Aerith and Tifa came around together as best friends do. "Enima, Lynn,
don't be sad, we're fine," Tifa smiled at us and wiped a tear of joy from
my eye. Aerith got up and struggled to stand. Red XIII supported her as
she made her way to Cloud, who was still on the ground in the middle of
Barret's head ruffles. She tripped and fell forward. Barret had let go of
Cloud when he saw her fall. Tried to catch her but missed by a mile, she
fell once again on Cloud. Thud... Cloud caught her. Was it just me or the
fact that Aerith had gotten a little weaker after they were washed up from
the Lifestream? Well what ever happened, Cloud or the others don't really
care as they were thankful enough that she lived.
Vincent went over to Tifa, "Tifa, I apologize for my behavior in the Lifestream. Will you forgive me?" he pleaded. She faced him and looked deep into his eyes. Remnants of memories of his lost love Lucrecia were still visible from the Lifestream event.
"Tifa, I loved her but that has passed and was how many years ago. I love you," he confessed, with sorrow in his shattered heart. All were moved when he confessed his feelings to Tifa.
Who would've thought Vincent would have feelings for Tifa or would be so open? He, who was so mysterious and grieves over the loss of his love Lucrecia to Hojo who used her, Vincent has changed from the Vincent we first met. We were really taken by surprise, but accepted the change as it was for the best. Vincent and Tifa were facing each other for a long time. As we couldn't leave without them, we waited for them patiently. At long last, Tifa jumped into his arms and forgave him. Cid was sad he had to leave Shera, seeing Tifa and Vincent that way made him want to be with Shera.
"Cid, we'll be seeing her sooner than you think. Have you ever heard the saying 'absence makes the heart grow fonder'?" I asked contently. He nodded asked the point I was making. "My point is, absence may bring you two closer than when you are together. Be patient and you'll be reunited soon." I smiled softly at him. He closed his eyes and turned away. Must have gotten the message but I would never know for sure.
Not long after Cloud became leader again, Cait Sith informed us about the next Huge materia's whereabouts. It was to be transported from the Undersea Reactor off the coast of Junon. "Well, it's time crash they're plans again, right?" Sam asked Cloud.
"Yeah, we have to retrieve all of the huge materia to keep them safe or risk losing the battles ahead." He answered.
"Time to get going; does anyone know where the entrance of the undersea reactor is?" He asked everyone.
"We do," Serena answered. "Celest..?" Vincent was puzzled.
"Yes, we do know. When we first arrived here, we investigated every inch of the Shinra base in Junon." Lynn continued.
"Well then, lead the way. Lynn, Celest and Sam, you'll lead this investigation. Bring Grey Fox, Red XIII, Speed and Enima with you." Cloud concluded.
"You're not coming with us?" Jacques asked.
"Not this time, we want to test your skills and let you feel glory on in a while." He grinned thoughtfully.
I snickered and nodded. They dropped us off at Junon and the guard who guarded the elevator to go up to the base asked us to pay him to go up. Before we went up, I had to find out how Priscilla was doing. At first she didn't recognize me. She greeted me warmly and embraced me. Priscilla wasn't as bad as I thought she was until she saw Jacques and asked to be introduced. After the introduction, she turned red like a tomato.
"Speed, do you have a girlfriend?" she suddenly asked him. I didn't see this coming and didn't know that she was the flirty type. To save me from jealousy, he pulled me towards his chest and said, "I believe so, you see WE have been going out for three years." I could see the disappointment in her eyes but she tried her best to conceal it.
"Then I'll wish both of you all the luck with your relationship." She forced a smile and let us out the door. Ai... she didn't have to get that sensitive.
Sam and Lynn led us through the sectors in the base to an elevator. We were careful not to trip any alarms along the way and none of the soldiers recognized us. The route to the underwater reactor was magnificent. It was like walking amongst the underwater life. I'm sure mom would've loved walking here with me. We even saw the dolphin. But bad thing about being here was; it was crawling with monsters including a scary looking one called the ghost ship. WE encountered many ghost ships; they were skeletons which were part pirate ship. The funny and ironic thing about them was they were powerful, but were weak against healing spells, maybe it's because they're already dead. We were too late to prevent the Turks from loading the huge materia onto the red Shinra submarine. Reno set a powerful C. Armor robot on us to enable them to escape. By the time we trashed the robot to bits, they had shoved off. The only way to catch up to them was to board the other Shinra submarine, the slick grey one and track them down. Next to it we found a chest which contained the key item Leviathan Scales which we could use to put out the fire in the cave in Wutai. We had to defeat and take a few of the soldiers as hostages in order to conquer the submarine. Sam piloted the submarine while Grey Fox was the navigator, Celest and I kept the prisoners calm Lynn searched for mines and attacks and Speed took care of the engine room.
