Hey, haven't seen anyone running at me carrying torches or pitchforks yet so I guess I don't have to run away... right? Right? Uh anyone? Okay...well here goes with the much dreaded chapter 2. Still rated T. Characters probably will be out of character.
Disclaimer: I do not own Final Fantasy X, and I never will... Although if anyone has any good ideas for kidnapping Auron... Oh and The Bevellian Biohazard Countermeasures Service members are inspired by Umbrella's Biohazard Countermeasures Service in the Resident Evil games. I do not own the Resident Evil movies or games. I do not own Shaun of the Dead, or the feature found on the Shaun of the Dead DVD fittingly titled "Funky Pete".
Chapter 2: Weapons, a Mission, and Funky Rikku
"What's happening to this place?" Rikku asks
"I don't know." he answers roughly.
"What do we do?" Rikku asks
"We have to get out of this city!" he says, "We head for the docks."
As the group was running for the docks Rikku continued to ask Auron and endless supply of questions. "Auron, what was it like to fall out of the Farplane?"
"It was like falling out of anywhere else, Rikku."
"Auron, what kinds of things happened in the Farplane?"
"I don't know, Rikku."
"You was there wasn't you?"
"Yes Rikku, I was there."
"Then why don't you know what kind of things happened there?"
"Rikku, I strongly suggest you save your breath." he says coldly.
"Uh Auron, why did you land on my head?"
"Save your breath Rikku."
"It hurt ya know." She says, as she runs a little faster to catch up with Yuna. Suddenly a man walks slowly onto the street and begins following them slowly. The man seems to be limping slightly, and he is walking with his arms outstretched. Tidus notices the man and stops.
"Hey, are you okay?" he asks as he begins walking towards the man. "Do you need some help?" The man doesn't answer Tidus. Tidus approaches him. "Sir, are you okay?"
"Uh Tidus... Yuna starts but before she can finish the man lunges for Tidus. Tidus rolls out of the way in time and runs back towards the group.
"Guys what do we do?" he asks as the group backs away from the man who is still progressing towards them.
"We need weapons." Auron states flatly
"Yeah." Rikku says, "Uh hey Auron, I have one of your swords. Its at the Inn where Yuna and I was staying. I hope you're not mad, that I kept it, its such a pretty sword, and its lighter than I thought it would be, and, and I figured maybe you wouldn't mind if I kept it. Now that you're back, if you want it we could run back and get it."
"Yeah, Auron I have some guns at the Inn also, can we run back and get them?" Yuna asks
"Let's go." Auron says as he turns and begins running towards the Inn. Everyone follows him. They run for about an hour, dodging people trying to bite them, and large crowds of people trying to get out of the city, before they make it to the Inn. They run inside and begin climbing the stairs up to their rooms. "Get what you need, and hurry." Rikku leads the way to her room and Tidus and Yuna go to their rooms.
Auron stands inside Rikku's room waiting for her to get the sword.
"So Auron ya know I visited the Farplane once?"
"Yes Rikku, I know." he says
"Ya know I told you I learned to use this sword?"
"Yes."
"Ya know what else I told you?"
"Yes." he says as he sighs and begins pacing. She turns to face him as she pulls the sword from under her bed. Then she carries it over to him.
"What did I tell you?"
"Rikku, we haven't got time for this now." he says as he takes the sword, "Get your weapon."
"Okay." she says as she lowers her head. "I meant what I said you know."
"I believe you, now hurry."
"Yes sir!" she says as she turns towards him and salutes. "You know we all missed ya, you big meanie, you don't have to be so mean."
"Rikku, I am sorry. Now would you get your weapon?"
"Uh, that's kind of the thing you see. The only weapon I had with me was that sword."
Somewhere south of the Inn a Bevellian Airship flies over head and four men parachute out. As soon as they hit the ground they begin ridding themselves of their parachutes. The leader takes out a comm sphere and begins talking with the pilot.
"We're down, there is no Walkers in sight. Again we are down and everything is clear. Once we reach the extraction point we will give you a yell."
"I hear ya. Don't let the Walkers bite. Be careful down there. Over." the pilot says and the airship begins flying away.
"Tom, Dick, Harry you remember what our mission is?"
"Yes sir, Punk!" The three men say in unison.
"Good. You ready?"
"Yes Sir." the three say in unison once more.
"Then let's move." the one called Punk says.
"The Bevellian Biohazard Countermeasures Service is back in action!" the three men say as they begin jogging following Punk. The jog for a few minutes before one of the men suddenly stops. One of the men crashes into the one that stopped knocking both of them off of their feet.
