Howdy y'all. Wow I so proud of myself, I actually pulled off an R rated chapter =0) Well anyway I see that a lot of ya enjoyed that little bloody battle with the vampire chick eh? I'll have to make more... But let's not forget, more important things are at hand. Like this here chapter! Let us say our prayers and hope this chapter won't be dull, I really don't plan it to be, we'll just wait and see! HEY That rhymed! Wow I talented lol. Well let's just get this started.
Disclaimer- I not own Final Fantasy 7. Claims list!!!! One new claim to be added that I forgot about. Kenji Julkowski (a.k.a. General) There we go. Now on with the story.
Chapter 26- Saved By A Killer
"Eww.. Grossness. What is this?" This comment was made by none other then Yuffie as she takes a spoonful of her 'food' and examines it. The slop, as Yuffie can best describe it, looks like a bowl of chocobo poop, all white and lumpy like. Yuffie gives a disgusted look and pushes the bowl away.
"It's food." Kao replies simply as he eats a mouthful of the meal, some of it runs out of the corner of his mouth escaping his lips. Kao gives no sign to Yuffie on what he thinks of it's taste, if it even has taste.
Yuffie feeling a bit confident that the meal is edible after seeing Kao eat some of it, grabs hold of a spoon. Yuffie scoops up some of the 'lumpy stuff' and brings it to her lips. Her lips suck into her mouth as if driven by a natural instinct telling her the food isn't good.
Yuffie takes a deep breath and shoves the 'lumpy stuff' into her mouth. Automatically, Yuffie slaps her other hand across her mouth. Kao gave her a strange look. Yuffie's eyes are wide and her upper body moves as if she's coughing or choking. Some of the white 'lumpy stuff' escapes her mouth and her hand dripping onto the wooden table.
Finally, Yuffie removes her hand, 'BLECK!' She spits the white lumpy stuff out of her mouth and back into the bowl, while sticking her tongue out. Kao drops his spoon losing his appetite. Yuffie shivers with disgust, "Eww... that is the MOST disgusting thing I have EVER tasted." She says picking up the bowl ready to throw it out.
"You shouldn't waste food. Especially since we only get two meals a day.." Kao advises while beginning to eat his food again.
Yuffie looks at him with wide eyes, she just spit her last attempt back into her bowl. Yuffie sits back down on the wooden bench looking down at the bowl of.. she didn't know what to call it. Yuffie glances back up at Kao and smiles, "You know you're right! I shouldn't waste food." Kao nods once happy she understands.
Yuffie grabs hold of a person's arm who is walking by them with their own meal. The man gives Yuffie a questioning look. Yuffie gives him a big smile, "Here you can have mine I'm not hungry." She offers. The man just shrugs and takes the bowl with him as Yuffie chuckles to herself.
Kao drops his spoon again in disgust, this time losing his appetite for good. "Here you can have mine. I've.... lost my appetite." Kao gives his bowl to the person sitting close by. Kao stands up from the bench, "Well now that I'm finished.. eating. I'm going to go see Mika. Wanna come?" Kao asks Yuffie.
Yuffie stands up and stretches her tight muscles, "Sorry can't I got to go to a meeting now with the all powerful General." Yuffie jokes.
"Well then I'll see you later then." Kao says walking out off the mess hall. Yuffie walks out the other end and heads towards the conference hall where the, oh so important meeting will be taking place.
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"Everyone gathered?" General asks scanning. He nods in approval seeing that everyone is there, "Good. I'm just going to jump into things so listen up." General takes out an old rolled up map of Midgar and spreads it out on the table. Everyone stares at the old map as General explains his plans.
"Today... We are going to get that generator up and running. Most of the squads will be participating in the mission." The squad leaders nod and understanding and await command. General takes out a pencil and draws three X's around a small part of the map. "Squads 1, 2, and 5, will be in charge of watch. You'll kill any zombies that appear."
"Yes Sir!" The three squad leaders chorus.
General continues with his plan, "Squad 4 leader. Your squad will escort our best mechanic down the basement to the generator. You are to protect the mechanic and get him out of there when he finishes repairs. Understood?"
"...."
"Do you understand squad leader?" General asks again.
"..."
"Kisasagi!" General yells.
Yuffie immediately jumps out of her seat in surprise. A look of realization crosses Yuffie's face, "Ohhh. My squad is squad 4!" Yuffie says this realizing it for the first time.
General smacks his forehead in frustration. General takes a deep breath fighting the headache that's beginning to appear. "Kisasagi, do you understand your mission?"
Yuffie waves him off with her hand, "Yea, yea, yea, protect dude, get generator fixed, kick zombie ass if we encounter any in that shack."
General narrows his eyes threateningly. Yuffie gives a nervous chuckle, "I mean, Yes sir!" She gives a salute jokingly.
General rubs his temples, "Alright gather up and leave at once. Dismissed!"
