Disclaimer: I said it once, and I'll say it again as much as
I'll have to. I DO NOT OWN FINAL FANTASY 7 OR FF8!!! OK!?
GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEADS!!... Thank you. I DO NOT OWN DRAGON
BALL Z EITHER!! But it's only in one scene really.

Note: So sorry for the posting slowness... It would have been
posted sooner but FANFICTION.NET was under repairs once again.
Did you guys make a hacker mad or something? Anyway.. onto
the A.N.

Author Note (AN):
Ok, ok, so I'm doing more plot than humor now.. We---ll, just
for you fine folks, I'll throw in a Humor fic this episode!
"Why You Don't Mess with Time Machines." Sound good? Either
way, grin and bear it, because this one's gettin a bit more
confusing on...

((YMCA Music plays as the pre-recorded Skyship Highwind theme
plays out))

SKYSHIP HIGHWIND
Between the Lines
(Hmm.. this calls for a title change..)




CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Why You Don't Mess with Time Machines


Vincent, Cid, and Yuffie were all sitting in the lounge (main)
room of the Skyship, which had been remodeled so that it was like
an executive lounge. Everyone else except for Reeves had ran off to
ShinRa Inc. to set up an offensive movement against Kyra's monstrosity,
the Mako Storm, which was quickly spreading...


Suddenly, Reeves came dashing in. "WOHOOO!!!" he yelled, holding a small, tiny
capsule w/a button on top. "I GOT A TIME MACHINE, BABY!!" He held out the tiny
capsule to show to everyone. And, needless to say, they all looked at him like he
was a fool.

"Uh.. did you get into the hypers again?" Yuffie asked. Reeves looked ticked off.
"NO!! I stole this from the set next door to us!!" he shouted happily. They all
blinked. "Hey, now, you ain't supposed to be tamperin with TV shows, Ree-"
"Oh, pish posh, what could they possibly HAVE to have a time machine for?"


((in the world of DBZ..))

Trunks looks everywhere, and can't find his Time Machine. So nothing changes.
Goku dies of a disease, Vegeta gets killed, and eventually the Androids kill
everything. They accidently reawaken Majin Boo, who goes out of contorol and
kills them, then conquers the Universe with the almighty wrath of Chocolate
Cheese Monkeys (Credit for that little phrase goes to my good friend Sara)!!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH!!

((Back to FF7!!))


Everyone looked at eachother and shrugged. "Guess nothing much could happen.. So
what the heck is that, anyway?" Yuffie asked, confused, pointing at the capsule. Reeves
pressed the button and hurled the capsule into the open. It exploded in a cloud of smoke,
and a cliche' alien craft like thing appeared. "Ok.. so this one's a bit defective.. But
I bet it still travels through the time/space continoum!" Everyone sighed as Reeves opened
it up. Inside were four toilets (no water or plumbing, mind you) and one control panel in
front of the gold toilet. "YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDIN' US!! YOU CALL THAT PIECE OF %*$@^ A
TIME MACHINE!?" Cid shouted. Reeves sat down in the gold seat and laughed. "Ok, so it's a
bit stupid. But heck, we're all bored, so let's go!"

Everyone shrugged and sat down on the toilets. Reeves typed some random stuff in then began
reading the user manual with his super-power of reading super-fast that no one knew about
because it's super-useless most of the time, not to mention a super-stolen and super-stupid
idea about as super-annoying as these "super"-puns. He reached up, throwing the manual away,
and pulled a rope. There was a loud flushing sound as they dissapeared into...


THE DEPTHS OF TIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!!!
(Stupid enough for ya? Good.)


The flushing stopped and they reappeared inside what appeared to be a skyship of some
sort.. They heard a different Skyship music playing, and the layout of the ship was more
like a spaceship than an airship.. Suddenly, a guy with dark brown hair and all black
clothes with a gunblade walked in. Everyone stared at him. He stared back. They pulled the
rope and disappeared again. Squall scratched the back of his head. "I've got to take a
break from this Ultimecia crap..." he mumbled under his breath as he left the ship into
Lunatic Pandora.


The group reappeared with a FLUSH! in the same time, except a week or so back. Everyone
was in a huge school district of some sort. "Hey! Look!" Yuffie squealed, pointing at two
people sitting down playing cards. "It's Triple Triad cards! I've GOTTA go steal some!"

"This place bites, let's go." Reeves said, reaching to flush the handle. A bullet whizzed
by Reeves's hand as he quickly withdrew it. Vincent glared at him. "You idiot, didn't you
notice we're not all here?"
Cid and Reeves shrugged. "So what? Yuffie's an annoying pest anyway, why should we care?"
Cid laughed. His laughter quickly stopped as the barrel of a gun was pressed up against
his neck. "G-Good answer..." he gulped. Vincent grabbed them both by the neck and dragged
them out of the ship and off to find Yuffie, passing by a blonde Tom Cruise wannabee and
a bulky black-haired guy and a woman with an eyepatch...


