ok, i got really bored and had no inspiration to continue rebirth or keys to the world yet, so i decided to humour my being a marine and combine it with final fantasy blank look
yea, im really that bored. final fantasy lotto has chosen final fantasy X/X2, dunno which, so i'll just do a...whatever with it.
a side-note, i dont know much about the final fantasy games/stories gasp so i'll be doing my own stories I guess. i'm bored so it'll include some romance and humour. NO, i'm not including myself in this story, this'll be a imaginary person who happens to be a Marine who falls into the world of final fantasy.
this person will start off as a normal person/Marine, no special powers, just what he has on his back and anything else he can carry. but as the story progresses, he'll gain some abilities, kinda like leveling up and gaining certain skills and upgrades, etc. and to humour again, whenever he happens to level to a certain level or so he'll up in the rank structure and sometimes gain a level in his martial arts (MCMAP) belt color and skills. yup, i'm super creative, yea?
now, on with my crazy idea!!!
Disclaimer: I don't claim the Final Fantasy series as my own, I don't even have the games, boohoo.
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Chapter 1
What Happens When A Marine Comes to Town
"Aaaahhhh...". Rikku enjoyed moments like these where the group was just able to relax and take a break from the pilgrimage. She understood the pilgrimage was important but she was still just a teenager, she enjoyed some...ok, alot, of down time. Her cousin, Yuna, and the rest of the Guardians were over at the lake a little over the ways watching Tidus and Wakka play Blitzball against each other. Yuna was laughing and cheering on both players.
Yup, she loved times like these where even her cousin was able to loosen up and smile again, other than whenever she spent time with Tidus. Even Rikku could see that Tidus and Yuna had something for each other. Lulu didn't approve but Rikku just thought it was cute.
Rikku stretched out and layed back on the grass and closed her eyes. Something really felt off though. She thought she heard something falling from the sky...
Our World, Fallujah
"God damn! Jeremiah! Get the fuck out of there, you moron! Machado, cover me! Rodriguez, buddy rushes! Assault through, assault through!"
Lance Corporal Toby Sae's dark eyes were panicked and were looking out for insurgents as they ran through the streets of Fallujah firing at the insurgents on the other side while trying to reach Private First Class Jeremiah. Private Rodriguez ran alongside him firing as well. When they finally reached PFC Jeremiah they dived behind a brick wall. Jeremiah had been shot in the leg and was immobile.
"Fuck, Sae! I can't move! Just go! I'll give cover fire, get to the objective!"
"Moron, we don't leave one of our brothers behind! Rodriguez, get Jeremiah out of here, I'll give you guys cover but you'd better haul ass!"
"RPG!!!"
Sae's eyes widened and he quickly pulled Rodriguez down onto the ground as the the RPG impacted the wall they were behind. The explosion took out over half the wall and the rain of bullets started all over again.
Sae took out a two-way radio and channeled in.
"HQ, HQ! This is Echo Three Sierra, we're pinned down! I repeat: We're pinned down! Second Platoon, Fourth squad, First and Second fire team under heavy enemy fire! Request back-up! Over!"
"...Echo...Sierr-...cannot se...delay...IED...ASAP...Over!"
"OK, Fuck you too! Damn!"
Lance Corporal Sae tucked the radio away and looked to his left to see Jeremiah unconscious and Private Rodriguez desperately sending rounds down range towards the insurgents. Sae looked grimly over the wall and saw a team of five insurgents making their way slowly towards their position while constantly firing at them with their AK-47's. Fuck them and their "spray and pray" tactics.
Sae grasped his M4 rifle tightly and popped over the destroyed wall and started to fire at the insurgents making them jump aside into alleys or other places for cover. He seized this chance.
"Rodriguez, get Jeremiah out of here! I'll hold them back, go!"
"But, Sae-!"
"Shut up! It's my responsibility, I have to look out for the well-being of my fire team! Get him out of here now! That is an order! Machado, covering fire!"
