Chapter 5: Zone in.

Carbuncle wondered around aimlessly though the still unfamiliar halls of the Garden, Zell was somewhere around though Carbuncle wasn't sure were, and Bahamut was out training in an attempt to regain the time lost while recovering. Carbuncle didn't feel like going with either one of them at the moment, he wasn't completely helpless after losing his memory and he needed to start showing that.

In away, a very small way, it was almost liberating. He had a distinct feeling that he'd seen some horrible things, that he felt some horrible things, knew things he didn't want to remember before in his life. Now he didn't...Carbuncle sighed, at least that's what he'd been telling himself, but honestly that's not the way he felt. He couldn't count how many moments in the day he spent trying to remember anything at all, but it just wasn't there anymore.

He didn't know where he was, or who all of these people were, he just figured it was time for him to find out. Luckily he'd decided to do this between classes so there weren't so many people around, though the ones that were still around or not in class were giving him some questioning looks. It was unnerving, but Carbuncle still forced himself to go through with this, he had to eventually.

"Uh...where am I?" Carbuncle looked the confusing circle of hallways, feeling himself getting dizzy. "Ok...infirmary...uh...what's that place...which way did I come from? Ah damnit! I'm so confused." He held his paws over his head and scowled to himself internally.

"Aren't you a GF!"

'Huh?' Carbuncle turned around questioningly at the sudden outburst. "?" A boy was behind him with a finger a outstretched toward and in a ready stance, dressed in school uniform he looked as if he was a junior classmen. "What?"

"Carbuncle." The boy said surely, he had short white hair and blue eyes, looking about 15 years old and just a foot shorter then Zell. Except for the hair he almost reminded Carbuncle of him. "I knew I'd recognize a GF like you."

Carbuncle didn't remember this person, of course it wasn't surprising since he didn't remember much of anything. "Uh...do I know you? Well I guess I should ask did I know you?"

"Did I know you? What do you mean?" The boy asked.

"If I forgot you I'm sorry, I lost my memory...Uh, what's this place called?" Carbuncle surveyed his surroundings with the hope that one last look or at lest a name would trigger a memory of direction since he was lost and had no idea how to get back to Zell's room.

The boy thought about it for a moment, a GF wondering around the Garden with no memory, particularly a strong one that wasn't attacking him or even knew he was looking for a fight. 'Maybe this is the mystery GF I've been hearing about...but I was told it's only seen at night and it's big and...Carbuncle is strong...it'll work just fine.' An idea was forming in the boy's head... "I...can't believe you don't remember me."

Carbuncle lowered his head and looked at the ground, he remembered that look on Nida's face and that brought up a particularly depressing feeling in him. He felt the same one now, only it was only half as bad at most. "Sorry...who are you?"

"My name is..." The boy paused 'Think of a name...think of a name!' "--Alex." The student deemed Alex knelt down next to Carbuncle "Well it's alright I guess." He smiled "This must be harder for you then it is for me, I couldn't imagine what it would be like not to remember anything any anybody at all."

"I remember a few things, some of them clearly." Carbuncle said.

"Really?" Alex looked down on him interestedly "Like what?"

"There's the boy, his name is Zell. I remember that I've been with him...but I can't remember for how long or anything about him besides his name. And a dragon named Bahamut, I know I've been with him too.--"

'Zell?' Now things started to make since 'Zell, the same guy who helped defeat the sorceress. Then this must be his GF, and a Dragon? That must be another one of Zell's GFs. Great, if he remembers him then there's no chance and I really could have used something like Carbuncle...No, there has to be away.' "How far back do you remember?"

"A few days."

"So...you don't remember anything about us." Alex dropped his head and sighed disappointedly.

"I'm sorry." Carbuncle was feeling worse and worse by the minute... "Could you tell me about it?"

"Well, it's better then losing you completely, and I guess that I can tell you everything I remember about you and I." Alex said decidedly "Do you even know where you are?"

"No."

"Then I'll show you around, I'll teach you everything I know!" Alex said excitedly, the prospect of mentoring someone, teaching someone something was appealing to him. He was actually looking forward to it.

"Really?" Carbuncle looked up.

"Sure!"

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"Maybe it's a transport train." Cho speculated, watching from atop the wreckage of their former train which was now 2 cars deep into Obel Lake and scorched on most parts internally. "Shipping supplies or something like that."

"That's a possibility." Nida agreed.

