Flight
Location: About half way to Balamb Garden
"Come on Davis give me something to work for, I'm falling asleep out here." Seifer
About a third of the way into the flight Seifer and Davis started to "play" a little game of tag with each other. First Seifer would glide on the tailwinds from the jet, and then, with a quick burst, he would fly up just to tap the window where Davis sat. Davis, taking the invite, was all too happy to make Seifer work to get an opening to do that. At first it was simple sways and dives to try and throw Seifer off, only to later move into more complicated: weaves, turns, drops, and a few rolls to keep him on his toes.
Tap
Davis adjusts the right side of the wings to shrink the distance between them, and widens the left side to sharply swing the left side over. While the left side is turning he then sharply cuts some of the power to the right side to make the left turn into wild turning dip. Just as Seifer adjusts to the fall and turn Davis shoots both sides of the wings even and he shoots strait up nicking Seifer in the tail as he scrambles to get out of the way.
"How's that?" Davis
"Nice, their may be hope for you yet." Seifer giving a wicked grin to his right side now in view of the glass.
"Not that this isn't fun for you two, but some of us don't like our meals in seconds or thirds." Irvine clutching his seat looking over to the grinning Davis and Zell and silently envying the sleeping mini Remmy in his pocket who was none the wiser.
"Fine, fine, I'll be a good little weapon and just ride on top from here." Seifer
Seifer glides to the top of the glass landing on all four, but where the claws were now are suction-cups. To further hold on, and to cut wind resistance, he moves and adjusts his wings around himself covering himself up. Once covered the wings alter further making a wind resident dome that rests towards the back of the control deck. After that is done a tentacle like appendage comes out from just under the center of his ribcage and punches a hole into the top of the jet where he is at. When the hole is punched a connecting peace forms sealing around the top outer and bottom inner part of the hole. Where the top outer is solid the bottom inner is spreading out into a small black tissue like circle inside the jet. Irvine seeing that, and worrying about air presser, goes up to look at the appendage and connection only to hear a soft breathing sound coming from the little of it that is now inside the jet. Irvine feels it over at the edges, noting the warmth and the almost mouth-like look of the central part of the inner connection, looks up at Seifer in question.
"I gotta breath sometime, and right now the area I'm in is air tight." Seifer from the little part that Irvine is looking at from inside the jet.
"Damn, that's cool." Zell looking at Seifer noting that Seifer wasn't using the his mouth and radio to talk to them as Seifer moves to make himself comfortable under the wings.
"Davis, how is the wind resistance? I'm not making too much of a drag here am I?" Seifer
"N-no, things are showing all green here and the controls are handling the same." As Davis rips his eyes back over to the controls after watching Seifers adaptation to the glass in back. "We should be back at B-Garden in about two hours though, I got a question though what are we going to do about the hole after you go?"
"Don't worry about it. I'll detach the connecting peace from the appendage and the glass and seal it. Hell it will be the strongest part of the ship after that." Seifer
"Detach it?" Irvine a little puzzled about how skin and teeth would be better then the current armor.
"Irvine, you know how a lizard can grow back a tail right?" Seifer
"Yes." Irvine
"Think that, only instead of leaving a fleshy bit to rot I plan on leaving a clearish bone patch that would make the ships current paneling up here look as effective as a wet paper bag in a gun fight." Seifer as he waves him over to show him what he means.
Irvine goes back to the breathing hole and gets up on one of the adjacent chairs as Seifer points to the outer connecting part and hardens it, turning it from a hard black seal to an almost clear crystal like bone. As Irvine goes back to he seat after that he shakes his head in equal parts of amazement and weirdness.
Location and Time: B-Garden Commanders Squalls office, not long after he is told by Zell the situation in Winhill and that of Seifer and Remmy, Squall is ignoring the reports and now putting right a frame that he had put in the back of his desk under his out box a few days ago. Normally it would have been out, but after so many days of no luck, and the worried and sad glances by staff he put it there. Taking it out when he worked alone or at night.
"Rinoa, just hold on a little longer we will find you." As Squall brushes his fingers over the frame now with some new hope that they would find her. Once that is done he turns back over to Angelo and gives him a scratch and then connects over to Fishermans Horizon to fill in Fujin and Raijin.
