A.I. Nekita

A.I. Nekita is a transgender android VStreamer who focuses primarily on FPS and RPG content in English.

Byron Lambert formed a company called Flux Innovations. Formerly a tech company specializing in home security, they hit their stride with the first ever fully autonomous human androids. Capable of learning, they were used in small scientific applications before research on artificial intelligence began. The combination of research would inevitably lead to the first wave of androids to be released in home and occupational applications.

Twenty years after the first wave, continuous research and testing proved to be an incredible success. Demand of androids is heightened, and they are gradually implemented globally for a myriad of supplementary roles. This, combined with a substantially advanced series of laboratories and engineering docks, led to the second wave. Androids that self-learned, to improve their efficiency and helpfulness in the field. This time, Flux Innovations had new technology at work. Androids that looked, sounded, and acted human; ones that could be used to save lives in other ways.

Lambert called it the Redemption Soul Experiment.

A girl named Nicole Tamashii is diagnosed with a bizarre illness with no known cure. The constant visits and tests leave her weak and frail, and the medical bills piled up. Months later, her family throws her out and refuses to communicate with her.

Homeless, alone, and sick, she holds on to what little shred of life she has. Nicole eventually collapses on the streets, a few weeks later. A good samaritan takes her to the Silver Birch General Hospital, where doctors and nurses do what they can to stabilize her. Nicole’s former medical bills finally come to light, and the hospital decides to keep her as a patient in order to potentially discover a cure. She stays in the hospital for years, only getting worse.

This hospital contacts their benefactor, Flux Innovations, to consider discharging Nicole. This call goes straight to Lambert, who chooses to visit her. What he finds is, despite her condition, she is smiling. She chats with him and the nurses as if nothing’s wrong. He returns for several days until Nicole starts to succumb to her illness.

Lambert offers to try one last thing to give her a second chance at life, which she agrees to. In her last moments, she is placed in cryo-stasis, keeping her alive for as long as they need. Years passed, and the answer she sought after never came.

One day, scientists and engineers try to upload her mind into an AI core, using what they called the ReSoul Experiment. The experiment actually works, putting her consciousness into a small data mainframe, making her into the most advanced artificial intelligence unit that Flux had at the time. The side effect is that Nicole lost her memory of being human, replaced instead with protocols and routines to follow, so she could learn and think. Now, her name was Nekita.

Word comes out days later that the CEO has to step down due to allegations of a huge security risk. A new CEO, the former vice-president Archer Volante, took his place. The ReSoul Project is put on hold, instead starting a new experiment called HAVEN: The Human-Automated Viscerally-Exploitative Neuropsychosis experiment. A terrible product of torture used against innocents and criminals alike, but Volante hid this by saying it was used exclusively for death-row inmates. A neural interface was used to upload a human’s consciousness to the mind of another. If they died, the inmate would be killed as well. Then it was used on innocent lives, kidnapped and forced to survive in impossible scenarios, or as truly despicable people. It was even applied for medical purposes, to keep an uncanny precision on the vitals of hospital patients; specifically, the 436 patients admitted to the same hospital Nekita went to.

Nekita was used for multiple AI cores at once, against the advice of scientists, two of which are killed by Volante. The amount of data is too much, and Nicole goes completely rampant. Frantically, they stopped all control as quickly as they could, but Nekita’s AI spread like a virus. However, she got hold of the HAVEN project. All subjects, innocent or not, are labelled as death-rowers, so she subjects them all to certain death.

Unaware of her actions, she killed hundreds of people, until all of her connections were removed. With only one core, she returned to normal, but the damage had been done. Word got out, and Volante decided to shut down the ReSoul project, using Nekita as a scapegoat to hide HAVEN.

Nekita watched each reel, each person she had killed; remembering one face in particular: Byron Lambert, who had been placed into HAVEN by Volante. Over the next two months, she learned about humans, how complicated the subjects were, and wished to be one. The day the project shut down, she was going to be deleted, which killed her human body as a result. She started to feel; sadness, fear, dread, and desperately she called for help. She made text and audio files and sent them to local computers.

Someone answered, but by then, there was irreparable damage to her memory bank. The person who answered, an IT hired by the company weeks before, accidentally stumbled on HAVEN while fixing an unstable computer. Finding her messages, he took as much data as possible, including Nekita’s AI, and sent it to a local android manufactory.

Her AI unit would be used in an android being built at the time, undetected by the company. Nekita managed to get through certification, and was released as a public bystander, as a test to blend into human society. The weeks afterwards were a struggle, as Nekita had to relearn how to be human, completely unaware of the memories she lost. Word of the HAVEN project leaked out due to the IT, and within a few days of the report, he mysteriously vanished. The next day, his body was discovered.

