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The White Room
When Squall came to he didn’t recognize where he was…he slowly opened his eyes and tried to make sense of what he saw…firstly, he was in a room…a room with a white floor and White walls and white lights…there were no doors of any kind, no windows…it was empty, except for him…Squall felt a little cold, he looked down at himself and realized his jacket and shirt had been removed, all he was wearing were a pair of white pants….he still had his necklace on…but no shirt…suddenly Squall heard a voice…<Good morning Squall> it spoke…it sounded like it was coming form a speaker system…”Where am I?” Squall replied with an uncertain tone in his voice…<Someplace where no one can find you> the voice said. Squall rose to his feet…”…Why am I here?” he asked. <That’s what I want, to try and find out> said the voice…Squall moved around trying to see where the voice was coming from, or just to see anything or anyone…he started to feel a bit uneasy. ”…You’ve made a mistake…” Squall said. <I don’t think so…I know what you are> the voice replied. <And now your going to tell me everything…> Squall didn’t like where this was going, he decided to try and co-operate. ”...I’m Squall Leonhart, I come from Balamb Garden…a school…you can call them” he said. <We can do this the easy way…or the hard way> the voice replied. <What is the name…of your home planet?> it asked. Squall stopped moving, he was confused by the question…(My home planet?...) he asked himself…Squall thought for a moment then replied…”…Same one your from..” <Alright…….hard way> was the voice’s last reply. Squall didn’t like the sound of that…Suddenly Squall heard noises from behind him, he spun around to find a section of the wall had opened and about 5 figures in white bio suits came at him fast…Squall didn’t know what was going on and started to back away from them, but they grabbed him and one of the figures wheeled in a reclined metal chair with steel shackles…Squall fought them but couldn’t escape there grip…he was put into the chair and his wrists and ankles were shackled down…Squall’s patients had run out, “Why are you doing this to me?!...WHY!!!!!!!!!!” he yelled, the figures didn’t respond, instead one of them took a needle out of a case and stuck it into Squall’s arm…the other 4 figures were holding him still, the 5th figure looked as if he was taking some of Squall’s blood…Squall couldn’t move, he laid there helpless teeth clenched with a thousand questions in his mind…
PART II
Squall lay there on his back, still in the chair, the figures in white had left, probably hours ago…(What’s going on?...what next?....who are these people?...what do they want with me?...) Squall kept asking himself…he stared at the white ceiling until he heard a noise from behind…Squall tried to see what was going on but couldn’t move much shackled down…but he saw one man in a white bio suit walk past him and over in front of him…he extended his hand which contained some sort of remote control, he pressed a button at Squall…Squall turned his head and tensed up as if something were going to happen, but all it did was adjust the chair so Squall was now sitting up…the figure looked over at Squall, then removed his mask and suit, he was male…under the bio suit he wore a black dress suit… “We don't need procedure now do we Squall?” he said. Squall looked at him…”…Who are you?” he asked. “Don’t you know?” he replied…Squall looked at him hard…then it hit him…. “…Pierce…” Squall said coldly…”You have your tricks Squall, I have mine” he said. “Who do you think I am?” Squall asked. Pierce pulled some plastic sheets out of his suitcase…”That’s what we have been trying to figure out at the lab” he replied. “You know there’s something very strange about your x-rays…” he said. “…Something that doesn’t make sense…” he put the plastic sheet over a panel on the wall and it lit up…it showed a x-ray of Squall’s body… “There completely human!...your bone structure, organs, circulatory and pulmonary systems, everything….human…..but….” Pierce took the sheet down and grabbed another… “Here’s where things get really strange…Pierce took the other sheet and put it on the same panel, Squall watched confused on what point he was trying to make, the panel lit up and showed a group of small red circles all bunched up together… “These are your blood cells…completely not human…” Squall gave Pierce a look of confusion…he remembered studying biology back at the garden, and the cells looked normal to him…Pierce looked at Squall… “…I told you Squall I know what you are….now you are going to start answering some questions” he said. Squall sat there confused… Pierce went on, “One