Author's Note: Here's Chapter 4. In come a few familiar freaks that we all know and love... And it's time for the Jeopardy, hehe... In comes a little SNL humor as well. .

PART 4

Meanwhile, back at the party. Everything had quieted down a bit after Selphie's train song routine. Irvine had started up a game of Jeopardy and him being Alec Trebec he was unfortunately the host. The cowboy was questioning a group of females about inappropriate stuff.

"Miss Freya Cresent...will you go out with me?" asked the sharpshooter.

"What?" replied the dragon knight, outraged by the perverse question.

"No, I'm sorry, the correct answer was 'when do you pick me up?' grinned Irvine as he began to blush a bit.

"Pervert...you didn't even ask the question in the form of an answer..." mocked Freya.

"Oops..."

The game continued with Freya still having control of the board.

"Irvine, I'll take your-an-idiot for 2 billion," Freya mocked.

"Err... that's not a category..." Irvine replied.

"THEN MAKE IT ONE!" the dragon knight demanded, sending forth a miniature earthquake throughout the room causing everyone to wobble off their feet.

"Err... let's move on to Final Jeopardy then, shall we?" snorted Irvine in response.

On the other side of the lounge...

"C'mon Squall, why are you such a social disaster? "questioned a tense Rinoa who was beginning to bore of his "whatever" routine. "It's Halloween, get with the program..."

"Whatev-" Squall began to say but was cut off.

"You know what I'm talking about...oh the hell...." Stomped Rinoa as she forced herself to scat from the monotone-like creature known as Squall. As she headed to the refreshement table, she peered for a second out the window and noticed as the stars had come out from their hiding that a shooting star was flying back. Her romantic nature kicked in as she calmed down and looked back towards her love...

"Oh look a shooting star, I wonder if my wish will come true..." Rinoa said as he looked toward Squall in a vivid way. Squall just scratched his head.

"Maybe...better to not jump to conclusions though," Squall replied in his ever-supportive way.

"I still remember that one night just a few months ago..."Rinoa smiled as she hid her hands behind her back and started to circle around Squall, with the playful strides of her feet doing the work for her.

"What is she up to?" Squall said to himself in his dream world.

"It was like something was missing..." Rinoa said as she lifted up her finger towards the clear sky. Squall blinked and suddenly his expression turned into confusion.

"Umm, aren't you getting carried away, we aren't ready to do that yet..." he replied nervously...

"What?" questioned Rinoa as she didn't quite get the picture that was developing in the Lionheart wielder's head.

"You just said you wanted too... and well, I don't want to carry anyone else's burden."

"Squall! I didn't mean that..."

"Then what was with this..." Squall questioned as he repeated the finger motion Rinoa had done but with a different finger...the finger he had thought Rinoa had exposed.

"SQUALL! We're trying to keep THIS FIC PG-13!"

"!#$&!#&#&#&&##$&#$&&$#!#$&!" replied the gunblade specialist.

slap went the palm of Rinoa as it whacked Squall across the face in the ever-classic lady's fashion.

"What! I didn't say #$ &$ &$#!"

slap

"Stop slapping me"

slap

"Ok, it's really starting to hurt now..."

SLAPPPPPPP

"Can't....keep.....standing...."

slap

"....pain......pain......"

slap slap slap

"Whenever sang my songs..."

slap

"I gotta find sis..."

slap slap slap slap slap slap slap slap

"Rinoa, the readers are getting the wrong idea of us...again..."

KAPOW!!!! (6.6 on the scale)

With his face burning of the redness, Squall fell flat on his face unconscious with a loud thud...In other words; it was lights out for the commander.

Rinoa looked over at him and couldn't help but feel guilty as she stared down at the still body of her so-called devotee...

"Wonder if I hit him too much... Oh, where's a Full-Life when I need one...Hmm...I wonder what's in this punch..." Rinoa couldn't resist the scent of the punch, so she took a cup-full and vanquished the drink in one gulp. Her face started to turn a bright pink, and moments later; she fell down backwards right on top of Squall.

Passing on by, Cid Highwind chuckled to the unconscious couple. "Damn, young people just can't wait to start these days...everyone's getting into the act..." he chuckled before leaving to go outside to smoke a cigarette.

"Zidane...I think we're far enough away from that monster now, can't we stop somewhere...my legs hurt..." called out Garnet to the runaway thief spiriting ahead of her.

"Alright...whew, I haven't had a workout like that since running away from those monsters in the Evil Forest..." Zidane agreed as he sat down on a nearby park bench.

Garnet, not really having a choice, sat down next to the exhausted young man with a tail.

"I'm sorry Garnet, I didn't realize all the trouble we'd get ourselves into tonight," apologized Zidane as he begin to take off his gorilla mask.

"That's okay Zidane...I'm used to being put into tight situations like that, beside, we're safe now and that's all that matters right?" comforted Garnet as she held Zidane's hand.

"You're a true friend Garnet...I don't know what my life would be without you..." Zidane brightly smiled as he squeezed her hand tightly.

