Chapter 22
As the train stopped at Deling City they hopped off and headed for General Caraway's mansion. Squall loudly knocked on the door and it opened a few seconds later.
"Oh Squall, you need something?" Caraway asked. Squall got straight to the point.
"We want to know all there is to know about this experiment Galbadia is working on. Caraway's face went serious and he slowly turned around walking toward his desk. He motioned for them to come in and have a seat.
"So the word got to ya somehow... Galbadia Supreme Court had to rule weather or not we continue on the production of these 'things'. I thought they would cancel the experiments but somebody must have bribed the judges." Caraway paused for a moment.
"Government is nothing but a bunch of crooks. Anyways, what are these 'things' like?" Sephiroth asked.
"Squall, you remember that large monster you fought down in that science facility?" Caraway inquired.
"Yes sir, it almost devoured us all." Squall retorted. Caraway quickly stood up.
"Now imagine hundreds if not thousands of this thing roaming the earth!" The old man yelled. Zell's eyes widened.
"That is impossible, there is no way to produce that many and keep them under control long enough to have such an army!" Zell exclaimed.
"Ultima Weapon is the weakest of its kind, but it is the most aggressive and one almost destroyed 3 towns back where I'm from." Sephiroth explained.
"Oh really, where are you from, and I don't believe I have your name yet?" Caraway asked.
"The names Sephiroth and where I'm from isn't important. I really have no reason to help you either, cause I can just go back to my place while you pathetic imbeciles destroy each other." Gloated Sephiroth.
"Well that's ok with me, I doubt you could help anyways. The only person that could probably stand there own against one of those things is Squall over there." Caraway snapped. Sephiroth just looked down and shook his head.
"Uh Caraway, Sephiroth is actually pretty skilled in combat. I'd have to say he and Squall are in the same league." Explained Zell. Caraway looked back and Sephiroth with a grin.
"Well, now actually you do sound helpful. Name your price." Said Caraway.
"I can't really give you a price until you tell me what I'm supposed to do." Sephiroth gestured.
"Well it won't be nothing big. Once our leader decides to attack Balamb Garden, I'd like you to make sure nothing happens to my daughter." Caraway requested. Squall stood up from his chair.
"Uh dude, that's kinda what I'm for. Sephiroth won't need to look out for her, she can probably take care of herself and if not I'll be there." Squall exclaimed. Caraway grinned.
"Actually you won't. I have decided to have you lead a squad of specialty trainees into that base and destroy as much equipment and specimens as possible." Caraway demanded. Squall's face went red.
"Are you giving me orders? I don't work for you so you can kiss my..." Caraway cut in.
"I have nobody else that can lead men in battle like you have done. If you can weaken them before they decide to attack maybe, just maybe we can stop this before it gets out of control." Caraway implied.
"He has a point Squall, remember how good you did in that war between us and Galbadia Garden?" Said Zell.
"Yeah but that was a war, this is different I will have a small group of soldiers vs. probably an army 1,000 times bigger than mine." Squall explained.
"Yes but I know you can do it, if I send you alone you could do it. Just remember if you fail and they get mass numbers of those things we are all screwed." Caraway warned.
"Anyways, why would you waste my talents on protecting your daughter? I'd much rather be on the battle field than..." Sephiroth was cut off.
"If you don't want to that's fine, I'm sure Zell will look out for her then." Caraway gestured.
"Why me?" Zell whined. Caraway exploded.
"Goddammit...how hard can it be to do such a simple task?" Caraway yelled. Sephiroth was getting tired of the yelling in the room and decided to take control.
"Look old man here is how things are going to work. I will go back to Balamb Garden and if any of those things come near I will do everything in my power to stop them. Squall will go into that place with his squad and he WILL clear it out as much as he can. Zell will look after your daughter and you can sit on your ass drinking tea and eat crumpets for all I care. Now let's get on with it." Sephiroth ordered and turned to leave, and Zell and Squall followed.
"Hmph, you are a smartass. But it looks like you know what you're doing so I don't expect any failures. Squall your squad will be waiting for at the edge of town." Caraway said as they exited through the front door. As they walked down the concrete pathway Sephiroth stopped and turned to Squall.
"I have something for you, but you can only have the green ones." Sephiroth three marble looking things out of his pocket. "You can have one, each of you."
"What are they?" Zell asked.
