1Chapter 24:The Final Preparations

Down the Right Path:(yet again)

"Mommy, I'm scared," this coming from Little Billy, "Make it go away Mommy."

Billy rushed over to Selphie who enveloped him in her arms.

"Don't worry baby, Mommy's here."

As Selphie cradled (I don't mean that she is actually carrying him like a little baby, remember Billy is like six years old now) Billy in her arms Chris, Gohan and Quistis rushed to meet Diamond Weapon.

Unfortunately Diamond got in the first hit. He(I'm referring to Diamond as 'he' just as a simple way to describe it during the battle, plus I am unsure whether it is a he or a she) immediately fired his Diamond Beam causing the three fighters to scatter in order to avoid the blast. The fighters regained their wits and prepared for a counterattack. Chris charged at Diamond at full speed, first slashing at its right leg and then its left leg. After this attack he looked back at Diamond and noticed that it hadn't even flinched.

Next it was Gohan's turn. Gohan flew above Diamond and began firing small Ki blasts at its face, when they didn't seem to be having much effect Gohan gave up the small Ki blasts and flew back down to the ground.

"It seems that this foe is similar to that Tonberry. My Ki blasts are having little or no effect on it."

"Yeah I know, my attacks didn't even make it flinch. I think We're going to have to hit it with more powerful attacks and magic."

"If you don't mind," this coming from Quistis, "maybe I can show you 'men' how this is done."

"By all means, be my guest."

Instead of rushing at Diamond headlong the way Chris and Gohan had she stood her ground and cast Aura on herself then she gathered her energies and prepared one of her limit breaks. As she screamed out "Shockwave Pulsar!" Diamond was encircled by a purple sphere of light and lifted up into portal where he was teleported to another dimension so that the ensuing blast wouldn't harm anyone else the sphere holding him dissipated and following this the sun-like source of light went into a supernova and an enormous blast ensued. When Diamond re-emerged from the other dimension he could be seen flinching from the intensity of the attack.

"Alright, way to go Quistis. Okay Gohan lets follow Quistis' example. I'll summon Bahamut-ZERO while you blast him with your Super Kamehameha attack and he should be pretty weak after that."

"Okay I'll charge my attack and fire it as soon as your attack hits."

"Sounds like a plan."

So Chris focused his thoughts into the red materia he had borrowed from Cloud and as he did it could be seen above ground that a tremendous dragon with six wings had appeared directly above the crater.

"Okay guys stay as far away from it as possible this will be a powerful attack."

As he said this Gohan was over in a corner high above Diamond charging up his attack. While above ground Bahamut-ZERO spread out his wings and took aim so that his attack would not hit anything but Diamond. Then once he had taken aim he opened his mouth and began to charge up his energy blast. When he finished charging his attack he fired. An energy lance traveled from Bahamut-ZERO's mouth and went zooming down through the crater aimed perfectly so that it didn't hit even the tiniest outcropping of rock and not stopping until it hit Diamond creating an energy well around Diamond followed by a burst of energy around Diamond.

As soon as Gohan saw this blast he fired his Super Kamehameha Beam. After being fired it streaked away and collided with Bahamut's attack causing an even bigger blast. The ensuing blast became so bright everyone was forced to cover their eyes until the blast receded. When the dust cleared it appeared that Diamond was on the verge of death.

"Alright guys that was great. Now all we need do is finish him."

"I'll take that honor," said Selphie, "I've got just the move to do the trick."

With that being said Selphie used her limit break to cast a random spell which just happened to be The Rapture. As she was casting this spell angel wings appeared on Diamond's back which lifted him up into the great beyond.

"See I told I had it covered."

"Well done Selphie, that was awesome. Now we just need to take out that machine, that is after we remove the black materia from it."

Chris went down into the crater and removed the Black Materia from the machine. Then just as he was about to slice the machine to pieces Little Billy spoke up.

"I want to destwoy da machine."

"Ok little dude go right ahead."

So Billy took out the shotgun his father had given him, aimed it, and fired rigfht into the heart of the machine which then blew up in a tiny fireball.

"Great shot baby, you are more and more your fathers' son every passing day. I'm so proud of you."

"Yeah that was a great shot man."

"Well I guess our job here is done, let's go see if the others need any help."

Meanwhile down the left path:

"Well I'm glad we're done with that. Those monsters took forever to get rid of."

"Oh come on it wasn't that hard."

"Yeah, whatever man let's just get going."

"Okay but first we better heal up. If Sephiroth has done what I'm sure he has done the upcoming battle will be quite a doozy.

"Okay but I ain't sittin here for for then five minutes."

"Fine by me it shouldn't take that long anyway."

So they went about getting healed up, Cloud went around using Cure on the Final Fantasy characters while Goku and Vegeta simply ate a Sensu Bean. Just when everybody was ready to go, wouldn't you know it, a problem arose.

"Guys," said Goku, "I'm hungry."

boy what a way to end the chapter. I bet you all are dying to read how this all ends. Well don't despair coming up next...the final chapter.