Love and Madness (Go Hand in Hand)
Written by Nathander
Welcome to my first attempt at a humor/romance fanfic, as well as my first Xenosaga fanfic. The major coupling for this fanfic is MOMO/Junior, with (heavily) implied chaos/KOS-MOS and Allen/Shion. Also, there ARE spoilers in this fanfic, so be aware of that. On top of that, there is a humorously implied homosexual relationship (Albedo/Virgil), so don't flame me for that as I don't really mean it (though I do plan on possibly someday doing a fanfic with the couple * dodges various things thrown by Albedo fans *). Anyway, on to the ficcy, after..
Legal Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Not a thing. I hate you all for reminding me of that.
Chapter One
(The Durandal-Junior's Room)
"Now, let's say, theoretically, I had a crush on someone. Would you laugh at me?"
"Junior, you already know I would never do that." The silver-haired boy told the (appearance-wise younger) red-haired one.
"Well, let's say it wasn't theoretical. Would you laugh at me then if I told you?" he asked him again. He had wanted to get this off his chest to someone, anyone, and chaos was the one he expected to be the most trustable with this kind of thing, as well as the most kind. Still..it didn't hurt to make sure.
"Again, I would NEVER laugh at you." chaos got on one knee and put a hand on the URTV's shoulder. "Love is a beautiful thing, and it's something I would never disgrace."
Junior raised an eyebrow to him, due to his action. "You know, just because I look like a kid doesn't mean you have to treat me like one."
chaos smiled a little. "If that's so," he said, "why do you keep going around this subject LIKE a kid?"
Junior smiled back. It was one of the few times where chaos would seemingly make a joke at someone else's expense, though it was always ment in good humor. "Listen, do you want me to tell you or not?"
chaos smile increased a bit, an amazingly warm and kind gesture. "You really think I, WE, don't know who it is?"
He was taken aback for a moment. "We?" he said, his voice obviously surprised. "You mean, you've already told them?"
chaos shook his head. For the most part, Junior was easy to talk to. When he was antsy or nervous about something, however, the child-like side of his personality (and that side's lack of logic) usually won out. "Junior, I've been here waiting for you to tell me. How could I possibly tell the others?"
He sighed. "Sorry." he replied, "it's just that I never thought it was THAT.well.."
"Obvious?" The silver-haired one replied.
He nodded. "Yeah.." he scratched the back of his head nervously, blushing slightly. "So what should I do?"
"What does your heart tell you?"
"What?"
"What does your heart tell you?" he repeated. "Whatever it tells you, Junior..that's the right path. The mind thinks about the here and now. The heart thinks more on what COULD happen, and possibly the best situation. Follow that, and there's a good chance it will happen."
Junior seemingly thought about it for a moment, before lifting his head. "So I should buy her something and hope that makes her love me?"
"Y..wait, what?" he had been caught off-guard by what Junior had just said.
"Well, that's what my heart says."
"Junior, you KNOW that isn't what will get someone to love you."
The boy shrugged. "Maybe it is. ...How else could someone love someone like me?"
chaos looked down at the boy, a little dismayed and taken off-guard yet again. This was a side he very rarely saw of the URTV. "How can you say that? Look around you: all of us care about you. If you can't see that, you've become pretty blind. Now, really, what is it your heart's telling you?"
Once again, he just stood there in silence for a moment. "I don't know.."
"That's alright. Give it time, and it'll come to you. And she'll still be there waiting for you."
The boy replied, sadly this time "But MOMO won't wait forever."
He smiled and put his shoulder on Junior's shoulder again. "I think you'd be surprised how long people can wait for what they want to happen and hear.
(Vector Industries-Wilhelm's Office)
"...and, on top of that, we want a smoked ham every dinner." The man dressed in the blue robe and facemask nudged Albedo. "Oh yeah...instead of the ham, Virgil wants realian skin."
Wilhelm sighed slightly. "You two seem to be demanding a raise when you aren't even being paid."
Virgil replied next. "But the point of the matter is, we should be."
