August 15th, 2038
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Connor had been created and activated by Cyberlife as a detective prototype so he could investigate the reasons why Androids deviated from their programs and to become the best partner to humans. There weren't a lot of cases of deviancy known, Cyberlife practically keeping the few ones under the radar as to not alarm the public but there were enough to keep them in alert.
It made them want to to find more 'Deviant' Androids to put a stop at this error. And what more successful than an Android hunting down other Androids?
Which is where Connor, the newer RK model came from. 'He' had been at Cyberlife calibrating he latest cognitive functions when a police report regarding Androids came to his software. Cyberlife had installed a program that intercepted any key word regarding Androids to Connor so he would easily jump into those cases.
So, as soon as Connor an Cyberlife got an Android call about a Deviant and another minutes later about the same Deviant taking a little girl hostage, they knew this was the moment they had been waiting for Connor to prove he could do it, that he could make Deviants surrender so they could find the error in their software that made them deviate from their programming.
It didn't take long for Connor to reach the building seeing SWAT teams surrounding the place. He reached the elevator, using his coin his maker at Cyberlife had given him to calibrate his cognitive functions so he'd be more in 'shape'.
His LED flashing blue as the calibration was in process, looking at the elevator floors, waiting for his stop.
As soon as the doors opened, he smoothly stopped using his coin trapping it between two fingers and shoving it to his pocket. His program guided him to show himself as professional and cause a good impression, fixing his tie and walking out of the elevator stiffly, scanning his surroundings as his auditory sensors picked upon a human notifying of his presence.
"Negotiator on site" The man called through his walkie talkie walking away as Connor left the elevator, immediately sharping his scanning abilities as his program dictated him to find everything he could use so his mission could be successful, finding a photograph of the family, picking it up, LED cycling blue
[scanning: Photograph...]
[collecting data...]
[processing data...]
- Phillips, John.
Born: 10/11/1999
Lives: 1554 Av. Detroit
- Phillips, Caroline
Born: 05/23/2001
Lives: 1554 Av. Detroit
- Phillips, Emma
Born: 09/02/2028
Lives: 1554 Av. Detroit
Connor lowered down the photograph looking up at the voice of a distress woman, crying "No, stop. I...I.. I can't leave her!"
A SWAT member walked in with the woman he scanned as Caroline Phillips who as soon as she saw Connor she went to him, grabbing his arms desperately. Connor watched her expressionlessly "Please, please you gotta save my little girl-" she stopped suddenly in shock when she noticed the blinking LED in his forehead, realizing he was an Android, finally looking him up and down in recognition. "Wait... You're sending an Android?"
"Alright, ma'am we need to go" The SWAT man told her, grabbing her arms and escorting her out of the room, yelling her discomfort of Connor while the Android just followed her with his eyes not even disturbed by her comments of him
"I apologize for her"
Connor turned back at the sound of another woman's voice. He immediately scanned her unfamiliar face
Reynolds, Marlene
Born: 05/19/2007
Lives: 1554 Av. Detroit
Ms Reynolds had tears streaks down her cheeks, and he easily deduced she had been crying, scanning her vitals
Scan [elevated heartbeat, elevated temperature core: 99 F]
^^ Stress levels: 68%
"She's worried about her daughter" Ms Reynolds explained to him. Connor nodded slowly about to move away so he could return to his mission when Ms Reynolds spoke again, his program stopping him as she had information about the case "You must understand, their Android isn't this bad. Something triggered this and I can tell he doesn't want to hurt Emma. I know you're programmed to solve this. And you won't stop until you succeed. My Android is the same. They won't let me take my Android home or to be repaired. She can help you. She got hurt trying to stop him"
Another SWAT escorted her out but not before she called out to Connor, "Please, don't let Cyberlife deactivate her. She was just doing her job, she can help you! Just tell her it's my command and she will!"
Connor's LED cycled yellow as he stored away that information. His LED turned back blue as he followed his main objective to find Captain Allen, not even giving a second glance at the broken aquarium as he turned his scanner to find Captain Allen among all the SWAT in the apartment. He made his way to a bedroom where he found Captain Allen furiously ordering around his men to contain the situation
"Captain Allen?" Connor called out smoothly, making the man turn to face the Android, raising a brow annoyed "My Name is Connor. I'm the Android sent by Cyberlife"
Captain Allen turned away from Connor without a word, talking to one of his men monitoring cameras on the roof where the Deviant had taken Emma Phillips as hostage "Its firing everything it moves. It already shot down two of my men" Connor tilted his head listening "We could easily get it, but they're on the edge of the balcony. If it falls..." he turned to Connor, seriously "She Falls"
Connor processed his next approach, "Do you know its name?"
