Elis took her time to put on a fresh makeup, do her hair and pick a dress with a matching handbag. When she came out of her bedroom, M was waiting for her patiently near the outside door. He was watching himself in the mirror next to the rack. Before he registered she was there, he tried to adjust his hair on the side but his now not greasy locks were stubborn and always returned to its previous position sticking up in a floofy mess falling into his eyes and blocking his view from glasses..

"Can we go now?" she asked, making M jump out his shoes.

"Sure!" he handed her a coat and picked an umbrella "today forecast is windy with rain, I recommend you to take this." He helped her in the coat and opened the door for her.
Elis was still so flattered by such a chivalry she blushed. Putting on her high heels took her longer than it should have because her fingers were clumsy all of a sudden.

They exit the building and stepped on the wet pavement outside. M immediately opened the umbrella and holded it mostly above her while handing her his free hand to lean on.
She felt a little bit weird, holding hands with a robot. People were looking at them and she did not like that. Then she realised it was not because of with who is she but about what M was wearing.
He had a simple shirt and a new home trousers and his black sneakers on and it was really cold outside. Everybody was wrapped up in their coats, hiding faces before spiky rain drops, but he did not bat an eye. She almost forgot he does not feel cold whatsoever.

"M? When does the movie start?"

"We have a good 45 minutes, milady. I thought about some food because you had none since you came home."

Elis pulled him by his arm and leaded both of them to the nearby shopping centre.

"But milady, the cinema is that way," he tried to point but he had a hard time to hold her by her arm and the umbrella above them at the same time. Her heels were clicking on the pavement.

"We are going to buy you some clothes before the movie!" she was practically marching towards the first shop she saw.

"I am fine, milady. I can have only one outfit on at anytime." he tried to convince her, but she pushed him inside the shop already.

The shopgirl was honestly shocked when the only customers that showed in her shop were a nicely dressed lady and a robot. She'd heard about the new bots Google was selling, but she hadn't see one up close. She recognized he was a robot because of his clothing and a light shining logo on his arm.
She was tottering around M as much as she could offering him different types of shirts and coats.

M was lost so he looked at his mistress for help. He was not programmed to choose for himself but always seek instructions from his owners when in need. He was developing his own feelings but this was outside his training area.

Elis was giggling at the situation. He looked like a shy confused geek who never left his room and when he had to he was so insecure and clumsy around other people.
She forced him to try on some new stuff and show her how it fit. She actually enjoyed this time.
After a long period of time trying, changing and picking the right sizes they left the store with a big bag full of new clothes and two pairs of shoes. M was now wearing a new black leather jacket and a simple black beanie he actually picked by himself.

"We have only a few minutes to get to the cinema." M said while opening the umbrella "We can take a shortcut, if you want."

Elis hooked on his elbow, smiling like an idiot "yeah, let's take the shortcut. We do not want to be late!"
M gave her a small kiss on the top of her head.

They went into the creepy crooked alleyway, making their way to the cinema. Elis pressed herself closer to M, scared of every sound she heard. Now she regretted accepting the shortcut idea.
The stray cats were running away when they saw them, making a lot of noise. Elis tried to not step into the disgusting puddles formed on the broken pavement. The cinema lights appeared on the other side of the alley, glowing in a dim shine.

"We are almost there." said M, when somebody stepped in his way.

It was a huge fat guy with an evil grin on his face.

"Lookie lookie who we have here. A nice lady with her cutsie little boyfriend!" his voice was raspy from all that cigarettes he smoked and bottles he emptied in his life.

"Let us through." commanded M, hiding El behind himself.

"Yo, boy! Ya are passing through ma gangway and I wanna some green for a safe passage, yo!" his breathed stunk like the black poodles in the alley.

M-bot was processing his language trying to understand what he said, but his systems failed him so he asked "What do you mean?"

That made the huge guy jump forward, clenching his Hulk fists around M's new jacket, trying to lift his smaller body up.

"I said, bro, I wanna some money or I will take something else as a payment!" he turned at Elis with a lascivious look. She clenched the bags with clothes on her chest in a protective move trying to use them as a shield.

"I have to warn you mister that you are threatening to my mistress and if you broke one hair on her head I will have to enforce the second law of Robotics and disarm you."

The guy realize who or what he was trying to threat and smiled even widely "oh what a pleasure! First I will fuck your missy and then I will sell you to the black market. You will cost kinda fortune I think!" he let M go and reached out for Elis. She tried to step back.

