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Author's Note:
Alright, the biggest fight scene variation in this episode. Nice choice. So in case someone
forgets, the objective in this variation is to summon him early before he can immensely drain
the storm (in Materia form, he absorbs five times as much), then destroy him before he can
take too much power from the storm. Wow, and I thought that'd be possibly easy. Guess I was
wrong. Anyway, let's move
on with Mission C.. 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,
Austin Powers music begins to play!?)
[SkYShiP HigHWinD]
[Between the Lines]
[Episode 9; The Mako Mission]
[Version C; Clash Amidst the 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 slowly rose into the air then took off towards Nibelheim. In only a short
amount of time, the dark clouds of the Mako Storm appeared in the distance - And not too
far off was a gargantuous war-airsip with a navy-blue paintjob and the body of an old-timey
pirate ship and huge thruster engines on the back; Kyra's own Airship Nautilus, the most
powerful military ship on the face of the Planet. "Well, I now officially take back any
disbeliefs of THAT ship surviving the storm.." muttered Reeves in admiration as the Highwind
came to a halt, hovering in the air. He pulled out the good'ol PHS and called ShinRa. "Alright,
prepare the skyships and be ready to move in the instant I tell you to. The Storm may spread
drastically by the time we kill Diablos, so go ahead and activate the remodeled reactors just
in case."
Back at the ShinRa base, Precisely 75 smaller-than-the-Highwind Airships slowly rose
into the air, special Mako-byproduct-draining radiators equipped on them much like a shield
as they took off at a blinding speed.
Everyone stared, mixed emotions filling their minds; It was awesome to see a ship
attempt to survive against a storm THAT powerful, but at the same time, if it did
survive, they were in for the fight of their lives. While it may not be as powerful
as Meteor had been, it could still do some serious damage - And Aeris and the Lifestream
and Holy had brought an end to Meteor, they hadn't had to defeat it themselves. THere was
a flash of purple light as the deadly airship Nautilus broke into the vicious Mako Storm,
bolts of lightning bashing up against the warship. THe blackness of the storm consumed
the ship..
"Well, there ya go, dead Kyra and the Diablos thing never took place!" Barret shouted,
opening a bottle of wine. "Let's celebrate!"
Meanwhile, aboard the Nautilus Bridge..
"Kyra, sir, the ship's shield generators are quickly overheating!" yelled one of
the pilots on a transmission screen in the president's room. "At this rate-"
"Where.. is... the materia?" Irvine Kyra asked, tension building in his voice. The
pilot gulped. "E-ehrm... i-it's right near us... sir... should we send out the sorceror
to summon ih-"
"YES!!" bellowed Irvine (not to be confused with Irvine Kineasis of FF8).
Everyone in the Skyship paused from their conversation as a sickening explosion could
be heard. Everyone gazed at the black cloud, wondering what would happen next.. Then, slowly,
something began rising out of the clouds.. "OPEN FIRE!!" Cid yelled to the pilots. Hundreds
of panels on the skyship spun around to reveal hundreds of laser cannons.. The Skyship
opened fire and shot blindly into the storm. Suddenly, that 'something' that
was halfway risen out of the smokey storm spread a pair of demonic wings, roaring into the
sky hideously, glaring coldly with red, glowing eyes at the airship that was firing upon it.
Diablos rose his arms into the sky, purple bolts spiraling up them as he
brought them down; The storm near the Skyship parted as the Skyship shook violently, withstanding
the gravity impact as best as it could; By the time the spell had ended, the hull had taken
quite a beating. Diablos growled, angry at his lack of power as he took off towards the
Golden Saucer, a path of storm following him, spreading the storm even faster..
Meanwhile, let's take a look at what Yuffie and VInce are doing..
'bah..' Vincent muttered to himself as Yuffie grabbed his arm and pulled him towards
the Battle Arena registration counter. He could see what was coming a mile away.. Yuffie
finally stopped in front of the battle arena counter. The woman looked up at the pair, hiding
her curiosity and trying not to stare at the strange guy in the red cloak. "Hiya, we're here
for the fight!" Yuffie said. "We both get to go in, don't we?"
