TIME CRUSH
Chapter 3
"Where the hell are they all coming from?" Freya called from her perch up in a tree.
The Marlboro swarm was huge, too huge to be natural. It wasn't that the group couldn't kill the things, it was purely a question of mathematics. Five people against Thousands of acid spitting plants was not a happy equation.
"Magic would be a nice thing right about now!" Irvine shouted as he desperately tried to reload hi gun with one hand, the other was beating away three of the venomous trees.
"Any ideas?" Half skirt girl?" Quistis called as she tried desperately to untangle her whip from Squall's gun blade.
"Hey! Don't insult the style. Hang on, I have an idea…" Yuna shouted, as she searched for her garment grid.
Suddenly, a short girl wearing a black tight jumper and black trousers appeared in the middle of the group. She muttered a few strange words under her breath, and the front Marlboros started to fall asleep. Gradually, this spread and soon, most of the toxic flora were snoozing happily.
"It'll only last for a few minutes. We've got to destroy them or they'll completely decimate the forest. Please you've got to help me!"
"FIRAGA!!" Yuna cried as she felt a burst of intense heat surge from her fingers. At least three hundred Marlboro must have burnt up in the blast.
"Please, we need to destroy the all!" the girl cried as she drew a small metal device out of her pocket, and threw it at the stricken plants. The device blew up, taking eighty of the beasts with it.
"Blue magic, would that work?" Quistis asked as she started to focus on the somewhat erratic spells contained in her subconscious.
"Only if it's fire based. They're weak to fire."
"Wait, where did you come from?" Squall asked the short girl.
"That's not important right now. It's vitally important that these things die!" she screamed back. There were tears falling from her eyes.
"FIRE BREATH!" Quistis shouted as she opened her mouth. Tongues of ethereal fire sprouted from her, incinerating the vile monsters in front of her. Almost all of the plants were destroyed by this attack, and Irvine and Squall were able to pick off the rest of them.
After the carnage was over, all that was left was 4 tentacles. The team gathered these elusive items, and walked over to the new girl. She was sobbing slowly.
"Hey, are you ok?" Yuna asked.
"OH, thank you all so much!" she said, hugging the ex-summoner hard.
"Um… it's…ok" she replied, struggling to breath.
"My god. Thank you all!" she said, tears slowing from her eyes. She then ran over to Quistis and hugged her in the same way.
"Um…I Can't breathe!" Quistis squealed.
"Oh. Sorry," the girl said, "My name's Loki. I'm from the future."
"oh boy, another future nutter. Look, I don't believe any of you are from the future. As far as I'm concerned, I'm just dreaming. This is all a bad dream!" Freya shouted at her.
"Denial always happens, but what do you mean about other ones? Who else has been saying that they're from the future?"
"Oh, just some guy and a girl. The guy was real tall, and the girl was hot," Irvine said, "as are you, gorgeous."
"Man, will you shut up, you're engaged." Squall said to his cowboy companion.
"Oh yeah. Sorry."
"I'm not the one you should be apologising to."
"Oh yeah. Sorry lil lady, but I'm taken."
"Yeah, whatever. Look, Freya, what were the other one's names?"
"How did you know my name?"
"Because I'm for the future, dragon knight. Please tell me who the others were."
The knight early turned and sat down on a rock.
"The girl was called Emma, and the boy… I have no idea what his name was. Sorry." Quistis said to her.
"Oh. Well, if the girl was Sara, I might have known, but never mind, although Emma… nah. At least you could take me to meet them. I'd be really grateful."
"Um… I've got a question. Why were you so concerned about the forest if you're not from here?" Yuna asked Loki.
"Well, I've actually lost my ability to travel vast distances in time. The equipment was in the forest. It's been my home for a year now. If it got destroyed, I'd never be able to see my love again. I'd never be able to find my way home either."
"Well, I'll radio The boss guy, and tell him what's been going on." Squall said to the now group of 5.
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"Right, ok, fine. Well, we'll be back at the cave in about two hours. See you there." Dave said into the Ethernet terminal.
"Who was that?"
"Squall. They've found some girl called Lown key or something, and they fought off a swarm of Marlboro…"
Suddenly, a little noise came from the terminal.
"I'll bet that's Emma."
"Um…shouldn't you answer those in a less…uh…gravitational?" Rikku asked.
