Thanks for the reviews, everyone. I'm glad that some people actually like
my work. This is the last escape chapter, so there will be a major plot-
change. I guess on to the story if you don't wanna hear me babble on...
Disclaimer: Square owns all of FF7's places, characters, ect.
[Chapter 21: The escape! Part 5]
"WHAT?!?!" Vincent yelled. "How much time do we have left?!?!" "Very little, I'm afraid." Tseng had a worried tone. "Why didn't you call us before?!" Vincent raged on. "It happened not to long ago, probably three minutes at the most, and I was going to call you, but you called right when I was about to."
Yuffie and Barret overheard every word of the conversation. "Can't you defuse it?!" Vincent asked. "I'm afraid not. You see, the wires cannot be cut, for there are about fifty different ones that could set it off. I was never trained in bomb desposal to handle a task such as this. I'm very sorry, but Turks never learn to disarm bombs." Tseng explained.
"Alright then, is there any way to disarm it at all?" Vincent asked. "Not that I know of. You guys have to get out quickly."
"What about you?" Vincent asked. "Don't worry about me, just save your friends and yourself." Tseng said. Vincent sighed and took a deep breath. "How much time exactly do we have left?" he asked again. "I'll go check."
Vincent waited for a little before Tseng came back on. "Oh no, less than I thought, you have twenty minutes!" "Damn..." Vincent mumbled. "Hurry, save yourselfs!" Tseng hung up.
Barret and Yuffie looked at Vincent. "We heard the whole thing, let's get out of here!" Yuffie said. Vincent nodded as all three ran out of the closet and back into the noisy hallway. Vincent just remembered something.
"Where's the briefcase?!?!" he searched around him. "You must have dropped it!" Yuffie yelled in the noise. Vincent quickly searched the closet in which they had just been in. He found nothing.
"The C4's in there and we have to save Cloud and Tifa!" Vincent yelled. "We don't have time, let's try our best to free them without it!" Yuffie said. Vincent, Yuffie, and Barret ran down the hall as fast as they could. "We're in area C-5 now, so we'll be there soon, right?" Yuffie asked, not stopping.
"As long as we run..." Vincent replied.
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Cid was searching in the box of goodies he'd found the goggles in. "Hmm...let's see, Super Zoom Goggles....and Super Zoom Sniper Rifle." he chuckled.
"This oughta show that idiot Reeve who he's messin' with!!" Cid ran back up to the upper deck where he'd been last. "I'll just snipe them soldiers out, one by one..."
Cid adjusted the goggles to where he could see perfectly. He then set the rifle on the floor of the Highwind and let most of the barrel rest on the edge. He zoomed in the sniper rifle to where it was aiming at the first guard that stood by the entrance; the head guard.
Cid cocked the weapon up a bit to where the guard's head was. "Hehe, head shot!" he put his finger on the trigger.
Cid began to sweat. He took his finger off the trigger. "What am I turning into, a monster? Now I wanna kill people? This aint right..." Cid pulled the gun in towards him and unloaded it. Just then, he heard a ringing tone from inside his jacket pocket.
He reached inside and grabbed the noise-maker. He pushed a button on what appeared to be his cell phone. "Hello?" he put it up to his ear and continued to clean up the rifle and goggles.
"Cid! It's us! Vincent, Yuffie, and Barret!!!" Vincent's voice was hard to hear because of the sirens in the backround. "Whoa! Where are you guys?!" Cid ran down stairs with the rifle and goggles still talking on the phone. "We're in area C-6, you probably don't know where that is, but were running through it!"
"How'd y'all get my number?" Cid asked. "Tseng told us, but listen, we have no time to explain. This whole place is going down soon! Reeve's set bombs up and they're going to go off in about ten minutes!" Vincent shouted. "I'm on my way! I'll break into the main hall, I know where that is!" Cid hung up and went to the controls.
"Shit, what about those damn guards?! Urgh, I'll have to do somethin' to get in!" Cid pushed all the levers forward and brought the Highwind around in a circle. He proceeded with manuvering the Highwind to above the Migar area.
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All three comrades had reached area C-7 without incountering any enemys so far. Yuffie and Vincent had also mannaged to take their soldier costumes off quickly. Vincent led Yuffie and Barret down the halls of the cells where they had seen Tifa and Cloud last. They had finally reached their cell.
