A/N: so here is my bit of OMGWTFBBQ-crack that spawned from beating the game, overthinking at 3am, and KOS-MOS... because KOS-MOS...

i'm a MAJOR Xeno-series nerd, i literally have all the games in some fashion, have played through them multiple times (Xenogears in particular) and while i know all the legality and 'technically' none of these are 'officially' related, just spiritual sequels or made by the same people, hey i'm one of those crazy fans that could link them all together and be proud! so this will have a few references to previous entries in the series cause why not! this is about as far into the crack bin as i've gone, its really weird that its almost serious!

... and yes this is just an excuse for 'Babies Ever After' cause i think that'd be hilarious!

and again, its all KOS-MOS' fault! :D

ENJOY!

Project NOAH (Or how KOS-MOS messed up Elysium)

Traveling through a cave system in the outskirts of Elysium, Herald came upon a large metal door.

Waving one of her black gloved hands, the mecha-dragon shell copying her motion, she unlocked the thick steel door, its old mechanism surging to life to pull back, revealing a large hollowed out structure inside.

Herald simply hovered on through, the heavy metal door closing behind her. The mecha-dragon-esque Blade passed several pillars, structural supports for this base they had found, which the two Blades had filled with all manner of ancient human technology they managed to find. Salvaging was still something adapting to the new actual waters of Elysium, and while most human salvagers weren't used to it yet, Herald and her partner were more than capable of surpassing the depths to recover ancient technology.

Their goal had been pieces of the orbital station, as Herald's partner had informed her the World Tree was once called.

Herald didn't understand this technology. Nothing in her memory could explain what it was and her intuition told her to leave it alone. But there were pieces… large mechanical constructs, similar to the Artifices that the Aegises could control, that often gave her pause. More than a few… their parts were similar in design to the mechanical dragon her fleshy body was trapped in. her partner said there was a reason for it, not that Herald fully understood.

Passing by the hulking husks of Artifices, Sovereigns, and various other bits and pieces of ancient human constructs, Herald finally came within the artificial light of her end goal.

"Herald," a pale blue haired battle android spoke softly, her red eyes never leaving the digital screens in front of her, "You have returned."

"I have," the pale purple haired Blade nodded, her mecha-dragon head mimicking the motion, as the large Blade hovered forward, holding out her hand, the mecha-dragon hand reaching out just the same, opening to reveal a glowing piece of what looked like glass, "I have recovered another piece of the… database… you requested, KOS-MOS."

KOS-MOS finally turned to her partner, stiffly shifting her view from the offered hand to Herald's face, "Thank you, Herald." Then retrieved the piece in both hands, looking it over before moving to a large rack system nearby, finding the appropriate slot and placing the crystal looking pieces inside.

The strange machine KOS-MOS had been working on for years whirred more, a light going around, and something new popped up on the largest screen.

The only part of it Herald could understand, as it was writing in an old human code that only KOS-MOS seemed capable of understanding, was a picture of what looked to be a core crystal, with gibberish coming off it, "What is this, KOS-MOS?"

The stoic battle android seemed to stare at the screen a moment, the numbers and hieroglyphics running across her eyes as she processed them. Then it seemed as if she smiled very lightly, "Exactly what I was looking for, Herald."

The pale purple haired Blade blinked, turning to her partner, "This is it?"

That odd smile did not leave KOS-MOS' face, as she moved past Herald to go to a command terminal, putting in codes and the depiction on the screen changed, "Indeed, it is," hitting a few more keys, the picture altered, showing the primary core crystal and then a string of gibberish, with depictions of Blades and Titans, "With this we will be capable of doing what is necessary to prosper on this new land."

Herald turned to her partner, looking at her for a long second before finally deciding what to say, "KOS-MOS, is this… right?"

The battle android stopped typing, staring at the space in front of her for a long second processing the question. When KOS-MOS finally decided on an answer, she actually turned back to her partner, the Blade that had followed her in her quest for this data since they were all but set free to roam Elysium at their leisure with the consent of their Drivers. For Blades, at least prior to Elysium, back in Alrest, time was something that had passed without consequence. Now, their time was short, and precious, and KOS-MOS could say that in some way she had enjoyed this time spent productively with the help of a like-minded Blade like Herald.

Holding out her gloved hand, KOS-MOS took the mecha-dragon's hand as Herald's own gripped air.

"I… hope… this is right." Shaking Herald's hand a moment, KOS-MOS let go and turned back to her work, "Without the conduit our immortality is in jeopardy. Without the Titans we have nothing to return to." Hitting a key, the screens all around them lit up, a stream of code running across the screen.

'Ye shall be as gods'

"With this, we may save our species."

All over Elysium, unique Blades had a momentary pause as their core crystals seemed to blip!

For most, this was just a momentary lapse, a curiosity but overall ignored and not mentioned again.

For a few it gave away their positions and they had to run from monsters or rogues.

For others it wasn't even noticed.

A/N: 'Ye shall be as god' or 'Ye shall be as gods' are phrases that have been used throughout the series, namely as the code running across the screen in the intro to Xenogears when Deus awakens and KOS-MOS original's activation code... so CLEARLY it needs to be implemented here in Xenoblade in SOME fashion~ its tradition!

now prepare for madness and Herald being oddly cute! :D

Till next -salute-waves- Sayounara, Mina!

-Ikasury