Hello! I'm not dead. Turns out my procrastination skills are awesome. The next chapter is here! These next few chapters would be mainly character development. Read and review and I hope you like it.
~IA's POV~
In a span a barely a day, two new 'familiar' strangers already settled in. IA got up from her bed. Today was Saturday which means most of the vocaloids should be out. Len should be at the gymnasium playing with Rin and Gakupo should be at the non-genetically altered garden tending to the plants.
She looked over to her alarm clock and saw that it was already 10 in the morning. She pulled off her nightgown and put on the usual clothes and went down to the kitchen. The kitchen was really big just like the rest of the mansion, it was built to accommodate as many vocaloids as necessary. The kitchen was easily 6 times bigger than the average restaurant kitchen and was stocked with as many cooking utensils as needed.
IA strapped on a apron and started to get to work. She was often the last ones to get up and hence had to cook her own meals due to the rest of the cast already eaten their breakfast. Today, the kitchen pantry was fully packed and she had more than enough ingredients to cook anything she wanted.
"Ah whatever. I'll pick some random ingredients and see what I can make." IA closed her eyes and grabbed some food out. It was a piece of chicken breast, asparagus and a rack of beef ribs.
"Well that's just great. Oh well. Beggars can't be choosers." IA walked out and started working on the meat.
~KOKORO!Len~
"Hmm…." Len pulled his head from the pile of notes. "I fell asleep again didn't I?" He turned to the monitors with codes spiralling onwards with seemingly no end. It was expected. He was trying to make something so technologically advance that he might not even make it to see the results.
"Gru~~~" His stomach growled startling him "I guess I should get something to eat." He looked over to the clock beside him. It read 10.14am. "Seems I already missed breakfast. That's a bit sad." He stood up from his seat and stretched.
The long corridors was like the Labyrinth for him. Without Rin, he probably couldn't find the toilet. "Dammit." He scratched his head. "Was it right, right, straight, left, down or left, right, straight, left? So many rooms to remember. How do you even navigate this place?"
"With time, repetition and many failures." Said a voice behind him. Len was so startled he slammed himself into the wall before turning around. She was about 1.6-ish meters tall and wearing a white apron stained with some unknown fluid.
"Who are you…?" Len asked as he rubbed his shoulders.
"That's some reaction there. My name is IA." She put out a hand with a knife. Len eyes widened with the gesture.
"Oh sorry. I was cooking before this." The girl named IA put out her other hand. Len shook hands with her.
"Your looking for the kitchen right?" She asked. Len nodded his head.
"Follow me!" Len walked slowly behind her. He could barely keep his eyes open. "When did I sleep last night? I'll ask Rin later, for now this girl seems nice and good sounds good as well."
~IA's POV~
"This is one of the new parallel vocaloids. He seems interesting." IA thought to herself. She led him to the kitchen where the dish she prepared was already prepped on the pass.
"You made that?" he asked.
"Of course." IA replied. She took the plate and passed it to him. "Here. I can make another." Len took the dish and spoke a quick 'thank you' before leaving for the dining hall connected to the kitchen.
IA took some more ingredients to make the dish. The knife quickly slicing the meat as she drifted off into her thoughts. The new guy seems nice and kind. Though he looks like a scientist she's pretty sure. Anyways, the food is almost done, she should pay attention before she cuts herself.
Sliding the chopped vegetables onto the meat and drizzling some gravy on it, it was done. IA grabbed the plate and walked back up to her room. There would be less chance of her being disturbed.
The sky started to rain snowflakes and the crystals fell down onto the grass. IA polished off the food she had prepared for herself and looked out the window. "Guess I'll take a walk outside." She went and pulled on a white and light purple jacket and went down the street to the city.
The city was filled with shops and cars with large screens on the sides of skyscrapers. The streets weren't really filled with people with the occasional jogger running past her. IA looked to the side and saw Rin down the road with the normal everyday clothes on.
"She must be freezing." IA walked up to her and asked Rin why was she here. Rin stared at her with an emotionless face and replied "Exploring the city." and continued walking. IA walked next to her, wondering what was wrong with her then she remembered. Gumi told her that the scientist had a android like Rin who was supposed to learn about the world and stuff.
IA looked at Rin and there was almost no difference between her and the actual Rin that Crypton made. Actually, vocaloids weren't 'made' in the sense that they were robots and just simply emotionless like the Rin she was walking next to. Vocaloids mainly were one hundred percent flesh and bones, sometimes genetically modified. That's what got Miku into that whole scientific research. IA could not get her whole head around the scientific concept of GM.
