Author Notes: The characterizations of the FF7 cast will be based on the popular Abridged done by TeamFourStar.
While Kingdom Hearts III has its ups and downs, I look forward to playing the game.
As to why Edgar ends here...he's a rather one note character in this fanfic that was only there for the FF7 cast to look good before they get taken down; making way for one of the bigger threats that the Disney Villains employ.
Chapter 7: Avalanched
Held in two prisms was a young man in one and a young woman in the other; two youths were rested upon a table. The room was a large space filled with brass pipes leading into a heart shaped doorway with eerie energy.
The young man had shoulder length brown hair and dark blue eyes. He wore black gloves, black, zipper-lined shoes, a short black jacket with a white fur collar, three brown belts on his left forearm, three buckles on his right thigh, three black belts, black pants that sported a vertical zipper going down the side of each leg, two brown belts and two black ones around his hips, all of which are quite loose except for one, a black one worn properly around his waist. His face bore a distinctive scar, which ran diagonally across the bridge of his nose.
The young woman had short, black hair and wore a metal headband with two green tassels. She wore a yellow scarf, a green tube top two blue belts holding it up, tan short-shorts with another loose, blue belt around her waist, white socks that reach about mid-thigh, orange shoes, and mesh sleeves on her arms that disappeared into orange, fingerless gloves with black bands constricting the ends.
"Hey Squall! Squall! Squalster! Squally Squally Oxen Free!," cried out the girl.
"My name is Leon!, For the countless time, Yuffie! Leon!" yelled out the man to the girl.
"Don't be such a sourpuss. Our friends are here to get us out.," replied the girl in a hyperactive tone of voice.
Leon then spotted individuals walking up the staircase in plain sight. This caused him to facepalm in disgust.
"I'm going to die here aren't ?," pondered Leon aloud.
"Have no fear, Cloud is here!...Along with the rest of Avalanche...," shouted a confident voice.
"Why don't you make a neon covered sign saying I'm here the blond jackass!," whispered a deep, but highly emotional voice.
"Are neon lights tasty?," whispered a dopey, happy sounding voice.
"How could you fuck up this that Yuffie?!," angrily whispered a tomboyish voice.
"I thought you died in 7?," whispered a casual, lackadaisical voice with a dull monotone.
"Oh, I was saved by the fans due to my lovable personality.," whispered a bubbly voice filled with optimism.
"I think we should get these guys and the two kids on the table outta here before someone-," whispered a gruff sounding voice.
The people were included a forty-four year old man wearing goggles and a necklace with a rectangular charm made of wood and secured by a rope; short blond hair, blue eyes, had some stubble on his chin; he chewed on a toothpick; wore a white T-shirt with two buttons descending from the neck; had blue, baggy pants worn high with a very wide, orange waistband with thin, vertical stripes on it coming up under his ribcage; grey socks and black shoes.
A blue-eyed young man with light skin and is slightly below average height, with a lean and toned build. He had spiky blond hair with one prominent long spike. He wore indigo pants with a sleeveless shirt, and a belt; brown boots, gauntlets with a pauldron over his left shoulder and a SOLDIER band in his left wrist. He had a silver earring in his left ear. Over his outfit, he wore a flowing red cape and a metal claw on his left hand. Protruding from his back is one large demonic wing. He also wielded a large sword covered in bandages on his back.
A young, beautiful woman wearing a shin-length pink dress that buttons up the front and a red bolero jacket. She wore brown boots and metal bracers on her wrists and around the edges of her jacket sleeves. Her long light brown hair was plaited with a large pink ribbon; Segmented bangs frame her face and she had emerald green eyes.
A young, red-eyed, busty woman with dark brown hair, black, which fell below her waist and was tied at the tips to form a dolphin-tail split. She wore a white tank top that exposed her midriff and a black mini-skirt with a belt and suspenders. She donned red and black gloves that extend to her elbows, red boots, black socks, and a metal guard on her left elbow.
A heavy-set, muscular dark-skinned man with a dirty brown vest, green pants and large brown boots. His right hand had a silver, six torrented gatling gun grafted onto the stump of his arm; had several bands of metal around his waist and his remaining left arm, and a tattoo of a skull surrounded by flames that form the image of wings on his left shoulder. His hair was cut similar to a hi-top fade and he had a thick beard and a dog-tag around his neck. He had three scars on his right cheek.
A quadrupedal, canine/feline animal with dark red and orange fur and a thin brown mane. His right eye was scarred shut, and the remaining eye was ochre. He was adorned with a variety of beads, earrings and feathers around his head, with golden pastern braces and brands on his legs. One of these brands was the roman numeral "XIII". He had a flaming tail. He had black patterns on his legs and face paint.
And lastly, a a man physically in his late twenties, and stood roughly six feet tall. He had crimson eyes and long black hair. He wore a red bandanna with his fringe emerging over it. He wore a distinctive red cloak, held in place over his shoulders and lower face by several buckles. Underneath his cape his attire was of black leather with several straps and buckles. He wore a holster for his gun strapped to his right thigh, and pointed golden sabatons on his feet. He wore a golden gauntlet on his left arm.
Cloud Strife, Aerith Gainsborough; Tifa Lockhart; Barrett Wallace; Red XIII and Vincent Valentine...We're definitely saved until someone notices us-,
Leon then noticed a large nosed butler walking up the stairs, he was lugging something very heavy on his back.
"Now to tidy up the room-Who the devil are you people? I'll ship you all to Timbuktu... if it's the last... thing I DO!," he asked as he pulled out an empty chest that was large enough to put the entire group.
