Anyway, here is the final part of "A Helping Hand". It's a considerable bit longer than the previous two (really because I couldn't figure out a good place to break it up), but I've decided now that I've actually completed a story I'd take a crack at posting it on the wiki so that you folks can read it with uninterrupted pleasure
Thanks again to all the folks who reviewed! I hope you enjoy the final part:
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Reaching under the desk, Josh grabbed the spare Ethernet cable that ran to the back of the computer, plugging it into the corresponding slot on Jane’s open chest panel. Instantly, the screen changed, and a new window popped up:
Unit Jane4896 connected…Unit offline. Boot in safe mode?
Josh nodded and hit ‘Y’. He jumped a bit as a pair of sharp beeps issued from Jane’s open port. Her eyes flicked open and she sat up on the bed.
“Unit Jane4896 safe mode start confirmed.” Displayed on the computer as the same words escaped Jane’s lips in monotone. “Beginning system scan…
WARNING: Cognitive error
WARNING: Memory corruption detected
ALERT: AI offline. Unit speech synthesis disabled.” Jane fell quiet.
ALERT: Virus detected. Unit self-clean failed. Run anti-virus from desktop?
Josh hit ‘Y’again.
ERROR: External interface with this unit may only be performed by its registered owner.
Access Denied.
WARNING: Owner database inconsistency. User registry not completed. Access configuration wizard now?
Josh paused again. He’d been afraid of this. Whoever had built and activated Jane had circumvented the traditional owner registry process, entering only the minimum amount of information they could about Jane without crashing her AI. Now the system needed him to finish the process, becoming her master before it would allow him to fix her.
He turned to look at the motionless android sitting on the bed next to him. While he’d known many androids that looked and acted to some degree like people, Jane he’d always known as a person, who just happened to be an android. She was her own person, and he didn’t feel right taking that away. His eyes fell back to the note she’d written him:
“As you see, I am a robot. Sorry I had to keep this from you =( I got a virus, please help! You’re my only hope! My pass: pRoto5f85. Please! I trust you. Your friend, Jane.”
In the heat of the moment, Josh hadn’t realized what those words implied. Here she was, a self-owned, sentient android of questionable legality in the throes of a dangerous virus attack, and who did she call? Who did she trust? She’d known that Josh would help and wouldn’t take advantage of her. If she has that faith in me, Josh thought, then I have faith that I’ll do the right thing. That clinched it, and Josh pressed ‘Y’ once more.
Enter root password:
Josh entered the string from the notebook
Access granted… printed out, and the screen faded to black. Josh watched as a very Matrix-esque series of characters began to run down the screen. Suddenly, a wireframe appeared and began slowly filling up with color, starting from the figure’s feet, up its legs, rising until it filled out the head to the features of…
“Jane!” Josh gasped.
“Hi there!” Jane, clad in a simple white tunic, beamed back at him. “Welcome to the new owner configuration program for your new Androcorp model FAA50000 android!” Jane bowed.
“Please re-enter this unit’s root password to continue.” Josh typed the string in once more and hit enter. “Thank you. Unit root password confirmed. I am Androcorp Model FAA55712. My current configured AI name is ‘Jane Sanders’, but I am able to reconfigure it to any name you want. A word of caution: if this unit already has memories under this name, changing it may cause AI corruption and loss of data. Would you like to change my name now?”
NO. Josh typed as forcefully as he could.
“Thank you. My name is Jane Sanders. Is this correct?”
Josh looked down to type ‘yes,’ when a noise like someone tapping on glass issued from the computer. Josh looked up to see the virtual Jane leaning towards him, “tapping” on the screen.
“Master, this configuration utility has been designed to utilize audio/visual data to complete the setup process, in order to get you used to interacting with me in a more human fashion. You can continue to enter setup information manually, or just by saying the options you wish to select.” Jane said, holding up a picture of a keyboard and a picture of a speaker.
“Oh, you can see me?” Josh scratched his head. “How?”
“Through this desktop’s integrated camera and microphone, and also through my own sensors.” Jane giggled. “Let’s resume. My name is Jane Sanders. Is this correct?”
“Yes.” Josh replied.
“Thank you. AI profile name confirmed as Jane Sanders. It’s a pleasure to meet you.” Jane’s image bowed. Her image flickered for a moment, and she raised a finger to her chin. “It appears that there is an inconsistency in my owner database. My current owner is registered as “self”, but much of that data appears to be corrupted or in an unreadable format. Would you like to rebuild this user profile, or start a new one?”
Josh sat back. Owner profiles were used by androids to get to know their master’s tastes and personal history. Since Jane owned herself, all of the data in that profile pertained to her, but she’d likely have had to enter it in a way that tricked the system. Rebuilding it might totally mess up Jane’s sense of “self”, but starting a new one would likely erase it entirely. Josh thought for another moment before a grin spread across his face.“Let’s start a new one, but can you save the old profile in case I need it again?” he asked.
