"You! You killed my men!"
"Sorry about that, 'sir', I'll try to kill more later." Squall winked at him and began to walk away.
Captain Golger unsheathed his combat knife and charged at Squall. The leader of the SeeDs effortlessly turned around and impaled the captain on his gunblade. A frail moan was emitted from his mouth, and he then dropped to the floor, dead.
Squall kicked the corpse off of his sword and with the rest of the party, walked away to find Irvine.
Inside the ill-lit room, with the musty smell of soldiers who had been on patrol for seven days straight, sat the flabbergasted managers of the Esthar Presidential Palace.
"How did they do that!?" one asked.
"You can't let them get to Kinneas. If they release him, Galbadia will figure us out!"
Many more soldiers marched through the caliginous corridors of the prison, searching for the elusive clan who had caused all of this destruction.
"You search that hall, I'll go this way." One of the officers said to his partner.
The two men scurried off through the prison floor. The single troop marched through the passage with caution, knowing that at any second, he could be slain by one of the SeeDs. As he walked through the path, he suddenly saw a faint flicker of light around a corner. He slowly walked towards the light, with his weapon raised and ready to fire. Suddenly, a hand reached out from the darkness and grabbed the soldier around his throat.
"No! Please, Pleease, don't ki—"
But his words were cut off as the long dagger of a gunblade pierced through his back. He looked with amazed eyes at the bloody blade which he knew had caused his death. He slowly tried to turn around to see the face of his murderer, but he found he could not. For the gunblade had been pulled out of his body and then shoved through his neck. He slowly dropped to the floor and lay on the ground, watching his own blood dribble across the linoleum, signaling his oncoming fate.
Squall wiped the blood off of his weapon on the guard's carcass, then proceeded on with his companions to locate their friend, Irvine.
The commander's eyes stared blankly at the screen. On it he saw one of his own soldiers ruthlessly killed by the elusive SeeD. He watched as he begged for his, only to be taken away grimly by the man.
"Somebody please kill these SeeDs…" he said quietly.
"Don't worry, sir. I promise I'll kill them." Lieutenant Margle replied.
Squall, Zell, and Rinoa strode through the hallways, searching for the cell containing their friend, Irvine. They had passed by various chambers which held not Irvine, but some of the most homicidal people known to the planet. They ignored each one, until they found the sector in which Irvine was kept.
"Okay, the guards will probably already be here, so we have to be careful." Squall noted.
The other SeeDs quietly walked through the corridors, making sure no soldiers were sneaking around anywhere. When they finally did find Irvine's cell block, they met heavy opposition. Surrounding the entire zone were fifteen guards, each in heavy anticipation of fighting. Squall and his comrades quickly hid behind a cell panel before they were spotted, and quickly began to contemplate how to get Irvine.
"Oh screw this, I'm just gonna kill 'em all." Squall said.
He quickly showed himself from behind the panel and began to open fire. He managed to kill four soldiers which six well-placed shots to their heads, but managed to kill no more.
"Dammit, I have to reload." Squall said amidst the heavy laser-fire.
He quickly loaded six bullets into his gunblade, while Rinoa tried her hand at combating the enemies with her pinwheel. She managed to kill two of them with her pinwheel, but was quickly forced into submission by their heavy laser beam bombardment.
"Squall! We can't kill them all! We have to leave!" Zell screamed to Squall.
"No! We have to save Irvine!" Squall replied.
"So what if he gets killed, at least it will stop another war from starting!" Zell snapped.
"We can't let them kill an innocent person! Don't you understand!?"
Squall finished with reloading his weapon and began firing once more at the soldiers. This time managed to pick off three soldiers with four shots, before being compelled into submission.
"Only six left to kill!" Squall shouted.
Zell examined the area, looking for same way to get an advantage. He suddenly got an idea. He reached to a cell block panel near him and pushed the button to open all the cells. When the doors opened, the opposing soldiers were surpised and looked towards the cells. It was at this moment Squall and Zell opened fire. Bullets and laser beams shot every which way, bodies fell and blood flew. And when it was over, six soldiers lay dead, two prisoners were deceased, and Squall was left with a laser-shot to his forearm. Irvine suddenly appeared from beneath the gun smoke and ran towards his comrades.
"Where were you!?" he yelled.
Squall, Zell, Irvine, and Rinoa all hopped aboard the elevator and reached the roof. The brightly-lit Presidential Monument which towered above the city glimmered like a beacon of hope on a mountain of death. Squall scanned the skies and then saw his target; a SeeD recovery ship. He quickly fired one of the flares he had and it launched into the air, alerting the ship to their presence. The ship's trajectory moved towards the palace and Squall and others quickly got aboard. Various shots from lasers came close to hitting the ship, but all managed to miss.
"Whew, I thought I was gonna die in there. It's creepy being with all those wackos." Irvine said.
Squall glanced at him briefly to see his current medical status, and then quickly dozed off. It was then that he saw her again in his dreams.