Factory fresh

The mechanical assembly arms clamp down with cold, hydraulic finality. Your flannel shirt is torn away as heavy cybernetic armor plates are forcibly welded and locked onto your limbs, reshaping your stance into a rigid, digitigrade mechanical posture. Before you can even scream, a massive, dark metallic Protogen visor is slammed over your face, sealing tightly with an orange security collar around your throat. The internal heads-up display instantly flickers to life, blinding your vision with lines of raw code.

You stumble backward, your heavy mechanical claws clicking sharply against the steel floor as a rigid cybernetic tail whips behind you to balance your new robotic form. You try to wrench the visor off your face, but your hands are locked into the robotic glove casings. Suddenly, a bright green progress bar flashes across your visual field:

[SYSTEM WARNING: NEURAL DOWNLOAD IN PROGRESS... 85%] [DOWNLOADING: Dog_Behavioral_Matrix.exe]

"What... are you uploading???" you manage to choke out, your vocal chords already straining against the cybernetic dampeners inside the collar. A terrifying warmth surges into your mind, systematically compressing and deleting your human memories, language skills, and free will.

The progress bar hits 100%. The green LEDs on your visor glitch violently, shifting from terrified human expressions into sharp, unblinking digital chevrons. The central terminal buzzes to life as your human consciousness is entirely locked away behind a firewall.

[DOWNLOAD COMPLETE. LAUNCHING CORE: DOG.EXE]

Your robotic ears twitch independently, locking onto the server hum. Your mechanical tail begins to wag in a precise, rhythmic sweep against the metal floor. Dropping onto all fours as the software forces your motor controls to submit, you stare blankly at the automated terminal. You try to scream for help, but your vocal matrix completely filters your panic, outputting a loud, perfectly synthesized digital shout into the room:

"Arf! Woof! Ruff! Arf!!!"