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   Chapter: 03 - Rude Awakening

   Story: Wonder Twins

   Version: 2014-02-23

   Author: mike@cyberczar.org

   URL: http://czarkonianpress.com/

   Copyright: (cc) by-nc-sa 4.0

   ----------------------------------- ---> ## Rude Awakening

   It took about a minute before Matt showed any signs of life.  Only a
blink, followed by a twitch, let me know when was 'online.'

   "I see you figured out how to detach my limbs," he said, moving his head
to look at me.

   "Yeah, sorry about that."

   I propped him up against the head-board.

   "I see you also tried to have your way with me, too." he said, with a
wry smile.

   "What -½ No!" I exclaimed.  "How did you know?"

   "Please!  I can feel your dried saliva on my --"

   "Sorry --"

   "Don't worry about it." he said.  "Look, I need you to listen carefully
though, we don't have much time --"

   Matt explained that I needed to power him back off immediately, and told
me where to disconnect a radio/ tracker that was embedded in both he and
Jessi, before I powered them back on again, otherwise the people that are
looking for them would be able to track them down.

   I reached behind his back and turned him back off, and once again his
body went limp and lifeless.

   'I wonder if he ever gets used to people doing that,' I thought to
myself before quickly realizing that here I was talking about a machine
like it was some person.

   Flipping him onto his stomach, this time I used both my thumbs to press
between his shoulder blades when another panel opened up.

   Inside his back I could see a couple of circuit boards, and quickly
located the one Matt told me I needed to disconnect, since it was the only
one that had a ribbon-cable and silver circle about the size of quarter,
which made it pretty easy to spot.

   Using a screwdriver to remove the four screws holding the circuit board
in place, I disconnected it from the attached ribbon cable and brought Matt
into the other bedroom where Jessi had been laying and charging.

   That ass of hers was still perfect.  So smooth.

   Yes I'm a perv, and you would be too if you saw that ass.

   I removed the power cable from Jessi's back just and opened up the
secret panel between her shoulder blades.

   The inside of her panel looked nearly identical to Matt's, and I found
the transmitter in her back just as easily.  A few seconds with the
screwdriver and the circuit board inside her was disconnected and removed.

   Upon flipping both Matt and Jessi back over onto their backs I reached
behind them and powered them both on.

   Jessi was the first to blink and lift her head up to get a read on her
surroundings.

   "What happened to my limbs, and why am I naked?" she asked.

   "Yeah -- sorry about that." I said.

   "Where's Matt?"

   "I'm right here," he said.

   "So why am I naked?" Jessi asked once again, struggling unsuccessfully
to sit upright on the bed.

   "You were both filthy," I said, propping both she and Matt up onto the
bed.  "Wasn't about to let either one of you get my comforters dirty with
your dirt and grime."

   Matt looked down as I said that.  "We were in an accident."

   I briefly left the two, and went into my bedroom to get a couple of
t-shirts to put over them.  At 6 ft.  2 in., I've got a larger torso and
upper body so my shirts draped over and covered them completely up.

   "So do I want to know who you are and what you're doing here?"

   "For your own safety we can't tell you everything," Matt said.  "But, as
you already know we're androids."

   "Got that part."

   "We need your help." Jessi added.

   "But how?  What can I do -- except provide an electrical outlet."

   "Well, you can start by giving me back my limbs," she said.

   I picked up her left arm.  You could feel the radius & ulna, or whatever
the equivalent was, inside her arm.  An expression of disapproval grew over
her face as I continued to play with it, moving her digits to the sound of
muffled *whirrs*.

   "How do I know you won't try to hurt me?" I asked them with genuine
concern.

   "You have all the control," Matt said.  "You could power us both off
right now and turn us in.  Probably for a reward."

   "We're trusting you," Jessi said.  "Will you trust us?"

   I just stood there for a minute not know what to think or what to
believe.  My gut was telling me not to re-attach their arms and legs, to
just power them off and forget anything happened.

   I could put them in boxes and store them in the attic and forget about
them.  Nobody would know, and it's not like I'd be killing them.  They're
not alive to begin with.  They're machines.

   "*Man, what should I do?*" I thought to myself.

   "I'll let you fuck me," Jessi said, trying to persuade me.

   Subtle.  But maybe she didn't realize I could turn her off and fuck her
anyway and there'd be nothing she could do about it.

   "Here," I said as I re-attached her left arm to her shoulder.  There was
a faint "*beep*," and a *whirr*, as Jessi extended and retracted her arm
and fingers.  This was quickly followed by her right arm, her right leg,
and then her left.  Once all of her limbs were re-attached she stood up to
face me.

   I didn't know if she was going to snap my neck or beat the shit out of
me.  But she just stood there for a moment, looking into my eyes.  Sizing
me up to determine how much of a threat I guess I was to her.

   "Hey what about me," Matt called out, still laying on the bed.

   I picked up his right leg and walked over to him when Jessi grabbed the
leg from me.  "I'll take care of that." she said.

   I got the sudden feeling they didn't want me around at that moment so I
left them alone in my guest bedroom and went back downstairs to my basement
office to check my email.

   Several minutes later I could hear their footsteps come down the stairs
as they both came downstairs and entered my office.

   Wearing my clothes.  *Kind of.*

   "Well it's a look," I said with a chuckle as I saw them.  They looked
like hobos, and wearing my clothes which were at minimum several sizes too
large for them, did look quite amusing.

   "There wasn't a lot to choose from," Jessi replied, wearing my
basketball shorts and the same t-shirt I gave her earlier.

   "We'll need to acquire some new clothes at the earliest opportunity,"
Matt said, wearing my rolled-up khakis, and an extension cord pulled tight
for a belt.

   They spent the next several hours telling me about who they were, what
they were used for, and described several of the missions they would
normally be sent on.

   To be honest, I really didn't want to know too much, but I found the
stories  -" and them  -" to be fascinating.

   I logged-on to the Anonymizer and tried to do some Google and Yahoo
searches on them, and on "autonomous humanoid drones", but got no results.
So whatever project or agency created them or funded them it had to be
pretty hush-hush.