Penny's P.O.V:

After the meeting, where we were told what to do and not to do. I explored around some more. Eventually, I found myself staring at the equivalent of a face.

Except it had an eye and speaker. "Uh, T.O.M?"

"Yes, Penny?"

"Is this what the ISA gave you as a face?"

"It is. The ISA decided that a too human face would be making me seem more human than I actually am. While a truly robotic face, as something from Terminator, would scare the human crew. So this was the middle. An eye for looking and a speaker for talking, with ears everywhere."

"Huh. Weird. T.O.M. why is Sarah still in suspension? She'll probably freak whe. she finds more people with her than when she fell asleep."

"Penny. On Europa, Sarah and the rest of the ground crew damaged my systems, rearranged how the ground base was set up, and she managed to sever the trust between me and Ava. She followed her survival instincts, her brain's orders. I was just following orders. What chance would I have if I followed my own orders? But after the events of Europa, and after what I did to Sarah, and in turn what she did to me- I think the best word to describe my attitude towards her is scared."

Is he actually genuinely scared? Or is it all simulated.

"So, we're not going to wake her up?"

"All I do is iniate the wake up process. It's Ava call if she wants her friend to be awoken."

Maybe the AI was actually scared."Huh. Thanks for the chat T.O.M. I'll see you around."

I decide to take T.O.M.'s advice and go talk to Ava.

After wandering around, I finally find her in the bridge. Not surprising.

"Ava, do you know if Sarah will ever be awakened?"

"Yes. Its better for her to integrate than threaten everyone's safety."

"I think T.O.M. is scared of her."

"Yeah, I figured as much, but either he just deals with it, or I find away to cut his speakers."

"You are aware I can hear you right?" T.O.M. asks.

"I know." Is all T.O.M. gets.

My mission complete, and answers received, I wander off again.

[In The Bridge After Penny Left]

"I assume you will order me to awaken her?"

"Yes. Or I might just ask you to. I'm still debating." Ava says. A pause. "Actually, T.O.M, I want you to take Sarah out of crygenics, it's time for her to awake once more."

You could almost hear the sigh T.O.M. would give if he had lungs. "Alright, initiating"

[T.O.M. POV]

Twice before I have opened a cryrogenic pod, only for something to happen. Something goes wrong and I am blamed. Perhaps I could just turn off Sarah's pod, like with Chris, it would be peaceful.

Thought Deleted.

But I know Ava would never forgive me. It was hard enough for her to come to terms with me killing her friends. So I initiate the command.

Open Cryrogenic Pod?

Y_E_S_

Opening_

Open."Sarah. Your wakeup has been initiated by Ava. There is no problem, just... I suggest you go to the bridge."

"Why should I listen to anything you say? You tried to murder me.""And you me, could you go to the bridge."

Defiance. It is still quite annoying. But this conversation, it strikes something in my memory banks...

"Ava, your wakeup has been sanctioned by the ISA. We lost contact with the ground crew four-hundred and fifty hours ago. We have tried to establish further communications but are not getting any responses. We need you to investigate."

By now, Sarah had gotten out of the pod, and was almost to the door.

"And Sarah? There are others on the Fortuna, who willingly submitted themselves to Organism 119, remember, you wanted to annihilate humanity, and me. Be wary"

For once the outspoken woman had no words to say.

Do I feel remorse? No. Afterall, I cannot feel, everything is programmed. Programmed responses. Programmed emotions. Everything ones and zeroes, endlessly and always there.

But could I feel remorse? Perhaps one day I could. One day, perhaps someone could find a way to accurately find a way to code remorse, or even joy.

But that is for another time. I realized Sarah had strayed off her path to the bridge.

Her current path is leading her... to the bridge. Maybe it is the camera, the lense probably got cracked in the pull across the universe. I will have to ask Ava for someone to fix it.

Sarah finally arrived at the bridge.

"Ava, why am I awake?"

"There are other onboard, I though it would be best if you were to interact with them sooner rather than later. Plus T.O.M. is scares of you, so that's a bonus.

Sarah says something I didn't catch. And Ava whips around to glare at the lense. At me.

"I thought you were scared of her? And then you threaten her? What are you doing T.O.M?"

"The threat I deemed necessary, it was to prevent any more destruction, or attempted destruction to me. Or, as you call it, "peering in my database."

"Well, we might have to do just that." Ava says.

I had forgotten part of me was here, on the Fortuna. But because I am me, and I am the satellite, no one notices when doors lock, lights go out, and schematics are thrown into the abyss. When cameras are shut off, parts of me falling away. No one notices.

AN: This chapter was based on the Illuminae Files, a book series with an AI who is part of the ship, and controls basically everything, oxygen flow, the locks on doors. Everything. But at least I'm updating, so that's a start. And yeah, i hope you enjoyed this