Author's note: haha sry i lied i didn't have writers block that bad so I'm writing this chapter now. Umm and oh yea the machina that I tested out/ practised with I kinda forgot to describe what it looks like, so just real quick description is that it is pretty much a larger version of me, except its machina and its sword doesn't have the elamental power of fire like mine. Also, it really has no human detail, so its basically a glorified giant suit of armor that moves with a pilot (me).

Chapter 5: The Mission Begins

I opened my eyes in the morning and, "Wake up sleepy head," I heard a loud cheerful voice say. It startled me so much that I fell off the side of my bed. "Ow," I said now tired and sore from my fall. I managed to sit up only to have a pillow fly into the side of my head, knocking me over so that I was lying on the floor again. I simply groaned not wanting to get up, not only because I was tired but out of fear of being hit in the head with something bigger. "Come on, don't be so lazy," I now recognized the voice as Rikku's. "Easy for you to say, your always so hyper, do you even sleep," I asked seriously considering this as I managed to sit up again. Thne I noticed that Rikku was in her wetsuit thing again. Rikku giggled and then jumped on top of my bed on her knees and poked me in the head pushing it sideways. "Come on, we've got a mission today," she said seeming extremely cheerful still. Then I realized something, "Wait, what, today, but Cid said two days meaning tommorrow right," Rikku giggled again, I was getting tired of being laughed at but didn't mind since Rikku seemed to laugh at everything. "Yea it was gonna be tommorrow, but I convinced pops to let us leave today, so get up so we can go already," Rikku said almost begging me now. I was still exhausted from the last day and tired from just waking up, so I just sat there for a few seconds then yawned. When I looked back at Rikku she was doing puppy dog eyes. I couldn't help but smile, "Fine just for you Rikku," I said finally standing up. "Yay, thank you," Rikku yelled giving me a big bear hug that winded me for a moment. Then I remembered that the last time she hugged me she stole my camera, so I quickly checked to make sure I still had all my valuables. "What's wrong she asked," she asked. I laughed a little, "Just making sure you didn't take anything from me you treasure happy little imp," I said completeing my search and concurring that I had lost at least half the gil I had aquired defeating fiends. "Hey, I'm no thief," she said trying to sound innocent. "Mhm then where's the other half of my gil," I asked, Rikku blushed and held out a large handful of my gil. "I was gonna give it back honestly, it just fell out of your pocket when you fell off your bed," she said in her defense. I laughed, "Hey its all right, not like I'm gonna hate you or something cause you took a bit of my gil, next time you need some gil though, just ask." She nodded and then we went out into the hall.

"So, where we going right now," I asked following Rikku down the hall. "Well pops should have our machina waiting at the edge of the desert, same place the boat was at," she replied. "So do we have to walk that way again," I asked remembering the fiend that had almost had me for a snack. "Luckily no," she started obviously remembering the event as well, "we get to take the machina there this time," she finished sounding excited and then taking off at a slow run. "Hey, wait up," I yelled after her. I saw her turn the corner up ahead so I followed as close as I could, but she had a head start. I turned the corner and almost ran into Rikku who was waiting right around the corner for me. "Whoa," I said almost running into her, "what is it," I asked after noticing that she was staring at me. "Here, a gift," she said handing me what looked like a metal armlet. "You can use that to defend yourself from physical attacks, it's almost completely unbreakable, so don't worry about it breaking," she explained as I put it over my hand and snapped it closed. Rikku smirked, umm that can't be good, when Rikku smirks somethings up. I looked at the armlet she had just given me, "What did you do to it," I asked now a little worried. "You can't take that off now, unless I say so," she said with a big smile on her face, "I put something on it that only responds to my voice," she said sounding like she still hadn't finished explaining it. "Oh and I suggest you don't make me mad anytime soon," she said diabolicaly. I looked at the armlet now thinking that no good could come of it. I tried to pry it off but to no avail. "W-wait, what's gonna happen if I make you mad," I asked now extremely nervous. "You'll find out," she said giggling and walking off. Maybe if I give her a gift, like some treasure she'll let me take it off I thought staring at the thing hopelessly and begining to walk behind Rikku again.

