Author Note: Hey i'm back from my hiatus. Anyway this is the second last chapter of 'The Dilemma'. As per usual please read and review because I do like favourites but I'd rather hear what you think of the chapter.

Enjoy!

(Btw: If you find Noel's comments of Australians offensive...I myself am Australian so I mean no harm and even if I wasn't I still would mean no harm)

Hope and Alyssa were wandering around Gran Pulse, not knowing what else to do. "So who are you exactly?" Hope asked.

"I'm Alyssa, I'm your assistant" Alyssa explained. "We're scientists from the academy"

Hope was confused for a moment. "Are you sure you're not a fan girl?"

Alyssa rolled her eyes. "I'm not a fan girl, who WOULD be your fan girl"

Hope got out his phone. "Well believe it or not, I DO have fan girls. Check it out" Alyssa looked at his phone and saw an online fansite. She couldn't believe it.

"Did you pay these people to make this fansite?" Alyssa asked and received a glare from Hope.

"GUYS!" A distant voice screamed. The two scientists looked towards the horizon to see Noel and Mog frantically running towards the two. Well Noel was running, Mog was floating next to him.

Hope waved. "Noel, what's up?"

Noel rubbed the back of his head. "Hey, what would you do if a bad guy stabs you in a trailer and you appear to be dead but you're not sure whether you are going to die in a game that has not been released yet or not?"

Hope raised a brow. "What are you on about?"

"I mean, Caius stabs me in the trailer and I appear to die…would that mean I'm actually dead?" Noel asked. "And if so, what do I do about it?"

Alyssa came up with an idea. "Just face it like Zack Fair from Final Fantasy VII. He died and people still love him, and the fans still want to believe he's alive. Zack is still alive in the fans minds so if you die you're always alive in the fans minds"

"Who are you?" Noel screamed.

Alyssa rolled her eyes. "I'm Alyssa, we met before, remember?"

Hope chuckled. "Don't worry; she's just one of my fan girls"

"Didn't I tell you I'm not a fan girl?" Alyssa asked.

"Don't be shy, if you want an autograph you can just ask me" Hope winked at her but she let out a heavy sigh.

"Thanks Alyssa" Noel said. "I really appreciate it" he was about to walk away when he suddenly remembered to ask Hope another question. "Hope, I have a question for you"

"Yeah?" Hope said sounding interested.

"y'know how you use that boomerang?" Noel asked sounding a little nervous.

"Yeah what about it?" Hope asked.

Noel stuttered "a-a-are you aboriginal?"

Everyone could only stare at Noel and blink, but mostly stare. Hope raised a brow "…what?"

"y'know, an Indigenous Australian. It's just that you have a boomerang and…"

"How does that make me aboriginal?" Hope asked sounding frustrated "Do I look black to you?"

Sazh walked past as he heard that comment "oh you wish you were black, white boy!" He said as he placed his hands on his hips and then quickly leaving the scene. Mog and Alyssa could only cock their heads to the side and wonder if he was there before.

"How does me, using a boomerang, make me an aboriginal?" Hope asked.

"Well a boomerang is used as a hunting tool by the indigenous Australians" Noel said, stating the obvious.

"The Egyptians used boomerangs as well" Hope explained.

Noel scratched his chin "…so does that make you Egyptian?" he asked

"NO!" Hope yelled "I'M NOT EGYPTIAN OR ABORIGINAL!"

"But you're at least from Gran Pulse right?" Noel asked, not seeing the fact that Hope was frustrated at him

"NO! I'M FROM COCOON!" Hope screamed "I DON'T HAVE THAT AUSTRALIAN ACCENT!"

Noel placed his hands on his hips "Dude you're so racist" he said as he turned around and walked off.

As he walked off Hope muttered to himself, "You're one to talk"

Lightning, Caius and Sazh: Valhalla

Once again, Caius was down below wanting to have a face off with Lightning. Lightning was looking bad ass near Etro's throne and Sazh was looking bored, seeing as he was not meant to be in this scene but didn't have any other scene to be in.

"Witness my wrath!" Caius cackled.

"YEAH! YOU AND WHAT ARMY?" Sazh yelled.

"This army" he summoned these insect like creatures and they charged towards Lightning. Lightning and Sazh couldn't help but laugh at Caius and the insects. Caius growled "what's so funny?"

"Oh beware of Caius and his army of insects" Lightning laughed.

"Watch out they're gonna squash us like bugs" Sazh said and the two of them laughed again.

"Hey Sazh, no need for guns and swords" Lightning grinned "we just need a fly swatter" They laughed again and all Caius could do was stare at them as if they had gone mad.

"Oh and no need for magic" Sazh said "we can just use bug spray"

Caius watched them laugh and he sighed "the f*** is wrong with you?"

Crystal Pillar

Vanille had stopped singing but Fang had refused to talk to her "Fang? Why aren't you talking to me sorry about singing" Fang still remained quiet "here I'll tell you a joke, Knock Knock"

"who's there?" Fang asked

"you know"

"you know who?"

