A Sphere's Image

By John-Michael Koroloff

Disclaimer Notes: I do not own any of FFX/FFX-2 characters, story lines, and/or plots. I am not entitled to any of their ideas, as stated in this disclaimer note.

Author Notes: Well hey they're everybody! I am going to say right off the bat, this story, is something out of my own kind of imagination in a way. Like it follows the basis of Final Fantasy X-2, but unfortunately I haven't played the game and I have no clue what they say in clips I have seen. But I am getting tired of waiting, so I have decided to write what I think they're saying and what I think they're doing. I know it sounds kinda dumb to people that may have played the game, but please just let me have my imagination fun. Thank you and I hope you enjoy it. Remember I might make stuff up to make it more interesting for me and for you guys. Also it could contain spoilers, might not. I change stuff I keep stuff. It just depends.

Chapter 1

Operation "Give It"

Cheers and hoots filled the entire sphere, as a music performance was ready to take place. After Sin's defeat music and blitzball were now the main entertainment all around Spira. I guess you could say it was their aftertime. Since Sins destruction everybody had been a lot more cheerful, which was very understandable. Sin was their plague, but is now nothing, since he is dead, thanks to lady Yuna, who was performing here today.

The ring in the middle of the large crowded area became engulfed in darkness and the soft cheers and yells of fans could only be heard, in the unlit arena. Anybody who was anybody was here to watch the young woman sing and perform for him or her. Everybody eagerly awaited the arrival of the young summoner.

The soft fist of a young woman cracked into the guard's face and he was rendered unconscious from the surprising blow. She signaled to what looked to be another young woman, as she ran down the dark hallway. Her black boots kicking up from behind her as she ran down the cold awaiting hall, to stand guard in the crowd. The other young girl quickly removed the body from the hall, incase of arousing suspicion. She struggled a tiny bit but managed to move the body to a dark part in the corner, using brute force.

The young girl had smooth, golden tanned legs. She bore a long red scarf that had orange flames boosting up the tips. She wore tight brown shorts, which were very small for her and that contained little orange pouches on the side. Her emerald eyes sparkling in the glow of the stadium. Maybe it was the thrill or the excitement, but what ever it was, Rikku was filled with adventure. It had probably been because of all those sphere hunts she did, each one filled with some sort of fun filled action. Maybe an action you see in one of those death trap movies, Rikku didn't really know how to explain it.

Slowly she lowered her head to a little microchip that was placed on the string of her yellow garment. "Yuna, we're in. We're commencing with operation "Give It"." Rikku felt a small smile appear on her face. She sure came up with weird names for operations, like operation "Clam Shell", or operation "Wam Bam". In fact, half the time, those operation names didn't even go with the mission.

Music blasted from the arena area and the blond haired girl quickly moved to get to the top floor, so she could scope the large room for any suspicious actions. Her legs carried her fast and she was sure to get to her objective point in time.

" Where do you think you're going?" A young guard said as he came charging at Rikku, as she tried to walk up the long stairs to the reserved balcony, which unfortunately, wasn't reserved for her.

" Umm. Me, I'm going upstairs. I'd invite ya, but I already have a date, and to be honest, I don't think he's into the whole threesome bit." Rikku said with over confidence in her voice. She loved to drive the guards crazy. It just seemed to make her feel stronger and the guard weaker. She took off, running up the stairs hoping to ditch the guard, which didn't seem to work, as she looked back, the guard was easily gaining speed on her.

" Wow! You're good. But you won't be after this." Panting, Rikku reached into her tight little pocket and pulled out a tiny little round mechanical ball. "Suck on this!" She threw it behind her, hitting the guard right in the face. Rikku ran further and further, hoping to get her distance from the sleep bomb she had just thrown. Smoke filled from the bottom of the stairs and Rikku heard no more footsteps. She was in the clear for now, but she needed to refill her breath from all that running she had to do. It was non-stop running from the airship to the arena and now she was taking a small little break.

