Once the ramp was fully descended, Dio, Squall and Cloud ran out of the ship and into what appeared to be a large open room

Once the ramp was fully descended, Dio, Squall and Cloud ran out of the ship and into what appeared to be a large open room. Sora began to follow them, but was stopped when Irvine held out his hand to block Sora. Sora looked to Irvine, who shook his head. "Not yet" he whispered. After a few moments Dio signaled that all was clear and Sora and the others ran over to join up.

The room appeared to be a hanger bay; it was a large, vast room that contained rows of ships similar in size to the Ragnarok. The other ships, however, were covered with burn marks and several appeared to be missing pieces.

Sora noticed that Dio and Cloud were kneeling over something and walked over to get a better look. It was a man, or rather, what was left of one. The man was wearing black body armor from head to toe. Only his face was exposed, and it was frozen with a look of sear terror. The man's torso had been ripped to shreds by something; the chest plate of his armor was in tatters and blood was everywhere. Sora reeled back in disgust.

Dio sighed. "I was afraid of this. This ship dropped disappeared a few weeks ago. Many people believed that the crew disserted their posts and ran to some far away planet. Looks like they were wrong."

"What happened to him?" Sora asked.

Dio pointed at the man's chest. "Someone shot him with an assault rifle of some kind. Whoever it was must have unloaded fifty rounds into him."

"Oh my God!" Kairi exclaimed, just noticing the body. "Who could have done that?"

Dio stood, "I have a pretty good idea." He then pulled a small radio out of his jacket and spoke into it. "Selphie, keep the engines hot. We may need to leave this place very quickly."

He put the radio back in his jacket and motioned to the other members of the group. Follow me, try to stay close and keep quiet. Keep your eyes open, we don't want anything sneaking up on us."

"Wait for us!" Donald shouted as he and Goofy ran down the ramp.

"No," Dio shouted. "You two need to stay here with Selphie and guard the ship. The last thing we need is someone coming and scrapping the ship for parts while were gone."

"But-" Donald started to argue.

"That's an order Donald." Dio interrupted, sounding more annoyed than usual.

After a few seconds Donald nodded and headed back into the ship, Goofy quickly followed suit. Satisfied, Dio nodded and began walking out of the hanger. The group slowly walked down a dark corridor until they reached a small room. Several computer banks filled the center of the room, but they were all damaged beyond repair.

Several corridors led out of this room. Dio stared at each one in turn, unsure which way to go. After a few moments he placed his hand on his ear and began to speak. "EVA, I need the schematics for a Griffon class prison ship." Almost immediately several small rectangles of light appeared a few inches in front to Dio's face. From what Sora could tell the small rectangles contained drawings of some kind, but they were much too small for him to make out anything else. After a few seconds of staring at the screens, Dio nodded and turned to the group. "This way" he said, walking down one of the corridors.

"Wait," Sora said as he was trying to catch up, "how did you do that? And who is EVA?"

"Cutting edge technology kid," Dio replied as he walked. "It's a small holographic projector I wear over my eyes like a contact lens. It displays information so that I can look at it and still be aware of what's going on around me. As for EVA, well that's a long story that we can't really get into right now."

The group turned a corner and stopped suddenly, there were three strange creatures in the hallway. Sora had never seen anything like them before. The creatures were basically human in shape; except they were well over six and a half feet tall and their entire body was gray in color. The muscles in their arms and legs were clearly visible, but something was different about them. They looked more like thousands of tiny wires than actual muscles.

Their heads were the strangest part; they looked almost as though they were wearing steel hoods. Their faces were nothing more than a bright blue light. All three of the creatures were holding assault rifles as well as several other weapons on their back. Suddenly, one of the creatures looked up and noticed Sora and the others. It trained its gun on them and emitted a strange clicking sound.

"Shit!" Dio screamed as he grabbed Sora by his collar and dragged him back around the corner just as a stream of bullets flew down the hallway.

That was the second time today someone had to grab Sora and pull him out of the way of danger, and he was beginning to get tired of it. "What are those things?" He asked.

"Geth," Dio screamed back. "They're a race of robots, looks like they attacked this ship and-GAHHHH!" He screamed in pain as a random bullet grazed his arm. He bent over in pain and blood splattered all over the opposite wall. "Damn," he grunted, clutching his injured arm. He then reached into his jacket with his good arm and pulled out a small black cylinder. He pushed a button on the top of the cylinder and it began to glow red. He then threw the glowing cylinder across the corner and pushed the others farther back down the hallway. A few seconds later there was a loud bang and fire rushed down the hallway. When the fire receded there were no more gunshots.

"Cool!" Sora said, amazed. "Nice job Dio."

"Thanks, but now all the Geth on this ship know were here." Dio replied, once again clutching his arm. "We'd better hurry to the brig."

"That looks pretty bad," Irvine interjected. "You should probably head back to the ship; we can handle it from here."

"No, it's just a scratch. I'll be fine." Dio countered. "We just need to hurry. Come on, this way."

Jonathan woke to a low rumbling sound that seemed to reverberate throughout the ship. It sounded almost like an explosion, as though someone was attacking the ship. Just then an alarm sounded outside the door of his prison cell, confirming his suspicions.

