'Scuse me if I go into Japanese formalities in the names, I just like them better than the English ones XD.

Chapter 2

chaos felt like falling head first in the dizzying darkness that had enveloped him. He felt helpless against something he couldn't quite put into words. The best he could do was foreboding.

Ring around the rosies...

A small eriee child's voice penetrated his jumbled thoughts. He didn't understand, what kind of dream was this? chaos suddenly flipped himself and landed softly on aparently no solid ground, yet he felt something supporting him.

Pocket full of posies...

Abruptly a flare of liquid red enveloped chaos holding him fast. The adolescent struggled but to no avail, he felt as if a hot iron string was being pulled through his neural pathways, the pain was so great and swift that chaos barely had enough time to throw up a mental defense. Cooling blue burst from his body throwing back the red force into the darkness.

"Say something damnit!" Matthew's voice carried through like a supersonic boom.

chaos only half opened his eyes at first, still disoriented and with no recollection of the dream except those two lines sung. He looked at the captian, Hammer and Tony standing around him, "What happened?" he managed to say before realizing something was particularly wrong. Cold sweat had matted his white silvery hair against his skin.

"We were hoping you could tell us! You would've been down here another five hours had one of the maintanence bots not reported finding you like this. What the hell happened chaos?"

"I was..." wait... just what had he been doing? "I... think I came down here to check on the supplies."

Hammer leaned in, "You think?"

chaos hesitated, "Uhh... yes I believe so. Everything is a blank right now." he tender spot on the back of his head. Where had that come from? "And... aparently was knocked out... or I simply fell and hit my head." even he doubted his words as he laid out the possibilities. The engineer was very rarely a clutz under any circumstances. Regardless, after injecting chaos with some nano probes to repair the damage, Matthews ordered a thorough search for any hitch hikers.

Nothing turned up, so reluctantly Matthews just let it go as chaos taking a mistep. Though obviously no one believed the excuse. Regardless they still had a job to do: transport the Foundation's goods. chaos was went through the rest of the journey in puzzlement. Despite the fact that the nano probes had healed his injury, he continually recieved throbbing headaches from time to time. chaos was about set up an appointment with the Durandel's doctor but by the time they landed on the ship, the aches had receded.

chaos left the Elsa as soon as the crates had been dispatched and walked down to the Park Area. There he found the most peace and quiet. Memories cast shadows in the hallways, of times when he walked along side Shion and her rather quiet companion KOS-MOS. Well, when the android had something to say she'd say it. chaos wondered how they were doing, MOMO-chan and Mizrahi-san as well. The last he'd heard from Shion was that she was quitting Vector for reasons she kept to herself, but kept in touch with KOS-MOS' project. The Mizrahi's were back at Fifth Jeruselum finaly getting to know eachother as a mother and her second daughter. The thought brought a tiny smile to chaos' face. He could just imagine MOMO-chan's face with her sparkling smile as she played with Juli.

The glowing nano bugs were alive and twinkling as they cleaned out the dust and other things around the park area. A few realians and workers were spending a few minutes of their free time enjoying the park's beauty. chaos suddenly recieved a bloodrush to his head causing him to stumble but catching himself on the edge of a bench. The adolescent breathed slowly pressing one hand against his head. The pain passed quickly this time.

"chaos, are you alright?" the realians had rushed over sensing something wrong without even looking. They were recognized as Mimi 069 and Elena 406, so said their names sewn into their ties. chaos had talked with them several times, all the realians seemed piqued with curiousity about him.

"Should we assist you to the infirmary?" Elena asked, her voice just an octive lower than MOMO's.

chaos stood up letting his hand drop, "No I'm fine, thank you though. I just fell and hit my head, I should be fine."

Mimi clasped her hands behind her back, "You've never complained of being in pain before, chaos."

"I wasn't complaining."

"Oh! Pardon me. I must need maintanence, I mixed up the meaning of your words." the green-blue haired little girl looked worried.

"Then if you want, I shall assist you to the Realian Maintenance Lab." chaos offered with a kind smile. Idle chat was exchanged while they led Mimi to the lab for a check up. Mostly it was about their work, and always his conversations ended or began with the realians questioning him what made them human and what didn't. It was sometimes a little difficult to answer without going on about something he'd have to explain in detail he couldn't. As he exited the lab, chaos felt his mini terminal vibrate in his pocket. An e-mail.

Sender: k-pxchief. Hi!

Date: 5-7-4890

Message:

chaos-kun! Sorry I havn't spoken to you in a long time. I've been keeping myself busy with things. But I'm fine so you don't have to worry. How's my no good brother doing? Tell him I said hi, and everyone else to. Well, I have to go now I'm pushing it typing this e-mail as it is. I'll talk to you later!

P.S. I might be able to come visit soon so don't go anywhere! I want to see you guys.

Below the message was the back of Shion's e-mail logo, the evil side of the bunny. Basically a humurous threat not to leave or Bunny will get you type of a thing. chaos was so engrossed in replying that he failed to really acknowledge Assistant Scott walking past him toward the lab, most likely on his side study of the realians he did when he wasn't working with the Proffesor.

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The universe as they knew was not percieved the same. Instead of data or visible light, they saw the purity of the soul, the strength of the will. But a las, they could not seek to experience the physical pleasures and agony that was so desired. This was restricted to them. However, they did not listen, they wanted to experience a body. The touch of something. Even if it meant driving the soul out into eternal darkness as they had been.

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0o Gah! Another short chap! Argness! Oh well, I'll get this fic off the ground yet. Kinda busy with the new semester but as I said I won't go inactive.