AN: u probably guessed from the title - this is Selphie's very own little bit - I do mean little, cause if I write too much Selphie, I'll go Selphie on my mates + that's just too much for them to cope with *grins* - it's bad enough when I go Seifer on them *sniggers*

Rating: R (I tried to keep it lower, but it just wasn't destined to happen - unlike other things [which are responsible for the rating])

Disclaimer: SG characters are (c) MGM (thankie to Morrigan for that :p).  FF8 characters are (c) Squaresoft, original characters are mine – ask nicely and I might let you play with them, s'long's you don't break them...

Warnings: SxS - Yaoi (guyxguy) later - if u don't like, don't read.  Character death.  Maybe angst (I do like to torture my characters sometimes :p), language (prob nothin u aint heard b4, but still...)

~Chapter Twelve: Aliens - Whoohoo!~

At first, when everything started shaking, I wondered what the hell was goin on.  But then Odine - he's such a funny little man - started panicking about this gate thingy they've unearthed.  So we both headed for the obs - observation - gallery, cause it was closer than the entrance to the excavation site and we didn't want to miss anything, and I commented that maybe the team'd uncovered a monster like the Ultima weapon that me, Squall and Zell found in the Deep Sea Research Centre.  Hee, Odine really began to worry at that reminder, only, then he pointed out that Ultemecia had to have gotten the Omega weapon from somewhere, and if there were two, there might be a third.  So, I was gettin kinda worried again, cause I knew Irvy was somewhere near the excavation site, and I know Squall, Quistis and Zell had a real hard time takin down the Omega.  Zell reckoned that if Squall hadn't had Eden they'd've all died for sure, but I guess that's because the chickenwuss was sour cause he got KO'd right at the beginning.

Anyways, me and Odine rushed into the obs gallery and the gate was spinning round.  It's, like, these two circles, one inside the other, and the circle with all the groovy designs on it - only Odine calls them hyro-somethings - was spinning round - only slowly though - and every so often it stopped and a little triangle-thingy on the outside circle would glow orange and kinda slide forwards onto a particular design.  It did its thing seven times, so all the triangle-thingies were glowing and pointing to certain hyro-whatsits, and then everything went still.

All the SeeDs were all in a circle around the thing, keeping their distance though, cause like Odine pointed out, if it really was a gate there was no way of knowing what would come through it.  There was no way of knowing if it was gonna be friendly or not either, so Irvy had everyone wearing protects and shells, and fully armed.  I could see him standing at the back with Quistis.  She was still in her dress uniform, so I guess the dizziness hadn't worn off in time for her to change.  I wondered where the chickenwuss was, but then he traipsed in.  Looked like he'd managed to change, and find food - he had half a hot-dog in his hand, but quickly ate it when Quistis glared at him.

It seemed like everything was over, and I was gonna head down to join Irvy and the rest, but then the centre of the two circles exploded with what looked like bubbles.  The bubbles shot out, then vanished back into the circle, which was filled with what looked like water.  It was really weird.  The stuff looked like water, and rippled like water, but it was upright.  Then a person stepped through.

At first I though a SeeD on the other side had been particularly stupid, but then it registered that the guy was in a uniform, and he was old, like, Laguna's age.  I mean, that really ruled out him being a SeeD.  Cid's the oldest 'SeeD' I know, and he doesn't do combat missions, never has, apart from his spell in the Galbadian army.  So there's this one guy, armed, who seems completely unfazed by the fact that there's a dozen SeeDs got their weapons pointed at him, and he looks around and says something.  Then these two others, another guy - this one unarmed - and a woman, who is armed, step through the water.  The woman collides with the first guy, pushing him forward slightly, and the water vanishes behind her.  So the first guy turns round and sees the other SeeDs behind the gate.

It kinda sinks home that these people are alien to our world, are aliens, when I notice that Irvy hasn't made any move towards them.  They can't be speaking our language, otherwise he'd have been talking to them at least, but so far all he's done is stare and then say something to Quistis.  I guess if I want to know what's goin on, I'll have to go down there and find out, but at the same time, I don't wanna miss anything.  I decide that meeting aliens first hand will make up for anything I might miss.  It's not like I haven't met aliens before - there was that cute little PuPu alien who crashed his ship near Balamb and who drank five of my elixirs! - its just, these are human - well, humanoid - like us!

AN: Arrgghh!  Someone rescue me from the grips of an insane Muse Selphie!  Uh, couldn't remember if Daniel goes armed or not, so um, he's kinda come unarmed, but if someone reviews and lets me know that he does normally have a gun then I'll try and find him one *grins*