Sae aimed in with his M203 Grenade Launcher mounted on the M4's handguards at the general location of the insurgents still in hiding and fired. The grenade shot out and impacted next to a damaged car and a scream of pain was cut short.
'One down..',
was Sae's grim thought as he fired with one hand while rummaging for another grenade in his drop sack. He quickly unloaded the M203 and inserted another grenade and began firing until he heard a fateful click. The remaining insurgents popped out and began firing at Sae as he swiftly picked out another magazine from his pouch and ejected the old magazine and slapped another magazine in and sent the bolt home. He quickly resumed fire and desperately prayed that God was keeping his fire team safe and that they were well out of harm's way.
"Sae! Get out of there quick! We're up!"
Sae felt relieved but never stopped his assault as he got up and ran for cover and for his fire team. The second fire team had produced an AT4 while their A-gunner kept the insurgents' heads down with his M249. Sae jumped over a low wall and landed next to the wounded Jeremiah. He gasped for air and took off his goggles to wipe the sweat that had accumulated. The Navy corpsman was working hard on Jeremiah.
"Hey, doc, how's our buddy here?"
The corpsman didn't look too happy as he answered.
"Well...let's just say he's a lucky bastard. That round just barely missed his femoral artery but it's lodged itself deep in his leg tearing through his muscles and some ligaments. We need to evacuate him now."
Sae nodded and signaled to the field-radio operator.
"Emergency Evac."
The operator nodded and picked up the handset while the gunners continued their assault at the now reinforced insurgent group slowly advancing to their position.
"HQ, HQ, this is Romeo Oscah 3 requesting emergency evac! Over!"
"...Romeo Oscah 3, this is HQ, I read. What is your location? Over."
"HQ, our location is 8, 7, 9, 4, 5, 6. I repeat: 8, 7, 9, 4, 5, 6. Over!"
"Roger, Romeo Oscah 3. A bird is on its way. ETA: Three, Zero minutes. Over."
"Copy! Out! Lance Corporal! ETA: Three, Zero minutes!"
"Alright, show these bastards what we can do then! Doc, do your best for our buddy, yea?"
The corpsman nodded and continued his bloody job while the remaining six members of both fire teams found concealed positions to continue their assault. The Marine with the AT4 looked over his shoulder and shouted,
"BACK BLAST AREA, ALL CLEAR!"
He hit the trigger and the back blast shot out engulfing the area behind it in a cloud of dust and smoke while the shot impacted in the center of the insurgents effectively taking out three more. Sae aimed in another grenade and fired at a group of insurgents but only took out one but injured two more.
For the next thirty minutes, the Marines fought desperately to keep the insurgents from closing in on the wounded and the remaining Marines. Hope was precious little and several Marines were encountering combat stress with the bloody fire fight that never seemed to end. Soon they all heard a very welcome sound, the sound of a helicoptor's rotors. A Cobra careened it's way and shot suppressive fire at the insurgent group.
"Some rescue coptor... That can't fit all of us..."
Rodriguez groaned until he saw three more on their way.
"Oh, ye of little faith. Shut up and keep shooting! We're far from done here!"
Corporal Hendy shouted commands to the fire teams to keep suppressive fire going to cover for the coptors performing evac. Jeremiah was soon taken up to the coptors as was all the rest of the wounded. One by one the remaining members were taken into the coptors and eventually so was Sae. Inside the coptors everyone began to breathe normally again and refilled their magazines. They wiped the sweat off their haggard faces, sighed, and rested their heads in their hands. Staff Sergeant Reddon turned from his seat in the cockpit and addressed me.
"Hey, Lance Corporal Sae! How was it, being only seventeen and being out on the battlefield for the first time?!"
He couldn't have heard Sae so Sae just shook his head and raised and lowered his arm tiredly.
"Hey, you did alright! You got your team out safe!"
Sae was about to respond when someone screamed again,
"RPG!!"
