It was the greatest moment here to meet Cloud, or at least see him. He was arguing with Barret when I got there about the code words, and how he though that was the lamest thing he ever had to say. I walk towards everyone."Here, I got you all some armor, complements of my fat wallet." To say the least, I was now close to broke, I had about 3000 when I started to shopping, and now I was down to a hundred gil coin in my back pocket. Everyone took the iron bangle and put it on, except Cloud.
"I don't need anything from a shrimp like you." He spoke to me, all cold. I was absolutely shocked. The man, the myth, the legend, was a complete jackass.
"I GOT THESE OUT OF THE KINDNESS OF MY HEART, SO YOU WILL WEAR IT OR YOU WILL HAVE IT SHOVED UP YOUR.."
"RYAN, CHILL" Barret yelled to me. Cloud just nodded.
"Fine, whatever." Cloud equiped the bangle and well all headed into the train, a few people staring at me on the way in.
The ride was relativly quiet, I didn't say much the way and everyone else just rested up. The train finally arrived to the reactor a half an hour later."This is it everyone, we are going to take this thing down, now...CHARGE." We all jumped of the train attacking the guards. Riker jumped out and attacked a guard ripping out his throat. I shot one in the head, realizing that I just killed a human being. After an internal arguement with my conscience, I decided that anyone trying to kill me, I got to strike back. Running along the way to the first gate, jessie imputed the codes needed to open the doors, and then biggs got working on the other ones. Clouds hacking away at guards and Barrets firing without much aim. I covered Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie, as they made there way through.
We got to the central reactor, where Wedge guarded the exit, Riker staying with him , and the rest of us made our ways through. We finally got to the core, and set up the bomb."so when do we get out of here?" I asked.
"Soon, be paitent, wouldn't want ya to do somethin' stupid" Barret responded, watching the exit.
"Done, all we need to do is start the countdown and..." Cloud was intrupted by the sounds of alarms and Heavy metal footsteps.
"Oh shit." I said in a calm voice, hiding my fear as a giant metal scorpion started to walk towards us. "Uhhh we should kill it right?"
"No shit." Barret responded, shooting at the thing.Cloud ran up, using the sword to deflect bullets, and slashed at the armor the creature had on. I shot at the limbs, wishing Riker didn't stay with Wedge so he could go all wolf-like on this crazy machines ass. The tail of the creature went up and started to point at me, and fired, hitting Cloud in the process. Me and Cloud injured, he suddenly started to get really angry. He ran right at the Guardian Scorpion and jumped high in the air, and then prought down his sword with heavy force. The creature stunned, The instinct jumped in and controled all my movements. I ran at the beast and slid on the platform with my arm convesting, going right under him.
"BEAM CANNON." I shouted. The giant green beam hit the undersection of the mechanical monster, going straight through him. When it was over, ryan stood up, inside the hollow crater which used to be the CPU. "I think I kinda overdid it."
Cloud jumps over the fallen machine."No time for talk, the timers going. Barret crawled over it.
"Damn, why'd they have ta make it so big." We all started to run towards the exit.Along the way, I seen jessie stuck.
"Let me help you." I ran over and got her out.
"Thanks." she responded and ran ahead.
"3 minutes left, hurry." Barret yelled. I was starting to get worried that this might be the end, but then I seen the exit. "5,4,3,2,1..." I jumped as the flames came out from behind me, just making it to the turn to see Riker, Jessie, Wedge, and Biggs. In the caved in tunnel behind us, Jessie was planting another bomb. I was one step ahead and ran before everyone else. A fifty pound arm is kinda hard to run with. I was outside as everyone was running through. A blast came from behind, and sealed that path for good.
"Lets split up." Cloud said. I followed Barrets group and made my way onto the cargo storage of the train, and took a seat against a box with Riker next to me, licking off some of my, or someone elses blood. The train started to go and everyone got worried that Cloud didn't make it. I knew he was fine so I didn't sweat it. 10 minutes later, Cloud came through the door, while the train was moving, and acted like it was nothing. Right after was everyones favorite show...Cussing with Barret. Finally Barret calmed down and we headed into the train, where I took a good nap on a seat.
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