A/N

A little fanfic sequel to the game. I can't help it; they left WAAAAAAY too many loose ends in the game near the end. Plus, well, I like Crow/Seto and have to make up a convoluted revival. Simple, right? Oh, and the implications of the whole "I'm truly alone now" thing where it seems like everyone including Ren died and he dies alone depressed me. Starts right at the end of the game. Anyway, this probably won't be read because of this section being kind of abandoned, so… Here we go. As I type, there are literally only three stories in the entire place. Just… Three. That's pathetic. It's time to add on to it!

Seto: All this over one kiss from a robot who didn't even understand the implications of the action?

Crow: As the most prominent males, they would have paired us up anyway. That's the yaoi way.

FINALLY someone understands!

Seto: Ah, well. The fandom is miniscule anyway. At least we won't be pornstars like the more popular characters.

That's what you think. Heh. Heh heh. Ahaha! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Seto: O.O

Personal Frame/PF: What about me?

Don't worry, PF, I liked you. As we all know, only the characters people like get to live on or come back to life in fanfiction. Hooray!

PF: …Warning, I am not entirely sure this person is sane.

I'm not sure about Chicken Man, though. He annoyed me, but then I saw the part with the dead girl and my heart melted. We'll see as time goes on. Anyway, because Ren had pretty much zero personality, I'm just going to make her up as I go along. Oh, and forgive OC scientist for being a total exposition fairy (of my theories) in the beginning, please. Okay? XD

"What now, Seto?" Ren asked, looking at him curiously.

"We have to find survivors. Know where any might be?" Seto asked, looking around.

"I'm not sure. You're the only living person I remember since the first Glass Cage incident. That's… That's why I was surprised when you, well, when you were able to physically touch me, back when we first met."

"Same here. Everyone else has been dead… Or… Or not human. That wasn't a problem, but…" He frowned, and looked away. "They both ran out of power… And died."

"Robots can't die, Seto."

"These ones did."

Not wanting to push him any further, she murmured, "Thank you. Thank you for saving me. You saved the world. What's left of it, I mean."

He smiled slightly. "Y-yeah… I guess I did."

"Hey! Both of you!" a male voice called. Dressed in a dirty white labcoat, he ran towards them, prompting Seto to leap between him and Ren.

"Back off!" the younger boy ordered, holding up the katana he had found.

"Woah, woah, woah! Put that down, boy!" the man said, putting his hands up in surrender and panting. "I'm so glad to find survivors! Shin has gone mad, we have to stop him before he wipes out what's left of humanity!"

"You're a little late for that," Ren said, getting out from behind Seto.

"You're one of the people who worked for him!" Seto said accusingly.

"I swear, we all had the best of intentions!" he insisted. "One minute we were working on the project, and the next he decided he hated us all and screwed up the programming! He created those insane mask-like avatar things that wiped out all of my coworkers! I had to hide, so I found a room full of broken dolls nobody ever went into… Every once in awhile, I'd leave and find some living creatures I could eat. Every day for so long!" he wailed, unkempt beard hanging from his face. "You have to help me defeat him!"

"We already did!" Seto said, pointing to the red tower. "He's gone. Right now, we just have to look for survivors."

"Gone?" the man said, eyes widening. "You… You defeated him?"

"Shin has passed on, yes," Ren said. "Along with Sai, the catalyst."

"Oh my… This… This is wonderful! We have to turn the power back on!"

"The power?" Seto repeated. "We have to search for survivors!"

"Electricity will make the search that much easier! Come on, I know how to fix the device! It'll turn on all of the functional robot dolls, too, because they're charged by it, so if you could collect me their bodies, I could build us a functioning search party immediately!"

"Umm… About that…" Seto murmured, and laughed nervously. "Well, the ones I found on my way up were all trying to kill me, so I… I kind of destroyed them all."

"Oh…" the man said, and frowned. "Are you sure there aren't any left?"

