Male Jon giggled again and tried to explain. "She isn't here! My new friend got herself lost. Can you tell her to come back? We were having such fun together."
"I'm sorry," said Keith. "How do you expect to tell her to come if she isn't here to be able to hear you?"
"He does have a point," said Bruce.
"What?" replied Eric.
The wi-fi in the slutbot's head could not connect to the Internet until Jon reached the road and came within a few hundred feet of a restaurant. One of the men in the car pointed out the window and another turned to see Jon. He gaped at seeing what seemed to be a naked woman walking down the road.
Jon realized that there were men in the car, men who would no doubt want what he had to offer. He couldn't help but want them to pleasure them too... no, he needed to get back to the lab. He had wanted to escape just a minute ago, but he had changed his mind. He just had to get back to the lab. Even if he ended up with this body making him have sex again, he just wanted to return to the lab.
Jon turned around. By the time the men in the car managed to turn around the car and stop, Jon had disappeared back into the woods.
Eric watched as Bruce sent over the programming that would bring the slutboth back. "I don't get it," he asked. "She's completely indistinguishable at the cellular level, but she has wi-fi in her head?"
"She's indistinguishable from a human with a wi-fi connectable device in her head."
"But the wi-fi means you are reprogramming her through her circuits. If she has circuits, she's not indistinguishable...."
"She doesn't have circuits, except in the device itself. We were able to reprogram Jon in his old body and that doesn't have any circuits either. The technology directly changes pathways in the brain. She's like a human with enhanced physical attributes and an empty brain until we put something in it."
At this point, Jon returned and entered the room with male Jon.
"Oh, it's you!" exclaimed male-Jon. The programming in the slutbot's operating system took over and soon Jon was having sex with his male body again. Male-Jon ran out of stamina a lot more quickly than before and complained "I can't keep it hard like before!" It must have still been a little too soon.
Bruce explained, while not coming too close to Jon. "I had to wait until you connected to the net so I could log in remotely and reprogram you to come back."
"But I wanted to come back... wait, why did I want to come back?"
"Because we need you back here. You know, we did say we were going to resolve your situation. Give us a chance."
"How are you going to do that?" asked Jon.
"Let me explain. First of all, on computers you normally don't move things. You copy. But we have invented a way to move using computers. It's really simple. We connect your brain to a computer so they are working as a unit. Then we copy each bit of information to the computer side and erase it from the brain. Since the brain and computer are working as a unit, we're not killing or copying a person when we do this--we're just gradually changing the location of the person from the brain part of the unit to the computer part of the unit. Then when we're finished, we disconnect them, and everything's in the computer and the brain is empty."
"Okay, so you can move using computers," said Jon. "I don't want to have sex with men. Fix it."
"Technically, you do want to have sex with men," said Bruce. "You just regret it afterwards. Anyway, since we have you, we can copy, from you, the parts that were overwritten by the Candi template. Your old body still has your memories, it's just hard for him to access them now, so we don't have to copy memories--just intelligence, emotions, reactions. So it would fix him to be Jon without him waking up and thinking he's you."
"That doesn't fix me." Despite the distance, Jon found himself staring at Bruce's crotch.
"Well, that's a problem. There are two of you. We can't kill one!"
"Then what can you do?"
"We can move you to another body. Unfortunately we don't have any bodies with blank minds. The easiest way to get one is to turn on your pregnancy switch and let you get pregnant. There's already plenty of Jon's sperm in you for that. We can speed up the process a little, but it still isn't a five minute thing."
"That doesn't sound good. Can you do anything else?"
"Yes, we could make another body that doesn't have slutbot programming. Of course, you'll then be a guy trapped in a female body, unless you want us to program you for femininity. Even just to know how to put on bras. Also, it will take a little while to grow another body." Of course, Jon didn't trust them not to add extra programming to such a body anyway.
"Can you erase an existing slutbot and them move me there? Or put me on the computer, erase this one, and put me back?"
"Sure, but some of the slutbot programming is done at a more fundamental level that we really can't overwrite. And the pheromones and seduction wave are physical, they are not programming. We might be able to make you emit them only at will, but no guarantees. Get in the booth."
Jon got into the booth. "Wait," he said. "Are there slutbots that are better than this one, even without erasing?"
"We have one programmed to only want to service a particular person. More of a love slave bot than a slut."
"Not great. There have to be more things you can do. Anyone who can make slutbots on a cellular level should be able to make clones. Put me in a clone."
"The equipment that grows slutbots is not designed to grow males, and I told you that some of the programming is fundamental and would be there even if we grow clones." Jon didn't know if that made any sense.
"Put me in a robot, a metal one, not a slutbot."
"We don't have metal robots, and if we did they'd be a highly experimental project that is the responsibility of another department that doesn't like us very much."
"Just do something!"
"That's why you're in that booth." Eric and Keith helped get male-Jon into another booth. The large black ball at the top of the booth began to hum again.
"But that's just to fix the other Jon, right?"
"Depends on if we fix you in a way that can be done right now or a way that can't." Jon was about to object to that, but everything went black and he felt like he was in a void and falling.
