The screaming of the soldier was soon distinguished as Cloud dug his
immense sword into the man's body, cutting him clean in half.
Cloud doesn't even hesitate, he runs to the next soldier, and hacks him down. Cloud hears noises behind him, and swings his sword furiously in a tight circle. Two yelps of pain, and sounds of corpses falling to the ground in halves, was all that Cloud heard before he made his next target, and charged.
"Sir we are under attack, nothing big, but it's a surprise attack. Not too many men either, but more keep on falling down." A red uniformed guard said breathing heavily.
"Issue the orders, attack the intruders now." Mr. H turns to his mirror, and smirks. "This time, I'll make sure it's over." He pauses. "Cloud Strife." Mr. H. succumbs to maniacal laughter.
Cloud swings his sword into a red uniformed body killing him instantly. Cloud then turned around and saw two men charging at him. Cloud's eyes narrowed, and he charged to them as well. He saw them firing bullets, and he heard the bullets whiz by his ear. Cloud dives forward into a roll, and rolls in between and past the two soldiers. Immediately he gets up and swings his sword diagonally upwards into the right soldiers torso slicing him into two parts. Cloud turned his head to the other soldier screaming in terror. Cloud saw the man running away, and Cloud smirked. He takes to steps forward and launches his sword in the air. Cloud watched as the sword flew in a lazy arch. The man continued to run until the buster sword found its target, and landed through his chest. There the soldier stood, the buster sword pierced into the ground and completely through the soldiers body, who was leaning its dead weight onto the sword.
Cloud looked around and saw a few of his soldiers fighting, and sure enough he ran to his sword. Suddenly Cloud heard a loud bang, and a body fall down to the cold hard ground. Cloud turned to see Vincent still aiming his weapon at the air where the dead soldier once stood. "Thanks Vincent."
"Don't mention it. I'll cover you. Go get your sword." Vincent still wore the same garbs he has worn since he was first experimented on.
Cloud ran straight to the sword, with Vincent right after picking targets. Cloud could hear all the shots Vincent fire. "No one is a better shot than Vincent." Cloud told himself. Cloud ran up to the leaning body on his sword and pried off the sword. Cloud quickly glanced to notice a man running behind Vincent. "Vincent directly behind you."
Without looking, Vincent turned around rapidly and just fired without aim. Steam rose out of the bullet hole in the helmet of the once living soldier. The corpse then dropped on the ground with a large thump.
The night skies, and the moonlit ground's peace, were disturbed by the ensuing battle. The pincer attack was currently beginning, as Aeris Soldiers charged the settlement by both sides. While this is occurring, the Avalanche members, and a handful a soldiers, were holding their own against the now nearly awoken army of Mr. H.'s corporation.
Tifa, Lina, and Yuffie battled their way through the men that lunged themselves with the sole intent of killing them. Some offered to let them live for other purposes, these men soon saw their fate after opening their mouths.
"Yuffie watch out." Tifa said currently pulling off a series of punches into the gut of a red uniformed soldier.
Yuffie turned around only to see a man literally turn to ice in front of her. "Thanks Lina." Yuffie threw three small shurikens into the bodies of three different soldiers, attacking Aeris soldiers.
"Don't worry about, just keep focus." Lina cast another spell from her ice materia on man charging at Tifa only to be frozen in his wake.
Tifa roundhouses a soldier who tried to beat her down with the butt of his firearm. The man spun in the air and landed on the ground. Tifa charged at an unsuspecting soldier and jump kicked him in the head. As she landed, she through herself into a front flips and landed right in front of her next victim. She then felt a surge of energy, and used it to attack her foe. Tifa swung two jabs and an uppercut, feeling like she could keep going she jumped on the soldier next to the now fallen ally, and propelled herself upwards, flipping and kicking him squared on the jaw knocking him down.
Cloud thrust his sword into the torso of a red uniformed soldier. Blood spat out of his body. Cloud looked around and noticed the pincer attack still hasn't made it. "This is bad."
Cloud touched a red materia on his armlet. Cloud stood there only to his thoughts.