"What's going on?" Jenna asked groggily, the explosion must have woken her up as well.

Jonathan turned to look at his cell mate. Jenna appeared to be in her mid twenties and was very attractive, with long blond hair, big blue eyes, and soft facial features. Her beauty was only skin deep, however. Jenna was a complete airhead; He found that he had to explain everything to her whenever they talked. It was like he was talking to a three year old. And they talked a lot, that seemed to be the only thing she enjoyed doing. He had contemplated killing her more than once just so he could have some peace and quiet, but he always thought better of it. The Geth had left them both alive for a reason, and he didn't want to anger his captors by killing a fellow prisoner.

"I think someone's attacking the ship." He replied.

"Who?" Jenna asked.

How the hell am I supposed to know? Jonathan thought to himself, but he managed to hold his tongue. "I'm not sure," he said instead, "maybe they're here to rescue us."

"I hope so," Jenna replied, bringing herself up to a sitting position and propping herself against the opposite wall so she could face him.

The energy field that served as the door of the cell cast filled the cell with a strangely calming red glow. He glanced at the field and moved away from it. Those things were known to cause third degree burns if they were touched, so he tried to stay as far away from it as he could.

"Maybe if I ask nicely enough, they will take me to the Citadel." Jenna said, trying to make conversation.

Jonathan wasn't in the mood; however, he just nodded and looked at the ground, mainly to hide the look of disgust on his face. Why would the Geth have captured such a useless girl? He thought to himself. She had been brought here a few weeks ago and thrown in the same cell as him. He thought it was strange at first but figured that the Geth were just trying to be as efficient as possible, they were machines after all. She claimed the Geth attacked her hometown and took her captive. Jonathan found the story shaky but couldn't think of anything she could be hiding. It had been nice at first having a companion to talk to, but now her constant jabbering was driving him crazy.

Oh well, he thought to himself, if I'm lucky I'll be rescued soon enough. He smiled to himself. Several of his rescuers would most likely be killed by the Geth, and it would be an easy enough matter to kill the rest of them in their sleep and hijack their ship. Then he could take his sweet time killing Jenna, but not before he had some fun with her.

And if she resisted, well that just made things more interesting.

Suddenly the main entrance to the brig was blown open by a massive explosion. Out of the smoke, a man entered. He was a muscular man with a long red jacket and a large metal case on his back. In his hands were two Alliance Military grade pistols. Three more men walked in behind him, one skinny man with a ponytail and carrying a shotgun and two burly guys with swords. Then three kids entered, two boys and a girl, carrying swords of their own. It was probably the strangest group Jonathan had ever seen, but that didn't matter. They were going to rescue him, time for some acting.

He approached the force field, appearing to be as excited as possible. "Thank God you're here! We've been imprisoned here for weeks and we were worried no-"

Something suddenly struck Jonathan in the back of the head, propelling him forward into the force field. He screamed in pain as the force field discharged its energy. After a few agonizing seconds he fell backwards onto the floor. His chest and the right side of his face were completely charred, and every nerve in his body screamed in pain. He looked up to see Jenna looking down at him.

"What the hell did you that for Jenna?" He managed to say.

Jenna didn't say anything. She didn't have to though, Jonathan already had his answer. Jenna had changed; her face no longer had the look of a sweet, innocent girl. She was now cold and calculating, she was a killer.

She had been playing him since day one, and he had fallen for it.

Oh shit

Jenna punched him in the face. The force of the blow and the pain from his burns were too much for him, almost instantly Jonathan's entire world went black.

The man crumpled from the force of the woman's blow and fell to the floor unconscious. The Woman just looked at the man few seconds before muttering the word "pervert" under her breath. With that she looked at Dio. "What the hell are you doing here?" She asked.

"We're here to rescue you." Dio replied, slightly confused by the woman's demeanor.

The woman crossed her arms "I don't seem to remember asking you to rescue me." She said.

Sora couldn't help but stare, who is this woman? He asked himself. The man had called her Jenna hadn't he?

Jenna was a tall woman with long blonde hair and bright blue eyes. Even though she was wearing a loose fitting prisoner's uniform Sora could tell she was muscular, and the way she stood told him that she knew how to handle herself in a fight. Everything about her intimidated Sora, he made a mental note to never get on her bad side.

"Nevertheless, here we are." Dio replied. He raised his gun and fired three rounds into a control panel next to the force field, which almost immediately began to dissipate. "How did they manage to capture you anyway?" He asked.

"I wanted them to," Jenna replied. "The Alliance was paying quite a bit of money to find out where the Geth land this ship to refuel and repair it. Thanks for ruining my job by recuing me by the way, I really appreciate it."

The shield had dissipated and Jenna stopped to pick up the unconscious man before leaving the cell. She handed the man off to Cloud. "Hold this for me would you."

Cloud looked at the man, confused. "Are we taking him with us?"

"He may be a scumbag," Jenna replied, "but the Alliance is willing to pay three thousand credits for him, even if he is damaged."

She then turned to Dio and held out a hand. "Gun" she said.

Dio handed her one of his pistols. She looked it over for a few seconds before smiling. "Good," she said, "well, what are we waiting for."