(A few days later..)

"Church." the voice said, though he couldn't make it out.

"Church!" It said, again, a little louder now.

"CHURCH!"

He jumped up a little, looking around, feeling a headache inside of him.

"Oh, good. You're awake," the same voice said. Church looked up at the man who spoke. He wasn't wearing any armor, but his voice was very familiar.

"W-Washington?" Asked Church, thinking that was where he recognized the voice. He never took his helmet off when they went on the little 'Meta' adventure together. Though, now that he thought about it, the face also seemed familiar. But how could he recognize it?

Wash let out a sigh of relief, "Good, you remember me."

Church nodded slowly, "I don- what happened? How long was I out? Why is my head hurting like a bitch?"

"You were out one whole day this time," he replied. Wait, this time? "I didn't even know an AI could faint like that. Never mind twice. Though, I guess the second time doesn't really count, does it?"

Church wanted to snap at him for calling him an AI, but something inside of him held him back. Weird.

Realization of something seemed to hit Washington as he said, "Wait, what do you remember last?"

Pain. Agony. Torture.

"I.. Don't wanna talk about it," he said truthfully.

"What don't you want to talk about?" Asked Wash, pushing him.

"I... It felt horrible... I felt like I was forgetting everyone.. And then pain suddenly shot through me.. I don't know how to explain it. I don't fucking want to explain it."

"That was the first time... Are you sure that's the last thing you remember?" Wash asked.

Church nodded, and yet I feel like I remember too much.. He blinked his eyes, looking away.

Wash sighed, "You missed a lot, then." How much?

Church sighed as well, and he felt the covers of the bed that he was laying in. Suddenly, memories flashed inside of him, memories of singing a very annoying song whilst inside a floating ball, memories of some dememted version of what happened on Blood Gulch told by Caboose; memories of Carolina and the Director, of 100 Tex's in one spot.

He had memories of possesing Doc for a long period of time, of being angry, every second of the day.

He remembered being the voice of logic in many situations, of the freelancer York, of leaving behind a certain message in Caboose's mind.

He remembered many, many horrible sounding knock-knock jokes, and a rather discusting mental image of a shisno.

He remebered being shy and scared, but he always had North to calm him down.

He remembered everything. But he could have sworn most of those memories weren't his own.

He squinted his eyes as the door suddenly opened, letting sunlight in. Tucker and Caboose walked in.

"He's awake!" Wash called out to them, which made them run to him much quicker.

"Church. Well, well, well, don't you just look fine and dandy," said Tucker, smirking.

Church looked at himself, noticing something much different than from before; he looked human. His eyes widened, he was human. H-How is that even possible? I..

"I don't remember.." He started, surprising Tucker, "Just... What happened to me? Why the fuck aren't I, you know, transparent?"

Suddenly a little hologram appeared next to Tucker, one that looked a lot like Jessie. In fact, scratch that, it looked just like Jessie. An AI Jessie. You know, that weird chick that showed up some random day when he was sent to the future. That one.

"Okay," she said, "You want the long version, or the short version?"

(A few days earlier)

"Don't just leave him there!" I screamed to the others, who were still in shock from what they had just witnessed.

"..Right." Said Wash, moving over to pick Church up. I sighed, shaking my head. Tucker seemed to snap out of his temporary trace as he walked over to me.

"What the fuck is with your eyes?" He asked me. I gave him a confused look, my eyes were always normal.

"What do you mean?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"I mean, they keep switching from green to white," he said.

...What? But... What?! My eyes are dark green! That's it!

"What? What do you mean they keep switching?" I asked.

"I mean, it's like one second they're just a regular darkish green. Then, the next, they turn all white and shit, like Church's A.I. form or whatever you call it," he said matter-of-factly.

I stared, wide-eyed at him, I don't understand.. He then proceded to hand me a mirror, which I have no idea where he got it from, and there I was, blonde hair and all, with eyes that were rapidly changing from dark-green to white.

"Holy shit-sicles," I muttered, as my eyes went back to normal.

"You see? Green, then white. Then green, and back to white. It's like you're a circus! Sure, a sexy circus, but circus none the less," he said to me, before my eyes started changing from green to redish-orange at a rapid pace. I dropped the mirror; I had no idea why this was happening.

I shook my head, turning around, just to see a glimmer of red disappear behind some rocks. What the... I then saw it move out into the open, if only for a second, allowing me to see its shape, Sigma! Sigma then disappeared completely before I had time to react. My eyes stopped going crazy. I turned back around, pretending I didn't see anything, and walked over to Tex.

"Hey, Tex?" I asked, making her jump. Weird, I thought, she must've been really deep in thought.

"Yeah, Jess?" She replied.

"What are your thoughts on.. All of this?" I asked her once I knew I had her full attention.

"Personally, I'm not really sure," she replied, "I really don't have a clue on what happened here, and that just makes me want to find Epsilon even more."

I looked at her, nodding slowly, "I guess you're right. Oh, and one more thing: do me a favor and go through a teleporter."

"Why?"

"It's weird talking to you when you don't have black armor," I replied.

"What's a teleporter got to do with that?" She asked.

"You'll see," I said, smirking. I walked away from her, wondering if she'd figure it out on her own. I saw Wash carrying Church away towards blue base, Tucker following close behind, and decided to catch up to them.

"Oh, hey, Jess," said Tucker as he spotted me.

"Sup," I said casually.

"Um.. Taking who's probably one of my best friends into base after he fainted from absolute pain and agony! You know, the usual," he said sarcastically. We got inside the base, where Washington set him down and sighed.

"He's just an AI," he said, "I didn't think it was possible for one to faint like that."

"I didn't think I was possible for one to be in so much pain," I replied, sitting down.

"AND I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS POSSIBLE TO EAT GOAT CHEESE!" Caboose said from about ten meters away.

"SHUT UP, CABOOSE!" Said everyone else in the canyon.

Grif suddenly ran to the entrance of the base, "Guys! You won't believe what I discovered, they're called Future... Cubes." He stopped as he saw the sight before him, "Okay, yup. Bad timing? Yeah... I think I'm gonna go now..." He slowly walked away.

We stared at where Grif was for a moment, until we heard movement from where Church was. All of our heads instantly whipped around as Church suddenly jolted awake, panting heavily and looking around the base where he was. His eyes rested on Tucker, then me, then Wasington. He stood up, rubbing he back of his head, and began to back away slowly, eyes still fixed on Washington.

"Church?" Wash asked, looking at him, confused as to why he was backing away.

"Church?" He echoed, stopping, "Why are you calling me that? That's not my fucking name!"

I looked at Church, confused, Why would he say that? I thought.

"Then what is your name?" Wash asked him slowly.

Church looked at him as if he were an idiot for not knowing.

"My name's Alpha."

A/N

Boom. Two chapters in one day. Not gonna happen often. Enjoy it while you can!