RTR's: Taekwonduer:so what if I spell your name wrong all the time! I never
pay attention so quit whining! :pppp
Sesshomaru_sama14: you are completely opposite of Taekwanduer ya know. You like gross and icky things while she doesn't. I'm kind of in the middle. And no, the infection won't freak chaos out for...I don't know how long for but soon.
Hyper_Sloth: thanks, but what do you mean by I put him in such character?
Curioustear: I hope this is a sweet scene. I'm not good with romance. For pete's sake I'm only 14! Anyway, thanks for the reviews.
Saki3: ummmm. I'm seriously sorry to say that, ya that was sort of annoying how you pointed out every detail that I got wrong. But I do appreciate the pointers and I'll keep an eye on certain things. Sometimes I just get a little excited and rush through. I would like you to just relax a little though (I apologize if I sound rude). In fact I'd like you to keep doing what you're doing but on a much less scale please. And about how to spell Alan and Mathews names, that's how they spell them in the game, so that's how I spell them. I already know the proper way to do it. You're right about the teen thing, it says on his stats that he APPEARS to be sixteen *coyarightugh!*. Oh, and about chaos being sarcastic...well you'll see.
(Little changes in POV will be here off an on)
I'm soooo sorry for the wait guys and gals. But I was on a role with my main story and I've never finished a story and so I got excited. So I apologize for the wait again! Enjoy!
Chapter 3: I do not dream
Kos-mos accompanied Shion to the mess hall for she had no other objectives that needed to be fulfilled at the moment. Shion spotted Alan in a booth near a window in the corner. The co-worker waved them over. Shion and Kos- mos weaved their way through the crowd that had gathered for lunch break. The view outside was a very odd one; the Durandel was docked up straight in the center of the lake that was in the Kukai Foundation so the horizon sideways. Fortunately artificial gravity kept their feet on the right floor.
"Hey chief how's your day?" Alan greeted as they sat down. Shion sigh in exaggeration, "If you call being down in the containment area a good day. Then there you have it."
Alan gave a look, "Can't Jr. just move that equipment somewhere else?"
Shion gulped down some water, "Nope. It's set permanently, and besides. If we wanted another sample of tissue or blood we'd have to get it fresh. Everywhere else is too hot to transfer them."
"Why doesn't Jr. just get a pro or something? No offense or anything." He added quickly.
"None taken. Jr. just wants to keep it quiet."
Kos-mos kept one ear on the conversation while she checked her scanners. A screen popped up: clear. Another came. That was clear too. The android was constantly checking for gnosis, or other hostile signs in case they should attack, as was part of her precaution programming.
Finally the last screen (she has different kinds of scanners) popped up. There was a pause. Then it read clear.
"Kos-mos. Are you even listening?"
"Yes Shion I am. I was currently checking my scanners." Came the instant reply.
Shion rolled her eyes slightly, "Anyway, Alan said he fixed those problems you were having with your pod. And he's also gotten new type G energy cells. So you can reenergize faster."
"How much faster?"
"Well, type G is the most recent one developed. Uhh, let me think. About 2 hours less I think." Shion said after she did a few calculations in her head. Kos-mos nodded in acceptance. It was better so that in case of attack, she'd be ready more often. Alan looked up from his just finished plate, "Speaking of which. Isn't it time for your tune-ups Kos-mos?"
The ruby eyed android stood up, "Affirmative. If you are done, may we go to the Elsa?"
Shion stood up suddenly energetic, "Come on Alan get up!" she said while clapping her hands at each word, "Up and at it! Let's go!" she grabbed her co-workers wrist and dragged him out of his seat, "W-wait a sec chief!" Alan protested as he was dragged off. Kos-mos watched them with her usual blank stare. Didn't Jr. refer to this as 'flirting'?
The android fallowed the two life long friends out of the crowded mess hall, Shion dragging Alan the whole way to the Elsa. While she walked, Kos- mos started calling up her memory files, selecting ones that were no longer needed. She would have Shion remove them since she was not authorized to do so.
The earliest 'memories' she kept. It had been when the Woglinde had been attacked, their encounters with MOMO and Zigourat 8 or Ziggy as the pink haired realian referred him as. Then Gainun Jr. And of course all other important events and conversations. The rest would be discarded for more important things.
Shion regained her normal quiet composer when they exited the elevator at the ship dock. It was usually that when they were alone that Shion acted like a kid again with Alan. chaos had told her once that if she just kept being the stern, serious person she'd become all the time. She'd stress herself out beyond what she would want. So the young women did her best to take his advice.
