Disclaimer: I don't own final fantasy or any other reference that I put in here. I only own the things that I make up!

I came up with the idea for this while watching Ghost in the Shell: Solid State Society and a movie called Last Quarter. I'm not sure how they made me come up with a final fantasy 7 fanfic, but they did. Most of the ideas came from ghost in the shell though. There will be elements from that, but nothing having to do directly with it. I'll try to draw some pics for this, but I don't really know if I will or not. When I do I'll have a different link for this one and my other one.

Things to know: This story takes place in Earths future. We have a lot of different technological advances and I will get to them in the story. I'm going to make it about three hundred years in the future from now. I'm not giving us flying cars or anything like that. I don't want/need us to be that advanced. Most of the advances will be medically, weather wise, and efficiency wise. The net is going to be something like the ghost in the shell net. No ciberbrains though! Well there will be something like that, but not a real ciberbrain. I honestly don't think we could do that in 300 years...or ever in my lifetime for that matter.

Ch. 1 Weather troubles

Elle jumped up and down squealing with excitement. She could hardly contain herself. She had finally gotten all of them. Now that she actually liked video games she couldn't wait to play them all. This was something her brother had done. Before she had hated them and couldn't understand why he would spend all night playing them. Now she was a part of that and she played even more than he did.

She laughed at herself for that. It was funny that she had said that she hated them and now all she did was play them. "It is kind of ironic I guess. I said I'd never play one too." She said to herself while she opened all of the files.

Most of the games that she was playing now were really old. She knew they had updated versions of them all, but she wanted to play the originals. She realized that in the newer versions they lost some things. Parts of the story changed. She did not like that. After playing an original she decided that she had to play them all. Plus there was the fact that they were kind of rare now. Eventually they would disappear. It's how things go.

Of course her current obsession was the final fantasy series. The latest installment had gotten her into it. She knew there were a lot of them to play and that occupied a lot of her time. She didn't even know that a storm was coming until her mom yelled it at her. She had ignored her, but then realized that it could mess up her games. She still wanted to play though. "I've got plenty of time. It hasn't even hit land yet." She said. She intended to ignore her mother and keep playing until all of her family was shouting at her. She had already locked the door so no one could disturb her.

She sat in front of the computer for hours. She knew that even though there was a storm coming and they were telling everyone to evacuate her family wasn't going anywhere. They had not evacuated for anything. The few true disasters had hardly been anything. It was nothing like the ones of the past. There were things to prevent them now...things that actually worked.

Hours later...

"Elle, dinner's ready. You should come and eat." Her mother called through the door. Elle listened to her trying to open the door without success. "Honey! Unlock this door! If something happens we won't be able to get to you." She shouted. Elle ignored her again thinking that absolutely nothing could happen.

Meanwhile the storm headed for Florida was starting to worry a certain organization. In this day and age weather is something you don't worry about. The IWC takes care of everything weather related. The transition was hard on a lot of people. Meteorologists lost their jobs, but found that they could be useful and make a lot of money working at the IWC facility in the Atlantic.

IWC stands for the International Weather Center. It was built a little over twenty-five years ago as an experiment. People had been trying for a long time to do what they were about to. They wanted to know if they could somehow force the weather to their will. A large and expensive facility was built in the ocean. Of course, there were certain measures taken to ensure workers safety. It took nearly ten years to complete the facility due to several attempts to snuff the project that nearly succeeded.

Each time it was nearly brought down they somehow managed to find the support to keep it running. They had the argument that they simply wanted to try it. It was a curiosity that caught the worlds attention. Most countries were onboard with it. Somehow that kept it going. They were all curious. Could it really be done? No one had ever truly succeeded on a global scale and that is exactly what they intended to do.

The first year of the project was difficult to say the least. There was opposition at every turn and someone on the inside set on bringing it down. After the first year they realized that they really had figured it out. They were actually controlling the weather. Their spy also realized this and even though it was a success and was helping people all over the world he could not accept it. There were quite a lot of people that felt the same. They could not handle the change even though it was a long wait. He still wanted to bring them down and in his mind he nearly did.

He committed a wide range of sabotage and got caught by the guards. It was something they were very prepared for. He had only thought he was sabotaging the real equipment, but he was wrong. That was safely tucked away in a place he could never get the authorization to enter. There was also the fact that he was not very stealthy about it. They caught him on tape and he was never seen again. He had little family and they were not close so no one missed him or even worried when he did not come home.

They had a simple operation there. Send your request through the net and a few days later get what you asked for. However, there was a filter in the system. Normally they only took requests from government leaders and certain organizations. It was part of the deal they had struck to build the facility in the first place. If they went beyond that they could snuff the IWC in an instant and turn it into something else.

On the first day they tested their filters. So many people were making direct requests that they had a special floor just for that. Teams would go through them and trash the bogus ones. The ones they could fill had to have certain credential or signatures. There were a few that were terrorist related and those were reported to the government immediately. Eventually the system did change into something better so they weren't sitting around reading emails. It was a bit of a waste of time.

This facility may be sponsored by most countries in the UN, but it was mainly a joint effort between the U.S. and Japan.

Two good friends had developed the idea and after taking it up with their governments for funding they decided that it would need to be some kind of joint venture. Otherwise, it would just go down the drain and someone else would more than likely pick up the pieces. Then they would never get the credit they deserved. They weren't greedy men, but they weren't stupid. They knew that if they weren't careful someone would steal their idea and they did take measures to take care of that. They were also smart enough to keep it secret. They did not want anyone else to find out about it. Their fellow scientists weren't too happy with that.

