A/N: Wow. The long awaited (or was it?) sequal to The End of the Universe. Don't expect too much from this... I'm not planning on having this be more than a few chapters long. It'll just tie up a few ends left hanging at the end of the aforementioned story. Thanks to all who kept with me through out the lifetime of TEotU, it's you that kept me going, and it's for you that this is here. So, here goes!
Disclaimer: I do not own Xenosaga.
After The End
By Kaltmr
Prologue
((chaos))
Years have past since everything's been sucked into the space time anomaly. Everything, of course, except for Shion and Kos-Mos. I can only assume though, with all the time that's passed, that they're now dead. Everyone's been attempting to live on in the anomaly, but co-existing with Serenity and her army has proven to be quite difficult. She's been on a rampage, searching for me. Many planets have been annihilated while she's looked for me. It's only a matter of time before she find us...
"We've got a transmission!" Jr. cried out, breaking the silence of Gaignun's office. "The space colony a few hundred parsecs away from 2nd Miltia has been attacked!"
"What?" Gaignun punched his desk. "Then we're next! When Serenity sees 2nd Miltia... she'll know that the Foundation is close by."
"And that will lead her straight to me." I muttered.
"What will we do?" Gaignun looked at me. "Do you want to hide... on 2nd Miltia? I could get you there in time, and then stall Serenity when she comes..."
"No." I replied solemnly. "This is all my doing, whether anyone believes it or not. I'll have to face her..."
"Wait." Jr. said, his face lighting up. "This anomaly... it's like a UMN column, right? Can't we just try and attack our way out? I'm sure if we use Momo's E.S., we can break through the walls and get back to normal space!"
"But if we get attacked while we try to escape, we'll be caught defenseless. Everyone will be killed." I pointed out.
"It's useless either way." Gaignun said, opening up a screen in front of them all, showing a diagram of the anomaly. "This is actually two sections of space. There's the anomaly itself, and there's the space within the anomaly. The anomaly is most likely still there, just blank space. However..." the anomaly in the diagram began shrinking. "Sensors show that the space within the anomaly has been steadily shrinking. If we were to break out now, we'd still have to get out of the anomaly itself."
Jr. cursed under his breath. "So we'll either get squashed to death or killed by Gnosis. If only we could go back in time..."
"Back in time? Why?" I asked, intrigued by the idea.
"We could just go back to when we first entered the anomaly, right? Then, the space within the anomaly wouldn't have shrunk at all, and we could break through both layers at once!"
Gaignun toyed with the onscreen model. "Hmm... it's plausible."
For the first time in a long time, I smiled. "Then it's settled. That's what we'll do."
"What?" the two said at once.
"How?" Gaignun asked. "Sure, if the two walls were together, we could break through both and escape, but that's not the case."
"Then we'll just have to go back in time..." I said, as if it was the simplest thing ever.
Jr. repeated after Gaignun. "How?"
"Don't worry." I reassured them. "I have a plan. It's risky, but if we can pull it off, we'll all be home free... hopefully, even Serenity..."
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A/N: don't flame. i know it was short, and i know there's nothing else that i've uploaded at the moment. i'm just posting this now, so i can force myself to work on it more later. i know if i don't, i'll never get working on this. also, this may be the last update for a while. school starts in 2 days, so the works gonna start coming. won't have as much free time. i'll try and keep up the work though. review to encourage me! haha. so next chapter... how will chaos' plan work out? will it work as perfectly as he says it will? review plz!