"Awe great, you guys are still here!" Yuffie said cheerfully. "We thought Reeve might have taken you away!" "Barret!" Cloud ran up to the bars. "You're here?! Why?!" "Lissen, I aint got no time to explain. All ya need to know is that Reeve's gone mad and is gonna blow up the whole place in about eight minutes!"
Tifa's eyes widened. "What?! Oh God...." Vincent went up to the cell door. He pulled with all his might. "Barret, help me with this!" Barret assisted Vincent on pulling his hardest to free his friends.
"Hey!!" a voice came from down the hall. "Elena, Rude?!" Yuffie greeted them. "What are you two doing here?" Yuffie asked now seeing that Reno was with them and up and ready. "Ah, Reno, it's good to see you." she said. "Can you help us?"
Rude saw the struggling men trying to pull the door open. He nodded and helped. Reno joined along.
"What the hell is this made of?!" Barret struggled. "It's too strong!!" "Yuffie, you guys DO know that Reeve's intending to blow up this place?" Elena asked. "Yeah, and it's all about to go down in six minutes!"
"Six!? I thought we had more time!!! Let's help them!!" Yuffie and Elena pulled with the four other guys. "C'mon you guys, PULL!!!" Yuffie yelled. They all pulled with every ounce of strength they had left in their worn bodies. The cell door finally started coming loose. They pulled harder and the whole thing came off.
They threw the door aside and left room for Cloud and Tifa to exit. "...Before we leave, here...." Rude handed Cloud his Buster Sword. "Thanks a lot, and you guys aint going nowhere." Cloud said.
"Yeah, Cid's comin' with the Highwind and will be here soon, we have to meet him in the main hall." Barret motioned for everyone to follow him. As everyone ran, Yuffie decided to speak. "You guys aren't going to be left here, we're taking you along, too." Elena smiled. "Thanks."
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"ARGH! Where the fuck do I land!?!?!?" Cid was pulling his hair out in frustration. "That's it! Old girl, I hope you can handle this!" Cid yanked the two main contol levers down. The Highwind went an incredible speed of losing altitude. It continued descending down on the main hall.
"Shit!!!!!!" Cid pulled the two levers up. It was nearly too late....
The Highwind crashed into most of the roof of the main hall and continued tearing the most all of the ceiling apart. Finally, after a rough ride down, Cid looked over the rail at where he had landed. The Highwind crashed mostly into the side and roof of the main hall.
"WHOOHOOO!!" Cid jumped up and down and pulled a lever, releasing the exit and entrance door to the ground. "She did it! I knew she could!" Cid smiled proudly. He looked over the rail at the crowd coming near the Highwind. "Guys! Hurry!" Cid called.
All ran aboard the giant airship. "Oh no...." Cid saw Reeve and about 300 of his men run into the hallway. "Get down!" Cid yelled. Everyone but Cid got on the floor.
"You morons think you can escape!?" Reeve called. "Yeah! Watch!!" Cid pulled some levers on the Highwind and sent the exit/entrance door up to it's normal position while sending up the Highwind. "FIRE!!!" Reeve waved his hand. All guns from the soldiers fired at the massive ship's engine.
Reeve smiled and snapped. A soldier quickly handed him a sniper rifle. Reeve got up on a pile of rubble and aimed it at the slowly ascending Highwind. He retracted it for a moment, holding his head in pain.
Everyone got up and moved in the meeting room away from the deck, except for Yuffie. She looked down at Reeve and into his eyes. "Those eyes...." even from afar, she could still see him clearly. "...Those harsh blood red eyes......I can never forget...." she looked as though she was in a trance.
~~Flash~~
A blood red cape.....
~~Flash~~
Scarlet eyes.....
~~Flash~~
Dark brown hair.....
~~Flash~~
A golden metal claw.....
~~Flash~~
A man turning around and laughing towards a little girl.....
~~Flash~~
The man stepping over a woman sprawled out on the ground with blood on her face.....
~~Flash~~
The little girl crying as the man leaves.....
