OK, from here on out, I borrowed some characters from XIONIC MADNESS, a Madness Combat animation, so I hope this doesn't offend people. Geez, I'll be happy when this side-story is done! Part 6, running! Also, starting Next chapter onward, I'll be allowing Nogias and Ashe to do their own pre-chapter commentaries. I hope you enjoy not only their outlooks, but the chapters as well!
PART 6: More, More!:Team PSYONICS and the Offer
As Orikka scurried to her feet, and began to run, she felt a large pain rip through her body. As she looked down, she saw a giant, gory hole in her chest. "mu… sa… ji…" she breathed as she hit the ground.
Without any warning, Musaji began to convulse, and soon, he hit the ground, holding his head. When he lifted his head, he saw his older sisters, on the ground, and bleeding through large injuries. "Orikka? ULRIKKA! WHAT ARE- WHAT HAPPENED- WHY ARE… Oh no, someone did this, and they're here!" he said, pointing at Cloud, who looked at Musaji with an "I SO saw this one coming" look. "YOU! YOU DID THIS!" he shouted, running At Cloud and attempting to grab him by the collar of his shirt, but getting flung back when deflected by Cloud's blade.
"OK, first, kid, look At my sword," Cloud said, lifting his giant blade and stabbing it into the floor, bladed side facing Musaji. "Once you've looked, look at the wounds on your sisters, and then tell me I did this." Musaji looked at the blade, then saw it: the blade itself was thin, while the back-end was wide. It was long, and the end tilted off into a sharper edge. then, first looking at Ulrikka, he saw long, curving cuts that dug deep into the flesh. Looking at Orikka, however, was what convinced him otherwise. Seeing the giant round hole in Orikka's chest, and then the great barrel of his hand, he collapsed, screaming, "NOOO! I DID THIS! IT CAN'T BE!"
Ashe stepped over and said, "Listen, I'm the guy who snapped Ulrikka from her nanotech trance. She then freed Orikka, who, through your entranced violence, was seriously injured to wake you up. PLEASE TELL ME THAT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO LET THEM DIE!" Musaji looked in Ashe's eyes, which radiated heavily with an evil, demented aura. The look Ashe was shooting at Musaji told him one thing: "Fix those girls, or I fix you! PERMANENTLY!" Musaji looked from the death glare Ashe was shooting at him, and then turned back to his injured sisters.
Holding his arms wide, a gentle breeze blew through the room, scattering thousands of tiny blossom-like particles. The particles swept over the girls, and in seconds both sisters were healed. "And now, the three of you are free," Cloud said, "So, what are you going to do? TO experiment on you, Rufus has given up on you. If you have nowhere else to go, I'd like to offer you jobs in AVALANCHE. So, what do you say?" As the three siblings looked from one to the other, then to Cloud, Ulrikka stepped up and said, "I already accepted, so I'm in."
Orikka and Musaji watched Ulrikka cross from their location to next to Cloud and the others. Orikka stepped forward and said, "How sure are you that Rufus has abandoned us?" "Well, judging by the fact that he just dumped you into a fight with us, knowing how strong we were, and the fact that he's already abandoned Ashe here, I'd say your chances are not only -2-1 that he's given up on you, but -4-1 that he's got a set of back-ups that weren't based on human cells, but still nanotech, to use in case you guys fail. And that's a better than perfect chance," Cloud said.
"And that won't be a problem, because I have a spell that'll get rid of them for sure. Not my Chaos spell, though it may help to slow them down," Ashe said, opening the door, "Now, what say we get our lazy butts out of here before he sends those things on us?" Ashe ran out the door. Cloud looked at Sam, Clover and Alex, then to The Nanotech-siblings. He shrugged his shoulders and moved on. The other six followed close behind. Half-way to the elevator, however, they were stopped by Rufus.
"Wait, what's this? My Turks-NEOS failed? Oh well, Maybe these will help! TEAM PSYONICS, ASSEMBLE!" Rufus shouted, soon after joined by five creatures: A giant with an ogre-ish mask and wearing massive body armor; A ninja in medium armor, holding a long, slender katana with several others mounted on his back; A techie with an X-shaped scar on his right eye, wearing thick shades, and tossing small round objects in his hands; A small girl with a pair of deadly looking claws on them, a look of peaceful innocence hiding her true terrible powers; A tall man, cloaked in darkness and floating, his arms and legs wisping into the air, and his eyes red like fire, and his hands filled with some twisting, evil green substance.
