Chapter 14: Train Graveyard

Near the sector 7 train station, there is an abandoned train depot which has been there for almost six years and all of the broken trains got dumped there, and naturally monsters thrive here. To counter this, Shinra send robots and dogs to keep the population down, but typically of Shinra, they haven't done much more and the guards sent to prevent are more of the nuisance as they have malfunctioned or gone wild.

In the centre of the train corpses there is a clearing. In the clearing there was a small dog which started to bark then the ground began to shake very violently, the dog growled at the manhole, which at this particular time, decided to explode, sending the dog whimpering loudly out of sight.

An echo followed by a long silence, once the dust had settled, a head popped out of the manhole. It was none other than Cloud looking rather agitated and covered in dust and rubble. He patted himself to get the dust off then reached down the hole to help up Tifa who was yelling back down the man hole.

"Sure let ME take care of it. I will get it open! Yeah, GREAT PLAN DART!"

This echoed down the man hole and was replied with,

"Hey it's not my fault! I put a little kick behind it but how did I supposed to know that half the sewer would collapse from a Matra magic attack!"

At this point Aeris came out also yelling back down,

"Well you didn't have to fire TWELVE FUCKING MISSLES! THERE WAS NO NEED!"

Dart came out of the manhole, looking bit nervous at the three people whom was very angry.

With them all out of the sewer brushing themselves down of dust, Cloud scanned the area. Some of the trains still had there lights on, well most of them where flickering but it was going to be rough. Cloud looked to the west the plate support was still there, obviously or they would be dead but in the distance Cloud could hear helicopters but only Shin-Ra had helicopters, Cloud had no idea were to go except west but the way was blocked by a lot of trains, it would be impossible to climb them so they would have to go around.

Cloud led the way heading the opposite direction of the plate. They headed to a train which, remarkable, still had power so they jumped in and headed to the front of the train. When they disembarked, they couldn't see the clearing now but there was only a labyrinth of trains. Its like they had all crashed and collided with each other at one point or another as some where derailed and some still on old corroded railroad.

Then they realized that to get through, they have to move the train. Cloud said to Dart, "Can you find a way out?"

Dart said, "What way out? The only way out I can see is through that stupid train!"

Cloud and Tifa saw the train in front of them and saw that it was the only way out. They groaned and Aeris cheerfully said, "Well, let's go!"

Cloud, Tifa and Dart all look at Aeris strangely but they shrugged their shoulders. Aeris and Dart went ahead while Cloud and Tifa stayed behind.

Tifa was quietly thinking and she quietly said, "I was so worried when you fell from…I thought you died…"

Cloud said, "I thought I was going to die but I fell through the church onto the flowers which may save my life. So in a way, I might have been blessed…?"

Tifa chuckles and said, "You…blessed? Somehow I don't think so." Then Dart jumped in surprised as he felt something touching him behind…

He turned to see… "AHHHHHH! IT A FUCKING GHOST! AHHHHHHHHH!" Dart screamed his head off, running through the train.

Cloud, Tifa and Aeris all sweat dropped at Dart and they turned to see a ghost. Tifa and Aeris screamed in fear and they too followed after Dart. Cloud laughed a little then he gathered a fireball into his hand before leashing to the ghost which seems to moan before dying.

Cloud sighs before running after the screaming three. Soon Cloud found them three panting on the train. He said, "It was only a ghost. It won't kill you, you bunch of babies!"

Tifa and Aeris growled at Cloud while Dart flicked him off. Cloud laughed but he stopped in mid-laugh. He just found a way out through the train. He went over to the train and after looking inside; he saw another door in the far left.

"Guys, I think I just found a way out from here," yelled by Cloud to another three people.

They went over to him and they went through the train, alert to their surrounding, they went through another door. They found the train station just ten minutes away from them, but there was some monster blocking the way out.

