Part I: Final Takeoff

Gatoris’ jaw hit the floor. "Jupiter-san? You? What are you doing here?" The girl he was referring to was an online acquaintance he had in his former life. This was the first time he ever saw her in person since he died. She was an average-sized woman, long lavender hair, green eyes that sparkled, and wearing a green dress. "I was taking a vacation from my Senshi of Life duties, until Ifalna told me what was happening..." Ifalna, Gatoris thought, she has got to tell everyone... "I heard that!" A voice came from the air. She was watching them... "Sorry..." Gatoris was embarrassed. "I know what you want, Gatoris. You want to revive Ifalna so she can be at your wedding. I have one problem..." Gatoris knew what it was: "We don’t know where the body is..." Sephiroth butted in. "Wait! I remember hearing of a cold-storage area in the Shinra building here..." Upon hearing this, Gatoris got a mental image. He saw a cylindrical case, holding a body. He peered closer... It was what he didn’t want to see, but he needed to. "I think I can find her body!" Gatoris blurted out. Jupiter was puzzled. "I just had a vision of where it is. Follow me!"

Two Shinra soldiers were guarding the entrance to a restricted area in Junon. They had no clue what they were guarding. They were playing chess, not making a sound. All of a sudden, one sees Sephiroth out of the corner of is eye. "Oh, SHIT! We’re screwed, Wedge. Here comes Sephiroth!" One screamed. "Listen, Biggs, we always die like this. So don’t make a big deal of it." Proclaimed the one called "Wedge". Sephiroth stopped at the gate. "Let me in!" he yelled. Biggs and Wedge got in defensive stances, awaiting their next deaths... "He won’t kill you..." a voice said. The two men looked behind Sephiroth and saw Gatoris. "President Tonberry!" they both proclaimed. Gatoris became puzzled. "The company chose you as their next president. They wanted a fresh, clean image..." Sephiroth had to explain. Gatoris ignored this. "Just let us in, or I’ll dock your pay!" The guards promptly opened the doors. Sephiroth, Jupiter and Gatoris were stepping into the most horrid secret of the Shinra empire. What they did with their enemies after they died was appalling: they put them in a cryogenic freeze.

Gatoris remembered seeing a number on the capsule in his image. He looked at the rows and rows of bodies. The place was creeping out everyone. Gatoris kept going, knowing he owed this to Ifalna. After a long search, Gatoris found the right one. he booted up the computer, and had it ‘defrost’ her. When it was complete, they saw how thorough the preservation techniques were. It looked like Ifalna’s death was only yesterday... "Get on with it, Jupiter. This place freaks me out." Gatoris said. Jupiter just nodded and said a few words. A light began to envelop her. The light then grew to cover her body and Ifalna’s. After a few minutes, the Ifalna began to move. It had worked. Ifalna was alive and walking. "Thank you, Gatoris. I know the reason you did this, but you owed me nothing. it was not my idea to use you..." Gatoris’ brain started to work again. "...Let me guess, Jupiter here suggested me and you went with that." Ifalna nodded. Garrett’s rage could not be contained. He turned to the Senshi of life and gave her a stern look. "Well, thanks a lot, Jupiter... I bet bringing Angie here was your idea too..." Jupiter seemed scared, too scared to speak. She just nodded. Garrett had heard enough. He stormed off, leaving the others in that scary place.

Ifalna was puzzled. "I thought he loved Angelina... Why does he act like he does not want to be with her?" Jason spoke up. "It’s got to be the circumstances involving their meeting... The fact that she tried to kill herself to join him has to be eating him alive. He’s blaming himself..." Jupiter was her cherry, optimistic self, as usual. "He’ll get over it after they get married." "Hate to break it to you like this," Jason butted in, "but I’ve seen him like this before. He’s had so much tragedy in his life, he has learned to shut out the world when it happens. I am worried that this time, it may push him over the edge, literally..." All three were worried. Had this incident pushed him too far?

