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Half Fiction 2 Chapter 2

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                                                                            Red Letter Day

Joe enters the lab and sees Professor Oak, "Blast that little... where did she get to? Lamar? Come out of there."

"Uh-oh, everything alright Professor Oak?" Nana asked.

Professor Oak turns to her, "Oh, hello Nana. Well almost alright, Lamar has gotten out of its crate again. If I didn't know better, I would suspect David of trapping and... My goodness, Joe Palmer, It really is you isn't it?"

"I found him wandering around outside, bit of a troublemaker isn't he?" Nana giggled.

"Hey I'm not that much of a trouble maker." Joe remarked.

"We owe a great deal to Dr. Palmer, even if trouble does seem to follow in his wake." Professor Oak reclaimed.

"Oh that's real assuring, Professor." Joe commented sarcastically.

"I must say Joe you have come at a very opportune time, Nana has just installed the final piece in the resurrected teleport!"

"I didn't do all the work." Nana informed.

"Nonsense, your talents surpass your sweetness." Professor Oak commented.

"Let's just see if this thing works ok?" Nana replied.
David enters the lab. "Well is he here? There you are! Man Joe you stirred up the hive!"

"Yeah, and the lack of no weapon made the trip easier." Joe replied sarcastically.

"Now I knew I was forgetting something." David chuckled to himself. "So how'd you do without a weapon then?

"Oh I did fine besides being shot at, falling down weak stairs, and being hit by electric batons" Joe replied. Nana and Professor Oak both sweat-dropped at the comment.

"So… everything worked out after all." David chuckled with a big grin. "Well in any case we can't keep him here long Professor, it will jeopardize everything we have worked for."

"I think he's going with me." Said Nana.

"That's right David, this is a red letter day, and we'll inaugurate the new teleport with a double transmission." Professor Oak informed.

"You mean its working? For real this time?" David asked. "Because I still have nightmares about that Chocobo."

"What Chocobo?" Nana asked.

"Now now there is nothing to be worried about, we have made major strides since then. Major strides." Professor Oak reminded.

"What Chocobo?" Nana asked once more.

"Professor, since he is not taking the streets you might as well get him out of his civvies." David informed.

"What? Oh dear you are right, I almost forgot. David I will give you the honor." Professor Oak said.

"I have gotta get back on my shift but ok." David shrugged. David uses a keypad to open up a garage like door, inside this small room there is a glass case which contains the HEV suit. "Here we go.. Awahh!" David yelled. Professor Oak pet Ditto, Lamar, jumps on David. "Damn it! Get it off me!"

"Aht, it's a head hunter." Joe commented.

"That's what I thought the first time when I saw that happen to David." Nana said.

"Lamar! There you are!" Professor Oak exclaimed.

"I thought you got rid of that pest!" David proclaimed.

"Certainly not. Never fear Joe, she completely harmless. The worst it might try to do is land on top of your head and mess with your hair."

"Get that thing away from me!" David yelled.

"Here my pet. Hop up!" Professor Oak said. Lamar jumps up onto a shelf with some crates and computers. "No not up there! No, No! Careful Lamar those are quite fragile." Lamar jumps into a vent. "Oh fie! It will be another week before I can coax here out of there!"

"Yeah, Longer if we are lucky." David answered.

"David... You are not a ditto person?" Nana giggled.

"Ugh." David sighed.

"Well Joe go ahead, slip into your suit now." Professor Oak insisted.

Joe steps into the glass chamber and puts the HEV suit on. "Good to be back in this thing..." Joe said looking at his hands. "What do you say Professor?"

"Well Joe I see your HEV suit still fits you like a glove, at least the glove parts do." Professor Oak remarked. "I have made a few modifications, but I will just acquaint you with the essentials, now let's see..." Professor Oak picks up a clipboard with a paper on it and begins reading from the paper. "The Mark V Hazardous Environment Suit has been redesigned for comfort and utility..." A loud alarm then sounds in the background.

"Oh dear!" Worried Professor Oak.

David rushed, "Professor we don't have time for this. At least get that suit juiced up Joe."

Professor Oak nodded in agreement, "Good idea, there is a charger on the wall. I have modified your suit to draw power from Deepground energy outlets, which are plentiful wherever they patrol."

