A/N: I just got the idea of doing the cross-over of Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core with Trinity Blood. This is the first chapter and I shall see about if it worth contiuing depending on its popularity status. It will be sort of fun to write. This may contains some spoliers from Crisis Core. This will be one of my long works! Oh by the way, please reviews and tell me about what you think about it.
Updated on: 15th of Februray 2008
Project K - Chapter 1: Prologue.
Written by: Guardian 0 Devil
Pairing(s): I have not made any decisions of yet.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything of Trinity Blood, Final Fantasy VII or anything else that is copyrighted, except the plotline and OCs that are of my invention and imagination. Please don't sue me. By the way, any information given here is usually found in Wikipedia and also TB Canon Translation.
Author's Note:
Since childhood, Cid dreamed of becoming the first human in space. What if Cid's Space Exploration Program is successful and actually manages to be able to launch the rocket into outer Space? This is a Cross-Over of Final Fantasy VII world with Trinity Blood.
People in Rocket Town
"The Shinra serious 'bout launching that piece of crap rocket?"
"What's President doing by getting all those mechanics together?"
"Even with all this goin' on outside, that guy still won't come out of the bathroom? He must be a damn water tank!?"
"Would you like something to drink?"
"Seems like Cid Highwind of Shinra, Inc. going to pilot the rocket into space..."
"If he continues on like that, he's gonna collapse some day. Y'know what I mean? I'm talkin' heart attack."
"There's a bunch of Shinra people here messin' with the rocket..."
"Mmmmm, a SPECTACLE."
"Is something about to happen? Oh, I'm getting excited."
In the rocket control room.
The mechanics all scurry about, fixing and adjusting things.
"Hey! What the hell're you guys doin'!?" yelled Cid. The mechanics all turn to face him with excited grins on their faces.
"Listen to me, Captain. We're gonna launch this rocket!"
Cid: "Ya, our rocket gonna be written into history."
"Urrrrgh. Man this is so COOL!!"
Cid: "How's the rocket?"
"It's pretty much OK."
"But..."
"We planned to run it into Space on Auto-Pilot... Oh yeah, Shera had gone on to do a last-minute double-check of the rocket's oxygen tanks."
Cid: "How's the repair goin'?"
"Shera's doin' it..."
"Oh great! What a buncha wizards you guys are! She's gonna take a 100 years!" Cid laughed good-humorly. "I'm gonna take over, so don't worry about the Auto-Pilot! Hey, go ahead! Go tell everyone!"
"Yes Captain!" "Aye!"
Cid then put down his fist and ordered: "Alright, time to get back to work! Anyone who ain't involved, get the hell outta here!"
The mechanics nodded in union: "All right, Captain. Good luck." Then they run off.
The rocket engines turn on. The radio comes on. It emits a blare of static. Cid: "Over! Shera you done checking those Goddamn oxygen tank?! GodDammit! Answer me woman!"
Cid then punches some buttons on the control panel and start yelling into the mic: "Over! Hey you guys over there can hear me?"
"Loud and clear Captain!"
"Alright!! Shera still have not finish her work, tell the guy over the launch station to hold the launching process! I want everything to be perfect and my rocket without a scratch! Got it?"
"Aye, aye Captain!"
Another blast of static. "Captain? Shera here, I had finish checking those oxygen tanks."
"About damn time, Shera. Get yourself out of there!"
"Yes Captain."
"Boys? It's time to get this baby into outer space!"
The rocket's engines continue to steam as the timer counts down from 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. The engines starts spinning and burning, emitting a blast of air that sends trees, tires, everything that is not tied down blowing out of the city. The engines spin faster and faster until they create enough lift to send the rocket into space, leaving a trail of exhaust.
Cid and others stand in the now space-borne rocket's cockpit.
"I finally made it... outer space..." Said Cid as he scratches his head and looks at the controls.
"Let's see, how's the course set...?" He punches some buttons and taps his foot as a depiction of the rocket's course appears on the monitor. A dotted line travels from the green circle of the planet to the red circle of Mars.
Cid: "Yup, it's headed for a space exploration on Mars..."
"Captain... do you think that after this successful launch... the Shinra will go back on their words?" Asked one of the mechanics worriedly.
Looking out of the windows and the blue curve of the planet's surface comes into view, Cid give a satisfied sigh: "So this is... outer space... Man... it's the real thing... I'm really here in outer space...You know what... I don't give a rat's ass... whether it's science or magical power. No. I guess if I had to choose, I'd rather put my money on the power of science. Humans who used to only roam around on the ground are able to fly now! And finally, we're now in outer space. Science is a Power created and developed by humans. And science just might be what saves this planet."
Cid continued while he raises a fist. "I was able to earn my living thanks to science. So to me, there's nothing greater! Now quit your worrying 'bout what Shinra's gonna do! For I don't want to regret not having done something later."
In the wake of this huge success, Shinra concluded that space exploration was financially viable and raised more funding for the project altogether once they had discovered that Mars was also a profitable venture as it is in pare with the new discovery of Mako energy.
Shinra decided to start a project that aimed to build colonies in Mars. They called this "The Red Mars Project" in which the whole world also participated. Shinra created test tube babies solely to be in charge of the Red Mars Project when the colonizers will be in Mars. A total of four test tube babies are created, and from the eldest to the youngest they are namely: Lilith Sahl, Cain Knightlord, Abel Knightlord and Seth Knighlord. They were genetically modified beings and age about 1.5 times slower than a normal human being. Besides that, a selected batch of 80,000 people were sent to Mars, though their purpose is not to live there but, rather to prepare the Martian terrain for human inhabitants.