"For what?" Wilhelm asked, trying to hold back his growing impatience with the two. They'd been pursuing this since the events at Proto-Merkabah, about a month ago. "You" he said, pointing to Virgil "have so far done next to nothing, and you, Albedo, have gone around maiming several employees while trying to 'help' with their assignments. In fact, weren't you ordered by Margulius to report back a few weeks ago?"
"Well, Margulius can screw himself, because there's no way in hell I'm going back. I want to settle down and make a life for myself."
The owner of Vector just sat there for a moment before saying "No you don't. What is it you really want?"
"What do you mean 'I don't'? Can you see into the heart of a man?" Albedo said, infuriated. He lifted one of his legs onto Wilhelm's desk, looking him in the eyes. "Who are you to separate the wheat from the grain, the grass from the cow?"
"The grass from the cow?" Virgil asked, interrupting. "What the hell does that even mean?"
"Shut up, I'm on a role! My point is, you don't know my real intentions. I want to 'settle down', or at least that's what I say, while actually extorting money from you and stealing supplies from your office."
Wilhelm smiled slightly. "Are you even aware you just told me everything you had planned?"
"Yes..well..you'll forget it in a minute." He said. In a quick fluid motion, he thrust his fist back and hit Wilhelm in the face. Wilhelm made no acknowledgement it had even happened.
"And that was supposed to do...?" the blue-clad man said, taunting him.
"What's wrong with you? Why do you always seem to have to give me the business?" he asked, infuriated at his 'partner'. "We were supposed to be in this together!"
"Yes, well..I'm not certain physically assaulting our employer will help."
"Then you don't know jack. Violence solves everything, because violence is cool." With that, Albedo reached to his head and began to jerk on it violently. Eventually, with enough force, his head came off. He held his head under his right arm. "See, I can tear my head off. Now THAT is cool."
"No, THAT is stupid and pointless! I mean, what's it supposed to prove? 'Hey, I can tear my head off! You better be frightened, or else I'll mutilate myself!"
Wilhelm cleared his throat noisily. "If you two are quite done, I'd appreciate it if you'd leave."
Albedo remembered his original target and turned back to Wilhelm, snarling. "Oh, we'll leave! We'll leave for good! And we'll become a rock band! In fact, we'll be the baddest rock band this side of...Baddy McBad Town! And that shall be reflected in our name: Badass Mothers 4000! Right Virgil?"
"No.not really." Virgil replied casually.
"Well, you are now!" he said, and seizing Virgil by the arm and forcibly dragging him along with him.
(The Durandal-Outside MOMO's Room)
"And how long has he been doing this?" Shion asked out of curiousity.
"About a hour and a half, at the very least." The cyborg beside her replied.
Ziggy had been the first to notice Junior prowling around outside MOMO's room. His instincts had, at first, been to confront him, though he had finally been able to subdue his initial combat instincts by convincing them that Junior was, by no means, a threat. Still, it had been an interesting spectacle, and had actually taken him a little to notice what it was the boy was doing. He had noticed for quite some time that the he had developed an immense amount of affection for the little Realian. In fact, he had been able to spot it right before they had entered the Song of Nephilim; that was the main reason why he had wanted the URTV to stay put. Now he found himself confronted with the boy's affection again, and this time the boy even seemed to be struggling with it. If anything, he seemed to bounce and forth between entering MOMO's room or just retreat back to his own. Ziggy had decided he wouldn't stop him, but he felt the need to continue to watch. He hadn't known, in fact, that his watch would attract others.
"Poor kid. He really doesn't know what to do, does he?" Allen said sympathetically.
"Yeah, yeah, we all know how well-balanced you are emotion wise." Matthews replied stubbornly. He had originally left the Elsa to collect Tony and Hammer, who were on leave. He had been wondering for easily an hour and STILL hadn't found sight of the two morons. He had finally given up and decided that, when they did show up, he'd just have to chew them up. Until then, he'd just enjoy this. "I don't see a problem here. Just open the door and talk to her, for God's sake. I thought the Little Master had more courage than this."
"There's more to it than that." Allen said. "It takes a lot of courage (that I don't have, he thought) to tell someone how you feel about them."
