Before I could even take a step forward, one of the PSICOM soldiers rushed at me and punched me in the face. Though it hurt, I was grateful he didn't shoot me instead.
Lightning was already taking care of the big guy, and Sazh was doing some weird body movement that made it look like he was dancing idiotically.
"What the hell are you doing?" I asked him after slowly and painfully getting back to my feet.
"This is my ready stance!" Sazh exclaimed. He lifted up one leg and with his right arm, he shot his pistol at one of the soldiers.
"This isn't bowling!" I snapped with frustration, but decided to focus more on my own battle. The soldier that had punched me was readying his gun to shoot me. I quickly charged at him and thrust my fist in his face, for payback. It was too late to realize that he was wearing metal armor and that bone contacting with metal results in severe agony and the sudden urge to cry like a baby.
"Nice move," I heard Lightning sarcastically say. I then felt embarrassed because I hadn't noticed she was watching me fail pitifully.
"Maybe if I had a weapon," I pathetically replied. I shook my hand to ease the pain and this time kicked the soldier in the groin, who then crumbled to the ground. "Yeah! That's how we do it back where I live."
After two soldiers fell, I grabbed one of their guns, and then aimed it at the big guy. The leader was crouched in a fetal position and panting heavily. Lightning had done massive damage to him, something the bastard hadn't expected.
"This isn't over," the enforcer groaned as he stumbled backwards in retreat.
I grinned and said, "I've always wanted to say this, but yeah, it's so over." Then, finger itching to pull the trigger, I prepared to end his life when Lightning ran forward, jumped a little bit in the air with weapon drawn, and did a full 360 on him. Our remaining opponent finally faded away, indicating that he was defeated.
I lowered my weapon and sighed with disappointment. "I was looking forward to using this."
Lightning scoffed and began walking away, as usual. I decided to, again, follow her, and Sazh tagged along. We walked for a few minutes in awkward silence, despite the sounds of gunfire and screams of civilians and soldiers. It was like we had our own little bubble that protected us from the rest of this insane world.
"So soldier, what's your angle?" Sazh asked Lightning.
Lightning turned to face him, then slowly turned her head away and completely ignored his question. Sazh fiddled around with some device and asked if it was "classified" and said something about quitting. By then I was spaced out and instead examined my gun.
"The Pulse Fal'cie," Lightning quietly answered.
I looked back at the two and noticed that Sazh looked taken back.
"What's that?" I asked, my interest slowly rising because of Sazh's dumbstruck look. Both of them ignored me and instead stared, or rather glared, at each other.
"Still happy you tagged along?" Lightning asked. As she went up to the device Sazh had been fiddling with earlier, Sazh muttered something that I didn't quite hear. Then, Lightning resumed walking without waiting for us.
I quickly glanced at Sazh questioningly, and then looked ahead of me. A huge floating mechanical ship slowly descended in front of us.
"Are we getting on that?" I nervously asked. I didn't like flying, let alone on something that was from a video game.
"We sure are," Lightning answered, to my surprise. She actually grinned at me and added, "Are you scared?"
"Nope," I said, and then gulped.
Lightning glared, scowled, as per usual, and said, "You're a terrible liar," and then walked on the ship.
"And you're a bitch," I retorted, but under my breath.
"I heard that," Sazh quietly said to me, but gave me a wink and followed Lightning.
Sighing with defeat because I had nowhere else to go, I followed both of them like an obedient dog.