Xenogears: Alternate Realities?
Xenogears cast:
Name: Age: Gender: Weapon/s-Powers:
Fei Fong Wong 18 Male Martial arts (fists)
Bartholomew Fatima 18 Male Whips
Citan Uzuki 29 Male Sword
Billy Lee Black 16 Male Guns
Emeralda ? Female Nanomachines
Maria 13 Female Fists
Chu-Chu ? Female Can grow into a giant
Sailor Moon cast:
Serena 14 Female Sailor Moon power
Amy 15 Female Sailor Mercury Power
Rei 16 Female Sailor Mars Power
Lita 15 Female Sailor Jupiter Power
Mina 15 Female Sailor Venus Power
Darien 22 Male Tuxedo Mask Power
Xenogears is copyright Squaresoft and Sailor Moon is copyright Dic. I'm just writing this fanfic for fun.
I don't really know all of the Sailor Scouts' correct ages, so I just took a guess based on what I've seen. So please don't get mad with me if I get something wrong. Rico Banderas of Xenogears isn't included in this story because I just don't like him. I have beaten Xenogears the game and since I am kinda bad about describing things, I have written this with the idea that you know basically what is going on in the Xenogears universe.
Chapter 1: A Whole New Type of Adventure.
All was pitch-blackness for what seemed, to Fei, a few years long. In fact it hadn't been for more than a few minutes. Fei groaned in pain as consouceness seeped back into his mind. The pain was all over his body, as if a truck had hit him. Fei opened his eyes, slowly at first, for it was a bright sunny day.
"What, a bright day, this can't be right." Fei thought to himself.
Fei suddenly stood up and then fell back down to the ground. He hadn't quite recovered from the pain, that now shot through his soul. "Ugh," Fei groaned again, "what is going on here, where am I. I shouldn't be in a city like this." Indeed, Fei couldn't recognize the city he was in. Deus had destroyed all of the major cities back in Fei's world. Fei lay back down in the grass and tried to remember what had happened.
"That's right," Fei thought, "We were all inside the Jasper when Miang had taken over Elly's body and Krelian took her to merge with Deus. Then I followed after them and that was when everything went black. That still doesn't explain where I am."
"I see you are all right." A familiar voice said behind Fei.
Fei rose to his feet, slowly now that the pain was bearable; Fei turned to where he had heard the voice. It was Citan Uzuki and Bartholomew Fatima a.k.a. Bart. Citan was dress in his normal clothing, which was white pants a green shirt and a light red sash tied around his waist. The sash also held his katana sword.
Bart was in his black jeans black shirt with a red coat over it. Bart also had a belt on which also carried his two whips on either side of him.
"Am I glad to see the both of you," exclaimed Fei, "but what are you doing here I thought I was the only one who jumped in after Elly and Krelian."
"You were the only one who did," replied Bart, "after you jumped in a bright light engulfed us all and we found ourselves here with you."
Citan stepped in "You have been asleep for about an hour, but you were so I was on the verge of assuming the worst." Citan took his spectacles off his face and started to wipe them off."
"It's good to have you all here, but what about the others, where are they?" Fei asked.
Citan replaced his spectacles on his nose, "I believe that they may have all arrived at different places either around this city or other places on this strange world."
Fei frowned deeply, "I suppose that when you say "strange world" you mean that we were all taken to another planet or another dimension entirely."
"That is most likely the case since this city is indeed new to us and had it been on our world it would have been destroyed with no one left. Just look at the city Fei." Fei turned and looked at the city in the distance about a mile away. You could tell that there were many people around and they were all going around at a slow pace. They weren't in any rush at all.
"They aren't in any rush to evacuate the city." Fei stated. Fei could remember back to the earlier days of when Deus started to lay waste to his world. Men, women, children, all were in such a rush to evacuate their homes to get to the safe houses in the South Pole. After everyone had left the cities there were many things left behind and even a few dead people left lifeless on the ground, forgotten. Fei could remember back to when Elly had spent day and night helping the wounded and the infirm to get on the transport ships. Elly's immense kindness had, in itself, a type of healing property. Even people on the verge of exhaustion and death would rise to their feet and carry on, with Elly their ray of hope in a better future. Fei could then remember when Miang had been killed and transferred her soul into Elly. Fei placed his hand over the spot where Miang\Elly had shot him. When Fei withdrew his hand it was lightly stained in blood. Fei had jumped in after Elly before he had a chance to care for his wound. Fei also found that his wound had been bandaged. Fei turned to Citan.
"Thanks doc," Fei said gratefully, "thanks for taking care of my wound." Citan reached into his pocket and brought out a bullet and handed it to Fei.
"Your just lucky that it hadn't gone in too far or struck a vital organ," Citan exclaimed. Fei looked around at the surrounding landscape. Fei immediately knew what was missing.
"Doc," Fei said in sudden alarm, "where are our gears, where are they."
"We don't know," said Bart with his hand on his chin and in deep thought, "Citan believes that they could also be somewhere around here or they could still be back in our world. Citan also says that if any of our gears are around here yours should be close by, since you did jump straight into the gate which probably brought us here."
"We all must get out of this field," Citan warned, "I see some storm clouds in the distance." Fei, Bart and Citan headed off for the mysterious city. As they got closer they could hear the sounds of many activities going on. Some of the sounds were all too familiar, while others were completely alien to their ears. Also as they drew closer, Citan had been in deep thought about their situation and was thinking aloud, as he was known to do.
"This city seems familiar," Citan thought aloud, "I feel as though this city resembles the city that was buried at the bottom of that ancient lighthouse. It is possible that we have gone into either the past or the future. No, it couldn't be the future, unless some people had survived Deus' destruction. That would mean that we are far into the future. No, it can't be the future, after Deus had killed everyone he would then transform the planet into a giant superweapon, where nothing could live. So it means that we must be in the past. But, that still doesn't rule out the possibility of an alternate dimension or planet. Yet, the chances of an alternate dimension or planet having such a similar city structure and culture is practically impossible. It could also mean that we are in an alternate reality of our own planet's history."