"Well they are called materia. They have magical power, these are the rarest ones. This bright green one is Ultima, the other is holy." Sephiroth explained.
"Hey we have those magic spells though." Zell said.
"Yes, but materia is much stronger." Sephiroth explained. Squall's eyes focused on the black one.
"What does the black material do?" Squall asked.
"The black one is too dangerous to use. Cloud's dimension was almost destroyed because of it. Anyways I guess I'll tell you what it does. It will summon a huge meteor down to attack its target, I mean huge enough to wipe this entire planet. But enough of this, which of you will take the holy and which the ultima?" Sephiroth asked. Squall grabbed the ultima before Zell could get near it.
"Why do I always get stuck with the weak shit?" Zell complained as he took the holy materia. Sephiroth glared at him.
"That ain't weak. Holy and ultima are two equal powers, opposites of course. Now anyways, Zell let's get on that train back to Balamb and Squall you go and take care of your mission." Sephiroth said with a surprisingly grinning face. As they went there separate ways Squall turned around.
"Sephiroth, why did you decide to help out in this?" Questioned Squall.
"It was because of me that a world was almost destroyed, maybe if I save one I can live with myself." Sephiroth blurted. Squall turned back and headed to the edge of town. He was surprised when he saw his squad members. Standing there was Laguna, Kiros, and Ward.
"Bet ya didn't expect us to be your squad." Laguna said laughing.
"No I didn't, I expected maybe 30 or 40 soldiers but I guess this will do." Squall complained. Kiros laughed.
"C'mon we are 40 soldiers." Gloated Kiros. Ward just stood there silent since he couldn't speak.
"Squall do you mind if I tell you something before we do this mission?" Laguna asked. Squall sighed.
"Can it wait, we got get moving if we are going to finish this tonight." Squall ordered. Laguna gasped.
"Tonight! C'mon I thought we could have a few parties and get drunk tonight." Yelled Laguna. Squall looked down and shook his head.
"We don't have time to waste," said Squall. Laguna just laughed.
"Awright party pooper," joked Laguna as he went over to unlock his jeep. They all hopped in and peeled off toward the Galbadian Base. They parked the car a few hundred feet away and looked around at the structure for some way in. The base was about three stories high, and about the size of four football fields.
"It's not a very tall building. So if they have all those experiments I bet they got a huge ass underground area in there." Squall said.
"I was thinking the same thing. Anyways are we going to take out the leader who is at the top or go down and blow up most the stuff at the bottom?" Inquired Laguna as he unsheathed his new gunblade.
"I say we just go destroy everything underneath. By the way why are you using a gunblade?" Squall asked. Laguna smiled.
"Well, my son is a great gunbladist and I thought I might as well start using one myself." Laguna replied.
"Oh, so your Rueben's dad?" Squall asked curiously. Laguna shrugged.
"Nope, never heard of the guy," retorted Laguna. Squall glanced back over at the base.
"Think we can take them head on? I mean c'mon they aren't that strong." Squall exclaimed. Kiros busted out laughing.
"Squall, ten or twenty of them aren't that strong. But I don't think you want all the bees in the hive after ya at one time. Plus they have those monsters which could probably crush us all in two seconds." Kiros continued to laugh. Squall was getting agitated.
"Fine, I guess we'll do it your way and sneak in. Doesn't sound like much fun. Anyways, you guys stay here, I'll go get up closer and see if there is a way to sneak in. If it's safe I'll motion you to come." Squall explained as he headed off in the direction of the base. He slowly crept up behind the two guards in front of the main entrance, he tapped one on the back and as he turned around punched his lights out. The other guard started to pull out his gun, but Squall kicked it away and stuck his gunblade through him. Next he drug there bodies out of site, Laguna and the crew laughed in amazement.
"Gosh Laguna, you should be proud of him. When you going to tell him anyways?" Kiros joked. Laguna hit himself.
"Oh shit, I was going to tell him but he wanted to wait until we finish this 'mission'." Laguna responded. Meanwhile Squall was silently cleaning up guards around the sides of the building. Just as he took out the last one in site he motioned the three and they followed his command through the main entrance. Inside surprisingly had no guards in the main hall, and the stairways was only a few feet away. Ward wobbled over toward the stairs then stopped. Squall noticed Ward looking around at the area in front of him.
"What's he doing?" Squall questioned. Laguna leaned over to Squall.
