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Author's Note:
Well, look who's here. Don't wanna confront Diablos, eh? I don't blame ya. He's a vicious
brute, and the fight scenes he brings may be drawn out. Maybe your friend can tell you
about the other versions of Episode 9 sometime. Anyway, let's move on with
Mission A.. Oh, and don't forget; The scenes of Yuffie and Vince change with each Chapter
as a collective bonus for those of you whom take the time to see all three alternate
missions. Put'em together with Episode 10's V/Y scene for a full date. Ingenious,
ain't I? :P
(YMCA Music begins to play, but is instantly skipped to a halt. AFter a minute or two,
Mission Impossible music begins to play!?)
[SKyShiP HigHWinD]
[Between the Lines]
[Episode 9; The Mako Mission]
[Version A; Race to the Mako Storm]
Time: Vincent and Yuffie have made their way to Corel. Cloud and the others have loaded
up their old and absolutely best weaponry. Reeves was overloaded with weaponry of various
types; Reno held his shockstaff thingy, which was upgraded to a severely strong version;
Rude, no matter what his past weapon was (I forgot x_x), now sports a powerful rifle.
Elenor, despide her old weapon choices (read the above note), now strikes down foes with
an insanely strong Missile Launcher. Yep, I gave a woman a good weapon, get over it you
evilish-type guys and just be glad your girlfriend/fiance/wife don't have anything near
that strong; And by the way, NEVER underestimate the brute force of cast iron frying
pans. Princess TOadstool can kick butt with one on Mario RPG, a fine game if you ask me.
And last, Tseng sports a double-edged energy blade! Darth Maul, baby!
The Skyship Highwind slowly rose into the sky and took off, flying over the ocean
in search of Kyra's airship, the Nautilus. But since this is the dullest part of this
episode, let's move on to see what the thief and the vampy are doin.
(Scene Swap to: Golden Saucer)
Vincent stood at the doorway of the ride that lead to the Golden Saucer, staring around.
He looked down and glared coldly at the fat guy in the fat chocobo suit, who turned tail and
fled. Suddenly he fell out on his face as Yuffie shoved him. "Stop actin so cool and hurry it
up, will ya?" she said, jumping off on him and casually walking towards the entrance. Vincent
stood up, nothing hurt other than his pride as he followed Yuffie. He jumped back suddenly,
however, when she squealed. "What's wrong with you now?" he said, reaching for his gun holder,
but resisting the urge to pull it out as he saw nothing was wrong. He was quite annoyed at this..
"Look at that!!" Yuffie said. "Cute couples get in free! It's like Couples Day or something!
Come on!" She grabbed his arm and jerked him towards the entrance. The person there seemed to
be studying them to see if they were a cute couple. "Hmm.. I don't know.." He leaned over towards
Yuffie. "What's with the freak?"
Yuffie scowled and pulled out her weapon. "Let us in!!" she said defiantly. "And don't insult
Vinnie again!" The man gulped and smiled nervously, letting them through eagerly. "P-P-Please,
h-help yourselves..."
"Thanks!" Yuffie said, smiling cutely as she dragged Vincent by the cape, who was trying to
get away; He so hated the crowdiness of places like this, as everyone in the opening hall stared
at him. Yuffie jumped into one of the tubes, dragging Vincent along the way to their first
stop. 'Why do I let you get me into these things..' Vincent thought angrily to himself..
(Scene Swap to: The Skyship Chase)
The Skyship took off even faster now, blue jet flames errupting behind it as it went.
The Nautilus appeared in the distance, as well as on the radar screens of the Highwind.
However, it became quite obvious that the Airship Nautilus had seen them, as well, as they
picked up the pace in front of Cid's prized ship. Cid pulled a lever and sped up the Highwind
even faster now, pursuing the ship in front. Then, much to everyone's horror, they realized
how collosal the Nautilus was; It was painted a navy blue, had the overall look of a pirate
ship, and was roughly the size of four Empire State Buildings pushed together!! Shocking
how this thing could even fly! "Alright, men!" Cid shouted, "Open fire! Aim for their thrusters
first, this is more of a race than anything and slowin'em down will give us a serious edge!"
