The Replica
Chapter 12
(A/N: Ok...I'm making it official...this fic will be 20 chapters. Why? Mainly
because I don't really like the idea any more and Gwen is...getting on my
nerves even though I made her up. If you have objections tell me...flames are
welcome cries good reviews are always welcome no matter what!) And just
as a mini spoiler...Gwen isn't all that you think she is...she's really
something totally different. I'm holding a grudge against her for some
reason.
Disclaimer: You know the drill on how I don't own ff8 and such...if you
don't, then I suggest you go see a doctor! blows a raspberry
Squall: Calm down little miss Grumpy at the moment!
Gunblade Elf: WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE? GET BACK IN THE STORY!!!
Squall:disappears before her wrath could get to him
Brushing brown locks of wild hair out of his face, the young commander rolled over in bed. Blinking in the bright morning light cascading into his room, he yawned and stretched out. He groaned and pulled a comb through his hair and brushed his teeth. He pulled on his normal attire of black pants, grey t-shirt, leather jacket, army boots and of course...the lion's heart pendant. Scratching his behind he opened the door and what met his eyes put him into shock. Ribbons....everywhere.
Selphie's doing, of course. The Garden Festival was that evening.
"Hiya Squall!" Selphie bounded in, throwing pink ribbon here and there.
"Good morning Selphie...Whoa...lots of..."
"Pink.." a voice finished, he whipped around and saw Gwen eyeing the ghastly colour.
"Well, well, good morning sleepy head" Selphie said, throwing blue ribbon over Squall's door.
"Hey there." She replied coolly. Squall eyed her for a second, it seemed her attitude had changed...slightly. If it had been him he would've rolled his eyes, say "whatever" and left.
"Want to help me decorate? Please? I could really use the help! Squall can't he's a little busy commander!" She winked in Squall's direction, who merely shook his head.
"Sure." Gwen replied, taking the batch of blue ribbon and throwing them wherever Selphie indicated.
Squall could've sworn her eyes had lit up at the opportunity. "Whatever, she's changing, its normal." He thought to himself before making his way to his office. Passing Rinoa's bedroom, with the door that remained ajar, he peeped in. She seemed up and probably in one of Quistis' classes, like she does every Monday.
Stretching once more he slipped the card into the slot and opened the door to the giant office belonging to the commander. Packages of forms and official documents scattered his desk along with coffee cups here and there. He switched his coffee maker on and allowed it to brew, he opened up a new package that lay on his desk. It was thin, a letter, nothing really special. He ripped it open and pulled out the letter. The hand writing was no more than a scribble, hardly legible and the ink ran down the page. After reading it numerous times his eyes widened in shock. The letter was short, yet he understood its meaning completely.
WE'RE COMING FOR HER.
They were coming for Gwen, and most probably planning a surprise attack. Better warnt he rest of the Garden to be prepared for anything at anytime. He turned to the intercom and turned it on.
"Everyone, this is the commander, I have urgent news. AS you all now we have temporary visitors on our Garden. But one of them is being tracked down by someone who goes by the name of Henry, or was it Harry? I can't remember, anyway, Tonight, at the Garden Festival, you will notice security will be tight and weapons will be situated in various places, in case of an attack you should use them. That is all, Gwen, please report to my office on the second floor, three doors away from Quistis' classroom. Thank you." He shut the 'com off and sat down, rubbing his temples, thinking of what he's going to do with this threat note.
"....Gwen, please report to my office on the second floor, three doors away from Quistis' classroom. Thank you." Squall's voice called over the intercom. Gwen sighed and left Selphie, buried under pink and blue ribbon, to join the commander in what she's going to do next from hiding from her evil daddy.
"Bastrad." She cursed, but not her father...no. Nowadays, Gwen changed from her usually cold attitude to a slightly more social one. Well, maybe because she had taken a bit more of a liking to the conductor of the garden, Nida. She brushed the thought from her head as she walked past Squall's office for the second time. Of course, the door was open and Squall called her twice as she passed by it, both times. Ok, so that wasn't the real reason she felt slightly nervous about going into Squall's office maybe it was because of...why should she be nervous, she was about to let out the truth, she grinned, and walked past Squall's office...again.
"Gwen!" he called for the third time, when she finally looked up.
"Oh, there you are, sorry." Gwen apologized.
"Whatever, that doesn't matter now." Squall replied, as the door closed shut. "Look, this is serious now, this message got sent to me this morning." He handed her the note as her eyes scanned over it numerous times. "He used 'we', do you know anything about this 'we'?" he asked, leaning back in his chair and eyeing her carefully, with an air of suspicion.
