Hallo! Wanted to make some little thingies clear before we start this new idea of mine:
This takes place after THE FIRST ENDING, which I liked the most, but with some other differences. Like 2B and 9S relationship, they're just friends here. Nothing more.
Also, anything I make a mistake on is probably because I've only got the first 3 endings and nothing more (Playing as 9S gets bloody annoying as time goes by) but still I do not mind feedback of any kind. I love 2B so much, and I also appreciate nice bums, so here we go.
It's been exactly 3 weeks, 4 days and 12 hours since Eve's and Adam's disaster and 9S couldn't feel more exhausted than a old vending machine.
Sure, he was glad he gets to spend quality time with, what he would like to call, friend, 2B. And he also was extremely happy as of late, because she recently called him, by "accident" Nines, and this time she admitted she didn't hate the nickname.
But, he was irritated for something different, and something he wasn't supposed to hate in the slightest. And of course, that was the jobs he got from the resistance new camp (which was currently being constructed by 2B, him and some other androids) that literally abused his little body to its far more than average limits.
And, obviously, everything was behind Yorha's back, because those strict rocks, as he recently started calling them with 2B (not counting their amazing amateur operator 60), wouldn't care less about them, and just care about the extermination of the machine race.
He knows he shouldn't be mad at this, and he knows he isn't probably doing nothing compared to what 2B usually carries, but still, he does. Why? Because he can. Why? Because he likes seeing 2B cute, little frowned face.
And today, it was no different.
"Can you, please, explain to me, why we, Yorha soldiers, modified androids made to save the mankind, are looking for a simple oasis in the middle of nothing?" 9S asked for what seemed like the 100th time those two hours of search they've been through
"9S, if you ask that to me one more time I'll have to call Bunker, and tell them to retrieve you for system malfunction" She said as she held her skirt tight with her hands to hold the desire to kill him in that single instant.
"Woah, woah, chill out, 2B, it was just curiosity! Nothing else" She huffed cutely as she spotted what seemed to be a little cave, "Hey, it's getting late, why don't we go to that cave over there and wait? We won't be able to see anything in the night, and it's also dangerous, so let's take no risk and go rest for a bit, 2B" She shook her head quietly.
"...no, the faster we finish with this mission, the better" Ah!
So she was hating this missions as well!
"Well, then you go call me whenever you find yourself lost in this desert, I'll go rest for a bit" She turned to face him shocked, with her tin, pinkish lips parted making an awestruck 'O' as he walked towards the cave, ignoring her. Her, and her complains.
Of course, she followed him suit, because there's no way she's going alone in the darkness with hopes of finding anything else than nothing in the vast, lifeless, full of enemy machines, desert.
And so, they both made their way to what seemed to be a simple cave.
"Hey, 9S?" Her soft voice ringed on his ears as they both walked deeper into the cave, and her lips curved a little when she received a hum in response, "Is there supposed to be AC inside a cave?" She wondered as she turned on the POD Flashlight, blinding them for a second.
"N-No, what do you mean, 2...B…" As his eyes adjusted to the lighting, he could figure out what looked like a metallic wall, with a metallic door, that leaded to a place with probably a cold AC, "What the hell...POD scan the place, tell if there's anything dangerous inside"
Affirmative: Scanner tells that there's a non-aggressive life form inside, the individual is calm and unaware of your presence.
"What should we do, 9S?" She asked her smarter companion, to which he just nodded and hummed in response.
"Well, if POD said that it isn't hostile…"
2B heard two knocks on the door, and almost immediately smacked 9S head.
"Idiot!" She whispered loudly, "Are you out of your fucking mi-!" She went absolutely silent when they both heard steps getting closer to them from the other side of the door.
"Who's there?" A male voice was heard from the other side, full of curiosity and zero fear, "Oh, well if you found this place then perhaps you need some help..," The guy deduced and both 9S and 2B took a step back when they saw the door slowly opening, 2B silently, secretly enjoying the cold air that escaped from the room.
It was a male. A boy, to be precise. They wouldn't know. He wasn't using a blindfold, so he surely wasn't associated with Yorha. 2B could find something extrange in his blue eyes, as if they were alive, not like hers, not like 9S's. His hair was dark, and spiky. It seemed to be smooth and wild. His skin golden, not white nor black, just brownish, but not much. He wasn't tall, and he absolutely wasn't intimidating unlike the other random humanoids they've encountered in the pass.
