Chapter 3

Untold Future and Troubled Minds

Date: 13th October 2035

Location: Balamb Town (Soldiers Heart Tavern)

The hustle and bustle of the pub's glorious atmosphere of the celebration of the 6 months of peace from the Sorceress Wars, everyone from Balamb was there in full form drinking and dancing to very loud music performed by Zell and his band "Tribal Flame" while in the corner of the room Squall and Riona were sitting having an in depth discussion about everything that had happened since they met. "Squall do you think everything is going to be the way it was when we met, you know teaming up doing mission's having fun and just being able to do this every now and then?" "I really hope so the war came with a lot stress and I was never fully able to change myself to show you how I felt about you at the time, but keeping to myself meant I was able to get what we needed to have done, Now I can give you my all remember I am your knight I swore I'd never leave you….. I…. Uh….. I…..I" Riona just sat next to Squall looking into his eye's smiling as he squirmed in his seat trying to hard to avoid Rinoa's gaze and hope she never caught the last of the sentence he just spoke but a soft gentle hand lifted his head up to Rinoa's eye level and whispered "It's okay, I love you too" Squall's face went bright red and he quickly turned away trying to act cool, he nearly succeeded until Zell noticed what was going on and told his band to do their rock cover of Eyes On Me which had everyone in the pub looking at the pair. "Go on Squall do it man! We talked about this man do it!…..NOW!" with this Squall squirmed some more got onto the floor slid a ring off his finger and held it towards Rinoa and quietly said "I know it's only been half a year since we started this relationship but I feel so strongly about you… Will you marry me?" there was a pause for a few seconds which was broken by a solemn "….Yes" with this the room exploded with excitement drinks were thrown into the air people came running towards the two with screams of congratulations it really didn't help the very timid Squall. The news was spread all over the region like wildfire not one person didn't know by the end of that night.

Date: October 14th

Location: Headmaster Cid's Office/Pilots Station

"Okay people we have had some reports come in that there has been some unusual activity in the Esther region President Laguna called me this morning saying that several unknown limousine's have been spotted in and outside of the city followed by multiple army vehicles this has the President worried as you all know he gets on edge at the slightest thing so I am sending a group of three mid level SEED to investigate." "Sir do you really think this is a matter of extreme urgency ? This could just be a just a group of rebels trying to act if you don't mind me saying, big shots" questioned a level 48 SEED named Damien who was a very skilled and noble sharpshooter who had been under intense training with Irvine for the past 3 months as he was a new recruit from Tribia Garden. "Sharpshooter Damien it may be as you suspect but with the not so long ago wars we cannot take anything lightly so I ask that you take your squad with one well armed vehicle into Esther with your two Gunblade specialists they might not be as skilled as Squall but they are the closest we have to amazing compared to him so please leave as soon as possible to inspect the situation you will be dropped off by the Ragnarok piloted by Selphie as she's the only person who is able fly it. God speed, see you in a few days" "Sir!"

Meanwhile Back In The Unknown Location In Esther

Seifer had finally came to after Fujian had performed no more than five curaga's on him he was conscious and ready to try and escape the facility without running into the Mako infused Soldiers. "Right guys I have three ideas that could work but I'm not one hundred percent on any of them. We can try pretending I'm still out cold and getting that asshole guard in here leaving the door open and we attack him and make a run for the weapons locker, or we can try some high level magic on this wall behind me as it looks like we could get a straight run for what looks like Esther city about a mile away so…." But was cut off mid sentence by a very loud and pissed off Raijin "Y'know boss I think you're losing it! You said yourself it's a mile away no way in hell are we going to be able to make it without one of those Mako junkies jumping us and we'll end up back here and you'll most likely be dead y'know?, they aint too keen on your loud mouth" "Okay that idea is forgotten, my last idea was to just wait around till nightfall then use a GF like my personal favourite Diablos to make some sort of time dilemma allowing us to break free and get away before anyone even notices we had even summoned him." said Seifer with a very big grin on his face realising he actually had at least one decent plan in that mush he calls a brain. "Option 3 sounds like the plan with the highest rate of success" Claimed Fujian still standing in a corner calculating everything that had happened and trying to figure out the best route of escape.

Nightfall had came within a few short hours and the plan was ready to be put into motion. "Fuck it here goes nothing guys!" with this Seifer called forth Diablos and he made a massive time compression around the unknown location one mile from any sign of normal life. "Right Raijin get that wall down now!" Seifer then realised the way was already clear as the impact of the Time Compression had blown a van sized hole in the wall, Fujian and Raijin were already at full sprint for the facility's car park finding several military issue high end Mercedes CLK63 AMG Black Series with a few seconds worth of hot wiring by Fujian they were already pelting at speeds in the excess of 150mph towards Esther when the car was send hurtling across the desert from what looked like some form of laser like beam cutting the road ahead in half making the surface impossible to drive on. The three climbed out of the wrecked Mercedes to see just one figure standing with a sword as big as the car they just escaped from. "Guys that was a bad move on your half you ruin our HQ then you go ahead and steal one of our cars which happened to be mine by the way. Now you'll have to deal with one of Shin-Ra's most hardcore Soldiers!" with this the shadowed figure walked in front of the wrecked Mercedes letting the embers of the flames kiss his skin and allowing the flames to give light on the unknown males face, to reveal that he looked strangely reminiscent to Cloud with the exception that this man had black hair and seemed a little more relaxed than the other Soldier members.

"Who the fuck are you and do you really think you're going to take us three at the same time!" Screamed Seifer as he lunged towards the Soldier, "My name… Is Zack, Soldier 1st Class you in competent little shit" saying this as he quickly stepped off from where he was standing into a full on sprint towards his enemy with full intention of a one shot kill situation but was knocked off guard by a kick to the head by Raijin and punch to the gut from Fujian while being slashed on the abdominal region by Seifer's Gunblade tearing deep into his left side ripping clean through leaving Zack on the spot bleeding heavily and staggering. "Soldier my ass you're just a guy with a huge sword trying to compensate for a lack in battle skill. I have no idea how you made it up the ran…..Oh shit!" Seifer was cut off by a swarm of meteors heading down towards him cast down by Zack as he slowly walked towards him grinning knowing he would well and truly win this fight forgetting Seifer's Gunblade was still in his side Seifer hastily ran towards Zack diving and dodging falling meteors grabbing the Gunblade and thrusting it upwards severing all veins to the heart leaving the Soldier on his hands and knees. "I really do hope all these Soldier punks are as easy as this joker y'know?" boastingly exclaimed Raijin as he started to casually walk towards Esther that was only a few minutes away, "We really need to get to Esther and speak with Laguna okay he's not our biggest fan but he can let the guys at Balamb know something fucked up is going on lets just hope we aren't too late" sighed Seifer now realising what they had gotten into and what they had ahead of them.