Fantasy Thunder Chapter Twenty-Three: Psi
[Part Three]
By Blue Dragon
They have come so far, so close. Defeated so many of us, accomplished so much. Will this end? Psi's power is nearly unbeatable, our absolute final line of defense and vital to the protection of FT. BUT, will they somehow defeat him too? Bravo, wonderful fighters, bravo.
She pulled the trigger of the assembled gun, but sadly, Chi dodged at just the right time and the same beam almost sent Seifer to heaven. Seifer flew back from the burst of hot air pressure to the right of him, and felt himself being dragged up, spun around, and dropped on his head, after which everything became blurred and his hearing wasn't quite right.
In a few seconds he was stood up, turned around, and flipped over on his back. Then a quick pressure on his neck, and everything became white and hazy. Finally, a voice saying, "He's tougher than I thought", and then an impact on his stomach, and the world slowly became brighter and brighter, and he felt light.
A figure that he could tell was Jessica descended upon him, and all he could mutter was:
"Angel . . . "
She touched his cheek and caressed it slightly, sighing a sad sigh.
The next eight seconds were a blur, and he felt light again, the world around him becoming even brighter. In a flash he figured out what was happening, he was dying, and he was hanging between the world of the dead and the living.
"Why isn't my life flashing before my eyes?" he asked in his mind.
He saw himself riding a bike, his mother getting killed, admission to Balamb Garden, his first gunblade, and then Squall slashing him between the eyes, the smirking face of Sorceress Ultimecia . . .
He felt even lighter than before and his vision was completely white, and for a second he thought he was dead.
In a few seconds he heard someone yelling "clear", and then felt an electric shock. The world then came back into view.
He couldn't move, but he could feel vibrations from blows being landed. Moments passed before he could move again and stood up, momentarily feeling a horrible throbbing pain in his head before he grabbed Hyperion and rejoined the fight, but noticed that Jessica was surprisingly handling herself quite well and at several times she came close to winning.
Seifer was soon able to get back up and fight again, and Chi knocked him in the back of the head so hard that for five seconds he didn't know who he was, where he was, or what he was doing, and then Chi slipped passed Jessica's defenses again and sliced Seifer's stomach almost open, which soon healed.
"I'm getting really tired of this." Seifer growled as he started glowing, feeling his liver, pancreas, intestines, and stomach reassemble and arrange.
"Jessica! Long, slow blow!" Seifer begged her telepathically as he turned his blade flat, remembering Oren's words.
Jessica reared back, exposing her abdomen completely, and Chi became careless and charged at full speed to get both of her hearts, giving Seifer just enough time to bash her on the forehead with the side of his blade, absolutely confident that the force would not be enough.
However, Chi stumbled back as blood seeped from her forehead, and then moaned, falling face-first on the ground.
Seifer laughed and dusted his hands.
"That'll learn ya!"
"Nice work, now we just have to take care of Phi" Jessica told, him, motioning towards the two Pi's."
She launched into action and with Seifer by her side, along with the two Pis, Phi kicked into full action and launched attacks that went everywhere at once. The situation became similar to the first fight against Rho, the tangle of bodies around her were thrown off with a burst of energy.
The advantage quickly shifted as Phi was outnumbered and growing tired.
***
Sephiroth wandered around the corridors aimlessly with Kuja by his side, equally bored. Eventually they came upon a small room tucked into a wall.
"Uh, Sephiroth" Kuja said, touching a hand to his arm.
"What?" he asked, not turning around.
Kuja toed the metallic floor and looked up at the annoying bright lights.
"My gut says that going in there would be a bad idea."
"Since when do you listen to your gut?" Sephiroth asked, opening the door.
When the door was opened, he gasped.
Right in front of him he saw a tube full of liquid connected to smaller tubes. The central large tube said "96%" on it.
"Ninety-six percent recovery" Sephiroth groaned.
"What's the matter?" Kuja asked, walking from behind him into the plain room that was much larger than it had initially appeared.
"Look who's in there."
Inside the tube was Gamma, her hair flowing all around, most of the lower half of the tube opaque.
"So she's ninety-six percent recovered, eh?" Kuja asked, as he looked around. When he turned to the right, the next the he saw scared the bejeezus out of him. He saw Alpha, inside a similar tube, much of his upper body exposed. Above his tube said "100%", and that meant that Alpha was 100 percent recovered. But, that wasn't' the scary thing. Alpha's eyes were wide open, unlike the sleeping Gamma, and he was staring at them vehemently.
