New friends
By vincent valentine
A/N: Curtis coming into the story in this chapter maybe. Hard dicision. Kick Reno's ass... leave Curtis alone till later... What the hell. I will decide later. I am hoping that this story gets 100 reviews. But the majority of my reviews come from scizor. But I don't give a damn. Its better then having no reviews. I also have those other people.This wil become a very long story.
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(This pov will be from someone who is in the shadows watching the scene. Wanna know who it will be? Take a guess)
I had been watching the events that had been going on for an hour. The two kids had been doing great keeping anybody from reaching the controls by stairs. The black guy with the gun on his arm was keeping the helicopter from getting close enough to drop anyone near it. I was rather impressed. I was only staring at this battle only because there was a rumor that the Turks would be here. I just hoped that a certain red headed pain in the ass would be here. I saw the red head girl get her mallet ready but stopped before it hit her target. She got really excited when A blonde haired man and two women came up. That was when they made the stupidess mistake ever. they let there guard down and the helicopter dropped a person onto the structure. When I saw a flash of red from the person I jumped out of my hiding place and jumped across the enourmus pile of junk.
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(Barret's pov)
I was about to fire at the Turk that had appeared but I was too late. He had made it to the control panel.
"You're too late. Once I push this button..." He pushed a button on the panel and a alarm sounded."That's all, folks! Mission accomplished." He then looked at us with a smirk that made my blood boil. I was gonna blow that Shinra scum straight to hell until I saw the smirk disappear and replaced by a look of horror. That was quickly changed into a look of hate. I turned around and saw a man standing on the railing. I couldn't help but wonder how he did that. He was wearing a green coat that went to his knees. He Had black hair that went to his shoulders. The collar of his shirt was very high up and covered half his face. In his hands was a spear-like object. It had an axe-like blade near the tip. Both him and the turk were staring at each other.
"Who the hell are you?" I asked the stranger that had appeared.
"That is of no importance to you." he replied.
"So we meet again Curtis. I thought I taught you a lesson last time?" The turk said, his smirk coming back to his face.
"What, a lesson in cheating and sending innocent people to jail Reno?" He replied and then spat at the ground in front of the turk.
"No. About me being the better turk." He said and then took his night stick off his belt.
"This no time to settle a grudge. The pillar is about to explode." Said Jesse. She then ran over to the control panel and tried to defuse the bomb but Reno had sent a yellow beam at everyone and trapped us in a pyramid shaped barrier. I couldn't even move. Like all of my muscles had stopped working. The only thing that would work was our mouths.
"Lets just settle this once and for all" Reno then typed something into the control panel "We have ten minutes for one of us to kill the other. Then this bomb will start up again." He said.
"Fine by me." Curtis got into a battle stance."I have been saving something just for now. FIRE JUMP!" Curtis ran up to him and started to run around him at a very fast pace. He then jumped up and spun his weapon around and around again and again. He pointed the tip of his weapon towards Reno and shot out a huge blast of energy. It hit Reno with full force and then exploded. Reno was hurt but was still able to fight. He ran to Curtis and hit him with his night stick. On impact reno hit a button and shocked Curtis. Curtis jumped up and then slashed Reno's shoulder. He landed right on top of Reno's head. Reno fell down and Curtis just jumped off and landed near Reno. Curtis then put his foot on Reno's stomach and his weapon to his neck.
"I guess you win... Maybe not." Reno then took his night stick and slammed it into Curtis's privates. Curtis dropped to his kness from the pain and Reno hit him over the back." I told you I was the better Turk." Reno said with that smirk of his.
"I guess your right. But I'm not a Turk anymore." He then hit him in the face and kicked him in the stomach. The fight continued like this. Each getting the advatage for a while and then had it stolen. After a few minutes Reno looked at his watch.
"Two minutes till the bomb starts up again. I got to go." Reno then ran up to the railing."Besides, looks like you guys will have to deal with my boss." He then jumped over the railing and landed on a helicopter. There was a black haired turk on it. I opened fire on him.
"I would not do that. You might make me hurt my guests. He then grabbed hold of someones hair from behind him. He pulled her in front of him and showed her to everyone. "It was very hard getting her. She had a friend protecting her and we had to tranquilize him in order to get her.But our orders were to get the last remaining Ancient"
"Ash!" Misty yelled.
"He is now at the Shinra building. The president has allowed one of our scientists to experiment on him, that's probably what he is doing now." He said.
"Bastard!" Misty shouted.
"A young lady like you should not have a mouth like that." Tseng replied. The woman in the helicopter had yelled out something. Tseng slapped her hard and then shoved her into the back of the helicopter. I did not hear what she said but Tifa seemed to have heard it."It looks like the bomb will explode in one minute. It may sound on professional but I'll say it anyway. See you in hell." The helicopter then flew up vertically and then flew away from the pillar just as it started to explode. Curtis ran up to each of us and attacked the barriers.
"Get the #$%& out of here now!" He yelled and then he ran up to the railing and jumped off. I ran to the railing and looked down. It was amazing. The asshole was jumping around the junk right out of sector 7. I looked to my right. There was hook that was connected to a wire. I grabbed it and then got on it.
"Get over here! We gotta escape." I yelled. Everyone got on the wire and believe me. It was really hard to hold on but we escaped just before the thing exploded. As I looked at the debris that used to be sector 7 only one thing ran through my mind. Marlene...
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(Ash's Pov)
"Uhhhhhhhh... Damn it... I feel like I've been hit by a truck." I moaned. I tried to get up but something was keeping down. I looked down and saw that my hands and feet were strapped to a table. There was wires all over my body."What the hell!" I yelled.
