The next chapter for my crossover pair, but there might not be that much Zack/Lightning action but I'm getting there eventually
Chapter 6-Bresha ruins
The group were drifting along the historia crux looking around curiously.
"this is amazing" Serah said to Noel and Zack as they also start looking around
"yeah it is, it's the crossroads of the time continuum" Noel replies
"is this how you both time travelled" both of the men give a nod and then look on to see that they are coming out of the historia crux. They find themselves in a different world that Serah recognises.
"this is… cocoon" She states. Noel looks back at her in surprise
"what are you sure? This is really Cocoon!" he replies in excitement
"oh that's right this is your first time"
"oh yeah, I remember this place me and Lightning use to come up here and do missions together" Zack said
"are you sure they were missions" Serah asks with a smile
"heh, I only said they were missions so I could get Lightning to come out, she needs to live a little"
As soon as Serah was going to respond to Zack she saw Noel respond to something else. Zack and Serah turn around to see an arm attached to an invisible body that swipes its arm at the trio.
"watch out" Noel shouts as he grabs Serah to ground but Zack is late to react and is sent flying and colliding with debris from the enigma's destruction.
"Zack!" Serah cried which prompted Noel to take on the invisible monster
"so it's a fight your looking for huh" Noel draws his weapons but is punched by the arm and like Zack is sent flying towards a wall.
"Noel" Serah then gets Mog who transforms into her weapon, rushes towards the paradox prepared to fight it.
"don't count me out just yet" Noel said as he joined Serah
"don't forget about me" Zack adds as he rushes to their side drawing his gigantic blade
"this just caught me off guard but now he's made me mad" the three then prepare to battle the paradox.
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After all the effort the three put into fighting the enigma, it still stands but when all hope seemed lost there were PSICOM warships that attacked him causing him to retreat deeper in the ruins.
"hey it's the army" Serah said while waving to them
"are you sure that's a good idea" Zack asks looking worried. They are then surrounded by the PSICOM soldiers and warships who are pointing they're weapons at them.
"hands behind your head" one soldier shouted while raising his gun. Mog hides behind Serah in fright. Reluctantly they put agreed to their orders.
"guess it wasn't a good idea" Noel murmured under his breath.
They followed the Soldiers who are taking them into custody and also discussing whether they were the cause for Atlas, which was the paradox, appearing. The group is thrown is held under supervision to await questioning.
"they think we're the cause for Atlas appearing " Noel said to Zack and Serah
"but that's just a coincidence that we came and that thing appeared" Zack replied
"you know I've wondered where are we exactly, I know its Cocoon and all but it seems different" Serah asked trying to change the subject.
"I'm guessing were in Cocoon but in the future" Noel replied. While the group were discussing they notice a girl who falls in front of the guard watching them.
"hey you should be more careful" the guard said as he helped the girl up.
"ugh sorry" the girl then turns to the group in surprise
"why do you have these three locked up"
"what do you know them miss"
"yes I was showing them around Cocoon as research, they're VIPS"
"VIPS…oh crap let's pretend like none of this ever happened" the guard said while opening the gate they were sealed behind. Zack then smiles cheekily
"our lips are sealed…for a thousand gil" Zack said boastfully
"Zack!" Serah shouted
"what I was joking" they then follow the girl to what looks to be a town centre but in ruins
"hey thanks for getting us out of there but were you serious about taking us around" Serah asked the girl
"no I just needed a story that guard would believe" she replied
"but why did you help us not that we're not grateful" Noel asked
"it's just that I saw you guys come out of that portal thing and thought that you might help us with this Atlas problem". The three are silent for a while until Noel speaks up
"oh you mean the time gate and also I don't if we can help because whatever we do here my alter things in our own time"
"Noel" Serah said in disbelief
"yeah c'mon Noel it'll be fun" Zack said while doing stretches. This persuades him to finally give in to their pleas
"alright I guess we can help you get rid of Atlas"
"really! GREAT!" the girl said in excitement
"by the way what's your name" asked Noel
"oh Alyssa Zaidelle, oh I almost forgot you're gonna need these if you want to get anywhere" she hands them identity passes and with that she waves goodbye and leaves them.