"Tom, you idiot. Couldn't you see that I had stopped?"
"Harry, I saw, but I couldn't stop in time." the one called Tom says. Harry gets up and slaps Tom in the back of the head.
"Ouch! What the funk was that for?" Tom asks as he kicks Harry in the shin.
"That funking hurt!" Harry says as he grabs a handful of Tom's hair and begins pulling it.
"Let go of my funking hair, you funking idiot!" Tom yells as he tackles Harry. Suddenly Punk is standing over them.
"Get up! You too need to stop acting like funking idiots! Now move!" Punk says as he shakes his head, "Where is Dick?"
"Oh sorry boss, I am right here." the shortest man says as he puts the sphere mirror back in his pocket.
"Come on now, move!" Punk says as he begins walking again, leaving the others behind. "I make it through the funking training, just to be assigned to these funking idiots."
"Uh boss what is our mission?" Dick asks.
Tidus, Yuna, Rikku and Auron all meet in the hall after getting what they need from their rooms.
"Uh guys could you keep an eye out for guns lying around, or anything I could use as a weapon?" Rikku asks as she smiles at the group and bounces over to Auron.
"You could take one of these." Yuna says holding out one of her guns.
"Yunie those are your guns, you need them."
"Rikku its okay, take it."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes." Yuna says. Rikku takes the gun, and smiles at Yuna.
"Thanks Yunie!"
"Now let's go." Auron says and begins walking down the hall. Everyone runs to catch up with him. They make it down the stairs
and out the door before they see a couple of people walking towards them in the same manner as the attackers.
"Tidus your sword has scan on it doesn't it?" Yuna asks
"Yeah, it does." he says and begins using scan on the people coming towards them. "Uh Yuna its showing that they have zero HP."
"Then these people are dead." Yuna says as she turns towards Auron. "Sir Auron, could these people be Unsent?"
"Yunie, they look dead, when Auron was Unsent he didn't look dead."
"If they are not Unsent then what are they?" Yuna asks looking confused.
"Maybe they are undead!" Rikku says, "Or the living dead."
"Okay." Yuna says looking more confused than ever.
"Let's go." Auron says as he begins walking towards the group of the living dead. After a few minutes they begin fighting their way through the group of the living dead. It doesn't take them long to defeat the small group of the dead, and begin on their journey to the docks once more.
"Auron remember those old sphere movies we used to watch in Zanarkand? There was a couple of them about the living dead?
Auron what did they call them in those movies?"
"Zombies." Auron says as he walks on.
"Zombies, Brother used to go to the drive-in sphere and watch those kind of movies. Once he took me with him and helped me sneak in." Rikku says.
"Sir Auron the fiends we fought in Zanarkand were...
"Yuna, I know as much as the rest of you do about this." Auron says as he begins to run forward. Rikku runs up beside of him and glances up at him smiling.
"Yes Rikku?"
"Thanks for ya know not getting mad because I had your sword."
"I had no use for it any longer, Rikku. I am pleased that someone could make some use of it."
"Make some use of it?" Rikku says as she comes to a stop on the street. She stomps up to him and looks at him, "I did more than made SOME use of it. I mastered that sword." Her hands go to her hips and she sticks her tongue out at him.
"We should be moving." he says as he continues forward.
"Hey, Auron." she says. He continues to walk forward. She runs after him, "Auron!" He continues to ignore her. "HEY MISTER LEGENDARY PAIN IN THE ASS! I'M TALKING TO YOU!" Still he ignores her. "Well hello Mister Fancypants, you do think you are better than everyone else. Hey, stop I am talking to you."
"Rikku, there is no need for yelling." Auron says and turns towards Rikku. Suddenly his eye gets big and focuses on something behind the group. "RUN!"
"You aren't getting out of this... She says and looks in the direction he is looking in, "Oopsies." The group takes off running as fast as they can run. Rikku runs close to Auron, "I think sound may be how these zombies can find us so easily."
"Gee you think?" Auron asks looking at her sharply.
"Sorry." Rikku says as she continues to walk forward. She lowers her head and looks at the ground.
"I apologize Rikku."
"Do you mean it?" she asks looking up at him.
"Yes."
Somewhere across town, a man who is wearing a long red coat, shades, and is carrying a massive looking sword comes out of a building. He begins walking down the street and finally as if he is just noticing the sword he begins studying it. Suddenly a group of
pedestrians come running up to him.
"Sir Auron, did you come back to save us?"