Several panels around the plated armor of the Skyship opened up, revealing hundreds of
laser cannons. Of coarse, at that very same time, small, round, spherical objects seemed to be
falling towards them.. One of the round bombs detonated, damaging the hull of the Highwind
just barely as a reawakening of how strong the Nautilus was as other bombs detonated around
them, just missing by a few feet. The Skyhip then instantly retaliated by letting off a huge
volley of counterfire, blasting into the shields that surrounded the thrust engines. Tifa
jumped up to the bridge of the Skyship, which ducked and dodged bombs as it continued its
ceaseless fire. Tifa rose her hands into the air, a black glow surrounding them as she brought
them back down, dispelling the magical barriers around the engines as the rapid-firing lasers
of the Highwind viciously tore into the engines like pirahnas, eating away the hull of it as fuel
began leaking out, which was instantly ignited, detonating a chain reaction that destroyed the
thrusters in a flare of raging fire. The Nautilus quickly slowed down, smoke and flames licking
out from where the engines used to be as it kept a very slow pace. The Skyship easily passed
it, then did a U-Turn over it as Cloud and all the other fighters jumped down to deal with the
ship manually, then did another turn and slowed down as it rode in slow and steady circles
around the lerger ship, blasting away at its electic shieldings. However, there was one last
problem; The engines that had been blasted just fell down on Costa Del Sol, doing some major
damage to the town...
Meanwhile, aboard the ship, thousands of android guards had Cloud, Tifa, Cid, and everyone
else surrounded.. The group nodded in agreement at what the best thing to do here was.. FIGHT!!
Cloud leapt towards the guards, lashing out his Ultima Weapon violently, slicing off body parts,
heads, and quite often cutting the blasted things in half. Tifa was kicking holes through'em and
seriously messing them up with her power-packed punches and the occasional Bolt3+All spell. Go
Tifa! Cid was making short work of the group, taking hits now and then like everyone else while
stabbing his spear through five of them at once before slinging them off into another robot and
repeating. Boy I'm glad I ain't on HIS bad side.. Reeves skillfully spun and danced around,
lashing out at the robots with deadly precision with his bladed whip, which may seem like a
weak weapon to some, but I'm sure those robots didn't think so as they were gashed to pieces.
Barret was filling'em full of lead, making them look quite a lot like swiss cheese as he and
the Turks drew closer. "Me, the other Turks, and Barret will find and kidnap the President of
Kyra, Inc. The rest of you will find your way to the bridge and deactivate the ship at all
costs. You got that?! Move out!" Tseng shouted over the comotion as he, the turks and barret
all dashed through a straight line, covering eachother; Barret lead the front, blasting the
robots away with his powerful gun arm; Reno was bashing away/short-circuiting the robots with
his long-poled staff; Rude was shooting holes through'em with his powerful shotgun; Elenor
couldn't use her weapon at this range, but she was dragging it along none the less; And
Tseng was going around her, gashing through several 'bots at once with his cool and
efficient Double-Edge Energy Blade sword (made in Taiwan) as they finally found a staircase
and wend under the deck as Cloud, Tifa, Cid, and Reeves hacked into the robots above and
eventually wend under from the opposide side, hopefully towards the main control panels
(Thank goodness Yuffie wasn't there! She'd find it and destroy the whole freakin' ship!)
The Robots gazed up in horror as a shadow befell upon them; The Skyship opened the cargo
hatch and dropped.. *gasp*... JESTERS!! That's right, suckers! Those annoying Jesters that ride
Cards! Yuffie struck some deals with'em before the fight with Seph so that they'd help the
gang one day in return for a ton of pay (only about 50k gil, not to severe.)! So now cards
were flying, only one of which had a healing effect, if you know what I mean.. All the rest
either disabled them, exploded on'em, or cut'em in half. Go Jesters, Go Jesters, Go, go, Go Jesters!
