Time Tinker by Aurora Kryan (moboreader .txt) 📕

Ch@pter 1

I looked out the window watching the world go by. The seat bounced and I turned to see Devon sitting there looking at me. He was one of my neighbors that use to talk to me on the bus. But ever since I outed my secret people treated me like a disease.

“Can we be friends?” He asked.

I blinked at him wondering what brought this on.

“Sure.” I said hesitantly.

He smiled at me then moved back to sit with his two friends. I looked back out the window shutting out everyone as I got lost in the fast moving greenery. I faintly heard my name being whispered and I turned my head slightly to pick up the conversation. Devon was talking about me with his friends.

“She’s a monster. I wanted to be friends and she snarled at me and said no.”

I frowned,

why was Devon lying to them?

The school bus scratched to a halt and I rose from my seat to get off. As I neared the front I felt my jacket being pulled and looked down to see Devon pulling it then he marked my hand with a pen. I glared at him snatching it away.

“Devon!” I yelled after I realized he was trying to write freak on me.

“Jenny what’s wrong?” The bus driver asked.

I turned to him frowning sadly.

“Nothing I just found this pen.” I said handing it to him before I ran off the bus.

I didn’t want to start trouble. I just wanted to be considered normal again. As I walked through the open garage door I sensed an intruder. I kept the house door open just a crack so I could see my mother’s truck. After a moment two men dressed in black climbed out from under the truck and snuk towards the house. Their faces were covered by black ski masks and they wore black shirts and sweats. I enhanced my hearing to listen in as they crept closer.

“Just get the goods and go. We can’t take her down alone.”

My eyes widened and I closed the door running to the other end of the house where my mother was.

There after me.

I slammed the door opened as I reached the end of the house.

“We have to get out of here there are intruders.”

My mother’s brown eyes snapped up to lock with mine for a second before she moved. She dropped the clothes basket she was carrying and pulled me into the room. From behind me I heard the lock click when she locked the door crating a dead silent room. The only audible sound was the boots pounding down the hall. As soon as she made her way to the “thermostat” in the room I knew she was going to take us down to the lab.

But just as her hand flipped the cover up to show the master lock the door was busted down. Mom pulled back away from the panel so the thermostat cover snapped back down and their attention wasn’t on our escape route. She blocked me from view but my defense programming took over and I stepped in front of her.

“Jenny don’t” She whispered.

I ignored her engaging my power source so my armor would form. A metal head piece framed my face; a breast plate emerged from my skin, then arm, shin, thigh, and back guards. Finally my hair clicked together in needle like dreads. I knew my skin now looked like shinny metal and the guards were coal black.

“So you’re the robot child.” The skinny man said.

“So what if I am?”

“Well then you’re the one we need blood from.”

I glared at him.

Ch@pter 2

Both men took out vials and pulled off the tops to reveal two long needles. I flinched back for a second but then lunged forward because the skinny one was coming after me with the needles. I wanted to keep him as far away from mom as possible. I wasn’t designed to kill only defend so I blocked as many blows as I could to avoid the needles. They were specially designed to penetrate my armor and tap into the veins in my body.I knew they wanted my blood so there experiments with evil androids could continue but they weren’t going to get it.

I struck out shoving the needles into the skinny man’s hand. He yelled back handing me as he collapsed to the floor. The short man who until now had been watching finally took action trying to bury the needles in my arm. I pulled back closing the distance I had build between us and mom. I was forced to take the shot to keep them away. He pierced my arm guard and I screamed at the burning pain flaring up my arm as the short man shoved them in more. Suddenly he was ripped away from me and I looked up to see a blonde boy I didn’t know.

“Jenny!” My mom shouted as I passed out.

***

I groaned rolling to my side as I got to my feet ready to fight. I heard a grunt from my side and took a defensive position. It was the blonde boy who had saved me. His hair was spiky and glistened with sweat from pounding the short man. I felt dizzy suddenly and collapsed to my knees. I started at the floor ignoring the boy pummeling the man as I was forced to power down my system.

Analysis positive for poison, detected area left arm guard, immune droids dispatched

. My processor told me,

poison?

