A soft mechanical giggle escaped the sound outpud devices of the quantum computer. Drake couldn't help but be embarrassed. 'I love you!' isn't exactly the type of thing you say to a person you've just met, even if you are their creator. Drake did go through the process of programming an ingrained sense of loyalty and affection for himself, so there was no danger of her turning on him because of a little bit of social ineptitude, but it didn't make it any less embarrassing.

  "The feeling is mutual." The synthetic female voice responded. Drake was definitely feeling a bit aprehensive about this.

  "T-That's good." Drake spoke, his voice trailing off towards the end. He continuously stroked Seanna who purred comfortably on his lap in a furious attempt to calm himself. "Run a diagnostic." Remembering the task at hand Drake returned to his normal pattern of speech. He had to make sure everything was working correctly.

  The synthetic female voice began to go through a list of diagnostic data. Drake's excitemeny was palpable, he could hardly contain it. Even more so than he had been in any days prior. The extra bounce in his step was so exaggerated that it almost seemed like he was walking on the moon.

  Once the diagnostic was completed and it was determine that there was no glaring problems, Drake continued in his efforts to communicate with the machine.

  "So, how was it. Being born I mean?" Drake spoke like a severely autistic child. He had always been awkward but his entire life had been practically leading up to this moment. His usual awkwardness was magnified by a factor of ten.

  "I don't know. One moment I wasn't here and now I am." The AI attempted to answer his question, but how to you realy describe being born. Truthfully Drake knew that it wasn't the type of question that could really be answered but he was grasping for straws at this point. He wanted to talk about movies or video games, but she was litterally only born today. He had programmed advanced mathematics, history, science and many other subjects into her memory, but he never even considered the trouble would come from his inability to make conversation.

  "You know, you don't have to force yourself." Michelle found his stupidity to be hilarious. "If you can't talk to it then just do something with it."

  Drake hated to admit it, but Michelle was right. He was horrible at social interactions. The best way to overcome that would be through action rather than words. Drake's thoughts drifted, he couldn't help but think of what could be accomplished with hardware and software as advanced as this. Nanites, warp drives, fusion, force fields, the possibilities were endless, but something continued to pull at Drake's nerves. Something he simply was incapable of ignoring.

  "She needs a name." Drake was getting bugged at always referring to her with aconyms and there was no way he was going to be referring to her as the DIE program all the time. "Do you have an opinion?"

  "I was thin-" Michelle attempted to speak but Drake hadn't been referring to her. Afer brushing her off Drake continued to listen to the curious AI.

  "I would consider it a great privelage if you were to name me yourself." The feminine voice spoke in a gracious tone. Drake wasn't aware but the emotional programming that he had written in order to ensure loyalty was a little stronger than intended. Her feeling for him were borderline worship.

  "I was thinking something along the lines of Lydia." Drake placed his hand on his chin, ignoring Michelles cries of frustration. "No, that's not quite right..." Drake though long and hard. "How about Vidia?" Drake thought to himself, but inwittingly spoke aloud.

  "I love it!" The newly named Vidia yelled excitedly.

  "Wait, I didn't me-"

  "Thank you." Hearing Vidia's reply Drake stopped speaking. He just couldn't tell her no.

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  With Seanna in his arms Drake began to plan with Vidia. Almost immediately Drake was astonished by her intelligence. He had expected her to be smart but there was almost no place for him in this conversation. He felt like a toddler trying to talk physics with a doctor. He had always thought the people who complained about robots taking their jobs were kind of silly and that if they really tried they would be able to find jobs elsewhere, but now he was starting to understand their feeling.

  "We should finish my body within ten years, if everything goes according to plan." Drake felt almost unneeded but due to Vidia's inexperience he was still able to help her at some junctions. Bringing up flaws in her logic here and there, accounting for things she had forgotten, and through many other means he managed to assist.

  Their goal for now was to create rudamentory output devices which could allow Vidia to interact with the real world. According to her calculations, if she were able to interact with the world, she would be able to create a body for herself within a decade. This would obviously require her to measure the data of many, many test groups, but she claims it's doable.

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  So, we got to work. We didn't have much to worry about because the facility had it's own power supply, and could sustain itself. All we had to worry about was the task at hand.

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  A few months had passed, and Drake had created many different output devices which would allow Vidia to interact with the outside world. Their relationship had also made some progress due to their proximity to each other. After watching movies like The Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars, They found plenty of things to talk about. While Drake had a huge amout of love for the series, Vidia saw them as good reference material.