Barret kicked down a door and dashed into the president's room. Several heavily armed
men glared at them. In the middle of the room sat the president, Irvine Thrustivus Kyra. The
man chuckled coldly as he saw the group enter the room, which faded into a sneer. "You pathetic
ShinRa people are too late. Kyra will soon possess the ultimate weapon, Diablos, and you will be
the first to die." The heavily armed guards in gold armor held their swords towards the
group, moving closer. "One false move and you won't even get to witness the rebirth of Diablos,
fools.." muttered Irvine (not to be confused with Irvine Kineasis [or whatever his last name
was] from Final Fantasy 8) as the guards laughed. The turks and Barret all smirked, however,
refusing to put their weapons down.. "Fine.. You will die of your own incompetence. Guards,
kill them!!"
Barret ducked and kicked the first guard out of the room as it charged him, making sure to
hurl him a good bit as the rest of'em stepped into the room, kicking another guard on his face
nearly out of the room as Elenor hacked the system and shut the steel door, snapping into
and through the guard's neck armor and severing his head as Tseng dug his double edge deeply
into the first, Reno, Rude, Elenor and Barret advancing towards the President as Tseng sliced
his sword out of the first guard's chest cavity and instantly jabbing it backwards into the
unsuspecting guard behind him, blood gushing from both sentinels as they fell to the ground,
lifeless. Tseng jumped over the presiden's desk and stared coldly at the cowering man.
"I think it's time for some aggressive negotiations..." he said cruelly, a sadistic smirk
crossing his lips.
"TRAITORS!!" yelled the man. "You betrayed me!!"
"It was either your sick and futil world domination plot or us savin the world and living.
I think common sense prevailed." Elenor commented, arming her rocket launcher.
They tied up the president, Rude pressing the barrel of his gun up against the man's neck
as they slowly advanced out of the room, holding him hostage, the guards unmoving in fear for
their president's life, yet at the same time silently cheering the small rebelious group on;
For he was the only one of them that lacked the sense enough to know Diablos was uncontrollable..
The ship shook a bit as they got up to the deck and the smoked, dead androids. Barret paid the
head of the Jesters just as Cloud slashed out of the middle of the ship, cutting a clean hole
that the others climbed out of as well. The Skyship lowered to pick the groups up. Cloud leapt
in first before helping the ladies in as the rest of'em just jumped in when they felt like it.
As everyone else retreated into the slowly rising skyship, Elenor aimed her rocket launcher at
the Nautilus, which was quickly being evacuated. She pulled the trigger as four missiles shot
out at the ship, blasting it severely as the Skyship dropped a cargo of bombs on the ship,
finishing it off in a great ball of fire, consuming every bit of the now-crashing ship in
a massive explosion of ammunition and fuel..
(The Last Laugh)
The Skyship slowly flew towards ShinRa, Inc., in Midgar. Repairs were underway for
Costa Del Sol as Reeves gave the command to activate all reactors that had been tampered
with to drain the Storm, and send the Storm-draining Airships out to combat the Mako Storm
fast. Meanwhile, the President sat in the middle of the lounge, which had been redecorated
into a carnivalistic room; The Pres was held captive in an unbreakable glass container
filled with water; A "Dunk Irvine Kyra" game, with a very large target (Barret's creul
idea) and ice-filled water (Cid's even crueller idea), plus to make matters worse, the top
of the slick conainter was left open 'accidentally', along with the cieling fan 'accidently'
being turned on, giving him a severe chill as well. This game quickly became popular to
pass the boredom, especially when the shivering, teeth-chattering president screamed and fell
into the water each time the target was hit by one of the baseballs. And, well, let's just
say everyone aboard the Highwind had a good throwing arm and leave it at that...
*cackles evilly*
So, with that done, it's time to end this episode. Unless you want to see the alternate
versions of this one, skip to EPISODE TEN NOW, and see you next time, on..
SKYSHIP HIGHWIND
Between the Lines
(Am I good or what!? Don't answer that..)
