We're Off to Kill A Guardian Force…

"So we're going to Midgar?" Tifa slouched in her chair.

Cloud stood at the window. "Yup. We're going to figure out what's going on."

Barret glared at Cloud. "So what do ya have in plan? Juz waltz in 'dere an' ask wha's goin down?!"

Cloud looked at him.

"No, we're going to barge in 'dere and ask wha's goin down'" Misty stood at the doorway with a smirk across her face. "Lighten up a bit bud. If you want to see what what's going on and make an attempt to kill Starlet, trust me." Misty raised an eyebrow and walked over next to Cloud. "We're almost there. I can smell the acid rain…" She turned back to Barret. "And I know it will be hard to trust me, especially of…"

Barret cut her off. "Trust you?! You juz come in here seemin like ya lost all ya memory and all o' a sudden ya want us to trust ya?! Who da hell are ya anywayz?! We don' know shit bout ya!!!"

Tifa got up. "Clam down. She maybe be our only way to saving the planet… I may not like her but… I just have a feeling."

Barret calmed down. "Really Tifa?"

Tifa nodded.

Misty breathed in deep. "Thanks Tifa."

"How are we going to go in?" Cloud was still looking out the window.

"Drop in." Misty breathed in. "I want you, Vincent, and Aerith to come with me."

Cloud nodded as he continued to look out the window in a daze. "That's fine." Cloud turn to Misty. "What if Sephiroth is there?"

Misty shrugged. "I doubt he'll be there."

Cloud nodded.

Misty left the room and walked to the bunking area. Vincent was in there. "Hello." She got on her bed and pulled out her swords to polish them.

Vincent looked up at her. "I remember."

Misty looked at him. "What?"

"You and him were the best. Still are. Shin- Ra was so money hungry, that's why they had you running about all the time." He smirked. "If the Turks fucked a mission up, they'd send you guys in to fix it and cover it up. Sephiroth was never into that. I loved what he did. Kill monsters, hunt down villains, when along he was working for the villains." He sighed. "And you. You always looked up to him. He was your role model, even though you two are just a few years apart." He looked at his mechanical hand. "You and him had the same type of blood, well almost.

Hojo respected you more. Sephiroth was jealous of that. He envied you. And then when you two became partners. Sephiroth was enraged. Then he realized how old you were and that you were under him still." He laughed. "Sephiroth was so caught up in training you and falling for you he ran behind in missions. The President was pissed, so then clones and other SOLDIERS came back into play. Hojo never wanted to clone you. I don't know about Sephiroth… It's all in Shin- Ra's files." Vincent began to polish his hand.

Misty looked at him confused. "Shin- Ra Mansion." She said under her breath. "I thought you were put to sleep before that's all happened…" She continued to polish her swords and glance up at Vincent every now and then.

Vincent stopped and looked at her. "Yes, but Hojo implanted those memories in me while I was asleep. He wanted to see if I would remember when I woke up." Vincent shook his head. "And boy, do I remember." Vincent got up and walked to the door. "You'll remember."

Misty stopped and looked at him.

Misty, Cloud, Aerith, and Vincent ran up the same stairs in the Shin- Ra building as they did before. They were on the 60th floor exhausted and panting. They stopped in the stairwell to take a quick breath and break.

Misty was panting. "I hope… There isn't a… wedding happening… and… we're gonna get… caught in the…middle!" Her chest heaved up heavy and sank back down fast. "We have… ten… more… flights of… stairs… to go… up and… we'll be OK…" Misty grasped her chest. "Ow, why does… my chest…hurt…?" Still panting.

Cloud breathed. "Maybe… it's Starlet…"

Aerith nodded. "Yeah… she prolly… knows we're here…"

Misty shrugged. "Come…on…" She pulled herself up and slowly ran up the stairs. "Damn it!" She pulled out her Full-Cure materia and summoned it on all of them. She breathed in easily. "Much better… OW!" She grabbed her chest again and shook her head. "I'm fine, I'm fine…" She continued to run up the stairs. "How much you wanna bet Rufus won't be here?"

Cloud shook his head.

"Is this really necessary?" Vincent breathed.

Just then machine gun fire was heard. They all looked up and then at each other. Then screaming of men was heard. Machine guns where still going but each one was being knocked off one by one.

"What the…?" Misty looked at everyone and run up the stairs as fast as she could. "Come on!!!"

Aerith, Vincent, and Cloud followed her. Just as they were about to reach the door they heard the President scream.

"No!!!"

