When Bad-Guys get Hiccups: and other Pointless Stories
Part 2, When Heros get Confused
Disclaimer: All characters and places mentioned herein are copyright of Squaresoft. I just manipulated them.
Note: This story takes place at the beginning of the game, when Cloud is beginning his first mission with AVALANCHE. Again, this is assuming you've at least played the first little part of the game.
Cloud sat in a train along with the other members of AVALANCHE. He didn't even know who they were really, but they offered him money for coming along with them, so he agreed. "Um...why did we just hijack a train?" he questioned their leader.
The leader glared at him, "We aint payin' ya to talk, so shut your trap."
Cloud shrugged, "What did you pay me for then?"
"We're payin' ya to be the sacrifice in case we run inta anyone from SOLDIER." The leader grumbled.
"Ah..." Cloud said, satisfied with that.
The train moved swiftly along and soon stopped with a screech in front of the Mako Reactor 1. Cloud exits with a showy flip, after all, he's the main hero. Before following the rest of the group, he uses his grave robbing skills to take a couple of potions from the dead guard's body.
As he walked towards the end of the station, something strange happened. the world around him swirled and he found himself with his buster sword in hand, facing a couple of MP's. "Where did you come from?" he asked the sword. The sword didn't answer, so Cloud shrugged and began examining the rectangle floating below him. It must have been in some weird code, because Cloud had no idea what HP and those numbers meant. There was a floating yellow arrow above his head, and who was Ex-SOLDIER? He figured that MP meant the guys in front of him...but did it?
As if to confuse Cloud even more, a little finger popped up on the square part and moved from the words Attack to Magic and then to Attack again, making a weird noise. Then the finger was suddenly pointing to one of the MP's and then it dissapeared. Before he knew it, Cloud found himself running up to the MP and slashing at him with his sword. The MP did something really weird then, he went all red and translucent and then dissapeared.
Cloud just stood there and blinked for a moment. Then the other MP turned his gun on Cloud and yelled "Machine Gun" and shot him. Cloud thought he was gonna die. He had just been shot from close range, but all that seemed to happen was a number 4 flashed if front of him. Then the finger pointed to Attack and the other MP, and Cloud slashed him with his sword, making him go red and dissapear. Cloud just thought, 'Cool! I just killed two guys and only got hurt with a number!'. He couldn't help but celebrate with a victory dance, swinging his sword with one-handed ease.
He quickly followed the others, stopping while one of them picked a lock. One of the others started admiring Cloud with awe. "Whoa.... You were in SOLDIER right? I am honored to be in your presence..." He said bowing, "I am Biggs, and this is Jesse and Wedge"
Cloud just raised and eyebrow and said, "I could really care less."
The one picking the lock, Jesse said, "If he was in SOLDIER, why is he working for us? Do you think he's a spy?" she said warily.
"Dunno..." Biggs said looking at Cloud with suspicion. "You never told us your name..."
"So?" Cloud said, bored.
"So...what is it? You aint Sephiroth are ya?" Wedge asked.
"No."
"Well?"
Cloud sighed and shrugged, "It's Cloud."
Biggs snorted and tried to cover it with a cough, while Wedge tried to cover his laugh with a sneeze. Cloud glared, and Jesse said, "Cloud...that's such a cute name."
The leader ran towards them. "Hey! Quit gawkin' and get movin' to the reactor! I don't like the looks of you spiky-boy, you'd better behave yourself, or you aint gettin' no pay. I'm Barret."
"Yeah, whatever..." Cloud replied, stealing a line from a character in another Final Fantasy. He was now grouped with someone who gawked at him, someone who laughed at him, someone who flirted with him, and someone who didn't trust him. "Lucky me..." he muttered under his breath as they all headed toward the reactor. On his way, he got into more fights with the world swirling around him and got shot and hit by tentacles. The tentacles strangely hurt more than the machine guns....
Inside the reactor, Barret asked, "This your first time in a reactor?"
Cloud laughed, "No! I used to work for Shinra, I've been in these things too many times to count."
