A/N: Finally! After what seems forever, our heroes are now going to get to Michtam! Hooray! I am proud to say I have over 1500 hits! I'm so happy that my story's really popular! Thank you everyone for reading and your support! I owe you all too much! (Wipes a tear from his eye) I hope I can make it up to you by making good chapters for you to enjoy! It's like winning an award…but it's more to the readers and fans than me. So…I'm going to throw a party at the place where they manage Who's with me? Drinks and your favorite food will be provided.

Disclaimer: Sadly, I don't own Xenosaga…otherwise; Jr. and MOMO would have to be taller.

Dedication Time: Hm…I don't want people to feel left out so I'm going to dedicate this chapter to my newest reviewer: Jr. The Red Dragon! She has been a great help to me and vice versa along with her syndrome of always talking (not that it's a bad thing). I hope that some of you read and review some of her works, they're really funny! But I should stop drabbling now…on with the story!

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Citrine slowly opened her amber eyes. (How long have I been out for…?) She gets up and sees Jin unconscious, along with a huge crack on the glass platform.

"Good to see you've woken up, my daughter." A voice says above her.

"Yes, Dr. Yuriev. What has happened here if I may ask?"

"Nothing. Be ready, though. Rubedo and his comrades are here and we are also nearing Michtam."

"I see. Shall I go then?"

"I've already scrambled the train's stop points. They're being sent to the residential area as we speak."

"I'll head there immediately." Citrine heads to the elevator and turns around. She sees Canaan as she goes down. (Serves him right, that carrothead…)

"Such a good servant."

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"Something's wrong with the train…" MOMO looks out the windows. "We've already past some of these places several times already."

"Damnit, that bastard…" Jr. slams his fist on a pole.

Ziggy thinks for a moment and slowly pieces it together. "Does Yuriev have control over the train from the bridge?"

Jr. slowly nods.

"Then what are we going to do?" Shion asks. "I'd rather not be going around in circles for the rest of my life."

"We should just get off at the next stop." chaos says. "Hopefully, it'll be a good place where we can plan our next move."

Everyone else nods.

The train slowly comes to a stop and opens. The group walks out and notices that they're in the residential area. The train slowly leaves from behind them.

Jr. and MOMO sit on the bench while the others stand.

"Jr., is there a way to disrupt Yuriev's control from the bridge?" Shion asks.

"Yeah, the Control Room."

"How do we get there?"

"By train…" Jr. says, crushing everyone's hope. "But…the ventilation shafts lead there as well."

"How do we get there then?" chaos asks. "It's our best bet."

"The problem is, only small people can fit through it so me and MOMO will have to work independently from you."

"That's fine. You can take care of yourselves." Ziggy says.

"I have another suggestion." KOS-MOS says all of a sudden.

"And what is that?" Jr. wonders.

"I will blast the walls until we reach the bridge."

"WHAT?" Jr. screamed with a voice that shook the Durandal. "No way!"

"I have analyzed this ship's blueprints and have discovered the quickest route to get there. I would only need to destroy four walls. Repairing it would approximately cost 2 million G. I believe that the profits that the Foundation has made as a trading company will be able to cover the cost. By doing this, we will cut off Dr. Yuriev's escape route as well as cutting controls to the Durandal."

(Damn, when she puts it like that…) Jr. folds his arms across his chest. "As long as the damage is minimum, then you can go ahead. Just make sure to leave some kickass for me."

"Affirmative." KOS-MOS walks over to the train and then jumps onto its tracks. "Follow me."

Shion, Ziggy, and chaos did and they disappeared into the tunnel.

"Alright. Let's get moving." He grabs her hand and they head deep within the Residential Area.

"Jr…? We missed a couple of ventilation shafts…"

"I know. But there's something I wanted to check on first."

"Is it the Emulators?"

Jr. stops and looks at her. "How'd you guess?"

"I can sense it, remember?" Jr. looks confused for a second but slowly remembers that Realians can sense the Zohar pulse as well. "I've detected strange abnormal waves being emitted from all twelve. They seem to be resonating with the destination we're approaching."

Jr. thinks to himself for a second but shakes it off. "Well, then, we should just avoid it for now and head for the Control Room."

"Right."

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Boom! The wall was cut into several pieces by KOS-MOS's handy blade installed in her right arm.

"Jr. would have a heart attack if he saw this…" chaos says.

"No kidding." Shion starts moving the rubble around so that the others can walk through. She catches something in the corner of her eye and then rubs her eyes, making sure that she wasn't seeing things.

"Is something wrong?" Ziggy asks.

"Movement detected." KOS-MOS says. She reveals her cannon and fires it at a plant, blowing it up.

"Ahhhh!" A little kid edges back to the wall and holds his arms out in front of him. "Please don't hurt me!"