"U-um.. is he really your boyfriend?" the lady at the counter asked, hoping not to make
them mad; The last time she enraged a fighter here the repairs took three weeks, and five
people were hospitalized. Yuffie looked highly ticked off.
"Of coarse he's my boyfriend you idiot!" she said angrily.
"Alright, alright, go ahead!" the woman said nervously.
Yuffie smiled cutely and said thanks as she dragged Vince up the stairs to the arena.
Vincent cracked his knuckles as Yuffie dragged him into the room then pulled away from
the thief, jumping straight into a battle. "Wait for me!" Yuffie shouted as Vincent shot the
eye out of what looked like a warthog on wheels. He turned to shoot the other one, but Yuffie
had already sliced through it and jumped back as both robots exploded. And things only began
getting tougher after that.. The Handicap, luckily, hadn't taken effect yet, and she'd forced
Vincent to wear a ribbon as a bandana under his cloak to protect him from poison and stuff.
The battles went on much in the same way, untill they began getting rougher.. A giant,
floating pirate ship floated out. The handicaps had lowered their strength a bit, but after
getting slapped by an oar only twice, the ghost ship fell to pieces and the bars opened up
again and a giant flying snake slithered out, green steam emitting from its fang-filled
mouth. "This one doesn't look very good." Yuffie said, annoyed, as she pulled her blade thing
out and struck blow after blow on it. Vincent spun his rifle around a bit before firing a
barrage of bullets into the beast, which then roared and covered the arena in a thick
layer of poisonous and quite damaging mist, before Yuffie cleanly sliced its head off in
a shower of purple blood. "THAT ALL YOU PEOPLE GOT!?" she yelled triumphantly. "Bring it on!"
Five minutes later, Yuffie and Vincent were escorted out. "Alright, you two, you get
50,000 Bp, now go away!" the men yelled desperately to get the group to quit - They would
have put the GOlden Saucer out of business with just 20 more minutes! Yuffie stuck her
tongue out and dragged Vincent out of the battle arena and into one of the rides.
"We'll lose'em if you don't hurry your sorry %*^@$ up!!" Cid shouted angrily, shoving the
inexperienced pilot out of the way as he took control and revved up the engines. The
Highwind tore down the trail of darkness, dodging bolts of mako as they pursued the demon of
gravity magics..
Diablos, on the other hand, was having the time of his life; He was controlling the storm
with his magic, and was absorbing power from it already. Meanwhile, a little bit ahead
of him, something was getting very mad at his lack of sleep.. A huge, gigantuous, red thingy
flew out of the desert, roaring at Diablos. "%@Y^$%* WRECKLESS TEENAGERS!! KEEP THE NOISE
DOWN!!" shouted Ruby Weapon, before Diablos flew by, his force of gravity creating a sandstorm
and blasting Ruby backwards by over two football fields; Diablos turned towards the ocean
as Ruby slammed into the GOlden Saucer...
And while this had been happening..
((a while before Diablos had slammed Rub' into the G.S.))
Yuffie had dragged vincent into the cable-car ride that Aeries had pulled Cloud into
a long time ago. Yuffie was looking out all four windows, looking at everything around
the Golden Saucer; Vincent seemed to be staring out the back window, not paying
much attention to anything around him. "... these car rides are too slow.." he muttered,
just loud enough for Yuffie to catch it. She turned to face him, looking slightly annoyed.
"Aww, c'mon Vince, I saved your life back at Wutai so-"
"I owe you one.." Vincent said, interrupting Yuffie.
"Exactly!" the thief said matter-of-factly. "Now be good and atleast pretend this is a
date."
"What?" Vincent looked at her. "You never said anything about this being a date!"
"What's wrong, scared of girls?" Yuffie said, making a cute look. Vincent scoffed and
looked back out the window, hiding his annoyance towards the thief's giggling.
"Hey Vince, now that you're officially single and all, you ever thought about
settling down again?" Yuffie asked innocently enough. Vincent didn't answer. ".. Hello?