"You suck" he mouthed.
Kuja smacked his cage.
"Shut up in there"
He looked down the line and saw Beta, Delta and Epsilon were 100% recovered inside their liquidated tubes, and were staring at them, not able to make a sound.
"This is scaring the hell out of me." Kuja muttered.
"They apparently can't do anything" Sephiroth said as he started taunting them.
The computer said "Releasing in fifteen seconds".
Beta got a gigantic smirk and began cracking his knuckles silently, and Sephiroth immediately slammed his sword through the computer that was attached to the wall, sending sparks and twisted metal flying every where and bouncing off the tubes, simultaneously shutting it down, and Epsilon snapped his fingers and started banging on the tube.
"Now what!?" Kuja yelled at them.
Delta was at 98, and Zeta was at 23 (he was hurt very badly).
Sephiroth felt a hand on his shoulder, and turned around and saw Lambda.
"Ahh!" he gave one of his rare screams.
"Having fun? We found out that these guys were under Py . . . Allen's control the whole time, but they still don't like you."
Gamma's tube beeped as it went to 100 percent and she woke up, saw Sephiroth, then Kuja, and then Lambda.
Of course, she only knew Lambda so she started requesting that he let her out silently, but of course Lambda decided to ignore her.
"Just leave them in there for now" Lambda said, walking off.
"Weren't the rest of you Alphabet Warriors going to negotiate with Allen?" Kuja asked.
"You think that that maniac can be negotiated with? We can't even find him, and even if we could he'd probably kill us."
Sephiroth sheathed his sword and turned around.
"I'm pretty tired of all this. When will this finally end?"
Lambda scratched his head.
"Allow us to join you, you will certainly need all the help you can get. This will all end very, very soon."
***
Oren grabbed the daggers and pushed them up until his face was level with Athena.
"Stop . . . this madness!" he said as he pushed her back.
"If you don't stop making attempts on my life, Athena, I will kill you! Many people are connected to my survival."
Athena didn't listen and stabbed like a madwoman.
Rho came about from unconsciousness but was immobilized.
"Her life is connected to Fantasy Thunder! You cannot destroy it until she is dead!" she yelled.
Oren stopped and started dodging the strikes.
"So that's why . . . Athena! I will not kill you!"
She stopped and turned to Zidane who was poised in attack mode, against the unmoving Upsilon.
Oren felt the same horrible feeling when Iota was about to kill Jessica, and knew what he was about to do.
"Do it if you want him to live!" Athena aimed the knives carefully.
Time almost slowed down, and Oren turned a full turn, brought up his right leg and kicked it into her head in a way that made it snap back from the force, and then he used his blade to stab one heart, all the way through.
It was quite sickening; a piece of her heart was on his blade, still pumping. Then, he swallowed his pride and jammed his hand through her lower heart, and she became pale and fell over.
"Thank you . . ., " she muttered.
Oren pulled out another piece of her heart and shook it off. The he looked at the blade, appalled.
"I have done it again . . . "
Her body whitened and materialized.
"Don't freak out on us again!" Tidus warned as he prepared to attack Upsilon.
Oren started shaking all over.
Rho started to get up.
"You . . . you aren't yourself."
Oren's body convulsed and he stared at her with evil eyes.
"True, true. But you won't live long enough to-"
He convulsed again and grabbed his head.
"What's happening to me!? I'm going . . . " he powered up.
"CRAZY!" he yelled as he blasted off into the sky.
***
Squall and Cloud tried as hard as they could not to hit each other as they fought a constantly weakening Tau, who performed maneuvers so complex it was obvious why it was better her hair was short.
"I have never seen better swordsmen in all of my thirty-three years!" she complimented telepathically.
Cloud turned over in space, loosing sense of up and down and brought his blade down with incredible force, as Squall aided him with Lionheart. It was of course very hard to maneuver in zero gravity, which showed off Tau's power even more.
Cloud and Squall doubled back for another attack, and Tau swiftly kicked Squall in the stomach and sent him floating for, temporarily immobilized.
She grabbed the head of Cloud and before he could move she started to read his mind and he felt weak.
Tau smiled at him, revealing that she had grown to the red-eye sharp toothed transformation similar to Rho.
