Uncontrollable

Series Summary: A novelization of Xenoblade X with an additional avatar character. Humanity is being hunted down in the far reaches of the universe by unknown alien forces. Landing on planet Mira, their only hope is to find the Lifehold somewhere in the planet. Two amnesiacs, Cross and X, join up with the mysterious Elma to uncover the secrets of Mira as members of BLADE and to save humanity from total annihilation.

1. Awakening - In a New World

Summary: With no past and memory, they will wake in an alien world. They will explore the new world. They will have new bonds to form. They will have new memories to make. They will have to fight to stay alive. They will bear the burden of saving the human race.

Notes: Cross is a blank slate personality character since he/she is supposed to reflect the player in the game. In this adaption, male Cross has a "studious" personality. (Also imagine him with the voice of Robbie Daymond, as given in the game). The second avatar character who is female, X has a "peppy" personality (Imagine her with the voice of Christina Valenzuela, also given in the game) Dialogue and actions will reflect and be based on the personalities that are chosen for the avatar characters. Actual in-game dialogue will slightly change to incorporate the fact that two avatar characters are present. I'll have to write fill ins of dialogue, vocal cues, and responses for scenes. (Big example is chapter 5 in the game… seriously.) I'd also have to think of conversations and banter between the two avatar characters since I'd have to make them more social as they aren't portrayed to be silent as their game counterparts. The overall story will not change.


The first thing he noticed was that it was dark all around him. Barely seeing anything and trying to focus after opening his eyes, he could only make out shadows from the little bit of blue light that was to his left. Considering how close the shadows were creeping around him, he concluded that he was confined to a really, really small and tight container.

The loud sound of beeping echoed in his ears. It was beeping at a constant rate that was quite fast, which was about 2 beeps and nearly 3 per second. With such rhythm, he had deduced it had to be the sound of an electrocardiogram… his own heart. And his breaths were loud too. Amplified from the small containment, it was also unsteady from trying to regain composure from the long sleep he just woke up from, as well as the discomfort from the tight space he was in. He looked down to vaguely see his right hand, palm facing his own. He slowly opened and closed it… his motor functions feel… off?

"Releasing hatch. Stand clear."

A robotic sounding, female voice was heard within the tight chamber. Immediately, the small container the young man was opened in front of him, and a bright white light emerged. It was painful, and he had to shield his eyes with his right hand. It dimmed after a few seconds. As the light dimmed, a red figure appeared before the man. His vision clearing up, the figure before him was coming into focus.

"Hey there. Looks like you're in one piece."

A woman's voice. She was wearing some strange metallic armor with mostly a red color scheme, but there were traces of white and a blue-purple color in it too. The woman was dark skinned with long white hair that reached past beneath her shoulders and from closer inspection with blue eyes. She looked around in the confinement chamber that the young man was in with her flashlight. The man looked around him too to follow the light she was using. Nothing in particular was in it. All it illuminated was the small walls of the chamber, as well as the young man getting a glimpse of the clothes he was wearing: a grey shirt with yellow outlines streaked across his chest and dark pants. He was wearing a white headset on his left ear.

The woman put the flashlight away in her back right pocket. She stared at the man in the chamber, awaiting movement from him. Taking note of her body language, he placed a hand to the right side of the door area and pulled himself forward.

Immediately, a wave of weakness and tiredness hit him hard. His arms and legs felt like thin lead. He couldn't even support himself in standing up, and he fell forward.

"N-Nghh…!"

"Careful."

The white haired woman caught the young man. He was astounded on how strong she was as she caught him without taking a step back to regain balance.

"Just take it nice and slow, okay? Your senses need time to reactivate."

The words just flew right by him as he tried to clear his head and steady himself. Closing his eyes and taking a breath, he needed to get himself on his feet, for her sake too. Only now he realized the pouring rain that was drenching him as the woman got him out of that closet.

After about three seconds, he opened his eyes to take a look at his surroundings. It was dark and raining, trees before him. He was possibly in a forest of sorts…

Finally, he felt his strength returning. With his legs and knees, the young man stood up straight and the woman gave him some room by spacing herself a bit from him.