TACTICS!! SO GET IT THROUGH YOUR BLASTED HEADS!! Thanks. I ALSO DON'T OWN ANY MUSIC USED IN
HERE AT ALL!!
Author's Note:
Well, look who's here. Don't wanna confront Diablos, eh? I don't blame ya. He's a vicious
brute, and the fight scenes he brings may be drawn out. Maybe your friend can tell you
about the other versions of Episode 9 sometime. Anyway, let's move on with
Mission A.. Oh, and don't forget; The scenes of Yuffie and Vince change with each Chapter
as a collective bonus for those of you whom take the time to see all three alternate
missions. Put'em together with Episode 10's V/Y scene for a full date. Ingenious,
ain't I? :P
(YMCA Music begins to play, but is instantly skipped to a halt. AFter a minute or two,
Mission Impossible music begins to play!?)
[SKyShiP HigHWinD]
[Between the Lines]
[Episode 9; The Mako Mission]
[Version A; Race to the Mako Storm]
Time: Vincent and Yuffie have made their way to Corel. Cloud and the others have loaded
up their old and absolutely best weaponry. Reeves was overloaded with weaponry of various
types; Reno held his shockstaff thingy, which was upgraded to a severely strong version;
Rude, no matter what his past weapon was (I forgot x_x), now sports a powerful rifle.
Elenor, despide her old weapon choices (read the above note), now strikes down foes with
an insanely strong Missile Launcher. Yep, I gave a woman a good weapon, get over it you
evilish-type guys and just be glad your girlfriend/fiance/wife don't have anything near
that strong; And by the way, NEVER underestimate the brute force of cast iron frying
pans. Princess TOadstool can kick butt with one on Mario RPG, a fine game if you ask me.
And last, Tseng sports a double-edged energy blade! Darth Maul, baby!
The Skyship Highwind slowly rose into the sky and took off, flying over the ocean
in search of Kyra's airship, the Nautilus. But since this is the dullest part of this
episode, let's move on to see what the thief and the vampy are doin.
(Scene Swap to: Golden Saucer)
Vincent stood at the doorway of the ride that lead to the Golden Saucer, staring around.
He looked down and glared coldly at the fat guy in the fat chocobo suit, who turned tail and
fled. Suddenly he fell out on his face as Yuffie shoved him. "Stop actin so cool and hurry it
up, will ya?" she said, jumping off on him and casually walking towards the entrance. Vincent
stood up, nothing hurt other than his pride as he followed Yuffie. He jumped back suddenly,
however, when she squealed. "What's wrong with you now?" he said, reaching for his gun holder,
but resisting the urge to pull it out as he saw nothing was wrong. He was quite annoyed at this..
"Look at that!!" Yuffie said. "Cute couples get in free! It's like Couples Day or something!
Come on!" She grabbed his arm and jerked him towards the entrance. The person there seemed to
be studying them to see if they were a cute couple. "Hmm.. I don't know.." He leaned over towards
Yuffie. "What's with the freak?"
Yuffie scowled and pulled out her weapon. "Let us in!!" she said defiantly. "And don't insult
Vinnie again!" The man gulped and smiled nervously, letting them through eagerly. "P-P-Please,
h-help yourselves..."
"Thanks!" Yuffie said, smiling cutely as she dragged Vincent by the cape, who was trying to
get away; He so hated the crowdiness of places like this, as everyone in the opening hall stared
at him. Yuffie jumped into one of the tubes, dragging Vincent along the way to their first
stop. 'Why do I let you get me into these things..' Vincent thought angrily to himself..
(Scene Swap to: The Skyship Chase)
The Skyship took off even faster now, blue jet flames errupting behind it as it went.
The Nautilus appeared in the distance, as well as on the radar screens of the Highwind.
However, it became quite obvious that the Airship Nautilus had seen them, as well, as they
picked up the pace in front of Cid's prized ship. Cid pulled a lever and sped up the Highwind
even faster now, pursuing the ship in front. Then, much to everyone's horror, they realized
how collosal the Nautilus was; It was painted a navy blue, had the overall look of a pirate
ship, and was roughly the size of four Empire State Buildings pushed together!! Shocking
how this thing could even fly! "Alright, men!" Cid shouted, "Open fire! Aim for their thrusters
first, this is more of a race than anything and slowin'em down will give us a serious edge!"