"So you awoke when I was just about to start the most important part of my experiment. It doesn't matter. I love to watch my specimens scream from the pain when I inject them with Jenova." A man in a lab coat said.
"What the hell is Jenova?" I asked weakly.
"You will find out soon enough." He then took out a canister of some green liquid and put it into a machine. he took a tube and attached a needle to it. He walked up to me and jabbed it into my arm violently. He then turned the machine on and the green stuff I saw earlier came out. When it reached my arm I felt a burning sensation run through my arm. It spread like wild fire and soon my whole body was tensing up from the pain. But the worst part was when The burning sensation reached my head. There was a sudden scream and I thought it was coming from outside the room but then I relized it was coming from my head. It ended almost as soon as it started. The pain began to increase and soon I was screaming. All I could think about was getting out of here.~/ Please get me out of here quick Misty.\~ I then passed out. The last thing I heard was a very evil sounding laugh.
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(Jesse's Pov)
I was in shock. All my friends in Sector 7 were probably dead, and worse was that my best friends and fellow AVALANCHE members were dead. Barret was really mad. He even started shooting the ruins. Me and him both lost people who were very important. Although I flirted with Cloud a little, it was nothing. The truth was Biggs and me had been dating for at least a month. I thought for sure it would last forever, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. I just sat on a swing. The other two had been destroyed. Barret and the others were talking and Tifa said something that made Barret get excited. After they talked even more Cloud left. The others asked for me to go. But told them to go and come get me. I had an idea. When they left I started to gather some things. I got two peices of wood and a rope.While searching for the stuff I found a sense materia. I tied the two together into the shape of a cross. It took a little effort to put it up but I got it up. I took out my dagger and began to carve a message into the base. "This was erected to honor the lives of Wedge Johnson and Biggs Kenton. (thats the last names I am giving them) Both died trying to protect this sector and this planet. May there souls rest in peace." When I was done I began to cry. ~/I could have died also. I had been hurt and could have been still there but I got lucky. Wherever Biggs is now I hope he is happy.\~I just knealt there fiddling with my dagger and crying. I even considered suicide at that moment, but I knew Biggs would want me to continue. I then carved something else in the wood. "Their deaths will be avenged!"
I took a deep breath and then just yelled,"You are going to get it Shinra!!"
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(Cloud's pov)
I ran along the same road that Aries, Ash, and me took to get to the gate of sector 7. I just kept running ignoring any monsters. If any attacked I just blasted them with ice and ran. I had several things on my mind. I stopped when a hand touched my shoulder. I turned around and saw Barret.
"Take me to Marlene." He ordered. Tifa ran up beside him and was followed up by Misty and Brock.
"You're going to help Aries?" Tifa asked.
"Of course. But I need to find out something first." I replied.
"What do you need to know?" Misty asked.
"About the Ancients" I said. Suddenly I blacked out and heard a very familiar voice.
"In my veins courses the blood of the Ancients. I am one of the rightful heirs to this planet." The voice said. After it disappear I shook my head and tried to clear my mind.
"Sephiroth...?" Was all I could mutter before I dropped to my knees. I felt to setd of hands grab my arms and help me to my feet. ~/ Why am I hearing his voice again after so many years?\~ I shook the thought out of my head and continued on. I just looked ahead. my eyes only set upon the road ahead of me. ~/ I am going to get to the bottom of this, once and for all. \~
We finnaly reached our destination. The little cottage Aries called home. I walked in and found Elymra at the table. She looked up and stared me straight in the eye.
"Cloud....... wasn't it?" She said while wiping away a tear."It's about Aries isn't it?"
I bowwed my head and replied,"... She was captured by Shinra."
"I know. She and your friend was here. Shinra found her here and tried to capture her again. Ash fought very bravely. You should be very proud of your friend.He kept the soldiers at bay until all of a sudden he passed out. Aries gave herself in for the safety of me and the girl she had with her." She said and then sighed.
"Marlene! Listen, Marlene is my daughter. Can you tell me where she is?" Barret said after shoving his way through the crowd.
"You're her father? How in the world could you leave her alone like that?" She asked.
"Don't start that. Im always thinking what would happen if I die.I want to spend time with her, but I got to fight. 'Cause if I don't the planets gonna die. I'm gonna fight in order to make sure there is a future for her."
"I'm sorry to interupt but I have some questions. Why is Aries being chased by Shinra?" I asked.
"Aries is an Ancient. The sole survivor." Elmyra replied sadly.
"...What did you say? But aren't you her mother?" Barret asked.
"...Not her real mother. Oh... it must have been fifteen years ago... during the war. My husband was sent to the front. Some far away place called Wutai." She then let out a sigh."One day I went to the train station because I got a letter saying he was coming home on leave. He never came back. I wondered If something happened to him. But I was sure his leave was just canceled. I went to the station everyday. Then one day... I found a woman near the station. She was hurt badly and was on the brink of death. She had a little girl with her. You use to see this kinda thing a lot in the war. Her last words were,' please take Aries somewhere safe.' My husband never came back, I had no child. I was probably lonely so I took her home. Aries and me became very close. She loved to talk. She told me almost evrything." She smiles at this memory of Aries. "She told me she escaped from some sort of research laboratory somewhere. And that her mother had already returned to the planet, so she wasn't lonely... and many other things."
"Returned to the planet?" Barret questioned.