"For some reason that guy can detect security alarm beams. Strange but maybe we can send him first through most of this area. Also if you wasn't informed there shouldn't be much fighting. Kiros has a big stock of explosives with him, all we got to do is place it in the lab and boom." Laguna explained. Squall shook his head.
"You make this sound too easy." Squall replied. As they finished talking Ward had maneuvered his way through the beams and turned them off with the switch on the other side. The three of them ran down the stairs, after about 200 stairs they came to a door.
"This must be it," whispered Kiros. Squall slowly opened the door and inside was hundreds of huge glass vials with strange looking body parts in them. Kiros ran toward the center of the area, Ward looked as he if would yell if he could but it was too late. Red lights flooded the area and sirens went off everywhere.
"Good going dumbass!" Laguna yelled. Within seconds guards stormed down the stairs but Squall slammed the door shut and held it with all his strength.
"Kiros set up the bombs now!" Yelled Squall. The guards started forcing the door open but Ward walked over and threw Squall out of the way. Then he set in front of the door.
"That will hold them off for a while," joked Laguna. Kiros finished placing the explosives around where they was at, but when he moved to the other side of the room a huge pair of red eyes looked down upon him. Seconds later another and another pair of eyes.
"Oh shit it's the beasts!" Kiros screamed. Within seconds beast flew around attack and gnashing at anything it could find.
"If they are always like this then how did they keep them under control?" Squall questioned as he was dodging the attacks of an Ultima Weapon.
"Well probably since numbnuts set off the alarm they went crazy." Laguna answered. Laguna thrust his gunblade into the mouth of the fiend and pulled the trigger once it closed its jaws, which exploded the head like a watermelon. "See now that's the way to kill them." Bragged Laguna.
"So I guess your kid got his skills from inheritance." Squall complimented as he thrust his sword into the mouth of the attacker and exploded it. Laguna laughed.
"I'd like to say yes to that, but I think my son worked hard for his skills so that would be wrong to say he got them from me." Laguna replied. Kiros finished both sides of the rooms, and fled back to them from the other side of the room. He tossed the detonator to Laguna.
"Soon as we get out of here we are going to enjoy the fireworks." Kiros yelled. Laguna rose his hand to motion Ward to get ready to charge through the guards in the stairway, but just then a Weapon bit the detonator from his hand and crushed it with its teeth.
"Shit!" Laguna yelled. Squall punched him in the shoulder.
"You idiot, now what are we going to do!?" Squall questioned nervously. Kiros lowered his head.
"There is one way to set these things off, and that is this other detonator that we got. Only problem is, it won't work unless you're close to the bombs." Explained Kiros. Squall and Laguna went silent.
"Give me the detonator." Squall ordered. Kiros looked at him with a serious face.
"This is suicide, let's just cancel the mission and we can think of another plan later." Kiros gasped. Squall held out his hand.
"Give me the detonator now. That is an order." Squall ordered. Kiros hesitated but slowly gave it to him.
"Squall don't do it, what about that girlfriend of yours?" Laguna said trying to persuade Squall.
"She'll get over it, now I want you guys to leave so we can get this over with." Squall demanded. Another wave of beast headed there way, and Squall thought it was time to try this 'materia' of his. He summoned the power of ultima which forced the monsters back and seemed to provide a shield around him. "Sephiroth said this stuff would help, and he was right. Now I want you to give it back to him for me, he is a tall guy with long platinum hair, you can't miss him." Explained Squall as he handed the materia to Laguna. Laguna shook his head and started to talk. Next they noticed the door Ward was holding stopped pushing against him.
"The guards must be evacuating, forget the detonator. Let's just leave." Kiros implied. Ward opened the door and Kiros walked up to him. "Let's leave, maybe Laguna can talk him out of this." Whispered Kiros. They hustled out of the base and left everything in the hands of Squall and Laguna.
"Man, if you're going to do this then there is something I must tell you." Said Laguna. The shield was starting to weaken and Squall continued to stare at the detonator like it was his fate.
"Just tell me, then you can leave." Squall snapped. Laguna sighed.
"This is going to be hard for me to explain. Remember how Ellone told you the story of Raine and me. How Raine died before I could get back to see my child?" Laguna asked.
"Yeah I remember, so I guess that is the son you keep talking about." Squall replied.
