"And that's the story." Mage muttered at the counter somewhat indifferent. She had rattled on and told the events that surrounded the return of the Axiom to planet Earth. It was strange, aside from telling the Captain and a few close others, she never had bothered to tell anyone about the events surrounding the Axiom's landing.

"You don't say..." The one who had listened to the teacher's relay of the story leaned over curiously and flexed their wings.

It had been awhile since Mage ever bothered to talk to anyone outside the "family", but the teacher found kinship in this new individual; a slender and pale woman with long locks of white hair, wearing a white metallic suit with tints of lavender. She had stood out immediately; Mage knew she must be an android of some build (although where she came from was a complete mystery) due to the fact that she was a stick compared to the still stocky humans. Seeing that Mage was done telling the story the android stood up and gave a nod.

"I need to head back now, we'll talk again some other time." the albino android said as she stood up, "I'm always traveling, I'll see you next time I'm here..." she trailed off before she leaned down to shake hands with the bird. "Mage wasn't it."

"Yes..." the bird replied, "and I'm afraid I never caught yours."

"Mine?" she paused for a moment, "It... It's Sigourn." she smiled.

"Sigourn eh?" Mage took the name in, "rather interesting.... well, same time, same place, same old watering hole?"

"Exactly."

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It has been approximately 2 years since the Axiom has landed. Things have been going smoothly I must say. Already the areas surrounding the landed ships have been showing signs of life and vegetation. Recollecting in my memory, it almost looks like the wild west of yore. Things are simple, as they should be, with each ship seeing over a town or city. Obviously the Axiom is the biggest of these cities. Aside from the robots and several other appliances taken from the ships, it also seems as if Earth has turned the clock back on technology. Fortunately for the humans, the land around the Axiom is very fertile from the ancient sea floor; kept shielded by the sun from the layer of sea salt and dirt that formed over it, only six inches into the ground and it seems to be ripe for growing. Also, since the National Forests were preserved, there are still safe patches of haven in an otherwise dusty landscape. We decided that our place of residence would be in a forest by the name of Yellow Stone. At least that was one thing that Buy and Large did right; it was maintaining these parks.

And now instead of Buy and Large, it is now "Aperture Science". That is, the three of us; GLaDOS, Chell, and I, using this clunky flying machine and doing routine maintenance on machinery that has broken down, such as water towers and the like. The repairs have been somewhat difficult to manage. Larger buildings have been left to Mother Nature, and many of these large edifices had been maintained by the large computer network that was once the second world of Earth. The internet that once was a life force of Earth has all but been erased, and trying to attain information from what service we could get was forcibly stopped by a program called "JD". As to what this JD program is, even GLaDOS is not sure, but it's a mystery best left unsolved. The real world is what needs tending to.

Speaking of the real world, it seems that a strange new creature has evolved and adapted to the land, they somewhat resemble large slugs, but are much quicker than their smaller brethren. They seem to be attracted to the towns we and the humans have built, although they prefer plains and forested areas as well. They're sometimes a hindrance, since the like to bounce atop electric lines and sap energy for their own purposes. For lack of better word, I guess I will document them as "Nulls". Sometimes we find them nearby the Aperture Marine; Chell wants to see if we can tame one for closer examination, although I think she wants one as a pet....

In other events, the hatching was a success, although unlike Otua, Auto has two eyes, with the exception that one is still like Otua's blue aperture eye, only his is red. He also seems to be better built, he's more human-like then her, and also has two hands. (We have yet to actually bother to see where he keeps his tazer, although since Otua broke it in the battle with him, it might not have even been registered in the hatching process.) He's seem to have done a complete turnaround in his personality since the eradication of A-113 from his system, although he is still the commanding and orderly type.

Speaking of pilots, Otua has been doing fine alongside her friends. It seems that after the Axiom landing, the quartet split and went their different ways. Last I remember Kirie and Sae had stayed in the Axiom city, what purpose I can't remember. Otua and Mage have been in contact off and on with Auto, bringing the average of two star liners a month back to planet Earth. Otua has been eager to receive new upgrades, since she's been around the technology of the latter BnL ships and feels out dated as a result. I know that GLaDOS plans on giving her the core updates that had originally given to her when she was first manufactured. Although I don't tell it to her face, I dread to see what an Otua with an obsession with fish would act.

And... Otua... I swear I've never seen GLaDOS cry (or at least attempt to) so much in my entire existence. It took us longer than planned to arrive back on Earth, much less find the blue protopilot, but we did. The fact that she was reunited with her family after almost a millennia, the initial shock of just seeing us almost brought Otua into an overload of emotions...

Well, color me blue, that sounds like the young protopilot right now....