Vincent stood next to Cloud to protect him. Firing off several rounds into many charging soldiers. The body count started to pile up.
Suddenly the night grew darker. Many red uniformed soldiers could only scream as they realized what was standing in the distance.
"It's Odin! Run!" Shouted one to many.
A large quantity of them started to run the other way. Some stayed in shock.
Odin and his six-legged horse, charged down the hill from where he stood. Unsheathing his zantetsuken, he raised it in the air. Odin finally caught up with a those who stood their in shock Without the slightest of effort, Odin swung his sword through a man, and continued to charge, swing straight through another soldier. Odin continued to charge after the mob running away from him. Odin didn't even show the slightest of expressions form his bloodshed. Odin charged through the mob, swing furious in and out of many of those retreating. Suddenly he turned red, and began to vanish. The night sky returned to normal. Odin vanished.
The mob halted their retreat and turned around to see many of their own just standing there without moving. Suddenly, they began to fall apart into halves. One by one, all of those struck by Odin shed a spray of blood, and fell apart from where they were sliced.
Avalanche and Aeris soldiers took this opportunity, and began to take those still in shock.
More of Mr. H's soldier's perished. Blood sprayed all over. Cloud by now was covered in blood from the enemies he vanquished. Cloud was breathing heavily from the amount of energy summoning Odin caused him to lose. Vincent stood by Cloud and fired more rounds into more soldiers.
Cloud looked a tent not too far away. It was larger than most of the tents. From the entrance came a large man. With an illuminated axe in hand, Mr. H. stood there looking to see where his enemies are.
"There he is." Cloud said to Vincent.
"Alright, Charge at him, and I'll shoot anybody who tries to attack you." Vincent nods, and begins to take aim.
"Thanks Vincent." Cloud always liked Vincent for some reason. He didn't know why, the others were all weirded out by Vincent, but not Cloud. Cloud began to run straight for Mr. H. He kept all his focus on his prey; all his trust is on Vincent's aim. Cloud continued to charge, as men who once stood around him fell to the ground dead. All of those who were shot had bullet holes in either their head, or the middle of their chest. "Damn he's good." Cloud mumbled under his breath.
Cloud noticed Cid and Barret fending off soldiers to his right. They had a pile of bodies lying around them. Cloud smiled, and laughed.
Suddenly, Cloud realized Mr. H was looking straight at him "Alright asshole. Lets do this." Cloud swung his sword over his head and was parried by the energy axe. An explosion occurred and Cloud was knocked back a few steps. Cloud ducked under a swing from Mr. H. and he then swung his sword diagonally upwards. Cloud's buster sword's tip scratched through the tank top that Mr. H. was wearing. Mr. H. staggered back, and smiled, as his hand wiped off some of his warm blood from his wound. "Good one Cloud."
Cloud jumped up, and with the momentum of the previous swing, and swung downwards. Mr. H. jumped back almost being hit again. Mr. H. Jumps forward, as Cloud's sword dug into the ground, and backhanded Cloud. Cloud staggered back, away from his sword.
Cloud quickly touched another materia in his armlet. Suddenly Cloud's movements began to blur, as the spell of haste took over his body. Cloud ran within the blink of an eye to his sword and picked it up.
Mr. H could only react by swing his axe into the spot that he thought Cloud was going to be running through only to miss and dig his axe into the ground. Without hesitation, he touched a material on his axe.
Cloud suddenly felt slower. No, not slower, back to normal pace. "Dispel!" Cloud shouted. Quickly, Cloud swung his sword sideways aiming for Mr. H.s ribs.
Mr. H. jumps high into the air, and Cloud swings completely under him. Cloud was astonished. "How did you jump that high?" Cloud's shock value, gave a smile to Mr. H.
"Things about me that you wouldn't understand. I'm going to kill you. My revenge will be realized. I have killed all those responsible for my family's death." Mr. H raised a hand in the air. Then he closed it into a tight fist, "You Cloud are of no exception."
"Who did I kill?" Cloud said standing upright.