"I haven't got a clue" Captain Allen answered without looking back at Connor, "Does it matter?"
"I need information to determine the best approach" Connor replied. "Do you know if it's been behaving strangely before this?"
Captain Allen straightened up annoyed, turning to Connor "Listen, saving that kid is all that matters. So either you deal with this fucking Android now or I'll take care of it" He said right in front of Connor's face before walking away.
↓↓ Probability of success: 48%
His next objectives appeared in front of him.
/UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED
/SAVE HOSTAGE AT ALL COSTS
So Connor began to investigate the crime scene, discovering the Deviant took the father's MS853 Black Hawk gun, reconstructing the scene with the enough evidence found in an empty case, raising his probability of success to a 51%
Connor then headed to the hostage's room where he found out the child hadn't heard the gunshots and where he found out the deviant's name was Daniel as well seeing another Android at the background, a female one the hostage called Zoey. His success raised at 58%.
He then went to the living room, finding three bodies. He first scanned the father's body, realizing the motive that could have triggered the Deviant's violence like Ms Reynolds had told him. He was going to be replaced. Probability of success 69%. He then scanned the next body being the one of the officer fist responder, Officer Antony Deckart who had managed to shot at the Deviant injuring it and the girl had witnessed it. Connor deliberately chose to pick up the gun the officer had dropped under the table ignoring the American Androids Act forbidding him of carrying a weapon
That's when he turned to the third body next to the table. It was the body of an Android. His LED cycled yellow as he stood up and surrounded the female Android kneeling next to it.
Connor scanned the Android recognizing it from the hostage's video, finding a gunshot at its leg, it's biocomponent harshly damaged, seeing a makeshift torniquete around its leg.
_Deduction. /ANDROID NAME: ZOEY/
_Deduction./OWNER STOPPED BLUE BLOOD LOSS/
_Deduction./ANDROID WENT TO SHUTDOWN TO PROTECT ITS SOFTWARE
Connor reconstructed the scene of what happened, finding out the Android was the first one of the tree getting shot at minutes before John Phillips and around ten minutes before Officer Deckart was killed.
Connor grabbed a little of the Android's thirium and analyzed its blood by putting in his mouth, LED cycling blue
[scanning: fresh blue blood ...]
[collecting data...]
[processing data...]
Model: FM-230 - Serial #489 486 287 -78
Property of Marlene Reynolds
Android wounded
Connor looked down at Android named Zoey and for what he found out about both Ms Reynolds and Emma Phillips' video, he knew the Deviant 'cared' for the Android.
Connor then proceeded on activating the Android again, watching the LED on its forehead begin to flicker back to life, cycling blue as its system turned on
The FM230's LED stopped cycling, staying blue; it drew breath into its artificial lungs, eyes twitching as it stood up with a gasp, LED cycling red due to the damaged of its biocomponent and analyzing its face, Connor detected raised stress levels and a brief scared expression before its expressions shifted to a calm one
/New objective(s)
Extract information out of Zoey
Have Zoey agree assist on case
[chose_Approach]
-Calm
-Formal
-Indifferent
-Comforting
-Serious
Approach_SELECTED "Formal"
"Hello, Zoey" Connor greeted formally, watching it first turned to its damaged biocomponent not even looking at him "My name is Connor"
Zoey looked up at Connor, blinking. There were warnings popping up in front of her eyes informing her about the damage she wasn't concentrating in him.
Connor detected the dazed look and furrowed eyebrows
Probability of success: 23%
[choose_Approach]
-Calm
-Indifferent
-Comforting
-Serious
Approach_SELECTED "Calm"
"Zoey?" Connor watched its LED cycle yellow as the FM230 turned to face him
"I'm sorry, I was running a diagnosis on my biocomponent damage" Zoey told him slightly moving her damaged limb. LED cycling back to blue and yellow constantly
Connor scanned it again, finding there was no leak of blue blood, the tourniquet having helped with that, "Your owner made sure you weren't critically injured"
Connor noticed a surprised look on the Android's face, LED cycling yellow
^SOFTWARE INSTABILITY^
Zoey blinked at the abnormal label that had started appearing the past few weeks but paid no attention to it, looking at Connor
"Zoey. What happened?" Connor asked calmly, gesturing around them at the penthouse.
