Chapter 6: Complications
A/N: Sorry for the wait! Oy…but…things will finally start to heat up this chapter…expect the unexpected. New characters come into play including OCs!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything in Xenosaga. Just like I don't own the computer screen you're looking at right now. Yeah, that's right. I'm on to you.
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"Now docking at Fifth Jerusalem," An automated voice says.
The Elsa locks onto the docks and the side door opens.
Jr. and MOMO walk out; the others following close behind.
"That was some ride…" Allen says. "But now what are we going to do?"
"We follow Jr. of course." Shion says. "That was the main reason of coming along."
"Yes, it is best to keep a close eye on him." Ziggy says. "You should stay here, Allen. No offense, but you would only get in the way, seeing that your physique isn't very…distinguishing…"
Allen's pride got chopped in half. "I understand. Just come back if anything goes wrong, okay?" (And please take care of the Chief…)
"Jr., wait up!" Shion runs after him, prompting the others to follow her.
"…okay. I'll tell them," Jr. says to MOMO as the others approach. "I guess this would probably be a good time to fill you in on the situation."
Meanwhile…
A soldier clad in a black suit runs forward with his gun and motions others to come. "Move, move, move!"
The other soldiers run past the dead bodies of several people and hack into the elevator, prompting the doors to open after a couple of minutes.
The black soldiers fit in as much as they can on the elevator and they go up.
At the top, the soldiers round up the people on the bridge to the center of the room with guns leveled at them as soon as they were done.
"I'm scared…" A little 100-series Realian whimpered.
"It's all right, lil one." Mary says as she wraps her arm around her and starts stroking her teal hair. "Everything's gonna be okay. Just you wait. Lil Mastah and his friends will be back and rescue us as soon as they return."
"That won't be happening." The leader steps up from the rest of the soldiers. She has short orange hair with a headband slicking it back. "The Kukai Foundation is now currently under the direct control of Dr. Yuriev."
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"I see." chaos says. "So Albedo told you what's going on and now you're here to save Gaignun."
"Yeah, that's pretty much the gist of it. I'm pretty sure Gaignun would be at the Federation Citadel…because that's pretty much the only place he would go to if he was here."
"Well, that narrows our search a bit…" chaos looks towards the Citadel. (So Wilhelm, you've manipulated us in taking us here to find Abel…but for what purpose? We both know that the Ark is not a weapon…but rather…)
"Hey, chaos! You'd better hurry up or we're leaving you behind!" Jr. yells.
chaos quickly runs forward to catch up with his other teammates.
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The Compass of Order stops spinning slowly as its watcher begins to look at the stars. The Red Testament appears by the door and bows.
"You called, Master Wilhelm?"
"I believe now is a good time to activate T-elos. Send her to where Shion and the others are going."
"Yes, sir. Anything else?"
"And tell Voyager to move as soon as they've gotten Abel."
"At once." He disappears leaving Wilhelm to smile mysteriously.
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The Citadel leaned over the six members as they approached it. It was clearly a place for the Federation council to reside in as well as handle any problems in the galaxy.
Jr. stares at the building and thinks about Gaignun. "Something it looks like it's gotten bigger than last time…"
"I get the feeling." MOMO says.
"According to my database," KOS-MOS begins to say. "Several weeks ago, the Citadel recently underwent new developments to better suit the environment."
"Um…okay." Jr. says. (Didn't really need to know that…)
The party walks into the building and notices that there aren't people around.
"That's strange." Ziggy says. "There is no one here."
Jr. pulls out his guns. "There's something strange going on here, I can feel it." (Not to mention, that the link is starting to act funny.)
"We should check around, see if anyone's here…or alive for that matter…" Shion says.
"I'll try scanning." MOMO closes her eyes as her sensors sweeped the entire building. "I can't get anything. There seems to be something interfering with my scanners."
"KOS-MOS? What about yours?"
"I am afraid I am also subject to the problem."
"Then we'll have to split up to cover some ground." Jr. says.