"Aww...Zidane..." Garnet smiled as she laid her head down on Zidane's lap...Zidane just smiled and stroked her gentle black hair..."

"Garnet..." said a tense Zidane as he stopped stroking her hair. "You remember that time I carried you underneath Dali Village..."

"Why, of course...we had to hide from those workers creating the black mages..."

"Well, I may have to do that again because we GOT COMPANY!!!" shouted Zidane as he grabbed her small body and carried her, dashing away from the oncoming Omega Weapon...

"Ekkkkkkkkkkkk!!!!" screeched Garnet as she held on to Zidane for dear life. "Mach 3 Zidane...now!!!"

"Yes M'am.." replied the sprinter.

"Are we lost again?" Shadow asked, with his dog barking shortly thereafter. Along with the other bounty hunters and Seymour, the group had found itself in the middle of hundreds of slot machines, and they could barely find a way out, literally feeling as though they were in a maze.

"How can you get lost in a Casino? Even puberty boy would know where to go at a time like this...but then again his father would have brought the wrong map for sure," Seifer snickered.

"Hey! Don't rub it in!" Laguna whined.

"Why do they build 'dem so damn big..." snorted Barret, recalling fond memories of ShinRa Headquarters' back in Midgar and the nightmarish time he was forced by Cloud's stupidity to climb up all sixty floors just to reach the breeching point. He remembered it as being a life or death situation.

"How the hell should I know?" sneered Amarant gazing up at the many floors that were visible from their current viewpoint.

"Hey, let's ask that blonde kid over their where we are, the one that appears to be using too much hair gel..." Seymour suggested.

The group of hunters went over to the drunken spiky-haired swordsman, who was barely able to stand on his feet as he was clearly intoxicated by an interesting substance. His breath reeked of something between chalk and vinegar.

"Hello sir...how do you do, you see, we're...." Seymour began but was quickly interrupted by a familiar tune.

"Go now...if you want it, an Otherworld awaits you..." the swordsman with the Buster sword roared as he tried to sing, but was way off tune.

"Oh good lord, do not tempt me with that song..." Seymour grinned as he began to head bang like there was no tomorrow..."

"FIGHT FIGHT FIGHTTT FIGHT FIGHT FIGGHTTTTTT!!!" howled Cloud as he began to lose his voice..."

Seymour took over from that point on... "FIGHT FIGHHT FIGHHHHTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!" he screeched as he broke every shade of glass within a two-mile radius...

"Hmm, don't know my own strength...Tidus will suffer now with my newfound power! Wahahahehehe!!" laughed Seymour as he jumped into a huge roulette wheel and claimed it to be a ride.

"Mary had a little lamb..." Cloud cried as he fainted on the marble flooring.

"What was that?" Aeris said in a tone of terror as she could had sworn she heard some hard rockers break several shards of glass or something equivalent to it.

"Someone trying to sound like Metallica..." Sephy sighed. "They need to turn it down..."

"Who's Metal-Licka?" Aeris asked.

"Oh I did not just hear that...where have you been the last six years?" Sephy asked the young ancient.

Aeris gave him the death glare. Sephy's eye rose as he scratched his head "Right...I forgot..." he groaned as he contrasted his future with that of a cutting sound with his finger gilding across his neck.

"Let's go find out...if this is Metal-Licka, I wanna see!" beamed Aeris as she hopped up and down a bit, her excitement growing with each passing second.

"Girl, keep saying it like that and you're be back in the Lifestream before you can say 'knights of the round'..." Sephy glared.

A short while later, the sliver-haired titan and the Ancient came upon the ruminates of Cloud, who was still out cold, but now drooling on the pavement right in front of the Casino entranceway...

"Cloud!" Aeris shrieked as she kneeled down besides him and took his head in her lap. "Poor Cloud, I think he's had enough fun for one day..." Aeris sighed.

"You aren't suggesting he...did it...are you...?" Sephy said in a shocked tone, referring to the smile that was on his rival's face.

"You are so nasty!!" Aeris hissed as she walloped some sense into the great dark angel, for the second time all night.

"Why me..." Sephy grunted as he turned once sideways and fell on top of Cloud.

"Oops...I didn't mean to hit so hard..." Aeris giggled as she gazed down at the two powerhouses, smiling at their peaceful inert states.

"Hey Aeris..." came a familiar voice from afar. "Woah...and I thought Rinoa and Squall had it rough...this is getting messed up..." Cid Highwind groused as he kneed down to observe the pair more closely.

"Must be Tifa's influence..." Aeris again sighed as she and Cid attempted to drag the two soldiers inside the Casino.

Author's Note: Wahahaha, for all you Tifa fans, just wait, she has a fairly large role in this fic... And Cloud and Sephiorth will make their returns momentarily. But I bet you are just dying to see what happens to the others. Will Zidane and Garnet ever escape Omega Weapon? Has Seymour found Tidus yet? Will Freya win the final round of Jeopardy? All those questions and more await you in Part Five! But before that, why not R & R, you know you want to .