"Citan," Bart said interrupting Citan's train of thought, "quite with the thinking, your giving me a headache." Citan looked up and gave Bart a hard look.
"I'm trying to narrow down the possibilities of where we are and how we are going to get back. I'll try to think to myself." Fei smiled at Citan's last comment, Fei knew that to get the doc to keep quite while he was thinking was harder than a single person taking on a single gear (a gear is a giant humanoid machine).
While the trio of friends were heading to the city they went over what they were carrying with them. Between the three of them they had 200 gold. Back in their original world, 200 gold was good enough to last for about a week. Yet they didn't know what type of currency this new city had. They all hoped that 200 gold would last a long time here. Fei was carrying two aquasols and a hob-jerky. Apart from that and the clothes on their backs, Citan had his katana and Bart had his two blood red whips. Fei didn't carry a weapon since he was quite skilled in the martial arts and only needed his fists to see him through any battle. That was all that they had with them and it would have to last then for a while.
(Note, in the game Xenogears, aquasols restore 50 HP in battle and not in battle and a hob-jerky heals 50 HP while not in battle)
"I'll bet Citan could get a job at the nearest hospital as a surgeon." Suggested Bart.
Citan looked at Bart, "That depends on what kind of medical technology they have here."
"I say that Bart gets a job as a babysitter," joked Fei, "You could play pirates with them."
"Funny Fei, real funny." Bart said sarcastically. Bart then started to scratch the eye patch that covered his left eye. Bart had lost his left eye in a type of accident a few years ago "Damn," Bart cursed, "ever since we got here my old wound has been bothering me." Right now however, neither Fei nor Citan had time to worry about Bart's irritation because they had reached the outer city limits and the start of a new adventure.
Chapter 2:Fei falls under suspicion.
As Fei, Bart, and Citan reached the outer city limits a strange wave of Déjà vu encompassed all three of them. They all knew that they had seen this city at the bottom of the lighthouse. If that were true that would place them over 4000 years into the past. But they wouldn't assume that they are in the past until they gathered more evidence.
"Citan," Fei said, stopping in his tracks, "Did I ever turn into Id while I was unconscious?" Citan turned toward Fei.
"Thankfully no," Citan replied, "like I told you, you had only been out for about an hour." Bart noticing the conversation came and joined in.
"After you woke up," Bart added, "the reason why it took so long for us to notice you had awaken was because we had been hiding on our stomachs behind a small grass hill. We did that just incase you had transformed into Id."
Fei sigh a breath of relief, "Well, that is good, but now what do we do in this city." Fei turned to look down a street of the city. The city was crowded with many people of different size, shape, color, etc. There was only a thing missing. In Fei's world the street would be crowded with not just Humans but also Demi-humans. Some examples would be Rico, who was half-beast. Rico was another of Fei's friends that may have been transported here. Other Demi-humans could be half dragon, half mole, half dolphin, half dog, half bird, and half cat. This city however was all humans. Down the street Fei could see many buildings of all types. There was a restaurant near where Fei was standing. There was also a tool shop, another restaurant, and a beauty place on the left side of the road. On the right side there was one big building with a giant clock on the front and a wall surrounding the building. On the wall there was a steel gate that was closed. On the other side of the wall Fei could hear people playing. Fei was looking at this particular building when a girl with red hair crossed behind the gate.
"Elly?" Fei said with hope on his voice. Was it possible that Elly had been taken here as well? "Doc, Bart I think I just saw Elly."
"Are you sure?" questioned Citan. "That can't be possible, you must've seen someone else."
"I'm positive I saw her over on the other side of the steel gate." Fei didn't wait any longer he ran across the street. He almost got run over by a red car, but he made it to the other side. Behind him he could hear Citan and Bart calling his name and following him across the street. Fei's love for Elly swelled his thoughts of hope that that had been Elly he saw over by the gate. When Fei reached the gate he struggled to get a good view on the side of the gate where the girl had gone. By, this time Bart and Citan had caught up with Fei.
Bart went up to Fei and Bert was red in the face, "Smart move Fei," Bart scolded, "You almost got us all run over by cars and you didn't even look both ways before crossing." Fei turned with a questioned look on his face.
"Cars?" Fei asked, "what are those? You mean those small buggies that are crossing through the middle of the city."
"Uh, I don't know," replied Bart, "I just knew what they were, that's all."
"The only thing we have close enough to these "cars" are the sand buggies that travel through the desert. It is strange that you would know what they are." speculated Citan
"Also what's this deal with looking both ways before crossing. What does it mean Bart?" Fei asked.
"I don't know!" said Bart getting slightly annoyed, "Let's just drop it for know, OK."
"Fine," said Fei, "could you however give me a boost over this wall so I can see if that girl I saw was Elly."
"I think it's a waste of time," sighed Bart, shaking his head, "but I guess there's no use in debating with you when it comes to Elly. However," Bart said in a stubborn tone, "I won't be responsible if we get caught. Obviously they put this wall here for a reason." Bart moved over behind Fei and grabbed Fei's foot. Fei put his hands on the top of the wall and pulled himself up while Bart pushed Fei up. When Fei was up Bart put both of Fei's feet on his shoulders and held Fei there. Fei looked around for the girl he had seen. There were many girls there and they were all playing some type of sport. The sport consisted of hitting a white ball back and forth over a high net. Smacking it with your fist or by hooking both hands together and hitting the ball in an underhand fashion was how they were hitting the ball. Fei continued to search for the girl. All of the people playing the sport didn't notice Fei.
"There she is!" Exclaimed Fei with joy that quickly turned to sorrow. The girl he had seen wasn't Elly at all. The girl was too young and the face was completely different. Fei was just about to clime down when one of the girls smacked the ball in the wrong way. The white ball went spinning through the air. Fei had hardly noticed the ball before it smashed into his face. Fei let out a yell of surprise and fell backward taking Bart with him.