"Well I was to busy worrying about Ellone to take care of him. I dropped him off at the orphanage with Edea and Cid." Laguna explained. Squall scratched his head.
"So you're Seifer's father then?" Squall replied.
"Yeah, dammit now you got me confused here. No, he ain't my son, you are. And I'd like to apologize for being gone all your life." Laguna put an arm on Squall's shoulder. Squall brushed it off and looked like he was ready to die from surprise.
"There has to be some kind of mistake, I mean come on we have nothing in common. This has to be bullshit." Squall exclaimed.
"There is no mistake, look at me and look at yourself. We both have a lot of physical features in common. You know where you got the name Squall from? She named you that because the day you was born a hurricane wiped out half the town, pretty funny eh?" Laguna laughed.
"Ok ok, then why is my last name Leonhart then?" Squall asked.
"Ya know that is a good question. I bet Edea or Cid thought of that name, strong name just like you..." Just then the monsters broke through the barrier and one slashed Laguna before he could raise his weapon. As it made its second round to finish him off Squall stepped in front of Laguna and swung at the right time decapitating it. The other monsters slowly stepped toward them, and Laguna was coughing blood all over his shirt.
"Laguna are you alright?" Squall asked as he new what the real answer was.
"Oh dammit, I finally get to talk to you and this happens. Son I just wanted you to know I'm sorry for disserting you. Now give me that detonator and get out of here." Gasped Laguna.
"No, you can get out of here, I know you can. I'm going to take care of this." Squall insisted.
"Look at me, I'm going to die anyways now. They can't help you if your organs are torn like this. Just give me the detonator, there is no point in both of us dying here." Laguna begged. Squall knew Laguna was right, but he felt bad leaving such a duty to somebody under his command. "Look, you don't have to order me to do this alright, I'm doing it cause I don't want you to waste a whole life that is ahead of you. Your time isn't now, everybody at Balamb Garden needs you. Rinoa needs you so just give it to me." Squall paused and noticed the monsters were closing in.
"Dad, when you go up and meet mom...tell her...ugh...ugh" Squall studdered. Laguna laughed and started coughing again.
"Don't make yourself say it, I know what you mean. Who knows maybe I'll find a way back to this world." Joked Laguna. Squall grinned when he thought about how Tidus was able to come back from the Farplane, maybe Laguna could too.
"Yeah, well I'll see ya later." Squall said with a grin as he handed the detonator to Laguna. Squall glanced back at his father then darted off for the stairway. Laguna seemed puzzled about what Squall said to him before he left. Squall ran out through the main entrance to see Kiros and Ward waiting.
"Where's Laguna at? And where is that detonator?" Kiros asked.
"Dad decided to stay behind. Now run as far away as you can." Squall replied. As they ran about 20 Ultima Weapons and one rather large one with a silvery color escaped from the building. But before anything else could a huge blasts surrounded the area. Squall, Kiros, and Ward fell down from the quakes created from the explosion.
Minutes later after most of the smoke cleared they got back on there feet, brushing themselves off. Kiros glared at Squall.
"You talked him into staying behind didn't you?" Kiros accused. Squall looked back at him.
"I didn't make him do anything...he got injured by one of those bastards while we was down there. It was fatal and he knew it too, he told me there was no point in both of us dying so he asked me to give him the detonator. You shouldn't be worried about him anyways, I got this strange feeling that he will be back very soon." Squall said.
"Huh? I don't get it?" Kiros said confused.
"Hey didn't some of those monsters escape? That means I got to get back to Balamb immediately!" Squall yelled.
"Need us to come?" Kiros questioned. Squall shook his head.
"Nah, I'm sure with the small number that survived we'll be able to handle em." Squall gloated. "I could use a ride to the train station though, let's just hope he didn't have the keys." Kiros laughed.
"As many holes as he always had in his pockets, they would have fell out before he got out of the jeep." Kiros joked. Soon the three of them headed off for the train station and Squall thought they shouldn't have a memorial for Laguna because maybe Kimarhi the new power holder could bring him back.
Man I'm tired, I know I ain't wrote a chapter for a while, for one my computer had to get fixed and another thing is I'm just lazy. Oh yeah thanx for reviewing so much Sir Auron, kinda lets me know somebody reads this stuff, and thank you too Sephiroth245.
I guess I'll do another disclaimer, I, the writer of this story do not claim any character as mine in this story.