The Staff Sergeant turned around hastily and cried,
"OH SHIT!"
The RPG took out the rear rotor and caused the coptor to spin wildly. Everyone grabbed onto something but Sae wasn't as fortunate. He was carrying a full pack with all of his belongings. After all, his fire teams had been attacked while on a convoy to their headquarters and he had not had the chance to set his pack down before the convoy was attacked and he jumped out to confront the attackers.
The extra weight on his back caused him to fall out the hatch with a look of shock, unable to latch onto anything. He thought it was taking an incredibly long time to fall and it seemed a little too colorful for his imminent death...
Back to the Final Fantasy World
Rikku just shook her head and tried to settle herself in a more comfortable position and sighed contentedly. That was, until she heard a voice screaming from above. She quickly snapped her eyes open and witnessed the strangest thing she had ever seen. It was a boy, a little older than her with a ridiculously large pack on his back, an odd looking helmet and something strapped around his torso. The oddest thing was, he was falling through the sky with no possible explanation as to why he was there at all.
The odd looking boy fell directly into the lake where Tidus and Wakka were playing blitzball with a terrific splash. Without thinking twice, Rikku jumped up, ran to the edge of the lake, and dived in after the boy. She swiftly swam past Tidus and Wakka who looked stunned and grabbed a hold of the boy and tried to drag him up to the surface but was unable to. Tidus and Wakka both grabbed opposite ends of the large pack and quickly dragged him ashore where he started to cough water out violently. They quickly unstrapped an odd looking weapon and his pack off of his body and took the flak jacket off him.
Tidus kneeled down next to the boy and shook him,
"Hey, you ok?!"
Yuna slapped his hand away looking scandalized,
"Tidus! Be more gentle, he almost drowned!"
Rikku giggled a little and turned her attention to the strange boy again. He was wearing what looked like a camouflage uniform but it had a bunch of squares instead of the more organic shapes and it was the color of sand. He slowly began to sit up but still coughed some and started to look around as if confused.
"...Am I-cough, am I in heaven? Am I dead?"
Lulu bent down and examined the boy closely while Wakka clapped the boy's back to help him cough out the remainder of the water. Rikku answered him,
"No, silly! You're not dead, but you almost were! What's your name?"
The boy just continued to look around and shake his head.
"But...I fell off the helicoptor in Fallujah...how am I not dead? ...Oh shit! Where's my fire team?! Jeremiah, Rodriguez, Machado! Where are you?!"
The boy jumped to his feet and began to run but fell to his knees and began to cough violently. Wakka rushed to his side and began pounding his back again. Yuna knelt down next to him and began to chant a spell while resting her hand on the boy's chest. Her hand glowed white for a second and his coughing stopped. He began to breathe slowly and looked up at Rikku who was standing in front of him.
"You..where's my team? Where's the Cobra? Where...where's Fallujah?"
Rikku looked at the boy with a puzzled look. Then she pouted,
"You know...it's only polite to tell me your name when I asked you so nicely."
The boy frowned and jumped up again and stood a few inches in front of Rikku. Just now she realized the boy was taller than her...and just how intimidating he looked.
"I'm not in the mood to joke around! Where is my team! Where am I?!"
Rikku stumbled back, his voice was very powerful for someone who was just about to drown about a minute ago. Tidus stepped forward and confronted the boy,
"Calm down! We don't know who or where your team is and your somewhere near Besaid."
The boy looked at Tidus strangely.
"Be...said? Where's that?"
Now it was the travelers' turn to look at the newcomer strangely. How could this boy not know where Besaid was?
"You don't know where Besaid is?"
"No...listen, can you just take me to the nearest U.S. Council?"
"The what?..."
The entire party looked at each other (Sae included) and wondered when it would end. Then Rikku once again stepped up.
"Well, can you at least tell us your name?"
"...Are you familiar with Saddam Hussein?"
The blank look on Rikku's face was convincing enough that she was not associated with the terrorist...and it was just plain cute.