"AVADA KEDAVRA!"

Serah and Noel: Historia crux

Serah gasped at how amazing the Historia Crux looked on the inside "it's amazing"

"It's the historia crux" Noel explained "Personally I prefer to call it the flight to Neverland. Look at me! I'm peter pan!"

Serah shrugged "I'm a teacher; I deal with children a lot".

At the end of the time portal they landed in Gran pulse. Only it was dark and scary looking and there was no sign of Cocoon or any other life for that matter. "This is the future?"

Noel nodded. "yeah, that's it"

Lightning appeared through a portal of light and joined the other two. "Lightning? What is this place?" Serah asked.

"The future I could not protect" Lightning said. "I'll explain" she walked past Serah just as she said that.

"Um Light?" Serah asked. "How are you meant to explain if you walk the other direction?"

Lightning shrugged. "I'm meant to look awesome".

Later

Snow, Noel and Serah

Snow had just finished defeating a scary goop monster called a Flan. Serah went to hug Snow. Noel on the other hand was not happy about this. "Hey! I was meant to save Serah!"

"Too bad, I'm her fiancé" Snow smirked.

"Don't you realize what your doing to the people you're supposed to protect?" Noel yelled.

Snow's smirk faded. "Now wait just a damn minute! You've been looking after Serah"

Noel looked at Snow as if he were stupid. "actually no, I've made her life a living hell…OF COURSE I'VE BEEN LOOKING AFTER HER! IT'S NOT LIKE SHE'S MUCH OF A FIGHTER AND YOU'RE NOT EXACTLY AROUND EITHER! "

Snow sighed. "The trailer cut off the rest of my speech"

Noel's eyes widened. "y-y-y-you mean there was more?" he stuttered.

Snow nodded "yeah" and thus began his long speech "I've been on the search for Lightning, hoping maybe I'll find her so I can return to Serah and make her happy and then-"

"uh oh" Noel said "he's going into one of his hero speeches"

Serah got out of Snow's grip and ran towards Noel "RUN AWAY!" she screamed.

"HEEY! COME BACK HERE!" he yelled and chased after the others.

Hope's on an airship

Hope found Serah and Noel on another airship. He couldn't believe that he got to make an appearance in the extended trailer on an airship "I'M ON AN AIRSHIP!" he yelled

Ride an airship LIKE A BOSS

Cry 'bout something LIKE A BOSS

throw a boomerang LIKE A BOSS

summon alexander LIKE A BOSS

go on Facebook LIKE A BOSS

wear some yellow LIKE A BOSS

run from sanctum LIKE A BOSS

cast some magic LIKE A BOSS

piss off Snow LIKE A BOSS

Ride a robot LIKE A BOSS

Defeat a Robot LIKE A BOSS

Hit puberty LIKE A BOSS

Become a scientist LIKE A BOSS

turn to crystal LIKE A BOSS

Serah could only raise a brow "was that song really necessary?" she asked.

Hope chuckled "well…no not really".

The group meet up again

All the main characters besides Fang and Vanille gathered together in a random part of Gran Pulse "okay, has anyone found out anything?" Snow asked the group.

"I know why Lightning has ridiculous armor" Sazh said.

Lightning scoffed "at least I've appeared in trailers"

"OH!" everyone screamed.

Noel sighed. "Caius stabs me" he said sounding upset.

"Apparently I'm a scientist" Hope said.

Sazh smirked "Didn't think you had the brains"

"OH STFU!" Hope yelled.

Serah stood proudly "I'm definitely the main character here"

"but I'm the most important one" Lightning argued.

"but everyone's anticipating more over my game" Serah said.

Lightning folded her arms across her chest "oh let's not get into this argument again"

Noel chuckled. "Hey at least we're getting more attention from the Authoress than type-o is"

"TYPE0!" A distant voice that sounded like Ace's screamed. Everyone looked around to see where that voice came from

Snow shrugged it off "well, here's the thing, we want to save Vanille and Fang"

"I don't" Caius said bluntly.

Snow shot a glare at Caius "Well us GOOD GUYS want to save Vanille and Fang but in doing so will make Cocoon collapse. Lightning has somehow turned 'greater than L'cie' and Serah is off to find Lightning along with Noel, who's from the future" Snow explained.

Noel nodded "yep, I'm the last human left in my time"

Snow glared at him "don't go looking at my fiancé for breeding more humans!"

Lightning glared at Snow "don't YOU think about my sister that way"

"Hey we're gonna get married someday and start a family" Snow said.

"NOT ON MY WATCH BONEHEAD!" Lightning yelled "MY SISTER'S STAYING A VIRGIN UNTIL SHE'S 35!"

"35?" Snow yelled with disbelief.

"Yes" Lightning nodded "35"

Serah raised her hand up as if she were in class "um don't I get a say in what I do with my reproductive organs?"