"Ouch!" complained Bart rubbing the back of his head. "I told you this wasn't a good idea, ow"
Citan helped Fei and Bart to their feet while inspecting their wounds. "You should learn to be more careful Fei," exclaimed Citan. "Thank goodness your head landed on my foot, if it had hit the concrete the damage could have been much worse."
"I'm sorry doc," Fei apologized, "I hope I didn't hurt your foot." Citan then had finished his inspection of Fei's head.
"Don't worry, it's nothing that won't heal within a minute or two." Said Citan reassuringly. The trio of friends was about to leave when Bart bumped into the white ball.
"I suppose they will want this back," Bart stated picking up the ball. Behind him the metal gate open and the three friends turned toward the gate. Out stepped a beautiful young girl. The Girl was about 15 or 16 years old and she had blue eyes and matching hair. Her form was slender as if she hadn't done much physical work but more of other things. She immediately stepped up to Bart.
"Could I please have the ball back," she asked in a calm and confident voice. Bart stepped up to the girl and she didn't back own from him, even though Bart was about a head taller from here and was obviously superior physically.
"Sure young lady," Bart replied in his trying-to-impress-the-girl-tone. The blue hair girl accepted the ball said thank you and turned to leave.
"Hey what's your name?" asked Fei. The girl turned to look at Fei. All of a sudden she flinched, as if Fei had just shined a bright light in here eyes. "Are you ok," asked Citan in a concerned voice.
The girl recovered and replied with an edge of alarm on her voice, "I'm fine thank you. I really must get back to school now." The girl turned and jogged back through the gate and closed it with haste. Before the girl had finished closing the gate she gave Fei a look that made Fei really nervous. The girl then peered at Citan's sword and was gone. The three friends all looked at each other.
That was odd," exclaimed Bart, "I wonder who that was." Bart's face then grew a frown, "I must be losing my touch, she didn't even give me her name."
"Well, now we know that this is obviously a center of learning," said Citan. "I wonder if there is a library here?" Just then there was a clap of thunder and slight drizzling of rain started to fall. "We are going to have to worry about that later, now we must find shelter and a place to sleep for the night."
"I agree," Fei and Bart replied at the same time. The rain was now coming down harder and Fei, Bart, and Citan all left running down the sidewalk toward the center of the city.
Back in the school in a classroom on the second floor a group of students with their teacher were all walking into the room and sitting down in their proper seats. One of these students was the girl with the blue hair. On her right a girl with blond hair, done in two meatballs on her head and flowing down both sides, leaned over toward the girl with blue hair.
"Hey Amy," said the blond hair girl, "why did you look so frightened after you got the volleyball. You looked as if a negacreep had attacked you." The blue hair girl turned to look at the blond girl.
"I don't know Serena," replied Amy, "when I went to get the ball there were these three men there."
Serena's face formed a big smile, "Really, how old were they and were they really handsome."
Amy reached into here desk and pulled out a really thick book. "I guess two of them were about 17 to 19 years old and the other one looked to be in his late 20's."
"Really," said Serena growing more excited, "I wonder if one of them could be my boyfriend."
"I don't think so Serena, I really do think one of them was from the Negaverse."
"Oh, Amy you think too much, you should settle down and get a nice boyfriend. I'll tell you what I'll let you have the boy I don't chose as your boyfriend."
"Serena I wish you could be serious for a moment. These weren't your average boys. The older on carried a katana sword with him. While another one had an eye patch and carried two whips on him."
"So what I bet their just carrying them for protection."
"Maybe, but the really odd thing was the one boy with the ponytail."
"OH! One of them has a pony tail, I'll bet he's real handsome." Images of different boys with ponytails flashed through Serena's mind.
"Be serious for a moment," scolded Amy, "the thing is that as soon as I laid eyes on him I felt a really strong power coming from him. I believe it could be the Negaverse."
"Amy you need a rest I think all of that studying has affected your brain. How could such a handsome man be from the Negaverse."
"What do you mean? You've never met him. How do you know he's handsome and don't bother asking me I'm not good with judging physical appearances."
"Come on Amy, any cute guy with a ponytail must be handsome."
"I honestly must say that you are hopeless Serena. There is no use in talking with such a bubble head as you."
"Oh, come on Amy," Serena whined as tears were forming, "you don't really mean that?"
Amy not wanting Serena to start wailing in class quickly apologized and reassured Serena. "All right Serena I didn't really mean it I'm sorry. But you really must learn to be more cautious. After school we need to find Luna to tell her of what I've discovered."
"Ok, I just hope he isn't really from the Negaverse I really would like to meet him. Hey, what do you day if after we've told Luna the news we get Rei, Lita, and Mina and all go out to the ice cream shop? How's that sound."
Serena," Any said exhausted, "All you ever think about is food and boys." In the classroom the teacher, who was a middle age woman, stood up in front of the class.
"Now I want all of you to open your math books to page 103 and start doing problems 1 through 25."
"Ah," complained Serena, "I hate math."
Outside of the school Fei, Bart and Citan, were all drenched from the pouring rain. They had spotted a house hat looked like there was no one home. The front porch of the house had a room on it. The three friends went and stood under the front porch roof to get out of the soaking wet. Once under cover, they took off their shirts and wrung them to get as much water out of them as possible. They then put their shirts back on and planned on what they would do next.
"Ok," Bart exclaimed clapping his hands together, "now that we are more dry than before what shall we do next Citan."
"Me," Citan asked, "you're asking me what to do?" Citan put his hand on his chin and thought for a few minutes. "Well." Citan started with both Fei and Bart looking on hoping for a brilliant plan that was worthy of the good doctor. "I don't know."
"AAGGGHH." Fei and Bart both shouted and fell to the floor."