The trio went to Level B where the maintenance lab, and Kos-mos' pod was. Tony was in there repairing something on Shion's huge red A.G.W.S.
"Hey Shion, Alan. Tune-ups for Kos-mos?" the blonde asked from atop his seat on the battle machine.
"Yep. Where's the Captain and Hammer?"
Tony rolled his eyes, "Where else would the captain be? Paying off his debts of course, and Hammer's probably just being the computer nerd he is." Shion stopped herself from laughing.
"And chaos?"
Tony looked down at Kos-mos, a little surprised that she'd ask something like that unless it was 'necessary'. The pilot shook his head, "No idea. Why do ya ask?"
Kos-mos walked over to the platform that would rise up to the maintenance lab, "Shion forgot to mention him, is he not part of the Elsa crew?"
"Well yes."
Why 'had' she asked? It was irrelevant and a waist of energy, she should only speak of something when necessary. Shion and Alan took a position on either side of Kos-mos.
The maintenance lab was mostly empty except for a black pod in the center, a built in bench along two of the walls, and a consol opposite the bench. Alan started looking through the assorted tuning equipment that was scattered on the console. The pod's lid popped open with a hiss, Kos-mos climbed in and lay down. A blue light blinked from somewhere below.
Shion appeared beside her, "Comfortable Kos-mos?"
"You forget Shion that I am an android composed completely of metal. I have no nerves like you, so I cannot say if I am comfortable."
"Oh, sorry. You're right, I do forget sometimes. Silly me." Shion shifted, "Kos-mos?"
"Yes Shion."
"You're slee---I mean recharging. Do you have any dreams?"
"Once more Shion you forget."
Shion was a little taken back by the androids bluntness. But that was how Kos-mos acted, straight to the point even though sometimes it hurt the one she was directing her words too.
"Ready chief." Alan said. The young women nodded without looking, "Right. We'll do the internal scanning first to be sure that she doesn't have any problems inside first." Kos-mos closed her eyes as the pod closed with a hiss. Little screens popped up, indicating that she was shutting down. Shion sighed.
True, she asked silly things that were impossible for an android to have. The Vector employee remembered before the Woglinde had been attacked and her adventure had begun, Shion had asked Kos-mos if she was sad that she'd be going right back to 'sleep' after their virtual training was done. Yet...
"Chief? Are you okay?" Alan asked in concern.
"Huh? Oh, ya. I was just thinking..."
Alan paused in the middle of his typing, "You still think that she can become alive?"
"I just remember once when I was working late with Kevin. He said that once she'd had a---a small pulse."
Alan didn't reply. Knowing all to well how sensitive his friend was when it came to Kevin. The once headman of the KOS-MOS Project had been a great man, he'd also inspired Shion in many ways. But unfortunately, some stupid organization burst in, declared the place theirs, and then did a REALLY dumb thing. They'd activated Kos-mos. She had still been a prototype then, dangerous and unstable. As a result of her activation, she'd killed almost everyone, amongst those killed had been Kevin.
Shion shook her head, "Anyway, lets get this done with."
"Starting scan."
As all know, androids don't dream.
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Kos-mos was confused. There was no logic in this. Why was she processing this? She was supposed to be shut down.
The blue haired android was standing in the place that she unknowingly built with fragments of her own, and the others memories. Right now she was standing in a desolate, ruined city that in reality Shion had seen when she was little, and once again when the Kukai Foundation had been invaded. The sky above wasn't liquid blue, but an angry mixture of black, deep violet, pink, and red.
"Access currant condition file." Nothing happened. All that changed in front of her eyes was the bushes bending under the caressing hands of a breeze.
"Confused are we?" said a voice oddly familiar from behind. Kos-mos looked over her shoulder to see—herself? No, it was not possible at the currant moment. She was the only known android ever to exist. But there she was, a mirror of herself.
The other Kos-mos wore armor similar to hers except that it was black, red, and silver lined.
"Who are you? What have you done to my sleep mode?"
The other laughed. An actual laugh, "I 'am' you Kos-mos. The sleeping you."
Kos-mos blinked, "The other 'me'?"
"Yes," the black armored walked up beside her, "I represent what you could become."
"What I could become?"
The other rolled her eyes slightly, "Don't you remember your secret primary objectives? What Kevin programmed you to do?" she looked up into the sky, "I'm your conscience so to speak. The pulse that you need to bring to life."
Kos-mos just kept blankly staring at herself, "It is impossible for me to live. I am composed completely of mechanical parts and my brain is merely a- --."
"---super computer." Both finished. Kos-mos' 'pulse' putting in sarcasm, "Yada yada I know. But there is one way to do it."
