"The Awakening"
Tekkaman Blade/Final Fantasy Crossover
Written by: Chief Aki
E-mail: chiefaki@hotmail.com

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Disclaimer: All respectful characters go to their creators. All other characters are the sole property of me and will not be used without permission. No money is being made here!

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Part I: Hope, Love and Fear

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A young woman stands at a pier looking up into the sky, her green eyes filled with hope, a hop that peace will come at last, as she watches figures flying in the sky at incredible speeds seemingly in combat. Her long green hair flows effortlessly in the warm, gentle breeze. She studies the figures that are now seen distinctly as four humanoid mechas.
"Our dream..," she softly whispers as a loud clang is heard as the mecha pair up and clash their weapons together.
"Okay, training session is over. All tekkamen return," the woman orders over the headset she's wearing.
"Yes, Chief," other voices reply in return as three ships appear and the tekkamen land on their own respective ship, except for one, who's flying back on its own.
The Chief turns and walks into a building, which is part of a larger complex, surrounded by the seeming ever-vast ocean.

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It's the Space Knight Command Center," says a masculine voice in a dark room, a giant globe in the middle of it, showing the Command Center.
"What's happened to Jamieson?" asks another voice, feminine sounding.
"He was killed; now she's in charge."
"Good. So we won't have to worry about our plans being hindered?"
"No…no worry at all. Now, all we have to do is awaken the child, then the child will come back to us."
"But, what about the others?"
"The child is the leader of the next generation. When the child comes to us, the others will follow. Now go and start the preparations."
"Yes, I will at once."

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Back at the Command Center, a young man in a light blue Space Knight uniform watches a girl talking to some people. His green eyes follow her body, her movements, everything. She has shoulder-length blonde hair except for a part in the back that is really long, held up in a ponytail. He continues to watch her as the people leave and she waves goodbye to them.
"Yumi," the young man calls out to her.
Yumi turns around smiling at him, looking straight into his eyes with her own blue-green eyes.
"What is it, Hayato?" she asks softly as she reaches over to run her fingers through his brown hair.
"Nothing, just wanted to admire your beauty," he says smiling.
"Oh, Hayato," Yumi says softly, looking away a bit as she closes her eyes, blushing deeply.
"Hey, Natasha, take a look at those two," a voice says, coming from a tall muscular man with dark eyes and black hair in a green Space Knight uniform.
A young blue-eyed woman with fiery red hair in a white Space Knight uniform, which is exactly like Yumi's, looks across the launch bay, where the three ships, Alpha, Beta and Gamma are kept. She looks at Yumi and Hayato and smiles to herself.
"There's nothing like love is there, Goliate?" Natasha says playing with him.
"Nope, none like it," Goliate replies, smiling at her, playing along with her. Then all quiets, and sound of their laughter follows.
"You two having fun over there?" asks a woman with blue eyes and short pink hair and a light brown uniform.
"Oh, don't we always, Anita?" Natasha asks, laughing a bit.
"Hey, you two over there!" yells a man standing behind Anita, with blue eyes and blond hair in a white uniform, in the direction of Yumi and Hayato.
"If you two lovebirds are done over there…" The man pauses a moment, then smiles mischievously, "or are you both just warming up?"
"Can it, David!" Hayato yells back. Anita, Natasha and Goliate just smile and shake their heads. They weren't going to get into this one.
Suddenly, a man with amber-colored eyes and long green hair, walks by, ignoring all that is going on around him. He wants no part of it.
"Hey Dead," David calls out. Dead, or rather Dead End as he was called, turns to look at him.
"What is it, David?"
"Is something wrong?"
"No."
"Then lighten up. We're all friends here."
"I know we are. I have some things to do. Catch you all later," he replies in a calm voice and walks off, leaving them all behind. This is all weird and different to him. First, Tekkaman Blade chose to spare his life, and then after the last battle where he helped the Space Knights fight off the Radam, he is asked to join. For some odd reason, he accepted maybe cause he had no other place to go. It feels weird wearing a Space Knight uniform after all these years of saying he would die before wearing on. He doesn't really mind it, it's just when the rest of the team is together that he feels out of place. He can't believe that they would really accept him after all he has done to them. He did try to kill them after all but they chose to help him and make him their friend. A friend. What did it mean to be a friend? He really didn't know. He felt sort of awkward around them. He didn't know how to respond to them, it feels strange trying to be friends with the people you once tried to kill.
Dead just walk around the Command Center, for he has nothing better to do. He really didn't have to do anything. He just makes that up so he can leave. Personally, he likes being alone most of the time, and even though he has made "friends" here, he wants to keep it that way.

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On the other side of the Command Center, the Chief walks down a desolate corridor and stops at what seems a dead end. Suddenly, the wall opens, revealing it to be a door. She walks inside a dark room. There sitting at a desk is a man in dark glasses and with black hair, wearing a black Space Knight jacket. It indicates he is high in command, actually he is her second-in-command, but when it comes to major decisions, which is mostly concerned with the tekkamen, he usually makes the final decision. He is known to everyone as the Savior of Humanity. His name is D-boy, otherwise know as the one and only Tekkaman Blade.
"Ness," the Chief says, speaking a name she only says when it's only the two of them around. His real name is Ness Carter, but is still called D-boy, short for Dangerous Boy, the nickname given by a past fellow Space Knight by the name of Ringo Richards, when they, including Ness himself, didn't know who he was.
Ness looks up and smiles, not able to help himself. He had been thinking about her all day and now she is here in front of him, Star Summers, the woman he loves.
"Yes, what is it, Star?" he asks softly, a warm tone in his voice.
"I have brought the latest on Radam advancement," she says, her voice a bit shaky. She had just looked at the reports they have so far and it wasn't good.
He looks at her and his look grows concerned and worried. He notices her voice, she's scared and that wasn't good. Ness stands up out of his seat, and walks around his desk to Star and she hands over the reports they have so far on the Radam advancement.
His eyes widen as he reads it over. "No, this couldn't be," he thinks, "an invasion." Star reads the look on Ness' face and knows what he's thinking.
"I don't think it's an invasion..," she quietly says as he looks into her green eyes, "it's 'the' invasion."
He slowly takes off his glasses revealing those green eyes that Star loved looking into. Star is shaking all over. She's scared, not only because of what's going to happen, because of also of the other things that she hadn't told Ness of. Things she is scared to tell. Ness becomes really worried; he has never seen her like this.
"Star..?" He asks quietly, drifting off, his eyes asking her what's wrong.
The tears start to well up in her eyes. How could she tell him? How could she tell him of the changes she is going through? Something is happening to her and she doesn't know what it is. She had experienced pain often, but did her best to cover it up, only letting it show when she was alone, and then they came. The voices in her head, telling her to help them, to save them and then one voice in particular telling her that it was time.
Time for what…? What was it time for? Time to… She didn't want to think about it. She is scared and confused. How could she tell him that something is wrong, that maybe she's losing her mind? And the news of the invasion didn't help her any. She is buckling…buckling under the pressure. Or is it something else?
"Oh Ness!" she cries out and rushes towards him, burying her head in his chest, crying uncontrollable. He is startled by it, but quickly wraps his arms around her, trying to comfort her the best he can. He holds her close to him, softly rocking her side to side.
"Shhh…it's okay…Star…it's okay," he whispers to her, "calm down baby...everything will be fine."
At least he hopes it will.