We get back inside the car and head into Silicon Valley.
And go to one of the many expos in town. The one we go to is about making robotic limb replacements for military personal, who have lost them, but want to stay in the military. The implants are supposed to give the wearer better mobility, and strength two times their normal limb had.
The demonstration is led by a girl in suit, with a long skirt. She walks up to the demo floor, and rips off her skirt. Everyone sees that she is missing her legs and they are replaced two sickle shaped leg replacements. Robots with human dummies attached move closer, and she spins her leg out, and the dummy is cut in half. Several dummies converge on her, she starts doing flips, and kicks, and takes out each dummy.
"That was amazing Frankie. And it is primitive tech, but she uses it so effectively. "
After the demo, she walks closer to the crowd. Turns out the two prostheses hides blades inside, that push out when her thoughts command them too. She has a brain mapped, and two concealed nodes on her head. That connects the blades to them.
"It is not primitive, Andrew. This is something that WARPA would want to get their hands on." Frankie connects to the nodes, on the demo girls, and head, and copies the blueprints.
They decide to leave after the demo is over. And just explore. It has been a week since they left Sepulveda High, so they decided to start their new school search.
"So, which of the towns do you want to start in, Frankie?"
"I have already lined up the first school tour."
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We Are Androids (Frankie Gaines & Andrew LaPierre)
RomanceI thought I was one of kind. The first android in the world, but I am not. He knows what is like to not be human, but not what is it to be cared for. Until he revealed himself to me. I will free him. I am Frankie. He is Andrew, and we are androids...
