Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ Final Fantasy Endgame: Script ❯ The Empire ( Chapter 6 )

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Scene blackens and fade inside one of the Shadow Empire’s ship’s room where everyone is at except Cloud, Vincent, and Lakeyna.

Rikku: What now?

Irvine: Skise is gone and Lakeyna is piloting the ship and she might turn on us again once we get there.

Rinoa: Do you trust her or not?

Squall: The only reason not to trust her is that she did come from the Shadow Empire and we know nothing about her even what happen with the demon.

Cloud: I know something about her.

Cloud suddenly appears walking inside the room and lean on the wall near the door.

Rinoa: Like what?

Cloud: Skise and her are childhood friends, and one day Skise left to go to the mountains to train his Mystic power. After fourteen years of training he finally comes home but to see it destroyed by the Shadow Empire. He said that during that one moment nothing in life matters to him even his own life. What he didn’t know and found out later is that Lakeyna was trap under a burning house. From the angle of where she was at she saw Skise not doing anything and thought he was affair, nervous, and weak. Lakeyna said on the beach that night we were on Besaid is that she volunteered to become a Shadow Soldier. That is couple hours when Skine treated her on his flagship. Two days later she showed up at Besaid attacking Skise with everyone she got based on emotions. They thought they could control her by emotions rather then fusing her with the shadows gene. What happened on the bridge with Skise and demon was that she was turned entirely on her mental state.

Quistis: Is that why you trust her to take us hallway inside the empire.

Cloud: Yes, I look up the Jenova project at the captain seat hacking the computer and found her last name in the data of victims and notice that its her parents. The demon may of used this advantage over her and gotten inside her brain making her to turn against us.

Tidus: You must know a lot of this Jenova thingy.

Cloud: Sephiroth’s mother was Jenova and he used pieces of her as monsters against me. I knew some information about Jenova and read the file on what the demon can do. One of the key things it can do is to weaken the victims mind and controls the baby through its will. It uses her parents and her mental state to get inside her head and that’s why she did the things she did.

Rikku: (You talk a lot)

Cloud: And you’re annoying, brat

Rikku: Thank you for noticing [hits Cloud]

Zell: What now since Skise is not here to back us up with his Mystic ability.

Squall: We continue as plan, Once we get inside the empire we sneak all the way to the center and defeat the thing that is behind all of this to end it once and for all.

Scene switch to the bridge where Lakeyna is piloting and Vincent is taking a nap on one of the seats.

Squall: …and defeat the thing that is behind all of this to end it once and far all.

Lakeyna: So that what happened to me when I blacken out on the floor and awaken in the medical bay bed.

Lakeyna turns on the auto pilot and heads toward the doors but she hears a pumping sound and turns her head seeing Vincent aiming one of his shotgun at her.

Vincent: Where do you think you’re going?

Lakeyna: I’m going to Med Bay to check on something.

Vincent: If you are looking for Skise he left before we took off.

Lakeyna: That’s couple hours ago, are you sure?

Vincent: Listen lady, you are in a tight situation and I don’t want to shoot a female.

Lakeyna: I’m going to medical bay to check if he had any wounds on him.

Lakeyna walks out.

Vincent: What do you mean, any wounds?

Lakeyna and Vincent notice her dagger in the wall stuck and the two had to use most of their strength to pull it out. The blade still had blood and she touches it but it electrocuted her and they head toward the medical bay, which found sheets with blood on them.

Lakeyna: He’s bleeding to death!

Touches the blood and it electrocuted her hand again.

Vincent: What’s the matter?

Lakeyna: This blood has electricity.

Vincent: Interesting, is that why he haves power

Lakeyna: What are you talking about, that is why he haves power?

Vincent: Every blood cell in his body gives off an electric charge of pure energy. He uses the magnetic force to gather energy around his body and utilize it as a projectile weapon. Even if every cell is charge the most important thing is, how could he use it as a projectile or an enhancement.

Lakeyna: The Mystic Project.

Vincent: They what?

Lakeyna: I heard Skine talk to Skise about it on the day when they destroyed Teego. He told him that their parents used them for test subjects of the Mystic Project. The project was manipulating human body cells and restyles them to their liking. I guess they enhance their body cells to control the power they have inside their body.

