* A/N: Okay, this is my first Final Fantasy Fic ever ... don't kill me lol. I got this idea last night,
and I didn't see this done anywhere else, so if this has been done before, screw it. I'm
doing it cause I thought it was funny. Mmkay, please tell me what you think after you
read! *
## Cloud's POV ##
It was a kind of cloudy morning. I had just walked into Tifa's bar for my usual
morning coffee. "Hey Teef," I greeted as I walked in to take a seat. I wasn't smiling or
anything, but she's my friend, she knows all that I've been through. There's never really
much to smile about in my case. I'm not saying I'm completely unhappy, just not all that
often.
"Hi Cloud! The usual?" she asked while wiping down her counters. I always came in
early to help her out. She's had a lot of success with her bar, so I come in early in the
mornings to help her out with it.
"Yeah, thanks," I said taking down chairs.
"Sleep well?" she asked while starting to make my coffee.
"All right, how about you?"
"Like a baby," she said smiling at me. "I almost didn't wake up!"
Tifa's always in a good mood. Even if she isn't happy, she'll put a smile on your face.
"I love you," I said smiling a little bit.
"Oh, I know you do," she said laughing a little. I walked over to her as she pushed
the coffee mug towards me. I closed my eyes and breathed in the cocoa goodness. That
coffee is what got me up in the morning. It was some good coffee man.
I opened my eyes to see Tifa staring at me with squinted eyes. "Are you okay?
You've done that every morning for a month."
"This is something I look forward to every morning," I told her.
'You have GOT to relax a lot more if coffee is what you look forward to every
morning," she said shaking her head. I drank my coffee while she was preparing things for
her workday. Her employees starting arriving and helped her out. Another person came in
too. I didn't stay to see who it was though. I had to leave to visit Barrett. We had a game
of cards to settle. When I had arrived at his house, he greeted me with the usual.
"CLOUD! I'M GONNA WHOOP YA SPIKEY ASS THIS TIME Y'HEAR?!" he
bellowed at me as soon as he opened the door.
"Sure Barrett," I said patting him on his shoulder as I walked into his house. We
walked to his living room and sat down by the coffee table. He got out his playing cards,
and before we knew it, we were deep into our game of Spit.
He slapped a deck. "OH! Booyah!" he yelled in victory.
"One round, Barrett. I won the other three so far," I countered. I love competition.
Especially against Barrett. He's into it too.
"All I know is that I will come out on top you lazy motha-"
"Shut your mouth!" Marlene finished. Marlene, Barrett's daughter, didn't like her
father's cursing. She was now nine years old and wise beyond her years.
"I'm sorry Marlene," Barrett said apologizing to his daughter.
"Good, cause I might not forgive you next time," she said sticking her tongue out at
her dad.
"What was that?" Barrett said getting up to playfully chase her around the house.
"Oy," I sighed. "Here we go again." I sat on the couch for about ten minutes before I
realized Barrett probably forgot I was there. He's such a family man. So I left for my
house. As I was walking Tifa stopped me.
"Cloud!" she yelled running up to me from her bar. She was panting and out of
breath.
"Is something wrong?" I said hoping nothing was wrong.
"Yes, terribly wrong," she said with her voice full of concern. She grabbed my hand and jerked me towards her bar. She shoved me into a booth along
with the unidentified mad I saw earlier.
"Um...what's going on?" I asked Tifa.
"The problem," the man said, "has to do with an AVALANCHE member."
"Who?" I asked.
"Vincent," Tifa answered. "He's vanished! Into a portal!"
"What?!?" I exclaimed. That shocked me. Was that possible? I decided to ask. "Is
that possible?" I asked the man.
"Well, it must be because that's exactly what happened." he said with a sad tone.
"But luckily, we still have a chance of getting him back."
"Wait, what happened to make him vanish?" I asked.
