"Are you sure you want to do this?" Professor O'Shay cautiously asked as he placed several wires to Uran's temples. "I can't promise what will happen after we go through with it."
"Funny," Uran mused, "I don't remember you being this concerned when you put that nanite into my head."
"It was a different situation then." O'Shay told her as he placed a blood-pressure reading device around her wrist and on her finger. "The nanite was completely harmless, and all it did was read the information that your robotic skeleton gave off."
"It also could have screwed with the wiring too." Uran pointed out dryly. "As we speak my skeleton could be malfunctioning and will squish me back into an infantile skeletal frame. So either way, I could be the walking dead right now and we would never know."
Professor O'Shay gave Uran a wary look as he started up the machine that connected the girl to the android. She caught on to this expression, but ignored it.
"I come home to a hyperactive dog and a standard class N4N-B07." Uran then told the professor, who was still giving a look of uncertainty. "I have no idea where my mom is, and neither do you which is why you went to the next human adult in charge of my life; the principal."
Professor O'Shay still gave her an unsure look.
"No one will notice I'm even gone." Uran assured him. "I just have only one question for you, Professor O'Shay."
"And what would that be?" The professor asked, his hand running over the lever that would turn the machine on.
"How badly do you want to prove the Kokoro Theory?"
The professor tightened his grip on the lever as he slowly pulled it down. Satisfied with no answer that did give the answer she wanted, Uran closed her eyes as the world started to become darker, and darker, and darker…
Slowly, Uran started to see a dim light that seemingly appeared to get brighter as she walked (she thought she was walking, at least, she couldn't tell at the moment) toward it. She kept walking until the light started to show her a way through the invisible maze she seemed to be going through. It guided her along until she came to a large structure that looked a bit like a hexagon and was much taller than her.
Uran almost walked away from the structure, but then she saw something that caught her eye. Inside the structure something seemed to be moving, so she leaned in closer to get a better look at it. Something about the images she was slowly started to be able to see- they almost felt warm, like a memory you never wanted to forget. But… these weren't her memories… were they? Curious, Uran looked closer, even putting her hand (oh, her hand was there, maybe she had a full body after all) on the structure as she leaned to keep her balance. No, these memories were not hers, but they were still all so familiar. How could someone's memories be so familiar when you didn't even know who they belonged to?
Sensing something behind her, Uran turned around and saw that a wall had been placed behind her. The wall had not been there a few moments ago, and she could see through it enough to see that another structure had been placed on the other side. With a sharp realization, Uran recognized the pictures coming from the opposite structure contained her memories. Uran then looked at the wall and walked closer toward it. The wall had a bit of shimmer to it that she now noticed and was struck with a new curiosity; carefully, Uran started to move her hand toward the wall. Biting her lower lip, Uran made her hand move across the wall for a short distance before thrusting it through the wall- the result from a sudden buzz that come from her hand made Uran jump back from the wall. Uran looked at her hand, then looked back at the wall; before she could really think about it, Uran slowly started to force her hand through the wall once more, but this time she did it slowly.
She was only able to get a few of her fingers through the wall again before she had to pull them back out.
Intrigued, Uran looked around to find something else of interest. She looked at the structure that held her memories and turned back to the structure that held the memories of someone she had yet to meet. Although her mind was a bit diluted, Uran tried to think of why the two structures existed, and why (of all things) that a single wall separated them.
"Wow, you're actually pretty cute." A voice said. Uran whipped her head around to the wall. There stood a boy that did not look unlike the android Professor O'Shay was trying to bring to life. Uran walked over to the wall again and observed the boy with a wary glance.
"You…" she softly said, her voice barely even audible.
"Think of me as Kokoro." The boy told her with a smile. "Although, I guess the more accurate term would be 'brother', what do you think?"
"You're not…"
The boy gave Uran a wide smile as he placed his hand against the wall. Uran noticed this, and for a moment she found it odd. Almost without control, Uran placed her hand on top of his against the wall. She relaxed her fingers, letting them overlap with his- the boy saw this and looked up at her with a sense of fondness.
"Come over." Uran told him, beckoning him to come over to the side he clearly belonged in.
"I can't do that Uran." The boy told her. "The wall stops me every time. I'm driving poor Professor O'Shay insane, aren't I? If I make it through, I'll do something for him that makes up for it, what do you think?"
Uran only blinked.
"This wall…" she muttered as she looked at the barrier.
"Is the only thing that stops me from crossing over into the new world." The boy agreed. Uran looked back at him as an idea came to her. She let go of the boy's hand to take a step back.
"You trust me?" she asked.
"I have no reason not to." The boy replied. Uran nodded before throwing her arms around the boy's torso without warning. She held him so tight that when she quickly shifted her weight to behind her, he came tumbling down on top of her- breaking the wall as if it were glass and it fell to the ground (or whatever acted like the ground in this plane of existence) like fresh snowflakes. Unsure of what had happened, Uran still held onto the boy as if she was trying to stop him from leaving.
"You did it Uran." The boy then said to her, looking at the broken wall with a look of surprise. "You succeeded with the first part of the activation. Maybe a little too well…"
Uran gave the boy a look of confusion as he helped her up.
"What do you mean… the first part?" she questioned. The boy did not answer her at first, and instead led her to the structure that could view the memories (Toby's memories, she realized) of a kid she had never met before.
"Tobio was created by William to replace his son." The boy said as his fingers started to bend backwards and his palm split open to reveal a canon buster. "When the professor started to repair and rebuild Tobio's old frame, Toby's old memories became a block in the reawakening of a powerful android. Memories are powerful, but they can also prevent us from achieving something greater. To be reborn, we must die."
The boy raised the buster to the structure at full charge, and before Uran could stop him, he fired. The structure erupted into little pieces that scattered everywhere. Barely a second after that, without a warning, everything vanished and Uran found herself floating before the rest became undefined.