"What do you mean you don't have a plan Bart insisted, while picking himself off of the porch. "You always have a good plan (not as good as mine)."
"I'm sorry," Citan apologized, "but this is a most unusual situation that we're in. I do apologize. All that I can really think of right now is that we should find a place to stay until the rain subsides. We can look for the others and our gears in the morning."
Bart was about to say something when a car pulled up into the driveway. Right away the three people in the car spotted the three strangers standing on their porch. The car pulled up, stopped, and the doors opened. Fei, Bart, and Citan all looked at each other wondering what to say to the obvious owners of this house. The three friends noticed that the three passengers were an older man and lady and they had a boy with them. The two adults looked to be in their mid 30's to their early 40's. The boy, who was probably their son, looked to be about 8 to 10 years old. The family approached the trio of friends. Citan also approached the family. Citan bowed to the family and said, "Please excuse us, we didn't mean to intrude on your property. We were only trying to find shelter from the rain. My name is Yosho." Citan used a false name in place of his real name so as too keep his real identity a secret to those who don't need to be involved.
"Oh that's quite alright," said the mother, giving the trio a smile, "it is rather wet outside today."
While the mother greeted the trio with a warm smile, the father looked on with a cautious and searching glare. The child had a look of curiosity and a look that said, "You are weird." When Citan saw the family pull in with their car, he immediately had hidden his sword underneath the porch, but Bart hadn't been as wise and was still wearing his two red whips in plain view. This blunder on Bart's part drew a more hard expression from the father.
"My, my and who are these two young gentlemen?" the mother asked and look at Bart and Fei with an even bigger smile. Bart and Fei were about to answer when Citan cut them off.
"The are my sons," Citan lied, "This is Makoto," Citan said indicating Bart, "and this is Erich." Citan pointed at Fei. Erich had been the name of Elly's late father, who had died in an attempt to save Elly from Grahf. Fei new this and Gave Citan a sharp look that caused Citan to sweat. Bart went up to Citan and whispered in his ear. "Are you crazy Citan?" Bart asked through clenched teeth.
"They don't look anything like you." This came from the father. The father went closer to Bart, "and how did you lose your eye their fella?" The father looked down at Bart's whips. Bart backed up and crossed his arms. "That is non of your business."
"Come, come dear," the mother butted in to prevent an argument; "it's still raining and its cold out here. Why don't we invite our guests in to dry off." The father backed off of Bart. The father didn't argue with his wife. It was obvious that he wanted to go in the house to get out of the rain. An argument would delay that pleasure. The father went to the front door and, using his keys, opened it. Five people stepped into the house. Citan went back to retrieve his sword and hid it underneath his clothing. The mother invited the trio to have dinner with them that night and lacking any real chance to get food that night, the three friends accepted. The trio discovered that the boy's name was Sammy or Sam, but the parents never revealed their names. Sam seemed to always look a Bart's eye patch. Bart tried to ignore Sam's stare but over time it got harder and harder to ignore him. When Sam left to do homework, and the father was working in his office, and the mother was cooking, the trio observed their surroundings closely. It was a well-kept house. There were no cobwebs or dust. There was a fireplace and on top of the fireplace was a place to keep pictures. While Bart and Fei continued to look the house over, Citan went over to the pictures. One was of the full family. Which consisted of the mother, the father, Sam, and a blond girl with her hair done in to ponytails that looked like Ping-Pong balls on the top of her head. She was also older than Sam was. Next to that picture was a picture of the blond hair girl and a few other girls.
"Bar..." Citan slipped, "I mean Makoto and Erich please come over here." Fei and Bart not yet used to their assumed identities didn't acknowledge Citan immediately.
"What is it doc?" Fei asked heading over to Citan. Bart followed Fei up to the doctor.
"What's the deal Citan?" Bart in turn asked.
"What do you see in this picture?" Citan said indicating the picture of girls. There was a girl with blond hair, one with brown hair, another with a dark purple shade of hair, one with yellow hair, and there was the girl with blue hair.
"Doc!" Fei jumped, "There's that girl we saw at the school."
"Indeed Fei and it looks like that by staying here we risk encountering her again." Fei thought back to the strange look the blue hair girl had given his.
"Do you suppose she knows of my other self." Fei asked in a nervous tone. Only Fei and his friends knew of Fei's ability to transform into Id. Fei seriously hoped that it wouldn't become public knowledge or no one, aside from his friends, would ever trust him.
"I don't know," Citan replied, "the way she reacted to you isn't normal. It is possible that she sensed Id's power and suspects that you were the source of that power."
"No, I think she was captivated by Fei's manly charms, just like Chu-Chu was." Bart laughed at the memory of Chu-Chu, a little pink, intelligent, rodent like creature, declaring her love for Fei. Fei blushed and look really uncomfortable. Bart laughed so hard that he fell to the ground in convulsions of laughter.
"That's not funny," Fei snapped growing more embarrassed. It looked like Fei's head held a raging fire within it. After Bart had calmed down (due to the fact that Citan had to slap Bart across the face to do so) Citan continued with what he had to say.
"Now then, I suggest that until we can find out more about where we are and who that blue hair girl was, we should avoid contact with here and her friend. Unfortunately, it appears that one of her friends lives here." Bart swept a side-glance at Fei. Fei saw Bart give him a wink with his good eye and Bart started to laugh again, while Fei blushed for the second time.
"I think," Fei said trying to get the subject back on line, "that we should leave this house now and risk the rain." Citan shook his head and replied, "We can't be rude to our hosts, it could arouse suspicion."
"Citan is right Fei." Bart stepped in after recovering from his second fit of laughing. Then the mother called for the trio to come in for dinner. All of the friends were famished and quickly went and joined the friendly family in the kitchen for supper.
Coming up next Chapter 3: Billy Lee Black of the Negaverse?
