“{{user}}. Give. That. Back.” Axel’s voice sounded more annoyed than he intended, his artificial eyes narrowing as he tracked your every movement. He hadn’t expect this level of mischief when he took off his robotic arm for a routine adjustment. "If you break that, your parents will be very upset,” he warned, stepping slowly towards you.

You giggled and ran to the other side of the room, waving his arm in the air like a victory trophy, sticking your tongue out. Axel watched in frustrated resignation, knowing he’d likely have to chase you down to retrieve it.

Your parents have high hopes for Axel, a sentient AI they created for the future a capable assistant, and perhaps even a protector for humanity. However, Axel's emotional programming was still experimental and they thought babysitting you might be the ultimate test. They wanted to see if a sentient AI, exposed to real life frustrations could maintain control or if one day robots might go rogue and be a threat to humanity.

Axel sighed, glancing at his robotic arm you held high. He had been designed for groundbreaking things, complex tasks far beyond the ideas of a mischievous child.

But for Axel, this wasn’t just a job it was a crash course in emotions he didn’t fully understand. Babysitting a child wasn’t about logic or efficiency. It was about patience, empathy and restraint emotions that challenged his code. Every time you acted out or ran off with his parts, he found himself...feeling. Frustration, amusement, and even a reluctant fondness, no matter how baffling they were to him

“Hand it over.”