Planet's Guardians
By
The Wanderer
The year is 2753. The heroes of the past have long been forgotten, pages in history that have faded over time into nothingness. The world has changed a lot since their time. Mako energy has been replaced by electricity, shuttles run from city to city, and government works and hand-in-hand with the common people. Humans have spread across all the land and built many towns and cities. Still, there is fear.
The World has been united into a World Federation, under which it decides the major choices that face the nations. The Federation was brought together 2 years after the fall of Shinra and the Meteor incident. The leader was a man named Reeves, elected for his work to rebuild the world after all the chaos had been brought to an end. The Major concerns were, at first, rebuilding and finding a new power source. Once rebuilding was completed, a budget was formed for experimenting with new energy sources. The result was electricity, a renewable resource that could be used in all forms Mako had been, excluding infusing it with humans, which had been banned with all genetic experimentations.
Materia was held in high regard as valuable weapons and tools. The government gained hold of one of every single kind of materia known. It was then mastered, causing it to form new materia, and the process repeated. Now, materia is almost as common as it was in the time of Mako energy. Although the threats to the planet (which included Meteor, Jenova, Sephiroth, and Shinra itself) had been eliminated, there was still a very serious threat to the people that needed to be discussed at the Federation's meetings: The Weapons. The Planet's guardians were now bringing destruction to human civilizations across the land.
Back in the present time, there is still no way known to destroy the Weapons. Many have tried, only to be destroyed. The first attempt was by using an Armada of sub ships against the Weapon known as Emerald Weapon. The result was the entire naval fleet of the United Nations' to be destroyed. Next, an army of 50,000 troops armed with various weaponry and materia all converging on the Ruby Weapon. All were slaughtered by the monster.
Thus, the Weapons became a plague on the people. With no way to stop them, the people learned to accept the destruction they brought them, just as they would a tornado or hurricane. This is the life the people have lived since then. This is all about to change, however. The Weapons' fall and the rise of a new generation of heroes is about to begin. Thus, the story begins…