"Nah, I'm ok," He pulled the terminal out from his pocket, and pressed the answer button, and said, "Talk to me, man."
"Dave, it's me, Emma."
"No shit. What do you want?"
"Just wanted to tell you we've had loads of battles, and we beat an Adamantoise! We also found this guy called Brid, and he say's he'll be able to find a town tomorrow!"
"Ok. Well, you meet everyone else back at the cave in 2 hours, ok?"
"Right. See you then"
"Whatever"
The transmission ended.
"So, who was it?" Selphie asked.
"Shut up. It was. They killed an Adamantoise. So, while the other groups have been having fun killing things, we…" The branch he was hanging onto started to snap. "Oh crap. We've been in this tree for an hour, trying to get this FUCKING CAT DOWN! I don't even like cats!"
"Well, it can't get down, and it's in need of our help." Rinoa said to him, as the kitten edged onto another branch, to get away from Dave.
"So why didn't one of you get it?"
"Because we're all too short to climb up!" Selphie said.
"oh yeah…" he said, as the branch broke even further, and Dave said, "oh………fuck!" as the branch broke, sending man and feline crashing to the ground.
The fall was quite comical, with amusing noises all round. As with tradition, Dave was the first to hit the floor, followed by the branch, followed by the kitten, who was unharmed.
"Oh my god! Is it ok?" Selphie screamed.
"Yeah, the kitty's fine" Rikku said to the concerned girl.
"Man, you fell real bad, boy! It was funny!" Yuffie said to the fallen leader.
"Thank you, Wutai ninja, I'll remember you said that. OW!"
Suddenly the ground started rumbling.
"What's that!" Rikku shrieked.
"Oh, it's just a train. Remember, I told you about them." Yuffie said to the shaking Al Bhed girl.
"Wow," she said as she saw the metal monstrosity that was the Tempest TTS-2 heavy armoured train, "I'd love to have a look at one."
"Well, I'll take you, ok? Rikku?" Yuffie said, whilst trying to understand the strange messages her brain and stomach were trying in vain to send her.
"Thanks, that would be nice." Rikku said to the little ninja.
"Wait, hold on a minute. Trains. BLOODY TRAINS! We can just follow the rail lines! Aw, man! Why didn't I think of that before? SHIT!"
"Well, that's not really leader qualities, I bet Squall's thought of that by now." said Rinoa, with the haughtiness of a generals daughter.
"Well, really. Well, he should have said so when he was ON THE ETHERNET! SHUT THE FUCK UP RIGHT NOW!!!" Dave shouted at her.
He got the Ethernet transmitter out, and signalled to both the other team leaders.
"Hello?" Squall said.
"What now?" Emma said.
"I've had a new idea. We'll follow the railway tracks. We're bound to find a town sooner or later like that."
"Good idea."
"Well done Dave. Why didn't you think of that before?"
"Shut up. Meet back at the cave as soon as possible."
"Mr Dave, can we keep the kitten?" Rikku asked him.
"Will you whinge if I say no?"
"Of course."
"Well, fine, as long as I can name it."
"Ok."
"We'll call her Xiao. It's what my sisters cat was called. I like it."
"Wow. It does really suit her. Hey, she likes it," she said, as the kitten started to purr.
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Back at the cave, Emma's group was the first group to get back. They decided that it would be a good idea to light a fire, because the cold was setting in, and they were all aching and didn't want to fight too much, and the flames would keep beasts and fiends away.
"Well, it's nice to see that someone pays attention to my memos." Dave said as his group came into view. Xiao had taken up a perch on top of Rikku's head, and Dave was carrying Yuffie in his arms.
"Wow, what happened to her?"
"She's just tired. She practically fell asleep while walking, and I decided to carry her the rest of the way. It's scary, man. She weighs like five stone. She needs help."
"I'll look after her!" Rikku said a little too quickly, "I mean, she's going to be showing me round one of those 'trains', so I need her to be healthy."
"Whatever," Dave said as she set down the ninja close to the fire, and pulled out a little bottle from his pocket, "If you want to be helpful, get her to drink this. So," He said turning back to Emma, "Where's this new guy, then?"
"Right here, man!" Brid said from the other side of the fire.
"So, you know where there's a town around here?"
