TITLE:
Dimensional Whiplash
This is the working
title
ABBREVIATED TITLE: DW
Part: 2/?
("Reunions and New Faces" )
AUTHOR: Cardinal Syn/Jamie
Carlson
RATING: PG-13 for Language and Adult
Themes
SPOILERS: Misc. Final Fantasy VI and VII
spoilers
DISCLAIMER: The Final Fantasy Franchise belongs to
Squeenix (SquareEnix). The characters Aleenia and Samuel Rheese
belong to me and are (c) 2000 to present.
NOTES: This is a
total rehaul of a fanfiction that I started many, many years ago. I
really like the basis of the original story, but will be removing
several elements and adding more. References to the Street Fighter
universe will be completely removed. The triangle that started to
develope between Sabin, Alie and Shadow will be explored further, and
any confusing elements (such as Edgar's seeming attraction toward her
at the beginning when he only has eyes for Terra) will be removed.
Ages will be corrected and the time line altered to allow for the
Advent Children events for the FF7 world, and so that Relm is the
correct age (I found out that she's only 10 - 11 during events in the
game).
WARNINGS: Language and adult themes.
PAIRINGS:
Locke/Celes; A weak Cloud/Tifa; Yuffie/OC; Edgar/Terra; a weak
OC/Sabin or OC/Shadow (we'll see how this developes).
MAIN
CHARACTERS (in order of most prominent in the story): Heroes from
FF6 and 7, except for Aerith (as she is pretty solidly dead), Umaro,
or Gogo. SUMMARY: Alie Rheese had never expected her love of science
and technology to get her in trouble. When a new device at her place
of employ backfires due to an accident, she and her brother end up in
two separate worlds, very different from their own...
EXTENDED
SUMMARY: Alie Rheese had never expected her love of science and
technology to get her in trouble. When a new device at her place of
employ backfires due to an accident, she and her brother end up in
two separate worlds, very different from their own... When Alie wakes
to find herself in Figaro desert, brotherless and without the modern
technology she needs to rebuild the machine and find her way home,
she suffers depression. Sam is driven by his anger and his drive to
find his sister. In the meanwhile, players behind the scenes
manipulate happenings in both worlds, and Alie and Sam find
themselves caught up in a plot to capture the megaverse... FF6/FF7
crossover with new characters and minor AU or expansions.
Story Originally Created: May 31, 2001
Story Reworked: February, 2008
Story Notes (added February 3rd, 2008): I have decided that this story was a good idea and written surprisingly well (except for some inconsistencies and short chapters) for 2001... so I have now decided to expand the story and give it the attention it deserves to warm my writing skills back up. I don't write fanfiction anymore, but I can't help but be driven to finish this story, as it has played out in my head over the last 7 years and I just like the ending and the possibilities too much to ignore it.
Chapters 2 and 3 have been combined into one chapter. This used to be "Reunions" and "Dimensional Teleportation System... Activated."
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"Dimensional Whiplash"
By Jamie M. Carlson
(aka Cardinal Syn)
Two - Reunions and New Faces
Figaro Castle, Noon.
A handsome young man in a long black cloak and black armor stood, arms crossed, on the balcony attached to the left tower of Figaro Castle. His long, blond hair was tied back in a horsetail and secured with two ribbons, one at the nape of his neck and the other towards the end of his hair. The wind whipped his hair around behind him. His eyes were the color of the desert sky, his face chiseled and strong, regal.
Another handsome young man was standing next to him, wearing a dark grey leather jacket, a zebra-pattern, low-cut shirt that revealed his muscled chest, black pants, and black boots. He had black hair that was light enough to be called gray, and a colorful patterned bandanna was tied at the back of his neck. He was perched on one of the square-cut stones of the battlement of Figaro Castle. His handsomeness came more from his fresh, younger looking face, his lively eyes. He was less strong in feature but just as dashing.
"You two look like you're posing for a painting!" laughed a large, tanned man wearing a lilac tank top, baggy pants, and sandals. His sandy blond hair was cropped short in front, tied into a horsetail in back, and his sharp features made one realize he resembled the man in black armor. This muscled man was Sabin, the twin brother of the other blond man, King Edgar of Figaro. "Aren't you hot in all that black?"