“Absolutely.” Jane nodded. “Partitioning owner ‘self’ on a separate drive. Creating backup on this desktop. Done. Initializing new owner registration process. What is your name, master?”
“Joshua Vosima, but you can call me Josh.” He smiled.
“New owner profile created: Joshua Vosima. Nickname: Josh. Is this correct?” Jane pointed as the words appeared next to her on the screen.
“Yep. You even spelled it right.” Josh laughed.
“Thank you.” Jane smiled and bowed once more. “Now I’d like to ask you some questions to get to know a bit more about you, but if you want I can just learn more through our day to day interactions. Which would you prefer?”
“Just learn more as you go along.” Josh replied, eager to get Jane started up once more.
“Understood. I’ll learn more about you as we go along.” Jane smiled. “I’ve already begun mapping your vocal patterns, but I’d like to take a picture of you for facial recognition.” The virtual Jane held up an old-fashioned camera.
“Sure.” Josh laughed. She was just that cute and corny in real life.
“Great. Please look straight at the desktop’s webcam.” Jane instructed, looking through her virtual camera. Josh looked up. “5, 4, 3, 2, 1, say cheese!”
“Cheese!” Josh replied. He saw a flash from the monitor as Jane “took” the picture.
“Facial recognition mapping complete. What a beautiful smile!” Jane grinned and Josh laughed. “This concludes our new owner registration process. If you need to make any changes, you may run this utility again or just ask me once I’m online. Thank you for choosing Androcorp androids. I hope you use me regularly! See you ‘in the flesh’!" She giggled and bowed a final time, and disappeared in a burst of light. When it faded, Jane’s desktop had returned.
Now that he had access, Josh wasted no time in running the antivirus utility. According to the program, a virus had infiltrated Jane’s systems through a series of backdoors that she herself had opened when installing a program. Josh instructed the utility to delete the virus, but the programming itself looked legit, so he left it in and set the program to repair her damaged files. A status bar appeared on the bottom of the screen: it would take 90 minutes to complete the repair.
Josh sighed as he rolled the chair back from the desk, looking at the immobile android on the bed next to him. She stared back at him with a blank, vacant look in her eyes. Josh put an ear to her chest, straining to hear any signs of her artificiality. Aside from a barely perceptible whirr as her servos responded to whatever systems were keeping her upright, Jane was silent. He could even hear what could almost be described as a heartbeat coming from her chest. He bent lower to try hear its source, only to discover he had practically buried his head between Jane's breasts.
"Oh!" Josh exclaimed, rolling his chair back. "S-sorry!" he told the inert android. He stood up and decided to look around, trying to distract himself from the growing bulge in his jeans.
Josh wandered over to the studio's small kitchen, wondering what kind of food an android would keep around the house. He knew Jane could eat, they'd gone out to a noodle place only a month or so ago, but he wondered if her artificial nature limited her diet, or if it augmented it in any way. Curiosity overwhelming his apprehension at snooping around, Josh took a quick inventory of her cupboards: packaged noodles, crackers, cheese puffs, soup, cookies - nothing he wouldn't have in his own cupboard. He opened her fridge, much to the same result: milk, yogurt, cheese, lunchmeat, veggies - nothing aside from an odd container of familiar smelling blue liquid to indicate anyone but a normal human lived there.
Discouraged but not disappointed, Josh returned to the computer, grabbing a package of Jane’s cookies as he went. Munching thoughtfully, he began looking through Jane’s maintenance software, searching for anything that might shed some light on the background and life of his artificial friend. Aside from a very dense electronic copy of a user manual, there was nothing about Jane’s function and why Androcorp, one of the largest android manufacturers in the world, would send a free, masterless android out into the world like this. Josh sighed and popped another cookie into his mouth. Guess it’s something I’ll just have to ask her later. He shrugged and checked the status of the antivirus scan: 75 more minutes to go. He opened up the manual and started reading, determined to find out as much as he could about Jane.
After a few minutes of skimming, Josh paused at a section titled “Android Post-Activation Configuration.” Intrigued, Josh read on. Like all androids, changing Jane’s appearance was fairly difficult. Parts had to be custom molded from the manufacturer or a very select group of aftermarket retailers. Jane’s personality, on the other hand, was more fluid. Through a series of sliders, certain aspects of her personality could be subtly altered, introvert versus extrovert, or cleanliness for example. Josh noticed that much of the ranges of the sliders were grayed out for Jane, which made sense to him. Jane was an FW A+ AI, the FW indicating she had a pretty strong sense of free will, while the A+ signified a very high quality human-level emotional intelligence. Changing Jane’s preferences too much too quickly could cause some serious instabilities, and while the available range would eventually shift as her AI “got used to” her slight personality changes, it would take a long time to swing her bubbly personality over to a more serious one. Lower level AIs (especially those without free will) could change much more easily and would be much more conscious of the change, while Jane would be influenced only subconsciously.
