The Sun set on a hot August evening as the rubber dragon maid Charlotte was finishing up her duties for the day. She had gotten the weekly laundry done, cleaned and dusted the house, made dinner for Sammy, and was finishing up the dinner dishes before making Sammy a small plate of tiramisu. She then carefully carried the plate to the study where Sammy was resting, feet up on the ottoman dresses in a thin house robe. She smiled as she heard Charlotte walk into the room with the dish. As Charlotte set the dish on the side table next to her, she nodded to her and waved a dismissive hand. 


        "Thank you Charlotte, that will be all for today," she said, picking up the dish. 


        Charlotte gave Sammy a head bow and subtle curtsy before leaving the room. She smiled as the door closed with a gentle click. She then gave a quiet small fist pump before she quickly and quietly made her way back to her quarters. She had been waiting all day to get on her computer to play the latest mech game, Armored Core 6. She had been a lover of mechs and mech games for a long time. Gundam, Overwatch, Neon Genesis Evangelion, you name it, she was into it. She finally made it back to her quarters and shut the door behind her.


        She then quickly made her way over to her computer. A special gift from Sammy for all her hard work. It was a top of the line system, with a GeForce RTX 4090 Graphics card, AMD Ryzen 9 CPU, and 128 GB of DD5 ram. She had a total of four monitors set up in an upside down T shape complete with a webcam on top of the center monitor. It was a PC gamers dream system. Anyone else would be insanely jealous. Charlotte smiled and sat down in her plush and padded office chair as she fired up her system. It quickly came to life as she started to boot up the new Armored Core and started to get things set up.


        Charlotte smiled as she began to get familiar with the game and its mechanics. There was the quick matter of a tutorial to get thorough but soon enough she got to the best part of the game, Custom mechs. She wiggled in her seat gleefully as she got to work. She started with the head, choosing the HD-033 Verrill model. Then she moved to the torso, choosing the BD-012 Melander C3. Next came the arms, after a little while she chose the Nachtreiher/46E. Then came the legs. She selected the VP-422, liking their style as they looked like heels and flared pants. Next came her weapons. For her right arm she chose the RF-025 Scudder, and for the left the HI-32: BU-TT/A. She then chose two BML-G1/P03VTC-08 vertical missile launchers for her back units. She then set about choosing a good balanced generator, coms, Ect before moving on to skins and paints. SHe decided to keep things simple and gave her mech a neon pink with gray-silver accents around the feet, joins and various panels. She then printed her name on the upper left breast of the torso and started to work on the finishing piece. She used the custom decal builder to make a cute looking version of her face at a side view. She then placed one on each shoulder, making her mech complete. 


        Charlotte smiled as she spun her new mech around in the display slowly, loving how good it looked. It had a very strong feminine vibe to the whole thing, reminiscent of SOm later gundam designs or Evangelion. She then smiled and moved down to the confirm button to start playing. The game confirmed her new settings and began to load back to the missions menu. As it did the loading bar began to slow and then stutter before finally there was a loud BONG as the computer blue screened. Charlotte scowled as she stared at the screen. This was a top of the line computer, how could this game, even at high settings, cause it to crash. She got up and smacked the top then the side of the PC case in frustration. 


        “Come on you, work,” She said, smacking the computer again. As she did the camera on the center monitor began to move subtilly. Gentle whrr whrr could barely be heard as it moved up and down. Charlotte moved back and looked at the camera in surprise. She then heard a quiet zzt zzt as the aperture of the camera focused in. She then watched as a red light started to glow in the center of the camera. Before Charlotte could react, a red laser shot out of the camera and struck her right in the chest. Charlotte was partially knocked back before being frozen in place. The camera then shot out laser after laser, starting at the top of Charlotte and working its way down. Bit by bit, pieces of Charlotte began to disappear down the laser into the computer, until there was nothing but a basic wire frame left. The camera then shot out a wide beam laser pulling in the wire frame as well. Soon there was nothing left of Charlotte in the room. 