"Report." Fujin seeing that it was Squall on the ID.
"Is Raijin with you too?" Squall
"I'm here, so what's up, ya know? Raijin
"We didn't find him, he found us." Squall
"SEIFER!" both Fujin and Raijin now jumping and pumping their fists in victory at the news.
"How did?" Fujin
With that Squall fills them in on what he knows of both Seifer and of the situation that they are now in. He does leave out the family information, and age change for Seifer to personally fill them in on that once he arrived there a Garden. After they are filled in, it was Raijin to break them from their respective thoughts about everything from the new information.
"Ya know, if I can recalibrate some of the sensors looking for a gate, and not just some spike in energy, we might be able to use them to find one that's going to go back to Planet and hitch a ride. Then there, maybe do the same from there, and get back." Raijin starting to tinker with one of the sensors to try out the idea.
"If a hitch might be possible, maybe we can use it to find them." Fujin starting to re-exam the data on the spikes not just as random energy, but now looking for patterns of communication and exportation.
Squall hearing the now familiar sounds of Raijins tinkering and Fujins quiet mutterings when deep into her work gave them their farewells and went to prepare for the arrivals.
Location and Time: Just to the Left of Balamb Garden in an open field now used as a temporary landing strip shown by the portable pump and supply station that was set up there for the Shifter and, if need be, the other jets. It is at this station that Squall is now at watching the jet land with a truck to take: Irvine, Zell, Seifer, and Remmy back to Garden. Davis was to stay with the jet and work with the ground crew to re-supply the jet and to rest from the flight. What he got though was anything but what he expected as he saw the strange black "bump" on the jet.
"The hell?" as Squall goes over to the side to get a better look at the black "bump" on the jet, and radios the question in to Davis.
"That's Seifer, sir." Davis
Squall turns his head to the side to now see a seam form in the "bump" and to watch as two wings form from it to reveal a crouching transforming to human Seifer start to stand. Once standing he detach a peace of himself and absorbed back an appendage that shouldn't be under his ribs. With that done Seifer jumps off the jet and starts to absorb back his wings now as he goes to the cargo hatch to: give back the radio, get his things, and to meet back up with Remmy and the others. Finally when everyone was good to go they went to a stunned Squall.
Seifer, now looking human and fully clothed, goes up and closes Squalls half open mouth and says.
"I know Iris says I dead sexy both in and out of bed, but do you have to drool too?" Seifer knowing that the best way to get Squall to go from what the hell mode back to work mode would be to tick him off.
"Seifer, get into the truck with the other monster now." Squall then looks to the chuckling pair of Zell and Irvine to shut them up. "Hear something funny?"
"N-no, nothing." Zell trying to straiten out his face.
"Maybe, but it wasn't worth repeating." Irvine still with grin.
Seifer just shakes his head at still knowing how to nail Squall, and gets into the open back of the truck beckoning the now restored Remmy to follow. Once they were all in and ready to go they headed to B-Garden to maybe figure out the mess that both this world and Planet were now in, not realizing they were being watched.
It's been a few years since I've worked on this, but there is a reason to it. I put off working on this to see how the whole FF7 expansion played out. When I first got the idea to do this story only FF7 and FF8 were out so no fuss and no muss as far what happened after. Life happened and I had to stop and start it a bit. Finally when things calmed back down I went back to it again, but still even then it was just FF7 and FF8. It was during this time that the news for the FF7 expansion came out so I figured I would wait and see how that all played out. Now that that has happened what I had planed over with the FF7 side got fraged, but the FF8 side stayed the same. What I am asking now is this would anyone be interested in a yet again remixed story to get FF7 back in cannon or go with a semi in cannon FF7 ( CC would still be ok and some of the: stories written, movie cannon, and DOS elements would work well. A few things would not be there though like WRO and Edge for example) and a mostly in cannon FF8. Honestly I'm a little for the later just to have a little more freedom to play, but I wouldn't mind the input if anyone cared one way or the other. As always read and review and I'll try to get back to you.