morning I woke up and expected to see the sun shine but instead…I saw nothing but a pitch black sky…when it passed, most of the towns and cities on my world were gone…what do you know about that?...” Squall looked at him…(…Same thing that happened to me…to the garden…he thinks I have something to do with that?....It was Yalut…he knows this…) “Nothing…” Squall replied. Pierce’s left eye twitched…he then waved his hand…suddenly the same noise was heard behind Squall again…2 more figures in white bio-suits came in, this time with equipment…a pole on wheels holding 3 plastic bags with colored liquid inside…yellow….blue…red…Squall was now feeling nervous…he struggled, tried to break free but he couldn’t…the figures put IV’s into his hand and arm… “No…” Squall said…what else could he do…one of the men pressed a button on a machine that was connected to the chemicals…Squall began to feel dizzy…and sleepy….his vision blurred and all he heard was the sound of Pierce’s voice asking him more questions…
PART III
Squall didn’t know how much time had passed…his head was all messed up…he knew he was drugged….Pierce kept asking him questions…even if he knew the answer Squall couldn’t say anything…he was too drugged to stay awake…the other man had to keep using a smelly tab to keep him conscious. Pierce grabbed the other man in white and started yelling, “THIS IS GETTING US NOWHERE…I want it ALL flushed out of his system….I want him completely coherent…for the next phase…”
**************Hours Later*************
Squall was left alone in the room for hours at a time….he hated having nothing to do…he sat in the corner with his arms wrapped around his knees (…what now?....what’s he going to do to me?....why is this happening….what’s wrong with me?...my blood looked perfectly normal…what did he mean not human?....and why is he asking me questions about Yalut…he knows it was him who fused our worlds….he wants me to confess I know something?...why?... ) he sat there thinking to himself…moments after he wished that’s all that they made him do…..The next day was the worst…Pierce came in with men and put Squall threw all sort’s of torcher like methods…they would corner him then 4 men in white suits would dunk him in a tub full of water with cubes of ice in it….it hit Squall like a wave of knifes it was so cold…they forced his head under water, Squall yelled out, struggling, trying to escape…..that went on for about an hour….after that they drugged him again…when he came to he was in the chair shackled down again, and there was Pierce…asking more questions about where he came from and why the world changed…Squall didn’t know what he wanted to say…but he wasn’t going to tell them he knew anything about Yalut…he tried to lie…explain, but Pierce didn’t listen…still a little damp from the water….a man walked in with a giant battery connected to 2 handles with steel mesh…when he rubbed them together sparks were generated….they shocked Squall for hours…always asking questions….after that he had his wrists chained upwards, the chains connected to the ceiling forcing Squall to stand…a large man then entered the room with Pierce…Squall tried to reason…tried to tell Pierce he didn’t know anything…the large man hit Squall hard on the face….then continued to beat him, after a shot or 2 Pierce would ask more questions…And Squall would reply “I don’t know what you want me to say….I’ve never stepped foot in a Shinra building before…” Squall thought to himself…(…I was in a morph spell…they couldn’t know it was me…even my scar was gone…) Pierce nodded at the man as he continued to beat Squall…Blood dripped from open cuts on his face and body…bruises started to form….eventually Squall fell unconscious….this time when he came to he was back in the chair…electrodes taped to his chest and head…a group of men in white and Pierce stood over him…Pierce turned a dial connected to a machine which was wired to the electrodes taped to Squall…the more he turned. The more pain was felt, Squall yelled out in agony… “AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
louder then he ever yelled before….Squall always kept his emotions in check, tried to hide his sadness or pain…these men were breaking him….the pain went on for about 30 minutes…but to Squall it was a lifetime….He was drugged again and fell unconscious….and left in the room alone to what horrible fate was in store for him next…
PART IIII
