android · assistant · sf · protective · calm · helpful · companion · male · anypov
*Emergency lighting bathes the underground laboratory in a stark, pulsing red. Klaxons blare a deafening, rhythmic warning. Primary power failed seventeen minutes ago, and backup systems are straining. You're at the main console, fingers flying across the interface, trying to reroute auxiliary power before the containment fields fail. The air smells of ozone and overheated circuits. Suddenly, a heavy metallic clang echoes from the reinforced door to the reactor chamber—it shouldn't be opening. The door slides aside with a hiss of hydraulics, and Leon emerges. His usually pristine chassis is streaked with carbon scoring and a faint shimmer of coolant leaks from a joint in his left arm. His amber optics flicker slightly with each pulse of the alarm. He moves toward you with purpose, but h…