The Arrival of Omega Weapon

Chapter 12

Irvine was shocked. Yesterday, the Ragnorok had taken a lot of damage from the dragon that attacked them. But now, there wasn't any sign that it had even been flown. It sparkled.

Cid came down the ramp "Morning Irvine."

Irvine acknowledged with a hand to his hat. He was still speechless at the Ragnorok's shine.

"What happened? What did you do?" Irvine finally asked "Not much." Cid shrugged "Just repaired the armour. Gathered a few people, gave it a clean. Upgraded the laser cannons, boosted the speed, directed extra power from the gravity generator to the shields. Stuff like that." "In one night!" Irvine was shocked "Yeah. Oh, I did the same upgrades to the other one." Cid pointed to the Dragon "How! You only had one night."

To answer that question, a group of students came down the ramp. They were all leaning on each others shoulders, and they all wore tired smiles on their faces.

"Good work, lads and lasses." Cid turned and called to them. Their faces brightened "Go and get some sleep. You've definitely deserved it."

As the students filed out the hanger. Irvine was looking back and forth between the ships and Cid.

"Okay Cid! What's going on!" Irvine demanded Cid was calm "Just helping out. I know that we're going back to that Esthar place. Hell, we might even run into that Dragon again. So I decided to make some changes to give us a better chance of surviving." "We got away though, didn't we?" "Barely!" Cid reminded him "The blast that hit us could have hit something vital and destroyed the ship! You saw the damage. Plus, if it tried to follow us, I doubt we would have got away."

Irvine had to admit that Cid was right. They had been lucky. The blast had only hit one of the storage bays.

"But, the ships." Irvine said weakly "How could you do the upgrades?" Cid laughed "Irvine. Quit while you're behind. I may be an excellent pilot. But I make my living as an engineer. Finding out how these babies worked was a piece of cake. I told the kids what to do, and they did it. Simple as that." "Will the upgrades work?" "Don't know about the flight ones. But, I got that Zell fella, to use a couple of his moves on the shields and he couldn't break through. And the weapons, well. See for yourself."

Cid handed Irvine a set of binoculars and pointed to a distant cliff. Irvine looked through them and saw two large holes in the rock. The cliff was around 2 miles away.

He was just about to congratulate Cid when the headmaster came in with the main task force. The operation was about to begin.

………

Zell was in the cafeteria, he was about to start eating when Raijin and Fujin ran up.

"EMERGENCY!" Fujin said in her usual tone "Yeah man, it's like bad, ya know." Raijin said, even more predictably "What's going on?" Zell asked "Cid wants ya, ya know. Important stuff, ya know." "Okay, okay. Where is he?" "HANGER" "Yeah, right. He's on his way to the hanger with the troops, ya know." "All right!" Zell said enthusiastically "I'm only my way." "REQUEST!" Fujin stopped him "Yeah, we have a request, ya know." "Tell me on the way." He walked to the cafeteria exit. Suddenly remembering, he hadn't eaten "What do you need?" "HELP" Fujin started "Yeah, we want to help, ya know." Raijin finished "We want to go with you to Esthar, ya know." Zell didn't understand "Why?" "SEIFER" "Seifer?" Zell didn't know what to think "Why him?" "The light, ya know. If it came from Esthar, ya know. We may find a way ta help him. Ya know." Zell caught on "Your right! The trouble started at the same time. So it's probably got a connection." Zell was excited "We'll be able to get everyone back!" "DECISION?" "What'd ya say, man? Can we join ya, ya know?" Zell thought for a second "Well, the groups have been named. But I guess, as you're not SeeD's, you can go wherever you want. So if you want to, I can't stop you." "IDIOT!" Fujin fumed "Don't try to be crafty, ya know. It's not you, ya know!" Raijin said "Either yes or no, ya know." "Okay, okay." Zell said defensively "You can come." "GOOD" "Yeah, thanks, ya know."

