Chapter 1
"With the ever quickening pace of technology in the 21st century, it was only natural that man would look to machines to do manual labor. It was the automotive companies that were successful at taking the primitive robotics available and manage to create the first Mechs."
Excerpt from "The Unillustrated History of the Dolls"
'Shit' thought Mary, 'this job is complex and most definitely a career ender if I'm caught. Well, that's why they're offering the big bucks. I'll be able to retire at the ripe old age of 26 after this one.'
Looking at the doll in front of her she couldn't help but feel as if like her, it was alive. Even though it had not yet been activated it still simulated all the little things that humans did, like its chest raising and lowering for each simulated breath to the blinking of its eyelids at random intervals.
A few weeks ago, it would have been like seeing an old friend; many of the dolls used in day to day tasks were never customized at all, used just like this one, straight from the factory.
Its thin frame, with short cropped black hair gave it an almost paige boy look, only the small breasts and clean shaven vagina proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was a female doll.
Looking at the doll now however was like looking in a mirror. The cosmetic changes that she had been through over the last few weeks had changed her body from a pretty average looking brunette, with just a few curves to almost a comically plain, flat, raven haired doll replica.
'That's why I got the gig, the right height and close enough for the medical units to do the work fast. Well that and I've worked for John before of course.'
John was the leader on this project and he had recruited her for her first corporate espionage gig almost 5 years ago. They had worked several more times since then and he had even made a romantic move on her a couple of years back, but Mary was all about the money and she didn't have time for that kind of entanglement. That kind of risk just made the job even more difficult.
Mary could see the tech team working at the consoles; Mick, the lead tech, was overseeing the whole thing, frantically jumping from console to console. They would normally be working through the wireless interface of the doll, but in this case a single cable ran from just behind its left ear to the nearest computer. The kind of hacking this team was doing was not possible any other way.
'Mick is a genius and all, but I don't think even he will be able to do it, at least my contract gets paid either way.'
The plan was straight forward, Mary would 'impersonate' a doll being shipped from the factory for customization, once in, all she had to do was jack in to the network and deliver a viral payload. It had already been arranged that the doll she was impersonating would be recalled to the factory the next day.
The entire display on the console to the left of Mick suddenly flashed from red to green and two techs almost jumped out of their seats. They checked the results and then checked them again. Only once Mick was satisfied did they high fived each other and then give John the thumbs up.
"All right Mary, we're in. Time to lose the house coat, get in the chair and let Mick do his magic. Operation Trojan Doll is on." said John.
John was like all the other corporate spies she knew, shrouded in mystery wrapped in an enigma. She didn't like it, she didn't even know who they were working for, but the money was just too good this time and risk was the name of the game.
Two techs disconnected the doll and moved it away; she stepped out of her robe and towards the chair. The now naked Mary felt the many eyes of the techs on her, it was too bad the dolls shipped naked, but they didn't have any modesty and so it was necessary she was naked as well. Mary took the seat that had just been vacated and prepared to jack in to the equipment.
'Well, no going back now.' she thought as she secured the cable in to the jack behind her ear.
Chapter 2
"The great technological leaps of the first sixty years of the Mechs had been all about function. Each producer had tried to leapfrog their competitors with better and better Mechs. Those who succeeded grew richer; those that failed fell by the wayside. In the end, once the companies could no longer produce significantly better Mechs than each other, the last competitive advantage any of them could manage was cost.
Within ten years, the cost of a Mech dropped from the lifetime salary of an average worker, to less than the family car. By the end of this great bloodletting of the industry, only three Mech companies remained, the two great behemoths of the industry were Robot Bodies Inc. (RBI) and Mechanized Industries Inc. (MI) with Sub Human Manufacturing (SHM) running a distant third.
During this time is when the first Mech customization shops appeared. First as underground hackers with a fetish for the Mechs catering to a niche clientele, then to a more mainstream audience as the Mechs moved in to more and more homes. And so was born the doll."
Excerpt from "The Unillustrated History of the Dolls"
'Damn that feels weird' Mary thought as the doll programming was loaded in to her implant. She knew the modified code would sit over her implants code and fool the security measures at Northern Customization to get her into the warehouse.
Northern had been wiping the floor with its competition over the last year as they introduced their most advanced customization program to date. The string of high profile celebrity endorsements had help to make them the place to go for doll customization.
'I just hope I get in and out cleanly, nothing worse than getting caught and having to go to court against those flesh eating lawyers Northern has.'
The load finished and she marveled at the workmanship.
'For something that was impossible, they sure did a good job. The doll serial number encryption and code signing is bang on, even I can't tell it's a hack job and I'm on the inside!'
"Alright Mary, we've engaged the code, can you stand up and get to the crate?" John asked.
Mary tried to stand up just like she would any other time, but nothing seemed to happen. After a few second she realized that the doll overlay had primary control of her body, so she tried working through the doll overlay instead of directly with her body. Sh soon found she could get her body moving, but it was hard work.
'Damn, that's going to be a real pain, hope they don't want me to run anywhere.'
Mary slowly stood up and moved her body towards the crate, each step required a lot of work, as if she had to tell each muscle what to do separately. It took much longer than she had expected, but after a few minutes she was standing in the doll's shipping container and ready to be packed up.
"Alright, Mary, here we go." said John as they closed the container. Everything had gone dark, but Mary could hear them locking down the straps and then suddenly she felt the entire container drop backwards.
'Great, sensory deprivation for at several hours, at least I can still play solitaire on my implant.'
Chapter 3
"The first dolls that came on to the market were primitive, with minimal changes from the factory Mechs. The most obvious customizations were for purely esthetic reasons, a change of hair colour or length, perhaps different skin pigmentation. These dolls were used by the rich to serve they're day to day needs and as such performed with loyal obedience.
The first recorded doll used for sex was a scandal of a famous leading man, using a same sex doll for his personal pleasure.
However this was surely not the first instance of a doll being used for sex. The fast pace in which the Mech companies capitalized on this new market would seem to indicate that they had been working on models made for this purpose for quite a while before the scandal broke.
And so, the second great wave of competition started in the Mech industry, with each company making more and more human looking, feeling and acting Mechs for the expressed purpose of sexual pleasure."
