I'm sorry this took so long. : ( I already know the plot of the story but I couldn't think of anything for this chapter. Hang with me people, I'm getting there. Also, I have some other stuff I'm working on. It was making me sad that I was spending all of my time on this one fanfic. It put all my other stories on hold & I barely got my schoolwork done and I really want to get back into AMV making. Don't get me wrong though, people. I am definitely NOT stopping this fanfic. Not for ANYTHING. I'm just saying it might start getting a little slower. I'm really really sorry but I want to spend time on things other than my writing. I'm getting really stressed trying to get these posted. It's vacation, I shouldn't be stressed. I'm not stopping, though. I'm going to drill that into your brain. I AM NOT STOPPING THIS FANFICTION. I AM NOT STOPPING THIS FANFICTION. I AM NOT STOPPING THIS FANFICTION. This chapter is SUPPOSED to be really short. It's just to show you some of Tidus' thoughts and a bit of Rikki's paranoid personality. Alright, now you can read what you came for.
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Rikki and Rikku were nothing alike. I started to think maybe they weren't related. I wasn't sure how they couldn't be, but she was like a Rikku from a parallel universe.
We didn't tell the Al Bhed she wasn't Rikku. Especially not Brother. I told them she's had a traumatizing experience to make up for her minimal amount of speech. They all seemed satisfied with this. They all looked so happy to have her back. I didn't. Because she wasn't back. I was determined to find out more about this lab from Rikki. So I asked her one evening as she sat silently on Rikku's bed like she always did.
"It's…" She paused reluctantly. "It's u-under the sand." She started shaking. "B-but you can't get to it f-from here."
"Here?" I demanded. "As in the desert? What you mean?" She buried her face in her hands, shaking violently. "Is Rikku there?" I needed to know so badly. But she refused to speak. "Is she there?" I grabbed her shoulders and shook her. "Tell me!" I yelled. She nodded frantically but didn't say another word for the rest of the night.
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So Rikku was in a lab… I thought Spira was anti-electricity. And they didn't seem to know much about things like science. So where would a lab come from? And who would run it? Why did they want Rikku? Why didn't they need Rikki anymore? What did Rikki mean when she said you couldn't get to it from Bikanel?
All these questions kept nagging at my thoughts for a month. Rikki knew the answers to them all. I knew she did. But anytime I mentioned that lab she freaked and started shaking like there was an earthquake.
I couldn't get anything out of her. I thought I would explode sooner of later. I hoped sooner. I didn't know how much longer I could stand that frustration. If I had to go find Rikku myself, I needed to know how to get to her.
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I'm really sorry for the worst chapter in the history of the world. It's really short and not very detailed… But I didn't know where to go from there… I know where the next chapter'll pick up, though, and I won't spend time doing freaky Victory Fanfare videos like last time… You probably didn't know about that… hehe…