Probably lost 99 percent of this stories viewers due to not uploading, but I was feeling like shit and felt the need to write so here's the next chapter.

Quick little note.

I might compile the current chapters and make a rewrite. Not a complete one but just me going back and linking everything together better, making very minor changes. Not sure if I'll do this though. Maybe if I have time.

This story was also inspired by the section of Skill Ups review of NieR: Automata where he went over Synaesthesia and how it was significant to the game.

"Do you think we should wake them up?" 6O asked Devola who smiled deviously and shook her head.

"Don't you dare. I'm getting insurance for myself in case A2 decides to make us her next victims." Devola said as she pulled out her phone then took pictures of the glorious sight before her.

"Your "Insurance" could lead us to your body in pieces in a ditch somewhere." 6O said and Devola waved her off as she took a few videos and pictures of 2B, Nines and A2 who were all asleep next to each other, Nines in the middle of 2B and A2. Everyone had fell asleep the previous night before going back inside and the next morning when 6O, Devola, and Popola woke up they found that 2B, Nines, and A2 had fallen asleep in a rather interesting placement which would not make 2B happy should she wake up. It could also make A2 pissed if she woke up before Nines who probably wouldn't think much of it.

"I'm pretty sure A2 is a heavy sleeper but 2B will wake up at the slightest sounds." 6O warned and Devola nodded as she put her phone away.

"If A2 is a heavy sleeper then why don't we just move her?" Devola asked and 6O shook her head.

"Yeah, I don't really feel like getting my arm ripped off if she wakes up." 6O said as she backed away from Devola who rolled her eyes and looked over to 2B.

"I'll just move 2B, then Nines away from A2." Devola said as she quietly walked up to 2B then put her hand on her shoulder and was about to move her over a bit but she found that her back was hurting and she wasn't upright anymore and reason why was because 2B had flipped her over her shoulder then pinned her to the ground by twisting her arm behind her back and placing her knee in her lower back. In the position she was in she wouldn't be going anywhere unless 2B let go which she hoped she did since the position she was in was not in any way comfortable.

"Vahrm suru sie kahil'la veratun talkal ouns!" 2B said something in that same warped language that Devola noticed she had spoken the night before and this time it was much clearer in the sense that she wasn't mumbling or asleep so she now knew that whatever she was saying wasn't just random ramblings. Devola was distracted from what she had learned as 2B pressed her knee downwards into her back and she groaned as pain pulsed through her sides.

"2B- AH! 2B IT'S ME! DEVOLA!" At this point 6O had woken Nines and A2 up and after some work they managed to pry 2B off of Devola and after she had been pryed off 2B snapped out of whatever trance she was in and just looked around confused while Nines, 6O and A2 slumped down to the ground exhausted. For some reason 2B had crazy strength that he didn't remember her having. 2B was strong by most definitions, but just now she seemed to have beyond human strength since it took the three of them to pry her off.

"Sis, are you alright?" Popola asked worriedly as she rushed over to her sister as soon as 2B was pulled off and Popola sighed in relief when Devola seemed to be fine.

"My back and shoulder hurt like crazy, but I'm fine." Devola said as she used her sisters shoulder as a crutch then pushed herself up onto her feat where she then shook all the dust off of her clothes before turning around to look at 2B who was looking around at them in pure confusion as she didn't remember what she did.

"Why are you all looking at me like that? What happened? What did I do?" 2B asked confusedly as she looked to each one of her friends hoping to get an answer to what had happened since the last thing she could remember was hitting the ground and everyone was now giving her odd looks.

"You flipped Devola over your shoulder and pinned her to the ground in some martial arts like way." 6O replied to 2B as she looked over at Devola apologetically.

As 2B apologized to Devola she tried to recall what might have made her do such a thing and all she could remember was a building similar to this and it had something to do with other people she though she recognized, but just like all the other dreams, they became blurry, the memory of it degraded until it was just a huge incomprehensible and unrecognizable mess. However, there was one thing that she remembered vividly and it was how emotionless she felt. On the outside she didn't express much but on the inside she was just like every other person who had feelings, though most of hers were towards Nines but she wasn't going to openly admit that. That empty feeling was so vivid and real that it made her sick to her stomach.

"2B, can you remember anything?" Nines asked as he crouched down in front of 2B who was ripped from her thoughts about her fuzzy memories and was pushed back into reality where she looked up at Nines as she tried to remember what her dream or memory was about.

"I don't remember much, but what I can remember was that in my dream or memory was that I was on a building similar to this and there was a few other girls here, too. I think." 2B replied as she stared at the red marks on Devola's wrist wondering how hard she had gripped her wrist. It looked painful and probably was so she reached out just slightly and touched Devola's wrist and she flinched but seemed to hod in whatever pain she felt.

"I don't remember doing anything, Devola I'm sorry." 2B apologized again and Devola just shook her head and sighed.

"It's fine. Something's going on with us and whatever you did wasn't you." Devola said and 2B frowned and looked down, slightly embarrassed that she attacked her friend and confused as to what was causing her to do these odd things.

"Wasn't me? It was my body that responded to my brain. How could it have not been me?" 2B asked and Devola shrugged.

"Well now we know something is wrong and we're not all crazy. Weird dreams, memories of things we think existed but don't, nostalgia, deja vu, feelings of guilt, longing and depression, a weird language and all of us are connected in some way. Anything else anyone wanna add to that list?" Nines asked and Devola, Popola and 2B shook their heads.

"Sounds about right." Devola said and Popola nodded in agreement.

