Chapter 5
Zack looked up at the tower, he saw the flickering flames spurt out the, now, windowless frames. He smiled as yet another helpless person fell to his doom from one of the higher floors.
He turned to his companion, the unknown thing that had found him. He remembered that time, Zack was searching for his ultimate opponent, but the problem was, there was no-one that could best him. Until, at least, this thing appeared. It had defeated him totally, but for some strange reason, did not kill him. Zack had often wondered why, but could not think up an answer.
Omega turned to Zack and stared at him with his dead eyes, eyes that could make even the most stable person fall into insanity if you just looked into them too long. Zack quickly looked back at the tower.
"We'd better go soon. Before them monsters you rounded up tear the whole place apart."
"No need to worry." Omega said in its monologue voice "They are under my control, they will not 'tear the whole place apart'."
"If you…?" From down one of the side passages, a bright light came and went "What the hell was that!" Zack shouted over the large explosion that followed
Omega stood calmly "High level magical energy discharge. No danger to us, within tolerance levels."
"I guess. I'm just going to check it out though."
"No need."
"Well, I'm going anyway!" Zack quickly walked over to the passageway and looked down it, a little way down was a door, or at least where a door had been. It was now on the other side of the path, in many pieces.
Out of the exit came two girls, both had dark hair, one was wearing some kind of uniform, while the other looked a little familiar. They ran around the bend at the other end of the passageway.
Zack walked back to where Omega stood "A couple of girls just escaped." "I know," The seemingly human figure answered "A large proportion of the occupants escaped as expected." "These seemed different though, I think I knew one of them, I killed her years ago." "Possibly." Omega intoned "Remember, this is a different world, so it is possible that many of your victims are still alive." It paused and looked at the tower as if scanning it. "Come." It ordered "The time of our ascent is now."
As they entered through the doors, they stepped into a scene of destruction and chaos unlike any Zack had seen before. Fires burned wildly in unexpected places; bodies lay on the ground, many with limbs missing; poisonous gases made the air heavy and gravity fluctuated greatly from one place to the next. No, he had never seen anything like it, but it was a splendid sight to behold.
The two of them went to the elevators at the front of the building. After a press of the button, Zack could tell it wouldn't work.
"Figures, without power, we will need to walk."
"Power is no problem." Omega said as he walked up to the control panel. With a single touch, the panel came to life and the elevator worked.
It only took a while for the two strange companions to reach their destination. They stepped out into a large office, they ignored the books and made their way to the computer terminal at the back. Alike the elevator, it had no power, but again with a touch from Omega, it sparked into life. They could now start their search for the ultimate power.
………
It was dark; damp and dark. There was no light, he could not see. He probed around with his hands and touched earth on every side.
He was alone, but he had never needed anyone; he was trapped, but he knew a way out.
He had felt the changes that were taking place in the world, he could feel the energy that inhabited two entities, one bound by choice and the other bound by time.
He concentrated his own energies and a small light appeared, he had no need of a possible ally who willingly binds its own power, so he chose the other.
As the light expanded and took him, all Hojo could think about was revenge.
………
Ultimecia looked around, trying to get her bearings, it had been a rough ride through the time portal. It had been an experimental procedure, she had sent a number of test subjects through, but as none had returned, either through choice or failure, meant that she would have to risk her own existence in the machine.
She was surrounded by a number of mechanical cubes and in the distance was an enormous statue.
In her mind she heard an echoing voice "Have we made it, mistress?" Holding the ring that was worn on a necklace she sent back her reply "Yes, Griever. You may come out now." "Thank you, Ultimecia." Suddenly a 7 foot beast appeared at her side "Is the target here?" "If she isn't, that historian can measure his life in seconds." Ultimecia answered, feeling her eyes burning
The two of them walked towards the statue. As they approached the base, they slowed their pace. Kneeling on the floor in front of the statue was a figure, it was a female figure but was unlike any woman that Ultimecia had seen before. The figure had a huge build and seemed to stand close to 10 feet tall. There was no motion from the woman as the couple walked up to her.
Ultimecia kicked the figure and a small grunt came from the kneeling woman.
"Pathetic." Ultimecia sneered, she went to kick the woman again.
As her foot hit the figure, its hand flashed out and grabbed it, the large woman then started to stand but hardly got off the floor before Griever struck her, making her release Ultimecia's foot.
Even as Griever went to Ultimecia's side, an energy burst hit him in the chest and he flew back and hit one of the cubes. Ultimecia looked up at where the energy had come from and saw a large dragon "Bahamut!" "No," The dragon replied "I am Tiamat." Meanwhile, the large woman had got to her feet and towered over Ultimecia. "You're not the only one with a powerful pet, my dear. Nobody challenges Adel and lives!"
Ultimecia quickly glanced to check on Griever, he had responded to the attack by morphing into his ultimate form and he now waited the command to attack from his mistress. She turned back to look at the hulking female figure above her. She started to say something but a new voice interrupted her.
"Despite the fact that this is a fascinating confrontation. I am pretty sure that there will be no winner so I would like to…"
The two women turned to the man that had spoken and raised one of their arms, the two GF's unleashed their attacks on the helpless man.
As the smoke cleared, the man emerged with a strange look on his greenish face "Come on," He laughed "is that all you've got?" He reached into one of the many pockets on his white coat and took out two tablets, he threw them to the ground and a monster appeared from each. They instantly attacked Griever and Tiamat, they exploded on impact and the two Guardian Forces went down; and didn't get back up.
"As I was saying, I would like to propose an alliance between you two and myself." He started laughing and did not stop for quite a while.
……..
Sephiroth looked at where the temple of ancients had been and fell to his knees. As it wasn't there he knew that his last resort to get back at Zack had been used and lost.
Behind him two men and a woman came up to him, they all wore suits and bore confident strides. He got up and turned to them, when they saw him, they hesitated but did still continue to him.
"Excuse me, but are you Sephiroth?" One of the men asked 'What kind of question was that' Sephiroth thought, but aloud he said "Of course I am, who else would I be?" The woman spoke then, with a bit of amazement in her voice "But how! You are meant to be dead!" Sephiroth laughed "Yes, I know. I read my file the last time I was in Midgar, but you should know, I'm not that… me." The last man looked like he wanted to say something but remained silent. The first man instead spoke up "Yes, I'd be willing to believe that, the real Sephiroth would never have returned to this place. Which also means we have a dilemma on our hands, if your not that Sephiroth, who are you?" "You wouldn't believe me, so why should I bother." "Try us."
So Sephiroth explained the situation he had with Zack and his companion and how he made it to this dimension. When he was finished, the three people were looking strangely at him.
After a few moments the talkative man spoke "I think you had better come with us. It may sound strange, but I believe you. We are just about to go and meet with our boss, she might be able to help you or know someone who can." "Okay, then." Sephiroth quickly said "Where are we going?" The woman spoke again "Don't know… Hey Reno, I'll go contact the Highwind to find out where we are to meet." "Go on, once you've done that, take Sephiroth there. Me and Rude are going to see if we can find out any more about this Zack and… who was it?" "Omega" The silent man said "Oh yeah, plus I want to check up on headquarters." "Understood, sir."
