Snow slowly fell from the sky as people below in the bustling city of Midgar quickly shuffled along in their business. Construction crew were hustling as they tried to salvage the remains of the upper levels of Shinra HQ from that that collapsed onto part of the city while others made repairs to the remains of the standing Shinra HQ. People passing by remembered the fighting that took place there. A battle for control of Shinra raged between Rufus (known as Ruffy for the time) and the tyrannical Ruffus. However most of that battle remained undocumented with the death of the Author and Narrator at the hand of Ruffus. Few care about these details anyway, even the fact that their world was slowly being filled by people from other planets. Meanwhile there was much work in the nearby Shinra Studio as Rufus paced before an assembly of people.

"Alright you people," Rufus yelled through a megaphone, "We only got a few days and a limited budget to get these five Christmas movies done." Scanning the audience he remarked, "Due to the tight casting call some of you actors will be forced to participate in different movies."

"Ah Rufus," Reeve interrupted as he busily punched several numbers into the calculator he was holding, "due to the budget constraints we can now only finance four movies."

"What?" Rufus yelled at Reeve, "what happen to the money?"

"It went to hiring most of the stage crew." Reeve remarked as he gestured to the group of people behind him. "And also a lot of it went to the two bouncers and the new special effects director." Reeve calculated as Rufus groaned in disgust.

Walking up to Rufus and Reeve, Ramsus asked, "The actors are getting disgruntled, we'd better start the filming soon before we get a full scale walkout on our hands."

Stroking back his hair, Rufus muttered, "So Reeve, get me that new Special Effects Director." Turning to Ramsus, he ordered, "Okay since we can only do four movies, I say we should dump a Disaster on Wall Street."

"Okay then, I'll start giving the actors their lines." Ramsus nodded as he turned and started to walk off.

"Good." Rufus stated as his mind started to think about what happened yesterday.

The courtroom was in a buzz as reporters flocked in to get good seats for the trialof the fic. People were quickly getting into their seats. The courtroom quickly went silent as Elena walked into the room.

"The case of the People versus Sephiroth is now open." Elena stated. "Please rise for the honorable Judge Rufus." she continued as Rufus walked out dressed in the traditional Judge outfit and proceeded to his booth.

"Be seated." Rufus ordered as he whacked his gavel down. Turning to Elena he ordered, "Plaintiff please read the charges against the defendant."

"The defendant is hereby charged with the following crimes: Attempted genocide on two counts, several counts of attempted murder, over a dozen counts of first degree murder, breaking and entering, grand arson, hosting an illegal alien, using illegal WEAPONS, attempted coup, and littering." Elena read out.

"That's a considerable list of charges." Rufus muttered to himself.

"Oops, silly me, there's another page stuck to the back." Elena laughed. "He is also charged with: resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer, numerous counts of private & public property damages, embezzlement, manufacturing biological weapons, and failure to pay rent on his home in the North Crater." she finished as everyone in the court room cheered at having the charges finally completed.

"Does the defendant having anything to say about these charges placed against you?" Rufus asked as he looked toward Sephiroth.

Unfortunately Sephiroth had nothing to say, since he was currently comatose, having been sedated prior to the trial to ensure that there would be no wild incidents of killing everyone in the room. He was also kept in a fairly strong straitjacket, while being chained, gagged, and muzzled to the chair.

"Okay," Rufus remarked as he turned to the prosecutor, "Zack, you may issue your opening statement."

"About time." Zack said, as he stood open and proceeded to walk before the jury made up solely of Numbers. "Ah Rufus, why are there only Numbers in the jury box?" Zack commented.

"That's strange, who chose the jurors?" Rufus asked as all hands pointed to Rude. "Figures," he muttered as he slam his gavel down, "court is in temporary recess until a new jury can be found."

"Okay now you can give your opening statement, Zack." Rufus stated as he looked at the new jury solely composed of characters from Xenogears.

"Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, today I will prove to you the heinous acts committed by this man, who stands accused before you." Zack said as he pointed to the still sedated Sephiroth. "I will also prove without a doubt that this man also illegally trespassed into another game another a false name," he added, "and that he deserves to be punished."

"Okay, nice speech, any opening word from the defense?" Rufus asked as Rude stood up and walk before the Jury.

"…" Rude stated as he turned and went back to his seat.

"Ah your honor, what did Rude just say?" Fei asked as he stood up from the jury box.

"Nothing." Rufus snapped as he banged his gavel down. "Okay then, prosecution call up your first witness." Rufus ordered as Zack stood up looking at a clipboard holding a lot of paper.

"My first witness is Vincent Valentine." Zack called.

"Sephiroth has committed crimes against the planet. Another sin has been tallied on my soul, I will have terribles nightmare tonight." Vincent droned gloomily as the all the girls in the jury fainted.

"Ah, Vincent," Zack remarked as he cleared his throat, "could you ah, give us a laymen term of that previous statement."

"Ghosts of the past will visit me tonight spelling out my misdeeds." Vincent rephrased it, as few members in the audience look slightly baffled.

"A bit lower." Zack muttered.

"I'm going to eat some late night snack and get indigestion tonight." Vincent stated.

"Oh just get to the next witness." Rufus barked as he interrupted Zack.

As Vincent left the stand, Zack cleared his throat as he said, "Alright my next witness is Cloud Strife."

"Well let's see, Sephiroth managed to burn down my home village and slaughtered everyone there." Cloud listed. "And he also left several psychological damages to my mind." he added as he left the stand.

"Oh, doesn't the defense have anything to say?" Rufus interrupted as he looked at Rude.

Standing up Rude remarked, "…!"

"Okay the defense doesn't seem to be putting up a fight so let's skip all the formality and let the jury decide the verdict, so we can get on with our lives." Rufus stated as the audience all stood up and applauded.

Standing up Fei clear his throat and said, "We the jury find Sephiroth guilty on all counts, but believe that his punishment should be lenient due to his involvement in stopping Ruffus. We also disagree on charges claiming that the defendant has dressed up like a girl."

"Good enough for me," Rufus shrugged, pointing his gavel to Sephiroth, "you are sentenced to work for Shinra till your debt to society is completed and that your otherworldly possessions be confiscated." Straightening his robes, he added, "Well then case dismissed and there will be refreshments waiting for you outside."

