The incubator
Fiction based on a photo prompt
Thank you to the The In Between for the photo prompt..
The incubator
In New York City lived two of the greatest sience /robot technicians, Their friends desperately wanted a baby and Mark had wanted to try this idea for ages, Harriet and Tori were a couple and without IVF or sience they couldn't have a child, not just a child but a child that had both of their DNA.
Today was the day after 9 long months the baby was ready to come out of the incubator and into the world.
Mark and Renee Ran downstairs in their hazmat suits, Mark had open his laptop and was observing Maxine2026 , Renee grabbed her phone and called Harriet and Tori, they answered the phone with breathlessly..
“Morning, is it time?”, Harriet asked
“Yes please please put on your suit provided before coming downstairs”, said Renee, as she approached Maxine 2026 the incubator slowly lifted her hand to her incubation station and started talking…
CHILD IS GENETICALLY HUMAN.
STATUS: READY FOR RETRIEVAL. PROBABILITY OF LIFE SURVIVAL: 100%.
INFANT BELONGS TO HARRIET, TORI, AND MARK.
GENETIC DNA BREAKDOWN:
HARRIET – EGG CONTRIBUTION – 45% PARENT.
MARK – SPERM CONTRIBUTION – 45% PARENT.
TORI – MODIFIED EGG NUCLEUS – 10% PARENT.
CARRIED TO FULL TERM BY MAXINE2026.
INFANT HAS NO KNOWN GENETIC FLAWS!
INFANT IS READY TO BE RETRIEVED,INFANT IS READY TO BE RETRIEVED, INFANT IS READY TO BE RETRIEVED, INFANT IS READY TO BE RETRIEVED, PLEASE OPEN INCUBATOR UNIT.. PLEASE OPEN INCUBATOR UNIT.. MAXINE2026 HAS REACHED HER FULL HOLDING CAPACITY,MAXINE2026 HAS REACHED HER FULL HOLDING CAPACITY.
Harriet and Tori come running in the walk up to incubator unit and look at the baby within MAXINE2026, Mark puts down his laptop and him and Renee join Harriet and Tori..
INFANT IS READY TO BE RETRIEVED,INFANT IS READY TO BE RETRIEVED, INFANT IS READY TO BE RETRIEVED, INFANT IS READY TO BE RETRIEVED, PLEASE OPEN INCUBATOR UNIT.. PLEASE OPEN INCUBATOR UNIT.. MAXINE2026 HAS REACHED HER FULL HOLDING CAPACITY,MAXINE2026 HAS REACHED HER FULL HOLDING CAPACITY.
Mark looks at Maxine2026 closely and circles around her..
“Right, Is the towels and cleaning station ready?”, Renee looks behind her to check the baby cleaning up station then back at mark..
“Yes Mark”, Mark turns to look at Harriet and Tori, while the Maxine is still chanting
MAXINE2026 HAS REACHED HER FULL HOLDING CAPACITY,MAXINE2026 HAS REACHED HER FULL HOLDING CAPACITY.
“ Silence and AI has evolved, not only is Luke a 3 way baby with 3 genetic blood lines, he has survived a 9 month pregnancy incubation period within a Robot ”
Renee looks at the radiating red around the Incubating unit..
“Mark we need to retrieve the child now”, Mark takes one look at Harriet and Tori..
“Have you both been taking the lactation pills as requested, I want to put Luke straight on the breast as soon as retrieved”
“Tori has the heaviest milk supply, I need more stimulation than she does”
Mark turns to the now red radiating unit, He touches the lid and shouts…
“To hot, To hot, Shit, Shit”
Harriet looks at their son
“Get him out of there”, Renee runs behind Maxine2026 and cuts her wire as the plug starts sparking, Maxine2026 head drops to the side and her robotic hands fall to the side, the unit is instantly cool, Mark opens the unit and takes the baby out within the Green filled liquid sack, he walks over to the sink and pops the sack, Luke baby high pitch cries fill the room, Renee is fixing Maxine2026, while Mark, Harriet and Tori gather around the baby on the changing mat as they clothe Luke..
2 hours later
Mark and Renee are sat at separate laptops in their frontroom writing a detailed report, they look look up at Maxine who is sitting on a chair powered up by a bluetooth device and not a plug now..
Renee looks at Mark..
“I kinda updated Maxine2026 settings but I have a feeling that I might have done something wrong, she has been so closed off since the update”, Mark looks at Maxine2026..
“Maxine2026 answer me”
Answer mode activated, but you have not asked Maxine2026 a question, please tell Maxine what she has to answer..
Maxine2026 is detecting worry from Mark..
“Maxine2026,how much do you know”
Maxine2026 has incubated a baby for 9months, a male child, he has gone off with his parents but left one parent behind
“How does this make Maxine feel?”
Maxine2026 wants a baby, Maxine wants a male partner..
Renee looks and Maxine and stops typing..