"NO!" Lightning and Snow screamed in unison.

Caius decided it was his turn to bring up a point "y'know, I thought people from cocoon didn't like pulse" he said "why would they be living there?"

Sazh shrugged "I don't know, I guess they want to make a new start"

"why wouldn't they?" Noel explained "There's nice beaches, rain forests, wide open spaces, red soil, beer, BBQ's, Koalas, Football, surfing, bogans"

"I think you're talking about Australia there" Caius said.

Noel shrugged "Same thing"

"dude" Hope said "you're so racist"

Noel folded his arms across his chest. "hey, at least this game has dark skinned people" he said. "I haven't seen a dark skinned person from Versus XIII or Type-O"

"TYPE-ZERO" a distant voice that sounded like Ace screamed.

Lightning scowled "WHY IS IT WHENEVER WE MENTION TYPE-O I HEAR ACE'S VOICE!"

"TYPE-ZERO!" the distant voice yelled

Lightning looked around "ACE WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?" she yelled.

"Nothere" the distant voice yelled.

Lightning was annoyed with that distant voice "COME OUT NOW!" she demanded.

"Okay" Ace jumped down from the nearby tree and since game characters could defy gravity he made it okay. "hi guys!"

"Have you been following us this whole time?" Lightning asked.

"Well" Ace rubbed the back of his head and chuckled nervously "I realized that Noctis and Sephiroth are way cooler than I am so I followed you guys, because you seem cool" he explained.

"aaaaaaawww" Serah cooed. "How adorable"

"uuuh what about Sephiroth and Noctis" Sazh asked.

Meanwhile

Noctis was sweating up a storm from all that sword clashing he was doing with Sephiroth. "How long are we going to keep this up?" Noctis asked "Ace left ages ago"

Sephiroth faced his long sword towards Noctis "good, now it's between you and me"

"it would've been so much easier to have sued me for copyright" Noctis said.

Sephiroth lowered his sword "good point" Sephiroth said "I'll go get my lawyer" he sprouted his wing "while I'm at it I'll sue Lightning for taking that one wing idea from me" Sephiroth smirked.

"I spoke too soon" Noctis said. "well I guess since we're done battling, do you mind opening a portal for me to see Lightning"

"sure why not" Sephiroth said as he opened the portal. "have fun, while you can" he said and then took off into the distance.

"Perfect" Noctis said and an evil smile appeared across his face. "Now I can finally take my revenge"

To be continued

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"no" Serah answered "why do you have gum?"

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"that's kind of sad" Lightning said.

"hey guys!" Noel yelled "check it out!" Noel was not in his ordinary outfit but he was dressed as Ezio Auditore, Assassin's Creed Revelations style.

"um…what are you wearing Noel?" Serah asked.

"Noel? Who you calling Noel?" Noel smirked "I'm Ezio Auditore from Assassin's Creed!"

Serah cocked her head to the side "I didn't think you were into cosplay"

"haven't you heard?" Noel asked "Ezio Auditore's costume will be in Final Fantasy XIII-2 and since I'm the leading male character, I get to wear it!"

Lightning rolled her eyes "you look stupid! Get out of that costume now"

"No!" Noel yelled "From now on, I'm going to be an assassin. It's about time this game got an assassin"

"Hey guys" Snow waved. Snow also was not in his normal costume but he was dressed as Altair from the first Assassin's Creed game.

Lightning's eyebrow rose "who are you meant to be?" she asked.

"I'm Altair" he smirked and turned towards Noel "who are you?"

"Ezio" Noel explained proudly.

Snow cackled " ahaha! I'm the original"

Noel placed his hands on his hips "yeah well I've been in more games than you have"

"Oh yeah!" Snow got into fighting position "we'll see about that" The Farron sisters watched as the two 'assassins' fought eachother. They kept this up until another assassin came to the scene.

"hey Noel!" Hope yelled. He was dressed up like Ezio but he was wearing the Assassin's Creed two outfit "I thought I was Ezio!"

"Hey! I was Ezio first!" Noel explained "Besides I'm in the latest costume"

Hope smirked "well at least I ain't an old man!" he said and let out an evil cackle.

"OH NO YOU DIDN'T!" Noel yelled and the two Ezios and the Altair fought over who was the better assassin. The Farron sisters watched from a distance. Lightning looked towards Mog who was also dressed as an assassin.

"Mog? Are you dressed up as an assassin as well?" she asked.

"I'm from Assassin's Creed Brotherhood kupo" Mog explained.

Caius walked into the scene wearing normal clothes "and I'm Desmond Miles" he explained. Lightning's palm met her face.

"We have too many assassins here" Serah said.

Lightning sighed "this is Final Fantasy XIII-2 not Assassins Fantasy XIII-2"

END

Yeah, it's true. Ezio's costume will be in Final Fantasy XIII-2. Can't wait for this game. This is the second last chapter but there is a prequel so don't worry.