The woman examined the young man from top to bottom. Slightly taller than she was, he had a very fit build. His muscles were clearly visible from his arms and chest, and she could even see the outlines of his abdomen too. It was a bit dark to see but from the light she shined on him earlier, the young man had dull purple bluish hair. His hair was styled with bangs, with one of them reaching near the top of his nose at the center of his face and to the sides of his face that reached the bottom of his head. His hair is shorter as she looked towards the back of his head though. His eyes were an aqua blue, the similar to hers. A very noticeable feature on his face was a diagonal scar at the right side of his mouth.

The young man and the woman stared at each other in silence. He couldn't exactly examine her as his vision was still not in full focus, let alone trying to get his composure normal again.

After a few seconds of awkward silence, the woman spoke again. "Your pod was the one of the two around that landed intact. Good thing I found you."

"My name's Elma." The woman introduced herself, placing a hand on her chest. "You wanna tell me yours?"

"My name… is…?" The young man drew a complete blank. Nothing. Who was he? Where'd he come from? He looked to his right in disappointment, averting his gaze from Elma. There's nothing… He couldn't even remember anything prior to waking up from that pod he was in.

"You don't even remember your own name?" Elma asked, her voice low in concern. She placed her right hand on her chin, trying to deduce what was going on. "It must be the stasis hangover…"

"Stasis… hangover…" The young man said to himself in his head. It makes sense. He must have been asleep for so long and the effects on him was amnesia. And it was pretty damn strong too cause he literally couldn't remember anything at all.

"That's not good. Just try and focus, all right?"

He stared right into Elma's eyes, focusing as much as he could from the reaches of his foggy mind. "My name… My name is…."

And then it came to him.

"My name is… Cross." The young man replied. "So, that's my name? It's very… unusual."

Elma nodded. "Good… there you go. What else do you remember?

Again, nothing. Cross shook his head.

"It'll come. In the meantime, I'll get you up to speed here as best I can. How are your limbs? Can you move?"

The young amnesiac was shaking his head again. His focus was a little bit better, but his head feels a bit light. He tried opening and closing his hands too, yet it still felt slightly off. Elma noticed his posture wasn't completely straight either.

"We'll take it easy while you shake the stasis out of your system. One step at a time, all right? First thing's first… you'll be needing a weapon."

Elma reached to the back of her waist and presented it to Cross. Cross took the weapon without hesitation. He looked down at what he was holding: an assault rifle. It wasn't too heavy, but the fact that his stasis was still lingering made him underestimate the weight of it a bit. And on his right hand beneath the trigger is what seems to be a few magazine cartridges.

"There you go… All right, let's get going."

Cross jogged up to Elma and nodded after he mounted the assault rifle on his back. As soon as he took a few steps forward, it felt as if the stasis was vanishing. His vision is clear now. He no longer felt light headed, and his limbs didn't feel heavy. "…How strange… I feel better now…"

"How about you take point? I'll watch your back."

Cross turned around and nods in affirmation.

"You look much better after simply walking up to me."

"Y-Yes… Thank you for your concern." Cross turned back around to look at his surroundings. It was dark but Cross could tell he was in a basin of sorts, with natural cliffs to his left and right. Trees, long grass, and some boulders were scattered in front of him too. Nothing too special. But yards away a bit to his right was a glowing object. It was a circular that glowed a pink hue.

Elma remembered about the second pod that she was going to look in. "Right, that other pod… It's also intact. We should wake up the person in there."

Cross nodded. "Another person is in there… who could it be…?" He asked himself as he jogged towards the light. Elma followed right behind him, keeping up his pace.

The young man looked down at the pod that was lying on the ground at his feet. It was over 9 feet long, gray and black. Unlike his pod, this was lying completely flat on the ground.

Elma stood next to Cross and then knelt down. "Allow me."