They eventually did get over it. They were left with no other choice. The IWC was doing so well after its fifth year no one disputed them anymore. People learned to accept it and lived with perfect weather all of the time. People slowly started to forget what it was like before. They were worry free and that caused people to get a little careless with more than just the weather.

Unexpected things did happen on occasion, but nothing big. It wasn't like a rogue hurricane was going to hit a major city or anything like that. They did make sure to do things that were good for the world in order to keep things as they should be. There were certain things that they just could not change and decided not to. There would only be problems if they did.

After twenty-five years of doing this they still had things to worry about. The head of IWC was starting to get worried about the storm looming over Florida. He knew that it was not something they had created. It would have shown up in the logs. He had already told a team to investigate the storm. They had yet to come up with an answer. So far they had no idea how it formed or why.

They were attempting to scan it to find out what it was made of, but there was some interference and they could not get a clear reading. They had been trying ever since it had been spotted. They worked around the clock here and just for things like this. It was a stain on their reputation.

"Sir." A girl said knocking on the door. He waved her in and she came in laying a folder on his desk. "Here is the report you asked for." She said before leaving. She was a shy girl and felt very intimidated by him. He was head of the IWC after all.

"Thank you." He said in response. He stared at the screen watching the storm progress through the satellites eyes. He frowned and then picked up the report. He knew it couldn't be good news. That is something this day had been greatly lacking. He looked it over and found that they had only managed to map out thirty percent of it with little success and accuracy. It was still a very distorted picture of the storm. It was all they could manage though. He was not about to punish them for that.

"This confirms that this was not made by us. It formed on its own. Even if this is just a system malfunction there is no way that it would make something that big." From what he had read the thirty percent that they had mapped out was about ten miles of storm around one half of the perimeter. There is just no way!

Elle continued to play and now she could hear the storm outside. The booms from the thunder made her jump. She really did hate storms like this. It made it hard for her to concentrate on the game. She was playing final fantasy seven at the moment. According to her brother and several chat rooms on the net it was the best. She knew that her brother would not lie about that.

BOOM!

She jumped at the sound and squeezed the controller a little. She let out a little squeal and then shook it off knowing that she should get ready to quit playing. She could save at any time since it was so old. The system it came on didn't even exist anymore. Unless you were one of those weird collectors that has all of the old systems plus some other weird old things. I'll never be one of those people. She thought. She did not want to get weird looks from her friends.

She had already been playing long enough to reach Calm for the first time and start the story of what happened in Nibelheim. They were just about ready to go to the reactor with their guide. It was Tifa and she already thought she was an annoying character. Elle really couldn't stand her. Some photographer asked for a picture and she had to pause the game for a moment.

The storm was starting to scare her a little. The thunder most of all. At the door she heard her mother shouting at her. "Elle! Hurry up! We're going to wait out the storm in the basement." She said. Elle saved, but was not quite ready to stop playing. She wanted to get past all this talking and get to the mountain before quitting.

BOOM!

Again she jumped and she heard her mother banging on the door threatening to get her father to break it down. "Hold on, mom! I'll be out in a minute!" She shouted back. This seemed to help a little bit and she backed off. Elle continued and watched them get ready for the picture. She briefly looked outside and noticed that the storm was a lot closer than she had thought. It's right over us now. Her attention went back to the game. They were about to take the picture.

When they did there was another boom followed by crack. Elle felt a lot of pain throughout her body. Her hands were clenching the game controller and though she was starting to see white around the edges of her vision she did notice that the game was frozen. Great! I'm going to die like this?

Her body started convulsing and without even realizing it she had been screaming from the pain. It alerted everyone in the house that she was in trouble. I guess this...is what I get...for not listening to mom...

Outside her room her parents and brother ran to her door to see what the problem was. They had heard the crack and knew that lightning had struck nearby. Her father tried the door, but found it locked. What is wrong with that girl locking the door like that. He thought while he kicked it open. His heart nearly stopped when he saw her lying on the bed unconscious. "Elle!" He ran to her and sat her up. He had to pry her hands off of the controller leaving behind some skin.

Her mother and brother stood by the door gaping at her. They could not believe what they were seeing. Her brother was the only one to notice that the computer was still on and the game was still trying to go. "Jason. Take care of that will you." His mother whispered. She had just noticed, but barely. She could not take her eyes off Elle. Her father was picking her up and he wrapped her in her blanket because of the rain.

Jason looked outside and noticed that the storm was subsiding. It was almost as if it had come there just to do that to her. You've done your damage...haven't you. He thought glaring at it. He went to do as he was told and hesitated to pick it up. He could see her skin on it and cringed. It was not something he would normally do, but today was different. He slowly picked it up and started peeling some skin off to make it easier on himself.

The game was still frozen so it took some time for him to make it run again. He saved and then rushed to the living room. All he could do now was sit and wait to find out if she was alright or not.

Author: Ok. So there it is. The first chapter of my new fic! Chapter 2 will explain things a little better. There is just a lot to get in and I didn't want it all in the first chapter. I don't know how far I want to go with this. I don't think I'll be updating this weekly. This story requires me to think and I hardly have the time to do that right now. I'll probably update every other week or maybe a little later than that depending on when I can have the chapters ready.