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Chapter 12: The Gold Saucer's End, Avalanche's End
Trent was rudely awakened from his nap when someone came beating on his door. He flung it open and groaned.
"Trent. Get ready! We're going to the Gold Saucer!" Lady Angel said sharply.
"What for?" he retorted.
"I'll tell you and the other Turks when you get downstairs. Now hurry up!" Lady Angle hurried away. Trent had half a mind to shoot her, but he decided not to. Putting on a clean black shirt, his heavy combat boots and his shades, he walked out.
Lady Angel, Scarlet, Lillith, Gemma, Raven and Ice were already outside when Trent came out. "Now that you're here Romasova, I will tell you all the reason for going to the Gold Saucer." Lady Angel announced.
"I heard that place was AWESOME! But I've never been able to get enough money to get in…" Gemma sighed. Lillith's eyes flashed in annoyance. "The owner, Dio, has been working secretly against me. He plans to give all of our secret information to Avalanche." Lady Angel explained, ignoring Gemma's comment.
"How'd you find all this out?" Ice asked.
"I have my contacts." the Shinra Leader replied evilly.
"Whatever. So, you want us to take this guy out or what?" Trent lit a cigarette.
"Exactly. And while you're at it, take the whole place down." Lady Angel clapped her hands in glee. Then she handed a large, black bag to Trent. He looked in it and gasped.
"Damn! There's gotta be at least 40 different explosives in there! You must really want a Light show!"
"Yes. I want them to suffer. Then, Dio will never think about trying to resist me again!" his leader cackled.
"Of course not. He'll be dead." Trent took a long drag on his cigarette.
"How are we going to get there?" Lillith asked. "Oh, I have a small airship out back. Let's hurry." Lady Angel led them towards it.
As they left, a figure in the shadows gasped. "Blow up the Gold Saucer?" she cried. She turned and hurried back to the Velocity.
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"Guys!" Tifa burst onto the bridge, startling the members of Avalanche.
"Look who's returned. Did Trent dump ya?" Cid muttered, and went back to what he was doing.
"Cid! This is important. Everyone! Lady Angel and the Turks are gonna blow up the Gold Saucer!" Tifa yelled.
"Why the hell would they do that?" Barret asked.
"Dio has been getting information about Lady Angel so they're gonna kill him." she replied.
"Cid." Cloud turned to the old pilot.
"Yeah, yeah. I know." Cid started flying towards the Gold Saucer.
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"It IS wonderful!" Gemma sighed, as they entered the Gold Saucer.
"Oh, why do you have to blow it up?" she asked Lady Angel.
"Because I am the Leader of Shinra and anyone who is against me DIES." her leader replied icily. Gemma pouted, but shut up. Trent paid for their ticket.
"It's better to get a Lifetime Pass y'know." the ticket lady suggested. "We won't need a Lifetime pass. The Gold Saucer will be gone soon." Lady Angel muttered and they walked in.
"Oh! The Wonder Square! Can't we have a bit of fun before we blow it up?" Gemma pleaded. Lillith sighed in disgust. Her twin sister sounded like a 2 year old.
"Fine! You have thirty minutes to do whatever you please! But THEN, we take action!" Lady Angel yelled. Gemma smiled, and actually hugged the tyrannical woman.
She headed to the Wonder Square, while Trent, Lillith, Raven and Ice headed to the Battle Square.
"I bet it's a joke." Lillith muttered, looking around the Battle square.
"Yeah. But it's better than playing Mog House in the Wonder Square." Trent shrugged. They walked to the registration area, where several tough looking men and women were standing.
"Register for Battle? It's only 10 GP." the lady told them.
"Oh, that's right. We need GP." Ice said.
"No problem." Trent fished in his pocket and gave the lady 10 GP.
"You've been here before?" Lillith snorted. Trent nodded.
"Which one of you will be fighting?" the lady asked.
"I'll go first." Lillith replied arrogantly.
"You can engage up to 8 battles. The more you're in, the greater handicaps there are." the lady explained.
"Whatever. Let's get this over with." the purple haired Martial Artist walked into the arena.
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"Well. It's still standing." Cloud surveyed as they arrived in the Gold Saucer.
"Thank goodness." Tifa replied.
"Oh! Mr. Strife, Avalanche! Welcome!" the ticket lady waved them through.
