System error

Other Android

- I am dead.

Warm Monday evening. Jimin was walking towards the engineering company. He kept his promise, and headed there after his dance practice to start training the robot. Well, he kept almost every promise.

- I am so dead.

- Oh, come on, I'll just take a quick peek, no one will even notice!

Yes, he dragged his friend there. A fairly hyperactive friend, I might add. Jimin let slip what he had seen, and his friend decided that going to the engineering company together would be quite interesting.

- Hyung, remember what I told you?

- Yes, yes, I'm just gonna see the robot and then immediately leave.

- I don't need troubles, so make it quick, - Jimin said, walking in the building and the woman at reception just pointed to the office direction, not even bothering to talk this time. - Namjoon-hyung should be having a break now, so he isn't there.

As soon as Jimin opened the door, he saw Namjoon standing behind the robot human, fixing something at his nape. This time the machine looked more like a human, it had beige skin, eyelashes, eyebrows and black curly hair, which slightly covers its closed eyes. Engineer looked at the opened door and sighed seeing a peeking head behind Jimin.

- Why am I not surprised...

- Hey, Namjoonie, - the new visitor said.

- Hello, Hoseok.

He closed the slide-out door at the robot's nape, and the mechanism inside it whirred. After a few seconds, the android opened its eyes. There were blue lights in his brown, dark eyes, and they swirled around his irises as if the system was loading.

- Is this... - Jimin started, staring at the machine, almost without blinking.

- V-95, - the engineer interrupted him.

- He looks good, - Hoseok, who walked closer to the frozen android, was examining it from every side curiously.

- Hoseok, do you know that you shouldn't-

- Shouldn't be here and shouldn't see him, I know. I've been told the rules. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone.

Namjoon sighed, shaking his head.

- If someone see you here you'll be having big, really big problems.

- Jimin.

All three flinched and froze. Android was looking at confused Jimin, his eyes still glowing light blue.

- How do you know my name? - the young dancer took few steps forward, not taking his eyes off the living robot.

Machine silently lifted its hand, opening the palm and glancing at Jimin's hand. Jimin's eyes widened a bit, he remembered how he touched the android for the first time, so he instinctively reached his hand out, placing his palm against the cold metallic palm in front of him. Hoseok and Namjoon just silently watched this scene, with Namjoon quietly texting something in his computer. The living machine and dancer stood still, with their palms touching, keeping eye contact.
A sudden knock on the door made everyone flinch. A white-haired guy was standing at the door, not moving and not blinking.

- I apologize for interrupting, but I got an order to remind you about the upcoming meeting, Namjoon, - the guy, who had similar height to Jimin, bowed to show respect and then stood still, like if waiting for the order.

- Oh, right. Thank you. I need to go to the meeting, so take Jimin and model V-95 to the zero floor.

- I'm going with them. I'll help Jimin, - Hoseok said.

- Fine, - Namjoon sighed in frustration, then quickly left, grabbing his bag with him.

Jimin raised his eyebrow, seeing his friend staring at the white-haired android.

- Who are you again? - Hoseok asked.

- Model SUGA-93, - the android said coldly, not showing any emotions and not even blinking. - Jimin, Hoseok, model V-95, please, follow me.

Android turned around and started walking. By the way he was walking, everyone could tell that it's not a human.

- Namjoon made you? - Hoseok said, following the machine, and examining the shirt he was wearing. It was white with black text which said "Project "Idol"", the new-made android was wearing the same shirt.

- Yes.

- So, you're future idol then?

- No.

- Why? - Jimin gently hit his friends hand, which caused android V to tilt his head, examining the moves. Hoseok looked at Jimin. - What? You have your human-robot, let me get one too, - Hoseok whispered, which only made Jimin to roll his eyes.

- My system isn't good enough to become Idol.

- Well... - the guy with light brown hair hesitated. - I'm not an engineer, so I can't argue with that. But... You look handsome enough to become one.

Android looked back at the human. His eyes started glowing blue for a moment. Seeing human's confused looks, he looked away.

- System update, - he explained, walking into the elevator. Jimin glanced at V, remembering how his eyes were glowing blue as well.

When they reached the zero floor, they walked into a big room with a large screen, a projector, and some obscure equipment.

- This is the room where you gonna train model V-95. Please, be careful, its system might still not be ready for the hard dance moves.

- You can join us, - Hoseok said.

Light blue lights started swirling around machine's irises again, as he looked at the human.

- I'm not allowed to, my job is to do paperwork.

- Oh, come on, - Hoseok paused. - Wait, what's your name again?

- Model SUGA-93.

- No, no, I mean name, not model.

Both androids looked at each other in visible confusion, their eyes glowing blue.

- You don't have names? - Jimin looked at V.

- What is "name"?

Both Jimin and Hoseok raised their eyebrows in surprise.

- Uh... Well, name is what people call you, - Hoseok started explaining, while Jimin got a bit frozen after hearing V's low soft voice.

- Humans call me mode-

- It's the same as if people called me human, - he continued.

Android went silent for a while. The sound of the mechanisms of both robots was heard so much that it seemed like they were about to break or overheat.

- We don't have names, - V said, managing to process information quicker.

- How about we give them names? - Hoseok said, looking at his friend with a bright smile.

- No, - Jimin shook his head, finally coming back to his senses. - We're here to train him, so let's get to work.

Hoseok pouted, but accepted the rejection. Though he couldn't hold back from dragging Suga with him, he was sure he can teach this machine some moves, even though engineers say that his memory is bad at remembering moves.