Just so everyone knows, Chapter 8 was in fat itself and this chapter combined, and it was FIVE PAGES LONG! I don't think you guys want to be scrolling through five pages of text. It took me an hour to upload it from my miniboard into the computer! hehehe…
Chapter 9: Masamune Shows: The Sephiroth Battle
Vince closed his phone, and slipped it back into its pocket. "Well, ladies," Vince said happily, "Let's go! We'd best not keep Cloud waiting, or he'll literally tear a strip out of me." The girls grimaced at this thought, and immediately fell into step behind Vince. After a few minutes, Clover looked from one companion to the next, and caught sight of Sam's X-Powder. It was threatening to fall out of her pocket. Running and catching it just before it hit the ground, Clover got an idea. "Hey, girls, we have to call Gerry and tell him what's going on! Clover opened her own X-Powder, just as Vince turned and said, "Well, I can't let you use my PHS. I don't have free minutes on it till after 8PM. I can buy you each one of your ow-n?" Vince broke off when he saw a small, monochrome holographic man appear in the small device in Clover's hand. "Ah! Good morning, girls! Good to know the X-Powders are working. So, to what do I owe the pleasure?" Gerry said, a small happy smile spreading across his face. His smile soon changed to a look of curiosity, however, as the girls began a group recap of the events that had unfurled since they arrived. "Hold on. HOLD ON, GIRLS!" Gerry shouted, silencing them after several attempts, "Now, start over, but slow so the recorder can catch what you're saying. Oh, and who is this?" he finished, catching sight of Vince, who, upon hearing the word "recorder", had sprang on the small device furiously. "No, WHO IS THIS GIRLS!?! I THOUGHT YOU SAID YOU WEREN'T SHIN-RA SPIES!" Vince shouted, now clearly angry with himself. "What is Shin-Ra?" Gerry asked, slightly calming Vince down. Vince turned to the girls and asked, "All right, if you aren't Shin-Ra spies, would you mind telling me who you really are?" Clover said, "We are Clover, Sam, and Alex, Alpha Level Master Spies for WOOHP, the World Organization of Human Protection. We obtained our titles just before being assigned to our latest mission, in three parts: 1) Find and capture Cloud, though now, we can't. 2) Find and Defeat Sephiroth, where ever and whoever he may be. And 3) Find and Arrest the three women who are responsible for killing close to the entire staff of a corporate company back in our world. We came here from a different world, possibly even another dimension altogether." Vince seemed to understand this, but in reality, it wasn't hard to see he was having trouble comprehending the information he had just become privy to. As he struggled to understand, Sam went over to help him while Alex and Clover relayed their newly obtained Intel to Gerry. When they were done, Clover turned the screen to Vince, who looked at the tiny image of an aging, balding man in a suit and tie who appeared to be in around his late forties to early fifties. Gerry, looking at Vince with a pair of intrigued eyes, said, "So, from what I have heard, you are Vince, correct? Can I have a little background on you?" Vince answered, "Absolutely. I am Vincent Valentine, Ex-Turks turned member of NEO-AVALANCHE, a resistance group fighting the SHIN-RA Corporation. I was shot and experimented on, then returned to life. When I finally awoke, I found that I could transform into horrifying creatures, and sealed myself in a coffin for years, after Hojo, the man responsible for my experimentation, locked the door of the basement shut. Years later, Cloud came around, freed me from my coffin, and though I was hesitant to join him, at first, I soon saw through his tough man façade. So far, we haven't even found a good lead on Sephiroth, who is trying to destroy the planet with a monstrous meteor." Gerry sat there, looking at Vince with a disbelieving look in his eyes. "Well then, I am Gerry, Head of WOOHP. From all of us here, thank you, Vincent-" Vince quickly interrupted, "Please, Call me Vince. Vincent is too long for me." Continuing from where he left off, Gerry said, "-All right, then, Vince. Can you remind the girls here to call me again when you have arrived to meet Cloud? I would like to meet him also." "Very well," Vince casually replied, "I will do that. It was nice to meet