" What can I do for you?" The music blasted out from the top of the stairs. Cheers grew louder as the music kept repeating itself. It was actually a real rhythmic beat but Rikku didn't have time to wait around and dance the whole mission away. She had to get to the standing point and fast. The music gradually grew louder and she was losing time quickly.

" Oh no!" She hastily ran up the stairs, practicly tripping over her feet every once and a while. This mission was way too important to fail just because she was a little fatigued.

She managed to mount the stairs and reach her point before "Yuna" had started to sing. She reached into one of her little pouches that was indicated on the left of her shorts and took high tech Al Bhed goggles out. She kneeled down looking through the goggles and noticed a few guards placed all around the crowd.

" So LeBlanc, you have your cronies looking out for you?" She silently whispered under her lips, keeping it pretty much to herself. She managed to see Paine standing by the crowd, keeping her eye out for LeBlanc's guards. Paine noticed Rikku at the top of the balcony, she also noticed the guard that was advancing on her from behind. Paine started to wave her hands back and forth profusely, trying to warn her of the guard behind her, unfortunately Rikku didn't pick up on that warning and was in some trouble.

" Hey Paine!" Rikku yelled out waving her hands back and forth as Paine did. Suddenly her instincts jumped when she heard a footstep approach, coming at her direction.

" Hey!" The guard screamed out at her in a gruff voice, looking very ticked at her. Rikku just turned slowly and smiled a cute little smile at the guard. Her mind could only imagine why she turned around and smiled nervously at the guard but whatever difference it made she was in a shit load of trouble. Rikku noticed a few cuts the guard had on his face and arm and she managed to see that it was the same guard back at the stairs incident.

" Hey, about the stairs, that was like just a little joke." She said, trying to sound as sincere as possible. "Trust me, you'll laugh when you hear about it." Slowly Rikku backed down and away from the very pissed off watchman.

Stupid guarantee, Twenty minutes my butt. I ought to sue Rin for this.

Rikku's back hit the edge of the balcony and she stood there, ready for the guards move. The guard took his hand back and threw a swing at Rikku. Luckily Rikku threw her head down and came back up with a startling uppercut that left the guard stunned. She threw her elbow into his face and he was forcefully knocked back, blood spurting in the air and splashing Rikku in the arm but he wasn't done yet. He ran into Rikku with the last of his strength, causing her to lose her balance and falling off the high balcony. The guard just slowly backed up and fell on the ground unconscious.

" Ahh!" Rikku quickly shot her hands out, trying to grab the air around her, to pull her poor self back up again, but it was too late and she fell off the balcony, but not completely. She had managed to get one of her hands to grip onto the ledge but she wasn't going to be on there for too long. She dangled back and forth, nobody noticing, due to the killer performance made by the imitation Yuna, who was in some big time trouble when hopefully her and Paine get her.

" What can I do for you" The music blared as Yuna strut her stuff on the stage with her half naked male background dancers. Rikku still dangled from the balcony tops, her legs hitting the hard wood back and forth, which stung her legs and loosened her grip.

" I'll tell ya what you can do for me. Help me up!" She screamed out to the crowd of people who were insanely deaf because of the hard rocking music booming out. She looked down and noticed a few guards who took notice to her little show up there and who were now aiming guns at her, trying to kill her on sight. I guess they weren't very happy with her kick ass fighting skills and they wanted to make a lesson of her.

Oh god, I'm done for. This is it. Time to meet my maker. I wonder if he's Al Bhed.

Rikku knew the only way to save her sorry little life was to jump and hope she lands safely. Paine saw Rikku from down in the crowds and knew she was going to jump. The silver haired woman quickly checked her black, skull outfit for any useful items but nothing came up, except for a few potions and phoenix down. Quickly she ran down the stairs in aid of Rikku but she was stopped due to unwanted company. Two guards, with steel batons and angry faces blocked the bottom of the stairs, the only way to get to the poor girl on the balcony, who was waving around helplessly.