As the train stopped at Deling City they hopped off and headed for General Caraway's mansion. Squall loudly knocked on the door and it opened a few seconds later.
"Oh Squall, you need something?" Caraway asked. Squall got straight to the point.
"We want to know all there is to know about this experiment Galbadia is working on. Caraway's face went serious and he slowly turned around walking toward his desk. He motioned for them to come in and have a seat.
"So the word got to ya somehow... Galbadia Supreme Court had to rule weather or not we continue on the production of these 'things'. I thought they would cancel the experiments but somebody must have bribed the judges." Caraway paused for a moment.
"Government is nothing but a bunch of crooks. Anyways, what are these 'things' like?" Sephiroth asked.
"Squall, you remember that large monster you fought down in that science facility?" Caraway inquired.
"Yes sir, it almost devoured us all." Squall retorted. Caraway quickly stood up.
"Now imagine hundreds if not thousands of this thing roaming the earth!" The old man yelled. Zell's eyes widened.
"That is impossible, there is no way to produce that many and keep them under control long enough to have such an army!" Zell exclaimed.
"Ultima Weapon is the weakest of its kind, but it is the most aggressive and one almost destroyed 3 towns back where I'm from." Sephiroth explained.
"Oh really, where are you from, and I don't believe I have your name yet?" Caraway asked.
"The names Sephiroth and where I'm from isn't important. I really have no reason to help you either, cause I can just go back to my place while you pathetic imbeciles destroy each other." Gloated Sephiroth.
"Well that's ok with me, I doubt you could help anyways. The only person that could probably stand there own against one of those things is Squall over there." Caraway snapped. Sephiroth just looked down and shook his head.
"Uh Caraway, Sephiroth is actually pretty skilled in combat. I'd have to say he and Squall are in the same league." Explained Zell. Caraway looked back and Sephiroth with a grin.
"Well, now actually you do sound helpful. Name your price." Said Caraway.
"I can't really give you a price until you tell me what I'm supposed to do." Sephiroth gestured.
"Well it won't be nothing big. Once our leader decides to attack Balamb Garden, I'd like you to make sure nothing happens to my daughter." Caraway requested. Squall stood up from his chair.
"Uh dude, that's kinda what I'm for. Sephiroth won't need to look out for her, she can probably take care of herself and if not I'll be there." Squall exclaimed. Caraway grinned.
"Actually you won't. I have decided to have you lead a squad of specialty trainees into that base and destroy as much equipment and specimens as possible." Caraway demanded. Squall's face went red.
"Are you giving me orders? I don't work for you so you can kiss my..." Caraway cut in.
"I have nobody else that can lead men in battle like you have done. If you can weaken them before they decide to attack maybe, just maybe we can stop this before it gets out of control." Caraway implied.
"He has a point Squall, remember how good you did in that war between us and Galbadia Garden?" Said Zell.
"Yeah but that was a war, this is different I will have a small group of soldiers vs. probably an army 1,000 times bigger than mine." Squall explained.
"Yes but I know you can do it, if I send you alone you could do it. Just remember if you fail and they get mass numbers of those things we are all screwed." Caraway warned.
"Anyways, why would you waste my talents on protecting your daughter? I'd much rather be on the battle field than..." Sephiroth was cut off.
"If you don't want to that's fine, I'm sure Zell will look out for her then." Caraway gestured.
"Why me?" Zell whined. Caraway exploded.
"Goddammit...how hard can it be to do such a simple task?" Caraway yelled. Sephiroth was getting tired of the yelling in the room and decided to take control.
"Look old man here is how things are going to work. I will go back to Balamb Garden and if any of those things come near I will do everything in my power to stop them. Squall will go into that place with his squad and he WILL clear it out as much as he can. Zell will look after your daughter and you can sit on your ass drinking tea and eat crumpets for all I care. Now let's get on with it." Sephiroth ordered and turned to leave, and Zell and Squall followed.
"Hmph, you are a smartass. But it looks like you know what you're doing so I don't expect any failures. Squall your squad will be waiting for at the edge of town." Caraway said as they exited through the front door. As they walked down the concrete pathway Sephiroth stopped and turned to Squall.
"I have something for you, but you can only have the green ones." Sephiroth three marble looking things out of his pocket. "You can have one, each of you."
"What are they?" Zell asked.
