Mistakes FFVII Style
Disclaimer: I don't own FFVII; it all belongs to Square and its affiliates. I do own a copy of the game though.
How to get yourself killed:
By the Metal Guardian at the end of the highway
Slamming the breaks on, almost as the exact same time as Tifa did, Cloud felt only a small trickle of panic run through his system as the unfinished edge of the highway came into view. With a grunt he stopped and glanced briefly over his shoulder to check that Tifa had stopped. Thankfully she had and there was a general commotion from the back of the pickup truck as Barrett launched himself out with a grunt, shoving Nanaki back into place and Tifa came streaming out of the door, ordering Aerith to move into the driver's seat and prepare to hit the accelerator at the first opportunity that arose.
Dismounting from his bike, Cloud stared at the Metal rolling monstrosity that was rolling towards them with a murderous look in what passed for its eyes. With a click it opened up fire and knocked all three to the ground. "Hot damn, this thing is so dead when I get a good shot at it!" rumbled Barrett, standing up and releasing a series of shots from his gun.
"Barrett you idiot!" yelled Tifa, defending against an attack expectedly before kicking the thing and almost breaking her toe, or at least that was what it sounded like, "Use the materia on it! We need to disable this thing somehow and fast!"
Cloud nodded and sent forth a wave of fire before realising his mistake and checking the rest of his materia. This was most certainly not going to be a good situation, "Tifa! We need to use cure and bolt as fast as possible!" he yelled, before finding himself on the ground as the guardian charged into all three of them with a roar, spurting fire along the ground.
With a surge of power, Tifa ran forward and smacked the guardian viciously and then literally somersaulted backwards to deal extra damage. Barrett joined in with a glowing red blast from his gun arm that appeared to rip through the armour for a second in a damaging blow. Cloud shook his head but downed a potion to revive some of his health before Tifa could get going with a cure.
"Erm Cloud…we got a problem!" the girl shouted, attempting to dodge yet another blow but not succeeding this time.
Barrett tossed her a potion, "Get that down yer gob and start with the healing Tifa!" he yelled.
The metal arms spun into Cloud, viciously rendering him a lot weaker than he really liked to be, "Yeah, we're really going to need it in a minuet!" he shouted before charging at the machine and dealing it with four separate slashes.
"That's what I'm trying to tell you! Aerith has both bits of that Materia! Tifa yelled before the machine came back at them with another spate of rolling fire. Both Barrett and Tifa hit the floor, stone cold dead.
Another surge of anger welled through Cloud, how dare this monster do such things to his friends. Charging again, he dealt the same four slices in a crossed style before rushing back to try and get the phoenix downs out of his pocket. However the metal guardian wasn't about to let things go that easily and charged into Cloud with a series of failing arm attacks until he to hit the ground stone cold dead.
The Guardian scanned the bodies to ensure that no one was paying possum and then sent a coded message back to the bike unit commander, "Targets eliminated. Specimens reclaimed"
Lesson to be learned from this trip to death: make sure that Aerith is in the party with both the Cure and Bolt Materia and use potions a hell of a lot more if you can't get her into your party.
Authors note: Yes I was that stupid but I learned my lesson and kicked that monster the second time around.