Jr looks back and shoots at the group of gnosis chasing after him, he knows it won't do much right now but at the very least it'll hopefully distract them so that he can gain some distance. He starts to wish he would have stayed with Chaos or Kos-mos instead of going off on his own.

"These filthy vermin... Thinking they can hunt us down like their prey. If I had my body right now I would be more than pleased to show them all how pathetic they actually are."

"Yeah, I would offer you mine, but I'm guessing it doesn't really work that way." Jr responds to his brother, while still running. He needs to do something to turn the situation around, but he's not sure what. "Shit... I need to think fast..." He looks ahead to see a mess of crashed and flipped cars, making a couple blockades on the highway.

"Alright, that'll work. Albedo you wanna give me a hand?"

"But of course, Rubedo~" Having already read his brother's mind, Albedo get's right to work. Jr's limbs fill with an odd tingly feeling for a moment before he begins to lose all feeling in them all together. With control of his body now Albedo turns and uses his hand to fling a blast of energy at the ground just below the gnosis. A power that he has much better control of than his brother.

The feeling quickly returns to Jr's body, and he fluidly finishes the movement his brother started. Turning and running again, he leaps over the hood of one of the cars and then dodges between a few to a small open spot.

He still grips his pistols tightly, but hopefully his hiding spot will buy him a minute to catch his breath and wait for backup. He doesn't dare try to look out at the gnosis and risk blowing his cover, but by the sound of it they're still way to close for comfort

After a minute of sitting in his hiding spot there's an odd yet familiar feeling that passes through his body, followed by the sound of slightly pained howling from the gnosis. Jr smirks as he recognizes it as the hilbert effect, "it's about time," wasting no time he jumps out from behind the piled up vehicles and rains a barrage of bullets on the now vulnerable gnosis.

The first one, a small quadruped gnosis, goes down rather easily. However the two humanoid ones standing just behind it manage to tank Jr's hits, wounded but still standing.

He reaches down to reload his pistols as the gnosis begin moving toward him again, but is beat to the kill as the sound of footsteps quickly approaches from down the highway. The form of Chaos comes into view, his palms glowing brightly with energy, he quickly approaches the gnosis and punches it. All of Chaos' momentum as he comes to a halt is forced into the gnosis, knocking it to the side into the other one, the force causing them both to fall over completely limp.

Jr stands there staring agape at Chaos for a moment before he speaks up, "I uhh... I had em you know."

There's a deep growl as a flying gnosis wanders close to Jr while him and Chaos are distracted, Jr quickly swerves around to face the gnosis. He reaches down, flustered, trying once again to reload his guns so he can shoot but is once again beat to the kill.

The gnosis is shot right through what Jr assumes is it's head, his view follows the trail of the bullet back to its source below the elevated highway. Kos-mos is standing there holding an energy rifle at the ready, Just behind her Shion gets her own weapon ready and Allen soon catches up and gets his crossbow ready.

"I would suggest that you take care of reloading your weapon before the enemy is right on top of you." Kos-mos shouts up at him, before moving to snipe down another flying gnosis.

Jr takes her advice, reloading his pistols quite fluidly now that he has a moment to breathe. He can't help but notice that his first fight has caused a bit of a snowball effect now, with every time they shoot down one gnosis the sound alerts every other nearby one of their presence.

"Just how many of these things are there?" Shion shouts over the chaos as she slashes one across the chest, Jr shoots down at it as well once she backs up.

"I should apologize, I shouldn not have dropped my scanners back there." Kos-mos speaks, while not losing a single bit of focus in shooting. "I should have known better than to let my guard down while we were still in such a dangerous place."

"No, I should apologize." Jr hears Chaos say, after knocking another gnosis to the ground. "If only I had been able to get rid of all the gnosis back on michtam... We wouldn't be in this situation in the first place."

"No, Chaos it's not your fault. If anything it's mine," Shion takes her chance to speak up now, "I shouldn't have suggested that we split up."