Barret narrowed his eyes, thinking to himself 'Ah...so it was probably the Mako that made his hair like that...'. "Yer gettin' a bit cocky, boy. I'm gonna come and keep an eye on ya."
"I don't need to be babysat." Cloud stated, narrowing his own eyes at Barret, thinking, 'Ah...it was probably the lack of Mako that made his voice like that.'
"You know why we're here? It's because..." and Barret went on, saying something about Shinra's blood-sucking experiments sleeping in basements...or something. Cloud didn't know, he wasn't paying attention.
Finally Barret led them to the reacting part of the reactor. Jesse felt she had to stop at one point and explain how to climb a ladder, even though everone already knew how. Her explaination must have been in code, because Cloud had no idea what she meant, but he didn't care anyway.
Cloud and Barret went to the main middle part. Barret looked at Cloud and said, "You set the bomb."
"Wait- what bomb?" Cloud asked confused.
"The one we're gonna blow this reactor with!" Barret yelled.
"You never said anything about blowing it up! Besides, why do I have to set it? This is your plan, I'm only here as a sacrifice in case we run into anyone from SOLDIER, you said so yourself."
Barret glared at him. "You set that bomb, or you aint gettin' paid."
Cloud sighed and took the bomb Barret handed him, putting it down and typing the code Barret told him. If this was a trick....
Then suddenly a big machine fell down from nowhere and the world went spinny again. Barret was with him this time and he said something about breaking a limit or something. Cloud didn't really care, because when things like this happened, he had no control over his body. He ended up doing weird attacks and doing some sort of magic or something, and the machine dissapeared.
When the world was all right again, Cloud looked up to see a big floating rectangle with numbers counting down. "You only gave us ten minutes!?" He yelled to Barret.
"Hey, don't look at me, Jesse designed the bomb," was Barret's excuse.
Cloud rolled his eyes and started running. At the ladder, he heard a yell. "Cloud, help me!"
Cloud turned to see Jesse standing with her foot in a crack. "Please, Cloud my foot's stuck!" He highly doubted that, but he sighed and walked over to her, pulling her foot out of the crack. As he suspected, it came out with ease. Jesse smiled at him and said, "Thanks Cloud, but I think I twisted my ankle when it got stuck, I don't think I can walk." She leaned on him.
He simply walked away and she fell on her face. "Too bad for you." He said without simpathy and kept walking. She pretended nothing had happened and followed him closely, opening all the doors for him as they came to them. 'Oh, no,' Cloud thought to himself, 'I'm going to have a stalker' After much walking and annoying almost-clinging, they all finally made it out of the reactor, just in time to have it blow up in their faces. Cloud wondered at how none of them got hurt, which he thought was quite a pity in Jesse's case.
After moving a safe distance away from the flaming reactor, Cloud confronted Barret. "Now, where's my money?"
Barret smirked, almost mocking him, "You'll have to get it at Headquarters." he said and walked away. Cloud just sighed and followed, wondering what this simple job would lead to.
Hermionehobbit: Yay! I finished another short story! Yeah, okay, this story was even more pointless than When Bad-Guys get Hiccups, -twitches- but I had fun writing it and that's all that matters. I'm so crazy...
There's a story to what Barret said about Shinra's blood-sucking experiments sleeping in basements. I was playing the game, so I knew what Barret said...but I manipulated it to what someone might hear if they weren't paying attention and I had it as 'Shinra blood reacting with life to make Mako streams', but then I remembered the part about them sucking the life out of the planet and so I changed it to 'Shinra's blood-sucking' and that made me think of vampires, which made me think Vincent, because he reminds me of a vampire, and soon it had changed to 'Shinra's blood-sucking experiments reacting with life to make basement streams' but that sounded weird so I finally got it to what it is now...you probably didn't care, but I thought it was funny.
Well, be prepared for more Pointless Stories such as When Dead People stay Dead. I hope you enjoyed this one, or at least took the time to read it. Please review? I need reviews or I end up letting a story sit for months...
