Disclaimer: I don't own Xenosaga and if I forgot to metion the song in chapter 13, then I don't own that either. That was from 18th Floor Balcony by Blue October, so it's thier song not mine...I'm sorry for not posting that in the last chapter, but I wanted that chapter up so badly that I didn't want to think about disclaiming rights and what not. lol. Anyway, this chapter I took a little more time on (if you couldn't tell) so I took the disclaiming stuff into consideration. I'm also sorry for the rulers, but they appear to not be working correctly in my profile section thing, so I'm sad. I'll figure out something to create them on my own though. Enough of my petty talk, get reading all of you!

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Chapter 14

Jr. arrived at MOMO's room and walked to her bed and sat next to her. She looked up at him and smiled.

"Hi Jr. How are you? Are you …feeling a little better?" Jr. sighed and then nodded.

"Yeah, I'm fine. At first the whole thing was a little overwhelming. Now, its all better and I don't mind the others seeing us kiss." MOMO blushed as well as Jr. She grabbed his hand and held it close to her chest.

"I love you Jr." Jr. smiled.

"I love you too MOMO." He leaned in and kissed MOMO for the second time. Suddenly, the two were interrupted by a knock on the door. MOMO and Jr. broke the kiss. MOMO sighed and then got up to answer the door.

"Yes?" She asked as she looked up into chaos' eyes. She was surprised that it was chaos and not Tony and Matthews coming to harass her again.

"I just wanted to come and welcome you back. In a better way than what the others did." Chaos smiled along with MOMO. "I'm, sorry if I was interrupting anything." Chaos apologized. MOMO shook her head.

"No, it's okay. Thank you for welcoming me back, but don't forget, Jr. was there too." She looked back at Jr. and told him to come to the door. Jr. nodded and walked up to them.

"Welcome back Jr., I'm glad that your both safe. You did a good job at protecting MOMO for us." Chaos said, looking down at the redhead.

"Thanks chaos. I've got a question…do you think you could go and ask Gaignun for some spare bullets? While we were on the so called 'trip', I kinda…heh, used 'em all." Chaos nodded. He waved good by and left to go and get Jr.'s spare bullets.

"Jr.! We should go to the park tonight. Do you want to?" MOMO asked, turning to him.

"Yeah, sure. When?"

"Later tonight. Maybe around 8 or 9 o'clock." Jr. nodded in agreement, making MOMO jump with glee. Jr. smiled brightly, but then was mystified by a small glitter of light that had shone through MOMO's chest. It didn't seem to affect her, but something was different. Suddenly, Jr. heard the words 'good bye' and looked around to see who said it. He realized that it had sounded like Sakura and he smiled to himself.

'You really will be with me forever…' He thought to himself. Then he was interrupted when MOMO grabbed his arm and pulled him into her room, letting the door close.

"Jr. isn't everything wonderful now? Everything is so much better than before. With all the battling, betrayal and everything else that has been going on." Jr. sighed and then smiled.

"Yeah, it is. It's a much better environment isn't it?" MOMO nodded her head and then walked over to her dresser drawer. She opened the top drawer and pulled out something that shone.

"Here. I found it one day before you left to fight Albedo. I was going to give it to you earlier, but we were trapped for a while." She handed the pistol over to him. He blinked a few times and then gently took it from her. She smiled, hoping that he would approve of her gift.

"MOMO…you found it? Where in the world did you find such an antique?" He examined it and then looked over its features. She giggled and then smiled.

"I found it in a certain shop." Jr. looked up at her and sighed.

"You bought it? MOMO…I'm sure it must've cost you a fortune. This thing is really old, older than some of my own guns." She smiled and shook her head.

"Actually, it was free. The shop keeper didn't like it and no one else would want it, so he just randomly handed it to me and let me have it." Jr. smiled and then gave a small snicker.

"Thanks MOMO. It's definitely going into my collection." She smiled, happy that he liked her gift. Their conversation then ended when a knock on the door came once again. MOMO walked up to it, Jr. tagging along. When she opened it, she found what she didn't expect. Tony, Matthews and Shion were sitting outside her door. Some odd reason, they all had little party hats and had wine glasses in hand.