Several panels around the plated armor of the Skyship opened up, revealing hundreds of
laser cannons. Of coarse, at that very same time, small, round, spherical objects seemed to be
falling towards them.. One of the round bombs detonated, damaging the hull of the Highwind
just barely as a reawakening of how strong the Nautilus was as other bombs detonated around
them, just missing by a few feet. The Skyhip then instantly retaliated by letting off a huge
volley of counterfire, blasting into the shields that surrounded the thrust engines. Tifa
jumped up to the bridge of the Skyship, which ducked and dodged bombs as it continued its
ceaseless fire. Tifa rose her hands into the air, a black glow surrounding them as she brought
them back down, dispelling the magical barriers around the engines as the rapid-firing lasers
of the Highwind viciously tore into the engines like pirahnas, eating away the hull of it as fuel
began leaking out, which was instantly ignited, detonating a chain reaction that destroyed the
thrusters in a flare of raging fire. The Nautilus quickly slowed down, smoke and flames licking
out from where the engines used to be as it kept a very slow pace. The Skyship easily passed
it, then did a U-Turn over it as Cloud and all the other fighters jumped down to deal with the
ship manually, then did another turn and slowed down as it rode in slow and steady circles
around the lerger ship, blasting away at its electic shieldings. However, there was one last
problem; The engines that had been blasted just fell down on Costa Del Sol, doing some major
damage to the town...
Meanwhile, aboard the ship, thousands of android guards had Cloud, Tifa, Cid, and everyone
else surrounded.. The group nodded in agreement at what the best thing to do here was.. FIGHT!!
Cloud leapt towards the guards, lashing out his Ultima Weapon violently, slicing off body parts,
heads, and quite often cutting the blasted things in half. Tifa was kicking holes through'em and
seriously messing them up with her power-packed punches and the occasional Bolt3+All spell. Go
Tifa! Cid was making short work of the group, taking hits now and then like everyone else while
stabbing his spear through five of them at once before slinging them off into another robot and
repeating. Boy I'm glad I ain't on HIS bad side.. Reeves skillfully spun and danced around,
lashing out at the robots with deadly precision with his bladed whip, which may seem like a
weak weapon to some, but I'm sure those robots didn't think so as they were gashed to pieces.
Barret was filling'em full of lead, making them look quite a lot like swiss cheese as he and
the Turks drew closer. "Me, the other Turks, and Barret will find and kidnap the President of
Kyra, Inc. The rest of you will find your way to the bridge and deactivate the ship at all
costs. You got that?! Move out!" Tseng shouted over the comotion as he, the turks and barret
all dashed through a straight line, covering eachother; Barret lead the front, blasting the
robots away with his powerful gun arm; Reno was bashing away/short-circuiting the robots with
his long-poled staff; Rude was shooting holes through'em with his powerful shotgun; Elenor
couldn't use her weapon at this range, but she was dragging it along none the less; And
Tseng was going around her, gashing through several 'bots at once with his cool and
efficient Double-Edge Energy Blade sword (made in Taiwan) as they finally found a staircase
and wend under the deck as Cloud, Tifa, Cid, and Reeves hacked into the robots above and
eventually wend under from the opposide side, hopefully towards the main control panels
(Thank goodness Yuffie wasn't there! She'd find it and destroy the whole freakin' ship!)
The Robots gazed up in horror as a shadow befell upon them; The Skyship opened the cargo
hatch and dropped.. *gasp*... JESTERS!! That's right, suckers! Those annoying Jesters that ride
Cards! Yuffie struck some deals with'em before the fight with Seph so that they'd help the
gang one day in return for a ton of pay (only about 50k gil, not to severe.)! So now cards
were flying, only one of which had a healing effect, if you know what I mean.. All the rest
either disabled them, exploded on'em, or cut'em in half. Go Jesters, Go Jesters, Go, go, Go Jesters!