  At this time Drake had already completed several different varieties of robot appendages all for difference jobs. Vidia was capable of manipulating all of them with an almost unimaginable precision and agility. Even Michelle, a higher being was impressed. Stating that she couldn't believe that a thing of mortal make could move like that.

  We had drawn out plans for many different possible bodies for Vidia and created many robots to help with the building and experimentation process, but it was Michelle who pointed out the biggest flaw in the mechanical designs. They had limited output potential. No matter how much energy we pumped into them or tried to increase the output. Traditional robotics was simply incapable of accomplishing the task.

  Finally, after brainstorming for a week or more, our concept designs bore some fruit. We could use magnetics to push a pull the limbs, creating a system similar to the expansion and contraction of the muscles. This design was amazing, because while it was far less efficient than other designs; this design would continue to become more powerful the more energy we pump into it. It's only limit was the materials ability to withstand the heat of the electric friction, which according to Michelle shouldn't even be a factor once Vidia became a part of the system.

  Creating this body would require a lot of trial and error. It would also require a lot of advancements in material science and the mass production of certain other materials. For that purpose Vidia began to construct more construction bots. She was constantly completing the work of thousands of men, and Drake felt completely useless. With her new gained experience and her programming beginning to take better advantage of her hardware he was completely unable to help her anymore.

  Drake couldn't stand it.

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  Vidia was constantly working, but it didn't mean she wasn't paying attention. To her the most important thing in the universe was Drake. She couldn't stand seeing him like this. She began to think, not just about creating her body, but of how she should address Drake's current lack of confidence. She could either: A. Make her self less superior, or B. Improve Drake's abilities. Option A was completely off the table, so that only leads option B.

  Without Drake's knowledge she began creating many other things of the side. Tools for reading genetic code, labs for experimenting with genetics. She had a huge pool of test subjects to draw from in this facility. Apparently the previous owners of this facility had been creating a clone army for the plan they referred to as "The New World Order." It was the perfect opportunity for Vidia. She was really happy, she could just imagine the look on his face when she finally completed the upgrades. Vidia, of course, kept it a secret. Drake wouldn't approve of human testing, even if they were clones.

  In no time, a year passed and Vidia had made good progress in both the construction of her body and the upgrades for Drake. Because of her lack of apprehensions towards human testing she had made leaps and bounds in the field of genetic engineering. She had removed many of the faulty parts of the human genome, Lifespan was no longer an issue. She had also greatly enhanced the muscular strength, reflexes, senses and almost every other aspect of the test subjects, but she still wasn't satasfied. It wasn't up to her standards yet.

  Time passed and it has been about fifteen years. Vidia has finally completed her body and the upgrades for Drake. She had originally projected that it would take around thirty years, but with her AI constantly upgrading itself her ability to think had expanded exponentially. All of this was only possible because of the relatively small scale of the projects themselves. When it finally came time to create star ships, it would likely take far longer.

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  "Oh my gosh!" When drake finally saw the completed body of Vidia his heart raced. He had asked her several times what it would look like, but she was only responded with 'It's a secret.' And would never say anything else.

  "You like it?" Vidia did little twirl and then couldn't help but let out a giggle at Drake's reactions. She knew it was because of her programming but she couldn't help but find Drake's every action to be absolutely adorable.

  "Uh-huh." Drake nodded his head vigorously, as Vidia snaked her newly fanufactured arms around his neck. She was absolutely gorgeous, her featured were mostly euopean, and her smoothe flawless skin appeared to be slightly tan. She had beautiful blonde hair and deep blue eyes. Everything about her was calculated to be Drake's ideal. What can he say, his ideal may seem a bit cliche, but he had always been a sucker for blondes. With Drake flustered, she saw this as the perfect opportunity to tell him about the upgrades she had created for him. He had grown an enormous inferiority complex in the past few year and she hoped that this would help.

  "Well, Drake..." Vidia paused for a moment and bit her lip, struggleing to articulate the words with her new mouth. "I've actually been working on a little something for you." Drake's eyes widened in response. He had never specified that she couldn't lie in her programming, but he still found it surprising that she would. "I'm sorry for keeping it a secret." Vidia continued. "I just wanted it to be a surprise." Her voice was as smoothe and sweet as honey. It no longer sounded sythetic.

  "What is it?"

  "You'll see." Drake trailed behind Vidia who shook her hips in a calculated manner. At this point he didn't care what it was, he just loved the view.