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Chapter 3

Vincent watched Yuffie's pod as it made its way into the planet's atmosphere. He could feel the air in his lungs trying to break its way out of his chest. It wouldn't be long until he met his end. The storm raged around him. Each lightning bolt seemed to be getting closer and closer. Vincent closed his eyes and began looking back at all the important events in his life. Starting from the day he first joined the Turks and met Dr. Lucrecia crescent, to the day he met Cloud and battled Sephiroth and DeepGround. To think that someone who's body was almost invincible was about to be proven wrong. Vincent's state of meditation was suddenly interrupted by a sharp, hot pain. His eyes were forced open to find he had been by one of the lighting bolts, simultaneously forcing him to release his breath. Vincent's mouth burst open, the uneven pressure of space pulling the air outside. Strange enough, Vincent found that he was still alive. He wasn't breathing, yet he was alive. His body felt warm and it got warmer and warmer with every passing second. Vincent looked at his hands to find that they were swelling with energy it was the energy coming from the storm.

He was absorbing the energy of the storm. But how, he wondered. The only way that he could absorb any kind of energy is if it were the corrupted energy from the Lifestream. Vincent reached for his eyes as they began to burn. If it were possible, he would be groaning in agony. He had felt this terrible sensation before; Chaos. He was coming. Vincent could the beast's roar echo inside of his head. He could feel his hands changing with the rest of his body. Vincent pulled his body into a feeble position, causing a sphere of dark energy to form around him. The dark sphere pulled the surrounding storm like a black hole pulling in light rays. With in no at all, the storm was gone.

Cid dropped his cigarette from his mouth as he watched through the Shera's brigde what was going on. He shook around a few times, pulling him back into reality and brought his attention towards Shelke. "Alrighty there little lady," he called to her. "Your work here is done. Now why don't you get your pretty little self out of here before things get worse?"

Shelke's dull, glowing eyes looked at Cid for a short moment; she then began to say, "But what about you?"

"Don't worry," Cid ran his thumb across the underside of his nose. "I'm never going to leave this baby even if it means I die with her. But don't you worry about me. I'll see you on the planet below."

Without any response but a simple nod, Shelke dashed out of the bridge and headed towards her lab.

Vincent could feel his body swelling with energy. His transformation was almost complete. The roar in his head that was Chaos had finally stopped. Vincent forced his eyes open. He threw his body out, causing the sphere of energy to explode. Vincent was no more. He was now Chaos. The beast of corrupted Life energy flapped its wings, trying to maintain balance in the zero gravity. He knew he wouldn't be able to maintain this form for very long. Chaos looked down at the planet below. He could try to make his descent, but he didn't want to risk any chance of burning in the atmosphere. The energy in his body was draining fast. Just then, a flicker of light caught his attention. There, in the not so far distance, Chaos spotted some type of space station. Without any second thought he shot towards it, leaving a streak of his purple aura behind him. As Chaos made his way through the sea of starts, the sound of Lucrecia's voice entered his head.

"I'm so sorry," he heard. "Chaos…"

The last part was cut off Chaos' eyesight began to grow faint. His smooth flight faded into a midair tumble. The last thing he could find was the wall of the space station as he and it made contact.

"Cloud I'm scared," Tifa said as she buried her face in Cloud's arm. Cloud showed no signs of any emotion as he watched the red heat hitting the side of his pod's window. The pod jerked back and fourth as is picked up speed. Cloud clutched the handle on his seat with his free hand. He wasn't sure if this was caused by excitement or fear of death. He was only minutes away from his new home. He looked out the window a second time to find that the pod had finally cooled down. He and Tifa had made it through the atmosphere. Cloud jerked his arm a little bit to catch Tifa's attention. The black haired woman lifted her head and brought her gazed from to her window. She could see a beautiful planet overcome by a blue sea and green land. It was just as how Gaia once was. It would've brought tears to Tifa's eyes. She pulled on Cloud's arm, trying to make him look out of the window with her. Cloud didn't respond, instead, he pushed a button on the control panel the lay before. This caused a steering mechanism to form in front of him. Cloud grabbed it and began to take control of the pod as it cruised through the air.

As the time went by, a thought entered Cloud's head. "Where should we land to meet up with the others?"

