Is it just me, or is Paradox Alpha almost invisible? And why do I get the feeling that Lightning's going to be a boss in this based on the teaser?
"I'm sorry, did I hit a nerve? I should've expected as much. You are human after all. Or human-based. It's still the same." Omega took a deep breath and caught a small trace of smoke rising from Oerba. It's happening all over again... He wiped the blood off Masamune with his sleeve. "Now if there's nothing else, Cid, I think I'll go watch a burning city. It'll easily be the most interesting thing ever to happen since Cocoon fell." Before he could let Cid respond, Omega cast Warp on himself. He would not waste time flying there like before. Shinryu also smelled something in the air. Was it...smoke? Mya pointing things out only confirmed his suspicions. So much for a safe haven. Unlike rushing in to help like everyone else he casually walked to the center of town, striking down any burning ruins in his way. If there was a fire instead, he sent dirt flying into it as a means to calm it down to the point where he could at least move through it in bare feet. All of this was reminding him of the time he ravaged Oerba. He recalled Omega not getting there in time to save anything or anyone.
Wait, so both Valefor and Alexander are going to have access to Divine Judgement as their final attack? Wouldn't that get confusing? This is assuming that Alexander will use more or less the same abilities as in the game.
Shinryu kept walking. Finding out whoever Lightning was speaking about would have to wait for later. He turned the corner to find Jaden speaking about returning to Oerba. How long has it been since he, well, raided Oerba? He wondered about what has changed since his last attack on the village that happened so long ago. At least there he'll have a chance to get some new clothes. Of course, that's if the place is still standing.
I am going to claw my way down your throat and tear out your very soul.
Omega didn't flinch or even move when Cid approached him. He did seem to stare down at him, though, but that was unintentional. "You know that FATE is just a sentient computer and not a fal'Cie, right? That's why it's called 'FATE' and not 'Fate'. It died with the city it was developed in anyway. Although they did drill open a path to the planet's core to power it, which was a few days before...time crashed." He looked at the other two l'Cie there, remembering Linegia's comment on his own past failures, before returning his attention to Cid. "And our leader? More like yours. I'm more of an independent third party that only agreed to help you. If you have questions, I might have answers." Shinryu didn't answer. It's not like he could, anyway. But maybe he just might someday, given time of course. If his dream truly was a memory hidden deep within him, perhaps his ability to speak is somewhere there as well. Meanwhile, he had a feeling that they were pretty close to the others. They should be seeing them any moment now.
?> Take QUEEN VICTORIA'S DAGUERREOTYPE RECREATION from GLADSTONE's INVENTORY and read it for recreational purposes while waiting for GLADSTONE to recover.
No sooner had Omega Weapon entered, Omega walked out with a bloody Masamune in hand. With a snap of his fingers, the portal to the Rift closed. Not there either. Then again, I haven't even scratched the surface of that place. Three days isn't enough time to scout the entire area. He looked up at the three Crystal L'Cie before him. "I apologize for Model VI's...ramblings. It can't be helped. Now what did you want, Cid?" Shinryu pushed himself away from Lightning and distanced himself from her, as what she was doing reminded him too much of that woman. Was that his mother? He can't recall. Those memories shouldn't even exist within him. At any rate, they should be joining with the others up ahead. Wiping the tears out of his eyes with his arm before glancing over at Lightning for a second, Shin picked up his lance and moved on.
>QUAKE, MORTAL, FOR I WIELD THE KEY OF LEGE- I-I mean, are you in need of any assistance, dear sir?
If all else fails, pull out MYSTERIOUS KEY.
Throw MYSTERIOUS KEY into BUST OF CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER MACKENZIE BOWELL's head.
Begin to spin diagonally while moving right, right, up.
"Then enough talk. If you want Model XIII, Cid, then wait three days. Defeat me as I am and he will never come." Something about the air around Omega Weapon changed. It felt very...empty. It was as if pure nothingness was surrounding the area and it was reaching out to the hearts of the others. He placed his gaze on Linegia. "If you want to 'erase' me, then I ask you this: Do you have enough strength to bring me down three times? If you believe so, then follow. If not, then leave and wait for XIII to return from the land of dreams if you must. You say you have been erased before so are not afraid of nothing, are you?" The Weapon ripped open a large portal to the Void via a highly controlled Banish spell into the rock wall behind him. It was impossible to see through the blackness of it, but the beast walked through. On the other side was the famous site: The Dimensional Castle.
"Seeing and feeling the Void is far different from actually being there. It is not all dimensional travel. The Rift immediately begins crushing your mind while consuming your body. Over time, all thoughts, feelings, dreams, memories...everything about you fades to nothing. Your very existence becomes one with the Void when it's over. Only the most powerful beasts, spirits, and demons can thrive there and even they are consumed in the end. A child like you would quickly perish, no matter how strong you are. The pain you experienced in your past is naught compared to what the Void does. Absolute erasure is much more agonizing than any form of pain. What you went through is laughable." As Omega Weapon spoke to her mind, he took note of the thoughts she was having instead of her movements since she made none. "Fallen to the hands of others? She resides in planet's core. No one but the gods can reach her. And FATE doesn't fail. We, the actors of her script, fail her. Defy FATE and she crashes the entirety of time just to rewrite it, creating a different future. The old future is then tossed away into the Darkness Beyond Time, a section of the Void devoted only for discarded timelines. Only FATE knows if you were ever supposed to be born. Or is it created in your case? You also speak too highly of Jenova, for single blow to her crystal is all it takes to strike her down. Why is that? Simply because she is your savior?" "Let's hope I'm not screwing things up outside. The last thing I need is another fal'Cie to demand for my head," Omega spoke to himself. But when he stopped speaking, he noticed how silent and lonely this place was. "This place is just like the Void, only white and without any of the abominations roaming about."
