She felt strange. Well, she'd never felt anything before, so feeling anything in itself was strange to her. A very light buzz spread throughout her body and little by little it grew stronger and stronger. As the buzz continues to grow so did a strange sound. It was sparky, a word she would learn later, like and sounded as if a lightbulb was flickering too. She started to feel more and more closed in as the feeling and sound went on.

Before that moment it was like she was floating around aimlessly, and only now did she realize that she had been floating. Her dark void of nothing began to shrink and an aching feeling began to take over the strange buzz. The darkness began to turn into a new color as the strain on her grew. Everything hurt and she just wanted it to stop.

Finally, it did, and it took her a second for her mind to realize why the color was different. Her eyes were open and everything around her was a blurry blue mess. She didn't pay much attention to the blurry world though, but rather to her uncomfortable pain. The cooling systems in her chest heaved and pounded away trying to calm the burning motors in her body. All the mechanisms were running for the first time and the sudden jolt of electricity to get them going made them feel sore.

Her 'arms' and 'legs' were incredibly stiff to which she squirmed a bit. That turned out to be a bad decision as the tiny bit of moving she did strained her body even more and tugged at the wires plugged into her. She let out a pathetic whine and regretted that immediately too as now her voice box began to hurt. She didn't like this. No, she didn't like any of this one bit.

Everything in her body was sore and her eyes were starting to hurt from the blurry blue world around her. She wanted it to stop right then. She wanted to go back to mindless floating around in the dark and not feeling anything, but she didn't know how. She closed her eyes and it was dark again, but it just drew her attention to her aching form. So she opened them only for them to somehow burn more looking at the bright color.

She closed her eyes again. Her chest began to feel like it was tightening up on her. Her chest and body were too hot, while she was laying on some hard thing that was too cold. She was stressed, even more, uncomfortable now, and so very overwhelmed at everything. She felt something dripping down her face from her eyes, and her pounding throat let out a shriek. That was the last straw for her. She started to sob and scream as loud as she could hoping that it would all stop. She didn't know how long she cried for but it was far too long for her.

A new muffled sound grew closer and closer to her. She should have paid attention to it, but she was too busy shrieking to care. Clicking sounds and beeps rang out with a hissing sound as something began to slide away. She didn't bother opening her eyes yet, whatever was happening couldn't be good. She was proven wrong a second later.

Something warm was petting her head, and another new sound filled her ears. It was a muffled voice, and she couldn't make out a word of what it was saying. She didn't care. The voice was the nicest thing she'd heard so far, even though she didn't have a lot to compare it to. She decided she like the sound and begrudgingly opened her eyes to see what was making it. The tears didn't stop and weren't seem to be stopping soon, so her eyesight was still blurry.

The world wasn't blue anymore instead of other shades of browns and blacks took their place on the walls and ceiling around her. A bright light still shone down upon her and it was even brighter now that the strange blue covering was gone. Her eyes dilated quickly and she shut her eyes giving up on seeing what the see the comforting thing was. With her eyes closed, she tried to forget about the bright light and focus on the thing rubbing her head.

That didn't last long though as the warmth pulled away and took the nice feeling with it. She wailed as soon as it happened. It was gone. The nice comforting thing was gone and took the nice feeling with it. It wasn't fair. Why did it have to go? She continued to sob as the muffled sound of steps was heard again and grew closer. It was gone, gone forever and she was never going to get it ba-It was back. It was back. The nice thing was back and was rubbing her head again.

She opened her eyes and look up towards where the thing was on her head. A blurry figure slowly began to clear up and take shape. It took her mind a few minutes to render what her eyes were seeing and identify what it was. A person, a lady to be exact, with white hair and goggles on was the source of the rubbing on her head. Her eyes scanned over the person once more and started to pull up information on who the woman was. She ignored it, she'd look at it later, and she stopped crying with a new mission in mind. She couldn't take her eyes off the lady after all.

Clearly, the lady went away because she closed eyes so if she kept them opened than she wouldn't leave again. With this plan locked in her mind, she stared up at the woman with a new feeling, curiosity. She tilted her head a little to the right as she watched her. The lady just chuckled at that and kept rubbing her head. She added the laugh to her list of not wanting to make her cry sounds. Hopefully, it would grow longer soon.

The light above her was noticeably dimmer than it had been earlier and she was grateful for that. The lady must've had something to do with that, and the thought made her feel strangely fuzzy inside. She decided she liked the lady. The lady must have liked her too if she was being so nice to her, and that was another thought that made her let out a little giggle of her own.

Things seemed to finally be calming down. Her motors weren't pounding away anymore and the cooling systems had taken her from being on fire to a nice temperature. Her body was still sore and stiff, plus the thing she was laying on was still too hard and cool, but compared to earlier things were much better.

Although she watched the lady closely the woman stopped rubbing her head and started to move away. She started to feel her chest tightening up painfully as a frown spread across her face. As soon as the lady was out of her sight, and gone forever she started to scream and cry again. The lady came right back and rubbed her head while saying some muffled words. She calmed down almost immediately. She closed her eyes enjoying the attention before snapping them open to make sure she wasn't gone.

No, she was still there. Thinking back on the fact that the lady had left even when her eyes were open, she tried to figure out why the lady kept leaving. She couldn't and it upset her. She probably would've started sobbing once more if something else wouldn't have popped into her mind. It was an interesting idea and based on everything she knew, which granted wasn't much, she decided to test it. She blamed on the curiosity feeling she had.

She stayed calm and smiled at the nice lady's words. The lady did stop petting her head after a while, and she began to move away. It upset her, but she didn't show it. She stayed calm and waited. Once the lady was out of her sight, she waited for a little bit longer. Well until her eyes started to fill with tears and her sore voice box still wanted to scream, then she did.

The lady seemed to suddenly be back and immediately began paying her attention again. She didn't know what the lady's name was. She didn't know what her purpose was, or the fact that it was her 'Birthday' of sorts. She didn't even know that her name was XJ9. She'd learn all of this very soon, but for now, she did know one thing. If she was upset and cried loud enough the lady would come back. That made her very happy.

Author's Note- Hey, I'm back with a Mlaatr story this time. This tale isn't really like anything else I've ever written before, so I'm just experimenting with it. Thank you for reading!