Merry Christmas everyone!

Later that evening once Kagerou's AI chip had healed enough for him to be moved he was transported to a better stocked repair warehouse on the edge of town, where the Brave Police were usually taken when they had particularly severe injuries.

It would also be quieter with less people around and had a couple of rooms set up if humans needed to stay there and sleep, so Kate could get some much needed sleep after the long day without having to leave Kagerou.

After they had Kagerou settled in and everyone else had left, leaving only Shadow Maru and Syunsuke who were in other parts of the building Kagerou said, "Thank goodness, are they really all gone?"

"I think so, why?" Kate asked.

"Because I am in excruciating pain," Kagerou told her.

"Okay, after what you've been through that's not surprising, but what does that have to do with everyone else being gone?" Kate asked.

"Because my cockpit imploded, so I have broken glass in places I didn't want to mention while anyone else was around," Kagerou replied.

"Oh my, I hadn't even thought about that," Kate said. The metal around the cockpit had been crushed down in such a way as to keep him decent, but probably not very comfortable especially with broken glass inside.

"I figured you'd been too worried about me being alive and the babies to be thinking much about anything else, but now that I'm in stable condition and we're alone, think you could get that armor off and the glass out?" he asked.

"Of course," Kate replied as she started to carefully remove the armor.

Once she was pretty sure she had gotten all of the glass removed she helped Kagerou get the rest of the painfully crushed armor off. When they were done she laid down next to Kagerou and pulled the covers over them before falling asleep.

Kate woke up several hours later to find Kagerou missing. She quickly got up and started searching for him and found him in another room. He had a sheet wrapped around his waist, but was still otherwise naked, his metallic skin still dented and cracked in places and his wings still badly crumpled. Compared to how he had looked earlier he looked like he was doing better, although he walked with a bit of a limp and occasionally seemed to have trouble using his hands as he welded together what looked like it could be the skeleton of a human sized robot.

"What are you doing? Shouldn't you be resting?" Kate asked.

"I don't know, every time I tried to sleep I kept dreaming about her," Kagerou replied indicating the robot he was building.

"You're replacing me?" Kate asked raising an eyebrow.

"Of course not, no one could ever replace you," Kagerou said turning from his work to walk over to her and kiss her, "I just kept having this dream and seeing designs and plans for several new AI robots. After having the same dream for the fifth time I gave up on sleeping and started building her. I can't explain it, but I think this is something I have to do."

"You can really just build another robot like yourself?" Kate asked.

"Yes, well at least I think so, from what I've heard from the others and Syunsuke they've had a difficult time creating new sentient robots, so she may not be sentient, but then again, the way the plans came to me who knows," Kagerou said.

"Are you sure you shouldn't try to get some sleep again?" Kate asked.

"Just a little longer and then I'll try," Kagerou told her.

"Alright, just don't over do it, you still have a lot of recovering to do," Kate told him then kissed him before heading back to bed.

The next thing Kate was aware of was Syunsuke yelling, "Get out here right now, what do you think you're doing in my workshop!"

"What's going on?" Kate asked as she sat up and noticed Shadow Maru standing nearby.

"Kagerou has locked himself in there, is refusing to come out and has changed the code to unlock the door," Shadow Maru told her.

Kate walked over to the door, "Kage, is everything okay?"

"Yes, everything is fine, just convince him to give me another minute," Kagerou replied.

"See everything is fine," Kate said.

"Everything is not fine, I want to know what he's doing in there and what this is," Syunsuke said holding up something skin colored.

Kate reached out and touched it then quickly drew her hand back, "It feels like human skin."

"Exactly, I found it back in the area where we mix up the rubber and plastic that's used on the robots, but I've never seen anything like this before," Syunsuke said before turning to bang on the door again.

Before his fist made contact though there was a click as the door unlocked then opened. A young woman, who looked to be in her late teens stepped out wearing nothing more than a sheet that was draped around her.

"Who are you and what were you doing in my workshop?" Syunsuke demanded.

"And what were you doing in there with my husband dressed like that?" Kate asked glancing up at Kagerou as he stepped into the doorway behind the girl.

"I'm Brave Police undercover unit one, Tina," she told them.

