Season 4 has begun! My favorite Season of all time and I hope it's your favorite too. Season 10 of RVB was freakin epic as hell! Never would've guessed about Agent Florida. Anyway hope you guys enjoy Season 4 of the Symphonian Stories.

Chapter 1

Return to Blood Gulch

Blood Gulch. A box canyon that was deserted for about 800 years. No one knows what happened to those soldiers who fought here. No one knew why battles were in such a secluded place, and no one asked. All that was known was that the soldiers disappeared under strange circumstances. Now the silence was about to be broken...

"Noooooooooooooooooooo! Nohohohohoooooooooooooooooo!"

Those agonized screams were coming from Private Zelos Wilder of the Tethe'allan Red Army. Standing on the cliffs on one side of the canyon, he screamed for the longest time. Below him, three other soldiers, one in red, one in maroon and one in pink, stood and watched their comrade in growing concern and annoyance of his yelling.

"My god, is he ever gonna stop screaming?" Presea Combatir muttered crossly. "He's been up there for hours."

Their commanding officer, Sergeant Kratos Aurion, rubbed his temples trying to calm himself and turned to the private he was most fond of. "For god's sake, please shut him up."

Sheena Fujibayashi nodded and looked up towards the cliff. "Hey, Zelos, shut the fuck up!" she yelled. "Get down here and help us check out the base!"

"No! Nooo! Noooohohohohooooooo!"

Sheena sighed and turned to the others. "Forget it, I don't think he's even listening to us."

"Noooooooo, actually that time I was answering your question, noooooooo!" Zelos replied.

Kratos let out a groan. "Go up there and get him, Fujibayashi."

"Noooooooooooooooooooooooo-"

Presea glanced up as Zelos started his longest scream. "If he keeps screaming like that, he's gonna pass out and fall off the cliff."

"Cancel that order!" Kratos commanded.

"-oooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooo!"

"Presea, get me a sniper rifle." Kratos sighed.

"Yes sir." Presea replied eagerly and she ran off towards the Warthog.

Meanwhile, in a distant complex by the beach, three other soldiers, from the Sylvaranti Blue Army, clad in teal, regulation blue and black respectively, were engaged in conversation.

"And he says 'Did I read it? I already ruined it!'" Private Lloyd Irving finished his joke.

His teammates, Freelancer Marta Lualdi, also know as Lu, and the blue's rookie, Private Genis Sage looked at each other in disgust and confusion.

"That's disgusting." she scowled.

"I don't get it." Genis said.

Just then, a ghostly figure appeared behind them, bent double as he panted with fear and exhaustion. "What… the fuck… was that?"

"Hey, Castagnier." Genis said in a bored tone.

"Hey." Lloyd muttered.

"Hmmm." Marta added.

The ghostly leader stared at his teammates in surprise. "Isn't anyone gonna ask me, 'What happened to your body, Emil?'"

The three sighed. "What happened to your body, Emil?" Marta, Lloyd and Genis said simultaneously in the most bored tone of all time.

"Hell if I know." Emil replied with a shrug. "All I know is, I was sitting there talking to Aqua and-"

"The bomb?" Marta asked.

"No that's Volt." Emil corrected. "Aqua is the computer."

Marta gave a dismissive shrug. "Meh, I don't even remember most of your names half the time."

"I know my name!" Genis cried out. "You can ask me if you forget."

"Hey, can we please focus on me?" Emil yelled.

"By the way, he's Castagnier." the dim Blue continued.

"Yes, thank you Sage, she knows." Emil sighed angrily.

"He is the mean one."

"Thank you, Sage!"

"See, he's mad." Genis explained. "Now he'll just stare at me until I stop talking, then when he thinks I'm done talking then he'll start talking again."

Emil stared at him for a while then turned to the others. "Okay, I was talking to Aqua and-"

"Told you so." Genis cut in.

"GODDAMMIT SAGE!"

"Classic Castagnier." Genis chuckled.

"I wonder if a ghost can have an aneurysm." Lloyd thought aloud to himself.

"Anyway," Emil shouted. "I was talking to Aqua about the Great Destroyer, who at the time we thought was Marta…"

Flashback

As Emil neared the computer room, he could hear Aqua still in a panic. "THE GREAT DESTROYER HAS ARRIVED, THE END IS NEAR! THE GREAT DESTROYER HAS ARRIVED, THE END IS NEAR!"

"Oh, come on, Aqua, stop, stop, stop!" Emil yelled as he entered. "Hey listen, if Marta is not the Destroyer from the prophecy, then who is it?"

At once, the hologram was silent.

"And that's when I turned around and saw…"

Emil slowly turned around to see…

"Saw what?" Genis asked. "Saw Tenebrae?"

"What the…?" Emil cried out. "Sage, get outta the story, man! No, it wasn't Tenebrae."

"What was it?"

"Stop interrupting and I'll tell you!" Emil yelled.

"A helicopter?"

"Yeah, Sage, shut up." Lloyd cut in.