After a minute Gwen replied to his inquiry. "Y-Yes, I do know."
"How? You were abandoned?" Squall asked, his suspicion growing even more.
"Well...most of what he had said was mostly a gimmick to confuse you all, really." A small smile played at her lips.
A/N: I'm a fickle writer...yeah yeah, I should've put in some sort of a hint that it was all a gimmick, but I didn't. DON'T KILL ME!
"What are you getting at?" Squall asked, the anger also rising up as he started drawing his own conclusions.
"I knew you wouldn't see it. I knew you were too dense. Didn't you find it odd to find a replica of you? Didn't you find it in the least bit, oh say, fishy?" She grinned. "And yet, you accepted me, accepted me into SeeD and allowed me to be trained under your supervision, thank you, oh kind one." She took a mock bow. "All along, I was sent here by MY father, who acted as if HE disowned me. The signs were so subtle, it would be so hard for you to see them. Even the looks I would put on to make it seem I wanted revenge or something, showed no trace of guilt or flaw. Its about time you realized Leonhart, I'm actually working with him not fighting against him. I was dispatched here for a reason. To destroy you." She put her knee onto his desk, and prodded his front.
"Me?" Squall growled, anger rising considerably.
"Yes, you." Gwen replied.
"Why?"
"Because, you stole the Garden'srole as commander. We should've had it, not you."
"What? How?"
"If you don't know already, pea brain, its because my father and Cid are brothers. Cid didn't recognize me because I changed my last name, and changed style. But my father was to be the commander, not you."
"Maybe cid had his reasons, for choosing me." Squall defended, pushing Gwen off his desk, how landed lightly on her feet.
"He did, my father, the idiot, had lost the Garden 4,000,000,000 gil, after gambling." She rolled her eyes. "Cid was furious, and pretended from then on he never had a brother." "So that's why we were living off beanies and weenies for a year." Squall thought to himself. Finally, Squall uttered his final words. "Get out." He pushed a small button on the wall.
"INTRUDER ALERT, INTRUDER ALERT!" All the doors opened and already, the Garden was in total chaos.
"You won't win this Leonhart!" Gwen cried, whipping out her gunblade and lashing anyone who got in her way. Squall ran out, hurriedly giving out orders.
"Quistis, take care of the junior classmen! Zell! Get everyone to calm down." He yelled, his voice growing hoarse. For an intruder, so much chaos, it wasn't as if they were attacking, but who knew. Then it happened.
BANG!
Something hit the Garden, Squall ran to the bridge to check it out. Once up there he saw a giant ship, about the size of the Ragnarok, crashing into the side of the Garden.
"Shit! GWEN YOU ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THIS" He yelled, feeling the pain strike him. He had been so stupid, so blind by her exact likeness of himself that he could not see how suspicious that was. He had a feeling Rinoa had sensed something. He turned and ran straight back to his office and turned on the intercom once more.
"This is the commander." Squall panted. "Junior classmen, listen to me, stay calm, stay with Quistis, she'll protect you if anything should happen. Quistis, I'm sending Squad A to you for back up help. Selphie, and Troop B report to Quad and stay there. They may try attack from there. Zell and Squad C, I need you at the entrance of the Garden. The Squads are as follows. Anyone with odd last numbers in their ID you are in Squad A, this is for Garden Students, anyone with even last numbers are in Squad B this also applies to Garden students you too Rinoa. And Squad C are all those who partake in SeeD. That is all, please stay in your places I will be around to examine. This will probably be a big battle and I know we will all tire after a while. But I have faith in you all, do your best. Dr. Kadowaki will take care of any of your injuries. Good Luck." He turned off the intercom and rushed out the door to meet up with everyone. He guess Rinoa, with her student ID being 6543782902 was in Squad B, safe and sound.
He hurried off, grabbing his gunblade and reporting to each team.
Gwen raced through the front doors, right before Squall dispatched his troop. She felt badly about telling Squall about her not actually being on their side all along. And she curses the author for making her an evil character. Gunblade Elf: I'm just adding an unexpected twist...get back to the story.
After getting out a few meters away from the entrance, she heard the sound of scurrying feet. She turned and saw the little Chocobo follow her, staring at her with crystal blue eyes.
"Whyare you following me? Don't you realize I'm...I'm not what you think?" She kneeled down. The Chocobo approached her and lay its warm head on her hand. It didn't want to leave her even though she was on the 'dark side' one could say. He may become of some use. She felt some sort of energy flow into her from the chocobo. Some sort of magical power. She lifted it into her arms, just as a rope ladder came from the ship.