"Come on you two! Don't take it too far! We've got a party to get to!" Shion yelled, doing a little twirl and falling onto Matthews shoulder.

"Yeah! Join us in the welcome back party! It is for you guys!" Matthews replied. He held up his glass and then hic-upped. Tony began laughing for no apparent reason, but soon stopped. Everything got quite as Jr. and MOMO stared at the few in front of them with awed looks. They never saw Shion like this, of course Tony and Matthews, but Shion? Jr. sweat dropped as Shion came closer to him.

"Come on!" She grabbed his hand and dragged him behind her, MOMO following out of pure curiosity. Tony and Matthews started to skip the other way before Shion yelled that they were going the wrong way. They stopped and turned around, skipping that way and singing 'We're off to celebrate the coming! The wonderful coming of friends!'in the Wizard of Oz tune.

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They all arrived at the Elsa's bar/restaurant within minutes. Jin, Allen, Ziggy, Hammer and even Juli were there. They all watched as Tony and Matthews skipped into the room and then immediately tripping over themselves. Shion was swaying side to side, still dragging Jr. by the collar, but eventually let him and go and sat at the bar. She immediately ordered the droid behind the counter to get her a martini.

"It looks like almost everyone is here. I know that chaos is out to ask Gaignun for my bullets. I think he's the only one missing." Jr. said aloud. The only one that noticed was MOMO, who came up right next to him. MOMO weaved her arm around Jr.'s and smiled.

"I guess…we made it back after all." She stated. Jr. looked over at her and smiled back.

"Yeah, I guess we did." MOMO laid her head on his shoulder while he put his arm around her waist, unweaving it from MOMO's grasp. Just then chaos showed up, Mary, Shelley and Gaignun following.

"Here Jr." chaos walked up to Jr. and handed the bullets to him. Jr. jumped when he heard chaos, disturbing MOMO from gazing at the idiotic drunks that made a funny scene. "Sorry to…uh, interrupt." chaos said slightly guilty that he was the cause of waking MOMO from her gaze. She lifted her head up and let Jr. turn to receive the spare bullets. When Jr. turned around, he saw Mary and Shelley smiling like crazy. Even Gaignun gave a small smile. Jr. took out his guns and loaded them and then put the safety on, just in case it got a little too wild later on that night.

"Looks like you two are finally together Little Master. Congratulations." Shelley congratulated. Mary shook with excitement before completely giving out to it. She tackled Jr. and lifted him up in the air.

"I'm so happy for ya! I knew you could do it!"

"Mary! Put me down! I told you that you could only hold Alby not me!" Jr. struggled to get out of Mary's vice grip. She ignored his cries and then gave him an even bigger hug. Then after a few seconds of not being able to breathe, Jr. was put down. Mary laughed and then went over to talk to MOMO. Jr. gasped for air until he noticed Gaignun staring down at him.

"Not …you too…" Jr. sighed and then stood up into his correct posture. Gaignun shook his head.

"No, I merely wanted to congratulate you. It was about time. I was beginning to think you wouldn't ever tell her until it was too late." Jr. laughed sarcastically.

"Very funny Gaignun…"

"Anyway, I heard all about your trip." Jr. became worried that Gaignun had heard his thoughts when he was thinking too loudly. "I'm glad you came back. It was starting to get lonely around the office. That and the fact that ever since you weren't anywhere in this galaxy, I haven't been able to telepathically communicate with anyone." Jr. sighed a relief sigh when he heard those words. He was safe now that he knew Gaignun hadn't heard any of the thoughts he had.

Suddenly, Hammer came flying passed the two, cutting right in between them, slamming face first into the door. It seemed that Matthews got really mad and threw Hammer across the room.

"This is going to be an interesting night." Gaignun remarked and went over to talk with Shelley, who was now sitting in a booth in the restaurant part of the bar.

Jr. walked back over to MOMO and Mary, who were now engaged in a really long conversation about the trip and what was going on. MOMO told Mary how they had to survive off of fruit and how they stayed clean and everything else that they had witnessed.