Then silence. Misty drew out her swords opened the door slowly. She looked around. Nothing. She walked up the side stairs that led up to the 70th floor, the Presidents office. Blood was on the floor. Dead bodies where everywhere. Misty kicked one over. He had cut marks on his chest. The marks were from a sword. She pulled out the PHS and called the airship. "Cid, we need two more of you guys to come down. I have bad feeling." She hung up and turned to the others. "Red and Tifa are on there way. Let's look around here for a bit."

"What happened here…?" Aerith looked around and cringed at all the blood on the walls and floor. She saw blood drip on the floor and look up from where it was coming from. "Misty…"

Misty looked up. "Oh my god…"

There was an officer's body pinned to the wall. His mouth was gapping open as if he was screaming without sound. He had something in scrawled on his forehead. I'm coming for you… They were perfectly cut into his forehead.

Misty fell back. "He couldn't have…" She gasped for air.

Just then Red and Tifa ran in.

"Misty!!!" Red ran next to her. "Jenova is missing!"

Misty shook her head and blinked. "What?"

Tifa panted. "We just came from the 67th floor and everybody is dead there too. Jenova's body is gone!"

Misty ran up the stairs. "Stay here!"  She kept her swords un-holstered. As she approached the top of the stairs she slowed down and walked up, ready for whatever was there. She saw a sword and as she got closer she saw were the sword was. In the back of President Shin- Ra. She glanced around. "You! Come out of hiding…" She looked at the pillar to her right and pointed sword towards it.

"Pu-pu-pulease!!! D-d-don't kill me! I-I-I-I didn't do anything!!!" Palmer ran out with his arms out. Misty caught his arm.

"Wait a minute!" She slammed him in to the front of the Presidents desk. "What happened here?" She put a sword to his chin. "Tell me the truth…" She glared at him.

He looked at her wide-eyed. "Y-y-y-your Misty!!!"

"Yes, now tell me what happened!!!"

"Sephiroth! He killed everyone! I guess he heard about Shin- Ra wanting to come after you and finding the Promised Land so he cam to kill the President… Thank God Rufus wasn't here…" He put his head down.

Misty just blinked and pulled Palmer up. "I don't want to see you again, you hear me!?"

He jumped. "Y-y-y-yes!" He ran off. By that time everyone else was up there.

Cloud looked around then at the dead President's desk. "Who…?" 

 "Sephiroth…" Misty stared at the dead Presidents body. Then she looked up at the window behind the Presidents desk.

There was a helicopter circling the building. It had Shin- Ra's emblem on the side of it. After it circling the building five times the landed in front of the window. Two Shin- Ra guards came out of the helicopter and open the back door. Rufus stepped out.

"Rufus…" Misty growled under her breath and ran out the side door.

Everyone else followed. Cloud had already drawn his weapon.

Misty was standing a few feet in front of Rufus. "Your father is dead and so is half of Shin- Ra's guards." Misty's hair blew in the air. She glared at Rufus. "Not like you care."

Rufus smirked. "Of course." He flipped his hair out of his face. "My father was a very stupid man. Thinking he could just take over the world without Shin- Ra and me. Thinking that the people didn't realize his betrayal. I will rise above all that. I'll be better then my father." He pointed his shotgun at Misty. "Even if that means if I have to kill you."

Misty looked at Rufus and tilted her head up a bit. "You're contradicting yourself. Just like your father always did." Misty sneered. "And to think… I thought you were better then him…" Misty raised her right eyebrow.

"I see your point." He put his gun down. "I won't kill you. I'll just kill your friends." He smiled. "Plus, you never thought that. If you did you would have been mine…" He growled. "If Sephiroth…"

"If Sephiroth what?! If he wasn't around? If he didn't fall for me? What?" Misty hissed at Rufus. "I never wanted any but a friendship from you. Nothing more." She growled. She was holding her sword tightly. She was white knuckled. "But obliviously you threw it away."

Rufus rolled his eyes. "If Sephiroth was out of the picture, you'd love me more then you love him!!!" Rufus's face grew red. "But that will all soon change…" Rufus smiled.

Misty shook her head. "What happened to you Rufus?" Her eyes began to water. "Your just like your father…"

"NO I'M NOT!" He slammed his foot on the concrete roof. "I didn't go knock up some hooker off the street!"

"So you know…"

"Yes, I know! My stepmother told me before she died. I was only 13 when I learned of this! I hate my father because of it! I'm some hookers son!" Rufus face flamed. "I know I have a brother and I know who he is!"

Misty was shocked. "What?!"

Rufus laughed. "Yes, I know… but it's a shame we couldn't bond…"

"Wait a minute!!! How did you find out!?"

"Hojo… He told me lots of things. Like about you… Sephiroth…" The way he said his name rubbed her the wrong way. "He told me lots of things."