"No, that's not it." Matthew said, watching the train now only about 200 feet away with anticipation. They could see and hear it clearly now, they could also see and hear the brakes being engaged. "It's stopping, It must be him."

"Him?" Seifer inquired "Who would him be?"

The train came to a stop right before them, both Cho and Nida turned and looked on carefully, Seifer didn't move from his spot on the ground and Shadow seemed reasonably interested. "That can only be one person." Matthew said with a smile. A small bit of smoke rose from the top of the lead car as a door on the second car slid open. A man with a short sleeved white shirt, blue shorts with short and spiky blue hair emerged from the inside, green eyes scanning over the group. "Zone."

Zone jumped out, running over to Matthew and crouching down next to him. "Matt! What happened!"

"Who is this guy?" Seifer asked, who ever it was came from the direction of Timber, and he could give them a ride back so he could be done with this whole thing. "You know him?"

Zone looked at Matthew and then at around at Cho, Nida, Seifer and Shadow, "You guys must be the SeeDs, what happened here?"

"Well, those other guys came after me." Matthew said "It was really strange, that train was full of passengers, and they all disappeared suddenly. That's when those other guys came, but they protected me."

Zone nodded, staring over Matthew's shoulder at the wreaked train behind him. "Wow, what did those---! Owwwwww!" Zone cringed and fell over, clinching his stomach tightly. "Owwww!"

"Are, you ok?" Nida jumped down from the train, running over to the fallen Zone.

"Don't worry about him." A second man climbed down from the train's interior, a green jacket and a hat covering black hair. "Stomach cramp, it happens sometimes."

"That's a stomach cramp?" Seifer lifted his head and looked over the man "If that's a cramp what does a headache look like?"

"Seifer." Nida shot him back a look, Seifer lifted his hands in surrender and turned away. "You two know Matthew?"

"Yes." The second man nodded "I'm Watts and this is Zone." Watts indicated Zone still on the ground.

"Hey wait!" With sudden realization Cho jumped down from the wreak and ran over to Watts and Zone, "I remember you." Cho pointed to Zone "And I've heard of you guys, Timber Owls right?"

"That's right." Zone stood up from the ground, dusting himself off. "I remember you too! Your the punk who cheated me out of my money when I came to that Chocobo forest." During his escape from Timber with Watts 4 years ago, their trip involved stopping at a Chocobo forest, where Cho proceed to scam the unwitting Zone out of a good amount of money.

"You were the one who toped off my funds, thanks." Cho snickered, lifting his arms casually behind his head and looking towards the lake innocently. He muttered silently "Sucker."

"Why you little--!" Zone ran at Cho, but was quickly grabbed by Nida and Watts.

"Easy sir, he's just a kid." Watts planted his feet in the ground and pulled back sharply, halting Zone completely.

"Cho!" Nida shouted in a chastising voice.

"Sorry, I couldn't resist." Cho apologized. "If it makes you feel better, that money helped me get into Balamb Garden. I'm a SeeD now."

Zone sighed and stopped "I guess it doesn't matter now, since you did help Matthew out." Seeing that Zone was calm, Nida and Watts let the man go.

"Uh Zone..." Matthew walked up to the man, holding his head almost disappointedly. "I failed."

"Failed?" Zone asked. "What do you mean failed? Your here, alive."

"But the package was destroyed." Matthew continued to avert Zone's gaze. "Everything we worked so hard for is gone, I should have been more careful."

Zone rubbed the boy's hair roughly, "Don't worry about it! We'll just get the other one." He said with a confident smirk.

"What?" Watts peered over to Zone's shoulder unsurely "Uh, sir...Is that a good idea?"

"We did it once, we can do it again."

"We barely managed to pull it off last time, you almost died!"

"I'm alive, I'm still standing aren't I." Zone announced in a cocky manner.

"Barely." Matthew hid the word with a cough then cleared his throat "So we're really going to do this?"

"Hold on, wait, wait." Seifer used his sword to pull himself on to his feet, "What are you guys talking about?"

Watts clinched the hand on his head to keep it from being blown away during a sudden breeze, "Unfortunately, we have to go back to Deling."

"Deling?" Seifer glanced at the three, Matthew particularly. "We're only suppose to get this kid to Timber, no one said anything about Deling."

Matthew nodded "This is the only way we're going to be able to replace that package. Looks like you guys are going along for the ride."

Nida and Seifer glanced at each other, then turned to Cho, the three of them convened by the weakage next to Shadow. "What's next o'fearless leader?" Seifer asked.