"Tifa is ignoring you. She thinks you favor Aeris and are not telling her . . . " she warned him telepathically as she threw him off, forgetting about Squall who came back at her but was struck down again.
Cloud lost will to fight when he thought about how Tifa probably felt about him now . . . was she even with him during those final moments . . . ?
A blue streak came from nowhere and knocked Tau down through the atmosphere.
It had happened so fast that Cloud doubted that was real. He looked at Squall, and the two nodded and flew down after the streak.
In a matter of seconds they were on the ground again and could see Oren pounding the living daylights out of Tau as if possessed, even though she lost consciousness before hitting the ground.
After crunching her body down on Rho, which stole her consciousness, he flipped her over his shoulder and dropped her.
Tidus saw what Oren had down to Tau, and he was now breathing heavily and seemed to be crying.
Zidane hoped that the fight would end soon, but Upsilon ducked and the scene shifted, except Cloud, Squall, and Oren seemed to disappear to the point that Zidane and Tidus were alone. The snow disappeared, the sky was replaced with the interior of a building, and a sound like distant thunder could be heard. When the shifting stopped, they were in an abandoned building, the place was dusty and hollowed out with no doors, and the spooky night air filled the entire place. A heavy wind blew through the empty steel exterior, and lighting illuminated the outside, and Upsilon was visible charging.
"Damn! I can't see!" Tidus yelled as he just barely dodged.
"Use Zatach power or something! I think they can see in the dark!" Zidane yelled, jumping over three knives.
Tidus could suddenly see everything as if through night goggles, and Upsilon charged them recklessly.
The two charged and countered with their weapons in a series of graceful flips, turns, parries, and slashes. The two together made and impressive team.
Upsilon, however was simply too fast and kept coming back and attacking, and his fighting even resembled that of Omicron.
Suddenly, a hand came from nowhere and Oren appeared, grabbing him by the throat and tossing him like a rag doll, and the scene shifted back into the snow.
"Athena . . . "
Oren stumbled back and forth, not caring about anything anymore. Tau, Upsilon, and Rho lay in jumbled heaps, the fight ended anticlimactically before it had even began.
***
With a mighty thrust, Pi number one smashed her palm into the back of Phi's neck just as she turned, and she shook, then fell.
The annoying lights came on and became brighter, and a sound like thunder could be heard.
***
Oren sat on the ground, Squall, Cloud, Zidane, and Tidus walking over to him. In a few seconds, FT wore off and they were all back in the interior of the ship, where Phi and Chi lay on the ground.
"Hey . . . " Seifer waved up his gunblade.
Jessica stood up from her sitting position and let out a sigh of relief.
"I'm glad you all are okay . . . "
Rho, Tau, and Upsilon landed in a heap, and Oren still looked absolutely miserable.
Pi number one and two quickly tensed, and then a figure floated from above as the doors to the previous corridor opened up, and surprisingly no one was there anymore.
"Bravo, fighters, bravo" Allen said, laughing as he descended.
"Now you only have to worry about Psi"
Pi number two launched herself at Allen, who just dodged to the left and disappeared.
"Damn . . . " Oren muttered, walking off.
"What?" Seifer asked him.
"Just . . . damn. I . . . never mind. Let's get the hell outta here, Psi will be here in only a few seconds."
Everyone except for Oren and Seifer looked alarmed.
"What's so bad about that?" Seifer asked.
"Psi can kill us in a second with a beam that he lets out of his body . . . in here his powers should be suppressed . . . "
A sound like thunder, and then everyone in the room felt that they could no longer do anything even remotely advanced, including flying or speed maneuvers.
"How did you know?" asked Jessica.
" . . . "
"Come clean already!" Zidane threw his hands up, frustrated.
"Psi is now only capable of spreading the death beam a hundred meters, but we still must keep our distance, come!" Oren started limping, and then running off with the others following him.
"Stop!" a voice yelled.
Not all of them stopped, but they did after a few seconds and looked back. Coming through the corridor was the small, nerdy, Farfy McDouglas.
"Stop!" he yelled, straightening his glasses and pointing after them.
"Who the hell is that?" Zidane asked.
"He was an assistant to Pyros, not much of a threat." Oren stated, turning around.
"Hold on!" Farfy yelled again, and this time his voice sounded deep and mean.
He took of his shirt to reveal he was a very skinny youth.
