"Who are they Tara?" Tifa could hear voices coming from behind her. The PHS
had stopped ringing a while back so she had decided to ignore it.
"Should keep it on vibrate next time.." She sighed. Look what I've gotten myself into..
"The corporation, Avalanche. They killed Sephiroth, for the same reasons they might want to kill us. So it looks like we'll need to wipe them out, and fast." Tifa gritted her teeth, Corporation?! More like rebel force. Hah. What are these people playing at?.. Soon enough my friends are going to come and.. she sighed. Or were they?
Just then her questions were answered, the back door of the garage was opened and she heard Barret's voice echo through the area. "Teef, wherever the hell you are, were coming to get you.. after we pay hell." His voice was followed by gunshots.
She felt someone come up behind her and untie her; she looked up to see Kai who pointed towards Cloud. Tifa could see that he was fighting off soldiers, she rushed towards him as Kai rushed towards Vincent to assist him. What was that all about? Tifa began to feel regret swelling up inside her but something held her back. Forget it, I'll just have to say sorry later.
Cloud was outnumbered six to one, surrounded by guns and green suits. He dodged left and right to only find himself cornered in a corner later. Tifa jumped into the corner and shot at the nearest guard, who fell in an instant. In this time Cloud was able to gather himself again and shoot at the two guards next to him.
Both Tifa and Cloud were thrown into the wall as a blow erupted throughout the garage. "Sorry!!! Sorry!!! I HAD TO USE NEO BAHAMUT!! Hehe.." Yuffie smiled weakly and collected Reno off the floor. Cloud noticed that everyone but their party was dead.
Tifa pointed to a door that had just swung open and closed again, "Head that way guys! Tara Corps is going over there!" She quickly ran towards the door but Kai screamed out in pain.
Cloud turned around to help Kai up. She was stuck under more than five cargo boxes and her face was slashed on her right cheek. "Crap. The scientists they have.." She coughed up helpless amounts of blood.
Yuffie looked her at waist and noticed that there was a deep gash along her stomach. "Omg! Someone quick! Throw me a restore Materia!" She looked around frantically. Everyone looked at Tifa; she was the only one on the team who had a mastered Restore Materia. Cloud seemed to have realized this to because he began to inch towards her.
"Tifa, look. Do this for me. This one time." Barret noticed that Tifa's hands were clenched into a fist.
"This ONE time!? What do you mean one time!? I've always been there for you! And who do you noticed? Aeris! Kai! I was always there for you Cloud! Get used to it! You lost me!" She threw the Materia at Yuffie who caught it expertly and stormed after the scientists.
"Wait! Tifa!" Kai shifted her weight. "They didn't go that way. It's a trap! They went the other way!" She pointed to a ladder that lead up to the opening of a trap door.
"That one looks like more of a trap to me.." Cid muttered.
"Wait! I think Kai has a point!" Yuffie stood up. "Of course that's what they want us to think! So we actually get into the trap. We need to head up the ladder."
Tifa walked up to Kai and Yuffie who eyed her evilly as she snatched the Materia out of her hands and healed Kai. "Let's go." Tifa walked past Cloud but didn't dare look at him.
Everyone followed Tifa up the ladder, as they emerged they saw a few scientists with whips. Scientists with whips. Alright then. Yuffie noted to herself reminding herself of Kai's stomach area.
"Here we are.. the Avalanche Corporation." A woman wearing all purple leather with longer hair stepped out of the darkness.
"Its just Avalanche, get it straight." Yuffie sneered.
"Well, well, well, don't we have a bit of an attitude? Yuffie." She looked at Yuffie eye-to-eye and laughed. "You are too late. My Sapphire WEAPON will kill all of you useless humans and clear the way for a new type of inhabitant of the world." At the click of a button a door opened behind her and thousands of robots appeared.
Kai shook her head. "Don't you people get it?!?! If you use the WEAPON you're going to wipe out the world itself! You don't have any idea what this thing can do!"
Tara looked down, her leather squeaked with every step in her stilettos. "Get it straight honey, this thing is under my control. If I want it to kill you it." Throughout the whole building a boom was heard.
"Miss Tara! The Sapphire WEAPON has crashed through the cliff and is headed towards the Western Continent! Miss Tara!" One of the scientists yelped from the window.
"You were saying?" Yuffie looked at her and raised her eyebrow. Tara held her hand and rolled her eyes.
"Try to make it turn around! Use the controls!" Behind Tara, scientists frantically fiddled with controls as Tara held up a Huge Materia her hand.
"Do you see this RedXIII? This very Materia has been taken from your very planetarium and now, its going to kill you, very slowly." Her teeth crunched down every time the world very escaped from her lips. "Combined with Manipulate, Comet, Ultima, and oh.. another thing a very recently developed Materia.. what was it? Oh yes.. Control Materia. We have been able to control the Sapphire WEAPON. You see if I just."