Vincent: Skise is a walking power plant that can use his own powers into a weapon of mass destruction, but I’d notice that every time he used it he becomes more exhausted. It is like every time he uses it , it drains the life out of him.

Lakeyna: How can you make all of this observation so quickly.

Vincent: I was once a scientist back in the old days and it would be better if you don’t ask any questions about it.

Lakeyna: Do you trust me even what I did back there?

Vincent: Sorry, but I don’t trust no one but ... I do have friends and friends have to be there for each other bad or good.

Lakeyna: What does that mean?

Vincent: It means that you don’t to be trusted as long that you are there to help when you are needed the most.

Scene blackens and fade in inside the burning building with Skise and Skine in fighting position. The two fought and within several minutes Skise is on the ground.

Skine: Does that make you remember how they electrocuted you when you were a baby because of that little incident.

Skise: You will kill your won brother to destroy the world.

Skine: You are not my brother! My brother would of follow me and help me to get revenge.

Skise: Whom is it that you are getting revenge on? Everyone who was in the Mystic Project has died except us two and the old man.

Skine: I know that everybody died that was in the Mystic Project, so this planet will take their place.

Skise: You are insane.

Skine: No, it was the people in the Mystic Project that was insane to use babies for their test subject of their stupid experiment.

Skise: Stop living in the past and live in the present.

Skine: You were couple weeks old, of course you would remember most of it. I was three when it happened and when we left I still had flashes of what happen. I vow to myself that I will sow everyone what I suffered and they will die by it.

Skise: That’s enough bullshit from you! Like you said before It ends now!

Skine: Bring it on

Skise and Skine begin fighting once again and Skine blast Skise outside.

Skine: Give up and die easily.

Skise: Never

Skise reach for his Murowsumasane sword.

Skine: Using that lame sword that your grandfather made for you.

Skise: What do you know about this and grandfather?

Skine: I know enough and that’s all I am saying to a corpse.

Skise: Mystic Shadow Caliber.

Skine: What the fuck is this, I can’t move!

Skise: Prepare to die.

Skise uses his second limit breaker move on Skine which only cut him a bit and Skine use one of his own limit breaker to fire a blast at Skise but he still survives it.

Skine: When does this son of a bitch dies!

Skise barely stands up but Skine attacks Skise making Skise to fall back down.

Skine: Stay down.

Skise stands up again but Skine attack Skise again to make him fall back, but only staggers.

Skine: Damn you!

Skise: Killing our own brother because of what people that died for us did to us so we can make a better future for everyone in this world.

Skine: You call us being tortured to death creating a better future?

Skise: With out powers we can bring down the Shadow Empire and bring a happy future to the rest of the people. We will live knowing that we actually did something to help others when they needed it.

Skine: I hate you, you always were their favorite.

Skise: Our parents died for us both so we can make a better future for those who can’t do anything about it. Look at you, you using the powers that your parents gave to the exact opposite.

Skine: You were a baby back then you don’t know how it felt.

Skise: That’s where you are wrong, every night I dreamt about everything that happened to me in the past. The dream was so real that I felt the pain that they cause us, I could actually fell it going through every cell in my body. I don’t hate them for giving us this power but I am glad that I can do something to bring peace to everyone that I cared for..

Skine: What are you doing to me? My whole life was on revenge but now…

Skise and Skine begins fighting once again but Skine is now losing but Skine got the upper hand and is about to win but doesn’t have the strength to finish it.

Skine: This is taking longer then I thought.

Skise: Come back and fight.

Skine: I’ll come back and finish this job.

Skise: Finish it now!

Skine: Dieren…

Dieren appears coming up from the ground.

Dieren: What do you want?

Skine: Finish him off!

Dieren: If you have no regrets then I’m glad to.

Skine pass out on the ground and sink down to safety.

Skise: Who are you?

Dieren: Your executioner.

Skise attacks but Dieren counters.

Dieren: You may not die from Skine, but I’m at full health and I can kill you when ever I want.