"Yep. However, I can't find it, because I lost my compass."
"Dude, are you a retard? Simple thing, sun rises in the east, sets in the west. So where's the town?"
"Somewhere over there," He waved his arm in a southerly direction, "It's over the mountain, so we've got no chance of finding it."
"Oh great. Bloody perfect, Emma, you've found us a sponger. Brilliant."
"Hey, I am not a sponger. I didn't want to go along, she made me," he said pointing to Paine.
"HEY! Did we miss anything good?" Irvine called out as Squalls group came into view around the edge of the mountain.
"Who's the new person?" Emma asked Dave as the group got closer.
"Oh, some forest girl called Lown Key, or something."
"It…IT'S LOKI!" Emma shouted, and she jumped up and ran towards the short black clad girl.
"Oh my GOD! EMMA! IS IT YOU?" The pint sized lady shouted as she too ran towards the girl. As they met, they grabbed each other and embraced.
"Oh, I thought I'd never see you again!" Loki said as she hugged Emma.
"How long has it been?" Emma asked the girl.
"Too long, Emma. Too long."
"I missed you."
"I missed you too."
"I… I…"
"Hey, where do you want this stuff, Loki?" Squall asked as he dumped some unidentifiable hardware onto the ground.
"Be careful with that, it's the power matrix for the particle accelerator." Loki said, breaking up her embrace with Emma, and striding up to Squall.
"Sorry. This stuff is heavy you know."
"Why again did we have to cart this stuff here?" Quistis asked the short girl.
"Because without it, no time travel's going to happen around here any time soon." The girl said as she entered the 'camp'.
"Hey, Loki, whassup?"
"DAVE! Oh my god! How've you been?"
"Good, good. Trying to save the multiverse from a cataclysmic disaster, but apart from that, everything's cool."
"Same old Dave, then"
"Whatever. Hey," he said as Xiao cam and rubbed up against him.
"Wow, someone's made a friend," Paine said as she sat down on a rock, "It's more than I could do" she whispered.
"I still don't believe any of this" Freya said.
"Hey, uh, Freya wasn't it?" Paine said to her.
"Yes, what?"
"Some of the moves you were doin gout there were pretty good. Could you show me sometime?"
Freya smiled. "Sure."
Paine smiled. "Thanks"
"DAVE!" Rikku shouted.
"What?" he said to the green eyed girl.
"She's hurt real bad. I don't think she's going to make it."
"So, us some magic."
"But, I can't, you know, change now! It'll be weird."
"Ok, so a little girl died because you were modest."
"Well, That's a good point…"
"You goddamn right it is! Jesus. OK, People, we're heading off at dawn, so get some sleep, ok? OK?"
"Sure" said Zell.
"Yes, sir!" Yuna said.
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Late into the night, when almost everyone was asleep, something strange happened. The first was a muffled mew, the next was a moment of dimensional and physical instability, and the next was a quiet swearword and some fumbling around. Dave was the only person awake, purely because he never slept, really. Well well well, he thought to himself as he put a bookmark into a well worn book, So it doesn't just look like my sisters kitty, it IS my sisters kitten. Xiao, you'll be needing some clothes, unless…
"OK, Xiao, you can come over here, I won't hurt you."
"mrrrow, where am I? What happened to me?" The cat-girl asked as she crept over to the tall boy.
"Xiao, you've been changed into an almost human. If the change is permanent, we'll need to get you some clothes.
"rraow, why has it happened?"
"You were my sister's pet, and she has a tendency to be experimental with magic."
"I allwways wanted to be human."
"Cool. I tell you what, we'll keep this as our little secret, ok. I don't want anyone to know you're a cat. Now, you need some clothes. Emma always has spares, and I'm sure I can cut something into your size."
"Thank you, master."
"Call me Dave."
"Thank you, Dave"
"Hey, it's ok."
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As you may or may not have guessed, there's more than one story interlinked here. The pressure exerted on the timeline by the echo is causing it to have breaches into other existences, so there are certain points where existence streaming will happen, where two existences interlink, and you can pass freely between the two.
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(Authors note: So there's more than just final fantasy here. Like I care, I like Xiao. She's cute. As you may have noticed, there's the start of things going on between certain characters in this fic. There will be developments, but if I told you, I'd have to kill you. So just stay hooked, ok?)
