Assault

I put everything that had happened into the back of my mind and focused on Deepground. I drove through the wastelands with Cloud on our bikes. Barret and Tifa were in the truck behind him.

We drove down towards the army of Deepground soldiers and Cloud brought out his sword. I drew my left blade out of my arm.

We slid down into the enemy lines and I sliced through several soldiers, blocking bullets and running them over if I could. Cloud hacked through them all and we drifted from each other, getting rid of footsoldiers easier.

Then I heard something above me, a loud crashing noise and a person falling down. The person was in red. I knew who it was and drove towards Cloud, getting closer to him as did Rosso.

"Cloud, Tsviet above you!" I called and drove faster, leaving Cloud to fight her on his own. I knew he could handle her.

I went faster as I got deeper into the enemy lines, seeing a large Tsviet with blue hair I knew to be Azul. He was firing at the Airships. I pulled down a large metal plate and smacked him with it and he fired straight for me.

Turning my bike I barely dodged the missile by skidding down into a hole then leaping off my bike. I landed and pulled Azul's cannon from his hands, ducking under it and drawing my right blade.

"So you are Christie," He smirked. "Perhaps you will be a better opponent than Vincent or Angevale."

"Well I could use some sparring practice," I taunted as he ran towards me. I flicked my wrists and Aura lit my blades. I rolled under him and stabbed him in the back but I couldn't get through the muscle. Azul threw me off and I clutched my left wrist. The blades were attatched to my bones so it was painful when they were tugged on.

The large man towered over me and I scurried away, grinning as he tried to catch me. I may not have been the fatsest person but I was definitely faster than this guy. Still I knew he wouldn't run out of energy anytime soon.

I knew I couldn't attack him from the front, that was suicide. So I blasted him with massive orbs of Aura, all doing minimal damage on him.

"You think you can take me?" Azul tried to taunt.

"Overconfident," I remarked loudly, using my Magnetism to lift up a large sheet of metal to hit him with. While he was distracted with throwing that out of the way I threw smaller metal shards at him that cut his arms and face. As usual minimal pain.

Well as least he's a challenge, been a long time since I've had one of those.

"You should just give up, Christie, you can't win," Azul stormed towards me and I grinned.

"Oh I'm not even warmed up yet."


Omen's POV

I landed down in front of the Shinra building and opened my fans as I walked towards the man in the straight jacket. I whistled on him as he was walking into the building.

"Where you goin' hotshot?" I grinned as he turned around. Whoa his mouth is banded shut? Deepground are weird. Either that or he's blantantly stating he's into bondage.

"Another WRO soldier?" He asked, obviously irritated.

"Omen Confleo sent specially to kick your arse," I bowed. "Shall we?" The man used the robotic wings to draw guns and dark pulses where sent through the ground towards me. I faught back with a white glow that held off the darkness and I threw icicles at him. Unsurprisingly he shot them all out of the air.

Getting out of the way of bullets I ran up a pole and shot a frost wave at him. He blocked it but I got up close and smacked him in the head then threw him to the ground. I got hit by one of the wings and backed away.

I got shot in the arm but blocked with my fans as he leapt for me and I kicked him out the way. I felt that darkness get closer to me but I threw it off and cut up the man badly.

"You think WRO stand a chance against us?" He chuckled sinisterly. He shot at me but I got an ice shield up and threw it at him.

"Well yeah, otherwise we wouldn't be attacking," I replied bluntly. He smashed my attack and he stared blankly at me.

"I am Nero the Sable, second-in-command of Deepground," He introduced finally. "I know Deepground shall prevail. My brother will make Omega rise."

"I seriously doubt it," I threw myself at him, stabbing him in the gut with my fan. That was when the darkness gripped me and I felt myself sinking.

"You are not important. You will meet the end with everyone else."


I opened my eyes and found myself on the ground near a Reactor. I groaned as I got up and was... very confused. What in Alice Marie's name just happened?

"Omen what the Hell?" Christie walked towards me, she was covered in bruises and cuts and her blind eye was also black. I got close to her and healed her. "Azul suddenly retreated when we were fighting, got to beat him pretty badly though."

"I faught Nero but he somehow got me here," I replied. "Why are they retreating? What about Rosso?"

"Cloud said she pulled back too," Christie said. "You heard from anyone?"

"No one... did Vincent, Yuffie and Angie get to the rendevouz?" Christie shrugged so I pulled out my phone with a sigh. "Brilliant."

"Yuffie here."

"You okay Yuffie?" I asked. "The Tsviets are pulling back into the Shinra building."

"Yeah I'm fine. I'm heading to the Shinra building now," Yuffie replied. What was she alone.

"Are Vincent and Angie with you?" I asked, now getting concerned.

"No, I think they must have went off course, I'll try get a hold of them. Yuffie out," I frowned as she hung up and went for Angie's phone. I started to panic a little when she didn't pick up.

"Omen what's happening?" I started to phone Vincent as Christie talked. Thank Alice Marie Angie gave us his number.

"Yuffie doesn't know where Vincent and Angie are and now Angie isn't answering," I replied. "For fuck's sake Vincent answer your damn phone!"

"Hello?"

"Vincent it's Omen," I said seriously. To be honest I was pissed at him for upsetting Angie so much. Granted it's probably not his fault but still. "Where are you and Angie?"

"I'm in the Sector 7 slums," He replied... this wasn't getting any better. "I've seen no sign of Angevale. Is she with Yuffie or Christie?" I tried to start sensing for Angie's Lifeforce. She was alive, unconscious and... in the Shinra building.

"No... Vincent the Tsviets have her. She's out could I can sense it," I told him slowly. From the corner of my eye I could see Christie clenching her fists. "She's in trouble you've got to help her."

"I'll make sure they don't lay a hand on her, Omen," Vincent hung up and I turned to Christie. She was visibly upset.

"He better take care of her," She muttered.

"He will," I told her. "Now let's get our part of the mission over with, then we can help them out." Christie nodded and we headed into the Reactor to destroy it. This is a very nostalgic day for some of Avalanche.