"Yes, I'm- wait, did you say all the robot dolls would be reactivated?"

"What is it, Seto?" Ren asked.

"Crow!" he realized. "Can you revive Crow if you turn the power back on?"

"You'll have to show me the robot in question, but I'll see what I can do."

"This way!"

Seto ran over to the body that no longer functioned in the room full of destroyed dolls. "Crow, it's going to be alright! This man is going to help you, okay?"

"Hmm, odd design choices," the man remarked, staring at the pointed ears. "Ah, well… I could actually bring him back temporarily if I used some batteries from those other robots, but they'd run out of charge soon." He felt around the body.

"Hey, watch where you're touching!" Seto insisted.

"I have to find the opening, that's all! Now go get some batteries from the others. The opening is on the back of the neck for them."

"I got it," Ren said, running over to a mangled bot. "Here they are."

"Alright, just give me a second to find it… Aha! Got it!" the man said triumphantly, pulling up the back of Crow's shirt.

"There's nothing there, how can you tell?" Seto asked.

"Call it a scientist's intuition," he said gleefully, pressing down. "It's hard to tell, though; the crafting was truly masterful. I wouldn't be surprised if the boy himself couldn't tell he was a robot. Now, to open it…" He got up and looked around the room for something.

"What are you looking for?" Seto asked.

"These dolls are opened with a special device to keep the batteries from falling out accidentally. They usually carry it around with them, so there should be one in a pocket somewhere… I'm Toshi, by the way. Don't bother with the formalities; they're the least of our worries now… Got it!" he said, taking a strange device out of the pocket of one of the destroyed robots.

"It looks like a cellphone," Ren said, looking at it.

"It's disguised as such. Now, if I just override its connection to this one, and connect it to this Crow boy…" He fiddled with it for a few minutes before finally holding the shirt back up and pressing a button, opening a flap. "Got a flashlight?"

"Yeah, here," Seto said.

He took it and looked inside. "These are some high quality batteries! I'd hold onto these so we can put them back in after turning the power on."

"Stop talking about him like a machine! He's a person!" Seto said angrily.

"I'm sure he has a very high artificial intelligence. There wouldn't be any other reason to design one this well…"

"Stop it!"

"Alright, alright," the scientist sighed, and handed the battery to Seto. "Regardless of what he is, though, he runs on batteries, and that one there can hold a lot of charge; probably why he worked longer than the rest. It's strange, though. He should still have some charge left… Only extreme physical exertion could have caused this."

"Like flipping around like a monkey?" Seto said quietly.

"What was that?"

"N-nothing."

"Anyway, we'll want to put it back in him afterwards, so don't lose it." He popped in the other battery. "Shin was probably responsible for putting working batteries back in all of these dolls so he could use them in his scheme… This still has enough juice in it to last about an hour, which is just long enough for me to turn the power back on!" He closed it and pressed a button on the device. Slowly, Crow's eyes seemed to light back up.

"CROW!" Seto cried, hugging him. "You're alive!"

"Wh-what? Seto?" Crow said slowly.

"I thought you were dead!" Seto said, squeezing him tighter.

"So did I! What happened?" Crow asked, turning around and seeing Ren. "Is that… Is that the silver-haired girl you told me about?"

"Yeah, her name is Ren! And that's Toshi, the guy who saved you!" Seto said.

Toshi waved. "Come on, we have to turn the power back on!"

"Wow… What happened while I was out?" Crow asked, blinking.

"I'll tell you on the way," Seto laughed.

"Great to meet you, Crow," Ren said, smiling.

"Uh, yeah, great to meet you, too."

"That ought to do it! Crow, mind if I put your old battery back in? It ought to work now," Toshi said.

"Sure, all right," Crow said, nodding. After the brief change, the four found themselves standing inside the red tower.

"Oh, that's right! PF!" Seto said, and started running down the steps.

"PF? Who's that?" Crow asked with a frown, following the boy.

