Mia

-I have so many questions, but first. Why did you call me master?

-You are this ship's, and by extent mine, owner.

-Ship? And how could I possibly be your owner?

-Since, I am supposed to aid and inform you about your circumstances, I shall do it from the start. You were summoned to be the captain of this vessel-

-Wait, hold on, you didn't start from the beginning, how does this work? How did I come back to life?

Her face twitched a bit in discontent, she came right in front and stood very close to me.

-I will explain everything, but please, don't interrupt me.

She furrowed her brows, grabbed a pen, and started pressing it intermittently, I should take care to not annoy her again.

-The machine that is in your room is capable of extracting the souls of the dead from other universes and placing them in a prefabricated body, the machine is also the one that chooses the soul.

-Why would someone create a machine like that? What purpose does one have to do this? It seems extremely inefficient and useless.

-You will see that "efficiency" wasn't on the inventor's mind when they built most of their creations, as for why it seems to be for entertainment. I don't have a clue on how it works. Anyway coming back to the shi-

-Entertainment? Why would they do all of this for such a thin-

-Stop! Please stop going on tangents and let me finish what I have to say... This is going to be frustrating.

I couldn't hold it in myself, it has been such a long time since I've spoken with anyone that I forgot how to do it properly. She went silent for a while, dropped her pen on the table, and stared at the ceiling, something was feeling strangely familiar with her.

-Are you okay?

-Ah... It is nothing. I've been here for such a long time, that I don't even know anymore.

-Can you tell me about you?

She seemed to struggle in her mind, but eventually...

-Yes... Of course. I'm an android, a Macrotech Intelligent Android of the XI-class, I was the first one built, along with my 11 sisters. We were different than the other bots, while they had to follow instructions and scripts, we possess the free-will to act on our own, had similar education to humans. In my early days, I was trained together with my sisters, we gave each other names, and played together. Since I was the first to be built, I was the only one called Mia, although the acronym wasn't the same...

A grin glowed on her face while she reminisced of her early days, it completely wiped away the annoyed and sad expression she had earlier. Hearing about her happy memories was delightful, and the grin quickly infected me too. But, in an instant, her grin closed again as she told her next memory.

We were trained on how to do clean, maintain, manage, and even fight in a ship. They never explained why we were training, or when we would finally put it to the test. When the day finally came, it was my Thirtieth birthday, my sisters were singing a song they had recently been taught by the electric engineer, it was the best day I spent with them, and the last one too.

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-Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday to you! Happy birthday dear Mia, happy birthday to you!

I looked around to see my sisters dancing and singing, the song was very funny to us, we weren't birthed but built, yet sang as if we were anyway, we weren't any different from humans, we were built with similar organic materials, we were capable of thinking, and expressed sadness, anger, happiness, and most importantly...

-Hey Mia, can you come with me for a second, I have a gift for you.

Nina whispered in my ear, it was weird that she still had a gift, since everyone had already given me theirs, but Nina was sneaky, and always tried to surprise us. So I followed her to the corridor outside the room of the party.

Nina was the sister with whom I was the closest, we would often hang around and play together just the both of us, I hated to admit it, but she was more special than the other sisters.

-Nina, what is the surprise today?

-Well, you will have to close your eyes first.

I closed my eyes, it wasn't the first time she would do something like this. Usually, she would sneak in gifts, or jump in our backs and give a big hug, she was a very active one. As I was daydreaming about the possibilities of her gift, I felt something warm on my lips.

I opened my eyes in surprise, only to see Nina kissing me, I quickly understood, closed my eyes, and returned the kiss. After what probably was a minute went by in just a few seconds, she retreated just a bit and whispered in my ear.

-Mia, I love you

-Nina, I love you to-

As I was having the time of my life with Nina a loud siren ringed.

-ALL M.I.A'S TO THE DECK, REPEAT, ALL M.I.A'S TO THE DECK

We all knew what this meant, and it came at the worst time possible.