"Ah sir are you spacing out again?" one of the workers asked as he snapped Rufus backed to the present.

"Alright then, we got to hustle, we got a busy schedule to fill and I'm paying you all by the hour." Rufus commented as he glanced at his watch. "Where's my new Weapon Head?" Rufus asked as he saw Jessie walking in through the crowd obviously somber.

"Hi yeah *hic* boss." Jessie stammered as he stumbled around a little as he clutched a bottle in his hand. "Sorry, I'm a *hic* late, but this city has a *hic* great bar." he finally said before he passed out on to the floor with a thud.

"Why did I had to hire him as my Head of Weapon development?" Rufus asked himself as the worker hauled Jessie away.

"Because Scarlet and Mr. Horse-Laugh blew themselves up when they tried to set the time on the microwave in the reception room." Reeve commented dryly as Rufus shuddered at the thought of such sheer stupidity. "Besides you also hired Cloud of all people to take the head of Peace Preservation positions." Reeve added. Rufus ignored the comment.

"Alright guys let's get this movie going." Rufus yelled at the people as the hustle along. Looking up at the lighting he ordered, "Hey, FuSoYa fix the sector three light, it's a bit loose it could fall and hurt someone." he barked as he turned to yell at someone else when the sound of a breaking noise caught his attention.

*Crash*

Turning just in time, Rufus watched as one of the lighting broke off the rack in the ceiling and went plunging down on to Yuffie. A sickening crunch noise was heard as it landed on Yuffie and went smashing to the ground.

"Oh no." Rufus cried as he sprinted over to the crash site. Looking in horror at the scene, he quickly managed to roll the lighting off of Yuffie. Checking for damages, Rufus sighed, "Whoo, almost thought I lost a four thousand Gil Lighting equipment."

"Don't mind me…really." Yuffie's crushed form muttered as everyone quickly gathered around the lighting to see how it was.

However smirking evilly at its sinister deed, a small little camera poking out of the shadows slowly recorded the scene below as a pair of glowing red eyes lingered in the shadow below. For now it would remain hidden spying on these foolish being and slowly sabotaging their meager efforts. Letting out a small chuckle the creature vanished away into the shadows. Only a hint of golden yellow fur glinting in the nearby light gave a hint to its identity.

"Hey sir," Cloud waved as he walked up to Rufus, "the Head of the Peace Preservation reporting as called."

Not even giving a side glance as he carefully watch the raising of the lighting, Rufus snapped, "You're late, Cloud."

Shrugging aside the comment, Cloud remarked, "Well are we about ready with the setting up for the movies, I had a bit of trouble dragging Reno and Rude from the bar."

"We'll be on schedule, Reeve is already getting the actors ready and what the heck is that on your shoulder?" Rufus cried as he turned to Cloud and pointed at the yellow thing on Cloud's shoulder.

"Him," Cloud remarked sheepishly as he pointed to Pikachu, who was perched on his shoulder, "don't you remember that I used this Pikachu to kill Ruffus?"

"Pika." the Pikachu added raising its arm in salute.

"Oh yeah," Rufus remarked as he glare at the pokemon, "Ruffus was really blown to bit by its cuteness and electric attack. " Brushing his hair back, Rufus asked, "Anyway that isn't the Pikachu that…"

"No, he can't flash his eye and melt your brain if that what your thinking, that's only a very special kind of Pikachu, but it's never been found after the "incident" and all." Cloud stated as Pikachu slouch its head sadly as it heard about the other.

"We are already to start." Ramsus said as he walked up to the two, pausing a moment as he noticed something on Cloud's shoulder. "AAARRGGGHHH!" Ramsus screamed as he noticed Pikachu on Cloud's shoulder. Letting out a girly scream he turned tail and ran with all due speed as the three look blankly at the whole thing.

"Don't mind me…" Yuffie crushed and now trampled form moaned as footmarks scared her back.

As all the commotion was going on in the studio, Reeve and Citan were hard at work at the task before them. The laboratory in the lower floors that weren't blown up when Cait Sith crashed the Highwind into Shinra HQ was bustling with life as the two stared at the project before him. Cait Sith's deactivated body laid on the laboratory table before them.

"Are you sure this is going to work?" Reeve dressed in doctor scrubs commented as he looked at Citan who was likewise dressed.

"Of course." Citan remarked calmly as he fixed the overhead light a little. "Scalpel" he asked as Reeve handed him one. "Wires. Screws. Data chips. Winning Lottery Tickets."

"Winning Lottery Tickets?" Reeve exclaimed as he paused for a moment.

"Ah forget it." Citan muttered as he brushed some sweat form his forehead. "Now all I need to complete the experiment is the final component, the Main Processing Artificial Intelligence chip." he said as he turn to face two guys walking in. "Wedge, Biggs get me the Main Processing Artificial Intelligence chip on the table over there."

"Right." Biggs remarked.

Looking at the table, Wedge asked, "Ah which is the Main Processing thing?" Pointing at the chip in case lying on the table and the one that was in a box labeled Weltall-2 on the side.

Shrugging, Biggs answered, "Just grabbed one of them."

"Okay." Wedge said as he snatched the chip out of the box and walked over to Citan. "Here you go." he said as he handed the chip to Citan.

"Finally." Citan laughed as he took a dramatic pose holding the chip up in his hand, "I'll be able to give this Cait Sith robot free will!"

"I?" Reeve asked coldly as Citan winced a little.

"Oh I mean we'll." Citan recovered as he turned to the prone form of Cait Sith on the table before him. Opening up the top of the robot head, he carefully inserted the chip as the other watched from the background silently. Fitting the chip into place, Citan let out a sigh of relief as he clasped the cover for the top back on and stepped back. Suddenly the eye's in Cait Sith light up as a huge shockwave of energy blasted everyone back across the laboratory.

"What just happened?" Reeve asked as he shook his head a little to get the dizziness out.

"Some sort of high ether backlash." Citan remarked as he fixed his glasses straight. Staring at Biggs and Wedge, he snapped, "What chip did you guys give me?"

"The one from this box." Wedge answered fearfully as he handed Citan the box with Weltall-2 labeled on the side.

"The chip in this box had the Id system on it." Citan stated as he looked at the box. The color left Reeve's face.

"Idiot, look what you got us into." Biggs grumbled as he whacked Wedge in the back of the head.

