Sorry guys, the bad news is: this isn't an update.

But the good news is: this isn't me telling you that I'm giving up on this fic.

I've gotten a request from aiTaiOrihara (thanks so much for your feedback!) about posting an explanation of the events in Hypothesis so far, just to clarify things and straighten out the timeline (because God knows I probably messed everything up in the interlude). So for those lost souls out there, I apologize for the confusion and offer the following as compensation. Note that there will be more on the history of Aperture Science in the second arc, so I'll leave that out for now. I'll just go over what has already been covered in the first arc and the interlude.

To start off, a group of scientists build an AI they called MIM (Managerial Interface Module). Gil Fisher (aka Fishlegs) and his colleague (Henry) are two of those scientists working on MIM. The problem is that she attempts to kill everyone whenever she is activated, so they are trying to come up with a solution to fix that. They attach morality cores to MIM to act as a conscience, which evidently doesn't work because she just pretends to behave so that she can get access to the neurotoxin. Fishlegs realizes what her plan is and goes into hiding, so that's why he survives the massacre when she unleashes the poison. While on the run, he sneaks into the file room and changes the test subject order so that the next test subjects will be Hiccup and Jack.

Now let's rewind to the first chapter. Jack and Hiccup are awakened for testing (after MIM had cleaned up the facility to erase any traces of previous life in it). Toothless gets incinerated, Jack is almost shot, Hiccup nearly falls to his death, and they are separated in the last test. Hiccup is thrown into the fire while Jack is portaled outside the test chambers, where he starts to search for MIM to confront her.

Fishlegs is diagnosed with schizophrenia, and between the time he escaped to the time Jack and Hiccup woke up, he has been lying low in the facility and painting clues all around. He talks to Astrid, a Companion Cube of his own, which he carries around everywhere. While lurking in the background, he chances upon Jack escaping a turret ambush on his way to MIM's control room. He had chosen Jack and Hiccup to be the best candidates to work together and defeat MIM (due to their tenacity), so he gains hope when he sees Jack and decides to follow/help him.

Jack defeats MIM and is sent to the surface, but then he gets knocked out by one of MIM's robots, dragged back into the facility, and put into long-term relaxation (the comatose state he was in before he was woken up in the beginning). Fishlegs sees this and chooses to give up his freedom to try and save him, but the explosion in the final battle had screwed with the power, preventing him from releasing Jack. He gets shot while trying to free him, but then Astrid tells him to reroute the reserve power into Jack's room to keep him alive. In other words, Jack will remain in that state until someone awakens him for testing again. With Jack taken care of, Fishlegs enters a relaxation pod of his own which puts him to sleep for an indefinite period of time.

And that's where the interlude ended.

If anyone has any doubts or questions, please feel free to leave a review or PM me and I'll try to address them.

Thanks for reading!

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