It was against the law to have an android look so… human in Metro City- and unfortunately, they both knew this all too well. Uran looked over the android body with a sense of disgust and fear. As if there wasn't enough proof already that Tenma had gone insane…
"Doctor Tenma had originally named this android 'Tobio', similar in name to his son Tobias." Professor O'Shay told Uran, although she was barely listening, "A rather poetic way of differing between the two, if I must say so."
"Did you have all the original parts?" Uran inquired as she touched the android's skin in curiosity. It felt like real skin, but it was as a cold as a dead man.
"When I started working on Tobio's old frame, admittedly I only had about fifty-five percent of the original to work with." O'Shay told her. "Not a bad turn-out really, but if you have no idea what you're doing, it would not make much of a difference."
Uran gave an absent nod as she lightly touched the side of the android's face, then ran her hand down to the android's hand. Carefully, Uran peeled back each of his individual fingers and looked at the inside of his palm. She looked closer with a curious tilt of her head and found that his hand was as individual as her own- the android even had fingerprints unlike any other.
"As I worked more on Tobio, I found that Tenma had given him unique abilities that set him apart from any other mild-mannered bot." Professor O'Shay continued to say, although Uran wasn't even pretending to listen to him anymore, "Tobio was equipped with jet flight from all four limbs, high intensity lights that operated from his eyes, a very acute earing sensor, a multilingual tongue, and extreme determining deductive skills to determine one's true intent. But Tenma didn't stop at just the mundane, he built this little bot to work off of nearly 100,000 horsepower for strength and he hid an interesting weapon system that can attack any wrong-doer in any direction. The more I worked on repairing Tobio for a hint of Tenma's final mindset, the more I found that this robot is unlike any other; this robot had all these abilities and Kokoro- a very complicated idea that could change the way we look at robots forever! If anything is proven by the end of this experiment, it would be that Tenma was a greater genius than what anyone ever realized. It's a shame it was only discovered on his last days on earth…"
"And that's where I come in, right?" Uran asked, turning to look at the professor. He nodded.
"That is, if you wish to have the scan done." He reminded. Uran looked from the professor then to android. Although she had been rather unaware of it, Uran had her hand firmly clasped in the android's hand.
A rather rude thought came to the back of her mind about the way Professor O'Shay was treating her. It was almost as if he was treating her like a robot. It annoyed her, and he had no reason to do so. Did she really have a choice, or was the professor giving her subliminal mind messages to make her do what he wanted.
It's because Tenma helped built you.
Shut up, I'm all natural.
Is that what you really feel in your bones? Are they even your bones, really?
Shut up!
"I'll do it." Uran agreed. "Let's just get this over with."
Wasting no time, Professor O'Shay guided Uran to a small X-ray machine that would give a full body scan within a few minutes. After preparing her, O'Shay went to the control panel for the machine and, slowly, the X-ray machine moved its camera down Uran's body. As the X-ray camera moved lower from Uran's body, the information it already had went to a computer near the control panel that Professor O'Shay oversaw. O'Shay looked at the information with a hard eye, what he saw surprised him enough that he stopped the scan before it even reached a half-way mark.
"What happened?" Uran questioned, almost thinking for a moment that she had broken something without meaning to.
"Tenma was a genius, that's what happened." O'Shay told her. "Come here, I'll show you."
Complying and with precious little else to do, Uran made her way over to the computer where Professor O'Shay moved a bit so she could look at the screen too.
"Do you see this line of data here?" O'Shay asked as he pointed to a particular string of letters and numbers that made no sense to the teen.
"Yeah." She agreed.
"And do you see this piece over here?" the professor then asked, pointing to another string with similar letter and number arrangements to the first.
"They look kinda the same." Uran told him, not quite seeing the significance.
"That's because they are Uran!" Professor O'Shay declared with glee and he started to type something on the computer. "I believe that the insane find ways to keep their sanity, and their last strings are usually their most brilliant. Uran, your skeletal system was designed by the late Doctor Tenma to not only grow and function as a normal skeleton, but each individual bone is also used to mask and protect the greatest pieces of data in history!"
"And that is the…?" Uran slowly started to say, but almost didn't want to finish.
"The Kokoro Theory my dear! Every single, individual bone in your body contains the original Kokoro Theory in its entirety! It's amazing! It's astronomical! It's so brilliant that it could change the world!"
"So…" Uran started to say, "What happens to me now?"
"In a week or so, I'll design a special nanite," Professor O'Shay then told her, pulling up a blueprint for said nanite on the monitor. "The nanite will enter through your ear canal and attach itself for just long enough to extract the Kokoro Theory from your malleus bone, then it will leave with no side effect to yourself."
Professor O'Shay turned to look at Uran with a wide smile.
"Thank you Uran." He then said to her. "With your help, the world is about to change."
Uran looked at the professor and gave him a single blink.
But what if I don't want that change professor?
. . .
It was barely even a week when Uran was summoned again by the professor. The two went back to the lab that they worked in before and O'Shay immediately started to get the nanite ready to extract the Kokoro Theory from Uran's body. The procedure took only a few minutes- once again, when he had enough information, Professor O'Shay started to work on repairing the android once more. He kept going back and forth that eventually he commanded the nanite to come out of Uran's ear and let her remain sitting where she was while he started up the android's main functions.
At first, everything seemed to go smoothly. The power that the professor put into the robot could have nearly stopped their hearts in a nanosecond, but it went into the android's body without problems. Once the startup was completed, Professor O'Shay and Uran looked at the android on the examination table for signs of life. A minute passed, then five minutes, then another twenty minutes went by without anything happening. Professor O'Shay looked over the android's body, then slammed his fist into the examination table.
"Everything is operational!" O'Shay thundered. "Why didn't it work this time?!"
"Maybe… maybe something's still missing." Uran suggested. The professor turned to the girl and gave her an unreadable expression.
"What are you implying?" he asked her, almost demanding.
"Well," Uran started, "All his systems may be functioning and all, but maybe he's missing a soul."
"A… soul?" O'Shay questioned.
"Well… yeah." Uran agreed with a shrug. "Golems need a soul to do their master's bidding, by some folklore humans were given a soul from their god. Why couldn't Tobio be any different? Maybe when he was first activated Tenma gave him a part of his soul or something- or maybe another robot did it somehow, I dunno. And since you had to reconstruct almost half of Tobio's original body, maybe as a failsafe Tenma made sure Tobio's original soul 'died' or something. Now Tobio had a mostly new body, maybe he just needs a new soul too."
"And how do you plan on doing that?" Professor O'Shay asked, giving her a quizzical look that boarded on fascination. Uran was silent for a moment as she looked at him, looked to the android, then back to the professor.
"Upload my brain into his."