As we were doing our thing, Snow had managed to heft his crystallized fiancee a decent ways, but was still nowhere close to catching up to us. Suddenly, a number of the cruisers searching for L'Cie found him and a bunch of spotlights were on him. "L'Cie spotted! Repeat, L'Cie spotted! Pulse L'Cie confirmed." The person on the intercom of one of the ships said.
"You gonna lend me a hand or what?!" He shouted (Oh, yes, people coming to kill you are gonna be neighborly and help out).
A number of soldiers dropped down as the dude on the intercom spoke again. "Commencing Cleanup protocol." He said.
"Clean up? Let me help!" Snow said, hurling the item he had previously been digging with at the soldiers, knocking a number of them down. He then jumped onto another one, knocking him to the ground. Many more dropped down and raised their guns at him as he prepared to fight. It was a quick fight and he indeed fought bravely, but their numbers overwhelmed him, bringing him to his hands and knees, panting. Suddenly, his brand began to glow as it first did when he used magic, causing the soldiers that had just been closing in on him to cautiously back away, all shouting things in confusion. A blue orb suddenly emerged from the brand and got continuously bigger, floating in front of him and the guards like a barrier, then looking like it turned to ice, suddenly glowing intensely. Suddenly, two chicks emerged from it, looking similar to each other, dancing and twirling around each other like the antennae of the frog demons from DMC4, before floating down, still putting themselves in between the soldiers and Snow. Suddenly, in a swift motion, the slightly younger-looking white one flung a giant wheel thing at them, which they ducked under, but then proceeded to spin it above then, knocking them all down in a mini blizzard, easily defeating them all.
"What the? What's happening?" Snow asked silently, while from up on a cliff, a woman in a blue Sari (I think that's what they're called) with black hair and a staff watched the battle that would soon start, a small group of soldiers far different from the Sanctum ones behind her. Back with Snow, the two strange women turned to face him, looking like they would attack. Snow backed up and took a fighting stance, preparing to fight.
Suddenly, the darker one cast a spell on him, a timer appearing above him and counting down. Once that timer ended, Snow's life would as well... Pretty dark shit. Anyway, they lighter one began a chargin' her attack~ as Snow provoked them and went into Steelguard. He defended against all her attacks and when the opening presented itself, he went on the offensive, delivering heavy strikes to her. Surprisingly, he managed to balance his attacks and defenses rather well and timed everything correctly to do damage and defend against it, plus the darker twin would heal him if her younger twin damaged him too greatly. After enough punishment and the timer started running low, Snow finally gained the respect of the two sisters. At that moment... Okay, this is getting weird. The two sisters spun around, did a small high five or something, I couldn't exactly catch it, then reached outwards towards each other and crossed their legs around each other as if they were going to do something strange, but then the heels of the lighter one changed slightly and the darker one stretched her feet out, now creating exhaust pipes as they slowly turned into some type of motorcycle. Snow then jumped on as the transformation completed and looked prepared for battle atop the admittedly badass bike, even though it was made by two sisters scissoring. The two returned to Snow's brand, causing him some pain and stress, to which he fell back and collapsed in exhaustion.
"The twin sisters..." The girl in blue said as she walked up to Snow, who couldn't move enough to see her. She spoke in a similar Australian accent to Vanille's. "I gotta hand it to you for taking them down. But don't gloat just yet. Might come a time when you wish you'd let 'em end it. And make things easy" She said stepping into view enough for Snow to see the strangely-tipped staff pointing in his face. He managed to get up enough to see her better.
"More of you, huh?" He asked as more soldiers approached.
"He's a L'Cie, Take him." The woman said.
"Back off." He said weakly, but seriously.
"You wanna keep breathing? Then shut up and keep quiet." The woman said, crouching down and putting a few fingers on his chin, but then she delivered a chop to his neck and knocked him out. Later, a differently colored cruiser flew down as the soldiers directed it and a number of droids carried Serah to the ship as two soldiers helped Snow in a somewhat friendly manner, each throwing one of his arms over their shoulder to evenly support him and take his weight.
He woke up at that moment and saw them carrying Serah onto the ship. "Serah! Serah!" He called out for her (She can't hear you. She's a crystal).
"Shut it!" A soldier said, walking up a bit and pointing his gun at his chest.
"Stand down." The woman said, walking up to the soldier and moving his gun away.
As the soldiers carried Snow onto the chopper, he noticed that she also had a L'Cie brand on her shoulder, but hers was covered by a strange white burn-looking... thing. "You, too? Why are you helping them?!" He asked.
"If I were you, I'd be more worried about myself." She said, smirking once he was loaded on the chopper.
Back with us...
"Huh. I guess I was wrong. The entire scenario I mentioned just happened and more." I said, reading the section above before taking the pilot's seat of the cruiser. "Alright, everyone please turn off all electronic devices and cell phones, do not distract the pilot in mid-flight, keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times and this is a non-smoking flight. I ask you not to distract me because if you do, we will all die because it WILL cause me to crash and if you don't keep hands and feet inside a vehicle like this, it's liable the rest of you will follow it and should that happen... There's nothing I can do about it." I said, everyone buckling in tightly.
"I've got a bad feeling about this. Maybe I should pilot-" Sazh started.
"LET'S FUCKING GO!" I shouted, turning everything on and sending us off. A couple of other cruisers chased us, but that was nothing compared to larger ships firing giant lasers at us. "PSICOM... You really gonna do me like that, PSICOM?" I asked like Baraka, but then smirked. "That's fine. Cause I got this!" I said, firing the cruiser's turret at them, blowing up one of them and aiming for the others. "YEAH! WHAT YOU GOT, BITCHES?! WHAT YOU GOT?!" I shouted, laughing evilly as I continued to decimate their ships.