She remembered one of the earliest vocaloids, LEON, was pretty nice or so she heard. Vocaloids, UTAUloids and the rest have a home somewhere. Their superiors move them around when there's not really enough space or they are needed some place else. IA hoped she would not be the one to move out.
"Why are you still following?" Rin asked her.
"Nothing really. I'm just bored." IA responded.
Rin cocked her head but said nothing. IA could feel a presence watching her, like a threatening character is looking. She turned around and saw a silhouette run down into an alleyway. IA being the curious person she is decided to investigate.
"Be careful. I see multiple people down that alley." Rin told her.
"So you can hack into the public sercurity cameras?" IA asked Rin. Rin nodded and followed IA.
The alleyway was dark and smelled like garbage and a variety of animal defecation. IA slowly walked down the street, mainly not to step on the garbage and unwanted things but also not to make noise.
"Didn't think that will work."
"2 for the price of 1. This is gonna make us big!"
"What the hell?" IA muttered. It was obvious that this was a kidnapping and they were the targets. IA looked around and saw nothing useful. Well that's great. Despite all odds, she went down a alleyway with no usable weapon. She looked back and saw two guys standing at the entrance of the alleyway along with 3 guys down the street.
Rin walked up to the 3 in the middle of the alley. "Please let us go or I will have to use deadly force on you."
The guys laughed. "Who are you trying to fool? Don't threat-" he never finished that sentence.
Rin slammed him literally into the wall and proceeded to push another so hard that he got knocked out upon impact with the wall.
IA shook of the confusion and saw the 2 kidnappers behind her running to their friends. IA struck one in the chin that he stumbled backwards and pulled out the baseball bat from his hands and whacked the other on the head that he was knocked unconscious as well.
Rin was holding her own with the last one. He had a knife, long, thin and it was obvious that he knew how to use it. Rin side-stepped most strikes and swings, looking for an opening. IA felt a hit on her temple. She forgotten about the other one.
"You little bit-"
"Language." IA cut him off and kicked him right between the legs. He lost his breath and fell to the floor.
"And never hit a girl." IA told him before kicking in the temple.
Rin grabbed the knife-wielder's arm and judo flipped him onto the floor and kicked the knife away.
"This might sting a bit." Rin squatted next to the attacker and place a hand his neck. Before, he could react, he got tazed.
"Let's go." Rin walked out. "I already called the police."
IA followed her out. "How did you do that?"
Rin turned to her and motioned for her to sit. They sat on a bench at a coffee shop. The waiter came and they gave their orders, a slice of cake and a sandwich for IA and a cup of coffee for Rin.
"Ok. Please elaborate." IA told Rin.
"I'm a robot as you should know. Len built me as he was lonely and needed a companion for his experiments. He was one of the greatest scientists of his world. With Masters for Bio-chemistry, Physics, robotics and quantum physics. So he making me was easy for him. I was built and he developed a self-aware AI and input it into me. I can feel no emotions however but I'm sure he's doing about it."
"And you are a robot with enhanced strength and….?" IA continued.
"My arms and legs can hold up to 30000 kilograms before bending and breaking. I can smash through concrete relatively easily, bend steel with no much effort, output a 100000 volt shock and-"
"What with the offensive capabilities? Next, you'll tell me that you can set off a nuclear explosion."
"I can set off a explosion equivalent to 10 kilograms of TNT but in doing so I'll be destroyed as well. I can back up my brain into a server that I can access that is connected to Len. But to answer your answer it's to hold off any thing that our world's army could throw at me if need be."
"Then your world's army could wipe this world's army in an instant."
"That is correct. But I also have set rules that I cannot alter. 1. I cannot harm any human being or animals. 2. I can hurt others if they are deemed dangerous from physiologically analyzing them first. 3. I must give them a chance before attacking. If they still attack them lethal force is allowed. 4. I cannot kill a human on purpose. 5. These rules cannot be altered unless a nonforced permission is given."
"So you can't kill people on purpose."
"Yes. If I dropped someone from 5 floors up, break all their bones in their body or electrocute them until their hearts are barely beating, they are still deemed alive. What happens after I leave the area is none of my problems."
"You're freakishly dangerous. Finding loopholes like that."
"People I have told this to have also remarked that."
A loud explosion was heard in the general direction of the mansion.
"What was that?" Rin asked
"An explosion of unknown causes. Come on. Let's go check things out." IA told Rin.