"What is this?" Oren asked, not sounding amused.
He yelled, and a six-pack and pectoral muscles appeared on his body, and then an increase in his biceps, triceps, and deltoids.
He sprouted to a frightening height of seven feet, and his eyes became pure black. He shed his glasses, and revealed a very tough and frightening looking person.
Oren still wasn't intimidated, but then he started glowing purple.
"Damn . . . it's Psi! Run for your lives!"
It took a few seconds for that to sink in, and then everybody just ran, all Zatach power suppressed.
"I'll give you a hint!" yelled Psi in his deep voice.
"You are very close to destroying Fantasy Thunder for good!"
So they ran, fast. And, the purple beam followed them, appearing every once in a while and threatening to decimate them.
Up ahead, Oren could see something looming. It was beautiful, a large pure white structure. The actual look of it is impossible to describe, but it had elegant cannons and a figurehead of a beautiful woman, as well as a chamber of black surrounding it that made it stand out. The group was headed straight for that chamber.
It looked wonderful, beautiful, like a helper, a friend. But in reality, it was an antagonist. With the power it had, that thing was absolutely appalling and disgusting. That was Fantasy Thunder, and it would soon be at full power, and have enough of it to destroy existence itself. And at that moment the large group of fighters inside the ship held the fate of the universe in their hands. It was fate's turn to play a piece. Fantasy Thunder ahead, the last enemy behind.
The endgames had begun, things were coming to a close end. Who would actually win, though? All that was certain was, something big was going to happen, and the victor would soon be determined.
Fantasy Thunder holds a lot more than you know.
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AN: First I must apologize, this chapter was short and uneventful, but the final chapter, Omega, will involve at least three parts, and the resolution will come around. I won't tell you much, but this ending is going to be eventful, unexpected, surprising, and final. In a word, Fantasy. (Stay "tuned" for my final chapter, and if it seems proper, review.) Also, I have finally posted chapter one of "The Trinity", which is the narration of Braska's pilgrimage with Auron and Jecht from FFX. Also, for Kingdom Hearts fans, don't forget my fics "Crowned Hearts" (complete) and the newly added sequel to it, "The Adventures of Riku and Sora". Call me a crummy advertiser, but oh well.
[Part Three]
By Blue Dragon
They have come so far, so close. Defeated so many of us, accomplished so much. Will this end? Psi's power is nearly unbeatable, our absolute final line of defense and vital to the protection of FT. BUT, will they somehow defeat him too? Bravo, wonderful fighters, bravo.
She pulled the trigger of the assembled gun, but sadly, Chi dodged at just the right time and the same beam almost sent Seifer to heaven. Seifer flew back from the burst of hot air pressure to the right of him, and felt himself being dragged up, spun around, and dropped on his head, after which everything became blurred and his hearing wasn't quite right.
In a few seconds he was stood up, turned around, and flipped over on his back. Then a quick pressure on his neck, and everything became white and hazy. Finally, a voice saying, "He's tougher than I thought", and then an impact on his stomach, and the world slowly became brighter and brighter, and he felt light.
A figure that he could tell was Jessica descended upon him, and all he could mutter was:
"Angel . . . "
She touched his cheek and caressed it slightly, sighing a sad sigh.
The next eight seconds were a blur, and he felt light again, the world around him becoming even brighter. In a flash he figured out what was happening, he was dying, and he was hanging between the world of the dead and the living.
"Why isn't my life flashing before my eyes?" he asked in his mind.
He saw himself riding a bike, his mother getting killed, admission to Balamb Garden, his first gunblade, and then Squall slashing him between the eyes, the smirking face of Sorceress Ultimecia . . .
He felt even lighter than before and his vision was completely white, and for a second he thought he was dead.
In a few seconds he heard someone yelling "clear", and then felt an electric shock. The world then came back into view.
He couldn't move, but he could feel vibrations from blows being landed. Moments passed before he could move again and stood up, momentarily feeling a horrible throbbing pain in his head before he grabbed Hyperion and rejoined the fight, but noticed that Jessica was surprisingly handling herself quite well and at several times she came close to winning.
Seifer was soon able to get back up and fight again, and Chi knocked him in the back of the head so hard that for five seconds he didn't know who he was, where he was, or what he was doing, and then Chi slipped passed Jessica's defenses again and sliced Seifer's stomach almost open, which soon healed.