"It all started a long time ago, in the 2000s. Prizmle, Sephiroth's great great GREAT
grandfather wanted to succeed in being the being to end the world. He lived in what we
know as LA. One of the men who was fighting against him, Bruce Valentine, was the hero
of that time period. He was so close to stopping Prizmle and his evil doings...but then the
unexpected happened. Prizmle had a limit break unknown to everybody but himself. He
killed Bruce. He looked just like Vincent simply because Bruce was his great great great
grandfather. Vince has been sucked into the portal because his great great great grandmother
was six months pregnant when she heard the news. She miscarried due to many problems with her health
after hearing of her husband's death. She was carrying one of Vincent's relatives. After many years the
portal has taken back what shouldn't have been delivered. Only the portal has taken
Vincent back to the time of his great great great grandfather. Only his fellow
AVALANCHE members are qualified enough to help him out of his time of need," the
man explained.
Tifa and I had blank expressions on our faces. We turned to each other and her ruby
red eyes met mine. She shook me and said, "Do you know what this means?!"
"No?" I replied scratching my head.
"Two words my friend:" she began, "Time travel." A wide smile spread across her
face.
"Precisely." The man got up from the booth and walked out of the bar.
Tifa shot up from her seat and started dancing in the middle of the bar. I watched,
embarrassed for her at the booth. "Pssst, TIFA!" I whispered to her.
She spun around still smiling. "Uh huh?"
"We still have to tell everyone else," I said in an "Um, hello?" sort of tone.
"Oooo, let me tell them," she said gleefully.
"Be my guest," I laughed. "What happened? You were so sad when you came to get
me. 'Cloud, Cloud! Something terrible has happened!' " I laughed mimicking her.
Tifa punched me in the arm. "I wouldn't be talking, Mr. 'Is everything all right?' " she
said mimicking back. "But I should be sad. I mean, Vincent is stuck in the 2000s. I mean,
who knows what could have happened to him by now? We need to find someone who can
help us help him."
"Right. Who's the smartest member of AVALANCHE?" I asked her.
"Well, I would think Vincent was, but we have to help him so he's out of the
picture."
I thought about this for a moment. When I finally spoke up I said, "You know, Red is
pretty smart."
"You're right, he is!" Tifa exclaimed turning towards me. "Okay, when we tell him
we should ask him to build the time machine."
"Good idea," I agreed. We had reached Barrett's house by this time so we walked up
to his door and knocked.
"Whaddya want, you punks?" he said as he opened the door. "You guys finally
inviting me to the wedding?" he joked laughing in his deep voice.
We both rolled our eyes at him. "No, we're here to tell you something very
important," I began.
"Very important," Tifa said emphasizing the word "very."
Barrett closed the door behind him and walked down his front steps to sit down on
the last step.
"Good choice,' Tifa said sitting beside him. She explained the whole story to him.
When she finished Barrett stood up and yelled every obscenity in the book.
"MOTHA*BEEP*!! HOLY SHIZNIT! HOW THE F**K DID HE- DAMN!! THAT
SHIZNIT CAN'T BE F**KING TRUE!!" Barrett bellowed at Cloud.
"Why do I get the blow when she's the one who told the story?" I said wiping his spit
off of my face.
"The point is that we need to gather everyone up and go save him! For once, the girls
won't be the damsels! Feminism baby!" Tifa said clawing the air.
Barrett and I rolled our eyes and started walking to Cid's house. We told him, walked
to Yuffie's, told her, and then went to Red's home. "Red?" I said walking up to him.
"Look who it is," he greeted. "What do we have to do now? Who's in trouble?" he
asked almost as soon as he finished his greeting.
"Damn, how'd ya know what was why we're here?" Barrett asked.
"It's not often that ALL of you come to visit me," he said inquisitively.
"See, told ya he was smart," Tifa whispered in my ear. She walked up to Red. "I
promise we will all visit you more if you can help and be a part of something we all have
to do together," she told him.
"What do you guys need?" he asked.
Tifa explained everything to him. "And now to help him we're going to need a time
machine. Cloud and I thought you were the smartest out of everyone so we decided to ask
you to build it." She turned around to see unhappy faces of the other AVALANCHE
members.
"I'm smart!!" Yuffle exclaimed.
"I'm smarter than that bitch!" Cid protested.
"I'm the smartest motha-" Barret began.
"Shut your mouth!" I finished. A smile crept onto my face. The opportunity was too
great to pass up.
"Oh, shut up," Barrett growled.
"Okay, I'll do it," Red agreed after talking it over with Tifa.
