We were now on the train to be purged to whatever kind of Hellhole this Pulse place was, me right next to the door between cars, but my eyes were on that chick from before. I knew she had to have some form of plan and it certainly interested me to think what it might be. Suddenly, the doors opened and a soldier walked out, up and down the isle, but he gave me a creepy look that made me want to stab him in the neck with a pencil. He raised his gun and took aim at certain people as the guy who stepped in line behind the girl turned to talk to her, which I could hear thanks to my demon hearing.
"You serious?" He asked.
"Be quiet." She told him.
He turned to look at the soldier, then looked back down the ground. "Best of luck." He said.
We suddenly crashed through some form of barrier, knocking everyone around and causing the soldier to stumble. At that moment, the girl rushed at him and knocked him to the ground, causing him to drop the device binding our hands. "Ah, freedom." I said, then waited for the door to open, ready to throw a round kick.
"She did it!" The guy said as everyone started calming down or cheering.
Two more soldier came out at that point. "Surprise!" I said, throwing the round kick, connecting with their chest and, no doubt in my mind shattering every single rib in their bodies, doubling them over then throwing off the cloak.
"Nice move, kid!" The girl said, running in and throwing her own round kick to their heads, knocking them into walls and out of consciousness.
"Style." I said with a considerate nod. She picked up one of their machine guns and I followed close behind with Fire and Ice (the guns Dante gave me in Chapter 10 of Saikai Academy. My own little versions of Ebony and Ivory, just red and blue, instead).
We took cover on either side of the doors until they opened and we rushed through, side-by-side, blasting at the guards. One came out from behind cover, only to be kicked in the head by the girl, then another one came out and I shot him in the face as she shot him in the chest a few times. We exchanged a glance and both nodded in approval of each other.
The guy from before, a black guy looking like a pilot, came up to a young boy and knelt beside him. "Hey, you alright?" He asked. The boy looked up at him, then he smiled. "I'm not a L'cie." He said.
"Okay, what the hell is a L'cie, seriously?" I asked.
"How do you not know that?" The girl asked as we continued to fight.
"I'm not from this dimension. I don't know how the hell I got here and I don't know the first thing about what lives here." I said.
"A little hard to believe, but fine, I'll tell you later." She said, kicking another soldier in the face as I grabbed the soldier's partner and repeatedly smashed my elbow into his face.
I also noticed a small bird popped out of the black guy's Afro at that point (Oh, sure, Square Enix, give the black guy an Afro, that's totally not stereotypical... Racist!). "The hell?!" I said.
The girl snapped her finger and suddenly was glowing with purple electricity, then jumped back and literally flew into two guards behind us. "Whoa!" I said, shocked, then she flew back, kicked another soldier and loaded the rest of the soldiers in this car up with bullets. "Wow. Suddenly I don't feel that badass anymore." I said. The last soldier, she shot while she was hanging upside down from the ceiling, which was incredibly epic. "Now even more." I said, looking at my badass meter, which was dropping as hers was rising incredibly.
The black guy came through at that moment holding a machine gun and two rocket launchers on his back, leading the rest of the people on the train. "So far, so good." He said.
"Do you really need 2 rocket launchers?" I asked.
"Why not?" He asked.
"... Excellent point." I said, nodding.
He then looked to the girl. "They all wanna fight." He said.
"Good for them." She said, holding the gunblade weapon she had from before like a machine gun, although it clearly wasn't.
The train cleared the cave we were in and was suddenly attacked by jets. "Saw that coming." I said, throwing fireballs at them.
"You can throw fire? You're a L'cie aren't you?!" She demanded.
"Still don't know what the hell those are. I'm a fire demon. It's hard to believe, but I'll tell you later." I smirked. I like turning people's words on them.
She then turned back to the guy and took one of the rocket launchers. "Give me that!" She said, then locked on to one of the jets and blew it up with a clean shot.
"Nice! I got this one." I said, pulling out Ice (the blue gun, much like Ivory, was made for long range shots) and shot twice, missing once, but easily taking down the jet with the next shot. "Yeah, that's how we do it in my town, bitch!" I laughed. Suddenly, they attacked with some weird flying monsters. "Why do they always do that? Each time I start to celebrate, they throw something worse." I said, annoyed, then pulled out a giant bazooka from my trench coat. "Let's try this!" I said, firing dozens of missiles at the oncoming attackers, easily blowing them up.
"Anything you DON'T seem to have in that coat?" She asked.
"A kitchen sink." I said without missing a beat, tossing the empty gun over my shoulder.
