A/N: Miyavi is so awesome. Go to youtube and check him out. He's amazing. Anyways, what happened again…? Oh yeah! Laura and Brandon were captured, as well as maybe Yuffie. And we all know Leon's behind it. But wait! This is supposed to be a Squffie. Oh well, you'll see. Riku, Peter, and Kairi teeter on the brink of destruction. And where's Wendy? Is Sora safe? You'll see.
Angelicxox: You really liked it? Thanks! I always did write better stories when it was on paper. You'll see what happens to our heroes. No worries.
Kairiku Aura: Will do! It's pretty funny actually…do you know that Japanese singer/guitarist named Miyavi?
Li the Twilight Knight: Oh, yeah, he's dead. After all, I wrote a whole story to make him dead. I don't wanna go through that again. And yeah, it's Ansem…Yeah, I hate Tifa, she's a bitch. And yeah, they're shooting up a school. It's all part of their master plan.
Padfoot: Yep, Peter. And who says I can't put Tink in there? I so can! Oops, I mean you'll see. Anyways, you mean Brandon's eye thing? Well, you see…it was Sephiroth's mark on him that said he was soooo gonna kick his ass. But Brandon ended up kicking his ass…well, it's a matter of honor. Brandon became his top target with the glowing eyes. It came through the virtual reality helmet. Since it makes you see virtual reality stuff, I think in the future they'll be able to do stuff like that to your eyes suing those things.
Chapter Five
Leon hacked into the school's computers to watch the progress of his SeeD. The girl he'd seen on several occasions was already captured. Too easy. But one silver-haired kid, a guy with a green cap, and a short, frail-looking girl were walking down the halls dangerously near the soldiers, armed only with one gun. They wouldn't last.
One kid was missing, a boy named Sora, but it didn't matter. Not really. He'd looked up the boy's file and had seen nothing in it that his SeeD couldn't handle. The boy could keep his life. For now, anyways.
"How are the prisoners?" Leon asked when he heard footsteps approach from behind. A camera focused on him showed who it was in the third screen Leon viewed. It was a soldier of low station. The footsteps stopped, and he heard scuffling as the man saluted Leon's back.
"We patched him up and chained him securely in his cell, sir!" the man announced. "As for the girl, the doctors highly doubt that she will wake up anytime soon."
"Very well. Go."
The man bowed at the waist and then took off for the exit.
Leon wondered how long his boss would allow the two to live. He sighed and tried to get back to work. It was hard to focus when his boss's yellow eyes appeared on the back of his lids every time he closed his eyes. "Ansem," he said in a voice filled with hate.
(elsewhere)
Yuffie strained to tear a safety pin off her short shorts and grinned as she picked at her handcuffs. She had practiced picking locks and handcuffs a lot, just in case something like this might happen. Her wrists and fingers strained nearly to the breaking point and far past most could even manage, but she actually got them off.
Rubbing her wrists and resisting a cheer at her newfound freedom, she looked about. They'd left her in a small room and locked the door, thinking that and binding her would stop her escape.
"They obviously underestimate the Great and Amazing Yuffie Kisaragi!" she announced while taking a pose. Then she took a step towards the door. It turned into a dive for the table when the door swung open. "Crap!"
"Yuffie? Was that you? It's me, Wendy."
The teen peeked out from under her hiding place and grinned, showing her safety pin. "I, uh, dropped it, and…" She trailed off. "Well, it's good to see you safe and sound, Wendy. How's third period theatre going?"
Wendy smiled. "It's going quite well. I got the lead role in our new play. Well, shall we? No time to be dawdling…"
Yuffie nodded and strolled out of the room as if she hadn't been locked in by force just a minute ago. "I say we go that way!" She pointed right.
"The gymnasium is that way. The enemy came in there first and secured it, I've heard. We should go left," Wendy corrected.
"R-right," Yuffie said, rattled. "I was just testing you, you know? You pass. Now let's go for it."
(with Riku and the others, twenty minutes after)
Riku held his arm and peeked around the doorway. He quickly jerked his head back, and several bullets showed the spot his face had been only seconds before. He sighed, leaning back against the wall.
"You okay?" Peter asked, eyeing the blood.
Riku nodded, but Kairi didn't believe him. She made him remove his hand.
"The bullet's still in there, Riku. I think the pain is making your aim bad," Kairi said. "Maybe Peter should have the gun." She looked up into his eyes.
Finally, Riku tossed him his gun. "Fine. Don't miss."
Peter caught it and quickly shot around the doorway. "What we need is more guns. Hey, I took one down!"
"Only fifty more to go," Kairi said, sighing and feeling like this whole resistance was hopeless.
"Wait, you're right!" Riku said.
"There's only seven of them," Peter replied, ducking back.
"No, I mean you. We need more guns, and we took a guy out a few feet from the door," he told them, his eyes wide and calculating.
Kairi didn't like that look. Neither did Peter apparently. "You don't mean—" he began to say.
"No, Riku!" Kairi shouted over the gunfire.
Before they could stop him, he shot out of the room and raced for the unconscious target. Several bullets barely missed as he sped towards the man's gun. He was on the track team for nothing, after all.
A smirk appeared on his face as he dove for the gun. His fingers brushed it, and he felt invincible.
Two bullets hit. His eyes widened even further, and he rolled, slamming into the lockers in the wall. But he still had the gun.
Peter hopped out of the room to draw their attention like before, firing away. He cried out when a bullet found his chest.
Riku gasped in pain and rolled back over on his stomach, firing away. Despite their efforts, only three had gone down. Even so, four was a far less intimidating number than seven…
Gunshots from down the hall distracted them. Kairi looked up, afraid of enemy reinforcements. When she saw the police running towards them, she sighed and slumped in relief.