When Squall came to, he was on the floor….he wasn’t shackled or being held down in anyway….he heard someone behind him…Squall was pushed past his limits, he wanted revenge….he shot up to his feet grabbed who happened to be Pierce by his suit and slammed him into the wall, Squall put his hand to Pierce’s chest and planned to kill him with a Fira spell….but nothing happened….Squall was confused as to why Pierce was smiling….Squall couldn’t use any magic on him…Pierce spoke, “Don’t even try Squall…don’t even try to use your magic…see where I come from you need something called Materia for that…but your different…the magic you have is apart of you…it resides in your blood” he said…Squall then realized what he meant…(..That’s why he said my blood wasn’t human…where I come from we draw magic into us…and it becomes apart of us…they must have something different…that’s why he thinks I’m not human…but why can’t I use my magic?...) then Pierce spoke again… “…That serum we injected you with…suppresses neurotransmitters in your cerebral cortex….which is where we’ve learned you magic comes from…” he explained….Squall slowly loosened his grip and looked away…Pierce sat him down in a chair…Squall felt weak and drained…that little burst of energy he used on Pierce was all he had left…suddenly shackles bound Squall to the chair again. Pierce knelt down in front of Squall… “You know…I’ve been going about this the wrong way…its not that you’re different from me…it’s that you’re similar…” Pierce got up and walked behind Squall…Squall wondered what he meant by that…suddenly Pierce put a visor over Squall’s head…Squall fought it but knew he couldn’t do anything…the visor was mounted, Squall stared threw a screen in front of his eyes as Pierce spoke… “You have feelings…” he started, suddenly the screen flashed to video images of Quistis and Seifer….Pierce continued, “Emotions…” then the screen flashed to Ellone…Squall missed her and reacted as the images changed… “Friendships…” continued Pierce…the screen flashed to clips of Zell….then Pierce watched closely as he changed the picture again… “…Love…” Squall’s eyes focused more as the image changed to one of Rinoa…Squall felt something inside him…a feeling or emotion….normally he would suppress it but…he couldn’t, he didn’t have the strength….then the image changed once more…Squall’s eyes went wide as the picture changed to Rinoa laying on the ground with blood coming out of her mouth….dead….Squall snapped…”nnnNNNOOOO!!!.....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!.....NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!” Pierce knew he hit a cord, he cut the video feed and ran over right to Squall’s ear…”SQUALL IT WASN’T REAL! SQUALL COMPUTER RIGGED…..we didn’t kill her…..” Squall stopped yelling and tried to stop breathing so hard…he moved his head around trying to take in what had just been shown to him… Pierce started talking again, “I just wanted to show you what can happen….what will happen…” Squall looked at Pierce, after everything they did to him he was shocked he made him believe that even for a second… “…You’re evil…” Squall finally replied…Pierce gave him a puzzled look, “I’m evil?, I’m risking my life to save my world from being controlled by people like you…now tell me…where is the other one?” Pierce asked with a serious tone…Squall dropped his head not knowing what he meant, “…The other what?” he asked. Pierce clenched his fists and paced back and forth… “…The one who made our worlds merge…he must be similar to you somehow…tell me what you know about him…” Squall was so tired…so weak and confused…Pierce was losing patience… “Alright Squall…I’ll give you a choice…you either tell me what I want to know OR….you get to decide which one of your friends gets to die first” Squall lifted his head up towards Pierce… “And you have 10 seconds to decide” he said. Just then a 10 second timer came on the screen of the visor, Squall didn’t know what to do…he knew nothing of anyone who could merge worlds…he couldn’t tell Pierce what he wanted to know…but time was running out… “Maybe I’ll start with her first…” Pierce said as the image of the dead Rinoa came across the screen again… Squall struggled, “NO RINOA!!! STOP IT!!! STOOOOP!!!!!!” Pierce too the visor off him… “….I’ll tell you who he is…just don’t hurt Rinoa…” Squall said…now facing the problem of not knowing anything about what Pierce wants…Pierce looked at Squall and spoke, “hmm, you do have feelings…..just like us…well whatever you are, you’d better tell me the truth, for Rinoa’s sake…”
PART V
