Chapter 12: Androids Awaken/Deja Vu
President Ginku had taken the next space shuttle up to the station after it was finished. The station had actually been delayed due to the girl Tirla. She had actually been a spy from Shinra and had infact not been a Telekinetic. She had planted a bomb on the station before escaping. President Ginku had hired some of his best men to kill her, but they were still on the job. Now as the docking sequence finished he unfastened his seat belt and moved toward the hatch. It slid open with a quiet hiss. The gravity of the station was kept at 3/4 that of the Planet.
"Hello sir, welcome aboard the Ginku Station Alpha." A medium sized man saluted the President as he walked in.
The President walked by the man and onto the bridge, where all the controls were. He quickly checked all the stations and continued his inspection. Then he walked into the room that read "Authorized Personel Only". He stepped inside and was welcomed by the five workers. He turned his attention toward three glass cases, a human shaped object in each one.
"How are the androids?" The President asked.
"They're all fine. The mako infusion is nearly finished. They will be active in another day or so." One of the scientist answered.
"Good, good. At least you aren't behind in your work." The president pointed out. The doctors beemed with self pride. The androids were each supposed to be stronger than Sephiroth himself. Each one was infused with mako from the Planet. Giving them the ability to use any materia spell or summon that they wished.
"Now Shinra will feel my wrath. They will perish at my hands and I will rule the Planet. My trio of androids will destroy anything that opposes me. My revenge will be exacted upon the unsuspecting citizens of Midgar first." President Ginku laughed his demented laugh. A laugh that was reminisent of Hojo's. A laugh that could chill the bones.
Suddenly one of the glass cases shattered, a green ooze, following the shards of glass. A human hand reached out. "They're early." The president pointed out
"They must have sense your presence." A scientist replied.
The body walked through the glass, breaking it off as it went. It looked around, spotting the three scientist and the President. Its memory had been programmed to recognize all of the people that had ever on The Planet. It identified the other two androids as it surveyed the room.
Suddenly, the other two glass cases were broken, at the same time as well. Two more androids walked out. One was female and the other was male like first. The scientists scurried off to get the androids some suitable clothes for their trip to the Planet.
"Mr. President, I'm glad to see you here for our birth." The first said.
"Thank you." He responded, "What are your designations?"
"I am Karten." The first said.
"I am Kesh." The female replied.
"And I am Reystra."
The scientist bustled their way back into the room, giving the androids their clothes. "Are you ready for your departure?" Ginku asked.
"Yes." They responded as one. And with that they got back on the return shuttle and maid their way back to The Planet. They landed in Ginku HQ, somewhere not to far from Midgar.
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Cloud had started to relax once again. Their house was now completely furnished, and Tifa lay next to him in their new bed. Living out away from all the cities had been nice. Of course, they lived near Kalm so that they could pick up their supplies weekly. Tifa sighed next to him, but when he looked over he saw she was still asleep. He reached over and stroked some of her head away from her face. She looked so beautiful sleeping there. She rolled over and her eyes fluttered open.
"Hey sleeping beauty."
She looked at him groggily, "Common Cloud, get up and go make breakfast?"
"Me?" He looked incredulously at her, pointing to himself.
"Who else?"
"Alright already!" Cloud said getting up. Tifa looked at his bare back side for a moment, then rolled out of the bed herself, slipping on a robe. She plodded into the kitchen where Cloud was heating up the gril for pancakes.
"Don't you know how to make anything else?" She mocked at him.
"Hey, gimme some slack here, you're the one that wanted me to-"
"I know." She said, smiling back at him. They ate their pancakes, which Cloud had now perfected, having made them so many times, both of them thinking the same thing. After their filling breakfast they went back into their bedroom, stripping down and getting back into bed for an extended morning.
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The androids, Karten, Kesh, and Reystra, finally landed on the suface of Planet.Their first realization was the presence of the life stream.
"Amazing." Karten said, feeling the power course through his artificial body.
"I feel it as well." Kesh said, flipping her long blonde hair out of her eyes.
"We need to focus on our target." Reystra said, pointing in the direction of Midgar.
"Yes, Midgar, Shinra, we must complete our mission before anything else." Karten began to walk at a pace that would have been a run for most normal humans. But, the other two androids were able to keep up with ease. Upon entry of Midgar they slowed to a normal pace, blending right in with the normal crowds of the sector 2 slums.
