Fanfiction or Original story: Fanfiction

Fandom or Genre: Ninjago

Any ships?: Pixane, lots and lots of awkward cute Pixane.

Book rating: YA or PG-13

Synopsis: Cyrus Borg has concocted an amazing new research experiment, and it's ruining his relationship with his favorite test subject and one and only teenage robot daughter, Pixal. While Cyrus calls this experiment, "Project Feelings," Pixal calls it, "Project E.V.I.L," for the turmoil that it brings her, and what it tests through putting her in different social situations. Emotions, values, intelligence, and love. With fake-dating her best friend since creation, psychological experiments, and facing the alien planet called high school, will she crack under the pressure?

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I cannot believe I am saying this, but my father, Cyrus Borg, is a nutjob.

He has lost his marbles, he is off his wheelchair, whatever expression that means he is acting absolutely insane right now.

He has just suggested to me and my best friend Zane that we should participate in an experiment of his that tests if I have feelings.

I have told him again and again, that I have feelings! But he insists that it would be critical to test and study them. Yay...

This social and psychological experiment contains things like: getting a job, going to high school, joining extracurricular activities, making human friends, exploring the world, neural tests every day, and worst of all, fake-dating my best friend.

How did he know? Am I that obvious?

Fathers are not supposed to catch on to that kind of thing, but to be fair, it has been going on for a long time.

For as long as I can remember, Zane and I have been hanging out together, as his father/creator and mine are close friends and former business partners. And for as long as I can remember, Zane has been irresistibly huggable and irresistibly cute.

He is pretty tall, so he could potentially be intimidating to anyone who does not know him and his cute little smile that would not hurt a fly.

He's just a big curious brainiac teddy bear.

And whenever he asks me some ridiculously complicated question, I have to try to find an answer, because if I do not, he will frown like a sad puppy, and that just makes my processors sink to the floor.

I am hopelessly in love with Zane Julien.

Which is exactly why this experiment will not work.

I will probably slip up and say something stupid, like "I love you."

Or I will just collapse every time he touches me, FSM forbid if he kisses me.

Wait, kisses me? That would never happen. My imagination is getting too out of hand.

He's just an amazingly adorable gentleman that I cannot help but follow anywhere.

So, I cannot do this. But, I always try to please my father, and...being Zane's girlfriend would not just be something that lived in my dreams.

Given, it would be fake, but...an android girl can hope.

And even though I know this will end badly, for all three of us, a part of me still wants to say yes.

The benefits way out the negatives, at least in the spur of the moment.

What can one little experiment do?

***I don't know how the heck I came up with this concept, but I love it. And who doesn't love a fake-dating/high school/childhood best friend AU where Pixal gets some good character development? I'll probably start on this after I finish Lawless Love and the other books for that AU.***