(Jeremy's Squip's POV)
I was scared, struggling to burrow down deeper in that little pill off mine, trying my best to hide myself from all view of the outside world. If I hid, they couldn't see me. If I hid, they couldn't destroy me. Destroyed? Yes, you heard that right.. Now, what are Squips exactly..? Squips: The super-computer that implants in your brain through the simple process of taking a pill. They're nameless. Their only job is to make the lives of their master simpler, easier and worth living. They don't matter. They have no emotions. The little super-computers you somehow discovered online? Not all of them are perfect. Some are born- er.. made, defective. Some of those Squip happened to be one of the few unlucky ones that ended up unperfected. One of those defects happened to be me. Alas, I was just a simple prototype. I didn't realize that meant we all had to be destroyed. I just happened to be lucky that day, and ended up shipped out with another box of squips. The perfects. The ones that would never make mistakes. The one's who understood everything. The ones that would actually matter and change the world for the better! I didn't know where I would end up. Thoughts kept echoing around in my head. Who would my master be? How long would I be serving them? Would they ever realize I wasn't what I was meant to be? My pill was tucked neatly between a few others, right on the very top, right where humanity could see how much of a mistake I was.
It came as a sudden surprise to him when he was plucked right from the comfort of the box that held him and placed into the hands of another human. Their hands were clammy, and sort of sweaty. Disgusting.. Surely, this couldn't be the human he was meant to serve? The clamminess was soon gone and replaced with a warm, comfortable feeling. Did they happen to put him in their pocket? When were they going to take or destroy him? The anxiety of it all hit him, and the squip grew anxious, trying hard to burry himself down deeper in the pill than before. He had a feeling wherever this person and himself were going, it wouldn't be very pleasant.
Noises surrounded the two of them, muffled to the squip, but they sounded like voices. A lot of them. Where had they ended up? The movement suddenly came to a halt. What was going on..?
"-hundred dollars." A voice muttered.
A hundred dollars.. Is that how much he was worth? A simple one hundred?
"When you're cool-.." Another voice answered.
When he was cool.. He'd awaken soon. He'd prove he was worth being made. Then suddenly, he felt the cold sensation of bright green Mountain Dew coating him, forcing the pill down the human's neck tube. Then pill started to glow, then suddenly, it was gone, as well him. Everything went completely dark.
"How do you feel?" Michael asked.
"Like... a chump." Jeremy muttered.
"Nothing? At all? Try to say something cool!"
"I think I just wasted money on a Wintergreen Tic-Tac..." Jeremy sighed with disappointment. "Just leave me to mourn with my Chile fries forever..."
A picture appeared in his mind, one of a girl. One with short, bobbed black hair, and the most gorgeous smile. A name instantly came to mind. Christine Caligula. This person wanted to date her? It wasn't going to happen. Not right away at least.
"Target Female, Inaccessible. Calibration in Process, please excuse some mild discomfort." The Squip said, his voice glitching in and out as the calibration began.
"Mild?!" Jeremy yelled out.
"Calibration complete. Access procedure initiated. Discomfort level may increase." Suddenly, a scream rang out. One that could've only belonged to his master.
"Accessing: Neural Memory. Accessing: Muscle Memory. Access procedure complete." His vision became clear as daylight, his eyes narrowing as he stared in the mirror in front of him. "Jeremy Heere. Welcome to your Super Quantum Intel Processor. Your Squip." He was slightly surprised when the mortal that appeared in front of him was just a mere child. They had a mop of messy brown hair, and their eyes were a light baby blue. They wore a striped shirt and an oversized gray jacket. This must've been Jeremy Heere. Senior in High School. He was destined to serve a child..?
"You look like... Keanu Reeves." Jeremy blurted out, astonished.
"My default form." He replied. "You can also set me for Sean Connery, Jack Nicholson, or Sexy anime female~" A giggle came from him, but he looked serious.
"Keanu is fine." Jeremy smiled faintly. "Er... can everyone, you know, like... see you?"
"I exist only within your mind. Right now, all everyone else can see is you having an animated conversation with yourself. So, don't do that. Just think at me, like you're telepathic."
"Like in X-man?!" Jeremy grinned like an excited two year old on Christmas Day.
He frowned, taking a minute to research what Jeremy was implying. "Oh..." He sighed. "This is going to be more difficult than I expected. Look, you want to be more chill."
"Don't you mean, cool?" Jeremy raised an eyebrow.
"I do not. You see, human social activity is governed by rules and I have the processing capability to understand those rules and pass them onto you."
"So, er.. Where do we start?!" Jeremy asked.
"First and foremost- Take your hands out of your pockets. Arch your back, puff out your chest. Add some swagger to your gate, or you'll look like a masturbator, fix your posture, then the rest."
"But, I-... am a masturbator."
"We'll fix that." He looked disgusted. "..All your nerdiness is ugly."
"Nerd..? I thought it was more of geek-"
"All your stammering is a joke."
"Wh-Wh-What..?"
"Your ticks and fidgets are persistent, and your charm is non-existent. Fix your vibe, then fix some more."
"H..How do I do that?" Jeremy frowned, looking up at the taller being.
"Hmmm, we shall start with picking a new shirt. Stripes are too-.. "Childish."
"I thought they looked cool.." Jeremy muttered.
The Squip had to resist rolling his eyes. This kid was going to need a lot of work..
((Authors note: I decided to stay with the story going between Jeremy and Rich's Squips point of views, however, instead of the terms 'I' or 'me' I'll be using 'He/Him and She/Her' everyone else will be referred to by name.))