"I'm not sure what she meant. I asked if she meant a star in the sky. But she said it was this planet..." She laughed slightly "She was a very mysterious child in many ways." she then looked at a picture of Aries on the wall. "One morning when I saw her she just blurted out 'Please don't cry'. I asked her if something happened and she replied 'Someone close to you has just died. His spirit was coming to see you but he has already returned to the planet.' At that time I didn't believe her. But then I recieved a letter saying my husband died." As she spoke tears started to form in her eyes. Then there was a loud sound coming from behind me. Then the slamming of a door. I turned around to see that Misty had ran off. Tifa was about to run out to see what was wrong but Brock stopped her.
"I'll go see whats wrong. She has known me longer and it might be better if I went." he said and then ran out the door.
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(Brock's pov)
I found Misty in the garden crying. When I put my hand on her shoulder she took out her mallet and hit me over the head.
"Brock, I'm so sorry. I didn't relise it was you." She then put the mallet back into the magical place that no one knew where was. (I have always wondered where she put that mallet.) She then started to wipe away her tears.
"So what is bothering you." I said after I got up.
"I am afraid I might never see Ash again. He could end up like Elmyra's husband. That Turk said that they were going to experiment on Ash. Who knows what they will do to him. If we do find him alive he may have two heads or have a tree growing out of his back. I just hope to find him alive and normal." She then began to cry even more.
"If we do find him and he looks different wouldn't he still be the same Ash on the inside." I replied hoping to calm her down.
"Thats not my only worry. What if he becomes a brainless zombie or he acts completely different. Who knows what these scientist in this world are capable of." Misty said.
"Lets just hope for the best. We should try to save him as soon as possible. If we get him soon he probably won't be changed very much. And we'll even make Shinra pay for anything they do to him." I said. I unstrapped my magic staff from my back and twirled it."I Promise that we will save him. He is like a brother to me.I won't let him die"
"I just wish he was here." She then began to cry on my shoulder.
"I do to." I said in a depressed voice.
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(Ash's pov)
"Puppet. Puppet. Wake up." Was the first voice I heard after I passed out. I woke up and look around the cell I was in. It sounded so close it had to be in the cell but there was no one there."Your defences are high. I can't even get into your mind, just yet."
"Wh-who are you?" I asked in a shaky voice.
"You will know soon enough my puppet. Until then I think you might want to forget this." There was a flash of red and I was sent flying into the wall. I saw a transparent figure in front of me before I passed out yet again.
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(Misty's pov)
I stayed in the same position for what seemed like hours, doing nothing but crying. I finnaly stopped when I heard the sound of a door slamming. I turned around to see the blurry figures of Cloud,Tifa, and Barret. I wiped away the tears from my eyes and saw that Brock had gotten up and was talking to Cloud. After a few minutes of talking Brock came back.
"They say we are going to a place called Wall Market to get some information on how to get up to the plate." He held out his hand for me to get up.
When we made it to the park we joined back up with Jesse after seeing the cross she made for Biggs and Wedge. When we got to Wall Market we split up to search for information. Barret went to the bar, Brock went to the gym,Jesse went to the resturant, Tifa went to the hotel, Cloud went to some person's mansion saying he had unfinished buisness, I went to the weapon shop. As I passed the hotel I saw Tifa asking the receptionist about the plate.
I looked into the resturant and saw Jesse eating something and talking to this one guy. The next place I saw was the gym. Brock was cowering in a corner with three muscle heads surrounding him. There was a woman trying to get them off him but a blast of ice told me Brock just took care of himself. Then I saw the woman's face. I almost screamed. That wasn't a woman. That was a man. Brock and the crossdresser started to kick the muscle heads asses. I hurried up and left as someone flew past my head. When I was ten feet away from the bar I heard gunfire. I didn't even want to know what was going on. Finnaly I found the weapons shop. I asked a few people if they knew how to get on to the plate. No one had any idea.
"Psssst!" came from behind me. It was the owner of the weapons shop. He took me in back. There was a tank and he started to work on it. "I head you need to get to the plate. I may no a way, but you will need batteries."
"Why would I need batteries to get to the top?" I asked.
"You will find out when you get up there." He then showed me three batteries. "It cost one hundred gil a battery."
I had about 700 gil thanks to my battling lots of the monsters near sector seven. I gave him the money required and left with the batteries. Before I left the shop I saw something out of the corner of my eye. On the wall was a very cool looking mallet.
"How much does the mallet cost?" I asked the cashier.
"That thing has been here for a while. It has gone down in price. Hardly anybody likes mallets. pity. This is a good weapon. It costs 100 gil."
"That is a pretty good bargain." I had gave her the money and sold my old weapon. I was going to miss it but the thing would be useless now. I ran out and looked for Cloud. He was outside of a really big mansion. I told him about the batteries.
"I wonder what he meant by that." He said. Suddenly there was a sound coming from the right of the mansion. There were three kids.
"Wanna see something cool?" A boy asked. We looked at eachother and decided it wouldn't hurt to look. When we got there we saw a wire going up. It was very thick and seemed to keep going and going.
"I think we just found a way to the top." Cloud said with a smile. We gathered up everybody and met near the wire. Everyone stared at the thing in awe.
"Can we climb this?" She asked while looking up towards the plate.
"Yes it goes all the way to the top." Said one of the kids that showed us the wire.
"Alright, then we climb this thing!" Barret yelled.
"There is no way we can do this. Do you know how far it goes!?" Said Jesse.
"It is still a way. Look at it. What does that look like to you?" Barret asked.
"Uhhhhhhhh, just a normal wire." Brock said while scrathing the back of his head.
"Well yeah, but to me it looks like a shiny golden wire of hope." Barret said. Everyone then fell backwards(like in anime when someone says something stupid).
