In this Chaptyr General Gartier is about to play a major role in the turn of events and take his country out of the confinements of serenity. Brace yourself; there will be death...

I own Gartier and Kaytsu, but all others are the intellectual property of Squaresoft.

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It wasn't difficult to rally the tremendous amount of men against the man who laid them off. General Gartier simply promised them pay, and the ex-soldiers gladly took up their familiar arms and obeyed.

Gartier didn't want to spread his men thin, but at the same time he had to knock out the lines of communication just in case Esthar would answer President Dincht's calls. The army was swift and precise. They seized the Communication Tower of Dollet and the Radio Station of Timber simultaneously. With those in hand he made sure that no one sent a distress signal of any sort, continuing the regularly scheduled programming. Gartier called for martial law in both cities. No one in, no one out. Meaning that the trains would be down (something any dimwit in Dealing would notice), so he had to take Dealing fairly swiftly, and so he sent in a squad of 5. If he could take out Dincht, he could avoid a lot of trouble.

Each of the Squad members were dressed as army grunts, but they were the strongest and most cunning of Gartier's army. They moved into the city aboard a train with some citizenry who were ignorant of the soldiers' motives.

"What a beautiful city," Kahl, the leader of the group, remarked when reaching the top of the escalator. "Let's do it."

It was easy to move about in the city. Upon reaching the palace, Hett and Tracy stayed on the outside. They replaced the two that usually stood in front of the gates who were more than happy to get off duty early. The remaining 3 raided the palace without confrontation. They made it to the main hallway, once they had made it there, it was anyone's guess where President Dincht resided.

"Hey," Kahl asked one of the guards that lined the hallway. "where's President Dincht?" The two others in the squad grinded their teeth as they prepared for an overt attack.

"Who wants to know?" an officer approached Kahl.

Kahl smiled and replied casually, "God, I just wanted to know where the big cheese was, that's all."

"He's working in his ready room, and you should be working just as hard as 'the big cheese,' so report to your station immediately!" the officer bellowed.

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Hett and Tracy heard the officer via Kahl's wire, and they moved from the gates around to the ready room.

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"Ok, ok. No need to yell." Kahl had studied the floor plan, and started walking toward the ready room. "(This is ridiculously easy... it boarders on boring.)"

"Where's your station, soldier?" the officer asked.

"Bite me." As reached for his side arm, the men beside him held their breaths.

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Zell sat at his desk stroking his goatee as he looked over a few propositions from the science department. He stretched his arms out wide and yawned a bit. "What the--" he looked at the clock. "It's only 1 am..."

Suddenly he heard gunshots blasting everywhere, and that sure woke him up.

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Hett looked down from the hillside and saw the president stretching in his ready room and pulled the pin on the grenade, but just then Dincht left the room. Hett exchanged glances with Tracy and shrugged. Hett threw the grenade through the window and into the ready room.

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Zell looked around, hopeless. The way out of the Presidential Palace was where the shots were being fired. "(I can get out of here through the Presidential Suit.)" he thought to himself. Suddenly the room beside him exploded. The door knocked him into the wall opposite and there was fire everywhere. Zell found himself under a fiery door. He pushed himself away from the flames on the carpet and flipped the door off of him. The whoosh of air led the fire further down the hallway. Before Zell could comprehend what was going on, the two soldiers jumped down through what was once a window. He rolled down the hallway to avoid their bullets. A very haggard Zell rose to his feet, covered in soot and dripping with blood. He tried desperately to junction a GF as he ran, but he couldn't concentrate due to the trauma on his head.

"He's headed to the suite," Hett reported into the wire. Hett and Tracy walked briskly down the hall.

On the panel of silvery buttons, Zell quickly entered a code and opened the door to his suit. He closed the door behind him and ran to his bedroom. Zell rolled across the bed and squatted down on the other side. In the drawer next to the bible were his old, familiar Ehrgeiz. Zell wiped the blood off his brow then slipped into the adamantine gloves and punched his fists together. It seemed that he had a moment, so he tried again to junction.

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Hett kicked the door, but it would not give. Tracy pulled him aside and shot the door handle up. His partner smiled and pushed the door open with a single hand. The two men walked boldly into the room, seeing bloodstains across the white bed. Tracy and Hett exchanged glances and shot the bed through and through with their machine guns.

Zell flew out from the side throwing a low round kick to knock the machine gun out of Hett's hands. Tracy brought his gun around to shoot at Zell, but a quickly thrown protect spell deflected the bullets.

With his left hand still holding the protect spell against the onslaught of the machine gun, Zell performed a forward flip in place, landing Hett 2 strong blows to the head. Hett was out cold.

The protect spells were running low, Zell could feel it. With the last of them he used all his might to project the spell forward. The shield rushed forward and bowled Tracy over just before disappearing into a light mist. Zell moved on top of Tracy, his foot pinned down the hand that held the machine gun.

"What do you want! Who sent you!" Zell shouted to the pinned soldier holding out a single hand over the man's face.

Magic hadn't been seen much on the battlefield and Tracy didn't feel the threat that Zell held over him, otherwise he very well might have spewed some answers. Instead he challenged his power. Tracy wrapped his legs around Zell and pulled him down. Zell rolled back until he reached his feet.

Tracy didn't even bring his gun around before the spell had been called. Lasers emanated from his body and his insides shrunk as his outside burned. The end result was flaming pieces of his body flying everywhere. That was overkill. The fury inside Zell's eyes died when chunks of brain splattered onto him.

The former SeeD heard soldiers coming toward him. Looking to his right he could see them in the corridor. His hand jutted to the right and was able to cast a single spell before he had to once again dodge bullets.

Kahl turned to Detour, a member of his squad, who seemed to gag and sputter as he looked at some aberration that only he could see. He held up his hands and waved them wildly just before he fell over dead. Kahl reached into his pocket and dropped a Phoenix Down on top of him. Detour rose.

Fitz was already ahead of them backing his prey into a corner. Zell tried desperately to get into the escape hatch, but that was covered by Fitz's gunfire. He had no more protect spells so he couldn't just rush out of there. He tried to think of another way...

Kahl moved into the room and dropped some potions on Hett then proceeded to rouse him with a few kicks. Detour saw the pile of guts that was once Tracy and sagged against a wall as his stomach bubbled up. The blood was everywhere...

Fitz turned around and held his spinning head. He looked at the rest of the squad and remembered that they were the enemy. Suddenly he opened fire on his comrades. Kahl leapt back as the bullets ripped through both Hett and Detour.

While they fought amongst themselves, Zell jumped down the hatch. Unexpectedly, he had company...

Kahl reached around the corner with his machine gun and shot up Fitz, waking him up and killing him in the process. Kahl didn't know that he was under a spell, and simply didn't want to revive the 'traitor.'

The leader looked to see if President Dincht was still there, but found that he was already in the hatch. "(He has proved to be quite a challenge,)" he said to himself as he looked over his fallen comrades. "(but it's time to end this...)" Kahl opened the hatch and was shot point-blank in the head by General Caraway himself.

Zell heaved a sigh of relief as he sat on the ground in his tattered clothes. "Please, someone..." he pleaded as he looked to the Galbadian soldiers that surrounded him, "tell me what the hell is going on."

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Explosive, ja? Bet you thought I was gonna kill off Zell! How do you like the action? I couldn't exactly make it interesting in game format, but what do you think?

Now I've created Kahl, Hett, Tracy, Detour, and Fitz. Yay! Oh, wait... their dead. Or are they? Kheheheh.

Yeah, their dead...