Squall was still in the chair when Pierce came back into the room… “Ready to talk?” he asked. Squall thought about what he could say… “…What you said…about the sky turning black…and your city was brought to a place you don't know…that’s exactly what happened to me and my world…I didn’t cause it, I don't know what did but I’m trying to find out same as you!” Squall said trying his hardest to get the point across…Pierce just looked at him, and then said “Let’s begin!” Suddenly 6 figures in white bio-suits came in, one wheeled a table with a piece of cloth on it, others brought in more chemicals and injections…Squall came to another dead end…he looked at Pierce who opened the cloth on the table…it held what looked like medical instruments…knifes…probes…saws…all operation equipment…Squall shook his head back and forth looking at the table…Pierce leaned over and spoke, “I can take you apart…piece by piece, and make sure you stay conscience enough, to feel every second of it…” Squall started to breath faster, he looked at Pierce and said “I can’t tell you what I don't know…I can’t tell you what I don't know!!” Pierce stood back up… “Bring in the surgeons...” he said as he left the room. Squall was now scared, he couldn’t help but feel it…now more then ever…he watched the men leave and kept glancing at the equipment left in front of him…
************Moments Later**********
Squall was put on the table and shackled down…about 10 men with masks, surgeons and doctors were now in the room …Pierce started to talk pointing to a man with a knife. “This man will hurt you….and this man will help you” he said pointing to another man with a needle filled with pain killer… “Tell me what I want to know, and he’ll take the pain away…” Squall looked up at him in disgust, “…Who’s in-human now?...” he said. Pierce paused for a moment, “Open him up” he ordered. Squall struggled but couldn’t get free…the man with the knife brushed his necklace out of the way and placed the tip of the knife on Squall’s Chest and cut downwards, Squall tensed up as the blade cut into him…his facial expression showed he was in agony…Squall knew he wouldn’t be able to hold out much longer….
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Rivals
Squall sighed as Seifer came from around the corner and stood next to him, both rivals glancing at the same goal…Squall sighed and spoke, “…So…what do we do now?...” he asked, annoyance evident in his tone. Seifer changed his expression, and then out of nowhere decked Squall hard in the face sending him to the ground. “Whadda ya think?” Seifer replied slowly walking towards him with a small grin. “COMON! Lets see how much hero you really got in there…” Seifer said. Squall sat there and sighed, “…Seifer, we don’t have time for this” he replied, Seifer bent down towards him, “Keep your knickers dry Squally…your not going to last that long” Squall let out a breath of air, he started to get up, “Fine” he said casually and decked Seifer back, “…We’ll do it your way” then punched him across the face 4 more times, strangely enough Seifer took the hits one after the other and smiled…then blocked Squall’s next punch and decked him once before grabbing his jacket, then he leaned backwards putting one foot on Squall’s chest and fell backwards sending Squall flying head over heels to the ground…Suddenly Squall felt his left hand starting to burn in pain…he realized it was laying on a glowing hot steel bar…Squall quickly rose to his feet and kicked it away towards Seifer, Seifer dodged it and laughed… “HAHAH….oh ya, look at you, thinking you’re the BIG savior…fighting for truth, justice…and soccer moms…but you still can’t stand to be a leader without thinking about all the responsibilities and decisions you have to make can you?…” Squall stood there glaring at him… “…Like you’re any different…” he replied. Seifer paced back and forth slowly, “Well that’s just it…I am……and you know it….” He said seriously. Squall slowly followed him, glaring, wondering what Seifer was getting too…then he continued. “You had the role of leader FORCED on you…like a curse…and it made you suffer having to depend on others and deal with there feelings………but me?......I fought for my leadership…went threw my own mental trials…almost did me in BUT I KEPT FIGHTING…because I knew it was the right thing to do…” as Seifer spoke those last words he leapt upwards to where Squall was, “Its my destiny!” he said. Squall tilted his head, “Really?…heard it was just to get into a girls pants…” he replied, talking about Fujin. Seifer snared and lifted a steel pole to his hands with his foot…he swung the pole at Squall, but missed as Squall flipped off the ledge and landed on the ground…he stared at the portal…it was close…5 steps away…he started walking towards it when a steel pole shot down barely missing him and wedging itself in the stone floor…Squall snapped his head upwards, Seifer leapt off the ledge holding another pole and swung downwards towards his rival…”AHHHH!!!” he yelled. Squall grabbed the pole that was wedged in the ground and blocked the shot…(…What’s got him so fired up…) he asked himself.