Suddenly Kai took her rod and knocked the Materia out of Tara's hand. "How dare you, you little bi.."
The rest of the group hid Kai from view as they cornered her. Kai knew what she had to do. If she could just get to ground where she could call the Sapphire WEAPON back into the world and all would be well again. But where?.
+++
"So that's why my Comet Materia didn't work!!" Elena looked at Tara. "That thing cost so much Gil. You little..!" Elena ran into Tara with her hands up, ready to start a catfight.
Cloud turned around at the others who all nodded. I guess Tara is going to be taken care of. Now, for these robots. He had noticed that they were all moving about them and heading out of the cliffs. They had to stop them. "Red! We need to stop these things before they get to Icicle Inn and Bone Village!"
"Yeah, hopefully they can't swim either.." Barret shot around him as a few robots dropped.
Cid looked at Barret as he took his spear out. "Looks easy enough to say." Those were the only words Avalanche heard over the screams and beeps that were being made in the Tara Corporation HQ.
+++
Kai ran towards the Crater, if I can just get high enough to call the WEAPON, maybe all this havoc can be stopped. She ran to the top of the Crater, constantly being attacked by monsters but only throwing a few spells at them before running ahead.
As she made it to the top of the Crater the Highwind came up next towards the Barrier, only to be thrown back a hundred feet and into the water. "Cloud!!" Kai looked through the barrier.
Not right now, you have to concentrate, they'll be ok. Just call Sapphire.. Aeris, I need you right now..
Cloud pushed through the heavy wood around him searching for any other bodies. He looked around in panic. Where are they? Someone help. Aeris, I need you right now..
Everything around Kai began to grow dark. She felt a presence around her as a ghostly Aeris stood next to her and held the Huge Materia in her hands. Kai looked at Aeris as she bowed her head, she finally understood. The two bodies as one began to pray.
Cloud didn't know what pulled him to do it but right after he had taken everyone to shore he bent down on his knees, held his hands together, and began to pray.
"What the hell is this? Doomsday?" Barret looked down at Cloud.
"No! It's Kai! She needs us to bend down and pray!" Cloud wanted to add Aeris to that, but he could imagine the looks on everyone's face.
"Hell no, I ain't doing it." Barret crossed his arms.
"Do you want it to seriously be Doomsday?" Red looked up at him as everyone began to pray.
Barret grumble but bent down on his knees and bowed his head.
No one, for the light of day expected Vincent to bend down to pray, or even to fold his hands for hope, but surprisingly he did. For he knew that Kai was not the only one atop the Crater who had asked the WEAPON to end its chaos.
+++
The people of Rocket Town stopped to see that the sun had been blocked, as one by one they looked up to see a blue dragon like robot. That was when all chaos occurred.
Shera had run out of her house to look up at that robot, with one whisper of "Cid.." She bent down, folded her hands, then began to pray.
With one scream of the WEAPON the rocket thrust itself into the ground and the windows shattered. All around the world people could hear the screams and prepared themselves for death.
+++
The Sapphire WEAPON looked down at the people below it, it laughed an untimely chuckle. Exactly like its creator, this time the world would reign for another million years before these creatures entered the world.
It looked behind it, to here a thousand voices surrounding it, but it could hear the strongest of all the voices from the Crater, so this is where it headed.
Go back to your home.
Dear Lord send back this monster to its untimely realm, where it shall keep for another thousand years.
Please oh Great one, return to your home and leave us from harm and fear.
The voices grew louder as it screamed once again, then the watchers in Rocket Town saw it fly back North, to where Kai and Aeris held a Huge Materia.
+++
It towered above them. Two girls, one who was still alive, the other thinner than mist holding a Materia that trapped its' soul. The Sapphire WEAPON looked down upon them and screamed. It flew in a circle and rammed into the Barrier, forever breaking a whole in its' gates.
Underneath it, it could hear two peoples prayers but could only feel one heartbeat, puzzled by this it lowered its' hand and lightly grabbed the girls from their praying mutters and lay them near a group of people that were one hundred yards away.
It lay down on the crater and sealed the Barrier, to sleep in peace, for the next thousand years.
+++
"Aeris.." Cloud looked up to see Aeris standing in front of them and Kai on the ground, exhausted. He looked around, the others too, had been knocked out and were deep asleep on the floor, but still he had the feeling a black cape was not in the presence.
He walked up to the vision of Aeris and stared into her eyes, she smiled and held a hand up to his face.
They stood there for what seemed like an eternity, until Tifa woke and Aeris was gone after muttering three words.
