Okay, updates on this might be slow, but they might be fast, because I am working on two other fanfics besides this one; just to let you guys know, so there are no flames that I have to respond to, explaining my incapability of finishing one story and THEN moving onto the next. By the way, I think that some of you guys might be a little confused that Romdeau citizens are supposed to be sterile (my bad people, sorry!). Well, I'll just say that perhaps they were just controlled or something in Romdeau and once the dome fell that that control is broken or something...or maybe it's just because Vincent is a Proxy...who knows, but anyway, I apologize for overlooking that major plot defect.
Ergo Proxy: Proxy of Life
"Damn, I've made it so far," mumbled Re-L, clutching onto the railing just outside of Romdeau dome.
The ceiling inside the dome broke, crushing the small rampway outside. Re-L hung onto a small rope for dear life as she was flung to and fro as the dome that was her home for so long finally collapsed. Medium-sized chunks of metal and other materials fell around her, and she glanced below her into a fiery pit of what looked like hell. The airborne dome was finally sinking into the polluted, deathly lake below it, the flaming pieces of itself floating on the surface as the craft grazed the water's surface.
"Shit!" exclaimed Re-L. "No good, eh?" She was sinking towards the water, ever so slowly, knowing that her death was almost imminent.
"Re-L-Re-L!" came a small cry.
Re-L looked up to see the fine point of a ship's sail drawing nearer to where she was hanging.
"Re-L-Re-L!" it repeated. The Rabbit now appeared out of the smoke and fog, its slender frame catching the wind gracefully. "Re-L-Re-L!" it cried once more. A small figure was hanging off the sail; it was Pino, in her rabbit costume, her arm outstretched for Re-L. Re-L smiled for the first time in quite a while, her face dusty with smoke and dirt.
"Pino!" called Re-L. "Trust in her…" she whispered to herself, and she let go of the rope, her hair blowing in her face as she fell. Pino was now getting nearer, reaching her small arm out as far as it could possibly go. Then their hands connected; Pino's small but firm grip enclosed around Re-L's incredibly sore one.
The Rabbit dodged even larger pieces of Romdeau dome as they fell, creating huge tidal waves that would've engulfed the ship immediately. Romdeau dome was almost gone, crashing further into the lake.
Pino jumped down from her place on the sail onto the deck with Re-L, where another figure was waiting.
"You're Raul's…" stammered Re-L.
"Protecting Pino was the last order Raul gave me as his entourage," replied Kristeva, in her metallic Auto-rave voice. It was she who was steering the ship, and frankly, she was quite agile.
"She found this too!" sighed Pino, rubbing her strange instrument to her cheek. Re-L had grown quite fond of it on their long journey to Mosque dome and back, and she smiled a small smile.
Looking back on the descended Romdeau dome, Re-L mumbled, "Vincent…"
"It's all right!" smiled Pino, taking off her rabbit-hood. "I hear Vince's voice!"
Re-L's eyes became wide with wonder and amazement, and she turned to look at Pino. Pino giggled, and continued, "I can see him too! Distance: 11.07 knots."
Re-L opened her mouth in surprise, and turned back to the fallen dome. "What a troublesome man," she mused. "There's nothing for it. Shall we go get him, then?"
"Yeah!" Pino said excitedly. And with that, the Rabbit turned around, its blue headlight displayed playfully out in front of it, its light barely penetrating the surface of the lake of which it was travelling over.
With Re-L smiling the whole way, Pino pointed out Vincent, who was standing on a post of the remaining Romdeau dome, his clothes blowing in the breeze that was carrying the Rabbit along.
"Get on, Vincent," yelled Re-L from down on the ship. "Or should I say, Ergo Proxy."
"Vince!" cried Pino once Vincent leaped down from his place with ease. Vincent smiled at Pino, then turned.
"Kristeva?" he asked.
"Kristeva will be coming with us," interrupted Re-L. "Now let's go."
"Go where?" stated Vincent matter-of-factly.
"Anywhere. Anywhere away from Romdeau dome," Re-L whispered, almost to herself. "It pains me."
"Follow the people!" suggested Pino.
"No, they would only be afraid of me." Vincent looked at his boots.
"We have to take our own path," said Kristeva, and everyone turned to look at her. "We should try to find other signs of people, other domes, in the world."
"Yeah!" yelled Pino.
"Don't yell," Re-L scolded, bring a scowl to Pino's face. "Do we even have enough food for that sort of adventure? It's almost a lost cause," she spat at Kristeva. "What if we don't find life at all? How will we get food when it runs out?"
"We'll just have to hope," murmured Vincent.
"Or wish!" smiled Pino.
"Hope," snarled Re-L. "Hope has spat in my face. Wishes are an unnecessary factor."
"Miss Re-L…" gasped Vincent.
But in the end they had no better plan to come up with, so Kristeva set their course in the direction opposite of where the other ships carrying the citizens of the fallen Romdeau dome were flying.
"Bye-bye!" cried Pino as they passed the dome for the last and final time.
Vincent looked at his shoes.
"Farewell…Romdeau," breathed Re-L.