"Hey, Irving, you're interrupting too." Emil snapped. "Everybody just get outta here!"

"Me? I'm just trying to punch up the story." Lloyd replied. "Check this out…"

He pointed to where Marta was standing on a wall and threw his voice through her. "Hi everybody, I'm super horny from all the robot killings. Hey is it hot in here? Who wants to help me out of this heavy armor, this breastplate is so itchy."

End Flashback before this gets way too weird

"Bow chicka bow- whoa…" Lloyd's voice trailed off as he spotted Marta pointing her handgun at his head. "Story's over."

"You're a pig." Marta growled.

"I didn't even get to the part where the sailors show up." Lloyd muttered ruefully.

Marta then turned to Emil. "Just tell us, what did you see?"

"Um." Emil struggled to recall. "It was a really big… thing."

"That's your story?" Marta spluttered. "You saw a big thing?"

"My story had a big thing too." Lloyd moaned. "You just didn't give it time to develop."

"Well, I didn't really get a clear look at it." Emil argued.

"At Irving's big thing?" Genis asked.

"No, dumbass." Emil retorted. "At the big thing in the base that attacked me… All I know is that it was slimy and it had lots of teeth."

"Kinky." Lloyd grinned.

"Seriously dude, cut the shit." Emil snapped. "We've got a situation on our hands."

"Well, how did you fight it off?" Marta asked.

"Fight it off?" Emil cried out. "You must have me confused with someone who's brave. I got the hell outta there."

"You're telling me you left your body behind?" Marta yelled.

"I had to get outta there fast." Emil replied. "That body was just dead weight."

"I know the feeling." Genis muttered.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Emil scowled, folding his arms.

Lloyd then burst out laughing. "Hahahaha, some slimy toothed monster scared the crap outta Castagnier!"

"He didn't scare the crap outta him." Marta corrected. "He scared the soul outta him."

"Oh, it's Castagnier, what's the difference?" Lloyd giggled. "His soul is made outta crap. Stupid crap for soul…"

Emil glowered at Lloyd then turned towards the base. "For all I know, he's in there chewing on my body right now."

Marta raised her assault rifle. "Well then, let's go get this big thing of yours!"

"Bow chicka bow wow!" Lloyd added.

"Oh shut up." Marta scowled.

"Shut up, Irving." Emil agreed.

But Lloyd was now in the groove. "Did somebody call for a really hairy plumber? Bow chicka bow wow!"

"Irving, shut up!"

"I came here to lay some pipe. Bow-chicka-bow-wow!"

"Irving!"

"So I hear you got sisters. Bow-chicka- who're twins! –Wow-wow!"

"Shut up!"

"Hey, are you a model or famous actress? Bow-chicka-bow-wow!"

"Shut up!"

"Bow chickachicka bow wow chickachicka bow wow chickachika wow wow!"

"SHUT UP!"

On the cliffs of Blood Gulch, Zelos was still moaning like a walrus with toothache.

"Noooooooo-AAAHH!" he yelped as a sniper round flew past his arm. He soon started dodging multiple sniper rounds.

"Close." Kratos called.

"Thank you, Sir." Sheena replied.

Then Presea fired her sniper rifle up at Zelos.

"Presea, you're going outta turn." Kratos berated.

"I thought I went after Sheena." Presea replied.

"No, we go in line." Kratos argued, pointing to himself and the others in turn. "It goes you then me then Sheena then back down to me then you then me then me then Sheena then me then me then Sheena, me, me, Sheena, you, Sheena, me, me, me, Sheena, you… me then me again. It makes perfect sense."

"But doesn't that mean you go twice as much, or…" Sheena did a quick count. "…Ten times as much?"

Kratos ignored her as he fired his sniper at Zelos, making him cry out, "AAAAHHH!"

"This is the best game since Z-ball." Kratos chuckled.

"I'm not coming down!" Zelos yelled.

"Hey, Wilder." Kratos called up. "Move back and forth like one of those ducks at the carnival!"

Kratos fired again and Zelos ducked down to avoid the shot. "No, don't duck." Kratos shouted. "That makes you harder to hit. Act like a duck!"

"Wait a minute, that was my turn." Sheena protested.

"This is the Lightning Round." Kratos explained.

"...who's in the Lightning Rou-?"

"Me." he replied as he fired another shot.

"Alright, fuck this, I'm coming down." Zelos shouted and he turned to climb down, just as Kratos fired his gun again, grazing his leg. "OW! I said I'm coming down!"

"Ha-ha, buzzer beater!" Kratos cheered. "Take that, you stupid duck."

Meanwhile, at the complex, the Blues and Marta stood by the entrance to the base, waiting tensely.

"We haven't seen that thing come out." Lloyd muttered, swords at the ready. "So he's probably still hiding in there."

"Or eating Castagnier." Genis added.

"Alright then." Marta hissed, raising her assault rifle. "Let's roll."

"Okay." Emil nodded. "Here we go…"

After a few seconds of total inertia, Lloyd turned to his leader. "Uh, we're not moving."