The same went for her AI directives. Androids could be configured with a series of subconscious instructions, the human equivalent of a habit, that they would try to follow based on the level of “emphasis” their owner placed on that behavior. For example, an android might be programmed to putting a medium emphasis on brushing their teeth at night and a high emphasis on plugging themselves in to charge before bed. Since charging was a high priority (and the android knew it needed to do so for it to survive), they would try their best to carry it out. Brushing their teeth, on the other hand, wasn’t such a priority (neither to the android’s survival or to its master), so it might learn to skip that task on occasion. Once again, lower level AIs would be very aware and conscious that they were performing such a task as a directive, while an AI like Jane’s would consider it a subconscious suggestion, much the same way a human can act when hypnotized.
Josh poked around the configuration tool for a while. It even had a built in social setting simulator that allowed him to see how any changes to her personality would affect her interactions with those around her, reminding him a lot of the ancient video game The Sims. He laughed as he watched a virtual Jane backflip across the classroom in response to a medium priority directive, before she quickly learned that it was inappropriate or bizarre behavior.
Noticing the virus scan was almost done, Josh reset all of his edits to Jane’s personality and directives. He wanted to keep his friend just the way she was. A few moments later, an alert popped up on the screen:
Virus Scan Complete:
1 Virus Detected (jsdfias.exe)
1 Virus Deleted (jsdfias.exe)
All corrupted memory sectors repaired. Reboot?
Josh clicked ‘Y’ and held his breath, hoping that all of his efforts hadn’t been in vain.
“Reboot request received.” Jane announced, mirroring what appeared on her status feed. “System shutting down now.” With that, her eyes closed, her head dipped to her chest and a series of seams became visible, crisscrossing her body. A moment later, the whine of electricity and the breath of cooling fans emanated from Jane’s inert body, quickly fading along with her seams. Her head perked up and eyes snapped open.
“Jane Sanders, Androcorp Android model FAA55712, firmware revision 8.6.79874 system online. Beginning start up checks.” She announced once more. “Warning: Owner database inconsistency detected. Loading owner profile “Josh Vosima.” Autofixing database…complete! System status: Nominal. Hi! I’m Jane Sanders!”
“Jane?” Josh asked tentatively.
“Oh, Josh, thank you so much!” A beaming smile appeared across Jane’s face as she threw her arms around him. Surprised, Josh stiffly returned her embrace. “I knew you’d figure out what to do, I just knew you would! I’m so happy I trusted you!”
“S-sure th-thing, Jane…” Josh gulped. Her bare breasts were still pressing into his chest.
Jane pulled back and cocked her head for a moment. “I see you’re registered as my owner now. Good.” Jane smiled as she moved to loosen her skirt.
“Y-yeah. Your system wouldn’t allow me to make changes and clean up your kernel if I wasn’t.” Josh bowed his head in embarrassment. “Do you want me to change it back?”
“Maybe later.” She stood and her skirt dropped to the floor. “Why don’t you just enjoy being my master for a while…master.” Jane winked and a sultry smile spread across her face as she slid her tank top down over her body.
On her computer screen, another item appeared on her status feed:
[AI Notice] Preparing for intercourse with Josh V.
Josh’s eyebrows shot up in surprise as he read that. “W-What are you doing?”
“Just making up for all of the trouble, Master Josh.” Jane sat on her desk and slowly drew her fingers up her leg to the elastic band of her panties.
Josh gulped. He had heard his friends talk about their sexual encounters before, but had never joined or been interested in the conversation that much before. But a couple of months ago, he had started feeling more and more desirous of the opposite sex than he had ever felt in his life.
And now he had his hot android friend sitting on her desk, pulling her panties off with a coy and grateful smile spread across her face.
“Care to help me?” She winked. Josh took the lacy undergarment and slowly drew it down over her smooth legs, feeling himself stiffen as he stared at her moist lips. Jane stood, fully naked. Throwing her arms around his shoulders, she pulled him in for a deep, passionate kiss. Josh returned it with intensity, feeling her pert nipples press into his chest once more.
“Now it’s my turn to help you.” Jane winked, stroking a hand slowly over his bulge and undoing his belt. Sliding his pants, down, she pushed him lightly onto the bed as she knelt, rubbing the underside of his stiff member with the tip of her nose. Josh moaned as he felt her hot breath on his sack, and shuddered with pleasure as her tongue circled the tip before taking him whole in her mouth.