You heard me! C'mon, answer the question, it's not that difficult.."
Vincent turned to give her a cold look of 'change the subject', which didn't phase
Yuffie in the slightest. The vampirish dude sighed, giving up. He opened his mouth to
speak (though no one could tell, thanks to his cloak), and just as he did, screaming
could be heard, quickly followed by a huge explosion in one of the several areas of Gold
Saucer. The cable car screeched to a halt as sparks flew from the wreckage and smoke; Something
huge slowly rose up from the smoke.. "Aaahh!! It's Ruby Weapon!!" Yuffie screamed, hiding
down in the car and peeking out. Ruby glared around the golden saucer cruelly, flames
bellowing out of his cone-shaped mouth. He latched his tendricals around some metallic towers
from the wreckage and pulled himself up, breathing ruby flames upon hundreds of bystanders.
"What the heck is that freak doing!?" Yuffie screamed so she could be heard over the countless
shoutings and screamings of hundreds of people. Ruby then turned to glare at the cable car,
recognizing the pair immediately as it roared and lunged at them. A demon tore out of the cable
car, ripping the metal walls apart, flying away just in time as Ruby bit into the car,
devouring half of it. ChaoS somehow kept his insane lust for blood hidden as he put Yuffie
down and charged towards the red Weapon...
**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**
'You should thank me..'
"You again?"
'I'm trying to help you..'
"Who are you?"
'That's for me to know...'
"What do you want with me?"
'I told you.. I'm trying to help you... Your emotions
have been off track since you saw her one last time..'
"What are you talking about?"
'You know what I'm talking about.. your mind rejects
this... yet your heart seeks to fill in the gap.. your
emotions are raging out of control as if you were a
young teenager again.. and you have no idea where to
turn, nor what to do...'
"What do you know? You don't know me!"
'I live inside you.. I know you better than you know
yourself... You can't fool me.'
"....."
'That's right.. I did you a favor just now, and it cost
me another kill to do it. I could have killed that
girl twice now, yet I spared her life both times..'
"ChaoS? But you're not-"
'-a living being? Oh, no, I'm not.. I'm a spirit.
Given to you as a protector, to help you. You were
so dull at first, I just had to mess with your mind,
make you think..'
"You're the one who's been doing all that to me!"
'Now, now.. I'm only helping you... Quit lying to
yourself.. Swallow your pride and listen to your
common sense for once...'
"Just leave me alone!"
'Fine.. suit yourself.. I will return to my slumber.
Have fun..'
"WHa-"
**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**
Vincent blinked. His body felt different.. He suddenly realized he was flying, and
felt a power surging through his body.. By the time he figured out he was still in the
form of ChaoS, he was slammed backwards by Ruby's fist. He regained control in midair
and growled viciously, black blades appearing in his hands.. Vincent tore into Ruby
with vicious power never before seen from ChaoS as the skies darkened; NeoBahamut flew
to the ground, along with Bahamut, circling around the red demon as Vincent rose his hands
into the air, dark spirits raging through Ruby Weapon, tearing into him. Leviathan tore out
of the thousands of broken waterpipes, spiraling into the air and through Ruby Weapon -
After five minutes of constant assault, the monsterous beast fell to the ground,
annihalated. His body quit moving as he stopped functioning and all the summoned beasts
returned to Yuffie. Vincent landed near Yuffie and reverted back to his human form, before
falling to the ground, drained from the fight and a bit wounded.
Diablose felt confident in his powers and came to a stop, glaring at the Skyship as
black storm clouds spiraled around him, intensifying the storm every minute. THe Skyship
began circling Diablos, trying to confuse him, to no avail. The demon cackled and rose his
hands into the air, draining the storm into a single spell as purple bolts shot through his
body and up his arms, charging a ball of black gravitational distortion. Cloud, Tifa, and
Barret jumped to the top of the ship, which was concentrating all its energy to shield
the Highwind from shattering to pieces; While the three heroes could now strike
Diablos, they were also completely vulnerable to his magic. Cloud used the Slash-All to
thrash at Diablos with a blade of energy as Tifa practically did the same thing with the
long-range attack materia's help, while Barret blasted away with his guns. Then, Tifa began
boosting the team's Magic Resistance, Barrent took out a Hero item, and Cloud stood
in front, bracing himself for the attack while covering for his team.
