Cyborg Soldiers
Seifer and Quistis cautiously poked their heads around the corner and peered up the street.
"Looks clear," he reported.
They moved down the street both gripping their weapons. They were dressed in the uniforms of Esthar guards. The electric blue uniforms would help them blend in if they ran into any cyborgs.
They had been patrolling the city on foot for several hours and were waiting for an opportunity to follow the cyborg troops back to wherever it was that they went after 9:47 PM.
It was only nine o'clock so they had a while yet to find some targets. As they walked they looked into the alleys and open doors on either side of the street.
It was getting close to 9:47 as they got close to the shopping center of the city. They walked up the street towards the center and they saw three cyborgs marching up the road ahead of them. They slowed their pace and concentrated on walking silently.
They followed the cyborgs out of town and toward the Sorceress Memorial. Just before they reached the monument, however, the cyborgs entered a cave a little ways off the path.
Before they entered the cave the robotic soldiers looked behind them and around the cave to make sure that there was no one following them.
Quistis and Seifer had barely made it under cover before the cyborgs had started their survey of their surroundings.
They were pressed to the back side of a large rock. Seifer had pulled Quistis into his lap and they had their heads ducked down between their knees.
They remained tensely huddled down until they heard the measured steps that meant that the robots were entering the cave.
They heard a noise that sounded like a large stone rubbing on other stone so they cautiously poked their heads up.
Seifer saw that the coast was clear and he gently pushed Quistis up to her feet. She extended her hand back down to help him up. He took her hand and got to his feet.
The two headed towards the cave, both cautious for a trap.
They looked around the cave entrance. They found the door easy enough but neither could find a way into the cave.
"Well, captain what do we do?" Seifer asked.
"Well, cadet we could go back to the town and get the President to give us soldiers to come back out here; or we could charge in, just the two of us."
His smirk was on his face before the sentence was out of her mouth.
"I vote for plan number 2," he responded.
"Well, tell me why I should pick that plan of action and your excuse cannot be that it will be more fun for you."
"If we go in now the two of us go in now we would be able to discover what is going on without having to risk the lives of the Estharian soldiers that the president would send. Also it would get me some more battle experience which I will desperately need if I make it into SeeD. And thirdly that plan ensures that we do not have to wake the hard working president."
She considered his reasoning for a moment and reluctantly nodded.
"I guess we'll do it your way."
His cocky grin immediately made her reconsider her choice.
The cyborgs that had been in the city that day were just reporting back to their leader when a loud explosion rocked the underground base.
The robots quickly moved to the entrance of their base and were just as quickly destroyed by a lightning quick gunblade and a striking whip.
The two teenagers moved from room to room destroying the cyborgs that attacked them in waves.
They reached the lowest part of the cave and enter the room they found there.
Their first glance at the room revealed that this was the main operating center of the base. The other rooms had been power stations and dorms for the few human workers.
This room was filled with a large computer system from which the cyborgs were controlled.
Sitting behind the computer cowering in their chairs were Biggs and Wedge.
Seifer's cocky grin returned quickly when he saw his adversaries. Quistis rolled her eyes at this and sighed.
"Please just be careful."
"I'm always careful instructor."
With that Seifer ran quickly at the two ex-Galbadian soldiers.
He had his gunblade held low on his left side and he swept it up in a vicious strike. He felt several bullets whiz past his body as he charged.
His first strike moved him past Biggs so he brought his blade down at Wedge.
He heard the familiar crack of Quistis' whip as she faced off against Biggs behind him.
She quickly had Biggs tied up with her whip and at the loss of his partner Wedge surrendered.
They bound the two soldier's hands and dragged them back to the city.
By this time it was around twelve thirty so they took their prisoners to the closest Estharian Army station that they could find.
Quistis explained the situation to the commander at the base and he promised that the president would be notified of their success first thing in the morning.
Satisfied with his promise they wrote down the directions on how to find the cave so that the operation could be dismantled.
The commander quickly agreed to send men out to the cave to check everything out.
With that done Quistis and Seifer went to find somewhere to sleep.
They checked into the hotel and slept the rest of the night.
'BRRRRRRRRRINGGGGGGGG'
'BRRRRRRRRRINGGGGGGGG'
The telephone in Seifer's room kept ringing, determined to get the tired man out of bed.
He finally picked it up and grumbled into the receiver, "What do you want?"
Laguna's cheerful voice greeted him.
"Good work on the mission last night. My guys went in this morning and got the computer system out of the cave. Apparently those two guys you caught were ex-Galbadian soldiers who stole the designs for the computer system from the Estharian Ambassador who was at the trial for you and Rinny and Edea. They were trying to get back at Squall by attacking my country."
"Hmmm, that's nice," Seifer murmured as he hung up the phone, still very sleepy.
'BRRRRRRRRRINGGGGGGGG'
'BRRRRRRRRRINGGGGGGGG'
The ringing began again.
"WHAT!?!?!?!" he screamed into the phone.
"Seifer? It's just me," Quistis' voice said softly.
"Oh, sorry 'bout that, Laguna kept calling me, I thought you were him."
He heard her laughter and his mood darkened.
"It isn't nice to laugh at people," he informed her.
"It isn't nice to answer the phone screaming, either," she replied.
Though it was juvenile he stuck his tongue out at her.
"Stop that Seifer," she commanded.
"How… how did you know…?"
She just laughed, "Checkout is at 10, don't be late."
AN: Please Review.
Next Chapter: Will Seifer graduate or is he doomed to fail again?
AN2: The number 9:47 is not random. Last summer for some reason every morning I woke up at 9:47. There was no alarm clock or anything it was really random.