The man in zebra print grinned. "A painting? Are you saying we're pretty as a picture?"
The king smiled. "Locke, I think of the two of us, you're the only one womanly enough to be called 'pretty'..."
Locke glared at his long-time friend, his grey eyes narrowing. "Very funny, Edgar."
Sabin laughed, then, getting his own glare, said, "I doubt Celes finds you feminine at all, Locke! Speaking of which, how is she?" Locke smiled.
"She's been well. It's only been two days and I already miss her - it's like being married makes me want to be with her every moment of the day." Edgar patted him on the back.
"Celes is a fine woman. I can't blame you," the man said. His younger - though larger - brother laid a strong hand on his 'big' brother's shoulder.
"You miss Terra, don't you?" he asked, a sad smile on his face. The question was actually more of a statement. The young King of Figaro flushed, his eyes wide. Besides the time they communicated via carrier pigeon a year earlier, Edgard had not spent much time with the half-Esper woman in the last three years.
"Are - are you kidding?! I have all the women I could possibly want!" Edgar said a little too loud. Locke turned to him, eyebrows raised. The King turned and walked away from his friend, mouth set tight.
"Eddie? I would never have guessed! Or maybe I should've," Locke said thoughtfully. "Yeah. Yeah! You usually drop trying to get a girl's attention if she just walks away... with our dear Terra --"
"I did not! I mean, I... I..." Edgar floundered. "All right. All right! I do miss Terra. I... care for her greatly." He turned away, crossing his arms over his chest. "We will speak nothing of this again, understand?"
Sabin and Locke exchanged worried glances. "Okay..." they said together.
A large shadow appeared directly over them. Locke looked up, grinning. "Hmm, I think you'll get a chance to see-" he saw Edgar's expression "-Celes! She'll be very happy to see the two of you again! And so will everyone else we fought the good fight with! Setzer has been sneaking around, picking them all up while I've been here." He motioned for them to follow him as he ran back into the palace.
As the airship landed, Edgar, Sabin, and Locke ran out to meet them. The door opened, the ramp slid down and... to King Edgar, the most beautiful and extraordinary woman in the world appeared.
Terra stood at the top of the ramp, smiling her beautiful smile down at him. He smiled back, blue eyes shinning. Terra walked down the ramp, followed by a grinning girl with frizzy blonde curls poking out from under a layer of headscarves.
"Hey, Pretty Boy!" Relm cried, running ahead of Terra. The child threw her arms around Edgar, hugging him. She gave hugs to Sabin and Locke as well as the rest of the passengers of the Falcon emerged from the still-humming airship.
When Edgar became un-tangled from Relm, he walked forward regally, and embraced Terra. She hugged him back, then pulled away.
"Three years, come and gone, and you don't seem to have changed much at all," she noted, smiling up at him. Indeed, the young king - now in his 30's - still looked as young and handsome as when she had first laid eyes on him.
"And you, my dear Terra, also haven't changed a bit! You are still as lovely as ever." He bowed low, hand over his heart.
"Are you still trying to sweet-talk our little Terra?" came a sweet voice from behind Terra.
"Celes! The years have been equally kind to you," the King replied.
Setzer appeared and grinned. "Careful, Treasure Hunter! If you aren't, His Great Majesty just might steal your wife!" he laughed.
"You're just jealous because he's not hitting on you, too," Celes said with a wink. Setzer found this incredibly amusing and laughed heartily. "As for me, I'm quite happy with my husband." Even as she spoke, Locke came up and wrapped his arm around his new wife. Edgar shook hands with the man known as The Wandering Gambler, and with Cyan, who followed him. Even Shadow shook hands with the king.
Sabin stared at the mysterious assassin, and leaned close to Terra. "How did you manage to convince him to come?"
"He has been staying with Relm and Strago for the last year and a half, actually... he asked if he could come with them." She smiled at the ninja's back. Sabin scratched his chin and stared in open astonishment at the man who had once warned that his dog ate strangers.
When all the greetings were over, the party entered the castle, and Setzer and Relm went to pick up Mog, and then Gau, who still lived on the Veldt but now stayed in a house that his friends had constructed for him.
In another world...