"Well, I THINK you're a goober, how's that?" Matthews said. "See? That didn't seem to take too much courage, now did it?"
This current conversation was interrupted by a somewhat shrill, cutting voice. "Whatcha' doing, y'all?"
The four people who had currently been watching turned around quickly towards Mary. "If it isn't to much to ask, could you be a little more quiet?" Shion asked, trying to be as polite as possible.
"What fer'?" Mary asked quizzically. That's when she saw what they were watching. "Why, ah y'all spyin' there on Little Master?" she asked indignantly.
"I must also request that you lower your voice some." Ziggy said. While he knew it was odd and really strayed quite a ways from his programming, but he WANTED to see this.
"Why, ah most certaintly won't!" she replied, disgusted. "Y'all KNOW it's damn rude to be aspyin' on the Little Mas." She never got to finish as Matthews clapped one of his hands over her mouth.
"Listen, we want to see it, and we know YOU want to see it, so how about you calm down, eh?" he said good-humoredly.
While still angry at them, she had to agree. She DID want to see what it was the Little Master was going to do, and she had a pretty good idea whose room he was outside of. "Well..I suppose ah do. Anyway, where's the rest of ya?"
"chaos is busy working on some of the Elsa." Matthews replied. "It's good to know that I have at least ONE hard worker on my ship."
"And KOS-MOS is..well..she's really taken to exploring the ship lately." Shion said. She narrowed her eyebrows a little. "It's almost as if she's, well, exploring the ship. I know that sounds stupid..but it's like she's found some new interest in it."
"What's going on?" Tony asked as Hammer and himself came towards them. Matthews immediately spun upon them and grabbed them both by the necks of their shirts.
"Just WHERE the hell have you been?" Matthews asked, keeping his voice low though still showing he was angry.
"Well.." Hammer said, after gulping in fright. "We were hungry, so we went to go get some lunch."
"What are you morons talking about? We have food on the.." His eyes immediately went wide and he pulled the two even closer to him. "You DIDN'T.."
"W..well..we didn't have the patience to go back to the ship, so we went to.." Tony began before he was cut off again.
"You morons! We're not here to spend money! Why, I oughta..." he was stopped as Ziggy swiftly put his arm on his shoulder. He turned around to see what the disturbance was..and let it drop as he released Tony and Hammer.
The Little Master was about to open the door to MOMO's room.
(The Durandal-MOMO's Room)
MOMO had just finished a nice, warm shower. She was in one of the newer rooms (under Junior's request), which now featured a shower room. She had begun to take a shower sometimes when she was sad or unhappy..or quizzical.
She had, currently, been pondering something. She knew that her feelings for Junior were different than her feelings for any of the others. Whenever she was near him, she felt a gentle..tug in her chest. She had decided something that she was a little frightened of: she had fallen in love with him.
'But what if he doesn't feel the same?' she asked herself. 'He thinks you're a friend, nothing more.'
She sighed and began getting her clothes on, stockings first.
That's when the door to her room opened.
"MOMO, I.." Junior began..and immediately stopped when he noticed the young Realian was completely nude. She turned to him, her eyes wide in shock. He just stood there for a moment..before closing the door and quickly running back down the corridor.
'I'm such an idiot!' he mentally retorted himself. He closed his eyes as he ran. He was, for the first time in quite awhile, near tears. 'I should have knocked! Why the hell didn't I knock? Now she'll hate me for sure! She'll hate me and she'll never forgive m..' his thoughts were stopped as he ran into some big, metal thing and immediately lost consciousness.
TO BE CONTINUED..
Author's Notes: Yeah, it's a short chapter, but it's a start. It's also sorta silly and weird, but I PROMISE it'll get better as time goes on. The next chapter will be MUCH longer, as well as feature more of Albedo and Virgil as the attempt to become rockstars. Wilhelm will also appear again, and Junior will finally be able to confront MOMO with his emotions (in an appropriate time and place). Anyway, the next chapter will probably be up sometime late this week or early next week. Until then, I'd appreciate it if you'd review as well. Thanks.
