Disclaimer: Sigh Not again..... Okay........I don't own Square-Enix stuff. There... nuff said.
Sorry it took so long for me to update, but here's chapter 9, which gets a little more serious.
"You might as well talk." Seifer said to the man sitting across from him at the table. He had been here for hours interrogating Garret. Although he already knew the better part of the plan, Seifer was curious as to when it would take place. He knew, as a SeeD, that he would be called into action again to stop Garret's forces from ressurecting the Sorceress.
"You SeeD's are all so boring." Garret murmered, his first word in three hours.
"Whatever you like to think." Seifer said disgustedly.
"Really. Did you expect me to reveal my entire plan to you after you captured me? Do you really expect to be able to hold me here much longer?" Garret scoffed.
"I really don't see any way of you getting out. You've been relieved of your GF's, you have no magic junctioned. You don't have your weapon. I'm just not seeing it." Seifer shrugged.
"Oh my dear friend, Almasy.... you really don't know do you?" Garret chuckled.
"Know what? Would you shut up?" Seifer slammed his fist onto the table.
"Hahahaha. A few minutes ago you were telling me to talk and now you want me to shut up. Indecisive aren't we?" Garret continued laughing.
"You.... my "friend", are lucky that they didn't permit me to carry Hyperion in here with me." Seifer narrowed his eyes.
"And what would you do with that? Kill me? You'd be hanged for that Almasy. Even these Garden prudes have little tolerance for your hot-headedness." Garret smirked.
"You may be right Garret.... but you'd still be dead." it was Seifer's turn to grin.
"Please. My Goddess would ressurect me." Garret sneered.
"Are you so sure? You were always her peon. I was always her knight. How do you know she wouldn't come back to me?" Seifer suggested. At this, Garret twisted his face into a knot and uttered not another word.
"Bah! You're useless!" Seifer slammed the door behind him as he exited the interrogation room. A few moments after Seifer had left, another young man entered. This one was a bit shorter than Seifer, and had shaggy brown hair. He also wore a scar to match Seifer's.
"Leonhart. How nice of you to join me." Garret offered the seat across from him to Squall, who stood his ground. Another person entered the room.
"And you've brought your girlfriend... how nice." Garret's words sounded like sugar coated acid.
"My girlfriend is the only living Sorceress, Garret. You should be looking for her instead of some ruined corpse." Squall spat.
"I'm already aware of Sorceress Rinoa, Mr. Leonhart... as is most of the world." Garret smiled. He knew he'd hit a soft spot in Squall. It was a well known fact that Rinoa stayed close to Squall most of the time, and didn't venture out into the rest of the world, for most people feared her, and feared that she would be a repeat of Adel and Edea.
"Why are you trying to bring back the Sorceress?" Squall demanded. "What value does she really have for you? Do you think she'd share power with you? You're wrong. She only wanted to destroy the world because she was angry with it."
"A pitiful SeeD like you could never understand the design of Ultimecia." Garret stood up from his chair violently, glaring at Squall.
"I killed Ultimecia. There's no coming back for her. I killed her in her OWN time!" Squall shouted.
"You may have killed her body, but her spirit remains!" Garret insisted.
"NOTHING EXISTS OF HER ANYMORE. WE KILLED HER IN THE TIME-COMPRESSED WORLD!" Squall chopped his hand through the air.
"And if there isn't it's YOUR FAULT!" Garret lunged at Squall, firmly planting his hands on the younger man's throat.
"Squall!" Rinoa cried and began to strike Garret, trying to get him to let go. Garret pressed Squall into the wall in his choke-hold, and effortlessly struck Rinoa, sending her flying across the room.
"GhhgH! Rinoa! Kgh! You bastard!" Squalls struggled to speak.
"You know. You SeeD's are rediculous. You are supposed to be well trained. You should have checked all of my junctions Leonhart. I have special abilities junctioned that can't be removed..." Garret held Squall against the wall with one hand.
"Gagh! What are you...egh...talking about?" Squall choked.
"I have DRAW junctioned, Squall. Draw! Ellone was not the ONLY junction machine that Odine produced! And I knew that pitiful guard who is calling for backup right now would have a GF junctioned to him.... so I drew it from him when he gave me breakfast!" Garret increased his hold on Squall, who, unfortunately, did not have a GF junctioned.
"And where might I hide such a machine Squall? Look!" Garret pulled his military uniform upward, exposing his stomach. Where his ribs should have been, there were metallic objects that did not belong.
"I knew that Odine's draw and junction machine would come in handy one day.......so I had it surgically implatnted." Garret said calmly.
Garret's hold on Squall throat was like a vice-grip, and Squall blacked out, falling limp.
"Not so powerful now, are you Lion?" Garret spat on Squall's face and stormed from the room.
The guard outside wasn't as lucky as Squall or Rinoa. Garret's rage was not to be trifled with. The poor sap went for his handgun only to have his heart ripped out by a GF enhanced Garret. The guard out of the way, Garret kicked open the locked door and emerged into what was once NORG's lair. He calmly proceeded to an instrument pannel on the wall and pressed a hidden switch. The wall slid away revealing a small glowing orb set upon a tri-point.
"Just as NORG said..." Garret murmered, and grasped the orb. He went back into the cell room and retrieved a backpack from the guard and shoved the orb into it. His work done, he sped to the elevator. Once at the base floor he bolted for the exit. Students that were going about their daily business were too shocked at the sight of Garret and his bloody arm to try and stop him. He catapulted over the entrance gate and ran hard for the forest, where his personal ship lay.
Garret chuckled to himself as he prepped the ship for launch. The foolish SeeD's had fallen for his ruse. He had intentionally left a copy of his ticket for Dollet knowing full well that they would pursue him there. Seifer's subterfuge had been unexpected, but his capture wasn't. He did have to give them credit for sending Seifer in first... it really was quite clever of them to appeal to his ego, but it mattered not. The orb was in his possession and the rest of his plan was already under way. Adel would be found... the Sorceress would be resurrected.
Sorry for the short chappy folks. Kinda mysterious too. Bet you're all wondering what the orb is for. You'll find out soon enough. R&R in the meantime.