They all sighs while Dart said, "Shall I use my Matra magic again on them?" Dart was met with glares from them. Dart slowly shook his head slowly, muttering, "Why can't they get over that accident…"

Aeris quietly said, "I will deal with them with this materia. This materia have been with me for a long time so it time to use it second level of it power."

Then Aeris quickly ran over near the monsters before Dart could stop her. Cloud said, "She is going to get herself killed. Dart, you will stay with Tifa while I go to protect her from monsters."

Dart nodded and Tifa groaned, muttering, "Sure, let Dart protect me when he can't even use his magic probably." Then she was wincing in pain because Dart screamed down her ears.

"IT WAS AN A ACCIDENT! GET OVER IT!" screamed by Dart. Then Dart smacked himself on his face because of his yelling, they has attracted the monsters to them.

Suddenly, a huge fireball went onto these monsters and they were burned from inside out. Dart gulped at the sight, knowing it was Aeris. Yikes! That was bit cutting it closes…but damn, that was powerful!

Then he yelled out in battle cry and he ran toward three monsters that were Cripshay. Cripshay was a strange creature because it was standing on its four legs, is white, chainsaw a look-like tail and two big horns sticking out of it head.

Dart jumped down on the monsters, killing one of them so he stabbed through the other one but it responded with it horns. Dart snarled at it so he used a stabbing technique.

He twisted around it quickly then he stabbed downward on it before it moved. He finished the other one by using his bolt materia.

He saw that there were only two monsters left and he could see Tifa kicking the shit out them. He was impressed at Tifa's style of her fighting.

They finally killed all monsters around them so they gathered together. Cloud wiped his head because it was drenched in sweat.

Dart said, "Well let's go! I think we have around 40 minutes left before it will explode. Let hurry our asses there!" Tifa and Cloud nodded while Aeris was thinking of something.

"Dart...no never mind. Let hurry up…" Aeris shook her head while Dart look at her with confusion. But he shrugged it off and they ran to the train station.

Ten Minutes Later…

They finally arrived near the train station and Tifa went over to the man who was in charge of the trains.

"Excuse me, but what happening here?" Tifa asked the man. The man rubbed his cheeks, looking up and down.

"You're Tifa, am I right? Well, Barret gave me a message for you and another if they have arrived as well. Barret said, we need some help up the tower so get your asses up there now!"

Tifa said her thanks and ran back to her group saying, "Barret is up there! Let go!" They nodded and they quickly ran to the huge tower. They could hear gunshots in the air and they knew it was Barret.

Suddenly to their surprise, a fat man landed on the floor with a huge impact that they could hear lots of bones breaking from impact. They all winced at the sound and they slowly saw that the fat man was Wedge.

Tifa screamed, "Wedge! Are you all right? Who's up there!" Wedge slowly opened his eyes to see Tifa…

Wedge slowly said, "Barret…is up…there, waiting for…you people… Sorry I couldn't…help…" Then Wedge stop breathing and Tifa cried over him. Cloud and Dart was silenced while Aeris began to have tears in her eyes.

Tifa got up off the floor and screamed in the air, "I'll never forgive you Shinra! NEVER!" Then Tifa went quiet as Cloud was thinking.

"Well, we have to go up there and kill them scum." Tifa nodded but she turned to Aeris. Aeris look at her, curiously in her eyes.

Tifa quickly said, "Aeris do me a favor. I have a bar called '7th Heaven' in this neighborhood. There's a little girl named Marlene there… Could you take her somewhere safe, please?" Aeris nodded.

Dart said, "I will go with her just in case…" Aeris turned to Dart with thanks in her eyes. Then she turned back to Tifa.

Aeris said, "No worries, I will keep her somewhere safe. Do me a favor and kick their asses!" Tifa grinned and she nodded as well.

Aeris and Dart went toward the pub while Tifa and Cloud went up to the tower.

Aeris and Dart

They were running to the pub and they found the sign on the top saying, 'The Seventh Heaven' which confirms that this was the place they are looking for.