"I will not harm you. Explain why you were hiding yourself." KOS-MOS says monotonously.

"I thought you were the bad people that were sent here!"

"Do we look bad?" chaos asks. He looks at everyone. "Well, we do look a bit intimidating…and KOS-MOS did just almost kill you…"

Shion hits him in the shoulder playfully. "Not helping." She walks over to the boy and looks at him. "Well, do you have any parents here?"

"N…no…"

"Well, I suppose we can't leave him here…can we?" Shion asks.

"We can't. But we could send him to the Elsa…" chaos suggests.

Ziggy nods. "That's a good idea."

"Then one of us should accompany him there and rendezvous with us at the elevator leading up to the bridge." KOS-MOS says. "I cannot comply with this solution because I still have two more walls to destroy." She walks off, destroying another wall.

"Why don't you take him, Shion?" chaos whispers over to her. "Maybe a motherly figure will help him…"

Shion nods. "Yeah, okay. I'll take him." She grabs the little boy's hand and they head to the docks. Luckily, it was nearby since KOS-MOS had destroyed the wall near it.

chaos silently watches Shion and the kid walk off.

(So…he has appeared now…things are going just the way you planned, huh Wilhelm?)

"So, what's your name?"

"It's Abel." The brown-haired kid said cheerfully.

"What's yours?"

"It's Shion…" Shion takes a good look at the boy. (Could this boy have any relation to Abel's Ark…? It couldn't be…)

They both saw the docks past the destroyed wall and quickly headed there.

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"I should probably go first." Jr. suggests. "I wouldn't want to…um…endanger you or anything. Plus I know the shafts pretty well. Getting away from those annoying CEOs from some big companies was pretty easy." (Not to mention I would see up your skirt…the mere thought makes me want to do it but I have to keep a clear mind…)

"Okay."

Jr. quickly crawls into the ventilation shaft and starts moving. MOMO climbs in right after.

(Okay…if I remember correctly, the way to the control room is the second left, right, middle, and opening…)

He starts to crawl and hears MOMO following him.

After what seems like an eternity of climbing through the shafts, they arrived at their destination.

MOMO clogs her nose. "You know, the shafts need to be cleaned. It's kind of stuffy in there…"

"I keep telling Gaignun to fix it but he's too busy setting up conferences and dates with other companies to keep in good touch."

"Why don't you do it?"

"Heh…I'm always busy dealing with U-TIC and publicity…"

"Oh…right. I'm sorry."

"Ah, don't worry about it." Jr. knocks the cover down to his side and jumps out. He grabs MOMO's hand and helps her out.

She dusts herself off and takes a look at what the control room is like. "Wow…it's so big." The room was shaped like a football stadium. There were generators all over the wall. A series of consoles lined the pathway that Jr. was walking through.

"Yeah. It took a lot of work just to figure out how the Durandal would operate but Gaignun found a good programmer who wrote advanced information for motherboards."

"Oh, that's amazing!"

"It's not that great. Anyways…" Jr. starts typing on some consoles. "Hm…okay. This seems good…what the heck is all this…p…puh…por…?"

"What is it?"

Jr. quickly erases it off the screen. "Oh, it's nothing! Nothing!" He frantically starts typing but slows down a couple of minutes later. "Well, I just finished cutting off the controls from the bridge. Yuriev won't be able to stop us from kicking his slimy ass."

"That's what you think." A voice said from the shadows.

MOMO runs behind Jr. and he pulls out his guns. "Who's there? Come out and show yourself!"

A familiar orange haired U.R.T.V. stepped forward and folded her arms across her chest.

"Ci…Citrine…"

"I'm surprised you remembered my name, Rubedo. It's been fourteen years, hasn't it?"

"How could I forget? With that lameass attitude of yours…"

Citrine stomps her foot and points at him. "You'll take that back."

Jr. lowers his gun a little bit. "What if I don't want to?"

"Then you will beg for it." Citrine runs forward.

Jr. aims both of his guns and fires. Citrine whips out her rod to deflect the bullets away. She jumps in the air to dodge MOMO's arrow and then she lands on the console behind them. She swings her rod to knock them back. She puts her hand on the console and it starts reacting to her somehow.

"What's she doing with the console?" MOMO asks.

"It's her power…the power to control any electrical object. It's similar to Gaignun's power of hypnotism but she can do it on anything mechanical."

(Wait, I am mechanical…aren't I…?)

The console reads: Controls Re-established.

"Shit."

MOMO looks at Citrine and sees her amber eyes glowing.

(Kill him…) A voice rang through MOMO's mind.

(What was…?)

(He's a weapon…how could he ever love someone like you…)

(Stop invading my mind!)

(He lives to kill…not to love…)

(Jr. isn't like that!)

