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Chapter 02: AVALANCHE in real life

Opening Theme: "Bombing Mission" FFVII OST

My name is Kelvis and well I was once a normal guy, hell I still am(I think). I've no idea why or how but I've somehow ended up in the Final Fantasy VII world as a hired gun for the extreme terrorist organization AVALANCHE. The enemy of ShinRa and mako harvest. Scared out of my fucking mind, not because I was here suddenly, more so because of the shit I knew was gonna go down in this world.

Sephiroth, Meteor, WEAPONS, it doesn't help knowing that Cloud is dead either. Call me a coward all you want but this shit is fucking nuts and I doubt any of you reading this can stand being here for another second. There wasn't much I could do...ShinRa soldiers and cameras have already seen my face so I am officially apart of AVALANCHE.

They see me in the streets, they'll gun me down first chance they get. So running away isn't an option...believe it or not, sticking with these guys...is my one and only means of survival...atleast right now.

We'd worked our way deeper into the confounds of the Reactor. Biggs and Jessie using security codes they'd deciphered to unlock the gates inside. Barret led the assault as me and Rally followed close behind as he instructed. "Code Deciphered!" Jessie exclaimed as another gate opened to a massive boxed room. An elevator?

Biggs stopped at the elevator while Jessie, Rally, Barret and I crowded inside. We gave him a nod, Biggs' job was to keep the codes from locking and the elevator being stuck on the bottom floor, or so that's what he told me. The doors closed behind us and Jessie patted my shoulder. "Press that button over there, Kel." I looked at the massive pink button across from her side of the elevator and did as she told me. The button vibrated with a loud "PRONG' sound.

With that the elevator shoved off with a slow rumbling start but the ride was smooth.

"Little by little, the reactors'll drain out all life. And that'll be that." Barret stood looking at the ceiling speaking to no on in particular.

Rally rested her back against a wall in the elevator with her arms folded." That's got nothin' to do with us."

"The planet's dyin', Rally." Barret turned to us with a stomp that made the entire elevator rumble. But neither of us had the guts to tell Barret to stop it. He was a raging, muscular behemoth with a gun for an arm to top it off. The guy was fucking scary, he looked like Mr. T from the A-Team.

"What about you, Kel? Don't tell me you don't care either..." Barret glared to me next, which made my heart drop. Jessie who was hacking into the control panel inside the elevator simply turned to look at me. Rally opened an eye to look up at me as well to hear my answer.

I shrugged. "Uhhh...I-I dunno."

Barret smirked. "WHAT DO YOU KNOW DAMMIT?!"

'That I'm about to shit my pants.' I held my hands up while jumping back abit. "Uhhhh..."

"I'm getting' more suspicious of you by the minute. Who wears a dress shirt and what's with the tie and that hat? You look like you're goin' to a party, not a bombing mission. I hear in ShinRa there's a unit that wears suits with ties...the Turks! YOU ONE OF THEM!?" Barret shouted.

"Whoa wait...I'm not." I started.

Rally spoke up for me, she quickly walked over between me and Barret and rested a hand on her hip as cool as Lightning did in Final Fantasy XIII. "Will you knock it off, he's not apart of ShinRa, ok? If you really don't want him here then you say so...and I'll escort him out of here. If you're just blowing off steam then save it, old man."

Barret turned away from us trembling in rage, he looked over his shoulder at us like a shark. My mind almost went blank from fear, he looked like he wanted to mutilate us. But Rally was so calm, and composed. "We're here." As if to break the tension, Jessie announced our destination. The Reactor Core...

The elevator came to a steam raising halt.

[BGM: "Reactor Core Theme" Final Fantasy VII OST]

The Reactor Core was exactly what I expected it to look like in person, a massive steam engine that seemingly pumped a massive tank of green goo, mako energy. Hundreds upon thousands of pipes ran from the core, Barret, Rally and I approached it from the core from the single walkway of iron, I got more and more nervous. I had a bad feeling about this thing.

"When we blow this place, this ain't gonna be nothing' more than hunky junk. Alright Kel, you set the bomb." Barret shoved me towards the core.

"Why me?" I looked back at him.

"Because I still don't trust ya, I'm gonna need to keep my eye on ya." He stomped. "Now get to work."

Rally pulled off a leather backpack and handed me the explosion which looked like a brick of C4. "All you have to do is stick it to the core and set the time." I took the block and did as instructed. Setting a bomb was a lot easier than they made it look in movies. "I set the time for 10 minutes...is that OK?" I asked.

The moment I said that crimson red alarms sounded off painting the walls of the Reactor with a red flash. Suddenly the sounds of stomping filled the air as I turned to look up. Stuck to the wall like a giant spider was the mech, Red Scorpion. The very first mini boss in the game. "Holy shit!" I pointed at it.

"Here it comes." Barret said as his metal arm had morphed into the gun arm. Rally stood up drawing her twin sabers, one in each hand as the giant Guard Scorpion slammed down cutting our path to the elevator off.

Rally's head turned to me as I was down on all fours having been knocked down from the shock wave the Guard Scorpion created simply slamming down on the walkway. "I know you're scared, these things are scary at first but you'll get used to it. Trust me." She said standing to my defense. "I'll protect you until you get the nerve to fight...it's what Tifa did for me. When I started out."

My hands, my hands wouldn't stop shaking.

The Guard Scorpion was huge, I'd never seen a mech in person before. It's enough to make me want to jump off the walkway and fall into the Mako Streams below. Barret and Rally engaged it while I backed as far away as I could, leaning against the Reactor. Bullets, blasts and attacks exchanged.

Rally and Barret were amazing, they fought against the monstrosity as if it were second nature. Almost as if they weren't human themselves. While the Guard Scorpion shelled out a multitude of bullets from its two-gun arms, Rally dashed into the death storm of bullets with her swords blazing. She leaped at the machine and took a swing at it, actually cutting into one of its gun arms.