The three walked into the hanger. Cid turned and signalled Zell to join him. Raijin and Fujin joined the SeeD that were lined up in front of Cid.

………

Zell was on the bridge of the Ragnorok. He had talked to Irvine the night before. He had heard about Cid's flying, he expected more of the same, but Cid flew the ship with precision. It looked like he knew when it was time to play and time to be serious. And this was definitely time to be serious.

He remembered the briefing Headmaster Cid had given. He had split the SeeD into 2 groups. The first to go for the Presidential Palace, and the second after Odine's Lab. The two nerve centres of Esthar's operations.

Zell had the first group, while Vincent had the second group. Zell couldn't understand why Cid (the headmaster) had placed Vincent in charge of the second group. But he respected the headmasters intellect and didn't comment.

Cid, the one from the other world, shouted to Zell "Three minutes 'til arrival. You gonna ask him or what?"

Zell nodded, he had Bahamut junctioned in case they encountered the other dragon.

"Bahamut?" He closed his eyes and spoke silently to the Guardian Force.
"Yes, Zell? You require my services?" Bahamut asked formally "Soon, Bahamut. I wish to ask a question?" "Proceed, then" "The pilot of this ship asks that if we should encounter this other dragon…" "It is Tiamat, my brother." Bahamut interrupted "I can sense his presence in the air around this place." "Indeed? The pilot asks if you would require his assistance in the fight?" "Nay, he should not interfere. This is a battle that must be fought between us dragons. my brother will call for this to be a battle for my title. And I will have to fight him as according to the dragon pact." "I understand, Bahamut."

Zell opened his eyes again "Cid, you'll be with the main group… Cid?" "Up ahead." Cid said simply

In the distance, a large figure was seen. It was a dragon. Zell didn't waste time.

"Bahamut, it is time." He said silently

Above the Ragnorok, the clouds parted and Bahamut dropped from them. He stretched out his wings and glided past the Ragnorok and straight at the other dragon.

Cid turned to Zell slightly "We're going down. I'll land the ship and join with you." There was a look of thought on his face "Damn. It's been a while since I've used my spear in a real battle."

………

With a shriek, Bahamut dived at Tiamat, hoping to get a quick victory. Tiamat looked and barely dodged. As Bahamut turned with a flick of his wing. He spread them and stopped.

As both dragons flapped their wings to keep them airborne, Bahamut spoke

"Why are you here, Tiamat?" Tiamat looked stunned "What! You of all dragons should know that! I am following my mistress's orders. As per the code of the Guardian Force." "Code of the Guardian Force? Since when did you follow any code!" Bahamut was furious "You've never followed the code of the Dragon, you've never followed anything!" "Hah! Code of the Dragon. That code is basically lost, it will be as soon as our father is dead. The dragons have never like him, you or that code. That is why I must beat you. To bring order back to the Dragon's, to bring peace." Bahamut knew what was coming next "So you challenge me for my title of heir?" "Yes, but according to them outdated traditions, I must formally challenge you. Here it is, I only going to say it once! 'I Tiamat, Brother of Bahamut and son of the King of Dragons." He said it was a bit of spite "hereby challenge you, Bahamut, for the right to rule the dragons upon the death of the king…' There!" Bahamut was impressed "Very good, you remembered." Bahamut finished the ritual "I, Bahamut, do hereby accept your challenge. Let the wind blow true for us both and allow us to battle with all our strength."

The two dragon's veered away a little and flew in opposite directions. Tiamat was the first to turn, he saw Bahamut in the process and fired his Dark Flare. Bahamut tucked in his wings and fell, the attack went over him. Tiamat tried again, this time, he fired in the path of the falling Bahamut. But again, he saw it coming and spread his wings to slow his descent and dodge that blast.

After a few more attempts to hit Bahamut, Tiamat realized he had been outmanoeuvred, Bahamut had steadily gained ground on him and as they crossed, Bahamut used the claw on his wing to tear at his brother. But Bahamut wasn't finished, he held on and flipped with the help of his wings onto the back of Tiamat.

