Well I'll respond to the review I got on Chapter 1.

FFfreak 123: thanks for the review I do the best I can.

Also I have a correction to the characters being used in this story: Because of the timeline I am using, Captain Grey will not be appearing in this fanfiction.

Now on to Chapter 2

Chapter 2: The Growing Power

In the Spirits Within universe Aki Ross and Doctor Cid have been back at the Old/New New York working with many teams to rebuild both the old city which had been there before the barriers as well as the city that had been under the barrier until the General had decided to force the councils decision. They had been at it for about a week since they vanquished the Phantoms with the opposing Bio-etheric energy wave.

Little did they know that when the Phantoms and their Gaia had been cancelled out, they had been sent to the Zero World.

One day Doctor Cid and Aki decided to revisit the Leonid Meteor Crater to say goodbye for the final time to Captain Grey who had been Aki's lover, and who had given up his life in order to save Aki and Gaia, the spirit of the planet. When they arrived, oddly enough there was still a small beam of light at the center of the crater.

"Look Doctor Cid what do you think that could be? I thought the dissipating Phantom energy had completely dissolved by now."

"My dear I don't believe that is energy left over from the Phantoms. It appears to be a portal that may have been opened by the two opposing bio-etheric waves colliding. It may lead to wherever the Phantom energy dissipated, or it could lead somewhere completely different."

"Well then we should check it out Cid, if not for us then for anyone else who may come here and discover this portal."

"I don't think that's a good idea Aki, we don't even know where it will take us, if anywhere."

"Oh, come on Cid where is your sense of adventure?"

"I think I left it back in New York."

Just then as their back were facing the portal, a great wind kicked up and began pushing them towards the portal.

"Doctor Cid I think something is pulling us into the portal, it feels as if someone just turned on a vacuum."

"Hold on Aki it looks like we are being forced to go through."

As they both lost their grip on the ground they flew through the portal into another world. (The Final Fantasy 9 world to be precise).

Meanwhile in the Zero World:

We enter with Kuja immobilized by Necron's incredible power, as well as the Phantoms and their Gaia contained in a sphere of energy.

"Well Kuja are you ready to become a part of me and these creatures," he motioned to the Phantoms, "and give me the power I need to defeat Zidane and plunge this universe into the Zero World?"

"What makes you think that I would be reeeaaaaa…?"

As Kuja was attempting to insult Necron he was suddenly sent flying into Necron along with the Phantoms. As soon as Kuja and the Phantoms touched Necron they began to merge. Tremendous waves of energy blasted out as their powers merged.

Back on Gaia(FF9 world):

Zidane was in the middle of a romantic dinner with Garnet, when all of a sudden he caught a blast of energy through his entire body. He went rigid, his hair stood on end, and his tail went erect.

"Zidane what's the matter?" asked Garnet.

"I just felt this tremendous blast of energy from somewhere outside our own world."

"What could it be?"

"I don't know, it couldn't be Kuja, but I intend on finding out."