"Why did you fuck up Cloud?!," angrily asked Barrett as he pointed his gun arm at the blond.
"If we kill him, we can escape without anyone finding out.," suggested the red coat wearing man.
"That's a little extreme. We don't even know if he's all that bad.," Cloud suggested.
"What is your reasons for being evil?," asked Red XIII.
"No one asks why I, Edgar Balthazar...Well, I had my Madame loyally and faithfully for years...and she leaves her fortune to the cats in her will, first before me...and I'm not sure I were to live long enough to even get my part of the will, given that cats live for 12 years...and cats have nine lives each...and...and the majority were kittens...And after my attempts to have them left far enough away for the fortune to be mine alone- they come back and my attempts to get rid of them get me left out of the will. So I doomed their world out of spite.," explained the man to the group.
"...Damn, that's a good reason to do what you did..., but damn is that also an incredibly petty reason to destroy entire worlds for. You're dead man!," shouted Barrett as he pulled out his gun-arm.
"You suck at math!," yelled out Tifa.
"I'll find those cats and get my fortune no matter what! You're just stepping stones!," Edgar shouted as the chest suddenly developed a black heart emblem with red outlines and an X in the middle of the heart, the chest opened to reveal a pair of yellow eyes. It then spat out a small motor car for Edgar to ride in.
"Let's take care of this clown before the others show up.," Cloud declared.
"Where did you get that cape and wing anyway?," asked Barrett under his breath.
As Edgar drove around the room carrying a basket that changed its size randomly to match the size of his individual enemies; the chest hobbled around as it neared one of its targets.
"Beat Rush!," Tifa shouted as she pummeled the chest ferociously, but it didn't put a dent in its exterior.
"Somersault!," Tifa shouted as she performed a somersault to drop kick the box.
"Waterkick! Meterodrive! Meteor Strike!," Tifa shouted as she pummeled these melee moves without any damage occurring to the chest.
"Your pitiful assaults won't affect Chest Shocker-," Edgar gloated as Tifa charged up water like energy.
"Dolphin Blow!," Tifa shouted as she generated a dolphin shaped water attack towards the Chest Shocker, causing it to crack.
"Final Heaven!," Tifa declared as she launched a barrage of blows, ending with a large, upwards energy blast that caused the chest to have visible fractures on its entire exterior.
"Damn that's tough.," Tifa complained.
"Your attacks still sound risqué.," Barrett commented.
"Shove it.," Tifa snapped.
"Now for a real badass to step in.," Cloud said in a serious voice meant to sound cool.
"Don't stand there like a jackass! Do something before it does something." Barrett advised Cloud.
"I'm always prepared-," Cloud said as the chest began to rumble.
The chest then opened up as a large creature with yellow eyes and a toothy maw with a red interior launched out to bit Cloud in the abdomen.
"Oh shit! I wasn't prepared!," Cloud shouted.
"Somebody help this dumbass!," Barrett said to the others.
"Great Gospel!," Aerith chanted aloud as the group was covered by golden energy.
"Cosmo Memory!," Red XIII declared as he shot barrages of plasma at the Chest Shocker.
"Highwind.," Cid declared as he summoned a barrage of missiles at the Chest Shocker.
"Satan Slam!," Vincent declared as a skull like energy engulf the Chest Shocker.
"Catastrophe!," Barrett declared as he fired a powerful barrage of blasts at the Heartless. As the Heartless loosened its grip on Cloud, the blond prepared his sword stance.
"Now to finish you off! Omnislash!," Cloud declared seriously as he slashed the Heartless multiple times with his large sword. The Heartless cried as it was destroyed.
Edgar panicked as Cloud continued his onslaught, this time in the direction of the vehicle riding man. Cloud slashed through the basket and did 50 strikes at Edgar, finishing off the man with ease.
Edgar collapsed on the ground and looked up fearfully at Cloud.
"He's not worth. Let's get Squall, Yuffie and the two Key-wielders before the other villains know we're here.," Cloud declared.
"It's Leon!," Leon shouted in anger.
"You're only acting so tough because Aerith saved your ass.," Barrett remarked.
"W-Well, I finished off the bad guys! That was pretty cool.," Cloud replied.
"Well, if the baddies are like this, there's nothing to worry about.," Tifa said as she looked at the fearful Edgar.
A chilling ostinato of three chromatically ascending notes played as Edgar was suddenly shot with a powerful black energy of darkness, that propelled him off the platform and into the dark abyss below as he was torn to shreds by the Shadow Heartless.
"Where's the ominous sounding music coming from?," Barrett asked as he turnt around. His casual demeanor stopped as he saw...the dark silhouette of a man... Instinctively, he pulled out his gun arm to fire at the Man. However, he was shot through the chest and left in a bloody puddle.
Tifa turnt to realize Barrett's death, but was instantly killed by a blast though the side of her shoulders before she could notice Man, as was Tifa.
Red XIII turnt feral and Vincent turnt into his demonic Chaos form; but both were killed off instantly by blowing them to particles.
Cloud gasped as Cid was shot through the skull; and he managed to parry the dark blasts for a few moments as the chilling ostinato became louder as Cloud's sword began to suffer fractures until it shattered and the blond was riddled with bullet holes. Cloud in despair, died as he collapsed on the ground.
Yuffie and Leon tried to react, but both were killed off with ease with gun blows to the head.
The ostinato receded as his presence withdrew. A sleeping Riku and Kairi rest, blissfully unaware of the Shadow Heartless dragging the fallen rescuers down into the dark abyss below.
Next Chapter: Sora is allowed to accompany Donald and Goofy to an odd world called Wonderland; having complete enough training from King Mickey at the moment.