Rikku and me were just about to leave when an Al Bhed I hadn't seen yet came running over and started talking to Rikku. "Frana ec Cid, E hiit du cbayg fedr ypuid Operation Mi'hen," the man asked seeming kind of nervous. Rikku pointed towards Cid's office as I thought what operation Mi'hen, that killed thousands of Al Bhed, ugh I should say something but if I do she'll definitely be suspicious. I continued my mental arguement till I noticed that Rikku hadher head cocked sideways and was staring at me. "Are you okay," she asked. I nodded and continued walking now thinking I just hope Rikku isn't anywhere near operation Mi'hen when it begins. Rikku led me outside and to what looked like a snowmobile but for sand, of course. She hopped on and motioned for me to sit so I did. "Hold on," she said over the engine which was rather loud considering its size. She took off rather fast but I really didn't need to hoild on since it didn't get quite enough speed right away to throw me off. We drove for about an hour which was better then walking for about four. We went over one last dune and were at the shoreline. I saw the machina, floating there in the sea. Rikku had the one that she used in the game with the barrier that held Yuna, or rather would hold. Mine was attached to her machina's back like a backpack. "So what the machina is our weapon as well as our boat," I almost more stated then asked. Rikku nodded to confirm my statement and then got off the snowmobile and walked into the water and then swam up to our boat/ weapons. I followed, When I reached the machina Rikku climbed inside hers like a tank. I heard her hit a few buttons and then we began to move forward at a decent pace.

I sat on top of the machina just relaxing for awhile, then Rikku came up out of the hatch. "All right, we should be heading in the right direction and I shouldn't need to go back down for some time, unless something causes problems," Rikku said happily. I was too lost in thought to hear her. I was still wondering what was happening back home. "So, now what," Rikku said attempting to get my attention. I still continued staring off into space. All of a sudden Rikku stuck her face right in front of me and said, "Hey," I jumped back almost falling off. I was breathing heavily from the start Rikku just gave me. "You know I've never seen anyone with eyes like yours before," she said sounding rather inquisitive. I looed at my reflection in the water thinking, what she's naver seen someone with brown eyes before? When I saw my reflection though I was shocked, for two reasons. First, my eyes had gone from their normally brown with a greenish tint to a blood red color. "Ack, what the... my eyes... weren't red... but... now... I'm so confused," I mumbled to myself. "What," Rikku asked wondering exactly what I had been mumbling about. "Oh, its nothing," I replied turning to face Rikku again. "So do you remember anything, like where you came from," she asked crouching down and sounding very curious. I really wanted to tell her but she'd never believe me. So I shook my head to signify that I didn't. "Hey, what about your... umm, what did you call it... Oh your camera, that was it," Rikku said sounding sure that my camera would have pictures of my cloudy past. I pulled it out of my pocket just realizing that it had gone in the water with me when I swam over to the machina. I turned it on and everything still worked fine but when I checked my picture and video archives they were all gone except the picture I took of Rikku. Strange things happen a lot in Spira I thought, my eye twitching in frustration. "Aww, only the picture of me, what happened to the video I saw you shooting on the ship," she asked. I has explained the workings of the camera as best I could with my knowledge of how it worked. "Well, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say, the water erased the memory, mostly," I guessed not actually knowing the cause for this little mishap. After some time of trying to fix the camera Rikku an me both gave up.