As soon as Elma lifted her left hand near the pod, a blue panel with a transparent keyboard appeared. Cross couldn't see the letters on the keyboard because it was too bright. Elma moved both of her hands on the transparent keyboard. Above it appeared a new blue screen with the following words: Log-in ID and Password.

Quickly, Elma typed in her name. And below it was a password that was censored by 16 triangles in total.

When the input of the password was completed. A loading bar quickly appeared below the password line and the words 'INDIVIDUAL RECOGNITION ATTESTATION' appeared. The words disappeared and new words that read 'MIM STASIS UNIT OPERATING SYSTEM INITIALIZING APPEARED.' showed on the screen.

Cross stared at the screen intently with his eyes narrowed. "Is that how it works…?"

The same robotic sounding female voice that Cross heard within the stasis pod he was in was heard again. "Attention: external access confirmed. Disengaging stasis in ten seconds… nine… eight… seven.. six…"

Elma stood up and retrieved the flashlight that was in her right pocket. She shone it above the entrance to the pod, ready to see who was inside. Cross could feel his throat tighten a bit, anxious to see who was sleeping within the pod. He closed his right fist and tightened his lips as he felt a small bit of sweat forming in his forehead.

"…five… four… three… two… one…"

After two seconds of silence after the countdown, the hatch opened slowly. And the light Elma held showed who was in it. Cross and Elma looked down at the person who just awoke lying on her back.

A girl.

She was wearing clothes the same as Cross, but it was in a different color scheme of black and green instead. The girl had black hair with black bangs covering her forehead. Her hair was short, but the hair to the side of her face was longer than the rest of her hair. Her eyes were large and dark purple. Her left ear had a white headset covering it, just like Cross. She also had slightly pink cheeks and lips. Her eyes were half opened though as Elma glared the light on her, let alone she was in darkness for who knows how long. Cross let out a quiet sigh of relief knowing that the girl was all right at least.

"A-Ahhh…" She groaned, the light stinging her eyes. Like Cross, she shielded her eyes from the light with her hands. Her voice was pretty high pitched, but it was groggy. She was seeing nothing but colors and lights. Nothing was focusing for her.

"Sorry about that. Here, let me lower the light for you." Elma moved aside her flashlight by simply holding it down to the female's feet so the light isn't as glaring to her. Cross knelt down near the entrance to the pod and peeked in. He offered his right hand to the girl. "Can you stand?"

"Uwaaah…? Uhh…." The girl blinked to get her vision focused. It was slowly getting clear. A face was coming into focus. A young man with a slightly bit long purple hair and blue eyes wearing a grey and yellow shirt. And behind him was a girl with long white hair with red armor. The girl then looked down a bit to see his right hand palm up. "H-Hold up… um… what's your name…?"

"…It's Cross." He replied, a slight grin on his face.

"Cross… uh… I feel dizzy… and weird…" The girl sighed, shaking her head.

Cross retreated his hand and nodded. "Take your time."

"The stasis will wear off. If you walk it off, it'll leave you faster, just like Cross here." Elma added, crossing her arms after she turned off and put the flashlight away

The girl blinked her eyes and tilted her head. "That so? Then…"

With her arms and hands, she forced herself to sit upward in a sitting position. Immediately, she felt her limbs feel sore, and she groaned in how uncomfortable she felt. "Geez… Talk about a terrible nap…" She muttered as she shook her head.

Elma raised an eyebrow. She was intrigued on how the two people who survived the crash landing here are so different in terms of personality, and she only met them for less than five minutes. The young man seems to be very cool and collected, and the young woman was spunky and has a sense of humor. "How interesting…" She said to herself.

Cross offered his hand again to the stasis-ridden girl. "Let me help you get up."

The girl saw Cross' right hand again. This time, she placed her own on top of his. "T-Thanks a bunch, Cross."

Gently but with enough strength, Cross pulled the girl up when he clasped his fingers to hold onto the girl's hand. As soon as she stood on her two legs, she already was tipping forward from imbalance. "Owoahhh-!"

"Ah-!"