"I'm getting really tired of this." Seifer growled as he started glowing, feeling his liver, pancreas, intestines, and stomach reassemble and arrange.
"Jessica! Long, slow blow!" Seifer begged her telepathically as he turned his blade flat, remembering Oren's words.
Jessica reared back, exposing her abdomen completely, and Chi became careless and charged at full speed to get both of her hearts, giving Seifer just enough time to bash her on the forehead with the side of his blade, absolutely confident that the force would not be enough.
However, Chi stumbled back as blood seeped from her forehead, and then moaned, falling face-first on the ground.
Seifer laughed and dusted his hands.
"That'll learn ya!"
"Nice work, now we just have to take care of Phi" Jessica told, him, motioning towards the two Pi's."
She launched into action and with Seifer by her side, along with the two Pis, Phi kicked into full action and launched attacks that went everywhere at once. The situation became similar to the first fight against Rho, the tangle of bodies around her were thrown off with a burst of energy.
The advantage quickly shifted as Phi was outnumbered and growing tired.
***
Sephiroth wandered around the corridors aimlessly with Kuja by his side, equally bored. Eventually they came upon a small room tucked into a wall.
"Uh, Sephiroth" Kuja said, touching a hand to his arm.
"What?" he asked, not turning around.
Kuja toed the metallic floor and looked up at the annoying bright lights.
"My gut says that going in there would be a bad idea."
"Since when do you listen to your gut?" Sephiroth asked, opening the door.
When the door was opened, he gasped.
Right in front of him he saw a tube full of liquid connected to smaller tubes. The central large tube said "96%" on it.
"Ninety-six percent recovery" Sephiroth groaned.
"What's the matter?" Kuja asked, walking from behind him into the plain room that was much larger than it had initially appeared.
"Look who's in there."
Inside the tube was Gamma, her hair flowing all around, most of the lower half of the tube opaque.
"So she's ninety-six percent recovered, eh?" Kuja asked, as he looked around. When he turned to the right, the next the he saw scared the bejeezus out of him. He saw Alpha, inside a similar tube, much of his upper body exposed. Above his tube said "100%", and that meant that Alpha was 100 percent recovered. But, that wasn't' the scary thing. Alpha's eyes were wide open, unlike the sleeping Gamma, and he was staring at them vehemently.
"You suck" he mouthed.
Kuja smacked his cage.
"Shut up in there"
He looked down the line and saw Beta, Delta and Epsilon were 100% recovered inside their liquidated tubes, and were staring at them, not able to make a sound.
"This is scaring the hell out of me." Kuja muttered.
"They apparently can't do anything" Sephiroth said as he started taunting them.
The computer said "Releasing in fifteen seconds".
Beta got a gigantic smirk and began cracking his knuckles silently, and Sephiroth immediately slammed his sword through the computer that was attached to the wall, sending sparks and twisted metal flying every where and bouncing off the tubes, simultaneously shutting it down, and Epsilon snapped his fingers and started banging on the tube.
"Now what!?" Kuja yelled at them.
Delta was at 98, and Zeta was at 23 (he was hurt very badly).
Sephiroth felt a hand on his shoulder, and turned around and saw Lambda.
"Ahh!" he gave one of his rare screams.
"Having fun? We found out that these guys were under Py . . . Allen's control the whole time, but they still don't like you."
Gamma's tube beeped as it went to 100 percent and she woke up, saw Sephiroth, then Kuja, and then Lambda.
Of course, she only knew Lambda so she started requesting that he let her out silently, but of course Lambda decided to ignore her.
"Just leave them in there for now" Lambda said, walking off.
"Weren't the rest of you Alphabet Warriors going to negotiate with Allen?" Kuja asked.
"You think that that maniac can be negotiated with? We can't even find him, and even if we could he'd probably kill us."
Sephiroth sheathed his sword and turned around.
"I'm pretty tired of all this. When will this finally end?"
Lambda scratched his head.
"Allow us to join you, you will certainly need all the help you can get. This will all end very, very soon."
***
Oren grabbed the daggers and pushed them up until his face was level with Athena.
"Stop . . . this madness!" he said as he pushed her back.
"If you don't stop making attempts on my life, Athena, I will kill you! Many people are connected to my survival."
Athena didn't listen and stabbed like a madwoman.
Rho came about from unconsciousness but was immobilized.
"Her life is connected to Fantasy Thunder! You cannot destroy it until she is dead!" she yelled.
Oren stopped and started dodging the strikes.
"So that's why . . . Athena! I will not kill you!"
She stopped and turned to Zidane who was poised in attack mode, against the unmoving Upsilon.
Oren felt the same horrible feeling when Iota was about to kill Jessica, and knew what he was about to do.
"Do it if you want him to live!" Athena aimed the knives carefully.
Time almost slowed down, and Oren turned a full turn, brought up his right leg and kicked it into her head in a way that made it snap back from the force, and then he used his blade to stab one heart, all the way through.
It was quite sickening; a piece of her heart was on his blade, still pumping. Then, he swallowed his pride and jammed his hand through her lower heart, and she became pale and fell over.
"Thank you . . ., " she muttered.
Oren pulled out another piece of her heart and shook it off. The he looked at the blade, appalled.
"I have done it again . . . "
Her body whitened and materialized.
"Don't freak out on us again!" Tidus warned as he prepared to attack Upsilon.
Oren started shaking all over.
Rho started to get up.
"You . . . you aren't yourself."
Oren's body convulsed and he stared at her with evil eyes.
"True, true. But you won't live long enough to-"
He convulsed again and grabbed his head.
"What's happening to me!? I'm going . . . " he powered up.
"CRAZY!" he yelled as he blasted off into the sky.
***
Squall and Cloud tried as hard as they could not to hit each other as they fought a constantly weakening Tau, who performed maneuvers so complex it was obvious why it was better her hair was short.
"I have never seen better swordsmen in all of my thirty-three years!" she complimented telepathically.
Cloud turned over in space, loosing sense of up and down and brought his blade down with incredible force, as Squall aided him with Lionheart. It was of course very hard to maneuver in zero gravity, which showed off Tau's power even more.
Cloud and Squall doubled back for another attack, and Tau swiftly kicked Squall in the stomach and sent him floating for, temporarily immobilized.
She grabbed the head of Cloud and before he could move she started to read his mind and he felt weak.
Tau smiled at him, revealing that she had grown to the red-eye sharp toothed transformation similar to Rho.
"Tifa is ignoring you. She thinks you favor Aeris and are not telling her . . . " she warned him telepathically as she threw him off, forgetting about Squall who came back at her but was struck down again.
Cloud lost will to fight when he thought about how Tifa probably felt about him now . . . was she even with him during those final moments . . . ?
A blue streak came from nowhere and knocked Tau down through the atmosphere.
It had happened so fast that Cloud doubted that was real. He looked at Squall, and the two nodded and flew down after the streak.
In a matter of seconds they were on the ground again and could see Oren pounding the living daylights out of Tau as if possessed, even though she lost consciousness before hitting the ground.
After crunching her body down on Rho, which stole her consciousness, he flipped her over his shoulder and dropped her.
Tidus saw what Oren had down to Tau, and he was now breathing heavily and seemed to be crying.
Zidane hoped that the fight would end soon, but Upsilon ducked and the scene shifted, except Cloud, Squall, and Oren seemed to disappear to the point that Zidane and Tidus were alone. The snow disappeared, the sky was replaced with the interior of a building, and a sound like distant thunder could be heard. When the shifting stopped, they were in an abandoned building, the place was dusty and hollowed out with no doors, and the spooky night air filled the entire place. A heavy wind blew through the empty steel exterior, and lighting illuminated the outside, and Upsilon was visible charging.
"Damn! I can't see!" Tidus yelled as he just barely dodged.
"Use Zatach power or something! I think they can see in the dark!" Zidane yelled, jumping over three knives.
Tidus could suddenly see everything as if through night goggles, and Upsilon charged them recklessly.
The two charged and countered with their weapons in a series of graceful flips, turns, parries, and slashes. The two together made and impressive team.
Upsilon, however was simply too fast and kept coming back and attacking, and his fighting even resembled that of Omicron.
Suddenly, a hand came from nowhere and Oren appeared, grabbing him by the throat and tossing him like a rag doll, and the scene shifted back into the snow.
"Athena . . . "
Oren stumbled back and forth, not caring about anything anymore. Tau, Upsilon, and Rho lay in jumbled heaps, the fight ended anticlimactically before it had even began.
***
With a mighty thrust, Pi number one smashed her palm into the back of Phi's neck just as she turned, and she shook, then fell.
The annoying lights came on and became brighter, and a sound like thunder could be heard.
***
Oren sat on the ground, Squall, Cloud, Zidane, and Tidus walking over to him. In a few seconds, FT wore off and they were all back in the interior of the ship, where Phi and Chi lay on the ground.
"Hey . . . " Seifer waved up his gunblade.
Jessica stood up from her sitting position and let out a sigh of relief.
"I'm glad you all are okay . . . "
Rho, Tau, and Upsilon landed in a heap, and Oren still looked absolutely miserable.
Pi number one and two quickly tensed, and then a figure floated from above as the doors to the previous corridor opened up, and surprisingly no one was there anymore.
"Bravo, fighters, bravo" Allen said, laughing as he descended.
"Now you only have to worry about Psi"
Pi number two launched herself at Allen, who just dodged to the left and disappeared.
"Damn . . . " Oren muttered, walking off.
"What?" Seifer asked him.
"Just . . . damn. I . . . never mind. Let's get the hell outta here, Psi will be here in only a few seconds."
Everyone except for Oren and Seifer looked alarmed.
"What's so bad about that?" Seifer asked.
"Psi can kill us in a second with a beam that he lets out of his body . . . in here his powers should be suppressed . . . "
A sound like thunder, and then everyone in the room felt that they could no longer do anything even remotely advanced, including flying or speed maneuvers.
"How did you know?" asked Jessica.
" . . . "
"Come clean already!" Zidane threw his hands up, frustrated.
"Psi is now only capable of spreading the death beam a hundred meters, but we still must keep our distance, come!" Oren started limping, and then running off with the others following him.
"Stop!" a voice yelled.
Not all of them stopped, but they did after a few seconds and looked back. Coming through the corridor was the small, nerdy, Farfy McDouglas.
"Stop!" he yelled, straightening his glasses and pointing after them.
"Who the hell is that?" Zidane asked.
"He was an assistant to Pyros, not much of a threat." Oren stated, turning around.
"Hold on!" Farfy yelled again, and this time his voice sounded deep and mean.
He took of his shirt to reveal he was a very skinny youth.
"What is this?" Oren asked, not sounding amused.
He yelled, and a six-pack and pectoral muscles appeared on his body, and then an increase in his biceps, triceps, and deltoids.
He sprouted to a frightening height of seven feet, and his eyes became pure black. He shed his glasses, and revealed a very tough and frightening looking person.
Oren still wasn't intimidated, but then he started glowing purple.
"Damn . . . it's Psi! Run for your lives!"
It took a few seconds for that to sink in, and then everybody just ran, all Zatach power suppressed.
"I'll give you a hint!" yelled Psi in his deep voice.
"You are very close to destroying Fantasy Thunder for good!"
So they ran, fast. And, the purple beam followed them, appearing every once in a while and threatening to decimate them.
Up ahead, Oren could see something looming. It was beautiful, a large pure white structure. The actual look of it is impossible to describe, but it had elegant cannons and a figurehead of a beautiful woman, as well as a chamber of black surrounding it that made it stand out. The group was headed straight for that chamber.
It looked wonderful, beautiful, like a helper, a friend. But in reality, it was an antagonist. With the power it had, that thing was absolutely appalling and disgusting. That was Fantasy Thunder, and it would soon be at full power, and have enough of it to destroy existence itself. And at that moment the large group of fighters inside the ship held the fate of the universe in their hands. It was fate's turn to play a piece. Fantasy Thunder ahead, the last enemy behind.
The endgames had begun, things were coming to a close end. Who would actually win, though? All that was certain was, something big was going to happen, and the victor would soon be determined.
Fantasy Thunder holds a lot more than you know.
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AN: First I must apologize, this chapter was short and uneventful, but the final chapter, Omega, will involve at least three parts, and the resolution will come around. I won't tell you much, but this ending is going to be eventful, unexpected, surprising, and final. In a word, Fantasy. (Stay "tuned" for my final chapter, and if it seems proper, review.) Also, I have finally posted chapter one of "The Trinity", which is the narration of Braska's pilgrimage with Auron and Jecht from FFX. Also, for Kingdom Hearts fans, don't forget my fics "Crowned Hearts" (complete) and the newly added sequel to it, "The Adventures of Riku and Sora". Call me a crummy advertiser, but oh well.