"Cloud Strife, Associates of Cloud," Rufus looked at Orikka, Ulrikka, and Musaji, then turned away and said, "Failed subjects,I'd like you all to meet the newest additions to my long family of Nanotech personnel. Please welcome Omega, Xero, Askad, Kary, and XV. Omega here, is our Torture and Destruction Specialist, and deadly with his specially designed firearms." Rufus pointed to the one in red, who was just now reloading his favorite shotgun, the Harbinger. "Xero, here, Is our resident Stealth and Melee expert, and ex-ninja. His specialty is the Chopper, those motorized circular chain-saws you see him with," Rufus continued, pointing to one who was holding several throwing stars that looked like chain-saws.
"Our next is Askad, out Hacking and Demolition expert, as he is the only person here that can get into any computer, ANYWHERE. That means yours, Cloud! His specialty Death Match bombs can get any man killed," Rufus said, pointing to another in yellow clothes and light armor. "Next is our newest creation, Kary, who's sole energy source is a small built-in Mako reactor. Those claws on her hands are her only weapon, and can add to her power, as well as amp up her discharge attacks," Rufus continued, pointing to the small girl in green, whose eyes seemed to hide a secret. "And, finally, XV, here, came to our company from another place entirely, and cast aside his differences with the others to work for me," Rufus said, looking over to the Black and gray man with sinister glowing red eyes, finishing, "He is one of our #1 units, and is tied in power to Omega."
Omega snickered a bit, much to the detest of XV. "HEY, what can I say? " Omega said, looking to XV, "You tried to infect me, I broke free and spread the antidote code to the others. You are a level or two less superior to me!" Omega watched, smirking, as the eerie green substance floating in XV's hands started to form words: "Yeah, and if your friends here hadn't arrived to save you, I would've turned you into one of my pets," the eerie substance spelled. "Now, Gentlemen, Rufus said, "this is no time for arguments. You have a job to do. Those eight there need to be exterminated. Take them, DEAD or ALIVE. Preferably dead, if you don't mind." Rufus left once again, and started down a staircase.
"WAIT! TELL ME WHERE MY FRIEND IS, SHIN-RA!" Cloud shouted, running after Rufus. HE was quickly halted by the sudden appearance of Xero in his path. "Nuh-uh," Xero said in a slightly metallic tone, a touch of "Don't-even-think-about-it" on his voice. "We are your opponents. Though, by my estimation, I think eight-on-five aren't very fair odds. YO, XV, BRING OUT SOME OF YOUR INFECTIONS!" XV acknowledged, and lifted his hands, the green substance twisting and contorting, and soon, three scorpion-like things with long spear-like tails blew into the hallway.
"These," XV said, "Are my pets. Meet my Biologically Infected Overkill Scorpioldiers, or BIOS for short. What do you think, BIOS 1?" XV began to pet one, it's mouth drooling like mad. "BIOS 1 says that it's feeding time. "Go ahead, my pets. FEAST!" XV commanded, sending the creatures at the larger group. The creaturs leapt forth and began to attack Orikka, Ulrikka, and Musaji. Xero said, "Well, now it's you and us. Now, we fight a fair fight. Omega, who're our individual targets? Did Rufus leave us any?" Omega looked at his communicator. "Nope, None," He said, looking up and shaking his head, "in which case, I'll designate the targets. Xero, you take the chick with the blade. Askad, you get the one with the gloves. Kary, you take the one with the sheild, and XV, you take the guy with the weird, fire-like sword. I've got the one with the butcher's knife." As the others separated off, Cloud stared at Omega.
"So you think you can take me, do ya? You better know before you start this… I'm the legend of AVALANCHE, Cloud Strife," Cloud said, staring at Omega with a look of "You-can't-touch-this". "Is that so? Well, I'd heard of you. As I've never actually seen ya before, that's a bonus. I believe it's time for a good gun-fight."
OK, so, yeah, I borrowed Omega, Xero, Askad, Kary, and XV from XIONIC Madness on , for which I have gotten permission from the creator, Xionico.