"I don't know any more than you do," the scientist responded with a shrug.

After a few minutes of walking, there was a faint sound of, "Warning, I am in danger of malfunctioning! Please help me!" coming from below a pile of dirt beside the train station.

"Help me dig her up!" Seto said, digging.

"You buried someone alive?" Ren asked, shocked, only to understand when they finally dug up the backpack-like device.

"Seto? It's great to see you again, Seto. It looks like you found the silver haired girl," PF said weakly. "Do you mind brushing off the dirt off me? It is affecting my system."

"Did you tell everyone about me?" Ren asked, rolling her eyes.

"Hello," the robot introduced herself upon being brushed off. "I am a Personal Frame."

"PF guided me through the train station! Without her, I'd still be stuck inside it," Seto explained.

"A Personal Frame? She'll be really helpful during the search!" Ren said, picking up PF. "I'll carry her, if that's alright."

"Umm, are you sure?" PF asked, hesitant.

"She won't drop you, PF," Seto said. "Oh, and… This is yours, right?" He took the screw and twisted it back in.

"So that's where that came from," Crow said. "So, well, now that we're all together, shouldn't we set up some sort of base? We need somewhere to put all the people we find, if we're going to search for survivors, right?"

"I would advise you," PF began as Ren strapped her on, "to use the hotel."

"We'll have to bury the dead people there, though…" Seto murmured.

"I'll take care of that; I've worked with more dead bodies than I care to count in college. It's the least I can do, considering all you've been through," Toshi sighed.

"No, I have to be there," Seto said. "They're my friends."

"Alright, fine, then. Come on, we could all use a good night's sleep… Or, as is the case for our mechanical friends, a recharge."

"I'm almost insulted by that," Crow said flatly.

"Oh, wait, that's right, I have weapons in my suitcase!" Seto said, opening it up. "We should probably all take one, just in case."

"A crossbow? Where did you get this stuff?" Ren asked, picking it up. "Nobody uses these anymore; this is super retro."

"In case you haven't noticed, we don't have too much choice in the matter," Crow pointed out, picking up a bamboo sword. "I'm just surprised you have all of this stored. You don't strike me as the violent type, Seto."

"Don't I get anything?" the scientist asked, frowning.

"All I have left is this butterfly net…" Seto murmured. "Sorry."

"Fine, I'll take it," Toshi muttered. "Better than bare hands, at least… Maybe."

"I brought the radio from the red tower, by the way," Ren said, plugging it into the wall. "Now that the power is back on, we should be able to find some people."

"Hello?" Seto spoke into the microphone. "Is there anyone there? Is anyone still alive?"

"Here!" someone said. "Who is this?"

"I'm Seto! Who and where are you? We're looking for survivors!"

"My name is Kikyo, and I have a group of other people here with me. We're in the old shack by the train station. Where are you?"

"The old hotel! Can you bring them there? We'll meet you out front!"

"That close? We'll be right over! But… I'm not sure we can make it through the park. There are a bunch of wild dogs out there."

"We'll escort you through the park, then! How many of you are there?"

"Including me, six."

"Alright, then. Meet us at the front of the park, we'll be right over."

"Thank you!"

"We're going to need more weapons," Crow murmured.

"I suggest that someone stay here to 'hold down the fort,' as the saying goes," PF said.

"I have the worst weapon, so why don't I stay?" the scientist volunteered all too readily. "You kids can go get them, and I'll fix up some of the rooms here! Ah, I'll need PF, though. You have building plans in your databanks, right?"

"Yes. Leave me with the scientist, we will fix up the hotel. Good luck, Seto, Crow, Ren."

"Be careful," Seto said.

"Alright, let's do this!" Crow said with a grin.

It was a short walk through the park. "There aren't as many dogs as last time," Seto remarked.

"Good times, huh?" Crow mused. "So many pleasant memories."

"You stole my stuff!"

"I know! It was fun!"