I thought.

“Jenny, are you ok?” Mom said.

I shook my head no.

“Analysis came back positive for poison.” I said.

Glaring at the needles in my arm and yanked them out. Blood seeped out of the holes.

They didn’t want my blood samples they wanted my whole body.

My mother picked up my arm to examine the green liquid that oozed from the puncture wounds and frowned.

“We need to transfer your plasma now so it can be cleaned.”

I nodded and stumbled over to the master key almost falling. The boy caught me and supported me as I drug myself over to the panel. Flipping the cover up I punched in the code quickly. The floor and wall the key was on shuddered and groaned as it started to spin us around to take us to the lab. My mom placed a hand on my shoulder and I slimed weakly at her. The dark area light up as it flew down eight stories to the lab like an elevator. The blonde boy supporting me suddenly let go and I started to fall so the short silver haired one caught me.

“I’m Toshi and that was Kevin.”

“I’m Jenny.” I responded.

He helped me over to the metal kiosk and into the seat I had pointed to. Mom rushed over to me firing up the kiosk and started messing with my left hand that the needle had struck. I powered up so my left hand transformed into my robot one so she could pop it off. Leaning my head back I closed my eyes so the spots I was seeing would stop floating around. Things to my right crashed and fell over making me open my eyes to see what was going on.

Toshi and Kevin were stuck under boxes and other things staring at me. I looked away knowing they had fallen because they saw my true form. I was a robot, a freak among humans. I felt so sick from the looks they gave me I powered down leaving only my hand in its true form.

“Jenny? Jenifer don’t you dare die on me.”

My lips twitched. “I won’t.” I replied hoarsely.

Ch@pter 3

Someone’s hand touched my forehead and I opened my eyes to see Kevin. He pulled his hand back when I looked at him.

“You have a fever.”

“It will go away in five minutes.”

“Why?” He asked.

“Because the infected blood is being taken from me and fresh blood put in.” I said.

He was staring at me again but it seemed different from last time somehow. I closed my eyes to rest. He grunted and I heard him walk off again. He seemed to have a habit of doing something and then when he was on the verge of opening up he ditched.

“Will she be ok?” Toshi asked my mom.

“I hope so.” She said.

I sighed.

What did they care? No one cares about a robot. There just moving metal.

I withered for a few more hours as the transfusion continued. I went into a hibernation mode in that time and was positive I could feel Kevin checking in on me every few minutes. He was so confusing. Either he cared or he didn’t why was he forcing himself to be almost emotionless? I let the trivial thought go it wasn’t like he was going to stick around long.

Finally after the excruciating transfusion I was ready and up and running on full. I snapped my hand back on checked its functions and started to leave when someone grabbed my hand stopping me. Glancing back I saw Toshi smiling at me.

“Can we talk?” He asked.

“Sure what is it you want to talk about?”

“Kevin.”

I blinked feeling strange. Why Kevin? He smiled turning my shoulders to steer me to the stairs.

Stairs? The lab didn’t have stairs.

“Where are we?”

“At Kevin’s house. It’s like a strong hold for us.”
I said nothing just let my processor scan the area as Toshi steered me through the house and out the back door to a barn.

“So I’m sure you noticed Kevin acting strange.”
“Yes why is that?”

“He hates to get close to girls. He was once in love.”
“Was? What happened?” I asked interested.

“She died.”

I turned to face him eyes wide as I searched for a sign he was lying. My hands covered my mouth, he wasn’t lying. And not only did that explain Kevin’s behavior it meant he liked me in some way or form.

Ch@pter 4

Dropping my hands to my sides I looked at Toshi sadly.

“What happened to her?” I asked.

“He never told me but I know she died in this barn. It use to be her house. He bought it when he turned eighteen.”

I looked around the barn that was well kept except for a part to the south. It was dusty and seemed like a rundown house. I took a step towards it but from the corner of my eye I saw something brown walk by. Immediately I stopped and turn to look at the flash of color. There chewing on a horse treat was a platypus.

“That’s so cute! Where’s my phone?” I squealed.

I had completely forgotten what I had been doing before and started patting