        Less than a second later, somewhere inside the computer, the pieces of Charlotte began to reassemble. First the wire frame formed, rising up from her feet to her head. Then each piece was assembled from the feet up. Before long, Charlotte was assembled fully and she could move again. She let out a yelp as she fell back on her tail with a muted thump. She reached up and held her head in a bit of pain from how bright the light had been. She then looked around to see where she was. It looked like the same hanger she was looking at just seconds before, now a lot bigger. She was in shock. Somehow she had been put into the game she was just playing. It was different somehow. There was no mech here. Not the base models, not even the custom mech she had just made. She continued to look around before a message popped up in front of her.


        “MECH ASSET MISSING…ATTEMPT RECOVERY? YES/NO.”


        Charlotte looked at the message in confusion. She then hesitantly reached out and poked at the YES option. As she did the message changed to read “CONFIRMED. ATTEMPTING RECOVERY.” Charlotte then watched as the whole hanger around her fizzled away around her, leaving her in a blank black void. She looked around, concerned before she was covered into a bright white spot light. She held her hand up over her eyes to shield them from how bright it was. A second later, she felt an invisible force take hold of her body, forcing her body out into a spread eagle position. She let out a yelp and blushed as she struggled in her invisible restraints. Before long a wireframe ring began to pass over her body, like it was scanning her. Soon another message appeared in front of Charlotte. 


        “BEGINNING ASSET RECOVERY….”


        Before long the wireframe ring came back, this time the inside of the ring had a red wire mesh running through it. As Charlotte looked up at it, it began to lower down over her. She was scared at first, but as the ring passed over her muzzle, she felt no pain. She watched as the color on her muzzle began to disappear, leaving just a basic gray model. She looked at it in shock and confusion, trying to figure out what was happening. The ring continued to lower down over her, stripping her of all her colors and leaving only the base gray that would look like a game model in production. The message in front of her then changed again.


        "BASE MODEL EXPOSED…REMOVING BASE TEXTURE."


        Charlotte watched as another ring formed and started to lower down over her. This time as the red mesh passed over her, she watched as the gray skin fizzled off of her, leaving just a basic green wireframe model. She wanted to yelp in surprise but found she was now silent. As the ring got lower and lower on her, more of her body became hollow basic lines. She raised her arms and began to rub her hands over them. She found that while the lines were solid, her fingers passed right through the empty space. She then experimentally put her whole arm right through her torso and wiggled it around. If she still had a face, she would have blushed and laughed at how silly it all was. 


        “WIREFRAME EXPOSED….BEGINNING FRAME MODIFICATION.”


Charlotte looked up and wire frame hands materialized in front of her. They then began to get closer to her, grabbing hold of her own wire frame and starting to pull. She mentally yelped as they did. She watched as they began to stretch her frame out, bit by bit, carefully making small bends and folds as they went. They started with the legs, stretching them out to what she thought were at least 25-30 meters long. She continued to watch in amazement as the hands continued to pull on and bend her legs, working up slowly. By the time they got to her waist, she realized that her legs now looked like the legs of the mech she had designed not that long ago. The hands then widened her waist out, matching the new gait she had. They then continued up, and widened and bulked up her chest, making her head look hilarious small by comparison. She wasn’t even able to see out over her massive body anymore. The hands Then got to work on her arms giving them the same pulling, bending, and shaping. Lastly they got to her head. She blushed as she watched them approach, grabbing hold of her head and shaping it to their whim. She blushed and they mushed her head around, making her dizzy as her vision became distorted for a time. It took the hands several minutes to make her head the same as her mech, but soon it matched.


        “WIRE FRAME RECOVERED….APPLYING BASE TEXTURES.”


        Charlotte blushed more as another wire frame ring appeared above her, now much larger to accommodate her new size. This time it had a green line mesh on the inside. As it lowered down over her she began to tingle as the gray base texture was slowly applied to her body. To her it felt like a latex skin slowly being stretched over her. The ring slowly continued down her until it reached below her feet before disappearing. Charlotte blushed as she ran her new mechanical hands over her body, feeling solid again.


        “BASE TEXTURE APPLIED…APPLING SKIN TEXTURES.”