Gatoris was at the cliff where he had said good-bye to Angelina earlier. He looked to the bottom, where it met the sea. Perfect, he thought, to end this curse called life. Before he could do anything, Aerith began to run to him. "NO! Why are you doing this, Gatoris?" "I... I can’t live with this blood on my hands..." He was trembling. "What blood?" Aerith was confused. "It is my fault that Angelina died..." "I told you, I am still alive!" Angelina made herself known. "Yes, but you are no longer the Angelina Bradford I knew... An incomplete person... And it is all because of me... I wish I had never seen you in my life..." Angelina was crying. "No... I came this far, just to have you taken from me again?" "I thought you loved Jason!" Garrett was becoming annoyed. "I did... but secretly, I loved you more. I just never had enough courage to say so." Angelina was pleading with him. Garrett became stone-faced all of a sudden. "I have learned one thing in my life. Love is an emotion for weak fools." Angelina was still crying. "If that is so, I am proud to be a weak fool than a strong fighter." Garrett seemed not to care anymore. "I tire of this life anyway. I wonder what the next one will bring." With that, he jumped off the cliff. He also unexpectedly jumped into a portal. Angelina just kept crying.

Part II: Turbulence

When Gatoris landed, he was on a beach. He had survived the fall, but had broken his legs. He tried to crawl into the ocean, but a man stopped him. Without saying a word, he hit Gatoris with a diving helmet, and he was out.

After Gatoris came to, he tried to figure out where the hell he was. He knew he was alive, and he was not happy about it. It was racking his brain when he suddenly heard the most beautiful music coming from another room. The tune sounded familiar, but he could not place it. Gatoris remembered he broke his legs, but tried to get up. Somehow, they had healed. He still had a limp, however. He walked in the direction of the music. He came into the main room, from where the music came from. There was a moogle playing piano, and a woman singing. The moogle abruptly stopped when he saw Gatoris at the doorway. "You seem to have recovered, kupo." Gatoris had just about figured out where he was. The woman turned around. She looked like a former soldier or mercenary. Gatoris finally figured out where he landed. "I didn’t know Mog could play the piano..." Gatoris kept staring at the woman. Then a man stepped in front of her. "I know what you’re thinking, Tonberry..." Gatoris was taken by surprise. "I wasn’t thinking of anything, Locke. I have no reason love..." Locke seemed puzzled. "I was going to say I was a treasure hunter, but I am worried about you. Why do you say you have no reason to love?" Gatoris showed no emotion. "Those I love are cursed to suffer horrible fates." The woman then butted in. "It’s not your fault that she tried to commit suicide." "Thanks for trying to cheer me up, Celes, but that won’t help. If I hadn’t come to this dimension in the first place..." Gatoris was crying again. He rushed to the exit. "Nice going, honey..." Locke said mockingly to Celes. "Now he’s going to try again for sure! Remember what Aerith said..." "Yeah, he needs to live..." replied Celes.

Gatoris decided to try again, when a figure appeared. "Shadow... there’s nothing you can do to save me." Shadow stepped into the light. "I don’t go by that name anymore. And I am not here to save you." Gatoris was puzzled. "There’s an easier way... Remember the Phantom Train?" Gatoris had forgot about it, the train that takes the dead to the other side. "Thank you, Clyde. I can now rest in peace...." Gatoris sped off in the direction of the Phantom Forest. Relm looked up at her father. "Why’d you tell him that?" "There is a surprise there if he tries it..." Clyde explained.

