Chapter 8: First Sightning

If there was one thing I absolutely hated, it was flying. Lightning, Sazh, and I were flying on the large hovercraft or whatever the hell it was, for, thankfully, just about ten minutes. As Sazh and Lightning were exchanging a few words, all which consisted of death and some purge, I was busy keeping my eyes clenched together and my hands gripped on a part of the flying ship.

"Orders say shoot, would you pull the trigger?" Sazh asked Lightning. He seemed quite disgusted with her after their little conversation.

After Lightning ignored him, Sazh added, "Fine, forget I asked."

Tuning in and out of their talk, I opened my eyes to see my surroundings. It was black as night outside, besides the illuminating green lights coming out of wherever this shithole was. A few small hovercrafts whizzed by and I could still hear gunshots coming from both resistance and the so-called "Purge." A flying robot suddenly appeared in front of me, and I couldn't help but shriek in alarm.

"Hey, we're under attack!" I exclaimed to my bickering partners.

"Wait – what?" Lightning whispered as she somehow changed her gunblade into the blade part and got ready to fight the weird ass thing.

"I've got this," I announced with an abundance of surprising courage. I gripped my precious automatic assault rifle, and walked over to Lightning who was already prepared to take down the robot on her own.

"Don't slow me down," Lightning said to me.

There goes my already low self-esteem.

I looked over at Sazh, who was, again, bouncing up and down with his two pistols in his hands. I mentally facepalmed, then focused on the target.

"What is it?" I asked.

"A Myrmidon," Lightning replied. "They're with the Purge."

"Yeah, no kidding," I responded.

To make things short, Lightning landed most of the blows, even though Sazh and I had the firepower to take down a small army, whereas Lightning had the sword.

The gaming world still continues to amaze me with their logic.

The huge ship came to a halt after we defeated the Myrmidon. The three of us glanced ahead and saw an amazing sight. In the green lit sky was a monstrous looking statue or shrine of some sort. It was being slowly put on the ground as if to say "Back off, fools." During this, a voice rang out warning the resistance that if they don't surrender, then they are basically screwed.

"Just what you were looking for," Sazh said quietly to Lightning.

Lightning nodded. "Yeah, right in there."

"The Pulse fal'cie. Huh," Sazh stated.

"Wonderful," I muttered sarcastically. How exactly does this game go? I silently wished I had played the game before I was sucked into this suck fest.

After Sazh asked Lightning a few questions concerning the fal'cie, Lightning walked to the edge of platform we were on and looked down. She then said, "Time to jump."

Both Sazh and I had the same reaction. We exclaimed, "What?" Before we could get a reasonable response, Lightning had already jumped.

"She's crazy!" I yelled and ran to the edge. I looked down to see that Lightning had actually landed smoothly on her feet thanks to some gravitational device. "This would be possible if you had given each one of us that thingy you have," I shouted down to her.

She proceeded to ignore me but instead grinned at our stupidity.

"Damn," Sazh said in response to her amazing acrobatics. "If she can do it, then so can we."

I couldn't tell if he was talking to me or his adorable baby chocobo, but his words gave me the confidence that I needed.

"Let's do this," I replied. "You want to go first?" It was more of a suggestion than a question.

"Ladies first," Sazh smirked at me.

I glared at him, but swallowed back my fear and took a, rather weak, leap of faith. I landed on the purple gravity thing that Lightning had so nicely left for us. I sighed with relief.

"Thanks," I said to her.

"To be honest, I didn't know my device would last that long," Lightning replied. She actually sounded disappointed I had survived.

"Oh."

Instead of jumping down, Sazh began to pathetically climb down. It was a pitiful sight. Both Lightning and I gawked at him and grinned with amusement. Sazh eventually awkwardly fell and survived, and again Lightning looked disappointed.

"Let's go," Lightning declared, already running.

Sazh and I, with no other choice, ran after her, despite our seemingly inevitable doom.