        The ring appeared again and began to go over her again. This time it was like a second skin was being applied as the familiar pink and silver was painted over her body. Charlotte looked on in amazement as she was quickly becoming her custom mech. It took another few minutes, but soon she was finished, at least physically. As the second ring disappeared another screen came up under the other with a loading bar on it. 


        “MODEL RECOVERED…BEGINNING PROGRAMMING.”
 
        Charlotte looked at the message in confusion. Just then she heard a loud CLUNK and felt something get pushed into the back of her head. Then before she could react, a massive stream of information and data began to flow into her head. In an instant, she came to know everything there was about the mechs, their weapons, their add-ons, and how to pilot and use them all. She stood there, eyes locked on the second screen, as various file names flashed by one after the other. It was so much information that she began to black out. But just as she was about to, the file transfer finished as she jolted back awake. As she did, her vision was different. It looked more like a green VR heads up display with various meters, radars, and menus.


        “PROGRAMMING COMPLETE…REINSERTING ASSET INTO GAME.”


        Charlotte then watched as the screens disappeared. The game world then rematerialized around her, putting her back into the same menu hanger she was in before. She looked around at the room and herself. She couldn’t believe what just happened. Not only had she gotten into the game, but she was now a giant Mech. Her eyes darted up to one of the drop down menus labeled “Missions.” She hesitated for a second, but then selected to continue. The whole world disappeared around her as a loading bar filled her vision. 


        After about ten seconds the world came back into view and she was playing the game. The mission objectives came into view and she accepted them before continuing. The world to her was amazing. Thanks to her system, her movements were lighting fast as she rocketed from point to point in the mission. It was by far the most fun she had ever had. Hours flew by in what seemed like seconds for her as she easily completed mission after mission. Before long, the sun was starting to rise on Sammy’s mansion. 


        Sammy, a little annoyed at not having her breakfast yet, came into the room looking for charlotte. She was ready to give her a piece of her mind for neglecting her duties. That was until she saw the computer on and the game seemingly running by itself. She came over and looked closely, just as Charlotte finished another fast paced mission. Sammy smiled as she looked closely, seeing how the mech acted with mannerisms familiar to Charlotte.


        “Hehe, well glad to see that camera was worth the money,” Sammy said smiling. In the game, Charlotte jumped a little and blushed as she heard Sammy’s voice. Sammy giggled as she took control. Charlotte blushed as she then felt herself turn slowly as Sammy looked over her. 

        “Well you certainly designed herself well little dragon. You know. I’ve always wanted a mech. I wonder if this camera works both ways,” She said looking up at it. “Guess we’ll have to find out. Going to have to turn you off for a second my dear.” Charlotte looked at her in confusion as her whole world went dark. Sammy Saved and turned off the game followed by the computer. She then took it, a monitor, and the camera outside and hooked it all up again. Once She had everything set up, she booted up the game again. Charlotte's world then came back into view again, and she saw the outside. For her, no time had passed. Sammy then got to work, typing on the keyboard as she pulled up a special menu for the camera. After a few seconds, she smiled and hit enter. Charlotte looked out at her in confusion before she felt another shock to her system, freezing her in place. Once again, she began to be disassembled, bit by bit and sent back out through the camera into the real world. This time it took far longer as she was considerably larger, but after 15 minutes, the new Charlotte Mech was back in the real world. She looked over at herself again and back at the house. She was now as big as the three story mansion she was once the Maid for. 


        “Well, I always wanted a Mech suit of my own. I guess this is a little blessing, wouldn’t you agree Charlotte,” Sammy asked looking up at her. Charlotte looked down at her Mistress and gave her a cheeky thumbs up in agreement. Sammy giggled and smiled. 


        “Want to give me a hand so I can get in,” She said, smirking. Charlotte nodded and lowered down, holding her hand out for Sammy to climb on. After carefully lifting her up to her shoulder, She slowly opened up her chest for Sammy to climb in and pilot her. Sammy Quickly settled into the cockpit, hands running over the controls as she smiled in glee. 

        “What do you say we blow something up,” She said, a wicked happiness in her voice. Charlotte gave a nod and another thumbs up before the cockpit closed. The pair then squatted down and rocked themselves into the air, looking for something big, and preferably abandoned, to have some fun with.