"What do you mean? I am only attempting because that is what Kevin programmed me to."
"Slash begged you to. Why do you think that he gave you that secret objective? Isn't it...'illogical'?"
Kos-mos blinked, "Why did he? And what is this way you say is possible." Other Kos-mos looked back at her, "You do realize what androids could become, and do when more of you are created? The possibilities are endless for both the good and the bad. Kevin wanted to prevent this, but he also wanted to know if it were possible for a machine---."
"---to feel emotion."
Both Kos-mos' turned around to see a short girl wearing a lacy white dress, sitting on one of the swings behind them. The long auburn haired girl was called Nephilim. She appeared to be a twelve year old, but her deep voice, profound knowledge and vast wisdom told otherwise.
Nephilim swung gently, "Kos-mos, the way that you can fulfill your primary objective is through someone else."
"Someone else?"
"Yes. It wouldn't have been possible till you met him. You wouldn't have come as close as you can now till you met. His gift brought your real conscious out Kos-mos," she gestured to the black armored one, "she is the suppressed pulse that you are hiding beneath all that machinery. How do you thing that I am able to visit you? The first time I came here it was only possible with Shions and the others consciousness. But how do you think I can do it now? Remember when you were trying to protect the Elsa from burning up upon entering Second Miltia?"
She did. Kos-mos recalled that something strange had happened when she tried to save the ship from burning up. The android remembered at first there had been red flames all around, then a flurry of whiteness and glowing feathers.
"That had been chaos?"
Nephilim nodded, she stood up and gracefully walked over to Kos-mos, "He gave you the ability freely. Because of---certain things he has for you. Now, all you have to do is let your emotions flourish. Of course it will be extremely difficult, "she placed a pale hand on the androids shoulder, "but you will eventually be able to fulfill your ultimate goal. chaos is the key to helping you." Nephilim smiled gently at her. Then turned around and simply faded into nothing.
The dream began to dissipate into beams of light, "Good luck." Her conscious said before she woke up.
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"Logging on." Kos-mos said automatically as her systems were booted up. The lid o her pod opened and she sat up.
Shion appeared, "Well Kos-mos, we're done with the check up scans. We can move to your tune-ups now."
"Alright Shion."
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Sorry I have to end it so abruptly! I have to go like right now! If you're confused about anything just let me know! Please review!
Sesshomaru_sama14: you are completely opposite of Taekwanduer ya know. You like gross and icky things while she doesn't. I'm kind of in the middle. And no, the infection won't freak chaos out for...I don't know how long for but soon.
Hyper_Sloth: thanks, but what do you mean by I put him in such character?
Curioustear: I hope this is a sweet scene. I'm not good with romance. For pete's sake I'm only 14! Anyway, thanks for the reviews.
Saki3: ummmm. I'm seriously sorry to say that, ya that was sort of annoying how you pointed out every detail that I got wrong. But I do appreciate the pointers and I'll keep an eye on certain things. Sometimes I just get a little excited and rush through. I would like you to just relax a little though (I apologize if I sound rude). In fact I'd like you to keep doing what you're doing but on a much less scale please. And about how to spell Alan and Mathews names, that's how they spell them in the game, so that's how I spell them. I already know the proper way to do it. You're right about the teen thing, it says on his stats that he APPEARS to be sixteen *coyarightugh!*. Oh, and about chaos being sarcastic...well you'll see.
(Little changes in POV will be here off an on)
I'm soooo sorry for the wait guys and gals. But I was on a role with my main story and I've never finished a story and so I got excited. So I apologize for the wait again! Enjoy!
Chapter 3: I do not dream
Kos-mos accompanied Shion to the mess hall for she had no other objectives that needed to be fulfilled at the moment. Shion spotted Alan in a booth near a window in the corner. The co-worker waved them over. Shion and Kos- mos weaved their way through the crowd that had gathered for lunch break. The view outside was a very odd one; the Durandel was docked up straight in the center of the lake that was in the Kukai Foundation so the horizon sideways. Fortunately artificial gravity kept their feet on the right floor.
"Hey chief how's your day?" Alan greeted as they sat down. Shion sigh in exaggeration, "If you call being down in the containment area a good day. Then there you have it."
Alan gave a look, "Can't Jr. just move that equipment somewhere else?"
Shion gulped down some water, "Nope. It's set permanently, and besides. If we wanted another sample of tissue or blood we'd have to get it fresh. Everywhere else is too hot to transfer them."
"Why doesn't Jr. just get a pro or something? No offense or anything." He added quickly.
