Humans, after hearing an android had been caught near the entrance of the cave, began to gather in the main foyer area. There had to be at least fifty or sixty humans in this place. It shocked her. She would have never thought this many humans were living freely undetected by the robots. They were smart to keep this up. And she was fairly sure this place would be the last sight she would see. The gun that was pressed against her head was taken away for now. It was as if this humans were waiting for something.

Then everything was silent, the only sounds coming forth were those of someone pushing through a crowd. The man finally made it to where she was, huffing and trying to catch his breath as he stood over her. She looked up at him with her blue eyes that shinned an iridescent pink in the dim light coming from the oil lamps that lit the cave. This man over her. He seemed....familiar. So familiar. And for a moment, just a moment, an image flashed in her head. Of this man smiling down at her, chuckling, his arm wrapped around her shoulders.

She was extremely confused. What was that? Why had she thought that? But then, something told her it wasn't something she had just randomly thought. No, the image and sounds had been too real. This was....was....a memory? But, she wasn't supposed to have memories. And the warm feelings she got from the memory were just as strange. An android wasn't supposed to have memories of their human lives. Nor were they supposed to 'feel' or have 'emotions'. They lived to serve their Creators. And her Creator was a robot who wanted her to kill humans.

And yet, she refused. She had refused to kill for the first time when she looked into the eyes of that child. And now, she felt sick just even thinking about killing anymore humans. She refused to kill any more humans. Something had snapped inside of her, and she had a feeling there was no means of technology that could fix it. The robot's best choice would be to terminate her. That is, if these humans didn't beat them to it.

It hurt. She didn't know why it did. Something about this human in front of her caused so many confusing feelings within her. When his face screwed in pain and turned away, telling them to kill her, and the man rose the gun to her, she wanted them to do it. Something about him not wanting her alive, made her wish it so.

But, someone apparently had other wishes.

There was a loud shout of 'no!'. A child's voice. A boy no older then six years old dashed over and much to the suprise of all the adults in the room, threw his arms around the android. It was instinct what the android girl did next. With her arms tied, she couldn't do much, but she turned as fast as she could so that her back was to the man with the gun and she was leaned over the boy in a protective fashion to shield him, fearful of the gun setting off, whether it be by accident or purposely. For some reason, she couldn't let this boy get hurt. She sat there leaned over him, her eyes closed tightly, waiting for the pain of bullets in her back.

But the gun didn't go off. All of the people in the room stood there in shock a second before mummers began. This was something unheard of. An android [i]protecting[/i] a human? It was insane! Crazy! And yet here it was.

The man slowly and unsurely lowered the gun and the in the pause of taking her life, Cassie slowly lifted her head and opened her eyes to look around confused.

The little boy moved slightly, still hugging the android, but glaring at the man with the gun and Lucien, “You're not hurting Auntie Cassie!”

By this time, Toni and Jodie stepped up. Jodie was more hesitant, while Antonio was more of interested and confused, “Jake. Get over to your mother.” The boy opened his mouth to protest, but his father cut him off, “Now Jacob.”

Jacob looked up at Cassie, obviously not wanting to leave her, but she just nodded to him in an assuring fashion, nudging him toward the woman with her shoulder, “...go...”

The boy hugged the woman tightly before slowly moving toward his mother, eyeing the crowd.

When the boy was gone, Toni held up his hand to the man with the gun, telling him to stand down and back up. If anything happened, Toni had his own gun with him. He didn't need anyone interfering. He slowly circled her a few times, though something caught his eyes and he knelt down, looking at her left arm closely before his eyes widened, “The tracker's gone. Someone cut it out.” His blue eyes looked up to his sister's face and she nervously looked back at him. Standing up, he ordered the man who had taken her bag to bring it to him. Digging through it, he found a bloodied knife, as well as something that shocked him even more. The tracker, broken, crushed.

Throwing the bag over his back, his bent down and lifted Castille over his shoulder(earning a yelp of suprise from her), looking around at the people, “Everyone! Back to your nests!”

Slowly, most of the people dispersed, some silent while others talking excitedly/worriedly about the events taking place.

Toni looked at Jodie, “Take Jake back to our quarters and keep him there.” Then his gaze turned back to Uncle, “I'm taking her to the lab. I want to scan her.” And it seemed the twenty eight year old wasn't giving Uncle or anyone else left a chance to argue because he was already heading that way. The equipment in the labs was mostly build by himself and Uncle, so he knew how to use it just as well as the old man. He dropped the android/his sister onto one of the tables they had there, where she sat, looking around fearfully and wide eyed, unsure of what was going to happen to her.

As Toni rummaged through some of the things in the lab, obviously looking for something, he spoke to uncle, uncaring of anyone else besides the old man who might be there, “My suspicions is she cut the tracker out herself. But the question is. Why? And more importantly, how did she find her way here? Something doesn't add up Uncle.” He shifted things aside and finally pulled off to slips of thin rolled paper, before pulling out a scanner. Placing the two slips of paper to the side, he turned to Cassie holding the scanner up, looking at the readings. There seemed to be a spark of confirmation in his eyes as he nodded his head, and set the scanner down, moving one of the slips to the left of the scanner and one to the right, “Look at this Uncle. Look at the readings for androids.” He pointed to the slip on the left, “Almost no mind readings at all. It's because they take orders from the robots and have no emotions of their own. Now look at the readings for a normal human.” He pointed to the right slip, “Off the charts. Humans have thoughts, emotions, and readings off the charts because they have all of these on their own. The only ones who controls these thoughts and emotions are their own.” He moved to show uncle the scanner, “These are Cassie's readings. Look at it Uncle. These are not the readings of an Android. But....they're not quite human. Yet.” He looked at the older man, “Look at all the signs. Her readings, her finding her way here, her trying to protect Jake. Even cutting her tracker out. It...it sounds like she's trying to override her programming. We've seen it happen before in robots. What....what if it can happen in Androids too?”
He looked over at his sister before speaking again, “If she becomes a threat, then yes we should kill her. But, so far, she hasn't shown any signs of attack like normal Androids do. She didn't even fight when we took her weapons and tied her up. But I say, we give her a few days. See the progress if she is overriding her programming. Not only would it be good for our research in stopping the robots, but it also but give us Cassie back.” He looked back to Uncle, “What do you say?