Chapter 1: Chase

"KOS-MOS! Activate Hilbert effect!" shouted Shion as she lifted herself from her seat, turning her head to meet eyes with the blue-haired android above her. It was dark. The ES was small, and to make matters worse, a gnosis was now on their tail. It was a surprise attack that no one had expected- this was only supposed to be a quick flight from Second Miltia to the Kukai Foundation. Now Shion just wished they would have taken the Durandal…

"Yes Shion." The android replied in monotone- red eyes beginning to glow. "Shion. For unknown reasons the Hilbert Effect is unable to materialize the gnosis- it is remaining in imaginary number state. If this continues there is a 97.6% chance of defeat." KOS-MOS looked gravely down at Shion. The brunette frowned, green glasses-clad eyes looking down at the controls of their ES. The Gnosis was gaining on them.

"KOS-MOS…" Shion sighed, "maybe you're malfunctioning, I'll call MOMO and see if her Hilbert Effect will…" Shion didn't continue she just punched in the ES Zebulin's number. They weren't to far ahead-they were in danger as well.

"SHION!!" a pink haired girl translucently appeared in front of Shion's wind shield. "Shion… I'm sorry the gnosis is gaining I can feel it…"

"Momo! You know about the gnosis?" Shion, once again lept from her seat in panic. Not a pathetic kind of panic, but the kind a leader gets when defending their people. Shion was more worried about her friends, and the people of the near by Kukai Foundataion than herself at this point.

"Yes Shion. I'm sorry, I tried to activate the Hilbert Effect, but it didn't…" The small girl's face was breaking up, "Shion I don't think this is…" her face was gone.

"Damnit…" Shion said underneath her breath. She didn't like to use language unlike Jr. who took great pride in mouthing obscenities. "JR!" Shion cried, turing back to KOS-MOS. "KOS-MOS, call the ES Asher and warn them about the gnosis. I'll call Jin and see if he's okay, maybe he's at the foundation by now." This was all Jr.'s fault… well not quite. The fact that they were there in the ES was his doing. Jr. was so eager to test the new upgrades to Asher that he wanted to show Gaignun right away. The Elsa was still having work done, and the Durandal would have to come all the way to Second Miltia to pick them up, so at the time it didn't seem like a bad idea. They hadn't counted on this…

"Affirmative." Replied KOS-MOS, in her usual cold mechanic manor. Shion put on her best game face and dialed Jin's number into her UMN device.


"Shit KOS-MOS, what do you mean there's a Gnosis behind us?!" the little red-head growled at the mechanical woman on screen. "How is that possible?! Asher should be able to sense a gnosis within a two-hundred mile radius. Don't tell me that quack professor screwed up our upgrade!"

"Jr. We are requesting your assistance in eliminating the threat. If you do not wish to comply, I am afraid the consequences may be great." replied KOS-MOS, staring blankly into the screen. Jr. gripped at his controls and looked down at his mech partner. The silver-haired boy simply nodded.

"Alright, we're on our way." Jr. groaned, "Hey have you guys heard from Momo or Ziggy?"

"Affirmative. They are headed this way, along with the ES Ruben, in compilation with the current objective. It is safer to stay together."

"Yeah of course…" KOS-MOS was right… it was safer to stay in numbers when fighting a gnosis but he couldn't help but worry anytime Momo was involved.

"Jr." Began the silver haired boy below him, translucent aqua eyes looking right up his nose. "Momo will be okay. We'll all be alright, we've been through much worse before." The lips on his tan face curled into a gentle smile. Chaos was always good at calming people.

That small reassurance made Jr. grip his controls, turn around and speed up toward his friends.


Click. Beep. Shion set her device on the dashboard. Jin was also on his way, against Shion's will. Shion wanted him to stay safely behind, but he insisted on assisting his sister. Stubborn. Just stubborn. Shion thought to herself. The gnosis was advancing. KOS-MOS had been holding it off with Dinah's beams for nearly ten minutes now while she was talking to Jr. Shion thought that all Jin would find when he got here would be a broken Dinah, holding a broken KOS-MOS, and her broken corpse. But she tried not to be pessimistic. After all, who wants to be remembered as a pessimist? With that thought, Shion maneuvered some controls on her dash, and Dinah shot six small missiles at the gnosis, making craters in it's grey, water-like surface. This was to little avail- the "gnosis" seemed to just fill the craters like it was cakewalk.

Something in her gut told her this was no gnosis. She spent years studding the alien race during the early days of the KOS-MOS project. She had never seen or heard of anything like this. The monster was round in shape, and had a liquid-metallic surface. It appeared to change shape at times, one form looking like a sphere, and the other almost like a gigantic fish with spines running vertically along the top and huge fins that were only slightly smaller than the Elsa. The fact that the Hilbert Effect had no effect at all also made Shion come to that conclusion. This was no gnosis. This threat was far worse.

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG! BLAM. A noise echoed from the far left side of Dinah. Shion turned her head at the familiar sound, and to her delight saw Asher. Thank God! There's hope! Beside Asher was Zebulin, and to Shions right she saw Ruben, Jin and… Allen? They were both visible in the window. Shion assumed that Allen had overheard the conversation and came with Jin out of concern.

"Shion, KOS-MOS," a silver-haired boy came on screen, "listen this gnosis… nothing is working."

"chaos…" Shion shook her head, "chaos we need to take it down! Think of all of those innocent people at the Kukai Foundation. They only now just rebuilt from the last attack. What about Gaignun? Tony, Hammer, Matthews? They'll surely run into it on the way back and-"

"I know Shion, it's just…" and he was gone. In fact everything was gone. She was surrounded by a white, somewhat wrinkled looking light. They were being absorbed by something, by the gnosis- the monster.

"KOS-MOS what's going on?" cried Shion in utter panic. This time it was the bad kind.

"Shion, do not be afraid" the android replied, quite humanly. Her eyes had turned blue and she had a calm serene aura about her. "Do not be afraid. This is not the end." KOS-MOS then closed her eyes, laid back and smiled. Then it was dark.


Ahhh the first chapter of my first fan fiction. It feels good. =P I know it's long.. I had to find a good stopping point with this one, I hope it was good. I tend to rant a lot in my writings, so tell me if I went on to long. Anyway please, please, pretty, pretty please review! I want to know what I'm doing right and what I'm doing wrong here so I can make this the best it can be.

-- The Original Oxymoron (AKA Jessi Ray)