Nida rolled his eyes "You really hate not being in charge huh?"

"Almost as much as I hate taking orders, you didn't answer the question."

"I say we do it." Cho said energetically "Look how much happened already, I wanna find out who those people were."

Nida turned to his other teammate "What do you say Seifer?"

Seifer snorted "Why are you asking me, your the guy in charge."

'Oh, he seriously doesn't like being a subordinate to his peers...' Nida shook his head, "The only way I can have an effective team is if every one...or at lest the majority agrees with choices like this."

"Do we really have a choice in this?"

"Well not really, but technically..." Nida didn't want to go into detail about this. "So should we do this?"

Seifer nodded. "I say we go for it."

"Hey, SeeD huddle!" Zone came in behind Nida and Cho, looking over the three "You guys coming or what?"

"Yes, but you understand that we're only protecting Matthew right?" Nida was obligated to make that clear.

"He's the one that needs protecting..." Zone's voice trailed off, then he abruptly crouched down "Owwww! Cramp!"

Seifer rolled his eyes 'You have to be kidding me.'

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"No way, you have to be lying." Carbuncle laughed hard and shook his head in disbelief, "Hahhaha--Stop, I can't breathe--Hahhaha."

"I'm not." Alex said, rubbing the back of his head. Telling stories off the top of his head was harder then he thought it would be at first, so he started taking things that had actually happened to him and adding Carbuncle. It turned out to be embarrassing, very embarrassing. "Humph!" Alex turned away and folded his arms angrily.

"Aww, don't be like that." Carbuncle stifled the rest of his laugher, jumping off the empty stage set up in the quad, "It was funny, admit it."

Alex glanced back at him, "Yeah right." He sighed in defeat, pushing himself back on to the stage. "That was not funny."

"Lighten up." Carbuncle nudged Alex's leg, "Come on, tell me more."

"Alright, where did a leave off." Alex looked up at the ceiling, trying to think of something else to say. "Do you remember how to fight, any of your moves?"

"I not sure how much of it I remember but I know a few Shields. Elementals and stuff like that."

'Great, he remembers! I really can use him them.' Alex smiled inwardly, this was all going to be all worth it. 'And he's actually going for it!...Huh?' "Did you feel something?"

"Is...this place moving?" Carbuncle rose on his heals uneasily. "Is this place supposed to be moving?"

"Oh yeah, me must be pulling out of FH..." Alex saw the confused look on Carbuncle's face "I'll explain."

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"I see you guys have a dog." Zone knelt down next to a glaring Shadow, reaching out to rub his head.

"Uh, Zone, I wouldn't do that if I were you...he might uh...bite you or something" Matthew warned, looking around the familiar interior of the train as if to make sure it was all there.

"It's alright, I'm good with dogs." Zone said "He won't bite me. See, watch." Zone laid his hand between Shadow's ears, making Shadow's glare intensify.

"I'm not a dog, and if you call me that again I will bite you." Shadow growled.

Zone jumped back "It-It talks! What is that thing!"

Shadow looked away, laying his head on his paws and turning his eyes toward the wall.

"I see you met Shadow." Cho walked into the room after taking a look around the Timber Owl's headquarters, he saw Zone's little reaction. "Don't feel to bad, your not good with Chocobo either."

"You little--"

"Sir, I think we should start working on a plan." Watts interrupted. "Like How we're going to get past this train wreak."

Zone snorted and looked away from Cho "Yeah." He nodded, lifting his hand to his chin "I got it! We ram though it, simple. This baby's got enough tork to push two measly train cars out of the way."

"That's genius sir! I'll get right on it." Watts called back, heading for the lead car.

'!' Zone cringed suddenly and crouched down against the wall "Owwww!"

'This guy can't be serious.' Cho shook his head and sat down on the steps, waiting with his head tilted toward the window. There was a small vibration when the locomotive started to move, clearly by Watt's influence, Cho leaned back, resting his elbows and back on the stair behind him. 'I wonder how long this is going to take, maybe I can take a nap...' The thought of continuing his previous sleep seemed feasible, and so inviting that he didn't even move. He just laid his head back and closed his eyes.

There was a small vibration and grinding sound that followed, Cho figured it was Watts pushing against the train...

"Great! It's working." Zone pressed his hands against the wall and looked out the window, turning his head far enough to see the train pushing through their barricade. "We can get moving then."

