Final Fantasy VIII 2: After the Armageddon
(You Know. The one that never happened!)
Authors: Confesser Kahlan and Anara
Disclaimer: See chapter one
A/N: This chapter was written by Anara.
Thanx Kaori Niimura. I know, poor Squallie (snicker). Luv ya!
Chapter 7: "Surprise"
Guest appearances by "The Thing"
"Woo hoo, hey everyone guess what?" yelled Selphie over the intercom. "We finally got through the storm."
"Great, but where are we?"
"Well Zell why don*t you go help Irvine find a place to land and maybe we can find out where we are."
Selphie looked at Zell. Zell looked at Selphie.
"Ok," he said with a big smile on his face.
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"Hey Tidus, lets go practice we*ve only got three days till the match in Luca, ya know."
"Ok, I got a new shot to show ya anyway. Check this out Wakka."
Tidus performs his fathers Jecht shot.
"Wwwoooaaahhh! Hey that was good, ya. But its goin* really high. Think you hit it too hard?"
"Ah don*t worry about it, it will come down before it hits something."
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"Hey Selphie let me drive for a bit."
"Ok Zell, but you have to be careful."
"Don*t worry about it I*ll be able to see something coming way before it hits us."
Selphie gets out of the seat and lets Zell take over.
"Hey Zell," said Selphie while Zell was strapping himself into the seat.
"What?"
"What*s that?"
"What*s, what?"
"That," she pointed out the window. "Its blue and white, and almost looks like a ball."
"It is a ball....................what*s it doing up here?"
"I don*t know but your gonna hit it."
"So its just a ball."
"You forget that this ship has been sitting out in space for a couple of decades. Its sensitive."
"Whatever, Selphie."
The two watched as the ball came closer and closer. Then they heard a smack as the ball hit the side of the ship.
"See, that wasn*t so bad now was it?"
Selphie looked at Zell with skepticism. The engine started to sputter then died.
"Oh no, Zell look what you did."
"Me?"
"Yes you."
"What did I do?"
"You ran into that ball, I told you that this thing was sensitive."
"Well sorry, but we have bigger problems now."
"Like?"
"Like, how the hell do I land this thing?"
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"Yo Tidus, look at that."
"What?"
"That red thing fallin* out of the sky, it looks like its goin* to crash in the ocean."
"Yeah, but what is it?"
"It looks like it could be a sinspawn."
"Somehow I really doubt that Wakka."
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"What are we gonna do now?"
"Zell if you just land it in the ocean then everything will be fine."
"Ok, but for the record this is not my fault."
"We*re keeping record? Cool I'll go tell the others."
"Wait! Help me crash this thing first."
"Don*t you mean land?"
Zell looked at Selphie out of the corner of his eye. "Uh........right, right, sure Selphie.....................
Land." his eyes darted around the room. "Whatever you say, you*re the boss." he nervously put his hands back on the steering wheel.
Selphie turned around to go and turn on the landing gears and almost ran into Irvine.
"Whoa, Irvine, where did you come from?"
"I don*t know, I just appeared."
"Well I figured that out, but I asked from where?"
"Oh, well see here*s *The Thing*." he holds up a glass jar with a miniature alien thing (from the movie "The Thing" by John Carpenter) inside. "I was on my way up here when this *Thing* appeared and in my attempt to get rid of him, he picked me up and threw me up here."
"Then how did you get a piece of him in that jar?"
"Well........I have no idea."
"It was just some crazy idea one of the authors came up with off the top of her head."
Irvine and Selphie looked at Zell.
"And how would you know this?"
"Because she wanted me to know."
"Right Zell, whatever you say.........maybe you should let Selphie crash this thing."
"Why does everyone say crash? We are trying to land it, ya know?"
"Uh, right Selphie." he put his hands up surrendering and backed away slowly. "I-I meant land." he picked up "The Thing" in a jar. "He-here*s a present for you. See isn*t it a, uh nice.............
....... *Thing*?" He held the jar out to Selphie as he got more distance between them. He then set the jar on the ground. "I*ll just leave this for you here." He turned, ran to the elevator and escaped before Selphie could say another word.
"What*s up with you guys today? You seem unusually nice to me. Did I miss something?"
"Now why would you think that Selphie?" Zell was getting more and more nervous. It wasn*t everyday your friend had a birthday and everyone forgot. It wasn*t their fault though, so much had been happening that it just slipped everyone*s mind. Irvine made the mistake of saying "present" in her presence, hours of planning had gone into the party, but Irvine had to slip and say the wrong *Thing*. "Damn you Irvine."
"What did you say Zell?"
"I-I-I didn*t say anything, you must be hearing *Things* again. Heh, heh." He was definitely nervous now. Maybe I should just keep my mouth shut.
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Quistis saw Irvine running her way.
"Don*t go up there."
"Why, Irvine what did you do now? You didn*t tell her did you? Well did you? Irvine how could you? That was supposed to be a surprise. Hours of planning wasted."
"Hey wait a sec. I never said anything, you just jumped to the conclusion that I said something, when in reality I said nothing."
"Nothing?"
"That's right, nothing.................except present."
"IRVINE."
"I didn*t mean to, it just sorta slipped out......................you don*t know the kind of pressure she put me under, horrible mind control experiments and, and looking at me." He got close to her face. "With her eyes. Poor Zell, he has to stay up there with her, I don*t know how he can possibly stand it, he must be going crazy by now."
"Irvine you over-react most of the time you know that?"
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I*m going crazy, I can*t take much more of this, I need to scream but I can*t cause she*all hear me. Then my cover is definitely blown. Oh, what am I gonna do? Maybe some one will come up and take over for me, oh its no good wishing. The way Irvine ran outta here no one will come up, they*d be too scared. "Someone please help me?"
"Zell are you sure your ok?"
"Yes," He said in a weak voice.
Selphie turned back to her work. Man every year they do this, like I don*t know their planning a party for me. They acted the same way last year. Oh well guess it will be kinda fun messing with their minds for a while.
