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Gladio brought his knuckles down on the door. He looked down at his phone to reassure himself that he had the correct address. The building looked like a small warehouse; he would have assumed it abandoned if not for the light shining in the high window.
After a series of heavy sounding clicks, the door opened to the man he had met only once before. Clad in a white lab coat, his burgundy colored hair pulled into a messy ponytail, the man ushered Gladio in.
“Doctor Izunia, nice to see you again.” He greeted him as he entered. He shifted his briefcase to his other hand, and watched as the man poked his head outside, and looked to either side, before shutting the door. He re-engaged the locks, five of which Gladio could see as the man turned to him.
“You as well, Mr. Amicitia. I have him packed for you, but I assume you’d like to see him prior to payment?”
“Please.” Gladio responded. He followed the man as he led him deeper into the warehouse. “I-this isn’t like me, Doc, I mean. I never imagined I’d buy a...a sex bot.”
“A companion.” The doctor corrected him without turning back to look at him. “If I remember correctly, you were referred by your friend, yes?”
“Uh, yeah. He got his from your-“
“-counterpart.” The doctor cut Gladio off to answer. “Verstael and I did our research together, though I dare say my model is -much- more impressive than his.”
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“A sex bot.” Gladio asked, as he stared at the blond beside his friend. When Noct had invited him over to meet his new boyfriend, it was the farthest thing from his expectation.
“Yep. Doesn’t he look human?”
Gladio looked over the form of the figure next to him. A head of pristinely styled blond hair. A face of freckles. Crystalline blue eyes. He watched as the blond looked back at him, his hands settled at his sides.
“Yeah, he really does. Dude...you have way too much money...” Gladio responded, his focus still on the android.
“I could buy you one.”
“What?” He glanced over to his friend.
“Yeah, consider it a gift. What do I care? Not like I can go out and do stuff anyway.”
The son of a mogul who was far too protective of him, Noct hadn’t been permitted to leave his family’s mansion’s grounds since a kidnapping attempt nearly left him paralyzed as a child. The only reason Gladio was permitted was that they had been childhood friends.
“Look, Gladio. Why don’t you test him out?”
“Test...?”
“Prompto, show Gladio what you can do.”
Without delay, the blond slipped to his knees before Gladio.
“Wait, what’s he doing?”
The blonde bot nuzzled the front of Gladio’s trousers, and looked up at him.
“Don’t you want me to suck you off?” The android asked in a teasingly innocent tone.
“Holy shit-he even sounds human-Uh-no, no it’s okay.” Gladio backed away from the bot, more than a little shaken at it’s display. “Noct, does he have...uh...”
“Yeah. Fully functional.”
“Holy shit...”
“I mean it, Gladio. I have the contact info for someone who can make you one. Not the same person that made mine, but his research partner. He’s local. Prompto had to be shipped to me.”
“Prompto? He has a name?”
“Of course he does.” Noct sat on the foot of his bed. Prompto moved to sit beside him, and rest his head on his shoulder. “You deserve one, Gladio. Let me help.”
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“Yeah, I uh. I met Prompto. He was cute.”
“Cute, but not a companion, not to your specifications.”
“I didn’t-“
“-it didn’t bear saying, Gladiolus. It behooves me to know my customers’ desires.”
Ardyn stopped before a stool with a black metal suitcase sat atop it. Gladio looked around the room. In the corner sat a desk, a laptop with a larger monitor attached to it illuminating that area in a dim white glow.
“Where is he?” Gladio asked without looking to Ardyn. His eyes were busy scanning the shelves over the top of his desk and lining the wall. Books and folders lined them, he assumed in some meticulous order.
“Here.” Ardyn patted the suitcase. He lifted it with little struggle, and carried it over to a leather flat table on the opposite corner of the room. Gladio noticed the chair looked reminiscent of cross between a doctor’s examination table, and torture tables he had seen in his history books. The table had restraints at waist level and ankle level, causing him to swallow down a mouthful of saliva he hadn’t realized had accumulated. He placed his briefcase where the suitcase had been, wanting to free his hands.
Ardyn moved to raise the head of the table to an inclined position.
“I’ll need to lean him against this since he’s disassembled.”
“Disassembled?”
“You’ll see”.
Ardyn unzipped the metal suitcase. He flipped over one side. Gladio moved close to see the contents, his breath hitching in his throat.
Restrained by a strap over it’s mouth, another over the middle of it’s chest, another over the top of it’s hips, lie the prone torso of his purchase. A tawny head of hair spiked up, the suitcase outfitted to accommodate for it. Gladio gasped as he looked over him.
The android’s eyes were closed, Gladio would have sworn he was a man sleeping peacefully if not for the obvious markers of him being definitively not human. Where his limbs would be, instead sat cybernetic ports. Circles of circuitry sat at the tops of his arms, and the tops of his thighs, clear indicators of where his limbs should attach. Gladio’s eyes stopped at the bottom of his body, seeing the cock attached to his frame.
He averted his eyes, not wanting to seem more of a pervert than this purchase already made him, and noticed his limbs folded on the other side of the suitcase; a pair of gorgeously long legs and arms to match the torso beside it.
“He’s...breathtaking...”
“I know.” Ardyn responded, making no effort to be humble. He reached two fingers to the base of the android’s neck, and pressed gently. “His switch is here. To deactivate him, it must be held for a full minute. Rest mode only for fifteen seconds. Rest mode makes him easier to rouse, though he can also consciously put himself into it to mimic sleep.”