"No, no, guys I should apologize." Now it's Jr's turn, "I should have ran from them instead of shooting them and making a big ruckus."

"Oh for crying out loud- We all suck, okay! Can we please leave now!?" Allen yells, breaking up their pity party. He then makes some clumsy shots at a small stealthy gnosis that's running at him.

"Allen! Watch out!" Shion shouts and shoots the gnosis with her MWS, it's hit and goes right down.

"Wow, thanks chie- AAAHHH!" Allen tries to thank her but is nearly knocked over by yet another gnosis that's snuck up behind him. Luckily for him as soon as he turns around the gnosis is shot down by Kos-mos. "Oh jeeze... Thank you too Kos-mos."

"You are welcome, now I'd suggest that you all get down. My X-weapon system is fully charged and I intend to fire."

Everyone's quick to duck for cover, getting behind whatever rubble they can. "Hey, Kos-mos? Can you like, aim that thing?" Jr calls out from behind the stack of cars him and Chaos are situated behind. "Because it's a spread beam and we're all spread out... And yeah, I know we're behind stuff, but I feel like that's going to blast through anything we get behind anywa-"

The sound of beams firing out and destroying whatever they crash into as X-Buster is fired cuts Jr off. He watches as gnosis after gnosis is shot and absorbed, a few buildings and random objects taking some collateral damage as well. A beam flies right past their hiding spot, taking a chunk of car with it, a few more whir by as well and then after a moment the attack finishes and the noise stops.

Jr and Chaos peek up over their barricade to look back at Kos-mos, the compartment on her stomach closes and she loosens up just a bit with the battle now over.

"Great job guys, let's call it a day!"

Kos-mos sits at one of the tables of the elsa diner, watching Shion rush back and forth around the diner trying to get food to everyone. After fighting off all the gnosis the group decided that they should head back (mainly because anything of interest got wrecked in x-buster's wake).

"Shion, are you certain you don't need any help?"

"Yes, I'm fine. Thanks for offering again though, Kos-mos."

Shion runs off yet again, Kos-mos watches her go until she's out of the room and Kos-mos is on her own at the table again. There's at least an odd sense of comfort with everyone else in the diner, but she doesn't have anyone in particular to talk to or anything to do. She can hear everyone else's conversations pretty well though.

At the table behind her Tony and Hammer excitedly chat and catch up with Chaos. Tony mentions that they should throw another party for Chaos now, to which Hammer adds that they'll have to go back to the Dämmerung to get more party supplies first.

Did we not just have a party the other day? Wait, I missed what Chaos just said... And now Hammer is... crying...

She decides she does not really need to eavesdrop on their conversation and instead diverts her attention elsewhere. Over near the entrance of the diner Matthews is arguing with the professor over a shopping list. As much as the professor tries to assure him that he absolutely needs everything on that list the captain won't have it and believes that many of the items on it are too expensive and take up too much space.

Admittedly Kos-mos isn't too sure what anyone would need with that much pure chromium anyhow.

Allen and Scott sit at the bar chatting about their day's events with each other. Scott offers Allen a drink every now and then, but with every offer he refuses.

I would assume he does not want a repeat of last night.

Lastly she turns her attention to Jr, he's playing the video game set up in the corner of the diner. Mary sits nearby watching him play, Shelley soon joins her with a freshly made cup of tea in hand.

Everyone seems fairly relaxed and comfortable, it's nice to know as Kos-mos does consider everyone to be her friends, but that doesn't make it any easier for her to join in on anyone's conversations.

She then picks up on Shion coming near the room again, and sure enough within a few moments the door slides open and she hears Shion's footsteps. Kos-mos turns her head and uncomfortably shifts in her seat, wanting to ask Shion if she needs any assistance (again), but it appears that one of the ship's maintenance droids is already helping her carry all the plates of food.

Oh well... That was nice of them to help at least.

She watches the two of them work on passing out plates to everyone in the diner, forgetting completely in that moment that humans consider it rude to stare. After everyone else gets theirs Shion takes the last two plates to the table Kos-mos sits at, and takes a seat right across from her.