A bolt of energy barely missing their heads quickly drew their attention back to Cait Sith who was now a blackish red color. Its tiny wings on the back of its moogle had now shifted to six glittering batwings of pure green energy as a reddish aura surrounded the being entirely. The cape it wore had stretched and changed into two pairs of red spikes jousting out of its back.

"Let's play." Cait Sith chuckled as cracked his knuckles. "They I don't need." he added as he pointed at Biggs and Wedge. As two thin beams of laser shot out of the finger as they obliterated Biggs and Wedge in a flash leaving only a small scent smoke were they once stood.

"Great," Reeve grumbled as looked at the remains of Biggs and Wedge, "do you know how much compensation we have to pay now." As the two stared at Reeve strangely, Reeve continued, "Alright then: due to they are new to the job we have to add a $2000 at first, then due to working in a hazardous area that adds in $1500, and now that were killed in an accident that brings it to a sum of $250000 each."

"Ah Reeve, he left?" Citan muttered dryly as he pointed to the big hole in the wall.

Pacing back and forth, Rufus asked, "So are we all set to start filming?"

"All set, sir." Ramsus replied, as he flip threw the casting sheet.

"Good it's about time, Cloud cue the camera crew." Rufus ordered as he leaned back in his director chair.

"A Christmas Carol: the Shinra Edition, take 1 scene 1." Cloud said.

Snow gently fell from the heaven, as the people below quickly hustle to their destination. Some of them clutching gifts for love ones as they made their way through the crowds. Amidst all the hustling in a building, a cruel old man was busy at his work.

"Yes, what the &$*% is it?" Cid roared as there was soft tapping on the door.

Humbly stepping in, Fei shivered a bit as he said, "Mr. Highwind there is a person outside that wants to talk to you."

Groaning at his worker, Cid barked, "You wasted my $&%# time to tell me this?" "Send them #$*# in and get back to work." he yelled as he tossed his paperweight at the departing Fei, but missed as it bounced off the door right back to him. "Ah $&$%@#&$*$*%&(@#$& it!" he cursed as he rubbed the spot where the paperweight hit him.

"Hi there Uncle Cid!" Elena exclaimed happily as she went up and gave him a hug.

"It's my niece Elena." Cid growled as he pushed her away. "So what the #(*$* do you want?" he inquired as he turned his head up from his paperwork.

"Just to ask you to a Christmas dinner, tomorrow, Uncle Cid." Elena replied as she giggled a little.

"Bah! $%*^! Be gone!" Cid remarked as he turned back to his paperwork as Elena merely strode out, her jolly spirit unfazed by her uncle harshness.

"Merry Christmas Fei." Elena added as she opened the door to leave.

"The same to you." Fei smiled as he waved back.

"@*#$, Shut the bloody door!" Cid hollered at Fei.

"Let me get this straight, you implanted the chip containing the essence of one of the most dangerous being in the world into the most useless being in the world?" Cloud remarked at Citan and Reeve outside the studio.

"Hey he is not worthless!" Reeve countered as Cloud merely glared back.

"Anyway," Citan interrupted as he fixed his glasses, "it would be in the best of interest to stop that robot before he starts to do any real damage." "Since it thinks like our Id did, its probably trying to join itself with the existence like in our world." Citan concluded.

"But we don't have any imprisoned multi-dimensional being here." Reeve stated.

"Hmmm, then where would be the biggest concentration of energy on this planet." Citan pondered.

"The Lifestream of course." Cloud replied as a still silence passed through them.

"Oh…." Reeve muttered as he thought about what would happen if Cait Sith tried to join with the Lifestream.

"Well I got some help." Cloud said as he whistled.

Suddenly a wave of magical Lifestream energy blew by, swirling around two nearby snowmen, before vanishing away. A still silence past by as suddenly the snowmen started to shake and shuffle to the trio.

"Biggs and Wedge, reporting for duty." the one with the scarf that seemed to be Biggs said as it tried to wave it branch arm in salute, but only managed to get it stuck in the head.

"Look we came back as frozen freaks of nature!" The bald plain one that was Wedge added as it was apparent its face was pointing at the wrong side.

"I think we entered a weird zone." Cloud remarked dryly as the other two nodded.

Zack sat back as he rested in the lounge, taking a sip of coffee as he stared at Cloud's Pikachu, who was sitting on the table happily as it ate some food Cloud left for it. Snoring like a jackhammer across the room on the couch was Jessie. Around them people was running back and forth hurrying to fit Rufus' tight schedule and to escape Jessie's horrid snoring.

"I wonder when Cloud is going to get back?" Zack remarked as he looked at his watch.

"Pikachu?" Pikachu asked as it turned to look at Zack.

"Nah, he probably got himself carried off on another mission to save the world." Zack said dryly as he finished his coffee. "Well let's go for a walk then, and besides it will probably get us out of hearing distance of sleeping beauty." He added as he glared at Jessie.

"Pika Pikachu." Pikachu agreed as he hopped off the table and started to follow Zack down the hallway.

The two quickly proceeded down the hallway as they went down numerous twist and turns. After several minutes they realized something two things.

"Finally Jessie blasted snoring stopped." Zack sighed as he looked around. "I wonder why they made this studio like a maze and what's with all these treasure chest lying around?" he asked. "Oh, a remedy." he commented as he open it.

"Look who we have here." a voice chuckled.

"Pika?" Pikachu muttered as it looked around questionably.

"Who's there?" Zack asked as he pulled out his sword and scanned his surrounding.

"I am one who people fear has given life to." the voice replied as a pair of glowing red eyes appeared in the shadows before them. "I am…Pikachu."

Zack went crashing to the floor at the last comment. Getting back up he stared at what looked like a perfect identical twin to Cloud's Pikachu, but bear red eyes and a small gameboy camera strapped to its head. Trying to keep himself from chuckling, Zack chuckled, "Oh, what are you going to do to me, oh evil one, bite me in the shin?"

"No, just this." the evil Pikachu laughed as its eye flashed sending Zack collapsing to the ground in a spasm. "You were fool to doubt my power!" the thing laughed as Pikachu quickly used the remedy that Zack had found on him. "Eh…?" the creature remarked as it saw Zack get back up.

"That was a dirty trick." Zack growled as he gripped his sword. "Who are you?" he demanded as Pikachu cheered him on with fans.