Zoey followed his gaze, programming going wild to all the disaster, but shoved it aside for the moment as her memory system ran with speed pulling up the footage of her last moments before her shutdown
Connor watched the exact moment Zoey remembered, having been scanning her expressions closely
Her LED cycled between red and yellow before stabilizing to blue, turning to face Connor expressionlessly "Daniel turned against his owner, violating the American Androids Act at stealing Mr Phillips' gun"
Connor knew there was more, something she was holding back.
^^Probability of success: 28%
[Choose_Approach]
-Emma & Daniel
-Daniel
-Marlene
-Probe memory
-Threaten
Approach_SELECTED "Threaten"
"You're holding something back, Zoey" Connor said coldly, "When being asked something, you have to answer. If not, you'll be sent to Cyberlife to be deactivated to find out what went wrong in your software"
Zoey stared at him, LED cycling yellow "I'm telling the truth"
↓↓ Probability of Success: 22%
[Choose_Approach]
-Emma & Daniel
-Daniel
-Marlene
-Probe memory
Approach_SELECTED "Daniel"
"Daniel not only violated the American Androids Act, he killed not one but two humans. By not saying anything you'll be aiding him into killing a third. They'll tear you both apart if you don't say something"
Zoey's artificial lungs heaved a long sigh, looking down. LED cycling yellow and briefly turning red
^^Probability of success: 39%
"He had been experienced earlier tonight signs of distress and slow functioning. I've witnessed Daniel take less priority to his owners orders the last few weeks"
Deduction./DEVIANT STRANGE BEHAVIOR CONFIRMED. EARLY STAGES OF DEVIANCY CONFIRMED
"What else Zoey?" Connor insisted, noting his probability of success on his main mission was still at 70%. He needed to hurry. Every second counts
Zoey's LED stayed yellow, "I..." she silently offered her arm to Connor.
^^Probability of Success: 70%
Connor grabbed her arm, their LED's cycling yellow as their eyes flickered while connecting to each other, their synthetic skin deactivating showing their white plastic skin as Connor probed her memories, following Zoey's lead on everything he should know.
Connor witnessed the first time they met each other and how different from other Androids Daniel seemed to be and seeing her analyzes of his work rate lowering giving more priority to Emma's wellbeing. Reaching that same night, having expressed signs of 'fear' when she mentioned Cyberlife and regret when he shot at her.
Zoey let Connor be the first to pull away, LED cycling yellow then back to blue, Zoey's doing the same.
"Daniel has been experiencing errors in it's software. And that includes the way he has acted toward you" Connor told her having seen more of what she had allowed him to. "He has taken Emma Phillips hostage, and I believe your presence can be beneficial so he won't hurt her"
Zoey's LED stayed blue as she looked at Connor expressionlessly, not even considering. Sure, she had liked Emma but her program wasn't even giving her the option of helping her and she didn't know why. Emma was in danger and she didn't want her getting hurt
^software instability^
Zoey wanted to help but, that wasn't an objective, nor a priority of hers
↓↓ Probability of success: 65%
[Choose_Approach]
-Emma & Daniel
-Marlene
-Probe memory
Approach_SELECTED "Marlene"
"Your owner told me you could help" Connor told her, placing a hand in her arm, his skin deactivating as he showed the FM230 his memory footage "She told me it was a command for you. To help get Emma back to safety"
Zoey stilled, LED cycling yellow as she saw the command from the Detective Android's memory footage
[processing...]
Command received
/New_Objective(s)
Help Connor save Emma
Help Connor stop Daniel
Zoey looked up at Connor, LED cycling back to blue, "What do you need me to do?"
Mission accomplished
Main objective(s): SAVE HOSTAGE AT ALL COSTS [probability of success: 76%], UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENED [mission accomplished]
~8~
N/A:
Okay, I need your thoughts on this one because Machine/obedient Connor is hard to write and I'm not sure wether I wrote him decently
It took me hours of writing this one and that was haired because I have college classes and fortunately I found time to write this one after I found a good approach for this chapter
I hope you liked it and I need to know your thoughts on how I wrote Connor, if there's something I'm missing or if my writing style for him is pathetic, either feed is welcomed.
I also welcome ideas for what you want to happen next. It can be anything (Except turning Zoey a deviant this earlier, though you've noticed some instability this past few chapters, she still has a long way to become one), I'm open to anything
Who do you prefer? Deviant hunter Connor or Deviant Connor?
~*Peace and Out,
De*~