"Yeah?" Tifa responded. "You do have a point."

The two looked at each other as a sudden cloud blocked out the sun. Cloud and Tifa brought their attention out of the windows to find that it was not a cloud but it was an airship of some kind.

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Dr. Eggman looked into a large monitor to find that his battleship, the Egg Carrier was making its way over a smaller ship. The evil doctor rubbed his chin with intrigue. He had never a ship with that kind of architecture on a ship in his life. It seemed as if it were from another world. Egggman rocked back and forth in his chair a few times and then turned it around. One of his greatest creations, Metal Sonic stood before him with its head down, next set of commands. "Bring me that ship and everyone who is inside!" Eggman shouted. The robot's red eyes flicked on and it hovered out of its master room.

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Cloud and Tifa continued to look out their windows, unaware of how to respond to such a large ship hovering over them. Just then, the escaped pod began to tremble a bit. Cloud looked up. A metallic hand had stabbed through the steel coating of the pod. The hand slowly began to peel the top off, revealing a blue robot in the shape of some type of animal. The animal reached for Cloud. Cloud immediately pushed the autopilot button and leaped out of the hole in the pod, pulling the robot with it. The robot showed no signs emotions with its blood red eyes. Cloud reached for his side and pulled out one of the many extensions to his sword and swung it. The robot suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind Cloud. It grabbed him by the back of his neck and began to squeeze tight on it. The robot lifted Cloud above its large head through him down towards the earth that awaits him, thousands of feet. Tifa screamed as she watched her childhood friend spiral towards the ground, unconscious. The hole in her pod's ceiling was suddenly plugged by the robot. The robot reached for her, causing her to black out.

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Sonic atop the wing of the Tornado with Knuckles next to him; Sonic could feel it in his gut that Eggman was nearby. Just then, something caught his eye. It looked as if someone was falling. And as a matter of fact it was. A blonde haired human was falling and he was falling faster. Sonic kneeled over the wing of the ship, looking the pilot, Tails, at an upside down angle. "I see him," Tails took the words out of Sonic's mouth. "Hold on."

With that, the two tailed fox pulled his plane into a straight towards the falling human.

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Barret slowly opened his eyes. In front of him stood his daughter, Marlene, staring at him from what appeared to be a bedside. Barret lifted his robotic arm and struggled to reach for the little girl.

"Are you okay?" Marlene replied. But something was different Marlene. Her voice, her voice was different. Marlene's form began to slowly fade into something else. The Marlene he knew was no more. Now, standing at Barret's bedside, stood what appeared a type of rabbit. From here appearance, it was girl. It had to one of the most beautiful things since he found Marlene at his doorstep. The little rabbit took a few steps back as Barret sat up in the bed.

"Where am I?" he asked, rubbing his head.

"I found you outside so I decided I'd drag you in," the little rabbit replied in her baby like voice. "My name is Cream. What is your name?"

Barret took a few moments to look back at what had happened before he answered the little rabbit. The last thing he remembered was he and Red XII…

"Wait," Barret shouted slightly. "Was there anyone else with me?"

It didn't take long for Cream to take long before saying, "No. you were the only one there when I found."

"Was there any kind of metal machine with me? Anything at all?"

"The only metal machine that I saw was your arm. What happened to you? Did Mr. Eggman try to turn you into one of his robots?"

Barret wasn't sure what the little girl was talking about and it didn't really didn't matter. He had to find RedXIII. Barret pushed off the bed when he suddenly felt pain in his midsection. He groaned and fell back onto the bed. Cream reached over the bed, trying to comfort him. "Oh mister please don't get up," she pleaded. "Your wounds haven't fully healed yet."

"Barret. Name's barret." With that said, he closed his eyes. It would be a while before he was reunited with his comrades. Hopefully sooner that later.

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Cloud rubbed his head as he finally reacquainted himself with the world. Standing over him were three colorful blurs whose true forms became more vivid with every passing second. They were three small creatures, one red, one blue and one orange. "Hey buddy," the blue creature said. "How do you feel?"

Hearing an animal speak was no surprise to Cloud after knowing RedXIII for years. Cloud lifted himself up and dusted his clothes off. After doing so, Cloud inspected the three creatures that appeared to be the natives of this planet. They didn't seem to pose any type of threat. At least, not to him. "Yeah thanks."