"None taken. Jr. just wants to keep it quiet."
Kos-mos kept one ear on the conversation while she checked her scanners. A screen popped up: clear. Another came. That was clear too. The android was constantly checking for gnosis, or other hostile signs in case they should attack, as was part of her precaution programming.
Finally the last screen (she has different kinds of scanners) popped up. There was a pause. Then it read clear.
"Kos-mos. Are you even listening?"
"Yes Shion I am. I was currently checking my scanners." Came the instant reply.
Shion rolled her eyes slightly, "Anyway, Alan said he fixed those problems you were having with your pod. And he's also gotten new type G energy cells. So you can reenergize faster."
"How much faster?"
"Well, type G is the most recent one developed. Uhh, let me think. About 2 hours less I think." Shion said after she did a few calculations in her head. Kos-mos nodded in acceptance. It was better so that in case of attack, she'd be ready more often. Alan looked up from his just finished plate, "Speaking of which. Isn't it time for your tune-ups Kos-mos?"
The ruby eyed android stood up, "Affirmative. If you are done, may we go to the Elsa?"
Shion stood up suddenly energetic, "Come on Alan get up!" she said while clapping her hands at each word, "Up and at it! Let's go!" she grabbed her co-workers wrist and dragged him out of his seat, "W-wait a sec chief!" Alan protested as he was dragged off. Kos-mos watched them with her usual blank stare. Didn't Jr. refer to this as 'flirting'?
The android fallowed the two life long friends out of the crowded mess hall, Shion dragging Alan the whole way to the Elsa. While she walked, Kos- mos started calling up her memory files, selecting ones that were no longer needed. She would have Shion remove them since she was not authorized to do so.
The earliest 'memories' she kept. It had been when the Woglinde had been attacked, their encounters with MOMO and Zigourat 8 or Ziggy as the pink haired realian referred him as. Then Gainun Jr. And of course all other important events and conversations. The rest would be discarded for more important things.
Shion regained her normal quiet composer when they exited the elevator at the ship dock. It was usually that when they were alone that Shion acted like a kid again with Alan. chaos had told her once that if she just kept being the stern, serious person she'd become all the time. She'd stress herself out beyond what she would want. So the young women did her best to take his advice.
The trio went to Level B where the maintenance lab, and Kos-mos' pod was. Tony was in there repairing something on Shion's huge red A.G.W.S.
"Hey Shion, Alan. Tune-ups for Kos-mos?" the blonde asked from atop his seat on the battle machine.
"Yep. Where's the Captain and Hammer?"
Tony rolled his eyes, "Where else would the captain be? Paying off his debts of course, and Hammer's probably just being the computer nerd he is." Shion stopped herself from laughing.
"And chaos?"
Tony looked down at Kos-mos, a little surprised that she'd ask something like that unless it was 'necessary'. The pilot shook his head, "No idea. Why do ya ask?"
Kos-mos walked over to the platform that would rise up to the maintenance lab, "Shion forgot to mention him, is he not part of the Elsa crew?"
"Well yes."
Why 'had' she asked? It was irrelevant and a waist of energy, she should only speak of something when necessary. Shion and Alan took a position on either side of Kos-mos.
The maintenance lab was mostly empty except for a black pod in the center, a built in bench along two of the walls, and a consol opposite the bench. Alan started looking through the assorted tuning equipment that was scattered on the console. The pod's lid popped open with a hiss, Kos-mos climbed in and lay down. A blue light blinked from somewhere below.
Shion appeared beside her, "Comfortable Kos-mos?"
"You forget Shion that I am an android composed completely of metal. I have no nerves like you, so I cannot say if I am comfortable."
"Oh, sorry. You're right, I do forget sometimes. Silly me." Shion shifted, "Kos-mos?"
"Yes Shion."
"You're slee---I mean recharging. Do you have any dreams?"
"Once more Shion you forget."
Shion was a little taken back by the androids bluntness. But that was how Kos-mos acted, straight to the point even though sometimes it hurt the one she was directing her words too.
"Ready chief." Alan said. The young women nodded without looking, "Right. We'll do the internal scanning first to be sure that she doesn't have any problems inside first." Kos-mos closed her eyes as the pod closed with a hiss. Little screens popped up, indicating that she was shutting down. Shion sighed.
True, she asked silly things that were impossible for an android to have. The Vector employee remembered before the Woglinde had been attacked and her adventure had begun, Shion had asked Kos-mos if she was sad that she'd be going right back to 'sleep' after their virtual training was done. Yet...
"Chief? Are you okay?" Alan asked in concern.
"Huh? Oh, ya. I was just thinking..."