After a long moment of stunned silence Syunsuke finally asked, "What?"

"You're the robot Kage was building?" Kate asked then looked at Kagerou, "Why? And how? She looks so human."

"Like I told you last night I don't know, and as for the looking so human part, it was all in the plans in my dream, even how to make the skin look and feel like real human skin," Kagerou replied.

"She's sentient?" Syunsuke asked.

"Yes, I am, it would be rather hard for a regular robot to go undercover and convince anyone they were really human if they weren't sentient, wouldn't it?" Tina asked.

"I guess so, but why would we need a robot to go undercover? We have human officers who do that," Shadow Maru asked.

"Because there are some situations where it would be safer and less mentally scaring for a robot who was designed specifically for that situation. I am sentient, but also have several mental and emotional blocks to prevent situations that would cause humans or even other sentient robots emotional trauma from effecting me, while I will still be able to respond as expected," Tina replied.

"What situation?" Syunsuke asked.

"To infiltrate the human trafficking ring and put an end to it," Tina replied.

"How do you know about that? I didn't think anyone had told Kagerou about the cases we were working on yet," Shadow Maru asked.

"You hadn't, I had no idea about it," Kagerou told him.

"Then how did you program her to know about it?" Syunsuke asked.

"I didn't, the plans in my dream were to leave the AI chip blank, without anything, even basic programming added to it," Kagerou replied.

"You built an AI robot entirely from plans you got from a dream, left the AI chip blank and it ended up being sentient?" Syunsuke asked.

"Pretty much, other than what I already knew about building regular AI robots, yes," Kagerou replied.

"You are either completely insane or a genius," Syunsuke said.

"Probably a little of both, not that it has anything to do with me being sentient. He has a unique combination of the knowledge of how to build an AI robot and a great respect for the sacredness of sex between two people who love and have committed themselves to each other. The other Brave Police members also have that same view of sex and it will make them you're greatest and deadliest weapons against the human traffickers. I'm only the first of several undercover units he will help you build," Tina told them.

"But if you're going undercover in a situation like that then you could be-" Kagerou started to say.

"Don't worry, we will have the ability to knock out the men and implant false memories of what happened, they'll think they got what they paid for, but in reality it will never get very far," Tina told him.

"Women in situations like that are often severely beaten, what happens when you don't bleed and bruise like a human would and they notice?" Shadow Maru asked.

"Within a weeks time the changes all sentient robots go through to some extent will have made my skin a perfect replica of human skin, I will bleed and bruise just like a human would and the metal in my skeleton will be weakened so that if they attempt to break a bone it will break and heal as they would expect it too," Tina explained.

"But to put you in such danger, it doesn't seem right," Kagerou said.

"Does it seem any better that thousands of human women and children have to live through it everyday?"

"No, but-"

"This is why I was allowed to become sentient, everything about us will be tailored specifically for this job. We'll be able to send pictures of the buyers and sellers to you instantly, fingerprints will be recorded any time one of them touches us, and while they're unconscious we have everything built in that we need to take blood samples, analyze the DNA and send you the reports. We may never be able to save all the women and children who suffer through this nightmare, but we will make a difference, saving all we can, while locking up both those who force them into this life and those who knowingly take advantage of them. It's the only way that it can be done without human lives being put in danger and we can do it faster and save more lives," Tina told him.

"You're really sure about all this?" Kagerou asked.

"Yes, God only grants true life to robots that need it and have a purpose to fulfill and this is my purpose. Why else would I have come online with full knowledge of a case you knew nothing about?" Tina asked.

"I guess you're right," Kagerou said although he still didn't sound sure.

"Don't worry, everything will work out for the best," Tina told him, "Now you should go get some more rest and I'll show Syunsuke the blueprints and other information you got written out," she said before heading back into the workshop.

"I guess I've had all the sleep I'll be getting tonight," Syunsuke said before following her.

"I still don't like this," Kagerou said.

"I know, but there's nothing you can do about it tonight or this morning as the case may be," she said, noticing a clock that said it was about four in the morning, "and she's right, you've been through a lot and are still recovering, you should try to get some more sleep," Kate told him as she led him back to bed.