"Ah my dear, wonderful act yesterday, absolutely wonderful. Come we have much to do!" her father called from the top. "Ah, I see you've brought your partner in crime. You left that hovel Sophie back there eh?"
"Of, course, she knew nothing of it." Gwen replied.
"Well, let's move on!" a female voice, belonging to Gwen's sister called.
"Coming, coming..."
Shutting the latch, the drove in for another attack on the Garden. Looking in a mirror on the side door, Gwen saw her reflexion and noticed....how much she really did look like Squall.
"Oh my Gosh, Oh my gosh!" Sophie panted as she ran through the Garden, at one point running head long into Squall.
"Squall!" she cried, getting up. "Have you seen Gwen, she just disappeared? Do you know what's going on with her? She's acting so weird, don't you find? Do you know Squall?" She babbled.
"You're not....her partner in crime?" Squall asked, realizing how stupid he sounded.
"WHAT?" Sophie asked, placing her hands on her hips.
"Um...you don't do things with Gwen and her father?" Squall asked, having a feeling that what he had said didn't sound, well, right.
"What are you talking about? Isn't Gwen on our side?" Sophie asked again, in an ever annoying tone of voice.
"No...she's been working with that bastard, Henry..." Squall swore, punching the wall, "I was blinded by our likeness that I didn't notice how suspicious it was."
Sophie didn't say anything, but patted his arm comfortingly. "There, there, you'll know what to do." She said softly, treading closely to the borderline of his emotions.
Squall took a deep breath, then he turned and smile one of his rare smiles. "Thanks, you mind joining Squad B with Rinoa?"
"Sure! And don't worry...I can fight really. I just didn't want Gwen to know." She winked reporting to Quad.
Squall scratched his head, kind of confused.
Another crash came from somewhere near his office, they were heading in for the kill. Squall hurried to give out final orders. So much for the Garden festival.
That's when....he saw...
TBC... MUAHAHAHAHA does a jig Squall has an evil clone! Squall had an evil clone!! You weren't expecting that were you? You like? And I did this because GWEN IS JUST GETTING ON MY NERVES for some inexplicable reason. I'm short on ideas at what Squall is going to see...and don't worry Squinoa fans, Rinoa won't be lying on the floor in a bloody heap, because I'm not mean. Let's just say...I'VE GOT IT!! I won't tell you though...then again one hint...it has nothing to do with Rinoa, ok? I'm not a huge Squinoa fan...that's it THANKS A BUNCH TO THE WONDERFUL FANTASY FAN MIA!!! Why? Because she's my biggest supporter! Here's a gift! gives her BIG HUG and a big cookie I hope you like chocolate chip! Cookies are yummy!
Brushing brown locks of wild hair out of his face, the young commander rolled over in bed. Blinking in the bright morning light cascading into his room, he yawned and stretched out. He groaned and pulled a comb through his hair and brushed his teeth. He pulled on his normal attire of black pants, grey t-shirt, leather jacket, army boots and of course...the lion's heart pendant. Scratching his behind he opened the door and what met his eyes put him into shock. Ribbons....everywhere.
Selphie's doing, of course. The Garden Festival was that evening.
"Hiya Squall!" Selphie bounded in, throwing pink ribbon here and there.
"Good morning Selphie...Whoa...lots of..."
"Pink.." a voice finished, he whipped around and saw Gwen eyeing the ghastly colour.
"Well, well, good morning sleepy head" Selphie said, throwing blue ribbon over Squall's door.
"Hey there." She replied coolly. Squall eyed her for a second, it seemed her attitude had changed...slightly. If it had been him he would've rolled his eyes, say "whatever" and left.
"Want to help me decorate? Please? I could really use the help! Squall can't he's a little busy commander!" She winked in Squall's direction, who merely shook his head.
"Sure." Gwen replied, taking the batch of blue ribbon and throwing them wherever Selphie indicated.
Squall could've sworn her eyes had lit up at the opportunity. "Whatever, she's changing, its normal." He thought to himself before making his way to his office. Passing Rinoa's bedroom, with the door that remained ajar, he peeped in. She seemed up and probably in one of Quistis' classes, like she does every Monday.
Stretching once more he slipped the card into the slot and opened the door to the giant office belonging to the commander. Packages of forms and official documents scattered his desk along with coffee cups here and there. He switched his coffee maker on and allowed it to brew, he opened up a new package that lay on his desk. It was thin, a letter, nothing really special. He ripped it open and pulled out the letter. The hand writing was no more than a scribble, hardly legible and the ink ran down the page. After reading it numerous times his eyes widened in shock. The letter was short, yet he understood its meaning completely.
