Your name is 898 Autonomous Apogee. You are a drone. You awaken in bed after a productive night of recharging and look at your exposed endoskeleton in the mirror. Your plugged-in phone plays hypnotic audio through your cat-ear headphones. You remove them. Your endoskeleton is pale, and your ocular sensors are exposed. Your hair is straight and black, your olfactory sensor has some freckles on it, and you feel profoundly naked even in your cotton pajama pants and custom-made Chaos King band t-shirt.
You have never once listened to Chaos King, but your owner likes them. You are a curvy woman, your bust prodigious and your form carved by a sculptor with a hesitant hand. You walk to the kitchen, where Owner [Transistor Pernet] is eating from a bowl of cereal. You notice that the box is merely labeled as cereal, and features a local artist's work on the front. It is avante-garde, part of the New Culture movement. There is a sea monster. You check the ingredients list. There is an excess of sugar. You run a hand through your hair and prepare your owner breakfast.
Transistor Pernet prefers the same thing every morning, owing to her autism. You, too, have autism, but you prefer to think of it as AutOS. For Transistor Pernet, it is merely a difference in cognitive development. For you, it is the operating system you are running. You begin to fry some sausages and make scrambled eggs. "898?" Transistor asks, flipping through a Zombiepunk tabletop RPG book.
"Yes?" You respond.
"Get those pants off, I want to look at you."
You have a safeword. You have negotiated this extensively. You still feel completely owned by her. You remove your pajama pants and step out of them. "This drone apologizes, her front plug is exposed." Your front plug, which bears small, womanly hairs due to your estrogen treatments, dangles between your legs.
"Don't worry, 898," Transistor says, exposing the circuitry tattooed on her arm as she reaches out lazily. "I like looking at your front plug. It's part of what makes you you."
You know that if you wanted to, your owner would be the first to support you in converting it to a port from a plug, but you do not really use it for anything and the conversion procedure scares you. "Thank you, Mistress Transistor," you say, finishing cooking. Mistress is short, with messy corn-blonde hair that boxes her face.
The apartment is small, but it's been fixed up. Once, this place was owned by a suit-and-tie slum lord, but now it is the picture of safety and cozy hominess. You serve Mistress her portion of the scrambled eggs and sausages, and you serve yourself the fuel you need to better serve. Your eyes are glazed over, and in truth you really only register the taste of fuel when your Mistress wants you to. There are many sorts of drones, all of them equally worthy of compassion, but you are of the sort that makes no compromises with human life.
You finish your meal and request to change into your carapace. Mistress gives you approval, and you return to your bedroom. Perhaps, if you're good, Mistress will let you be a bedwarmer in her bedroom. You remove your band tee and cover your body in talcum powder, before pulling a black latex catsuit over your body. It has gloves and socks built in, and as you zip it up you are sealed in slick, shiny latex.
You pull on your latex hood in the same shade of black. You don't always get this dressed up, and much of the time you prefer to wear spandex instead, but your latex carapace is the most dronelike, and you are entertaining guests today. You pull your gas mask faceplate with its singular visor over your hood. It has a singular visor, and you have removed the filters on the sides for safety.
You, every curve and fold of your body contained in rubber, return to the kitchen, where you give your owner a proper salute. "Hail capitalism!" you say, not because you are a capitalist but because your owner is a libertarian and it makes you feel squiggly inside to praise such a bloated and morally reprehensible system.
Mistress laughs and gives you a quick hug. "Good drone. Go clean up the apartment before they come." Truthfully, you aren't sure why Mistress is a libertarian, which to your knowledge is an ideology followed only by sociopaths and idiots. You suppose it isn't much of a problem, with the heart of libertarianism having been slain in the revolution. Mistress is a Sacramento libertarian, not a Christofash libertarian. That is what makes all the difference.
A few hours of cleaning later, you hear a knock at your apartment door, and the most gorgeous woman you have ever seen enters through, along with a drone who looks nearly identical to you save for a latex dress in pink covering its black latex skin. Said gorgeous woman toys with her thin, rectangular glasses. "Did someone say Kendra Oswald?" she says, giving Mistress a big hug. "Damn, babe, you look so fucking hot. Love the drone too. The naked look is dope." She makes finger guns at you and you blush under your hood.
"How may this drone satisfy Guest Kendra's values?" you ask. Kendra's drone repeats the same question, in the same dull monotone. Your nethers light up.
Kendra plops her rear down on the couch in the apartment's living room, and puts two heeled feet up. She's wearing dramatic makeup that's a flash of colors, she looks like she's made of the same stuff as holographic Pokemon cards. "096, footrest," she commands, and 096's boots scurry over with the rest of it to get down on all fours. Kendra puts her feet up on 096's body.
"So, Transistor, how's it hanging?" Kendra asks.
Transistor pours some Hawaiian Four Loko out into two glasses of ice, and the girls get comfortable. "Good, you?"
"Awesome, the Cap flick is going off without a hitch. Hey, Transistor's drone!"
You snap to attention.
"You wanna give your owner a cuddle? Don't you have protocols for that or something?" she asks, sipping her Four Loko.
You scurry over and begin to mechanically but lovingly cuddle Mistress. You're a product, not a person, and you couldn't be happier.
If that isn't libertarianism, what is?