"Let's split up. Tifa and I will take the Battle Square, Barret and Cid go to the Wonder Square, Red and Reno in the Event Square, Cait Sith go to Chocobo Square, Yuffie and Elena in the Ghost Square and Vincent and Rude in the Speed Square." Cloud said.
"Call on the PHS if you encounter Lady Angel or her Turks." he said and then he and Tifa hurried to the Battle Square. When they entered, they heard lots of cheers and shouts.
"Someone must be doing really good." Cloud muttered, remembering when he conquered the Battle Arena. They gasped when they saw a familiar purple haired woman, fighting a Malboro.
"She doesn't even have any materia!" a man next to Tifa said, awed. She defeated it with her Limit Break.
"Wow Lillith. You got 32,000 Battle Points." Trent said. She wasn't even breathing hard. Trent decided to fight next.
As Lillith headed over to the exchange machine, she saw two very familiar looking people. "Son of a bitch. Do they follow us everywhere we go?" she muttered. She decided not to fight them just yet.
"HA! That red headed man thinks he'll win with just a switchblade and his ego!" a tall, muscular black man laughed. He was standing next to Raven. The silent Sniper turned to him, grabbed his neck and slammed him against a wall.
"That 'red headed man' happens to be the Leader of the Turks and one of the strongest warriors in the world." he hissed. The black man's eyes bulged out, he couldn't breathe.
"O-ok man. I-I'm sorry." he wheezed out. Raven let go and the man dropped to the ground in a heap, wheezing and coughing.
Trent's first fight was against a Pollensalta. He easily defeated the monster with a kick to the face, and a switchblade to the gut. Meanwhile, Lillith was having trouble deciding which items to buy.
"Such weak things. They'll do me no good." she muttered. Finally, she just purchased a bunch of worthless materia.
Tifa had been keeping her eye on Lillith.
"Why hasn't she attacked yet?" she muttered, utterly confused.
Cloud was watching Trent fight. He was already on his last battle, it was with a Master Tonberry.
"Dark Demise!" Trent yelled, using his Level 2 Limit Break. The Master Tonberry's soul was sucked from his body and it fell dead. The crowd cheered and whistled as he walked out.
"64,000 BP." the lady at the desk handed him his points. Just then, he spotted a very familiar woman.
"Tifa…" the name escaped his lips. Tifa saw him staring at her, and they instantly locked eyes. After staring at each other for what seemed like eternity, Lillith tapped Trent on his shoulder.
"Huh, what?" he shook his head as if he were in some trance.
"There's two members of Avalanche. Should we kill them now?" she asked, annoyed.
"You think they know of our plans to blow this place to shit?" Trent asked.
"Of course! They wouldn't be here if they didn't know!" Lillith snapped.
"Fine. Ice, Raven." Trent snapped his fingers at the two other Turks.
"Man! I wanted to fight in the Battle Arena." Ice muttered as they headed towards Cloud and Tifa.
"We've got company." Cloud said--just as his PHS rang. He hurriedly answered it.
"Yo Spike! We need some help! This green haired girl has practically messed the whole Wonder Square up! Barret's in a LOT of pain!" Cid yelled frantically. In the background, Cloud could hear lots of crashes and screams.
"Shit! We've got the other four Turks headed right for us Cid. Call the others!" Cloud said.
"Tch. Some help you are." Cid hung up. Trent and his entourage faced Cloud and Tifa.
"I'm sure you know of our little plan?" he asked Cloud.
"You will not kill Dio or destroy this place!" the Avalanche leader yelled, unsheathing Ultima Weapon.
"Who's gonna stop us?" Trent walked right up to Cloud until they were eye to eye. He blew cigarette smoke in the blonde's face. "I remember our last battle Strife. I almost killed you. Lucky Tifa stopped me or you'd be dead. This time, you won't be so lucky." Trent whispered. Cloud yelled in rage and swung his fist to punch Trent. The red head caught his arm.
"Argh!" Cloud cried out in pain. Trent's grip was too strong and his nails we're digging into Cloud's arm, drawing blood. The Turk crushed his cigarette under his heavy boot. But something else caught his eye, a man had entered, very muscular and wearing only a red Speedo.
"Dio." Trent mouthed to Lillith, Ice and Raven. Lillith nodded and in a flash she and the other Turks were gone.
