The Vespa’s Story

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Disclaimer: All the characters, places, names and situations are fictions. They are not made to offend any individual's identity or thoughts. They are just character background and my characters do not define me, but just my thoughts for the character. I also request my readers to not have any biased mindset, the stories are meant to stir some feelings in you, so just go with the flow and enjoy. Please do not copy the stories and repost them.

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The Prologue:

In the year 2030, there occurs “The Great Change”. After the first pandemic in 2019 there have been constant cycles of unknown hits, all of them were stronger than before. In 2030, the whole world came together to secure what was left. During “The Great Change”, the world became one big nation, and terrorists were either in jail or were wiped out of existence as all the powers became one to stop all this. Due to the numerous pandemics, the world became virtual in its entirety. The robots and humans lived in a symbiotic relationship. Only robots were allowed to go out between 2023 and 2030. After the union of the whole world, humans were allowed to go out. The robots upgraded to transform into something of use other than just being a friendly house partner. Some transformed into a toaster, fridge, or any other appliance or thing. Around the decades, there was an increase in the cranial potential of children. The previous graduation from school that happened by the age of 18 or above happened by 15 and above now. The average age by which people started to work full time was 20.

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I am Vesu, a Vespa on roads and a perfect house partner to all other times for Ursula. She was always a robot herself, never interested in things related to emotions, she never even had the slightest tinge of sentiments for her parents, and so after “The Great Change”, when the world opened and all the boundaries demolished, Ursula decided to explore and follow her dream which has always been Artificial Intelligence and Robots. In the year 2030, after “The Great Change” was established, she moved out of the small city of Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber in Bavaria, Germany to move to Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo was the epicenter of all her dreams, and that is when she found me.

Rothenburg-ob-der-Tauber, Bavaria

Tokyo, Japan

She met me when she was just 15. I always took her as my little sister, but she was more robotic than me. Never even for once, I feel any warmth from her side. She was opposite of my previous house partner, Mr. Lee. Mr. Lee lost his battle just before the last pandemic ended, but he taught me how to be human. I never showed Ursula that I cared because she might have felt awkward and then might have tried to reformat me, just like she did to our previous housemate, he was an Indian lad, Rishi, A very caring and decent person, and one day he confessed his feelings to Ursula. She did not even chicken out. With her beautiful bare, straight face and big eyes behind her large rimmed spectacles, she told him that she was not interested and might never be. Poor boy, I feel for him. They were 18 back then, and he had to move to New Zealand after that. Lucky for him, he got a perfect getaway to move over from her charms.

Ursula always had issues adjusting to Tokyo’s cuisine. Still, after spending six years here, she does not know how to hold a chopstick, even I know that! But it is okay as Rishi taught her to use her hands while eating just like Indians do, and even taught her to make Indian food which she definitely loves. Only when she eats good food, I feel her emotions. Only then she seems human. She once had a chameleon, Tutu. I thought she might love him. But one day, when I was in sleep mode, Tutu slipped inside me, got an electric shock, and died. The next day Ursula plainly swiped off Tutu in the dusting pan and threw, even before I woke up. It was only me who cried for Tutu at his funeral. 

I have never seen someone like her, but I think she has a different love language. Like she never overworks me, she cares for all the robots that she makes or repairs and she teaches all her AIs and robots everything without any biased data inputs. She never takes me out on rainy days nor lets me do the dishes or laundry. 

Like all other humans, she hates when people touch her. After the periodic pandemics, humans have developed the fear of being touched. The worst was the mind pandemic. During which I got remodeled by Mr. Lee, to understand human minds and help them through it, help them get better by staying by their sides. I am one of the last ones left of my kind. I think that is why Ursula protects me and preserves me like her most valuable asset. So these young humans do not touch or talk much; all they do is send hefty files and big mails to each other and help in the systematic working of the world.  

Ursula hates doing dishes. It is particularly the only thing that she hates other than having human contacts. This is because whenever she does it, her hair starts coming onto her eyes and her face starts itching, that is the only time that I do something for her, and when I help her with her itching, she laughs. The only time my little girl laughs! The 21-year-old Ursula still feels the 15-year-old to me.

