Chapter 1: the Beginning

where am I?

I've been here before…but I don't know where "here" is. I've been here forever...but I've never thought about it…not that I remember anyways.

who am I?

I don't…I don't know. I know I should find out, though. After all, if I don't know who I am, who does?

..what was that??

Something's moving around me. I sense them. They…they're like me? But…not like me. They're moving. Am I supposed to be moving too?

what's happening?

Something's changing. This eternal nothing…this never-changing environment around me…it's disappearing. I can…feel? I think I'm…cold…now. I want the sensations to go away again.

They are coming.

The things like me. Maybe they can help me. Maybe they can tell me who I am. Maybe they…

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Am I really about to do this?

It had been a long time since her sisters had awakened her on Proto Merkabah. She is one of what Mizrahi referred to as a "Kirschwasser", though there were very few people who know that name. Less, now that his lab, records, notes, and all are lost to the Abyss.

I guess I left at the right time, she thought. I just hope my sisters made it out too…

She is #0099, part of the 99-Series Observational Realians, created to gather data for the 100-Series Observational Realian Prototype, MOMO. Her 'father's (Dr. Joachim Mizrahi's) replacement daughter for the one he lost. For some reason, after he started #0099's "birth", he decided to simply go with his current data and begin on MOMO. She didn't know why he decided to cancel her birth, and thus, working with incomplete data for the Prototype. Maybe the data he hoped to get from her was insignificant, or he figured out a solution half-way through. Regardless, it was her sisters who, for whatever reason, decided to complete her birth. For them, I am grateful.

Just recently, Vector Industries had announced the release of the Mass-Production Model 100-Series Observational Realians, and she couldn't be more relieved. The 100-Series hold humanity's main weapon against the Gnosis; the Hilbert Effect, which draws them into Real Space, and takes away their invulnerability.

Finally, no more hiding because of what I am.

Even better, their models were very similar to her own. Just a different uniform, and while 99-Series had long, silvery-white hair, the 100-Series had hair of medium-short length and a blue-green color, always held up in two by amplifiers for their Hilbert Waves.

Lucky me, all I need is the uniform, or to get a good picture of what they will look like. It wasn't that hard to get either; and with the head picture, she could create the best possible disguise. She didn't know whether it was something only she could do, or if her older sisters could too, but ever since she went into hiding across the galaxies, she discovered an ability to copy other Realian's forms as an illusion over her own. Although, her height was something she could never get to change. Even her clothes would change, but it was easier to just wear different ones. No problems there.

…Okay, one problem. What to do.

She needed to have something. 100-Series didn't just wander around cities and dock colonies, at least not now. What could she do? It was about that time many things began to happen.

Apart from Vector announcing the new Mass Production 100-Series model, there was supposedly a large weapons facility owned by Vector that exploded on Carioca, and all communications with the planet Ariadne had recently been cut off. Passing civilian vessels had clamed it had been destroyed. Thus, the Galactic Federation was assembling a fleet to investigate this supposed disappearance, and retrieve any salvageable items.

Vector was lending the Federation their new Anti-Gnosis starship, the Woglinde, to investigate the disappearance. It was equipped with state-of-the-art anti-gnosis technology. Only problem? The 100-Series needed to operate them are not yet ready for use. That is how she found herself, disguised as a hurriedly completed 100-Series made for this voyage, running full out to the launch station. She could only hope that she wasn't making a terrible mistake.

(chapter 1: end)

AN: eh, well this is the begining of a somewhat trial story I'm trying to get up. its a sort-of AU version of Xenosaga Episode 1, but i combined details from the game and the Animation, as well as a few things of my own. And, no. this Kirschwasser has nothing to do with Albedo. I know this was short, and i'll try to get the next chapter up soon, but thats still temporary. Its already typed up, but I'm having slight troubles getting everything set up. ttyl

Disclaimer: I do not own any part of the Xenosaga games or Xenosaga: the Animation.