"Are you sure that's a good idea?" MOMO asks. "This place is really scary…"
"I must agree with Gaignun Kukai Jr's suggestion." KOS-MOS says. "It will increase our chances of completing our task by 67.43 percent."
"Well, you can't get things past KOS-MOS." Shion sighs.
"MOMO and I will start covering the first three floors here." Jr. starts to assign the groups. "KOS-MOS and…chaos will explore the next three, while Ziggy and Shion will explore the last three. We'll meet up at the last floor when we finish our search, sound good?"
"Yeah, it does. Let's get going then." chaos says.
"Affirmative."
He and KOS-MOS step into the elevator and head to their destination.
"Shall we get going as well, Ziggy?"
"Yes. I'd rather finish this as soon as possible and get back to the Elsa. I have a bad feeling about this."
The two head up the stairs, since there's only one elevator working. The others were closed for repairs.
"Okay, MOMO. Let's start looking." Jr. starts moving around with MOMO following close behind. "Just stay close to me, okay?"
"Okay."
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Dr. Yuriev is sitting in his chair, talking to the orange-haired girl on screen.
"Good job, Citrine. I'll be there in a couple of minutes. Make sure that all 12 are there."
As soon as she blinks out, his computer screen starts to flash red.
"Interesting…intruders…?" Yuriev starts to type some things in and pulls up the cameras. "Rubedo…so you've come for me my son…"
A person walks in with some coffee in his hand. He is lean and thin, but there was something about him that seemed…dangerous. His blue hair covered his crystalline amethyst eyes as he approached Yuriev. "Your coffee, sir." He places a plate right next to Yuriev along with the cup on it.
"Thank you, Cirin. Tell your brother to go welcome our kind guests."
He bows down. "As you wish." He goes out quietly.
(It's already too late to stop me, Rubedo…)
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"Nothing here either." Jr. walked out of the room he was in and walked on over to another one where MOMO was searching. "Find anything?"
The pink-haired Realian shook her head no. "Not a trace of anyone working here."
Jr. folded his arms across his chest. "That's weird…why would…?"
Suddenly, a sawing noise is heard from across the hallway.
MOMO walks over to the door and peeks out. "What is…?"
"Get down!" Jr. dives forward, pushing MOMO with him and the bladed chakram missed both of them by inches.
The chakram returned to the thrower and he steadily made his approach on the U.R.T.V. and Realian.
Jr. moves close to the wall so that his back is straight with it; his guns cocked and ready. "Shit, not good."
"What're we going to do?" MOMO asks as she pulls out her bow.
"We're going to have to stop him, before he kills us." He slowly starts to get up. "Alright, as soon as I attack, back me up."
MOMO nods.
The footsteps get louder as the person approaches them.
"Now!" Jr. rolls out and leaps onto a desk and fires his guns. The person easily deflects them by using both of his chakrams to knock away the bullets. (Great, as if one was already worse.)
He quickly analyzes the person. He has red hair and stood about 6 feet tall. He had piercing blue eyes and two bladed chakrams, ready to decimate at a moment's notice. But there was something different about the weapons…somehow they felt as if they were attached to the person. Jr. had realized this when the chakram returned to its owner. Usually, most flying weapons stuck to where they were unless they had some weight on it to pull it back to the owner.
Jr. quickly jumps to the side to avoid being sliced in two by one of the chakrams. He then jumps again to avoid the other. He suddenly notices that the two chakrams were circling around him and he felt invisible wire wrap around his body.
"Shit!" He felt the wires wrap tighter and he dropped his guns as a reflex. He saw the two chakrams circling around closer; ready to slice him in two.
"Jr.!" MOMO aims her bow at him.
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chaos and KOS-MOS get off the elevator and start exploring the council floors. There wasn't anything exciting to see, as there was only a large center platform in the middle of the room they were in. They were currently in the control room.
"Well, there looks like there's nothing here, KOS-MOS. Shall we try another floor?"
"Affirmative."