"Enemy submarine at close range, what do we do," Lynn informed Sam. "Fire torpedoes, now!" he commanded.
Jacques loaded torpedoes one after another and in no time at all, we sunk the enemy submarine.
"Yeah, woo hoo!" all of us shouted for joy. Suddenly there was a code red alert and a distress call to our submarine to return at once to get ready to depart for Rocket Town where the remaining huge materia is being taken.
"Oh my god, I nearly forgot, Naz we better hurry over there. They're going to load it onto the rocket and blast it off to space in order to 'stop' the meteor!" I panicked and got really hyper.
"Stop worrying kak, we'll get there in time." He patted my back really hard to stop me from worrying.
"We'll retrieve this materia later, let's get to Rocket town." Jacques called from the engine room.
On the shore, we docked our submarine and raced to the Highwind, apparently they got the message from Reeve/ Cait Sith. They were waiting for us and forgot the fact that we could fly. Cid blew a fuse when he heard about what the Shinra were about to do and still haven't forgiven them for stopping the project before.
At Rocket Town, everyone was getting excited as the rocket was about to be launched.
"Oh no... hope we're not too late," I panicked again.
Cid, Cloud, Red XIII and I scrambled while the others stayed behind. The only reason I followed was I had a code stuck in my mind and wondered whether it had anything to do with the rocket. On the platform, Rude was waiting for us.
"Go first I'll catch up." I told them firmly.
They had second thoughts but went when I shouted to them.
"This would be easy," he grinned. "Don't bet on it baldy." I flicked my nose and got into ready position.
I didn't use be bow and arrows at all but I used my limbs as they were getting rusty.
"Bring it on!" he screamed and charged at me. I did a somersault which I was surprised I could do and dodged his attacks.
"Yawn... could you do better than that?" I yawned at his antics.
He charged again and this time I didn't manage to dodge. "Hah ha, ha, who's laughing now...?" he guffawed.
"Me!" I cried as I kicked him of his feet and punched him in the belly. He groaned and sprawled on the floor.
"Don't EVER underestimate me, baldy!" I told him off before flying up to the second platform to enter the rocket.
Inside, Cid tried to contact ground patrol but was unsuccessful. The countdown had started with us inside. He tried to abort the countdown but Heidegger had locked the controls. We were trapped and all we could do in the mean time was hanging on when the rocket blast off.
"I can't believe it, we're in outer space, and finally my dream has come true. If only she was here with me." He whispered in his heart.
"You need to get the materia, right? Well let's go get it." Cid suddenly blurted out.
He brought us to the containment unit, where the materia was set up. I tried the combination, 3422. Kaching ... the steel container opened.
"Well I'll be damned girl, how did you guess the password?" he was surprised I figured out the puzzle in record time.
"I was lucky I guess and those numbers were swimming in my head for sometime now." I said cheekily.
With the materia in our grasp, we headed for the engine room. We were just passing through the oxygen tanks when ... BOOOM the 8th oxygen blew and the impact trapped Cid under a large piece of metal. He struggled to get up but the huge hunk of metal was too heavy for us to carry.
He then regretted being cold towards Shera last time... He said out loud, "Shera I'm sorry for being mad at you the last time. You were right the tanks weren't satisfactory. Shera...!" his face fell and asked us to leave him be.
"Cid... did you say something?" Shera popped out from the safety pod she had just examined and installed.
"Shera!" we shouted together. "Yes, it's me why so surprised?" she asked with a question mark appearing above her head.
She saw Cid underneath the pile of metal and tried to move it with our help. It moved and slowly Cid crawled out from under it. He embraced Shera and apologized to her a million times. She said she had forgiven him a long time ago and brought us to the escape pod. We left the rocket in the nick of time before the rocket rammed into the meteor. There was an explosion so great that everyone on the Planet could see it clearly and had to shield their eyes from the brightness of the light. The light show ended and to no avail, the meteor still remained, the strategy had failed. Cid was glad to be in outer space at last and with Shera, but was upset that the moment in space wouldn't last.
