Final Fantasy VII: Armageddon

Chapter 3

Disclaimer- Final Fantasy VII, anything that involves Final Fantasy for that matter, is copyrighted by Square-Enix.

Author's Note- Don't worry! You didn't miss anything! It didn't skip ahead, the point of view changed! All the while, you have no idea what Vincent is up to, but this is more important! PLUS- VERY IMPORTANT- This section contains spoilers from Advent Children. Do not read unless you've seen the movie or just plain don't care.

There was a knocking on the door to the secret room. "Huh? Nobody knows about us here! Who could that be?" Reno yelled.

"Don't open it the door! It might be..." Rufus said, interrupted by Reno who yelled, "But what if it's Rude? We can't just leave him!"

Rufus replied, "It is for percautionary reasons only. Go to the other room and call Rude. If it is him, he'll say."

Reno left, and all the while, the knocking continued. Every time the knocks came, it was the same knock. The same calm, slow, patient knock. Rufus waited, while the door knocking drove him mad with fear. Who was it? Someone who had come to kill him?

He didn't have time to ponder. Reno returned and said, "Rude's still with Elena on that... special assignment. That's not him." and Rufus interrupted, "And Tseng is lower than we are. He couldn't have gotten out without us seeing."

There was a pause. Reno waited for Rufus to continue. Reno was afraid, though he'd never admit it. With his cool attitude, he managed to keep a strong image and a calm composure, while hiding his true feelings, which he was really good at. Of course, the only feeling he couldn't hide was anger. This was not anger, this was pure fear.

Rufus suddenly said, "We have to go to the shield room. Call the rest up here and tell them to guard these doors."

Reno didn't want anything but to comply with that. He helped Rufus down to the shield room, a room only accessible by Rufus' voice command and cornea scan. Whoever was at the door could NEVER get through there.

Suddenly, an entire legion of Shin-Ra grunts armed with firearms and swords appeared from the other rooms and swarmed the front room. Instead of knocking, they heard silence. They waited in silence and fear.

All of a sudden, the door exploded before them. A familiar figure stood outside of it. Cloud Strife had come to attack them?

Cloud was not recognized in his new outfit and was fired upon immediately. He quickly blocked all the bullets and lept into the air. He smashed his sword into the ground and created a shock wave, sending those near him flying towards the walls. He pulled the sword from the ground, dodging thousands of bullets in the process, and swung, smashing in the heads of many soldiers around him. He turned around and slashed again, making short work of even more soldiers.

The fear rose in the room. Nobody could stand up against Cloud, no matter thier numbers.

Cloud jumped into the air and sliced one of them in half, and afterwards, threw one of half of the body off the sword at the rest of the soldiers. While they were distracted he floated up and dove towards the remaining Shin-Ra grunts. He swung and used his limit-break attack, Blade Beam, wiping out many of them.

And now, there was only one left. He picked him up by the neck and said, "Those who oppose him..." and then, his voice deepened to a more low, almost undead tone, and he continued, "...shall die."

He stuck his sword into the grunt, and pulled up, or more simply, he performed Climhazzard, his limit-break attack.

He said in his original voice, "You did pretty well. This is going perfectly." Then, in his deeper voice, he said, "Yes... I hate to admit it, but you did well to."

"Enough chit-chat, brother. We should get to Rufus."

"Are you sure he'd be stupid enough to hide Mother again?"

"Have you not seen it, brother?"

"Visions can be deceiving."

"True, but Rufus has always been the type to take matters into his own hands. He's naive enough to think that Shin-Ra has the power to protect her... to make sure people like you don't get to her."

"People like me? You're in this as well."

"Only because this must be done to save the world."

"Indeed."

Cloud stopped talking to himself and continued down to the bottom floor. This is where Rufus and the others were, he knew it.

When he got there, he noticed that the walls were many layers of bulletproof glass, with thick steel layers on the inside. The wall must have been 5 feet thick. "While my sword is about 6 feet long... what do you think, brother?"

"This is all you, Cloud."

Cloud chucked, readied his blade, and stabbed into the wall. The blade almost couldn't make it through, but it managed to bash it's way to the other side, and pulled the sword out. There wasn't anything more he could do with it.

Except, Rufus hadn't taken into account how excellent and precise Cloud was. The wall simply shattered from the one blow Cloud gave to it. Cloud rose his hand, and used a wind spell to hurl the shards of steel and glass at the turks.

They took cover, and weren't hurt.

Reno got up and began to attack Cloud. Cloud, put his hand on Reno's shoulder and gave him a good shove. Reno smashed into the wall and was incapacitated.

Cloud's deep voice said to Rufus, "I thought you should learn from mistakes, Mr. President. Not make the same mistake again." He put his hand around his neck, and picked Rufus up from his wheelchair. "Where's Mother?"

"Cloud? What are you doing, why?" Rufus tried to yell, whilst being strangled. Cloud's deep voice continued, "I'm not Cloud, old fool. Now tell me! Where's Mother!"

Rufus yelled, "You won't kill me! I'm the only one who knows where she is!"

"So you admit it! You DO know!"

"Damn!"

"Where's Mother?"

"NO!"

"Where's Mother!"

"NEVER!"

"WHERE IS MOTHER!"

He just didn't even wait for an answer. He threw Rufus onto the ground. He brandished his blade and pointed to Rufus' face. Cloud's normal voice yelled, "Hey! That's mine!" and the deep voice replied, "I'm borrowing it for a second. I told you to leave interrogation to me, brother!"

Cloud kicked Rufus repeatedly, saying repeatedly, almost like a chant, "Where's Mother?"

Eventually he got tired and kicked him really hard, sending him flying to the sharp-glass covered wall. Cloud started walking towards the door, and Rufus, in a stifled yell, said, "What are you doing? Don't you need to know Mother's location?"

The deep voice said, "We can always get it out of Rude & Elena. You told them, right? Elena's pretty delicate. She'll probably tell us in a heartbeat. She is the one hiding it, after all. She could give us more exact directions."

"We? Us?"

Cloud turned his head to face Rufus. They gaze into eachother's eyes... And as he notices the snake-like features in Cloud's eyes, now emerald green, Rufus gasped and yelled, "Those eyes... it can't be! It can't be!"

"Lay here and stay out of our way. We'll be helping you in the end."

"What? What do you mean?"

Cloud had already left before he had a chance to answer.

Rufus, half-concious, muttered, "No... it can't be... he's... no... how can it be... Se..."

Rufus finally passed out.

Wow! Every chapter get's longer! Stay tuned for more chapters!