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Hikari-Angel143- Carmina Sanchez
Lucas Bane- Lucas Fedrick
Pikpixie03- Rally Nightshade
Roseria Slyvester- Rosetta "Rose" Sonoma
Zalger248- Shuyan Chao
TheUndyingCrystal- Cynthia Gordon
AWESOME AUSSIE GURL- Isabelle Smith

Chapter 37: The Seige Breaker

Opening Theme: "Words I Never Said" Lupe Fiasco

Man, I couldn't believe I was still the leader of this thing. I know from the memories I swiped from my clone, I was made leader of AVALANCHE because of the revolution but I thought all of that was over. Despite not exactly winning, the people of the slums ARE liberated and they ARE living good lives here in Kalm.

At any rate, worrying about who the leader is isn't exactly important now. The main goal now is protecting Kalm from Deepground. We all stood out at the entrance to the town, everyone was who was sitting at Dinner all remained standing with me.

"So what's the plan?" Shuyan pushed me. It was almost as if he were jealous or rather overly expectant of me to come up with some brilliant plan. He'd always ask me every three minutes and not only I was getting annoyed but everyone else too.

In the original game of Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus it was Hojo who controlled Weiss thus the reason for the Omega and Chaos thing. So without Hojo controlling Weiss, what the hell is Weiss going to do? One can only guess he's going to go mad and destroy everything in sight do to his new freedom.

If only that really were his only goal, then this would be a lot more manageable.

"How about we evacuate, Kalm?" Rally asked throwing an idea up in the silence.

"We can't we don't have enough fuel in the tankers to make a trip anywhere. We won't get within ten of the town's limits before those rigs shut down on us." Biggs added taking a puff of his cigarette.

"I say we fight, we gots more than enough men to protect Kalm." Barret pat his chest with one of his big gorilla fists.

"And turn Kalm into a battlefield? Think about Marlene, Barret." Aerith added.

RedXIII stepped forward with his flaming tail swaying in the wind. "I would not like to see these innocent people thrown into a war."

I rubbed my chin and stepped up looking at the canyons of the wasteland. Massive stone formations that fought for the skies like a city of stone. The winds carrying the dust into a smokescreen of orange between the rocks and canals.

"Barret has the right idea, but he has the wrong setting." I said stepping forward beside RedXIII. The talking wolf hound.

"What do you mean?" Carmina asked.

"Guys, I have an idea. Deepground is just a bunch of SOLDIERS most likely all of them are biting at the chance to test their skills against strong opponents." I said. "Mix that in with a little ShinRa vengeance then we'll control them."

"Well we'd best make haste. It would seem Shuyan's predictions are coming true." RedXIII stared ahead. I looked to the distant sands seeing nothing but a huge flock of dust. Carmina held up a pair of binoculars she had hanging from her neck.

"Red is right, we gotta do this fast. Deepground is on their way."

My heart dropped because I hadn't worked out the basics of my plan in my head yet. Oh well, this outta be a treat. "Jessie can you get one of those tankers?" I pointed at the metal colored six wheeled armored truck parked in the town Square of Kalm. There were about six of them parked in the center of town.

"Just one?" Rose asked.

"Yeah, we don't need that many forces. If we bring everybody, they'll know we're stationed here." I said quickly pulling my Beam Katana hilt from my belt and flipping the switch making the particle light saber beam. "BAHAMUT!" I screamed pointing my beam katana forward. Bahamut SIN exploded from a seal created by the beam and appeared sliding along the ground and roaring.

O.o-Carmina, Izzy, Rose and Rally

"Wow!" Izzy immediately ran at me. "I WANNA RIDE! I WANNA RIDE! I WANNA RIDE! PLEASE!"

"Not this time kiddo." I poked her back by her forehead. "Shuyan, Barret, Lucas. You guys take the tanker...we really gotta sell this. You ride around the canyon and come at them from the east...we gotta make it seem like we're with ShinRa."

"Roger that." Lucas said running off being the last to catch up with Shuyan and Barret. I hopped on Bahamut SIN's head and he took off immediately. I loved that I didn't really have to give any order to the summon, he always knew what I was thinking and my intent.

Bahamut took to the skies above the gray clouds, from here I could see the forces Deepground was sending to Kalm. They looked like three armored tankers and an attacker mech with a cannon strapped to its back. My will was Bahamut's hands as the dragon opened it's mouth firing a flare blast down at the platoon. The cerulean blue ball of energy collided with the mech causing it to explode.

The three tankers began to turn and cut speed.

Almost immediately after the explosion and the tankers began to cut in speed, did I notice a crimson blur flying up at me like fireball. Bahamut and I were hidden in the clouds, how could they see us? As the blur got closer, so to did it gain form into a beautiful vixen with fire-red hair.

"Uh-oh." I said under my breath. "Rosso!"

And it was her, she flew through the air like a shinigami from Bleach at me. I performed a back flip from Bahamut's head and came down with a down slash at her but she used her twin blade to collide with my beam katana creating a gale force wind to disperse from us.

"Rosso! What brings you here baby?" I asked with a grin.

"I do not know you." She grinned in return. "Are you a dog of ShinRa."

"You know what? I am..."

With that we broke apart in mid-air, beginning to plummet towards the planet from high up in my third mid-air battle. By now I was used to the whipping winds and I was able to control my body more freely. Rosso came at me like a meteor, her body covered in her crimson aura of destruction.

I slashed down attempting to cut her in two but she parried the slash then kicked me in the chest performing a backflip off of it, as if I were a stepping stone. As she flipped away while I was off guard she came at me again soaring like a hawk and slashing past me cutting my right shoulder.

"AH! Fuck!" I cursed. "Bahamut!"

The dragon scooped me out of the air then we both descended to ground level near the Deepground forces. I was let down by Bahamut, my shoulder bleeding like hell. From the east came the tanker that Jessie drove with Shuyan, Lucas and Barret on board.

From the side window, Barret stuck his arm out and open fired. He pelted one of the tankers with bullets only to get their attention. Deepground SOLDIERs unloaded by the hand full from the tankers, the Commanders, Soldiers and Heavily Armored Soldiers with the cannons on their shoulders.

Because of the cut on my shoulder I couldn't react fast enough, so Bahamut used his wing to shield me from the enemy fire. Bahamut casted Cure on me which repaired my shoulder, it was a shock because I didn't know he could use magic. My shoulder repaired itself in a mere few seconds.

My comrades appeared pulling up to my side with Bahamut SIN. "What now? There is too many of them." Lucas shouted over the gunfire which rained on us from the Deepground offensive. Rosso landed on one of her troop's tankers looking over us like a predator.

"That's the plan." I whispered to myself. "THERE TOO MANY IN NUMBERS! WE HAVE TO RETREAT!"

Barret seemed confused but Lucas and Shuyan got the idea right away."LET'S GET BACK TO JUNON!" Shuyan roared over the gun fire.

"The hell is you guys fucking talking about?!" The old man Barret raged. Shuyan simply pushed him back into the tanker, Lucas and him also joined in. I climbed on Bahamut's head under fire and took to the skies while Lucas and the others took the Tanker driving it east towards the swamps. We left the Deepground forces to gather themselves.

Once we'd crossed the horizon and out of their view we spun around heading back to Kalm. From there we watched the Deepground forces gather themselves then head east towards the Swamps where the Midgar Zolom and the cavern leading to Junon Harbor.

Like that, conflict avoided. With their minds on destroying ShinRa, Kalm should be in the clear. But how long will this town but under this veil? Once Deepground finishes ShinRa what's stopping them from exploring this region? This little haven we have here, can't last forever.