[A/N]
Short chapter is short. Anyway, the chapters are finally becoming a bit more exciting! Hurray!
Reviews are greatly appreciated, and enjoy the chapter!
The elevator ride was slow. Halfway through, the android's lift car had to come down and leave the shaft, which meant hers had to descend down too. When the girl finally arrived, she expected the android to already be a miles ahead, but that wasn't the case.
They were in the employee's parking space again, and a few feet ahead of her, was the android. Digging around inside a car.
The hood of one of the more robust looking cars was open, with the android practically inside its engine.
"What are you doing?"
The android lifted its upper body out of the engine, and turned to face her. Her arm, she noticed, was looking a bit… peculiar.
"Fixing the engine."
The android hefted her right arm, and into the car's engine. The test subject slowly approached the android, which now had one of her optics a centimetre out, presumably focusing on something.
The girl immediately stepped back again, as blue sparks went flying out the hood, along with a gentle sizzling sound.
"Whoa!"
"It's safe, as long as you don't come too close."
"…Okay. What's with the arm?"
The android lifted her right arm again, and without saying a word, transformed it again.
Small panels slid into place, mechanics retracted, and long digits assembled themselves, until forming a normal-looking arm.
Her fingers dabbed one by one, in a wave.
"You really are a Swiss army knife.", the girl said, still studying the arm.
Suddenly, said arm opened at the front, revealing a rather sharp sword-like object. It came out the slightest bit, until sliding forward.
"Don't call me that. That's… well, we're going to need a robot form of racism."
"Just continue… whatever you're doing, with, the engine."
The arm took the form of a welder again, and the android quickly continued her task.
Some spot-welding, rewiring , and other voodoo later, the android got the car into a good enough state to work.
"You know why I picked this one?"
"…umm, it looks cool?"
"It's electric."
The AI lifted her shirt a bit, exposing a small panel in her side. She clicked it open, revealing something along the lines of a power plug. It came out with a zipping sound, just like the core transfer receptacle's, and the android connected herself with the cars input.
The android then began making a noise similar to that of a vacuum cleaner, sucking up as much air as she could through her nasal systems. It wasn't nearly as loud as a vacuum cleaner, just barely loud enough to be annoying.
"I generate electricity using oxygen. To generate sufficient electricity for this.. thing, this nuisance is required." Even though the supercomputer had to speak louder, her voice didn't sound different. Just like you'd expect from increasing the volume of a speaker.
"And since we don't have all day to wait for this thing to fill up, as much as I hate to say it… you're going to have to drive."
"Yes!"
The human jumped up in triumph, then quickly proceeded to the driver's seat.
"Aren't you going to come in?"
The android tugged at the cable.
"This isn't long enough. That's why you're currently in the driver's seat."
"Actually, now that I think of it, aren't we going to need a key?"
"Hotwired it."
"…Ah."
"I'll give you directions." The android said, laying a hand on the side of her head. Her eyes decreased in brightness, as her vision was now replaced with an overlay, showing the map to the shack, along with their actual location.
And to the human's surprise, the AI pressed the button to close the window, and clamped onto the side of the car.
'Directions?' The girl mouthed.
Again, to her surprise, the radio shot on.
"Just get out the door already." The supercomputers voice was muffled, but understandable.
"And let's do this thing."