked them off energetically, bouncing it off the wall. Mike took that as his cue to lightly tackle her onto the bed and begin a round of passionate lovemaking.

Mike was pleased that Elena and Lena had systematically improved his stamina over the past year, since he and Lena went at it for just over an hour, engaging in multiple positions. He was also please he chose mint, since it gave him a relaxing chilling feeling that perfectly paired with their hot passionate lovemaking.

After they finished, they simply cuddled in silence for several minutes while they both rested up. Finally, Lena looked into Mike’s eyes and said, “I hope you don’t mind, but after I clean up I’m gonna plug myself in and shut down for a couple hours so I’m ready for the next round with Elena later.”

Mike leaned in and kissed her, saying, “I don’t mind…I’m likely gonna rest my eyes on the couch too, until she gets home.”

“Great minds think alike,” Lena laughed, then began moving to get up.

“Wait, before you get up,” Mike said, stopping her in the process of getting up while he grabbed his phone from his bedside table, “I have a surprise for you too.”


“Oooh,” Lena said, cuddling up with him closer, a look of anticipation on her face as Mike unlocked his phone and searched through his emails.

“Alright, take a look,” he said, a strange look on his face that Lena’s systems couldn’t quite parse. She wordlessly took the phone and read the email on the screen aloud.

“Mike, to say we were shocked to discover that the android duplicate of our daughter still existed a year ago is an understatement. While we experienced a flood of various emotions, ultimately the positive ones won out. We’ve followed your correspondence the past year regarding how you’ve treated her and, while it is technically not legally required, we give you our blessing to marry her, or at least alter her programming to be your wife. Additionally, doctors saved Lena’s eggs upon her death in case anyone ever wanted to marry her android duplicate, and we still have them on ice in case you want to give use some grandchildren. Have a great life with Lena’s duplicate and thank you for bringing a piece of her back into our lives. Mr. and Mrs. Schultz.”

Lena’s systems analyzed that letter for several seconds in her systems before a tear finally rolled down her cheek. She turned to see Mike holding a small box that he had taken from the bedside table.

“Lena, will you be my wife?” he asked, opening the box and holding it out to her, showing a blue sapphire ring.

Lena thought about it for less than 100ns before saying, “Yes, I’ll be your wife!” and thrusting herself into his loving embrace.

Mike loving embraced his now fiancé and started wondering what more the future would bring them.