"I am the incarnation of the foolish people's fear of Pikachu for all reason. Their fear has given me life, I am Pikachumous!" Pikachumous laughed maniacally as Zack slouched at the name.

"That is such a lousy name." Zack stated.

"Enough prepare to die." Pikachumous yelled as it prepare to do its eye attack again.

*Bang*

Pikachumous landed back several feet as it glared at the wielder of the smoking carbine in his hand. "You again!" Pikachumous cursed.

"Have we met?" Jessie asked as he scratched his head in thought.

"Imbecile," Pikachumous sneered as electricity started to buildup all around it, "don't you remember five months ago in Nisan?"

"Oh yeah," Jessie chuckled as he snapped his fingers, "you were that rat thing I stepped on all those times ago wasn't you."

"He repeatedly stepped on an incarnation of evil?" Zack muttered from the sideline.

"Pika." Pikachu added.

Closing its eyes as it started to build up even more energy around it in a huge aura, Pikachumous said, "Prepare to feel the extent of my power, Super Grand Ultimate Electrical Thunder Wide Shock!" Pikachumous paused in mid attack as it realized. "They ran away…" he trailed off as he looked at the little cloud of dust where they previous were.

Perched on the ridge of thew crater looking in to its center, which was a pool to the Lifestream, was Evil Cait Sith in all his evil glory. He stared down at the pool in the center as he opened his arm out wide as if to embrace someone as it leaped off toward the center. The wind blew by him as he steadily plummeted to the mako center of the crater.

"No diving into the Lifestream." a lifeguard yelled as Evil Cait Sith froze in mid plummet just hovering above the Lifestream pool.

"Drat." Evil Cait Sith cursed as he floated over to a huge floating platform in the center.

"And let that be a lesson to you." the lifeguard snapped as he walked off and vanished

"Stop, Evil Cait Sith!" Cloud yelled as he leaped down from one of the floating platform to Evil Cait Sith. Following behind him was Citan with his sword, Reeve and two snowmen. Landing in front of Evil Cait Sith, Cloud pulled out his gunblade and said, "Stop your evil plan now to destroy all life in the world."

"Hey, I didn't tell you my evil plan yet!" Evil Cait Sith whined as he waved his arm and pouted.

Shrugging, Cloud remarked, "Come on what villain's goal isn't to destroy the world." "And besides we have better things to do then chase you around this entire fic." Cloud said as he level his gunblade at Evil Cait Sith.

"Come on let's get this fight done with." Reeve stated as he tapped his foot impatiently.

"Is it me or is it getting hot down here?" Biggs the snowman asked as he tugged his scarf a little, droplet of water slowly drip onto the ground.

Building up his energy, as his white wings behind him glistened Evil Cait Sith asked, "By the way, how did you managed to get here so fast?"

"Well, I can't tell you that." Cloud retorted.

"Oh come on." Evil Cait Sith begged as Cloud simply shook his head. "I'll be your friend." he added as he crawled up to Cloud.

"No." Cloud stated simply.

"You're mean." Evil Cait Sith whined in sadness, as it slouch its head.

"Then how about this." Cloud asked as he decapitated Cait Sith with one clean stroke form his gunblade sending the head bouncing over the edge into the Lifestream. With a swift kick he sent the rest of Cait Sith flying into the Lifestream as well.

"Now that was an interesting way of taking care of the villain." Citan remarked as he fixed his glasses. "Well at least it solved the problem." he sighed.

"Oh what about them," Reeve asked as he pointed to the melting form of Biggs and Wedge, "they seem to be melting." The trio watched as the two snowmen quickly melt away, screaming like the wicked witch of the west, as the two became a small puddle of water each. "Well that was a short appearance, they're dead again." Reeve droned as Cloud looked at his watch.

"Come on you guys we got get back to Shinra HQ, before Rufus cut our paychecks." Cloud gasped as the three quickly ran off leaving the melted Biggs and Wedge alone.

"I can't believe Rufus is making Cloud work on Christmas Eve to make those stupid movies of his." Tifa said as she pushed the cart through the aisle.

"Well, you bipedals always confused me." Red XIII stated as he walked alongside her. "So what are you going to get Cloud for Christmas this year?" he inquired.

Pondering a bit, Tifa said, "I know I'll get him that new Master Sword 64 that just came out, Cloud just loved swords."

Scratching his ear absently, Red XIII remarked, "But aren't those brand of sword just the rarest to find in the Holiday season?"

Laughing psychotically, Tifa countered, "No Obstacle can stand in my way as long as I keep my focus straight and my mind clear." "With that I can do anything." she cheered as she raise her fist into the air as fake tidal wave scenery appear behind her with numerous Japanese characters plastered around it.

"What about Aeris going up to take the last one." Red XIII asked he pointed to Aeris who was pushing her cart up to the case holding the Master Sword 64. Red XIII quickly leaped aside as he barely dodged Tifa as she charged her cart down the isle into Aeris sending them both crashing into a stack pile of Tickle-me-Rufus dolls.

"Hahaha…Hey! Get your hands off of me!" one of the dolls, cried as it landed by Red.

"What did you do that for?" Aeris cried as she stuck her head out of the pile of boxes and Rufus' dolls.

"To keep you from getting the Master Sword 64," Tifa replied as she stuck her tongue out at Aeris, "because I'm going to get it for Cloud."

"Do you still blind yourself with those pathetic dreams of yours?" Aeris laughed at Tifa's statement. "You must know that even the stars themselves have stated that Cloud and I are truly soul mates destined for life," she laughed as flames slowly grew around Tifa, "and why would Cloud ever chose such a freak of nature such as yourself anyway?"

"Shut up you Flower Girl!" Tifa snapped as sparks flashed out of her eyes at Aeris.

"Whore!" Aeris countered as streams of sparks flashed between the two.

"I really wish they would stop this." Red XIII whined as he buried his head under his paw.

"Final Heaven!" Tifa screamed as she initiated her Final Limit Attack.

"Great Gospel!" Aeris countered summoning up her Final Limit attack.

A huge flash of energy erupted as the two attacks meet and a huge dome of energy exploded form the two blasting most of the shoppers nearby back. As the light slowly dimmed, there stood a smoking crater, where the two once stood. Peeking over the edge into the crater Red XIII spotted the black charred form of Aeris and Tifa in the center.

