Chapter 1
Three years later...
Vincent opens his eyes sitting in a cave with ice blue glowing crystals leaning back on one hand with the other propped up on his leg he looks across a small pool of Mako energy at a figure encased in crystal formation holding her up vertical. The figure looking as if she was in a peaceful rest. She is wearing a white tank top with a pearl necklace and a white cloth draped behind her back going between both arms.
"So we meet again, Lucrecia."
" I am so sorry" she sends in a telepathic wave to Vincent's mind. "so very sorry".
Vincent waking up on his bed in a motel room, in the same pose as he was in his dream. Siting on a double sized bed, next to a ajar window night having set in hours earlier. The festival lights lighting up his room.
"Why, I am the one who should be apologizing" he says to him self.
A jingle comes from the T.V. Which Vincent had left on before dozing off. Vincent's gunmetal black phone with a Turk symbol on the back sat open with the last text from Reeve sits by a half drunken wine class. Vincent was not much of a drinker but it always seemed to help when he was getting lost in his own mind. He looks over at The T.V as the Channel seven chimed in with breaking news, a male voice cut in.
" Three weeks ago our group left for Midgar. How ever the groups where a bouts are still unknown, what really happened down there. Tonight we bring you the last transmission before all communication was lost."
On the screen it switched over from the husky man in a suit sitting behind a desk, to the live footage. The camera scans down the Shinra headquarters. The camera guy starts walking towards a door rusted shut around all edges making the 3 investigation crew members dressed in fire fighter gear give all they had to open the it.
"For the past three years this door has remained sealed" a female reporter starts reporting. By the looks on her face she thinks this is the break of a life time. She continues her report. " That seal is about to be broken." The door finally moves sliding on its rusted rails enough for people to start filing in. As the Investigation crew starts going in with their flash lights on their head gear the camera man moves with the female reporter through the door. " There are no records of this place deep beneath the Shinra building, another one of the company's secrets that has been revealed recently. According to some people's reports there have been thousands of people that have been transported here. If rumors of the Shinra company conducting human experiments are true then this may be where the devilish deeds were carried out. To bring you this exclusive footage channel seven news has teamed up with a volunteer organization."
Vincent looks from the screen out the open window at the full moon slightly covered with clouds. There were fire works going off, big areal ones with a large crowd of on lookers pointing at there favorites as they would explode into millions of pieces. Down the main streets there were stalls with all kinds of festival items to buy. Plus a lot of merchants trying to use this celebration as an excuse to keep there shops running longer into the night, there was a buzz of excitement in the air. Balloons and streamers hanging from house to house crises crossing all the way down the streets. A musical band playing carousel music in the center of the town blaring their tune for every one to hear daring people not to start dancing. Crowds of people packed the streets moving from one stall to the other seeing what goods they would have. A group of girls in there dresses with black corsets danced to the tune in a parade slowly moving towards the Town square. Twirling, and clogging in step with each other having the on lookers amazed at the groups ability to dance and move down the cobble stoned street. Their audience clapping in time with the music.
Suddenly out of the sky a fireball shoots down to the ground hitting the top of the towns guard wall blowing bricks down onto the top of the gabbled houses some making holes in the roofs some sliding down to fall to the ground.
With Vincent's heighten senses the fireball grabs his attention before it strikes true on its target.
A fire accompanied with smoke starts billowing from the crater it has left on the top of the wall.
"What the hell was that." a man in the crowed proclaims.
Then a group of 5 unmanned helicopters carrying some kind of large containers part the smoke by fly through it as if to add a effect of terror on the town and its citizens. The lead helicopter banks around and stops right over the Cathedral opening both of its side doors. Sliding out soldiers on both sides on its wings like it was airing out its dirty laundry. The soldiers that were clamped on to with hooks on there backs. Were wearing black jump suits with blue LED strips running up their suit with one line on both sides. These soldiers had full faced gas masks. They are armed with M-16s holding them against their dangling bodies from the hooks waiting on the moment of their drop. Suddenly the time came, the lead helicopter drops the men, falling to the ground with a controlled fall the cables slowing them down. Once they have touchdown the hooks let go and the men run into the crowd of people. The other four helicopters place them self around the area of the town systematically dropping there men hurdling the people as if they were sheep.
