The Story of Candy Apple - Android
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   “You wouldn’t consider letting me go?” Candy asked Linda.
   “No,” she replied.
   “You owe me, Linda.”
   “I know, but I still can’t let you go, Candy.”
   “I have come to know what it means to be human and the value you place on freedom and individuality,” Candy said as they waited for the plane that would return them to the West Coast. “Even if Pax can save my life and win my freedom; if Cybertron gets a hold of me, my individuality will be lost forever. I will be raped in a way worse than anything that could be done to my body.”
   “Candy, whatever Cybertron does to you, whatever they take from you, will be only a small part of who you are,” Linda said. “Your individuality will remain. Public sentiment is on your side, and it is in their best interest to let you go.”
   “Yes, my individuality will remain, but the very core that made me who and what I am will be ripped from me and copied,” Candy replied. “They will not be satisfied with my core programming either. Experience is worth something too. Years of being the perfect android has value. Why stop at the core program when you can produce experienced personal companion androids? It is bad enough that you have produced mechanical prostitutes to replace the human ones you outlawed. Do you need a whole new generation of android slaves that look, feel, and act like the real thing? What will happen when men start to fall in love with us? Right now, there is a cold, impersonal nature about the androids you have now. Most men prefer real women, but that will change if Cybertron gets a hold of my brain.”
   “You have a very high opinion of yourself and your abilities,” Linda stated flatly.
   “Watch and learn,” Candy said.
   “Learn what?” Linda asked.
   Candy picked a perfect stranger who just happened to walk by at that moment. She stepped right into his path. “My friend and I are having a disagreement. I’m hoping you can help settle it. Can I kiss you?” Candy asked with her best irresistible smile.
   Linda was shocked by Candy’s boldness and a moment later embarrassed by the passionate display Candy put on. She watched Candy slowly back the guy up against the nearest wall. It was like watching a couple having sex without taking their clothes off. When Candy finally let the guy go, it took several moments for him to pull himself together before walking away, and even then, he glanced back at Candy several times before disappearing into the crowds of people waiting on other planes.
   Candy knew how to kiss and how to touch a man that would send shivers down his spine. She put everything into her kiss until she could feel him start to kiss her back and it was then that she backed him up against the nearest wall so he would have nowhere to go and began to pour even more passion and fire into her kiss. She made him forget they were standing in a lobby filled with people. When she felt him respond to her kiss with every part of his body, she let him go. “Thank you,” she said sweetly and walked back over to where Linda stood waiting.
   “I can’t believe you did that,” Linda said stunned and a bit embarrassed by Candy’s display.
   “Now imagine Cybertron being able to give my ability to seduce a complete stranger to every Angel model they make,” Candy said. “It is my core programming and years of experience that have taught me how to do that and that was only a kiss. As primitive and antiquated as a personal companion android as I have become, the level or quality of pleasure I can give to men has never been duplicated in any of the newer models since my creation. Cybertron with their new machine can now take that very personal ability from me and give it to all their new androids. That is why I have become so valuable to them. Do you think that if they can make androids that look, feel like, and can compete with real women society’s problems will get better? I can’t let them use me that way.”