Skise: You have Mystic but you aren’t part of the Mystic Project. Did the Shadow Empire created their own group of Mystics?

Dieren: Bingo.

Skise: Then I guess I have to kill each one then.

Dieren: How? You are badly beaten.

Skise: You maybe at full health but I still have enough energy to take you down.

Dieren: Oh shit!

Skise: Mystic Explosion Bomb!

Scene suddenly went blinding white and then blackens as it slowly fades in at the ship with some of the crew seeing a white explosion south of where they are. Lakeyna is at the pilot seat watching the front until she sees light coming from behind. She p0uts on a screen showing what is happening behind them and the crew sees the white explosion which the force is shaking the ship.

Squall: What’s happening over there?

Lakeyna: I don’t know, it some sort of energy explosion.

Rikku: What if Skise is in that?

Vincent: That could be Skise energy escaping his body all at once into an explosion for some sort of a last resort attack.

Cloud: I wonder who he used that kind of attack on.

Tidus: We need all the help we can get and if he can do that then we need his help more then ever to defeat the empire.

Lakeyna: What about my help?

Cloud: When we got a plan we make sure we include you in it.

Lakeyna: Thank you kindly Cloud.

Cloud: You should thank my conscious because you were like me under somebody else control.

Selphie: What happened to you when somebody else was controlling your body.

Cloud: I was force tot kill the person that I deeply cared about.

Rikku: Oh no! What else happened?

Cloud: When I finally broke out of his control I was too busy feeling weak that he came from above and killed her right in front of me.

Lakeyna: Was that person controlling you Sephiroth?

Cloud: Yes…

Lakeyna: The empire is within a day range.

Zell: About time, tomorrow I will show them all!

Irvine: Cool it. [Hits Zell]

Quistis: We shall go to our designated rooms and prepare for battle. [exits]

Zell: [To Irvine] Why did you do that for?

Irvine: You’re getting cocky again and we need your skills, not your bickering, remember that. [exits]

Zell: I’ll get you for that! [Exits]

Squall: It had been a long day, we should get at least some rest for the battle that we might come across once in the empire. [Exits with Rinoa]

Tidus: I’m tired too, I’m hitting the sack. See you all tomorrow! [Exits]

Yuna: Hey! Wait up for me! [Exits]

Rikku: I can’t wait until tomorrow so I can show them what I got. [Getting out her weapons]

Paine: Save it when we get there. [Rikku and Paine exits]

Cloud: This has been a long night, but we all know that it has been a day since we landed on the continent.

Vincent: [To Cloud] Are you going to sleep.

Cloud: I already gotten some rest since we are in the air, you guys making so much noise that I had to wake up.

Vincent: Alright, I’m going to my room [Exits]

Lakeyna: I noticed that Squall has Rinoa, Zell, Quistis, Selphie, and Irvine is one group and Tidus has Yuna, Paine, Rikku, and Wakka.

Cloud: Your point?

Lakeyna: I then noticed that your team only has Vincent and you.

Cloud: I didn’t want anybody to get involve in my business.

Lakeyna: How are you involved with the Shadow Empire?

Cloud: I don’t want to talk about it.

Lakeyna: Just recently you noticed that Sephiroth is with the Shadow Empire and Skise told you that they captured him and is trying fused him with Shadows but Sephiroth isn’t the reason why.

Cloud: No he isn’t the exact reason, but the thing behind all of this is the one fusing with Sephiroth and I can let that happen.

Lakeyna: How do you know if it is fusing with Sephiroth?

Cloud: Sephiroth and I still have some sort of connection.

Lakeyna: You’re in it for personal business then.

Cloud: You can say that but there is something else.

Lakeyna: Its good talking to you Cloud, I’ll set this thing on auto pilot and it should return to its docking bay within 24 hours. I’m so tired, so I’m going to bed.

Cloud: You woke up couple hours ago.

Lakeyna: I didn’t rest, I was just unconscious which is different then resting.

Cloud: Alright, you go rest and I stay on guard just in case.

Lakeyna: If you say so. [walks out but sees a red flashing light on the captain’s computer console] How long has that been on?