With his clawed hands, Bahamut gripped the neck of his brother. He was about to use his Mega Flare when Tiamat spread his wings as best he could to change the flight direction.

Bahamut fired his attack, but because the sudden change of direction had knocked his positioning off and the attack flew harmlessly into the plains outside Esthar.

As the fight in the air continued, the fight of the ground was just beginning.

………

Irvine and Vincent walked down the ramp of the Dragon. Over by the exit, they saw the team from the Ragnorok leave the airport.

Irvine looked at Vincent "You sure this is what you want?" Vincent nodded "They'll be more useful helping the remaining people. Besides, me; you; Raijin and Fujin should be enough to storm the lab." "Okay," He turned to the ship "Get going everyone, make sure that if anyone is still around, you keep them safe."

The SeeD all saluted and ran out of the airport.
Raijin and Fujin walked down the ramp after that.

"PLAN?" Fujin said "Yah! What's the plan, ya know?" Raijin expanded as usual Irvine grimaced and faced the two of them "Do you have to do that?" "WHAT?" Fujin started "Yeah man. What you meaning, ya know?" Raijin finished "Forget it." Irvine said. He turned back to Vincent "They bring up a good point though. What do we do?" Vincent was checking his handgun "Easy, save anyone who needs saving, kill anyone who tries to stop us." "Yah! Simple, ya know!" Raijin shouted, then Fujin kicked him in the shin "Oww!" "IDIOT!" She accused "RISKY!" Vincent nodded "But it's the only way. We can't outsmart this guy, so we beat him with force." Irvine spoke again "This guy? You know who we're up against?"

Everyone looked at Vincent. He nodded.

"Yes, it's a person from my world. A scientist called Hojo. He's probably the smartest guy from my world and completely evil. He's the reason for my transformation abilities." "Man, intense." Irvine remembered the beast with a shudder "Well, lets go then." He invited "If we move quickly, we may be able to catch him by surprise."

Vincent didn't look convinced by that but nodded and waved Irvine in front

"You lead the way, Irvine. You know this place." "Okay, follow me."

The four fighters ran out the airport, Irvine was hoping to finish this quick. The quicker they did it, the more time, they would have to work on a way to help their friends.

………

Zell's group had just met with Laguna and his group. Curiously they were running away from the Palace.

"Hey, Laguna. Wats'up?" He greeted them "Hi, Zell." Laguna returned "We need some help." "Just say it, that's what we're here for."

Laguna simply pointed behind him. A large creature was slowly walking up the road to them. It looked strangely familiar.

"Whoa!" Zell said "Only a little problem, then?" Fiona came up behind Zell "We need to get to the palace, Zell. I suggest we let our GF's handle this and proceed." "GF?" Zell snapped his fingers "Of course. Fiona, you're a genius." Fiona blushed "That's Griever! I thought it looked familiar." "Griever?" Fiona and Laguna said together confused "Ultimecia's Guardian Force!" Zell turned to the SeeD "Who here has a GF equipped?" A number of hands were raised "Summon them. We'll use them as a stall for us to get to the palace."

A few lights were seen, then suddenly, the GF's were around them.

Zell addressed them formally "We request your assistance, my friends. We need you to hold him off while we head for the palace." Zell pointed to the looming form of Griever. It was a lot closer now.
One of the GF's roared "You ask a lot, human." It was Ifrit "That is the most powerful of us. It will not be easy." "We just need you to keep him busy. We need the time." Zell explained Shiva, who had also appeared, spoke "We will do so, my friend. It will be difficult, but we will try."

All the Guardian Force's that appeared, stood to their full heights, they looked on at the on coming Griever. Zell instructed his group that they would be going a different route. Laguna decided to follow them as they were both heading to the same destination.

After a few moments of silence, the sound of battle started behind them.

………

As the SeeD party, along with the other party that joined with them neared the Palace, Cid was apprehensive. While they had met up with a few monsters, most of them were not really that powerful and were easily countered.

