Chapter One

Oh sure, it was over. As they thought. But they were way wrong. AVALANCHE had only done part of the battle so far. They HAD defeated Sephiroth, but what was ahead of them was the rest of the old battle. And that is where my fanfic begins! \^o^/

Rufus' eyes snapped opened at once. Where was he? All he could make out were blurry figures. He suddenly did a mental check. The only thing he could remember was a yellow beam coming straight at him and then an explosion. He sat up. Instantly he wished he didn't do that. He grabbed his head in pain and screamed. This was way more then a headache. The searing pain told him that he was badly injured. Stiffened, he layed back down on his back. In the background he could hear sirens screaming, and had a feeling they were going after him. Then he noticed someone was talking to him.

"Mr. President!"

He tried to straighten his vision to see who was trying to speak to him.

"Rufus! Hey! It's me! Are you spacing out??"

"Shut up, puppet-boy! He obviously doesn't want to deal with you!"

Rufus then could finally make out who was there. The blurry figures turned out to be his 2d and 3rd in commands, Reeve and Scarlet.

"What happened..?" Rufus asked them, dazed out still from falling sixty-some stories.

"Well.. Ultimate WEAPON went bezerk and started blasting Midgar, then it hit your office with a beam and. we don't know what happened then." Reeve replied.

"BUT.. At least you're safe!" Scarlet said, optimistically.

"Gee.. Thanks." Then Rufus looked around. "Wait. What the hell happened to Midgar??" he asked.

"Meteor.. It hit." Reeve replied.

"I see." Rufus pondered the thought of what his options to do now were. He could always ressuruct Midgar. But then again, that could be a bad idea in many ways. But, whoever said he couldn't ressuruct ShinRa? He grinned at the thought of all the mako energy that the meteor gave off.

Reeve looked at Rufus skeptically. What did he plan on doing? He decided to ask. But before he could, Scarlet did.

"Rufus, why the hell are you grinning like a maniac??"

Rufus noticed this and stopped, and then he looked over to Scarlet fiercely. "Don't you know how much mako energy that meteor could give off?? We'd be richer then ever! Stupid fool, how could you not see that??" he lectured, glaring at her the whole time.

Scarlet backed down, now both embarrassed and stunned by her president's outburst.

Reeve, of course, saw a terrific downside to this. AVALANCHE would have to act again, and that meant that he'd be caught in the middle. Again. He could stop this, could he?

He had to act fast.

"But what about AVALANCHE?? Shouldn't we just stop and think up something new?" Reeve asked.

Rufus stood up, surprising Scarlet and Reeve that he could, and flicked back his hair. "No problem, we'll just have the Turks take care of them." He replied casually, as if he had it planned out the whole time.

This caught Reeve offguard, however, and was at a loss for words. Scarlet stood up too, followed by Reeve, and then they all walked towards the helicopter, Reeve last, lagging a little bit, and it took off shortly. Reeve was now trying to talk himself into telling AVALANCHE about this.



"WHY should I listen to you on this?" Barret exclaimed. "I won the fight fair an' square! Damn foo'!" then he pounded his fist on the table.

"Your arm was DOWN on the table for ten seconds!!" Cloud yelled back at him

Obviously they had gotten restless and decided to take up armwresteling. Not a good idea, though, because they always fought.

Barret was about to snap back at him, when, he heard something on the tv that stook out like a sore thumb. His eyes widened, his face contorted with rage, he squeezed Cloud's hand so much that he screamed for him to let go. Then Barret slammed Cloud's arm as hard as he could on the table and let go, standing up and glaring at the tv. After examining to see if his arm was ok, Cloud looked over to the tv curiously.

".he was found unharmed with just a few scratches. Strange thing is was how could Rufus ShinRa survive such a fall? Scientist, Hojo, thinks that it's because of the mako he infused into Rufus when."

Barret screamed in frustration and brought his massive fist back down onto the table so hard it broke it in half.



"AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!"