I vaguely recall that doodlemister is Destined, but I'm not sure.
And yet, the smell of ammonium hydroxide is still burned into my nostrils.
The weapon chuckled at her response as he did with Cid's. "You have never been to the Void, have you? The very place itself is a force exponentially more powerful than any fal'Cie or god in this world or the next." Omega Weapon circled around them, suddenly hitting the three from behind with Vengeance to shatter any and all beneficial status effects they may have had. "Fate has higher authority than Jenova. Or perhaps I should say 'FATE', as that is her true name. Should FATE fall, the next highest authority would then be Jenova. Until then Jenova will submit to FATE just as the others have." He continued to walk around them, taking note of every movement they made no matter how small it was. "She will wield me, in time. But that time is not now. She will never if she dies, but to me she would just be another hand to take up my blade. The next one below her will then take hold and so on until every fal'Cie is dead." As soon as Lightning embraced him, Shin woke up with tears still streaming down his face. His heart was pounding; his breath was fast and his body shaking. All that emotion he was feeling in the dream, what was it? Love? Pain? Regret? Or was it that feeling of loss? Perhaps it was all of them, hitting him at once. Whatever it was, it was too much for him to handle on his own.
Within his dream, Shinryu was reliving a memory that he shouldn't have remembered. Though the boy doesn't recall when it happened or if this "memory" is some fantasy his mind made up, it was very real to him nonetheless. He was in a small household, comfortably familiar yet foreign. Inside with him was a woman. Shin never got a good look at her face as it was all fuzzy but he already knew how she looked. The woman, he recalled, had a kind, gentle look and air about her with deep green eyes. As she moved from room to room, Shin followed. These memories he had about her, about this place...they shouldn't be with him. But there were. And there was just something about the woman that drew him to her. When suddenly she approached him, she caressed him like a mother would her child. The moment Lightning placed her hand on his head, so did the woman in the dream in a similar manner. For some reason that he doesn't understand, his tears fell in both reality and the dream. Where are you, Ultima? That thought was the only thing on Omega's mind as he continued on. Three days...That's all the time I have to find you before I go back...
"You remind me a Sorceress Knight. You've probably never heard of them, as they aren't from this world. Neither are any of the Eidolons, for that matter. Perhaps you were never supposed to be even born at all..." In reflex to being hit by Cid's cross slash, Omega Weapon triplecasts Drainga, taking in large amounts of health from Cid with each spell. To weaken Cid further, he struck with Gravity Bomb, launching a large ball of gravity from his mouth to halve whatever life the l'Cie had left. The sudden increase in gravity would also help keep him on the ground and in one place, along with any others caught in the attack. The Weapon began to speak to the three Crystal L'Cie before him. "What good are tools if they break from their own power? You must have felt their otherworldly presence by now. Do you believe your tools can get them to submit?"
Omega Weapon groaned under Cid's attack, but held his ground. He chuckled at Cid's response. "Fate knows all and controls all. Even our conflict now was predestined long, long ago..." The body of the creature took on a shade of deep red, as did the battlefield. Intense magical energies burst forth from him with various tendrils breaking off and spiraling around the arena, erasing everything on contact, but that was just the start of things. "The planet will not die simply because she wishes it to. Your fal'Cie will comply to Fate's will just as the others have done before her. Those who turn their backs on Fate...they will be forsaken." For a moment, the entire world seemed to shake. With a single roar, the spell of myth that easily outclassed Ultima, Forsaken, was unleashed. The entire area they were fighting on became engulfed in a pillar of utter destruction that was slowly spreading outwards. No living thing, other than only this form of Omega Weapon and Shinryu, has ever seen it cast until now and there was good reason for that. The last and only other time he used this spell was against Shinryu in the final hours of the Battle in the Sea of Eden which left the Dragon weakened, but not dead. Through sheer force of will he barely managed to contain it to only the elevation he was on and higher, more or less unaffecting the l'Cie below. As Omega continued his search in the land of dreams, he found Lightning to be there as well. Only one of two things must have happened for her to be here: She either became crystal like Snow or she simply fell asleep and drifted off here. He hoped for the best that it was the latter. As he did with Snow, he spoke a few words to her before parting. "Never forget, Lightning: Our planet's dream is not over yet. When it does, you will know..." Shinryu was beginning to pass out from exhaustion. He didn't realize how far ahead the others have gone. They must have ran nonstop when the order was given. Setting Lightning down against the cave wall, he stopped to catch his breath and have a moment to think. It would be alright if he took a break, right? It wasn't like anything major was going on as far as he knew. Besides, this place seemed safe enough. Shin sat himself next to Lightning, falling asleep with his head on her shoulder. Moments later, the caves shook but Shin was already deep asleep and was not aware of what was happening outside.