"so shall we begin" Noel said as they head off further into the ruins. As they are continuing their mission to defeat Atlas they encounter monsters and successfully defeat them but Serah notices something after they defeated them.
"that monster turned into a crystal" Serah said in surprise
"those crystals are key to helping you find your inner strength" Mog said which surprised the three
"Holy crap…you could talk?" Zack said in amazement
"heh who knew" Noel replied with a smile. Ignoring them Serah wanted to learn more from her good luck charm.
"Mog what do you mean by inner strength"
"you can summon monsters to fight alongside you" Mog replied
"come to think of it I remembered Lightning having monsters by her side" Noel added
"hey I could show you guys my monsters, well I don't necessarily call them monsters" Noel and Serah looked at him warily
"you can summon beast, can you show me please" Serah asked
"why not" with that he pulls out a green materia and it starts to glow. Out came a small cactuar
"so what do ya think, cute huh" Noel folds his arms while Serah acknowledges it
"Zack is that the best one you got?" Noel asked
"one of the best, my other one I use for life threatening dangers so there's no point in showing you here" he said boldly.
"So Mog can you teach her" Zack asks him
"kupoo"
"I'll take that as a yes, so let's get this started cus I really wanna see Lightning" Zack said while looking to the darkened sky, while Serah was busy learning how to control monsters Noel went over to Zack
"why do you want to see Lightning so bad" he asked
"well one I love her and two there is something I need to tell her from the bottom of my heart, you'll understand I mean you and Serah make a perfect couple you should try asking her out"
"w-what no-no way besides she already loves Snow"
"so if she wasn't going out with Snow you would go for her right?" he chuckled as Noel punched his arm playfully
"okay I'm done let's get going" Serah said
"ugh finally!" Zack said as he moved ahead with Mog and Noel and Serah following closely. As the group were progressing through the ruins they were then encountered by Atlas's arm until it suddenly disappeared again.
"whew that was a close one" Zack said to the others. They were soon reached the top of the ruins to find another time gate but oddly different
"eh look it's another time gate" Zack said
"but it doesn't look right because Alyssa called it a strange device and with their tech I don't know how they can find that strange" Noel stated
"maybe it appeared when Atlas appeared" Serah suggested
"hey you could be right as in my time I was told that Atlas was built as a weapon and so this machine must be controlling him" Noel replied
"so basically all we need to do is find the artefact that will open this gate" Zack asked
"yep that simple"
"great…where the heck do we start"
"leave it to me kuupo" Mog floated around trying to scan any anomaly or paradox and had found an artefact but not the one they were looking for.
"Guess this is gonna be longer than I thought" Zack said with a deep sigh. The group then head off into the ruins and also underground to see if they can find any other links to Atlas. Once they were underground they found another device similar to the one before
"how many of these portals are there" Serah said
"don't know but they are all mixed with Atlas, c'mon let's keep looking" Zack said. They then explored deeper into the ruins until suddenly Atlas whole body spurted out of some debris.
"It's Atlas" Noel shouted
"No duh" Zack replied "is there any way we can like calm him down"
"well there is a device underground that is said to control Atlas or we can go the old fashioned way and take him head on" Noel stated
"so what do you pick" Serah asked
"I pick life" Zack shouted as he ran to the underground
"he probably means controlling him" Noel said with a smirk
"yep" Serah replied
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Once the group stumbled upon the device that was going to be used to control Atlas, they were attacked by Atlas who grabbed them and pulled them into the temporal rift.