"The other day on the school building I swear I saw the outline of a massive tower like structure, and for a second I swear some massive spherical and mechanical creature with two massive glowing red eyes was staring down at me... and last night when I told 2B I didn't want Nines I saw myself on my knees and massive white towers or walls or something were crumbling down around me... I remember Nines was there and he was carried off by something. At that point the memory or hallucination stopped, it happened so fast I barely had time to register much else." A2 said as she stood up and walked over to the group.

"Massive crumbling towers and me being carried off by something? Weird. Anything else." Nines asked and everyone but 6O shook their heads.

"Yesterday night when you introduced me to your mom I swear that I'd known her. Not in the "I saw you at the store" way but in a "I've known you or seen you many times." and just like A2 said, our surroundings seemed to change for a split second, like we weren't in the house anymore but some other place." 6O said and Nines hummed as she explained yesterday nights odd interaction with Nines mother.

"Surroundings changing? What did it look like?" Nines asked curiously.

"Well... uh... we were in the living room but it changed for a split second, I'm pretty sure there was curved tables with computer screens on them. Like a call center or something. All the walls were white and there was a massive black screen behind all the tables with a symbol and letters in white... and uh... hmm... I can't remember anything else." 6O replied as she sat down on a bench and watched Nines pace around in circles.

"Something everyone has in common is that the surroundings change and white and black is a popular color... This might sound crazy but what if humans do indeed have past lives and what we are doing is seeing parts of that?" Nines asked and Devola's lips curved upwards slightly as she tried to hold in a laugh.

"I'm serious! I've done my best to piece together what's been happening and I don't think these dreams we've been having are just dreams. They're memories. They have to be. What else could they possibly be?" Nines asked and no one replied.

"But if these odd things happening are our past lives why are we having memories of them now?" Devola asked and Nines shrugged.

"I don't know why but I know we are having them. It seems that certain events or sights can trigger the memories. Like when 2B started speaking that warped version of German. I couldn't quite understand what she said but she seemed to understand what I said." Nines said and 2B looked at Nines in slight confusion.

"But I don't know German. What did I say?" 2B asked curiously and Nines shook his head.

"I couldn't tell cause you were halfway through when I started to wake up." Nines replied.

"I believe you said: Vahrm suru sie Kahil'la veratun talkal Ouns. Or something like that." Devola said and 2B looked at her confused as she couldn't understand anything that she had said.

"In pronunciation terms, Vahrm is close to the word Warum which means 'why' and Ouns is close to Uns which could be 'you'... I can't really think of what the other words mean though." Nines said with a sigh.

"Maybe we'll have to wait till 2B or one of us has another flash back or whatever." Popola said and Nines nodded in agreement with her.

"We'll need to keep this to ourselves and we need to keep an eye out for anyone else that might be experiencing the same things as us." Nines said and everyone nodded in understanding.

For the rest of the day the group did as they usually did: hung out with each other. And while it was nice not having headaches or hallucinations it was frustrating to Nines who was trying to piece everything together and that was kinda hard when you had limited knowledge of what was going on and no further information could be gained. It had been quite a few hours since they had woken up and to say that it was frustrating was now an understatement, it was quite infuriating.

Nines had been on his phone looking up all the things happening to him and all that came up in his search was vague accounts of people thinking they experienced a past life which helped him none since they were nothing similar to what he and his friends were experiencing.

Another few hours and it was evening again and the group had been walking back from the store when A2 suddenly disappeared somewhere and after looking everywhere they eventually found her at the fence of a massive industrial building just staring at it which was kinda weird, but Nines got slightly excited as the building felt familiar and his head started to throb.

"A2 there you are, we were looking everywhere for you." Nines said as he ran up to her, getting no response at all. "A2? You alright?" Nines asked and he still got no response and while he stared at her he looked up at the massive factory building behind her and he felt chills go up his spine.

"Hey, Nines, I don't like the feeling I'm getting from this place." 6O said as she walked up to Nines and A2.

"I don't either but it feels really familiar." Nines said as he backed up a bit. "I feel like I've been her multiple times. What is this place?" Nines asked.

"It's a building my father owns. It's labeled as a forgery for steel I beams but I heard him talk about robotics one night when he got a little to drunk with some colleagues of his." A2 replied to Nines and both Devola and Popola groaned and leaned against each other.

"You guys alright?" Nines asked and the two twins shook their heads.

"I... I don't know why but this place terrifies me... I... I... I-I-I didn't fail. Nicht Gestalt! Nicht Gestalt!" As Popola yelled Nines noticed her eyes had dulled just like 2B's had, and she had said two things in German, one word he understood and the other he did not.

"Popola, calm down! What's wrong? Popola?" Devola said as she hugged Popola who was now starting to calm down. "Everything's fine. I'm right here." Devola rubbed her sisters back and tried to sooth her and while she did she looked up to Nines wanting an answer. "What was she saying?" Devola asked and Nines sighed.

"She said "Not Gestalt! Not Gestalt!" though I don't know what Gestalt is?" Nines replied as he watched Popola's eyes regain their color.

"Gestalt has something to do with fragments of something, I think." 6O said as she remembered hearing the word on some science show a year or so back.

"Fragments of something? You remember anything else?" Nines asked and 6O shook her head.

"Nope. I heard the word like a year ago so I don't remember much about it." 6O replied and Nines sighed.

"I'll have to look it up later. Why don't we get out of here?" Nines asked and everyone nodded their heads. Well, everyone but A2 who was still interested in the factory. A2 hesitantly backed away from the chain link fence and caught up with the others who had started walking back to 6O's apartment. On the way there everyone was a bit on edge, the factory gave off that sickeningly nostalgic feeling and unlike most times it didn't just disappear, it lingered and left a bad taste in everyone's mouth even as they walked back to 6O's apartment.