"Remind me how you two are friends again?" Ren asked.

"He isn't always this bad," Seto responded.

"That must be them," Ren said, running forward.

"Wait, what? We can't see them from here," Crow said, confused.

"How can you tell, Ren?" Seto asked.

"Ever since those experiments Shin did, I… When I'm close to someone, I can feel where they are," she replied. "Come on, they're this way."

"Hey!" Seto called. "You guys there?"

"Over here!" the voice that seemed to be Kikyo called. "Do you have any medical supplies? Please, one of us got hurt really bad by a falling beam!"

"I have something in my suitcase," Seto said as they approached the group, and took out a first aid kit. "That scientist guy and PF ought to know more about this stuff, so we can get you better care back at the hotel. Crow, Ren, you take the rest of them back. I'll take care of the kid."

"Since when were you boss?" Crow asked curiously, only to continue: "Alright, post-apocalyptic tours here! On your left, you'll see a broken merry-go-round…"

"Oh, shut up," Ren said, whacking him on the head.

"You look funny, mister," a boy told Crow.

"I'm magic, that's why," Crow responded, smirking.

"Really?"

"No, not really. Get back in line."

"Thank you for all your help," Kikyo said again. "It's great that we can finally get together and see if we can fix society. What about the ghosts and dogs, though? Are you sure we'll be fine?"

"Crow and Ren will take good care of you, and I'll make sure this boy gets back safe and sound," Seto said as he lit the bonfire. "Goodbye for now!"

"Goodbye!"

"Are dey weaving ush?" the toddler asked, surprisingly calm as Seto wiped off his bleeding leg.

"For now. We'll catch up to them in a moment, though," he said. "Just let me stop the bleeding first."

"Are you sure dey aren't gonna weave ush fowevuh?"

"Of course not, why would you think that?"

"My mommy and daddy weft me fowevuh."

Seto frowned. "They didn't mean to leave you forever. They were forced to by a… By a really mean man. Don't worry about it, nobody here is going to leave you, okay?"

"You shuwah?"

"Yeah, I'm sure. We're going to go back to the hotel, get something warm to eat, and get a good night's sleep. Does that sound good?"

"Yeah!"

"Great to see how good you are with kids," Crow said sarcastically.

"Crow! Shouldn't you be with the others?"

"Kikyo dropped her brooch, so I'm here to get it back," he said, scanning the ground and finally picking up a shiny star-shaped piece of jewelry. "Seems like everyone has an important memento nowadays. Just like humans."

"Don't talk as if you aren't one."

"I'm not, though."

"Sure you are!" Seto said, smiling. "You still have that photograph, don't you?"

"Well, yeah…"

"Since when was that not a memento? Now come on, let's bring this boy back to the hotel, alright?" Seto said, and finished bandaging the wound. "I'll carry him." He lifted the toddler onto his shoulders.

"What are we going to do for dinner?" Crow asked. "I need to eat, too… My battery can't hold a charge if I don't, the stupid thing."

"I have some old food in my suitcase, but… Not too much else. There should be leftovers in the hotel cafeteria."

"That'll be all rotten, you idiot!"

"Well…" Seto murmured, staring up at the birds.

"Welcome home, you guys," the scientist said. "The smell of corpses is gone, and the sheets are clean… Enough. And- why are you carrying a dead bird?"

"It was hard to get without a crossbow, or another ranged weapon; if only Ren were there, huh?" Crow remarked. "Anyway, where's the stove? This is the dinner to go with everybody's stale leftovers."

"Who gets what room?" Kikyo asked randomly.

"Umm, why don't we start on the top floor? Kids in 300, Kikyo… Kikyo, you can go in 301 with me. Crow, Seto, why don't you take 303? As for the professor, he can get 304."

"We'll eventually run out of space if we find too many people," the scientist said.

"If we do, we'll have to find a place with more space. There is a 90% chance there will be some abandoned houses not too far from here. When we get enough people, we can start moving them into there," PF said.

