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Final Fantasy XIII
Bodhum – PSICOM Encampment
About 15 minutes had passed, he had only spent the whole time staring at the monitor, his mind shattered at what he had seen. Now he was closing out of the menu and navigating to access the Bodhum Purge Trains, he went through the menus, trying to find names of everyone loaded on and sure enough, his family was on that list, the sight of such a betrayal caused him to nearly go on a rampage, but he contained his anger. Further down the list was Lightning's name on one of the purge trains that had been sent out a little bit ago.
However something was listed next to her name, the word 'voluntary purgee' was beside her name. "Why Claire?" He whispered to himself in an almost inaudible tone. He then remembered something, she had a datalog on her being a Guardian Corps soldier. He opened up any information he could find about the Hanging Edge. Maps of the region came up, news articles, and much more appeared on his screen.
He began to read some of the articles, briefly skimming them where he got information about the purge in the Hanging Edge, apparently the civilians that had been sent out on the purge trains were fighting back against the Sanctum. One particular group known as N.O.R.A. Was leading the resistance and PSICOM soldiers were having a hard time dealing with them.
"Must be PSICOM's low ranks..." He whispered quietly to himself once again before reading on.
He also found pictures of people fighting and eventually he stumbled across a picture of a pink haired woman with a taller man both in purgee robes. He instantly recognized the woman as Lightning, but the man... she had never seen him before. He zoomed in on the image as the duo were kind of in the background of the picture, then he began to search him up in the database.
/ Sazh Katzroy /
Gender: Male
Age: 40
Height: 6' 2"
Laterality: Ambidextrous
Occupation: Pilot
Family: Dajh Katzroy
Sazh has worked as a pilot and lost his wife three years ago. He has a son named Dajh who was branded by the Fal'cie Kujata. As a Sanctum Fal'cie Dajh is currently in PSICOM custody under the direct supervision of Lieutenant Colonel Jihl Nabaat.
With the help of Dajh's ability to sense objects of Pulse origin, PSICOM discovered the existence of a Pulse Fal'cie inside the Bodhian Pulse Vestige. Under authority of the Sanctum, a purge has been ordered on Bodhum.
He stopped reading up about the male and sighed. "So his son is how they discovered it..." He felt somewhat upset, if only his son had never came to Bodhum, they'd have all been fine, but he knew that Dajh didn't intentionally mean to harm anyone, seeing the picture of Sazh and his son only made him calm down a bit, the only ill that Dajh had done was be at the wrong place at the wrong time, and he somewhat felt sorry for the father and son.
He then exited out of the database and went back to the information he had on the Hanging Edge. He opened up the maps and sent out a call to Lightning's datalog.
"Claire? You there?"
Lightning was sitting on one of the seats in the purge train when she heard a small tone coming from the earpiece in her ear, she pushed a button on the datalog she kept hidden in the right pocket of her White Guardian Corps jacket, now hidden underneath the purgee robe. "Hey… Storm you there?" She huffed, knowing she'd need to keep it down, besides she already had Sazh butting in on her business.
"Yeah I'm here… how's it going? I see you got on the purge train." Alex replied, leaning back in his chair.
"…. Yeah, I had to give up my place in Guardian Corps to get on… but… I'm on my way to Serah… I'm such an idiot, I should have never pushed her away like that…"
"You couldn't have known Light… look we will get her back alright? That's the entire reason you're doing this… it's crazy, but I understand why you'd go to such lengths... I just want to let you know I'm with you every step of the way."
"Thanks..." She asked in a whisper.
"Also, I got you a little present… Everything you need to know about the Hanging Edge is slowly being transmitted to your Datalog, this includes maps of the region, codex entries, and enemy troops."
"Alright…. thanks… I'll see you after I get Serah out of here alright? I'm sorry I've been in a bad mood all yesterday… I just… I can't believe what happened to her, even now I'm worried deep down that I may have lost her…"
"No… you will get her back, you can't give up on her alright? The next checkpoint is coming up… I've rigged it to disable all PSICOM electronics… you know what to do…"
"Thanks… I've got it from here… keep me posted, I'll update you on my status." She then lowered her communicator, Sazh not noticing that she had been talking to someone as he had been too busy looking around at the people in the purge train.
A PSICOM soldier then walked in and looked around, aiming his gun at the purgee's checking around for suspicious activity. They stayed quiet save for two who exchanged a whisper.
Sazh looked at Lightning. "You serious?" He had found out earlier on their ride that she intended to stop this train and fight PSICOM.
"Be quiet…" She whispered back, a bit annoyed by him. She couldn't risk being found by the PSICOM soldiers, but she knew that in a matter of seconds, they'd reach the checkpoint.
"Hmph… best of luck."
They closed in on the gateway and they crashed through the electronics jamming barrier that Alex had set up at the next checkpoint, shattering it and causing the train to shake. The PSICOM soldier stumbled and Lightning stood up, wearing her Purgee robe. She flipped over the soldier, causing him to drop a rectangular device that she landed on, unlocking the restraints on their hands.
The mission to save Serah had begun.