"That may have been a very ignorant thing to say, but this is the only way to save Aries." Cloud said while patting Barret's on the back,"and you need to come up with more materials." Cloud exclaimed.
"Whatever, lets just go." Barret said and started to climb up. ~/I wonder how he climbs with that arm of his\~ I grabbed hold of the wire and started to climb. We kept going until we came upon a dead end.
"Well looks like this thing doesn't go to the top after all. Now how are we going to get up." Brock said.
I looked around. There was a place to put a battery near a proppelor.~/ I wonder......\~ I put the baterry in it and the proppelor started to move. As it started to slow down I took out the battery out so it would make a bridge."Come on guys. We got our way to the top."
"Alright Misty!" Jesse cheered. We all crossed the proppelor and climbed through the debris until we came upon another socket. I put it in and another bridge was made. We went up and up. We saw a pipe swinging back and forth and I thought that might get us across but decided not to risk it, not yet anyway. We came to another dead end. I saw another place for a battery. After I inserted the battery a box opened. I waited for something else to happen but it never came.
"Damn it. That was a wasted battery. What the @#$% are we going to do now that the @#$%ing battery is wasted." Barret cursed. I looked in the box and got a ether.
"I saw a pipe that was swinging back and forth. I think we can makeit across on that." Cloud said and started to walk towards the pipe.
"How the hell are we suppose to use that." Barret asked.
"We jump on to it at the right time and swing across to the other side." Cloud explained.We each tried to get acros and it took us all a hour to make it across. After that there was very little trouble before we was in front of the Shinra building.
"You should no this place really well." Barret said to Cloud.
"Actually I have never eally been to headquarters." Cloud replied while looking.
"Who cares!? Lets just go in." Barret said and was about to go in but was stopped by Tifa.
"Wait a second! You're not thinking about going through the main entrance, are you?" Tifa stated more then asked.
"What else does it look like!? I'm gonna kick some Shinra butt and......." Barret said before getting interupted
"Thats not going to work and you know it!" Jesse exclaimed.
"I say we bust on in!" I yelled. I wanted to get in as fast as I can.
"I think we should try to go in this way. It's probably the fastest way." Brock said. "But since everyone doesn't agree I think we should vote. I choose the main entrance."
"I choose the main entrance." I said.
"Sneak in." Tifa said.
"Sneak in." Jesse said.
"Bust on in!" Barret said. After that everyone looked at Cloud.
"I am not sure which we should go for." Cloud said.
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(Clouds POV)
~/Now everyone is waiting for me. Breaking in may be the fastest but sneaking in is the safest. Tifa would be mad, but so would Barret and I don't want to risk that gun pointed straight at my head. If we take to long Ash and Aries could die.\~ "I'm not sure if I'm making the right dicision but, I choose to break in." I looked around at everyone. Barret, Brock, and Misty looked happy, but jesse was glaring at me, but the way Tifa stared at me almost broke my heart, she looked very sad and disapointed. "Tifa, I'm sorry but I was trying to think what was best. Please don't look at me like that."
"I know you were, I just thought my idea was better." Tifa replied.
"Listen, if I get killed or anyone of us dies I'll let you dance on my grave. But lets try this way." I then kissed her on the cheek.
"Okay." Tifa replied.
We went straight in and was stopped by the receptionist.
"I'm sorry, but if you don't have an appointment, you'll just have to..." She didn't get to finish because Barret pointed his gun at her.
"Don't need no appointment. this is an 'mergency! Anyone who don't want there face bashed in better git out of our way!" Barret yelled. I cringed at that. I knew that had to be a little to much. Maybe I should have voted on the other thing.
"Its AVALANCHE" someone yelled. We looked in that direction to see several guards coming straight at us. They were easily taken care of and we head towardsthe elevators. when we were able to see them we ran. There had to be over eighty soldiers we decided to take the stairs.
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(This will be for humor. No ones POV)
They went to the next floor. Cloud opened the door but promptly closed.
"What did you see?" Tifa asked.
"Two employes having sex." Cloud replied.
"Thats sick." Misty said.
"The worst part is that they were both males." He said.
"I think we better go." Barret said.
They went to the next floor and opened another door. They heard yelling from inside the room.
"We will all have imortal life once we eat the forbiddin fruit of gettingsome! Lets go kill thirteen virgins inorder to open a gate to the garden." About two hundred people started to cheer.
"Looks like we found a cult of somekind. I think we better run now." Tifa said.
We made it to another door. Before we could open it out came four soldiers. they seemed to be high and were singing a very weird song
(Sung to the tune of wannabe by the spice girls) "If you wanna be a soldier.You have got to kill. Kidnap lots of children. Take everyone's gil!" Then came another soldier and he was yelling something
"I told you a hundred times, loco weed is for battles, not sniffing." He then ran off after those guys.
"I think Shinra are very sick freaks." said Brock.
Again they came to a door. They opened it and inside were very hideous monsters. Many had a soldiers body in thier mouth. They looked at us and started to charge. Cloud slammed the door and imprints of the monsters faces appear on the door. the a voice came from inside.
"Oh my god. The monsters escaped. we gotta kill em." There was the sound of gun shots and then screams of humans. We ran up the next five floors.
They came to another door. When they opened it they saw to people fight with chainsaws, useing them as sword. One of them cut off the others head and laughed evilly.
They decided to stop and ran on untill they came to the end of the stairs.
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How was this chapter? I am trying to make the next chapter the last one in Midgar. I am not sure but I think this is the longest yet. If anyone think otherwise please tell me.