And Chapter 4: Oh, That Stuffed Animal
Xenogears cast:
Name: Age: Gender: Weapon/s-Powers:
Fei Fong Wong 18 Male Martial arts (fists)
Bartholomew Fatima 18 Male Whips
Citan Uzuki 29 Male Sword
Billy Lee Black 16 Male Guns
Emeralda ? Female Nanomachines
Maria 13 Female Fists
Chu-Chu ? Female Can grow into a giant
Sailor Moon cast:
Serena 14 Female Sailor Moon power
Amy 15 Female Sailor Mercury Power
Rei 16 Female Sailor Mars Power
Lita 15 Female Sailor Jupiter Power
Mina 15 Female Sailor Venus Power
Darien 22 Male Tuxedo Mask Power
Xenogears is copyright Squaresoft and Sailor Moon is copyright Dic. I'm just writing this fanfic for fun.
I don't really know all of the Sailor Scouts' correct ages, so I just took a guess based on what I've seen. So please don't get mad with me if I get something wrong. Rico Banderas of Xenogears isn't included in this story because I just don't like him. I have beaten Xenogears the game and since I am kinda bad about describing things, I have written this with the idea that you know basically what is going on in the Xenogears universe.
Chapter 1: A Whole New Type of Adventure.
All was pitch-blackness for what seemed, to Fei, a few years long. In fact it hadn't been for more than a few minutes. Fei groaned in pain as consouceness seeped back into his mind. The pain was all over his body, as if a truck had hit him. Fei opened his eyes, slowly at first, for it was a bright sunny day.
"What, a bright day, this can't be right." Fei thought to himself.
Fei suddenly stood up and then fell back down to the ground. He hadn't quite recovered from the pain, that now shot through his soul. "Ugh," Fei groaned again, "what is going on here, where am I. I shouldn't be in a city like this." Indeed, Fei couldn't recognize the city he was in. Deus had destroyed all of the major cities back in Fei's world. Fei lay back down in the grass and tried to remember what had happened.
"That's right," Fei thought, "We were all inside the Jasper when Miang had taken over Elly's body and Krelian took her to merge with Deus. Then I followed after them and that was when everything went black. That still doesn't explain where I am."
"I see you are all right." A familiar voice said behind Fei.
Fei rose to his feet, slowly now that the pain was bearable; Fei turned to where he had heard the voice. It was Citan Uzuki and Bartholomew Fatima a.k.a. Bart. Citan was dress in his normal clothing, which was white pants a green shirt and a light red sash tied around his waist. The sash also held his katana sword.
Bart was in his black jeans black shirt with a red coat over it. Bart also had a belt on which also carried his two whips on either side of him.
"Am I glad to see the both of you," exclaimed Fei, "but what are you doing here I thought I was the only one who jumped in after Elly and Krelian."
"You were the only one who did," replied Bart, "after you jumped in a bright light engulfed us all and we found ourselves here with you."
Citan stepped in "You have been asleep for about an hour, but you were so I was on the verge of assuming the worst." Citan took his spectacles off his face and started to wipe them off."
"It's good to have you all here, but what about the others, where are they?" Fei asked.
Citan replaced his spectacles on his nose, "I believe that they may have all arrived at different places either around this city or other places on this strange world."
Fei frowned deeply, "I suppose that when you say "strange world" you mean that we were all taken to another planet or another dimension entirely."
"That is most likely the case since this city is indeed new to us and had it been on our world it would have been destroyed with no one left. Just look at the city Fei." Fei turned and looked at the city in the distance about a mile away. You could tell that there were many people around and they were all going around at a slow pace. They weren't in any rush at all.
"They aren't in any rush to evacuate the city." Fei stated. Fei could remember back to the earlier days of when Deus started to lay waste to his world. Men, women, children, all were in such a rush to evacuate their homes to get to the safe houses in the South Pole. After everyone had left the cities there were many things left behind and even a few dead people left lifeless on the ground, forgotten. Fei could remember back to when Elly had spent day and night helping the wounded and the infirm to get on the transport ships. Elly's immense kindness had, in itself, a type of healing property. Even people on the verge of exhaustion and death would rise to their feet and carry on, with Elly their ray of hope in a better future. Fei could then remember when Miang had been killed and transferred her soul into Elly. Fei placed his hand over the spot where Miang\Elly had shot him. When Fei withdrew his hand it was lightly stained in blood. Fei had jumped in after Elly before he had a chance to care for his wound. Fei also found that his wound had been bandaged. Fei turned to Citan.
"Thanks doc," Fei said gratefully, "thanks for taking care of my wound." Citan reached into his pocket and brought out a bullet and handed it to Fei.
"Your just lucky that it hadn't gone in too far or struck a vital organ," Citan exclaimed. Fei looked around at the surrounding landscape. Fei immediately knew what was missing.
"Doc," Fei said in sudden alarm, "where are our gears, where are they."
"We don't know," said Bart with his hand on his chin and in deep thought, "Citan believes that they could also be somewhere around here or they could still be back in our world. Citan also says that if any of our gears are around here yours should be close by, since you did jump straight into the gate which probably brought us here."
"We all must get out of this field," Citan warned, "I see some storm clouds in the distance." Fei, Bart and Citan headed off for the mysterious city. As they got closer they could hear the sounds of many activities going on. Some of the sounds were all too familiar, while others were completely alien to their ears. Also as they drew closer, Citan had been in deep thought about their situation and was thinking aloud, as he was known to do.
"This city seems familiar," Citan thought aloud, "I feel as though this city resembles the city that was buried at the bottom of that ancient lighthouse. It is possible that we have gone into either the past or the future. No, it couldn't be the future, unless some people had survived Deus' destruction. That would mean that we are far into the future. No, it can't be the future, after Deus had killed everyone he would then transform the planet into a giant superweapon, where nothing could live. So it means that we must be in the past. But, that still doesn't rule out the possibility of an alternate dimension or planet. Yet, the chances of an alternate dimension or planet having such a similar city structure and culture is practically impossible. It could also mean that we are in an alternate reality of our own planet's history."