The demon threw his arms down, bashing Cloud to the roof of the ship with a wave of
gravity; Cloud's body radiated a golden glow as Barret tossed a Hero on him after Tifa casted
Full-Cure on him, then the spikey-haired person dashed into the storm, using Omni-Slash and
thrasing Diablos up and down and all around, kicking his butt to kingdom come! DIablos cringed
with each blow, taking more and more damage as his defenses were torn to shreds, then with one
fatal slash, Diablos was diced in half and returned to his summon materia. Reeve took out the
PHS. "Alright, bring'em in, we're flying near that uncharted island - What do you mean you
can't find it? Just use that player's guide I gave you!"
And so, the other ships moved in and drained the storm. Meanwhile, let's look in on
Nibelheim's reactor, shall we...?
The two ShinRa soldiers on their posts walked back and forth as the technitions started
fixing the Mako Storm machine. The storm had been drained quite effectively, and now they had
to stop the problem for good. One of the guards sighed as they both sat down.
((SCRIPT MODE))
[SoldierA] "'ey Ralph, been a pretty dull day huh?"
[Ralph] "You kin say that again, Bill. We sold'rs ain't done nothin'.."
**Bill looks up*
[Bill] "Hey Ralph.. you see something up there?"
**ralph looks up too**
[Ralph] "Well ah'll be, it's th'guy we were told t'look fer!"
((NORMAL MODE))
The soldiers jumped up as Kyra, who had been laughing, quickly stopped.
The Skyship flew back towards ShinRa, Inc.. Reeves and SHinRa had finished permanately
shutting down the Mako Storm Generator. The soldiers that captured Irvine T. Kyra had
immediately brought him back to the ship, as the Diablos materia was buried deep underground,
never to be released. 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:
Alright, the biggest fight scene variation in this episode. Nice choice. So in case someone
forgets, the objective in this variation is to summon him early before he can immensely drain
the storm (in Materia form, he absorbs five times as much), then destroy him before he can
take too much power from the storm. Wow, and I thought that'd be possibly easy. Guess I was
wrong. Anyway, let's move
on with Mission C.. 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,
Austin Powers music begins to play!?)
[SkYShiP HigHWinD]
[Between the Lines]
[Episode 9; The Mako Mission]
[Version C; Clash Amidst the 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 slowly rose into the air then took off towards Nibelheim. In only a short
amount of time, the dark clouds of the Mako Storm appeared in the distance - And not too
far off was a gargantuous war-airsip with a navy-blue paintjob and the body of an old-timey
pirate ship and huge thruster engines on the back; Kyra's own Airship Nautilus, the most
powerful military ship on the face of the Planet. "Well, I now officially take back any
disbeliefs of THAT ship surviving the storm.." muttered Reeves in admiration as the Highwind
came to a halt, hovering in the air. He pulled out the good'ol PHS and called ShinRa. "Alright,
prepare the skyships and be ready to move in the instant I tell you to. The Storm may spread
drastically by the time we kill Diablos, so go ahead and activate the remodeled reactors just
in case."
Back at the ShinRa base, Precisely 75 smaller-than-the-Highwind Airships slowly rose
into the air, special Mako-byproduct-draining radiators equipped on them much like a shield
as they took off at a blinding speed.
Everyone stared, mixed emotions filling their minds; It was awesome to see a ship
attempt to survive against a storm THAT powerful, but at the same time, if it did
survive, they were in for the fight of their lives. While it may not be as powerful
as Meteor had been, it could still do some serious damage - And Aeris and the Lifestream
and Holy had brought an end to Meteor, they hadn't had to defeat it themselves. THere was
a flash of purple light as the deadly airship Nautilus broke into the vicious Mako Storm,
bolts of lightning bashing up against the warship. THe blackness of the storm consumed
the ship..