"Well they are called materia. They have magical power, these are the rarest ones. This bright green one is Ultima, the other is holy." Sephiroth explained.
"Hey we have those magic spells though." Zell said.
"Yes, but materia is much stronger." Sephiroth explained. Squall's eyes focused on the black one.
"What does the black material do?" Squall asked.
"The black one is too dangerous to use. Cloud's dimension was almost destroyed because of it. Anyways I guess I'll tell you what it does. It will summon a huge meteor down to attack its target, I mean huge enough to wipe this entire planet. But enough of this, which of you will take the holy and which the ultima?" Sephiroth asked. Squall grabbed the ultima before Zell could get near it.
"Why do I always get stuck with the weak shit?" Zell complained as he took the holy materia. Sephiroth glared at him.
"That ain't weak. Holy and ultima are two equal powers, opposites of course. Now anyways, Zell let's get on that train back to Balamb and Squall you go and take care of your mission." Sephiroth said with a surprisingly grinning face. As they went there separate ways Squall turned around.
"Sephiroth, why did you decide to help out in this?" Questioned Squall.
"It was because of me that a world was almost destroyed, maybe if I save one I can live with myself." Sephiroth blurted. Squall turned back and headed to the edge of town. He was surprised when he saw his squad members. Standing there was Laguna, Kiros, and Ward.
"Bet ya didn't expect us to be your squad." Laguna said laughing.
"No I didn't, I expected maybe 30 or 40 soldiers but I guess this will do." Squall complained. Kiros laughed.
"C'mon we are 40 soldiers." Gloated Kiros. Ward just stood there silent since he couldn't speak.
"Squall do you mind if I tell you something before we do this mission?" Laguna asked. Squall sighed.
"Can it wait, we got get moving if we are going to finish this tonight." Squall ordered. Laguna gasped.
"Tonight! C'mon I thought we could have a few parties and get drunk tonight." Yelled Laguna. Squall looked down and shook his head.
"We don't have time to waste," said Squall. Laguna just laughed.
"Awright party pooper," joked Laguna as he went over to unlock his jeep. They all hopped in and peeled off toward the Galbadian Base. They parked the car a few hundred feet away and looked around at the structure for some way in. The base was about three stories high, and about the size of four football fields.
"It's not a very tall building. So if they have all those experiments I bet they got a huge ass underground area in there." Squall said.
"I was thinking the same thing. Anyways are we going to take out the leader who is at the top or go down and blow up most the stuff at the bottom?" Inquired Laguna as he unsheathed his new gunblade.
"I say we just go destroy everything underneath. By the way why are you using a gunblade?" Squall asked. Laguna smiled.
"Well, my son is a great gunbladist and I thought I might as well start using one myself." Laguna replied.
"Oh, so your Rueben's dad?" Squall asked curiously. Laguna shrugged.
"Nope, never heard of the guy," retorted Laguna. Squall glanced back over at the base.
"Think we can take them head on? I mean c'mon they aren't that strong." Squall exclaimed. Kiros busted out laughing.
"Squall, ten or twenty of them aren't that strong. But I don't think you want all the bees in the hive after ya at one time. Plus they have those monsters which could probably crush us all in two seconds." Kiros continued to laugh. Squall was getting agitated.
"Fine, I guess we'll do it your way and sneak in. Doesn't sound like much fun. Anyways, you guys stay here, I'll go get up closer and see if there is a way to sneak in. If it's safe I'll motion you to come." Squall explained as he headed off in the direction of the base. He slowly crept up behind the two guards in front of the main entrance, he tapped one on the back and as he turned around punched his lights out. The other guard started to pull out his gun, but Squall kicked it away and stuck his gunblade through him. Next he drug there bodies out of site, Laguna and the crew laughed in amazement.
"Gosh Laguna, you should be proud of him. When you going to tell him anyways?" Kiros joked. Laguna hit himself.
"Oh shit, I was going to tell him but he wanted to wait until we finish this 'mission'." Laguna responded. Meanwhile Squall was silently cleaning up guards around the sides of the building. Just as he took out the last one in site he motioned the three and they followed his command through the main entrance. Inside surprisingly had no guards in the main hall, and the stairways was only a few feet away. Ward wobbled over toward the stairs then stopped. Squall noticed Ward looking around at the area in front of him.
"What's he doing?" Squall questioned. Laguna leaned over to Squall.
