Rebooted

Chapter 1

     "Thank you all for taking me in and making me feel accepted. You really made me feel like I was family. Chase, I know we didn't get along the best, but I'm really going to miss you a lot. Adam, you may not be the brightest, but you're so funny. Thanks for always making me laugh. And Bree, I never would have survived living with three guys without you. Thanks for being the closest thing to a sister for me." Bree laughed and sniffled a bit, smiling at me. I wrapped the granola bar wrapper around my hand and aimed it towards the monitor, positioning it by the bars. Before I placed my hand on it, I turned back to them and sighed.

"Tell Marcus I love him." I placed my hand on the bar and electricity shot through my spine. I screamed as pain ripped through me like a knife.

System overload. Cannot compute.

With a final spark, I collapsed to the ground, and after a little bit of twitching, blackness closed in, and my system shut down forever.

Voices... familiar voices. I picked up on the tail end of the conversation between two males.

"No, Douglas, that wire goes in her arm," one of them sighed.

"Which arm?" The other snapped. "She has two of them!"

"The one that she put on the bars!" There was brief silence, likely for the second man to put in this wire.

"It's your fault one of the greatest pieces of technology in years was destroyed..."

"My fault? You're the one who kidnapped her and forced her to sit in that cell like some sort of caged animal. If you hadn't captured all of us, maybe we wouldn't be in this mess." Suddenly, I felt something attached to me shoot up very quickly, and there was a yelp of pain. "S-Skai...?" I still couldn't see, but everything else seemed to be working.

"Wh-who are you, and how do you know my name? And why can't I see?" I demanded, but quickly clamped my mouth shut. There was something about my voice that was... deeper.

"Skai, it's me... Mr. Davenport." That name... there was something about it...

The sensation of something being struck erupted in my artificial skull. Davenport. The family that rescued me, took me in...

and the same one that kidnapped me.

"Wh-which one?" I think I shot up straight and began backing up, but because I couldn't see, my balance was poor and I fell down.

"The one who rescued you," he assured me. I almost relaxed, if not for the fact that there was another voice around me.

"Who's the other person?" There was silence. "Tell me!" I demanded. I felt something akin to a pulsation in the back of my brain, and suddenly, my eyes flew open, revealing both Davenport brothers standing in front of me. Upon seeing the brown-haired man, my eyelids lowered and my fists clenched, not matching my teeth. "What are you doing here?"

"Relax, Skai," the first Mr. Davenport attempted to assure me. "He's not going to hurt you."

"I can't take your word on that," I growled. "He used his android to trick me and held us all hostage. And... he killed Leo..." They exchanged a glance, tipping me off that I had missed something.

"Skai," the other Davenport began, "Leo is very much alive, and I'm sorry for what I did. I know sorry isn't good enough, but it's all I can offer you."

"It will take a lot for you to earn my trust. And so help me, if you brought Marcus-"

"Marcus is dead." I tried to be relieved, but oddly enough, I felt this dropping sensation in my chest.