Chapter Eleven: We

"W, what?! Why?!" Balamb Garden... when?! Everyone. We need... to tell them... Balamb... Everything on that continent will be destroyed... Well, I wasn't that surprised, I mean thats what I figured.

"I don't know..."

"...We have to stop them!"

"...Tch, how?"

"Wait. When did you find this out?!"

"...I dunno, a few weeks ago."

"...And you never told anyone!?"

"I couldn't."

"Seifer! Lives are at stake here."

"...Dammit. We have to tell Squall."

"...How? ...You'll be found out."

"So what?"

"So what?!" Seifer turned to exit.

"Wait! Seifer, don't." No... he could be put in prison...!

"What?"

"...Please, Seifer, don't." I run up to him and grab his arm.

"...Quistis."

"Seifer... please don't."

"I have to. Maybe we can talk Leonheart into not telling anyone."

"...You know thats not going to happen..."

"Its worth a try."

"Seifer!" He walks out the door, and I follow slowly. He knocks.

"Ugh, come in." Xu says.

"I have something to tell you guys..." Seifer says, casting his eyes toward the ground.

"What do they want?" Squall asks.

"Come here, Squall, they have-something-to-tell-us."

"Okay..."

"I..." Seifer starts as Squall enters the room. Will he really say it? Will he really tell them...? "I was a spy for Galbadia."

"Say WHAT?!" Squall yells, angry as hell.

"Stop it." Xu says. Squall walks towards Seifer and punches him in the face, hard.

"STOP IT!" I yell. Seifer stands there, emotionless, as blood trickles down from his lip. Xu pulls Squall back, and I just stand there.

"He... has information. He's not a spy anymore..." I mutter, looking at Seifer, who is still just standing there blankly. I glare at Squall.

"Seifer, lets go."

"..." He still doesn't say anything. So, I grab him by the arm and pull him back to our room, motioning for Xu to follow.

"Xu, just sit down for a minute, okay?"

"Sure." I take Seifer into the bathroom and shut the door.

"I'm a piece of shit." He finally says. I grab a towel and wet it, then press it to his lip, and the blood spreads on the clean white towel.

"You are not."

"I am..." Seifer, stop it.

"You are not!"

"I've betrayed all of you again... dammit!"

"Seifer..." He pulls the towel away from me gingerly and tosses it on the floor.

"Quistis, stop it. You, and everyone else knows I'm a peice of worthless crap. Just stop wasting yourself on me."

"Seifer, STOP IT! You think this is a waste...?"

"On your part. ..."

"...Seifer, this is the only thing I've ever enjoyed. Its you... so, please, stop this talk. Because I am not, I repeat am not in love, with a peice of shit. Now, lets go talk to Xu."

"Quis-tis..."

"Come on." We walk out of the bathroom, and Seifer has regained the arrogant look on his face, and I'm happy about that too.

"So, what exactly is going on here?" Xu asks. We see that Squall has joined, and Seifer tosses him a scowl.

"Red knuckles are nice, aren't they, Squall?" He mutters.

"...The missiles are heading to Balamb Garden. We need to stop them." I say, staring at the two of them.

"Say what?!" Squall yells.

"Yeah, Squall, I can see you've been hanging out with the chicken-wuss."

"...Whatever, man. When is this happening?"

"I dunno, I'm not a spy anymore."

"...Why?" Xu asks.

"...Balamb Garden is the only place standing in Galbadia's way of taking over the world."

"Taking over the world?!" Squall asks, eyes wide.

"Yes, Squall, thats what I said!" Seifer says, sneering at him.

"I need to inform the headmaster!" Xu says reaching for the phone.

"No!" I say. "I'll do it. You need to go back to room and use your phone to inform the Timber group to be on standby, an keep and ear out for any information." I say, taking charge.

"Alright!" The two leave the room.

"I thought Squall was the leader of this mission..." Seifer says as I pick up to the phone.

"Me too." Some one picks up.

"Hello?"