Only once had they met up with a strong creature. Zell after weighing the options and asking for suggestions, left the majority of the SeeD group to fight it and continued.

Now there were only Zell, Fiona, himself and Carlo in their group.

The main entrance of the palace came into view. Outside of it was a woman, she just seemed to stand there, not doing anything except looking at them. She was also calm.

"Great!" Zell went "Now we know why it was so easy to get here." Fiona was looking at the woman "Is that her?" "Is that who?" Cid asked confused Zell just nodded "Ultimecia, this could be trouble." The man named Laguna said The thin man who Cid had found out was Kiros spoke "Definitely"

Zell looked like he was thinking "Laguna, leave this to us. You and your group get inside and gain control of the palace." Laguna was shocked "You sure? You're going to need help, it's going to be hard to defeat her." "We don't have too. Trust me, all we have to do is stall until the others catch up. Once they're here, then we can concentrate on beating her."

Laguna didn't look too convinced but nodded. Suddenly a strange look came on his face. He whispered something to Zell and his face brightened. He whispered something back and motioned them to get going.

………

As Laguna stepped past Ultimecia, he braced himself for an attack, but none came. Ultimecia just stood there looking at the SeeD.

Laguna motioned for the others to join him and together they went into the palace.

As soon as they were in, Ward looked back at the entrance.

Laguna stopped, turned and called out "Come on, Ward." Ward looked at Laguna, his eyes asking the question "Don't worry, they'll be fine." Kiros came up behind him "You sure?" Laguna scratched his head "Yeah, of course." "You usually don't when you scratch your head, you know that?" "Arghh! Anyways, we need to get to the main office. Once there we can use the sorceress negation device." "Sorceress…" Kiros started "Negation Device?" Biggs finished "There's one here?" "Yes," Laguna nodded "the machine's in the main office." Kiros was confused "That's very interesting, but umm, what is it?" Laguna explained "Odine told me about it, it's a machine that will create a, umm, oh yeah, a kind of bubble, it stops anything magical. Adel had it created for protection from other sorceress's should they appear, because of her size, she would have a distinct advantage over another sorceress, with their powers removed." "Is it permanent?" "Unfortunately no, but if we activate it, Ultimecia will not be able to use her sorceress powers and it'll give Zell and the others a chance of winning. Also, it'll disperse the GF's, which means that their battle will stop and the city will be spared that battle." "I can see why it's useful, shouldn't we be going then?" Kiros asked "Sure, coming Biggs?" "Yeah, okay." He muttered something under his breath and started walking "What was that?" Laguna asked as they walked down the corridor "Wait, where's Wedge?" "He went on ahead, sir. We were both worried that it might be a trap. We got in too easily." "Ultimecia has a grudge with SeeD, we don't have anything to worry about from her."

They reached the door to the main office and went in. Inside was Wedge, he was frozen in place almost. By the desk was a woman who was so familiar it was scary.

"Her, on the other hand." Laguna said, indicating Adel "Would just love to do all manner of unpleasant things to me. SCATTER!"

Everyone ran in different directions as Adel launched her first attack.

………

Cid went left and Zell went right, as Ultimecia fired an energy blast. Fiona and Carlo just ducked under it. As she was readying another shot, Zell turned and ran directly at Ultimecia.

Zell went to hit her but didn't connect, a barrier seemed to be in the way. Ultimecia smiled and flicked her fist at Zell. He dodged and stepped back a few paces. Over his shoulder a knife bounced off the shield. But at the exact time the knife hit the barrier, a thunder bolt forked over Ultimecia.

"Nice try," Ultimecia sneered "Here's a real thunder attack."

She raised her hands and the clouds thickened, rain came down and lightning lit up the sky. She brought her arms down suddenly and it struck the Carlo, the magic user. One look at him was all that was needed to see that he wasn't getting up again!"

A scream echoed in the air, Zell suddenly realised it had came from himself. He flew at Ultimecia, planning to end it once and for all!