"Well, there ya go, dead Kyra and the Diablos thing never took place!" Barret shouted,
opening a bottle of wine. "Let's celebrate!"
Meanwhile, aboard the Nautilus Bridge..
"Kyra, sir, the ship's shield generators are quickly overheating!" yelled one of
the pilots on a transmission screen in the president's room. "At this rate-"
"Where.. is... the materia?" Irvine Kyra asked, tension building in his voice. The
pilot gulped. "E-ehrm... i-it's right near us... sir... should we send out the sorceror
to summon ih-"
"YES!!" bellowed Irvine (not to be confused with Irvine Kineasis of FF8).
Everyone in the Skyship paused from their conversation as a sickening explosion could
be heard. Everyone gazed at the black cloud, wondering what would happen next.. Then, slowly,
something began rising out of the clouds.. "OPEN FIRE!!" Cid yelled to the pilots. Hundreds
of panels on the skyship spun around to reveal hundreds of laser cannons.. The Skyship
opened fire and shot blindly into the storm. Suddenly, that 'something' that
was halfway risen out of the smokey storm spread a pair of demonic wings, roaring into the
sky hideously, glaring coldly with red, glowing eyes at the airship that was firing upon it.
Diablos rose his arms into the sky, purple bolts spiraling up them as he
brought them down; The storm near the Skyship parted as the Skyship shook violently, withstanding
the gravity impact as best as it could; By the time the spell had ended, the hull had taken
quite a beating. Diablos growled, angry at his lack of power as he took off towards the
Golden Saucer, a path of storm following him, spreading the storm even faster..
Meanwhile, let's take a look at what Yuffie and VInce are doing..
'bah..' Vincent muttered to himself as Yuffie grabbed his arm and pulled him towards
the Battle Arena registration counter. He could see what was coming a mile away.. Yuffie
finally stopped in front of the battle arena counter. The woman looked up at the pair, hiding
her curiosity and trying not to stare at the strange guy in the red cloak. "Hiya, we're here
for the fight!" Yuffie said. "We both get to go in, don't we?"
"U-um.. is he really your boyfriend?" the lady at the counter asked, hoping not to make
them mad; The last time she enraged a fighter here the repairs took three weeks, and five
people were hospitalized. Yuffie looked highly ticked off.
"Of coarse he's my boyfriend you idiot!" she said angrily.
"Alright, alright, go ahead!" the woman said nervously.
Yuffie smiled cutely and said thanks as she dragged Vince up the stairs to the arena.
Vincent cracked his knuckles as Yuffie dragged him into the room then pulled away from
the thief, jumping straight into a battle. "Wait for me!" Yuffie shouted as Vincent shot the
eye out of what looked like a warthog on wheels. He turned to shoot the other one, but Yuffie
had already sliced through it and jumped back as both robots exploded. And things only began
getting tougher after that.. The Handicap, luckily, hadn't taken effect yet, and she'd forced
Vincent to wear a ribbon as a bandana under his cloak to protect him from poison and stuff.
The battles went on much in the same way, untill they began getting rougher.. A giant,
floating pirate ship floated out. The handicaps had lowered their strength a bit, but after
getting slapped by an oar only twice, the ghost ship fell to pieces and the bars opened up
again and a giant flying snake slithered out, green steam emitting from its fang-filled
mouth. "This one doesn't look very good." Yuffie said, annoyed, as she pulled her blade thing
out and struck blow after blow on it. Vincent spun his rifle around a bit before firing a
barrage of bullets into the beast, which then roared and covered the arena in a thick
layer of poisonous and quite damaging mist, before Yuffie cleanly sliced its head off in
a shower of purple blood. "THAT ALL YOU PEOPLE GOT!?" she yelled triumphantly. "Bring it on!"
Five minutes later, Yuffie and Vincent were escorted out. "Alright, you two, you get
50,000 Bp, now go away!" the men yelled desperately to get the group to quit - They would
have put the GOlden Saucer out of business with just 20 more minutes! Yuffie stuck her
tongue out and dragged Vincent out of the battle arena and into one of the rides.