Cloud looked down and watched the sunset. Aeris would live again, and he would see to it.
"Should keep it on vibrate next time.." She sighed. Look what I've gotten myself into..
"The corporation, Avalanche. They killed Sephiroth, for the same reasons they might want to kill us. So it looks like we'll need to wipe them out, and fast." Tifa gritted her teeth, Corporation?! More like rebel force. Hah. What are these people playing at?.. Soon enough my friends are going to come and.. she sighed. Or were they?
Just then her questions were answered, the back door of the garage was opened and she heard Barret's voice echo through the area. "Teef, wherever the hell you are, were coming to get you.. after we pay hell." His voice was followed by gunshots.
She felt someone come up behind her and untie her; she looked up to see Kai who pointed towards Cloud. Tifa could see that he was fighting off soldiers, she rushed towards him as Kai rushed towards Vincent to assist him. What was that all about? Tifa began to feel regret swelling up inside her but something held her back. Forget it, I'll just have to say sorry later.
Cloud was outnumbered six to one, surrounded by guns and green suits. He dodged left and right to only find himself cornered in a corner later. Tifa jumped into the corner and shot at the nearest guard, who fell in an instant. In this time Cloud was able to gather himself again and shoot at the two guards next to him.
Both Tifa and Cloud were thrown into the wall as a blow erupted throughout the garage. "Sorry!!! Sorry!!! I HAD TO USE NEO BAHAMUT!! Hehe.." Yuffie smiled weakly and collected Reno off the floor. Cloud noticed that everyone but their party was dead.
Tifa pointed to a door that had just swung open and closed again, "Head that way guys! Tara Corps is going over there!" She quickly ran towards the door but Kai screamed out in pain.
Cloud turned around to help Kai up. She was stuck under more than five cargo boxes and her face was slashed on her right cheek. "Crap. The scientists they have.." She coughed up helpless amounts of blood.
Yuffie looked her at waist and noticed that there was a deep gash along her stomach. "Omg! Someone quick! Throw me a restore Materia!" She looked around frantically. Everyone looked at Tifa; she was the only one on the team who had a mastered Restore Materia. Cloud seemed to have realized this to because he began to inch towards her.
"Tifa, look. Do this for me. This one time." Barret noticed that Tifa's hands were clenched into a fist.
"This ONE time!? What do you mean one time!? I've always been there for you! And who do you noticed? Aeris! Kai! I was always there for you Cloud! Get used to it! You lost me!" She threw the Materia at Yuffie who caught it expertly and stormed after the scientists.
"Wait! Tifa!" Kai shifted her weight. "They didn't go that way. It's a trap! They went the other way!" She pointed to a ladder that lead up to the opening of a trap door.
"That one looks like more of a trap to me.." Cid muttered.
"Wait! I think Kai has a point!" Yuffie stood up. "Of course that's what they want us to think! So we actually get into the trap. We need to head up the ladder."
Tifa walked up to Kai and Yuffie who eyed her evilly as she snatched the Materia out of her hands and healed Kai. "Let's go." Tifa walked past Cloud but didn't dare look at him.
Everyone followed Tifa up the ladder, as they emerged they saw a few scientists with whips. Scientists with whips. Alright then. Yuffie noted to herself reminding herself of Kai's stomach area.
"Here we are.. the Avalanche Corporation." A woman wearing all purple leather with longer hair stepped out of the darkness.
"Its just Avalanche, get it straight." Yuffie sneered.
"Well, well, well, don't we have a bit of an attitude? Yuffie." She looked at Yuffie eye-to-eye and laughed. "You are too late. My Sapphire WEAPON will kill all of you useless humans and clear the way for a new type of inhabitant of the world." At the click of a button a door opened behind her and thousands of robots appeared.
Kai shook her head. "Don't you people get it?!?! If you use the WEAPON you're going to wipe out the world itself! You don't have any idea what this thing can do!"
Tara looked down, her leather squeaked with every step in her stilettos. "Get it straight honey, this thing is under my control. If I want it to kill you it." Throughout the whole building a boom was heard.
"Miss Tara! The Sapphire WEAPON has crashed through the cliff and is headed towards the Western Continent! Miss Tara!" One of the scientists yelped from the window.
"You were saying?" Yuffie looked at her and raised her eyebrow. Tara held her hand and rolled her eyes.
"Try to make it turn around! Use the controls!" Behind Tara, scientists frantically fiddled with controls as Tara held up a Huge Materia her hand.
"Do you see this RedXIII? This very Materia has been taken from your very planetarium and now, its going to kill you, very slowly." Her teeth crunched down every time the world very escaped from her lips. "Combined with Manipulate, Comet, Ultima, and oh.. another thing a very recently developed Materia.. what was it? Oh yes.. Control Materia. We have been able to control the Sapphire WEAPON. You see if I just."