Unfortunately, I missed one and it shot the tracks and derailed the entire train with the exception of the car we were in. Luckily, everyone had moved to this one, so no one was hurt. Everyone began open firing at the people shooting at us, displaying amazing skill for your average citizen. "I always loved war zones. FIRE IN THE HOLE!" I said, throwing a massive fireball at the guys attacking us, blowing up the entire section of the bridge they were on.
"You're gonna have to go easy on that, man. You're gonna bring us all down." The guy said.
"Please, you're acting like I've never done this before." I said, putting my hand on the railing. Unfortunately, my hand was still on fire and it melted that section of the railing, sending a guy leaning on it for cover over the edge. "...Whoops." I said. Suddenly, they began to summon monsters from portals that bullets were bouncing off of. "Oh, that's cheap. Time for my own portals." I said, pulling out a portal gun, shooting underneath the bridge they were on, then underneath the feet of the monsters, sending them falling to their deaths. "Portal for the win!" I said triumphantly.
Suddenly, they flew in a giant scorpion robot from nowhere, which slammed on top of the train and started ripping it to pieces.
"Should've seen that coming." I said, deadpanning.
"Run!" The guy said as it smashed a hole in the roof. The girl ran through it."I meant away!" He said.
"Is she crazy!" I said, jumping out to provide support.
The guy slowly climbed his way out to stand beside us as it flew closer, slamming on the ground and knocking the guy on his ass. "Hey, hey! Let's be rational now!" He said, backing away. We all skillfully jumped back as it tried to strike, then got in our respective fighting stances. "They're sending the big guns now. What do we do?!" He asked.
"Kill." I answered.
"Watch and learn." She answered at the same time. It charged up it's saw blade arm and swung it at her, but she jumped back out of harms way. We got ready to fight again and the guy pulled our his guns.
"Oh, once again, Square Enix, give the black guy a couple of guns and have him bounce around like a gangster. Racist! There are only 2 black guys in the history of Final Fantasy and they only further the black stereotypes." I said, shaking my head, pulling out Nevan, turning it into a scythe.
Back at DMC...
"Guys, have you seen Sai for a while? And where did he take Nevan this time?" Dante asked.
Back to us...
The girl ran in and attacked twice while the guy and I provided support at a distance with bullets and lightning balls with Nevan in its guitar form. She jumped back, then I rushed in with Nevan as a scythe again and did a triple flip, striking the robot 3 different times, ripping its face open a little, causing it to jump back away from us.
"Not bad." She said.
"Way to go, buddy! You made it look like a pansy!" He said.
It suddenly grabbed the train car we were on and started shaking it a little. "Fall back!" She said, running back along with the guy as I did a jumping backflip to land where they were, a different car.
The guy laughed at it at this point, since it wouldn't come after us. "Not so tough now, huh?!" He laughed. It suddenly activated thrusters and started to lift the train car. "Hey! That wasn't like a challenge now, alright?" He asked, backing away and raising his guns in a signal to stop. It then started to lift the full train.
"Holy shit!" I said, turning and running.
"Coming up!" He said as they ran alongside me.
We jumped from train to train as they were being lifted until the girl jumped on the rail of one of the trains and grinded on it to the first safe train. "I can take a cue from that." I said, but knowing I couldn't grind like that, I threw Nevan and landed on it like a surfboard, but unfortunately, I threw it horizontally, so it was spinning, so now I was spinning. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this wasn't as good of an idea as I thought! Whoa, whoa, whoa, gods, I'm gonna be sick!" I said as I crashed next to her.
Unfortunately, the guy was still on the trains getting lifted and thrown. He slid a little bit, but then came running again, but at this rate, he wouldn't make it. "He's gonna die." I said.
"Jump!" The girl told him. He did so and landed safely on our train, but fell onto his hands and knees, while the bird from his hair made a perfect stage landing.
"I'll give you a 10 for the performance, but a 5 for the landing." I said.
It flew back and with a little more effort than last time, we finally killed it, sending it falling thousands of feet below. The guy then fell back, panting. "Whoo. Oh, goodness. We did it." He said.
"Yeah, yay, hooray, good job, guys." I said, fake-cheering like Iron Man after he nuked the Chitauri ship in the Avengers.
The girl knelt down for some reason, then a bunch of jets flew over us, but ignored us, then she stood up and sheathed her sword, folding it up and putting it away, "That was cool. Where can I get one of those?" I asked.
"You'll have to take one from an officer of the Guardian Corps." She said.
"I'll look for one of them later." I said.
She then started to walk off before the guy spoke again. "Aren't you supposed to protect civilians, 'soldier?' I mean, you are Sanctum, aren't you? What are you doing trying to stop the purge? Why don't you tell me that?" He asked.