~~Flash~~
"YOU!!!!" Yuffie pointed at Reeve. "You're the one who killed my mother!!!" Reeve aimed the sniper at Yuffie. "You're not Reeve!! You're Roy!!!" Vincent ran up the stairs as fast as he could to reach Yuffie.
"NO!" A soldier tried to knock the gun from Reeve's hands as his finger pulled the trigger.
Yuffie was pierced with the bullet through her abdomen. "Yuffie!!!" Vincent screamed. She fell to her knees and backwards just as Vincent reached out and caught her. She clutched her stomach and brought one shaky hand up to her face. She looked at the blood covered hand and gave a weary smile.
"...I'll die....just as...my mother did.....shot in the....stomach...." Yuffie passed out in Vincent's arms.
"NOOOO!!!" Vincent yelled through the crisp air. Tears streamed down his face harder than ever before. His hands began to shake fiercely. His throat became dry. "D-don't w-w-worry....I'll b-be back..." he said through clenched teeth.
He set Yuffie down softly on the ground and walked over to the rail. "How?!! How could you do this!?!?!" tears continued to fall from his face. He balled up his fists. "Tell me...How?!!?" he looked directly at Reeve in the eye. Reeve only smiled. Vincent's cape blew thickly through the air as he took out Death Penalty.
"She was right, you know...." Reeve's voice had changed into Roy's. "I have taken over your pathetic friend, Reeve's body." as soon as he said this, the soldiers all fired at him. The bullets deflected off him, like he had some sort of a shield...
Roy hovered far into the air and near the deck where Vincent was standing. "Go ahead, use Death Penalty on me, it's no use." he smirked. Vincent rapidly fired at Roy, using all his rage and might to concentrate on his target.
Nothing happend. "Cid get us outta here!!!" Vincent yelled. Cid heard all the way from downstairs and ascended with great speed into the air. Roy didn't move from the place he was, just looked up at the Highwind smirking. He looked back down at the soldiers.
"You are of no use to me now..." Roy swiftly waved his hand and all the guards disapeared into black portals of the Underworld. "Hahaha, this new power...I've finally mastered it!" Roy snapped his fingers and transformed back into his real body.
"Now to find Vincent..." Roy waved his claw swiftly and disapeared into thin air, leaving no trace of his presence behind.
Disclaimer: Square owns all of FF7's places, characters, ect.
[Chapter 21: The escape! Part 5]
"WHAT?!?!" Vincent yelled. "How much time do we have left?!?!" "Very little, I'm afraid." Tseng had a worried tone. "Why didn't you call us before?!" Vincent raged on. "It happened not to long ago, probably three minutes at the most, and I was going to call you, but you called right when I was about to."
Yuffie and Barret overheard every word of the conversation. "Can't you defuse it?!" Vincent asked. "I'm afraid not. You see, the wires cannot be cut, for there are about fifty different ones that could set it off. I was never trained in bomb desposal to handle a task such as this. I'm very sorry, but Turks never learn to disarm bombs." Tseng explained.
"Alright then, is there any way to disarm it at all?" Vincent asked. "Not that I know of. You guys have to get out quickly."
"What about you?" Vincent asked. "Don't worry about me, just save your friends and yourself." Tseng said. Vincent sighed and took a deep breath. "How much time exactly do we have left?" he asked again. "I'll go check."
Vincent waited for a little before Tseng came back on. "Oh no, less than I thought, you have twenty minutes!" "Damn..." Vincent mumbled. "Hurry, save yourselfs!" Tseng hung up.
Barret and Yuffie looked at Vincent. "We heard the whole thing, let's get out of here!" Yuffie said. Vincent nodded as all three ran out of the closet and back into the noisy hallway. Vincent just remembered something.
"Where's the briefcase?!?!" he searched around him. "You must have dropped it!" Yuffie yelled in the noise. Vincent quickly searched the closet in which they had just been in. He found nothing.
"The C4's in there and we have to save Cloud and Tifa!" Vincent yelled. "We don't have time, let's try our best to free them without it!" Yuffie said. Vincent, Yuffie, and Barret ran down the hall as fast as they could. "We're in area C-5 now, so we'll be there soon, right?" Yuffie asked, not stopping.
"As long as we run..." Vincent replied.