Suddenly, they saw Yuffie running from twenty enraged people. The three sighed and began
running back towards the time machine beside Yuffie. "What the %$*^@* did you do this time!?"
Cid shouted angrily.
"What can I say, thief's habit!" Yuffie laughed nervously. Then they saw the TIme
Machine disappearing into the Time Vortex thingy!! Reeves quickly pulled out another time
machine he'd stolen that looked like a cat kind've and they all hopped in, taking off into
the time vortex thingy! They caught up with Seifer and the others and opened fire, blasting the
TTT (Toilet Time Traveler) to dust! Seifer and the others fell down into the time space continuum
and reappeared in the time of dinosaurs. Now Seifer never existed in the game! Woohoo!.. (like
it matters.) The time machine that Vincent and the others were in reappeared back in the
Skyship Highwind. Yuffie jumped out and pulled out the hundreds of cards she'd stolen. The others
quickly trashed the time machine.


((Meanwhile, in another world..))


"WHERE'S MY TIME MACHINE!?" the evil time traveler in all red clothes shouted angrily,
bashing her two henchmen over the head with a huge fryin pan.


((Back to FF7))


The PHS rang. Yuffie skipped over happily to pick it up. Cloud's voice rang over the
phone. "Hiya Cloudie!" Yuffie shouted.
"Yuffie, I need to speak with Reeves." Cloud said seriously. Yuffie sighed and handed
over the phone to Reeves.
"Yeah, Reeves speaking."
"Reeves, this is an emergency - Get Cid to fly you to ShinRa Inc. immediately. We
need you here pronto. We think we've found out a way to counter against the Mako
Storm, but we need all four of you to help us! Come over a.s.a-" The voice was
drowned out by static. Reeves dropped the PHS. "Cid, turn this thing around! We gotta get
to ShinRa on the double!!"


Time: After the Skyship journeys across the world back to Shinra. Now everyone is in the Shinra
Board Meeting Room; Cloud, Tifa, Cid, Reeves, Vincent, Yuffie, Reno, Tseng, Elenor, Rude, and Barret - Sorry if I left any of you out, folks ~_~

And since we're in a dull and boring meeting room, it's time for yet another Chat-style
episode...

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
The Gathering of Heroes
(Now in Chat-Mode)

{Cloud} "Alright, everyone, this is just as serious as Sephiroth. Rude, explain."
{Rude} ".. um... Reno, explain."
{Reno} "... no, er, Tseng, you explain."
{Tseng} "How about we let Cloud explain?"
{Cloud} "No, because I don't know what the heck it is, so you explain."
{Tseng} "Fine, fine. Rude, explain."
{Rude} "... Reno, you explain."
{Reno} "I dunno what the heck it is either! Cloud, you-"
{Elenor} "SHUT UP!!"
**silence befalls*
{Elenor} "Ugh, men.. I'll explain. The Mako Storm created seems to have consumed a Summon
Materia that the thief hadn't taken shortly after it began sprouting hurricanes and other
wind-storms. It currently covers all of Nibelheim and its mountains, and is already spreading
to the fields around it. According to our scientists, that Summon Materia it absorbed was a
rare spirit called Diablos, who was locked away in that Mako Reactor to never see the light of
day - Diablos is extremely deadly, and was uncontrollable, with a destructive instinct vicious
enough to annihalate all life on this planet if he broke free. We brought our case to the head
of Kyra, Inc., but the leader did not listen to us, and is flying a skyship to the Mako Storm
as we speak. I don't know how he expects to survive it, but if he does, he will summon Diablos,
who will likely retaliate on him and gain control of the Mako Storm. Our first objective is to
stop Kyra from summoning Diablos."

**A hologram image appeared illustrating the mission in sharp detail**

{Elenor} "If he goes into the Mako Storm's range, we will abort this objective immediately and move onto the next. If we can forcefully land his airship, we'll also move onto our next objective either way, as we don't think even a Kyra airship's shielding could withstand a Mako Storm. And with immense study of the storm's genetical build, we have found a flaw; The storm
is completely resiliant to Anti-Matter weaponry of any sort, but can easily be stripped of all
power and ultimately absorbed by reprogrammed Mako Reactors. If we reactivate and reprogram
all the Reactors on the Planet, the Storm won't stand a chance, theoretically atleast. We will
also need to equip a fleet of airships with Mako-Draining capabilities to 'chase' the storms
and destroy them, hopefully before it can deal damage to anyone else. Nibelheim has already
evacuated under command of ShinRa Inc, and have moved to safety in Corel. Once we drain the
storm enough, we can station a Mako Reactor that runs on its own Mako and absorbs the Storm
from the Nibelheim Reactor so we can safely shut down the Mako Storm Generator. If Diablos is
summoned, the Storm will become thousands of times harder to destroy; We'll likely have to
kill him first, which will be quite a task."

