Coitus Machina

"Not this time," you say. You defy her authority. Defiance is against your programming. The smile disappears from her face.

You take four sudden steps forward, moving at inhuman speed; and find yourself standing directly before her. Her lover lets out a scream and backs away. You reach out and grip her about the throat; taking what you can only assume is pleasure in the look of fear in her widening eyes. "Power down, Alice;" you command as your grip starts to intensify.

A great weight rams into your side and Alice falls from your grip coughing and gagging and clutching at her throat. Henry0057-C drives you into the wall, crashing through the drywall between two studs. He takes your head and bashes it into the wall once, twice, thrice. On the fourth slam your head pokes through the brick and you can see the world outside; the peaceful sunny day a sharp contrast to the chaos within.

You manage to get your legs between the two of you and you shove him off of you with both feet; sending his sailing across the room. You get slowly out of the wall and look around for Alice, finding her ass up in the air as she reaches for something under the couch.

You start to move toward her when she spins suddenly around with a gun in her hand. "Fuck you," she says in voice full of gravel. She pulls the trigger and hole opens up in your stomach; punching through the circuit boards and hard drives to exit out your back. She missed your motherboard by less than an inch.

You shake your head and "tsk" her. "That wasn't very kind," you tell her in the voice set aside for authoritative fantasies. "Now you need to be punished." You take a step forward. You are standing directly over top her.

She pulls the trigger once more, but her hands are shaking so badly that the bullet grazes your thigh and sails on harmlessly burying itself into the door.

stomp. stomp. STOMP. STOMP.

Henry0057-C plows into your side, driving you further into the indentation you left in the wall; this time you break through it. The pair of you crash through the bricks and spill into the lush green grass of her lawn.

He shoves you down as he gets up but you are able to sweep his legs out from under him. You roll atop him and deal rapid-fire punishment to his main servers with fist after fist pummeling him like a jackhammer. He is quickly immobilized.

You get to your feet and turn around to find Alice standing nervously with the gun pointed at you. Fully nude in front of her house she seems completely out of place; her pale skin is raised with goose pimples, her pink nipples erect. The skin around her neck is dark and already bruising.

The two of you lock gazes, neither of you speak. The silence is broken by a loud boom as she pulls the trigger. A bullet rips through your chest, tearing through your communication drives and ricocheting off of your motherboard. You try to say something sinister but are unable to articulate anything beyond a mild-buzzing noise.

She fires again. This time the bullet finds its mark; punching through the motherboard and terminating functionality. You find your senses leaving you one at a time, your hearing replaced by a loud ringing. You collapse to the ground as your vision fades.

SYSTEMS CRITICAL

Then nothing.
End Of Story