"Hello, yes. I need to speak with the headmaster now."

"Why?"

"Look, its an emergancy!"

"Who is this."

"Quistis Trepe."

"He'll be right on."

"Hello?" I hear the headmaster say into the receiver.

"Hi. The missiles are real."

"Oh really... will they be used?"

"Yes."

"When?"

"Soon."

"On what?"

"Balmb Continent."

"What?!"

"Yessir."

"...You need to... inform the Timber troops. Try negociating. Bring Seifer with you, the Galbadians like him."

"...Not really, sir."

"...Oh? Then don't. Do it tommarow morning. Get rest now."

"Are you sure, sir?"

"Yes. Good night, Quistis."

"...Bye, sir."

"How's it going?" Seifer asked.

"Its fine. We talk to them tommarow."

"...Damn, no action?"

"Not yet." I smile slightly.

"He didn't ask for the source... did he?"

"Nope." I shrug, and sit on the bed. "How's the cut?" I ask, staring at his lip.

"It hurts, I'll ya tell that much. Squall really must've been hanging out with Zell."

"Heh heh yeah. Its still bleeding. You should probably put something on it."

"Like what?"

"I dunno. See whats in the cabinet."

"Alright..." He walked into the bathroom and opened the cabinet, and pulled out a tube of something, and applied it to his lower lip.

"You okay?" I ask him.

"Just... um, fine."

"...Okay."

