Chapter 1: Mako Reactor Extraction
At the end of the bridge opposite the two men, a large hanger door was opening, "Cloud how long till the bomb goes?" "We have twelve minutes, two minute delay on the bomb." Barret turned on Cloud "What kind of time do ya call that, it took us eighteen minutes to get down here!"
Cloud looked coldly at his watch "Eleven minutes & forty-two seconds." "Fine then! Let's deal with the piece of crap over there first" "Eleven minutes &…" "OH SHUT IT!"
The piece of crap Barret was referring to was out of the hanger to reveal a Guard Scorpion, Mark II by Cloud reckoning; it was a large machine easily twenty foot, the colour was red, had eight nasty sharp legs and had two rifles on the sides of it's upper torso and a rather nasty looking tail, the tip seemed to eradiate a faint glow. Also the machine had search camera which is uses to locks on targets.
Cloud was looking at the Guard Scorpion with interest. Cloud took out his blade and ran over to the scorpion. He slashed it on the legs, which would be chopped in half because of the sheer power of the Buster Blade. It only made a clang and it only made the scorpion actives the search camera which was locking on Cloud. Cloud cursed and jumps backwards. Too late, the camera locks on Cloud and the huge machine turns to make the aims better. The scorpion adjusts his rifles and began shooting everywhere Cloud was at. Barret saw that Cloud was in danger of being shot and he took up his gun and shot at the scorpion face. Barret kept shooting at the machine face which the machine turns with its search cameras. Barret saw the greens light aiming at him and he said,
"HELL NO! YOU CAN KISS MY FUCKING ASS!" Barret ran away from the green light which was trying to find Barret. Finally the machine and Cloud saw a chance to do serious damage on the machine. Cloud ran behind the machine and he slashed the piece of the tail off but Cloud didn't expect the tail to be fast. The tail whacked Cloud backwards which put Cloud out of action. Barret was panting and he finally stops and he turns to see the green lights locking on him. Barret put his gun up and he shot the searching cameras which Barret finally destroyed it. The machine was half blind without the searching camera but the machine actives his legs. The legs can sense the vibration on the floor, which was bit dangerous on them. Barret got pissed off at this and he kept shooting at the machine face.
"FUCK YOU, YOU TINSHIT! DIE YOU MOTHERFUCKING MACHINE!" Barret's rage was so powerful that Barret had to grips his arm to let the anger flow into his gun. The gun stops shooting and began to absorb the power that was leaking out of Barret's anger. The power began to change into orange ball which got bigger and bigger until Barret's anger ran out. Barret grins at this and he aim for the machine face.
"YOU WANT TO SEE MY FUCKING POWER! BIG SHOT!" The gun released the power, it was holding. The orange ball of power pushes itself and went toward the scorpion's face. If machine have emotions, then the machine would be afraid and would be running away. But the machine was blind and had no emotions. So the power went through him and out of it. The face was shred in pieces but by sheer luck, it didn't crash it data. Barret was god-smacked by the machine and its luck. Barret growled and let loose all bullets he had left. The machine was lumbering and fell on the floor. The machine lifts itself up but fails. The tail went up in the air and the tail sparked. Sensing an attack on itself, the tail laser-beam on floor which it erupted up and Barret fells on the floor. Barret cursed and got up. Meanwhile Cloud finally awoken and saw Barret in danger. He saw the tail shooting at Barret and Cloud ran forward to the tail. He thrusts his sword on the tail which it squirm around before falling onto the floor. The machine got up but it felled again. Then the machine suddenly shut down. Cloud thrusts his sword into the machine itself and took it out therefore shutting down the machine. Then he went over to the rifles and thought how powerful it was. Then he had an idea. He slashed a rifle off and picked it up. He ran over to Barret and he saw Barret panting,
"Just in time! Huh? Why have you got a rifle on you?" Cloud said, "You can change your gun-arm for this rifle. You can kill more enemies with this." Barret nodded and suddenly he looks horrified,
"SHIT! WE GOTTA GO NOW! RUN!" Cloud looks at him then he suddenly remembers. They ran over the machine and toward the ladder. They climbs it up finally was on the last platform. There was steam every where and Barret was bulldozing on towards the lift. Cloud couldn't help it, but look for Jesse. He had to look around for Jessie. He looked the opposite way from Barret and caught a glimpse of a crouched figure; Cloud darted to it to find Jessie with her hand trapped in a box of some kind.
"I was trying to…" "Doesn't matter." Cloud yelled and kicked the box which surprisingly opened "Come on there aren't much time left!" Cloud yelled over the alarm. They began to run back up the stairs to find Barret finishing off some roboguards in front of the lift. Barret was surprise to see Jessie but he shrugged it off. They ran toward the elevator and they got in. Barret was dumb struck and said,
"I thought you had already gone!" Jessie smiled at him and noticed that they had arrived at the ground floor.
"Come on apologies can be saved for later" she said as they exited the lift back into the lobby but now the main door's where locked. Barret began to unload on it but nothing happened "SHIT, how the hell can we supposed to open this motha!" Jessie ran straight for the control panel over her shoulder she asked,
"Time please, Cloud?" Cloud looked at the watch, "Four minutes. Think you can do it?"
"Of course." She began to punch in codes which kept letting a kind of negative. Beeping every time she pressed enter time was slipping away. Finally Jessie got the right code followed buy a much antiapartheid beep.
The door's opened slowly but they didn't care and squeezed through the gap. Barret found some difficulty with this, cursing under his breath and somehow caught up with the other two. They were running back to the long bridge to the left.
Biggs and Wedge had opened the locked gate and beckoning them over. "What's the rush guys?" As Cloud and the other's approached,
"RUN, it's gonna blow any minute now" Barret yelled as he pushed them back.
Electrical surges began to go up the mako reactor the hum of the giant generators where getting louder, the ground was shaking, electrical bolts was flying off the reactor, street lamps overloaded, traffic light changed out of control. Anything that was being supplied power from the reactor was overloaded and exploded or just cut out when the reactor went critical, and exploded, the top of the reactor flew hundred's of meters up into the sky, then the reactor collapsed on itself and there was silence as the whole of Midgar was shook by the explosion.
Meanwhile, Cloud and the rest of the gang were trapped in the small area. Barret was sitting down on a ceiling that was already collapsed. Biggs and Wedge was thinking about the explosion. Jesse was setting a bomb on the wall so they can get out. Cloud was leaning on the wall. Finally Biggs broke the silence,
"At least the planet can live a bit longer…" Barret didn't reply and Biggs were met with more silence. They sat in quiet for five minutes until Jesse said,
"Done! Stand backs everyone, it going to explore in five seconds." Everyone ran back of the wall and finally, the wall explored…