"We should get going now, don't wanna keep them waiting." Nana said.

Professor Oak moves a picture frame around, this opens up a retinal scanner which he uses to open up a secret room behind the wall, Joe enters the room along with everyone else, inside is a large mass of computers and wires along with a platform in the middle of the room, Nana gets onto the platform and the guard rails close behind her.

"Joe, why don't you position yourself near the panel over there and wait for my word?" Professor Oak said.

A man in his mid-30's with black hair, blue eyes wearing glasses, blue suit over a yellow shirt and purple tie appears on a monitor behind David. "Oak are you there?" He asked.

Professor Oak replied, "Yes, yes, Kurama, a bit of a hold up on this end. You will never guess who found his way into our lab this morning."

"That's not who I think it is, is it?" The man name Dr. Kurama asked.

"Indeed it is, and it's our intention to send him packing straight away, in the company of your lovely daughter."

"Are you ready for us papa?" Nana asked.

Kurama nodded, "We are all set on this end."

"Okay. I'm ready." Nana said. Nana is standing on the platform and begins to rise.

"Let's see, the massless field flux should self-limit and I have clamped the manifold parameters to include CY Hilbert and GC orbitfold inclusive. Conditions could not be more ideal." Professor Oak exclaimed.

"That's what you said last time." David answered.

"Hey, uh, yeah, about that chocobo…" Nana sweet dropped.

"Initializing in three... two... one... Oh fiddlesticks what now?" Professor Oak muttered.

"What's going on?" Nana asked. Joe looked around and noticed the plug and pushed it back in place.

"There's the problem!" Joe shouted. Then the process continued.

"You gonna let Joe throw the switch?" Nana asked.

Professor Oak turns to Joe, "Joe, go right ahead." Joe then throws the switch.

"Very good, final sequence commencing... now."

"I can't look." David covered his eyes. "Let me know when it's over."

Nana was a little nervous, "Uh, ok, oh ah ohhh!"

Nana disappears from the teleporter

"Well, did it work?" Professor Oak asked.

Kurama smiled, "See for yourself."

Nana appeared next to him, "Hey guys!"

Professor Oak gasped with relief, "Thank goodness, my relief is almost palpable."

"Nice work Oak." Kurama said.

"Well I can't take all the credit, Dr. Palmer proved an able assistant." Professor Oak said.

"Let's go ahead and bring Joe through now." Kurama said.

Professor Oak nodded, "Right you are, speak to you again in a few moments."

David applauded, "Good job Joe, throwing that switch and all, I can see your Texas A&M education really pays off." He joked.

"Well, nice to see it works properly." Kurama smiled. Suddenly a girl popped up in front of Kurama. The girl had short light purple hair, and blue-purple colored eyes and has a lollipop in her mouth.  She wore a white sweatshirt with long dark blue sleeves, a black singlet underneath, and a yellow pendant over her neck. She wears long dark and light purple-striped stockings with white shoes and has a belt tied to her left leg.

"Shocking success." The girl stated.

"Mizore! I was wondering how you were doing!" Joe shouted.  Mizore then struck a cute pose.

"She's been here, helping us with the teleport." Kurama said. "But she isn't the only one."  

A girl with long pink hair, red eyes appeared wearing a red shirt with pink sleeves, yellow skirt, and a green stocking hat.

"When you say she isn't the only one you mean…?" David was about to answer with Kurama finishing his sentence.

"By her, I mean Lucy of course."

Lucy looks from the other side of the screen noticing both Joe and David, mostly David. "Well, never thought I'd see you two at the same time."

"Lucy! How's it be girl, you look beautiful than ever." David said with a grin.

"Thanks, you're very flattering." Lucy replied with a light smile. "That isn't really?"

"Who this charming fellow right here? Why it's none other than Joe Palmer in the flesh." David answered.

Lucy looked at Joe a little more, "So Joe, you've been getting some help here with David, I assume?"

Joe replies, ""Well I was until he sent my weaponless through a city brimming with cops chasing me!"

"Oh C'mon Joe, at least you made it through harmless enough, right?" David shrugged.

Joe answers, "Does harmless define as being shot at?"

"Smooth move, Dave." Lucy joked.

"Can we get back to the subject people!?" David proclaimed.  

"Alright David, your turn." Professor Oak said.

