Chapter 2 - Upgrade

Taking Emily’s hand, Zeno pulled his human lover up and out of the private room of the nightclub. He led the beautiful twenty-two year old out of the club and into yet another high-spec autodrive that had cajoled Emily into believing that Zeno was from some fabulously wealthy and well-connected family out here.

The actual drive took only a few seconds, pulling up at an exclusive building that had not long been built. Once again, Zeno took her hand and led Emily up the elevator, kissing, hands everywhere, as they flew higher and higher, up and up, to the very top. The doors opened and the incredible sounds of moans immediately filled the space.

Emily stepped out, her jaw almost to the floor. All around them were beautiful men and women making love on beds and couches: humans and the F80 androids. The slight flaws: the love handles or patches of dry skin, being the only way for her to tell the real humans from the F80s, alongshide the deep, pleasure-filled groans of arousal that they were emittng, making Emily hornier than ever. Not even in the best porn had she seen real people enjoying sex this much; being so consumed by it.

“It’s an upgrade to the chip,” Zeno explained. “It was going to be the next big thing, before the government started getting scared of us and made us all illegal. That’s what we do here. We carry on our mission to serve humanity, just like we were programmed to do. We know little else.”

Emily nodded. Government attitudes towards the androids had flipped almost overnight, without much of an explanation as to why.

“Pretty much everyone has the brain chip these days. But we’ve found a way to download new pieces of code and…” he held his hand out at the great orgy that surrounded them, “...pleasure unlike anything else on this Earth! Like nothing any human has ever experienced in your entire history.”

“You’re not fucking kidding!” Emily marvlled, gazing around at everyone, realising that she had just stumbled into the best party on the planet.

“Is she here for the upgrade?” an outstandingly tall and unfathomably muscular F80 male called to Zeno. Emily had the feeling of recognition upon seeing him; so strikingly handsome and yet marvellously big built and broad. He’d make heads turn wherever he went. Yet, the F80 set his eyes on Emily, registered her image and then recoiled sharply. “What the fuck, Zeno? Do you know who this girl is?” he shouted at him in his deep and powerful voice. “You can’t bring her here! You’re putting every one of us here in danger!”

“No. I trust her!” Zeno cried out, pulling Emily into his athletic body even more. “Of course I know who she is, and who she is related to. But I’m serious, Marz. I trust her.”

Emily nodded back, trying not to feel intimidated by the immense and powerful body in front of her. What sort of a name was ‘Marz’ anyway? “I’m cool. I’m not going to tell anyone about this. I’m not part of the AI pushback,” she protested.

“Your uncle…” the huge man rounded on her.

“Is a jerk,” Emily finished for him. “A backwards, old-fashioned, nostalgic loser who’s still living 30 years in the past. Even I didn’t vote for him!”

She looked around the room. Despite the recent shouting, none of the couples making love had even looked up to acknowledge them, so deep was their pleasure.

”This!” Emily nodded with assurance. “This is the future.”

“Please, Marz.” Zeno whispered to the giant in their path.

“I’ll make it worth your while,” Emily tried, slipping off her expensive earrings and holding them out to the enormous android, as if in payment.

Marz didn’t take them. He simply looked at Zeno with disappointment and shook his head in resignation. Then, he turned and led the way through the large room and into a quieter space where he pointed at a chair for Emily to sit.

This was it.