Part 2, When Heros get Confused
Disclaimer: All characters and places mentioned herein are copyright of Squaresoft. I just manipulated them.
Note: This story takes place at the beginning of the game, when Cloud is beginning his first mission with AVALANCHE. Again, this is assuming you've at least played the first little part of the game.
Cloud sat in a train along with the other members of AVALANCHE. He didn't even know who they were really, but they offered him money for coming along with them, so he agreed. "Um...why did we just hijack a train?" he questioned their leader.
The leader glared at him, "We aint payin' ya to talk, so shut your trap."
Cloud shrugged, "What did you pay me for then?"
"We're payin' ya to be the sacrifice in case we run inta anyone from SOLDIER." The leader grumbled.
"Ah..." Cloud said, satisfied with that.
The train moved swiftly along and soon stopped with a screech in front of the Mako Reactor 1. Cloud exits with a showy flip, after all, he's the main hero. Before following the rest of the group, he uses his grave robbing skills to take a couple of potions from the dead guard's body.
As he walked towards the end of the station, something strange happened. the world around him swirled and he found himself with his buster sword in hand, facing a couple of MP's. "Where did you come from?" he asked the sword. The sword didn't answer, so Cloud shrugged and began examining the rectangle floating below him. It must have been in some weird code, because Cloud had no idea what HP and those numbers meant. There was a floating yellow arrow above his head, and who was Ex-SOLDIER? He figured that MP meant the guys in front of him...but did it?
As if to confuse Cloud even more, a little finger popped up on the square part and moved from the words Attack to Magic and then to Attack again, making a weird noise. Then the finger was suddenly pointing to one of the MP's and then it dissapeared. Before he knew it, Cloud found himself running up to the MP and slashing at him with his sword. The MP did something really weird then, he went all red and translucent and then dissapeared.
Cloud just stood there and blinked for a moment. Then the other MP turned his gun on Cloud and yelled "Machine Gun" and shot him. Cloud thought he was gonna die. He had just been shot from close range, but all that seemed to happen was a number 4 flashed if front of him. Then the finger pointed to Attack and the other MP, and Cloud slashed him with his sword, making him go red and dissapear. Cloud just thought, 'Cool! I just killed two guys and only got hurt with a number!'. He couldn't help but celebrate with a victory dance, swinging his sword with one-handed ease.
He quickly followed the others, stopping while one of them picked a lock. One of the others started admiring Cloud with awe. "Whoa.... You were in SOLDIER right? I am honored to be in your presence..." He said bowing, "I am Biggs, and this is Jesse and Wedge"
Cloud just raised and eyebrow and said, "I could really care less."
The one picking the lock, Jesse said, "If he was in SOLDIER, why is he working for us? Do you think he's a spy?" she said warily.
"Dunno..." Biggs said looking at Cloud with suspicion. "You never told us your name..."
"So?" Cloud said, bored.
"So...what is it? You aint Sephiroth are ya?" Wedge asked.
"No."
"Well?"
Cloud sighed and shrugged, "It's Cloud."
Biggs snorted and tried to cover it with a cough, while Wedge tried to cover his laugh with a sneeze. Cloud glared, and Jesse said, "Cloud...that's such a cute name."
The leader ran towards them. "Hey! Quit gawkin' and get movin' to the reactor! I don't like the looks of you spiky-boy, you'd better behave yourself, or you aint gettin' no pay. I'm Barret."
"Yeah, whatever..." Cloud replied, stealing a line from a character in another Final Fantasy. He was now grouped with someone who gawked at him, someone who laughed at him, someone who flirted with him, and someone who didn't trust him. "Lucky me..." he muttered under his breath as they all headed toward the reactor. On his way, he got into more fights with the world swirling around him and got shot and hit by tentacles. The tentacles strangely hurt more than the machine guns....
Inside the reactor, Barret asked, "This your first time in a reactor?"
Cloud laughed, "No! I used to work for Shinra, I've been in these things too many times to count."