A young man, around seventeen or eighteen, crouched behind a desk, spying on a young woman. She seemed about twenty, and was wearing a white lab coat. Her dark hair was tied in a long braid that reached halfway to her waist. The laboratory light sparkled off her thin oval-shaped glasses, the silver rims glinting cold in the harsh lighting. Strapped across one shoulder was a carrier that contained a laptop computer. She was making notes on a clipboard-mounted stack of papers with a red gel pen.
The room was large, counters with beakers and tubes and odd machinery lining the walls. A large machine - looking rather like a copier from where he crouched, but with some weird attachments and a large flat-panel monitor attached to the top - dominated the center of the room. A couple black boards with graphs, designs and formulas were spread throughout the remaining space. The floor was white, dull tile, the walls a dull off-white. The overhead lighting was too harsh and washed the colors of his shirt and jeans out.
"You can come out now, Sammy. Just don't touch anything," she said in a calm, though strong, voice. The boy stood, surprise registered on his young face.
"How'd ya know I was there? And don't call me Sammy! Call me Sam!" the boy responded, surprise melting into irritation at the nickname.
"I saw you come in. That was sure a sneaky way to spy on me," the girl stated in mocking tones. The boy, Sam, glared at her. He stuck his hands in the pockets of his tattered, faded jeans.
"You know you're not supposed to be in here during your off hours, and you're not supposed to be in this lab, period."
"Eh, Professor West doesn't mind if I'm in here, and you know it. So what exactly is it you're working on?" He sidled up to the machine she was standing by.
Alie glared at her little brother. Then she shrugged, defeated. I might as well tell him, she thought. He'll find out anyway. That Catrina is a sucker for boys and their charms and would just tell him if he asked her.
"It's dimensional teleportation device, Sam. It's ready for a test. There are hundreds of alternate or totally different dimensions in what the professor terms the megaverse," she revealed, her voice eager. She looked at the clock on the far wall. "You should go, Professor West'll be back soon! And I expect... hey! Shit! Be careful! I said not to..." Alie was cut off by a whirring noise. While she had been talking, Sam had tripped, knocking her down, and hit a button on the teleportation device. When he tried to pull himself back up, he clumsily pressed several keys on the control panel of the device.
The button he hit switched it on, and Alie cried out for him to stop it as red mist surrounded them, warping the room around them. "Noooo! Samuel H. Rheese, what the hell have you done?!" she screamed as the mist began to engulf her.
A mechanical voice said, "Dimensional Teleportation Sequence beginning."
The door burst open and in ran a woman in a white lab coat and two security guards.
"My god - Turn off the machine!" the woman cried.
But it was too late. Allie and Sam had disappeared. All that remained was red mist.
One of the security guards checked the machine. He looked at the woman in the lab coat.
"Dr. Kale, do you know what this is?" the guard asked, turning to the woman. She looked serious, with a black skirt-suit on under her white lab coat, her black hair pulled into a severe bun on the back of her head.
The woman's hazel eyes narrowed and her mouth set in a hard line. "This is bad."
Just then, Professor West, a man with greying black hair rushed in. He took one look at the device and the guards, and sighed, dropping his head in his hands
One of the security guards piped up. "It is Professor West's Dimensional Teleportation Device, Biggs. It sent the kids to another realm, dimension, whatever." He winced when the woman's angry hazel eyes met his.
"Oh, God, what have I done?!" Professor West moaned. "I knew I shouldn't have left Aleenia and her brother in here alone! Oh, what will I tell Samuel's parents? That I transported their only children to some unknown universe?" The man turned to the black-haired woman. "Andrea, we need to find out if we can determine the coordinates the machine sent them to, and we need to do it fast. They left without recall devices."
The woman nodded.
A mile outside of Midgar, a red light swelled. In it, a young boy lay. As the light faded, he was left in an unconscious state. A traveler came across the boy near dawn. He brought the youth to Seventh Heaven, the nearest occupied building, where he could be cared for...
In the desert sands outside of Figaro Castle, a red light blossomed and faded. It would be a while until the young woman the light left there would be found...
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In the next chapter of Dimensional Whiplash, Alie and Sam wake to find themselves in foreign territory. How will each of the separated siblings handle their situation? And how will our cast fare with the array of new people - and creatures - they are about to encounter?
