「Chapter 1」
The android revolution has ended with successful results. After it ended, President Warren passed a law stating that androids will be given equal rights and be treated like fairly. The law also stated that if an android were to commit a crime, they will be tried and punished just like any other human being would. It also included that androids will be given the chance of Life, Liberty, Prosperity and along with Property. Androids were also given the choice whether they want to stay with their owners or be set free. The world was still trying to adjust to this change and while the public had mixed views of the idea android rights. Most people were for it while there was the other side who were against it and continued treating androids terribly. So terribly that in most cases, the human causing the violence and abuse would drive the android to malfunction and kill said human out of strong, foreign, and negative emotions. This is where the police come in with the most known and first android to be placed with the DPD sent by CyberLife, who had become a deviant like the rest of the androids after the revolution. Connor, model RK800, serial #313 248 317 - 51, had stayed on the force after becoming a deviant. He had to take some time off since he became a deviant during the android revolution, but after it succeded and deviants were no longer being hunted down, he came back. He kept his partnership with Lieutenant Hank Anderson and their bond grew stronger when he came back, so the two were really good friends now. A year has passed since the end of the revolution and Connor is still learning these new emotions that he encounters and tries to make it work out for him with the help of Hank to explain what these emotions are.
Today was a normal day at the station, Hank was busy typing away in his computer while eating a donut and his partner, who sat in the desk right next to his, stared blankly at his computer screen while absentmindedly doing coin tricks across his fingers and hands. The soft ringing of the quarter is heard as he flicked it up in the air and catching while swiftly flicking back and forth from one hand to the other rolling it between his fingers in a fluid motion before having it roll side to side on his fingers. All of this done with such precise moment and accuracy that Hank had stopped typing to glance over at Connor who endlessly continued the coin tricks. It had always annoyed the detective in the beginning of their partnership but at this point he had gotten used to it.
"I still have no idea how you're doing that." Hank's voice snapped the android out of his trance while his hand had flicked the quarter to the other and caught it between his fingers. Conner blinked a few times before he turned his head to look at Hank.
"It's quite easy to do, Lieutenant." Connor said like it was a known fact, "I've been programmed to do such tricks to sharpen my senses and reflexes in case I am faced with the option of combat." He glanced down at the quarter between his fingers as it glinted a bit under the light, "So these tricks just come naturally to me. But for you I'm sure you're inexperienced since you don't do this on a normal basis like I do, Lieutenant."
"You don't say." Hank replied sarcastically while slightly glaring half heartedly at Connor, who only tilted his head to the side a bit. A police officer walked up to the two while looking down at a see through tablet. Hank looked over at the officer and leaned back in his seat, "What is it this time, officer?" He asked with a sigh.
"Lieutenant, there's been an urgent 911 call involving an android." He said, Connor seemed to have perked up at the news.
"What was the call about?" Hank asked with a brow raised as the officer looked down at the tablet and scrolled through the transcript.
"There's apparently been an incident involving domestic abuse against a human and an android. A woman called, practically in frantic hysteria, about an abusive boyfriend who had killed an android trying to protect the woman." The police informed, "We've sent a dispatch over there to check out the situation already but the captain wants you two there as well since an android was involved." He said as Hank looked over at Connor with his brow still arched.
"What do you think, Connor?" He asked as Connor looked at Hank then back at the officer as his software pops up with four choices as he rolled his quarter between his fingers.
□「TAKE THE CASE」
○「HANK'S DECISION」
×「LEAVE THE CASE TO THE POLICE」
△「CONTINUE TO FLIP COIN」
"I think we should go and check it out, Lieutenant." Connor said as Hank nodded and pushed himself off his swivel chair with a grunt, Connor followed suit as he stood from his chair and pocketed the quarter.
"You heard the guy. Where did it happen?" Hank asked as the officer gave him the address. Hank nods to the officer, "Alright, we'll head right over." He said while looking at Connor and nodding his head to the side to follow him out. They leave the station and get in the car before Hank started up the engine. "Let's make this quick, why don't we?" Hank mumbled while looking back as he backed the car out and drove out of the parking lot.
They soon arrive to the scene of the crime which took place outside a small house, police officers were already on the scene as a holographic caution tape closed off the area from civilians. Hank got out of the car as Connor did the same and the two walk over to the house. Detective Ben Collins, a rounded man with graying hair, walked up to them, "If it isn't the amazing duo." He said as Hank scoffed with a smirk.
"What about us is amazing?" He retorted as Collins waved a hand over as a sign to follow him to the house, "So, what're we dealing with, Collins?" Hank asked with his hands in his jacket pocket as he and Connor walked through the holographic caution tape. Connor surveyed their surroundings thoroughly as they walked.
"Oh you know, basic case of domestic abuse between a couple where the victim is the girlfriend and the abuser is the boyfriend." Collins said.
"That's usually the case," Hank sighed as the other detective nodded in agreement.
"Yep, and you two are here because an android was involved." Collins said as they entered the home into the living room where a male domestic android laid on the floor, his chest and body bashed up. His blue blood splattered across the wall, furniture and floor as it also pooled around his body. Blue blood seemed to have dripped down his face from his nose and mouth. The android's green eyes stared up at the ceiling blankly the body had shut down awhile ago. The scene makes Connor feel a recurring emotion since he became a deviant. Sympathy.
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