Gatoris boarded the train and took a seat. Finally, he thought, all of my pain will be over. Not three seconds after he thought that, he became unconscious. He was in his own mind... he had to overcome his demons before the train made it’s trip. He appeared in a field near his hometown of Deadwood, Indiana. He was viewing his house. Why must I see this shit, Gatoris thought to himself. Suddenly, another figure popped out of the field. "It’s to show you why you must live." "How? In this realm, I’m already dead!" Gatoris was confused. "You needed a starting point. Follow me," the figure motioned. They stepped into a field north of Castle Tonberry. Gatoris was unfazed. Then the figure pointed to something that made him think. There was an odd flag flying over the castle. It was Elmdor’s flag. "So, that is for Gatoris... They can get another soul to control him. I am dying for Garrett Mackenzie. This has nothing to do with him..." Seeing that Garrett wasn’t understanding, the figure showed him to a hospital. The two stepped into a room. There was a beautiful young girl in the bed. The sight of her made him cry. It was Angelina in the bed. "She’s been in a coma since she tried to do herself in. She and Aerith are now intertwined. If Aerith is upset, she feels it. You get the idea." The figure stated. Garrett was kneeled by her bed, crying. "I’d give anything to make her well... I’d give my soul...anything..." "That much is not needed. She will snap out of it when you marry Aerith." Garrett’s face became flushed of all color. "Great. I’m stuck on this train going to god knows where..." "Not really... The train was an illusion. You are on the tracks." Gatoris looked down. The figure was right. "Why did you help me?" Gatoris asked the figure. "You know that part of you that does not want anything bad to happen to Aerith? Well, that’s me..." he stepped out of the shadows to briefly reveal himself. All Gatoris saw was the black, spiked hair.

"I knew it was you, Zack..." Garrett had figured out who it was. "I know you loved Aerith. But, no matter how much I love Angie, it just does not feel right to marry her. It seems like I am rewarding her for trying to kill herself." Zack walked up to Garrett and slapped him. "Snap out of it! What’s done cannot be undone. Just be happy that she is with you in this dimension." "I would..." Garrett began to reply, "..but what I just did cannot be forgiven. I pushed her away from me when I needed her the most. Damn, now I feel like Vincent..." Suddenly, he heard a voice behind him. "Who says she won’t forgive you?" Ifalna had followed him to this place. "Remember what you told Jason? ‘She’d forgive you, no matter what you had done,’ I think were your words." "That was one thing..." Garrett was still upset. "This is a whole different matter. I hurt her, much worse than Jason ever did. I deserve to die..." Ifalna and Zack glared for a moment. "...but I do not want to hurt her further. Let’s get this crap over with." Gatoris feigned a smile. Zack disappeared, while Ifalna and Gatoris walked off to find an indirect portal to his realm. (The direct route would just continue his fall.)

"If my calculations are right, this is the portal to Goku’s realm from here." Ifalna stated, pointing at the portal. "You can find the portal back to your dimension from there." Gatoris, apparently forgetting the last portal debacle that she got him in, jumped in blindly. Ifalna quickly double-checked her calculations. Oops, she thought. That was actually Final Fantasy 5, non-stop to Sailor Moon’s dimension.

Part III: Rough Landing

Butz, Lenna and Faris were around a campfire. All of a sudden, they saw something falling form the sky. Oh great, Butz thought, another meteor. Lenna saw what the object was. "It’s a person falling!" All present grimaced when they thought what would happen to that person when they landed. "Looks like it’s... Gatoris?!?" Butz interjected. They saw him fly into a cloud, and disappear. Cara jumped out the tent, wearing a Sailor Moon costume. "What just happened?" "Uh... Isn’t Halloween in a few weeks?" Butz asked. "So? I just wanted to see how you liked my costume." Cara seemed moody. "Yeah, it looks great, Sailor Cara!" Lenna laughed. Everybody forgot about the person falling from the sky.

Gatoris saw what was about to happen. He was about to fall about five more stories before he hit the pavement. he crossed his arms and cleared his mind of all thoughts, save one. He figured if he thought about seeing Angelina again, he’ll survive the pain he was about to receive. He smashed into the top of a bus, and blacked out.

Meanwhile, Serena just so happened by at the time. She saw was happening, but couldn’t do anything until he landed. Unfortunately for her, he was heading straight at her. The two bodies collided, and both were sent to the hospital.