"Great! So how long do you need? Two months? Three?" she asked.
"Months? Girl, I can do it in a week," Red said smugly.
"Oh, I see," she said smiling. "Do you need any help?"
"Nope, just come back in a week," Red said. We all went over to him and thanked
him. We left and went our seperate ways for the week.
## A Week Later ##
We all decided to meet up at Red's. He had a wrench on his back when he walked out behind from the device. "Whoa," we all
said as we looked at it from afar. We all ran toward it and walked around it.
"Awesome!"
"Incredible!"
"Daaaamn!"
"Suh-weet!" we all were saying.
"Um, how does it work?" Tifa asked.
"Everyone, here's the grand tour!" Red said motioning for all of us to follow him
inside. It was pretty sweet. It looked like a bus. Eight seats, huge panel in the front seat,
and a round glass looking thing.
"You guys can sit in the seats, and we can begin our trip as soon as I show you all of
these buttons," Red instructed taking the driver seat. He pointed to each button as he told
what their function was. "This button opens the machine, press it once to open and twice
to close. This button ...." Red continued. This went on for about five minutes. "And THIS
button is pretty special. I found music from the past while building this. I guess the portals
crossed or something." Yuffie and Tifa "Oohed" at this. Red turned on the radio and
Shakira's "Objection" came on the radio. Yuffie and Tifa began dancing in their seats.
"This is awesome music! Why don't we have cool devices like this anymore?" Yuffie
screamed over he loud music.
"Good question!" Tifa said flinging her arms around. Red turned off the radio. "Hey,
turn that back on!" Yuffie said reaching forward and pressed a button.
"NO! That's not the radio button!" Red said, but it was too late. The device had
started.
"Countdown: 10, 9, 8..." a voice began.
"Close the door!" Barrett yelled from the back. Red closed the door.
"7, 6, 5..." the voice continued.
"Here we go you guys," Cid said.
"4, 3, 2...." the voice continued.
"Fasten your seatbelts!" Red cautioned.
"1..."
* A/N: Whoosh, I've been up for a while writing that. It gets better, I promise! Please Review and I'll post
the next chapter in a couple of days! *
and I didn't see this done anywhere else, so if this has been done before, screw it. I'm
doing it cause I thought it was funny. Mmkay, please tell me what you think after you
read! *
## Cloud's POV ##
It was a kind of cloudy morning. I had just walked into Tifa's bar for my usual
morning coffee. "Hey Teef," I greeted as I walked in to take a seat. I wasn't smiling or
anything, but she's my friend, she knows all that I've been through. There's never really
much to smile about in my case. I'm not saying I'm completely unhappy, just not all that
often.
"Hi Cloud! The usual?" she asked while wiping down her counters. I always came in
early to help her out. She's had a lot of success with her bar, so I come in early in the
mornings to help her out with it.
"Yeah, thanks," I said taking down chairs.
"Sleep well?" she asked while starting to make my coffee.
"All right, how about you?"
"Like a baby," she said smiling at me. "I almost didn't wake up!"
Tifa's always in a good mood. Even if she isn't happy, she'll put a smile on your face.
"I love you," I said smiling a little bit.
"Oh, I know you do," she said laughing a little. I walked over to her as she pushed
the coffee mug towards me. I closed my eyes and breathed in the cocoa goodness. That
coffee is what got me up in the morning. It was some good coffee man.
I opened my eyes to see Tifa staring at me with squinted eyes. "Are you okay?
You've done that every morning for a month."
"This is something I look forward to every morning," I told her.
'You have GOT to relax a lot more if coffee is what you look forward to every
morning," she said shaking her head. I drank my coffee while she was preparing things for
her workday. Her employees starting arriving and helped her out. Another person came in
too. I didn't stay to see who it was though. I had to leave to visit Barrett. We had a game
of cards to settle. When I had arrived at his house, he greeted me with the usual.
"CLOUD! I'M GONNA WHOOP YA SPIKEY ASS THIS TIME Y'HEAR?!" he
bellowed at me as soon as he opened the door.
"Sure Barrett," I said patting him on his shoulder as I walked into his house. We
walked to his living room and sat down by the coffee table. He got out his playing cards,
and before we knew it, we were deep into our game of Spit.