However, they were no longer slums. The whole place had been completely re-done after the Meteor Crisis. Large buildings and nice neighboorhoods were now the majority of the buiildings in the Lower Midgar. The android, with the map of the entire city built into their memory banks, easily navigated through the Lower Midgar up into Higher Midgar.
Standing in the very center of the complex city was the huge building that had the Shinra logo across the top, now 98 floors high. "We have reached our destination." Kesh pointed out, puting her hair back behind her ears.
"Why do you keep doing that?" Karten asked, directing his question at Kesh's hair.
"I-I believe it is part of my programming." She wondered if the female scientist had had anything to do with that.
"Interesting." Reystra commented for the first time. "How shall we approach the building?"
"The top seems the most logical place." Kesh said, making a block in her programming so that she stopped flipping her hair back.
"Agreed" With that simple word from their undifined leader, Karten, they flew straight up to the top of the Shinra building. They landed with a thud, six foot prints imprinted on the concrete roof. Reystra punched his fist down into the roof, creating a small hole. The others began to crack the concrete away until they had a hole big enough for them to jump through.
The comotion, however, wasn't unnoticed by Shinra security. A team of SOLDIER was quickly formed and sent to the top floor. They all took their automatic machine guns and aimed at the oncoming androids. "Halt!" One of them screamed, he had to be the commander of the little group.
The Soldier's opened fire on the oncoming androids, but the bullets proved to be useless. Only the clothes on the androids were damaged, the androids just kept walking on, always toward the Soldier's. After a little while the Soldier's exhauster their supply of ammunition. The androids quickly overtook them now fleeing security and took them all down. Each of the twelve Soldier's now lay dead in the halls of the 98th floor of the Shinra building.
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Cloud and Tifa were in bed together when they were interrupted by a ringing phone.
Cloud reached over and grabbed the phone, he wasn't exactly pleased with being interrupted at this time at night. "What do you want?" He asked a little too rudely.
"Uhh...sir, we have a uhh disturbance here at the Shinra building. Three people just barged in and took out 12 of our Soldier's." The voice was shaky and hurried.
"What?" Cloud was suddenly snapped away from his sex life for a moment. 12!? How could three people take down 12 Shinra Soldier's. His thoughts were fast and frantic as he struggled to get out of bed and into some clothes, all the while staying on the phone.
Tifa had a disappointed look on her face. She knew that whatever it was Cloud had to go see must be important, because he didn't usually leave in the middle of the night to go back to the Shinra building.
"Sir, we have them on our security cams right now and they appear to moving down toward the main control room...and uhh that's right here." The man said, his tone still unstable.
"I'll be right there." Cloud said, finishing his struggle with his pants. He hung up the phone and kissed Tifa on the cheek. "I just have to go check something real quick." He grabbed his sword and zoomed out the door.
He doesn't usually take his sword with him... She thought, starting to worry. She grabbed her gloves and went off into the night, following Cloud.
Luckily their house wasn't too far away from Midgar, and they had a personal rail way straight to the building. It helped being the president of the whole thing. Cloud boarded the rail way, with Tifa not far behind. He didn't object to her coming, he couldn't actually, because the rail had already started, and it was moving at pretty high speeds. "You're not going to do this alone." She said, using her stubborn, you-can't-win voice. Cloud didn't disagree, but he noticed that she had her fighting gloves on.
"I see you came ready for a fight." He said, casting his eyes down at her gloves again.
"Well, when I saw you grab your sword it kinda made me think for a minute."
"Yea, I guess it's kinda big huh?"
"So what is going on?" She asked, wondering why she had come in the first place.
"Three people, two men, one woman, just broke into Shinra HQ and took out 12 Soldier's with no guns and no assistance. You can see why they might get a little worried." She just nodded, kracking her knuckles and preparing for the fight.
The rail car slid slowly to a stop as it reached its destination. The two jumped out of the car before it had come to a complete stop. Cloud was first off, but Tifa was close behind him. They heard in explosion not far away and guessed that's where their targets were.
Gunshots rang out in the halls as they approached. Soldiers were falling, and three people kept walking, mauling over the Soldiers that got in their way. Cloud slotted his materia, as did Tifa.
"Hey! You!" Cloud yelled out to the trio of death.
The three turned. "Do not attempt to stop us from-" Karten stopped as his computer data base files told him who was standing there in front of him. "Ah, Cloud and Tifa. Well we'll be able to complete to missions in one." The android said approaching the couple. Kesh and Reystra followed behind him. "So nice to meet you in person. Tifa. Cloud." Karten said.
