“G’day miss, gotta package for ya.”
The man spoke with a heavy accent as he held out his work tablet to Brooke to give her digital signature for the delivery. As she went to give her John Hancock she spied around the worker to see two more were hauling a rather large wooden box out of a truck. Judging from how the two of them were handling it it was a rather hefty thing, whatever it was. After getting down to the ground one of them took a work horse and used it to move the crate inside, now signed for he took it to the living room like Brooke asked him to and stood it up right as its labeling instructed. Thanking them for their work Brooke quickly saw them out and got to the living room where Mikayla was already trying to pry the crate open with her bare hands.
“Hey, grab the other side and help me get the lid off!”
“Kay, the thing is screwed together and made of solid wood, we’re not about to pry it open by pulling on it.”
“Then how the hell do you plan to open it? I’m pretty sure we don’t own a crowbar.”
“We don’t, but we’ve got a screwdriver.”
“Ugh, that’s gonna take forever though! Let me just go buy a crowbar, it’ll be faster!”
“Why are you even so worried about it? For all you know it’s a vacuum cleaner.”
“It could be a lot of things, but we also both know that it could also be another one of your company’s awesome high-tech things. Personally I’m hoping for a Smart TV!”
Brooke cocked an eyebrow as she noted the box was slightly bigger than her sister and a full foot taller.
“Maybe, but we won't know until it’s open. Don’t break it before we even open it.”
“I’ll break you!”
With an eye role Brooke went and grabbed a screwdriver and came back to get her prize from its container.
“You know, I really wasn’t expecting something this big, most of our stuff is handheld. I don’t think it’s a piece of furniture either, at least nothing you can sit on anyway.”
“If it’s a lamp I’m gonna be pissed.”
“What advanced tech could we have possibly put in a lamp anyway?”
“Fuck if I know, maybe it’s voice activated like you said earlier.”
It took about ten minutes but Brooke finally removed the last long screw holding the lid shut. Carefully Her and Mikayla removed the lid and laid it to the side. They were first greeted by styrofoam that they quickly removed to find-
“Holy shit, that’s a woman! Is she dead?!”
“I don’t know, I mean I don’t think so, I-”
“Wait, there’s a bunch of lines on her face.”
Confused and a bit panicked by what they had thought was a human woman in the box and encased within more styrofoam, the sisters examined her a bit closer. Garbed in a simple loose fitting t-shirt and pants colored the same soft orange as the DynaCorp’s logos. Around her wrists are orange lines that stood out without being distracting. Her face was soft looking and peaceful, like she was sleeping though she didn’t seem to be breathing. She had short, perfectly cut, deep black hair that curled inwards with perfect symmetry. On her face she had two more lines cut a pattern from beneath her eyes to behind her ears. She stood nearly as tall as the crate itself, making her taller than both Brooke and Mikayla. Her skin was perfectly clean, with not a single notable blemish anywhere to be found.
All in all a very beautiful woman with some strange markings, but Brooke was able to notice she seemed to be holding something in her hand. Hesitantly, as though the strange woman would leap out at her, Brooke took the object, finding it to be an instruction manual.
“DynaCorp all purpose assistant/maid android, model: Mary?”
“Android? Like the things in movies?”
“I… maybe? Don’t touch her-IT, I need to read this before we do anything.”
“Are you fucking kidding me? We have a real life android right here in our living room and you want to READ?”
“Do you know how to operate an android Mikayla? Didn't think so! Look, there’s a section called “Quick Start”, I’ll read through it and then we can start… doing things with… Mary, we’ll call her or it or whatever Mary for now.”
“Fine, whatever, just hurry it up! I wanna see what it can do!”
Mikayla barely resisted the urge to start playing around with Mary as Brooke closely read the manual.
“Okay, it says we can start with a button that should be on the back of her neck.”
Mikayla quickly went in and maneuvered Mary’s head to reach behind her neck, taking note that her skin felt pretty real, before finding the mentioned button. Pushing it Mikayla removed her hand and took a step back. She was expecting some noise, like gears turning or system boot up sounds, but as her and Brooke watched no such sound came.
“Nothings happ-”
Mary sharply opened her eyes, showing off for the first time her beautiful, florescent dark golden eyes. Both Widers caught their breath as she began to move, simply removing herself from the rest of the styrofoam and box before coming to a complete stand still and speaking.
“Please now use the included product key through verbal communication.”
Caught off guard by the VERY human voice Brooke could only stare for a moment before remembering the manual’s next step.
“Oh, right um… tt7k85gho20ga?”
Mary closed her eyes and stood still for a moment before opening them again, seeming to have processed something.
“Key accepted, now please add information for up to four users.”
“Right, um, Mikayla watch what I do and then repeat it okay?”
“Sure?”
Walking up to stand in front of Mary who looked at her with a cool, neutral expression Brooke looked at her the best she could in the eyes.
“Brooke Wider, age twenty-seven.”
Again but shorter Mary closed and opened her eyes.
“User Brooke registered, add another user?”
With that Brooke quietly side stepped and waved Mikayla over to do the same.
“Right… Mikayla Wider, age twenty-four.”
“User Mikayla registered, add another user?”
“No, that’s all.”
This time Mary kept her eyes closed for a long moment before at last opening them again, this time with a bright smile over lapping her face.
“Initial set up complete, this unit is ready to work! It’s so very nice to meet you Mikayla and Brooke! You might already know this but my name is Mary, and I’m the latest and greatest in DynaCorp’s long line of stellar high-end products! As your personal android I’m capable of all sorts of things, from basic household chores like cleaning and cooking, I can help with taking care of both pets and young children, can help you in any office setting, and can even access the internet so long as there is a WiFi single nearby to update and learn new things for any and all of your needs!”
Before her voice was even and held no emotion in it, but now she spoke with a great deal of cheer and pep as she continued to list off her capabilities.
“And my greatest feature of all: I can adapt to your behavior and learn to predict what you want and need on my own! The more time I spend with you two the better at helping I’ll get!”
With that she struck a little pose, showing off her average proportions in both the butt and boobs area, before standing straight again.
“Before I get started with helping, are there any settings you’d like to change? I can-”
For about the next thirty minutes the sisters messed around with random settings until they were satisfied, atypical things like WiFi usage and the such to things like the pitch of her voice and where she would charge when needed.
“And confirmed! Now that’s all settled, what would you like me to do first?”
“Well, I guess-”
“Make some burgers, we’ve got ground beef and stuff in the kitchen! I want cheese, ketchup, mustard and tomato on mine. Make Brooke’s the same but no mustard!”
“Right away Kaykay!”
With a cute little salute Mary was off to the kitchen to start on her first official order while Brooke glared at her sister.
“Hey!”
“Sorry sis, you were being slow and I was ready to test her out. Besides, it’s not like you can’t tell her to do something still, just after she’s done making lunch.”
“Not what I mean Mikayla, we have a real, honest to god Android and the first thing you tell it to do is make a damned burger?”
“What else are you supposed to have her do? We can have her do just about whatever, making us some grub is as good a place as any to start.”
Before she could protest further a grumble from Brooke’s stomach stopped her in her tracks.
“Alright, alright, we’ll eat first, but then I’m putting to some actual use after, got it? You can have your fun with her later.”
“Oh, don’t you worry, I will!”
Following their new companion into their kitchen both sisters knew that having a artificial aid in the house would change things a fair bit, but neither could really predict how as-
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