'What the fuck...where did that come from?'
"Alright then...I'm Sae, Toby Sae."
"Nice to meet you, Toby! This is my cousin, Yuna, this is Lulu, Tidus, Wakka, Auron, and the big blue furry guy is Kimahri."
Toby stared rather warily at Kimahri but eventually said,
"It's...nice to meet you too, I guess..."
He turned around and started to look around the environment. He was so intent on it that he didn't notice Rikku bump up next to him and follow his movements until she whispered in his ear,
"What are we looking for?"
Toby started and looked at Rikku incredulously while she childishly stuck her tongue out at him, winked, and flicked his nose with her finger.
"I...I can't find my team...I don't even know if they're dead or not..."
Rikku's smile slid off her face and a look of shock took place instead. Everyone mirrored her look.
"Oh...I...I'm sorry, I didn't know...But we really didn't know where your team is...sorry.."
"It's..it's alright, you didn't know them...but..I just wish...I wish I could know what happened..."
Tidus heard a sound behind him and he looked around to see Yuna taking her boots off and step off onto the water with her staff. Lulu looked as well and understood Yuna was performing a Sending, even though it wasn't necessary or a qualified reason. Everyone eventually turned to look and Rikku gently shook Toby.
"Hey...watch, it's something special...magical.."
Toby slowly and demurely turned around to witness Yuna's water-walking and her Sending dance/ritual. His look quickly turned to a surprised and amazed look. Rikku noticed and smiled and offered her hand to him. Toby, without thinking, took her hand and continued to watch the beautiful dance. He cried out when a spout of water shot up and elevated Yuna as she continued her dance, uninterrupted. As the Sending came to an end, Toby had a small smile on his face. Somehow he knew it was meant for his friends, whether dead or not. When Yuna got ashore again Toby asked her,
"What was that? How'd you do that?"
"Well..it was the Sending, it's to send the spirits to the Farplane and, well, I used magic and I practiced alot."
"Magic? But...magic's not real..is it?"
Tidus chuckled and threw his arm around Toby. He shared a look of understanding.
"Boy, Toby, have we got a world to show you. Yeah, magic's real! Unbelievable, huh?"
A sudden rustling sound behind the group brought them to attention. A panther like creature jumped out and gave a deafening roar.
"What the hell is that? We've never fought that kind of beast before!"
Toby just said,
"What the fuck is that?!"
The Guardians and Summoner quickly readied their weapons and began attacking the creature while Toby quickly ran over to his gear still on the edge of the lake. He quickly threw on his flak jacket and slung his M4 rifle around his body using a three-point sling. The Guardians were having a little trouble dispatching the creature until they heard a gunshot from behind. They jumped away and witnessed Toby rushing towards the panther firing his weapon at it with uncanny steadiness and accuracy. Every shot was hitting the creature and it was roaring in pain and started to jump around and disappeared from view for a few seconds. Toby looked around for it, weapon still at the ready when the panther rematerialized and slashed at his torso throwing him back. Rikku jumped forward and delivered a smashing kick to the creature and Tidus ran forward to finish it off but was beaten to it when something whizzed past his ear and landed inside the creature's throat and immediately exploded, quickly ending the panther's life, turning it into pyreflies. The party turned to see Toby lift open a tube placed underneathe his weapon and eject a shell and insert another. When he got up, they saw that there was a metal plate underneathe the fabric.
As Toby switched the M4 and M203 to "Safe", Tidus blurted out the question the rest of the party was thinking,
"What are you?"
Toby let the rifle hang freely in front of him and looked back at them and answered,
"Me? I'm a Lance Corporal of the United States Marine Corps."
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so...how does this product of boredom sound? i know it's a little odd and stuff cuz i dont know much about final fantasy X, so if you can, send me some info about it and i'll try to make it better if so you desire.
anyway, this is something for fun, so encourage my fun yea? i'll see you guys around
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