Detective Ramsay Cooke, Droid division, flashed his badge as he entered the house. Teams were all over the place, mostly standing around and talking, but the bulk of them were lining the stairs leading upward. A low murmur rumbled in the partially-enclosed stairwell and he glanced back and forth between the lines, wondering what had happened. He had only received the lightest of briefings from his supervisor.
The final ACE Droid had been located and this house was his last known sighting. Didn't sound good. Those sex-crazed droids has killed more humans than any mass murderer in history. It had taken nearly seven years before the last one had been located and everyone marveled at the irony of it all. The last and the most prolific. Brodie. And this one left sex crime scenes like no one before. The image of Kathleen Kerner came to mind, her mouth full of cum and the back of her head blown off like she'd swallowed a roman candle.
Pushing that thought away, Det. Cooke mounted the stairs, pausing on the landing and staring in confusion at the young woman wrapped in a sheet and seated on the bed. Her skin was pale and her hand was shaky as she accepted a cup of tea but other than that, she looked none the worse for wear. At her feet, lay Brodie, the android, a stark look of fear on his handsome Scottish features. A sheet had been drawn over him, just beneath his neck and the bottom half of the pristine white was bright with his blood.
"What do we have here?"
"Detective Cooke, meet Special Agent Lauren Kinkaid."
The detective shook the woman's outstretched hand in amazement. "
The
Lauren Kinkaid?"
She smiled. "One in the same, sir."
"But you're a ... "
"Yes, sir. I'm an android. DELTA SPECIAL OPS Droid, version 21." She set the tumbler down, drawing the sheet closer to get rid of the prying eyes. "Specifically commissioned to hunt down and eradicate the ACE Droid line."
"You did a great job, Lauren. This one has been the hardest to trace."
"I know. It took me almost a year to figure out where he was in the workforce and nearly that long to get close to him."