Elma was about to rush forward, but stopped as she watched Cross catch her. Supporting her from her waist and left arm, she was barely standing. The girl was caught in surprise on how strong the young man was. "S-Sorry…"

"Don't worry about it."

The girl felt her legs feel less wobbly, so she centered her weight. As soon as she did, Cross loosened his grip and eventually let go of her waist and left arm. The girl was now standing upright. Rubbing her eyes and then clapping her hands together, she said aloud, "Thank you both… Cross and… your name is?"

Elma grinned at how enthusiastic the girl was. "It's Elma."

"Elma. Thank you. Uh… my name's… er…?" The girl scratched her head with her left hand.

Cross' eyes widened. "So… she also doesn't remember her name…?"

"What's my name…? Wait… Who AM I? What am I doing here…? No way..." She groaned in frustration.

Elma sighed at the coincidence. "So you too… just like him."

X glanced at Cross. "What? You don't know who you are either? Well… you know your name, at least. But I don't…"

Cross placed his right hand on his chin, his index finger partially covering his lips, and said to the girl, "Why don't you concentrate? It worked for me." He closed his eyes for a second and muttered very quietly, "She's literally just like me... she doesn't know her name or who she is at all..."

The girl closed her eyes and crossed her arms. Cross and Elma watched her in silence, waiting for her to get her name from the foggy depths of her mind. As seconds passed, she was now mumbling to herself incomprehensible words because she said them in a very low pitch. "Nothing... I can't remember my name...! Or anything else!"

Elma shook her head. "Why don't you make one yourself for now? A temporary name until you remember your own."

Opening her eyes, the girl looked at Cross expectantly. "You got any good ideas?"

Cross nodded no. "Sorry, I don't. It's your name. You should pick it."

The girl groaned again. "Too much time wasting and this weather is a killer... How about you just call me... X? Like the letter X. It's a placeholder till I remember my real name. Sounds cool, right? Like a codename!"

Elma and Cross widened her eyes on how fast she thought of a name. Let alone a strange one. Elma muttered to herself, "I thought Cross was a strange name. To each their own."

Cross was more astounded of this girl's optimism and extroverted personality. "She's quite lively..." He observed her quickly from head to toe as he finally got a better look at this mysterious young lady. She was much shorter than him, about nearly five inches. Her build was slender and her breasts were average sized for her height.

X rubbed her eyes with the back of her left hand, irritated with some of the rainwater that touched them. Her vision was better now and she could see Cross and Elma's faces clearly. She felt strength entering her limbs as she moved her arms and legs left and right in place. "I'm feeling a lot better now that I'm standing. Great! So um... Elma, was it? Can you tell me where I am and stuff?"

Cross realized it too. He didn't know where he was, let alone what kind of area is in the vicinity, or if there's other people like Elma nearby. Even more questions began to flood his mind. "I'd like to know as well."

"Sure. Most of the White Whale's pods didn't survive the crash... You two are of the lucky few."

Cross and X stared blankly at Elma and they said nothing. White Whale? Crash?

Elma corrected herself, asking, "Right- You both don't even remember the White Whale... do you? You know, the L-002? The ship we escaped Earth on? You... remember Earth, right?"

Cross looked down on the dampened ground in disappointment, while X shook her head.

"Planet Earth... Your homeworld. Or rather, it used to be, anyway." Elma tried to explain as much as she can. With each question and reminder, her hope for those two remembering what terrible events that happened two months ago was dwindling.

"Unfortunately," Elma continued. "It was caught in a battle between two alien forces and destroyed. Ring any bells?"

"...Nothing..." X muttered.

"Mm. Nothing as well." Cross added.

"Don't feel bad. It's one memory I'd like to forget."

As soon as Elma finished her sentence, she, Cross, and X heard the sound of rustling. X was the first to turn around to her back and see a large insect walking around the three of them. "Ah...!" She gasped.

Cross was alerted by X's uneasiness and faced the same direction as she did. Elma shook her head. "I know. It's been following me for a while now."

