Disclaimer: You know the funny thing is, yesterday Square Enix called me and asked me if I wanted rights to Final Fantasy 12. I said I wanted part 8 instead, and they said no, so I declined the deal. So I don't own FF12. And on a note, I tried to write this chapter based on the assumption that the reader is unfamiliar with the FFX characters prominent in this story (although most of you probably are), so it might be written a little funky.

Chapter 4

For no apparent reason, Vaan, Penelo, Balthier, Fran, Basch, Ashe, and Reddas stood in a line in that order, facing the strange random people that just appeared. Also they were standing under an overpass that suddenly came out of nowhere because they didn't want to get wet and it was still raining hard. (yes it is still raining, just go with me here) Cid, laughing maniacally, commanded, "Approach them! But don't do anything yet. Build the suspense."

The seven strangers lined up in front of their respective rips-off, all their weapons raised. "Hey!" called the blonde-haired man to Vaan, who was holding an axe. "What is… that?"

"This? This is a Francesca. Or, sometimes… little Frannie." He kissed the weapon in his hand. "Shh, it's okay."

"Um… anyway. Aren't you supposed to have a sword?"

"Why do I have to have a sword?"

"Because! That's the way it's always been. Why are so freaking… different?"

"Yeah… you're right," agreed the woman in black standing across from Fran. "And, on that note… why do you have so many random stupid aeons? No Bahamut? No Ifrit? WTF dude? WTF!"

"They're called Espers!" defended Fran fiercely. "Mateus is the shiznit!"

"Ha!" called the samurai in red parallel to Basch. "Shiva could her ass any day!"

"Mateus is a him! He just looks like a woman but the bestiary refers to Mateus as 'him'."

"Wha, now that's just retarded."

"Don't make me summon Belias!" Basch threatened.

"Belias? BELIAS?" The samurai was beginning to get angry. "Wh… where the fuck did Belias come from? What's wrong with Ifrit? WHAT'S WRONG WITH IFRIT, HUH? Sniff… just cuz he was different from the others, doesn't mean he deserves to be treated different. He just wanted… some peach cobbler. Swing away, Ifrit. Swing away."

They all looked at each other. "Uh..." The mild-mannered brown-haired girl standing next to the samurai took out an insanely large needle labeled 'Auron's happy juice' and injected it into his arm. "That should do. Now… we will take you down!" She shot her index finger into the air, pointing at the sky like she tends to do. But as she did, her fingernail nicked Ashe in the wrist, causing her to yelp in pain.

"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry! Is it bleeding?"

"A little…"

"Oh gosh, we need a band-aid over here," said the woman in black. She put the band-aid tenderly on Ashe's wrist. "There we go. All better." They all returned to their spots in the stand-off. "Okay, where were we… oh yes. WE WILL TAKE YOU DOWN!!!"

"Yeah!" shouted the orange-haired man holding the blue and white ball. "We're gonna bend you chumps! Bite my shiny metal ass!"

Reddas scowled. "All this mess for nothing."

"But it is for something indeed! I'm taking your nethicite by force!" said Cid.

"You idiot, I lost all my nethicite in those horse races last night. Damn Seabiscuit…"

"Wait, stop!" Everyone was dead silent as Cid crossed his arms. "What did you say?"

"I don't have any nethicite."

"Oh. Why didn't you say that before?"

"Would it have made a difference?"

"Yeah, I… spent a lot of time and resources with this plan. I got, I got these people from another fricking dimension, I spent a lot of time and effort into that!"

"Well, sorry, I don't know what to say." Reddas shrugged.

"Grr… I guess I'm done here. Farewell!" With the contraption on his back, he flew away. The seven strangers looked around at each other, shrugging and muttering. "Uh, well, I guess we're done here," said the blonde one. "See you later." They all walked away. Just as they stepped out from under the overpass, the rain began to dissipate, and eventually, the sun came through the clouds. "Hey, look the rain's clearing up…" said Ashe. She had a sudden urge to stare at it, but then suddenly thought, 'That would be rather dull.'

"Hey… I feel smarter all of a sudden," Vaan said, looking at his hands as if trying to see if they were different.

"Indeed, I as well feel that I have a stronger grasp than I did a moment ago," said Basch, in a suddenly IC mumble.

Balthier raised an eyebrow. "You don't think deprivation of the sun caused a stupefying effect, do you?"

"That ish a shtrange thing to shay," said Fran.

"Um, shouldn't we be kicking Vayne's ass right now?" asked Vaan.

"Yes, I think that's a good idea," said Penelo. "Well… this was a retarded ending to a retarded story."

"Meh, I don't think he was ever good at writing endings. I guess that's why most of his stories never end…"

Penelo nodded in agreement. Suddenly something caught her eye in the sky. She looked up to see a thick yellow beam shooting into the air, making a big circle in blue sky. Inside the circle was a black silhouette of Basch's profile.

"What the hell is that?" she pondered. "Is that… the Basch signal?"

"I would say it is," said Ashe.

At that moment, a little white moogle approached them. "Why, that would be correct. Archadia has been attacked by demonic bunnies from the Sochen Cave Palace for three days now, and Baschman has yet to appear."

They all looked at each other, and then to Basch, but all they saw was the flutter of a black cape around the corner of a building, and he was gone.

And that's the end. Well, personally it would be fair to say I rushed this chapter, because I finished the whole thing in one sitting. Maybe later I'll edit it to make it less… awkward. As for future stories, if anyone's interested, just check up on my profile every once in awhile. I talk a lot so it has a lot of crap on it, but I will put up status on future fics or ideas on the top. And if you feel like it you can look at the Extras chapter, aka chapter 5, which I wrote because I'm bored right now at 3 in the morning and I can't sleeeeep…