Hope you enjoyed the first portion of The Bandits. Here's the second.

The Bandits

Chapter 2: Omega Weapon

"Cloud?" Aeris asked the person in front of us. He was indeed Cloud. Blond spiky hair, blue outfit with a red cloak (like in Kingdom Hearts), and a large white sword in his right hand. "What are you doing here?" Yuffie asked sounded very surprised, and who could blame her. "Here to stop you." He said in his casual but serious tone. "What do you mean?" I asked with some anger in my voice. "I was hired by the other company to stop anybody from getting the cargo. Guess we gotta fight." He said raising his sword into an attack position.

"Cloud! Stop it!" Aeris yelled "we're friends here, we can avoid such thing." "I'm really sorry Aeris, but I'm not going to kill you, just think of this as a friendly practice match." He suggested. "Whatever." Yuffie said. Cloud was quick, he dashed up to us trying to pierce us with his sword, but we managed to dodge. "What are you thinking?" I said drawing my pistols, Exeter were their names. "Guns now Perry? What are you thinking? You had skills with a sword." He told me sounding disappointed. "Fine then. Feel my blade." I told him with a smile. Dashing in I slashed him across the chest but he was barely phased by it. "Not bad technique for a sword like that." He complimented. I just laughed, but not at him. "What's so funny?" he asked. "You'll feel it in a second." I said rolling out of the way. Yuffie had thrown Conformer at Cloud's back and he flew against the wall. "You guys are dangerous. What about you Aeris?" he said standing again. "I guess I could attack. But don't get hurt!" she shouted drawing the gun from her right thigh and then reaching back and drawing the second pistol from her lift hip. Her two guns, Revolver, were aimed at Cloud's legs and she fired. He took the bullets but was still standing. "End it!" I yelled. Firing both Exeter's at him. He kneeled and didn't want to fight back.

"You're all good. I guess I can let you go." Cloud noticed. "What are you guarding?" I asked him. "I don't know. The company was very covert about the whole thing" he explained. "Let's pop this little thing open." Yuffie suggested walking up to a chest. Taking a small clip from her hair she opened the lock and inside was a sword.

"A sword? I thought Reeve said it was materia" I wondered. "It's materia though. I sense great amounts of knowledge in this weapon." Aeris said touching it. "Never guessed this." Cloud said going to grab it, but he pulled his hand back upon touching it. "What's wrong?" I asked. "It shocked me." He answered. "Let me try." I suggested. I had no trouble grabbing it. It was very light and felt quite powerful and something whispered into my ear, "Omega Weapon". "It must like you." Yuffie uttered jocularly. "Omega Weapon. I guess I'll have to use this." I told them all replacing Banisher with Omega Weapon. "This sword is made from materia. What is this company doing?" Aeris said concerned. "It's pretty sick if you ask me. I mean harvesting the spirit energy of the planet was bad back then, but making this stuff into weapons?" Yuffie shuddered.

"I don't know what their up to, but I guess we should leave. The mission is complete anyway." I informed everyone. "What about you Cloud?" Aeris asked him. "I'm leaving too. I wasn't the best at this." He admitted. "Stop right there!" a man yelled.

A man wearing a loose black trench coat walked in. He had on sunglasses so you couldn't see his face, black pants, and a white shirt on. He only wore one sleeve on his trench coat. "What are you four dong here?" He asked. "I was just about to capture them!" Cloud informed this man. "Oh, I guess it was right to hire you then." The unknown man said to Cloud. He took our weapons and we were about to be captured when...

"Run!" Cloud shouted as he cut down one of the other guard who entered the room with this new man. "Traitor!" the man yelled. "How can one be a traitor to those he has no allegiance to?" he said back. "Get him!" he ordered to his men. Yuffie, Aeris, and I had enough time to pick up our weapons and run out of the ship. "I hope Cloud is okay." She bellowed in a depressed manner. "I'm sure he's fine sis." I told her. "Time to sink or swim, or maybe float rather." Aeris told us taking out a small box from her pocket. I took one out too. We jumped over the side and once in the water Aeris and I produced rafts from the boxes. "Hey, where's Yuffie?" Aeris asked me seeing she was not above the surface. "Yuffie?" I called out to her. Then we saw her jump above the surface only something was different. "What happened? Oh." Aeris said looking at her. Apparently the raft box got stuck in her shirt pocket so her shirt was basically the raft now. "You could make Tifa jealous with those things." I said with some laughter. "Shut up. Just somebody grab me and pull me in. We pulled her into my raft and rowed to shore. "Back to Kalm. We can plan what to do later." I suggested to everyone. "What about Yuffie?" Aeris asked. "This isn't comfortable you know!" She complained out loud. "Fine, I'll help." Aeris said pulling out one of her Revolvers and firing a round into the side of her shirt, it got smaller quick. "Thanks, how embarrassing. I couldn't get it out of my pocket but I pulled the cord by accident. " she said turning red in the face. "Don't worry about it." I told her putting my arm around her holding her close. She returned the favor. "I love seeing you guys turn mushy." Aeris said. "Why don't we take the long way home?" I suggested to the gang.

We called all three of our chocobos and told them to meet us at Kalm they understood and ran off. In Junon we had to take the Trans-Town Monorail to get back into Midgar. Junon and Midgar together looked like Esthar from Final Fantasy 8. The train would take the day to reach Midgar.

"This was a strange mission." I said. "What about Cloud? He can't be dead." Aeris said stiffling a cry. "Don't worry Aeris, I'm sure they just captured him." Yuffie said putting her other arm around Aeris. Over the past year or so the three of us have gotten very close. At first we were just close friends, but now we can almost predict what we're feeling. I can at least, my mind has been doing more than make objects float. I can make light thing levitate but I've sometimes felt I could hear people think. Maybe I'm just going insane. "If we found out where they took Cloud, I'm more than ready to go help him out." I told them. "Let's see Reeve. Maybe he can help us with what to do." Yuffie suggested. "Good idea Yuffie." Sis told her. We got on the train and went to our cabin. "Why don't we all take a rest?" Aeris suggested. "Fine by me, sis. It's a little cold in here." I added. "Be lucky the air conditioner isn't blowing air up your skirt." She said with dismay. "I'll switch with you Aeris." Yuffie suggested getting up so the order was from the door to window, Aeris, me, and then Yuffie. "I'm going to bed. Night guys." I told them both drifting into sleep.

"He's been working hard lately." Yuffie told Aeris. "What?" she answered waking up. "Sorry, I didn't mean to wake you." Yuffie said apologetically. "It's okay, Perry's very comfortable." She said giggling to Yuffie. "He is isn't he." The little ninja told her friend. "Well I don't know why he's working so hard." She answered. "If he continues like this it could be bad." Yuffie thought. "If we plan to rescue Cloud then we should get some help." Aeris suggested. "You mean from the others?" Yuffie asked. "Yes, we may need them." The former flower girl confirmed.

The train continued along its rails for the remainder of the day and partly into the next one. The three bandits were sure in for something more than they bargained for.