Tifa jumped, and then she looked at the floor, wondering what had happened. When she saw Cloud come up in the pinball machine, he had a look of pure malice in his eyes.

"What's wrong.?" Tifa asked with sympathetic eyes.

Cloud stammered. He opened his mouth, but no words came out. Just when he was about to answer, Barret came up, furious as ever, and answered for him.

"THE FUCKING BASTARD'S STILL ALIVE!!" Barret cursed. Tifa looked questionably at him and then he answered her yet again. "SHINRA IS STILL IN TACT!!".

Tifa stood there for a second, not knowing what to say. Then she promptly dropped the dish she had been washing, and it shattered into tiny pieces all over the floor.

"I.I.." Tifa began. "I thought.. we could have peace for once."

"Don't think the fight is over just yet." Barret said, harshly.

"Well, lets get everyone else back here, then." Cloud said, leaning onto the wall and resting his elbow against the bar. They nodded.

"Sure." Tifa said, not too happy. "I'll go call them." And then walked away.

The thing was, that she didn't want to ruin everyone else's peace. But she did know that they needed as much help as they could get. But still. If there was only a way. She sighed to herself and picked up her PHS. The first one she would call would be the one they gave all their materia to, no doubt.



Yuffie looked up at the mountains overhead. The statues were so tall. She could hardly make it out, but she could swear that she saw someone up there. She had to go find out what it was.

She grabbed the conformer from the strap on her back, and then packed all her potions, ethers, and elixirs that she had. Then she started up the mountains, prepared for any danger that she should have to face.

But she certainly wasn't prepared for what was about to happen.

Someone grabbed her from behind, she let out a yelp, and the person who had her ripped the conformer out of her hands and started dragging her somewhere. She struggled wildly, but she couldn't get away. Then whoever had her brought her face to face with their boss. She recognized the boss right away.

And she screamed as loud as humanly possible.



"Hmm.. she must be out. Oh well, we'll pick her up with the Highwind later." Tifa said, with a shrug, and then started dialing Cid's number.



"So did you call everyone?" Cloud asked. Everyone was there in the Highwind, but someone was missing.

"I couldn't get Yuffie. We'll have to pick her up." Tifa said.

Cid nodded. Then he turned to the pilot. "Go to Wutai." He said. The pilot nodded, and then Cid turned back to everyone else, shaking his head and muttering, "Damn that kid's a lot more trouble then she's worth."

"I hate to say this, but she has our materia." Red said. "I would say it is wise to get her right away."

Cid just scratched the back of his head.

"What are we going to do once we get Yuffie back?" Vincent asked, walking up to the group, reloading his gun.

"Dunno." Barret said. "We'll have to find out some info from Cait Sith."

"Good idea." Cloud said.

"We're arriving Wutai, sir!" the pilot said to Cid.

Cid nodded. "Good! Land next to the town."

"Aye aye!" the pilot said, saluting, and then went back to steering.



Everyone walked up to Yuffie's house. Something was different about it. It seemed deserted for some reason. Tifa walked up to the door and ventured to knock on it.

Nothing happened.

Tifa shrugged, and then tried again.

Still there was no answer.

A little annoyed, Tifa pounded on the door.

There was still no response.

"GOD DAMNIT!" Barret yelled, then hit the door HARD. "KID ARE YOU EVEN IN THERE??!!"

"You'll probably scare her." Cloud said.

"Good." Cid answered, taking a drag from his cigarette. "The kid needs some discipline anyway so it wouldn't do her any harm."

Tifa shot Cid a cold glare and then she opened the door slightly. Much to her surprise, it was unlocked!

The first thing they all noticed was a couple or so shirukens and star-darts scattered across the floor, and a few ethers and potions too.

"What's this?" Red asked, sniffing a piece of paper on the ground.

Cloud went over to it and picked it up. "It's dated today." Cloud said. "It's a note. It says, 'Dad, I'll be up in the mountains today, Shake, DO NOT mess with my stuff, signed, Yuffie'... She's up in the mountains, I guess." Cloud observed.