Elma drew an assault rifle from her back and approached X with the gun. X looked down at the rifle and asked, "You mean..." She takes the gun off of Elma's hands and examines it. Elma also hands a few magazines of the assault rifle to her.

The white haired woman nods at X's assumption. She draws her two machine guns from her back and points them directly at the insect in front of them. "I didn't want to alarm you, but we're going to need to defend ourselves. You up to the task?"

"Y-Yeah...!" X laughed nervously as she points the assault rifle towards the large insect and her right index finger on the trigger.

Cross draws the assault rifle from his back that Elma gave him early and does the same as X. He frowns as he watches the large insect in front of them begins to let out an eerie cry and its wings began to flutter, signalling its attack stance.

"Go! Fire!" Elma cries out, and she herself begins to fire her two machine guns. The insect was flinching a bit from the hail of bullets bombarding it, but soon it begins it advance towards the party.

"R-Right!" X calls out, pulling the trigger from the assault rifle and holding down on it. Cross pulls the trigger as well.

X was caught off guard by the recoil of the assault rifle, so her initial aim was off as the bullets were slightly missing the insect's body. Gripping onto the rifle tighter and steadying her stance by balancing her weight, the bullets were now hitting the main body of the insect. Even the insect was flinching from her more accurate aim. With three streams of bullets firing from the same direction, the insect was slowing its advance, but it was still moving forward. It was about six feet away from Elma, who was standing closer to it. "There we go!" She cheerfully cries out. As soon as she said so, her gun falls silent from the empty magazine. "Great..."

As X was reloading Elma was moving away from the two by moving to her right, spacing herself away from them. "Let's split its attention, but I'll keep it on me. Spread out!"

"Got it!" Cross replies, moving towards the opposite direction from where Elma was heading as he reloaded his assault rifle. X remained where she was standing. The insect was now moving towards where Elma stood. The new orientation was the insect was a mere three feet away from Elma, with Cross standing six feet behind the insect and X was seven feet to the right of the insect.

The insect was now within attacking range of its pincers to hit Elma. It screeches as it raises one of its pincers. Immediately, Elma jumps backwards and the attack misses. Again, the insect raises its other pincer and slashes forward. Elma immediately jumped back and the attack missed again, but she was caught by surprise that the insect followed up immediately its first miss. The pincer grazes arm, leaving a scratch on her armor. "Tch!" It didn't hurt much, but she growled at her own mistake of not thinking of a follow-up attack.

Cross sees an opportunity to attack the insect as it was distracted by Elma. "I think I can topple it...!" He said to himself.

Running forward, Cross grips onto the assault rifle horizontally and holds it towards his right. As soon as he was within range, with all his strength, he grunts and swings the assault rifle from his right to left, smashing the gun against the insect. The insect cries as it falls over to its side. Elma and X and astounded by Cross' quick thinking. "Down you go! Open fire!" He cries out to Elma and X as he begins to fire down at the bug.

"Good thinking, Cross!" X cheerfully yells at Cross as she begins to fire on the toppled insect. "Make some space, I'll burn that thing right up!"

"Understood!" Cross replies, moving backwards, creating distance between himself and the helpless bug struggling to get up.

"Okay... My turn!" X yells out loudly as she saw Cross to be about five feet away from the bug. Instead of a hail of bullets shooting out of her assault rifle, a large grenade falls towards the insect. As soon as it hit the bug, it explodes with fire emitting from the grenade. The insect screeches loudly and rolls around the ground as it is being incinerated from the explosion. "Yeah! Got it!"

"Good job, X!" Cross complimented as he continues to fire at the bug.

"Great! I'll finish it off!" Elma replies, moving towards the right side of the insect as it struggles to stand up. She then runs towards it and fires her gun, diving down on the ground as she fires.

After Elma fires her rounds as she dives down onto the ground and gets back on her feet, the insect cries out a very loud screech that quickly grows silent. It twitches its body and finally stops moving. Elma, Cross, and X stops firing and remove their fingers from the triggers of their guns.