"Can you get up?" a female officer asked. Riku, who immediately forced himself to his feet, fell against the lockers and smearing blood on the blue paint. "Come on, then. I'll get you out of here."
Leaving her comrades to fight the battle, she helped Riku walk along, Kairi and Peter following closely behind.
"We have the right side of the school secured. Several ambulances are ready. It's not far from here," she told them, handing her extra gun to Kairi.
"Riku, will you be okay?" Kairi asked, trembling slightly.
The boy merely nodded, his eyes unfocused.
"And you, Peter?"
Gripping his chest tightly, he nodded. "It'll take more than that to take me down, Kairi!" he said confidently. "Hey, officer…do you think my friend Wendy will be outside, too?" He looked at the woman.
"We've evacuated several students. It's very likely."
The police officer suddenly fired ahead, taking out three guys in quick succession. Riku, who was trying to regain himself, whistled appreciatively. "You're pretty good."
"Thanks. It comes with practice," she said with a grim smile. Riku's expression clearly stated that he doubted any of the officers he knew ever got in any "practice", but he held his tongue for once.
Finally, they came down a hall and light shone through the windows in doors…to the outside. Kairi almost bolted for freedom. Then someone blocked out the light.
The officer raised her gun. "If you're a student or work in the school, come with us outside. If you're not, turn yourself in."
The hooded man's reply was to shoot at them several times. Peter shoved Kairi out of the way and dropped to his knees, shooting all the way down.
The one Peter got in and the five the officer shot didn't even make him flinch. He was wearing body armor. Luckily, so was their officer, and she was the one he focused on, since she was their strongest.
Riku, on the other hand, couldn't raise his gun. He strained but only got the bullet to hit the ground a foot from the enemy's feet before his arm just completely gave in. But, by the look on his face, he hadn't done the same.
The officer suddenly dropped to one knee, her leg bloody. She grunted in pain and aimed. That was her first miss. It went an inch from the enemies head. She dropped Riku.
"Oh no," Kairi said, her voice muffled behind her hand. "Riku!" She rushed forward as the enemy aimed to finish him for good. "No!"
Several shots went off. Kairi grabbed his shoulder. She clenched her eyes shut…
…And felt nothing.
Kairi looked up in wonder to see a grinning Yuffie walk down the hall towards them, her gun spinning around her fingers. The enemy hit the ground. "Another enemy falls to the Great Yuffie!"
"Yuffie?" Riku asked, surprised.
"Didn't I just say that?" she asked, teasing.
"Wendy!" Peter struggled to his feet and ran as well as he could to her. They hugged despite the blood.
"Peter! Are you all right?" Wendy looked at his wound.
"I'm fine. I'm so glad you're okay."
Yuffie gave them a wide birth and skipped over to Kairi and Riku. She glanced back at the kissing couple and then looked at the two on the ground. "Wow! Looks like Peter and Jane aren't the only ones in love…"
Riku gave her a dubious look and glanced at Kairi in question. In all the chaos, when she'd tried to save him, he'd actually hugged her in order to protect her. Neither had moved. Riku grinned, but Kairi blushed and pushed herself back.
"I, um…I didn't see Sora today. Please tell me he's home," she said, looking up an inch at Yuffie.
Oh, Riku thought, so he's why.
"Yep. He's sick. Poor dude," Yuffie said. The two just stared at her.
The officer ran a hand through her blond hair and then put it back up in a bun. "You guys were great. What do you say we get out of here?"
"Sounds like a plan," Riku said. "You two, stop sucking face. Let's go."
"Right!" Yuffie cheered. "Yuffie the Great's team succeeded, as per usual, of course."
"Your team?" Kairi asked, actually laughing.
"Of course!" Yuffie looked at the officer, her brows furrowed. "And what's your name, officer-lady?"
"Officer Tink. Of course, you can call me Rebecca."
"Now that we know your name, does that make you one of us, Tink?" Peter asked, grinning.
Tink merely smiled. "Sure. Now come on. Let's get you heroes home."
(enemy meeting)
In the darkness, several people conversed. "We need someone on the inside," a tan, snake-like man hissed. "We need a rat to burrow in their little hole and trap them…so they can be crushed."
"Nonsense!" a really fat, pale man said, laughing. "My guys can get them if Leon would just get out of the way. He's just weak."
"Then why not get Ansem to send him in after the little brats?" a chubby woman with white hair and gray skin said. "If he fails, at least he won't be able to boss us around anymore." She chucked cruelly. ((My God…half of them are fat. I think Disney is trying to tell us that eating is eViL. Or something along those lines.))
"So we're all in agreement?" a bored man with spiked blue hair asked, looking about. Everyone nodded. "Fine, but I'm not telling Leon."
A woman as chubby as the others patted her black hair in its bun. "I'll just get one of my guards to do it. They're expendable."
"Leon dislikes cowardice," a woman said, stepping out of the room's darkest shadows. "I am already in his favor for retrieving one of them and sending my men after the second. Now we have both of them in our prison. He will listen to what I have to say." None of them would meet her eyes.
"Then that is how it will be," said a man with an English accent. He looked and purred like a feline predator. "Maleficent."
"We will not fall like that fool Hook as long as you follow my plans." She turned and left them.
A/N: Well, now, most of them got out fine, but there are still tons of SeeD soldiers still out there, ready to swarm in and destroy them. And where are Cloud and Aeris? Together? Will they survive. Well, you know how cruel Ansem can be…and how cruel I can be...Nonetheless…