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Hikari-Angel143- Carmina Sanchez
Lucas Bane- Lucas Fedrick
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Roseria Slyvester- Rosetta "Rose" Sonoma
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TheUndyingCrystal- Cynthia Gordon
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Realms of Destiny- Dez Xerxes
Grypinh the Moonfox- Griffin Luna


Chapter 52: Inner Sanctum

Opening Theme: "Mysterious Metal" Megaman X Command Mission OST

[Location: Slums of Midgar, Sector 5]

The streets of the slums in Sector 5 were not the streets that the flower girl, Aerith grew up in. They were much darker, more grim and seemingly hopeless. Deepground Soldiers flooded the streets, homeless children crying as their parents are beaten and taken away. Hiding behind a large pile of scrap metal was Aerith, Yuffie, Carmina and Izzy.

"So what does this Dez girl look like?" Aerith asked with abit of attitude.

"I forget the description." Carmina blanked out.

"I think, he said that she looks alittle like Audrey Hepburn or something like that" Izzy shrugged.

"Boy you gals sure are stupid." Yuffie snickered.

The three of them turned around seeing Yuffie running off. "Wai..." Before Aerith could finish her exclaim. She noticed that the Bahamut SIN materia was gone. And shining in Yuffie's little hand was that same Materia. Izzy and Carmina took off running after her but Yuffie giggled then screamed out. "THEY'RE HERE! THEY'RE HERE! THEY'RE OVER HERE!" She attracted the attention of several Deepground mechs and soldiers whom surrounded the three girls with cannons, guns and blades. "Gyahahahaha! Good luck losers!" Like that Yuffie was gone.

"Crap!" Carmina said as the three of them backed into the circle.

"Well looks like we're gonna have to fight our way out." Izzy said reaching into her side pouch grabbing three pencils.

Carmina took off her glasses and with that her hair turned to the white and black mixture.

Aerith drew her staff and began spinning it like a martial artist or Bojutsu user.

"I wouldn't resist if I were you. You wouldn't last four seconds." The thick and heavy voice of a Tsviet commander filled the air. With that the DG soldiers Heavy and Foot Soldier alike made way stepping aside for Weiss and Azul whom stomped along behind him looking over the girls as if he were a huge ape.

The girls didn't back down. "And who are you suppose to be?" Izzy's ignorance towards the characters of the Final Fantasy VII world began to show.

A problem that Carmina quickly rectified. "It's Weiss the commander of Deepground and Azul, a Tsviet and a really powerful guy."

"You know of me? Strange my identity has been long swept from this world. I'm curious to know how you came by that information...a spy from ShinRa perhaps?" Weiss slowly etched for the hilt of one of his katana-gunblades. "Tell me now and I promise after the interrogation, you will be killed swiftly."

"I think we better surrender." Aerith stared at the intensity in Weiss eyes. The same intensity that she'd seen in many men with ambition and the power to make those ambitions a reality. Carmina did as she was told sliding back on her glasses and powering down her ability but Izzy refused.

"Noway. I'm not going down like that...you won't capture me." She kept her pencils erect. "I won't play the damsel in distress."

"Of course not. You'll play the corpse." Azul said.

And with that, Weiss moved before she could even breath and before anyone could make a single move. Both of Weiss' katanas found their way through Izzy's body. One blade stabbing her through her neck and the other ramming through her chest. Blood splattered on both Aerith and Carmina's faces.

"IZZZY!"


[Midgar Outside]
(Kel POV)

The massive city of lights from far away in the dark looked a little like a giant factory more so than a city. It was on the very hill where Zack Fair was gunned down, and Cloud found his resolve to move forward where we stood. Me, Rose, Rally, Lucas and Tifa. They managed to get to me using a skill that Rally created which allowed everyone to come together should one group get into a tight situation. Wish they'd have gone over that with me, would have solved a lot of problems down the road.

"So what are we gonna do?" Tifa asked. "Sneak in?"

