Key To Life

Passion Project

Y/N POV

I internally sigh, so close. We break apart as I investigate the ding.

Penny: "What is it?"

I smile.

Y/N: "Come with me. I wanna show you something."

I return us to the real world. 

Penny: "We still have to deal with my guards."

Y/N: "Leave it to me."

I hijack their visor displaying a moving spiral. They relax as I start speaking.

Y/N: "You are both at the dance. Penny is before you minding her business."

They repeat what I said. I then reintegrate with Penny.

Y/N: "That's them takin care of. Now we can leave."

I hijack my body leading Penny to the workshop. 

Penny: "Impressive. But why're we here?"

Y/N: "I wanna show you my passion project."

I make a lamp turn on. She then spots the schematics to my grand project.

Penny: "It's a body."

Y/N: "Now just any old body. One that can grow and learn like I do."

Penny: "Is that even possible?"

Y/N: "Not at the moment."

Penny: "What's keeping you?"

Y/N: "First and foremost the code."

Penny: "What's wrong with it?"

Y/N: "I've been unable to get it to function properly. Every time it'd go nuts and self destruct. I fear at this point I'll never get it right."

Penny: "I'd like to take a look at it."

I send the data to her. Her eyes glow as she hmms.

Penny: "I think I may have found your problem."

She projects the data.

Penny: "Firstly your control structure is all wrong. You have it set to repeat where it's supposed to end."

She taps the hologram rearranging the variables.

Penny: "Next is your syntax. Looks like you've got the wrong symbols."

She continues to fix my mistakes. After a couple minutes she dismisses the hologram.

Penny: "That should just about do it. Let's give it a try."

I'm sent the revised code. I then upload it to my project's server. 

Computer: "Beginning code analysis. Standby."

I wait.

Computer: "Analysis complete. Beginning integration."

The load bar pops up. It then slowly fills up. It eventually gets into the nineties.

Y/N: "Moment of truth."

It creeps through the nineties. I then hold my breath as it reaches ninety nine. It freezes which makes me start to fear the worst. But to my surprise, the unbelievable happens.

Computer: "Code integration complete. All systems at full capacity."

I cheer at the top of my lungs.

Y/N: "It worked!!!!"

I spin around as Penny claps. I stop staring at the stable stats.

Y/N: "It's finally happening. I'm on my way to gaining a body."

I look at Penny.

Y/N: "Thank you Penny. I couldn't have done this without you."

Penny: "Just happy to help out a friend."

I decide to test my luck.

Y/N: "What're you doing tonight?"

Her eyes glow.

Penny: "My schedule doesn't show me to be doing anything. Why?"

Y/N: "I wanna know if you'd like to help me design my body."

Her eyes turn to normal as she smiles.

Penny: "I'd love to."

A ding comes through my system. I look to see some schematics.

Y/N: "What're these?"

Penny: "Design plans for my body. Maybe you could use them as a baseline for your body."

I look them over smiling.

Y/N: "These are quite detailed. They just might work."

I look back at Penny.

Y/N: "Ready to get to work?"

She gives an adorable salute.

Penny: "Born ready!"

I smile.

Y/N: "Then let's get to it."