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Disclaimer: As usual, I do not own Xenosaga, Namco does, and I wish I did, but I don't. (Grrrrr)
Moved the A/N here, and I wanna thank everyone who reviewed! I will be adding Jin Uzuki in later, along with other XS characters! Looks like this romance could get a little action-packed as I finish the game! (Er, nope, I haven't finished the game.) The pairings will NOT be obvious. You have to see.
I will change some stuff later on, perhaps even pairings, due to certain events that unfold as the game ends. Okay, total revising. WHO WANTS ALLEN TO BE WITH SOMEONE ELSE? Please vote. I am really stuck here. He won't die. Not yet.
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Allen glanced nervously around at the small group of his conspirators that had gathered within the Maintenance Bay, preparing to insert the computer chip into KOS-MOS. He was also preparing to ask for Shion's permission to go ahead with this, and that would be the hardest part by far.
Ziggy had been added to their motley crew, and the cyborg stood emotionlessly by KOS-MOS' maintenance 'coffin'. His blue eyes gazed down at KOS-MOS, and he gave Allen a silent thumbs up.
MOMO stood up, prepared to walk with Allen to ask Shion while chaos smiled from where he was. Returning a grateful smile to them, Allen headed to the door, the 100-Series Realian by his side.
At length, he finally reached Shion's room.
Whew, why did KOS-MOS have to go all the way to the end of the hangar?? I could have saved so much time if she was nearer. Knock, knock. Come on Shion, open the door…
(Anyone realize how long it takes to get to anywhere in the game?)
The door opened, and Shion stood there, her eyes bleary and unfocused from evidently overworking. Realizing this was not the best time to ask, Allen was about to leave when Shion glared at him and hissed at him to speak.
"E-E-Er-C-C-Chief-cou-could-I-I-ad-add-"
"SPEAK UP, ALLEN RIDGELY! Or else don't WASTE MY TIME."
"ChiefcouldiinsertanextraemotionchipintoKOSMOS?"
Her answer was direct, straight, just what he had hoped for. No beating around the bush there, and no hiding anything. It was so direct, it hurt so badly.
"No."
"B-But Chief! It was supposed to be a Christmas present for you! When KOS-MOS finally acts human, won't you be happy?"
"No. Allen. GET. OUT."
So saying, as Allen proceeded to ignore her directive, she seized a chair and flung it at Allen, with strength surprising to her build.
"AND STAY OUT!"
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Allen could be found later in the restaurant holding a glass of Kirshwasser.
MOMO sat beside him, encouragingly patting him on the back while KOS-MOS analyzed the situation. "Based on my current analysis of the unlikely behaviour of Shion, all we can say for certain, to quote you humans: 'She has something on her mind.' You would do well to wait a little while, Allen Ridgeley." Ziggy offered no comment, but his blue eyes seemed to hold a certain amount of compassion for the young man, despite the emotionlessness (whew) of his outward appearance.
That did not make Allen feel any better. MOMO hesitated after she saw what he had been drinking. "ALLEN! Are you drinking alcohol!?"
"Er…..yeah."
Seizing the glass, MOMO dumped it into the trashcan with a sound of tinkling glass and a very loud complaint from the bartender. "Allen, don't give up hope! I'm sure you can still pull through! Isn't that right, KOS-MOS!?" she asked, shooing the bartender away.
"My sensors calculate a 0.0456% chance of success the next time you approach her when she is in this mood."
MOMO scowled and turned to Allen. "KOS-MOS is just being mean! I'm sure you can do better than zero point whatever percent!"
"The best result available for the moment is 1.00067%."
chaos smiled encouragingly as always, and tapped KOs-MOS on the shoulder. "There, there, don't go make Allen feel bad and all. Sometime, humans can outperform their expectation, and I'm sure Allen can do so, right?"
"My history logs reveal that such cases are extremely rare." chaos sweatdropped.
Allen got up and stretched his eyes rather red. "Okay….I guess I'll go take a nap now. See ya guys."
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As he neared the quarters that served as his residence in the Elsa, Allen felt a sense of déjà vu. This happened every time he went near Shion. Every-damn-time.
On the way into the door, Hemmer rushed around the corridor, slamming heavily into Allen. "Ouch! Allen, get the hell out of my way! Why don't you watch where you place that lazy ass of yours!?"
And then, he was gone, even before Allen could reply. Sighing heavily, he entered the cabin, but was called to the Durandal's bridge by Shelley. Well, at least she listened and wasn't too mean to him.
Five minutes later, he did not think so highly of her.
Her dark eyes were raging, and she calmly but fiercely admonished him with leaving a bunch of Med Kits in the halls after the evacuation of Kukai. The Aqua and Rose Sols inside the kit had reacted to a cleaning solution, resulting in a terrible explosion that blew up an entire corridor. When he tried to explain, that it was not him, and he did not know the culprit, everyone turned a deaf ear to him.
Previously, Shelley had been the only person he could speak to without getting poked fun at or yelled at. This event did very very little to his ego, sending it on a downward spiral into the Abyss. On the way back, he was accosted by a big guy, presumably the one who taught him how to do the 'Iron Pose' in Kukai. The girl he secretly loved had been caught in the explosion and almost died. He paid Allen back in kind, and probably might have with interest as well if not for the intervention of several police officers. They took one look at Allen however, and started jeering at him for blowing up vending machines.
Knowing it was Shion and her Vaporizer Plug in which had done so, he refused to defend himself. This decision resulted in a painful experience for him. Very painful. A small bit of consolation for him was the fact that he was the one getting beaten up, not Shion.
Dragging his half-dead body into a bathroom, he wondered how the next life would be. Contemplating suicide not for the first time, he opened a bottle of Zetasol.
"They'll miss me when I'm gone. Then again, perhaps not."
Were his final words before he popped the contents of 26 Zetasol into his bloody mouth.
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