Angel Trapped On Earth

Chapter Fourteen

.+. Betrayal..or not? .+.

[ a/n : Thanks to all who keeps reviewing my story! I really appreciate it! Actually, thanks to all who actually READS my story lol! Oh and I commend Lady-Diane for being so brilliant! Read on and you shall find out what she had figured out! ]

"Sephiroth..you lead your men down there." Rufus whispered urgently as the all three teams sneaked towards the back.

Sephiroth gave him a curt nod and started to wave Vincent and Barret. "Actually wait a minute.." Rufus called out hesitantly.

He indicated to Ling-Nhi and she walked over to Team A's group. "Ling-Nhi will have to switch with Barret. Seems like she prefers it so."

"I'm sure she does." Came a muffled reply from behind one of the darkened walls. The men turned around and aimed their guns at that one particular spot. All except for Vincent.

"No! No! It's me! Just me!" Squeaked an innocent-looking Yuffie as she emerged from her hiding spot.

Rufus gave an audible groan and rubbed his throbbing temple. If Yuffie was here, no doubt Tifa was too. "Tifa…you can come out now." He drawled. But there was no reply. Sephiroth just merely smirked.

"Oh..okay well she's not here then. On with the mission. Yuffie you go with Vincent, and by all cost damn it--"

"Stay out of trouble. I know I know." Yuffie replied with an indulgent smile.

"Oh and Vincent?" Rufus said turning his eyes on Vincent's.

"You know what to do right?"

Vincent gave him an understanding nod and stole a glance over at Sephiroth. Yuffie and Sephiroth both frowned. There was something going on, Yuffie surmised, and she was going to find out! Rufus then proceeded to hand everyone some materia and they inserted in the slots. Three magics, one cure, one remedy magic, and two gfs. They were also stocked with a minimal amount of potions.

Team A left in the opposite direction as the other teams and Sephiroth's mind wandered back to the locked-in Tifa and he smiled triumphantly.

"You locked her in didn't you?" Yuffie hissed. Sephiroth just merely replied with an arched eyebrow.

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"Oh by gods, he acts as if I'm some damsel in distress!" Tifa huffed.

She reached inside her white tennis shoes and extracted a small needle-like pin and raised it up in the air as if it was gold. She was going to show that egotistic, overly confident…jerk!

"Hah! I win, I win, I win!" She muttered with a grin and started to pick the lock.

A few clicks here and there and suddenly the door was unlocked. She grinned wickedly and walked right out into an empty Highwind. She looked around as she walked down the hallways and noticed that they changed the Highwind quite a bit. She found the exit stairs, and walked down as quietly as she could. The night seemed to make her footsteps sound louder than it really was.

She looked around and then at the dark, iron, black building that stood in front of her. It looked like some sort of laboratory and wondered how the hell Hojo managed to achieve it. She stalked carefully to what seemed to be the back entrance.

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"Okay looks like we're in the main power switch room." Reeves said with an exhausted sigh.

The room was littered with tiny of red, blue, and green buttons with dozens of small computer-like screens. Reeves let out an impressed whistle as Rufus started looking around frantically. All of them were dressed in black pants, black shirt, and a black overcoat. Reeves had tried suggesting they go in as the security gaurds, but they decided that it was too risky.

"Maybe it's that big thing over there." Cid pointed out. Right in the middle of all the little mini screens was a larger one.

Reeves walked over to it and looked around for the button and he found one that seemed to match the big screen. He pressed it and suddenly, an image of an empty lab showed up. The lab glowed an eerie green because of the computer screen and it had tons of jars with human body parts. Reeves felt nausea wave over him and uttered a disbelieving curse.

"Holy shit!" Cid cursed, "I think that's Hojo's lab!"

"Yeah….yeah..I think so too. Now how the hell are we going to find the right buttons to turn off this whole god damn building.." Reeves murmured.

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"You're not going anywhere!" A harsh voice shouted as many men were faced against Sephiroth, Yuffie, Vincent, and Ling-Nhi.

