Tales of Symphonia, idiot renegade

((A/N: Okay, I just finished writing this fic, with a grandtotal of 40 chapters! Isn't that cool? This is the biggest fic I've written so far. And it's totally worth it!

HealingWind: Yup, he found out now. Poor Yuan won't be safe at his office any longer. Heheheh...

Da deltadasher demon: -sigh- I'm pretty sure I answered this question several times. Very well, I shall answer it again. If you make Kratos cook something with tomatoes, his affection for Lloyd supposedly drops, and you can never get the full star rank for that dish. Also, Kratos says he doesn't like tomatoes in one of the Tales of the world games.

Silver Latias: Saved the day? Hah! That tomato made things worse! If Yuan didn't have it, Kratos might've been able to knock him unconcious, and stop Lloyd from making the pact with Luna and Aska. Then, the tree wouldn't have gone berserk.

Sesshy is sexii: Really? A genius? -ego grows several sizes-

Everyone else: Again, thanks for reviewing! As a 25 chapter gift, Yuan will now sing a song! Go ahead, Yuan!

Yuan: ... -walks off-

Errr... He's just a little shy. Eheheh... Eheh...))

Chapter twenty-five.

"You did it!" Yuan called, running up the steps to the final seal, where Lloyd and the others were standing.

"You bet we did!" Sheena said, smirking superiorly.

"In your face!" Yuan turned to Kratos who had stopped halfway on the steps. The Renegade leader laughed evilly.

"Dammit!" Kratos grunted.

Suddenly, the ground started shaking again. But it was quite different from the previous earthquakes.

"What is this ominous rumbling?" Regal asked, as the group tried hard to stay on their feet.

"Is that a humongous tree, rampaging out of control?" Raine added, pointing to the Tower of salvation. Indeed, it seemed a large tree was growing rapidly, destroying lots of stuff on its path.

"Run! Ruuuun!" Regal shouted wildly.

"Women and Zelos first!" Zelos called, running down the stairs and towards the teleporter pad. The others followed.

By the time the group had made their way through the Tower of mana, and outside, the tree had nearly grown its full length. Dark clouds swirled around it in a gloomy way, and you could just make out a woman with long green hair, trapped in the upper branches. She was either dead or unconscious.

"Who is that woman, who is about to be consumed by the tree?" Raine exclaimed.

"Martel." Yuan gasped.

"Yggdrasill's sister?" Genis asked.

"She's come to take revenge, because I lost my ring! We're all doomed!" Yuan shouted.

"No we're not! It's just that the tree went out of control." Kratos sighed.

"That's not supposed to happen! The mana links were just to form a cage around the Great seed, and prevent it from germinating!"

"That's just part of it. The cage also prevented the Great seed from absorbing too much of Derris-Kharlan's mana. Right now, it's absorbed too much, and gone mental." Kratos explained.

"Nice going, bonehead!" Lloyd snapped at Yuan.

"Yeah, way to go!" Sheena added.

"Hey, I'm not the one making the pacts here! That was you!" Yuan said in defence.

"Because you told us to!" Lloyd shouted. "Plus, we need to blame someone!"

"How do you plan to rectify this situation, Yuan?" Kratos asked.

"Erm… Have tea and biscuits?" Yuan asked hopefully.

"Oooh, that sounds good- I mean no!" Kratos shook his head.

"Come on! Do I look like a botanist to you? Or a lumber Jack? I don't know the first thing about trees! I can't think of a solution!"

"Think harder!"

"Quick in-between question!" Genis called suddenly.

"Shoot." Kratos said.

"Is the tree going berserk like this in Tethe'alla too?"

"Nah. But I bet there are some earthquakes there." Kratos shrugged.

"Ah, okay."

"Yuan, got an answer to my question yet?" Kratos asked, turning to the Renegade leader again.

"Almost…" Yuan responded, pacing around.

"Gah! Look, it's really easy. Right now the tree is going nuts in Sylvarant. So if we feed it some of Tethe'alla's mana, it'll be shifted back to the centre of the dimensions." Kratos sighed.

"How do you plan to do that? Spoon-feed it?" Yuan asked sarcastically.

"There's this thing called a Mana cannon… And you use it." Kratos said slowly.

"Ooooh yeah…"

"Yuan, I'm gonna ignore what you've been doing, and who you've been working with, if you help us clean up this incredible mess."

"Myeah, okay. Seems fair." Yuan shrugged. "Mana cannon, it is."

"So that means we have to go to the remote island ranch, right?" Lloyd asked, putting on his special 'break into an enemy's base' outfit.

"Not so fast." Yuan cut in. "We haven't modified all the reactors yet. I heard Forcystus reprogrammed his after it crashed."

"So… That means we have to go to Iselia ranch?" Lloyd asked, petting his special 'break into an enemy's base' outfit.

"Sure. But to save time, we'll send Sheena off to the Mana cannon. That way, she can immediately summon the Tethe'alla spirits and fire after we give her the signal." Kratos decided.

"What? I have to go there alone?" Sheena exclaimed.

"I can send a couple of Renegades with you." Yuan suggested.

"Oh, that makes me feel so much better…" Sheena grumbled.

"I'm gonna go with Lloyd. I haven't broken into a base in aaages." Kratos said, grinning. He switched his title to 'Shiver me timbers', and his outfit changed into a pirate costume, similar to Lloyd's.

"I'm beginning to see a link here…" Raine said slowly.

"Wouldn't it be funny if Kratos were Lloyd's long lost dad?" Zelos asked chuckling, and immediately the group was rolling over the ground, howling with laughter. Meanwhile, Yuan and Kratos cleared their throats nervously.

(('Shiver me timbers' sounds like SUCH a cool title for Kratos! And I can just see him in one of those cool pirate outfits. Mmm...))

((I liked this chapter. Maybe it's because of all the interaction between Yuan and Kratos...))