Aftermath

Disclaimer: I do not own any characters from Final Fantasy VII or Cowboy Bebop

Author: Heh well if anybody's reading I'm still a newbie but hey I'll work through it

As I laid there in the velvet purple haze I lost all track of time, nothing mattered in here. This couldn't be heaven, I watched my life flash by like a movie. Things just merged together, no pain or suffering, but no happiness neither just a lazy float in this world.

"Spike!" A voice somewhat familiar said.

I couldn't pinpoint the voices location or who it was but I knew it. Something about it aggravated me, but also calmed me, it sort of guided. I willed myself to the voices location, it grew louder as I floated off into the nothingness.

"Hey! Hello!" I yelled hoping for a response...nothing.

"Spike! Come back!" The voice yelled.

"Who the hell are you!" I yelled now growing a bit fustrated.

Before I felt like I was finally in a place that I could relax. That my troubles wore over, but now I felt like a prisoner. Everything was the same and a person trying to call out to me. I had to get out.

"Where the hell are you!" I yelled...nothing.

"Dammit! Answere me!" I yelled again.

"Son of a Bi...AGHHHHH!" Pain engulfed my body.

I didn't understand, was I being punished for thinking of escaping. The velvet purple haze washed away and was filled with black, I couldn't see anything. I felt panicked.

"Get me out of here!" I yelled. "Spike!" The voice shrieked. "Dammit Faye shut up!" I yelled out of fustration and anger.

Wait...Faye her name's Faye. I remember now.

"Faye...Faye!" I yelled. "Huh? Spike." Her voice was calm now but bearly audible.

A cold shrill was sent down my spine. I wasn't alone, I whipped around swiftly from the now solid ground I was standing on but something grabbed me around my neck.

"Vicious!" I yelled out of surprise. My voice was squeaky and high pitched from my air being cut off. He shook me violently.

"Spike...Wake up." Faye's voice calmly said.

I realed back my right fist, I didn't want to be a prisoner anymore. I tightend the fist and let it fly

"Raghhhh!" I yelled as I closed my eyes and put all of my force into the blow.

"Wah!" Faye shrieked.

I opened my eyes.

"The Bebop?" I said quizically.

"Holy shit! Spike! Jet come here now!" Faye yelled with a huge glint of excitment in her eyes.

"What!" Jet yelled barging in with his deep voice. He was wearing his usual get up with an apron, chef's hat, and a cigaret between his lips smoking. It was still pretty new. "I don't believe it." Jet said amazed. The cigaret fell from his lips onto the floor causing glowing ashes to rise up.

I began looking around furiously, I was confused. I thought I was dead, last place I remember being at as the syndicate building and in that velvet prison. Now Jet and Faye wore in here watching over me, I looked over my body. I was in a bed, white sheets, I only had on some boxers. A huge needle was connected to my left arm in the vein and various cables wore attached to me.

The muscles in my body twitched as electric pulses wore fed into and it hurt like hell. I grabbed the needle and furiously pulled it out, I the rounded up all the cables to one bundle and pulled them off quickly.

"What's going on?" I asked, my voice was scratchy and weak. Like I haven't spoken in a long time.

Jet and Faye looked at each other as if debating something with there eyes, the stood there silent.

"Well!" I said, my voice was rising with aggravation.

"Listen Spike, just stay calm." Faye said with a soft tone.

"The hell with stay calm what the fuck happened to me." I said checking my anger.

"Spike, you confronting Vicious and facing off against the syndicate happened." She paused to find the proper word. "A while ago." Faye said

"How long ago?" I said now very confused.

"About a year ago." Faye said

"What! What've I been doing for a year!" I yelled shocked.

"After you almost died fighting the Syndicate you wore in a coma." Jet said before taking a short drag from his cigaret. "Faye barged out of here in my ship with the GX-187 strapped to here and tore through some the Syndicate goons to save your sorry ass."

I looked towards Faye, she blushed a little and avoided eye contact.

"She risked her ass for yours." Jet said.

"And where the hell wore you." I said with a little smirk.

I slowly got out of bed and looked at the universe outside the window of the Bebop, everything looked the same. Wonder what's happened in a year of sleeping.

"We made a pact remember, never to get involved in each others past." Jet said confidently.

"I guess your right. So what's happened in the last year of me sleeping?" I asked very curious.

Jet and Faye looked at each other again.

"Just follow us." Faye said walking out of the room toward the bridge.