Nathander
Written by Nathander
Welcome to my first attempt at a humor/romance fanfic, as well as my first Xenosaga fanfic. The major coupling for this fanfic is MOMO/Junior, with (heavily) implied chaos/KOS-MOS and Allen/Shion. Also, there ARE spoilers in this fanfic, so be aware of that. On top of that, there is a humorously implied homosexual relationship (Albedo/Virgil), so don't flame me for that as I don't really mean it (though I do plan on possibly someday doing a fanfic with the couple * dodges various things thrown by Albedo fans *). Anyway, on to the ficcy, after..
Legal Disclaimer: I don't own anything. Not a thing. I hate you all for reminding me of that.
Chapter One
(The Durandal-Junior's Room)
"Now, let's say, theoretically, I had a crush on someone. Would you laugh at me?"
"Junior, you already know I would never do that." The silver-haired boy told the (appearance-wise younger) red-haired one.
"Well, let's say it wasn't theoretical. Would you laugh at me then if I told you?" he asked him again. He had wanted to get this off his chest to someone, anyone, and chaos was the one he expected to be the most trustable with this kind of thing, as well as the most kind. Still..it didn't hurt to make sure.
"Again, I would NEVER laugh at you." chaos got on one knee and put a hand on the URTV's shoulder. "Love is a beautiful thing, and it's something I would never disgrace."
Junior raised an eyebrow to him, due to his action. "You know, just because I look like a kid doesn't mean you have to treat me like one."
chaos smiled a little. "If that's so," he said, "why do you keep going around this subject LIKE a kid?"
Junior smiled back. It was one of the few times where chaos would seemingly make a joke at someone else's expense, though it was always ment in good humor. "Listen, do you want me to tell you or not?"
chaos smile increased a bit, an amazingly warm and kind gesture. "You really think I, WE, don't know who it is?"
He was taken aback for a moment. "We?" he said, his voice obviously surprised. "You mean, you've already told them?"
chaos shook his head. For the most part, Junior was easy to talk to. When he was antsy or nervous about something, however, the child-like side of his personality (and that side's lack of logic) usually won out. "Junior, I've been here waiting for you to tell me. How could I possibly tell the others?"
He sighed. "Sorry." he replied, "it's just that I never thought it was THAT.well.."
"Obvious?" The silver-haired one replied.
He nodded. "Yeah.." he scratched the back of his head nervously, blushing slightly. "So what should I do?"
"What does your heart tell you?"
"What?"
"What does your heart tell you?" he repeated. "Whatever it tells you, Junior..that's the right path. The mind thinks about the here and now. The heart thinks more on what COULD happen, and possibly the best situation. Follow that, and there's a good chance it will happen."
Junior seemingly thought about it for a moment, before lifting his head. "So I should buy her something and hope that makes her love me?"
"Y..wait, what?" he had been caught off-guard by what Junior had just said.
"Well, that's what my heart says."
"Junior, you KNOW that isn't what will get someone to love you."
The boy shrugged. "Maybe it is. ...How else could someone love someone like me?"
chaos looked down at the boy, a little dismayed and taken off-guard yet again. This was a side he very rarely saw of the URTV. "How can you say that? Look around you: all of us care about you. If you can't see that, you've become pretty blind. Now, really, what is it your heart's telling you?"
Once again, he just stood there in silence for a moment. "I don't know.."
"That's alright. Give it time, and it'll come to you. And she'll still be there waiting for you."
The boy replied, sadly this time "But MOMO won't wait forever."
He smiled and put his shoulder on Junior's shoulder again. "I think you'd be surprised how long people can wait for what they want to happen and hear.
(Vector Industries-Wilhelm's Office)
"...and, on top of that, we want a smoked ham every dinner." The man dressed in the blue robe and facemask nudged Albedo. "Oh yeah...instead of the ham, Virgil wants realian skin."
Wilhelm sighed slightly. "You two seem to be demanding a raise when you aren't even being paid."
Virgil replied next. "But the point of the matter is, we should be."