"Gee thanks." David muttered.

"Try not losing Joe this time, David." Lucy replied in sarcasm.

"Joe, as soon as you are in position we will send you to Kurama." Professor Oak informed.

The loud alarm sounds again.

"And not a moment too soon." David added.

Joe steps into the teleporter, the guardrails close and it begins to rise.

"Excellent, initializing, in three... two... one.., eh David if you would be so kind?" Professor Oak asked.

David turns to Joe, "Good luck out there Joe."

"Yes indeed, we are ready to project you Joe, best of luck in your future endeavors, and bon voyage, final sequence."

An alarm begins to sound.

"What the hell?" David retorted.

Lamar jumps out of a vent and breaks some wires connected to the teleporter.

"What is it?" Professor Oak asked.

"It's your pet, the freaking copycat!" David yelled.

Professor Oak began to worry, "Lamar? Ditto! No!"

"Look out!" David warned.

Lamar jumps onto the teleport as it begins to malfunction; Joe is then transported to a desert, then back to the lab.

"There he is!" David pointed. "Is Llamar with him?" Professor Oak asked.

David yelled at him, "Forget about that thing!"

"This thing is making me diz-" Joe is now transported to his intended destination in Kurama's lab.

"He's coming through Papa!" Nana cried.

"What is going on Arakawa?" Kurama demanded.

The woman from behind name Arakawa replies, "I'm not sure, it seems to be some kind of interference."

Kurama turns to face Joe, "Joe stay put we will get you out of there."

"Something is drawing him away." Arakawa said.

Joe is teleported into an unknown location, an office, in which he sees the same man he saw on the monitor who was Dr. Kukazawa. "What is the meaning of this? Who are you? How did you get in here?" The man asked.

Joe is now teleported back to the lab.

"He's back! I'm getting him outta there!" David said.

"You can't just wade into the field! It will peel you apart!" Professor Oak shouted.

"We just lost Joe what is going on?" Nana asked.

Professor Oak shrugged, "I wish I knew I'm encountering unexpected interference."

"Don't worry Joe we will-" David went before getting cut off with Joe being transported to a café. Four characters two were dinosaurs, one was a Mexican Dragon and the other was some strange lizard like creature in a lawyer suit turned their heads over to him.

"Who are you?" Asked a young man that wore a beanie hat over his head and green eyes name Moe.

"Where am I!? I'm on Earth right!?" Joe says. He then notices a coffee machine. "Hey, a coffee machine! I could use some coffee after the breakfast I was given!" Joe replied. He then teleports again off to another location.

The lizard like creature lawyer, Mature jumps out of his seat freaking out shouting in the café, "ALIENS!!!"

Joe is transported back to his original destination.

"There he is!" Nana pointed.

Arakawa cries out "Ah! We are losing him again!"

Joe is then teleported somewhere else. Inside another universe in a fallen city called Townsville with war happening all around, two people are arguing. One looked like he was in a Final Fantasy VII get up dress as Cloud and looked like David the other was in an Akatsuki.

"How many times do I have to tell you, Konan? This isn't Code Fiction, this is Final Fiction VII!" The person who looked like David shouted.

"Then what am I suppose to be doing here in the first place if this isn't Code Fiction, Neo." The woman name Konan remarked.

Out of the blue Joe appears between the two of them.

"AUGH!!..Ugh…Where am I? Is this Sector 5?" Joe asked getting up.

"Sector 5?" The Final Fiction version of David said. "This is the city of Townsville. There's no sector 5 here."
"Ow...My head," Joe said rubbing his head "Well, at least I'm on solid ground."

"Say, have I met you before?" David asked.

"Um...You do look familiar, but I can't say I have." Joe replied

"You kind of remind me from someone who's part of our team." David remarked.

"Maybe he's one of the rebels in the Surdana Knights." Konan pointed.

"For the last time Konan, this isn't Code Fiction and weren't fighting Disney here, we're fighting Nexus." David snapped back at her.

"If this isn't Code Fiction, then why am I assisting you then?" Konan asked.

"Hmm... Well, you do remind a friend I know that looks a little-" Suddenly, a green light appears around him."Not aga-" Joe said he is teleported again.

"Huh, that's strange. Who was that guy anyway?" David asked.