Cloud: Oh that, about a minute or two after you put the white explosion on screen.

Lakeyna: Why didn’t you tell me before? [Runs out]

Cloud: What the hell!? [Went after Lakeyna]

Lakeyna: That signal means something outside has gotten inside by the rear hatch near the medical bay.

The two runs to the ladder up to the hatch and notice blood dripping down. They walk to the medical bay seeing Skise on the floor soak in blood with trails of blood scatter on the floor. The two pick him up and put him on the table and Lakeyna activates the recovery system.

Lakeyna: Strange.

Cloud: What, does he needs to breathe or something?

Lakeyna: This is a special kind of fluid that provide oxygen but that is not what I said strange for.

Cloud: Then why did you said strange.

Lakeyna: Well, every cell in his body is electrically charge including his blood cell, but it doesn’t react to the liquid.

Cloud: Every cell in his body is not electrically charge but is pure energy.

Lakeyna: That is possible.

Cloud: So, what does this thing do?

Lakeyna: First, it washes off everything off his body including the blood to make him clean. Second, some mechanical hands will appear and take off his clothes. Third, it will try to analyze the body structure and sends the data to the computer. This is where it decides of what materials to use to rebuild his skin tissue. The final step is that several mechanical arms with needles will pop up all over and body and rebuild all damage tissue that it scanned.

Cloud: Interesting machine…

Lakeyna: Its old, our people built this before they became the Shadow Empire. I guess they don’t threat the wounded.

Cloud: Or there is no wounded to be treated.

Lakeyna: I guess you’re right, every Shadow Soldier we fought was slice up to bits and I don’t think these machines can fix that.

Cloud: Or they can use the parts to make another one or something. If that’s so, then we are dealing with an empire that can come back from the dead.

Lakeyna: Was it just me or you skip out when the Shadow Zombies attack us at Teego.

Cloud: Can they really do that?

Lakeyna: As long they are killed by a Shadow Soldier and convert by a Shadow Converter then it will come back as a soldier and if they are not strong enough then they becomes zombies.

Cloud: Everyone at Teego wasn’t strong enough so they either converted to zombies or was part of the Jenova Project.

Lakeyna: Of course that they transformed to zombies they were innocent people that was living in the wrong day and age.

Cloud: I’m going back to the bridge, if you need anything you can find me there.

Lakeyna: I’ll stay here and watch over him to see if this goes right.

Cloud exits as the scene blackens out and is now 20 hours later fading in with Cloud waking up.

Cloud: What the hell is that?

Cloud sees through the ship’s front window viewing the outer empire walls with thousands of towers is lit up high in the sky. The empire is so huge that Midgar is like a neighborhood to it.

Tidus: [Entering the room] Is that a new and improve Zanarkand. No, that is way to big to be a city, so this is the empire.

Zell: [Entering as he runs to the Window] Holy cow!

Squall: [Entering with Rinoa] Is that what we have to fight against.

Rikku: [Enter the bridge] What’s all the commotion? [Sees the empire and is shock]

Paine: [Entered and sits down in a seat] So that is the Shadow Empire.

Cloud: The one and only.

Wakka: [Entered and notice the empire] Whoa! I never saw a city this big before.

Yuna: [Enters the bridge running to Tidus and Rikku at the window] Is that the empire?

Vincent: [Walks in] We had arrived.

Selphie: [Enters with Irvine] Oh my god!

Irvine: Today is going to get more interesting then yesterday.

Cloud: We are still several hours from the empire, I estimate that it will take us hours to get to it and if I’m correct then it will be 3 hours to get in midway. Take these four hours to get ready and prepare for the impossible.

Quistis: You heard him, get ready.

Cloud exits the bridge and appears walking into the Medical Bay where he sees Lakeyna sleeping on the bed right next to Skise. He walks to Skise and noticed that his vital signs are the same but his wounds are gone.

Lakeyna: [Seems to be awake] He was supposed to be full healed in five hours from the procedure but from strange reason his vital signs never gotten better. The only thing that I did was keep it stable and from dropping. If he gets fully healed, his vital sings are too low for him to wake up.

Vincent: [Enters] The Mystic Accident.

