Chapter One, Story One.

Seeing You Again

Everything in the control room filckered and glistened from the artificial lighting being made on the other side of the four-inch thick glass.

but that was the last thing on the Twin Stars team's mind. At this point they were praying that it would work, after months and months of hard work.

the team was comprised of countless electricans, engineers, roboticists, and computer scentists along with the four heads of each are of these androids, and the chief of staff, Mitsuki Yagami.

She stood on a small terrace, her hands grippping the railing, eyes stairing ahead intensely at the two plexiglas cases on the other side of the window. the four others stood just steps away either watching, or guiding the power people on how much.

it had been ten minutes, and the was only a small reaction. "Increase Power!" Mitsuki yelled, her sapphire eyes burning. "We can't, Mitsuki-san! we're at full power already!" called out Professor Ochanomizu, head of the circutry department. She gritted her teeth, and racked her genius brain for a plan. "Computer! Call the power company! Tell them to Re-Route ALL avaliable power to Lab 5 NOW!" "Mitsuki! What the hell are you doing!" she heard Yami behind her. Sh glanced back at Tenma. " This is it, the only way to revive them!"

Outside the Ministry of Science, it became a blackout.

Power Surged into the chamber, so suddenly and so violently that it broke the plexiglass. mitsuki was a little worried until she heard someone call "Power Charging! 80%!" the power was shut off in less than ten seconds, and Mitsuki and Tenma burst into the chamber. Two children sat up and looked around, looking rather like lost children in their , the boy, had black "hair" in two spikes. he also wore red boots. he looked like a normal ten year old boy. The little girl however was beautiful. she had Teal eyes and hair and a adorable face. She was the first to speak as well. "W-Where are we?"

Mitsuki and Tenma both proceeded to tell them who they were, where they were going, and why they were there. the team tested them in walking, flying, shooting, and in Usako (or Miku, as Mitsuki had secretly christened her when working on the computers brain and A.I.) Singing. her voice was beautiful, a melodious high voice with a slight computerized undertone.

They were exactly like real children, and Tenma was overjoyed.

As the new family left, the two children waved goodbye, smiling and looking over their shoulders at Mitsuki and Ochanomizu. " Doctor." Mitsuki began. "Yes, what is it?" " I get the feeling that this will be the first and last time that i will see them allive and happy, truly happy." the man smiled uneasily. "Mitsuki, i have that same feeling."

Almost a year went by from that day, and the two scientists had been correct.

Tenma had realized that since they were robots, his children would never grow physically. He began to harbour a secret hatred for them, over someting Tobio and Usako could never control. Growing robot technology had been availible however it had just been proven, so therefore the technology still had some kinks in it and the project just didn't have the time and money to utilize it. As the days went on, Tenma became not only hateful, but afraid of his robot children. the Twin Stars project was huge success because they were able to bestow two androids with what many scientists were debating about at the time. it was a program that went with the A.I. called Kokoro.

According to the story of the program, it was created by a scientist who had lost his only daughter to a horrible illness, and, just like Tenma, had created an Android in her image. but at the time she wsa monotonous robot, no feeling, nothing. he died working on the program and, legend has it, she found the file that contained it and was bestowed with feeling. she become sad due to her creators dedication to her and falls apart because the file is too big for her to handle. Or so the story says. Kokoro made the user self aware, and could think for itself, along with devloping emotions.

Due to the content of Kokoro, Tenma became frightened that his son would turn on him, since Tobio was given wepons and was very strong. the family returned to lab 7 where "Tobio" rebelled and destroyed a conveyor belt. "I'm sorry, father.i just didn't want them to die." the young boy said guiltily. Tenma reached inside his coat pocket and pulled out a curio ring and grabbed tobio on the shoulder. Usako saw what he was about to do. "FATHER NO!" the electricity sent the poor girl flying. throughout the room, the sound of a disturbingly loud crack that would make anyone who was there shudder, echoed. Miku's teal eyes held no reflection, just a deep pulsing hole of teal turning to black.

Tobio's eyes widened and filled with tears. He ran over and picked up his sister, kneeling next to her limp body. He hugged it and knew the end was near. "Father, i will die quietly. you may deactivate me, but always remember," he turned to face his father, brown eyes burning. "Your time is up. All efforts to reach us have failed. I may forgive you in the future... but you need to remember her face, the terror and pain she went through to save me." and he fell over with a zap of the ring. he picked them up and sold them to Kaiba Corp. Sitting in the truck, Tobio used the very last of his power to tell his sister something. in a voice the crackled with static and white noise he whispered. "I'll see you again. Someday."

A few months later, as Tobio was renamed to Mitsuki's chosen name for him, Astro, Professor Ochanomizu muttered something to him. "Astro, i wish your sister could see you."

"My Sister...?"