I woke up and saw nothing, it was pitch black, I walked around and just saw nothing, it was strange because I remember seeing this before but don't know where. I looked up and saw this massive red light, but it didn't brighten up the place, it was strange because light was meant to lighten up a place but this one didn't. I remember where I saw this; this was the souls of Terra, which meant I was dead. I remember hearing Garland say there was a way back and that you would be alive again. But how to do it, I couldn't remember. I floated up towards the light. When I got there I saw though it and I saw Garland standing there laughing. Then Vivi floated up and crashed against the far wall, and Garland laughed more. He looked down at the souls of Terra and saw me there. It all went blank and I appeared on the invincible. Kuja and Mikoto were standing in front of me. "I know you saw what Garland did to your friend, but don't go running in there and attack him, he thinks he can control us and we are playing along to fool him until we are ready to kill." Kuja said.
"Ok, but why?" I replied.
"Because he thinks he is controlling us, so he will make us do tasks and when we get one that will cripple him if it goes wrong, then we cripple him."
"Kuja, bring Zidane to me." Garland yelled.
Me and Kuja walked into the room where Garland was Torturing Vivi. "Zidane you are my most powerful Gnome and I don't know if I'm able to control you, so to see if I can I want you to kill your friend." Garland said with an evil grin on his face.
He handed me a gun. I opened it up and pointed it towards Vivi and looked at Kuja, I saw the sad look on his face because he knew I wasn't going to kill my friend. I spun around and fired the gun at Garland but nothing came out. "I knew it, that's why I didn't load the gun." Garland said with a sad look on his face.
Garland shot a beam at me and I fell unconscious next to Vivi. When I woke up Vivi looked terrible, he had cuts everywhere and there was a lot of blood. I used my sacrifice ability, and Vivi shot up looking as good as new and fell unconscious on the floor again. When I woke up I head a melting sound, I looked behind me and saw Vivi melting some bars. I looked around and saw we were imprisoned. Vivi stopped melting the bars and sat down next to me. "Now we wait." Vivi said.
"Wait for what?" I replied a bit confused.
"For Garland to come and get you."
"I better get ready then."
"Don't worry; you won't need to fight him. I melted the top of the bars so the gate won't open, and when he goes we pull the bars out with ease and escape."
"Vivi."
"Yeah Zidane."
"I'm sorry for picking you, but I thought that he would do something like this and well, I thought I would need your magic to escape. But I didn't know he would hurt you like he did."
"Zidane don't worry, I'm happy you picked me."
"Really, why?"
"Because it proves you need me, and I'd prefer to get hurt like that then Eiko."
"Really."
"Yeah, she's just a little girl, and don't tell her but I think I love her."
"Are you sure Vivi, I mean your 9, how can you love someone at that age?"
"I don't know, I just do. It's one of those things. You live but how, you don't know, where did the Eidolons come from? You don't know. It's just one of them things."
"Ok, I think I understand. But Eiko she's annoying, how can you love that?"
"She's sweet, funny, cute, and well other things."
"Well, you love who you love, why don't you want her to know?"
"I want to know if she loves me first."
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO THE BARS?!" Yelled Garland.
"Nothing, why?" I asked.
"If you haven't fixed them by the time we get to Alexandria, I'll destroy the City." Garland said storming off.
"Come on Zidane, help me out." Vivi said.
We took off a few bars and got out. We put the bars back and Vivi melted them back together, which looked a bit weird. He then burnt a message onto the wall, it said 'there you go, we fixed them for you'. We ran and got to the teleporter and left the ship. We land just outside of Alexandria, we ran to the mountains. When we got there we saw that the Invincible was powering up it's weapon. We ran into the mountain and activated the ion cannons. When they came out of the mountain we aimed them at the Invincible. Below I saw Beatrix and Steiner came running up to the mountain, they were a bit late, I fired the ion cannons at the Invincible and it made a hole right though the eye but the ship didn't blow up. It just disappeared. I got down and walked out. Beatrix and Steiner were standing there finding out what happened from a guard. We and Vivi walked over to them. "So what's been going on while we were gone?" I asked.
"Nothing except you returning." Beatrix said cockily, knowing I was being sarcastic.
We all walked back to the castle, when we got there I went to the meeting room, Vivi went to bed feeling tired, and Beatrix and Steiner went to get Garnet. I waited about 15 minutes and Garnet came in and ran over to me. When she reached me she punched me in the face. "You bastard." She said while punching me in the face.