BEEP! "Ack, what, I thought I shut that off," I said looking at my watch that had some how turned it's hourly tone back on. It was already 10:00 PM. I yawned, stetched and then said, "Hey Rikku, where could I get some sleep," I asked she quickly pointed to the cockpit of my machina, which was sticking out of the water enough that I could hop in. I went inside, got as comfortable as possible and closed my eyes. I opened my eyes to see noting but darkness all around me, did I even open my eyes I thougt bringing my hand up to my face to see if I had opened my eyes. I could see my hand perfectly, which meant I had my eyes open. "I did it," I heard a strangely familiar voice say. I took down my hand and say the "all knowing" Bahamut fayth. "What did you do," I asked finally responding to his odd statement. "I erased your pictures," the fayth said. I was about to ask why when I suddenly realized why myself. "You... don't want any one to find out where I'm from do you, and you briught me here too didn't you," I asked quickly. The fayth just nodded and then said something that sounded to me completely random, but it probably made perfect sense to him, he said, "Don't give in to the darkness." I just stood there looking like with my mouth open wide gaping at the fayth. "Wha..." I started but the fayth cut me off. "You should wake up now, you have been sleeping for almost a day now," the fayth said disapearing as it did so. I woke up, tried to stand up, hit my head on a low part of the cockpit, stumbled, and feel backwards into the wall of the cockpit. I officially hate walls and waking up now since I can never wake up in a nice peaceful place and I always manage to get slammed into a wall I thought rubbing my head and slowly getting up. I managed to avoid hitting my head on anything and clambered up out of my cockpit.

"Finally, I was starting to think you were never gonna wake up, sleepy head," Rikku said as I walked out into the afternoon sun. I looked at my watch and figured out I had slept for 15 hours, because it was now 1:00 PM. "Hey how long have we been near the land,"I asked Rikku who just shrugged. "We're nearing the entance to the Moonflow that we have to use, it's pretty close to the area that operation Mi'hen is taking place," she said and I realized that the operation would probably start very soon. "You sure we should get near there, I mean Sin is pretty dangerous and we're only two people and some machina," I said trying to explain why we shouldn't go near the operation. Rikku gave me a funny look, then she asked, "Are you scared?" I stiffened at this, "No, of course not, I'm just not exactly looking forward to being near Sin, again," I had added the again remembering that I had used the Sin's toxin excuse. Rikku gave me an understanding nod then said, "Don't worry, I bet Sin will be long gone before we get there." I sat down trying to relax but I just wanted to yell out everything, where I came from, the operation, and just everything. I managed to keep my mouth shut till we came up to a large open area which I instantly recognised the place, It was large indent of land on Mushroom Rock road where the operation was to happen.

"See, no Sin," Rikku said seeming very happy, until she saw my face, "what, what is it?" I knew exactly what was about to happen since I could see that the sinspawn was in it's cage still. I was right, Rikku and me both sat there as Sin surfaced from the Sea only a few hundred feet away. Then I saw Sin "molt" away it outer skin and the shockwave that was to follow. "Get down," I yelled to Rikku diving into her machina pushing her down ahead of me and closing the hatch behind us. I was just in time because just as it closed everything shook, Rikku almost fell but I caught her since I had been holding on to the door I had not lost my balance. Then I brought Rikku closer to me, holding her close so that she would not fall again. We waited till the shaking subsided. I let out a sigh of relief and then, "Umm, Chris... could you let go of me now," Rikku said making my cheeks burn as I released her. Ack, stop blushing fool I thought mentaly hitting myself in the head.

Rikku went out first with me closely behind her. Unfortunately we came up just in time to see Sin destroy the large "cannon" tower that the Al Bhed had tryed to use against Sin. I was sure that Rikku had known that there were Al Bhed in and all around that tower. I was right, because when I looked over at Rikku there were tears forming in her eyes. This time Rikku grabbed me and began hugging me tightly with her face buried in my shoulder. I could feel the shoulder of my kimono dampen with her tears and all I could do was hold her and try and comfort her.

Done another chapter. Yea i'd like to apoligize for lying about the writer's block but oh well I wrote the next chapter to make up for it. Please review.

I would have wrote a little more but it seems long enough and plus I'm listening to some happy music right now so I really can't write sad sappy stuff right now. sorry