"Yeah, yeah, okay." Emil said then he cleared his throat. "Here we go."

But still they didn't budge.

"We're still not moving." Lloyd said.

"Does talking count as moving?" Genis asked.

"Alright, screw it." Marta cried as she stepped forward. "You guys get behind me, and stay tight."

"Bow-chicka-bow-wow." Lloyd quickly muttered.

But Marta heard that and turned to glare at the teal idiot. "Never mind, Irving's in front."

"Eh, it was worth it." Lloyd shrugged as he went ahead of Marta.

Back at Blood Gulch, Kratos had driven the Warthog into the canyon while Presea followed behind on the hover-scooter and now the Reds were standing behind a rock just outside one of the Bases.

"Alright men." Kratos hissed. "Stay out of sight. We have to be prepared for anything."

"Uh, why are we hiding from our own Base?" Zelos asked.

"Because we have no idea what's inside." Kratos replied.

"Right." Sheena agreed. "Anything could have occupied the Base after we jumped into the future."

"Oh my God." Presea gasped. "What if we're in there?"

"Yeah- no wait." Zelos stumbled. "Aren't we out here?"

"I mean past versions of ourselves." Presea replied. "We could go in there and meet ourselves! Oh man, we'd be best friends, we'd have so much in common. Finally, someone who shares the pain."

"Presea, that's not how time travel works." Sheena sighed. "We don't leave copies of ourselves behind, and even if we did they'd all be eight hundred years old. They'd all be dead by now."

"Speak for yourself." Presea retorted. "I could live to be eight hundred. I'm on this awesome diet."

"You still doing that high fat low fiber liquid diet where you eat nothing but bacon grease?" Kratos asked.

"Nah, that was just a fad." Presea replied.

"What's the new one?"

"I only eat foods that begin with vowels." Presea said proudly.

"That sounds really hard." Sheena muttered. "What did you have for breakfast?"

"Eggs and Oreos." Presea replied. "And for lunch, I'm having asparagus… and Oreos."

"Holy crap, I've been on that diet for years!" Zelos cried out. "I had no idea I was so healthy! I even cut out all the eggs, and I don't even know what asparagus is."

"Alright, stop your chatterboxing." Kratos snapped. "We've got to keep our eyes open for any sign of enemy activity."

Just then, a slightly rusted tank drove right between them and the Red Base. "I can't have you not paying attention." Kratos continued without noticing.

But Zelos, Sheena and Presea just watched as the tank rolled past their rock and out into the canyon. "You have to be alert." Kratos kept saying. "Constant vigilance… composed… attentive!"

At that, the privates turned to face their leader who smiled. "See? That's much better."

Back at the complex, Lloyd stepped inside as quiet as a mouse, SMG at the ready. When he was certain that all was clear, he signaled Emil to follow him.

"Hey, why didn't you bring that glowing thing?" Emil whispered as he entered.

"No way." Lloyd whispered back. "I'd rather have a gun."

"I've got a gun." Emil said, holding up his ghostly SMG.

"What are you gonna do, shoot it with ghost bullets?" Lloyd scoffed.

"Okay, yeah, that's a good point." Emil conceded.

"Hi, I'm Casper, the friendly bullet."

"See anything?" Marta called out.

"Nope." Lloyd shouted back.

"You know, Volt was here when I got attacked." Emil recalled. "Maybe he knows something." Cautiously, he peeked through a window to a lower chamber and he spotted the bomb. "Hey, Volt… Volt!"

"He-he-hey." the bomb chuckled. "Look who's back, the dickhead!"

"Hey, up yours." Emil snapped.

"Back for another beating?" Volt giggled. "It must be ass kick o'clock!"

"Where's that big alien looking thing?" Emil asked.

"I don't know." Volt replied. "Last time I saw him, he was halfway up your ass."

"Is this bomb giving you a hard time?" Marta called out as she entered.

"I see you brought a girl with you." Volt chuckled. "What're you gonna do, have a crying contest?"

With a scowl, Emil turned a corner and spotted a cobalt-blue armored body lying in the passageway. "Hey, look, there's my body right there."

As Lloyd approached, he suddenly heard a deep growl coming from his left. "Huh?" Turning round, he caught a glimpse of blue skin and sharp, white teeth. "There it is!"

"Oh crap!" Marta yelped.

"RUN!" Emil screamed.

As they scrambled away from the creature, they fired their guns in every direction but one.

"Oh my God, oh my God!" Lloyd screamed as he jumped through a window. "I don't wanna die, what the fuck is that thing? Women and children last!"

"RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN!" Emil yelled as he ran through the wall next to the door.

"What, you leaving already?" Volt laughed hysterically. "That's fucking hilarious!"

Outside, Genis watched puzzled as Emil, Lloyd and Marta ran past him. "Hey what happened? Did we win?" he called out as he followed them.

"Yeah, Sage, we won!" Lloyd yelled back. "This is our victory lap!"

"Hey, come back in." Volt taunted the retreating Blues. "I think you're tiring him out!"