The Guard Scorpion raised it's tail and attempted to impale Barret thrusting the blade tip towards him. The man simply leaped out-of-the-way landing on a pipe a few walkways over, once he pulled his huge body up, he open fired from a distance causing the Scorpion to actually guard itself from Barret's maelström of bullets.

Man was I pathetic, sitting here whimpering while they fought for me, I seemed to do okay against those soldiers earlier...or was that just a fluke?

The mechanical monstrosity spotted me, it's eyes scanned my body with a loud ear shattering shriek. I guess it had analyzed me as an enemy. The monster galloped towards me on its long spider-like legs and tears rolled down my eyes as I screamed. "NOOOO!" I shouted raising a trembling hand.

Rally came to my rescue sliding under the Scorpion's abdomen then jumped to try and slash at its head but the Scorpion mecha slapped her aside with its tail. As I watched her fly, so did my hope. With that Guard Scorpion's massive gun arm slammed into my chest and began forcing me against the Reactor core in a terrifying vice-grip. The pain of that cold metal harshly pressing my face into the reactor was beyond words.

"Arrrrghhhhh!" I screamed. Instinctively, my right palm dove into the holster on my right thigh and drew that nifty handgun with the flashlight attachment. POW! I let a shot fly off striking the robo guard straight in the left scanner(his eye). With that the Guard swaggered back making the sound of a scratchy DSL cable trying to connect to the internet.

[BGM: "Verge of Assault" Final Fantasy VII Crisis Core OST]

I drew the pump-action shotgun from my back. CHA-CHIK! POW! CHA-CHIK! POW!

I let the rounds fly one after another into the guard scorpion's chest and with every shot the mech took a step back, as it's armor was falling apart from the scattering shots. With that I holstered the shotgun. I don't know what it was, but something inside me snapped. The fear and cowardice that led me astray was gone, the only thing built up in me now was rage and hatred.

Pint up hate for this thing that caused me to crawl into such a cowardly hole and cry like a bitch. Strapped around my arms were black leather straps that held my Shotgun up in the back, another handgun underneath my right armpit. There was also a single round frag grenade strapped to that same holster near my chest.

I bolted towards the Scorpion drawing both my side arms and opening fire at its chest. I kept shooting until a small cavity opened in its chest mail. With that pulling the grenade and it's clip from my strap and slamming it into the Scorpion's chest cavity. Next, I hopped off of the scorpion's chest and landed down sliding behind it.

"Boom." I stood up dusting my hands off.

The machine's torso exploded sending shards flying in every which direction past me. After the explosion, I knocked back into my own senses. I took a quick look around the facility seeing Rally hanging off the edge of one of walkway where she'd saved me. I dashed over to her quickly pulling her up. "Grrr..." I grunted pulling her by her arm up past me.

"How was it?" She asked as she rolled off of my chest and stood to sheath her sabers.

I leaned up to think about it for a second. I wasn't seriously hurt... "It...actually was kinda fun."

She smiled at me and held a hand up to help me to my feet. "Welcome to Gaia."

I took her hand and she pulled me up.

"Oooh touching moment kids, but you forget there's A FRIGGIN BOMB BEHIND YOU READY TO EXPLODE?!" Barret's voice echoed as he climbed the ladder up the platform to the elevator. I turned towards Rally and she looked at me, with that we both bolted towards the ladder, I climbed up first and she was second. After hopping off, I noticed Jessie to my far right.

Her foot stuck in a grate and she tried frantically pulling at it. "Noo...! Nooo!" She squealed.

Rally and Barret were already taking off towards the elevator. I slid over to her and pulled her foot from the grate, with that she hopped over my shoulder and took off running for the elevator. "What? No thank you?" I said catching up to the gang. We rode the elevator back up to the floor we'd started, where we once again met up with Biggs.

Just as we made it through the two barricade doors again with Biggs and Jessie's deciphered codes, there was a rumble that shook the entire reactor once. We all dropped to our feet, being the first to get up I spotted someone new standing in our path. He had shoulder length brunette hair with a slick jaw and pale skin.

Thrown over his back was a burgundy leather coat with a matching colored long sword.

"Infinite in Mystery...is the gift of the Goddess. We seek it thus and take to the sky. Ripples form...on the water's surface. The wandering soul knows no rest. Loveless...Act 1." The pretty boy with the glowing green eyes said as he gazed at me.

I looked back at him and our eyes met, the moment we connected our gazes it seemed that time all around me had frozen. I could hear nothing else, see nothing else. Only this bastard.

What's going on here? This didn't happen in the beginning of Final Fantasy VII either...

"Even if the marrow is barren of promises...nothing...shall forestall my return."

"Genesis?" I said raising an eyebrow. The moment I spoke his name he disappeared. Standing around me was the rest of AVALANCHE.

Rally took my arm and dragged me along. "HURRY UP YOU IDIOT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING JUST STANDING AROUND? WE GOTTA MOVE!" She shouted.

With that my mind snapped back into it and I dashed through the hall behind Barret and beside Biggs and Rally. All of us spotted Wedge who was standing on the fourth tier. He turned to look at us then took off running down a steeled hallway that was separate from the reactor. As we all ran I noticed Jessie lagging behind, it was probably her ankle that stuck in the grate.

I slowed down my run to match her and we were running side by side. "Kel?!" Her foot caught on something and she started to trip. I grabbed her before she could fall and carried her the last few steps of the way as a wall of infernal fire spat from the Mako Reactor. The explosion was so powerful it pushed Jessie and I into the steel hall with everyone else as well as barracking the door with rubble and steel.

Well...that was awesome!