"where are we" Serah asked
"I think we're in the paradox" Noel answered
"what! How the hell are we going to get out of here" Zack said
"by reaching the other side kupoo" Mog said
Afterwards when the group finished getting through the paradox they came back to the ruins and stood before the device
"well should we do it" Serah asked
"hell yeah" Zack said as he walked towards it and touched it. After that the ground started to shake and they could hear Alyssa contact them on how Atlas movements had slowed down.
"guess it worked" Serah said
"yeah now lets get back to him" Noel replied. And with that the group headed back to confront a weakened Atlas. They arrived and found the giant on one knee but it still has fight left in him, the group then face off with Atlas here.
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It was a long fight with Atlas and he wasn't looking to give up.
"man this guy's tough " Zack said
"but that doesn't mean we should give up" Serah replied. The giant then attacked them but they suddenly teleported before he could hit them. They had been transported on his shoulder.
"what the? How did we get here" Serah said until Atlas's hand was coming in close reach of them
"look out " Noel said as he pushed Serah out of the way and dodged the attack himself which Zack also did. As Serah got up she noticed something glowing on the giant's head. It looked to be a crystal
"hey! I think that's its weak spot" she shouted to the other two
"then lets attack it at the same time" Zack shouted as they all raised their weapons ready to attack it
"ready…NOW!" with that Zack and Noel threw their weapons at the crystal while Serah shot at it. The giant then stumbled which made the group stagger. They get their weapons and Noel and Serah make a jump for it. While in mid-air they are grabbed Zack, one hand around each of their waist, and glides to the ground. They then stare at the giant who looks to be defeated
"great job guys—AHH" she screamed at the sight of Zack
"what I'm not that ugly"
"no…. there's a wing coming out of your back" She stuttered and then Zack smiled
"oh yeah this I forgot to tell you about that but Noel knows already"
"wait you knew and you didn't tell me" she said in an angry tone to Noel while folding her arms
"uhhm… shouldn't we be heading to that graveyard" He quickly suggested
"your absolutely right let's go, c'mon Serah" the two men then ran ahead to the graveyard while Serah still had her arms folded.
"huh men!" all she could do was follow their lead.
They also saw at the same time that time was fixing itself and also that Atlas had completely vanished.
As soon as they made it to the grave they were encountered by Alyssa who fell to the ground in despair before the tombstone saying the names of all the purge victims.
"my friend died here, it should've of been me. You see we were in Bodhum during the purge and so resulted in many lives being lost" she explained. Serah then feels guilty and thinks that it's her fault.
Maybe I'm not even real, maybe I died on that day and know I'm just living some illusion" she fell in grief until noel came up to her and poked her in the head
"Well…you seem pretty real to me" this reassured her a bit
"of course she's real how can such beautiful girl like you say she's not" Zack said eyeing her. She blushed straight away and then started to laugh
"yeah I guess your right" they all watch as the ruins start turning back into proper buildings and how the dark sky changed to bright daylight. With that Alyssa thanks them and takes their leave.
"ok now that Alyssa out the way know we can focus on our other objective" Noel said
"which was what again" Zack asked
"to find the artefacts remember" Serah reminded him
"oh yeah, so what we waiting for Mog show us the way"
"kuupo" Mog shouted then headed off to where the artefacts were. They eventually found them both and decided to go to the gate underground.
"well then are we ready" Noel asked them
"sure are, c'mon Serah put the artefact in" Zack said
Hearing that Serah put the artefact in the gate and it started to glow but she saw visions through it which made her look as if she was in pain which made Zack and Noel worry.
"hey Serah you okay" Zack asked rushing to her side
"don't tell me you had a vision" Noel asked in concern
"oh no just staring into space, I'll be fine don't worry" she replied
"so let's go Lightning waiting for us remember" with that they all head into the portal leaving the Bresha ruins.
Thank you guys for reading my story so far, you know yourselves this is gonna be long but I promise that I will finish this story, love you guys for the reviews and keep on reviewing.
P.S I didn't add chocolina because I know how Zack will get all flirty with her just like he did with Alyssa