"For some reason that guy can detect security alarm beams. Strange but maybe we can send him first through most of this area. Also if you wasn't informed there shouldn't be much fighting. Kiros has a big stock of explosives with him, all we got to do is place it in the lab and boom." Laguna explained. Squall shook his head.
"You make this sound too easy." Squall replied. As they finished talking Ward had maneuvered his way through the beams and turned them off with the switch on the other side. The three of them ran down the stairs, after about 200 stairs they came to a door.
"This must be it," whispered Kiros. Squall slowly opened the door and inside was hundreds of huge glass vials with strange looking body parts in them. Kiros ran toward the center of the area, Ward looked as he if would yell if he could but it was too late. Red lights flooded the area and sirens went off everywhere.
"Good going dumbass!" Laguna yelled. Within seconds guards stormed down the stairs but Squall slammed the door shut and held it with all his strength.
"Kiros set up the bombs now!" Yelled Squall. The guards started forcing the door open but Ward walked over and threw Squall out of the way. Then he set in front of the door.
"That will hold them off for a while," joked Laguna. Kiros finished placing the explosives around where they was at, but when he moved to the other side of the room a huge pair of red eyes looked down upon him. Seconds later another and another pair of eyes.
"Oh shit it's the beasts!" Kiros screamed. Within seconds beast flew around attack and gnashing at anything it could find.
"If they are always like this then how did they keep them under control?" Squall questioned as he was dodging the attacks of an Ultima Weapon.
"Well probably since numbnuts set off the alarm they went crazy." Laguna answered. Laguna thrust his gunblade into the mouth of the fiend and pulled the trigger once it closed its jaws, which exploded the head like a watermelon. "See now that's the way to kill them." Bragged Laguna.
"So I guess your kid got his skills from inheritance." Squall complimented as he thrust his sword into the mouth of the attacker and exploded it. Laguna laughed.
"I'd like to say yes to that, but I think my son worked hard for his skills so that would be wrong to say he got them from me." Laguna replied. Kiros finished both sides of the rooms, and fled back to them from the other side of the room. He tossed the detonator to Laguna.
"Soon as we get out of here we are going to enjoy the fireworks." Kiros yelled. Laguna rose his hand to motion Ward to get ready to charge through the guards in the stairway, but just then a Weapon bit the detonator from his hand and crushed it with its teeth.
"Shit!" Laguna yelled. Squall punched him in the shoulder.
"You idiot, now what are we going to do!?" Squall questioned nervously. Kiros lowered his head.
"There is one way to set these things off, and that is this other detonator that we got. Only problem is, it won't work unless you're close to the bombs." Explained Kiros. Squall and Laguna went silent.
"Give me the detonator." Squall ordered. Kiros looked at him with a serious face.
"This is suicide, let's just cancel the mission and we can think of another plan later." Kiros gasped. Squall held out his hand.
"Give me the detonator now. That is an order." Squall ordered. Kiros hesitated but slowly gave it to him.
"Squall don't do it, what about that girlfriend of yours?" Laguna said trying to persuade Squall.
"She'll get over it, now I want you guys to leave so we can get this over with." Squall demanded. Another wave of beast headed there way, and Squall thought it was time to try this 'materia' of his. He summoned the power of ultima which forced the monsters back and seemed to provide a shield around him. "Sephiroth said this stuff would help, and he was right. Now I want you to give it back to him for me, he is a tall guy with long platinum hair, you can't miss him." Explained Squall as he handed the materia to Laguna. Laguna shook his head and started to talk. Next they noticed the door Ward was holding stopped pushing against him.
"The guards must be evacuating, forget the detonator. Let's just leave." Kiros implied. Ward opened the door and Kiros walked up to him. "Let's leave, maybe Laguna can talk him out of this." Whispered Kiros. They hustled out of the base and left everything in the hands of Squall and Laguna.
"Man, if you're going to do this then there is something I must tell you." Said Laguna. The shield was starting to weaken and Squall continued to stare at the detonator like it was his fate.
"Just tell me, then you can leave." Squall snapped. Laguna sighed.
"This is going to be hard for me to explain. Remember how Ellone told you the story of Raine and me. How Raine died before I could get back to see my child?" Laguna asked.
"Yeah I remember, so I guess that is the son you keep talking about." Squall replied.
