FFX-2: Ties That Bind Fanfic

Chapter 2: I know everything.

Paine materialized inside the transport ring of the Celsius and promptly hopped the right railing making it to Shinra's post in half the normal time. She tapped the boy to break him from his trance like study of the Farplane energy and cast him a steel glare.

"We have a problem."

"I know everything."

Paine balked, paused and then regained her composure "H…how?"

"You're the recorder Paine, think I wouldn't know about your little hidden camera? I saw everything that happened on my live feed."

Again Pain balked "But…but I never told anyone I was recording our adventures."

"Once the Crimson Spheres told me your story it was elementary to figure out old habits die hard. The Crimson Squad is still the Crimson Squad even if their numbers are 6 not 4."

"Six? What are you talking about?"

"Yuna and Rikku survived the Den of Woes did they not? By the rules that makes them Crimson Squad as much as you 4. It may not have ever been an official ceremony but neither was yours was it? Surviving the Den of Woes is enough."

Paine calmly regain her composure pausing another moment. "So you have a plan to fix Yuna?"

"If my guess is right the beast removed the restrains on the Dress Sphere, made the personality of the suit dominant, let it overwrite her own genetic code, like lycanthropy. We need a summoner to 'Send' the infection of Pyre Flies."

"So go call up an Ex-summoner, Dona, Issaru, there's a few of them!"

"Won't work…"

"Why?"

"With the Fayth…gone…they have no power, the Summoner needs to be reinvented, like the mages were."

Paine paused again before realization hit. "You don't mean…"

"The Dress Sphere is almost ready but even with all of Yuna's recorded Summons and Sendings I can't make it 'true' unless their a bound Aeon to the summoner."

"But…so what's you plan for Aeons?"

"2 ways, Find a Fayth on the Farplane to become a Summon, or defeat and draw some of the energy of those Dark Aeon Fiends, your choice."

"We don't have time to hunt Fiends, The Farplane."

"Excellent, I'll ready my Scan Sphere to further study of the Farplane."

Silently Paine ran over toward Buddy before Brother stopped her. "We're not going any where without Yuna!"

Paine growled "She's taken you know, and if we don't go NOW, Yuna may become a fiend."

Brother paused in shock "Yuna…Fiend?" Brother dashed over to Buddy at break neck speed "FARPLANE NOW!"

"Whoa! Whoa! I'm on it Brother, I'm on it!"

In no time flat they were at the Farplane, Paine transported down to the flowery plains of the Farplane. Shinra joined her shortly handing over a Dress Sphere. Paine took a moment to reconfigure her Garment Grid as Shinra set up his Scan Sphere.

Paine sighed, "Wonder who I should call on, Someone powerful in case I'll need to fight, but someone Yuna would know to help 'wake her up.' Braska maybe or…" Paine took a sharp breath of air "Of course!"