Chapter 12 The Photon Shotgun

"Ryan, you really have got to let us in next time." Tifa told me as we went through the sewer.

"Why, to spoil the fun of walking through muck, forget it." I smiled a wide grin. I was carrying Riker on my back to prevent him from getting wet. It was hard to go into combat this way when these sheled freaks popped out of the water. I stood back as the others quickly took care of the problem. I was climbing up a ledge when I found a yellow materia. I forgot what it was so I gave it to Cloud.

"Steal, lets you take an Item an opponents holding by filling you with the knowledge of a theif. As you get better it..."

"I asked what it was, not its history." I interrupted. "Sooooo who gets it?"

"Well, If you would have told us we were going into a sewer, then this would have been yours, but.."

I jumped in his face. "If we didn't go into the sewer, then we would have never found it, its because of me that we found it."

"Blah blah yak yak."

"Yak blah blah." we were starting to argue at the same time making our words sound like gibberish. Tifa walked up an took the materia out of Clouds hands.

"Cut it out, I'll take it for now, seriously, guys your like 6 year olds." Tifa told us off.

"Fine." Me and Cloud said at the same time.

"Rark, rark." Riker barked. I could have sworn that he was laughing.

Cloud led the way, an I stayed behind.

"Brat."

"Jackass."

Cloud turned around and stared me down, as I did to him."WHAT DID YOU SAY!" We both said in unison. Aeris had enough and bashed us both on the head. "OWW, what was that for." WE both cried at the same time.

"Cut it out, don't we need to hurry."

"Fine lets go." Cloud said, sicking in the pain. I just rubbed my head and was starting to regret my decision to keep him out of a dress.
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We exited the sewer and steped into the train graveyard. There was broken scrapmetal everywear. "So which way?" I ask, setting Riker down.

"Well, by the looks of it, we need to guied ourselves over the wreakage and.." I walked up to a train barrier and shouted...

"HELL BOMBER." My arm did its conversion thing into a missle launcher. It fired, but the pain was lessing with each time I used it. The wreakage went into smitherines and I walked through the gaping hole I made, The rest of the people staring at me with there mouths open. After recovering from their shock, they went through, and continued to follow me and Riker. We came up apon a few ghosts and I shot at them, but it went right through them. "DIE,DIE,DIE." I shouted shooting like a madman. They went solid and were about to attack when a piece of train that was torn up from my shots fell on top of them. They left a strange looking item and a few gil, i quickly pocketed the gil and said "I ment to do that, yup, it was all part of my ingenious master plan."

"Sure, and I'm a princess." Cloud mocked me. Resisting the urge to shoot him, I failed to resist, but my clip was empty. :He got lucky.: I told myself. I reloaded and ande steped onto the platform for boarding on the train.

"Cloud, I hear gunshots...BARRET." Tifa said running towards the pillar. We all ran after her and seen what was truly going on. There were all the other members of avalanche fighting, and wedge was falling from the top, he was tough, but not tough enough. he wispered a few last words and faded into death. Hearing those words, I ran up and ran into a shinra soilder flying through the air with what looked like a handheld moterized propellor. My mind raced as he came towards me, ready to cut me up, anger, sadness, rage most of all. I yelled down to the group.

"Take Riker out of hear." Tifa also had Aeris go get Marline. I lifted up my arm to block the blade, it cracked an the man fell to the ground. A piece of information came through me like instructions."MINI-COPTER." The same type of propeller came out of my arm, as well as TMIW's voice.

"This is a passive mech skill, it uses up magic instead of clips, you get 1 second to every magic point you have, but you can't use bullets when like this."

I couldn't have cared, I ran towards him, the blade spinning and sliced him in two. I started to hover, up, gaining more distance than by running, but I had to dodge bullet fire so I landed and started to shoot. I saw jessie up above try to take down a shinra soilder but fail, as the bullets pierced her several times. I ran up, and she said the same thing wedge said before he was gone. She said "I gave my life for these people, save them." I started to lose myself, as I took out soilder by soilder, quick head shots. My respect for these peoples lives are gone, and I just continued to take them out. I was so fast, that Cloud and Tifa, who was behind me, only got the items they left behind. I reached the Top to find Biggs get taken out in one swift attack. I shot at the Blue claded soilder who did it and ended his life, like he ended Biggs. I didn't realize that I was next to Barret until I almost shot him.

"Ryan, what are you doing here, this is no place for a kid."

"I'm not a kid." I shot at a soilder aiming for Barrets head."and I just saved your ass." Tifa and Cloud made it to the top to find that me and Barret finished them off.

"We got to stop the countdown." Tifa said, heading towards a control module. A man came from behind the pillar, and zapped Tifa with what looked like a cow prod. He was dressed in a blue suit and had red spiky hair.

"AAhhh the ex-SOILDER member, we meet again." He said.

"Reno. A turk, carefull, they play dirty." He got out his prod and and ran towards cloud, but cloud blocked and attacked as he also blocked with his weapon, I ran around the pillar to get a shot at his back , but as I ran up, he got me from the back by sticking out his prod and jabbing me with it, my eyesight was suddenly blurred slightly, and I seen a blury Image of Cloud, Tifa, and Barret Finish him off, but not for good. He ran to the counsil and started the countdown and jumped into a helecopter that was approaching, Barret was about to shoot it and the Turk with long hair inside when he took out a girl and held her in fron of him.

"YOU DIRTY JACKASS." Barret layed down his gun, before the copter got away, the girl said

"Their safe." I knew that It was Aeris, and when he struck her my rage reached its boiling point, I just stood there as Tifa tried to shut down the countdown.

"If I mess with the controls, it will blow, we have to leave, come on Ryan."

"NO I WILL PROTECT THESE PEOPLE AND SHINRA WILL PAY!" the explosion went off as everyone but me got ready to swing.

"Damnit Ryan, come on, we have to go NOW." Cloud shouted. I felt a new type of instinct hit me and it instructed me to aim up. I did so, and it took control. the platform was starting to fall and I just aimed up. "FOR BIGGS, FOR WEDGE, FOR JESSIE, FOR ALL THESE PEOPLE, I WILL PROTECT THEM. PHOTON SHOTGUN!" 4 Blades came out from the side of the gun, and redirected to aim upward and it started to charge. All the light was being sucked out from the area and it siddenly went dark. A giant light ball shot up an stayed suspended in midair. "SHOTGUN FIRE!" the ball split up into seven beams and impacted the falling platform. Using all my strength, I pushed the pillar up and and sent it flying into the water by the side, it landed in such a way that it started to float and bacame a seperate city of its own from that moment on. Everyone just staring at me for what just happened, I slowly fainted out of conscienceness and slept as I hit the fround.