"XJ-9.exe: Wardrobe Protocols Not Found"
A My Life as a Teenage Robot fanfic
Tremble, Tremorton. Chaos was afoot—not from a Cluster invasion or a black hole in the cereal aisle, but from something far more scandalous… and metallic.
"Jenny, are you okay?" Brad asked, cocking a brow as his robotic best friend twitched mid-stride outside the Smoothie Barn. Her eyes flickered, limbs locking with a sudden bzzt! and that ever-ominous error beep.
Jenny stood frozen like a glitched-out lawn ornament. Her internal systems hiccupped. [WARDROBE RETENTION SUBROUTINE: MALFUNCTION DETECTED]
Then—FWIP.
Her shirt launched like a frisbee into a passing stroller.
"Uh—JENNY?!"
"Oh no," she groaned, monotone horror mixing with mechanical whirrs. "It's happening again."
SHRRIP. Her skirt slid right down her legs with a hydraulic hiss, pooling at her ankles in a sad, frilly puddle. Jenny didn't even flinch—her programming didn't allow dignity anymore. Her eyes glowed red for a microsecond. Compulsion: Execute Full Wardrobe Ejection.
"NOT AGAIN!" she shrieked, arms flailing—but too late. Her bra catapulted like a misfired missile, snapping onto a lamppost. Her panties? Launched high into the air, caught by a confused pigeon that wore them like a jaunty bonnet.
Brad dropped his smoothie. "Dude! Why does this keep happening?!"
"I don't knooow!" Jenny wailed, covering her metallic chest with her hands, then realizing her modesty subroutine had also glitched out. "And why does my diagnostic software think this is a 'feature' instead of a bug?!"
Across the street, an old lady fainted. A group of teenage boys spontaneously combusted into nosebleeds. Someone tried to take a photo—Jenny's eyes lit up, and she fired a laser that turned the phone to molten goo.
"Oh great," she grumbled, now fully nude and standing on a busy sidewalk like a futuristic Greek statue of embarrassment. "This is the fifth time this week. At this point, I might as well just install retractable tassels."
Dr. Wakeman's voice crackled through Jenny's internal comms: "XJ-9! What did I tell you about letting that wardrobe anomaly persist? You're turning the neighborhood into a peep show!"
Jenny groaned again, grabbing a smoothie lid and holding it in front of her hips in vain. "I'm TRYING to fix it! But every time I reboot, the subroutine just yells 'GET NAKED' and auto-deletes my pants!"
A nearby kid stared, eyes wide. "Cool robot boobs."
Jenny's eyes twitched. "That's it. I'm going into Safe Mode before I flash the mayor again."
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