Fantasy 04: Gadgeteer (Final Fantasy Tactics Advance)
"Do you think it'll fly?" Bibo asked uncertain, sure it was the machine he had been working on himself, but it looked so incomplete.
It was kind of like a helicopter, except it didn't look quite as finished with wires sticking out. It looked more like an engine with a propeller on top and a seat attached on the side. "It will," but Reno couldn't be picky, this was as much as they could get with the gil they sneaked out of their mission fees and the tips and extra items that Rae never heard of.
"Ready? Don't forget, you have to charge the battery with your black mage ability when it starts to beep," the moogle gadgeteer reminded the hume who was also a gadgeteer, as odd as it may sound.
"No problem," Reno moved the goggles he usually wore on his forehead to rest over his eyes. "Take off!" The strange contraption started to fly, Bibo cheered and watched contently as the machine went higher and higher. "It won't go forward..."
"What?" Bibo tried to catch up with the machine. "What did you say?"
"It only goes up, not forward!" Reno yelled from above as the strange machine continued gaining altitude.
"Did you wire the controls like I told you?" Bibo asked.
Oops, that explained it, "no... I think I wired them like a..." Well it wasn't his fault. As a Turk Reno was used to improvising explosives, it was the force of habit that made unconsciously construct a bomb. "I gotta land this thing!" A beep was heard, indicating that the battery needed recharging. Reno let it be and the propeller started to slow down, the machine losing altitude.
But then it started to fall too fast when the propeller stopped spinning completely. "Reno, the battery!"
"I know!" Reno gave the battery a little electricity, enough to make the strange excuse for an experimental helicopter float and slow its fall. The process was repeated until the so called helicopter softly landed.
By then the Giza Plains were not as empty as they had been when they took off, now a band of thieves was resting there. "You two! Give us all your gil and items, and we'll take that weird machine too!"
"Go head and take it," Reno grabbed Bibo and ran for cover.
"Hey! The items and gil too! Leave them here!" The thief leader yelled.
"Reno, how could you leave the helicopter? It's not like you to give up, why?" Bibo complained.
"Accident," Reno replied and there was a huge explosion when the silent timer of the helicopter bomb ended its count down. The blast knocked out the band of thieves, just as a judge arrived.
"This thief clan was wanted for causing all sorts of trouble stealing around town," the judge watched the scene riding on a chocobo from a safe distance.
"I guess you're in luck because we caught them," they were lucky, so Reno thought they might as well take credit.
"I see, good, good, here's the reward," the judge handed them the reward then blew a whistle. A group of soldiers and paladins came to take the unconscious thieves away.
"How lucky, did we get a lot of gil?" Bibo peeked into the reward bag.
"Yeah, with this we could build a much better helicopter." Reno kind of missed flying the Shinra choppers, but they would have to build their own helicopter in that world since Shinra wasn't there to provide one.
Bibo nodded, "next time, don't wire it like an explosive. Maybe this is why humes are not supposed to be gadgeteers..."
"Hey! Just for that I'm keeping the gil!" Reno ran off with the bag.
"Not fair!" Bibo flew after him and clung to reward bag. "Mine!"
"No way, its mine!" Reno didn't let the gil bag go.
"What are you two doing?" A third voice was heard, interrupting the playful tug-of-war. Rae, the leader of Clan Eternity, was passing by the Giza plains on her mission to capture a band of thieves that she didn't know was caught a few minutes ago. "There are thieves around here so you have to be careful. What's in the bag?"
"Nothing!" Reno and Bibo replied unanimously and ran away, disappearing in the distance, off to cause more mischief with their attempts to build a helicopter.
End of Fantasy 04
Disclaimer, I don't own Final Fantasy VII or Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. Fantasy 04 is based on the Crystal Wars RPG, Bibo belongs to Cherri and Rae belongs to Snow.