Astrid's POV.

He didn't...know who I was. I shook my head and backed away from him. This was odd, there's no way he could forget about me, is there? He looked confused and upset, yet I could still see the concern in his face. Of course he thinks I'm the one with the defect.

"o-Odd?" I ask shakingly. Yumi steps beside me.

"Come on Odd, stop pulling the act! You know, this is Astrid your first actual long term girlfriend? You rescued her from Xana? She joined and the beginning of the school year? She made you the clay necklace your wearing!" Yumi insisted but he shook his head. My vision went blurry and my breathing got fast.

"I'm not joking, this must be some sort of Xana attack. She never fought beside us or joined anything. Aelita obviously didn't deactivate the tower because you all believe she's been apart of our lives this whole time. You sure it was me who got hit by the schyphozoa?" He ask and Ulrich waves a hand infront of his face.

"I take back him being okay, we really need to repair him before he says something to Astrid he shouldn't." Ulrich says but I hardly process it. I'm staring at odd but not finding any of the warmth from before.

"Maybe it's a virus. Step back in the scanner I'll check." Jeremy says but odd slaps away his guiding hand.

"You guys must have it bad. Even sissy is over there why don't we get rid of her and start focusing on our problem here?" He says and I flinch. Get rid of me. My hand reaches shakily up to the gold locket around my neck. I clutch it tightly and then release. I pop it open and show him the picture of me and him together, along with the one of all of us together.

"Here's your proof. I've also got my phone. You can check the school records too." I say vulnerable but strong. He widens his eyes and my photo and puts a hand to his head. "Anyway, your right. We've got...bigger problems to deal with." I say and turn to Sissy.

Yumi didn't like it but she nodded her head. She cast Odd a worried look and took my hand comfortingly. William was a few steps back and and Aelita tugged at her clothes. Jeremy and Ulrich stood by Odd took a few steps forward when i mention sissy.

"Well, I found a computer and I pushed buttons. I saw the scanners and dropped my lipstick in one and suddenly it closed on me. Then I found myself stranded in your geek world." She said disdainfully and a sudden clunk resonated throughout the factory. We looked around and I focused on where the sound had come from.

My senses suddenly went hyperactive. I closed my eyes and it was like I traveled around through the walls of the factory. It was hard to see the two hiding in the air vents, but my senses tried to go farather out. I had to pull myself out if the state before it was too much.

"You two, in the air vents. Out /now/" I put all of my anger, frustratipn, and feelings of hurt into that word hoping it'll scare them into doing what I asked. No one said anything but odd gave me a funny look.

Brynga tumbled out of the air vent and landed square on her face but Eric stuck the landing. I glared at the two as if it would make all of my problems go away.

"yo." Eric said and Brynga stood up rubbing her nose. I glanced at the others and nobody looked particularly calm cept Aelita. Then there was odd who had looked confused, now saw Brynga and share the same hatred as everyone else. So he didn't forget what happened with her huh?

"All right this is getting to be too much. What exactly happened?" Ulrich said and William cracked his knuckles.

"Well um, we foun. The computer thing and wanted to have a go with it. Thoigh I have to say it wasn't as fun as this group makes it out to be." Sissi said sniffing and I clench and unclench my fist.

"Yeah, we hid when you guys started coming in and decided to watch. It was interesting." Brynga said and Eric scratched his head. He looked like he was at loss because he'd just gotten into something way bigger than he could've imagined.

"So you told them Eric?" Jeremy asked and Eric raised his hands in defeat.

"I keep my promises. They found it all on their own." He said and Jeremy narrowed his eyes suspiciously. I don't think he believed him, much less the others.

"Let's focus on the bigger picture. How on earth are we going to keep their motihs shut?" Yumi asks and I put a hand to my throbbing temple. A long hot shower sounds like heaven right now.

"Hmmm, well I won't say a word if ulrich will go on a date with me." Sissi says and blinks innocently. Before we can all yell a collective object Brynga joins the party.

"So will I, if odd will go on a date with me!" She says and my jaw shifts annoyed.