"I am really sorry." said M and his fist clenched around guys wrist. He tried to shake the robot off, but M was standing like he was glued on spot. M raised his hand and twisted the man's arm behind his back, making that mountain of meat and fat squeal like a mouse.

"Now you will let us through without any other problems, dear friend," M said, twisting the hand even more, making the robber to arch back.

"I will. I will!" yelped the guy so M let him go.

Elis quickly run to M and huddled beside him. They turned their backs to the robber and continued they way to the cinema.
Elis was shivering "I never thought I will get robbed or worse...raped. Thank you for saving me." she whispered to M.

"No problem Eli..."

His words were muffled by a giant hand that wrapped around his face and pulled him back. That street rat attacked them from behind.
He pulled M to the ground where he pinned him with his heavy body, trying to hit M in the face. M-bot was fighting back with a strong force, but he was in a bad position to hit the guy in the soft spots.

"Get away from him!" screamed Elis, jumping on the guys back, hitting him with her small fists. He got annoyed by her and freed one of his arms to shake her down. He hit Elis in the face. She flew on the wet pavement and went silent.

M growled and bite that brute with all might he had in his artificial jaw, leaving bleeding teeth marks on his forearm.

"Ya fucking blender on legs!" screamed the guy and jumped on M again, strangling him.

Elis opened one eye. Her head hurt like crazy, the world was spinning. She hear a muffled noises of someone fighting, she smelled the horrible stench of a rotten garbage. She slowly lifted herself to sitting position and stabilized her head from dizziness.

She slowly blinked the mud out of her eyes, realising her bot was in a big danger. The robber was sitting on top of him, strangling his bare neck. She saw M gasping for air he needed for his air pumps in his body just as a normal human. His eyes started to roll back. He was hitting the guy in a blind rage hoping he would hit him good.

Elis searched for her handbag, remembering that she had a taser with her all that time! She palpated that big black box and wrapped her hand around it firmly.
It was a new technology taser with wireless connection and it shoot four tiny needles that stuck onto the attackers skin or clothing and zapped him with a huge force, making him harmless in a mere seconds.

She tried to aim but all she could see with her half blinded eyes was a huge pile of twisting and turning bodies. She aimed as much as she could and fired, pressing the electricity button within it.

One of the needles stuck on M's arm. The attacker and M were shocked by a huge wave of an electric pulse. The attacker let M be and fell on his back like a chopped tree. He was lying face up, eyes frozen to the sky. His unhealthy heart had no chance to survive such a huge impulse and stopped almost immediately. He pissed himself.

M gasped for air and started to shake. His whole body was twitching, muscles clenching on its own, fingers moving in an unnatural ways even when the taser was turned off. His circuits were fried on spot.

Elis crawled near to him and tried to calm him. She smelled a faint odour of a burned-out wires and plastic. She even saw a thin gray smoke coming from M's half opened mouth and nose.

Thankfully someone just walked around the aisle and looked in it, seeing a lady in a dirty dress, leaning against her fallen partner with a dead body nearby. He run towards them.

"Are you OK miss?" Elis heard. She nodded and patted M's chest and then pointed at the dead guy. She was in such a shock she just indicated a slit throat to make the guy understand he tried to kill both of them and he was dead himself now. Her head hurt like all hell, everything was blurry.

The ambulance was in the alley after a few minutes. During that time M stopped shaking and he was laying on his back with eyes closed, resting. Elis was sitting next to him, not leaving him for a second, making sure he is still breathing.

The doctors treated the wound on her head where she hit the pavement before and made sure she has nothing broken or sorely bruised. Then they checked the robber and they could only diagnose death.
One lady came to Elis while her coworkers were covering the body, and gave her a rustling silver-gold blanket for heat. She lifted Elis on her legs and tried to escort her to the ambulance.

"What about him?" Elis pointed at M.

"We called the manufacturer already and they are on their way here. They will pick it up in a few minutes." said the doctor while she helped Elis to lay on the lounger.

"You have to take him with me!" yelped Elis "I can't leave him here!"

The doctor calmed her down. "Do not worry miss, everything will be OK. You are in good hands and thankfully you are not heavily injured but we have to look at that head closer to make sure you have no concussion." she pushed Elis back on the lounger and gave her sedative injection.

The last thing Elis saw was a white sedan with Google logo stopping by the ambulance and two guys hopped off going to inspect her robot. Then the door to the ambulance closed and the sedatives started to work. She fell into a dreamless sleep.