"Just tell me... damn what's with this silence. I've been out for a year and I have no idea of what's going on!" I was aggravated again, all this dodging of my questions as annoying. I followed Faye who was ignoring me and Jet followed behind me. The ground was cold, I really wanted a pair of pants or something else to cover up with.

"Just look." Faye said stopping before the bribge.

I just gave her a look and walked up and what I saw amazed me. A planet I've never seen before, ships wore flying about delivering and picking up whatever they needed. The planet was clear blue with clouds and land covering it in various places. Gateways wore all around.

"A ship under attack from raiders made a blind jump through the gateways. A Mr. Conners discovered this planet that was already inhabited by people just like us, but the had different technologies. Would you believe they produced a enough workers and developed the technology to colonize this world fully in just one year." Jet said standing behind me watching the view. "The planet was named Aeris after some girl who died supposedly saving it from destruction."

"Holy shit." I said amazed.

End Spike

Three years have passed since the Sephiroth incident, life done everything but go back to normal. The void for a huge dominating company was left behind by Shinra, A terrorist group with a huge following led by a man named Roan Kiske took over the Western continent viciously. Anybody who opposed was killed on the spot, they ruled with an iron fist. Then there's Rictor, he took lead of the Eastern continent. Originally the man who rounded up all the survivors of the Meteor attack he was appointed by the people tor rule. He led his people fairly has been at ends with Kiske. In short we're on the brink of war.

Though there are two groups that have kept this from happening. There's Avalanche, led by Reeves I'm squad leader. We work loyally for Rictor as his elit squad, a four man squad made of the best men available. There's Victor Laux: Vehicles specialist and engineer, Derrick Ramon: Covert ops specialist with an amazing record, Niel Finch: Coreman, if you're hurt he'll heal you, then me Cloud Strife: Weapons specialist and all-round jack-of-all-trades. Then there's Kiske's elite group, the Turks: Reno, Rude, and Elena. Apperantly Kiske offered a better deal, we've met up a few times. In the old Midgar recovering a lost weapons prototype for an advanced Sister Ray, and in Junon when they attempted to gain vital information on what our country was producing just to name a few. They've failed every time.

Though lately I've been questioning our methods, we've been pulling off more assassination missions and I've felt more like a killer than a soldier here to protect the peace.

Every body has gone there own ways, Vincent to repent for his sins has been helping out with the weapons R&D, Cid and Shera are married (not like we didn't see that coming) and work together in our nations military R&D. Cid's mainly focused on transportation and vehicles while Shera is more weapons and chemicals. Barret went back home to North Coral to rebuild and start a new life with Marlene. Reeve as you know is leading the new Avalanche, Yuffie is back in Wutai continuing her training and working with the highest bider for her and her clan's services, not angry with her though, she has a life to live as we all though if we fight I'll show no mercy.

And there's Tifa and me, We don't have a home town and with the Western continents state I lost my Villa. We live together in Junon, a nice delux apartment, we've been a couple for a while now and we've been getting teased about wedding plans. Tifa has a hard time dealing with my line of work, but agrees with the reasons why I do it and has learned to deal. She's been working as a cook for a bar in Junon though she doesn't really need to do it she does it to keep busy along with running a small dojo.

That's about all for the update, now I'm in briefing for an upcoming mission. We've been losing funding and just figured out why. The briefing room was small and bland well lit though, the squad sat in chairs discussing various subjects. There was a projector at the end of the room and a screen on the other end and a table used to plan our attack with a holographic model of the surrounding area, Reeves had just walked in wearing a nice clean cut blue suit.

"Alright listen up." Reeves began the briefing in his usual commanding voice. "For the last five months we've been losing money in our R&D department, this man." Reeves said while pressing a button on the remote in his hand which activated the projector. "A Brian Wrinkle, believed to be an average hardworking accountant has been using this disguise of Jeff Hollandsworth to gain access to Junon and sneak a look into our operations. Recently he has been stealing money from the governments account and sending it to the Western continent."

The man was average heighth, he looked to carry himself pretty well though his suit wouldn't allow you to tell how solid his build was.

"If you would turn your attention to the holo-map." Reeves pressed another button on the remote and a holographic image of sector nine, two apartment buildings. I remember those buildings, they wore old and falling apart, a slum of Junon with crime running rampant. Even cops rarely traveled there, a real shit hole. "Intel has revealed to us that tonight Mr. Hollandsworth has a meeting with some contacts from the Western continent." "You know it's the Turks." I inturrupted. "Yes, but that hasn't been confirmed. Either way the meeting will take place at 0001 hours in sector nine, in the Dansen project. The abandend O'Rian's project will serve as a perfect vantage point. Cloud you've got the honors, go to the armoury at 1000 hours tonight so you've got five hours have fun."