"We'll lose'em if you don't hurry your sorry %*^@$ up!!" Cid shouted angrily, shoving the
inexperienced pilot out of the way as he took control and revved up the engines. The
Highwind tore down the trail of darkness, dodging bolts of mako as they pursued the demon of
gravity magics..
Diablos, on the other hand, was having the time of his life; He was controlling the storm
with his magic, and was absorbing power from it already. Meanwhile, a little bit ahead
of him, something was getting very mad at his lack of sleep.. A huge, gigantuous, red thingy
flew out of the desert, roaring at Diablos. "%@Y^$%* WRECKLESS TEENAGERS!! KEEP THE NOISE
DOWN!!" shouted Ruby Weapon, before Diablos flew by, his force of gravity creating a sandstorm
and blasting Ruby backwards by over two football fields; Diablos turned towards the ocean
as Ruby slammed into the GOlden Saucer...
And while this had been happening..
((a while before Diablos had slammed Rub' into the G.S.))
Yuffie had dragged vincent into the cable-car ride that Aeries had pulled Cloud into
a long time ago. Yuffie was looking out all four windows, looking at everything around
the Golden Saucer; Vincent seemed to be staring out the back window, not paying
much attention to anything around him. "... these car rides are too slow.." he muttered,
just loud enough for Yuffie to catch it. She turned to face him, looking slightly annoyed.
"Aww, c'mon Vince, I saved your life back at Wutai so-"
"I owe you one.." Vincent said, interrupting Yuffie.
"Exactly!" the thief said matter-of-factly. "Now be good and atleast pretend this is a
date."
"What?" Vincent looked at her. "You never said anything about this being a date!"
"What's wrong, scared of girls?" Yuffie said, making a cute look. Vincent scoffed and
looked back out the window, hiding his annoyance towards the thief's giggling.
"Hey Vince, now that you're officially single and all, you ever thought about
settling down again?" Yuffie asked innocently enough. Vincent didn't answer. ".. Hello?
You heard me! C'mon, answer the question, it's not that difficult.."
Vincent turned to give her a cold look of 'change the subject', which didn't phase
Yuffie in the slightest. The vampirish dude sighed, giving up. He opened his mouth to
speak (though no one could tell, thanks to his cloak), and just as he did, screaming
could be heard, quickly followed by a huge explosion in one of the several areas of Gold
Saucer. The cable car screeched to a halt as sparks flew from the wreckage and smoke; Something
huge slowly rose up from the smoke.. "Aaahh!! It's Ruby Weapon!!" Yuffie screamed, hiding
down in the car and peeking out. Ruby glared around the golden saucer cruelly, flames
bellowing out of his cone-shaped mouth. He latched his tendricals around some metallic towers
from the wreckage and pulled himself up, breathing ruby flames upon hundreds of bystanders.
"What the heck is that freak doing!?" Yuffie screamed so she could be heard over the countless
shoutings and screamings of hundreds of people. Ruby then turned to glare at the cable car,
recognizing the pair immediately as it roared and lunged at them. A demon tore out of the cable
car, ripping the metal walls apart, flying away just in time as Ruby bit into the car,
devouring half of it. ChaoS somehow kept his insane lust for blood hidden as he put Yuffie
down and charged towards the red Weapon...
**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**~**
'You should thank me..'
"You again?"
'I'm trying to help you..'
"Who are you?"
'That's for me to know...'
"What do you want with me?"
'I told you.. I'm trying to help you... Your emotions
have been off track since you saw her one last time..'
"What are you talking about?"
'You know what I'm talking about.. your mind rejects
this... yet your heart seeks to fill in the gap.. your
emotions are raging out of control as if you were a
young teenager again.. and you have no idea where to
turn, nor what to do...'
"What do you know? You don't know me!"
'I live inside you.. I know you better than you know
yourself... You can't fool me.'
"....."
'That's right.. I did you a favor just now, and it cost
me another kill to do it. I could have killed that
girl twice now, yet I spared her life both times..'