By vincent valentine
A/N: Curtis coming into the story in this chapter maybe. Hard dicision. Kick Reno's ass... leave Curtis alone till later... What the hell. I will decide later. I am hoping that this story gets 100 reviews. But the majority of my reviews come from scizor. But I don't give a damn. Its better then having no reviews. I also have those other people.This wil become a very long story.
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(This pov will be from someone who is in the shadows watching the scene. Wanna know who it will be? Take a guess)
I had been watching the events that had been going on for an hour. The two kids had been doing great keeping anybody from reaching the controls by stairs. The black guy with the gun on his arm was keeping the helicopter from getting close enough to drop anyone near it. I was rather impressed. I was only staring at this battle only because there was a rumor that the Turks would be here. I just hoped that a certain red headed pain in the ass would be here. I saw the red head girl get her mallet ready but stopped before it hit her target. She got really excited when A blonde haired man and two women came up. That was when they made the stupidess mistake ever. they let there guard down and the helicopter dropped a person onto the structure. When I saw a flash of red from the person I jumped out of my hiding place and jumped across the enourmus pile of junk.
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(Barret's pov)
I was about to fire at the Turk that had appeared but I was too late. He had made it to the control panel.
"You're too late. Once I push this button..." He pushed a button on the panel and a alarm sounded."That's all, folks! Mission accomplished." He then looked at us with a smirk that made my blood boil. I was gonna blow that Shinra scum straight to hell until I saw the smirk disappear and replaced by a look of horror. That was quickly changed into a look of hate. I turned around and saw a man standing on the railing. I couldn't help but wonder how he did that. He was wearing a green coat that went to his knees. He Had black hair that went to his shoulders. The collar of his shirt was very high up and covered half his face. In his hands was a spear-like object. It had an axe-like blade near the tip. Both him and the turk were staring at each other.
"Who the hell are you?" I asked the stranger that had appeared.
"That is of no importance to you." he replied.
"So we meet again Curtis. I thought I taught you a lesson last time?" The turk said, his smirk coming back to his face.
"What, a lesson in cheating and sending innocent people to jail Reno?" He replied and then spat at the ground in front of the turk.
"No. About me being the better turk." He said and then took his night stick off his belt.
"This no time to settle a grudge. The pillar is about to explode." Said Jesse. She then ran over to the control panel and tried to defuse the bomb but Reno had sent a yellow beam at everyone and trapped us in a pyramid shaped barrier. I couldn't even move. Like all of my muscles had stopped working. The only thing that would work was our mouths.
"Lets just settle this once and for all" Reno then typed something into the control panel "We have ten minutes for one of us to kill the other. Then this bomb will start up again." He said.
"Fine by me." Curtis got into a battle stance."I have been saving something just for now. FIRE JUMP!" Curtis ran up to him and started to run around him at a very fast pace. He then jumped up and spun his weapon around and around again and again. He pointed the tip of his weapon towards Reno and shot out a huge blast of energy. It hit Reno with full force and then exploded. Reno was hurt but was still able to fight. He ran to Curtis and hit him with his night stick. On impact reno hit a button and shocked Curtis. Curtis jumped up and then slashed Reno's shoulder. He landed right on top of Reno's head. Reno fell down and Curtis just jumped off and landed near Reno. Curtis then put his foot on Reno's stomach and his weapon to his neck.
"I guess you win... Maybe not." Reno then took his night stick and slammed it into Curtis's privates. Curtis dropped to his kness from the pain and Reno hit him over the back." I told you I was the better Turk." Reno said with that smirk of his.
"I guess your right. But I'm not a Turk anymore." He then hit him in the face and kicked him in the stomach. The fight continued like this. Each getting the advatage for a while and then had it stolen. After a few minutes Reno looked at his watch.
"Two minutes till the bomb starts up again. I got to go." Reno then ran up to the railing."Besides, looks like you guys will have to deal with my boss." He then jumped over the railing and landed on a helicopter. There was a black haired turk on it. I opened fire on him.
"I would not do that. You might make me hurt my guests. He then grabbed hold of someones hair from behind him. He pulled her in front of him and showed her to everyone. "It was very hard getting her. She had a friend protecting her and we had to tranquilize him in order to get her.But our orders were to get the last remaining Ancient"
"Ash!" Misty yelled.
"He is now at the Shinra building. The president has allowed one of our scientists to experiment on him, that's probably what he is doing now." He said.
"Bastard!" Misty shouted.
"A young lady like you should not have a mouth like that." Tseng replied. The woman in the helicopter had yelled out something. Tseng slapped her hard and then shoved her into the back of the helicopter. I did not hear what she said but Tifa seemed to have heard it."It looks like the bomb will explode in one minute. It may sound on professional but I'll say it anyway. See you in hell." The helicopter then flew up vertically and then flew away from the pillar just as it started to explode. Curtis ran up to each of us and attacked the barriers.
"Get the #$%& out of here now!" He yelled and then he ran up to the railing and jumped off. I ran to the railing and looked down. It was amazing. The asshole was jumping around the junk right out of sector 7. I looked to my right. There was hook that was connected to a wire. I grabbed it and then got on it.
"Get over here! We gotta escape." I yelled. Everyone got on the wire and believe me. It was really hard to hold on but we escaped just before the thing exploded. As I looked at the debris that used to be sector 7 only one thing ran through my mind. Marlene...
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(Ash's Pov)
"Uhhhhhhhh... Damn it... I feel like I've been hit by a truck." I moaned. I tried to get up but something was keeping down. I looked down and saw that my hands and feet were strapped to a table. There was wires all over my body."What the hell!" I yelled.
