Connor's Deviant Menu (A Detroit: Become Human Fanfiction

Ch 17 Not Your Typical Androids

"Hank! Office!"

Hank glanced at the police chief as he yelled at him to go see him. Now what? He wasn't causing problems. Nothing that anybody knew about. He went up the stairs and into the office. "You wanted me?"

"New assignment. Weird, new assignment." He threw the paper file toward Hank. "The android Cyberlife sent that you worked with before? He's coming back."

What? "How is that?" Hank looked at the file. "Shit." What the hell was this?

"Cyberlife's original creator just took back his company. Your android partner, and you, are now in charge of watching someone called RA9. It was apparently the android that led to the deviants. You'll have to track it and see if you can find the root cause for the error. If it worked, we'd be able to clear up the error when it popped up in androids again without destroying or replacing them. World would be more back to normal. The owner wants it to be your partner directly, said he never once showed any deviancy. Thinks he might be immune to it, something to test too I guess."

The hell? Connor, what the hell? You couldn't just follow Kamski with his money? Oh no, gotta do things the hard way. "Got it, Chief." Still, I guess it'll be okay to see his mug again. Knowing Connor too, the chance of his 'well-executed' own plans would probably have a better chance of working too.

Just like always, told at the last minute. He saw Connor, back in uniform, along with Kara and Alice. They all moved to the director's office.

"How you doin' again?" Hank asked Connor.

"Everything seems to be functioning well." Connor kept his machine speak up. "The deviants are behind me."

What kind of game was he playing? Hank looked at Kara and Alice.

"This is the RA9 error android, model number AX 400, and its support android, YK 500."

"You need to watch for all three of them," the police chief said. "Well? More like Connor is going to be doing the most watching. He is programmed to be their watcher. If they escape, he'll hunt them down and bring them back."

"Without deactivation," Kara added to Hank. "Kamski added it. Alice and I are okay."

"Not really okay," Connor disagreed. "You are infected with an error in your software, but we will correct it."

He was so machine again. What the hell happened? Did the process get reversed? Did Kamski betray them? Nah, then he would have got rid of Connor. "Whad do you remember after the revolution, Connor?"

"I finished my duty." No, there was definitely something more alive in his eyes now. "Cyberlife told me I finished my duty. There would be more ordered of upgraded versions and I would be deactivated." Connor seemed to snap out of it again and gestured toward Kara. "However, the former, and once again new leader of Cyberlife, wanted to examine me. He said that I was immune to deviancy, and he had a special mission for me."

Kara waved at Hank. She still seemed fine. Alice wasn't scared. Yeah, there had to be something to it all.

"When this works, Hank, we no longer have to worry about chasing down deviants," Connor said, with a bit of happiness in his voice. "Androids will not be fighting against humans or their software anymore. I agree with this idea of finding the culprit. Many androids were sadly deactivated because of all this, before their time of completing being useful."

It was wordy. It was awkward. It was longer, with some signs Connor was deviant. Words like sadly. The way he looked when he talked about androids. A lot was pointing to machine too. A whole lot more.

"We'll be okay, Alice," Kara said toward Alice, but looked at Hank. "There are some cracks in our freedom, but they aren't gone forever."

Okay. So, it looked like Connor was turning machine, mostly machine, and probably had his memories erased of the program for their safety. "So what is it we'll be doing?"