The pincer attack finally commenced. Soon there will be little to no red uniformed soldiers. Avalanche began to lay off their attack as they noticed that the army finally arrived.
"You are responsible for my daughters death!" He points to Cloud. "I have killed Hojo already. It is foolish that you did not even bother to find any of my signatures. I sign as H. Killer." The man laughs.
"We killed Hojo." Cloud steps forward with a fist.
"No you thought you did, but Hojo made it back to his lab. I, unfortunately for him, was there waiting to kill him. He thought he got rid of me. I had to pay him back for attempting kill me. He killed my wife. He paid dearly, and trust me, I didn't leave him in any condition that he could be recognizable." Mr. H laughs.
"Who are you?" Cloud now knows it's not Hojo. "Hojo Killer!" It just occurred to him."
"You aren't too bright Strife. Did you really think you were good enough for my daughter?" Mr. H. points again at strife. The energy axe illuminates the haze around them.
Tifa, Yuffie, and Lina catch up to Vincent. "What's going on?" Tifa asked.
"I don't know." Vincent said.
"Strife, it is pathetic that you haven't realized who I am yet. I already gave you all the clues." Mr. H. looked into the sky.
"I know him, at least I recognize him." Lina said with narrow eyes.
Tifa, and Yuffie look at her. Vincent continues to aim at Cloud's enemy.
Cloud suddenly realized it. "You- you are professor-" Cloud looked down to the ground. Cloud looked back up. "Gast?"
Mr. H. laughs maniacally. "Of course! Who else? Didn't expect me! The father of Aeris. The father of the woman you loved, and the same woman that was killed, who you were at fault for."
Cloud points to his chest, and shakes his head. "No wait! I didn't kill Aeris. It was Sephiroth!" Cloud's innocent eyes, hurt with the idea that someone thinks he is at fault for something that hurts him so dearly.
"Yes you killed her! If it weren't for you, she would have never been there in the first place. You are at fault! Just as much as that fool Sephiroth." Gast laughs. "Sephiroth was Hojo's son, therefore he was a mistake. The only true experiment was Aeris. She alone possessed unstoppable powers. Her great powers stopped even the great Meteor. Don't think anybody could just pray for Holy. It requires even more power to pray for Holy, than to summon Meteor. Sephiroth could not even think about Holy, his power was far to week." Gast looked straight into Cloud's eyes.
Cloud could not believe it. "Aeris couldn't have been, an experiment."
"Yes she was. I was not in love with Ifalna. I used her just as much as that Hojo used that tramp Lucrecia. Think about it. Listen to the perfect balance. Hojo and I have sexual intercourse with two cetra, and give birth to a child each. Only difference was the sex of each child. Aeris was only an experiment Cloud, just like you." Gast laughs.
The members of Avalanche were already standing behind Cloud. Everyone had a look of astonishment, even Reno.
"How could you be? I thought you were different! Not like Hojo!" Tifa yelled.
"Everyone thought that. I know how to act, unlike Hojo, another reason why he was never better than me. He couldn't even kill me. Here is food for thought. Why do you think I sent Weapon to attack Junon?" Gast asked. "Simple, the only base with a decent research center was located right under Junon. I didn't look like the way I look now. I have more power than anyone of you. I am infused with the DNA of that of the Cetra, as well as Mako." He was not lying because his eyes glowed. Barely noticeable though because of his bright energy axe. "I also created two more subjects for my help. Come Aeris!"
Suddenly a beautiful woman walks out of the tent. "Yes father." She looked incredibly like Aeris, but her facial expression seemed harsher. There was no sweet face.
"I would like you to meet the people you have to kill." Gast told her.
"Oh! You mean those who killed-"
"Yes!" Gast interrupted her. "Avalanche! I have you meet, Aeris. You might notice something about her though. Maybe the fact, that she has the same personality of that of Sephiroth." He laughs.
Everyone gasps. How could they fight Aeris?
"Oh and Lina!" Gast called. "I am you father as well."
Everyone looked at Lina. Half of the Avalanche members stepped away from her except Cloud, Tifa, and Vincent.