"Well I was to busy worrying about Ellone to take care of him. I dropped him off at the orphanage with Edea and Cid." Laguna explained. Squall scratched his head.
"So you're Seifer's father then?" Squall replied.
"Yeah, dammit now you got me confused here. No, he ain't my son, you are. And I'd like to apologize for being gone all your life." Laguna put an arm on Squall's shoulder. Squall brushed it off and looked like he was ready to die from surprise.
"There has to be some kind of mistake, I mean come on we have nothing in common. This has to be bullshit." Squall exclaimed.
"There is no mistake, look at me and look at yourself. We both have a lot of physical features in common. You know where you got the name Squall from? She named you that because the day you was born a hurricane wiped out half the town, pretty funny eh?" Laguna laughed.
"Ok ok, then why is my last name Leonhart then?" Squall asked.
"Ya know that is a good question. I bet Edea or Cid thought of that name, strong name just like you..." Just then the monsters broke through the barrier and one slashed Laguna before he could raise his weapon. As it made its second round to finish him off Squall stepped in front of Laguna and swung at the right time decapitating it. The other monsters slowly stepped toward them, and Laguna was coughing blood all over his shirt.
"Laguna are you alright?" Squall asked as he new what the real answer was.
"Oh dammit, I finally get to talk to you and this happens. Son I just wanted you to know I'm sorry for disserting you. Now give me that detonator and get out of here." Gasped Laguna.
"No, you can get out of here, I know you can. I'm going to take care of this." Squall insisted.
"Look at me, I'm going to die anyways now. They can't help you if your organs are torn like this. Just give me the detonator, there is no point in both of us dying here." Laguna begged. Squall knew Laguna was right, but he felt bad leaving such a duty to somebody under his command. "Look, you don't have to order me to do this alright, I'm doing it cause I don't want you to waste a whole life that is ahead of you. Your time isn't now, everybody at Balamb Garden needs you. Rinoa needs you so just give it to me." Squall paused and noticed the monsters were closing in.
"Dad, when you go up and meet mom...tell her...ugh...ugh" Squall studdered. Laguna laughed and started coughing again.
"Don't make yourself say it, I know what you mean. Who knows maybe I'll find a way back to this world." Joked Laguna. Squall grinned when he thought about how Tidus was able to come back from the Farplane, maybe Laguna could too.
"Yeah, well I'll see ya later." Squall said with a grin as he handed the detonator to Laguna. Squall glanced back at his father then darted off for the stairway. Laguna seemed puzzled about what Squall said to him before he left. Squall ran out through the main entrance to see Kiros and Ward waiting.
"Where's Laguna at? And where is that detonator?" Kiros asked.
"Dad decided to stay behind. Now run as far away as you can." Squall replied. As they ran about 20 Ultima Weapons and one rather large one with a silvery color escaped from the building. But before anything else could a huge blasts surrounded the area. Squall, Kiros, and Ward fell down from the quakes created from the explosion.
Minutes later after most of the smoke cleared they got back on there feet, brushing themselves off. Kiros glared at Squall.
"You talked him into staying behind didn't you?" Kiros accused. Squall looked back at him.
"I didn't make him do anything...he got injured by one of those bastards while we was down there. It was fatal and he knew it too, he told me there was no point in both of us dying so he asked me to give him the detonator. You shouldn't be worried about him anyways, I got this strange feeling that he will be back very soon." Squall said.
"Huh? I don't get it?" Kiros said confused.
"Hey didn't some of those monsters escape? That means I got to get back to Balamb immediately!" Squall yelled.
"Need us to come?" Kiros questioned. Squall shook his head.
"Nah, I'm sure with the small number that survived we'll be able to handle em." Squall gloated. "I could use a ride to the train station though, let's just hope he didn't have the keys." Kiros laughed.
"As many holes as he always had in his pockets, they would have fell out before he got out of the jeep." Kiros joked. Soon the three of them headed off for the train station and Squall thought they shouldn't have a memorial for Laguna because maybe Kimarhi the new power holder could bring him back.
Man I'm tired, I know I ain't wrote a chapter for a while, for one my computer had to get fixed and another thing is I'm just lazy. Oh yeah thanx for reviewing so much Sir Auron, kinda lets me know somebody reads this stuff, and thank you too Sephiroth245.
I guess I'll do another disclaimer, I, the writer of this story do not claim any character as mine in this story.