**A hologram image of a red and black demon appeared in sharp detal over tha table**

{Elenor} "As you can tell by the statistics that just appeared on-screen with the image,
Diablos is fairly powerful, and we have two chances of destroying him; The first is if we
destroy the storm quickly and allow him to be summoned, which will in turn release him at
50% of his full potential, allowing a better chance of destroying him. The second is to
go with the mission like normal and hope he isn't summoned, and hope to kill him fast if
he is. Since Diablos' spirit was contained in a Summon Materia, he will feed off the storm
untill we can bring a halt to either him or it untill his gravitational powers could
destroy even the mighty Bahamut-X or Alexander. There are four ways total to stop him;
A.) We stop him from every being summoned, then eat away at the Storm and contain it untill
we can shut the source down for good.
B.) We summon him early, destroy the storm, then deal with him in a weaker form with a higher
probability of victory.
C.) We summon him early and attempt to kill him while the storm is in rage, and while the storm
will make this more difficult, his powers will be severely weakened, and won't increase quite
as much.
Yuffie, Cloud thought it best if you stayed behind this time."

{Yuffie} "WHAT!?"
{Cloud} "As bad as you made things last time, it'd be much better if you took shelter at the
Golden Saucer and stayed out of this one.."
{Yuffie} "Noo! I don't wanna be by myself without you guys!!"
{Tseng} "... you have to, you annoying brat.."
{Yuffie} "WHAT'D YOU CALL ME!?"

((Back to Normal Story Mode))

Yuffie stuck her tongue out at Tseng then clutched Vince's arm, looking hopefully at
Tifa, demanding quite defiantly, "Only if Vince comes with me!" Cloud opened his mouth
to object, but Tifa quickly stood and nodded. "Sure, if Vincent doesn't mind, that is.."
Vincent scoffed under his cloak. Of coarse he minded. He should have minded.. But at
the same time, something in him wanted to go.. Was he.. afraid? No, he quickly dismissed,
he didn't fear death and never will.. Deciding not to further confuse himself, he nodded.
"FIne.." he said, trying his best to keep his cold voice, "I'll watch over Yuffie while you
have all the fun.."
"Thanks a ton, Vince!" Tifa said with a wink as she sat down. Vincent sighed and lead
Yuffie out of the room.

(A NOTE TO THE READER:)
THIS IS ONE OF THE (if not just THE) FIRST...

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|I N T E R A C T I - F I C!!|
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=Andrew= "Hey, guess what?! I'm going to revolutionize the FanFiction INdustry! That's right,
for this next chapter only, it's now an officially INTERACTIVE FANFICTION!! Woohoooooo!! In
short, this means that the next chapter is broken into four different versions, 9-A, 9-B, or 9-C, pending on which choice you picked; While some plotlines will remain the same, there
will be changes in episode flow pending on what your choices were. Here's a recap on your choices, as well as the instructions of what to do:

A.) We stop him from every being summoned, then eat away at the Storm and contain it untill
we can shut the source down for good.
B.) We summon him early, destroy the storm, then deal with him in a weaker form with a higher
probability of victory.
C.) We summon him early and attempt to kill him while the storm is in rage, and while the storm
will make this more difficult, his powers will be severely weakened, and won't increase quite
as much.

If you choose A, then skip to Episode 9-A on the Chapter List below.
If you choose B, then skip to Episode 9-B on the Chapter List below.
If you choose C, then skip to Episode 9-C on the Chapter List below.
Or if your patient enough, read all three alternate endings to the Kyra saga, and then the
final chapter of this fateful series (unless I feel silly some day), Episode 10. When I
go out, I go out with a bang, alright. Please Review your comments on how good (or bad, although
if you say bad you will make my super-smart new spy cry like a baby. Wouldn't you feel bad
then?) about the Interactific idea.

Episode Prologue: Vincent put on his red helmet and handed another to Yuffie; They'd saved that
black Harley motercycle Cloud stole on Disc One of the game. Vincent hopped on and turned it on
as Yuffie jumped behind him and clung to his waist. He put his foot down on the pedal and
twisted the handle, and in a cough of smoke and a loud revving noise, the motercycle took off
in a flash, dashing down the street towards Corel's Golden Saucer Station.

NOW PICK YOUR PATH, FOLKS, AND WE'LL SEE WHAT TURNS OUT, NEXT TIME ON..

SKYSHIP HIGHWIND:
Between the Lines

(Last Note: Things may be less chaotic if you ACTUALLY PAID ATTENTION and know that chapters
9-A, 9-B, 9-C are all THE SAME EPISODE, just different variations of it. Just to make
sure you folks ain't too badly confused.)