"What are you talking about?" Her eyes showed confusion.
Gast could only show a smile.
Cloud doesn't even hesitate, he runs to the next soldier, and hacks him down. Cloud hears noises behind him, and swings his sword furiously in a tight circle. Two yelps of pain, and sounds of corpses falling to the ground in halves, was all that Cloud heard before he made his next target, and charged.
"Sir we are under attack, nothing big, but it's a surprise attack. Not too many men either, but more keep on falling down." A red uniformed guard said breathing heavily.
"Issue the orders, attack the intruders now." Mr. H turns to his mirror, and smirks. "This time, I'll make sure it's over." He pauses. "Cloud Strife." Mr. H. succumbs to maniacal laughter.
Cloud swings his sword into a red uniformed body killing him instantly. Cloud then turned around and saw two men charging at him. Cloud's eyes narrowed, and he charged to them as well. He saw them firing bullets, and he heard the bullets whiz by his ear. Cloud dives forward into a roll, and rolls in between and past the two soldiers. Immediately he gets up and swings his sword diagonally upwards into the right soldiers torso slicing him into two parts. Cloud turned his head to the other soldier screaming in terror. Cloud saw the man running away, and Cloud smirked. He takes to steps forward and launches his sword in the air. Cloud watched as the sword flew in a lazy arch. The man continued to run until the buster sword found its target, and landed through his chest. There the soldier stood, the buster sword pierced into the ground and completely through the soldiers body, who was leaning its dead weight onto the sword.
Cloud looked around and saw a few of his soldiers fighting, and sure enough he ran to his sword. Suddenly Cloud heard a loud bang, and a body fall down to the cold hard ground. Cloud turned to see Vincent still aiming his weapon at the air where the dead soldier once stood. "Thanks Vincent."
"Don't mention it. I'll cover you. Go get your sword." Vincent still wore the same garbs he has worn since he was first experimented on.
Cloud ran straight to the sword, with Vincent right after picking targets. Cloud could hear all the shots Vincent fire. "No one is a better shot than Vincent." Cloud told himself. Cloud ran up to the leaning body on his sword and pried off the sword. Cloud quickly glanced to notice a man running behind Vincent. "Vincent directly behind you."
Without looking, Vincent turned around rapidly and just fired without aim. Steam rose out of the bullet hole in the helmet of the once living soldier. The corpse then dropped on the ground with a large thump.
The night skies, and the moonlit ground's peace, were disturbed by the ensuing battle. The pincer attack was currently beginning, as Aeris Soldiers charged the settlement by both sides. While this is occurring, the Avalanche members, and a handful a soldiers, were holding their own against the now nearly awoken army of Mr. H.'s corporation.
Tifa, Lina, and Yuffie battled their way through the men that lunged themselves with the sole intent of killing them. Some offered to let them live for other purposes, these men soon saw their fate after opening their mouths.
"Yuffie watch out." Tifa said currently pulling off a series of punches into the gut of a red uniformed soldier.
Yuffie turned around only to see a man literally turn to ice in front of her. "Thanks Lina." Yuffie threw three small shurikens into the bodies of three different soldiers, attacking Aeris soldiers.
"Don't worry about, just keep focus." Lina cast another spell from her ice materia on man charging at Tifa only to be frozen in his wake.
Tifa roundhouses a soldier who tried to beat her down with the butt of his firearm. The man spun in the air and landed on the ground. Tifa charged at an unsuspecting soldier and jump kicked him in the head. As she landed, she through herself into a front flips and landed right in front of her next victim. She then felt a surge of energy, and used it to attack her foe. Tifa swung two jabs and an uppercut, feeling like she could keep going she jumped on the soldier next to the now fallen ally, and propelled herself upwards, flipping and kicking him squared on the jaw knocking him down.
Cloud thrust his sword into the torso of a red uniformed soldier. Blood spat out of his body. Cloud looked around and noticed the pincer attack still hasn't made it. "This is bad."
Cloud touched a red materia on his armlet. Cloud stood there only to his thoughts.
Vincent stood next to Cloud to protect him. Firing off several rounds into many charging soldiers. The body count started to pile up.