Dart said, "You go in and get that girl. I will keep an eye out just in case there some Shinra or monsters coming." Aeris nodded her thanks and she went in.

Aeris saw a little girl hiding in the corner and she went over to her. She said gently, "Hey…are you Marlene?" The little girl looked up at Aeris and she nodded.

Aeris smiles and she saw a flower held by Marlene, and she knew that it was from her. She said, "You see that flower? That was made from me. Did Cloud give it to you?" The little girl shook her head.

Marlene said, "Cloud gave it to Tifa which she gave it to me. Who're you?" Aeris smiles and quickly picked her up.

Aeris smiles and said, "My name's Aeris and Tifa told me to take you somewhere safe so bad people won't hurt you. OK?" The little girl nodded and they quickly got out of the pub. Dart smirks at the little girl but quickly nodded.

They ran toward the tower where Aeris made sure that Marlene's eyes was closed so she wouldn't see Wedge on the floor. They went past it until they were in front of the train. Aeris ran over to the man and said, "Could you take me and my friends to sector 5 please!"

The man saw Marlene and he nodded saying, "Get in quickly, because I don't think that tower will make it. I will run us to sector 5 quickly." They nodded their thanks and they got in the train.

Cloud and Tifa

They were running up the stairs but they were ambushed by two men that were flying with these blades in their hands. Cloud ran at them with his huge blade, chopping one person arm off neatly.

The man screamed in pain as the blood gushed out of his left arm. He roared at Cloud and he rushed to his biggest mistake. Cloud saw him coming and he spanned around, chopping the man's head off neatly.

Meanwhile, Tifa punched the guy back to the floor and leashing her anger out, she began beating the shit out of the man. Three punches on his face resulted as a broken nose, three teeth lost and a huge shiner. Then she gave a powerful kick on the man…

The man screamed in pure agony and he whimpered. Then Tifa lifted him up and she brought the man down on her knees resulting the man's spine was broken in half.

Cloud shivered at the man agony when he got kicked in his groin and glad that he wasn't him.

Tifa grinned in bloodlust and she ran upstairs, followed after Cloud. Soon they met with Biggs who was sitting on the floor, holding up a shotgun. To Tifa's horror, she could see a wound on Biggs stomach and she knew that Biggs didn't have many minutes to live.

Biggs saw them and said with blood coming out of his mouth, "Hey Tifa…and Cloud. You very late, I'm going to laugh…my head off when Barret shout…at ya. Tell me, Cloud, do you care about the planet and please, don't lie to me."

Cloud was quiet for few minutes before saying, "No…I still don't care about the planet." Biggs smiles his thanks…then he died, smiling.

Tifa clenches her fists together and she ran very quickly, then she saw three men that were the same from downstairs. She screamed in pure anger and she quickly slammed the man over the rails.

Then she went over to another one who was twisting his blades around so that Tifa couldn't get to him. But Tifa seem to not care so she jumped over him and quickly turned to snap his neck quickly.

Cloud saw the other creeping behind Tifa so he gathered a fireball into his hand and he let it ago onto the man which felt searing pain on his back. He screamed his pain and Tifa quickly spanned around, and she powerfully punches the man's neck. The man's neck burst out blood over Tifa's fists.

Cloud was afraid of Tifa's anger but Tifa calming down slowly. Cloud said, "Let's go upstairs quicker before more people will die." Tifa nodded and they ran more quickly than before.

Aeris, Marlene and Dart

The train finally arrived at sector 5. Aeris quickly thanks the man and they ran toward Aeris' house. Dart was holding Marlene on his neck, and Aeris smiles. How cute are they together? But I can tell something from Dart…

Suddenly two men dropped down from the helicopter. They quickly stopped at once and Aeris recognized Tseng at once. But Aeris don't seem to know another man. However Dart took Marlene off his neck and went in front of Aeris and Marlene.

He said, "What do you want Tseng?" Tseng looked over Dart before remembering the style of the man.

He couldn't believe it was Dart so he said, "Have you got a gunblade?" Dart took out his gunblade and Tseng growled in anger.