"Citan," Bart said interrupting Citan's train of thought, "quite with the thinking, your giving me a headache." Citan looked up and gave Bart a hard look.
"I'm trying to narrow down the possibilities of where we are and how we are going to get back. I'll try to think to myself." Fei smiled at Citan's last comment, Fei knew that to get the doc to keep quite while he was thinking was harder than a single person taking on a single gear (a gear is a giant humanoid machine).
While the trio of friends were heading to the city they went over what they were carrying with them. Between the three of them they had 200 gold. Back in their original world, 200 gold was good enough to last for about a week. Yet they didn't know what type of currency this new city had. They all hoped that 200 gold would last a long time here. Fei was carrying two aquasols and a hob-jerky. Apart from that and the clothes on their backs, Citan had his katana and Bart had his two blood red whips. Fei didn't carry a weapon since he was quite skilled in the martial arts and only needed his fists to see him through any battle. That was all that they had with them and it would have to last then for a while.
(Note, in the game Xenogears, aquasols restore 50 HP in battle and not in battle and a hob-jerky heals 50 HP while not in battle)
"I'll bet Citan could get a job at the nearest hospital as a surgeon." Suggested Bart.
Citan looked at Bart, "That depends on what kind of medical technology they have here."
"I say that Bart gets a job as a babysitter," joked Fei, "You could play pirates with them."
"Funny Fei, real funny." Bart said sarcastically. Bart then started to scratch the eye patch that covered his left eye. Bart had lost his left eye in a type of accident a few years ago "Damn," Bart cursed, "ever since we got here my old wound has been bothering me." Right now however, neither Fei nor Citan had time to worry about Bart's irritation because they had reached the outer city limits and the start of a new adventure.
Chapter 2:Fei falls under suspicion.
As Fei, Bart, and Citan reached the outer city limits a strange wave of Déjà vu encompassed all three of them. They all knew that they had seen this city at the bottom of the lighthouse. If that were true that would place them over 4000 years into the past. But they wouldn't assume that they are in the past until they gathered more evidence.
"Citan," Fei said, stopping in his tracks, "Did I ever turn into Id while I was unconscious?" Citan turned toward Fei.
"Thankfully no," Citan replied, "like I told you, you had only been out for about an hour." Bart noticing the conversation came and joined in.
"After you woke up," Bart added, "the reason why it took so long for us to notice you had awaken was because we had been hiding on our stomachs behind a small grass hill. We did that just incase you had transformed into Id."
Fei sigh a breath of relief, "Well, that is good, but now what do we do in this city." Fei turned to look down a street of the city. The city was crowded with many people of different size, shape, color, etc. There was only a thing missing. In Fei's world the street would be crowded with not just Humans but also Demi-humans. Some examples would be Rico, who was half-beast. Rico was another of Fei's friends that may have been transported here. Other Demi-humans could be half dragon, half mole, half dolphin, half dog, half bird, and half cat. This city however was all humans. Down the street Fei could see many buildings of all types. There was a restaurant near where Fei was standing. There was also a tool shop, another restaurant, and a beauty place on the left side of the road. On the right side there was one big building with a giant clock on the front and a wall surrounding the building. On the wall there was a steel gate that was closed. On the other side of the wall Fei could hear people playing. Fei was looking at this particular building when a girl with red hair crossed behind the gate.
"Elly?" Fei said with hope on his voice. Was it possible that Elly had been taken here as well? "Doc, Bart I think I just saw Elly."
"Are you sure?" questioned Citan. "That can't be possible, you must've seen someone else."
"I'm positive I saw her over on the other side of the steel gate." Fei didn't wait any longer he ran across the street. He almost got run over by a red car, but he made it to the other side. Behind him he could hear Citan and Bart calling his name and following him across the street. Fei's love for Elly swelled his thoughts of hope that that had been Elly he saw over by the gate. When Fei reached the gate he struggled to get a good view on the side of the gate where the girl had gone. By, this time Bart and Citan had caught up with Fei.
Bart went up to Fei and Bert was red in the face, "Smart move Fei," Bart scolded, "You almost got us all run over by cars and you didn't even look both ways before crossing." Fei turned with a questioned look on his face.
"Cars?" Fei asked, "what are those? You mean those small buggies that are crossing through the middle of the city."
"Uh, I don't know," replied Bart, "I just knew what they were, that's all."
"The only thing we have close enough to these "cars" are the sand buggies that travel through the desert. It is strange that you would know what they are." speculated Citan
"Also what's this deal with looking both ways before crossing. What does it mean Bart?" Fei asked.
"I don't know!" said Bart getting slightly annoyed, "Let's just drop it for know, OK."
"Fine," said Fei, "could you however give me a boost over this wall so I can see if that girl I saw was Elly."
"I think it's a waste of time," sighed Bart, shaking his head, "but I guess there's no use in debating with you when it comes to Elly. However," Bart said in a stubborn tone, "I won't be responsible if we get caught. Obviously they put this wall here for a reason." Bart moved over behind Fei and grabbed Fei's foot. Fei put his hands on the top of the wall and pulled himself up while Bart pushed Fei up. When Fei was up Bart put both of Fei's feet on his shoulders and held Fei there. Fei looked around for the girl he had seen. There were many girls there and they were all playing some type of sport. The sport consisted of hitting a white ball back and forth over a high net. Smacking it with your fist or by hooking both hands together and hitting the ball in an underhand fashion was how they were hitting the ball. Fei continued to search for the girl. All of the people playing the sport didn't notice Fei.
"There she is!" Exclaimed Fei with joy that quickly turned to sorrow. The girl he had seen wasn't Elly at all. The girl was too young and the face was completely different. Fei was just about to clime down when one of the girls smacked the ball in the wrong way. The white ball went spinning through the air. Fei had hardly noticed the ball before it smashed into his face. Fei let out a yell of surprise and fell backward taking Bart with him.