"Hey, how do you know our names?" Demanded Tifa, who's fists were now in front of her, glowing orbs in each glove.
"We know much about you." Kesh said.
"We're androids, we know all that was programmed into us." Reystra added.
"We were here to destroy Shinra so that Ginku could take over, but out secondary mission was to take out the group known as AVALANCHE. And you are both memebers of that group."
"So, you're here to take over the world?" Cloud asked, not much wonder in his voice.
"That is correct." Kerten replied.
"Nothing new there." He mumbled. With that though, he raised his Buster sword in front of him. "Bring it."
Kesh attacked Tifa in full force, while the two males attacked Cloud. Tifa punched the android in the sternem, only to have her fist bouce back with a throbbing pain. Kesh hit Tifa with enough force to send her into the building's wall. The wall cracked and Tifa slid onto the ground, unconscience.
Cloud meanwhile had managed to take out Reystra's arm, leaving him with only one arm. But Karten seemed to have more strength then Reystra and was dodging or blocking all of Cloud's moves. And it didn't help that Kesh suddenly joing in the battle. After exchanging blows for almost five minutes Cloud began to weaken. His moves were becoming sluggish, and he wasn't blocking as many hits as he should have.
Suddenly a giant sword stuck through Karten. Circuits poked through with the giant sword. Silver hair swooshed by as the sword withdrew itself and sliced the android in half. Obviously whoever had created them had never come up against the Masamune.
The sword swung again taking out Kesh. Two androids down, one disabled one to go. Cloud noticed that only one person was doing this. But was it Sephiroth or Tyler? Cloud didn't have time though, because Reystra was on a suicide mission now, just trying to take out Cloud. But the one armed android was no match for Cloud. One quick motion with the giant Buster Sword and the android lay in three pieces on the ground.
"I'm sorry I couldn't have come sooner." Said the silver haired man.
"Sephiroth?"
"Tyler." He said, sheathing his Masamune. "I found out about the androids only a short while ago and came here to warn you."
"About what?" Cloud mused.
"He's summoned it again."
(((Final Chapter: Coming Soon)))
President Ginku had taken the next space shuttle up to the station after it was finished. The station had actually been delayed due to the girl Tirla. She had actually been a spy from Shinra and had infact not been a Telekinetic. She had planted a bomb on the station before escaping. President Ginku had hired some of his best men to kill her, but they were still on the job. Now as the docking sequence finished he unfastened his seat belt and moved toward the hatch. It slid open with a quiet hiss. The gravity of the station was kept at 3/4 that of the Planet.
"Hello sir, welcome aboard the Ginku Station Alpha." A medium sized man saluted the President as he walked in.
The President walked by the man and onto the bridge, where all the controls were. He quickly checked all the stations and continued his inspection. Then he walked into the room that read "Authorized Personel Only". He stepped inside and was welcomed by the five workers. He turned his attention toward three glass cases, a human shaped object in each one.
"How are the androids?" The President asked.
"They're all fine. The mako infusion is nearly finished. They will be active in another day or so." One of the scientist answered.
"Good, good. At least you aren't behind in your work." The president pointed out. The doctors beemed with self pride. The androids were each supposed to be stronger than Sephiroth himself. Each one was infused with mako from the Planet. Giving them the ability to use any materia spell or summon that they wished.
"Now Shinra will feel my wrath. They will perish at my hands and I will rule the Planet. My trio of androids will destroy anything that opposes me. My revenge will be exacted upon the unsuspecting citizens of Midgar first." President Ginku laughed his demented laugh. A laugh that was reminisent of Hojo's. A laugh that could chill the bones.
Suddenly one of the glass cases shattered, a green ooze, following the shards of glass. A human hand reached out. "They're early." The president pointed out
"They must have sense your presence." A scientist replied.
The body walked through the glass, breaking it off as it went. It looked around, spotting the three scientist and the President. Its memory had been programmed to recognize all of the people that had ever on The Planet. It identified the other two androids as it surveyed the room.
Suddenly, the other two glass cases were broken, at the same time as well. Two more androids walked out. One was female and the other was male like first. The scientists scurried off to get the androids some suitable clothes for their trip to the Planet.
"Mr. President, I'm glad to see you here for our birth." The first said.