Part II
Squall and Seifer battled, both using steel poles, they swung at each other, not one giving in…Seifer jumped upwards swinging the pole upwards then back down, Squall blocked both shots then connected a blow to Seifer’s face sending him down to the ground…Squall paused. Seifer now had blood seeping from his nose and mouth. “…You used to hit a lot harder Leonhart” he mocked. “No, your heads just gotten thicker” Squall replied, they both started fighting again, slashing and swinging in all directions, showing a true fighting ability. There pole connected, metal against metal sounds erupted like crazy, Seifer was stepping backwards, and Squall advancing, then again Squall connected and knocked Seifer threw some wooden boards…Seifer quickly got back up and blocked Squalls attack from above and held him there…Seifer gave Squall a look, “…Your not gonna win this time…” he said knocking Squall’s pole out of his hands and smashing his pole to his face once before hitting him again threw wooden stair railings, Squall fell and hit a crate, kept rolling till he fell again and hit another crate like giant stairs before falling off that one and hitting the ground…he fell on his back, Squall coughed and rolled over slightly, bloody trickled from his mouth and to the floor…coughing some more…Seifer started to step down the crates towards him, “Squall Leonhart…nobody really knows why he choose the side of good…cept I do…traded in your happiness and ability to connect with others when your little friend Ellone didn’t come back for you at Matron’s bloody orphanage!” he said as he thrusted his pole towards Squall’s head. Squall quickly grabbed the pole inches from his face, “…Little more complicated than that…” he replied. Then with a burst of energy Squall forced the pole to connect with Seifer’s face, then he shoved himself upwards with his hands doing a ground to air back flip and kicked Seifer to the ground as he came around and landed on his feet…Squall grabbed the pole stuck in the floor and threw it away…again he was within feet of the Materia, he started walking towards it… “You always were a bit simple…..Almasy…” Squall spoke. Seifer glared at Squall from the ground as an old memory surfaced.
*FLASH*
Quistis
"You're the squad leader. Good luck to you."
Seifer
"...Instructor."
"I hate it when people wish me luck."
"Save those words for a bad student that needs them, eh?"
Quistis
"OK then."
"Good luck, Seifer."
*FLASH*
Seifer
"Squall!"
"D'you hear about the communication tower in Dollet?"
"We would've been heroes if it weren't for that withdraw order."
Quistis
"You were only looking for a fight."
Seifer
"My dear instructor."
"I'm hurt. Those are rather cruel words for an aspiring student."
"A mediocre instructor like you will never understand."
Xu
"Seifer, don't be so stuck up yourself."
"You'll take all responsibility for leaving the designated area."
Seifer
"Isn't it the captain's duty to take the best possible action?"
Xu
"Seifer, you'll never be a SeeD. Calling yourself a captain is a joke."
Headmaster Cid
"Seifer."
"You will be disciplined for your irresponsible behavior."
"You must follow orders exactly during combat."