Suddenly the night grew darker. Many red uniformed soldiers could only scream as they realized what was standing in the distance.
"It's Odin! Run!" Shouted one to many.
A large quantity of them started to run the other way. Some stayed in shock.
Odin and his six-legged horse, charged down the hill from where he stood. Unsheathing his zantetsuken, he raised it in the air. Odin finally caught up with a those who stood their in shock Without the slightest of effort, Odin swung his sword through a man, and continued to charge, swing straight through another soldier. Odin continued to charge after the mob running away from him. Odin didn't even show the slightest of expressions form his bloodshed. Odin charged through the mob, swing furious in and out of many of those retreating. Suddenly he turned red, and began to vanish. The night sky returned to normal. Odin vanished.
The mob halted their retreat and turned around to see many of their own just standing there without moving. Suddenly, they began to fall apart into halves. One by one, all of those struck by Odin shed a spray of blood, and fell apart from where they were sliced.
Avalanche and Aeris soldiers took this opportunity, and began to take those still in shock.
More of Mr. H's soldier's perished. Blood sprayed all over. Cloud by now was covered in blood from the enemies he vanquished. Cloud was breathing heavily from the amount of energy summoning Odin caused him to lose. Vincent stood by Cloud and fired more rounds into more soldiers.
Cloud looked a tent not too far away. It was larger than most of the tents. From the entrance came a large man. With an illuminated axe in hand, Mr. H. stood there looking to see where his enemies are.
"There he is." Cloud said to Vincent.
"Alright, Charge at him, and I'll shoot anybody who tries to attack you." Vincent nods, and begins to take aim.
"Thanks Vincent." Cloud always liked Vincent for some reason. He didn't know why, the others were all weirded out by Vincent, but not Cloud. Cloud began to run straight for Mr. H. He kept all his focus on his prey; all his trust is on Vincent's aim. Cloud continued to charge, as men who once stood around him fell to the ground dead. All of those who were shot had bullet holes in either their head, or the middle of their chest. "Damn he's good." Cloud mumbled under his breath.
Cloud noticed Cid and Barret fending off soldiers to his right. They had a pile of bodies lying around them. Cloud smiled, and laughed.
Suddenly, Cloud realized Mr. H was looking straight at him "Alright asshole. Lets do this." Cloud swung his sword over his head and was parried by the energy axe. An explosion occurred and Cloud was knocked back a few steps. Cloud ducked under a swing from Mr. H. and he then swung his sword diagonally upwards. Cloud's buster sword's tip scratched through the tank top that Mr. H. was wearing. Mr. H. staggered back, and smiled, as his hand wiped off some of his warm blood from his wound. "Good one Cloud."
Cloud jumped up, and with the momentum of the previous swing, and swung downwards. Mr. H. jumped back almost being hit again. Mr. H. Jumps forward, as Cloud's sword dug into the ground, and backhanded Cloud. Cloud staggered back, away from his sword.
Cloud quickly touched another materia in his armlet. Suddenly Cloud's movements began to blur, as the spell of haste took over his body. Cloud ran within the blink of an eye to his sword and picked it up.
Mr. H could only react by swing his axe into the spot that he thought Cloud was going to be running through only to miss and dig his axe into the ground. Without hesitation, he touched a material on his axe.
Cloud suddenly felt slower. No, not slower, back to normal pace. "Dispel!" Cloud shouted. Quickly, Cloud swung his sword sideways aiming for Mr. H.s ribs.
Mr. H. jumps high into the air, and Cloud swings completely under him. Cloud was astonished. "How did you jump that high?" Cloud's shock value, gave a smile to Mr. H.
"Things about me that you wouldn't understand. I'm going to kill you. My revenge will be realized. I have killed all those responsible for my family's death." Mr. H raised a hand in the air. Then he closed it into a tight fist, "You Cloud are of no exception."
"Who did I kill?" Cloud said standing upright.
The pincer attack finally commenced. Soon there will be little to no red uniformed soldiers. Avalanche began to lay off their attack as they noticed that the army finally arrived.