Suddenly Kai took her rod and knocked the Materia out of Tara's hand. "How dare you, you little bi.."
The rest of the group hid Kai from view as they cornered her. Kai knew what she had to do. If she could just get to ground where she could call the Sapphire WEAPON back into the world and all would be well again. But where?.
+++
"So that's why my Comet Materia didn't work!!" Elena looked at Tara. "That thing cost so much Gil. You little..!" Elena ran into Tara with her hands up, ready to start a catfight.
Cloud turned around at the others who all nodded. I guess Tara is going to be taken care of. Now, for these robots. He had noticed that they were all moving about them and heading out of the cliffs. They had to stop them. "Red! We need to stop these things before they get to Icicle Inn and Bone Village!"
"Yeah, hopefully they can't swim either.." Barret shot around him as a few robots dropped.
Cid looked at Barret as he took his spear out. "Looks easy enough to say." Those were the only words Avalanche heard over the screams and beeps that were being made in the Tara Corporation HQ.
+++
Kai ran towards the Crater, if I can just get high enough to call the WEAPON, maybe all this havoc can be stopped. She ran to the top of the Crater, constantly being attacked by monsters but only throwing a few spells at them before running ahead.
As she made it to the top of the Crater the Highwind came up next towards the Barrier, only to be thrown back a hundred feet and into the water. "Cloud!!" Kai looked through the barrier.
Not right now, you have to concentrate, they'll be ok. Just call Sapphire.. Aeris, I need you right now..
Cloud pushed through the heavy wood around him searching for any other bodies. He looked around in panic. Where are they? Someone help. Aeris, I need you right now..
Everything around Kai began to grow dark. She felt a presence around her as a ghostly Aeris stood next to her and held the Huge Materia in her hands. Kai looked at Aeris as she bowed her head, she finally understood. The two bodies as one began to pray.
Cloud didn't know what pulled him to do it but right after he had taken everyone to shore he bent down on his knees, held his hands together, and began to pray.
"What the hell is this? Doomsday?" Barret looked down at Cloud.
"No! It's Kai! She needs us to bend down and pray!" Cloud wanted to add Aeris to that, but he could imagine the looks on everyone's face.
"Hell no, I ain't doing it." Barret crossed his arms.
"Do you want it to seriously be Doomsday?" Red looked up at him as everyone began to pray.
Barret grumble but bent down on his knees and bowed his head.
No one, for the light of day expected Vincent to bend down to pray, or even to fold his hands for hope, but surprisingly he did. For he knew that Kai was not the only one atop the Crater who had asked the WEAPON to end its chaos.
+++
The people of Rocket Town stopped to see that the sun had been blocked, as one by one they looked up to see a blue dragon like robot. That was when all chaos occurred.
Shera had run out of her house to look up at that robot, with one whisper of "Cid.." She bent down, folded her hands, then began to pray.
With one scream of the WEAPON the rocket thrust itself into the ground and the windows shattered. All around the world people could hear the screams and prepared themselves for death.
+++
The Sapphire WEAPON looked down at the people below it, it laughed an untimely chuckle. Exactly like its creator, this time the world would reign for another million years before these creatures entered the world.
It looked behind it, to here a thousand voices surrounding it, but it could hear the strongest of all the voices from the Crater, so this is where it headed.
Go back to your home.
Dear Lord send back this monster to its untimely realm, where it shall keep for another thousand years.
Please oh Great one, return to your home and leave us from harm and fear.
The voices grew louder as it screamed once again, then the watchers in Rocket Town saw it fly back North, to where Kai and Aeris held a Huge Materia.
+++
It towered above them. Two girls, one who was still alive, the other thinner than mist holding a Materia that trapped its' soul. The Sapphire WEAPON looked down upon them and screamed. It flew in a circle and rammed into the Barrier, forever breaking a whole in its' gates.
Underneath it, it could hear two peoples prayers but could only feel one heartbeat, puzzled by this it lowered its' hand and lightly grabbed the girls from their praying mutters and lay them near a group of people that were one hundred yards away.
It lay down on the crater and sealed the Barrier, to sleep in peace, for the next thousand years.
+++
"Aeris.." Cloud looked up to see Aeris standing in front of them and Kai on the ground, exhausted. He looked around, the others too, had been knocked out and were deep asleep on the floor, but still he had the feeling a black cape was not in the presence.
He walked up to the vision of Aeris and stared into her eyes, she smiled and held a hand up to his face.
They stood there for what seemed like an eternity, until Tifa woke and Aeris was gone after muttering three words.
Cloud looked down and watched the sunset. Aeris would live again, and he would see to it.
