To those of you reading this story in its entirety, I wish to give you a heads up for the last two chapters. I may have need to borrow a little bit of the story from Advent Children to make the story work the way I want it to, of course the portion I borrow will be slightly tweaked, so if anyone has a problem with it I am sorry but it is the only way I can make it work.

Chapter 21: Getting Prepared

The Next Morning:

Cloud and the others wake up to find a very disturbing sight.

"Whoa, guys will you look at that it's like there is an eclipse or something happening, everything is dark."

"Oh no, this means we have 12 hours before Meteor hits Zero Barrier, a.k.a. Meteor's point of no return. If we don't stop Sephiroth within those 12 hours it will take more than beating him and destroying his machine to stop Meteor."

Squall stepped up to the edge of the Lookout observing the darkness spreading over the sky, "Well then I guess we better gear up" he looked at the Z-Fighters, "Uh those of us who need to gear up."

"I have materia for anyone who needs it, but remember I have to face Sephiroth alone."

Chris was staring at Cloud wondering, "What is wrong with this guy, I mean from what I can tell Sephiroth is way outta his league why does he want to face him alone?" While out loud he was saying, "Sure man whatever floats your boat."

"Sephiroth is my problem I have to deal with him."

"Whoa I didn't mean anything against you, man."

So all the FF characters got geared up. Chris with his sword (and I don't mean that Chris is a Final Fantasy character, this is just the way it came out) grabbed out the Bahamut ZERO materia from Cloud's box of materia, while Squall and Rinoa and the rest of the FF VIII gang just stared at the materia dumbfounded.

"How do you use this?" Squall was trying to use the Fire materia (only he didn't know it was fire) flailing it around wildly, "It doesn't seem to be working."

"Watch it Squall your going to burn someone's eyes out with that."

"Sorry but I can't seem to get it to work."

"So how do you guys utilize magic anyway?"

"Well we utilize magic through the GF, which I guess is like your summon material except the GF basically live in our heads, in a way, and help to boost our power in battle as well as allow us to use magic."

"Ok so you basically learn magic instead of borrowing it. Let me think for a minute."

Cloud went into deep though for about 5 minutes. Then finally he lifted his head and said, "Okay, I have an idea what if I transfer the abilities stored in the materia you want directly into your mind, then you just have to focus on what you want and where you want it to happen?"

"I guess that sounds ok."

"Okay then just tell me which ones you want and I'll take care of it pronto."

Rinoa decided first, "I guess I'll take the summon known as Kjata."

"Okay then close your eyes and empty your mind of all thoughts, here goes."

Cloud held the Kjata materia in one hand and put his other hand on Rinoa's forehead and concentrated on the material while a glow enveloped him and Rinoa. After the glow disappeared Cloud had Rinoa try it out.

After concentrating for about a second a big flash of light appeared out of nowhere and afterwards a gigantic bull with six eyes stood before them.

"Yeah it worked, how do you like that Squall?"

"That was awesome Rinoa, hey Cloud do you have one that will boost the strength of my magic?"

"I have just the ticket, okay same routine for you, close you eyes and empty your mind."

So Cloud did the same thing as before and then he repeated the process for Irvine, but no one else wanted anymore abilities. But Irvine chose to have all the enemy skills.

"Ok is everyone ready."

"We're as ready as we'll ever be you puny human."

"Oh come on Vegeta just have fun with it."

And Vegeta started flying away with a sour look on his face while the FF characters and Chris boarded the Ragnarok.

Well we are almost there just hang tight and I'll have the rest completed in no time.