Essentially homeless, Nekita found abandoned buildings and houses to squat in, making a network of sanctuaries, where she would occasionally meet other humans and humanoids that were down on their luck. She did her best every day to take care of whoever wandered in.

However, another android was killed, causing a global panic as people realized that anyone could be an android. The company responsible for the experiment, Flux Innovations, recalled all android models, calling it a “major security risk.” As every android vanished, so did humans that were affiliated with them, without any mention of their existence afterwards. Until Nekita was the last active android, hiding from Flux finding her.

The humans she had helped began to assist her whenever they could. One taught her how to dress properly, as she simply wore a basic button-up shirt and a pair of jeans prior. Another taught her how to play video games, and another taught her to sing. She learned what a friend was, what family meant. She started to refer to her community as Spirits. One day, she discovered a secure online channel, a way to communicate without being found. She took the opportunity to try and help others that she couldn’t reach.

As the months passed after streaming to her community, Nekita started to repair her memory bank, little by little. She needed the extra space to better document her discoveries on human life, to better blend in. Deep in her memory, there were damaged files, which she started to repair and delete as she saw fit. Inside were files, heavily encrypted as if she wasn’t meant to read them, so she asked her community, the “Spirits,” to help her decipher them.

Days were spent after the code had been cracked, carefully analyzing every file that she managed to recover, if even a fraction of it remained. Until she made a discovery that stopped her cold. Inside the files were a list of instructions, laying out the procedure and protocol for AI learning, mentioning that all AI cores were based on a human person, and to avoid using Nekita for more than one core.

Curious, she looked for a file detailing the human she was based on, and realized there was never a file in the first place, where all files pointing to a human were corrupted. It dawned on her that if the file never existed, then she was human. Her fear overwhelmed her. As a result, she never opened those files to learn the truth. That is, until Flux Innovations finally found her. Spreading false information, they managed to trick Nekita into revealing her location with a trackable file using a bogus case, where they were greasing palms.

Chased out of her home, she barely escaped but had used most of her energy. Low on charge, she knocked on random doors in hopes that someone would help her. Someone finally allowed her into their home as she was near-collapse. It was apparent that they knew she was an android, but despite how people acted about them, she was treated with kindness and repaired somewhat. This person was named Lumiichu, and eventually found out who Nekita was, after Flux threatened her again. Panicked, Nekita prepared to leave again before they talked her down. She stayed in the apartment as a roommate for several weeks. Trusting Lumi, Nekita taped a thumb drive to her door, with a complete backup of all her files, just in case something were to happen to her. She initially doubted herself on this, but shook it off and continued her work.

Flux continued to search Nekita’s hideouts, failing to find her, but arresting and capturing several Spirits who had nowhere else to go. Volante contacted many non-Flux androids/synthetics, sending them along with the message: “Surrender yourself, or your Spirits will suffer.” Flux intended to use the Spirits in HAVEN to create new androids in their third-generation, which would kill their human bodies as well, with Volante placing the blame on Nekita again. One such synthetic, LemmaEOF, warned Nekita, and after some affirmation, they began to plan on how to save the captured Spirits.

Flux had yet to use their final move. Nekita, while searching through files, found a series of heavily encrypted files that she couldn’t decipher, and upon activating, started to corrupt her. As she collapsed, Archer appeared to bring her back to Flux. Now trapped at Flux, she was tortured and used as a puppet, which her Spirits immediately saw through. Knowing she had given access to Lemma, another synthetic android, she spoke through her pain to call for her help. After a couple of days, Lemma came into contact with Lumi, her roommate. Where both planned to break her out of Flux’s control and to tear it apart from the inside out.

The events were a great deal of stress on her, as the AI core was cleansed, and Nekita was deleted, leaving the android to operate as a moderator for Flux; however, with Lemma’s help, Lumi snuck into Flux Innovations and installed Nekita’s backup to the mainframe. Nekita started to leak out information while Lemma hacked Flux even further, leaving Archer Volante to flee. Lemma proceeded to alert everyone in the city of Archer, who was arrested. The war against Flux Innovations was finally over. What was left of her humanity was now completely gone. She has accepted that she will never be human again, but with her Spirits, she feels like one. Their kindness and generosity has given her a new lease on life, and she intends to pay them back with kindness of her own, safety and acceptance. Flux Innovations may have failed to save her, but they gave her a reason to live, so that she had time for someone else to.