I think this chapter was a bit lacking any kind of storyline, but I think many would call it a "filler" since the next one is going to be action packed! 3 Oh yeah!!!!!!!
Disclaimer: This goes without saying, I DO NOT OWN XENOSAGA!! There, ya happy?!
"The plans aren't going like we hoped. They're getting closer every day…" A glare from the man that just spoke as he looked over at their "leader". The other grinned. Oh how he wished he could wipe that smug grin off of his face…
"Its going exactly like I wanted it." He replied, sitting behind the black desk.
"Both units are back online… anything you wish for me to do with them?" A male entered the room, bowing to the two arguing men. The leader looked up and nodded in confirmation.
"Very well… bring them in. Let me tell them their mission… they'll love it." A smirk as the male left to fetch the two newly awakened units.
"I'm sorry, okay!?!" Shion put her hands up in defense as she looked at the severely ticked off Vector employee known as Miyuki. Miyuki's bottom lip poked out and she whimpered. They finally found the young employee earlier this morning after doing a thorough check into everything. The security system wasn't malfunctioning, so with Ziggy and Canaan's -reluctant- help, they found poor Miyuki shivering and asleep in one of the storage boxes.
"I know… But Shion, you seriously didn't think I'd come?" She questioned, a bit hurt that Shion would think that Miyuki was so cowardly that she wouldn't help out a friend in need. Shion scratched the back of her neck a bit sheepishly, nodding in shame. Miyuki dropped her arms to her side and sighed. She laid her hands on Shion's shoulders, making the brown haired female looked up at her through her green eyes.
"Shion, I won't abandon you. You're my best friend." Miyuki smiled happily. Shion finally smiled and nodded.
"Thank you then, Miyuki. We're glad to have you aboard." Miyuki giggled cheerfully and promptly jumped Shion, both of them landing on the floor in a very interesting position. Shion laughed and sat up, pushing Miyuki to the side of her, making her sit up right next to her.
"Hehe, oops. Sorry Shion." Miyuki giggled softly. She stood, helping Shion up before brushing herself off. "I'm going to go and set my bags in the girl's room." She grinned, waving to Shion. Shion nodded, twitching with annoyance as the brown haired klutz of a girl navigated with her heavy bag through the Elsa with much difficulty. Great… now I'll have to listen to her talk about everything ALL the time… It was bad enough when we worked together over the UMN, now here too?? Someone's trying to punish me, I just know it. Shion growled lightly, cursing whatever karma she had before walking to the hangar to play tag with MOMO like she'd promised the girl earlier that day.
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"I'm going to get you!!" MOMO cheered as she ran after the blond called Mary. Mary laughed running from her, but tripping, making MOMO fall on top of her. They blinked at each other before Mary tried to scrambled out from under the young realian… but it was too late as MOMO cried "Tag!" and ran off, leaving Mary in her dust. The blond coughed and looked around at the members of the current game, picking her victim wisely. She grinned when she thought of how Canaan was being forced to play… She still wondered what MOMO said to him to make him join in 'willingly' or so he said… But Mary knew the truth. Besides Canaan would never play such an old, childish game such as Tag without being dragged, malfunctioning badly, or threatened into it. Mary had to laugh at that, she couldn't see little, innocent MOMO threatening Canaan… maybe she messed with his wiring?? Or perhaps… it was the puppy pout, wasn't it?! She thought as she stood finally and began running after Ziggy, who had, frighteningly, joined all by himself."Hah, you think you can catch me?" He asked still using his stoic voice even though Mary knew he was getting cocky. She growled playfully and ran top speed towards him.
"Hey Ziggy, I see Little Master trying to hit on MOMO!" She called, making the cyborg stop in his tracks. He was about to turn until Mary patted him on the back, shouting "Tag!" then running, just as MOMO had done her. Ziggy's eyebrow twitched.
"That was a dirty trick and you know it…" He stated, looking at Mary as he finally turned around. Everyone laughed, hearing the pout behind that response. Of course, the man once known as Jaun Sauer wouldn't admit it, but he WAS pouting… no matter how much he tried to deny it, everyone knew he was capable of pouting.
"Hey Ziggy, are you pouting?" MOMO called, cupping around her mouth to make her soft voice louder. Ziggy turned in her direction, about to run after her until he glanced at Jr. who didn't really seem interested in what was going on around him…. That was his choice. Without warning, Ziggy ran over to Jr. By the time the cyborg was half-way to the redheaded shooter, Jr. had already begun to run, making it more difficult to catch the boy.
"Hey old man, why're you running after me?!" He asked, holding onto his guns or else they'd fall out of their holsters. He hadn't had the chance to clip them into place before running and was too preoccupied with keeping himself 'Not IT' to do anything about the guns being loose. Ziggy smirked and ran faster, determined now to catch the redhead.
"You can't run." Ziggy said simply as he popped Jr. in the back of the head. But before he stopped, he turned, making Jr. run into the wall of the hangar. Loud gasps and hisses of understanding pain echoed throughout the room as they walked over to Jr. to check on him. MOMO called a time out on the game so she could make sure Jr. was okay.