Yesterday we went near the Tokyo Skytree. Ursula had some meetings with her office colleagues, and she had to plan the upcoming launch of several new software. I became Vesu the Vespa for her. While she was gone, I sat in the charging park to charge myself as it was a long ride. That is when I saw humans crowding, an unusual sight to see. Through my analysis, I found all those humans were having an adrenaline rush. They were happy, and some were even crying with happiness. All of them had a very high heart rate and high blood pressure. The situation was intriguing, so I started searching for the reason and found it. The reason was Hinode Kumao. 

Kumao had last put his foot out 13 years back when he was a 10-year-old. Because of his beautiful facial structure and appearance, he was named the most beautiful baby in the world. By the time he was 10, he had gained popularity not just because of his unparalleled beauty but because of his maturity, intelligence, generosity, and cuteness. Due to turbulence outside, his parents and his managing agency decided to keep him safe. They did it by keeping him in sort of house arrest. The whole world saw him growing up from a beautiful baby to this 23-year-old angelic, beautiful, sexy man who could make a straight robot whipped for him. He is a psychiatrist by the day and a singer by night. Apparently, he has no idea what happened in this world. As apart from providing calmness to his patients and conducting virtual concerts, he has done nothing. And I could sense he was tense and scared due to the sudden upsurge of his fans around him.

I wanted to help him, but according to his records, he never had robots as housemates. So probably, I would have made the situation worse for him. That is when I saw a familiar face rushing towards him and pushing everybody away. She was Ursula, a slight change in her usual breathing pattern but still emotionless. She signaled me to transform and get ignited. I am always amazed, how she spots me so fast? She reached Kumao, and without even looking at him, she grabbed his hand and brought him out of the crowd to me. She asked him to sit, and the poor boy had no idea how to. She could sense he was afraid, so she sat and asked him to sit behind her. Kumao’s psychology studies were not helping him to stay calm as he was shaking due to the sudden encounter, which was not virtual. After they sat, I started to move as people started to rush after their star, and Ursula took Kumao’s hands and helped him wrap them on her waist. 

The first time she allowed any other human to touch her, it was so intimate. All my oils inside were dancing. I automatically malfunctioned while playing one of Kumao’s romantic songs, and my headlight beamed so much that the bulb might have burst just a second later. Everything happened until I saw Ursula, she was still emotionless. Just the little kick that she was experiencing brought a smirk on her face as she accelerated to leave behind all the chaos. After a while, Kumao was also normal but was still wrapped around my little sister. He drifted away to sleep until we reached Mount Takao. 

Ursula woke him up and moved 180 degrees to face him while he was still sitting in my back seat. Only if I would have wiggled a bit, there were chances that they would have kissed already, provided the fact that Mr. Psychiatrist was still a little sleepy. But I am a decent big brother also I did not know if Kumao knew that I was a robot. What would have happened if he would freak out and start running in the wilderness surrounding us? All my thoughts subsided when I felt a sudden change in Ursula’s heartbeat pattern, it stopped for a brief moment when I realized that it was the first time Ursula actually saw Kumao after he took off his helmet and put on his white cap. Yellow sweatshirt and white cap and with my dim headlights lighting up the surroundings in a very cozy manner, Kumao was gleaming with a beauty that struck Ursula. 

For the first time, Ursula’s pupils dilated, and after the brief stop of her heartbeat, it was now beating faster, exceptionally faster rate, her face became red due to increased blood pressure, and she had goosebumps. Kumao was quick to understand and he put his hands on hers to calm her down. He started talking. His low baritone voice had the power to calm tsunamis and cyclones, if not a restless soul. He talked to her, and she talked back. I had never seen her talking about life before. She always had either numbers and plots or screws and metals to talk about. They were sweet beyond my expectation. Everything was too sweet to be a dream when Kumao’s phone rang. He got tracked by his managing agency, and they were waiting for him to come back down from the little trek top that we were at. 

The dream was about to end. He jumped off of me. I could feel Ursula feeling a sudden void, she was cold as the closeness was no more. The warmth faded with every step that he took back. He came back with his sweet smile. For the gentleman he is, he took Ursula’s now cold hands into his warm ones and kissed them goodbye. My metal heart fluttered and for a second started pumping blood.

He left.

Ursula would not say anything to me, so I just changed my form and sat beside her on the rock that she went to. Since yesterday she has been taking turns smiling and blushing. She even kissed me good night and good morning and oiled me ten days before the schedule. 

Is this what humans once treasured? 

Is it what they mentioned in all those romance books? 

Is it what my analysis suggests? Is this "Love at first sight"?

Part II: Mixo's Story

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