A/N We have had a lot of requests for another Rockwood POV ( minus the binary thinking) Photo: Susan/Gigantica

Happy New Year (RK+Reb)

/Room 404/Rockwood Hall/Washington 2.0 ( Area formally known as Nabraska )

Rockwoods POV.



She woke up in my arms.

"Tish, I feel crap" she said.

"You feel crap? Try having a hole in you" I said weakly.

She shuddered awake. She had woken up in my arms. We were lying there, naked under the sheets just next to me. She looked at my body.

"But you're completely intact there isn't even sign the scar or anything. Parc how long have I been out?" she looked down at herself. "And why am I covered an exotic unitard, which looks like it's been stolen from Susan/Gigantica in Monsters versus aliens?" She started to touch her face. "How long have I bee out ? A month? Oh I get you have you operated on me again. Did do you machine people go all Kim Novak in Vertigo on us " she asked? searching herself for changes " Say you gave me my old nose back, this one is far to button nose cute? I know did you give me my acne back. Is my mole back -please please say you did. "

"Hang on," I said.

I was watching Eternal City News Network television. The far wall was converted into a huge cinema picture. I waved my hand and the volume when up.

"In other news today. 60 Cent emerges from his transition operation and shows off his new eternal android body" said the News Anchor woman who looked about 20 but who's name tag was Barbara Walters. The picture changed to some high tech hospital. The image was of some blonde white near super model chiquita. Low key make-up, clearly a collaborator.

"So 60 how is the new body?" said an off-screen voice.

"Fine just fine. I feel amazing" said 60 cent.

"So 60 cent any message to your fans out there?" asked an off screen reporter.

"I just want to say.. Each passing day brings changes within you. You must not be afraid to express these evolutions. The powerful learn early in life that they have the freedom to mould their image, fitting the needs and moods of the moment. In this way, they keep others off balance and maintain an air of mystery. You must follow this path and find great pleasure in reinventing yourself, as if you were the author writing your own drama" said the sultry-voiced 60 cent shown off her pink off the shoulder daisy dress.

"60 cent wanted to be in a white girl's body who would have thought it" she said. I missed counting up the number of missed masters.

I waved my hand and muted. It wasn't the news item I was waiting for.

"I don't know what you're talking about. They just dressed you for bed when you were dizzy from giving blood yesterday." I said.

"But you're all better" she pointed out "I must have been out for months. If you weren't doing surgery on me what then? You wouldn't just freeze your girlfriend because you were busy in hospital?" she asked. She checked her chest "and I still have the same cantaloupe's the machines slammed me with, mangos I could go with, so what's up?."

She was so cute when she was disappointed.

"I'm actually lying in the hospital, I'm in the intensive care unit being kept alive until I'm strong enough to have a new pancreas installed. I'm cybernetically controlling this android body remotely from my cybernetic mind. Think of it as Skype body from the hospital." I told her. I could hear the sounds of the medical equipment keeping me alive around the real me. My android body was back in room 404. I realised, I felt I was, where ever she was.

She touched me - "You feel completely real, warm and everything," she said as she ran my hand over me and I ran my finger down her cheek.

"I was worried you might not be able to sleep with out me." I said. I bathed finally in the glory of her arms.

"Or was it you couldn't sleep without me? Okay android Skype body I can handle but it's a bit weird" she said running her hand over my chest. She rolled over and I felt her heavy lips on mine.

"Don't worry it's only until I'm out of hospital, in a few weeks" I said.

She lay back down in bed feeling me touch her.

"This body feels so realistic, does it work?" she said while she ran her hand over my android stomach. She could feel me flex slightly to her touch. She put her hands under the sheets down my arm.

"I love your wrist, I can only just close my fingers around it " she said.

"Don't touch that" I said in alarm.

She squealed realising what she was handling.

"Careful, I'm still in intensive care. I'm not allowed to do anything which will push my autonomic system. My body still reacts the same way it would do normally. It doesn't know your not here with me, if you get what I mean. You're freaking the doctors out" I said.