"Did we get 'em?!" Vanille asked hopefully.
"We got one of 'em." Lightning said.
"They didn't call me the single deadliest pilot back in my world for nothing. Hang on!" I said, flipping the ship upside down (turn the ship around~ Sai is gon-na kill them~ Turn it upside down~ Shoot down the bad guy's ships~! family Guy reference. Type in family Guy turn the ship around), flying back at them and shooting them all down. "Hell that no fury like Sai Blade in the pilot's seat!" I said triumphantly, flying back to where we were going. Unfortunately, more of them came. Enough to the point I knew I couldn't win the fight.
"They're still behind us!" Hope said.
"It's alright, I think I can outmaneuver them!" I said, dodging the bullets, weaving in between buildings and seeing a crevice in between a couple of giant rock walls. "Star Wars, don't fail me now." I said, flying in between the tight spaces, causing the cruisers to crash into each other or into sides of the walls, blowing up. "Yahoo! Thank you, Han Solo!" I said, flying out of the crevice, into the sky. "Wait, how the hell do we go from giant rock crevice straight into the clouds? Oh well. We're alive." I said, shrugging. We continued flying around, when suddenly an announcement came on the screen.
"And now, an update on the purge." The woman voice said.
"We don't care about The Purge. Honestly, I'm surprised that movie got a sequel. I mean, the shooting was okay, but when the dude actually had to fight, he was kinda pathetic. And when he got killed it kinda ruined it for me. I mean, you expect people to die, but not the main dude." I said.
"Just moments ago, SANCTUM announced the successful conclusion of the purge. Along with the safe arrival of the Cocoon migrants to their new home on Pulse." She said.
"Damn, if you guys make it sound so bad how can she be so happy? At least most news stations in my world have an obvious opinion. Except CNN and Fox news, they're just retarded." I said, turning to the 4th wall. "Seriously, watch the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Hilarious, tells it like it is and destroys credibility of the people who deserve their credibility smashed." I said, turning back. "Seriously, even if it's only one or two of the anchors and even if they're annoying, throwing in their own opinion, they know what's good or bad." I said.
Suddenly, an old guy looking like an emperor or something, was shown on screen. "Yes. That is correct. There's no denying the enormity of the strain the purge placed on us all, but given the tens of millions of lives at stake, there truly was no alternative." He said, somewhat sadly.
"I got an idea, how about a frickin' peace treaty!" I said, annoyed.
"Primarch Dysley stood by the move, stressing the necessity of the relocation. When asked about the possibility of future purges, the primarch remained non-commital, stating only that he would seek council with the Fal'Cie Eden and would weigh all options for making a decision." The male news reporter said.
"Yeah, that's right. If it makes the SANCTUM look bad, it never even happened." Sazh said.
"How do you change the channel, this is boring me to tears." I said.
Vanille, however, seemed somewhat intrigued and turned it back on her TV, listening to the Primarch again. "In all the centuries since the war of transgression, Cocoon has been spared Pulse aggression and prospered for it." He said.
"I'll hand it to you, though, you've got seem pretty cool names for your wars. The coolest named war we ever had was Desert Storm, which was a bullshit war to begin with." I said, shaking my head.
"It is essential that we maintain this peace. That is the SANCTUM'S focus! We will continue employing every resource available to combat the threat to our society" The Primarch continued.
"Meaning, we'll be running for the rest of our lives." Sazh said.
"Running? Not my style. Sai Blade fights until the end. Unless I piss off Damion, then I am running for the hills!" I said.
"Hey!" Vanille asked.
"Yeah?" Sazh asked.
"Um... Who is this guy?" Vanille asked, pointing to the screen.
"Weren't you listening? Some old dude named Primarch Dysley. Stupid name." I said, shaking my head.
Sazh sighed and dropped his head. "I mean, what do they teach kids these days? He's Galenth Dysley. The SANCTUM primarch. Murderer-In-Chief." Sazh said.
"I get it. He's like the Mitt Romney of your universe." I said. "Seriously, the dude wanted to start a war with CHINA! They outnumber the U.S... 10 to 1 at minimum? Probably more." I said, sighing.
"Just another tool of the Fal'Cie." Lightning said.
"Yep. Just like Mitt Romney. Republican puppet when he ran for office. Thank the gods he lost." I said.
"70% of all corespondents said they would also support additional purges for the need to arise." The Newswoman said.
Sazh sighed at this, too. "Let's purge everybody! That'll fix it!" He said mockingly.
"Right?" I agreed. Suddenly, there were tons of alarms. "Oh? What now?" I asked. Suddenly, the cruisers found us again and started shooting at us again. "Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking cruisers trying to shoot down our motherfucking plane!" I said, flying closer to where I thought the sun was.
"The Fal'Cie. Up close and personal. Cocoon's own light in the sky." Sazh said.
"And hopefully destroyer of those who oppose me." I said, flying at it, getting the cruisers to chase us and get blown up by the randomly shooting rays of sunlight.
"I like this Fal'Cie!" Sazh said.
"Yeah, it employs my favorite method: burning all who oppose you to a crisp." I said. Unfortunately, I got a look at something very disturbing to my left. "Um... Ladies and gentlemen, if you look to your left, you'll notice that the left wing is on fire." I said worriedly. We were falling from the sky and I couldn't do anything. "Alright, good game, guys. We had some fun." I said, nodding as we were about to crash.