"So you awoke when I was just about to start the most important part of my experiment. It doesn't matter. I love to watch my specimens scream from the pain when I inject them with Jenova." A man in a lab coat said.
"What the hell is Jenova?" I asked weakly.
"You will find out soon enough." He then took out a canister of some green liquid and put it into a machine. he took a tube and attached a needle to it. He walked up to me and jabbed it into my arm violently. He then turned the machine on and the green stuff I saw earlier came out. When it reached my arm I felt a burning sensation run through my arm. It spread like wild fire and soon my whole body was tensing up from the pain. But the worst part was when The burning sensation reached my head. There was a sudden scream and I thought it was coming from outside the room but then I relized it was coming from my head. It ended almost as soon as it started. The pain began to increase and soon I was screaming. All I could think about was getting out of here.~/ Please get me out of here quick Misty.\~ I then passed out. The last thing I heard was a very evil sounding laugh.
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(Jesse's Pov)
I was in shock. All my friends in Sector 7 were probably dead, and worse was that my best friends and fellow AVALANCHE members were dead. Barret was really mad. He even started shooting the ruins. Me and him both lost people who were very important. Although I flirted with Cloud a little, it was nothing. The truth was Biggs and me had been dating for at least a month. I thought for sure it would last forever, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. I just sat on a swing. The other two had been destroyed. Barret and the others were talking and Tifa said something that made Barret get excited. After they talked even more Cloud left. The others asked for me to go. But told them to go and come get me. I had an idea. When they left I started to gather some things. I got two peices of wood and a rope.While searching for the stuff I found a sense materia. I tied the two together into the shape of a cross. It took a little effort to put it up but I got it up. I took out my dagger and began to carve a message into the base. "This was erected to honor the lives of Wedge Johnson and Biggs Kenton. (thats the last names I am giving them) Both died trying to protect this sector and this planet. May there souls rest in peace." When I was done I began to cry. ~/I could have died also. I had been hurt and could have been still there but I got lucky. Wherever Biggs is now I hope he is happy.\~I just knealt there fiddling with my dagger and crying. I even considered suicide at that moment, but I knew Biggs would want me to continue. I then carved something else in the wood. "Their deaths will be avenged!"
I took a deep breath and then just yelled,"You are going to get it Shinra!!"
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(Cloud's pov)
I ran along the same road that Aries, Ash, and me took to get to the gate of sector 7. I just kept running ignoring any monsters. If any attacked I just blasted them with ice and ran. I had several things on my mind. I stopped when a hand touched my shoulder. I turned around and saw Barret.
"Take me to Marlene." He ordered. Tifa ran up beside him and was followed up by Misty and Brock.
"You're going to help Aries?" Tifa asked.
"Of course. But I need to find out something first." I replied.
"What do you need to know?" Misty asked.
"About the Ancients" I said. Suddenly I blacked out and heard a very familiar voice.
"In my veins courses the blood of the Ancients. I am one of the rightful heirs to this planet." The voice said. After it disappear I shook my head and tried to clear my mind.
"Sephiroth...?" Was all I could mutter before I dropped to my knees. I felt to setd of hands grab my arms and help me to my feet. ~/ Why am I hearing his voice again after so many years?\~ I shook the thought out of my head and continued on. I just looked ahead. my eyes only set upon the road ahead of me. ~/ I am going to get to the bottom of this, once and for all. \~
We finnaly reached our destination. The little cottage Aries called home. I walked in and found Elymra at the table. She looked up and stared me straight in the eye.
"Cloud....... wasn't it?" She said while wiping away a tear."It's about Aries isn't it?"
I bowwed my head and replied,"... She was captured by Shinra."
"I know. She and your friend was here. Shinra found her here and tried to capture her again. Ash fought very bravely. You should be very proud of your friend.He kept the soldiers at bay until all of a sudden he passed out. Aries gave herself in for the safety of me and the girl she had with her." She said and then sighed.
"Marlene! Listen, Marlene is my daughter. Can you tell me where she is?" Barret said after shoving his way through the crowd.
"You're her father? How in the world could you leave her alone like that?" She asked.
"Don't start that. Im always thinking what would happen if I die.I want to spend time with her, but I got to fight. 'Cause if I don't the planets gonna die. I'm gonna fight in order to make sure there is a future for her."
"I'm sorry to interupt but I have some questions. Why is Aries being chased by Shinra?" I asked.
"Aries is an Ancient. The sole survivor." Elmyra replied sadly.
"...What did you say? But aren't you her mother?" Barret asked.
"...Not her real mother. Oh... it must have been fifteen years ago... during the war. My husband was sent to the front. Some far away place called Wutai." She then let out a sigh."One day I went to the train station because I got a letter saying he was coming home on leave. He never came back. I wondered If something happened to him. But I was sure his leave was just canceled. I went to the station everyday. Then one day... I found a woman near the station. She was hurt badly and was on the brink of death. She had a little girl with her. You use to see this kinda thing a lot in the war. Her last words were,' please take Aries somewhere safe.' My husband never came back, I had no child. I was probably lonely so I took her home. Aries and me became very close. She loved to talk. She told me almost evrything." She smiles at this memory of Aries. "She told me she escaped from some sort of research laboratory somewhere. And that her mother had already returned to the planet, so she wasn't lonely... and many other things."
"Returned to the planet?" Barret questioned.