WE'RE COMING FOR HER.
They were coming for Gwen, and most probably planning a surprise attack. Better warnt he rest of the Garden to be prepared for anything at anytime. He turned to the intercom and turned it on.
"Everyone, this is the commander, I have urgent news. AS you all now we have temporary visitors on our Garden. But one of them is being tracked down by someone who goes by the name of Henry, or was it Harry? I can't remember, anyway, Tonight, at the Garden Festival, you will notice security will be tight and weapons will be situated in various places, in case of an attack you should use them. That is all, Gwen, please report to my office on the second floor, three doors away from Quistis' classroom. Thank you." He shut the 'com off and sat down, rubbing his temples, thinking of what he's going to do with this threat note.
"....Gwen, please report to my office on the second floor, three doors away from Quistis' classroom. Thank you." Squall's voice called over the intercom. Gwen sighed and left Selphie, buried under pink and blue ribbon, to join the commander in what she's going to do next from hiding from her evil daddy.
"Bastrad." She cursed, but not her father...no. Nowadays, Gwen changed from her usually cold attitude to a slightly more social one. Well, maybe because she had taken a bit more of a liking to the conductor of the garden, Nida. She brushed the thought from her head as she walked past Squall's office for the second time. Of course, the door was open and Squall called her twice as she passed by it, both times. Ok, so that wasn't the real reason she felt slightly nervous about going into Squall's office maybe it was because of...why should she be nervous, she was about to let out the truth, she grinned, and walked past Squall's office...again.
"Gwen!" he called for the third time, when she finally looked up.
"Oh, there you are, sorry." Gwen apologized.
"Whatever, that doesn't matter now." Squall replied, as the door closed shut. "Look, this is serious now, this message got sent to me this morning." He handed her the note as her eyes scanned over it numerous times. "He used 'we', do you know anything about this 'we'?" he asked, leaning back in his chair and eyeing her carefully, with an air of suspicion.
After a minute Gwen replied to his inquiry. "Y-Yes, I do know."
"How? You were abandoned?" Squall asked, his suspicion growing even more.
"Well...most of what he had said was mostly a gimmick to confuse you all, really." A small smile played at her lips.
A/N: I'm a fickle writer...yeah yeah, I should've put in some sort of a hint that it was all a gimmick, but I didn't. DON'T KILL ME!
"What are you getting at?" Squall asked, the anger also rising up as he started drawing his own conclusions.
"I knew you wouldn't see it. I knew you were too dense. Didn't you find it odd to find a replica of you? Didn't you find it in the least bit, oh say, fishy?" She grinned. "And yet, you accepted me, accepted me into SeeD and allowed me to be trained under your supervision, thank you, oh kind one." She took a mock bow. "All along, I was sent here by MY father, who acted as if HE disowned me. The signs were so subtle, it would be so hard for you to see them. Even the looks I would put on to make it seem I wanted revenge or something, showed no trace of guilt or flaw. Its about time you realized Leonhart, I'm actually working with him not fighting against him. I was dispatched here for a reason. To destroy you." She put her knee onto his desk, and prodded his front.
"Me?" Squall growled, anger rising considerably.
"Yes, you." Gwen replied.
"Why?"
"Because, you stole the Garden'srole as commander. We should've had it, not you."
"What? How?"
"If you don't know already, pea brain, its because my father and Cid are brothers. Cid didn't recognize me because I changed my last name, and changed style. But my father was to be the commander, not you."
"Maybe cid had his reasons, for choosing me." Squall defended, pushing Gwen off his desk, how landed lightly on her feet.
"He did, my father, the idiot, had lost the Garden 4,000,000,000 gil, after gambling." She rolled her eyes. "Cid was furious, and pretended from then on he never had a brother." "So that's why we were living off beanies and weenies for a year." Squall thought to himself. Finally, Squall uttered his final words. "Get out." He pushed a small button on the wall.
"INTRUDER ALERT, INTRUDER ALERT!" All the doors opened and already, the Garden was in total chaos.
"You won't win this Leonhart!" Gwen cried, whipping out her gunblade and lashing anyone who got in her way. Squall ran out, hurriedly giving out orders.
"Quistis, take care of the junior classmen! Zell! Get everyone to calm down." He yelled, his voice growing hoarse. For an intruder, so much chaos, it wasn't as if they were attacking, but who knew. Then it happened.
BANG!
Something hit the Garden, Squall ran to the bridge to check it out. Once up there he saw a giant ship, about the size of the Ragnarok, crashing into the side of the Garden.