"Ah girls," Red XIII remarked as he stared at them, "ah someone just went and took the Master Sword 64."

Instantly resurrected by Red XIII statement, the two girls ran up to him and screamed, "What?"

"He just took it, while you two were fighting." Red XIII gestured to Sephiroth who was paying at the counter holding the Master Sword 64 in his hand.

"Thank you bro." Hammer smiled as he handed Sephiroth the receipt. "You're lucky, I heard that was last Master Sword 64 on sale in any store."

"Well have a Merry Christmas." Sephiroth smiled as he hugged the sword closely to himself as he walked out the store.

"Ah Tifa? Aeris?" Red XIII asked as he poked the stunned tearing forms of Aeris and Tifa.

"Jeez, can't this thing go any faster?" Cloud grumbled as Citan steered the Tugboat.

"Unfortunately I'm already forcing this thing to go at its fastest speed." Citan remarked as he turned away from the wheel and fixed his glasses. "How's Reeve handling everything?" Citan asked, as strange gagging noise was heard form outside the bridge.

"Mister Man of the Sea, is having a little trouble convincing his stomach of that." Cloud muttered as he rolled his eyes.

"You know Cloud," Citan said as he paused from his normal brooding, "I have this sincere sense of Deja-Vu coming up."

Raising an eyebrow, Cloud asked, "What could possible happen out here in the ocean?"

"Red Alert! Red Alert! Unidentified vessel moving at 60 knots!" the helmsman reported.

"Finally a chance to try out my newest weapon." Bart laughed as he stepped up to the helm. "Prepare to engage the enemy." he ordered as the flashing red light filled the bridge.

"Young Master not again?" Madison cried as he dashed through the doors into the bridge.

"Shouldn't you be more careful this time?" Sigurd asked as he came up behind Madison.

"Don't worry," Bart laughed as he turned to face them, "I know for sure this time that there is no way that Fei could be on there."

"Achoo," Fei sneezed as he tried to keep warm with one solitary candle at his desk, "sir, couldn't we turn up the heater just a bit?"

"What?" Cid cursed as he lifted his head form his work. "I'm already wasting enough #^$@ money keeping my @*$* office heated." Cid growled as he went back to work.

"Sorry sir." Fei whimpered as he went back to work, he'd be happy when the next scene in this movie come up.

"Now it's time to show the power of the Bart Cannon!" Bart laughed as he signaled for the Yggdrasil to break the surface of the water.

"The Bart Cannon?" Sigurd asked.

"It's the newest weapon I made from the pieces of the Bart Missile, it's the ultimate form of weapon for the Yggdrasil." Bart announced. "You may fire when ready." Bart signaled to the gunner.

"I hope you know what you're doing young master." Madison hoped as he watched the cannon charge up.

"Hey, what's that rising on the port side?" Cloud asked as he pointed to the bubbling fountain of water gushing up.

"Looks like some sort of submarine is rising," Citan remarked as he watched a metallic thing rises from the spot, "it's the Yggdrasil!"

As the Yggdrasil surfaced onto the top of the water surface, a huge cannon emerged from its front section pointing at them. Small bits of energy slowly condensed around the nozzle of the cannon as energy was pumped into it.

"Is that a cannon pointing at us?" Reeve stuttered as he limped on to the bridge looking a bit green as he cradled his stomach.

"Oh no…" Citan muttered as the energy gathering into the cannon stopped. "Sigurd, haven't you learn anything from what happened last time." he sighed as he braced for impact.

"Fire!" Bart cried as the crosshair pointed at the tugboat.

"Here we go again." Sigurd moaned he plugged his ears.

In a flash of light a huge beam of pure energy rocketed out of the tip of the cannon sending the Yggdrasil reeling back. The force of the beam parted the water below it sending froth spilling to the side. A loud crack was heard as the beam broke through the sound barrier as it made its way to its target. A huge geyser of water went rising up from the sea as the beam hit its target sending its occupants flying into the air.

"Now this is an interesting turn of events." Citan mused as he, Cloud, and Reeve went flying through the air. "Looks like we're heading toward the Yggdrasil." he remarked as he noticed their present downward course was leading them straight to the bridge section of Yggdrasil.

Laughing in the main bridge, Bart boosted, "Nothing can stand the power of the Bart Cannon!" "Beware for lurking in the depth of the ocean is, Bart Pirate Extraordinare!" he posed as the crew shot out background firework behind him.

Rubbing his temples, Madison muttered, "He's been reading those books again hasn't he?"

Nodding his head sadly, Sigurd replied grimly, "Yep." turning his head to the front he noticed three ominous looking shadows heading straight toward the Bridge main viewing window.

*Crash*

Three figures went crashing through the window and they promptly landed on the still posing Bart, crushing him to the floor under the weight of their body.

"It's Citan!" Sigurd gasped as he noticed his old colleague sprawl over Bart's smashed form.

Amidst all the workers in the Studio as the hustle to their duty, sitting quietly in a broom closet Pikachumous watched them all carefully. Standing in the shadows of the closet keeping himself well hidden Grahf watched his companion emotionlessly.

"So they have discovered you and you let them get away?" Grahf hissed though his mask as Pikachumous merely snorted at his accusation. "We can't allow the plan to become in danger, because of your mistake." he growled as Pikachumous turned to stare a t Grahf.

"Don't ridicule me about the plan or must I remind you of who's body you currently host now?" Pikachumous snickered as Grahf shivered at the thought.

"Corneo was the only closest vessel at the moment." Grahf remarked as he flourished his cape. "Anyway, " he seethed, "sabotage this production to the best of your ability, I'll take care of some other loose ends."

"Bye, Bye!" Pikachumous chuckled as Grahf vanished away. Staring at the passing people, he sneered, "Soon when Deus comes you will all quiver before us."

"We got a what on the loose?" Ramsus stuttered as his knees started to buckle.

"We got a crazed being called Pikachumous on the loose who can put people into seizure with a flash of his eye." Jessie explained as he noticed the strange chattering noise that Ramsus was making.

"A Pikachumous…" Ramsus stuttered as his face turned white.

"Pika?" Pikachu asked as it walked up and poked Ramsus in the leg.

"AAAARRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!" Ramsus screamed like a high school cheerleader and went running away through the workers.