"ChaoS? But you're not-"
'-a living being? Oh, no, I'm not.. I'm a spirit.
Given to you as a protector, to help you. You were
so dull at first, I just had to mess with your mind,
make you think..'
"You're the one who's been doing all that to me!"
'Now, now.. I'm only helping you... Quit lying to
yourself.. Swallow your pride and listen to your
common sense for once...'
"Just leave me alone!"
'Fine.. suit yourself.. I will return to my slumber.
Have fun..'
"WHa-"
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Vincent blinked. His body felt different.. He suddenly realized he was flying, and
felt a power surging through his body.. By the time he figured out he was still in the
form of ChaoS, he was slammed backwards by Ruby's fist. He regained control in midair
and growled viciously, black blades appearing in his hands.. Vincent tore into Ruby
with vicious power never before seen from ChaoS as the skies darkened; NeoBahamut flew
to the ground, along with Bahamut, circling around the red demon as Vincent rose his hands
into the air, dark spirits raging through Ruby Weapon, tearing into him. Leviathan tore out
of the thousands of broken waterpipes, spiraling into the air and through Ruby Weapon -
After five minutes of constant assault, the monsterous beast fell to the ground,
annihalated. His body quit moving as he stopped functioning and all the summoned beasts
returned to Yuffie. Vincent landed near Yuffie and reverted back to his human form, before
falling to the ground, drained from the fight and a bit wounded.
Diablose felt confident in his powers and came to a stop, glaring at the Skyship as
black storm clouds spiraled around him, intensifying the storm every minute. THe Skyship
began circling Diablos, trying to confuse him, to no avail. The demon cackled and rose his
hands into the air, draining the storm into a single spell as purple bolts shot through his
body and up his arms, charging a ball of black gravitational distortion. Cloud, Tifa, and
Barret jumped to the top of the ship, which was concentrating all its energy to shield
the Highwind from shattering to pieces; While the three heroes could now strike
Diablos, they were also completely vulnerable to his magic. Cloud used the Slash-All to
thrash at Diablos with a blade of energy as Tifa practically did the same thing with the
long-range attack materia's help, while Barret blasted away with his guns. Then, Tifa began
boosting the team's Magic Resistance, Barrent took out a Hero item, and Cloud stood
in front, bracing himself for the attack while covering for his team.
The demon threw his arms down, bashing Cloud to the roof of the ship with a wave of
gravity; Cloud's body radiated a golden glow as Barret tossed a Hero on him after Tifa casted
Full-Cure on him, then the spikey-haired person dashed into the storm, using Omni-Slash and
thrasing Diablos up and down and all around, kicking his butt to kingdom come! DIablos cringed
with each blow, taking more and more damage as his defenses were torn to shreds, then with one
fatal slash, Diablos was diced in half and returned to his summon materia. Reeve took out the
PHS. "Alright, bring'em in, we're flying near that uncharted island - What do you mean you
can't find it? Just use that player's guide I gave you!"
And so, the other ships moved in and drained the storm. Meanwhile, let's look in on
Nibelheim's reactor, shall we...?
The two ShinRa soldiers on their posts walked back and forth as the technitions started
fixing the Mako Storm machine. The storm had been drained quite effectively, and now they had
to stop the problem for good. One of the guards sighed as they both sat down.
((SCRIPT MODE))
[SoldierA] "'ey Ralph, been a pretty dull day huh?"
[Ralph] "You kin say that again, Bill. We sold'rs ain't done nothin'.."
**Bill looks up*
[Bill] "Hey Ralph.. you see something up there?"
**ralph looks up too**
[Ralph] "Well ah'll be, it's th'guy we were told t'look fer!"
((NORMAL MODE))
The soldiers jumped up as Kyra, who had been laughing, quickly stopped.
The Skyship flew back towards ShinRa, Inc.. Reeves and SHinRa had finished permanately
shutting down the Mako Storm Generator. The soldiers that captured Irvine T. Kyra had
immediately brought him back to the ship, as the Diablos materia was buried deep underground,
never to be released. 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..)