Well I'm sorry that I couldn't get this in earlier I got grounded for a long time from the computer and had no way of getting this to you. I hope you like it.

Inside a pure white marbled chamber Seymour was waiting for his accomplice to show up tell him what has happened to the fiends he sent to the kill the Gullwings. He had hoped that they had given the Gullwings a slow and painful death.

"Seymour, I have found out what happened... it isn't good news" came a voice behind Seymour. He turned around and saw his most faithful servant.

"Then stop stalling and tell me," Seymour demanded in an irritated voice.

"I think it would be better if I showed you," then in front of the cloaked figure's feet a hole opened up and some kind of sphere started playing. Seymour saw his fiends being slaughtered like chickens in coop, full of starving wolves.

"Damn them to hell," Seymour yelled pounding his fists into the ground making pint sized earthquakes. "Lady Yunalesca, I have another plan I wish for you to carry out, and I pray for your life that it will work."

The next morning Rikku got out of her bed to see that everyone else was already up. She took the elevator to the bridge and to her surprise no one was to be found. She got freaked out and went on a frantic search to find everyone. She looked everywhere and didn't even find Barkeep on board. Rikku went back to the bridge and looked out the window she saw that they had landed in a desert. She thought that everyone must be outside and had left her here, so she got her things and headed out the ship.

"Hey sleeping beauty, you finally wake up." Gippal laughed at her. Rikku looked around her but couldn't see him. Then she looked up and saw him hovering on some type of silent machine. Rikku then noticed that it was the same device that the fiends had used. "Shinra analyzed it and it seems too made up of some type of unknown material," Rikku saw Shinra coming from the other side of the ship and turned her attention back to Gippal.

"Which means?" Rikku asked looking confused. Gippal started to talk but was cutoff by Shinra.

"Which means that no ordinary Human, Al Bhed, or Guado made this Machina,"

"Why are we in the dessert?" Rikku asked looking around.

"We thought that we could get some help from the other Al Bhed with our investigation," Gippal said still hovering on that surprisingly silent machina.

"What other Al Bhed?" Rikku asked

"Wow, Rikku don't you know where we are." Gippal looked at her surprised. "I mean you freakin'' grew up here, unless you're too stupid to realize it." Rikku looked at him and wondered where she was. Then she ran over to a sand dune and looked over it when she got to the top. She saw Home

"They actually rebuilt it," she said quietly, but it was loud enough for Gippal to hear.

"You mean you had no idea your hometown was rebuilt, you really are sad." Gippal said taking advantage of what Rikku had just said. That got Rikku really mad. She jumped up into the air making a fist and lashed her hand out. It made contact with Gippal's cheek and sent him soaring through the air. Rikku then landed on the flying machine and tried to figure out the controls. Gippal landed face first into a sand dune. He got of and slid down the side of it.

"Hey Gippal, heads up," He heard Rikku and ducked back it the sand just dodging the machine as it flew over his head.

"Hey you could have cut my head off with that stunt you just pulled." Gippal said really mad at her. Forgetting about the fact that he could have just died he sat on the ground and watched Rikku fly laps around the ship. A couple minutes later he felt the ground moving beneath him, and he realized what it was. He got up watching the sand shifting and it stopped under Rikku. He saw the ground rising up right underneath where Rikku was hovering. "Rikku move," Gippal shouted hoping she heard him, but Rikku was laughing too hard to care what Gippal had to say. He started running at her waving his hands in the air like a lunatic. Rikku saw him but didn't know what to make of it. She stopped laughing and heard a loud pitched scream coming from underneath her. The sand exploded around her and she felt something pull her off of the machina. She hit ground and was covered up by something soon after. She tasted blood dripping into in her mouth. She closed her mouth and felt the heavy object get off of her. She couldn't see anything at first just blurs, but when her pupils adjusted to the sudden change of light she saw Gippal laying on the ground with blood caked spikes stuck in his back. Shinra ran up too Gippal not knowing what had just happened, because he was on the other side of the ship. Rikku looked to her side and saw a huge sand worm that was devouring the machina she was just on. She put two and two together and realized what had happened. Gippal had pulled her off of the machine and used himself as a shield to protect her from the spikes the worm had shot. She got up and raced to Gippal. She took the spikes from his back and turned him over.

He came to and muttered "It's not that bad" he said spraying blood around him

"Shut up, it is too, Shinra go to Home and get medical help right away." Rikku shouted

Shinra got up and ran as fast as he could over the sand dune and down towards home.