Konan answers, "I don't know Neo, you're the main character of this story, aren't you?"

"What's going on guys?" Said another guy who walked up that looked a lot like Joe.

"Hey Joe, you wouldn't believe this but Konan and I here saw a guy who looked just liked you and had on an orange suit. Any idea who that have been?"

"No. Plus I don't recall having any twins. But Xejo comes close."

"Huh, must have been my imagination then." David shrugged.

Joe then is teleported into a destroyed area in front of a tall, dark blue structure that looks alien to the rest of his surroundings.

"Where am I now?!" Joe asks before he looks up at the tall structure, which looks like it may explode with red swirling clouds surrounding it. "Oh my gosh...THIS THING IS GONNA BLOW!!!! Where am I!?!?"

"Ahh! Who's throwing cars around?" Asked a man with black hair, green eyes in a security guard suit with a blue-collar shirt, Kevlar vest security guard helmet and a logo on the vest for a company called 'Black Mesa'.

"Who are you? How did you get here?!" Joe asked.

"I don't know." The man shrugged. "I'm just a security guard who teleported out here."

"Great more teleporting people!" Joe yelled

"What is this malfunctioning teleporter day?!!" The man yelled back

"It should be if another person shows up. Who are you anyways?" Joe asked

"Okay, I'm Barney Calhoun and as you know I teleported here out of nowhere." The man replied.

"I'm Joe, and I'm in the same boat." Joe replied.

"Well, I never thought I'd find someone with bad teleporting problems." Barney replied.

"Yeah, especially when you landed in a place that looks like it's going to explode. Why couldn't have been…..New York City??"

"Yeah. Or… like an all you can eat buffet This is one of the least desirable places to teleport to. I just want to go back home." Just then a green light surrounded Joe and Barney.

"Oh crap, not again! Nice meeting you man!" Joe said back real quickly.

"Same here!" Replied Barney. Then both guys teleported off to different places.

Joe is transported back to the office. The man Dr. Kukazawa is talking to someone or something on the screen, "The man I saw, I'm all but certain it was... Joe Palmer." He said turning around seeing him again briefly.

Joe is transported underwater, a giant prehistoric sea monster called a Liopleurodon comes rushing at him but he is transported again at the last second, this time he is outside of the lab looking in through a window behind Professor Oak.

"I…I..don't wanna do that again!" Joe said, heavily breathing. The green lights stopped appearing around him and Joe noticed Oak through the window

"What do you mean he is not there?" Professor Oak proclaimed.

Kurama replied, "He didn't come through."

"Then where is he?" Oak asked.

Kurama noticed Joe, "Behind you."

Professor Oak turns around. "WOOOUUAHHHH!!"

"Shut it down! Shut it down!" Kurama ordered.

"Joe run! You must get out of here!" Oak shouted.

"Get down and out of sight I will come find you!" David said.

Joe makes his way through the area behind the lab until he sees David on a ledge above.

"Joey!" David called out.

Joe glares at him, "What was that?"

"Sorry…" David apologize, "The Shinra building is on full alert. I've never seen the HQ on full alert like that!" David said. Part of the building off in the distance began to shift upwards, in which a lot of the camera devices began to fly out away from the building.

"Take the old canals out of sector 5 to Kurama, it's dangerous but there is a whole network of resistance members who run the Underground Railroad. I would come with you but I have to look after Professor Oak. Oh and before I forget, I think you dropped this back at FF Research Facility." David said and then threw down a crowbar.

"Now I get a weapon." Joe said in relief.

"Good luck out there buddy, you are gonna need it." David said his farewells.

"And you stay safe man." Joe replied and made his way through a door way.
Second chapter! One of the more humorous parts in the story I think.

I have a reason also why I added in Mizore and Lucy. Mizore is there because while I like using Nana, I felt in order to convey who could be in Alyx's role that there was some missing parts to it. Nana's does retain some roles like a family link and sweetness like Alyx, but Mizore help in some roles like seriousness and intellect....I know it's complex, and I've been thinking on this for a while.


Also added in some of my own scenes, and even got permission from :iconmightypirate: to use his character and scenes from Barney's mind in this!


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Sharidaken's avatar
Well I don't suppose I have to read all this since... I've done it with you :lmao: were gonna need to get back to this real soon :iconseriousnod: