Hi! And welcome to my second chapter! I know you're all wondering when this fic will get to Vincent's mysterious daughter... soon! I promise! ^^; and I know that you're also wondering who sent to the letter to Vincent... you all find out in about... *counts on fingers* 6 or 7 chapters later, don't kill me! Read on!

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Chapter 2 the Underwater Lab

"If you don't stop saying 'Water bad' over and over again, I swear I'm going to take this rope, tie you up with it, and squeeze the air out of you!." Crisis threaten. "You really shouldn't do that! He's your brother!" Cloud exclaimed.

"It's an empty threat Cloud! I won't really do it to him." Crisis growled. It has been an hour since Cloud, Vincent, Sephiroth, Crisis, Xellis, and Michael descended into the ocean with the sub they got from Junon. And the whole time Michael hid under a seat repeating the same phase over and over again "I think we should get him a bubble to keep the water away from him." Xellis said grinning. "Count on a brother to be hydrophobic..." Crisis muttered and tried to kick him, but Michael bit her leg "Ow! Why you little... AQUALUNG!!" she shouted. Michael screams and bounces around in the sub and went back to the same place he hid. Cloud turns a little green and said "I think... I'm going to be sick!" he takes out an emergency barf bay out of no where and empties his stomach into it. Xellis started spraying the sub with an air freshener.

Vincent read the letter over again trying to figure out who went it to him. His first thought was Hojo, but why would that psychotic scientist send him a letter to some underwater lab? His second thought was Lucrecia, but why send a letter now instead giving him it to him when he, Cloud, and the others went to her cave? "What are you thinking about?" Crisis asked him "Just wondering who sent this letter..." he answered "What about you?" "I wonder what's in this lab that is so important that someone send you and only you the letter instead of Cloud or Rufus... and what to make for dinner..." she said.

Two hours later they found the lab. "That thing is huge!" Crisis exclaimed "Look! Look! It's the big blue thing that kills you very easily! And is only in the American version of this game- I mean! This isn't a game, it's real life! And I never used cheat codes when I did play, I mean hypothetically speaking because this isn't a game. Hehehe." Xellis said, while waving her arms around in discouraging manner and everyone just stared at her "How do we open it?" Sephiroth asked "Dunno..... is there anything in that letter that says how to get in Vince?" Cloud asked. Xellis grinned & took out a detonator that looked almost exactly like one of the Gundam Wing self detonation switches (but due to copyright infringements it's not the same but looks almost exactly like it ^.~). "Mission. Accepted." She said in monotone while everyone else, save Michael who was still cowering under a chair, yelled & tried to stop her before she hit the button on the top. But Xellis, being the master of overkill, wouldn't relent & she hit the switch anyway, giggling happily. until the tell tale sign of a car's alarm system turning off beeped throughout the sub. (Sorry, personal joke.) "Damn, wrong one," she muttered, tossing that switch aside & pulling another out of her pocket. "Mission- Aw, fuck it!" She hit the button on the new switch & an explosion rocked the sub with a shockwave. "Heheheh! There's your God damned door!" She pointed at the huge hole in the underwater laboratory looking somewhat pleased with herself.

Crisis smacked her over head with a lead pipe. "YOU IDIOT!!! YOU JUST FLOODED THE WHOLE COMPLEX!!!" She yelled at the now nearly unconscious & swirly eyed girl on the floor. She faintly heard Xellis mutter in reply, "Don't they have airlocks?" "YOU PROBABLY DESTROYED THEM ALL WITH YOUR EXPLOSIVES, YOU PSYCHO!!!" Crisis screamed, her foot now positioned on the back of Xel's head, pressing the other's face into the floor. Sephiroth coughed delicately. "You calling Xellis a psycho. isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black?" He asked snidely. The light green haired berserking girl turned a glare on him. "Don't make me come after you, too, step-son!" She said the last part through gritted teeth. Cloud coughed, trying so hard not to laugh, Michael was still hiding, and Vincent hid a small smile.

After calming Crisis down, they went inside and luckily enough, the airlocks hasn't been destroyed and the place wasn't flooded to badly. "This place isn't too bad... at least Xellis didn't flood the place." Cloud said "Or blow it up..." Crisis muttered. Cloud looked left than right, "It looks like it's been abandon..." Xellis went over to one of the computers "I don't think so Cloud-boy, if it was than there would be layers of dust..." Crisis said swiping at one of the walls, with a little dust on her fingers "And the computers wouldn't be working to well." Xellis replied.

Everyone started walking, Michael got over the bad water and as they past a window, and Emerald Weapon was floating there. Michael just stared at it and put his mouth on the glass and puffed his cheeks. The Emerald Weapon charged and slammed into the window. Michael suddenly had an idea and drew an ad on the glass, "Free anal lovin' at Shinra Inc! Ask for Hojo (1-800-GAYASS)." The Emerald Weapon looked at the ad and then roared in rage and rushed in the direction of the Shinra building.

Crisis whacked Michael with a paper fan, grabbed him by the ear and started dragging him away from the window "Stop pestering the fishes... and Hojo isn't around or at Midgar." As they left the widow a few merman were staring at the window and with cell phones out. After a while they reached a door with a sigh on it saying '0-1 Keep out!' "I wonder what's in here." "Punch in the number and find out." Cloud punched in some random numbers on the key pad. ACESS DENIED "Oh god, please don't tell me that this is going to be like the rocket and punching in the numbers to get the huge materia out..." Cloud said "If it was, then there would be a time sequence and this lab would probably explode or something." "Try again." ACESS DENIED "Once more Cloud." "Why me? Why don't you try it?" "... well, Xellis can use her explosives once more... but only enough to blow the door in and not to blow us up." Crisis said. Xellis began to tape C4 to the door and stopped when she reached 25 blocks. "THAT'S OVERKILL!" Crisis yelled "Look who's talking Miss Use-the-Knights-of-the-Round-on-the-kiss-me-frog. Cloud could've hit it on the head with his nail bat and it would've gone down with one swing!" "I was just testing it out dammit!" "Riiight! 13 guys to kill a little frog." Xellis rolls her eyes. Michael rolled by inside a toxic waste barrel. "Just get rid of at least 10 or 15 blocks." "Fine, I wasn't gonna do this just yet but now you leave me no choice." Xellis took 15 blocks & walked away. "I'll be back." She said in a creepy voice. As the others waited for her return & Crisis did her best not to give in to the urge to blow the door open herself, Emerald WEAPON went swimming frantically by one of the widows in the room but no one saw. Also, no one saw Xellis go shooting by after the frightened metal monstrosity with the help of an underwater Jet-propulsion device & a bag of C4 in hand. The WEAPON swum by again, faster & a lot more panicked than before because Xellis was closing in on it. Finally there was a small shockwave & aquamarine colored metal pieces flew past the widow, still with no one to witness it.

"Where's Xellis?" Sephiroth asked as he came back from the bathroom. Just then, Xellis stumbles in looking quite happy "That WEAPON put up a fight! But it's gone now!" as Michael stares out the window, Emerald WEAPON's hand floated down past the window with its middle finger extended. Xellis unceremoniously blew the door open. "Ooh! Vending machines," exclaimed the explosives' owner. "I swear... I'm the one that acts more mature and older than my two sibs..." Crisis said shaking her head. Michael rolled into the room still in the barrel. "What's that?" Cloud asked pointing at something. They walked up to it and found that it was a stasis tube. A girl with long black hair was inside. "Holy shit!" Cloud exclaimed "What the fuck?!" Sephiroth said "Who is that?!" Crisis wondered and Vincent just stared wide eyed. "Cookie dough!" Michael exclaimed and Crisis stared at him. "Stop staring at me! This wig just makes me look prettier." Michael said while walking away (8 crazy nights, sorry my brother liked it)

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The phone rings. Crisis picks up the phone "Hello?" "Is Vincent Valentine there?" someone asks "That depends... why?" "Because of this AD in the newspaper, 1-800-I-DON'T-SHOOT-BLANKS. I want so much to have a baby and have been trying for 10 years, but my husband shoots blanks." Crisis held the phone so hard and her hands were shaking so bad that she nearly tore the mouth piece off "I am sorry... but Mr. Valentine is soon going to be...incapable for the rest of his life..." Crisis told the lady slowly. She put the phone down hard "Who was that?" Vincent asked coming into the room and she slowly turned to look at him "... Is something wrong...?" he asked "A lady called for you...about... some AD in the newspaper... " she growled while glaring at him.

The phone rings, Crisis turned to it glaring, and the phone exploded. "What do you have to say for yourself...?" Vincent gulped. Xellis comes in "Has anyone seen the newspaper?" she asked "Why?" Crisis asked "Because I might have made a mistake in an AD..." then her twin brother, Zax came in "Whoa! What happened to the phone?!" he asked and Crisis explained to him about the phone call "Oh, you mean the AD that Xellis put in the paper for Vincent?" Zax asked, Crisis turned to Xellis, and Xellis bolted.

End of Chapter 2