FFX-2: Ties That Bind Fanfic

Chapter 12: Pyreflies

The door hissed as it opened Thief-Yuna entered the command room, glancing over she saw a odd creature strapped to the table Pyreflies swarming over her head. Moving closer the creature was roughly humanoid in shape, female, with a muzzle that looked line the barrel of a gun, a pair of cannons formed each of her hands.

"Looks like the infusion went perfectly Lady Yuna. You have become the Gunner." Reaching into her pouch Thief-Yuna drew the White Signet Garment Grid.

Gunner-Yuna tried to speak but it only came out as mechanical clicks, Thief-Yuna ran her hand through the fiend's hair, "I'm not making any sense am I, you just want to hunt." reaching over she pressed a button on the collar, parts of it lighting up as Gun Fiend Yuna relaxed.

Releasing the clasps Gun Fiend Yuna drop to her knees, Thief-Yuna moving to the console, the Pyreflies dissipating after a moment. "Come here." She said casually, Gun Fiend Yuna obeying, bowing her head as she reached Thief-Yuna who set the Garment Grid in a spot just about Gun Fiend Yuna's breasts.

"After I met your companions I was starting to regret this, I was even considering reuniting you, but now that I have learned it was your people fault the Fayth left us here to die, stole the Aeons from us, doomed us all, well...consider this Karmic Payback."

Thief-Yuna tapped one of the nodes on the grid, and stood back watching as Gun Fiend Yuna changed shape taking on large claws, fur and a tail, to become Berserk Fiend Yuna. "Don't get me wrong. I do thank you for the Eternal Calm, which is why I am going to let your friends live, and why I am going to use this power of yours to restore my home. Don't worry They will get their Yuna back eventually...or more accurately Yuna 2.0." Tapping the Garment Grid again Berserk Fiend Yuna changed back to Gun Fiend Yuna. And the main screens came to life with a series of diagrams and readouts.

"You see while your friends have been helping me get the Machina up and running they have also helped me get my factories back up and I have use those factories to replicate your 'Garment Grid'. Now we each have one. And while I am unsure just how many of your forms will be useful soon I'll have far more control over the Skill Spheres allotment as well as the effects of the Grid itself. And in time, I will use thos system of yours to restore, some portion, of my own comrades."

Tapping some buttons on her console the back exit opened, and with a wave of her hand Thief-Yuna dispatched Gunner Fiend Yuna, "Now go, hunt to your hearts content, destroy the Fiends my dear sister."

Gun Fiend Yuna let off a series of noises and then quickly ran off. Thief-Yuna continuing her work as the other one vanished through the emergency exit. After several moments passed static came over the speakers followed by the broken voice of Shinra.

"'ow 'et 'ency."

"Please hold on, I'm getting interference, still trying to isolate." Thief-Yuna spoke calmly.

"'una, 'at you?"

"Almost there," she said adjusting settings. "One more time."

"Y-Yuna is that you?" Shinra's voice came in loud and clear.

"Not the one you want I'm afraid. You are with the Gullwings I take it? That airship?"

"Yes, who is this."

"A friend, I found your High Summoner's Garment Grid," she paused a moment, voice cracking, "But I am afraid the body was not living. Still I am told it is possible that the the real Yuna may still be out there given how the Garment Grid has effected me."

"That is a distinct possibility." Shinra confirmed, "How did are you contacting me?" a hint of suspicion in his voice.

"My boy I have live here all my life, I just needed to single out the new transmission band now that your allies have gotten some of my more important systems online. What I need to know is two fold. One The girl Paine is missing, is she still with you?"

"No. The transport sphere could not deliver her to your location she had to start at the entrance."

A smile crept over Thief-Yuna lips, "That's terrible! I'll head out as soon as possible to go find her." then she paused a hit of confusion in her voice, "That is once I know where this Transport Sphere is."

"I can give you coordinates."

Thief-Yuna smirked, "Excellent, let's pray that she is well. However I have a more pressing concern."

Shinra remained skeptical, "Yes?"

"I need to know everything there is to know about these Garment Grids, Technical Specifications, how they work. Not just for my own benefit mind you but because I may be able to use that information to create a program to track users. It would help narrow down Lady Paine as well as where the true Yuna is...in theory at least."

There was a pause on the other end, long and tense, finally Shinra spoke, "I will begin transmitting."

"Excellent, And in the meantime I will see if I can at least narrow down humanoid targets and upload the data to your radar system. I understand your comrades have a portable radar but it has some limitations."

"Yes." Shinra said simply. "The range is not far and it can specifies Fiend or companion, the latter of which can been lost thanks to the signal interference this city is generating."

"That I must apologize for. When I thought I was alone one of the systems I set up was a sort of broad back Pyrefly collector, without any Summoners I had to do whatever I could to prevent the Fiends from just recycling."

"The Gullwings have a Summoner Sphere, if we can find Paine and Yuna you will have 4 summoners, in fact one of the main reasons they were down there was to Send the place clean."

Thief-Yuna froze, a hit of true concern braking through her facade, "T-They were? I-I thought they just wanted to loot our treasures."

Shinra's voice was calm and collected, "The main mission of the Gullwings is to find History Spheres, to discover Spira's past. And since coming to your city to cleanse the Unsent denied final rest."

"O-Oh," Thief-Yuna said glances toward the exit, a sad glint in her eye. "T-Thank you."

"Thank the Gullwings, Especially Paine, it was her idea, my concerns are mostly academic."

Thief-Yuna nodded, a beep from the console breaking out of her reflections, "O-Oh the first packet on the Garment Grid System has arrived...t-tell me which of the girls do I have to think for the system's creation?"

"That would be me. Had I know that men would show interest in the system though I would have chosen a different name."

"You mean...the boy?" Thief-Yuna said curiously.

"As well as Brother, up here on the ship. Though he is far from ready to take it into the field."

Theif-Yuna nodded, her voice drifting as she looked again to the door then back to the monitor as the information came up, "I-I'm sorry but I will need to focus on the information sent. Keeping the Com-lines open as I send you radar data, please limit further conversation."

"Of course."