Destinies Intertwined (Lightning x Male Reader)

Chapter 05: Beginning the Plan

The five of us made it to a hallway, which beyond held a huge number of soldiers. "Let us through! Block our way, you die!" Snow yelled. Fang put her hands on her hips and asked "You trying to get them angry?" "Thought maybe they'd run. There's been enough blood spilt." Snow admitted. "You'd thought they'd run? Let me refresh your memory. These people think they're protecting people from l'Cie. The fal'Cie have them all brainwashed."

Snow pounded a fist against the wall. "Fal'Cie! I have had it! We cannot let this go on!" "Then let's get going!" I called. " Attention all crew: Code Green! Repeat: Code Green! Security forces stand by! Hostile forces on board! Code Green!" a screen announced. Ignoring it we charged forward, meeting a pair of PSICOM Infiltrators, with two PSICOM Huntresses and a Viking.

Snow and Fang broke off to deal with the Viking, while Lighting and Hope each took a PSICOM Huntress and I went after the Infiltrators. They each pointed their guns at me and Brasierd, and I ducked to avoid the shots while stabbing Indomitus into the ground and sending a Foudre spell through it, the energy traveling through the floor and up their feet. They seized up and couldn't Brasier again, giving me the time to stab them both in the stomach and turn to see how the others were doing.

Lightning had finished off the Huntress she had targeting, while Hope was wearing down his and Fang and Snow wearing making progress against the Viking. As I watched Hope used Quake followed by Rafalera and Glacier +. The earth from the first spell was tossed around by the second, and turned into razor-sharp shards of frozen earth from the third. The shards spun around the Huntress like a twister, and she had just enough time to say "Damn you!" before the shards finished her.

Hope then sent the twister full of shards after the Viking, and I nodded, impressed. "Very good, Hope. You've gotten stronger." I told him. He smiled at the compliment, and yelled "Snow, Fang, get back!" They did, and he sent the twister of ice shards to completely envelope the Viking. It gave a mechanized whir of frustration and swung its arm around, the end of it burning with flames. However, each time the Viking turned up the heat on its arm the chill from the twister would instantly cool it back down.

While it vainly tried to heat up the Brasier on its arm Lightning, Fang, Snow and I attacked the Viking, Hope keeping the tornado from fading. Eventually it grew tired of trying to heat up its arm and whirred in anger. It raised is arm above its head and was perfectly still, then a few seconds later it rushed forward, out of the tornado and at Hope, unleashing its Brasierstorm attack. A chain of small explosions occurred around Hope, knocking him off balance and into the air.

"Hope!" Lightning called. He hit the ground and slowly got back up, but without his focus on it the tornado of ice wobbled and faded. Before Hope had a chance to create another the Viking hit him again, and kept on him relentlessly. "I got ya kid!" Fang yelled, and she drove her spear into the Viking's side. It turned and swung at her to keep her back before swiftly turning back to Hope. "Snow, Fang, you guys try and get rid of that Viking. Light and I'll make sure that Hope stays up!"

They nodded and attacked the Viking while Lightning and I each sent a volley of Soin spells at Hope. Green light surrounded his body and the burn from the Brasierstorm faded, but the Viking kept on him still preventing him from attacking and forcing me and Light to send more Soin spells his way.

Then Snow used both Water and Aquastrike, the force from the water strong enough to knock the machine off-balance and make it tilt to the side. When it did Fang threw her spear at it, and that last push was enough to knock the mechanized monster over on its side. If the Viking was on its feet then it was a strong enough foe, but on its side all it could do was nothing. It kicked its feet around and waved its arm, but for all the good that did it might as well have done nothing.