Back on Earth, Sam, Siew Mei and Naz went to retrieve the huge materia from the ocean depths and had uncovered the Key of the Ancients as a special prize while they roamed underwater. We brought and kept the Master Materia, as Bugenhagen had called them, at his lab and according to him; we needed to master all our materia to use them. The red materia even gave us a Bahamut Zero summoning materia. We were in luck, because nearly all our materia were mastered and there were a few more materia we had to locate, to do that we needed chocobos.
Vincent went over to Tifa, "Tifa, I apologize for my behavior in the Lifestream. Will you forgive me?" he pleaded. She faced him and looked deep into his eyes. Remnants of memories of his lost love Lucrecia were still visible from the Lifestream event.
"Tifa, I loved her but that has passed and was how many years ago. I love you," he confessed, with sorrow in his shattered heart. All were moved when he confessed his feelings to Tifa.
Who would've thought Vincent would have feelings for Tifa or would be so open? He, who was so mysterious and grieves over the loss of his love Lucrecia to Hojo who used her, Vincent has changed from the Vincent we first met. We were really taken by surprise, but accepted the change as it was for the best. Vincent and Tifa were facing each other for a long time. As we couldn't leave without them, we waited for them patiently. At long last, Tifa jumped into his arms and forgave him. Cid was sad he had to leave Shera, seeing Tifa and Vincent that way made him want to be with Shera.
"Cid, we'll be seeing her sooner than you think. Have you ever heard the saying 'absence makes the heart grow fonder'?" I asked contently. He nodded asked the point I was making. "My point is, absence may bring you two closer than when you are together. Be patient and you'll be reunited soon." I smiled softly at him. He closed his eyes and turned away. Must have gotten the message but I would never know for sure.
Not long after Cloud became leader again, Cait Sith informed us about the next Huge materia's whereabouts. It was to be transported from the Undersea Reactor off the coast of Junon. "Well, it's time crash they're plans again, right?" Sam asked Cloud.
"Yeah, we have to retrieve all of the huge materia to keep them safe or risk losing the battles ahead." He answered.
"Time to get going; does anyone know where the entrance of the undersea reactor is?" He asked everyone.
"We do," Serena answered. "Celest..?" Vincent was puzzled.
"Yes, we do know. When we first arrived here, we investigated every inch of the Shinra base in Junon." Lynn continued.
"Well then, lead the way. Lynn, Celest and Sam, you'll lead this investigation. Bring Grey Fox, Red XIII, Speed and Enima with you." Cloud concluded.
"You're not coming with us?" Jacques asked.
"Not this time, we want to test your skills and let you feel glory on in a while." He grinned thoughtfully.
I snickered and nodded. They dropped us off at Junon and the guard who guarded the elevator to go up to the base asked us to pay him to go up. Before we went up, I had to find out how Priscilla was doing. At first she didn't recognize me. She greeted me warmly and embraced me. Priscilla wasn't as bad as I thought she was until she saw Jacques and asked to be introduced. After the introduction, she turned red like a tomato.
"Speed, do you have a girlfriend?" she suddenly asked him. I didn't see this coming and didn't know that she was the flirty type. To save me from jealousy, he pulled me towards his chest and said, "I believe so, you see WE have been going out for three years." I could see the disappointment in her eyes but she tried her best to conceal it.
"Then I'll wish both of you all the luck with your relationship." She forced a smile and let us out the door. Ai... she didn't have to get that sensitive.
Sam and Lynn led us through the sectors in the base to an elevator. We were careful not to trip any alarms along the way and none of the soldiers recognized us. The route to the underwater reactor was magnificent. It was like walking amongst the underwater life. I'm sure mom would've loved walking here with me. We even saw the dolphin. But bad thing about being here was; it was crawling with monsters including a scary looking one called the ghost ship. WE encountered many ghost ships; they were skeletons which were part pirate ship. The funny and ironic thing about them was they were powerful, but were weak against healing spells, maybe it's because they're already dead. We were too late to prevent the Turks from loading the huge materia onto the red Shinra submarine. Reno set a powerful C. Armor robot on us to enable them to escape. By the time we trashed the robot to bits, they had shoved off. The only way to catch up to them was to board the other Shinra submarine, the slick grey one and track them down. Next to it we found a chest which contained the key item Leviathan Scales which we could use to put out the fire in the cave in Wutai. We had to defeat and take a few of the soldiers as hostages in order to conquer the submarine. Sam piloted the submarine while Grey Fox was the navigator, Celest and I kept the prisoners calm Lynn searched for mines and attacks and Speed took care of the engine room.