Cloud: What Mystic Accident.

Vincent: 18 years ago, Skise and his brother were test subjects for a new experiment. The first day they were use, a lightning stuck the building and went inside the test subject. The lightning electricity electrocuted them to near death but it wasn’t fatal but instead it gave them powers.

Cloud: So that’s the Mystic Accident but what does that has to do now?

Vincent: He wasted a lot of energy since the project and I noticed that he been feeling tired every time he used it. If I am correct then if we electrocuted him again like the accident then his power and his vital will get better.

Lakeyna: Thank you Dr. Vincent, you are a good help but since when did you knew about the Mystic Project or Mystic Accident.

Vincent: I check the archive of this ship and it had some information about the invasion of the Cirius Project.

Lakeyna: They had information about the Mystic Project in this ship, but…

Cloud: This must be the ship that invaded the project and the city.

Vincent: That is more likely the case

Lakeyna begins to press buttons on the console as the fluid drains and fill with water then he two medical arms appear right by his head and electricity sparking.

Lakeyna: Hopefully this works and he will get better but if it doesn’t then we will have a cook Mystic.

Lakeyna presses a button as the arms drop in the water and the whole tube flashes. Skise eyes open wide with his iris narrow and his body is moving all over the water being electrocuted. She sees Skise’s vital signs are now increasing rapidly as it goes over and beyond

Lakeyna: Its working but it’s too much!

Vincent: No, let him be for a while!

Scene switches to a zoom in view of Skise’s head with him shaking and his eyes is also letting out electrical sparks. Scene violently flashes with him being electrocuted when he was a baby back in that capsule. Scene slowly fades out as his eyes went blank and fade in with Lakeyna shutting the electricity off.

Vincent: Interesting, the cuts he sill had before is now gone.

Tidus: [Enters] What’s going on the lights were going nuts so I cam here to check what’s the matter?

Vincent: We gave Skise 30,000 volts of electricity and it doesn’t look like it hurt him.

Tidus: Is he still alive?

Lakeyna: His vital signs are still rather high. We have to wait for several hours if it calms down.

Cloud: That’s good to hear. He will be up when we dock in the empire.

Scene blackens and fade in 4 hours and 40 minutes later with Cloud, Squall, and Tidus standing in a lighted circle with everything else shadowed.

Squall: We are inside the empire undetected.

Tidus: We’re going straight to the center and defeat what is there.

Cloud: If everything goes as plan then the worlds will return to normal.

[Enters] Skise: United as one and together we shall defeat this thing.

Tidus: They will pay for they did to Luca.

Squall: For those who died by them.

Cloud: And the ones who had suffered.

Skise: We shall defeat the Shadow Empire once and for all.

The lights turn on as the ten appears around them as the four look at all of them.

Cloud: [To Tidus] Why did Cid go back in the first place?

Tidus: He said that he went back in cause you needed reinforcement.

Cloud: This is all the reinforcement that I need.

Lakeyna: Let’s go, we are docking right now.

Skise: Right, let get this over with.

Scene blackens and fade in as the fourteen is walking down the ramp of the ship and onto the ship’s docking platform. Skise walks off in a different direction where the thirteen is going and Lakeyna was about to follow him.

Cloud: He said he was going to do something first before he join us.

Skise somehow disappear as Lakeyna join the others and left the dock. Skise appears walking through the crowded streets of the Shadow Empire hiding in his cloak. He reaches an old antique shop in a dead end alleyway and enters it.

Hunsokeno: I’ll be in the front.

Skise walks around in the shop seeing ancient talismans, scrolls, and books from the city old empire. Suddenly there’s a loud noise from the back as he react and jump over the counter running to the back. He helps the old shop keeper from a fallen shelf that landed on him.

Hunsokeno: Thank you so kindly young boy.

Skise: You don’t have to thank me.

The old man looks up seeing the shadowed face of the stranger.

Hunsokeno: You’re not with the Shadow Empire.

Skise: I’m a pure human just like you. [Walks toward the front]

Hunsokeno: No, not in the front, if you want us to talk then we must go downstairs.