X sighs as she lowers her assault rifle and mounts it on her back. "Whew! What a rush!"

Cross and Elma also mount their weapons on their backs and approach the girl. Elma smiles at the two, saying, "Hmm, you both are not half bad." And idea hit her as soon as she complimented them. "There's plenty of work back in the city for those who know how to handle a weapon, you know."

"Really?" X asks, clasping her hands together. Cross nods and smiles, not saying a word.

Elma herself was smiling at their interest. "So you both are interested. In that case, I might have the jobs for you both. But anyway, we can talk more details later. For now, let's keep moving." She begins to walk forward deeper in the basin past the dead insect, with Cross and X following right behind her.

Not even a minute after they started walking, X faces Cross and asks, "So, what do you think this job Elma is referring to?"

Cross turns to his right and looks down on X, replying, "I'd assume to eliminate hostile monsters like what we just fought. You would take on such a job?"

"Of course! The adrenaline rush is so great! Elma says we're not half bad, so why not?" She answers immediately, grinning widely.

"Just because of that...? Wait..." Cross covers his mouth and chin with his right hand. His pace was slowing down, so X had to slow down her pace too.

"Wh-What? Something up?" X asks, a bit of worry in her tone. From Cross' pose, she could tell that he caught onto something important.

Cross asks X with his voice slightly muffled since he was covering his own mouth, "Strangely we know nothing of our pasts or the events that lead up to us being here... but we know how to fight...?"

"Uh... Good point...? But hey, we know other things like... 1 + 1 = 2?"

Cross sighs and shakes his head, now lowering his right hand to his side. "For example... how did you know the assault rifle also fired grenades? Elma never told you that."

"Ohh..." X was awed by Cross' point. Then it hit her: how DID she know how to fight? "You're right..."

"I can assume you know how to wield a weapon such as a knife?"

"I-I do... So what does this mean...?"

"...I'm not sure yet, maybe-"

Elma interrupts Cross, calling out. "You two are falling behind! Keep up the pace! Also, pay attention to your surroundings! We might get attacked again!"

"R-Right! Sorry!" X replied, waving her right hand to acknowledge Elma's warnings. "Let's talk about this later when we get out of this place."

"Good idea." Cross nodded.

Elma stops her advance, staring at the herd of sleeping animals around a lake that were a few meters ahead of her. They appear to have some resemblance towards Earth's hippos, but larger. They were all on the small lakeside lying down and snoring loudly away. As soon as Cross and X caught up with Elma, X looked at the animals in disdain. "We have to navigate through that...?"

"They won't wake up unless you attack it." Elma informed the two. "Come, we'll go around them."

To the left of the party was an elevated area with some rocks that have fallen above that make a path around the small lake. Elma jogs towards this area with Cross and X not far behind. "Let's get up here." With a quick jump, Elma reaches the elevated path and walks ahead. With ease and hardly any effort, Cross and X leaped up the elevated path to follow Elma.

Luckily, there weren't any monsters that were within the party's vicinity. The closest one were three flying insects that were smaller than the one the party fought earlier to their right, but it didn't take notice of them as they were at least ten feet away from them. "As long as we don't make sudden loud noises, it won't attack us."

"Pretty sure that's like... all monsters, right?" X asks, raising her eyebrow and smirking.

"Still keep your guard up. We're lucky we don't have to run into bigger ones here..."

"B-Bigger ones...?" X hesitantly asks for clarification. She didn't need to press further as common sense dictates that the three different species of monsters saw were only a molecule of an iceberg tip.

Cross shook his head and said nothing. "I'd hate to fight them..."

"And speaking of that... We're almost there..." The party near an open cliffside, and no longer they were surrounded by two high natural basin walls. Elma looks up and ahead to see the night sky slowly fading to daylight as the sky was growing from a pitch black to a gray. Also, the rain was no longer pouring hard and was beginning to fall into a drizzle.

Elma comments on the weather, saying, "The rain is starting to let up. Just in time for sunrise." She turns to Cross and X, saying, "Follow me. I promise, you're gonna love this."