"You appear to have made some extra."

"It's not extra, silly. This one's for you." Shion pushes the plate closer to Kos-mos. "And before you go saying something like 'oh, but Shion, I do not require food to function'-" Kos-mos snaps her mouth shut, a little off put by how easily Shion can read her. "-Keep in mind that eating can just be for enjoyment too. Which is why I want you to try some."

The knowledge that it will make Shion happy is all Kos-mos needs to make her more than eager to dig right in. Now Kos-mos wasn't made with mundane tasks like 'eating' in mind, her speed, the way she moves, even just the sharpness of her teeth, these were all designed with only combat in mind. All these minute details put together make a very awkward, sloppy eater.

It's when she slips her tongue out to lick up the sauce that's smeared all around her mouth that she looks up at Shion. Based on her expression Kos-mos can only guess that none of what she just did was graceful, proper, or socially acceptable.

They remain locked in a bit of a staring contest for a moment, neither of them moving or saying anything.

"S-Sorry..." Kos-mos breaks the silence, and then awkwardly reaches for a napkin from the nearby dispenser.

"Oh, n- no it's fine Kos-mos!" Shion assures her while trying not to laugh, "really, I'm just glad you like it!"

It doesn't really do much to assure her, though. While wiping her mouth off she scans the room to make sure no one else saw that mess. She's satisfied only when she's sure that Shion was the only one who was watching her. She tries to eat a lot slower this time, but it proves to be just as clumsy and messy as before. At this rate, she decides, she'd be better off just eating at the same speed as before and just accepting that she's going to be a mess.

About halfway through her meal she simply gets too frustrated and just gives up on eating, she instead decides to watch Shion eat her food.

"What are you crazy!? You can't honestly be suggesting what I think you are!"

Kos-mos glances over to see Matthews and Tony arguing about something.

"I wonder what they're yelling about..." Shion picks up her now empty plate, she reaches for Kos-mos' as well but stops. "Oh... You didn't finish yours."

"No! I am going to finish it." Kos-mos replies a lot faster and louder than she had meant, she feels her systems heat up and tries to level her voice before continuing. "I simply wish to eat a bit slower than you, I will finish it though."

"Oh, okay, I'll leave that there for you then." Shion gives her a smile then walks off to go clean her plate. Kos-mos doesn't immediately get back to her food, instead she decides she wants to listen in on whatever the captain is yelling about.

"-I'm telling you, it'll be fine! It takes too much fuel to fly back up and put ourselves in orbit to sleep when we're already safely landed here-"

"And I'm telling YOU captain that it's way too dangerous to sleep here! You know there's gnosis crawling around all over here!"

Allen then decides it would be a good idea to join in on Tony and Matthews' skirmish. "I- I'm with Tony on this one captain, we're planning on going back for more supplies anyway so-"

"WHO ASKED YOU!?" Matthews shouts back, causing Allen to fall backwards out of his seat, nearly knocking Scott over as he catches him. "Anyway isn't that what she's here to help with now?" Matthews gestures over to Kos-mos.

Please do not involve me in this...

"Actually captain seeing how I did not recharge last night, and with the battle today, I do not believe I will have enough energy in my reserves to help you tonight."

"Wha- Well why didn't ya recharge last night!?"

"That doesn't matter! You see captain, no matter what way you look at it we can't stay here! Even if Kos-mos could help we'd still probably be up all night paranoid that we'd be attacked!"

"Now, now, let's not fight." Chaos gets up in an attempt to calm the two of them down, what Kos-mos assumes is her heart hurts as she watches this. She has to fight the urge to go grab him and drag him out of the diner so she can tell him that it's not worth it. "There's no need to shout, we're all friends here. And I'm sure if we just discuss this in a civil manner-"

"Chaos, buddy, listen I know you've been gone a while but uuuhhh. You can't tell me you've already forgot who's CAPTAIN."