"Don't mind me…" the retrampled form of Yuffie said.

"Jeez , he is really scared of Pikachu isn't he?" Zack remarked as he looked at the clear avenue of trampled and cut down workers Ramsus made in his way.

"Never figured out why he was always afraid of that thing." Jessie commented as he shook his head sadly at the pathetic act that Ramsus had just done. "Well then I guess it's up to us to stop that furry fuzz ball." he announced as Zack slouched a bit at the prospect.

"Why don't you take her." Zack commented pointing toward Yuffie.

Looking at the trampled Yuffie, Jessie said, "Good Idea, she'll make a perfect bait for the trap." Striding over to Yuffie, Jessie lifted her up, and dragged her off.

"That is one weird man." Zack sighed as he looked at Pikachu, who was perched on his shoulder.

"Pika." Pikachu asserted.

Looking at his watch, Zack gasped, "Oh great, the movie almost over and I got to do my part soon."

"AAARRGGGHHHH!" Cid screamed as he fell out of his bed with thud. Getting back up he noticed that his bedroom had changed into a low barren hill overlooking a dismal city. Towering before him was black hooded figure garbed in black robes. "You must be the *#&$ ghost of Christmas Future." Cid remarked as he squeezed his nightcap.

Making no comment, the ghost led Cid down the street of the city till the reached an open plaza in the center. There was a huge statue covered with a large tarp covering all, but the plaque on the base. The ghost merely pointed to the plaque with its bone fingers.

"This statue is dedicated to the first and only man to go to space." Cid feverishly read the lettering. "That must be me then." he remarked proudly as the ghost shook its head no.

Floating up to the top of the statue, the ghost reached out and grabbed the tarp in its hand. With a gentle tug it ripped the tarp off of the statue, revealing to Cid the mysterious person.

"NOOOOO!" Cid screamed as he stepped back in horror at the image. "Not Palmer, anything but that." he cried as he turned away from the statue only to face the Ghost before him again.

Taking Cid by the arm, the ghost floated Cid away to a dark graveyard on top of the hill that overlooked the city. Nearby there was an old bare tree with several dead corpses hanging from the branches just swinging silently in the wind. Ravens slowly circles the hill as few shambling gravediggers quickly hustle away from a finished grave they dug up.

"Why have you &#$@ me here?" Cid cursed as he tried to keep himself warm.

The ghost glanced at him before he pointed to a small grave nearby with small words inscribed upon its surface.

Walking up to the grave, Cid squinted his eyes to make out the writing as he read, "Here lies the Duke of Hazard!" "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Cid screamed up to the heavens as he slammed his fist down into the earth below. "Why must you continue to torture me with these *#$* images?" Cid asked as he noticed the Ghost had walked over to an open grave.

Standing before the open the grave, the ghost stood before the tombstone obscuring the name of the occupant. Pointing its finger into the grave, Cid quietly walked up to the grave and peeked over the edge at the coffin resting on the bottom.

"Who grave is this?" Cid asked fearfully as the ghost continued to point toward the coffin.

Straining his eyes as he looked down at the coffin, Cid heard the ghost whispered, "Yours…"

"What?" Cid cried as he tuned to face the ghost, but was knocked back into the grave. Clinging to the edge of the grave as he tried to climb back up as his feet dangle in the air. "Help me $%@# up!" he yelled as he looked up at the ghost towering before him.

Not listening to Cid's plead, the ghost reached into its hood with its boney hand and took out a skull from it. Holding the skull down toward Cid so the two were face to face the skull laughed, "Bwahahaaha, I'm Murray the Demonic Skull!"

"Ah #$@*!" Cid cursed as his grip started to break and the coffin below started to open in anticipation magma and fire bubbled within it.

"Brace yourself, for the evil that you have condoned will torment you for the rest of your eternal death!" Murray taunted as Cid glared at him. "What the?" he cried as Cid grabbed him by the foot and pulled him from where he was standing.

"Shut the #$#^ up!" Cid yelled as he tossed Murray into the coffin.

"Noooooo!" Murray screamed as he fell into the coffin melting away in its lava. "Be warn that I'll now haunt you all forever! Bwahahahahaa…" he spoke as the lava melted him away.

"Ah $#^%!" Cid cursed as he lost his grip. Arms waving in the air Cid screamed as he went flying toward the coffin. Landing in his bed, Cid paused in shock for a moment as he realized his surrounding. Noticing the sun shining through the window he quickly leaped out and ran to the window.

Sitting in his director chair as he watched Cid go to the window, Rufus remarked, "Well this movie seemed to have gone okay." "There is no way anything can go wrong now." he chuckled as the crew looked at him strangely.

Opening the window, Cid yelled, "Hey Boy, what #&$@ day is it today?"

"25!" Zack called back to Cid who giggled.

"Its still #$*@ Christmas, I didn't miss it." Cid laughed wholeheartily.

"That's my age you idiot!" Zack hollered angrily. "I'm an adult, not some kid." he remarked. "It's like you automatically treat me like an inferior, you old geezer!"

"Old Geezer?" Cid cried as he fumed at Zack. "That’s #*$# it, I don't care if I'm going to die, but I'm taking all of you down with me!" he announced as Rufus' jaw dropped.

"What the #$%^ is he spouting?" Rufus asked as he looked through the script.

"Vincent, my arms!" Cid ordered as Vincent dressed in a butler outfit, came in holding up a Stinger in his hand.

"Your Stinger sir." Vincent gave as he turned and walked off.

Hoisting up his weapon, Cid laughed, "Here's what I got to give to you!" Pointing his weapon at the actors, Cid let out a crazed chuckle. Pulling the trigger, missiles went blazing out as they exploded several different backgrounds.

"That is definintely not in the script." Rufus muttered as lighting went crashing down all around him as the people ran back and forth. Rubbing his temples he murmured, "Memo to self, don't diss Duke of Hazard in front of Cid."

"Hey, what the heck is going on here?" Ramsus asked as he walked through the crowd toward Rufus. "I don't remember us making anyway war films?" he thought as Rufus stood up.

"Well there's nothing to salvage with this wreck," Rufus remarked as he turned to leave, "so far the only casualty were two actors posing for Biggs and Wedge." A sudden quake shook the studio, as Rufus groaned, "What's going on now?"