"Sir Auron once this is over can I have your autograph?"
"Sir Auron, is it really you?" The pedestrians ask as they surround him.
"Yes it is me." he says. Then he smiles at the crowd who has surrounded him. "Come with me."
"Yes sir!" the group of pedestrians says as they begin following him. They follow him into the building. Suddenly zombies begin coming towards the small group of pedestrians. The man in the red coat stands back watching as the zombies begin killing the pedestrians. One zombie looks up at him.
"Are you hungry?" he asks the zombie, the zombie doesn't respond. "There is food out there." The zombie walks past him and goes outside.
"Punk wait up!" Dick asks as he chases after his leader. "You mean our job is to find High Summoner Yuna's party and save them?"
"Yes." Punk says.
"That's what I thought."
"Well what are we waiting for?" Tom asks.
"We have to wait on our funking weapons. Our funking superiors, haven't gave us our funking weapons, at this funking time. We have a funking 24 hours to get those funkers out of this city, before they funking sanitize the place, if this funking outbreak cannot be
funking stopped in time. Those prinks have sent us on what sounds like a funking suicide mission." Punk says.
"We could find our own funking weapons?" Harry suggests
"Lets funking do it."
"Funk yeah!"
After a couple hours of walking Yuna, Tidus, Rikku, and Auron have made it to the docks, but here doesn't seem to be any ships
left in the harbor.
"What do we do now?" Tidus asks.
"We could go back through the city, to the exit that leads to the Highroad, and then walk from there to the Moonflow, hitch a ride on a Shoopuff across the Moonflow and head to Quadosalem." Yuna suggests
"No, how about we go to the Highroad, walk to Rin's shop on the Highroad, call Pops and have him pick us up in his airship and take us wherever?" Rikku suggests.
"Uh how about we just call the airship from the comm sphere at the Blitzball Stadium?" Tidus suggests.
"We have no time." Auron says. Everyone looks behind them.
"Uh oh, dead people at six o'clock." Tidus says pulling his sword.
"Looks like we may have to fight." Yuna says pulling her gun.
"Did I ever mention how much I hate dead things? No offense Auron." Rikku says pulling her gun.
"None taken." Auron says as he gets in stance and begins waiting on the group of zombies. The small group of zombies walk towards the group slowly. More and more zombies come walking behind the first group until the small group becomes not so much of a small group, but a large group. Finally the first zombie arrives within striking distance. Auron begins battle with it. Soon the entire group is engaged in battle with the zombies. After about thirty minutes of shooting, and slashing at the zombies, the zombies are laying on the sidewalk, either dead for the second time or dying for the second time.
"What's next?" Rikku asks
"The blitzball stadium isn't too far from here. We use the comm sphere there and call Cid." Auron says as he begins walking. As soon as they all begin walking four men come running towards them.
"Stop!" Punk yells.
"Yeah what he said." Tom says.
"Who are you?" Dick says.
"I am Yuna, and this is Tidus, she is Rikku, and he is Sir Auron."
"So you're high summoner Yuna?"
"Yes."
"We've come to save you."
"Uh Dick, I don't think they need saving." Tom says.
"Ya think? They are trapped in this funking city, full of funking dead things, and have no funking way out of here!" Dick says
"Uh Dick what are we?" Punk asks
"We have a way out of this funking city if we can get to the funking extraction zone."
"I've been meaning to tell you guys, I got a call while ago and our ride out of here has kind of been canceled. A problem arose in Bevelle."
"You can call and have them come back for us right boss?" Dick asks
"Uh not exactly."
"So they won't be coming back for us?"
"No." Punk says, "We're expendable assets, and I think we have just been expended."
"Okay so we are trapped in this funking city, full of funking dead things, and have no funking weapons?"
"Exactly."
"You gotta be funking kidding me."
"Uh who are you?" Rikku asks as she walks up to Harry.
"We are the Bevellian Biohazard Countermeasures Service." Harry says
"So this is...
"Guys we don't have much time." Punk says.
"What do you mean?" Yuna asks
"We have twenty four hours to figure out whats happening in this city and to stop it before they sanitize it." Punk says
"What does sanitize mean?" Tidus asks
"A precision tactical nuclear device." Punk says
"Did you say nuclear?" Rikku asks turning towards Punk.
"Yes."
"What yield?" She asks
"3 Kilotons." Punk says
"Funk me." Rikku says
"RIKKU!" Auron and Yuna both yell at once effectively scolding her.
"What? Its just an expression ya know."