"Is your hair tired and unmanageable ? Then you clearly aren't punishing your personal care slave properly. With new PRISM Automatica ..." THE TV Continued then got muted.

She got a call on her collar.

" This is Doctor Zarkov, Your owner nearly popped a stitch. Any more of that and you'll be spending a day in a KCK machine. Doctor's orders" said the robot doctor. OK I listened in.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry" she said thinking 'is that think to scale?' "dam I was looking forward to having my night in heaven," she said.

"You'll have to wait for that but I can make it worth the wait" I said. Trashy, I blamed the medication I was on.

"Sorry," she said.

"...in further news today. The new mechanical order has released its 10,000th sabretooth tiger back into the wild. Official sources today say that original population numbers will be reached by the end of the year. Owners are reminded to informed their slaves that being a Sabertooth's is breakfast is another risk for those contemplating external extreme sulkyness" Barbara Walters said while pictures of sabretooth tigers being released into the great plains was shown. "some have questioned the wisdom of releasing an excess of sabretooth tigers back into the wild when there are not enough woolly Mammoths to support them..."

I muted again. It was good to see my other projects going well.

"Have some Earl Grey tea. #6502 Brought this by accident thinking I was flesh me," I said handing her a small clear cup. She took it and sipped it tentatively. I had never done anything like that for her be before.

"You have never gone John Luc Picard on drinks before weird." she said in passing and paused "You're probably wondering what I was doing in the garden" she started slightly confessionally.

"You were trying to run away from the problem, thats OK for so long so was I. Sorry it gave you the impression I wasn't... interested." I paused then added "Interesting".

"What?" she said sitting up slightly in bed.

The TV turned to a picture of a satellite map of the gallery of humanity in the infrared. The picture was focused in on the boathouse. Getting distracted is my favourite past time.

"I'm guessing someone gave you a message saying they were from the resistance looking to rescue you that night. If you look at the satellite scans there was a small stealth boat in the boathouse. But notice there are no heat signatures in it. Only Robots, no humans. Two Hunter killers. You weren't running to freedom you are running to be kidnapped."

"Kidnapped really me? Who would do that?" she said. I wonder if this made her feel a lot better about choosing me.

"Technically under New Mechanical Law you would have been stolen." I started "I'm guessing it was the same person or persons who had rigged the sentinel to shoot a cyborg. Those machines have elaborate safe guards not to shoot at members of the New Mechanical order. Even you should have got to the boat house. There was no reason for it to shoot. You were part of a very elaborate assassination plot. They lured you into the gardens guessing I would follow. There they could have arranged a defective Sentinel. Fortunately, they hadn't banked on me trying to save your life. If I hadn't tried I would've been dead by now in more than one way. Quite a brilliant plan. If I didn't follow you, they could have kidnap you, letting them ransom you to me for my vote. Win win."

"You would have changed your vote for me?" she said.

"Choose between you and the lives of 4 billion people I haven't met? hmm let's see. It's not really a contest. They knew me well enough to know I would choose you." I confessed.

"Promise me you won't sacrifice humanity for me again." she said, " I'm sorry for running away." she added mutely.

"It's my fault." I admitted "I should have spoken earlier. I was always unsure if you felt anything for me. By the way, did you know my automatics would have killed you to keep me alive?"

"I guessed they might. #DEC warned me" she said.

"Promise me you'll never do that again." I said I hoped she saw the earnestness in my eyes. "You see I've been trying to compute some way out of this. I wanted to wait until I had found a solution. Villeria was right, you won't and can't become cyborg. Even if I could make you a collaborator and believe me, I've tried thinking about all kinds of ways of doing it then the Judas city rules would mean we couldn't be together."

"What about running away? We could live together on one of your islands?" I suggested.

"That would be nice. With a thousand slaves to keep my brain topped up or with the greatest lobotomy of all time. Villeria and Zola could find us either way, without my brain we would be defenceless. Plus I have some work I must finish. I can't jeopardise your life, telling you about itjust yet, one day you'll understand. Unfortunately, all I can offer you at the moment is to be together. In public, you would have to play the role of slave."

