Author's note: I'm calling this story my anniversary story. One year ago I decided to try writing - to set the stories and ideas trapped in my head free. My first story was an incest one called "The Long Absence: Allen's Story." I didn't have an editor back then, but feel free to check it out if you don't mind some typos and grammar issues here and there. I'm not sure how much longer I'll continue this writing experiment, but here is my first anniversary story.
Editing thanks go to Todger65.
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Chapter 1
Adam stared out of the large waiting room window. His eyes watching a woman talk with a horse in the pasture about 10 yards away. She was running her hand up and down his large head, smiling at him, not feeding him anything. Adam found it odd. Of the few farm animals he had seen, they were constantly eating something; hay, carrots, grass and so on.
He was shaken from his observations when Dr. Fong entered the room, greeting him enthusiastically. "Adam! Thank you so much for joining us today!"
Shaking the hand of the middle-aged man of Asian descent, 20-year-old Adam smiled politely in return. Dr. Fong was joined by his assistant, Denise, a short brunette. Adam had never seen a pure Caucasian woman before. Most of the 100 million inhabitants on Earth were Asian mixed with other races, Adam included. He never knew his parents. The only memories of his mother were brief images of a tall, blonde woman, with bright blue eyes. His short black hair, blue eyes, light Asian features, was evident of his ethic mixture.
"Please sit, we have so much to talk about. Again, I'm very excited you agreed to this! We are going to have so much fun," the overjoyed scientist explained.
"My pleasure; I got a day off of work and get to spend it here at corporate headquarters," Adam smiled.
"You find your work boring?" Dr. Fong asked.
"Somewhat, yes. It's general maintenance work. I also repair damaged weather modifiers," Adam explained.
"Amazing," Dr. Fong replied, confusing Adam. He didn't consider his mundane job amazing at all. It's all he's known. With very few memories from his younger years, no family, or close friends, Adam was put in this maintenance role as if he's always been doing it - never questioning, never wondering about his past.
"Anyway, let us begin. Denise will take notes. I'm assuming you know why you are here?" Dr. Fong asked.
"Yes, you want me to help you all design, um, someone for me to, well, be with?" Adam nervously answered.
"Yes!" Dr. Fong replied, smiling widely. "You don't have to be nervous by the way. Based on your imagination, we will build you someone to spend your life with. Again, your imagination is the limit. We can, and will, build you anything."
"Anything?"
Dr. Fong nodded in the direction of the pasture with the woman and horse in it, "We built him."
"You built a horse for her?"
Dr. Fong, smiling, almost giggling, stood from his seat, walking quickly to the large window, banging on it, waving at the woman and the horse.
"Hello!" the woman waved in return.
"Hi Dr. Fong!" the horse yelled back in a normal sounding male's voice.
Adam's mouth dropped, "You mean the horse is a robot?"
"Yes!" Dr. Fong said, sitting back down, always smiling.
"So that's why it isn't eating. It doesn't need to," Adam said.
"HE doesn't need to. You're correct, no need to eat food," Dr. Fong said. "He looks real doesn't he? He doesn't smell real, which I suppose is a good thing! She takes him to the pasture there and rides him around sometimes. It's all very sweet. But let's talk about you and want you want."
"Alright," Adam said, glancing at Dr. Fong's assistant, Dense. Adam noticed she didn't have anything to write on, or tablet devices to transcribe their words into a document. He thought that was odd as well, since Dr. Fong said she was going to be taking notes.
"I want you to focus. I want you to use your imagination. And I want you to relax. There is nothing we can't build no matter how unusual some may think it is. She can be anything you want her to be. The important thing is simply using your imagination," Dr. Fong said.
Adam nodded, "Ok, well, where do we begin?"
"Yes! Firstly, is what do you want?"
"Well, I would want something human-like, but not a human. And, uh, maybe tall too. And, um, perhaps, she could be a she, you know, curvy and um," Adam was rambling.
"Ok, ok, slow down a bit. Just relax," Dr. Fong said. "What you're doing for us is wonderful. I just want you to take a deep breath and let your thoughts flow. Alright?"