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"So this is the place that leads to the generator?" Yuffie asks. Everyone has gathered at the location to where the generator is located. After walking about a mile after going to the surface, they all came up to the steel doors surrounded by fence. The steel doors open up into the ground that's suppose to be a basement to where the generator is located.
"Yup that's it alright. Just think after today, no more candles as our source of light." Mika comments. Before leaving the base, Yuffie had convince Mika to be in her squad again since she still hasn't found any other members. With nonstop pleading Mika gave into Yuffie's begging.
"So you're the mechanic we're taking to the generator?" Kao questions to the man that stands waiting behind the trio.
"Yes" The mechanic answers.
"Well everyone seems to be in position. So lets just get down there." Kao says pointing out that the other squad have already moved to their spots to watch for zombies.
The group quickly walks over to the steel doors. Kao kneels down and pulls the heavy doors open and smiles, "Ladies first." He says cheerfully.
"Oh SUCH a gentlemen." Mika comments sarcastically before climbing down the ladder. Yuffie goes down next followed by the mechanic, Kao climbs down last.
Yuffie glances down at the dark basement, not able to see much of all, "Uh none of you would happen to have a flashlight would ya?" She asks hopingly. The mechanic automatically turns on a single flashlight and begins leading the trio in the directions of the generator.
"So like.. how long will it take to finish the repairs." Mika asks the mechanic.
"The repairs are down." The mechanic corrects her, "All that needs to be down is turn the switch on. We would have power at the base but we lost radio contact with the last group of mechanics just when they reported they were about to turn the power on." He explains.
"Great." Yuffie comments sarcastically, "That means something or some things are down here." Yuffie sighs in frustration, she was hoping this would be an easy mission. But with little light it will be hard to fight if they run into anything.
"This way." The mechanic suddenly says making a right. The trio follow each hoping that it will all be done with soon.
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Meanwhile Back Outside.
A lone dark figure sneaks into the opened basement, not being noticed by the three squad on watch. The woman jumps down into the basement her black dress swaying from the fall. She scans the dark basement and pulls out a gun, ready to attack if she encounters anything.
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"Here it is." The mechanic exclaims, the beam of light from the flashlight shines on the generator. The trio sigh in relief happy that everything turned out well for once.
"You guys hear something?" Mika asks curiously. Everyone stops in their tracks and listens.
"It sounds like a hissing." Yuffie says.
The mechanic shrugs, "Who cares. It's probably the power trying to kick on." He says while walking over to the generator.
Kao gives the mechanic a look, "But I thought you said you still needed to flip the switch." He says questioningly as he grows more nervous with the hissing.
The mechanic shrugs again, "I'm just giving my observation." He puts a finger on a switch and smiles, "And then there was light!" He comments as he flips the switch. The lights flicker on and the mechanic's eyes widen in fear.
"Holy Shit!" Kao screams surprised backing away as Yuffie and Mika do the same.
A giant snake sits hissing warningly at the group. The snake looks just like the ones in the Midgar marshes by the chocobo farm. The snake strikes immediately at the mechanic. "AH!" The snake bites down on the mechanic lifting him off the ground. It's huge fangs pierce through the mechanic's chest. In one quick move of the head the snake swallows the mechanic.
"Mika stay behind us." Kao warns pulling out his broadsword, Yuffie follows suite and pulls out her Conformer. Mika nods and moves back a bit. The snake hisses warningly at them, daring them to attack it. "HIYA!" Kao runs towards the snake and strike. The snake arches it's head back to protect it as Kao cuts it's body instead.
The snake hisses and swings it's massive tail around knocking it's attacker away. Yuffie smirks as she throws her Conformer at the snakes head. Unlike Kao she's has already killed many of these giant snakes. The Conformer whizzes through the air and to Yuffie great surprise, for the first time ever the snake is smart enough to duck out of the way.
Yuffie catches the Conformer as it returns back to her, 'Well that's a first.' Yuffie thinks to herself. The snake strike at Yuffie trying to bite her. Yuffie easily dodges away from the snakes fangs, she doesn't however, dodge the strike of the snake's tail that follows it's first attack. Yuffie is knocked off her feet and into a wall, getting the wind knocked out of her.
The snake takes this to it's advantages and strikes again at the fallen Yuffie, ready to sink it's fangs into Yuffie. Yuffie sits there frozen, eye wide, not knowing what to do. "FORGET ABOUT ME!?" Kao suddenly jumps in front of Yuffie and swings his broadsword towards the snakes oncoming head.
The snake can do nothing to dodge the attack. As a result the broadsword just strikes one of the snakes large fangs, breaking it with the force of his attack. The snake hisses in pain and slithers back a bit. It's body begins to twitch.
Yuffie's eyes widen again as she realizes what the snake is doing, "Oh no... you had to piss it off didn't you?" Yuffie says while quickly getting into a defensive position, not wanting to be off guard when the snake strikes with Beta. Kao, never having fought one of the Midgar snakes before, does not see the danger of things, and charges forth towards the snake.