" Sorry boys, no time for a fight right now." Paine quickly ran up the stairs making sure to keep good speed ahead of those guards. She knew Rikku couldn't hold on for much longer. One of the guards striked her in the face with a baton, while she thought about Rikku. Paine counter attacked with a fierce punch to the nose that sounded like she broke it. She threw herself faster down the long hallway that seemed to be endless. She knew one guard gave up after that swift punch was given to him and the other one she thinks gave up after seeing the other ones pain she delivered to him. Sometimes she felt like she was too alone in the world, always having to do stuff on her own, with nobody's help, she probably should have told Rikku to stay with her.

" I can't hold on any more." Slowly Rikku let go of the railing after thinking about it and she dropped into the pit below, awaiting her fate. Shots fired and hit the balcony that she was just not hanging onto a near three seconds ago, pieces of wood chipping off the edge and landing on Rikku's chest and what ever was below her. Fortunately enough she made it and landed on a pod that had been flying around.

Rikku raised herself from the pod and kissed the solid electrical machine that was glowing with extreme light rays that practicly blinded Rikku. "Oh thank you so much, you wonderful little machine you." Rikku got up and looked around and found a lever that probably controls the little gadget she was on. Well she was safe and lucky, the song was almost over, now all she needs to do is locate Paine and quickly steal back the sphere from LeBlanc.

" I can't hear you." The music depleted silently and then grew louder with a boost of more of the thrilling music. It was such a beat that even Rikku was a little ashamed she had to focus and tune out the music.

" Where is sh-?" With a startled glance at the top of the crowd she saw Paine, surrounded by what looked like ten guards. The glimmering blond hastily took the controls and managed them fast. It was a good thing she was Al Bhed. The thing moved fast and with it she managed to get close to Paine, who was now standing on the railing, being attacked by a bunch of strange guards." Paine, hope on." Rikku's hand extended out and Paine took a look at the guards and took a large leap of faith. She connected with Rikku's hand and was pulled up with her on the pod.

" Let's get away from these guards." Paine suggested sounding light headed.

" Roger!" She said in an optimistic voice." I'd duck if I were you." Shots fired from the guns the guards carried. The bullets ricochet off of the vehicle and created a large commotion. People raised themselves from their seats and pointed at the display from above. One of the guards shots just barely pierced Rikku and hit the control panel that worked the pod." Paine, we're in some trouble here." The controls buzzed and started to shoot out sparks, which were not going away.

Paine had her grim look set upon her face and immediately everything started to shake, as they were forced all over. Rikku noticed the music had stopped most definitely and that only screams and shouts could be heard in the silence of the music depletion. Paine gripped her stomach and pushed in trying to hold herself from vomiting from all the shaking.

Paine and Rikku were headed straight into a part of the arena." Duck!" They both shouted out at the same time. Both of them crouched down and waited for the horrible crash to commence. Rikku fell straight down onto the pod and lay down, hurting her leg again.

The pod shook viciously and the noise of broken concrete covered all around them, like a giant shield. It was a head on collision right into the arena hallway. Flames appeared everywhere around where the pod had smashed through. People shouted and screamed, running out of the way of the horrible scene. "Yuna" was in awe and threw a command to one of the guard captains, telling him to get them before they escaped.

Rikku slowly got up and thanked her luckiness again for keeping her AND Paine alive. Though she had received a few minor cuts and bruises she was all right. The blond haired girl extended her hand once again to Paine. Paine took her hand out and grabbed onto Rikku's. They slowly got up and walked down the hallway, awaiting the arrival of Miss LeBlanc and her very dumb bodyguards, who were always by her side.

" Well I have to say that this is the best infiltration yet." Paine said with a hint of honor in her voice. She walked a tiny bit faster after noticing Rikku speeded up.

" I know. We are so getting better at this spy gig." She said as she looked back at the pod. "Do you think anybody noticed us?"

Paine looked back at the ruins of the pod that was still engorged with flame, screams still coming from the stadium and the sound of an alarm going off in the distance. " I doubt it." They both casually walked off planning the theft of their rightfully owned sphere.

Author Notes: Well that was it for this chapter. I really hope you liked my little variation of the intro at the starting and the noted humor I used every once and a while. Please review. If you do you get free pie. Yummy delicious pie. Thank you! And I hope you enjoy the rest of this story as much as they first chapter.