She was excited, like really excited, so excited that she was shaking the table she was sitting on. Wakeman was finally going to let her out of the room and she was ready to go. She watched the woman turn off her screens and put up her clipboard. The lady was moving so slow, so undeniably slow. She would have time to take another nap at this rate. The lady looked over at her and seemed to notice the robot's fussiness. Wanting to avoid another crying fit, for being a powerful robot the girl seemed to cry a lot, Wakeman wrapped up whatever she was doing and went to fetch her.
XJ9 watched her walked over and out of excitement jumped off of the table to which she promptly fell on her face. It was quiet for a moment, but just a moment. It took the robot a minute to realize what had happened and when she did, well, so much for avoiding a crying fit. She only spent a few seconds face down on the cold floor, and that was enough to make her feel worse.
She felt the lady's hands under her arms and she was hoisted up into her arms. She buried her face into the lady's shoulder and sobbed. She cried more out of fear than pain never once having hit the ground so suddenly and unexpectedly, not even when she was learning to walk. The lady rubbed up and down back while shushing her, and she just curled more into the woman.
She didn't know how long she wailed, it felt like hours but was probably only for a few minutes. When she did start to calm down the woman stopped rubbing her back and looped her arm under her legs. She didn't know what Wakeman was up to but didn't pay it any attention. She tightened her grip on the woman's clothes and kept her face in her shoulder. She could feel herself being picked up off the ground and the lady seemed to be caring her off somewhere.
The lady did stop and XJ9 felt her start to be set down. She whined and squirmed at the action, but the lady still set her down. As soon as the lady pulled away from her, she was ready to start screaming again. However, something stopped her before she could start. Looking around she noticed that was no longer in the old familiar room, rather somewhere else.
Her excitement and happiness came back at full force as she turned her head around in every direction to take it all in. The room was brighter than the other one and had much more stuff in it. For example, instead of sitting on a table she was sitting on, what her eyes' scanner identified as, a couch. There was a smaller table in front of her that was much closer to the ground. She looked over it for a second before her eyes were drawn to something much more interesting.
She stood up from where she was sitting and walked over towards it, well more like waddled over. She stood in front of the glass and looked outside. The window was covered up mostly, but she could peak through a little area in it, and what she saw made her eyes as big as dinner plates. She stared out of it in amazement at what she could see. Her eyes scanned over it all and her mind raced to identify everything.
The grass was so green and it swayed in the wind. The same wind blew by and pulled some leaves from a big brown tree with it, and they floated away on the breeze. A fence kept her from seeing off too far, but she could see a nearby house on the other side sticking up from behind it and that led her eyes upward toward the sky. The sky was a beautiful blue with a bright sun shining down on her, she didn't look at it too long for the sun started to hurt her opticals.
She had to pry her eyes away from the outside peeping hole, and she turned around to look at the lady. She pointed at the window and everything outside it with a giant smile on her face to which the lady just laughed at her. XJ9 just smiled back before gluing her eyes to the window once more. She caught some movement out of the corners of her eyes and quickly zoomed in on where it came from.
A little sound of joy came from her lips as she watched an animal fly down and settled down on one of the tree's limbs. It looked kinda like her toy duck in some ways, but different in others. It had a beak and bright colors like her toy, but its wings flapped around and its body shape and colors were very different. The bird plucked at its feathers for second and puffed up its chest before taking off. She watched it fly out of her sight and instantly wished that it would come back.
"I'm glad to see that you're in a better mood."
Wakeman's voice caught her attention and she looked back at the woman.
"Do you like what you see?"
Without even having to think about she quickly shook her head yes.
"It's good that you like what you'll be protecting."
Protecting? She shot the woman a confused, but curious look.
"XJ9, you are the global response unit and it will be your job to protect this planet from anything or anyone who dares to harm it. Do you understand?"
She was still confused at the woman's words and statement, but if it had anything to do with what she saw outside and getting to see more of it than she'd say yes. She shook her head, and the woman let it be.
"I bet you can't wait to go outside now, huh?"
Going outside? Going out there to walk around or play? The thought filled her with such immense joy and she nodded her head so fast it nearly came off.
"Alright, alright calm down. You'll be getting your chance soon, tomorrow we're going out for a few tests with the Skyway Patrol."
The woman continued to talk, and while she knew that she should've been paying attention to her, happy thoughts drowned out Wakeman's words. Tomorrow she was going outside.
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