"You are responsible for my daughters death!" He points to Cloud. "I have killed Hojo already. It is foolish that you did not even bother to find any of my signatures. I sign as H. Killer." The man laughs.
"We killed Hojo." Cloud steps forward with a fist.
"No you thought you did, but Hojo made it back to his lab. I, unfortunately for him, was there waiting to kill him. He thought he got rid of me. I had to pay him back for attempting kill me. He killed my wife. He paid dearly, and trust me, I didn't leave him in any condition that he could be recognizable." Mr. H laughs.
"Who are you?" Cloud now knows it's not Hojo. "Hojo Killer!" It just occurred to him."
"You aren't too bright Strife. Did you really think you were good enough for my daughter?" Mr. H. points again at strife. The energy axe illuminates the haze around them.
Tifa, Yuffie, and Lina catch up to Vincent. "What's going on?" Tifa asked.
"I don't know." Vincent said.
"Strife, it is pathetic that you haven't realized who I am yet. I already gave you all the clues." Mr. H. looked into the sky.
"I know him, at least I recognize him." Lina said with narrow eyes.
Tifa, and Yuffie look at her. Vincent continues to aim at Cloud's enemy.
Cloud suddenly realized it. "You- you are professor-" Cloud looked down to the ground. Cloud looked back up. "Gast?"
Mr. H. laughs maniacally. "Of course! Who else? Didn't expect me! The father of Aeris. The father of the woman you loved, and the same woman that was killed, who you were at fault for."
Cloud points to his chest, and shakes his head. "No wait! I didn't kill Aeris. It was Sephiroth!" Cloud's innocent eyes, hurt with the idea that someone thinks he is at fault for something that hurts him so dearly.
"Yes you killed her! If it weren't for you, she would have never been there in the first place. You are at fault! Just as much as that fool Sephiroth." Gast laughs. "Sephiroth was Hojo's son, therefore he was a mistake. The only true experiment was Aeris. She alone possessed unstoppable powers. Her great powers stopped even the great Meteor. Don't think anybody could just pray for Holy. It requires even more power to pray for Holy, than to summon Meteor. Sephiroth could not even think about Holy, his power was far to week." Gast looked straight into Cloud's eyes.
Cloud could not believe it. "Aeris couldn't have been, an experiment."
"Yes she was. I was not in love with Ifalna. I used her just as much as that Hojo used that tramp Lucrecia. Think about it. Listen to the perfect balance. Hojo and I have sexual intercourse with two cetra, and give birth to a child each. Only difference was the sex of each child. Aeris was only an experiment Cloud, just like you." Gast laughs.
The members of Avalanche were already standing behind Cloud. Everyone had a look of astonishment, even Reno.
"How could you be? I thought you were different! Not like Hojo!" Tifa yelled.
"Everyone thought that. I know how to act, unlike Hojo, another reason why he was never better than me. He couldn't even kill me. Here is food for thought. Why do you think I sent Weapon to attack Junon?" Gast asked. "Simple, the only base with a decent research center was located right under Junon. I didn't look like the way I look now. I have more power than anyone of you. I am infused with the DNA of that of the Cetra, as well as Mako." He was not lying because his eyes glowed. Barely noticeable though because of his bright energy axe. "I also created two more subjects for my help. Come Aeris!"
Suddenly a beautiful woman walks out of the tent. "Yes father." She looked incredibly like Aeris, but her facial expression seemed harsher. There was no sweet face.
"I would like you to meet the people you have to kill." Gast told her.
"Oh! You mean those who killed-"
"Yes!" Gast interrupted her. "Avalanche! I have you meet, Aeris. You might notice something about her though. Maybe the fact, that she has the same personality of that of Sephiroth." He laughs.
Everyone gasps. How could they fight Aeris?
"Oh and Lina!" Gast called. "I am you father as well."
Everyone looked at Lina. Half of the Avalanche members stepped away from her except Cloud, Tifa, and Vincent.
"What are you talking about?" Her eyes showed confusion.
Gast could only show a smile.