Chapter 3
"Where the hell are they all coming from?" Freya called from her perch up in a tree.
The Marlboro swarm was huge, too huge to be natural. It wasn't that the group couldn't kill the things, it was purely a question of mathematics. Five people against Thousands of acid spitting plants was not a happy equation.
"Magic would be a nice thing right about now!" Irvine shouted as he desperately tried to reload hi gun with one hand, the other was beating away three of the venomous trees.
"Any ideas?" Half skirt girl?" Quistis called as she tried desperately to untangle her whip from Squall's gun blade.
"Hey! Don't insult the style. Hang on, I have an idea…" Yuna shouted, as she searched for her garment grid.
Suddenly, a short girl wearing a black tight jumper and black trousers appeared in the middle of the group. She muttered a few strange words under her breath, and the front Marlboros started to fall asleep. Gradually, this spread and soon, most of the toxic flora were snoozing happily.
"It'll only last for a few minutes. We've got to destroy them or they'll completely decimate the forest. Please you've got to help me!"
"FIRAGA!!" Yuna cried as she felt a burst of intense heat surge from her fingers. At least three hundred Marlboro must have burnt up in the blast.
"Please, we need to destroy the all!" the girl cried as she drew a small metal device out of her pocket, and threw it at the stricken plants. The device blew up, taking eighty of the beasts with it.
"Blue magic, would that work?" Quistis asked as she started to focus on the somewhat erratic spells contained in her subconscious.
"Only if it's fire based. They're weak to fire."
"Wait, where did you come from?" Squall asked the short girl.
"That's not important right now. It's vitally important that these things die!" she screamed back. There were tears falling from her eyes.
"FIRE BREATH!" Quistis shouted as she opened her mouth. Tongues of ethereal fire sprouted from her, incinerating the vile monsters in front of her. Almost all of the plants were destroyed by this attack, and Irvine and Squall were able to pick off the rest of them.
After the carnage was over, all that was left was 4 tentacles. The team gathered these elusive items, and walked over to the new girl. She was sobbing slowly.
"Hey, are you ok?" Yuna asked.
"OH, thank you all so much!" she said, hugging the ex-summoner hard.
"Um… it's…ok" she replied, struggling to breath.
"My god. Thank you all!" she said, tears slowing from her eyes. She then ran over to Quistis and hugged her in the same way.
"Um…I Can't breathe!" Quistis squealed.
"Oh. Sorry," the girl said, "My name's Loki. I'm from the future."
"oh boy, another future nutter. Look, I don't believe any of you are from the future. As far as I'm concerned, I'm just dreaming. This is all a bad dream!" Freya shouted at her.
"Denial always happens, but what do you mean about other ones? Who else has been saying that they're from the future?"
"Oh, just some guy and a girl. The guy was real tall, and the girl was hot," Irvine said, "as are you, gorgeous."
"Man, will you shut up, you're engaged." Squall said to his cowboy companion.
"Oh yeah. Sorry."
"I'm not the one you should be apologising to."
"Oh yeah. Sorry lil lady, but I'm taken."
"Yeah, whatever. Look, Freya, what were the other one's names?"
"How did you know my name?"
"Because I'm for the future, dragon knight. Please tell me who the others were."
The knight early turned and sat down on a rock.
"The girl was called Emma, and the boy… I have no idea what his name was. Sorry." Quistis said to her.
"Oh. Well, if the girl was Sara, I might have known, but never mind, although Emma… nah. At least you could take me to meet them. I'd be really grateful."
"Um… I've got a question. Why were you so concerned about the forest if you're not from here?" Yuna asked Loki.
"Well, I've actually lost my ability to travel vast distances in time. The equipment was in the forest. It's been my home for a year now. If it got destroyed, I'd never be able to see my love again. I'd never be able to find my way home either."
"Well, I'll radio The boss guy, and tell him what's been going on." Squall said to the now group of 5.
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"Right, ok, fine. Well, we'll be back at the cave in about two hours. See you there." Dave said into the Ethernet terminal.
"Who was that?"
"Squall. They've found some girl called Lown key or something, and they fought off a swarm of Marlboro…"
Suddenly, a little noise came from the terminal.
"I'll bet that's Emma."
"Um…shouldn't you answer those in a less…uh…gravitational?" Rikku asked.