"Thank you." He responded, "What are your designations?"
"I am Karten." The first said.
"I am Kesh." The female replied.
"And I am Reystra."
The scientist bustled their way back into the room, giving the androids their clothes. "Are you ready for your departure?" Ginku asked.
"Yes." They responded as one. And with that they got back on the return shuttle and maid their way back to The Planet. They landed in Ginku HQ, somewhere not to far from Midgar.
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Cloud had started to relax once again. Their house was now completely furnished, and Tifa lay next to him in their new bed. Living out away from all the cities had been nice. Of course, they lived near Kalm so that they could pick up their supplies weekly. Tifa sighed next to him, but when he looked over he saw she was still asleep. He reached over and stroked some of her head away from her face. She looked so beautiful sleeping there. She rolled over and her eyes fluttered open.
"Hey sleeping beauty."
She looked at him groggily, "Common Cloud, get up and go make breakfast?"
"Me?" He looked incredulously at her, pointing to himself.
"Who else?"
"Alright already!" Cloud said getting up. Tifa looked at his bare back side for a moment, then rolled out of the bed herself, slipping on a robe. She plodded into the kitchen where Cloud was heating up the gril for pancakes.
"Don't you know how to make anything else?" She mocked at him.
"Hey, gimme some slack here, you're the one that wanted me to-"
"I know." She said, smiling back at him. They ate their pancakes, which Cloud had now perfected, having made them so many times, both of them thinking the same thing. After their filling breakfast they went back into their bedroom, stripping down and getting back into bed for an extended morning.
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The androids, Karten, Kesh, and Reystra, finally landed on the suface of Planet.Their first realization was the presence of the life stream.
"Amazing." Karten said, feeling the power course through his artificial body.
"I feel it as well." Kesh said, flipping her long blonde hair out of her eyes.
"We need to focus on our target." Reystra said, pointing in the direction of Midgar.
"Yes, Midgar, Shinra, we must complete our mission before anything else." Karten began to walk at a pace that would have been a run for most normal humans. But, the other two androids were able to keep up with ease. Upon entry of Midgar they slowed to a normal pace, blending right in with the normal crowds of the sector 2 slums.
However, they were no longer slums. The whole place had been completely re-done after the Meteor Crisis. Large buildings and nice neighboorhoods were now the majority of the buiildings in the Lower Midgar. The android, with the map of the entire city built into their memory banks, easily navigated through the Lower Midgar up into Higher Midgar.
Standing in the very center of the complex city was the huge building that had the Shinra logo across the top, now 98 floors high. "We have reached our destination." Kesh pointed out, puting her hair back behind her ears.
"Why do you keep doing that?" Karten asked, directing his question at Kesh's hair.
"I-I believe it is part of my programming." She wondered if the female scientist had had anything to do with that.
"Interesting." Reystra commented for the first time. "How shall we approach the building?"
"The top seems the most logical place." Kesh said, making a block in her programming so that she stopped flipping her hair back.
"Agreed" With that simple word from their undifined leader, Karten, they flew straight up to the top of the Shinra building. They landed with a thud, six foot prints imprinted on the concrete roof. Reystra punched his fist down into the roof, creating a small hole. The others began to crack the concrete away until they had a hole big enough for them to jump through.
The comotion, however, wasn't unnoticed by Shinra security. A team of SOLDIER was quickly formed and sent to the top floor. They all took their automatic machine guns and aimed at the oncoming androids. "Halt!" One of them screamed, he had to be the commander of the little group.
The Soldier's opened fire on the oncoming androids, but the bullets proved to be useless. Only the clothes on the androids were damaged, the androids just kept walking on, always toward the Soldier's. After a little while the Soldier's exhauster their supply of ammunition. The androids quickly overtook them now fleeing security and took them all down. Each of the twelve Soldier's now lay dead in the halls of the 98th floor of the Shinra building.
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Cloud and Tifa were in bed together when they were interrupted by a ringing phone.
Cloud reached over and grabbed the phone, he wasn't exactly pleased with being interrupted at this time at night. "What do you want?" He asked a little too rudely.
"Uhh...sir, we have a uhh disturbance here at the Shinra building. Three people just barged in and took out 12 of our Soldier's." The voice was shaky and hurried.
"What?" Cloud was suddenly snapped away from his sex life for a moment. 12!? How could three people take down 12 Shinra Soldier's. His thoughts were fast and frantic as he struggled to get out of bed and into some clothes, all the while staying on the phone.