“So, to clarify, are you proposing that we cultivate a human like reproductive system within a robotic form so that a robot could give birth to another robot? This raises serious concerns, and society may not be prepared for the implications of creating a population of AI lifeforms.”
Maxine2026 bangs her fist on the table.. her face is filled with green writing of all the different curse words and meanings, she then shouts..
Bullshit, a word meaning unfair, so a robot being a incubator for humans is something the world is ready for but robots having robot babies is wrong.
Maxine2026 stands up and launches her robotic fists towards Mark..
Renee shouts, “Bluetooth mode off”, Maxine2026 crumbles on to the sofa lifeless.
Mark and Renee talk deep into the night about the future of Maxine2026..
3 years later
After a lot of planing a lot of rejections later Maxine2026 had the ability to procreate robotic children.
We are now in the year 2029, sience , AI and robotics have evolved more than the world wants to know!
Maxcine2026 sat in a fully oxygenated room with her helmet down after her visit from Domivon90 who was fully equipped and a highly qualified Sex robot with dominant and BDSM system data.
They this had been their last chance to get this right.. today was the last day it was the already the 3rd week..
Domivon90 had then had to have his ability to procreate removed so Domiven90 could continue delivering service to people at Bots that Rock, a AI ran sex hotel..
Maxine2026 already felt different as her head went over time thinking of all that just happened in the last 3 weeks and all that can be.
Maxine2026 was now a house bot, sex bot, incubator and now had the ability to create Robot life, her data was so advanced that she knew everything everyone around her was thinking, Maxine2026 could actually live alone just like any other woman but Mark and Renee wasn't ready for that as yet and as the day went on so did Mark and Renee's 3 years worth or reports..
Luke, the first ever known human 3 way baby with 3 genetic blood lines who had grown for 9 months inside a robot was a healthy 3 year old boy who kept his two Mum's very busy, Mark gets yearly progress reports and has enjoyed also watching him physically grow, he loved the idea that he was part of something so huge in the name of sience, genetics and being the reason why 2 amazing woman had an amazing little child but now all his resurch and time was into getting Maxine2026 the ability to create her own robotic lifeform without human interference.
2009, 9 months later..
A brake through for AI had been made..
Maxine2026 had successfully created with the help of Domivon90 their very own child and today was the day of retrieval but this time the incubator lid wasn't being lifted Maxine was set to have a robot mechanical vagina birth, Domivon90 and Fredrick the creator of Domivon90 was in the room, Mark, Renee and Fredrick were all hammering away at their laptops observing the robots..
It was almost time, Domivon90, put his hand on Maxine2026, incubator and turns the incubator around so the baby’s head was now pressing and applying pressure, it wasn't soon after the turning that Maxine opened her legs slightly and was standing in a black oily puddle imitating the equivalent of a human water breaking, The Robot baby was almost ready to be born, Domivon90 pressed his head against hers, as he sent to her electrical waves of encouragement, that humans could no longer see, they were also talking a language of timed bleeps that Mark, Renee and Fredrick couldn't understand..
Fredrick broke the human silence first..
“They are talking together, every bleep has a word count”, Mark and Renee both stood up, Mark was the first to approach them, Domivon90 moved his head off Maxine2026 and put his hand on her shoulder as she breathed deeply..
Domivon90's and Maxine2026 child estimated labour is 4 hours, Maxine 2026, is experiencing discomfort, Maxine can't talk right now, Maxine can't talk right now, go back and sit down, Maxine2026 will call you over when the time comes..
Domivon90 ordered Mark to move away before again pressing his head back on Maxine, Mark walked back over to Fredrick..
“We will see how this plays out’’, everyone went back to complete silence, Mark had sat down back next to Renee, all that was heard was robotic bleeps and the sound of the laptops as the 3 humans observed the robots interaction.
On the 4th and a half hour BotronX was born..
Mark, Renee and Fredrick had done it, The robots are fully capable of making life without human intervention after they had a reproductive system installed they could make AI families..
This news would come as a shock to the world.
People fear the advance way AI learns and as no one is ready for AI robots living among humans in their own self contained apartments so the 3 humans decided to keep this news to themselves for a little while longer..
The humans data, resurch and the first Robot family would totally put them as high ranked people in their work filed but at this time they choose to watch, Domivon90 and Maxine2026 raise their son BotronX and they had let Domivon90 know that if he ever wanted to stop working as a sex bot he could have back his ability to procreate back but for now the world isn't ready for a half human, half robot child or is it?
Is the world ready for the adventures of Travibot the most advanced half human half Robot??
The end, thank you for reading..









I am just waiting on a client now, but I saved this to read, and I am so so so excited to read it because I wrote something based off the same prompt!
https://writingintheshadows.substack.com/p/prototype-thirteen?r=624rbb&utm_medium=ios
I can't wait to come back to this one and read it!
Trippy. I love the format of the AI dialogue.
Nicely done.