As the time wasted by the guys went out for random things, some quality time with there ladies or just a nice little quicky. I stayed behind practicing my marksmanship. Soon it was 10:00 p.m. and we met up at the armoury to acquire our equipment. We recieved one 50. handgun, one highpowered RX-538 assult rifles, three grenades combat knife though I chose my murasame, night vision goggles, and I recieved my E-32 bolt action sniper rifle. Two hours later we wore taking our postions I posted up in the 12 floor apartment exactly across from the meeting room, Victor was driving getaway in a black van Derrick and Neil wore backing me up.

For an hour we waited in silence.

"Cloud I got the mark." Victor quietly said over the intercoms.

"Picking up movement in the building, We've got Turks." I said.

I waited for the right moment, Jeff walked in. His light brown hair was slicked back with gel, he was wearing an expensive suit. I trained the cross hairs in him following his movements, he went in for a hand shake with the sloppily dressed Reno.

"Bang." I said to myself.

I pulled the trigger and the gun kicked back, the muffled sound of a silenced gunshot sounded as the bullet traveled from the barrel to Jeffs skull. As I got up to strap my rifle to my back I caught glimpse of the damage the bullet had done. Chunks of skull and brain matter with some hair exploded from the top half of the marks head, blood splattered the walls as Jeff's body fell limp to the ground.

"Victor lets move." I said as I ran down stairs following my squad members.

Gunshots from .45's sounded into the cold, black night air, we ran to ground level were Victor was waiting on us, we wore in full sprint, smoke escaped our mouths as we loaded into the van and drove off into the night as the Turks ran out firing rounds at the van in a vain attempt to stop us.

"Reeve, yeah mission complete." I said.

"Yeah Cloud, now that's what I call shooting!" Neil yelled.

"Nasty, did you see how his head splattered, nasty, you took off the top half." Derrick said.

"Lets hurry up." I said somewhat pridefull of my work.

It took about a day but eventually we unloaded our gear. wrote our reports and wore aloud free time. I took this time to celebrate with my teamates, after some drinking I was ready to go home.

"Aight, see yall around!" I yelled the guys still in the bar. I hopped on my Fenrir (Clouds motorcycle in advent children) and rode home. The ride wasn't too long, the street lights wore blowing by at highspeeds as I rode the streets home. I pulled up to a huge apartment complex were me and Tifa lived, I parked in the garage and walked into the clean, well lit, spacious lobby.

"Hello Mr.Strife." Danny the bellboy said

"Hey." I said walking by.

I entered the elevator and rode it to the tenth floor, room 430. I opened the door to the still lit apartment.

"Tifa!" I yelled walking in.

"Hey Tifa!" I yelled.

"Oh I get it, some more of those games, alright." I said in a playish tone

I walked on the plush white carpet, past the white leather sofa, and into the kitchen.

"HYAA!" Tifa yelled as she let a left looping hook kick fly.

I ducked the kick, she came at me with a straight left, right, left combo. I dodged right outside the jab, left, then right again this time catching her arm and pulling her close.

"That was very naughty." I said with a smirk.

"Your point?" Tifa asked with a playish tone. "Good to see you're safe." She said more serious.

"Yup, now c'mon." I said housting her in my shoulders back to our room.

I set her down and looked her in the face, she came up close for a kiss I've been longing for. We parted then kissed again, I felt her tongue against mine and reached up her robe she was wearing.

"Alright, you sure are frisky." I said.

"Lay down." Tifa said pushing me onto the bed.

She turned around and began to strip, by the time she took her robe off and turned back towards me I was already naked under the sheets with my arms open wide.

"Hahah." She giggled and came in close towards me.

I got some booty, I got some booty and it was good too, by the time we wore done I couldn't even look her in th face no more.

"Cloud, are you going to continue this line of work?" Tifa asked laying down on my chest while I played with her hair.

"I'll quit one day, but right now I'm needed. I'm doing this to protect you and the people." I said, fatigue was beginning to wear away at me.

"I understand, but I can't lose you. What if you get hurt or die...Cloud? Cloud?" Tifa said

"ZZZZZZZ."

"Hey! Wake up." She yelled hitting me in the chest hard.

"Ahhh! What I'm awake." I said.

"What if you die?" Tifa asked.

"I won't." I said.

"That sounds like a promise." Tifa said

"ZZZZZZZZZ"

"Asshole." Tifa said and went to sleep.

"Mmmm. Tifa?" I asked getting up, I was to groggy to notice anything.