"Why don't you move me to your harem then" she said strokeing my stomach softly.

"There are robot rules about harem slaves. You could never leave the building. If you had my child it would never be official and with current cyborg regulations, it would be killed instantly. Worse still if I was ever tried and found guilty then the entire harem would be killed. At least as a house slave you would be sold on. One of my conditions was that if that if anything happened little Jenny would bid for you and Kayla."

But not Joe she noticed I could here that thought strongly enough.

"Conditions for what?" she asked.

"shhh Oh quick, they are about to make the big announcement" I said.

"...this just in from the eternal city council. The council vote on the changes to the human containment act were as follows. Amendment A sponsored by the Nu-human Pack" said the young vivacious Barbara Walters.

'Only send 4 billion to packing. No brainwashing no eating poop. Villeria's option' I texted her at the pause at the end of the A sound.

"32" said Barbara Walters.

'Close it will be down to the abstentions' I texted.

"amendment B Pro-human amendment " said Barbara Walters.

'kill 95%, brainwashing, poop eating. Zola's option' I texted her again- me condescending ? I guess so.

"31" said Barbara Walters.

"YES!" I said. Thrusting my fist in the air. I kissed her.

She got another collar call from Doctor Zarkov 'What ever you're doing stop it. Get your hands off him. I mean it. Bad girl' he said. Before I could say anything she got a level 1 shock on her collar. I texted him to explain.

"OK any 'play' with you is definitely going to have a rain check for a while" she said settling back.

"...Talk to our political editor that was a bit of a surprise Rob." said Barbara Walters on the news broadcast.

"Yes it was," started Rob "a shocking change of vote by senator McConnell, councilman Fox Council in Red and others. They said they their sudden turn was put down to them acting on their consciences"

She looked at me.

"Rockwood your smiling." she said. " Is this your doing?"

I didn't respond but reached to the back of her neck and pulled her closer and kissed her.

"Opposition leader Katie Price, stated that this would clearly not please the artificial intelligences and promised to reverse any such votes if they are elected in the spring Elections. Spokesman for slave systems Inc Principle Humbolt said 'while the counsellors said they were thinking about their consciences they should had been thinking about the thousands of trainers and infiltrators who will be losing their jobs now that forward leaning companies like mine would be under threat'" the news station continued.

"I've a feeling there is a point to all this somewhere which comes back to you and me. Mind if I call you Brooklyn, " she texted.

That she would use my name - that gave my heart wings.

'Please do - in private. For a cyborg to interfere with the human council is a very horrible offence. If my role in this becomes public I will be stripped of being a cyborg, sent to prison in a KCK machine. The harem will be killed, and you will be sold on. Promise you're not going to breathe a word to anybody.' I texted over an extremely encrypted connection.

'I promise ' she replied.

'If you want the colouring by numbers version.' I texted. 'I had tried to get into Judas City for months but the Pro-humanists blocked me at every turn. Hence the incident at the scanner. I desperately needed to talk to several senior council men in Judas city and time was running out. I knew Senator McConnell organises the Gallery Opening. Normally she would not respond to me directly and the Pro-human spies were effective at keeping me away from her and the other councillors. Everything I had tried had failed and I was running out of plans. Over the months I had used the blood of 1,000 slaves to try to come up with something. I was lost. I couldn't think of an effective plan. '

'This is where I come into' she texted.

'When we met, you inspired me with your barbed words. Suddenly I knew exactly what to do. I felt so stupid. I knew that Senator McConnell likes to watch you tube in the morning and makes a regular visit to Odalisque at Home for pet supplies. She is authorised to invite whom so ever she likes - even robots and cyborgs to the Opening. I took the surveillance videos of your words and uploaded a nicely edited video to the A.I version of YouTube. The video went viral on the A.I side within 300 millisconds of my publishing it you had received over 1 billion hits. By 900 milliseconds the A.I's had spawned over 200 spoof and parody videos. You were set to music, it was crazier than even I could think. By 1.800 seconds the who YCF girl meme had reached it's limits and people were moving on to the next thing. Did you know over 40 people where not killed due to battle cyborgs being so amused their aim an concentration were put off. The quadratic alliance found you very funny'

'Your kidding...'she texted.