Tifa had a disappointed look on her face. She knew that whatever it was Cloud had to go see must be important, because he didn't usually leave in the middle of the night to go back to the Shinra building.
"Sir, we have them on our security cams right now and they appear to moving down toward the main control room...and uhh that's right here." The man said, his tone still unstable.
"I'll be right there." Cloud said, finishing his struggle with his pants. He hung up the phone and kissed Tifa on the cheek. "I just have to go check something real quick." He grabbed his sword and zoomed out the door.
He doesn't usually take his sword with him... She thought, starting to worry. She grabbed her gloves and went off into the night, following Cloud.
Luckily their house wasn't too far away from Midgar, and they had a personal rail way straight to the building. It helped being the president of the whole thing. Cloud boarded the rail way, with Tifa not far behind. He didn't object to her coming, he couldn't actually, because the rail had already started, and it was moving at pretty high speeds. "You're not going to do this alone." She said, using her stubborn, you-can't-win voice. Cloud didn't disagree, but he noticed that she had her fighting gloves on.
"I see you came ready for a fight." He said, casting his eyes down at her gloves again.
"Well, when I saw you grab your sword it kinda made me think for a minute."
"Yea, I guess it's kinda big huh?"
"So what is going on?" She asked, wondering why she had come in the first place.
"Three people, two men, one woman, just broke into Shinra HQ and took out 12 Soldier's with no guns and no assistance. You can see why they might get a little worried." She just nodded, kracking her knuckles and preparing for the fight.
The rail car slid slowly to a stop as it reached its destination. The two jumped out of the car before it had come to a complete stop. Cloud was first off, but Tifa was close behind him. They heard in explosion not far away and guessed that's where their targets were.
Gunshots rang out in the halls as they approached. Soldiers were falling, and three people kept walking, mauling over the Soldiers that got in their way. Cloud slotted his materia, as did Tifa.
"Hey! You!" Cloud yelled out to the trio of death.
The three turned. "Do not attempt to stop us from-" Karten stopped as his computer data base files told him who was standing there in front of him. "Ah, Cloud and Tifa. Well we'll be able to complete to missions in one." The android said approaching the couple. Kesh and Reystra followed behind him. "So nice to meet you in person. Tifa. Cloud." Karten said.
"Hey, how do you know our names?" Demanded Tifa, who's fists were now in front of her, glowing orbs in each glove.
"We know much about you." Kesh said.
"We're androids, we know all that was programmed into us." Reystra added.
"We were here to destroy Shinra so that Ginku could take over, but out secondary mission was to take out the group known as AVALANCHE. And you are both memebers of that group."
"So, you're here to take over the world?" Cloud asked, not much wonder in his voice.
"That is correct." Kerten replied.
"Nothing new there." He mumbled. With that though, he raised his Buster sword in front of him. "Bring it."
Kesh attacked Tifa in full force, while the two males attacked Cloud. Tifa punched the android in the sternem, only to have her fist bouce back with a throbbing pain. Kesh hit Tifa with enough force to send her into the building's wall. The wall cracked and Tifa slid onto the ground, unconscience.
Cloud meanwhile had managed to take out Reystra's arm, leaving him with only one arm. But Karten seemed to have more strength then Reystra and was dodging or blocking all of Cloud's moves. And it didn't help that Kesh suddenly joing in the battle. After exchanging blows for almost five minutes Cloud began to weaken. His moves were becoming sluggish, and he wasn't blocking as many hits as he should have.
Suddenly a giant sword stuck through Karten. Circuits poked through with the giant sword. Silver hair swooshed by as the sword withdrew itself and sliced the android in half. Obviously whoever had created them had never come up against the Masamune.
The sword swung again taking out Kesh. Two androids down, one disabled one to go. Cloud noticed that only one person was doing this. But was it Sephiroth or Tyler? Cloud didn't have time though, because Reystra was on a suicide mission now, just trying to take out Cloud. But the one armed android was no match for Cloud. One quick motion with the giant Buster Sword and the android lay in three pieces on the ground.
"I'm sorry I couldn't have come sooner." Said the silver haired man.
"Sephiroth?"
"Tyler." He said, sheathing his Masamune. "I found out about the androids only a short while ago and came here to warn you."
"About what?" Cloud mused.
"He's summoned it again."
(((Final Chapter: Coming Soon)))