"Oh that's just like you, not listening to anyone else, just because you're c-"

Rather sick of their arguing, Kos-mos disables her hearing. The feeling of hostility still hangs in the air, and she can still see everyone getting angry. But everything is much more bearable without all the yelling now. She now sits there staring at everyone hoping that she'll eventually make them uncomfortable enough that they'll leave. Which, slowly but surely, they do eventually move the argument out of the diner.

Kos-mos switches her sense of hearing back on and turns back to her food, which is probably only room temperature at best by now.

"Fucking finally, I thought they'd never leave."

"Good afternoon, T-elos, you certainly went quiet for quite a while today."

"Well it wasn't my fault, did you notice that red head kid- What was his name again- Ruberto? He had Albedo in his subconscious with him."

"I was not aware that you knew Albedo, or that you would be able to tell that from within my own subconscious." Kos-mos absentmindedly pokes around at her food a bit while talking to T-elos.

"What do you mean? Of course I know him, I mean not too well, but he was a testament. I knew all the testaments but something about that guy always creeped me out above all others... Well... Actually now that I think about it Virgil could be pretty creepy too... Look I'm getting off topic, point is that if I could tell he's there then chances are he could probably also tell I'm here if I'm not careful."

"I still do not see why that is such a big deal to you."

"Why wouldn't it be? I was all your enemy only a few months ago." Kos-mos sees her point, but also feels it's a bit illogical to hide herself and risk everyone finding out and getting upset. Rather than simply being honest and getting everyone slowly used to having her around. "Hey are you... Are you going to finish that?"

"Hmm?" Kos-mos is confused as to what she means for a moment, before she takes a glance at her food and recalls the offer she made to T-elos just the other night. "Oh! No, go ahead."

Kos-mos tries to move her conscious to the back of her mind like T-elos has done, it doesn't go over quite as smoothly as she wanted and T-elos still has to force her way to the front to some extent. It's at least not nearly as uncomfortable as that morning, however.

It's not exactly the most comfortable position for Kos-mos, she can still see through her body's eyes and still has a small grasp of it's senses, but of course it's T-elos controlling it and not her. I envy you for being able to do this all day without losing your mind, T-elos... She at least finds that she can distance herself more from her sense if she focuses enough, however.

"I believe I am just going to rest for a bit, you are more than welcome to walk around as much as you want when you are done here. Please just make sure you get us to my recharge station before tonight."

T-elos quickly clears the rest of Kos-mos' curry off her plate, in a much cleaner fashion than the other. It hadn't come up in conversation before but, unlike Kos-mos, T-elos actually had actually eaten before.

She leaves and goes to the kitchen where she gives her plate and silverware a quick rinse and then plops them into the dishwasher. In that moment T-elos notices someone come into the room and realizes something.

Aside from Kos-mos, Albedo, and maybe Shion, she doesn't know fucking anyone one this ship.

She turns and sees a rather tall woman with light purple hair who looks almost as expressionless and dead inside as Kos-mos. She gives T-elos a quiet 'hello' as she goes to wash her teacup.

Kos-mos, who is this?

...

KOS-MOS?

GOD DAMMIT NOW IS NO TIME TO BE SLEEPING!

"H-Hey..."

She internally cringes at the fact that she let herself stutter, but to T-elos' surprise the woman makes no mention of it and simply finishes her business. She goes to leave once she's done, but turns around just before she gets to the door. "Oh, Mary says she's sorry for bugging you this morning. She doesn't mean any harm, she's just a bit nosy."

Just wanting her to leave already, T-elos does her best impression of Kos-mos, "that is alright... It was not a big deal, all is forgiven."

"Thanks, I'm sure she'll be glad to hear that."

T-elos waits until she's completely sure the woman is out of earshot and then lets out a relieved sigh. Okay, obviously I either need to hang around long enough to learn at least everyone's names sometime... Or I need to stay far away from the other people on this ship... She finds herself leaning way more towards the later, at least for now.

She stalks out of the kitchen and decides it would probably to be smart not to wander around too much. With that in mind she pulls up her scanners and takes note of where everyone in the ship is at.

