She found herself staring up at the ceiling and looking out of the skylight. To XJ9, everything just felt a little off. Usually, she would already be asleep and charging for the next day, but now she couldn't close her eyes. Earlier that day, she had thrown off her schedule by having a fit over ripping a page out of a book and talking. Said fit had made her fall asleep earlier than normal, and her nap had gone on longer than usual. So now, all she could do was stare up and out the windows at the night sky.

She knew that she should be sleeping, but the long nap had charged up her battery more, and it turns out that her battery's issues were starting to be fixed. This resulted in her losing less energy when doing a task, and it all seemed great at the beginning but late at night, not so much. She had woken up fully powered up and ready to start the day only to realize that it was 2 a.m., and the day had only barely begun. She squirmed around in her bed for a bit, trying to go back to sleep. Eventually, she had given up on that and was now stargazing.

XJ9 let her eyes wander star to star and connect them to make some pictures or just a bunch of squiggles. Her electronic brain had searched the internet and brought up constellations for her find; while they were interesting, she quickly lost interest. She liked what her mind could come up with more than a list of stuff she should see. As her eyes traced the stars sometimes, they would fall onto the windows, and she'd trace their panes until her eyes wandered back into the room and to the monitors. When it got dark out, all the monitors would automatically adjust their brightness, and, because of this, the room had a green glow to it as they all flickered through their set of cameras.

At night everything seemed to be very different. Some places would be quiet and peaceful, while others seemed to wake up and be buzzing with life. During the day for her, some areas would be fast asleep as it was night for them, and she liked seeing how it was day time for them currently while it was dark out for her. It was an exciting contrast really how some places wholly changed when the sun went down.

She watched a screen click to a different camera angle, and she saw sleeping birds on a wire. Another screen clicked over as well, and now she could see a very different looking bird resting on the top of a building. This brought a smile to her face and a little tinge of excitement, she couldn't wait to go outside to see all of these different places with their different birds and times, and anything else they had to offer.

She let her eyes wander over the monitors for a bit, taking in all the little changes in building types and weather. Screens that showed fields, buildings, static, mountains, and-Wait static? Her brows furled in confusion as she watched it. She rubbed her eyes to make sure she was looking at it correctly but saw no change. Slowly and quietly, she sat up in bed and unplugged herself. She walked across her room to look at it closer.

She had plenty of monitors in her room, and it was easy to lose track of all of them, but this one was exceptionally easy to miss. It was smaller than the others, granted not all of them were the same size as each other but still, and it was closer to a corner of the wall than in the center. The little monitor now that she was looking closer at it seemed to be a bit older as well. Perhaps it was the first one put in the room, nonetheless now that she had noticed it, she couldn't take her eyes off of it.

The little box flickered as it tried to find a connection, and she felt bad for it. She patted the top of it and was about to go back to bed when she saw something. For just a second while she had patted it, an image had flickered across the screen. It had looked like...a person? She patted the tv again and watched the same thing happen once more. Seeing this, she made a fist with her hand and brought it down a little harder. The screen flickered for a second before the image settled.

She couldn't hear anything, but at that moment she was more invested in what she could see. A group of people were on a stage and playing some, her brain scanned over them, instruments. The audience and the musicians all seemed so happy and thrilled. She looked over their smiling faces and found herself smiling as well. Wanting to know what was going on, she ran her hand over the monitor to find any buttons. Sure enough on its side were a few, and after looking over the buttons and pushing some of them, she figured out which ones did what. Not wanting to wake up her mother, she made sure the volume was just high enough for her to hear the music.

"I know you're Mickey 'cause I'm Momo, too, So I know what you're going' through. But there's no more Momo whenever I get close to you.."

With that, the song came to an end, and people started cheering. The band all smiled and came in for a group hug. The crowd continued to cheer as they set their instruments down and walked away. The stage seemed to be connected to another room as they moved to all sit down on a long couch. A man was clapping his hands as he sat behind his desk on stage as well.

"What a way to end the show tonight, huh folks, a live performance of the hit new song Mickey Momo! I'm John North, and this was Late Night Tremorton! Try not to shake your house down! Goodnight!"

With that, the band and the man waved as the camera was cut off, and credits began to play. XJ9, as quietly as possible, clapped for the people as the names rolled by and watched a commercial start. She knew that she should go to bed, really she did. She also knew that first thing tomorrow; she should probably show her mom the malfunctioning monitor. She would. She swore that she would. She would go to bed...right after seeing what was coming up next.

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