I shook my head. "Tifa, I'm surprised. I thought you knew me...we're not Solid Snaking it in there. We're going in guns blazing." I punched into my palm and with that both Rose and Tifa gasped.

"B-But DG's forces...they rival ShinRa's in the thousands." Tifa replied.

With that I pat Lucas' shoulder as he stood firm with his arms behind his back like a model soldier. "All of which will be matched with this guy's ability." With that I used my Blood Berry without turning it on like a stick I drew a huge circle in the ground. Everyone huddled around me looking down at the drawing. "This is Midgar..." I made the circle. "We'll have Lucas create his doubles then attack the City head on from the front." I said drawing an arrow from the south leading up to the north and pointing at the circle.

With that Rally drew one of her katana and drew an arrow from the north pointing down to the south from the circle. "While Lucas distracts the military, we go in the from the back."

"Yeah, a pincer strike." I pointed at Rally.

Lucas grinned. "No problem...give me afew seconds. I'll create a force to make Weiss piss his white hospital pants."

"Ok, so while you do that. We'll get into position. Use your PHS when you're ready to strike." Tifa said holding up her phone.

With that the girls began jogging down the mountain path that circled around Midgar, leaving Lucas at the campsite. I stopped and placed a hand on his shoulder again. "Don't blow it." I said with a grin. He knocked my arm away playfully with a grin of his own.

"Funny, I was just about to tell you that." He replied.

I began jogging down the side of the mountain myself to catch up with Tifa, Rally and Rose. While we jogged Rose had to impose. "Why did you send those three into Midgar in the first place?" She asked as she ran directly beside me.

"There is someone in the city that needs help. I sent them to go and retrieve her then get out, while I stayed behind and fought against Rosso and her forces." I replied. "It was a stupid idea, I just pray that nothing happens to them."

"Well that's all in the past now, nothing we can say will undo it. But we can make moves to try and resolve it." Rally said running ahead of the group.

"Right." I nodded.

We circled around Midgar and waited on a hill looking over the backside of the city, from this position it looked that same as it did from the other side. My mind was focused on Dez, Carmina, Izzy and Aerith. I don't even care about Yuffie, I kept beating myself up about sending them here alone. I'm such an idiot.

We waited for about 30 minutes, and that's when we got the call. Lucas called Tifa and she gave us the thumbs up to strike, we all got ready. Rally drew her twin katana, Rose had her ring blade and Tifa tightened her gloves. I drew the beam katana and turned it on then commenced leading the strike with a sprint towards the city.

The sounds of cannon fire and explosions filled the air traveling over the city. The city's forced focused on the south end of the city allowing us easy passage straight into the Midgar Slums. We dashed into the sector 4 slums, a sector that wasn't shown in the game. It looked a lot like the other slums sections.

Houses made out of scrap metal and piles of trash everywhere, dirt roads and rusted metal put together to make an oppressed land. But there were no slum drunks, hobos or beggers. There were only children with dirty faces in rags, running around crying for their parents or scavenging for food.

"I never thought the slums could get worse." Tifa asked.

"Yeah. Poor things..." Rose walked over to a small couple of kids, a girl maybe 10 or 11 years of age holding a seemingly 6-year-old little brother. They were so skinny and dirty they looked like little demons. Rose pulled from her pouch a piece of ration bar which was much like tofu. She handed them each a piece. "So where are your parents."

The children ripped the bar from her hands and began nibbling before speaking. "The bad men...they took them away. The bad men took all our mommys and daddys away." The little boy started crying before his sister hugged him close.

I listened to their sob story I felt something inside of me suddenly pulsate. My heart, it was beating fast then really slow again. My eyes opened wide and suddenly for a moment, only just a moment. I saw Izzy lying down in a pool of blood. I turned to the west then without saying a word, took off running in that direction.

"Kel!"

"KEL WAIT!"

