Note: I do not own either Xenoblade Chronicles X or Doki Doki Literature Club. All rights of Xenoblade Chronicles X and its characters long to Monolith Soft while all rights to Doki Doki Literature Club and its characters belong to Dan Salvato, along with some of the dialogue used in this story.
Chapter 1: Prologue
"Go forward here, left turn at the next corner…" I say to myself as I navigate the hallways of underground BLADE Barracks, while checking the map on my radar.
It was taking a while for me to navigate these hallways since these places were usually for the scientists and researchers, which meant that I didn't have much business being here in the first place. Thankfully, I didn't have much work assigned for me today. Just killing some indigens bothering a couple of BLADE out in Mira and fetching a few Miran materials for the requesters.
All things considered, it was an easy day. At least, easy enough where it was excusable for me not to do much work and not having my team leader Elma yell at me for it.
Yup, just another day for simple old Cross. Here on Mira, the world us humans are stuck on, fighting for our survival.
Right now I was trying to deliver the T-Ray Lights requested by Quentin, an engineer.
Lord knows these things took forever to find in Primordia...
As I turn the corner, I find the designated area to drop off the materials: Quentin's lab.
Finally…
This place was in a rather secluded area of the facility, even more so than the other labs in the Barracks. Almost no one else, or hell no other room, was even near this place.
"Quentin? You there? I got your stuff." I yell out as I approach the lab. The door to the lab was already open, so I figured he'd already be in there.
No response.
After a few minutes, I stick my head into the room and look around. No sign of him.
I basically let myself in at this point to get a better look of the place. The lab was surprisingly dark and empty. Aside from the occasional clicks and beeps made by the room's still-active technology, the place looked near abandoned.
The most prominent thing that stuck out to me, however, was the piece of equipment in the corner to my right that was draped with a rather oversized cloth.
Curious, I drop the T-Ray Lights on a nearby tabletop and approach strange equipment. As I approach it, I notice it hooked up to a nearby computer system with a large monitor. A bit dusty though.
I wipe off some of the dust from the computer table and keyboard while removing part of the cloth from the equipment to get a better look at it.
To my surprise, it was a Skell cockpit, albeit a bit modified. The seating and the control handles still looked intact, but there was a rather strange circular device attached to the head view of the cockpit seating.
I place my hand on one of the arm handles for support as I lean in closer to examine the strange head device. It looked like an oversized visor attached to a cut off part of one of the battle helmets us BLADE soldiers use in combat. Both of which were connected to the top part of the Skell cockpit seating. Along with that were a vast number of wires connecting to the computer system from the back of the head device.
As I move my hand a bit on the arm handle, I feel and notice a sticky note attached to it...
"PROTOTYPE"
...prototype? What the hell was this thing-
…!
Before I could continue my thinking, a sudden eletrical shock took me by surprise, followed by a large headache suddenly. An unbearable one at that. So much so that my vision became all blurry, almost as if my consciousness was losing itself.
I clutch my head in pain and yell in anguish before kneeling to\\on the floor, then finally collapsing. My mind was slowing ceasing until my consciousness was no more.
All I could see now was darkness…