Final Fantasy VIII: Worlds Collide.

The events of this fanfic are set after the main story of the game and contain characters from the novel series I am trying to write (unsuccessfully atm). This is the first fic I've done in several years so I may be a tad rusty nevertheless be as cruel or as kind (preferably kind XD) as you guys see fit and I hope you enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Squall, any of the other game characters nor the objects and places that will appear in the story they rightfully belong to Squaresoft.

Prologue, Words from Squalls report:

It's been a year since a small SeeD group underwent Time Compression in order to eliminate the Sorceress Ultimecia and within that time Galabadia (under new leadership) has ceased all hostile activities, relinquishing Galababian Garden from military control and releasing Timber making it an independent state (as requested by Rinoa Heartilly and surprisingly General Caraway). Trabia Garden has been rebuilt and is working along with Balamb Garden in the training of students with the academics being taught by Trabia as it is still land based while Balamb handles the field exams and force deployment. However there are still a great number of issues that need to be dealt with, the mass desertion of the Galabadian army being our highest concern but despite our efforts we are still unable to locate such a large rogue military force. This combined with the sudden emergence of new and highly powerful monsters has a lot of SeeD not to mention the populace highly unnerved.
If anything urgent develops I shall immediately inform all parties otherwise reports will be kept to a yearly basis.

Squall Leonhart, SeeD Military Commander.

Chapter 1, Unknown destination:

I was breathing heavily, blood was coming out of fresh wounds in frequent spurts had I been human I would've already been dead, then again a human would never have been able to carve his way through an undead army for three days straight. I took another deep breathe and glanced at my opponent, thankful that he was in an even worse state than me. The crystalline nails on my right hand extended into talons, this is how I was going finish it up close and personal, I smiled and leapt. The last thing I remember from that incident is the sound fading into nothing and a bright flash of light.
"What the hell?" I asked as I opened my eyes. "Wait blue sky? But it was night a moment ago and I was in a city why can't I see the building tops? Wait why am I lying on my back and why the fuck am I asking myself questions?" I screamed the last question at the sky before closing my eyes again to regain my thoughts and figure out what was going on. Did I pass out? no my other self would've taken over and I'd be a disembodied spectator, so an illusion? Don't be thick there's no one left alive that could do one this big plus all I'd need to do is walk a few metres and I'd be out of its area of affect, which leaves teleportation? Sure as hell didn't feel like I was teleported but it's the best answer, I'd better go have a look. I succeeded in lifting my back a few inches off the ground before my body toppled to my right, I rolled onto my back again and stared in horror at my right arm, it was gone. All that was there was the few inches of stump from when it was originally cut off, it was at that point that I realised that I was also missing my wings. These were strong factors telling me that I'd lost my powers but what really made me sure was when I grabbed some of my hair and pulled it into view, it was dark brown not the blood red that had always been a sign of what I was and the powers I had possessed. I have no idea how long I was lying in that stupid position trembling in panic but I finally snapped myself out of it, I had to find others, I had to protect anyone else that ended up here with me. I rolled onto my stomach and pushed myself onto my knees, once I was on my feet I took the time to finally have a look at my surroundings and my stomach dropped. Did I cause this? I was standing in a massive crater, I walked up to the side and grabbed a handful of soil it was dry which meant that it had been exposed for awhile I laughed at the cruel irony before making the endeavour to climb to the top. It had been years since I'd had to live with only one arm so the going was tough, I even slipped a few times in the process but after an hour I'd managed to climb out.
"I'm too fucking old for this" I panted before taking a look around and instantly regretted doing so. The landscape was completely unfamiliar to me,there was grass all around me, the ocean was off to my left and if I twisted round I saw the beginnings of a forest at my back, dead ahead of me I could just make out the shape of a town but it was the mountain range on my right that got me worried. This place looked like nowhere I'd ever travelled nor did it fit with any of the maps I'd looked at over the years, as far as I could tell I wasn't even on earth anymore. I slapped myself in the head at that thought, as if aliens were going to abduct some freak of nature like me only to dump me in the middle of nowhere. I let out a sigh and started walking towards the town I'd only just taken a few steps when my foot hit something metallic and heavy. I looked down and almost screamed with relief. Finally some good luck, how the hell did I not see you before? I bent down and grabbed the handle of my shield, in actuality it's shaped more like a sword with its blade being five feet long and four feet of the being two feet wide with the last foot ending with a sharp point, the hilt was another foot on top of that but I'd designed the steel monstrosity with chains on the blade and a hand grip at the base of the hilt so it could be worn like a shield. My shield with edges as people liked to put it I just preferred to call it The Guardian. After succeeding to lift it only an inch off the ground I let go and started undoing the buckles to the harness I wore to carry the thing and layed it down next to the shield, I then proceeded to drag The Guardian over top of its harness and slot it into place and using my teeth in place of a second hand managed to strap it in fully, that was when I heard the roar of jet engines. I stood and watched as a massive lion shaped ship landed a couple of yards from where I was. A door opened and six guys in fancy uniforms ran out carrying swords followed by a guy in a yellow trench-coat and a cowboy hat carrying a gun.
"Sorry for the trouble but I'm gonna have to ask you to come with me" the guy with the gun said to me in a sorta low smooth voice. "I believe there are some people that have a bit of interest in you"
What choice did I have? I couldn't out run these guys and I was sure as hell in no condition to fight so I knelt down slowly and grabbed the harness straps. Quick as a flash Yellow Coat suddenly had his gun leveled at me "Don't do anything stupid now" he said warningly "I'd rather bring you back in one piece, or at least the one piece we found you in"
"Smartass" I muttered under my breath "I'm not going anywhere without this" I replied to him whilst awkwardly hoisting the shield over my shoulder.
"That's fine as long as it stays strapped up and if you promise to play nicely I'll let you hang onto it, that sound good to you?"
I slowly got up and started trudging towards the ship, as I got closer Yellow Coat lowered his gun and smiled.
"I assume your silence means that you're gonna behave yourself?"
I grunted my acceptance as I walked onto the ramp that lead into the belly of the ship, once the others had filed inside after me and the bay door had closed a girl with brown hair that had a weird curl at the bottom stuck her head through another doorway and stared at me with a puzzled look.
"Irvy are you sure this is the guy? I thought he was supposed to be scary and strong looking" She said to Yellow Coat who was standing behind me who only shrugged before replying "Beats me just let Mister Leader know that we're bringing someone back that sorta matches what we were told."
"Done and done" The girl replied as she threw her arm through the doorway to raise it into the air before running off. After a few minutes of waiting the ship began to shake as it took off, I walked over to a corner lend The Guardian against the wall, sat on the floor and waited for the unknown.
End.
A/N: So how was that for chapter 1? Don't worry the story should pick up in the next few chapters, I'll update when I can. Don't forget to send some feed back and sorry for bad punctuation and any spelling mistakes.