"I WAS a soldier." She said, then walked towards the edge.
"Okay, what is Sanctum and the hell is the purge and why is it so good?" I asked.
"Sanctum's the army, the purge is to get rid of L'cie and if it's stopped, that means L'cie are still free to roam around." He explained, then she jumped off the edge of the train. "Hey, where do you think you're going?!" He asked.
"She definitely looks like she's on a mission. Something tells me I'll have more fun sticking around with her. 6 to 1 odds are I'll find a way to get home, too." I said, following her.
The guy sighed, then looked at the little bird as it flew out of his Afro and into his hand. "Chocobo, we just can't catch a break, can we?" He asked, then started climbing down. "Oh, well, I'd better follow them. I'm getting too old for this." He said, catching back up with us. "You sure we can get through here?" He asked, referring to the path blocked by rubble. Suddenly, a jet conveniently blew up the rubble blocking the path.
"Yes." I said.
We snuck up on some guys and capped 'em easily, then continued on our way. "That was ANNOYINGLY easy." I said. We encountered some guys we couldn't sneak up on and killed them with a bit more effort, continuing once again. We continued on this way for a while, then encountered some guys blocking the middle of the bridge with weird tiger monsters.
"I don't wanna get purged, but taking on train soldiers-" The guy said.
"Better to die than get sent to Pulse. It's Hell on Earth." The girl said.
"I don't know, I've went to Hell a few time, it's not much worse than what we're going through here. The worst part is all the Jehovah's witnesses and some oiled-up German guys who wanna wrestle you." I said, shuddering at the memory.
"Are you real?" The guy asked.
"They're domesticated peacekeepers. Nothing to worry about." She said, rushing in.
"I'll have to introduce her to Lady if I ever get the chance." I said, following her.
We kicked ass and continued on until we reached more guys in the way. "Preemptive strike!" She said, in other words: surprise attack.
But then the tiger thing saw us and drew the soldiers attention as they came up to fight us. "So much for the surprise attack." The guy said
We killed them and continued until they jets dropped a massive bomb that blew up the bridge in front of us and almost knocked us off our feet. "What now? Do we turn back?!" The guy asked.
"There's no time!" She said.
"What do we do, then?" He asked.
"Quiet!" She said, then snapped her fingers to activate the gravity device.
"You're just gonna leave us here?!" He demanded.
"Relax. I can fly, I'll just carry you across." I said, using my Ki to take flight and grabbed onto him, flying after her (Yay for plot convenience!).
We landed on the other side, close to another warzone to the sound of it. "Sounds like more killing ahead. Let's be ready." I said.
"So, soldier? What's your angle?" He asked the girl. "What? Classified military info? You quit, didn't you? It's not like I'm gonna go around and-" He continued before she finally answered.
"Pulse Fal'Cie." She said.
"What?" He asked.
"My angle, I'm after the Fal'Cie." She said.
"Now what's a Fal'Cie?" I asked.
"A big metal monster that's like a god, turns people into L'Cie." The guy explained.
"So, we're after that? Shit just got real!" I said.
"Still happy you tagged along?" She asked, walking off.
"I am." I said. The guy was silent.
"Didn't have a choice." He said.
"I'll leave that alone for later plot filler." I said, following her.
We continued towards the next battlefield and heard an unimportant announcement from presumably some type of Overlord. We popped up to see a guy stomp on the radio that was broadcasting the message. "Snow." The girl said with a hint of anger and hatred in her voice.
"History?" I asked.
"He's a rebel against the government and my sister's fiancee." She said.
"And you worked for the government. Must be a bad home situation." I said.
"Migration? More like extermination." Some Blue haired kid said, walking up to Snow.
"Yuj." Snow said. "Stay here." He ordered.
"Sorry, I just-" The kid said, pausing.
"These people need heroes!" Snow said, raising a fist.
"So far this guy knows how to get you amped." I said.
He raised Yuj's gun so he was holding it in both hands. "Here." He said, then nodded to the people beside them. "You keep your cool, they will, too. You got it?" He said.
"Got it." Yuj responded.
"I like things more heated." I said.
"What's our motto?" Snow asked.
"The army's no match for NORA." He answered.
"Good boy." He said, giving a thumb's up, then ruffling his hair and started climbing up rubble to the battlefield.
"Who's Nora? Sounds like one of my Nana's knitting friends." I said.
"It's their little rebel group. A stupid acronym. It stands 'No Obligations, Rules or Authority.'" She said.
"... That's fucking stupid." I said, following where Snow went. If there was a war going on, I'd better not miss a DAMN thing.