"Enemy submarine at close range, what do we do," Lynn informed Sam. "Fire torpedoes, now!" he commanded.
Jacques loaded torpedoes one after another and in no time at all, we sunk the enemy submarine.
"Yeah, woo hoo!" all of us shouted for joy. Suddenly there was a code red alert and a distress call to our submarine to return at once to get ready to depart for Rocket Town where the remaining huge materia is being taken.
"Oh my god, I nearly forgot, Naz we better hurry over there. They're going to load it onto the rocket and blast it off to space in order to 'stop' the meteor!" I panicked and got really hyper.
"Stop worrying kak, we'll get there in time." He patted my back really hard to stop me from worrying.
"We'll retrieve this materia later, let's get to Rocket town." Jacques called from the engine room.
On the shore, we docked our submarine and raced to the Highwind, apparently they got the message from Reeve/ Cait Sith. They were waiting for us and forgot the fact that we could fly. Cid blew a fuse when he heard about what the Shinra were about to do and still haven't forgiven them for stopping the project before.
At Rocket Town, everyone was getting excited as the rocket was about to be launched.
"Oh no... hope we're not too late," I panicked again.
Cid, Cloud, Red XIII and I scrambled while the others stayed behind. The only reason I followed was I had a code stuck in my mind and wondered whether it had anything to do with the rocket. On the platform, Rude was waiting for us.
"Go first I'll catch up." I told them firmly.
They had second thoughts but went when I shouted to them.
"This would be easy," he grinned. "Don't bet on it baldy." I flicked my nose and got into ready position.
I didn't use be bow and arrows at all but I used my limbs as they were getting rusty.
"Bring it on!" he screamed and charged at me. I did a somersault which I was surprised I could do and dodged his attacks.
"Yawn... could you do better than that?" I yawned at his antics.
He charged again and this time I didn't manage to dodge. "Hah ha, ha, who's laughing now...?" he guffawed.
"Me!" I cried as I kicked him of his feet and punched him in the belly. He groaned and sprawled on the floor.
"Don't EVER underestimate me, baldy!" I told him off before flying up to the second platform to enter the rocket.
Inside, Cid tried to contact ground patrol but was unsuccessful. The countdown had started with us inside. He tried to abort the countdown but Heidegger had locked the controls. We were trapped and all we could do in the mean time was hanging on when the rocket blast off.
"I can't believe it, we're in outer space, and finally my dream has come true. If only she was here with me." He whispered in his heart.
"You need to get the materia, right? Well let's go get it." Cid suddenly blurted out.
He brought us to the containment unit, where the materia was set up. I tried the combination, 3422. Kaching ... the steel container opened.
"Well I'll be damned girl, how did you guess the password?" he was surprised I figured out the puzzle in record time.
"I was lucky I guess and those numbers were swimming in my head for sometime now." I said cheekily.
With the materia in our grasp, we headed for the engine room. We were just passing through the oxygen tanks when ... BOOOM the 8th oxygen blew and the impact trapped Cid under a large piece of metal. He struggled to get up but the huge hunk of metal was too heavy for us to carry.
He then regretted being cold towards Shera last time... He said out loud, "Shera I'm sorry for being mad at you the last time. You were right the tanks weren't satisfactory. Shera...!" his face fell and asked us to leave him be.
"Cid... did you say something?" Shera popped out from the safety pod she had just examined and installed.
"Shera!" we shouted together. "Yes, it's me why so surprised?" she asked with a question mark appearing above her head.
She saw Cid underneath the pile of metal and tried to move it with our help. It moved and slowly Cid crawled out from under it. He embraced Shera and apologized to her a million times. She said she had forgiven him a long time ago and brought us to the escape pod. We left the rocket in the nick of time before the rocket rammed into the meteor. There was an explosion so great that everyone on the Planet could see it clearly and had to shield their eyes from the brightness of the light. The light show ended and to no avail, the meteor still remained, the strategy had failed. Cid was glad to be in outer space at last and with Shera, but was upset that the moment in space wouldn't last.
Back on Earth, Sam, Siew Mei and Naz went to retrieve the huge materia from the ocean depths and had uncovered the Key of the Ancients as a special prize while they roamed underwater. We brought and kept the Master Materia, as Bugenhagen had called them, at his lab and according to him; we needed to master all our materia to use them. The red materia even gave us a Bahamut Zero summoning materia. We were in luck, because nearly all our materia were mastered and there were a few more materia we had to locate, to do that we needed chocobos.