Elma leads the two a few paces forward at the edge of a cliff. Cross and X stand to Elma's left, with X being in the middle. X could feel her heart beat faster with anticipation and Cross didn't even realize himself holding his breath as to what Elma was going to show them.

Ahead is fog that was disappearing into the gray sky. The drizzle was now disappears, and bright daylight now stretches and pierces the clouds and fog that permeate the horizon. The sky turns from a dark gray to a light gray and now a light blue.

The world unfolded. A vast green landscape with towering rock formations that are strangely being held up. Trees and grass cover the ground. White clouds float in the light blue sky. A large moon was visible in the sky too, with a smaller one about a 1/8th of its size to its left. To the right of the party was something that was not of this area: a large circular ring with green crystals as its foundation. Cross and X could see the words etched to its side reading 'New Los Angeles' and to the left of the side is a rectangle with white stars in a blue background in the upper left corner and red and white stripes at the rest of the whole rectangle. Above the ring appears to be some contraptions and beyond it was a large tower and slightly smaller buildings next to it.

"Wooahhhhh...!" X gaped at the landscape that was in front of them. "Amazing...!" She squeals, her voice cracking.

"..." Not even a word came out of Cross' mouth, since he was too amazed on what was before him.

Suddenly the ground was shaking. "Huh?" X was looking down to find the cause of it. Even Cross was interrupted by the shaking that he looked down as well. Elma, strangely, didn't move.

And the two figured out what the cause of the shaking was when it appeared right in front of them. A gray and green colored long necked creature suddenly lifted its head and let out a low cry, as if it was waking up from its sleep. Its eyes were very big found at the left and right ends of its head. Near its head along the back of its neck were four antennae-like structures, and at the end of its very long neck was its large body with extensions on its back. Cross and X couldn't see the lower half of its body, but assumed it had four legs. It begins to walk forward.

As the two stare in awe at the large creature, they were caught off guard by the sound of loud cry of a different creature from behind them. Cross and X turn their left to see a large fish-like monster that flies right by them. It was mainly gray and silver colored with light blue wings found throughout its body. The wings look like a strange mix of the wings of a insect and bird, with the vanes of the wing appear to be of a birds but the regimes look like the regimes of an insect. There is one large wing on the left and right side, about three or four smaller wings slanted on the spine of the monster, and many on its tail. The monster flies towards the ocean, with a second and third monster just like it flying by too.

"Pretty wild, huh?" Elma asks, interrupting Cross and X's observation of the landscape. The two face Elma. "They're all indigenous, as far as we can tell." She looks ahead towards the scenery in front of them. "We need to learn to play nice with these guys if we're going to try and coexist together.

Cross and X smile, turning back towards the world ahead of them. Coexistence in this vast and beautiful world that they've only gotten a glimpse of... Their new home.


A/N: After 257 hours to finishing the story and clocking total gameplay time to over 330 hours, the urge to write this up was intense. Even moreso at the fact that I wish I had two of my own avatar characters to play with at the same time T_T

Throughout the game, I changed appearances of Cross with mainly two avatar characters: the ones featured here in this fanfiction. The male Cross was for story and affinity sidequests, while female Cross was for other the rest of the sidequests, grinding, exploration, and flying around. Their personalities are so different and enjoyable that I hated switching their appearances over and over. So my thought was, what if there were 2 avatars in the story at the same time?

If you want actual images of their appearances, check my profile for my sketches and in-game screenshots. Their appearances are based on the two main characters from the Final Fantasy Type 0 prequel manga. Reason is that the main character does literally share the same VA, and the other in my opinion would fit her personality and voice perfectly.

As for thinking of a name for female Cross, yeah I'm unoriginal /shrugs

School is pretty much tomorrow and it is a crossroad since it is the worst semester in terms of chemistry classes all over as well as the application to my undergrad program. I don't know when the next update will be, as well as for the other Xenoblade fanfiction. Until then, I appreciate any reviews and criticism.