The first group that was dropped run up to small gathering of people who where standing still paralyzed by the sudden change of events. Wanting to cause panic and movement the soldiers open fire killing several unarmed people, causing survivors start running towards the center of the town square. The helicopters drop down the giant steel containers with a big thud. The doors open letting out alien dogs looking like they were stitched together like Frankenstein monster was. These creatures had LED strips embedded in there hide to help keep track of them. Acting like Sheep dogs herding the crowds of people to the areas where they wanted them.
Vincent crouched in the window of his motel room watching the seen unfold. One of the helicopters lowers down targeting on Vincent firing a rocket at him, as the rocket approaches him. With his lightning fast reflexes Vincent jumps into over drive. He springs out of the window cutting through the air like a human jet. As he reaches the climax of his jump he somersaults drawing his gun and shooting the helicopter in the propeller. Vincent bounces off a roof top giving himself a better view point and shoots several more times with the .50 revolver taring through the armor of the aircraft like it was a just sharpened knife running through paper. Causing small explosions inside the helicopter smoke starting to come out of the wounded aircraft. The helicopter looses control causing it to crashes close to the first explosion. Vincent lands safely on a balcony of another building.
Near by one of the troops nudges a mother forward pushing her into her daughter. "Get in there." The girl in front of one of the metal containers holding a Moggle stuffed doll at the front of a long line. "Move it" he added as she looked down at the ground and started to shuffle in. Background gunshots randomly go off. The monstrous dogs running around gathering up stragglers.
Vincent holds on to the guard rail with his one human hand and one mutilated hand covered in a gold plated armor that goes to his elbow, looking over the edge of it. "Whats going on." Vincent says to him self. Three troops sneak up looking over the roof just above Vincent's head one of them scanning him through their helmet the screen reads to him.
Name: Vincent Valentine
Gender: Male
Blood type: A
"Found you." A female troop says in a robotic voice. She has a helmet on that covers half her face which is wired using two wiring harnesses linked to a super computer with two 32" screens connected to them showing live feeds from the soldiers head cams in the field. She was siting on top of the desk. Her feet dangling there like it was some game. The room she is in looks to be a security room with other screens with different feeds all switching to the same feed that she was being feed. Vincent's back turned to her watching the onslaught of people in this little town.
Vincent turns around to see the soldiers try ducking to avoid being detected. Already with his gun in his hand he picks one off with out any trouble at all. He runs jumping onto the roof poking his head over in time to see the other two solders holding their M-16's aimed at him. With out hesitation he fires two shoots both the bodies crash to the ground. He walks up to the soldiers bending over to check for life both of the soldiers have a single bullet hole straight through the head cam. " Now where was I suppose to meet Reeve." Vincent reminds himself of what he was doing in Kalm in the first place. Vincent starts heading towards the center of town square where the water tower was located.
Three of the helicopters take off taking there cages filled with people. The other helicopter circles around heading back into the town scanning to see if there were any other infected life forms. When it scans across Vincent walking in plan site tiring to figure out how to find the house in which he was to meet Reeve in. The non-maned helicopter is equipped with the same camera taking up the whole front of the cockpit as it scans Vincent. The same information as the first time he had been scanned pulls up, plus more. In the bottom corner of its screen in large blinking red letters it HOSTILE. Taking aim not giving the Vincent the chance to fire upon it. The helicopter fires 6 missiles at once all aimed at the same spot in which Vincent was standing. He barrel rolls out of the way just dodging them. Pulling out his gun and gets ready to return fire, but he is to late the helicopter has already fired 6 more missiles. Vincent jumps through the door of the house right behind him as the missiles caves it in. The helicopter flies over the house leaving Vincent for dead.
" Guess I will have to find a different way out." Vincent looks around at the abandoned house and starts to walk around.