Alright, if I can just take the right hallways I can avoid everyone in here and make it to the lab with time to spare.

For the most part this goes over relatively well, the only time she has to see anyone is when that boy- Alex?- is in the only hallway to the cargo deck. However he pays her almost no notice, aside from simply saying 'hi'.

Finally she reaches the cargo deck. There's a few droids moving some supplies around, occasionally to the lab, but aside from that there doesn't seem to be anyone in the general area. This puts T-elos much more at ease, as she goes and sits herself down at one of the lab's computers.

I wonder if these guys have anything I could pass the time with installed on these...

"Hey, you." She gestures to a droid, who's rather startled by this, looking around and checking if there's any other droids around. "Yes, you, come here for a second. I need to ask you something."

The droid rolls over rather slow and nervously, "O- Oh what is it th- That you need miss Kos-mos? I mean... You are such a big deal, you saved the universe, and even amongst us androids you stand out so m- Much. Whatever could you need with a lowly maintenance droid like myse-"

"Listen, that's nice and all, but do you have any games on these?" T-elos cuts them off, pointing at the computer she's sitting at.

"G- Games?"

"Or perhaps a movie, just anything I could pass some time with really." She moves the cursor over some of the files on the computer, most of them seem to be robot or weapon schematics, maintenance programs for Kos-mos, and some oddly named image files she doesn't dare open.

"Well.. I am not sure there would be computer games on these... They are work computers."

"Scott keeps a lot on that one actually," the two androids whip their heads back to see Shion enter, "they're all buried a few folders down in the folder containing erde kaiser's coding. I know because I sometimes see him open them up when the professor's not looking. But you didn't hear that from me."

The maintenance droid quickly takes the opportunity to rush off, completely flustered. T-elos doesn't really fair much better, she simply sits there frozen as Shion pulls a chair right next to her and plops down.

"I was wondering where you went off to," Shion lays on T-elos' arm and looks lovingly at her, "I had to go help Tony with something, but when I got back to the diner you weren't there anymore."

"A- Ah, yes, well I finished all the food you gave me so I didn- did not really have a reason to stay there." T-elos' eyes dark quickly from the floor and then back to Shion again. Every time she looks back at her she can see her own reflection in Shion's glasses, her teal eyes shake with anxiety.

Wait... Fuck.

T-elos quickly ducks her head away from Shion, hoping to hell that she didn't already notice.

"I see... Kos-mos, are you feeling alright?" Shion moves her face closer, trying to get a look at T-elos who quickly turns away.

"N- No actually, I believe I need that recharge more than I originally thought." She quickly stands up wanting to get to the charging station, and ending this conversation, as soon as she can.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have kept you in my room last night." Shion gets up with her, gently grabbing her hand and leading her to the pod. "Tell you what, I'll run a diagnostic and make sure you're not leaking energy or anything while I'm down here. For now you just rest easy."

"Thank you, I will..." T-elos purposefully doesn't look at Shion again as she gets into the pod, her eyes quickly close and as the pod follows suit her senses relax.

When T-elos opens her eyes again she finds herself back in hers and Kos-mos' connected subconscious. The flowery field seems slightly blurred and rather than the poking of grass it feels a lot softer, almost like a bed.

Kos-mos lays on the ground next to her, her eyes dart around a bit under her closed lids, likely dreaming. But T-elos finds no interest in her, her nerves are all still shot. She thinks back to her conversation with Shion, she seemed so nice... But still...

"Oh, what's this? A second AI system?"

T-elos wraps her arms around herself as she imagines Shion's voice, it practically feels real. Her finding T-elos' data, the disgusted look on her face, the one single tap on the keyboard as everything is erased.

Her memories, her feelings, the only last proof of her existence...

T-elos hugs herself tighter as her mind races.

Will I simply face away? Maybe... Maybe I'll simply be stuck here unable to leave or even walk or talk anymore. Maybe I won't remember anything either.

All she can do now is lay where she is, hugging herself, while she waits…