Alan paused in the middle of his typing, "You still think that she can become alive?"
"I just remember once when I was working late with Kevin. He said that once she'd had a---a small pulse."
Alan didn't reply. Knowing all to well how sensitive his friend was when it came to Kevin. The once headman of the KOS-MOS Project had been a great man, he'd also inspired Shion in many ways. But unfortunately, some stupid organization burst in, declared the place theirs, and then did a REALLY dumb thing. They'd activated Kos-mos. She had still been a prototype then, dangerous and unstable. As a result of her activation, she'd killed almost everyone, amongst those killed had been Kevin.
Shion shook her head, "Anyway, lets get this done with."
"Starting scan."
As all know, androids don't dream.
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Kos-mos was confused. There was no logic in this. Why was she processing this? She was supposed to be shut down.
The blue haired android was standing in the place that she unknowingly built with fragments of her own, and the others memories. Right now she was standing in a desolate, ruined city that in reality Shion had seen when she was little, and once again when the Kukai Foundation had been invaded. The sky above wasn't liquid blue, but an angry mixture of black, deep violet, pink, and red.
"Access currant condition file." Nothing happened. All that changed in front of her eyes was the bushes bending under the caressing hands of a breeze.
"Confused are we?" said a voice oddly familiar from behind. Kos-mos looked over her shoulder to see—herself? No, it was not possible at the currant moment. She was the only known android ever to exist. But there she was, a mirror of herself.
The other Kos-mos wore armor similar to hers except that it was black, red, and silver lined.
"Who are you? What have you done to my sleep mode?"
The other laughed. An actual laugh, "I 'am' you Kos-mos. The sleeping you."
Kos-mos blinked, "The other 'me'?"
"Yes," the black armored walked up beside her, "I represent what you could become."
"What I could become?"
The other rolled her eyes slightly, "Don't you remember your secret primary objectives? What Kevin programmed you to do?" she looked up into the sky, "I'm your conscience so to speak. The pulse that you need to bring to life."
Kos-mos just kept blankly staring at herself, "It is impossible for me to live. I am composed completely of mechanical parts and my brain is merely a- --."
"---super computer." Both finished. Kos-mos' 'pulse' putting in sarcasm, "Yada yada I know. But there is one way to do it."
"What do you mean? I am only attempting because that is what Kevin programmed me to."
"Slash begged you to. Why do you think that he gave you that secret objective? Isn't it...'illogical'?"
Kos-mos blinked, "Why did he? And what is this way you say is possible." Other Kos-mos looked back at her, "You do realize what androids could become, and do when more of you are created? The possibilities are endless for both the good and the bad. Kevin wanted to prevent this, but he also wanted to know if it were possible for a machine---."
"---to feel emotion."
Both Kos-mos' turned around to see a short girl wearing a lacy white dress, sitting on one of the swings behind them. The long auburn haired girl was called Nephilim. She appeared to be a twelve year old, but her deep voice, profound knowledge and vast wisdom told otherwise.
Nephilim swung gently, "Kos-mos, the way that you can fulfill your primary objective is through someone else."
"Someone else?"
"Yes. It wouldn't have been possible till you met him. You wouldn't have come as close as you can now till you met. His gift brought your real conscious out Kos-mos," she gestured to the black armored one, "she is the suppressed pulse that you are hiding beneath all that machinery. How do you thing that I am able to visit you? The first time I came here it was only possible with Shions and the others consciousness. But how do you think I can do it now? Remember when you were trying to protect the Elsa from burning up upon entering Second Miltia?"
She did. Kos-mos recalled that something strange had happened when she tried to save the ship from burning up. The android remembered at first there had been red flames all around, then a flurry of whiteness and glowing feathers.
"That had been chaos?"
Nephilim nodded, she stood up and gracefully walked over to Kos-mos, "He gave you the ability freely. Because of---certain things he has for you. Now, all you have to do is let your emotions flourish. Of course it will be extremely difficult, "she placed a pale hand on the androids shoulder, "but you will eventually be able to fulfill your ultimate goal. chaos is the key to helping you." Nephilim smiled gently at her. Then turned around and simply faded into nothing.
The dream began to dissipate into beams of light, "Good luck." Her conscious said before she woke up.
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"Logging on." Kos-mos said automatically as her systems were booted up. The lid o her pod opened and she sat up.
Shion appeared, "Well Kos-mos, we're done with the check up scans. We can move to your tune-ups now."
"Alright Shion."
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Sorry I have to end it so abruptly! I have to go like right now! If you're confused about anything just let me know! Please review!
