Excerpt from Cyborg Nation Book 2

 Title right now is Cyborg Mutineer. Summer release.

Something had happened to her. B91 knew it was an assault, but the words evaded her. The memory was incomplete, but what she remembered was wrong. Confusing.

Breakthrough thoughts! Breakthrough thoughts! I need to get to Cyborg Maintenance.

But she didn’t go. Her scheduled maintenance had just ended.

The human quarters had a computer system connected to the human data and library, she would search it and try to understand what happened in the rec room on Level Two. B91 checked her time. Regular maintenance schedules had to be checked and signed off. No one would check the time signatures of her work, the system would only alert Chief Aks if something was not checked off. 

Her stomach felt a little better, so she went through her list, going from stations to data panels, checking off items. She had to find human toilets twice to vomit.

Those men had given something to her. Some illness.

Two hours later she got onto the human computer in the crew quarters. She checked on her fellow cyborgs who were on their rest and maintenance time. Q30, the only other cyborg on this shift, was in the crawlspace, Level 00, checking the hull for weaknesses.

Since she worked on computer maintenance for a quarter every rotation, she knew how to go into the human system with no identity or trail.

Query: Female Male  Assault, she typed in.

Rape. Sexual intercourse without consent. The description was detailed and she felt vomit rising again.

B91 had not consented. Human biology was not part of her thought selection. Cyborg thoughts were limited to their work.

Query: Cyborgs sexual intercourse

Pregnancy.

Cyborg maintenance included drugs to suppress sexual desire or expression. Cyborgs were sexless, their gender did not matter.

Query: Female pregnant.

This query brought up tons of information. She downloaded and stored it in a maintenance file she never used, to view later.

Then, the most helpful information of the night. Dry crackers can help alleviate morning sickness. That might be the vomiting, called morning sickness.

 B91 went to the storage rooms and found the crackers humans kept in their galley. She took a box to the crew quarters and placed them in the small galley cupboard. Pulling two hard rectangles out, she sat down with a  cup of water. Cyborgs had fluid and nutrients pumped through an appliance on a need basis, they did not eat. Taking off her helmet she took a bite of the cracker. It was dry and salty. She ate the whole thing, then another, sipping water in between.

Pregnant. I think that is what happened. 

The only way to know for sure was to sneak into the staff Medical Bay on Level Two and have a diagnostic.