Adam nodded, doing as he was told, pausing a moment before speaking again, "A humanoid shaped android. Specifically, female shaped. The body would be athletic in appearance, flat stomach, muscular, but certainly keeping an hour glass figure. The breasts would be large," Adam paused, glancing at the busty brunette, Denise, who remained silent, smiling softly at him.
"She would be tall too. Six feet tall, my height," Adam added.
"Wonderful! Keep going," Dr. Fong said.
"Um, I like long hair, maybe down to her lower back. But, like I said, I don't want her to look human," Adam added.
"We'll get to that in a moment. This is all very basic information first," Dr. Fong said.
"You said she was taking notes?" Adam asked, glancing at Denise, still sitting with a permanent smile on her face.
"She is! Now then, athletic, tall, six feet, long hair, female human curves, what about other general descriptions? What about her ass Adam?" Dr. Fong winked.
"Oh um, well, yeah, she'd have one. It would be nice, you know? Somewhat shapely and muscular," Adam explained.
"Wonderful!" Dr. Fong patted Adam's knee. "Remember to relax, we're all adults here. Now then, you said you didn't want her to look human. Can you elaborate? Start simple. Her hair, what color? What color eyes and skin, things like that. There is no wrong answer, everything you could come up with his perfect in our eyes."
"Right. Well, um," Adam cleared his throat. "I was thinking green. Well, not green, but maybe like a blue-green combination. But her entire hair wouldn't be all of that color. I, um, I," Adam stammered.
"Hey, it's ok," Dr. Fong said. "Just take it slow."
Adam paused another moment, before gathering his thoughts. "Teal. Her hair would start off teal, and gradually turn white. Just above the small of her back, it'd be white. I'd want it to be of a different texture too. Like very thin optic wiring or something. She would be hairless everywhere else, except for thin, teal color eyebrows. Her eyes would be slightly larger than a human's. Their color would be teal and black."
"Yes!" Dr. Fong nodded.
"I want her skin to be solid black in color. It wouldn't be metallic or shiny, but almost leathery, maybe even slightly like rubber. It wouldn't feel like ours," Adam said running an index finger over his forearm.
"I would want it to appear as though she were wearing a skin-tight suit of light armor. Perhaps where her ribs would be, there could be a plated or different pattern to the skin. A similar pattern could be on her thighs and the sides of her legs. Maybe this pattern could be outlined by some sort of teal lights, to give the plates prominence, and to take away human features."
"Yes! I love it. So around the bottom of her ribs, below her large breasts, going down the sides of her stomach, her thighs, and perhaps even the sides of her back, next to her spine would be this outline of lights, giving her a robotic appearance?" Dr. Fong confirmed.
"That's it, yes," Adam answered.
"What about her voice?
"Not too deep for a woman, but not nasally or high pitched. I would definitely want it to sound robot-like. That horse out there sounded like a regular man. I don't want that." Adam answered.
"Great, great. What about other sounds? We can completely hide mechanical sounds such as whirring, or light machinery sounds when she moves in a certain way. We can also mask any sort of computer processing sounds she may emit."
"Keep those. I like that idea of robotic sounds when she sits or walks. Nothing too loud or noticeable, but something barely there to remind me she's not a human in a suit," Adam explained.
"Yes, perfect, this is great. Anything else for her face?"
"Her ears would be long, antenna like protrusions. Maybe not antenna like on an insect, but blade-like devices, she might use for communication purposes - sending and receiving signals of some sort. I don't know."
"No, this is great. What I'm seeing is something that doesn't look human. Anything else?"
"Um, a smaller mouth, lips wouldn't be too full. I guess she'd have teeth. Maybe her mouth could be glow teal with she opens it? A small, dainty nose. Perhaps in her shoulders, elbows, hips, and knees there could be an outline of the joint. It'd look robotic of course, metallic with teal lighting."
Dr. Fong nodded in agreement, seemingly enjoying Adam conveying his vision. "I like this color scheme!"