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Cid was searching in the box of goodies he'd found the goggles in. "Hmm...let's see, Super Zoom Goggles....and Super Zoom Sniper Rifle." he chuckled.
"This oughta show that idiot Reeve who he's messin' with!!" Cid ran back up to the upper deck where he'd been last. "I'll just snipe them soldiers out, one by one..."
Cid adjusted the goggles to where he could see perfectly. He then set the rifle on the floor of the Highwind and let most of the barrel rest on the edge. He zoomed in the sniper rifle to where it was aiming at the first guard that stood by the entrance; the head guard.
Cid cocked the weapon up a bit to where the guard's head was. "Hehe, head shot!" he put his finger on the trigger.
Cid began to sweat. He took his finger off the trigger. "What am I turning into, a monster? Now I wanna kill people? This aint right..." Cid pulled the gun in towards him and unloaded it. Just then, he heard a ringing tone from inside his jacket pocket.
He reached inside and grabbed the noise-maker. He pushed a button on what appeared to be his cell phone. "Hello?" he put it up to his ear and continued to clean up the rifle and goggles.
"Cid! It's us! Vincent, Yuffie, and Barret!!!" Vincent's voice was hard to hear because of the sirens in the backround. "Whoa! Where are you guys?!" Cid ran down stairs with the rifle and goggles still talking on the phone. "We're in area C-6, you probably don't know where that is, but were running through it!"
"How'd y'all get my number?" Cid asked. "Tseng told us, but listen, we have no time to explain. This whole place is going down soon! Reeve's set bombs up and they're going to go off in about ten minutes!" Vincent shouted. "I'm on my way! I'll break into the main hall, I know where that is!" Cid hung up and went to the controls.
"Shit, what about those damn guards?! Urgh, I'll have to do somethin' to get in!" Cid pushed all the levers forward and brought the Highwind around in a circle. He proceeded with manuvering the Highwind to above the Migar area.
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All three comrades had reached area C-7 without incountering any enemys so far. Yuffie and Vincent had also mannaged to take their soldier costumes off quickly. Vincent led Yuffie and Barret down the halls of the cells where they had seen Tifa and Cloud last. They had finally reached their cell.
"Awe great, you guys are still here!" Yuffie said cheerfully. "We thought Reeve might have taken you away!" "Barret!" Cloud ran up to the bars. "You're here?! Why?!" "Lissen, I aint got no time to explain. All ya need to know is that Reeve's gone mad and is gonna blow up the whole place in about eight minutes!"
Tifa's eyes widened. "What?! Oh God...." Vincent went up to the cell door. He pulled with all his might. "Barret, help me with this!" Barret assisted Vincent on pulling his hardest to free his friends.
"Hey!!" a voice came from down the hall. "Elena, Rude?!" Yuffie greeted them. "What are you two doing here?" Yuffie asked now seeing that Reno was with them and up and ready. "Ah, Reno, it's good to see you." she said. "Can you help us?"
Rude saw the struggling men trying to pull the door open. He nodded and helped. Reno joined along.
"What the hell is this made of?!" Barret struggled. "It's too strong!!" "Yuffie, you guys DO know that Reeve's intending to blow up this place?" Elena asked. "Yeah, and it's all about to go down in six minutes!"
"Six!? I thought we had more time!!! Let's help them!!" Yuffie and Elena pulled with the four other guys. "C'mon you guys, PULL!!!" Yuffie yelled. They all pulled with every ounce of strength they had left in their worn bodies. The cell door finally started coming loose. They pulled harder and the whole thing came off.
They threw the door aside and left room for Cloud and Tifa to exit. "...Before we leave, here...." Rude handed Cloud his Buster Sword. "Thanks a lot, and you guys aint going nowhere." Cloud said.
"Yeah, Cid's comin' with the Highwind and will be here soon, we have to meet him in the main hall." Barret motioned for everyone to follow him. As everyone ran, Yuffie decided to speak. "You guys aren't going to be left here, we're taking you along, too." Elena smiled. "Thanks."
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"ARGH! Where the fuck do I land!?!?!?" Cid was pulling his hair out in frustration. "That's it! Old girl, I hope you can handle this!" Cid yanked the two main contol levers down. The Highwind went an incredible speed of losing altitude. It continued descending down on the main hall.