Seifer jumped over Cho from the top of the stairs in haste "Hey Zone, we're about to have some serious problems." He kicked Cho in the leg, startling the boy into waking up. "Your guys just spotted something coming towards us."

Zone pulled back from the window "What? I'll be right there." Zone nodded and ran up the now clear steps into the next car, down the hall and into the first door where 3 men were sitting at technical and large processing equipment wall to wall in the small room. "What is it?"

The man sitting by the central wall at a large Mainframe that had 5 screens, on large one and 4 more to it's side, call Zone over. The second screen down was radar, apparent by the green background and sweeping hand going over beeping dots, which is the one the man pointed too. "We have 5 vehicles coming directly towards us, our radios picked up Galbadian air chatter."

"Galbadia." Zone scowled to himself, watching Nida, Seifer and Cho enter the room, followed by Matthew pushing his way through. "Matthew, go down into the strategy room."

"No way!" Matthew shouted "I'm sick of hiding! I want to fight!"

"Matthew this is no time for that!" Zone said firmly "Go now."

"No Zone! I'm not going to run away, I can fight them and you know I can!"

"That's not the point! Go!" Zone pointed toward the door and stood adamantly. Matthew scowled, glaring angrily at Zone before storming out of the room. Sure that the boy was gone completely, Zone slumped and sighed "That kid...Alright, you think we can outrun them?"

"Watts is going as fast as he can but they're gaining on us." A second man said "We have no choice but to head back toward Dollet, If we can reach that bridge half way then it will slow them down enough for us to get away...but I don't know if we can make it."

There was a small whistling sound, followed by an explosion that shook the whole train, they nearly fell to the ground. That was followed by the sound of something climbing up the walls from the out sides. "They're on top of us, you guys get out there and do something." Zone said, running past them, "I'll go help Watts...Owwww! Not now!"

"Seifer, Cho." Nida looked over at his teammates. "We don't have time to waste, are you ready?"

"I just have to get Shadow." Cho turned around and headed for where he left his GF behind, but Shadow was already behind him. "Good timing!"

"Something's happening, we're under attack." Shadow said, his eyes shifting to the wall where two large indents were made next to them. "I smell humans, and monsters."

"Monsters?" Seifer inquired. "They must really be after something if they're using monsters. We better get out there now before they rip this place apart."

"Ready Cho?" Shadow asked.

Cho nodded to Shadow "Yeah, let's junction."

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Nida pushed open the door, letting in a steady stream of strong wind, carefully he peeked outside. Behind them he could see 3 SUVs trailing, one was riding along side of them and Nida figured there was another in a similar position on the opposite side. More pressingly he saw a Grat crawling up the side of the train, one of many other monsters. Nida held on to a rail inside, holding a gun outward with his other and firing a shot into the creature's chest, it fell to the ground painfully. "Let's go, Cho, make sure you watch yourself up there, you could easily fall." Nida jumped upward and pulled himself up on to the roof of the train, Seifer lifted Cho up before climbing up himself.

The fact that the ground was curved and the wind blowing in their faces only served to push them backwards didn't seem so bad when they saw their enemies had the same problems. There were 5 cars on this train, they were standing on number two, meaning they had enemies to fight in front of them and behind. Behind them were two Galbadian soldiers in blue suits and a Death Claw, a large gray bear like creature with 4 large claws coming from it's shoulders and arms. In front of them, 2 Wendigos, bulky creatures that are ape like in shape though with out a face.

"You two take the back, you can't handle something as strong as them yet." Seifer faced forward, waiting until Cho and Nida turned around toward the enemy behind him. Seifer drew his gunblade back and rushed forward, slashing one of the creatures across the shoulder hard enough to draw substantial amounts of blood and knocking it back on the ground.

Nida lifted both guns and fired duel shots into the solider on the left, the man lifted the blade upward then swung it towards him in a fire spell counter, engulfing Nida's torso in a flash of up rising heat. Moving carefully, Cho ran forward toward the second man, drawing his rod back by his waist and thrusting it forward into the man's stomach. The man countered, bring his sword upward from the ground and slashing him across his chest, Cho stumbled back 'whoa!' he had to put his staff down and catch himself from falling off. Nida grabbed him by the arm and pulled him forward, gaining a nod of thanks from the boy.