They quickly head up to the next floor. It was a foyer, made for special guests that could visit the higher-ups of the Federation.
chaos and KOS-MOS split up to cover the entire area and then met in the center of the room to report their findings.
"Find anything?" chaos asks.
"Negative. There appears to be no sentient life on this level. We should proceed to the next floor as planned and rendezvous with the others on the tenth floor."
KOS-MOS's scanners suddenly pick up a disturbance approaching them from the windows. "Warning. Enemy detected. Now approaching."
She points towards the windows and someone breaks through. The person stands up and appears to be a purple-haired KOS-MOS.
"Could that be T-elos?"
"Scanning confirmed. There is a 97.654 percent chance that this is the new combat android that Vector Industries has been currently working on. Development code: TP-XX. Designation: T-elos." She steps forward and motions chaos to stay back. "Proceed to the next floor. I will rendezvous with you when I have eliminated the enemy threat."
"No, I'm going to stay."
"Then provide backup support when needed."
KOS-MOS charges forward and jumps into the air. The purple-haired android watched KOS-MOS carefully as if predicting her next move. She takes a step back to avoid KOS-MOS's aerial dive but then bends backwards to dodge a windmill kick right after the dive. T-elos continues to fall back and does a bicycle kick that knocks KOS-MOS through the ceiling and on to the next floor.
"KOS-MOS!" chaos runs forward and unleashes two ether blasts. T-elos easily moves to the side to dodge both of them. Some mechanisms begin appearing from her body and an orb of red energy appears in front of her chest. This surprises chaos and stops his assault to wonder what she would be doing her next.
She fires the orb and it hits chaos. It blows him back all the way to the other side of the room, knocking him out.
T-elos smiles. "That takes care of him." She jumps up, breaking through the ceiling beams and onto the next floor. She is met by a punch to the face that knocks her back to the windows. She held out her hand to do a backflip and while she does she grabs her gun with her other hand and points it in front of her. KOS-MOS also did the same thing so that the other had pointed guns to each other's head.
"It seems that this is a draw." KOS-MOS says.
"Not really." T-elos quickly grabs the gun in KOS-MOS's hand and knocks her back with a shoulder ram. She quickly aims both of her guns and starts firing on KOS-MOS.
KOS-MOS quickly rolls to the side behind a desk and pulls out her chained machinegun. As soon as the firing ceased, she jumps out and fires. T-elos wasn't there though. She quickly activated her sensors and found her to be right behind her. KOS-MOS spins around, whacking T-elos in the face. She aims her weapon and fires.
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"Do you hear that Ziggy?" Shion asks as they were approaching the floor that KOS-MOS and T-elos were fighting on. "Seems that there's trouble." She pulls out her M.W.S. and starts to move.
"Seems that one of the others are in trouble." Ziggy says. He steps in front of her and shields her from bullets that pierce the wall. "I'll destroy this wall." He pulls back his left metallic arm and breaks it down. Shion and Ziggy rush in and see KOS-MOS getting pummeled by T-elos with a variety of punches and kicks.
Shion moves forward and starts firing energy blasts as Ziggy rushes forward.
"I will show you what a true battle is like!" He pulls out his armblade and swings it at T-elos. She twists in the air, to dodge Ziggy's and Shion's attacks and then she kicks Ziggy at KOS-MOS, stopping her X-Buster attack. Shion stops firing and runs forward. She tries to use her judo skills that Jin had taught her but T-elos easily dodged her assault and grabs her by the shirt.
"So…you're the one." She throws her towards the windows.
The glass breaks from the impacts and everything around Shion slows down a little. (Is…this the end?)
Suddenly, a light envelops her and she finds herself on the roof of the Citadel.
"How the…where am I…?" She turns around to face the Red Testament. "You…"
He pulls off his mask to reveal his face and his familiar blue hair Shion instantly recognized. "Good to see you again…Shion."
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A/N: Now this chapter was definitely a bit rough seeing as how there are a lot of things going on. If you want to know what's going on, just send me a comment and I'll do my best to explain. Hopefully it all made sense to you. Until the next update!