"'Sup" He greeted them both with a grin as they stared at him, "There somethin' on my face?" He questioned as 2B kept scanning him with her eyes.
"What are you?" She concluded roughly, preparing herself for a fight whilst 9S just blinked in surprise, with his own POT not finding any information about the individual.
The guy blinked in confusion, his head cocked a little to the side in a rather cute way, in 2B's opinion.
"What do you mean 'what am I'? I'm a person, obviously" He said as a matter of fact, "Who ARE you two? And would you please come inside before I lose this nice, coldness of mine?" He pleaded as he stepped to the side, waiting for them to enter.
They didn't.
"You are a person?" 9S asked with confusement filling his voice, "An android, perhaps?" The guy scoffed.
"Android? Nah, can't you see these scars?" He pointed to his left arm which had some marks and scars on it, "Actually, I think I've got a cut somewhere…" He turned around and lifted the gray tank top he had on, letting them see his back with a large cut that was slightly bleeding, "Gotta get it healed before it gets infected" Blood? Like the new machines?
But those machines didn't have any scars. They were meant to be perfect, they were meant to be precise and beautiful.
"Then what're you, if not an android nor a machine?" He snickered and showed 2B a smirk.
"You're gonna have to guess that, ma'am" 9S ordered a diagnosis as 2B asked for permission to examination the little cut the guy has, to which he only shrugged and lifted his tank top again.
It's actually blood, She thought as she removed one glove off her hand and tried passing it through the cut slowly and carefully, trying her best not to hurt him more. He's warm…
"9S…" Her companion hummed in response, "He…he's warm…" Androids weren't warm, but she could feel his temperature, it was higher than the whole place and it felt good.
Affirmative, as a life form, the individual can, and will emanate heat from the inside.
"So...he's not an android?"
Negative, no signals of black box nor inner core have been found inside of the individual, instead, there are organs.
"Yeah, well, organs help me, y'know, live and all that" The guy commented as he walked outside with them and closed the door, "And, I'm not "individual", my name is Dan, thank you very much" He frowned at the POD and he turned his gaze to 2B, "I know perhaps this will sound kinda weird after the human apocalypse and all that virus and the Gerajts, but, uh…" The two Yorha Warriors stared with their eyes widening every single millisecond that passed, "I'm a human" The guy said, "Perhaps the last human on earth, I don't know" He sighed with a bit of sadness in his voice, "Hopefully not" He smiled at the two androids who watched him in awe, deducing that never in their lives have they ever seen an actual human, even when they did everything they could to help make the world a better place for them to return to.
"A-A human...you're a human?" 9S asked and laughed nervously when the guy nodded, "An actual, living human?" He nodded again, and 9S couldn't do nothing else than getting close and extend a hand to touch him, although he stopped midways, "M-May I?" Dan chuckled and nodded without much care, letting them both touch him as much as they want.
They could sense the blood running through his veins, feel his heartbeat. They could even see his pupils expanding and getting smaller when their flashlights pointed at him.
"W-Why are you not at the moon, with the others?" Nines asked as he separated from Dan, smiling a bit when she found out 2B wasn't done touching him just yet.
Of course, her desire to meet humanity was always much bigger than his, he was always more into learning the machines actual behaviour.
"I wouldn't know, really. I mean, sure my ancestors perhaps weren't affected by the virus and survived the alien attack, but I'm just here because I was born here, about 19 years ago" His cheeks got reddish when 2B's hands ran through his lips, softly pressing them with her thin fingers, "Enjoying yourself there?" He asked with amusement in his voice, and 9S cracked a smile when she stuttered, blushed and stepped back after realising she's been touching the human for quite a while now.
"I-uh...I apologise" She said with her face flushed and her eyebrows cutely frowned.
"It's fine, I guess. Don't mind a lovely lady touching me any ways" She blushed again and 9S almost had to mock her with the typical No emotions allowed.
But he didn't, obviously. Because it took him a hundred and more hours, and finding a living human to actually make her open up a bit, and he wouldn't waste this chance for nothing in the world.
"Well, putting the lil' chatter to the side, who might you be? You're androids, I assume? Do you have any names or…?" Nines nodded eagerly and stood straight next to 2B.
