Droid Hunter - Part 3

[ButchyBoy]

After a few more minutes of looking around this “Forrest” Cricket found herself in, and detecting well-hidden lights and cameras all around her, the robotic girl finally concluded where she was.

“So this is Droid Hunter”, she said half-out loud.

Her concentration was broken by a rustling sound behind her. Cricket whirled about to see a very tall, trim, and very athletic looking young woman walking backward, looking all around her. The tall woman made a defensive karate stance when she saw Cricket. The little blonde robot was able to get a good look at her. She was a dark-haired woman standing a little over six feet, with a rather busty figure, all bundled up in a one-piece jumpsuit that matched her black hair.

“You, android!” the tall woman barked, “Identify! What is your designation?!”

Well this is a fine how-do-you-do, Cricket thought. She decided to play things a little cocky.

“I’ll tell you mine, if you tell me yours…android!” Cricket smirked.

The taller fembot was taken aback by the littler android’s request but decided to reply.

“I am Gia 3, personal bodyguard to Marcus Kershank.”

“Kershank? From Old Chicago?” Cricket asked.

“Yes” Gia replied. “Which is where I was until a few minutes ago. Now, identify yourself android!” She began to come at her when Cricket held her hands up in defense.

“Ok ok. Take it easy. My name is Cricket Lang, I’m a private detective in Old Chicago, and wife to Harry Lang, also a private detective.” Cricket said.

“You are a robot.” Gia retorted. “You cannot be his wife. That is legally impossible.”

Cricket wanted to leap up, smack her right there and then, and make her take it back. But she couldn’t. That was the frustrating part. Even in a place so forward-thinking as Old Chicago was, and even though Harry and all of her friends treated her as though she were a real person, Cricket was simply still Harry’s property in the eyes of the law. Cricket wasn’t about to show any disappointment she felt about this rather cold fact to Gia. She just continued to look confident.

“Fine, miss smarty-bot, if you want to get super-technical about it”, Cricket began, placing her fingers on her upper chest, “I am Mr. Harry Lang’s android, and….personal assistant. He is my owner and employer.”

“Do you know what this place is?” Gia asked sharply, still inching toward Cricket. “What are you doing here?!” she barked. But instead of backing off this time, Cricket just leaned in, put her hands on her hips, and looked right up at the taller android.

“Well I don’t know about you, but I was made to come here against my will, to play this stupid “Droid Hunter” game!”

“And I am…” Gia began, her expression still one of anger toward Cricket. That expression quickly changed to one of confusion. “I am…….I was…..It….” The tall fembot quickly composed her self. “It does not matter. I must find Mr. Kershank, and return to my duties. Excuse me.”

“Oh please be my guest.” Cricket said with a confidant smile. Gia simply did an about face, beginning to walk back the way she came. She was stopped cold by something that gave off a blue field of light. Gia looked about, saw nothing, and started to walk forward again. She was stopped again by the same blue field of light. She turned back to look at Cricket who was still smiling. The smaller android knew from her scan of the area before that Gia was walking smack into a force field, keeping them in this one area of the larger TV show set. Something miss “bodyguard” hadn’t bothered to look for it seemed.

“Is there a problem?” Cricket asked Gia, grinning. That’s when a very pleasant female voice came from one of the trees.

“Containment field will remain in place until all contestants have reached the game start area. Thank you and have a nice day” it said. Two more female voices came from behind Cricket.

“We already tried that”, one said. Cricket turned to see two more young looking women, who she detected as fellow androids. One was a medium sized brunette, and the other was a shorter, Asian-looking girl.

“I’m Jenny”, the brunette said. “And this is Lilly.” The shorter of the two meekly smiled and waved hello. The much taller Gia stared them both down.

“How did you both get here? What are your designations and purposes?” she asked, nearly shouting. Cricket turned her head to her, cocking an eyebrow.

“Look, you wanna ease up a little there Amazon?” Gia glared at Cricket, but then backed off. Cricket turned back to the other girls.

“Do either of you remember how you got here?” Cricket asked them rather softly. Lilly was the first to answer.

“Well, I was just leaving the pre-school I work at for the day” she began, looking rather nervous. “All of a sudden, everything just went….dark. I guess someone deactivated me. The next thing I remember, I was on the ground back there, and I was looking up at her” Lilly said, pointing to Jenny.

“I received a message from my owner, Mr. Weston, telling me to take a shuttle and meet him in Omega City, which I thought very strange, because Mr. Weston never goes to the dome cities, in fact he detests them, or so he’s told me several times” Jenny said. Cricket just smiled.

“Sounds like my Harry.”

“I came to the building where Mr. Weston said to meet him, and then……it was very strange. I felt sort of a rushing sensation in my head, and then…..I’m here, and I find her, lying on the grass, shut off, so I just reactivated her.” she said, pointing back to Lilly. Gia shook her head in disbelief.

“You mean you just activated a strange android you don’t even know?” she asked Jenny.

“Well it’s not like she seemed a threat or anything” Jenny said in her defense. “She looked like a good sort.” Lilly smiled back at her. Gia didn’t seem convinced.

“I am a top of the line bodyguard” she said very firmly. “Everyone is a threat until I say they’re not. All of you had better remember that!” At this comment, Cricket turned to face Gia once more, folding her arms, looking right up at her. She had a smile of her face, but her voice detected more than a note of ‘Bring it on sister’.

“You’d better keep those words in mind yourself” Cricket said. Gia leaned into her.

“What do you mean?” she asked.

“I may be small, but I can still leap right up and scratch your eyes out.”

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Next: The rest of the party arrives.

[DollSpace]

Good installment - I expect to see more of this soon!

Catrin