"What were you doing falling out of the sky there?" the blue creature spoke again.

The sky? The thought entered Cloud's head. He remembered doing battle with the robot and-

"Tifa!" Cloud shouted.

"Ti-what?" the red creature scratched his abnormally large head.

"We have to go back. We have to save Tifa."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Just calm down. We don't know what you're talking about. First let's start with your name. The name's Sonic and these are my friends, Tails and Knuckles.

Cloud sighed and put squeezed gently on the bridge of his nose. "Cloud, Cloud Strife."

"Okay Cloud why not tell us what you were doing up in the sky there," Sonic pointed up.

"Well you see, my friend Tifa and I were cruising the skies when this giant airship came out of nowhere and sent this robot to attack us. I tried as hard as I could to fight it off. But it was too strong."

Sonic keeled backwards a bit, showing he knew exactly what Cloud was talking about. "Sounds you had a run in with Eggman. Tell me what this robot of yours looks like."

Cloud looked back at the memory of the fight once more. The image of the robot froze as if watching a recorded image. Its body structure was similar to Sonic's. "It looked a lot like you Sonic."

Tails folded his arms and frowned. "Sounds like you had a run in with Metal Sonic."

"Metal Sonic?"

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Yuffie lay in her opened pod in feeble position soaking her arms with tears. Vincent was gone and now she was all alone. There would be no way for her to express her true feelings to Vincent. If only he hadn't been so foolish as to being so introversive, he would probably still be here with her. What would Vincent say if he saw her now? Crying. Vincent would show no signs of emotions as he would try to comfort her. Yuffie pulled her head up and wiped her tears. She had to find the rest of her friends. She couldn't stand being alone. The young ninja sniffed and wiped her face once more before she finally leaped out of her pod. In the far distance Yuffie could see an industrialized area. A city where she would probably get to meet the natives of this planet. Yuffie landed on a nearby tree and stopped to think. What would they look? Hopefully humanoid beings. She would feel pretty strange being around being around some green skinned, black eyed aliens. Well in her case, she would be the alien. "Well there's only one way to find out," Yuffie said in her cheerful voice and continued jumping from tree to tree making her way to the nearby city.

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"This Eggman of yours sounds like bad news," Cloud said as he put his swords with one another. "That means Tifa is in big trouble."

"Yep," Sonic put his hands behind his head.

"Sonic," Knuckles called. Sonic approached his best friend who had a slight on his forehead.

"It's the Master Emerald isn't it?" Sonic already knew Knuckles had a connection to Angel Island. Knuckles gave Sonic a nod.

"I'm sorry, but I have to go back. I won't be able to help with Eggman."

Sonic put his hand on Knuckles' shoulder. " I understand. Now go. Besides, we have a new friend in Cloud over there. And judging by the size of his sword I'm sure he'll give Eggman a run for his money."

Knuckles and Sonic looked over toward Cloud who was engaged in a conversation with Tails. The red echidna gave Sonic a nod and without saying goodbye, he took off into the air. Sonic turned back to Cloud and Tails. "Well what's the word Sonic," Tails asked.

"Knuckles had some business to attend to on Angel Island. So we're one man short." Sonic's eyed narrowed on Cloud. "Well Cloud, what do you say? Will you help us save take down Robotnic and save our friend?"

"Only if we save Tifa," Cloud's cool voice let the words slide out of his mouth. Without saying anything else, he began making his way towards the Tornado.

Tails grabbed Sonic by the arm. "Sonic are you sure we can trust this guy. I mean look at him, he looks kind of dangerous."

Sonic rubbed the bottom of his nose with his finger and then gave Tails his signature smirk and thumbs up. "Don't worry little buddy. If anything goes wrong then leave it to me."

Sonic put his hand on Tails' head and shook his hair around a bit. Tails giggled and gently flailed his arms around to remove Sonic's. "Well Sonic, if you put it that way."

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so what did you suys think of this one. I would like to thank arkard for being the first to review this new story of mine. By the way, Shadow and Vincent are going to be the main characters of this story it will be a while before the story focuses on them. Well I'll be waiting for your reviews.