"Fuck you, Rufus!" Misty spat out at him. "Go Cloud! Go!!!" She turned around and signaled everyone to run.

"Misty!!!" Rufus shot his hand out at her and pulled her back by her hair. "Not again…"

Misty threw her head back and screamed out in pain. "Ugh!!! Rufus!!!" She grabbed his hand and put pressure on his wrist allowing it to weaken. She ripped back her head. "Fucker!" She elbowed him in the side of his chest and stepped on his foot and slammed him into the wall stunning him.

She noticed Aerith standing there. Two Shin- Ra guards were behind her. "Aerith!!!" Misty pulled out two daggers and threw the first one at the guard knocking him down and poisoning him. She let the second one fly and tag the other guard in the eye. He fell back in pain. More guards moved in. Misty and Aerith were trapped. "Aerith!" They ran to the edge of the building.

            Aerith looked down. "Ok… how do you get down?" Aerith was calm. Cloud and the others were already down there.

            Misty looked around desperately. "Shit…" Rufus was coming around and the guards were moving in fast. Misty spied a rope. "Hmm." She looked at the helicopters leg. "Perfect. Come on Aerith lets get out of here!" She tided the rope to the leg of the helicopter and grabbed Aerith. She  tried the rope around her waist and Aerith's. "Hold on." Misty and Aerith ran to the edge.

            "Misty… looks like you have no where to go." Rufus limped a bit.

            Misty smiled. "I think your wrong once again." Misty threw another dagger at Rufus, which hit him in the thigh. "Until then!" Misty grabbed Aerith's side and jumped on the side of the building. Once they hit the sloping side of the Shin- Ra building, Misty cut the rope and slid down the building while casting Float on them. "Shit, hold on!" The green light spread over them before they hit the ground and made a soft landing.

            Cloud looked at them and nodded. "Lets go!" Cloud turned around.

            "Going some where?" It was Starlet.

            "Starlet…" Misty glared at Starlet. "Let us go…"

            Starlet shook her head and smiled. "Sorry. I cannot do that… I have strict orders from Rufus to kill your friends and bring you back so the wedding can take place again." She bowed her head. "Your attempts to killing me will be futile."

            Misty sighed. "You think I don't know that Marie? I grew up with you!!!" Misty charged at Starlet and slammed the fore of her palm into Starlet's temple. "Run!!!" She held Starlet back against the wall with her sword sheathed.

            Cloud looked at her and moved towards her.

            "RUN!!!" Misty fought holding Starlet back. "Get the hell out of here!!! Don't worry about me!!!" Misty's eyes turned from purple to a fire red. "GO!!!"

            At that moment Starlet shoved Misty off her. "Err Ugh!!"

            Misty fell backwards and landed on her back. "Ugh!" Misty looked at her swords, which were tossed across the ground. Misty looked at Starlet.

            Starlet was pissed and she showed it. Her hair was floating in the air and if it was being blow up into the air. It looked like she was on fire. Her eyes were red and yellow. She was floating and her dress transformed into a dark red 1st class SOLDIER suit. "I will kill you!!!"

            Misty jumped for her swords and Starlet went after her. Starlet caught Misty by the waist and Misty was pulled back from the swords. She was just inches from her swords. Starlet clawed at Misty and Misty kicked her off. Starlet growled.

            "So I see your true colors are showing now." She turned on her back to fight Starlet off. "I know what you are!" She kicked Starlet off again.

            Starlet growled. "Oh really? And what the fuck is that?!" She jumped on Misty again.

            "Your not a human!"

            Starlet paused for a seconded but didn't let her guard down. "Why I should kill you!!!" Starlet went after her neck and tried to choke her.

            Misty put one foot up at Starlet's chest to hold her back. "Get the fuck off!" She shoved Starlet off into the wall hard. Stunning Starlet in just enough time so Misty could get up and get her swords.

She swung around towards Starlet. Starlet was breathing hard and lending on the wall for support. They glared at each other. Starlet slowly stood up and smiled at Misty. Misty got on her guard. They both were planning something for each other. Misty and Starlet began to circle each other, both breathing hard. Then they both stopped and stared at each other for a second. Misty began to cast M-Barrier and Haste. Starlet began to cast Fire 3.

Just then they were both knocked down and out of air.

Misty and Starlet gasped for air and look up to see who or what hit them.

"Sephiroth…" Starlet gasped. "I thought you…" She coughed.

"Misty…" Sephiroth coolly said. "Don't fight with your best friend."

Misty choked on air. "Friend don't try to kill friends… only fiends…" She growled at Starlet. "I don't wanna be here…" She slowly got up and walked away.

"Don't forget." Sephiroth then disappeared.

Misty looked down and saw his ring.