Jr. got bored of the subject quickly so he decided to go and join Shion and Allen at the bar. Shion was crying over something, a subject that Jr. had missed.

"What's wrong Shion?" Jr. asked politely, something that didn't really suit him that much.

"I… (hic) I lost my Agent Bunnie doll!" Shion started to cry even harder and she put her head in Allen's chest. He looked over at Jr. and shook his head in confusion.

"Honestly, I don't know what she's talking about. She never had an Agent Bunnie doll. I think she might have had too much to drink." Allen admitted. Jr. nodded and then asked the bar droid to get himself a drink too. "But anyway, you should tell us about your trip." Allen suggested. Jr. turned to him and sighed.

"It wasn't really a trip. More like a nightmare…" Jr. explained. All of a sudden Shion got happy and then asked Jr. the same question.

"How was your trip? Was it fun?" She asked, giggling a little bit. Jr., a bit perturbed at her sudden outburst of happiness, began to explain.

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The night passed quickly. Every one had passed out drunk or went to their rooms early, except for two people.

"So…did you have fun?" Jr. looked over at MOMO who was staring at her non-alcoholic drink. She put her finger in it and stirred it around and smiled.

"Yeah! I did, watching Tony and Matthews sing, dance and try to play catch was really funny." She laughed and then went back to staring at her drink with a small smile on her face. "What about you?"

Jr. smiled dumbly and nodded. "Yeah, it was fun and I'm still enjoying it. You look like you're worried about something though. Are you okay?" MOMO looked back up at him and shook her head.

"I'm not worried about anything. I'm just happy to be back." She grabbed his hand and held it tight, giving him a bright smile. "I'm just worried about weather you'll make it back to your room. I should probably help you there. I'm surprised your not passed out like every one else here." She giggled, receiving a surprised look from Jr. He scratched the back of his head nervously while smiling widely.

"Yeah, maybe your right. I can barely stay awake right now. Maybe we better get going right now huh?" Jr. hopped off of the bar stool but teetered a little bit. MOMO followed him and helped him keep his balance.

They were walking through the halls when the warning lights started flashing.

"MOMO…am I hallucinating and hearing things at the same time?" Jr. asked looking over at MOMO. She had a worried look on her face.

"No…your not. If you were then I would be too." Jr. unwrapped his arm from around her shoulders and tried to support himself. To MOMO's surprise, he stood normally.

"Hurry up and get the others! I'll monitor this hall right here until they come, now hurry!" MOMO hesitated, but nodded afterward and ran off to get the others.

When MOMO arrived in the restaurant/bar part of the Elsa, every one was all ready awake and alert. They all looked over at her and ran up to her.

"What's going on MOMO?" Shion asked.

"Something has invaded the Elsa! Most likely Gnosis, but we have to hurry! Jr. is waiting for us to come and back him up in the halls! Now come on!" MOMO grabbed Shion's arm and dragged her behind her. Everyone followed, still alarmed.

When they all arrived where Jr. had been waiting, they saw him lying down on the ground snoring.

"I kind of figured that he wouldn't last…" MOMO sighed and then went over to him and dragged him out of the middle of the hall and set him up against the wall.

"You stay here with him MOMO, I'm sure he'll need you when he wakes up. We'll be back shortly okay? All right guys, lets go check it out!" Shion commanded, running down the halls. Everyone nodded and followed. Before he left, chaos stopped by MOMO.

"Don't worry MOMO, we'll be all right." MOMO looked up at him and smiled. Then he left to catch up with the others. MOMO sighed as she looked back at the sleeping gunslinger.

"Good luck everyone." She said gently.

So, yes, this is the marking of the ending of the first part! The second part will be up shortly, so look for "Live A Legend" if you want to read it. I've also ended this 'season' with an alternative ending. If you don't feel like reading any more of this plotline, then you can just say that the others encountered Gnosis, but if you want to read more, then find "Live a Legend" and see what they really encounter! I hope you all read the next part because its going to be full of humor! I especially like when...never mind. Let me just let you guys wait in anticipation as I slowly torcher you all to insanity. Okay, I doubt that it would go that far, but still...I'm driving myself insane! Hope you liked the first part! TTYL