"Oh oh, and Eric wil if Astrid-"

Both William and Odd instantly yell "NO WAY" when they say my name Eric looks slightly annoyed and shoves bryngas hand off his shoulder. I'll admit it made me feel slightly better when odd objected. He hasn't forgotten entirely I guess.

"look, unlike you I don't enjoy forcing people to go on dates with me. Besides I knew about this before and I stayed quiet." Eric said

"Yeah, we can see how long that lasted." Jeremy said and Eric shifted his jaw, annoyed in his turn.

"Okay okay, /one/ date." Ulrich says and looks at odd ruefully. Yumi objects and I share a glance with her.

"No, we're in this mess because of you. If you don't keep quiet the world could be at risk. Just leave everything alone." Yumi said and the two shook there heads Smugly. I exploded.

"Brynga If you say anything so help me I all shove your Icelandic tongue down a pipe!" I say furious and she looks like she finally realized how close I am to beating her to peices.

"How about this. Astrid take a step back and we can figure out a better way to...Persuade them" William says easing me back With a hand on my shoulder. I snort and cros my arms to keep them distracted.

"If your nicer to us we won't say a word." Sissi says quickly eyeing me up and down. I think of various animal sounds I could make to scare her while the others think it over.

"Fine. but we won't let you trample over us. Hopefully we can start getting along." Aelita says though the words don't sound sincere. I'm pretty sure she's close to slapping them too.

"it's a deal. Now it's almost time for dinner" Odd says looking less pale then before. We nod and head back up and out of the factory. When we get to the forest we send the three away and walk back to Kadic ourselves.

"That makes my brain hurt." Yumi says and i nod.

"Maybe we should avoid them for a while." Ulrich suggest and I shake my head.

"no good, we'll have to keep an eye on them. Eric is my partner for a lot of stuff so I can watch him." I offer and nobody disaggrees.

"Ah, let's just figure it out in the morning." Odd says and we laugh.

"That horde of monsters was not fun." Yumi said agreeing with him. She and William leave to back to her home and me and Aelita head back to our dorms while the guys head to theirs.

"At least everything turned out fairly okay." Aelita says and then winced. "Well, most things." I unlock the door and collapse on my bed.

"Do you really think he just...forgot?" I ask and she shakes her head.

"I don't know, but if Xana stole his memory we might be able to find it in sector five." She says and I sigh.

"Maybe.." I start to say something but get lost on thought. What would happen, would we break up? Would we just stop until he gets his memory back. Will he still love me? Will he never feel anything for me again?

"Im going down to dinner." Aelita says leaving in case I need time alone. But I know she'll stay if I ask.

"Okay, I'll meet you three." I inevitably say and roll over on my bed.

After pondering on all the different out comes I brush my hair quickly and leave the room. Soon I slowly walking to the cafeteria as it starts to get darker out. I hear some voices ahead of me but ignore them, lost in thought. I run into the side of the building, rousing me.

"There's nothing I can do about it now!" A familiar voice says. I freeze.

"You can at least try. You can't hurt Astrid after all this time. We all know you two were ment to be together. You've always had it easy." Ulrichs voice says and I press myself to the wall. On the other side of the corner were the two.

"How can I try when I don't know her. I still think your the ones being hoodwinked here." odd says and I bite my lip.

"But you do know her. Your so stubborn I should send Yumi on you. Or maybe one of your sisters."

"How will you explain to my sister that you all beleive I'm dating a computer." My heart broke in two. This must be how he really feels. Of course he appalled by the thought of dating a computer. Maybe he's even pretending to forget just so he can have an excuse. It's not that extreme, I mean a worse situation would be staying with me right?

In the factory, this is how he must have really felt. How he really thought. My back slides down the wall and I hug my knees. I'm a computer. The only reason everyone else hasn't rejected me is because they don't know yet.

"Whatever, just be kind and stop with the computer nonsense." Ulrich says growing annoyed.

"It's only true." Odd mutters and I barely catch it. I stand up abruptedly and dash back down the side walk.

I don't look back as I bolt up the dormitory building and slip into my pajamas. I curl up under my blanket and shiver. I pull it all the way over and stare at my hands.

