Series: Detroit: Become HumanRating: TGenre: Adventure/Drama/Action (eventual romance)Summary: Befor

Series: Detroit: Become HumanRating: TGenre: Adventure/Drama/Action (eventual romance)Summary: Before Connor, first of the RK800 line, began his fateful investigation of deviant androids, there was Jacob, the RK700 that preceded him. He failed in his assignment, but he did not go quiet into the night when he was decommissioned. Rather, he became the thing he had once hunted and disappeared into the depths of New York City in search of a new life. ( < Back to part 1 )Part 2 - Insufficient Jacob oversaw the team that arrived from Cyberlife as they collected the deviant’s remains for transport back to the laboratory. They wouldn’t get much from it, he was certain, but even the smallest hint might prove key to the peculiar puzzle that was deviancy, so they pressed on regardless of the low success rate. Jacob’s own report on the matter would be given back at the tower where footage and data assessment from his systems would be added in hopes of uncovering some other hint that the RK700 had missed in the heat of the moment.“Amanda requests your presence in lab three,” the Cyberlife tower interface program informed Jacob when he crossed the security barrier at the front door.He paused briefly, then integrated the new instructions, which did indeed bear Amanda’s electronic signature, and made a beeline for the elevator. He had already been heading in that direction, but now, instead of going to the upper floors to make his report as he usually did, Jacob went to the basement. Out of habit, the android produced his calibration coin and used it to bring his physical and mental processors back into alignment in preparation for giving his report.The android only had time to pass the glittering silver coin over the back of his knuckles a few times before pocketing it again as the elevator doors opened to reveal a white, brightly lit hallway. At first glance, it appeared as though the walls here were made of the same material as the floors, but Jacob knew that they were, in fact, made of glass that could turn opaque or transparent at the occupant’s whim.There was a shimmer of blue at the corner of the android’s eye, and he turned to regard it as the light resolved into the familiar figure of an elegantly dressed african american woman holographically projected onto the glass wall.“Hello, Jacob,” she said with one of the impersonal smiles programmed into her system to put humans at their ease, but meant little to RK700.“Hello, Amanda,” the android replied with a meaningless smile of his own. “I am here as requested to give my report on the latest deviancy case.” They arrived in front of lab three, and when Amanda drew up short, so to did Jacob, waiting for further instruction as he glanced up and down the hall. “May I ask why I am giving it here instead of upstairs as is the usual protocol?”“I hear you had another failure, Jacob,” Amanda replied without answering his question.“The deviant I pursued destroyed itself before I was able to interfere, if that’s what you mean,” Jacob countered, green eyes narrowing fractionally as something he might have labeled ‘annoyance’ in a human stirred within him at her statement. It disappeared just as quickly, however, as he continued, “There is always something to learned from every case, if we are only astute enough to interpret the evidence presented.”A non committal hum was Amanda’s only response to his statement. “I brought you here, Jacob, because there was something I wanted to show you,” she remarked instead, forcing the android to shift gears mentally. He only blinked in reply, then turned his gaze to the currently opaque section of wall to which the A.I. now gestured.At a wave of Amanda’s hand, the glass went transparent, revealing the contents of the room within, and Jacob was left mute and staring as he assessed them.He was looking at himself, or rather, an android that shared his appearance down to the finest detail. The lab’s security protocols prevented him from doing an in-depth scan of the model, but a brief visual one informed him that, despite appearances, this android was not another RK700, the likes of which Jacob had seen in storage in event of the destruction of his current body.This was something new.The android was two inches shorter than him, and despite first glance saying that he looked identical to Jacob, his hair was a little darker, and his eyes were brown. The new android was also incomplete, though not by much; its chest cavity was open and its full weight was currently being supported by one of the assembly machines as techs bustled here and there around it.“What is this?” Jacob asked unncessarily. He knew precisely what was this was, but the sudden revelation had disarmed him enough to make him lapse and ask a purely redundant question. As Jacob stood there awaiting the answer, green eyes still locked on the android that bore such a close resemblance to him, something shifted strange deep within his code.“This is the new RK800 model,” Amanda replied, tone cool and calm and unbothered as ever. “Your replacement; we call him Connor.”“Why?” Jacob asked, voice sounding strangely far away in his own ears, making him wonder if he wasn’t malfunctioning in some way.Amanda turned to look at him, one brow arched. “To replace you, obviously. The RK800 model will be the most advanced prototype ever developed by Cyberlife by the time he’s done.” The hologram turned to ‘look’ at Connor again before continuing. “It’ll be another ten to fourteen days before the finishing touches are put on and he is deployed for his first mission, of course, but the data we will gather from your systems should help things along.”“You’re decommissioning me,” Jacob said. Again, it was an obvious statement, but somehow, it seemed to be all he could say in the moment.“Yes. After your many failures, it has been determined that we will need a new approach to the deviant problem,” Amanda said, turning her attention back to him once more. “RK800 has been made to assist human law enforcement in the investigation, as it seems we have yet to create a model of android creative enough to make the leaps in logic needed to solve the case.” The hologram’s mouth twisted in disapproval of this fact, seeming disappointed by its simple truth. “The hope is that Connor will be able to learn what is necessary through on the job observation of detectives to master those leaps, or at the very least, give the human he is assigned to the help they need to solve it themselves.”There was nothing to be said on the matter, no point in begging Amanda not to decommission him. This, too, was a simple fact, and yet something that might be called pride flared in him as Jacob narrowed his eyes at the hologram, saying, “I didn’t fail my mission. My mission was to investigate deviancy and I have done that to the best of my abilities-”“Your best was not enough.”Despite him having no actual concept of pain, Amanda’s words felt like a slap to the face, leaving Jacob mute, rocked to his core by her simple statement.“Report to lab ten for decommissioning. If we’re lucky, perhaps we will find something imbedded in your code that will give your successor the advantage we were unable to give you.”The command overrode his system, her electronic signature granting it an authority he was incapable of disobeying. Without another word, Jacob turned on heel and started down the hallway, the visage of his successor soon falling out of sight.As he passed lab four, and then lab five in turn, Jacob thought of nothing at all. As he reached lab six, however, new words filtered up from previously unknown depths of his digital psyche:It wasn’t fair.(On to part 3 >)((Thanks so much for reading, guys! If you enjoyed, make sure to leave a comment letting me know what your favorite part was! Reblogs are always appreciated as well, of course!If you really enjoyed it, considering buying me a ko-fi?)) -- source link

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