"I'm not sure what she meant. I asked if she meant a star in the sky. But she said it was this planet..." She laughed slightly "She was a very mysterious child in many ways." she then looked at a picture of Aries on the wall. "One morning when I saw her she just blurted out 'Please don't cry'. I asked her if something happened and she replied 'Someone close to you has just died. His spirit was coming to see you but he has already returned to the planet.' At that time I didn't believe her. But then I recieved a letter saying my husband died." As she spoke tears started to form in her eyes. Then there was a loud sound coming from behind me. Then the slamming of a door. I turned around to see that Misty had ran off. Tifa was about to run out to see what was wrong but Brock stopped her.
"I'll go see whats wrong. She has known me longer and it might be better if I went." he said and then ran out the door.
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(Brock's pov)
I found Misty in the garden crying. When I put my hand on her shoulder she took out her mallet and hit me over the head.
"Brock, I'm so sorry. I didn't relise it was you." She then put the mallet back into the magical place that no one knew where was. (I have always wondered where she put that mallet.) She then started to wipe away her tears.
"So what is bothering you." I said after I got up.
"I am afraid I might never see Ash again. He could end up like Elmyra's husband. That Turk said that they were going to experiment on Ash. Who knows what they will do to him. If we do find him alive he may have two heads or have a tree growing out of his back. I just hope to find him alive and normal." She then began to cry even more.
"If we do find him and he looks different wouldn't he still be the same Ash on the inside." I replied hoping to calm her down.
"Thats not my only worry. What if he becomes a brainless zombie or he acts completely different. Who knows what these scientist in this world are capable of." Misty said.
"Lets just hope for the best. We should try to save him as soon as possible. If we get him soon he probably won't be changed very much. And we'll even make Shinra pay for anything they do to him." I said. I unstrapped my magic staff from my back and twirled it."I Promise that we will save him. He is like a brother to me.I won't let him die"
"I just wish he was here." She then began to cry on my shoulder.
"I do to." I said in a depressed voice.
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(Ash's pov)
"Puppet. Puppet. Wake up." Was the first voice I heard after I passed out. I woke up and look around the cell I was in. It sounded so close it had to be in the cell but there was no one there."Your defences are high. I can't even get into your mind, just yet."
"Wh-who are you?" I asked in a shaky voice.
"You will know soon enough my puppet. Until then I think you might want to forget this." There was a flash of red and I was sent flying into the wall. I saw a transparent figure in front of me before I passed out yet again.
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(Misty's pov)
I stayed in the same position for what seemed like hours, doing nothing but crying. I finnaly stopped when I heard the sound of a door slamming. I turned around to see the blurry figures of Cloud,Tifa, and Barret. I wiped away the tears from my eyes and saw that Brock had gotten up and was talking to Cloud. After a few minutes of talking Brock came back.
"They say we are going to a place called Wall Market to get some information on how to get up to the plate." He held out his hand for me to get up.
When we made it to the park we joined back up with Jesse after seeing the cross she made for Biggs and Wedge. When we got to Wall Market we split up to search for information. Barret went to the bar, Brock went to the gym,Jesse went to the resturant, Tifa went to the hotel, Cloud went to some person's mansion saying he had unfinished buisness, I went to the weapon shop. As I passed the hotel I saw Tifa asking the receptionist about the plate.
I looked into the resturant and saw Jesse eating something and talking to this one guy. The next place I saw was the gym. Brock was cowering in a corner with three muscle heads surrounding him. There was a woman trying to get them off him but a blast of ice told me Brock just took care of himself. Then I saw the woman's face. I almost screamed. That wasn't a woman. That was a man. Brock and the crossdresser started to kick the muscle heads asses. I hurried up and left as someone flew past my head. When I was ten feet away from the bar I heard gunfire. I didn't even want to know what was going on. Finnaly I found the weapons shop. I asked a few people if they knew how to get on to the plate. No one had any idea.
"Psssst!" came from behind me. It was the owner of the weapons shop. He took me in back. There was a tank and he started to work on it. "I head you need to get to the plate. I may no a way, but you will need batteries."
"Why would I need batteries to get to the top?" I asked.
"You will find out when you get up there." He then showed me three batteries. "It cost one hundred gil a battery."
I had about 700 gil thanks to my battling lots of the monsters near sector seven. I gave him the money required and left with the batteries. Before I left the shop I saw something out of the corner of my eye. On the wall was a very cool looking mallet.
"How much does the mallet cost?" I asked the cashier.
"That thing has been here for a while. It has gone down in price. Hardly anybody likes mallets. pity. This is a good weapon. It costs 100 gil."
"That is a pretty good bargain." I had gave her the money and sold my old weapon. I was going to miss it but the thing would be useless now. I ran out and looked for Cloud. He was outside of a really big mansion. I told him about the batteries.
"I wonder what he meant by that." He said. Suddenly there was a sound coming from the right of the mansion. There were three kids.
"Wanna see something cool?" A boy asked. We looked at eachother and decided it wouldn't hurt to look. When we got there we saw a wire going up. It was very thick and seemed to keep going and going.
"I think we just found a way to the top." Cloud said with a smile. We gathered up everybody and met near the wire. Everyone stared at the thing in awe.
"Can we climb this?" She asked while looking up towards the plate.
"Yes it goes all the way to the top." Said one of the kids that showed us the wire.
"Alright, then we climb this thing!" Barret yelled.
"There is no way we can do this. Do you know how far it goes!?" Said Jesse.
"It is still a way. Look at it. What does that look like to you?" Barret asked.
"Uhhhhhhhh, just a normal wire." Brock said while scrathing the back of his head.
"Well yeah, but to me it looks like a shiny golden wire of hope." Barret said. Everyone then fell backwards(like in anime when someone says something stupid).