We rolled over in the bed together.

'It get's better. By the next morning every e-slave owner in Judas city found the video in their inbox. The whole YCF girl thing happened again with the e-slave masters. You are on about 80% of the top ten worst e-slave moments of all time. I knew when I arrived with you at the same time as Senator McConnell she could not resist inviting me with the hope I would bring you. You see I knew she had been irritated by slave systems Inc sponsorship and her personal dislike of Principle Humbolt. If she could organise me to talk to him she might get an argument between us which could get onto You-tube. This would most likely make her the viral celebrity of the year. To test me she invited me to the breeding party. Attending the party meant I could collect information which I could use to black mail those attending and more importantly get a full invite to..."

'Was that little Jenny phoning you on me' she said*. She has these moments of complete clarity.

'I can neither confirm or deny that, but you're very smart.' I texted back ' We had McConnell's invite to the breeding party. Attending the party meant I could collect information which I could use to shame or black mail those attending, and more importantly get a full invite to the Gallery Opening. The Gallery Opening was a hot bed of post-humanist voters. The post-humanists were desperate to stop me going into the Co-lab reserve. So desperate they tried to shoot me down on the way to Mexico. How is your friend anyway?'

'Grumbling. So we weren't shot down by humans' she texted.

'Humans hurt me? come on. The attack was meant to look like humans who got lucky. No, someone had to know where I was flying. That meant a spy in the Osprey dock. The same one who rigged the Osprey not to flick back to automatic if I lost concentration on your first day.'

'The same one who lost his job when Kijo died in the crash', she realised.

'1327 - Joe's dating did me a service. Kijo was also a spy, he was so desperate to find out about my harem he was willing to show himself. Joe's third date and the attack was enough to give me the grounds to fire Kijo. I knew he was a spy so I could guess anybody else he was talking to was also a spy'

we kissed again.

'at the breeding party I was able to collect enough evidence on your camera to blackmail enough senators. You see while everybody condones breeding it's still illegal. The counsellors would have lost their seats. All I have to do was show them the cam evidence and they had little choice . Oh and it was me that blew up the breeding vault. They would have formed the basis of the race of supremely subservient super slaves. All I have to do then was get to the opening.'

"So, Brooklyn, was getting me all dressed up was just a smoke screen?" she said.

"No, I just genuinely wanted to see you shine and irritate everyone else." I said. "You were my ticket to the ball. A very nice ticket shiny I must say."

'So you managed to speak to everyone?'

"Just about. With your help." I said "Their secret plan on the other hand was to seduce you into trying to escape, knowing I would try to stop you. Then they would either kill me,or capture you and change my vote. If I was dead then the counsellors would not be held to their vote. Your love, your blood , you changed everything. You helped save billions of lives. Which is why I'm sorry about this"

"What ?" she said.

"The Rypnol C in the tea. The dose will be enough to put you to sleep and not remember this conversation" I said.

"You can't do that I was just beginning to realise you were the good guy" she said.

"Yeh, you always say that" said Rockwood.

"You've done this before! Oh Man!" she said feeling drowsy.

"I have my moments of weakness. I want to share everything with you. I need tell you something that always endangers your life and I can't let that happen. One day you'll understand what I have to do and it will be a beautiful day and one night in heaven"

"So do you love me?" she asked sleeply.

"I love you celestue" I said as she collapsed.

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*see chapter Chapter 38/Him/Breakfast at his feet

A/N Shout out to illialronds who has started a book called Not Enough Memory based on an idea RK submitted to a Wattpad ideas contest.

Join us next year ( and next Thursday ) For the next exciting chapter of Cyborg's

Chapter 76/Resistance/ Inspection or Don't mess with love