Shelley was the one to walk up to him and poke him gently, trying to get him to wake up. Jr.'s eyes snapped open, looking at the purple haired female with a devilish grin. He stood, brushing himself off then tapping her arm before running off laughing loudly. Shelley frowned and walked after everyone causing them to scatter, not bothering to take much of an effort to catch anyone. "I thought it was time out… so its still Jr.'s turn…" Shelley stated, sitting on the stairs as she observed everyone's reaction. Jr. snickered and tagged Canaan. Everyone gasped and scattered away from him.
"Little Master…" He sighed exasperatedly. Canaan scowled and walked off, not wanting to partake in what he considered 'torture'. It was just too much giddiness and childishness for him. Shion frowned at the realian, as did everyone else.
"Oh come on, spoil sport!" MOMO called, making Canaan turn and look at her with an expression that no one ever thought the realian would have: horror… complete and utter horror. After a few moments of 'convincing', though in undertone it seemed to be threatening, from MOMO, Canaan finally joined back in, going for Miyuki, who had just gotten a chance to join.
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"It wasn't anything completely constructive, but at least we all had fun, right?" Jr. grinned, crossing his arms behind his head. The game had long ended with Miyuki being the only one to not tag anyone. She only giggled and promised that she'd get them next time. Nearly everyone agreed, save for Canaan, who simply grunted and walked off. Shion and the other shook their heads at the orange haired realian."He's no fun sometimes…" MOMO pouted, hugging Shion's arm. Shion looked down at her and laughed.
"No, I suppose not…" She replied, pondering on what could be bothering the realian. He was usually quick tempered, hot headed, and sarcastic… but never this bad. Shion promised to find out what was bugging the other. After all, he usually agreed to something. Not always the "it was fun" way, but someway nonetheless. As Shion thought about Canaan's attitude, everyone was beginning to get back to what they had been doing before; Shelley and Mary went off to their spots on the bridge, Jr and MOMO went back to the café to get something to eat, Ziggy went to the men's room to rest, while Miyuki just said she's wander around for now. Shion supposed there really wasn't much to do on the Elsa anymore. Usually Tony would crack a joke about Matthews but nowadays, no one felt like doing anything they used to. Its just as well though… Shion couldn't help but think. After all since chaos, Jin and KOS-MOS were left behind, no one was up to their original personalities. Its as if everyone felt something was going on…. Something really bad.
Yes… something is going wrong, terribly wrong… For you, Shion Uzuki. The man smirked, standing from his desk. He walked through the ship he was on, looking for his employees. It seems they were seeing the two newly revived units off. No one knew what the man had up his sleeve this time, but they knew it would work.
"Sending in the two revived units will confuse our little pawns…" He smirked once more, arriving at the hangar. Everyone looked at him, already knowing what he was talking about. It was obvious after all.
"Commencing motorization." The dark skinned unit said, walking to a familiar E.S. The silver hatch opened, allowing both of the units inside. It powered up, causing everyone to cheer… in their own way of course, since most only clapped.
"Mission accepted." Both units called in unison as E.S. Dinah took off, heading towards their mission goal:
To stop Freighter Ship Elsa from landing on Lost Jerusalem.
Shion sat up in her bed gasping for breath. She held her chest, trying to calm her nerves. She felt something was heading their way. She scrambled to get out of bed as a red alert went off. She looked around in horror, wondering what was going on. What could possibly be heading their way!? She already saw the rest of the girls scrambling out of bed as well, getting their robes on over their night gowns and pajamas. All of them ran out the door in a screwed up line, running straight after all the men who had just gotten out of their room as well.
"What's going on?!" Jr. shouted to Matthews as everyone walked into the bridge quickly. Shelley and Mary were holding hands, trembling softly as were MOMO and Miyuki. Shion placed a hand on her hip and walked forward with a determined look.
"Tony, I demand to know what's going on! Did we hit something?!" she questioned. Tony grunted.
"No. Something seems to be heading towards us at incredible speeds… at this rate, if it doesn't stop, we're going to be hit!" Hammer cried, tapping away at the control panel in front of him. He grabbed his head and began panicking. "I'm too young to die!!" Another cry echoed through the room as well.
"I don't wanna die yet!! I still have to help the Professor with a new Erde Kaiser!" Allen called, scrambling to hold on to something as if the Elsa was going to fall off the face of the universe. He'd just returned from a long time gathering information and such from textbooks to help the Professor and Assistant Scott create yet another Erde Kaiser.
"Zoom in on that, MOMO!" Shion cried, pointing to silver object in the distance. MOMO gathered herself, and her courage, and walked over to one of the numerous control panels and zoomed into the distance. What they saw there made all of them gasped deeply. Jr.'s teeth ground together, MOMO's eyes widened, Allen whimpered and Shion's breath caught in her throat.
"That's… Dinah!" Shion cried, walking forward to stand next to where Tony was, peering at the E.S. on the screen.
"KOS-MOS!!!"
Ookay, that's it for this one. I hope you enjoyed. . Hopefully someone will R&R. If I don't get more reviews than I have, then I may as well go ahead and put this someplace else. Since not many people seem interested enough. Bleh