Both Wendigos charged at Seifer, making the ground shake lightly in their wake, Seifer jumped to the side and avoided a fist coming at him from the left, but the Wendigo on the right landed a punch across his jaw. Seifer was knocked backwards, sliding down the curved surface toward the quickly passing ground behind them. "Ohh Shit!" Seifer lifted his clinched gunblade and drove it down into the metal ceiling, enough to catch himself just before it was too late.

"Are you ok back there?" Nida glanced back lightly, that split second lapse in awareness was enough for the Death Claw to rush forward and latch on to him with a tight Bear Hug that took full use of the 4 claws. Nida struggled and kicked, within a few seconds it was enough to free himself from blades digging into his back. Nida drove his shoulder into the bear, causing it to slip backwards and fall off the train. A simple strategy, Nida wasn't strong enough to beat it yet so just use his surroundings to do it for him.

Purple lights streamed out of the solider on the left, pulling 9 Fire spells out of the man, casting one. "Fire!" Cho held one arm out as a small flicker of light washed outward from his heals, flames rushed upward over the man's body, making him take a step backwards from the weak spell. 'This isn't so hard.'

'Cho, move to your left.' Shadow said

Cho jumped to his left without question, just barely avoiding the sword of a Galbadian solider. Two bullets flew over his head caused by Nida attacking, striking the man in the back and giving him that push needed to send him falling overboard. Almost immediately afterwords Cho felt a cringe in his head from Shadow getting his attention 'Cho! Get down now!' The GF yelled.

Cho dived to the ground, waiting for a few seconds without seeing any sign of a reason. He glanced to his left, then to his right "Why am I down here?" He asked, almost as if on que Gunfire was directed towards the three of them from a Glatting gun mounted on top of one the trailing vehicles on the ground bellow, particularly the one on the left side of the train. "Are these guys crazy?"

"No, they just want us out of the way." Nida charged forward, grabbing hold of the remaining guard and using him as a shield against the bullets sweeping over the train, then pushing him over afterwards. Nida and Seifer had to crouch down again while the Glatting gun took another sweep, this time hitting one of the Wendigos and forcing it overboard. "Seifer, we have to take those cars out or else we're dead."

"I know, Thundaga!" Seifer called out, sending a pillar of lighting raining down from the sky and striking the hood of the green SUV to their left, it was strong enough to cause the car to jump up slightly and lose speed, but it kept coming. "I'm not good with magic and attacking things from a distance. You and Shadow are going to have to do this Cho."

"Alright!" Cho began going through the process of summoning while Seifer and Nida waited, unfortunately the gun's fire was becoming more accurate and closer to hitting them with each sweep, Nida was hit in the arm. And at the rate Cho could summon and the strength of Seifer's magic...

Fortunately some help came and just in time. A grenade sailed through the air, bouncing off the attacking car's grill and exploding. It was strong enough to flip the machine over and leave it tumbling behind in a trail of dust. "Are you guys alright up there?" Zone called up from the train's interior.

"We are now." Cho said gratefully, right before the three of them faded away and Shadow took their place. His eyes were set on to the second Car falling on the train's right, getting ready to attack. Shadow rose on to his toes growling fiercely while a long blade more then twice the size of his body extended from his forehead. The wolf dived off the train, rolling through the air and slicing through the side of the vehicle with the blade, followed by an explosion just as Cho, Nida and Seifer reappeared.

2 of the 3 cars following behind the train pulled up along both sides of it and took the place of the previous 2.

"We'll let Zone handle what's on the ground, we still have 2 more cars to clear." Nida pulled himself off the ground, fighting against the wind as he ran forward on to the third car followed by Cho, who used him as a wind shield and Seifer. A Granaldo, a large dragon fly like monster, with it's usual pair of Armadodos, armadillo like creatures with a humped back covered with a green shell. "Cho, it's useless for you to try to reach the Granaldo, so focus on the monsters on the ground." Nida instructed, "you should be able to bait them into falling off the train if you try hard enough."

"Right." Cho nodded and got ready. Watching the Granaldo fly over the Armadodo on the left, drawing it's tail back and then slamming the creature forward. It curled into a ball, rolling forward towards Nida, slamming into his chest and knocking him to the ground. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah, those things hit hard so watch it."

Seifer pulled his gunblade back, running forward and slashing the same Armadodo across the head, killing it in one hit. Again the Granaldo flew over the remaining Armadodo, slamming it's tail into the monster and sending it rolling forward into Cho. "Uuuffff!" Cho hit the ground and nearly forcing him off the ceilings.