As if waking, the android’s dark lashes fluttered open to reveal his green eyes. He made a noise, muffled by the strap over his mouth, and smiled up at his creator.
Ardyn detached the strap over his mouth, and caressed his cheek with a thumb.
“I am glad you warned me, Ardyn.”
Gladio felt his heart pound in his chest. The android’s voice was beautiful.
“Warned him?”
“I told him not to worry when he woke disassembled.” Ardyn answered as he detached the other two straps around the android’s torso. He lifted it up, and sat it at the top of the table.
The android looked curiously over to Gladio, gently tilting his head.
“Hello. Are you my owner?”
“I-“ Gladio paused to contemplate his answer. “I guess I am. My name is Gladiolus Amicitia, but you can call me Gladio.”
“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Gladio. My name is Ignis Scientia.” He answered in an even tone, his head bowing politely.
“He has a full name?”
“And a birth day. They’re given personal information, to a degree.”
“When’s your birthday, Ignis?” Gladio asked curiously.
“February the seventh. Ardyn bought me a new book for it, I’ve read all of his.” Gladio noticed Ignis’s shoulders moving, as if he was still trying to gesture.
“You...can read? You...you enjoy reading?”
Ignis giggled at him. He nodded, shooting a kind smile to his new owner.
“Of course. It would be terribly boring to have nothing to do while Ardyn works.”
“Ignis is voracious when it comes to knowledge, I’m quite proud of him. Here, Gladio. Unhook one of his legs from the case so I can show you how to install them.”
“Oh, yeah.” Gladio looked to the case. Each limb was strapped down individually, the padding clearly cut for them. He freed a leg, and ran his hand curiously over the skin. As he sat it on the table, he continued to run his hand down, and let his fingertips curiously up the sole of Ignis’s foot. He watched the toes curl, and heard Ignis gasp.
“Gladio, I, I can still feel that.”
“Wait, what?”
“They’re meant for pleasure, Gladio.” Ardyn responded, sounding almost condescending in his explanation. “He has sensitivities as a human would. His limbs also have wireless sensors. He can feel you.”
“And he’s...ticklish?”
“He’s programmed to have erogenous zones, sensitivities. The settings can also be changed as you see fit, to some degree.” As Ardyn explained, Gladio ran a fingertip over Ignis’s foot again. He heard the android laugh, and glanced up at him to see a flush over his cheeks. As he glanced to the suitcase, he noticed the fingers of one of his hands clenched, and the toes of his other foot scrunched.
“Give it here.” Ardyn held his hand out. Gladio handed him the foot, the rest of his leg trailing along. Gladio watched as the doctor pressed his thumbs into the ball of the android’s foot.
“Mmn, Ardyn, that feels good...”
Ignis’s little purr made Gladio melt from head to toe.
“So-He has like...sensors...?”
“Essentially.” Ardyn pulled Ignis’s leg up by his thigh and lined it to the port in his body. “Take his limb, and gently press it into the port. You’ll hear a click, and there will be a short connection delay while it attaches to his body.
He pressed the limb in to demonstrate to Gladio what he meant. Gladio nodded, though his focus was stuck on Ignis’s sexual capabilities.
“So, how...uh...”
“What, Gladio?”
“His like. Innards. Does he have a prostate? Can he eat?”
“Somewhat to both. He has a sensor where a prostate would be, it feels similar to one, and he’ll react as he should. His rectum is made to clench and stretch as a human’s would. He clearly doesn’t need to eat, and he shouldn’t. He would need to open his stomach cavity to clean it, as he has no digestive system. The same would happen should you come inside of him, he would require cleaning.”
“I see.”
“Most of those questions should be covered in the manual I’ll give you. In addition, I’ll be available via the number you have. You’ll need to bring him back for maintenance.”
“When will I know?”
“I’ll tell you.” Ignis chimed in. “I know when I have to return to Ardyn.”
“I guess that’s it then?”
“Ignis will be able to answer most of your questions on his own.”
Ardyn placed two fingers on a hidden switch by Ignis’s thigh. He pressed on it, and pulled his leg free. He handed it to Gladio to replace in the suitcase.
“Ignis, behave for Gladio. When you wake up again, you’ll be in your new home.”
“Thank you, Ardyn.” Ignis smiled up at him, then to Gladio. “I can’t wait.”
Ardyn pressed his fingers to Ignis’s switch, and waited for his eyes to close. Gladio noticed them fixed on him as he went to sleep, the little smile still on his lips. He placed the leg back in the case, and strapped it in.
“There. Now, Gladio. Ignis is my prized creation. He is intelligent, and devoted.” Ardyn explained as he scooped up the android’s torso, placing a hand on his ass, and one behind his head. “Please let me know if there are any issues”
“I will.”
Gladio watched as Ardyn strapped the torso back into the case, starting with the lower most strap. As he watched the strap being fastened over the android’s mouth, he reached out to caress his cheek.
“Thank you, Doctor Izunia.”
Ardyn carefully flipped the case lid over. He allowed Gladio to fasten it, as he moved himself to take Gladio’s brief case. He opened it to check the contents, pleased to see the stacks of bills.
“Oh no, thank -you.-“ Ardyn carried the briefcase to his desk. He left it on his chair, and moved to grab an overnight bag by the bookshelves. He handed it to Gladio. “His clothing. Thank you again for your...patronage.”
Gladio shrugged the overnight bag onto his shoulder. He couldn’t help but be unsettled by the man’s grin as he led him out, his new companion safe in hand.