Josh lay back, eyes wide and mouth gaping as she worked his shaft and tickled his balls. He felt something build between his legs, but every time he came close to exploding, Jane would back off and deny him. Josh was so caught up in the feeling that he failed to notice that Jane had somehow taken off his shirt and was now straddling him, sitting on his legs as she stroked his stiff member.
“It looks ready.” Jane commented, still stroking. “I want it in me!” With that, she grabbed Josh by the shoulders, rolling him over so that she was now laying on the bed and Josh was on top, hands resting on her chest for support. Josh was too overwhelmed to notice. Jane guided him in, and he heard her gasp as he penetrated her, her maidenhead popping as he thrusted. Josh almost came right there, but Jane pulled him in for a deep kiss.
“Not yet, big boy.” She breathed huskily into his ear. “We both get to enjoy this part.” They kissed once more, and their bodies began moving in a steady, easy rhythm.
Josh felt drunk as his hips bucked in unison with Jane’s, panting as he watched her tits undulate with every motion. Jane took his hand and rested it on her right breast, moaning softly as he squeezed. Josh may have been on top, but in no way was he in control. Every nerve in his body tingled with pure pleasure.
Jane was enjoying it just as much. The feeling of Josh’s shaft inside her, stimulating her artificial vagina and clit for the first time was almost enough to send her over the edge. But I have a master now, a real one. She thought, and the prime directive of any android is to please their master to the best of their ability. She knew that Josh was receiving the height of pleasure from her as their bodies slid against one anothers. “Oh, Jane…” he moaned. Somewhere in the back of her artificial mind, she noted that his voice sounded slightly…off. She couldn’t place it, but she continued as Josh pressed deeper into her. Her orgasm protocols began to queue up has she felt both of their arousal indices increase.
Her processors were handling the increased load just fine, her systems still optimized for sex even if she herself wasn’t specifically supposed to be used for that, but she noticed Josh’s lidded eyes would occasionally flick to her status readout on the computer screen. Jane calculated an 89.75% chance that her artificial nature aroused him, and decided to use that to her full advantage.
Josh was lost in a haze of pleasure when he suddenly felt Jane twitch sharply underneath him. “Oh, J-J-Josh…” she moaned.
“Jane?” he mumbled, his voice sounding slightly slurred.
Jane twitched again and let out a stuttering moan. “Y-you’re giving me an an an…”Josh’s eyes went wide as Jane’s seams faded in, out, and back in once more. “error.” She squeaked.
Josh groaned as his cock began to twitch in Jane’s pussy. He was already having trouble thinking straight, when panels started opening over Jane’s body. First her data port under her left breast, then another trapezoidal one just under her sternum, followed by the appearance of her LCD screen. “J-J-Josh…m…malfunction! Sexual overload!” Jane gasped. Josh grunted and his head shot up as he felt a shimmering vibration caress his shaft, and then something finally snapped.
“Jane?” He called again. “JaJaJaJaJaJane?” Suddenly he felt an explosion from his loins and heard Jane scream in pleasure as he felt her pussy tighten around him. He could feel his head twitching as his body went numb with pleasure as he achieved his first orgasm, but something felt wrong. His head lolled to the side as he felt like he was losing control of his body.
Jane was still buzzing in the throes of a toe-curling orgasm when she felt Josh collapse on top of her. She felt his seed slowly stop pumping into her and her vaginal contractions slowly recede. Jane bathed in the afterglow for a moment before ruffling Josh’s hair, head still resting on her breasts. “Aren’t you glad you became my master, Josh.” She smiled and ran her hand through his hair once more before she realized he wasn’t moving. “Josh?”
A surge of panic gripped Jane as she pulled her inanimate lover out of her and rolled him over. Josh’s eyes were wide, lids twitching but unblinking. “Jane? Wha-? I-” His body convulsed. “System failure. Emergency shutdown initiated.” Josh announced flatly. Suddenly, his eyes flicked closed and he stopped moving, a series of seams appearing across his body.
“Oh my gosh! Josh, you’re a sleeper!” Jane gasped, her hands rising to her cheeks. Her head was spinning, AI not quite sure how to cope with the situation. She stared at his motionless body for almost a minute before a soft titter escaped her lips, slowly rising to a giggle on its way to a full-on, chest-clutching laughing fit. “Figures the first guy I fuck would be an android too!” she cackled, slapping his thigh. Jane buried her head in her pillow, hand resting on her motionless master’s chest as her giggles subsided.
“Josh…” she sighed, stroking his body, “now I guess I get to be a master too.” She kissed him gently once more and stood up, beginning to gather what she needed to repair her android lover.
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