He slapped a deck. "OH! Booyah!" he yelled in victory.
"One round, Barrett. I won the other three so far," I countered. I love competition.
Especially against Barrett. He's into it too.
"All I know is that I will come out on top you lazy motha-"
"Shut your mouth!" Marlene finished. Marlene, Barrett's daughter, didn't like her
father's cursing. She was now nine years old and wise beyond her years.
"I'm sorry Marlene," Barrett said apologizing to his daughter.
"Good, cause I might not forgive you next time," she said sticking her tongue out at
her dad.
"What was that?" Barrett said getting up to playfully chase her around the house.
"Oy," I sighed. "Here we go again." I sat on the couch for about ten minutes before I
realized Barrett probably forgot I was there. He's such a family man. So I left for my
house. As I was walking Tifa stopped me.
"Cloud!" she yelled running up to me from her bar. She was panting and out of
breath.
"Is something wrong?" I said hoping nothing was wrong.
"Yes, terribly wrong," she said with her voice full of concern. She grabbed my hand and jerked me towards her bar. She shoved me into a booth along
with the unidentified mad I saw earlier.
"Um...what's going on?" I asked Tifa.
"The problem," the man said, "has to do with an AVALANCHE member."
"Who?" I asked.
"Vincent," Tifa answered. "He's vanished! Into a portal!"
"What?!?" I exclaimed. That shocked me. Was that possible? I decided to ask. "Is
that possible?" I asked the man.
"Well, it must be because that's exactly what happened." he said with a sad tone.
"But luckily, we still have a chance of getting him back."
"Wait, what happened to make him vanish?" I asked.
"It all started a long time ago, in the 2000s. Prizmle, Sephiroth's great great GREAT
grandfather wanted to succeed in being the being to end the world. He lived in what we
know as LA. One of the men who was fighting against him, Bruce Valentine, was the hero
of that time period. He was so close to stopping Prizmle and his evil doings...but then the
unexpected happened. Prizmle had a limit break unknown to everybody but himself. He
killed Bruce. He looked just like Vincent simply because Bruce was his great great great
grandfather. Vince has been sucked into the portal because his great great great grandmother
was six months pregnant when she heard the news. She miscarried due to many problems with her health
after hearing of her husband's death. She was carrying one of Vincent's relatives. After many years the
portal has taken back what shouldn't have been delivered. Only the portal has taken
Vincent back to the time of his great great great grandfather. Only his fellow
AVALANCHE members are qualified enough to help him out of his time of need," the
man explained.
Tifa and I had blank expressions on our faces. We turned to each other and her ruby
red eyes met mine. She shook me and said, "Do you know what this means?!"
"No?" I replied scratching my head.
"Two words my friend:" she began, "Time travel." A wide smile spread across her
face.
"Precisely." The man got up from the booth and walked out of the bar.
Tifa shot up from her seat and started dancing in the middle of the bar. I watched,
embarrassed for her at the booth. "Pssst, TIFA!" I whispered to her.
She spun around still smiling. "Uh huh?"
"We still have to tell everyone else," I said in an "Um, hello?" sort of tone.
"Oooo, let me tell them," she said gleefully.
"Be my guest," I laughed. "What happened? You were so sad when you came to get
me. 'Cloud, Cloud! Something terrible has happened!' " I laughed mimicking her.
Tifa punched me in the arm. "I wouldn't be talking, Mr. 'Is everything all right?' " she
said mimicking back. "But I should be sad. I mean, Vincent is stuck in the 2000s. I mean,
who knows what could have happened to him by now? We need to find someone who can
help us help him."
"Right. Who's the smartest member of AVALANCHE?" I asked her.
"Well, I would think Vincent was, but we have to help him so he's out of the
picture."
I thought about this for a moment. When I finally spoke up I said, "You know, Red is
pretty smart."
"You're right, he is!" Tifa exclaimed turning towards me. "Okay, when we tell him
we should ask him to build the time machine."
"Good idea," I agreed. We had reached Barrett's house by this time so we walked up
to his door and knocked.
"Whaddya want, you punks?" he said as he opened the door. "You guys finally
inviting me to the wedding?" he joked laughing in his deep voice.