"Shit!!!!!!" Cid pulled the two levers up. It was nearly too late....
The Highwind crashed into most of the roof of the main hall and continued tearing the most all of the ceiling apart. Finally, after a rough ride down, Cid looked over the rail at where he had landed. The Highwind crashed mostly into the side and roof of the main hall.
"WHOOHOOO!!" Cid jumped up and down and pulled a lever, releasing the exit and entrance door to the ground. "She did it! I knew she could!" Cid smiled proudly. He looked over the rail at the crowd coming near the Highwind. "Guys! Hurry!" Cid called.
All ran aboard the giant airship. "Oh no...." Cid saw Reeve and about 300 of his men run into the hallway. "Get down!" Cid yelled. Everyone but Cid got on the floor.
"You morons think you can escape!?" Reeve called. "Yeah! Watch!!" Cid pulled some levers on the Highwind and sent the exit/entrance door up to it's normal position while sending up the Highwind. "FIRE!!!" Reeve waved his hand. All guns from the soldiers fired at the massive ship's engine.
Reeve smiled and snapped. A soldier quickly handed him a sniper rifle. Reeve got up on a pile of rubble and aimed it at the slowly ascending Highwind. He retracted it for a moment, holding his head in pain.
Everyone got up and moved in the meeting room away from the deck, except for Yuffie. She looked down at Reeve and into his eyes. "Those eyes...." even from afar, she could still see him clearly. "...Those harsh blood red eyes......I can never forget...." she looked as though she was in a trance.
~~Flash~~
A blood red cape.....
~~Flash~~
Scarlet eyes.....
~~Flash~~
Dark brown hair.....
~~Flash~~
A golden metal claw.....
~~Flash~~
A man turning around and laughing towards a little girl.....
~~Flash~~
The man stepping over a woman sprawled out on the ground with blood on her face.....
~~Flash~~
The little girl crying as the man leaves.....
~~Flash~~
"YOU!!!!" Yuffie pointed at Reeve. "You're the one who killed my mother!!!" Reeve aimed the sniper at Yuffie. "You're not Reeve!! You're Roy!!!" Vincent ran up the stairs as fast as he could to reach Yuffie.
"NO!" A soldier tried to knock the gun from Reeve's hands as his finger pulled the trigger.
Yuffie was pierced with the bullet through her abdomen. "Yuffie!!!" Vincent screamed. She fell to her knees and backwards just as Vincent reached out and caught her. She clutched her stomach and brought one shaky hand up to her face. She looked at the blood covered hand and gave a weary smile.
"...I'll die....just as...my mother did.....shot in the....stomach...." Yuffie passed out in Vincent's arms.
"NOOOO!!!" Vincent yelled through the crisp air. Tears streamed down his face harder than ever before. His hands began to shake fiercely. His throat became dry. "D-don't w-w-worry....I'll b-be back..." he said through clenched teeth.
He set Yuffie down softly on the ground and walked over to the rail. "How?!! How could you do this!?!?!" tears continued to fall from his face. He balled up his fists. "Tell me...How?!!?" he looked directly at Reeve in the eye. Reeve only smiled. Vincent's cape blew thickly through the air as he took out Death Penalty.
"She was right, you know...." Reeve's voice had changed into Roy's. "I have taken over your pathetic friend, Reeve's body." as soon as he said this, the soldiers all fired at him. The bullets deflected off him, like he had some sort of a shield...
Roy hovered far into the air and near the deck where Vincent was standing. "Go ahead, use Death Penalty on me, it's no use." he smirked. Vincent rapidly fired at Roy, using all his rage and might to concentrate on his target.
Nothing happend. "Cid get us outta here!!!" Vincent yelled. Cid heard all the way from downstairs and ascended with great speed into the air. Roy didn't move from the place he was, just looked up at the Highwind smirking. He looked back down at the soldiers.
"You are of no use to me now..." Roy swiftly waved his hand and all the guards disapeared into black portals of the Underworld. "Hahaha, this new power...I've finally mastered it!" Roy snapped his fingers and transformed back into his real body.
"Now to find Vincent..." Roy waved his claw swiftly and disapeared into thin air, leaving no trace of his presence behind.