"That may have been a very ignorant thing to say, but this is the only way to save Aries." Cloud said while patting Barret's on the back,"and you need to come up with more materials." Cloud exclaimed.
"Whatever, lets just go." Barret said and started to climb up. ~/I wonder how he climbs with that arm of his\~ I grabbed hold of the wire and started to climb. We kept going until we came upon a dead end.
"Well looks like this thing doesn't go to the top after all. Now how are we going to get up." Brock said.
I looked around. There was a place to put a battery near a proppelor.~/ I wonder......\~ I put the baterry in it and the proppelor started to move. As it started to slow down I took out the battery out so it would make a bridge."Come on guys. We got our way to the top."
"Alright Misty!" Jesse cheered. We all crossed the proppelor and climbed through the debris until we came upon another socket. I put it in and another bridge was made. We went up and up. We saw a pipe swinging back and forth and I thought that might get us across but decided not to risk it, not yet anyway. We came to another dead end. I saw another place for a battery. After I inserted the battery a box opened. I waited for something else to happen but it never came.
"Damn it. That was a wasted battery. What the @#$% are we going to do now that the @#$%ing battery is wasted." Barret cursed. I looked in the box and got a ether.
"I saw a pipe that was swinging back and forth. I think we can makeit across on that." Cloud said and started to walk towards the pipe.
"How the hell are we suppose to use that." Barret asked.
"We jump on to it at the right time and swing across to the other side." Cloud explained.We each tried to get acros and it took us all a hour to make it across. After that there was very little trouble before we was in front of the Shinra building.
"You should no this place really well." Barret said to Cloud.
"Actually I have never eally been to headquarters." Cloud replied while looking.
"Who cares!? Lets just go in." Barret said and was about to go in but was stopped by Tifa.
"Wait a second! You're not thinking about going through the main entrance, are you?" Tifa stated more then asked.
"What else does it look like!? I'm gonna kick some Shinra butt and......." Barret said before getting interupted
"Thats not going to work and you know it!" Jesse exclaimed.
"I say we bust on in!" I yelled. I wanted to get in as fast as I can.
"I think we should try to go in this way. It's probably the fastest way." Brock said. "But since everyone doesn't agree I think we should vote. I choose the main entrance."
"I choose the main entrance." I said.
"Sneak in." Tifa said.
"Sneak in." Jesse said.
"Bust on in!" Barret said. After that everyone looked at Cloud.
"I am not sure which we should go for." Cloud said.
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(Clouds POV)
~/Now everyone is waiting for me. Breaking in may be the fastest but sneaking in is the safest. Tifa would be mad, but so would Barret and I don't want to risk that gun pointed straight at my head. If we take to long Ash and Aries could die.\~ "I'm not sure if I'm making the right dicision but, I choose to break in." I looked around at everyone. Barret, Brock, and Misty looked happy, but jesse was glaring at me, but the way Tifa stared at me almost broke my heart, she looked very sad and disapointed. "Tifa, I'm sorry but I was trying to think what was best. Please don't look at me like that."
"I know you were, I just thought my idea was better." Tifa replied.
"Listen, if I get killed or anyone of us dies I'll let you dance on my grave. But lets try this way." I then kissed her on the cheek.
"Okay." Tifa replied.
We went straight in and was stopped by the receptionist.
"I'm sorry, but if you don't have an appointment, you'll just have to..." She didn't get to finish because Barret pointed his gun at her.
"Don't need no appointment. this is an 'mergency! Anyone who don't want there face bashed in better git out of our way!" Barret yelled. I cringed at that. I knew that had to be a little to much. Maybe I should have voted on the other thing.
"Its AVALANCHE" someone yelled. We looked in that direction to see several guards coming straight at us. They were easily taken care of and we head towardsthe elevators. when we were able to see them we ran. There had to be over eighty soldiers we decided to take the stairs.
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(This will be for humor. No ones POV)
They went to the next floor. Cloud opened the door but promptly closed.
"What did you see?" Tifa asked.
"Two employes having sex." Cloud replied.
"Thats sick." Misty said.
"The worst part is that they were both males." He said.
"I think we better go." Barret said.
They went to the next floor and opened another door. They heard yelling from inside the room.
"We will all have imortal life once we eat the forbiddin fruit of gettingsome! Lets go kill thirteen virgins inorder to open a gate to the garden." About two hundred people started to cheer.
"Looks like we found a cult of somekind. I think we better run now." Tifa said.
We made it to another door. Before we could open it out came four soldiers. they seemed to be high and were singing a very weird song
(Sung to the tune of wannabe by the spice girls) "If you wanna be a soldier.You have got to kill. Kidnap lots of children. Take everyone's gil!" Then came another soldier and he was yelling something
"I told you a hundred times, loco weed is for battles, not sniffing." He then ran off after those guys.
"I think Shinra are very sick freaks." said Brock.
Again they came to a door. They opened it and inside were very hideous monsters. Many had a soldiers body in thier mouth. They looked at us and started to charge. Cloud slammed the door and imprints of the monsters faces appear on the door. the a voice came from inside.
"Oh my god. The monsters escaped. we gotta kill em." There was the sound of gun shots and then screams of humans. We ran up the next five floors.
They came to another door. When they opened it they saw to people fight with chainsaws, useing them as sword. One of them cut off the others head and laughed evilly.
They decided to stop and ran on untill they came to the end of the stairs.
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How was this chapter? I am trying to make the next chapter the last one in Midgar. I am not sure but I think this is the longest yet. If anyone think otherwise please tell me.
