The Eternal Price of Infinite Recharge by PhoenixianSirenanna (WebArchive)

I never understood her decisions until now. I was in a major auto accident along with my best friend so long ago now that I guess the date and time no longer matter. We were in the same car together, and I was her passenger as she was driving. Due to the accident between the car and the tanker truck involved there was an explosion. I was blasted free along with the passenger seat, but she was thrashed by the explosion and she was lucky or maybe I should say she was unlucky to survive.

While we both had to become Cyborgs; She got the worst of it, becoming more Gynoid than Human cyborg; while I came away from the accident with more of my internal organs intact. Still I am almost as Cybernetic as she is. My friend is like more than eighty five percent Gynoid, and I am not too far behind her at seventy one and a half percent. My eyes and heart were undamaged unlike hers that were. I still had one functional ovary, but it was hooked up to an internal artificial womb that I found to be fascinating as it gave me control of my reproductive cycles. Both of us look more like HookerBots or MaidBots as our insurance was unwilling to pay to cover all our seams between our SynthFlesh sections.

Likewise we were both given our chargers, but instead of the high quality charging pods they gave us basic charging stations. So we would get our electrical charge for our Cybernetic components like our arms and legs, NanoPaste and water for our organic and SynthFlesh, and get flushed out. The downside was that the electrical charge took up slightly more than two thirds of the day, to provide us with enough power to move for a little over half a week as our batteries couldn't hold more than that. The expense of better batteries and a charging Pod was beyond either of our resources or finances even with the settlements from the accident. Doing so would have meant living outside of the means provided from the terms of the settlement, as it was only to cover our current living expenses for what we had become, so the funds were preset up in accounts that auto paid the costs of NanoPaste, along with the Water and power bills, and rent for a small place to call home whether an apartment or hotel with no allowance for anything else.

Thankfully, There was nothing against our working to earn an additional income, but due to laws restricting what Cyborgs could do we could only earn so much or work certain types of jobs. While my friend made no effort to try to earn enough to upgrade anything other than occasionally taking the occasional short term part time clerical just to alleviate her boredom, I tried to better my situation by taking whatever work I could find. As the months turned into years I was finally able to afford to upgrade to a battery that could hold a week's charge. I likewise found out to my surprise that my friend Joanna had been getting her batteries charged by renting HookerBots, and MaidBots specifically to allow her to go back to those stores to allow her to receive a rapid recharge without having to use her slow home charger.

To say I was shocked and dare I say it slightly scandalized was an understatement as I had not realized that these companies would allow it...