"Shit! GWEN YOU ARE GOING TO PAY FOR THIS" He yelled, feeling the pain strike him. He had been so stupid, so blind by her exact likeness of himself that he could not see how suspicious that was. He had a feeling Rinoa had sensed something. He turned and ran straight back to his office and turned on the intercom once more.
"This is the commander." Squall panted. "Junior classmen, listen to me, stay calm, stay with Quistis, she'll protect you if anything should happen. Quistis, I'm sending Squad A to you for back up help. Selphie, and Troop B report to Quad and stay there. They may try attack from there. Zell and Squad C, I need you at the entrance of the Garden. The Squads are as follows. Anyone with odd last numbers in their ID you are in Squad A, this is for Garden Students, anyone with even last numbers are in Squad B this also applies to Garden students you too Rinoa. And Squad C are all those who partake in SeeD. That is all, please stay in your places I will be around to examine. This will probably be a big battle and I know we will all tire after a while. But I have faith in you all, do your best. Dr. Kadowaki will take care of any of your injuries. Good Luck." He turned off the intercom and rushed out the door to meet up with everyone. He guess Rinoa, with her student ID being 6543782902 was in Squad B, safe and sound.
He hurried off, grabbing his gunblade and reporting to each team.
Gwen raced through the front doors, right before Squall dispatched his troop. She felt badly about telling Squall about her not actually being on their side all along. And she curses the author for making her an evil character. Gunblade Elf: I'm just adding an unexpected twist...get back to the story.
After getting out a few meters away from the entrance, she heard the sound of scurrying feet. She turned and saw the little Chocobo follow her, staring at her with crystal blue eyes.
"Whyare you following me? Don't you realize I'm...I'm not what you think?" She kneeled down. The Chocobo approached her and lay its warm head on her hand. It didn't want to leave her even though she was on the 'dark side' one could say. He may become of some use. She felt some sort of energy flow into her from the chocobo. Some sort of magical power. She lifted it into her arms, just as a rope ladder came from the ship.
"Ah my dear, wonderful act yesterday, absolutely wonderful. Come we have much to do!" her father called from the top. "Ah, I see you've brought your partner in crime. You left that hovel Sophie back there eh?"
"Of, course, she knew nothing of it." Gwen replied.
"Well, let's move on!" a female voice, belonging to Gwen's sister called.
"Coming, coming..."
Shutting the latch, the drove in for another attack on the Garden. Looking in a mirror on the side door, Gwen saw her reflexion and noticed....how much she really did look like Squall.
"Oh my Gosh, Oh my gosh!" Sophie panted as she ran through the Garden, at one point running head long into Squall.
"Squall!" she cried, getting up. "Have you seen Gwen, she just disappeared? Do you know what's going on with her? She's acting so weird, don't you find? Do you know Squall?" She babbled.
"You're not....her partner in crime?" Squall asked, realizing how stupid he sounded.
"WHAT?" Sophie asked, placing her hands on her hips.
"Um...you don't do things with Gwen and her father?" Squall asked, having a feeling that what he had said didn't sound, well, right.
"What are you talking about? Isn't Gwen on our side?" Sophie asked again, in an ever annoying tone of voice.
"No...she's been working with that bastard, Henry..." Squall swore, punching the wall, "I was blinded by our likeness that I didn't notice how suspicious it was."
Sophie didn't say anything, but patted his arm comfortingly. "There, there, you'll know what to do." She said softly, treading closely to the borderline of his emotions.
Squall took a deep breath, then he turned and smile one of his rare smiles. "Thanks, you mind joining Squad B with Rinoa?"
"Sure! And don't worry...I can fight really. I just didn't want Gwen to know." She winked reporting to Quad.
Squall scratched his head, kind of confused.
Another crash came from somewhere near his office, they were heading in for the kill. Squall hurried to give out final orders. So much for the Garden festival.
That's when....he saw...
TBC... MUAHAHAHAHA does a jig Squall has an evil clone! Squall had an evil clone!! You weren't expecting that were you? You like? And I did this because GWEN IS JUST GETTING ON MY NERVES for some inexplicable reason. I'm short on ideas at what Squall is going to see...and don't worry Squinoa fans, Rinoa won't be lying on the floor in a bloody heap, because I'm not mean. Let's just say...I'VE GOT IT!! I won't tell you though...then again one hint...it has nothing to do with Rinoa, ok? I'm not a huge Squinoa fan...that's it THANKS A BUNCH TO THE WONDERFUL FANTASY FAN MIA!!! Why? Because she's my biggest supporter! Here's a gift! gives her BIG HUG and a big cookie I hope you like chocolate chip! Cookies are yummy!