Barret narrowed his eyes, thinking to himself 'Ah...so it was probably the Mako that made his hair like that...'. "Yer gettin' a bit cocky, boy. I'm gonna come and keep an eye on ya."
"I don't need to be babysat." Cloud stated, narrowing his own eyes at Barret, thinking, 'Ah...it was probably the lack of Mako that made his voice like that.'
"You know why we're here? It's because..." and Barret went on, saying something about Shinra's blood-sucking experiments sleeping in basements...or something. Cloud didn't know, he wasn't paying attention.
Finally Barret led them to the reacting part of the reactor. Jesse felt she had to stop at one point and explain how to climb a ladder, even though everone already knew how. Her explaination must have been in code, because Cloud had no idea what she meant, but he didn't care anyway.
Cloud and Barret went to the main middle part. Barret looked at Cloud and said, "You set the bomb."
"Wait- what bomb?" Cloud asked confused.
"The one we're gonna blow this reactor with!" Barret yelled.
"You never said anything about blowing it up! Besides, why do I have to set it? This is your plan, I'm only here as a sacrifice in case we run into anyone from SOLDIER, you said so yourself."
Barret glared at him. "You set that bomb, or you aint gettin' paid."
Cloud sighed and took the bomb Barret handed him, putting it down and typing the code Barret told him. If this was a trick....
Then suddenly a big machine fell down from nowhere and the world went spinny again. Barret was with him this time and he said something about breaking a limit or something. Cloud didn't really care, because when things like this happened, he had no control over his body. He ended up doing weird attacks and doing some sort of magic or something, and the machine dissapeared.
When the world was all right again, Cloud looked up to see a big floating rectangle with numbers counting down. "You only gave us ten minutes!?" He yelled to Barret.
"Hey, don't look at me, Jesse designed the bomb," was Barret's excuse.
Cloud rolled his eyes and started running. At the ladder, he heard a yell. "Cloud, help me!"
Cloud turned to see Jesse standing with her foot in a crack. "Please, Cloud my foot's stuck!" He highly doubted that, but he sighed and walked over to her, pulling her foot out of the crack. As he suspected, it came out with ease. Jesse smiled at him and said, "Thanks Cloud, but I think I twisted my ankle when it got stuck, I don't think I can walk." She leaned on him.
He simply walked away and she fell on her face. "Too bad for you." He said without simpathy and kept walking. She pretended nothing had happened and followed him closely, opening all the doors for him as they came to them. 'Oh, no,' Cloud thought to himself, 'I'm going to have a stalker' After much walking and annoying almost-clinging, they all finally made it out of the reactor, just in time to have it blow up in their faces. Cloud wondered at how none of them got hurt, which he thought was quite a pity in Jesse's case.
After moving a safe distance away from the flaming reactor, Cloud confronted Barret. "Now, where's my money?"
Barret smirked, almost mocking him, "You'll have to get it at Headquarters." he said and walked away. Cloud just sighed and followed, wondering what this simple job would lead to.
Hermionehobbit: Yay! I finished another short story! Yeah, okay, this story was even more pointless than When Bad-Guys get Hiccups, -twitches- but I had fun writing it and that's all that matters. I'm so crazy...
There's a story to what Barret said about Shinra's blood-sucking experiments sleeping in basements. I was playing the game, so I knew what Barret said...but I manipulated it to what someone might hear if they weren't paying attention and I had it as 'Shinra blood reacting with life to make Mako streams', but then I remembered the part about them sucking the life out of the planet and so I changed it to 'Shinra's blood-sucking' and that made me think of vampires, which made me think Vincent, because he reminds me of a vampire, and soon it had changed to 'Shinra's blood-sucking experiments reacting with life to make basement streams' but that sounded weird so I finally got it to what it is now...you probably didn't care, but I thought it was funny.
Well, be prepared for more Pointless Stories such as When Dead People stay Dead. I hope you enjoyed this one, or at least took the time to read it. Please review? I need reviews or I end up letting a story sit for months...