"For what?" Wilhelm asked, trying to hold back his growing impatience with the two. They'd been pursuing this since the events at Proto-Merkabah, about a month ago. "You" he said, pointing to Virgil "have so far done next to nothing, and you, Albedo, have gone around maiming several employees while trying to 'help' with their assignments. In fact, weren't you ordered by Margulius to report back a few weeks ago?"
"Well, Margulius can screw himself, because there's no way in hell I'm going back. I want to settle down and make a life for myself."
The owner of Vector just sat there for a moment before saying "No you don't. What is it you really want?"
"What do you mean 'I don't'? Can you see into the heart of a man?" Albedo said, infuriated. He lifted one of his legs onto Wilhelm's desk, looking him in the eyes. "Who are you to separate the wheat from the grain, the grass from the cow?"
"The grass from the cow?" Virgil asked, interrupting. "What the hell does that even mean?"
"Shut up, I'm on a role! My point is, you don't know my real intentions. I want to 'settle down', or at least that's what I say, while actually extorting money from you and stealing supplies from your office."
Wilhelm smiled slightly. "Are you even aware you just told me everything you had planned?"
"Yes..well..you'll forget it in a minute." He said. In a quick fluid motion, he thrust his fist back and hit Wilhelm in the face. Wilhelm made no acknowledgement it had even happened.
"And that was supposed to do...?" the blue-clad man said, taunting him.
"What's wrong with you? Why do you always seem to have to give me the business?" he asked, infuriated at his 'partner'. "We were supposed to be in this together!"
"Yes, well..I'm not certain physically assaulting our employer will help."
"Then you don't know jack. Violence solves everything, because violence is cool." With that, Albedo reached to his head and began to jerk on it violently. Eventually, with enough force, his head came off. He held his head under his right arm. "See, I can tear my head off. Now THAT is cool."
"No, THAT is stupid and pointless! I mean, what's it supposed to prove? 'Hey, I can tear my head off! You better be frightened, or else I'll mutilate myself!"
Wilhelm cleared his throat noisily. "If you two are quite done, I'd appreciate it if you'd leave."
Albedo remembered his original target and turned back to Wilhelm, snarling. "Oh, we'll leave! We'll leave for good! And we'll become a rock band! In fact, we'll be the baddest rock band this side of...Baddy McBad Town! And that shall be reflected in our name: Badass Mothers 4000! Right Virgil?"
"No.not really." Virgil replied casually.
"Well, you are now!" he said, and seizing Virgil by the arm and forcibly dragging him along with him.
(The Durandal-Outside MOMO's Room)
"And how long has he been doing this?" Shion asked out of curiousity.
"About a hour and a half, at the very least." The cyborg beside her replied.
Ziggy had been the first to notice Junior prowling around outside MOMO's room. His instincts had, at first, been to confront him, though he had finally been able to subdue his initial combat instincts by convincing them that Junior was, by no means, a threat. Still, it had been an interesting spectacle, and had actually taken him a little to notice what it was the boy was doing. He had noticed for quite some time that the he had developed an immense amount of affection for the little Realian. In fact, he had been able to spot it right before they had entered the Song of Nephilim; that was the main reason why he had wanted the URTV to stay put. Now he found himself confronted with the boy's affection again, and this time the boy even seemed to be struggling with it. If anything, he seemed to bounce and forth between entering MOMO's room or just retreat back to his own. Ziggy had decided he wouldn't stop him, but he felt the need to continue to watch. He hadn't known, in fact, that his watch would attract others.
"Poor kid. He really doesn't know what to do, does he?" Allen said sympathetically.
"Yeah, yeah, we all know how well-balanced you are emotion wise." Matthews replied stubbornly. He had originally left the Elsa to collect Tony and Hammer, who were on leave. He had been wondering for easily an hour and STILL hadn't found sight of the two morons. He had finally given up and decided that, when they did show up, he'd just have to chew them up. Until then, he'd just enjoy this. "I don't see a problem here. Just open the door and talk to her, for God's sake. I thought the Little Master had more courage than this."
"There's more to it than that." Allen said. "It takes a lot of courage (that I don't have, he thought) to tell someone how you feel about them."