"Nah, I'm ok," He pulled the terminal out from his pocket, and pressed the answer button, and said, "Talk to me, man."
"Dave, it's me, Emma."
"No shit. What do you want?"
"Just wanted to tell you we've had loads of battles, and we beat an Adamantoise! We also found this guy called Brid, and he say's he'll be able to find a town tomorrow!"
"Ok. Well, you meet everyone else back at the cave in 2 hours, ok?"
"Right. See you then"
"Whatever"
The transmission ended.
"So, who was it?" Selphie asked.
"Shut up. It was. They killed an Adamantoise. So, while the other groups have been having fun killing things, we…" The branch he was hanging onto started to snap. "Oh crap. We've been in this tree for an hour, trying to get this FUCKING CAT DOWN! I don't even like cats!"
"Well, it can't get down, and it's in need of our help." Rinoa said to him, as the kitten edged onto another branch, to get away from Dave.
"So why didn't one of you get it?"
"Because we're all too short to climb up!" Selphie said.
"oh yeah…" he said, as the branch broke even further, and Dave said, "oh………fuck!" as the branch broke, sending man and feline crashing to the ground.
The fall was quite comical, with amusing noises all round. As with tradition, Dave was the first to hit the floor, followed by the branch, followed by the kitten, who was unharmed.
"Oh my god! Is it ok?" Selphie screamed.
"Yeah, the kitty's fine" Rikku said to the concerned girl.
"Man, you fell real bad, boy! It was funny!" Yuffie said to the fallen leader.
"Thank you, Wutai ninja, I'll remember you said that. OW!"
Suddenly the ground started rumbling.
"What's that!" Rikku shrieked.
"Oh, it's just a train. Remember, I told you about them." Yuffie said to the shaking Al Bhed girl.
"Wow," she said as she saw the metal monstrosity that was the Tempest TTS-2 heavy armoured train, "I'd love to have a look at one."
"Well, I'll take you, ok? Rikku?" Yuffie said, whilst trying to understand the strange messages her brain and stomach were trying in vain to send her.
"Thanks, that would be nice." Rikku said to the little ninja.
"Wait, hold on a minute. Trains. BLOODY TRAINS! We can just follow the rail lines! Aw, man! Why didn't I think of that before? SHIT!"
"Well, that's not really leader qualities, I bet Squall's thought of that by now." said Rinoa, with the haughtiness of a generals daughter.
"Well, really. Well, he should have said so when he was ON THE ETHERNET! SHUT THE FUCK UP RIGHT NOW!!!" Dave shouted at her.
He got the Ethernet transmitter out, and signalled to both the other team leaders.
"Hello?" Squall said.
"What now?" Emma said.
"I've had a new idea. We'll follow the railway tracks. We're bound to find a town sooner or later like that."
"Good idea."
"Well done Dave. Why didn't you think of that before?"
"Shut up. Meet back at the cave as soon as possible."
"Mr Dave, can we keep the kitten?" Rikku asked him.
"Will you whinge if I say no?"
"Of course."
"Well, fine, as long as I can name it."
"Ok."
"We'll call her Xiao. It's what my sisters cat was called. I like it."
"Wow. It does really suit her. Hey, she likes it," she said, as the kitten started to purr.
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Back at the cave, Emma's group was the first group to get back. They decided that it would be a good idea to light a fire, because the cold was setting in, and they were all aching and didn't want to fight too much, and the flames would keep beasts and fiends away.
"Well, it's nice to see that someone pays attention to my memos." Dave said as his group came into view. Xiao had taken up a perch on top of Rikku's head, and Dave was carrying Yuffie in his arms.
"Wow, what happened to her?"
"She's just tired. She practically fell asleep while walking, and I decided to carry her the rest of the way. It's scary, man. She weighs like five stone. She needs help."
"I'll look after her!" Rikku said a little too quickly, "I mean, she's going to be showing me round one of those 'trains', so I need her to be healthy."
"Whatever," Dave said as she set down the ninja close to the fire, and pulled out a little bottle from his pocket, "If you want to be helpful, get her to drink this. So," He said turning back to Emma, "Where's this new guy, then?"
"Right here, man!" Brid said from the other side of the fire.
"So, you know where there's a town around here?"
"Yep. However, I can't find it, because I lost my compass."