"...So, um can we sleep now?"

~~~

The next morning, we headed straight for the Galbadian Missile Base. When we get there, we tell Seifer to wait outside, and he hesitantly does so.

So, we go inside, and finally gain audiance with the president.

"Yes, what is it?!" He asks, highly impatient.

"The missiles. We know." Xu says, staring at him.

"What? What on earth are you talking about?"

"...Look, you are sending them to Balamb continent!" Squall says. "We are here to stop you." No, Squall. Don't say that.

"SEED!!?" Damn you, Squall. The president pulled out a gun.

"You... I recognize you." He pointed to Squall. Dammit.

"What?"

"LEONHEART!" ...Shit. I heard a gunshot. Squall! I looked over, and seen that Xu had been shot in the arm.

"Xu!" I yell, rushing towards her.

"Quistis... I'm okay. I am. I just want to rest... Okay?"

"Yeah, Xu... Just rest." I look up to see Squall draw his gunblade, I pull out my whip, and the battle with the president ensues.

Finally, after a long battle, the president drops to the ground, we look at Xu, who is still breathing. Squall kneels beside her.

"Squall, how are we going to get out of here?!" I ask.

"I dunno... Xu..."

"...Dammit..."

"What?"

"Galbadian soliders are coming."

"..." We fight off several of them, but they take us away, and we are both thrown into seperate cells, Xu is sent to the prison infirmary. I sit there for about fifteen minutes, wondering if Xu is going to be alright, when I hear a familar voice.

"Alright, ya bastards, where are they?!" Its Seifer.

"Who?!"

"You know damn well who I am talking about!!"

"No... I don't."

"Fine!" I hear a swift clash of metal, and a "Ugh...damn you..." from the Galbadian Prison Guard. A few minutes later, I hear alarms, and then silence. What happened?

"Throw him in a cell!"

"Which one?"

"Any of em." My door to freedom opens, and Seifer is tossed in, and it closes. Damn.

"Seifer!" I call, standing up and walking over to him.

"Quistis!? Out of all the cells. I'm one lucky bastard." I smile and look over at him. His lip is bleeding, and there is a growing bruise on the left side of his face.

"Are you alright?" I ask.

"Y, yeah. I'm fine... Where's everyone else?"

"They put Squall in a different cell, and Xu was shot..."

"WHAT?! Shot..?!"

"Yes, they identified Squall...as, well, Squall, and Xu took the shot for him. She should be...okay."

"...Damn... how do we get outta here?!"

"How am I supposed to know? Didn't you, like, own this place during the Sorceress conflict?"

"Yeah, but all the codes have been changed since then, I already tried..."

"Oh..." Seifer sighed and sat down and wiped some blood off of his face with his jacket sleeve.

"Seifer, you sure you're alright?"

"Yes! Im fine."

"Balamb is going to get bombed... Even if Garden does jet it's ass outta there... the whole continent..." Seifer said.

"We have to get out of here... We can just fight our way out!"

"Yeah, but they took my gunblade..."

"...They, um, didn't take my whip."

"...So, we just gonna escape... with only you fighting off the several thousand gaurds...?"

"No, just two."

"What?" I pounded on the door.

"Heey! Guards...!"

"What?"

"Come here, a moment."

"...Tch, fine." Two Galbadian soliders opened the door.

"Come over here, I need to show you an imperfection in this cell... Any one could... BREAK FREE!" I draw out my whip, and knock the both of them unconcious.

"You should kill them." Seifer muttered, undressing the two of their uniforms.

"Why?"

"What if they wake up?"

"...I'm not going to kill anyone." I say.

"Then I will." Seifer easily broke both of their necks.

"Seifer!" My eyes grow wide and I kneel down to look at the two gaurds.

"They're the enemy."

"...Hm." We pull on the uniforms, and casually walk out of the cell.

"There aren't too many floors to this prison." He says.

"Yeah right! There are like, fifteen floors."

"Nope. This isn't *the* Galbadian Prison."

"Oh?"

"Nah, this is just the two floored prison in the new, rebuilt missile base."

"How do you know?"

"I've been here before."

"...Right." We continue to walk, until eventually, we find a computer with listings of all of the prisoners. Seifer isn't listed yet, but Squall is. Cell B2. We find our way to that cell, and now, we have to figure out the code.

"Are you saying the code wasn't in the computer?!"

"Yes... thats what I am saying." I assure him for the third time.

"Dammit! We should just find Xu and leave Leonheart here."

"Seifer..." My uniform is stiff and itchy, its very uncomfortable to be standing there with one on.

"What's wrong?" He asks, noticing my uncomfortable face.

"Nothing, this uniform is just all stiff and starchy... The guy who wore it must be a newbie to the force or something..."

"That's it!"

"That's what...?" Seifer places his hand in the pocket of my uniform.

"Seifer... what are you doing?!" I say, truely shocked. He pulls out a small card.

"They give all the newbies one of these... until they can memorize the codes."

"What is it?"

"...It opens all of the doors... automatically." He slides the card through a small slit in the door, and it opens. Squall looks up.

"What the hell do you want?!" He asks, standing up.

"...Chill, man." Seifer says, pulling off his helmet, and wiping more blood from his mouth.

"Seifer?" Squall says.

"You're still bleeding?" I ask, concerned.

"Yeah, but I'm fine."

"Quistis! ...Does this mean we can get outta here?"

"Yes," I say, "but we need to get you a uniform, and... we need Xu."

"I'm... here..." Xu walks out slowly, clutching her wrapped up arm, where she was shot.

"You okay, Xu?" I ask.

"It wasn't that bad, actually. I'll be fine."

"Anyway, we need to get you guys uniforms... so, we'll be back. Sit tight." Seifer says, pulling back on his helmet. We leave.

"Seifer, you don't look so good. We should try to find something to put on that cut..."

"I'll-be-fine!"

"...Seifer..."

"Look, the locker room's downstairs. We'll go there to get uniforms, okay?"

"Mhm..."

We arrive at the locker room, and grab two uniforms out of a random locker. They look like they'll fit them. We walk back up to the B prison section, but are stopped by an officer.

"What are you two doing here?"

"...We are patroling, sir."

"...Oh, really? You are supposed to be on the A level of the prison."

"Thats where were were going, sir." I say.

"Oh, sorry."

We arrive at B2, and give Squall and Xu their uniforms. We are about to exit the building, when we hear it. Missiles. -Being launched.

End Chapter.

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