"Ouch!" complained Bart rubbing the back of his head. "I told you this wasn't a good idea, ow"
Citan helped Fei and Bart to their feet while inspecting their wounds. "You should learn to be more careful Fei," exclaimed Citan. "Thank goodness your head landed on my foot, if it had hit the concrete the damage could have been much worse."
"I'm sorry doc," Fei apologized, "I hope I didn't hurt your foot." Citan then had finished his inspection of Fei's head.
"Don't worry, it's nothing that won't heal within a minute or two." Said Citan reassuringly. The trio of friends was about to leave when Bart bumped into the white ball.
"I suppose they will want this back," Bart stated picking up the ball. Behind him the metal gate open and the three friends turned toward the gate. Out stepped a beautiful young girl. The Girl was about 15 or 16 years old and she had blue eyes and matching hair. Her form was slender as if she hadn't done much physical work but more of other things. She immediately stepped up to Bart.
"Could I please have the ball back," she asked in a calm and confident voice. Bart stepped up to the girl and she didn't back own from him, even though Bart was about a head taller from here and was obviously superior physically.
"Sure young lady," Bart replied in his trying-to-impress-the-girl-tone. The blue hair girl accepted the ball said thank you and turned to leave.
"Hey what's your name?" asked Fei. The girl turned to look at Fei. All of a sudden she flinched, as if Fei had just shined a bright light in here eyes. "Are you ok," asked Citan in a concerned voice.
The girl recovered and replied with an edge of alarm on her voice, "I'm fine thank you. I really must get back to school now." The girl turned and jogged back through the gate and closed it with haste. Before the girl had finished closing the gate she gave Fei a look that made Fei really nervous. The girl then peered at Citan's sword and was gone. The three friends all looked at each other.
That was odd," exclaimed Bart, "I wonder who that was." Bart's face then grew a frown, "I must be losing my touch, she didn't even give me her name."
"Well, now we know that this is obviously a center of learning," said Citan. "I wonder if there is a library here?" Just then there was a clap of thunder and slight drizzling of rain started to fall. "We are going to have to worry about that later, now we must find shelter and a place to sleep for the night."
"I agree," Fei and Bart replied at the same time. The rain was now coming down harder and Fei, Bart, and Citan all left running down the sidewalk toward the center of the city.
Back in the school in a classroom on the second floor a group of students with their teacher were all walking into the room and sitting down in their proper seats. One of these students was the girl with the blue hair. On her right a girl with blond hair, done in two meatballs on her head and flowing down both sides, leaned over toward the girl with blue hair.
"Hey Amy," said the blond hair girl, "why did you look so frightened after you got the volleyball. You looked as if a negacreep had attacked you." The blue hair girl turned to look at the blond girl.
"I don't know Serena," replied Amy, "when I went to get the ball there were these three men there."
Serena's face formed a big smile, "Really, how old were they and were they really handsome."
Amy reached into here desk and pulled out a really thick book. "I guess two of them were about 17 to 19 years old and the other one looked to be in his late 20's."
"Really," said Serena growing more excited, "I wonder if one of them could be my boyfriend."
"I don't think so Serena, I really do think one of them was from the Negaverse."
"Oh, Amy you think too much, you should settle down and get a nice boyfriend. I'll tell you what I'll let you have the boy I don't chose as your boyfriend."
"Serena I wish you could be serious for a moment. These weren't your average boys. The older on carried a katana sword with him. While another one had an eye patch and carried two whips on him."
"So what I bet their just carrying them for protection."
"Maybe, but the really odd thing was the one boy with the ponytail."
"OH! One of them has a pony tail, I'll bet he's real handsome." Images of different boys with ponytails flashed through Serena's mind.
"Be serious for a moment," scolded Amy, "the thing is that as soon as I laid eyes on him I felt a really strong power coming from him. I believe it could be the Negaverse."
"Amy you need a rest I think all of that studying has affected your brain. How could such a handsome man be from the Negaverse."
"What do you mean? You've never met him. How do you know he's handsome and don't bother asking me I'm not good with judging physical appearances."
"Come on Amy, any cute guy with a ponytail must be handsome."
"I honestly must say that you are hopeless Serena. There is no use in talking with such a bubble head as you."
"Oh, come on Amy," Serena whined as tears were forming, "you don't really mean that?"
Amy not wanting Serena to start wailing in class quickly apologized and reassured Serena. "All right Serena I didn't really mean it I'm sorry. But you really must learn to be more cautious. After school we need to find Luna to tell her of what I've discovered."
"Ok, I just hope he isn't really from the Negaverse I really would like to meet him. Hey, what do you day if after we've told Luna the news we get Rei, Lita, and Mina and all go out to the ice cream shop? How's that sound."
Serena," Any said exhausted, "All you ever think about is food and boys." In the classroom the teacher, who was a middle age woman, stood up in front of the class.
"Now I want all of you to open your math books to page 103 and start doing problems 1 through 25."
"Ah," complained Serena, "I hate math."
Outside of the school Fei, Bart and Citan, were all drenched from the pouring rain. They had spotted a house hat looked like there was no one home. The front porch of the house had a room on it. The three friends went and stood under the front porch roof to get out of the soaking wet. Once under cover, they took off their shirts and wrung them to get as much water out of them as possible. They then put their shirts back on and planned on what they would do next.
"Ok," Bart exclaimed clapping his hands together, "now that we are more dry than before what shall we do next Citan."
"Me," Citan asked, "you're asking me what to do?" Citan put his hand on his chin and thought for a few minutes. "Well." Citan started with both Fei and Bart looking on hoping for a brilliant plan that was worthy of the good doctor. "I don't know."
"AAGGGHH." Fei and Bart both shouted and fell to the floor."
