Heart of Titanium

Chapter 2: Ignition

Bryson is in awe, staring at this magnificent thing in the middle of his house. He hesitated to touch it, but then he ran his hand through one one of the shoulders, the fur is like silk...so soft to the touch, and warm. It barely stood below his chin, him being six-foot-two, and this thing around five-foot-four.

He notices its chest rising and falling slowly, and hearing its higher-pitched breathing sounds through the nose piece of the visor. As he looks down, he sees a manual book stored in one of the walls of the crate. He carefully picks it up and opens to the first page.

CONGRATULATIONS, USER!
You have been selected among many to have your very own protogen. This model, is the XXV1.1, equipped with the best technological enhancements, making it the perfect machine!
To ensure boot-up sequence, hold your hand up to the machine's right ear, and press firmly on the metal. This will scan your fingerprint and bond you to your product, making you the Primary User. (See page 14 for adding secondary users.)
To wake your machine, press lightly on the end of the visor nosepiece. See further details about activation on Page 3. Enjoy.

Sincerely, -Cladeware Biotech

Bryson then looks up at the 'machine' and sees the visor and the end nosepiece. "I have to press the nose? Of course I have to boop it, thanks...whoever designed those visors."

He also does a double take to the manual, it keeps saying this thing is a protogen...but Bryce knew his Alters. This is a canine of some sort, not a proto.

"Something isn't right here." He then flips through the manual rapidly as he sees a small, paper-thin chip in the back. Like a security tag for items at a grocery store.

"That's weird..." He says to himself, "Then again, what isn't  weird, currently..."

He reluctantly steps closer, he takes a deep breath and remembers the note, "The future depends on it."

Bryce then lines up his finger, and says, "Here goes...something."

He gently taps the end of the visor, hearing a bootup harmony note. A loading symbol appears on the visor as a face, made up of two pink eyes and a line for the mouth appear, and almost a heart shape for the nose.

Bryson steps back to let it do its own thing, as he hears the whirring and loading sounds stop. The canine, then started looking around the room as it looked very curious. It then saw Bryson in its point of view.

It slowly lifted its arm gracefully, looking at itself, almost like it's never seen itself before. It did the same thing with the other arm before looking down and slowly pulling them towards its chest, holding one arm with the other.

Then something happened that made Bryson's eyes open wide.

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"W-where am I...?"

Bryce stands shocked.

It spoke...but, it doesn't sound robotic? It sounded feminine, a higher pitched voice, a little quiet, but can still be heard easily. It's legs quivered a little as it tried to step back, but almost fell on the crate panels.