Tseng shouted at Dart, "What the hell are you doing here, you scum!" Dart coldly glares at Tseng.

The he coldly stated, "I would say something to you but there is a little girl here so I won't say it until next time we meet. Now, tell me what you want!"

Tseng laughed, saying, "Why am I here? I am here for Aeris. We have been chasing after her for a long time so we won't waste this opportunity to take her. Now, move out of our way now or you will die…"

Dart laughed at this and Aeris mutters, "Tseng, you ain't getting me because Dart will protect me from you!"

Then Dart finally looked at the other man and he struggled to remember him because the face was so familiar yet he couldn't remember it. Then he growled at both of them and said, "You two can piss off now or I will take your life today!"

Then Dart ran at them with his gunblade but Tseng took out his twin blades and the other man wearing a white lab-coat took out a rapier. They yelled out a battle cry and Aeris took Marlene away from the sight of the battle.

Cloud and Tifa

Tifa and Cloud was finally nearing the top of the tower after killing so many enemies. Then Tifa saw Jessie soaked in blood yet fighting a man left in three people on the floor. Tifa rushed over to help Jessie by snapping the man's neck quickly.

But as Tifa was about to snap the man's neck, the man stabbed through Jessie with his blades. Jessie felled on the floor, with more blood spreading on the floor. Cloud ran over to Jessie to hold the pressure down but Cloud knew that she will die from blood loss.

Jessie smirks weakly at Cloud and she stroked Cloud's face with her one hand non-soaked. "You know Cloud, first time I met you, I felt in love with…you. You saved my life in the reactor so I own you my life. That is why I made that special card for you."

Cloud slowly nodded his head as Jessie's breathing got more slowly. Jess continues, "Cloud, could you do me a last favor?" Cloud nodded and Jessie smiles weakly.

Jessie said, "Kiss me please…I want to die with a kiss from you, please." Cloud slowly nodded and gave Jess a kiss on her mouth. Tifa looks away from this kiss. After five seconds, Jessie finally stops breathing and Cloud felt it. He let ago from Jessie's mouth and he step backward from Jessie.

Cloud was in sorrow and he said, "So many deaths…Shinra is going to pay for this!" Cloud's anger was kept inside of himself and they ran upstairs and they finally was on the top.

They saw Barret unleashing his bullets at the helicopter that was twirling around them and they could see that Barret was getting more pissed off.

Barret yelled, "YOU FUCKING COWARDS! FIGHT LIKE A MAN, YOU FUCKING COWARDS!" Then while he was shooting, he saw Tifa and Cloud arriving and he thanks his god that they were alive.

Barret stop shooting at the helicopter and Cloud went over to him saying, "How bad is this!" Barret looks at him before pointing at the computer nearby.

"Some guy was doing something on that when I just arrived. I think that guy was making a bomb on that but I managed to kill him before he pressed the button. But these bastards aren't letting us go?" Cloud nodded and suddenly, a flaming hair man jumped from the helicopter.

Cloud knew it was Reno because they met in the church. "Reno! Get ya ass over here now, you damn bastard!"

Reno ran over to the computer before turning around to Cloud. "Nice to see you again. Too bad that ya too late because when I press this button…" Then Reno pressed the button on the bomb.

Reno finished what he was saying, "…mission is accomplished because you cannot turned it off. Even if you can, it will take around 30 minutes which you don't have enough time. There only 20 minutes left before it will explode."

Cloud cursed his luck and Tifa gasped. Barret growled in anger then he began shooting at Reno which he dodged it. Reno landed on his feet and he said, "You know what? I will be sticking around to kick your asses!"

Then Reno took his a rod from his back. He jerked it straight and he pressed a button on it. Suddenly it was being powered up by some electricity.

Reno said, "This baby hold over 2,000 volts and I am the only in Turks that is unaffected by lighting! So let see if ya can fight me!"

Then Reno ran at them…