"Not just androids, Mr. Dan" She said politely, "We are Yorha soldier, made by the humans in the moon in order to protect and save mankind, our mission is to eradicate any hostile entity against humans and the such" She said with her voice prideful and honorific, standing next to her companion 9S, showing the sole purpose of their existence.
The guy smiled and sighed after a second of assimilating everything 2B said.
"That's nice and all, but, I asked for who you were, not, uh...who made you" Nines liked the guy every time more and more.
"My model is 9S, so you could call me that, although nowadays I like it when they call me Nines instead" Dan nodded and shifted his gaze, "Oh, and this is model 2B, and...she goes by 2B, heh" Dan nodded and waved her a hello, which she replied with a polite nod, "My model is made for scouting, hacking and supporting, but somehow I ended up pairing with Model 2B, made specifically for attack and close-ranged battles"
"Woah, you make it sound like you're but mere tools" Dan complained while shaking his head in denial, "Come on, let's go inside, it's getting late, and I don't want any idiotic machines tonight, I've dealt with too many already" The Yorha androids nodded and this time, they stepped inside the little hand made hole, with some advanced technology and the whole place full of metal, like an underground base. (Like Fallout 4 shelters)
"I'd have to say, Mr. Dan, that we are tools, made with the sole purpose of helping you and mankind repopulate earth" He laughed as he guided them to what seemed like a little living room.
"You're telling me that you don't have emotions, then? No self-respect?" She remain silent.
"Emotions are prohibited" She said with a quiet voice.
"Then why did you blush arm stuttered a few minutes ago?" She scolded herself.
"That was...my mistake, it won't happen again" He chuckled and stared at her, looking directly to her blindfold.
"What is that thing you were on your face?" Dan asked and 9S coughed to receive attention.
"That's a tactical visor we use, to see our own life, settings, sounds waves, and more" The guy blinked in confusion and walked close to 2B, with her instantly taking one away from him.
"Heh, and you said you didn't have emotions" She opened her mouth to respond but stopped when she felt his hands on her face, "A tactical visor, but it's so soft and thin, how does it works like a visor? How can you see with them" 9S smiled at 2B flustered face yet again.
"Why don't you try it yourself?" He offered with a smirk, and Dan awed with happiness.
"Can I?" He asked 2B as he placed his hands on the back of her head.
"No" She replied coldly.
He took the blindfold off her anyway.
"Hey! Give that back!" She said, not liking the way her blue eyes felt so exposed without her visor.
"Wooo- you were right, I can see many thing now…" He looked around the place, "Why are you both on 15C? You guys never get cold? Hot?" 9S shook his head, and Dan turned to see him, "It has movement alerts as well?" Nines nodded with a smile, "Awesome, and it doesn't bother my natural sight either…" He sniffed into the air, "It also smells so nice, like vanilla and cinnamon" 2B looked away and Nines laughed warmly at her.
"That would be 2B's perfume" She nodded as she slowly tried to get closer to Dan in an attempt to get her visor back.
She tried reaching a hand to his face, but his own hand stopped her, and pulled her closer.
"Wait a second, there…" He took the visor off, but didn't give it to her, "Woah, your eyes…" He grinned, "They're really beautiful!" She blushed as she pushed him away and placed her visor on again.
"I-uhm...thank you" He grinned and sighed as he walked towards another door, "W-Where are you-"
"I'll go find some bandages and alcohol to heal me, perhaps you could give me a hand with that?"
"Ah...yes, we will aid you as much as we can" Dan grinned to her one last time before going inside other room, leaving Nines and 2B all by themselves.
They stayed there, quietly.
2B let out a sigh she didn't know she was holding.
Nines laughed at her and then sat down at the sofa.
"So, 2B?" She hummed in response at Nines, "Any idea on how to heal a human?"
She coughed and quickly used her POD to give her some manuals with instructions.
Nines laughed again.
Seems like a new adventure awaited them…
"Nines, what in the world is a kidney?"
And a funny one, at that.
Well, that was the first episode. Hopefully I didn't make any horrible mistakes, although I am still terribly confused about the actual story of Nier and where the humans are. But I do know what's up (kinda) and that there are some humans that survived and know lived in the moon, I think.
Cheers.