Gatoris woke up in a local hospital. His vision was blurry for a second, but he could see some woman was standing over him. The first thing he thought was it better not be Serena. His vision finally came back. He had never been happier to see anyone... ever. "Gatoris, you all right?" she said. He noticed his left leg was in a cast, as well as his left hand. "I’ve been better, Aerith, but at least the both of us are alive." "Good. I knew you would live..." Gatoris was puzzled. "... I knew about that portal, so I told Locke and Celes ahead of time. You see, I knew you loved me too much to do it..." Angelina was speaking again. "And by the way, I forgive you for what you did. I know the tragedy in your life. I probably would have done the same thing if I had that much grief in my life..." "Actually, you did... but that was your choice. I do not fully approve, but if you are happy with it..." Garrett said this with a heavy heart and a bit lip. "No, not really... but I felt since the first day I met you, we were meant to be with each other..." Garrett was more puzzled than usual. She then said something that confused him to great extent: "Think Xenogears." "Never mind that. I just want out of here so we can get this crap over with." Garrett screamed. "Good, then I got here at the right time." Jupiter entered the room. "I didn’t realize I was going to be a baby-sitter," she said with her usual smile. "I didn’t realize that I would be doing crap like this..." Gatoris said solemnly. "Just heal my leg. I can wait on the hand." "...which is good, seeing how reviving Ifalna took a lot of energy. I have enough to heal your leg, and that’s about it." Jupiter explained. She bent over him and put her hands over his leg. Gatoris felt a warm feeling surround his body. he felt that he could move his leg now, so he broke the cast off with his sword. (It’s always handy...) "Let’s go, Aerith... I think we have an event to plan..." Gatoris said with a smile. The three left the Hospital, not even realizing that Serena was in it with two broken legs.

Part IV: Unexpected Events...

Gatoris (and Garrett for that matter) had never been happier in his entire life. He was set to marry a beautiful woman he loved with all his heart. He had to plan who he would invite, though. He thought of who he could invite that Aerith would not have already invited. In the process of this, Aerith came into the room. "Gatoris, I think I’ll stay at my mother’s for a week while I plan things out. You all right with that?" Gatoris nodded. "If you feel that it would help, go ahead." She left for Icicle Inn with Ifalna, leaving Gatoris virtually alone for a while.

At about the same time, Yuffie had received a strange present. It looked like a Pokéball, but it was made of pure gold. She opened it to see what was inside, and she saw a brilliant white flash. If she had only known what she had unleashed. A little yellow mouse proceeded to pop out of the orb and chant something. Yuffie was mesmerized by the yellow furball. It then suddenly let out with a loud sound... something that sounded like ‘chu’... and shot a blue thunderbolt at her. Yuffie blacked out, and the mouse disappeared.

Gatoris began to think of his list of people. He would pretty much have to invite those not in his dimension. Let’s see, he thought. There’s Locke, Celes, Terra, Edgar, and the others form that dimension. Also, there is Goku and his clan... This thought was interrupted by the door. Gatoris, seemingly the only one around, opened it. It was Yuffie, but she looked... odd (kind of like Gozer from Ghostbusters). Her hair was blonde with black stripes. Her eyes were almost totally black. And her ears seemed a bit pointy. Her voice also sounded odd. Kind of stereo in sound. "The master wants you..." Gatoris was unaware what was going on. "Who, Hojo again?" "No, you fool. Not that stupid underling. The TRUE master wants your body. With the strength of it, he could rule dimensions!" Gatoris was stumped. "Who’s the master? Sounds like another loser to me." "You dare insult the great Pikachu? You shall die, you insolent pest!" Pikachu??? Gatoris was about to faint. All of Hojo’s plans were to appease Pikachu? Now he was about see Pikachu’s true power? Not shortly after this thought, a blue beam was shot at Gatoris, and he blacked out.