Chapter 12:

Its all fun and games until someone pokes an eye out

Tyler waited for Nate and Taurean before making any rash moves. The rest of the party gets to the platform at about the same time.

Nate: Shit son, were in some deep shit now!

Barret: Lets bust right in!

Tifa: NO! It's to dangerous…lets split up.

Tyler: Good Idea, Tifa and Taurean…your with me on this one.

Barret: Nate and me will take the front door.

Tyler and the two others run around back and find a service elevator, right next to a humongous flight of steps. (For anyone who took Tifa's advice that would be funny) Barret and Nate run in the front door and are meted with a horde of enemy sentry. Tyler pushes the up button, the elevator goes up at least 50 floors before it suddenly goes haywire and starts to drop. A huge robot suddenly stops the elevator. Tyler looks up and sees that it is none other than Evangelion Unit 1. Unit 1 puts the elevator down and the entry plug shoots out. Out steps none other than Shinji Ikari

Tyler: Holy shit dude!

Shinji: Where am I?

Tyler: Midgar…thanks for saving us back there…

Shinji: Last thing I remember is being sucked into the 12th angel.

Tyler: Just get back in your Eva and you will go back to tokyo3.

After this exchange, Tyler and Tifa start to walk towards the steps. Taurean just stands there with his jaw on the ground, as Eva unit 1 disappears into thin air. Taurean walks to the staircase and is met with at least 40 guards.

Tyler: I hope the other two are doing better…where is Cloud anyways.

Meanwhile…

Nate furiously casts a bio attack on the attacking guards, taking out all but one of them. This guard runs over to a switch and pushes a button, making a mech fall from the ceiling.

Guard: We call this one, Materia Roulette. The mech is loaded with 8 materias…fire, ice, bolt, quake, mini, cure, bio, and death…it will randomly cast one of these at either you or itself, do you feel lucky?

Barret: Enough of this jibba-jabba foo! Lets bust it up!

A Battle Ensues:

Immediately, the materia starts to spin, it land on cure, a second wheel with three slots starts to spin, and on the screen comes Barret's face. Barret is then hit with a cure attack. The wheels start to spin again and the result this time is…Quake…on Materia Roulette!

Nate: If it keeps this up, we will win in no time!

As Nate is talking…the materia roulette casts cure on Nate. Nate and Barret attack the mech. doing no apparent damage. The wheels start to spin again and the mech casts bio on itself. Being poisoned, it goes berserk and casts Ice on itself and Barret, which freezes its computer. The two take this time to attack the mech. The materia roulette is now back online, retaliates with a bolt attack, hitting Nate. Nate then counter attacks the boss. Barret follows suit and knocks some of the materia out of place. This causes the mech to cast the only remaining spell it has left…Death, which is aimed at Barret. Barret succumbs to the reaper and Nate…seeing this casts reflect in himself, wondering why he did not think of this earlier. Just then, an old man with a long beard and a staff walks in.

Nate: Get out of here unless you wanna die!

Old Man: Such courage…such bravery…I will join you and your friends on your quest.

Nate: Lets see what you got!

The old man starts to chant and suddenly he rises off the ground, and lightning shoots out of his staff. Destroying the mech.

Nate: whoa, who are you?

Old Man: Call me Rumah…I will join you now.

Rumah disappears in a puff of smoke and turns into a red materia. Nate picks it up…just then, outside we can here a helicopter land, and Cloud gets out of it and yells. Thanks for the ride Don. Nate shakes his head, and revives Barret with a phoenix down. The Three, Cloud Barret and Nate. head up the elevator.

What will happen to them?

Is Tyler's group safe?

Find out next time on

LAST STAND!

(A/N I know it has been a while since my last post, but I have had the block. You know how that is right. Well. Expect to be bombarded with more. –Tyler)