"No! No! No! No!" I said with hot tears stinging my cheeks. I darted over metal pipes, burst through monsters that dared to get in my way and beheaded DG Soldiers who pursued me. I kept running feeling the sting in my legs and my cheeks. After passing through the Sector 4 border I made it to Sector 5 just a few yards outside of Aerith's church.

There was a small group of people standing up in a full circle. I noticed two of them to be Aerith and Carmina both of them standing over a girl covered in blood. "NOOO!" I screamed running over and sliding on my knees to Izzy's side.

"Kel!" Aerith and Carmina cried.

She wasn't moving, her body was cold. I cleared her bangs from her cute little face then hugged her. "I'm sorry...no, Izzy." I cried.

"Finally...one of those annoying bastards bites the dust." A familiar voice rang in my ears.

Behind us walking up was Lucas, he wore his signature silver suit with his hands in his pockets.

"You shut up! JUST SHUT UP RIGHT NOW!" Carmina screamed jumping up. She screamed so harshly that her voice had gotten horse to a squeal and tears soaked her cheeks. "All of this is your fault! I'LL KILL YOU!"

"Carmina stop!" Aerith cried grabbing Carmina's hands.

"Ahahahah! That's right, this is all my fault. Shame, I really liked her though. If only that useless Rose would have died first. So Kel, looks like one of your clique is dead. Now I'm going to tell you why this is a good thing..." Lecter said and with that I kissed Izzy on her forehead then laid her down to rest.

I stood up. "Who did this?" I asked Carmina and Aerith completely ignoring Lecter. I didn't care how he got here, how he knows what he knows. Fuck him! I don't care about anything but Izzy and who killed him. Carmina and Aerith paused looking at me with wide eyes. "I SAID WHO FUCKING DID THIS!?" I pointed at Izzy's dead body.

"Dude are you ignoring me. That's rude! I have really good news, why your little friends have their abilities. It's because of them has a piece of your power locked inside of them. All of their abilities is a piece of your harmonic power, so when they die. Your power is released and returned to you. Thus making you even more a suitable rival for ME!?" Lecter said.

Izzy's body began to glow with a white light, that light broke into particles and began to slowly latch on my skin, digging into my body like parasites.

"Weiss...Weiss killed Izzy. I want to rip out that sonuvabitch's throat!" Carmina screamed.

[BGM: "Illusions" Thomas Bergersen EPIC OST]

"I'll do it for you." I said feeling that power of light fill my body and transform me. I screamed aloud feeling my body morph, appearing on my back was a white coat that glen like it was made of diamond itself. With that my Beam Katana began to exude a brilliant white light with twice the length. Two spiky metal gloves appeared over my palms and my sneakers turned to metal boots. My black button up turned white and my red tie, dyed itself blue. My angry birds hat disappeared revealing my hair which grew out long to cover my back and sides like a cape, my hair turned completely white.

"Heh heh heh...how does it feel? That power of Harmony that is?" Lecter laughed. I turned back towards him raising my left hand and blasting him back with a beam of Light that sent him crashing through three towers of metal and off to the distance beyond Midgar and the horizon. I leaned down one last time and placed my palm on Izzy's forehead.

With that I began to search my mind and hers, Aerith and Carmina were too mentally damaged from watching Izzy fall to recall anything that happened afterward. After Izzy was slain, Weiss and Azul left them to grieve to tend to Lucas' attack. I saw them both on the front lines of the battle.

With that when I'd opened my eyes and stood up, I found myself standing on the battlefield. Hundreds of Lucas clones facing off against thousands of DG soldiers. Azul was among the battle using his heavy gatling gun to mow down the Lucas clones while Weiss was in the action as well slicing and stabbing Lucas clones left and right.

DG Forces was pushing Lucas and his clones back.

Upon seeing Weiss I phased out and appeared just in front of him with my Holy Berry Beam Katana at the ready. Upon seeing me, Weiss' eyes widened as he used his Gunblades in to parry my strike. Instead of slashing him, I pressed my palm against his forehead and warped the both of us in a snap back into the Heart of Midgar's Sector 8 Loveless District.