"We'll see about that." Sephiroth replied cooly and pulled out his Masamune. The lead guard widened his eyes in realization.

"It's..it's Sephiroth!" One of his men cried out.

"Who gives a fuck who it is! ATTACK!" The leader cried out as he whipped out his sword.

[A/N: I invented some attacks and GFs for Ling-Nhi and Sephiroth, btw]

"'Ice Three!'" Ling-Nhi shouted and the gaurds were suddenly attacked by the ultimate ice attack.

They looked weakened and some had fell to their doom, but more gaurds came. One of the gaurds, who had sneaked from the back, attacked Yuffie from the back. Vincent gave a panicked cry, and he felt Chaos emerging slowly. Yuffie winced from the pain, and yelled "Greased Lightning!" The man dropped down quickly from the limit break, and Yuffie turned around to plead Vincent with her eyes.

No, no! You mustn't let him out! Vincent nodded at Yuffie and concentrated on the gaurds and with perfect aim, shot down some of them.

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Tifa looked in horror as she was faced to face with many, no, almost dozens of gaurds! She was even more shocked to the point of paralyzation when she realized who was standing right in front of all of them. Cloud. He looked at her with an amused smile and indicated to the other officers to handle her. She quickly put up her fists to reveal that she had put on her Premium Heart gloves and was ready to fight.

"Careful boys. She can be a formidable opponent." Cloud warned and the men nearly scoffed. She was just a woman.

Two men lunged at her and she skillfully gave a flip in the air and kicked one of them right in the head with her left foot. He went down quickly, temporarily unconscience. The other man quickly attacked her with a punch but with her martial arts skills, she quickly blocked it and made a lower punch for his stomach. He reeled in pain, and stumbled backwards. She narrowed her eyes warningly at the next opponent. This time, Cloud came up to her. She felt fear and panic rising within her, and most of all heat. Heat from the limit break that was slowly rising.

"FINAL HEAVEN!" She screamed and unleashed her most powerful attack on Cloud.

He only merely stumbled back and wiped a trickle of blood that trailed down from his lips and grabbed her wrists. With a skillful manuever, he quickly removed her gloves and threw it at one of the men.

"Truman, keep these for now." He shouted and held Tifa's wrists firmly. "You, my dear Tifa, are coming with me."

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"Sephiroth watch out!" Yuffie screamed as a guard prepared to strike Sephiroth with his club.

Sephiroth quickly dodged out of the way and with a soundly swipe, he slashed the man that tried to attack him. Blood trickled down his blade, and he looked around him. About ten gaurds remained, and he felt very ticked off indeed. Whilst he was fighting, there was something nagging at the back of his mind. Was Tifa alright? Of course she was alright, he had locked her in! He didn't feel so very confident about that anymore.

When he was fighting he felt a painful tug at his chest and he instantly knew that something was wrong. Something was wrong with Tifa. He glanced wildly at Vincent and found that Vincent was also looking at him.

"Vincent! Can you handle all of them with just the three of you!?" Sephiroth shouted over the gun shooting.

Vincent shot one of the men that was to the side and looked around. Sephiroth frowned. Ling-Nhi was nowhere to be found. His eyes traveled to Yuffie, who was easily fending off two gaurds with her new weapon, but no Ling-Nhi. He growled suspiciously and knew exactly what had happened. He then snapped his eyes back to Vincent and he did not find a pleasant surprise. Vincent was looking at him strangely.

Vincent brought both hands to his gun and aimed right at Sephiroth.

"What the hell are you doing?" Sephiroth asked and an uneasy feeling settled in his stomach.

You know what to do right? Rufus's mind echoed in his head while an image of Vincent nodding took over Sephiroth's mind.

Vincent pulled the trigger and the bullet sped out right at Sephiroth.

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[ A/N : I don't know why I always do this! It's just way way way too tempting! ^_^ Well review please! I was planning not to update until I get at least over 100 reviews! ^_^ I know I know..demanding author..*sighs* what to do with me? Hehe Well I hope you enjoyed this one! Byeeee! ]

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