We both rolled our eyes at him. "No, we're here to tell you something very
important," I began.
"Very important," Tifa said emphasizing the word "very."
Barrett closed the door behind him and walked down his front steps to sit down on
the last step.
"Good choice,' Tifa said sitting beside him. She explained the whole story to him.
When she finished Barrett stood up and yelled every obscenity in the book.
"MOTHA*BEEP*!! HOLY SHIZNIT! HOW THE F**K DID HE- DAMN!! THAT
SHIZNIT CAN'T BE F**KING TRUE!!" Barrett bellowed at Cloud.
"Why do I get the blow when she's the one who told the story?" I said wiping his spit
off of my face.
"The point is that we need to gather everyone up and go save him! For once, the girls
won't be the damsels! Feminism baby!" Tifa said clawing the air.
Barrett and I rolled our eyes and started walking to Cid's house. We told him, walked
to Yuffie's, told her, and then went to Red's home. "Red?" I said walking up to him.
"Look who it is," he greeted. "What do we have to do now? Who's in trouble?" he
asked almost as soon as he finished his greeting.
"Damn, how'd ya know what was why we're here?" Barrett asked.
"It's not often that ALL of you come to visit me," he said inquisitively.
"See, told ya he was smart," Tifa whispered in my ear. She walked up to Red. "I
promise we will all visit you more if you can help and be a part of something we all have
to do together," she told him.
"What do you guys need?" he asked.
Tifa explained everything to him. "And now to help him we're going to need a time
machine. Cloud and I thought you were the smartest out of everyone so we decided to ask
you to build it." She turned around to see unhappy faces of the other AVALANCHE
members.
"I'm smart!!" Yuffle exclaimed.
"I'm smarter than that bitch!" Cid protested.
"I'm the smartest motha-" Barret began.
"Shut your mouth!" I finished. A smile crept onto my face. The opportunity was too
great to pass up.
"Oh, shut up," Barrett growled.
"Okay, I'll do it," Red agreed after talking it over with Tifa.
"Great! So how long do you need? Two months? Three?" she asked.
"Months? Girl, I can do it in a week," Red said smugly.
"Oh, I see," she said smiling. "Do you need any help?"
"Nope, just come back in a week," Red said. We all went over to him and thanked
him. We left and went our seperate ways for the week.
## A Week Later ##
We all decided to meet up at Red's. He had a wrench on his back when he walked out behind from the device. "Whoa," we all
said as we looked at it from afar. We all ran toward it and walked around it.
"Awesome!"
"Incredible!"
"Daaaamn!"
"Suh-weet!" we all were saying.
"Um, how does it work?" Tifa asked.
"Everyone, here's the grand tour!" Red said motioning for all of us to follow him
inside. It was pretty sweet. It looked like a bus. Eight seats, huge panel in the front seat,
and a round glass looking thing.
"You guys can sit in the seats, and we can begin our trip as soon as I show you all of
these buttons," Red instructed taking the driver seat. He pointed to each button as he told
what their function was. "This button opens the machine, press it once to open and twice
to close. This button ...." Red continued. This went on for about five minutes. "And THIS
button is pretty special. I found music from the past while building this. I guess the portals
crossed or something." Yuffie and Tifa "Oohed" at this. Red turned on the radio and
Shakira's "Objection" came on the radio. Yuffie and Tifa began dancing in their seats.
"This is awesome music! Why don't we have cool devices like this anymore?" Yuffie
screamed over he loud music.
"Good question!" Tifa said flinging her arms around. Red turned off the radio. "Hey,
turn that back on!" Yuffie said reaching forward and pressed a button.
"NO! That's not the radio button!" Red said, but it was too late. The device had
started.
"Countdown: 10, 9, 8..." a voice began.
"Close the door!" Barrett yelled from the back. Red closed the door.
"7, 6, 5..." the voice continued.
"Here we go you guys," Cid said.
"4, 3, 2...." the voice continued.
"Fasten your seatbelts!" Red cautioned.
"1..."
* A/N: Whoosh, I've been up for a while writing that. It gets better, I promise! Please Review and I'll post
the next chapter in a couple of days! *