Theyre just a program, my hands my mind. My feelings. I silent, slow tears fall down my face and I don't sleep. By the time Aelita comes back in I've stopped crying and my breathing has slowed back down.

She doesn't say anything although shes probably already guessed. How long will it take before they realize what odd says is true and they chase me away? I drift into an uneasy sleep just as I remember the government people who told me about it.

"Mommy! Mommy! I wanna go with Air to school!" The little girl says hugging onto her older brothers back pack. Her brother sighs and tugs at the back pack, but the little girl was determined not to let go.

"You can't go to school yet your not old enough. How about this, I'll let you go if you can find-"

The scene shifted and suddenly I was looking at about a 15 year old girl with long and curly brown hair. Her eyes were a deep blue and she looked beautiful despite hardly any makeup. She wore jeans and a simple tshirt, they complimented her slight tan.

"This is the last test right?" The girl asked worriedly watching a man through the glass. It looked like a sort of science lab. She wrung her hands nervously and was a few steps away from the doctors.

"yes after this we won't need you or your brother anymore." a woman said and smiled. "But now it's your turn to start, would you please drink this?" The woman held out A glass and the girl wearily drank the blur liquid. She walked into a room of her own and closed her eyes.

around her swirled white smoke with electricity jumping out of it. It grew a encased her in it. I yelled and tied to run forward to her b I couldn't go through the glass.

"What are you doing to her!?" I ask b nobody hears me. She steps out of the cloud, only showing her leg at first but the gracefully pulls the rest of herself out. When she does her hair appears white and straight like mine and her skin and face was pale. When she opened her eyes the were grey.

She collaspes to the ground and breathes heavily.

"Excellent! Her brother didn't make it but she did how exstrordinary, we've been testing the wrong one this whole time!" a male doctor says and opens the door to let the girl out.

"what...did you do...to my brother?" She asked and stood up calming her breathing slightly.

"He wasn't strong enough to survive the program, he's lost in the internet by now. We failed in releasing his energy, you both are computer programs, yet his was too weak to survive. But you are the perfect example of a successful years we've been waiting to release your true potential." the woman says pleased but the girl growls.

"Bring back my brother or ill expose this place! You said he wouldn't be hurt!" The girl said and the clouds of electric smoke swirled violently around her! the doctors took a cautious step back.

"Come now, you couldn't have thought accidents wouldn't occur. Calm down and we can start-"

"No! Leave me alone!" The girl yelled hugging her arms and the lightbulbs in the rooms shattered. She squeezed her eyes shut and the smoke start destroying everything.

"Astrid! Astrid!" A boys voice calls out to the girl and she squints open her eyes.

"Astrid! We'll be late!" I bolt up in bed to see Aelita shaking me awake.

"Oh, I'm sorry..." I say and jump out of bed. What was that? That girl she looked..like me. Did I ever? My head throbs and I rest it against a drawer.

"Astrid are you okay?" Aelita ask and I shake my head.

"Aelita I need to tell you something, everyone something really..." I say and decide that I'll explain it all to her. Maybe she'll know something. Or maybe..i guess I just need some one to confide to.

"Go ahead, We'll only be missing gym anyway." Aelita encourages and sits on her bed. I sit on my and take a deep breath.

"The other day...these people from the government told me...I'm a program."

Yeah! Big Astrid chapter huh? What are you shocked? Bamb- never mind I cant spell that. but yes this chapter is out already what a shock. Anyway this kinda explains a little but what lies in the pieces that were missing, and need to be filled in, there's also the thing sigh Odd and please don't murder me for that. Anyway I know I have ten thousand plot holes in this story including Alex, The necklace that showed her in the nursery, all of the school projects which I am planning things for the carnival. But basically if you guys could give me a hint on what you'd like to see explained and revisited and anything else where your practically like, dude if you don't want it in the story anymore just say something. Anyway I'll see you guys whenever the next chapter might come out! Hopefully I can keep this up eh? Basically since the next chapter will be 30 I was going to do something like if you recommended it I would try to fit it in in the next few chapters. If nobody says anything then I'll just randomly choose something's to go on but you know the dealeo!