"Dude, are you a retard? Simple thing, sun rises in the east, sets in the west. So where's the town?"
"Somewhere over there," He waved his arm in a southerly direction, "It's over the mountain, so we've got no chance of finding it."
"Oh great. Bloody perfect, Emma, you've found us a sponger. Brilliant."
"Hey, I am not a sponger. I didn't want to go along, she made me," he said pointing to Paine.
"HEY! Did we miss anything good?" Irvine called out as Squalls group came into view around the edge of the mountain.
"Who's the new person?" Emma asked Dave as the group got closer.
"Oh, some forest girl called Lown Key, or something."
"It…IT'S LOKI!" Emma shouted, and she jumped up and ran towards the short black clad girl.
"Oh my GOD! EMMA! IS IT YOU?" The pint sized lady shouted as she too ran towards the girl. As they met, they grabbed each other and embraced.
"Oh, I thought I'd never see you again!" Loki said as she hugged Emma.
"How long has it been?" Emma asked the girl.
"Too long, Emma. Too long."
"I missed you."
"I missed you too."
"I… I…"
"Hey, where do you want this stuff, Loki?" Squall asked as he dumped some unidentifiable hardware onto the ground.
"Be careful with that, it's the power matrix for the particle accelerator." Loki said, breaking up her embrace with Emma, and striding up to Squall.
"Sorry. This stuff is heavy you know."
"Why again did we have to cart this stuff here?" Quistis asked the short girl.
"Because without it, no time travel's going to happen around here any time soon." The girl said as she entered the 'camp'.
"Hey, Loki, whassup?"
"DAVE! Oh my god! How've you been?"
"Good, good. Trying to save the multiverse from a cataclysmic disaster, but apart from that, everything's cool."
"Same old Dave, then"
"Whatever. Hey," he said as Xiao cam and rubbed up against him.
"Wow, someone's made a friend," Paine said as she sat down on a rock, "It's more than I could do" she whispered.
"I still don't believe any of this" Freya said.
"Hey, uh, Freya wasn't it?" Paine said to her.
"Yes, what?"
"Some of the moves you were doin gout there were pretty good. Could you show me sometime?"
Freya smiled. "Sure."
Paine smiled. "Thanks"
"DAVE!" Rikku shouted.
"What?" he said to the green eyed girl.
"She's hurt real bad. I don't think she's going to make it."
"So, us some magic."
"But, I can't, you know, change now! It'll be weird."
"Ok, so a little girl died because you were modest."
"Well, That's a good point…"
"You goddamn right it is! Jesus. OK, People, we're heading off at dawn, so get some sleep, ok? OK?"
"Sure" said Zell.
"Yes, sir!" Yuna said.
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Late into the night, when almost everyone was asleep, something strange happened. The first was a muffled mew, the next was a moment of dimensional and physical instability, and the next was a quiet swearword and some fumbling around. Dave was the only person awake, purely because he never slept, really. Well well well, he thought to himself as he put a bookmark into a well worn book, So it doesn't just look like my sisters kitty, it IS my sisters kitten. Xiao, you'll be needing some clothes, unless…
"OK, Xiao, you can come over here, I won't hurt you."
"mrrrow, where am I? What happened to me?" The cat-girl asked as she crept over to the tall boy.
"Xiao, you've been changed into an almost human. If the change is permanent, we'll need to get you some clothes.
"rraow, why has it happened?"
"You were my sister's pet, and she has a tendency to be experimental with magic."
"I allwways wanted to be human."
"Cool. I tell you what, we'll keep this as our little secret, ok. I don't want anyone to know you're a cat. Now, you need some clothes. Emma always has spares, and I'm sure I can cut something into your size."
"Thank you, master."
"Call me Dave."
"Thank you, Dave"
"Hey, it's ok."
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As you may or may not have guessed, there's more than one story interlinked here. The pressure exerted on the timeline by the echo is causing it to have breaches into other existences, so there are certain points where existence streaming will happen, where two existences interlink, and you can pass freely between the two.
---------------------------------------------------------
(Authors note: So there's more than just final fantasy here. Like I care, I like Xiao. She's cute. As you may have noticed, there's the start of things going on between certain characters in this fic. There will be developments, but if I told you, I'd have to kill you. So just stay hooked, ok?)