"What do you mean you don't have a plan Bart insisted, while picking himself off of the porch. "You always have a good plan (not as good as mine)."
"I'm sorry," Citan apologized, "but this is a most unusual situation that we're in. I do apologize. All that I can really think of right now is that we should find a place to stay until the rain subsides. We can look for the others and our gears in the morning."
Bart was about to say something when a car pulled up into the driveway. Right away the three people in the car spotted the three strangers standing on their porch. The car pulled up, stopped, and the doors opened. Fei, Bart, and Citan all looked at each other wondering what to say to the obvious owners of this house. The three friends noticed that the three passengers were an older man and lady and they had a boy with them. The two adults looked to be in their mid 30's to their early 40's. The boy, who was probably their son, looked to be about 8 to 10 years old. The family approached the trio of friends. Citan also approached the family. Citan bowed to the family and said, "Please excuse us, we didn't mean to intrude on your property. We were only trying to find shelter from the rain. My name is Yosho." Citan used a false name in place of his real name so as too keep his real identity a secret to those who don't need to be involved.
"Oh that's quite alright," said the mother, giving the trio a smile, "it is rather wet outside today."
While the mother greeted the trio with a warm smile, the father looked on with a cautious and searching glare. The child had a look of curiosity and a look that said, "You are weird." When Citan saw the family pull in with their car, he immediately had hidden his sword underneath the porch, but Bart hadn't been as wise and was still wearing his two red whips in plain view. This blunder on Bart's part drew a more hard expression from the father.
"My, my and who are these two young gentlemen?" the mother asked and look at Bart and Fei with an even bigger smile. Bart and Fei were about to answer when Citan cut them off.
"The are my sons," Citan lied, "This is Makoto," Citan said indicating Bart, "and this is Erich." Citan pointed at Fei. Erich had been the name of Elly's late father, who had died in an attempt to save Elly from Grahf. Fei new this and Gave Citan a sharp look that caused Citan to sweat. Bart went up to Citan and whispered in his ear. "Are you crazy Citan?" Bart asked through clenched teeth.
"They don't look anything like you." This came from the father. The father went closer to Bart, "and how did you lose your eye their fella?" The father looked down at Bart's whips. Bart backed up and crossed his arms. "That is non of your business."
"Come, come dear," the mother butted in to prevent an argument; "it's still raining and its cold out here. Why don't we invite our guests in to dry off." The father backed off of Bart. The father didn't argue with his wife. It was obvious that he wanted to go in the house to get out of the rain. An argument would delay that pleasure. The father went to the front door and, using his keys, opened it. Five people stepped into the house. Citan went back to retrieve his sword and hid it underneath his clothing. The mother invited the trio to have dinner with them that night and lacking any real chance to get food that night, the three friends accepted. The trio discovered that the boy's name was Sammy or Sam, but the parents never revealed their names. Sam seemed to always look a Bart's eye patch. Bart tried to ignore Sam's stare but over time it got harder and harder to ignore him. When Sam left to do homework, and the father was working in his office, and the mother was cooking, the trio observed their surroundings closely. It was a well-kept house. There were no cobwebs or dust. There was a fireplace and on top of the fireplace was a place to keep pictures. While Bart and Fei continued to look the house over, Citan went over to the pictures. One was of the full family. Which consisted of the mother, the father, Sam, and a blond girl with her hair done in to ponytails that looked like Ping-Pong balls on the top of her head. She was also older than Sam was. Next to that picture was a picture of the blond hair girl and a few other girls.
"Bar..." Citan slipped, "I mean Makoto and Erich please come over here." Fei and Bart not yet used to their assumed identities didn't acknowledge Citan immediately.
"What is it doc?" Fei asked heading over to Citan. Bart followed Fei up to the doctor.
"What's the deal Citan?" Bart in turn asked.
"What do you see in this picture?" Citan said indicating the picture of girls. There was a girl with blond hair, one with brown hair, another with a dark purple shade of hair, one with yellow hair, and there was the girl with blue hair.
"Doc!" Fei jumped, "There's that girl we saw at the school."
"Indeed Fei and it looks like that by staying here we risk encountering her again." Fei thought back to the strange look the blue hair girl had given his.
"Do you suppose she knows of my other self." Fei asked in a nervous tone. Only Fei and his friends knew of Fei's ability to transform into Id. Fei seriously hoped that it wouldn't become public knowledge or no one, aside from his friends, would ever trust him.
"I don't know," Citan replied, "the way she reacted to you isn't normal. It is possible that she sensed Id's power and suspects that you were the source of that power."
"No, I think she was captivated by Fei's manly charms, just like Chu-Chu was." Bart laughed at the memory of Chu-Chu, a little pink, intelligent, rodent like creature, declaring her love for Fei. Fei blushed and look really uncomfortable. Bart laughed so hard that he fell to the ground in convulsions of laughter.
"That's not funny," Fei snapped growing more embarrassed. It looked like Fei's head held a raging fire within it. After Bart had calmed down (due to the fact that Citan had to slap Bart across the face to do so) Citan continued with what he had to say.
"Now then, I suggest that until we can find out more about where we are and who that blue hair girl was, we should avoid contact with here and her friend. Unfortunately, it appears that one of her friends lives here." Bart swept a side-glance at Fei. Fei saw Bart give him a wink with his good eye and Bart started to laugh again, while Fei blushed for the second time.
"I think," Fei said trying to get the subject back on line, "that we should leave this house now and risk the rain." Citan shook his head and replied, "We can't be rude to our hosts, it could arouse suspicion."
"Citan is right Fei." Bart stepped in after recovering from his second fit of laughing. Then the mother called for the trio to come in for dinner. All of the friends were famished and quickly went and joined the friendly family in the kitchen for supper.
Coming up next Chapter 3: Billy Lee Black of the Negaverse?
And Chapter 4: Oh, That Stuffed Animal