"Rikku, behind you!" Gippal warned blood still coming out of his mouth.

Rikku turned around and jumped with fright. The large worm was no less then ten feet away, but since it was closer she saw that something was wrong. It had eight weird eyes on its back. They looked like human eyes. Its mouth opened up and a spike covered tongue came slithering out. Large saliva drops shot out of the mouth and hit Gippal's leg. His clothing started to burn away. Rikku took one of the spikes that was previously in Gippal's back and used it to rip Gippal's pant leg off as Gippal started to scream. When the acid covered cloth was thrown to the side Rikku turned her attention towards the hulking beast. She took the gun from Gippal's holster and aimed for the tongue. The worm flicked its tongue sending one of the spikes hurdling to Rikku. She shot the gun at the spike and the bullet hit it hard enough that its path was changed. It hit the ground right near Rikku but she didn't care. She shot one after another at the creature's body but not even a scratch formed. When no more bullets came out of the gun she dropped it and took out her thief blades.

She sprinted at the worm and jumped striking the oddly shaped eye. The blade went through it like it was a hard-boiled egg but the monster did not flinch. Shit she thought to herself and jumped off leaving the blade in the eye.

"Cad, Yes, Vena" Rikku heard a muffled voice behind her. Then she felt something wiz past her extremely fast. She looked back at the worm and there was a large explosion and when the sand cleared there was a giant bloody hole in the worm's side. Rikku looked back to where she heard the voice and saw her father, Cid. Next to him was an Al Bhed with a missile launcher laying on his shoulder. Shinra flew over the sand dune on some type of skiff and landed near Gippal. Paramedics hopped off and carried Gippal aboard.

"Where's Paine and Baralai," Rikku asked Cid when she got to him.

"There at Home discussing plans with our military officials." Cid answered dismissing the other Al Bhed. Rikku got aboard the skiff and sat down next to Gippal.

She looked up at the paramedic and asked "Ec ra kuhhy syga ed"

"Ra cruimt pa veha" the Al Bhed answered

When they got to home Gippal was rushed off and Shinra went with him.

So Rikku was left alone to explore what was once her home. She walked around for a couple of hours and saw everything she could. Paine and Baralai came up to her from around a corner.

"There you are we were looking everywhere for you" Paine said looking annoyed.

"The Al Bhed said that they would look into the problem with Guadosalam some more, and that they have sent some scouts to search Macalania woods and see if the Guados are there." Baralai informed.

"So what do we do now?" Rikku asked.

"Well the Al Bhed have reported some high fiend activity in the Desert and since we have nothing else to do I thought we go exterminate them." Paine said happily.

"Sounds perfect for you Paine." Rikku teased

"They also said that some Al Bhed had left to go after the fiends too so we have to find them also, if there alive," Paine whispered the last part.

"Well, let's round up the gang and go kill some fiends" Rikku said.

"Where exactly is this place?" Buddy asked confused on where to go.

"He said the south west quadrant." Paine answered.

"Got it," Buddy said inputting the quadrant into the computer. Five minutes later, "Well here we are"

They landed the Celsius and Rikku, Paine, and Baralai got out.

Paine was lugging a huge black knight sword and Rikku was carrying an alchemist mechgun, Baralai had his trusty dual chackram.

"Well I don't see any fiend or Al Bhed, just a lot of sand" Paine got mad.

"Wait look, up there" Rikku said pointing to the sky. Something was glinting and moving very fast.

"Oh, SHIT" Baralai said realizing that if they didn't move they would end up a pancake. He dived out of the as did Rikku and Paine. A human sized capsule crashed into the ground right where they were standing and blasted sand into the air. When the dust cleared the group saw dog sized scorpions crawl out.

"Ewww, I hate bugs." Rikku said screaming

"Oh get over it" Paine said irritated. She cut one of them up and chopped another's tail off.

A dozen more capsules crashed into the sand and opened up releasing more overgrown insects. Rikku started screaming and blasted away making the bugs explode with her guns huge slugs.

"There's too many" Baralai said backing up trying to not get stun or bit while hacking away. Then another larger capsule came crashing down. It opened and a younger man came out this time.

Paine was stunned as she looked at his face.

Translations

Cad, Yes, Vena - Set, Aim, Fire

Ec ra kuhhy syga ed- Is he gonna make it

Ra cruimt pa veha- He should be fine

Thanks to all who like this story and I decided just to stick to this one until it is over.