you, Gerry." "Likewise," Gerry replied, then turned to the girls, "Have any of you tested your upgrades?" Sam jumped at these words, and said, "NO! It totally slipped our minds. We were too busy escaping a burning mansion about five minutes after we were released from a rather awkward tying job in Vince's basement room." Sam held up her X-Powder and said, "Spy Engaged!" she waited for the feeling of metal and weapons attaching automatically to her body, but they never did. "Sorry, Ger," Sam said sadly, "The upgrades don't work." "Okay, then," Gerry replied, equally crest-fallen, "I guess my hopes were just that: hope." Gerry quickly said goodbye to Vince and the girls, then closed the connection. As they began to move forward, Vince suddenly grabbed them and turned them around, saying, "Watch It ! We've got company!" as they turned, the very air around them turned dark, but didn't twist and contort. From the dark silence came a deep, insane, sinister laugh, "HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!" When sight was possible again, before the quartet stood a tall man with an insanely long sword in hand. The man, his long white hair flowing behind him like a cape, and his spiked guard-dog-like shoulder armour, spoke in a menacing voice, "Ah, Vincent. So you have finally found your former team mates." Vince said, "Well, Sephiroth, You obviously haven't the brain power left to remember how I prefer my name to be said. But, then again, how can you have any mental strength left after Cloud whipped your ass back to the Lifestream. But wait, how can a man who went from being the world's strongest and intelligent tactical fighter to being the world most self-obsessed retarded psychopath have any head power left?" At this point, the girls could easily tell that, though Vince spoke in a voice that sounded tough and unfaltering, he was in fact just shy of pure terror. 'If that's what he can do to a man who is seemingly afraid of nothing,' Sam thought, 'I'd better keep my distance, thank you very much!' "So," Sephiroth said, looking at Clover, "I would really like to know, Aeris, first off, how you grew so tall. Second, why do you continue to back up your precious Cloud? And third, how in the world did you manage to reincarnate yourself within the Lifestream so quickly, and without the use of the white materia." Clover now looked terrified, but said nothing. "By the way, Sephiroth," Vice said nastily, "Why did you leave your mother's side? Were you getting tired of fighting Kadaj for dominance? Or were you tired of taking orders from a severed head in a box? Or was it a little of both?" "You shall pay for insulting mother, you wretched cur!" Sephiroth screamed, whipping his sword over his shoulder and into a combat stance. As the world twisted and spun, Vince called to the girls, "Watch out for that sword! If you get killed by that thing, you're never coming back!" This served only to worry the girls more. When Sephiroth was once more visible, he wasted no time in rushing forth to land a critical blow on Vince. As the girls witnessed this, Alex's head dropped, clouding her face from view. Sephiroth teased, "Ah, so you finally see it my way, do you, Yuffie Kisaragi? I am the best, and you are sorely inferior. Even Mother could beat you with her eyes closed." "I don't care," Alex's voice replied, though Alex did not seem to be Alex anymore. Something about her had changed; she now seemed to have been charged with righteous rage. "I don't care about any of that, Sephiroth. You injured our guide… I WILL KILL YOU!" Alex screamed the last words, before whipping out her X-Powder and shouting, "SPY ENGAGED!" The sky once again became dark, but this time Sephiroth was not at fault. As the sky continued to blacken, it was filled with flashes of lightning and crashes of thunder. Suddenly, a small seal appeared under Alex's feet, who was quickly struck by lightning. As the electricity surged through her and the seal, she was hidden behind a circular wall of lightning. Soon, a pair of demonic red eyes appeared inside the wall, and it dispersed, revealing not Alex, but a large woman, formed from thunder, and covered in electrically charged armour. In a deep, booming, electric voice, this woman shouted, "I AM THUNDAERIA, GODDESS OF ELECTRICITY!!!"
Well, I hope you enjoyed this Cliff-hanger! R&R, and keep the flames to a minimum, please!