Barret kicked down a door and dashed into the president's room. Several heavily armed
men glared at them. In the middle of the room sat the president, Irvine Thrustivus Kyra. The
man chuckled coldly as he saw the group enter the room, which faded into a sneer. "You pathetic
ShinRa people are too late. Kyra will soon possess the ultimate weapon, Diablos, and you will be
the first to die." The heavily armed guards in gold armor held their swords towards the
group, moving closer. "One false move and you won't even get to witness the rebirth of Diablos,
fools.." muttered Irvine (not to be confused with Irvine Kineasis [or whatever his last name
was] from Final Fantasy 8) as the guards laughed. The turks and Barret all smirked, however,
refusing to put their weapons down.. "Fine.. You will die of your own incompetence. Guards,
kill them!!"
Barret ducked and kicked the first guard out of the room as it charged him, making sure to
hurl him a good bit as the rest of'em stepped into the room, kicking another guard on his face
nearly out of the room as Elenor hacked the system and shut the steel door, snapping into
and through the guard's neck armor and severing his head as Tseng dug his double edge deeply
into the first, Reno, Rude, Elenor and Barret advancing towards the President as Tseng sliced
his sword out of the first guard's chest cavity and instantly jabbing it backwards into the
unsuspecting guard behind him, blood gushing from both sentinels as they fell to the ground,
lifeless. Tseng jumped over the presiden's desk and stared coldly at the cowering man.
"I think it's time for some aggressive negotiations..." he said cruelly, a sadistic smirk
crossing his lips.
"TRAITORS!!" yelled the man. "You betrayed me!!"
"It was either your sick and futil world domination plot or us savin the world and living.
I think common sense prevailed." Elenor commented, arming her rocket launcher.
They tied up the president, Rude pressing the barrel of his gun up against the man's neck
as they slowly advanced out of the room, holding him hostage, the guards unmoving in fear for
their president's life, yet at the same time silently cheering the small rebelious group on;
For he was the only one of them that lacked the sense enough to know Diablos was uncontrollable..
The ship shook a bit as they got up to the deck and the smoked, dead androids. Barret paid the
head of the Jesters just as Cloud slashed out of the middle of the ship, cutting a clean hole
that the others climbed out of as well. The Skyship lowered to pick the groups up. Cloud leapt
in first before helping the ladies in as the rest of'em just jumped in when they felt like it.
As everyone else retreated into the slowly rising skyship, Elenor aimed her rocket launcher at
the Nautilus, which was quickly being evacuated. She pulled the trigger as four missiles shot
out at the ship, blasting it severely as the Skyship dropped a cargo of bombs on the ship,
finishing it off in a great ball of fire, consuming every bit of the now-crashing ship in
a massive explosion of ammunition and fuel..
(The Last Laugh)
The Skyship slowly flew towards ShinRa, Inc., in Midgar. Repairs were underway for
Costa Del Sol as Reeves gave the command to activate all reactors that had been tampered
with to drain the Storm, and send the Storm-draining Airships out to combat the Mako Storm
fast. Meanwhile, the President sat in the middle of the lounge, which had been redecorated
into a carnivalistic room; The Pres was held captive in an unbreakable glass container
filled with water; A "Dunk Irvine Kyra" game, with a very large target (Barret's creul
idea) and ice-filled water (Cid's even crueller idea), plus to make matters worse, the top
of the slick conainter was left open 'accidentally', along with the cieling fan 'accidently'
being turned on, giving him a severe chill as well. This game quickly became popular to
pass the boredom, especially when the shivering, teeth-chattering president screamed and fell
into the water each time the target was hit by one of the baseballs. And, well, let's just
say everyone aboard the Highwind had a good throwing arm and leave it at that...
*cackles evilly*
So, with that done, it's time to end this episode. Unless you want to see the alternate
versions of this one, skip to EPISODE TEN NOW, and see you next time, on..
SKYSHIP HIGHWIND
Between the Lines
(Am I good or what!? Don't answer that..)