(Jr. is it…? The Rubedo I know was in love with Sakura. He was always visiting her and joining her with his harmonica while she played the piano…tell me…has he done anything yet? Has he said he loves you…?)

MOMO's eyes widen in shock. (He…he hasn't said that to me…I…no! I know he has feelings for me! We went on a date…and…)

(How do you know he just doesn't treat you like Sakura? Doing all the things with you he didn't get to do with her?)

The mere thought scares MOMO. (No…you're…you're wrong…)

(Where's your trust now? Don't you want to know the truth? If he loves Sakura or you more? All you have to do is beat it out of him!)

(No…! I won't do that!)

(You think you can get it out of him by talking? He always keeps things to himself. You know that better than anyone.)

(Stop it…)

(You know you want to…all you would have to is try to force it out of him…)

MOMO begins to glow with power.

"MOMO?" Jr. steps back.

MOMO raises her bow and aims it at Citrine. "You've played with my head long enough!"

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"Now approaching the bridge." KOS-MOS says as she destroys the last wall.

Ziggy and chaos walk through and head towards the elevator. They ring it up but after a couple of minutes, it doesn't go down.

Ziggy looks around. "I thought Jr. would've already cut off Yuriev's control from the bridge…"

"According to my recent analysis, an unknown entity is controlling the Durandal from where Jr. and MOMO are presently located in."

"Unknown entity?" chaos asks.

"There is nothing contained in my database to explain this phenomena. I will proceed with an alternative." KOS-MOS walks up to the elevator and activates her Tertiary Weapons System. Blue wings erupt from her back and phase transfer beam cannons appeared at the creases of the wings. More armor appeared around her body and waist, creating the perfect weapon.

chaos stares at her intently. (Wow…) He quickly shakes himself back into reality. (Now isn't the time…maybe later.)

KOS-MOS holds out her hands. "Come with me."

Ziggy and chaos grab on and she rises up into the air. She blasts it with her phase transfer cannon, creating a large hole to reveal the bridge.

"I thought you were only going to destroy four walls…" chaos says.

"I calculated that this would be the easiest way to get to the bridge. I will mail the damage expenses to Shion."

"That's awfully nice of you…" Ziggy says dryly.

"Affirmative."

KOS-MOS flies in and lands. Ziggy and chaos see Canaan and start helping him. KOS-MOS looks around. She doesn't see Yuriev anywhere. She only sees the planet Michtam nearby.

"It seems that Yuriev has escaped and has fled down to the planet Michtam." She picks something up on her sensors. "I sense that Jin Uzuki is on the platform below us."

"Really?" chaos goes to look and sure enough, there's Jin…and a huge mark on the floor. "Somehow, I don't think you created this mark with your sword…" He helps him up and drags him up to where Canaan was slowly coming to.

"Uhhh…."

"We should take these two back to the Elsa." chaos suggests.

"But how are we going to get there? There're too many people for KOS-MOS to carry." Ziggy points out.

"I will be able to handle the weight. Proceed to help the human Jin Uzuki and the Realian Canaan and grab on to my hands."

Ziggy and chaos hoist the two on their backs and make sure they won't fall off. They grab onto KOS-MOS's hands and she activates her system.

For a second, it seems that they are too heavy. But she slowly rises but begins to move quickly towards the Elsa.

(I must say KOS-MOS….you're always full of surprises…) chaos says as he looks at her.

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The casings that contained the Zohars all open, revealing the gold cross-like figurines with the red symbol of one of the twelve disciples, except for the center one, which housed the name Marienkind…the child of Mary.

Yuriev floats in the air and starts emitting a purple aura. "With the Emulators…I will call forth the Zohar…as well as release U-DO into this world…ahahahaha….this is all too perfect. I must say you have done a perfect job, my sons. Collecting the Zohars for me…"

Yuriev's aura spreads out in twelve directions, each to an Emulator. As soon as the aura touches the Emulator, Yuriev starts acting strangely and his body begins to thrash about violently. After a couple of minutes, Yuriev's aura slowly dissipates and he floats down to the ground.

"I get it…the purpose of the Emulators…" He looks at all of them and then disappears.

He reappears on the planet Michtam, on top of a skyscraper overlooking the entire city. The city is lined with lights that illuminate the night. Sparkling lights of red and gold twinkle in the distance and a bright light erupts from the building Yuriev is standing on. His hair twirls in the wind as he gazes up into the sky.

"Now…to summon the Zohar."

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A/N: Whew! Finally! That's good and done! A good cliffy I hope? I have recently discovered that my doing cliffies, I increase my chances of getting more reviews…but at the same time I increase my chances of death. I choose liberty not death! Freedom Forever! I'll be updating shortly. Just keep your monocles on…geez.