Authors Note:

I'm kind of ignoring the ending of The Turing Test, I'm using my own ending. What is happening, is that Ava and Sarah ignore T.O.M, and T.O.M ignores them. A mutual ignoring so to say.

Chapter 1: The Uh-Oh

Ava's Point of View

"Sarah, what do you you think is happening back on Earth. I mean, imagine it, what did the ISA say? We could be assumed dead for all we know."

"Ava, I don't know. I just know that we can't go back.

"I know, I.. just want to know, see what it's like. Maybe... we could ask T.O.M... to see if we could go into.. cryrogenic sleep. We could wait and see, if things could be better in the future."

Sarah stares at me like I had just grown wings. "You know we can't go back. We are currently engaging in a mutual ignoring! We don't try and go back to Earth, and T.O.M pretends that we don't exsist." She says all of this still just looking at me like I am crazy.

Maybe she's right. Maybe I am being crazy. Maybe... no. I am done being stuck in this maze of reflective walls. Done with being stuck with my own thoughts to listen to every single night. I just want to sleep it all away.

I plead with Sarah. "Sarah please. I'm tired of just seeing my relfection everywhere I look. I just want to sleep all of my problems away. I want to see a better tomorrow. Not just a repeat of yesterday."

"Ava..." She takes a breath. "I know how you feel. I've felt that way since Tom receded to Fortuna, and we started this ignoring war. I will cooperate. On one condition. You have to go up first."

This is it. Back to Tom, and the Fortuna. And hopefully, cryrogenic sleep. I step into the launcher.

And liftoff. Its a short ride up to the satellite, but I'm nervous. I don't know how T.O.M is going to react. Will he think we're trying to leave? Will he shoot first and ask questions later? Time will tell.

Back on the Fortuna. It feels weird, hearing the whirr of machines again, after the relative silence of the ground base. Let's see if this works. Time to negotiate.

"T.O.M?

"Yes, Ava?"

"Is there a chance Sarah and I could go into cryrogenic sleep? To wait out the future?

Silence. I worry T.O.M is arming the artillery.

"There is. Where is Sarah?"

Sigh of relief. "She's waiting, I went up first, because I had the most recent positive interaction with you."

Sarah comes up with no problems. We're both kind of in awe. We thought we would never see anything but our reflections for the rest of our lives.

We both stop in front of her quarters. "Ava, thank you. I thought I was going to live out my days just staring at our reflections. Now, I can just sleep until the future comes. Thank you."

"Welcome." Handshake. Door closes. I continue to walk down the hall. I hear a faint hiss, as Sarah is put under.

Soon, it will be my turn. I finally reach my quarters. The door opens with a whoosh. The room where it all began.

The room when this crazy adventure started. Where it all began, where one adventure ends, and another begins.

I step into the pod.

"Ava?"

"Yes T.O.M?"

"Thank you for coming back."

I struggle to get these last words out.

"Its good to be back."

T.O.M's Point of View

Organic solutions. Lateral thinking. Creative thinking. Constrained chaos. Nature.

"Chop off your arm and leave it on the button. That way the door will stay open."

"Yeah, that's not a great solution."

"You threw the box through the window. Perhaps we could throw you through the window?"

"Actually, Tom, I think I'm okay for help."

"Right you are."

Hiss

Vwoom

"What? Run a diagonostic."

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Status is 100%

"Loud sounds do not equal one-hundred percent. Run it again."

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Artificial Gravity 100%

Oxygen 100%

Cryrogenic Sleep Pods 100%

Thrusters ???

Location: Unknown

"Perhaps the future has come faster the the girls thought."

Open cryrogenic sleep pods? Y/N?

Y_E_S_

Opening...

Will's Point of View

"Will, do you know where we are?" Mom asked.

I pull up the picture of the first art by the Robot. I show my family, and a solemn "danger," comes out of my mouth.

I could tell that everyone was shocked. I was, I just thought Robot was being overly ominous.

Penny was staring out of the window. Squinting. Trying to figure something out. I walk over to her.

I see an object in the distance. With a start, I realize this is the object Penny is trying to figure out.

Penny shrieks, "is that a satellite?!"