"Good lord!" Dio was startled when all of a sudden, three people appeared in front of him.
"You Dio?" Ice asked.
"Yes, I certainly am." Dio replied, thinking he had fans.
"Good." Lillith punched him in the face. Dio clutched his-now black-eye.
"No!' Tifa hurried over.
"Flare!" she yelled, casting it on Ice. It caused major damage.
"Little bitch." the Silver haired Turk yelled. Raven cast Full Cure on Ice, then whipped out his gun. Tifa somersaulted, managing to dodge the lightning fast bullets.
Lillith kicked Dio in the stomach with her steel toed boot. He keeled over in pain.
"Why are you doing this?" he wheezed.
"You stupid fuck. You've been getting info about Lady Angel. Anyone who denies her power dies." Lillith replied, kicking him again with more force. Dio coughed up blood. "Please. I'll never do it again." he gasped.
"Too late asshole." Lillith summoned all her power.
"DEMON HAND!" she screamed, punching Dio full force in the stomach. Her hand went straight through, making a large hole. Blood was all over. Dio gasped and coughed, going through convulsions. Then he went silent. Lillith stood up, surveying her hand. Bits of bone, flesh and blood clung to it. She wiped it on Dio's dead body.
"NO!" Tifa gasped, seeing the bloody, dead body of Dio, the former owner of the Gold Saucer. Just then, Lady Angel and Scarlet walked in.
"Your thirty minutes are up Turks!" she yelled, but then went silent as she saw the scene. Dio was dead, Trent and Cloud were locked in hand and hand combat and Raven and Ice were advancing on Tifa. Lillith was covered in blood, and was standing over Dio's dead body.
"Wow. You killed him already. Bravo!" she clapped. Then her smile turned into a frown when she saw Cloud and Tifa. "Avalanche, again. You're like pesky little flies. Following us wherever we go." she said. Scarlet was carrying the bag of explosives. "Let's just get this over with." Lady Angel sighed.
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"Do you guys ever get tired?" Gemma said after casting her 5th Ultima spell. All of the members of Avalanche minus Cloud and Tifa were fighting her and she was winning. Elena cast a Bio 3 spell, which had no effect.
"Puh-lease. Bio 3 is SO last year." Gemma retaliated by casting a Freeze spell. She teleported herself right in front of Vincent and Rude and cast a Tornado spell. Then she cast another Ultima spell on the rest.
"She's too fucking powerful." Reno said, slumping to the ground. Everyone was worn out, their MP and power were rapidly falling.
"It's about time." Gemma sighed, as she saw them all fall. Then she walked up to Reno. He opened one blue eye and saw the green haired woman standing over him. She bent down. "I see your face is all healed, thanks to Me." she whispered. He gasped.
"You? Why?" he asked, not quite able to register that Gemma had healed him.
"Because you're so cute!" Gemma cast Full Cure on him then teleported herself to the Battle Arena.
"Where have YOU been?" Lady Angel asked the magic user.
"Kicking the rest of Avalanche's ass." Gemma replied.
"Good job. Trent!" the Shinra leader yelled. The red headed man kicked Cloud in the jaw and sent him sprawling across the floor, into a wall. Trent hurried over, wiping blood from a cut on his forehead, courtesy of Cloud.
"Let's blow this place up and leave!" Lady Angel put her hands on her hips.
"Fine." Trent grabbed the bag from Scarlet. He placed Seven C4 explosives on the far wall, then Gemma teleported him to the other rooms, where he placed Dynamite, Plastiques, Mines and others. Then they went back to the Battle Arena.
"Goodbye Avalanche. It was nice knowing you!" Lady Angel had the remote that controlled all of the explosives.
"Once I press this it's BOOM. No more Avalanche." she said to Cloud and Tifa. Just then, Barret, Cid and the others stumbled in.
"I thought you took care of them!" Lady Angel asked Gemma sharply.
"I thought so too." she replied, shrugging. Gemma teleported Lady Angel, Scarlet and her fellow Turks out of the Gold Saucer and to their airship. They had a good view of the Gold Saucer from where they were.
"Haha! Finally, the end of Avalanche!" Lady Angel cackled and pressed the red button.
Does Avalanche get out alive? Stay tuned for the next chapter!
