Chapter 4
"Any ideas?" Cloud said.
"Nothing." Vincent replied. The group put their hands up and backed up against the wall behind them as Laurence chortled to himself.
"Oh, maybe this'll get me a well earned bonus package." He said. He lowered the missle launcher slightly. "After all the decades I've worked for him and I never got so much as a thank you." He took out a metal handkerchief and wiped his eyes of the oil dripping from them. Taking this as a moment to strike Vincent leapt at Laurence and knocked him to the ground he pulled the gun out of the robot's hands and fired it at the butler. Vincent was sent flying through the air by the force of the launcher and banged into the wall opposite. He got up and shook his head and looked at the pair of smoldering metal feet left.
"Couldn't you have done that in a more civilized manner?" Rinoa asked.
"Haven't you learned anything while being in the group Rinoa?" Cloud said his eyebrows raised. "Violence is always the answer." Cloud had become a lot more cheerful since he had met Ratchet. While the others were talking Squall had walked over to the large control panel and pushed one of the buttons. The large screen above the panel flashed into light, bringing up a large map which the owner had recently been watching. Squall gasped and called the others over. The map was of their school with a glowing dot showing Ratchet, Yuna, Rikku and Tifa. Also moving slowly away from the south wall of the school was a small blue dot with an S above it. All the others were watching the map with wonder.
"Ratchet obviously made it to our world then" Vincent said. Squall however was looking at all the different buttons on the console. One of them was labeled cell transfer systems.
"What you looking at Squall?" Rinoa asked.
"This" Squall said. He pushed the button. Vincent and Cloud watched in amazement as Rinoa and Squall slowly disappeared from head to toe until they had both completely disappeared.
Ratchet and the others were running after the man. They could just roughly make him out, flying through the trees. They had just about reached him when he suddenly went off with a burst of speed and flew out of sight. They all fell to the ground panting.
"Great" Rikku said. "Now we've lost him." She had just barely spoken the words when a sudden beeping sound began to come from Yuna's pocket. She pulled out a small square box with a screen glowing in the middle. Yuna gasped.
"I'm picking up a distress signal from Tidus." She said.
"Who's Tidus?" Ratchet asked.
"Yunie's boyfriend!" Rikku said energetically. She giggled as Yuna turned bright red.
"You gotta admit you do like him a lot Yuna, you're always talking about him." Tifa said smiling.
"That's not the main point. It's coming from the direction we've been chasing that guy. And it is a bit suspicious that Tidus disappeared just after we discovered this man was around."
"Well let's go beat the hell out of that weird guy and rescue Yunie's boyfriend!" Rikku said. Yuna pocketed her tracking device and started to run in the direction that Tidus apparently was, with the others right behind. Eventually they reached a small cave behind a large bush, it was very dark inside but as soon as Yuna stepped inside a light turned on from above showing a cage in the corner of the room with a blond haired boy sitting inside shielding his eyes from the light.
"Tidus!" Yuna cried and ran over to the cage.
"Yuna?" Tidus said his eyes getting used to the light.
"Well, well what a nice little get-together." The man stepped out from the other side of the cave with his hood down. He was a tall man with spiky, blue hair and a long purple cloak. On his chest was tattooed some strange symbols and signs. "Now we're all together."