Me: Let us waste no time…going straight into the chapter. Small disclaimer, some of the scenes described are from FF7 – Dirge of Cerberus.
From the Highwind, Cid looked out at the fleet of nobody and Heartless Gummy ships, and looked at them with an excited grin as he flipped on the speakers to the soldiers in the Highwind's hanger bay.
"Listen up, cause I'm just going to say this once!!" Cid yelled into the comm. "If any one of you get killed by those punks I'll drag you back from the underworld and kill ya again!! You really wanna tick off those S.O.B.s then why not try stayin alive!! That's what this war is all about! If you live everyone behind you lives if you die they die…YOU GOT THAT?! Now go kick some HEARTLESS ASS!!"
Cid yelled as every soldier in the bay cheered. Yuffie and Vincent were with them and Yuffie cheered along with them as Cid then switched to the comms. on the gummy ships.
"GET SET!!" he yelled to the pilots and Namine was ready for action even putting on a pair of Rude's sunglasses for the effect.
"GO!!" Cid yelled
At that six Kingdom Model Gummy ships detached and streaked off towards the battle as the other larger gummy ships accelerated.
"HOLD ON!!" Namine yelled as they started firing at the smaller heartless and nobody gummies in their path.
On board the "Absent Leader" Saix was surprised as he saw the large fleet of gummy ships heading right towards their own.
"Their ships are of no consequence." He said as he turned to the cowering Pete.
"YOU…get that crystal to the surface." Saix yelled as Pete nodded and ran off with a massive blue crystal in his arms.
Saix turned and started putting information into the computer and then looked up as a massive beam of energy shot out from the bow of his ship and destroyed one of the Good guy Gummies that was perilously close to the Highwind.
"Contact with gummy ship Bay Nine lost…damage to the Highwind minimal" Tron's voice rang out from the computer system on the Highwind.
"Damn…they're gonna pay for that one!" Cid cursed as he turned the Highwind hard to the left and towards the massive enemy gummy.
Namine's skills as a pilot really came out, easily out maneuvering or utterly destroying the pursuing enemy gummy ships as she headed towards the Absent Leader.
The Gummy ship hugged the surface of the massive gummy ship as she flew close to the hull. (Known in the star wars community as Trench Run Syndrome)
She then spotted what she needed…an access tunnel on the side, and she veered the gummy ship into the hole. She followed the path of the tunnels for a few seconds before Roxas spotted something.
"NAMINE LOOK!!" Roxas pointed at a purple and red clothed figure with a large blue crystal heading towards a white and black gummy ship.
"IT'S PETE…GRAB HIM!!" Sora shouted as Namine flipped on the transport beam and flew over Pete and the Crystal, beaming them aboard in the process.
The surprised Pete looked around and then saw Auron and Riku holding their weapons to him.
"Oh thank goodness it's you guys, I would rather work for you than those nobody creeps." Pete said as he fell on the floor and begged them to let him help.
"Tell us the weakness to this ship." Riku said as Pete nodded.
"The reactor that powers the weapon is its weakest point, keep following the tunnels and you will eventually reach it." Pete said as Auron wiped off the condensation from the crystal revealing a man who looked similar to Saix except without the scar and the blue hair.
"It's Saix's other!!" Auron exclaimed as the gummy ship was rocked by a blast.
"HANG ON!!" Namine yelled as she veered the gummy ship through another tunnel and came across a massive blue orb in the center of a large chamber. Sora recognized it immediately.
"It's the reactor…destroy it and the whole ship will blow." Sora said as Namine nodded and charged the weapons to their highest, then unleashed a massive blast towards the sphere but the blast was blocked by a large rectangular shield around the core.
"What the? How can we get past that?!" Zexion yelled.
At that very moment, the Highwind pulled alongside the Absent Leader with another gummy ship on the other side and unleashed a devastating broadside attack on the nobody gummy ship.
On the bridge of the Highwind, Cid was taunting the enemy vessel, as Yin Sid and Merlin opened a white portal. Back on Sora's gummy ship, Saix's other vanished in another white portal only to reappear on the Highwind and Yen Sid quickly cast a spell on the crystal which turned white and clear.
On the bridge of the Absent Leader Saix could sense something was wrong, he turned to open a black portal but found that his powers were gone.
"WHAT…how is this POSSIBLE?!"
Back in the core, the shield finally went down around the core and Cid's voice rang through the speakers.
"YER ALL CLEAR KID NOW LET'S BLOW THIS THING!!" He yelled as Namine nodded and charged another blast, this time the blast blew a hole clear through the core and it started to explode.
"LETS GET OUT OF HERE!!" she yelled as the gummy ship tore off out the barrel of the massive energy gun.
On the bridge Saix realized that he would not survive as all around him the bridge began to explode from the massive blasts of energy flying through the ship.
He collapsed to his knees with a look of fear and shock as the bridge finally exploded with the rest of the Absent Leader not far behind.
Back on the Highwind, Cid cheered as Tron repeated over and over "Enemy flagship destroyed, enemy forces dispersing."
The crystal on deck glowed a bright white as Yen Sid and Merlin both knew that Saix's spirit had failed to return to his other…the Luna Diviner was gone for good.
The fleet of Nobody and Heartless gummies started to flee, only to be caught and destroyed by the other gummy ships, as on every gummy ship in the Army of Light, the crews celebrated their first of three completed objectives…the next was to get to the Castle that Never Was.
Namine turned hard as the gummy ship streaked off towards the World that Never Was with the Highwind not far behind.
"YOU GUYS GO ON AHEAD, WE'LL BE RIGHT BEHIND YOU!!" Cid yelled as Namine nodded and the others breathed a small sigh of relief.
End Chapter 26.
Me: Oh I just love a good battle scene.
Saix: Wait…you mean I'm dead?
Me: …and gone.
Saix: (Cries and runs to Xemnas)
Xemnas: There, there, Saix.
Everyone: (Arched eyebrow)
Me: Ok... (Axel runs me over)
Axel: No Flame reviews…because I'll only get stronger. Got it Memorized? (Runs off)
Me: (From Floor…once more) Et Tu Axel?
Axel: (From doorway) Yep me too.
Me: (Still from floor) Why me?