"Alright, then. Let's go to the cafeteria and eat something, I'm starving," Crow said.

"You eat?" the scientist repeated.

"Yes, as a matter of fact. That's how I was designed," Crow spat, turning away and storming off after Ren and the group of survivors.

"Alright, what do we have?" Crow asked.

"Some crackers and a moldy sandwich in my suitcase," Seto said, frowning.

"I'll switch off my tastebuds and take the sandwich," Crow sighed. "Split the crackers among the kids, and I'll cook the bird."

"What's in the fridge, Ren?" Seto asked.

"Some expired meat and milk, juice, bread, yogurt… A lot of stuff, actually. Help me check the expiration dates; it's hard to get rid of stuff, but we don't want anyone getting sick."

"Warning!" PF said urgently from Ren's back, having since been put back in the silver-haired girl's care. "That is not how you cook a bird, Crow!"

"Oh, what do you kno- ARGH!" the humanoid robot yelped as flame burst from the stove.

"Just give me that, I'll do it," Ren giggled, taking the bird from Crow, who wiped the soot off his face.

"Umm, do you need a napkin?" Seto asked.

"Just… Don't say anything," Crow sighed. "I'm going to go read. There's a library in this hotel, you know."

"Really? That's cool!"

"It's on the second floor, through the door with the fancy doorknob. Call me when dinner's ready," he said, leaving with a hand-wave.

"Aren't you going to stay and help?"

"Are you kidding? I'm not taking care of these brats!" he snorted.

"You're not being very helpful!"

"Well, I guess 'helpful' isn't in my programming," he replied curtly, and left.

"Sorry dinner isn't exactly great," Seto said, frowning. "It was all we could do."

"It's alright, we're used to it," Kikyo said. "It's been forever since I had meat, and it's just great to have a nice place to sleep for the night."

"We'll have to train the kids how to defend themselves," Crow pointed out. "You sure you don't have any other weapons in that suitcase of yours?"

"Yeah, I'm sure. We can look around the building, though. Anything will do." Seto emptied out his suitcase on the table. "I have flashlights and some first aid left. That's it."

"Looks like we'll be raiding some buildings," Crow said with a frown.

"Hey, guys," Toshi said, getting up. "PF and I have been talking; mind if I take her and go salvage some parts from the lab? I'm sure I could find some useful machines I could fix up, and there's bound to be plenty of things we could use as weapons there, too. Anything is better than this piece of junk," he muttered, picking up his butterfly net.

"Oh, that reminds me!" Seto said. "If you see a guy that looks like a giant chicken, tell him we're at the hotel, if we wants to sell us something."

"A… What?"

"You'll understand if you see him," Seto said, laughing. "It's hard to explain. Oh, and whatever you do…" His face became serious again. "Don't point out that the 'princess' is dead… Okay?"

"Umm, sure, whatever you say."

"Good luck!" Seto called.

"We will be back soon. The odds of a successful mission are 70%," PF said cheerfully.

"Uh, maybe we shouldn't go, then…"

"I meant the odds of finding something," PF corrected. "Not of living."

"Right… Well, later, everybody!" he said, and left.

"Good riddance to him," Crow said, biting into a chip.

"He was the one who fixed you, wasn't he?" Ren asked, appalled. "Why do you hate him so much?"

"I don't need to be reminded every five minutes that I'm not a living thing, alright?" Crow replied, irritated, and got up. "I'm going back to the library."

"Ah, Crow, wait!" Seto called after him, and gave up. "I think you hit a nerve."

"I didn't mean to hurt his feelings…" she said. "I mean, he isn't alive, technically, and he does run on electricity, but it doesn't mean he isn't a person! I never said that!"

"I know, but… He only found out recently that he was a robot at all," Seto explained. "He's still probably a little shocked."

"You mean he never knew before?"

"No. He didn't remember anything when I met him."

"How did you meet, anyway?"