The snake releases a large fiery blast as Kao strikes. The huge blast of fire does some mighty damage to both fighters but not as much to Yuffie since she was prepared for it. Kao stays down on the ground with multiple burns on his body. Yuffie who had protected herself didn't suffer that much damage.
"Kao!" Mika yells out in fear. Yuffie runs towards the fallen fighter to see if he's alright, completely forgetting the snake. Yuffie gets knocked off her feet as the snake strikes with it's tail. The strike throws Yuffie back towards the wall like last time. This time however Yuffie loses hold of her Conformer.
"Dammit!" Yuffie mutters to herself. The snake hisses and slithers quickly towards Yuffie. When close enough it strikes again ready to eat her. This time Kao isn't there to save her and Yuffie knows it. Yuffie closes her eyes and turns her head to the side waiting for the feel of the fangs sinking into her flesh.
BANG! A shot rings through the room and the snake screeches in pain as it's right eyes is shot out. Yuffie 's snap open. BANG! BANG! Two more shots are fired, shooting the snake in the head. The snake instantly drops dead in one loud crash.
Yuffie stares at the snake in a daze for a moment. Then she shift's her gaze towards the entrance of the generator room, to her savior. A woman stands there with a large gun a her side. She has long dark red hair, hazel eyes, and stands at 5'7". She has a black gothic looking dress that looks familiar to Yuffie from somewhere. The woman's face remains solemn as she holster her Sniper Rifle.
Yuffie stands up, "I don't know who you are but thanks." The woman remains silent. 'Ok...' Yuffie walks over towards Kao as Mika hurries towards his side. "Alright big boy. Time to get up." Yuffie says to Kao as she grabs one of his arms and pulls him up.
"OWW!" Kao immediately yells in pain at all the burns on his body. Yuffie throws an arm over her shoulder and helps him walk. Mika follows behind the two looking worriedly at Kao.
"Uh did either of you two keep track on how to get out?" Yuffie asks Kao and Mika. Silence. 'I'll take that as a no.' Yuffie glances over at the odd woman who still stands in front of them gazing at them. "Uh... do you know how to get back up?" Yuffie asks.
Instead of answering her question, the woman just simply turns around and starts walking. Yuffie shares a look with her two friends before she follows the woman. "So how did you get down here anyway?" Yuffie asks, trying to make conversation with the woman. Silence. "Where did you come from?" No response again. 'Maybe I should just shut up.'
Yuffie suddenly grins as an amusing thought strikes her mind, "You know, If I ever find Vincent I should hook you two up." Yuffie chuckles to herself, "You both don't listen to me and you both got that whole gothic look going." Yuffie says amusingly.
"Vincent Valentine?" The woman asks quietly continuing walking, the first thing she's said since she appeared.
Yuffie almost drops Kao in surprise as she stops, "Y-yea. But how did you know that?" No answer came. Yuffie rolls her eyes in frustration, 'Yup she's definitely Vinnie's double.' She thinks to herself.
The rest of the way they walk in silence and finally reach the surface. "Ah out at last." Yuffie says happily.
"We have to get back quickly so I can treat Kao's burns." Mika commented.
Yuffie nods quickly and turns towards the woman who led them out, "You wanna come with us? There really isn't anywhere else to go form what I know."
The woman stares at Yuffie for a few moments as she thinks about the offer. Finally she nods once, "I'll... accompany you." She answers a bit hesitant.
Yuffie gives her a grin, "Great! Follow us." Yuffie helped Kao drag his burned up body back towards the base. It isn't really a far walk back to the base. When Yuffie and the other's finally did reach the base, a thought struck her. The other squad weren't outside keeping watch back at the entrance to the generator.
'They must of came back the instant they realized the power is back on.' Yuffie thinks annoyed at them. The group opens the hatch to the base and heads down. Mika is the last one down and closes the hatch. Yuffie turns towards their guest, "So what's your name anyway."
The woman looks over at Yuffie, her face calm, "Rima." She says in a neutral voice.
'Rima? Where have I heard that before?' Yuffie thinks instantly.
"Rima Hikari.." The woman says again.
"Rima Hikari!!!" Kao and Mika yell in union. It finally struck Yuffie where she heard that name before. Rima Hikari, the wanted murder for the killings of towns across the world form five years ago. The cold blooded murder who assassinated political leader. The killer that was searched for in Midgar. And now she stands right before them, with their own eyes, they are seeing what was once just a rumor, become someone real. Rima Hikari... A dangerous cold blooded murder now inside the base.
DUN DUN DUNN!!!!! WELLLLLLLLLL That's a wrap folks! ยง=0) Heeheehee I know y'all screaming 'NNOOOOOOOO' But I must end it here for it is time for me to go to bed so I'm well rested for the baseball game tomorrow, or rather games since I have two of them I have to play. Well I hope I left y'all enough to think about for now. So I must be on my way so drop a review alright? TTNC!
P.S.- Rima Hikari is also property of Die. Heeheehee. Don't want her bitching at me for not telling y'all that. Well C-ya'll later.