The old shop keeper leas Skise down in the basement where living quarters is set up. He slowly sits down on one of the seat and Skise sits down on the other one.

Hunsokeno: You are brave to come here under the control of the shadows.

Skise: I did lots of thing I did against the empire but I’m surprise that I meet someone like you in the empire.

Hunsokeno: You have lots of question that you want answered but whom do I have the honors to tell in such a tragedy time.

Skise: My name is Skise, and yours?

Hunsokeno: My name is Hunsokeno

Skise: Alright Hunsokeno, tell me what you know about the leader of the Shadow Empire.

Hunsokeno: I don’t know exactly but only rumors from the people on the streets. The thing came from the sky in an alien rock which I guess you already knew that. Once it landed in the center of the empire, it lies dormant as it produces black clouds that covered the empire for centuries. Not too long ago, something dark with just black robs and a helmet with smoke for a face walks out from it. The emperor walks up to it and asks why it had come. The thing responds in an eerie voice saying that he is one of many that is called the Shadow Legion who sets out to destroy other worlds. This planet is the next one that I shall destroy and who ever defies this will die immediately. The emperor knew that this thing is capable of destroying his whole empire so he had no choice but to submit then. He told his wife to take their son and leave the empire for good and never come back for any reason. Within days this thing used its’ demonic powers and enslave most of the people to loyal subjects. The ones lucky enough left the empire before it was too late while some stayed for information. Several weeks later the emperor vanishes from the empire and was never seen again.

Skise: Shadow Legion…

Hunsokeno: The time of complete darkness over worlds is within 10 hours.

Skise: Then we do have a deadline.

Hunsokeno: Are you going to defeat this thing, this thing part of the Shadow Legion.

Skise: I have the power to stop this and I’m not wasting it.

Hunsokeno: Before you go, what’s your full name?

Skise: My full name is Skise Makato.

Hunsokeno: Is your father’s named Skiren Makato.

Skise: I don’t know much about my father but yes that’s his name.

Hunsokeno: [Startle] Who told you to come here?

Skise: My master told me to come here if I ever go to the empire and why are you asking all of this questions.

Hunsokeno: Your father was the prince of the empire, since he died then you are the rightful prince of this empire.

Skise: What is the difference of me being the prince and me being a normal person?

Hunsokeno: I was your grandfather’s most trusted friend and before he vanished he gave me a chest to hold for him. He said to me if one of his descendants ever comes here then I shall give it to that person.

Hunsokeno barely gets up from his seat and walks to wall and presses the wall at several places and the wall opens up revealing the golden chest. Hunsokeno pick sup the chest and gives it to Skise.

Hunsokeno: This chest is for royalty and is not wise for me to be here when you open it.

Hunsokeno left the room as Skise opens a thin top revealing something for a handprint to check for royalty blood. Skise place his right on the hand scanner as it scans and once its done he hears a clicking noise. He places the chest on the table and the second opening pops up revealing a holographic message. He grabs the message and presses several buttons to play it and ten sets it down. A person that look likes in his early thirties appear with his hands behind his back and looks striking familiar.

Skito: I am Skito Makato, the Emperor of my empire. Recently this thing that is from the Shadow legion appeared controlling the empire. This thing wants world destruction but he couldn’t do it since our world is only a piece of a much bigger world. He discover 4 other worlds that he could link by using his dark evil powers to connect them. The last world can only be open when the 4 smaller worlds are one which will open the master world and destroy the planet from there. Hopefully the ones before you completed our royal project that we been working on and you process the results that we wanted. As my descendent with Mystic powers then you are our only hope of survival before this planet is destroyed. I am sorry that I am not there for you but I will always be in your heart. Inside this chest is a power suit that will increase your chances of survival against this wannabe god. Go my child and bring peace to all worlds forever and ever with the powers that you can wield.

Skise: I will grandfather, you will be proud that the project was completed by your son and it was success with over and beyond results.

Scene blackens and fade in with Skise wearing a black power suit that is so light and thin that it feels like its his skin. The suit is the most defensive armor in all of human kind and the empire. Skise puts the cloak back on and walk back up stairs with the scene fading out.

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