"At the theme park. He did all these weird acrobatic tricks and stole my pouch." Seto smiled a little at the memory. "I chased him around for ages, until I finally climbed up onto a poster to reach him. He tried to insult me, and he fell… I was really worried, though. It was weird. Even though I was ticked off at him, I didn't want him to die, so I went down and checked to see if he was alright. I was so relieved when he got up… He told me he would give me my pouch back and apologized, so we sat down a little while and talked… He showed me a picture of his, gave me this ring, and, well… Then… He…" Seto murmured.

"He what?"

Turning slightly red, he replied, "Then he kissed me."

"O-oh," she said, caught a little off-guard. "I mean, there's nothing wrong with that, but… Well, he… He stole from you, and then he kissed you, and… And you were okay with that? It just seems… I don't know. Forget I said anything," she sighed with a smile, and looked at her dress. "I'm going to see if I can find something worth wearing, okay? This is in shreds."

"I'm going to go talk to Crow," Seto said.

"Good idea. Kikyo," she said, turning to the girl. "Can you put everyone to bed?"

Kikyo nodded. "Alright. I've looked at the room, though, and we need one more bed in there to fit them all. Is it alright if I move one from another room into there?"

"Sure, go ahead. We're all a family now, so we have to act like one, okay? Tomorrow we can eat and search for more survivors. PF can figure out their general location, and I can track them down from there. Sound good?"

"Yeah," Seto said, nodding and going off to the library.

"Crow?" he called softly, entering the room.

"Yeah?" Crow responded, flipping through his book. "What is it?"

"Well, I don't like seeing my best friend hurt, and-"

"You still," Crow said quietly, turning towards him. "You still think I'm your best friend?"

"I told you that, didn't I?"

"You thought I was dying. Of course you would say that."

"It wasn't a lie, if that's what you're thinking," Seto said, sitting down next to him. "You really are my best friend."

"What about that girl there, Ren? Or that ghost who was with you when I died? All of them… They were human, weren't they?"

"That doesn't matter, Crow. Ren is a close friend, but… But you were the first friend I've ever had. Before that, all I had was the old man who took care of me… And PF was more like a parental figure than anything else. I don't know Ren all that well yet, and Kikyo and her group just got here."

"It's just…" Crow sighed. "It feels weird. All my life I thought I had a beating hard, but it was just a device in my chest to maintain a certain body temperature to keep my system from overheating; the same with the way I breath. And now, I'm dependent on another machine to charge me, just so I can go on living through the day."

"That doesn't mean anything!" Seto said. "Humans and robots aren't so different. Our organs are like batteries. Without things like exercise, they wear out and we die."

"But… But you have free will, and all that. I'm just… Just a series of programs."

"But we all are, Crow," Seto replied. "My… My grandpa, or whoever he was in relation to me, had a library, and I once read in a book that we're all just a bunch of chemical reactions and electric impulses. We're a little different physically, but… But we're the same where it counts!"

Crow nodded. "Thank you, Seto. I needed that. You know…" he said softly. "You really are… My best friend."

Suddenly, there was no distance between their lips anymore.

A/N

Yaaaay! -waves the yaoi flag-

Crow: I'm so wangsty!

It's not wangst! Personally, I'd be horrified to find out I were a robot. I mean, sure I'd get over it eventually, but there would be confusion, shock, vengefulness, confusion…

Seto: You said 'confusion' twice.

That's because I'd be really confused, okay? I'd also be pissed off that I didn't get a "turn off one of the five senses" function. I can think of a million times where that would have come in handy…

Crow: Alright, let's move on already.

Oh, and don't worry, Crow. It gets better.

Crow: Oh boy… No woe-is-me-I'm-a-robot subplot, right?

Oh, uh, well…

Crow: Eh?

You'll see when we get there!

Note: Apologies for any typos; I don't have a beta. Please point them out in your review so I can fix them. ...You are reviewing, right?