The next few months went by with no event. Some new people came through, and had their testing done. Some people came up with new games. There were people playing some of them every few feet. It got incredibly boring. I didn't particularly like any of the new games. 88 got into one, but I don't remember what it was called.

I grew more restless throughout the dragging months. Part of me wanted something exciting to happen, but the calmer part of me didn't want excitement to "cross a line". I silently wished for something different, something new to do. But when I remembered we would eventually go outside, I relaxed yet again. That would be enough to refresh me for a while alone, and I soon realized this was probably the reason they had set that up in the first place. To keep us from getting too bored.

Finally, the day came when we got to go outside. Even I could tell 88 was pleased. As we once again filed outside, I took a deep breath. I hadn't realized it before, but there was something exciting about going outside.

"Hey," 88 whispered on our way to our spots, "What do you think's out there?" She gestured towards the fence, and I knew she was continuing our first conversation from last time.

I sighed, "Nothing. Exactly like they told us."

"Obviously, that's not true. You can see the trees and bushes through the fence clearly!" It was true, there was a forest just beyond the fence.

"It probably doesn't go far," I countered.

"I think they're hiding something. Something they don't want us to know about," She said, "I think, that whatever it is, You and me could take it."

"You're not seriously planning on going out there?" I asked.

"What if I am?" She countered in her sass filled way, "Would you go with me?"

"Of course not! That's insane!"

"It's not like we couldn't handle anything!"

"We would get ourselves killed before we got 5 feet," I argued.

"Where's your spirit of adventure?" She asked. I knew it was meant to be a harmless sentence, but something about it stirred my insides. Like a forgotten memory. Which was impossible, I remembered every second of my life. No one had ever said that to me, but still.

"Not out there, that's for sure," I said as I recovered from the moment of, quote unquote, "deja vu".

"But you could still find it out there!"

"I'm not going, you're not going, that's final." I said.

"Whatever, Mom," she said with a roll of her eyes. I let her have the last words, because for the most part, I was sure I had won that battle.

But of course, There was still the war to be won.

As we got to our spots, I turned around one last time to glance at 88, who winked at me. I just rolled my eye's and turned around. Once again, we went through the drills, then waited for the dismissal to "socialize".

I sensed motion behind me as the the formation broke. I turned around, expecting 88 to be there, once again walking up to me in that arrogant way, but did not get that. In fact, I didn't see 88 at all, I was confused as to where she went, until I saw something that shocked me deeply.

The fence was right behind us.

There was a gap in the fence, barely big enough to squeeze through.

And through that gap, were plants swinging in an unnatural way, as if someone had ran through them.

Instantly I looked to the weird guard doctor, but he had his attention elsewhere. I knew I shouldn't have taken my eyes off her! Damnit 88!

There was only one thing left to do, I had to bring her back.

I ran through the gap and pushed my way through, and luckily no one noticed. I sprinted through the forest, searching for obvious trails of 88, but I couldn't find any. I wasn't built for this type of thing, tracking and being in the forest, so it became much more difficult. After running for a while, I slowed down, and instead of trying to catch up with her, trying to think what 88 would have done. It was obvious. She would search for some big monster that she could destroy.

After pondering where she might have gone, A thought struck me. How far had I gone?

As I turned around to see merely more forest that all looked the same, a more important thought struck me. How was I going to get back?

I hadn't just ran straight, I think I made a few turns. Did I? I wasn't sure. I was completely lost. I wondered if 88 was realizing the same thing, wherever she was. I hoped she was sorry, but knowing 88, she probably wasn't.

Maybe, if there was really nothing out here, there was an edge? If I kept going, maybe I could find an edge. I started sprinting through the forest again, hoping to find this edge I had to hit eventually. Right?

Pretty soon, though, I tired. The sky had faded from blue, and was currently a deep pink. I wondered if I could even sleep without charging. For that matter, how long could my batteries go without charging? I wracked my brain to see if I could remember anyone saying. I felt like one person said a few days, but I didn't know for sure. The thought scared me, but at least if I rested, it might last longer. Not knowing what else to do, I climbed a tree, and as the stars came out, I attempted to sleep without charging for the first time. It worked.

Yay! Moving the story along! SO yeah, This too was gonna be longer, but I split it up because it was too long. In my opinion. So half! yeah. And thank you people for all the support! ^^