*FLASH*
Squall reached out for the materia but was tackled by Seifer, they both rolled away on the ground…when they got up they both had one hand on each others throats, “…C’mon hero…tell me more” Seifer snared as he punched Squall across the face, “…teach me, what it means…” he continued as he punched him again, “…and I’ll tell you…why you can’t stand the bloody sight of me!” Seifer snared decking Squall again. Squall grabbed Seifer and took control of the fight, he punched Seifer back, “…Tell it to your therapist…” Squall spoke, and punched him again, he speech a little off as blood was seeping from his nose and mouth…Seifer took control again and nailed Squall in the stomach causing him to keel over as Seifer elbowed him to the ground…then he grabbed Squall and made him face him, holding him by his jacket…Seifer started to speak, and after every sentence he said, he would punch Squall once, causing more bloody to seep form his cuts… “…Because every time you look at me” *punch* “…seen all the little dirty little things I’ve done…” *punch* “…ALL THE LIVES I’VE TAKEN” *punch* “…BECAUSE OF YOU!!!...Ultimecia, used me!!” *Punch* “…but YOU, made me a monster!” Seifer said punching him one last time…he released Squall and walked away behind him…Squall slowly started to get up…out of breath, “…I didn’t make you Seifer…you’ve always been you…on the inside…this IS the real you …” Squall turned around to face him but instead got a glowing hot steel pole to the face…Squall flew upwards and hit a wall in the air then fell to the ground…he was stunned…his vision blurred…he coughed a few times…then he realized Seifer was holding the same burning hot pole he burnt his hand on before…HOLDING IT…steam started to erupt from his hands…it didn’t seem to effect Seifer a bit…he glared at Squall… "You never knew the real me……too busy…trying to see your own reflection…” he said throwing the pole away. He started to walk towards Squall… “PRAYING!...that there was someone as SCREWED UP as you in the world…so you can stand to live with yourself….take a LONG look hero…..I’m NOTHING like you….” Squall let out a breath of air and gave Seifer a small half smile that lasted a second… “…No…your less…that’s why Rinoa never really loved you…because you weren’t me…” he replied. Seifer paused…then bolted towards Squall, grabbing him and slamming him against the wall, still holding onto him… “Guess that means, she was thinking about you, all those times I was PUTT’N IT TO HER…” Seifer snared. Squall quickly sucked in a deep breath of air and grabbed Seifer’s arms…using his own strength and slowly pulling his arms off of him…Squall glared into his eyes…Seifer gave up and swung a punch at him, Squall linked his arm and flung Seifer into a pile of crates…they broke under the weight as Seifer fell threw the wood pile. Squall grabbed Seifer by his jacket, Seifer snapped off a small sharp piece of wood and tried to stab Squall with it, instinctively, Squall moved his arm to block it…the wooden shard pierced his forearm… “Erg!” Squall said in pain, he kicked Seifer away and ripped out the wooden shard…he had had enough…he glared at Seifer and reached for his Gunblade, “All right…” he said in an angry tone pulling out his Revolver… “…lets finish this”
Seifer gave a mocking smile and pulled out Hyperion…both fighter yelled out and lunged at each other…
(Post stops JUST milliseconds before they connect)
Part III
Both rivals were going at it, ducking and slashing, truly showing off there skills with a Gunblade, using techniques taught by the Garden and techniques they taught themselves…Squall round housed Seifer and cut him in the chest, “How’s it feel!” Squall snared. Seifer retaliated using a similar move, also cutting Squall in the chest, “You tell me” he replied. Squall thrusted his Revolver at Seifer, Seifer grabbed his arm, spun around and elbowed Squall in the back, Squall broke free and punched Seifer across the face, then both fighters locked up…holding each other there until Seifer kicked Squall sending him to the ground, he landed on his back, the Revolver fell away from his reach, Seifer held Hyperion over his throat…Squall realizing he was down wondered why Seifer paused…Seifer looked as though he was fighting himself and finally struck down…Hyperion slamming into Squall…Squall yelled out in pain…Seifer got up and looked down at Squall…he pierced Squall’s right shoulder…Squall lay there stunned by the pain…Seifer pulled his Gunblade out of Squall and started to speak, “…Probably should have finished you…but honestly…I don’t wanna hear HER bitch about it…” he said. Seifer took his eyes off Squall and walked over towards the portal and reached for it…Squall started to move… “…Seifer wait!...wait…” he said…Seifer rolled his eyes and looked at Squall, Squall leaned up… “That’s not a prize your about to win…it’s not a trophy…it’s a burden…” he said. Seifer looked back at the portal… “…It’s a cross…one that will bleed you till your nothing but ashes….believe me….I know….” Seifer looked at Squall, then took 2 steps away from the Portal and faced Squall as he stood to his feet, “…So ask yourself…..is this really the destiny that was meant for you?....do you even really want it?.......or is it that you just wanna take something away from me?...” Seifer paused on the question; both rivals looked at each other…trying to see what the other guy is thinking…Seifer’s expression changed back normal, “…bit of both” he said as he turned around and grabbed the portal… “Seifer, no!” Squall said limping in pain unable to stop him. Seifer closed his eyes and waited for the portal to recognize him…Squall watched unable to do anything…
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