"Well, I THINK you're a goober, how's that?" Matthews said. "See? That didn't seem to take too much courage, now did it?"
This current conversation was interrupted by a somewhat shrill, cutting voice. "Whatcha' doing, y'all?"
The four people who had currently been watching turned around quickly towards Mary. "If it isn't to much to ask, could you be a little more quiet?" Shion asked, trying to be as polite as possible.
"What fer'?" Mary asked quizzically. That's when she saw what they were watching. "Why, ah y'all spyin' there on Little Master?" she asked indignantly.
"I must also request that you lower your voice some." Ziggy said. While he knew it was odd and really strayed quite a ways from his programming, but he WANTED to see this.
"Why, ah most certaintly won't!" she replied, disgusted. "Y'all KNOW it's damn rude to be aspyin' on the Little Mas." She never got to finish as Matthews clapped one of his hands over her mouth.
"Listen, we want to see it, and we know YOU want to see it, so how about you calm down, eh?" he said good-humoredly.
While still angry at them, she had to agree. She DID want to see what it was the Little Master was going to do, and she had a pretty good idea whose room he was outside of. "Well..I suppose ah do. Anyway, where's the rest of ya?"
"chaos is busy working on some of the Elsa." Matthews replied. "It's good to know that I have at least ONE hard worker on my ship."
"And KOS-MOS is..well..she's really taken to exploring the ship lately." Shion said. She narrowed her eyebrows a little. "It's almost as if she's, well, exploring the ship. I know that sounds stupid..but it's like she's found some new interest in it."
"What's going on?" Tony asked as Hammer and himself came towards them. Matthews immediately spun upon them and grabbed them both by the necks of their shirts.
"Just WHERE the hell have you been?" Matthews asked, keeping his voice low though still showing he was angry.
"Well.." Hammer said, after gulping in fright. "We were hungry, so we went to go get some lunch."
"What are you morons talking about? We have food on the.." His eyes immediately went wide and he pulled the two even closer to him. "You DIDN'T.."
"W..well..we didn't have the patience to go back to the ship, so we went to.." Tony began before he was cut off again.
"You morons! We're not here to spend money! Why, I oughta..." he was stopped as Ziggy swiftly put his arm on his shoulder. He turned around to see what the disturbance was..and let it drop as he released Tony and Hammer.
The Little Master was about to open the door to MOMO's room.
(The Durandal-MOMO's Room)
MOMO had just finished a nice, warm shower. She was in one of the newer rooms (under Junior's request), which now featured a shower room. She had begun to take a shower sometimes when she was sad or unhappy..or quizzical.
She had, currently, been pondering something. She knew that her feelings for Junior were different than her feelings for any of the others. Whenever she was near him, she felt a gentle..tug in her chest. She had decided something that she was a little frightened of: she had fallen in love with him.
'But what if he doesn't feel the same?' she asked herself. 'He thinks you're a friend, nothing more.'
She sighed and began getting her clothes on, stockings first.
That's when the door to her room opened.
"MOMO, I.." Junior began..and immediately stopped when he noticed the young Realian was completely nude. She turned to him, her eyes wide in shock. He just stood there for a moment..before closing the door and quickly running back down the corridor.
'I'm such an idiot!' he mentally retorted himself. He closed his eyes as he ran. He was, for the first time in quite awhile, near tears. 'I should have knocked! Why the hell didn't I knock? Now she'll hate me for sure! She'll hate me and she'll never forgive m..' his thoughts were stopped as he ran into some big, metal thing and immediately lost consciousness.
TO BE CONTINUED..
Author's Notes: Yeah, it's a short chapter, but it's a start. It's also sorta silly and weird, but I PROMISE it'll get better as time goes on. The next chapter will be MUCH longer, as well as feature more of Albedo and Virgil as the attempt to become rockstars. Wilhelm will also appear again, and Junior will finally be able to confront MOMO with his emotions (in an appropriate time and place). Anyway, the next chapter will probably be up sometime late this week or early next week. Until then, I'd appreciate it if you'd review as well. Thanks.
Nathander