I turned over to see a lump in the bed in the shape of human with light brown hair sticking out.

"Hey." I said nudging her.

"Hmm. What?" It was a woman, but it wasn't Tifa.

"Whoa shit!" I yelled rolling out of bed onto the hard wood floor. I looked around this wasn't my house and I looked at the woman.

"Aeris?" I asked.

"What babe." Aeris said waking rubbing her eyes while covering herself with the blanket.

"Dad, wake up!" A young boy yelled excitedly while hopping on the bed, he looked to be around five years old.

"Dad?" I quietly said to myself.

"Tyler, get off the bed right now." Aeris said sternly and the boy quickly complied.

"But dad said he'd take me with him on his motor..cy..cle." The boy had trouble pronouncing motorcycle, but that was the last thing on my mind.

"Well Cloud you did say you'd take him." Aeris said.

"....Huh?" I was completely lost, son, Aeris alive.

"Holy shit!" I yelled as everything hit me.

"OOOOOH!" The boy said.

"Cloud, don't use that language around Tyler!" Aeris scolded.

I held my head as I backed up into the wall and just slid down, I put both hands o my head and grabbed my hair.

"Huh?" My hair was cut short.

"Babe...You alright?" Aeris asked looking at me quizically.

"Dad, what's wrong?" Tyler said.

"Cloud...Wake up." A voice hardly audible said.

My eyes shot open.

"Tifa?" I said.

By now Aeris was at my side.

"What?" Aeris said.

"Tifa" I said again.

"Oh Cloud don't do this." Aeris said slightly worried.

I looked up with a look of determination in my eyes.

"You will regret it." Aeris said.

The room and Tyler faded to black.

"Sorry babe." Aeris said.

She cocked her right arm back and it formed into a long sharp straight double ended blade the same color as her skin.

"The fuck!" I yelled.

She lunged foreward towards my head, quickly I rolled forward dodging the blade and forcing her to turn around giving me enough time to get to my feet. I put my hands up in a fist even with my cheeks but about a few inches away and began hopping on the balls of my feet.

I was shirtless and didn't have my sword, I was at a huge disadvantage. She walked foreward with the blade's tip facing me. I hopped foreward fiented and happoed back as she tried to strike me, I threw two left jabs, then a straight right and a rigght kick with full connection. She stumbled back with blood dribbling down her mouth, she ran foreward and stabbed with her blade. I dodged left keeping my feet planted and threw a left to the body with connection and a right upper-cut.

Aeris was lifted back and landed with a hard thud. Quickly she got up and charged foreward again.

"You're just a beast." I said preparing for my next attack.

She swiped diagonally from upper right to the bottom left, I dodged outside the slash, she slashed horizontally left to right, I ducked and jumped back as another slash came horizontally right to left. I went for a quick left jab but was stopped by a swift right elbow that I attempted to avoid but ended up taking it on the cheek. I stumbled back but quickly recovered, Aeris ran forward and lept into the air with her left foot sailing towards me I side stepped the attack and rolled with it, as she attempted to slach me with her right arm blade I caught her arm by the joint where it was still normal and twisted the other way with my right hand locking the joint and sent her flailing to the ground with a loud thud, the air escaping her lungs could be heard. I jumped on top of her and put my right forearm in her throat while holding her head back with my left.

"Cloud." Came a gasping voice, but it sounded like Tifa.

"Please...Cloud...Stop." Everything came back into focus.

"Tifa?" I said beyond surprised.

I jumped off of her and looked at her as she gagged for air.

"I'm...sorry." I reached foreward but she flinched back. Tifa never flinches.

"No." I quietly said to my self.

I grabbed my clothes, some blue jeans, a sleeveless, white, and blue jersey style shirt that read "Behemoth" (A name brand like ecko.) a black leather trench coat and my black combat boots, grabbed my keys to Fenrir, my buster sword that I kept on a rack, my wallet and ran out the door.

"I'm sorry." I said from my bike before I took off.

I needed some time to think, what the hell just happened. I sat on my bike in the plains outside of Junon resting on the handle bars. What if it happens again, what if I hurt her, or kill her. I continued to look into the sky when a fast movement caught my eye. I looked left into the sky to see an ackward distortion in the sky.

"Hmm?" I said very curious.

Suddenly a bright light flashed and a huge ship appeard in the skies. I looked on at the spectacle in amazement as the ship came closer to the planet.

"Holy shit."

End Cloud

Ahh, another slow chapter, I hope some bodies reading because Cloud and Spike finally meet next chapter

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