AN: OKAY. I'M SOOOOO SORRY ;A; I have not written any Triple Farron in forever, and I HAVE been working on this chapter from time to time! Just, I've recently gone in concert band after doing Marching band, which was SOMUCHWORK AMG. And I'm a freshman in high school, things are tough! But, after some encouraging reviews, I've finally gotten to this. So here you go! Maybe I'll even make more than one chapter….;)

Explosions everywhere!

Snow stepped up to look around. "What's going on out there?"

"Look's like the Calvary's made their move." Hope answered.

"There's more to it than that." We looked over to Sazh, who picked up an army earpiece. He rested it against his ear to listen. "They're saying…Eden is crawling with Pulse nasties."

"Fresh off the ark, I'd wager."

Sazh shook his head. "This is out of control. What will happen to Cocoon?"

"It's all out war." Lightning walked up, staring at the madness.

Hope crossed his arms. "Did we cause this by coming back? Barthandelus's prediction-it's all coming true."

I tapped my chin. "That sounds about right"

"Well his future stops here. We're the ones who decide what happens next."

"Let's get moving!"

With that, we started back up.

…

After many encounters, we found a dead end. Well, more of a dead fall.

"Uh, okay." Sazh hugged himself, looking over to the edge. "I don't know about this."

Vanille knelt down. "If only we could fly!"

Lightning handed her a Graviton Grenade. "We can jump." She said quickly, before leaping off.

I ran up to the edge, facing Vanille. "Here we go!" And fell backwards off the edge.

And after a couple of minutes, I dropped the device on the ground, and landed in a gravity bubble. "Alright…" I stood up, patted down my dress, and ran to catch up with Lightning.

My sister had already knocked out all the soldiers on deck, luckily!

Once everyone else caught up with us, we made way to the road, where cars were flying at incredible speed.

Sazh sheathed his guns back up. "So, the Cavalry's here to uh...?"

"They're here for Orphan."

Not a shocker. Yet everyone else seemed shocked about it as Lightning explained. "If it's close to the fal'Cie Eden, they're probably headed for the heart of the Sanctum."

"So, this means-"

"If they destroy it, bad things are going to happen." Fang nodded to me.

I gestured to her. "Exactly. We don't need more bad things to happen than there has been already."

"So long Cocoon."

Snow stepped in. "Then we better get there before they do."

The others agreed, but Lightning? She didn't even have a word. I glanced at her, close enough to hear her mumble, "Uh, oh."

Well, that's distressing. "Light, what's wrong?"

"Let's move!" Lightning grabbed her gunblade, running out onto the road.

"Lightning!"

"Hey, hey, hey!"

She ran off, bouncing across the speeding cars, and I froze when I saw her come face-to-face with a towering behemoth.

Damnit, sis! Lightning barreled into the monster, and ended up being reflected off.

"Lightning, no!" I started running out, with Snow and the others hot on my trail.

But Lightning isn't one to just take a bad landing, now is she? She stabbed the blade into the ground, catching her fall and landing on two feet.

We made it over.

That behemoth isn't making it out without a fight!

Battle Commenced

…

Once the monster was put in his place, I huffed.

But of course, we l'Cie never get breaks! Some other fish looking things were off to our left, and I sighed. "Really?"

"We're never gonna make it," Sazh groaned.

Vanille placed her hands on both mine and Sazh' s backs. "Not with an attitude like that, we won't!"

"We can run past through there," Lightning pointed near some cars.

We all agreed, and took off.

AN: So, sorry it's not all that long! It's 4 in the morning and I'm exhausted. But hey, I'll work on it more once I get some sleep! :D 333