He appeared on the streets where it was quite and the sounds of battle was far away, I let Weiss go and he slid backwards at high-speed from me.

"Hmmm..." He looked around unworried and not surprised. "And just who are you?"

"Who I am isn't important." I dashed towards him faster than I thought I could and collided blades with him. "You think its funny?! You think its cool!? You think it makes you strong?!"

Weiss already knew what I was talking about before I could even tell her name. "Ahh the girl, any woman who dares to wield a weapon with deadly intent is no woman. They will be slain like warriors as well." Weiss grinned swinging his second gunblade for my head, I leaned back then shoved my foot into his chest sending him sliding away from me.

With that he open fired with his gunblades.

My movements, strength and speed were tighter, stronger and faster. But I couldn't marvel at this power, I couldn't take time to enjoy it because at this moment. I was using it for revenge! I dodged the bullets like they were standing still then blew towards Weiss appearing before him at the speed of light seemingly.

But Weiss the arcane super soldier was ready, he used his twin gunblades to clash with me a second time. I drew back my sword shortly then attempted seven swings. Right, left, right, left, down, up! Weiss retaliated with seven swings of his own, right sword, left sword, twin swords crossing, down and up.

We both clashed at high-speed, slashing at one another. I managed to slash him along his right shoulder and he managed to stab me in my right side. With that we both slid away from each other. Without this boost of power, Weiss would have killed me long ago.

"Hahahahahaha! I haven't had this much fun in a battle...since ever." Weiss laughed releasing a maelström of Fire Spells which turned blew and came down at me like missiles from the sky in an endless rain. I dashed towards Weiss as the fire spells landed in a death trap behind me.

[BGM Change: "Stand up Be Strong PT.2" Bleach Fade to Black OST]

I appeared in front of Weiss again. "YOU THINK THIS A FUCKING JOKE?!" He swung his right gunblade but I caught it with my left fist causing him to stop then glare at me. With that I slashed his right hand clean off from the fore arm and he tried to step back. "You took her from us! YOU TOOK HER YOU PIECE A SHIT!" I screamed slashing him down across his chest.

"LORD WEISS!"

Ramming through the Loveless Theater building was Azul in his Behemoth Form charging towards me attempting to gore me. "She didn't want any of this...all she wanted was to go on an adventure. You pricks...DEATH WOULD BE TOO EASY ON FUCKS LIKE YOU!" I shouted holding up once hand and snatching one of Azul's horns while he was in motion.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed straining every muscle in my body.

"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH HH!" Azul screamed as I lifted him into the air with one hand, his huge hulking Behemoth form being lifted with one hand defied the laws of physics.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I screamed slamming him down on his face so hard his head exploded with blood and his body and bones snapped like twigs.

I turned around then phased out appearing in front of Weiss and grabbing him by the neck then slamming him into a wall. "Yoooou..." I hissed.

"That's it, it is my defeat...your power is definitely formidable. If only one such as you were in Deepground." Weiss spoke.

"Here's your ticket to paradise. You piece of shit." With that I rammed my beam katana into the side wall then slashed through the building slicing off Weiss' head in the process. Almost as if that were the switch, the moment Weiss head flew from his shoulders. My body returned to normal.

Weiss was now dead the moment him and Azul bit the dust, the skies filled with a light. I felt the rustling winds beat down on me as well as the sounds of a chopper filling my ears. I looked up, seeing through the light to see Reno and Rude on the chopper along with Rufus ShinRa, the blonde haired son of the president.

"Good work,cleaning up my City. I'll be taking it back now." Rufus' voice spoke through a loud-speaker.

POW!

Suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my chest, I looked down to see a bullet hole and blood leaking from it. "Shit..." I said just seconds before falling backwards watching as my vision faded to black.

Author's Note: Kel has discovered a new power but at a deadly cost. With Deepground's leaders destroyed, Rufus and ShinRa will be taking back Midgar! What's going to happen next?