"Go figure." Cid joked.

"Well then, foo's!" Barret said, pointing his gunarm up into the air. "Les' go to da mountains!"

Then they were off out of Yuffie's house in a flash.



"WHY DO YOU ALWAYS PICK ON ME YOU ASSHOLE?!" Yuffie screamed.

She was tied to the Da Chou statue yet again.

And guess who's fault it was?

Yuffie glared down at Don Corneo with a look that could of killed a dragon. But the Don was not phased by it.

"Oooh! You haven't changed!" Don cooed.

Yuffie looked truly disgusted by now. She kept trying to get away, to break loose from straps that held her. She would of fallen if not for them, but it was a hell of a lot better then being stuck with. HIM! She would commit suicide if needed.



Tifa's head jerked into the direction of the scream. It startled everyone else, also. They all knew that scream. Well, more or less it was probably like a shriek.

It was Yuffie's.

"Yuffie! She needs our help!" Tifa said.

Cloud and the others drew their weapons. Then they all ran towards the scream.



Don suddenly realized people were coming up the mountain trail. He looked down, glaring. And then he noticed that one of them was Cloud.

"ACK! YOU AGAIN?!" Don asked. The rest of AVALANCHE stopped dead in their tracks.

"You fucking bitch! You're still fucking alive?!" Cid exclaimed.

"That I am!" Don said. "EAT THIS!!!!" and then threw eggs at them. In mid air the eggs hatched, and then in front of them twelve dragons separated them from Don.

Cloud brought his sword up, ready to attack. He slashed at the dragon that was closest to him, and it bellowed out, and then slashed its tail out at him, right in the shoulder. He grimaced, and then slashed it again, and it fell down onto a heap on the ground, dead as a doornail.

"These little guys are pretty tough." Cloud said. "Split up and we can kill them easier!"

"Gotcha." They all said in unison and went their separate ways.

Cloud started slashing at another direction, well in the meanwhile everyone else worked on their own.

Tifa punched one right in the gut. Caught offguard, it took a couple seconds to get back to its senses, but before it could do that, Tifa kicked it again in the stomach, and it went sprawling off the rock and onto the ground below. Then three more came and surrounded her. She powered up and cast Bolt3 on all of them with the combination of her all materia, but it wasn't enough. Soon one of the dragons got to its senses quicker then she had, and while she was beating on of the others, it lashed out at her. She fell to the ground, and then got back up, powering up for Ultima. But then another dragon was about to snap at her when Barret blew it away with a chain of bullets. Then Tifa unleashed Ultima and all the dragons in sight, even the ones the others were trying to kill, faded away.

Don's face expressed pure horror. How could they always defeat even his most powerful monsters?? Even the dragons that he raised for the longest time! These were not your average people!

Cloud and the others could tell exactly what he was thinking just by the way he was looking at them. He smirked. "That's right." He said. "You're dealing with AVALANCHE, now." And pointed to the rest of AVALANCHE.

Yuffie looked exasperated. "Showoffs." she muttered.

Just then Don laughed out loud. A helicopter started lowering to them. Everyone, especially Yuffie, gasped in horror.

"You may of won the fight, but you've LOST the war!" Don said, grinning. One of the flunkies jumped out from the helicopter and forced a flailing Yuffie inside, kicking her in the process. Cloud lunged after Don as he started to get into the helicopter, his sword raised. But Don quickly moved out of the way and then the helicopter flew out of sight in less then a minute.

Everyone else just stood there, looking into the direction it had gone.

"FUCK!" Cid cursed, kicking a nearby rock. "Now we're gonna have to go save her puny little ass AGAIN!!"

"Yeah. But we're going to need a little help." Vincent said.

They turned to him.

"I have to admit you are right, but what kind of help are you talking about?" Red asked.

"The Turks." Vincent replied, coldly.

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Eeee.... A lil short, i know! But I'll make the chapters longer I promise! o.o; Please review! ;_; ~Chuu

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