"I know everything!" – Shinra of the Gullwings
"Power is truth. Shinra is the future. Real happiness can be found in obedience to the company" – Shinra Electric Company
Chapter One – The Prodigy
"Do you think this is gunna work?" asked Brother.
"Of course it will…I think…hmmmm…get off my back! When this is finished, I'll be famous" replied Shinra.
"And just a notch there and whoops there we go" said Shinra excitedly as the machine he was working on burst into life.
"I give you, the Shinra rocket prototype number one!" he announced.
"Yehhh that's what I'm talkin' about!!.....what is it?" asked Brother. Shinra slumped his shoulders having assumed Brother would know exactly what it was.
"It's a bit like the airship except it's designed to travel vertically. I hypothesise that this device could actually go where no Spiran has ever gone before!"
Brother eyed the device up and down and humoured Shinra with a weak smile and a pat on the back before heading back to the Bridge.
"Oh well, maybe one day my rocket design will be the talk of Spira…then people would take heed of the name 'Shinra'!"
Shinra wandered aimlessly to the Bridge, eyes transfixed on his feet as he did so. He regularly did this and regularly people would often wonder was going through the mind of the youth.
Shinra was a scruffy fellow; his brown overused boots looking like he had seen many adventures when really, they were just overused, his white oversized lab coat to signify his aspirations in the Al Bhed and his long black hair covering his mucky mechanics face. He no longer donned the mask as fellow crew members would poke fun at him saying he resembled some kind of creature from the deep lagoon.
The sliding doors anticipated Shinras proximity and opened upon his arrival to the Bridge where Brother and other members of the recently disbanded Gullwings were all buried in an array of computer screens and navigational charts.
The Celsius was looking a bit worse for wear these days and Brother would also blame that on the fact that there were hardly any women on the ship these days.
Brother swivelled on his chair and addressed the crew.
"Ok, Gullwings…"
"Hey I thought we weren't called that anymore" yelled an interrupting voice from behind a chair parallel to Brother.
"Ahhhhh Then what are we called now then Rikku?" asked Brother.
Surely enough, the innocent young Al Bhed girl revealed herself and proclaimed: "We are the Spira Airbourne INvestigation Team!".
"The Saints? I like it" concluded Shinra.
Brother sighed and cleared his throat to continue.
"Ahem, yes well now that's out the way…Saints, we have been given a task, a mission, a goal, an opportunity to prove ourselves as Al bhed to the world and…"
"Son of a Chocobo Brother, get to the point man!" exclaimed Rikku.
"Ok keep ya goggles on. We have been notified by New Yevon of strange seismic activity in the Zanarkand area and have been asked to investigate the situation".
"Situation?" asked Shinra. "What kind of situation?"
"I don't know this, which is why it is the Gull…errr I mean, the Saints job to find out".
Rikku jumped out of her chair and performed a small dance. "Oh yehhh let's rock!" and with that, the Celsius set a course for the ancient ruins of Zanarkand.