Zone ducked down, pressing his back against the wall and crouching his head while bullets from another Glatting gun on the train's east side tore through the windows and walls. "Owwww, not now!" Zone shouted, clinching his stomach from another sharp pain, he forced himself to fight through it. He drew another grenade from his inventory, peering his head over the broken window and throwing the grenade at the car to his left. But not before taking 2 shots in the stomach, effectively nullifying the previous pain with something even worse. '...!' He reached into his inventory and retrieved his last Hi-potion.

Watts was driving, doing his best to go faster, and the rest of his crew was trying to keep the damage to a minimum. So that left him on his own.

9 Streams of purple light were absorbed into Cho carrying Shell spells from the Granaldo. The Dragon Fly countered by flying head first into Seifer, who was strong enough to stay standing after merely being forced back a step. Nida aimed carefully, trying to get a lock on the Flying monster, his fairly bad aim caused him to miss one shot but the second one struck the creature in the back, the last attack needed to shoot it down once and for all.

"Nida...wait!" Cho called out, painting heavily, "I..-"

"Hold on kid I got you." Seifer dug around in his coat pocket until his hand emerged with a Hi-potion in his palm. He tossed it over to Cho, who drank it quick enough, causing him to cough.

"That stuff is terrible!" Cho coughed a little more and spit the rest of it out.

"It helps if you hold your noise and drink it all in one swallow. Ready?" Nida looked ahead toward the final car top ahead where 2 more soldiers in blue uniforms where.

"Yeah, let's go."

Zone looked inside his inventory, trying to find something else he could use, he didn't have much since he generally wasn't the fighting type, though there were a few weapons stored around here. "There has to be something damnit!"

"Zone!"

Zone looked up toward the stairway to the next car, one of his crew members was standing in the door way with a steel box. "Here, use these." He called out, tossing the box over to him.

Zone nodded gratefully, opening the box containing another 12 grenades. With one in his hand he crawled over to the other window and saw the other Galbadian armored car right next to the train. The Glatting gun mounted on top tilted down toward Zone and opened fire, bullets tore a long line in the floor leading up to Zone, striking him with 10 shots across his torso. "Uuufff!" Zone fell, sliding along the ground a few feet before his back slammed into the opposite wall and bringing him to a stop.

"Owww, that hurt." Picking himself up again, Zone ran to the window, pulling the pin out off the grenade and throwing it through the window of the car. "Eat this you Galbadian bastards!" An explosion followed, one that spewed flames and propagated a shockwave over the interior of the train laying next to it. Zone was nearly thrown out. "Oohhfff!"

2 canyon walls rolled past the train, so close that the tracks barely had enough room to pass in-between them, after that they rolled on to a bridge. Taking notice of that, Seifer quickly finished off the Galbadian solders with a tornado spell, tearing them off of ceiling and scattering them someplace behind them. "Is that all of them?" Cho asked.

"No." Nida pointed back behind the train where the last car was riding along the tracks behind them, and doing so quite effectively. "There's still one--" He was cut off by the abrupt sound of an explosion from a grenade, the Galbadian vehicle flipped over in a cloud of flames followed by the a second explosion, this time from the truck itself. "I guess not."

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"Ok, what the hell was that?" Seifer climbed back down the stalled train, dropping to the ground and into the train. "What did you guys do to them?"

"We didn't do anything." Zone glanced over to them, still sitting against the same wall and unwilling to move though he probably could, it was just easier this way. Matthew opened the door to the strategy room quite angrily, until he saw Zone. "Zone! Are you alright!"

"Calm down, I'm fine." Zone waved him off discardingly. "Just a few scratches."

"You should have let me help!" Matthew placed his hands on Zone's chest and immediately after a green light radiated from his body from a cast full-cure spell.

"You know it was too dangerous." Zone held on to the broken window frame and pulled himself on to his feet to test out the spell, "And we pulled it off by ourselves anyway, so stop worrying about it..." Zone's voice trailed off again as he crouched back down and clinched his stomach "Ow, ow, ow, ow..."

Matthew placed his hand on Zone's stomach, casting an Esnua spell. "Better?"

"Yeah, thanks kid."

"Where'd you get a GF?" Cho asked.

"GF?" Matthew shook his head "I don't have a GF."

'No GF?' Cho thought about it for a moment."...What? Then how--"

Another one of the crew members emerged from the previous car. "Zone, something else is coming in our direction."

Zone sighed, "More Galbadian soldiers..."

"No, it's Balamb Garden."