Standing in the city stood two giants, the first was Billy in his Omnigear, El Renmazuo, the second was a giant snowman version of Tellah with a really big head on the top that was twice the size of the body. The two glared at each other as the people of Midgar quickly panic and flee. A soft laughing noise could be made out from a small yellow thing perched on the Tellah snowman head.

"Fool," Pikachumous taunted from where it stood, "you think you could beat me with such a simple trick of yours?"

"Ah shut your yapper and fight!" Jessie countered from his perch on El Renmazuo.

"Father, how did you drag me into this?" Billy commented as he braced his gear for impact. "This wasn't what I thought you meant when you said going on "hunting trip"."

"Quit your whining, here he comes!" Jessie yelled as the Snow Tellah swung its wooden branch arm at them.

"Fools, face just a fraction of my power!" Pikachumous laughed as Snow Tellah sent El Renmazuo flying back through a couple of building. "You're finished!" he chuckled as Snow Tellah towered over the sprawled El Renmazuo. As Snow Tellah raised its staff to finish off El Renmazuo, when a strange music from ocarina was heard.

"Circle Sword Slash!"

A circle of pure energy slammed into the Snow Tellah sending it sprawling back through several more building and splashing snow everyone. Shaking his head as he stared at his attacker, Pikachumous hissed as he saw Adult Link before him.

"Stop this insanity now." Link ordered holding his Master Sword 64 at Pikachumous.

"Conceited fool," Pikachumous growled, as he started to charge up electricity, "you think I will surrender so easily?" "What are you doing here anyway?" he added tilting his head a little.

Scratching the back of his head as he hoisted his massive shield, Link remarked, "Well I took a break from stopping Ganon, saving Zelda, and finding the Triforce, to a part time job as a Special Effect Artist." "It also gave me a chance to market my Master Sword 64 product line, it's the number one best seller." he chimed as held up his sword.

"Well enough talking," Pikachumous growled, "Thunder Shock!" Link raised his shield, as he was blasted back by the force of the attack. Chuckling at the defeat of his foe, Pikachumous raised his giant Snow Tellah as it walked over to finish off the still out of it El Renmazuo.

"First Cid goes berserk and wrecks my Studio and now I have a gear fight going on in the middle of my city." Rufus grumbled as he watched the fight outside of the studio.

"Well it could have gotten a lot worst." Ramsus remarked crossing his arms.

"How could it get worse?" Rufus asked sarcastically.

"Well Shinra HQ could be blown up." Ramsus offered.

"Like where are we going to find enough firepower for someone to do that?" Rufus remarked as Ramsus pointed at the descending Yggdrasil. "Oh great." he cursed as Pikachu came walking out of the studio next to them.

"Pi, Pika?" Pikachu asked them as Ramsus screamed and sprinted off. "Pikachu." Pikachu muttered sadly as he shook his head sadly.

"You said it." Rufus remarked.

"Sir, enemy in visual range." the helmsman hollered toward Sigurd.

"A giant snowman?" Sigurd remarked as he stared at the Snow Tellah before them.

Fixing his glasses as he took a step up as he saw the snowman, Citan said, "Hmmm, this is a strange sight to behold."

"It's wrecking the city!" Reeve cried as he stared at the damage that has been caused.

"I think that is the least of our worries." Citan commented as he pointed to the beaten form of El Renmazuo. "We've got to save Billy," he said as Sigurd nodded, "and Jessie, of course."

"Well let's do something then," Cloud snapped as he tapped his foot impatiently, "fire that "Bart Cannon" or whatever you call it."

"Good idea!" Sigurd remarked as he turned to the gunner. "Fire the Bart Cannon!" he yelled as the gunner complied. A recycled animation past as the Bart Cannon emerged and fire a steady bolt at the Snow Tellah blowing a clear hole straight through it. "Great a direct hit, it's weaken." Sigurd said as the Snow Tellah fell to its "knee".

"Does thou desire the power?"

"Uh Oh." Fei yelled as he ran onto the bridge. "It's Grahf," he remarked as everyone stopped and stared at him, "what?"

"When did you get onboard?" Citan asked as Fei merely shrugged. "Oh great…" Citan said as a huge flash of light consumed the Snow Tellah.

As the light faded the Snow Tellah form had nearly doubled in size as it started to shake up and down a lot. A clear blue aura of icy cold energy surrounded it as it let out an inhuman cough, before it swung it's enlarged staff at Yggdrasil.

"You spooney ship!" Snow Tellah cursed as it continued to beat on the Yggdrasil.

Meanwhile inside the crew was being thrown back and forth by the constant shaking from the repeated blows. Luckily the Snow Tellah blows caused absolutely no damage to the outer hull, but it did managed to jam the Bart Cannon. Fei and Sigurd were already knocked out after colliding with each other.

"This isn't going good." Reeve stammered as he clung to the guardrail as the bride shook with each blow.

"The Bart Cannon is offline." Citan remarked as he studied the monitor despite the shaking.

"Well do something!" Cloud cried as he went flying from one to the other of the bridge.

"This is a job for the Bart Multiple Missile Launcher!" Bart screamed triumphantly as he charged into the bridge partially covered in bandages.

"I thought you were in a coma?" Citan remarked.

"Yeah, those blow I gave you should have at least done the job." Cloud sneered.

"It doesn't matter," Bart laughed as he walked up to the helm, "for…"

"I am." Camera angle shifts.

"A man." Camera shifts again.

"Of the Sea!" Camera finish shifting and dramatic music is played.

"We're doomed." Cloud sighed with streams of tears.

"Fire the Bart Multiple Missile Launcher!" Bart ordered as thousand of little missile streaked out of the Yggdrasil and streaked to the Snow Tellah.

The missiles all hit their target as they went through the gentle snow and darted off to Shinra HQ. A triumphant explosion rocked the city as the Shinra HQ went up in a big mushroom cloud.

"Opps." Bart remarked as he winced a little at what he just did. "Ah it was an accident guys, ah guys?" he asked as he stared at the towering forms of Cloud and Reeve who were cracking their knuckles. "Help." he begged.

"Looks like El Renmazuo has recovered." Citan commented as Bart was being trounced behind him.

"Alright time for round two." Jessie laughed as he summoned his gear down. Transforming it into its gun form it landed on El Renmazuo shoulder.

