She didn't like this. No, not one bit. Usually, she'd wake up, have a sweet snack, and have a while to play with her duck. Not today though, ooh no, she was going to go outside today. The thought of that yesterday had made her extremely happy, and she was looking forward to seeing somewhere new, but this wasn't what she expected. It turns out that Wakeman was going to take her somewhere else to go outside.

XJ9 didn't get it. Why did they have to go somewhere else to go out, especially when the place with the fence right outside the window was there? It didn't make any sense to her. Perhaps she would've let it go if that meant that she'd be able to see where they were going, but she couldn't do that either. She was grumpy and irritated at it all. Instead of taking a nap later, as usual, she had to take one at the moment. What didn't help anything was the fact that she was now laying down on the strange table she'd first woken up on.

She slept and had taken naps on it before, but never like this. Every single wire from she'd first opened her eyes was plugged back into her and made it impossible for her to get comfortable. The weird blue tinting cover was back in its place, and while that was now her favorite color, she didn't like how it took over all the others. Despite these things upsetting her, she found herself quite tired.

Just a bit ago, she had a fit when forced to lay down and screamed for nearly an hour. It seemed fighting not to sleep early had made her tired enough to sleep, how cruel. Turning her head over, she watched the woman type in some more words into a screen. The lady still looked a little irritated from her tantrum earlier, and she felt a little pang of something shoot up through her chest.

She only yawned, though as her eyes felt heavy. She closed them and listened to the lady type away. The only other sound in the room was the buzzing of her chips and circuits as her mind raced to figure out what that feeling was. Everything slowed disappeared from around her, and she was left with only her thoughts. The results returned; the feeling she had felt was guilt. Guilt, she decided that she didn't like it and as she fell asleep made a mental note to add it to her dislike list.

She didn't know how long she was asleep, but it must have been for a while. Now and then she drifts in and out of sleep and hears a strange sound. She couldn't place what it was, but she knew she had heard it before. She could also feel her pod slightly shaking, and occasionally it became a little ruffer, but never horrible. The pod felt like it was moving, and so she imagined it with legs strutting around. It made her want to laugh, but she couldn't find enough energy to do so. She drifted back into the dark, quiet space of sleep mode.

Sometime later XJ9 could feel her circuits buzzing and heating up as her charger pushed in a little more energy to help her wake up. As a system diagnostics quickly check through its list, she could already tell something was different. She was waking up like she normally did, but something was off. Scanning through her diagnostics list, she knew that it couldn't be here. No, something else had changed. Was she outside already?

A little surge of excitement went through her. She hoped she was outside, oh how she hoped. She tried to see if she felt anything different about being outside, but couldn't find much of anything. She was confused, was outside always cold and had the sound of fans with it? Outside was strange? Suddenly someone whispered something.

"Do ya think this thing is gonna work?"

She hadn't heard that voice before, and another new voice followed right after it.

"It better, we didn't sponsor this line for nothing, you know."

Line? What line? Other quiet voices mixed in, and suddenly the room was filled with many different sounds. Were this many people always outside? She guessed they would be it looked so lovely out there. The sound of a door opening made everyone silent, and the sounds of footsteps grew closer.

"So this is it, huh. It better be everything you promised Wakeman."

"Trust me, sir, she's already exceeded my expectations so far."

"A lot of the other models also excelled at the beginning too, for your sake let's hope this one doesn't end up like them too."

"...Certainly, sir."

The familiar sound of typing echoed across the room as everyone was deadly quiet. One last click and she found that she could finally wake up, well completely. Her joints and body sudden came ultimately to life, and she slowly opened her eyes. As her optics adjusted, she noticed a few things right off the bat. First off, she was surrounded by people. Tall men in suits were all staring at her with wide eyes. All of watched her from behind a tiny man with colorful things pinned to his uniform.

She could see Wakeman, out of the corner of her eye, standing to the right of her. She couldn't see her face but took in a little relief knowing the familiar woman was with her in this room of new people. That was the other thing she noticed really. She was in a white room with a plain white floor and plain black ceiling. She wasn't outside at all, and at that, she pouted. She didn't like any of this. The men jumped back at her sudden change in expression, and she didn't know why. The short man cut in,

"Wakeman please don't tell me you made another depressed one?"

"Currently not sir, XJ9 has various emotions, and she has been going through normal emotions properly."

The man took a few steps closure to her and looked her over. He stood up as straight as he could and said to her,

"Alright, robot let's see what you got."

Without looking away from her, he shot out an order.

"Sergeant tell them to get the shooting range ready."

Wakeman quickly cut in,

"General this is only supposed to be a check-up on XJ9 to see her progress. We're not supposed to run any physical tests on her yet."

"We don't have time to fool around Wakeman. We've been waiting on one of your robots to be the one, and I'm sure as heck ain't gonna waste five more months of time and resources to decide whether or not to shut one down again."

"General-"

"Prepare the shooting range we're doing the test run now."

Author's Note- Hey guys, I'm sorry that it took me so long to actually get back to this story. Collage has been keeping me busy, but I'm glad that I was able to find some time to write this chapter. I'm gonna try to update this story more often now that things are settling down some. Thanks for reading and please leave a review.

A special thanks to a guest reviewer who went under the name XJ9, they left the first/only review for this story and that gave me a push to work on it. Thank you!