Upon the arrival of the first batch of people in Mars, they discovered this strange, alien artifact. Soon, they found out that this artifact was indeed left by aliens long ago, and that it contained a very advanced technology, which they called "Bacillus". This Bacillus is actually a nanomachine, in which can be integrated into the body. It allows that person's body to adapt to the harsher conditions of Mars. The colonizers decided to integrate this into their bodies, of course and gave them the ability to survive the Martian environment. In a sense, they became better than an ordinary human living in earth.
Because of this, Shinra and its own bunch of scientists became very much interested in the Bacillus.
As time goes by, the leaders of the colonizers also found a strange space ship and decided to explore it. In the space ship, they found dead, preserved bodies of aliens. Some bodies seem to be more preserved than others, in particular, the bodies of what seem to be the aliens with a high-ranking position. Their technology level seems to be extremely high as well, higher than that of Earth. This space craft came to be known as "The Ark". People took and examined the alien bodies. Seth was the one who discovered the Bacillus and another type of Bacillus which has a cross-shape, which she called "Kresnik". It is so much harder to 'grow' these Kresniks, so much more difficult than growing the normal Bacillus. They failed many times trying to grow these things.
There was a terrible incident in which Cain and another colonizer had an accident during one of the project works. They were at dying point. Seth decided to inject them both with the Kresnik, in an attempt to save them. However, instead of saving them, it killed them both. Cain actually died... but after a while, however, Cain just suddenly stood up and became alive again. The other colonizer however, remained dead.
They also came to discover that the Kresnik only seems to be compatible with the genetically-modified humans (namely Seth, Lilith, Cain and Abel), so they froze the Kresnik to keep it and decided to mass-produce the normal Bacillus for the other colonizers.
The first batch of human colonizers from Mars were ordered by the President Shinra to return to Gaia to participate in the Wutai War. They were given the nickname "Methuselahs" as they have the Bacillus in their blood, so they are in effect, stronger and also has a longer lifespan of around 200 to 300 years. However, something occurred to the Bacillus. Because of the difference in the various conditions between Gaia and Mars, the Bacillus has somehow mutated into something that consumes it's host's red blood cells. This brought about the need for blood of the host. Another effect was that they became very sensitive to the UV rays from the sun, hence they are usually unable to wander about during daytime.
(End of chapter 1.)
Things of interst you might like to take note of:
Kresnik Nanomachine
The Kresnik Nanomachine was a very high form of technology that was created billions of years ago by an intelligent life form. However, this Kresnik Nanomachine eventually destroyed the race that created it. After this, it traveled through space. Through time, it has encountered other intelligent life forms, which it infected. However, it eventually destroyed the bodies of their hosts and they use these bodies, together with their spacecrafts and used it to travel through space. They crash landed in Mars and that is how the early colonizers found it.
The early colonizers actually found two types of Nanomachine, the Kresnik and the Bacillus. They assumed that the Kresnik is another type of Bacillus and they decided to integrate these nanomachines into their Leaders. The truth is, the previous Kresniks created the Bacillus to serve as their food. They are able to change the form of atoms, hence they have such abilities.
At this point, one can understand why both Seth and Abel do not wish to release these Kresnik nanomachine to a full 100. Abel is aware that once this happens, these nanomachines could take over him totally, and they are bent set on destruction. Indeed, it is very dangerous.
Bacillus
The truth is, it is just a Human who happens to be infected with a Bacillus. Not all people however are compatible with the Bacillus. If for instance, if you get bitten by a Methuselah and the Bacillus enters your bloodstream somehow, you do not necessarily turn into one. In fact, the likelihood is you either get your brain damaged, the Bacillus in your blood will be dormant and act as red blood cells or some other form of reaction.
Truth is, there are different reactions among people who are infected with the Bacillus. It needs to be "awakened" in order for its effect to take place. When it lies in your blood and is dormant, it looks and acts like a normal red blood cell. A Methuselah may be able to walk under the sun and use silver at this point. This is the reason why these vampires have a memory of being under the sun and being able to eat using silver utensils. When the Bacillus awakens, it starts its effects in the body. There are several main effects of the Bacillus awakening; Sensitivity to sunray, slowing down of the aging process, reaction towards silver and repressed reproductive system. These effects could happen over a period of time, or it could just happen in one go.
UV Light
UV Light increases the activity of the Bacillus in the infected's blood stream. It increases their activity so much, to the point that the Bacillus consumes everything in its path. This gives the image of a Methuselah, who is subjected to exposure under UV light, of "burning". The truth is, the Bacillus is just eating every single cell in the Methuselah's body. You could say that the Bacillus is consuming the Methuselah from the inside. The smoke coming out of an event such as this is caused by water vapour brought about by this chemical reaction, and not because the vampire is burning. An event such as this will only leave the bones of the Methuselah, looking as if it has been licked clean, and removed of it's bone marrow. When the Bacillus finally consumes everything, it consumes one another until they are annihilated.
Silver
Silver temporarily stops the activity of the Bacillus. This means that once it reacts with the Bacillus, it renders them useless, and hence the Methuselah becomes more of a human. The silver does not kill in itself, it is the fact that the Methuselah becomes more of a human, that stab or shot on the vital organs will obviously be fatal. Some Methuselahs drink liquid silver in order for them to temporarily walk under the sun. This liquid silver is made such that it minimizes the discomfort on the consumer's part.