"Fire!" Billy yelled as the gun fired and after several different perspective replays, a huge orb of energy at the Snow Tellah. It collided straight in the center of the massive snowman blowing the creature massive head flying into the air.

"Curse you Jessie and your little brat too!" Pikachumous screamed as it teleported away in a flash of light.

"You're all going to die!" Cid laughed as he fired his Stinger relentlessly as he charged out of the burning studio. "Death to the Duke of Hazard Haters!" he roared as he suddenly noticed a huge shadow over him. "Ah $#%%." he cursed as the huge head of Snow Tellah went crashing down on him.

Later in Cloud's Villa, everyone was in the holiday cheer, except for Cloud who couldn't figure out why people couldn't crash somewhere else. Aeris and Tifa were still bickering over who got Cloud a better Christmas gift. The Turks were off getting themselves roaring drunk in Cloud's recently installed bar along with Jessie all singing terribly out of tune. And the rest were all having some good holiday fun as the night rolled on.

"I gotta admit Cloud you throw a great party." Zack commented as he sipped his eggnog.

"Who even said I was having a party." Cloud grumbled as he sat slouched in his chair by the fireplace with the Christmas tree nearby. "I still think the Christmas tree is a bit too high." he added as he look at the rather large Christmas Tree, Barret and Vincent brought in.

"What makes you say tha foo?" Barret remarked as he played with his daughter.

"I think it's the fact that you had to drill a hole through the roof to fit half of it in here." Vincent pointed out as he sat in the shadows.

"I guess that would make it a bit too tall." Rufus muttered sarcastically as he brushed back his hair.

"Well sir, I estimate total repair costs for the city will reach the value of over two hundred million Gils." Reeve reported as Rufus cried tearfully at the cost.

"When will this insanity ever end." Cloud asked.

"Never." Vincent answered.

"Well at least be happy that there is a Christmas tree." Zack said as he drank down his tenth helping off eggnog.

"Jeez, I wonder where is Elly?" Fei said as he looked around.

"I think she's back on the home world right now." Citan stated as he fixed his glasses yet again. "Too bad Bart and Sigurd had to leave." he sighed.

"And good riddance." Cloud snapped as he heard strange bells ringing from above.

"Hohohoho!"

"It's grandpa!" Red XIII said.

"No, he goes Ohohoohoh, not Hohohoho." Cloud said as the sleigh bell continued ring.

"Let's here those sleigh bells ringing." the drunken Jessie and Turks started to sing till Billy knocked them all out.

Kicking down the door, Sephiroth went charging in dressed as Santa Claus carrying a big bag of toys, and said, "Hohohoho! Merry Christmas!"

"AAARRGGGGHHH!" Bill screamed as he pulled out his shotgun. "It's Marquis Elmdor from Final Fantasy Tactic coming to get revenge against us all at midnight on the day we murder him!" Billy cried as he held his weapon at the rather confused Sephiroth.

"Ah Billy, we never murdered Marquis Elmdor." Ramsus commented.

"Oh," Billy remarked as he scratched his head in thought, "then he has come to get revenge against us all because all of our games were better than his!"

"But that's Sephiroth." Cloud pointed out.

"Ah," Billy thought, "I thank you for inviting me on the day of your daughter wedding."

"Is he drunk?" Sephiroth asked as Billy started spouting out about the first child thing.

"It would be quite unusual since he didn't even finish his first cup." Citan said as he held up Billy's cup, while Billy started to dance around like a ballerina.

"So what brings you here?" Red XIII asked.

"Well I got to pay off my debt to the powers that be, so I'm doing this charity service to help pay it off." Sephiroth replied dryly as he opened up his bag. "Well, I got gifts for all of you and have a Happy Christmas, Hanukah, or Voodoo Day!" he said as he handed out the gifts.

Far from the vibrant joy of Cloud's villa, two characters were huddled before a small little campfire as they desperately tried to keep warm. The relentless coldness and wind constantly battered the duo as they tried to keep their little flames a lit.

"What a way to spend the Christmas." Biggs shivered as he gripped the blanket he managed to steal from Wedge around him tightly.

"Well think of it soon, in a few more days it'll be a whole New Year." Wedge remarked joyfully somewhat unfazed by the coldness.

"Oh joy, a whole New Year to be killed in thousands of new ways." Biggs retorted as he gazed into the fire. "I for one am sick of all these death of ours." Biggs hisses as small clouds of frozen air blew out.

"Ah come on it's not that bad." Wedge remarked cheerfully as Biggs winced a bit at his optimism.

"I think all these death have finally unhinged a part of your brain." Biggs remarked as his friend as he stood up from the fire and gazed at the sky above. "There must be a way to stop getting killed." he muttered as he looked toward the star for answer. Suddenly a thought came to him as he laughed, "Eureka! All I have to do to stay alive is to become a Main Character and there is no way I can die."

"Ah Biggs." Wedge whimpered behind him.

"What, I'm in the middle of my greatest scheme yet?" Biggs growled as he turn to face Wedge. "Ah Fudge." he cursed as he saw the huge form of the Emerald Weapon towering above them, as its entire orb weapons were open. A huge flash of light ripped down upon the hapless duo as they were blown to smithereens.

    "Now if I had two wish this Holiday season, the first would be to have all the children of the world to gather together and sing of peace and harmony. The second would be to have all your money you have, to be delivered to me, taxfree, to my swiss bank account."

    "If I had three wishes this Holiday season, the first would be, of course, to  have all the children of the world to gather together and sing of peace and harmony. The second would be all of your money to me. And the third would to have all encompassing power over everything living and non-living thing in the entire universe."

    "Now if I had four wishes, the first would be that @#$% about the kids, then all of your money, and then the power. And for my fourth wish is to have all video games dedicated to me. No matter what it is about or the contents within."

    "Wait a minute, maybe I should have the fourth wish first, because if something goes wrong what do you got? No, no, let the Kids sing. Oh, who are we kidding, we all know they have better things to do then sing, so it be a big waste of time. Okay, time to rearrange the wishes now."

    "First we go with the game dedication, then we'll have the power, and then the money. Wait I forgot about revenge against my programmers, they made me into a sissy character. They should all die like something really bad after be blasted by the Knight of the Round Table twenty times. And then for my last wish, to have all the children of the world to gather together and sing of peace and harmony."