Opening Pandora's Box

[knighted-lion.livejournal.com]

Characters: The captured SeeDs and all those coming to the rescue
Progress: Ongoing
Summary: A rescue is mounted
Location: The Garden
Date: August 30, 1804; shortly after the Garden lands and Rinoa leaves to attack
Warnings: None that I can think of, but I'll edit if anything comes up.

The Garden had stopped. That was the first thing Squall noticed. Where they had stopped, he had no idea, but the engines had fallen silent, and presumably that was a good thing. In that it meant maybe - just maybe - someone would attempt to break, to stop everything before it got worse. Before... before Rinoa hurt any more people.

He doubted that would be the case, but ... he had to hope, almost. Had to hope that there was someone coming, had to hope that things would be as alright as they ever were with Ultimecia involved. And yet, there was some small part of his mind yelling that it wasn't fair, that he'd barely had enough time to begin to get used to this new world and here he was forced into a situation that was his worst nightmare. He didn't want to have to deal with this.

But he had to. For his people, and for all those strangers who knew him. He had to end this, before anything worse happened.

So with that in mind, he gathered together what dregs of courage he could, and made himself ready for what was to come, idly roaming around the little room that he'd all but memorized, looking for something he could use. Some small way to break out - not that he'd expected either of them to leave him something, but hey. Maybe he'd overlooked something. Maybe, and that was what his world had come done to. Maybes and hopes.

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[ladiesmanirvine.livejournal.com]

"I dunno, I think you're just faking so you can keep me all tied up for yourself," stated the cowboy who was trying to make light out of something as, 'Well Rinoa tied us up and has gone completely evil.'

He really could do anything but watch the perky brunette yelling at the door.

[eidolon-soul.livejournal.com]

"Selphie?!" Rydia's pace quickened as she approached the door. "Selphie, it's me, Rydia! ...and Edge. Stand back from the door, okay?"

[arrogant-flirt.livejournal.com]

Edge yelled through the door, "You didn't think we'd leave you here all alone, did you?"

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

"No way!" Selphie replied excitedly as she scurried away from the door only to trip ass-over-biscuits over Irvine's feet. Go figure, she was always the first one tripping over inanimate objects, her own feet or in this case, one cowboy. The perky brunette sat up quickly enough though and grinned at Irvine.

"Sorry about that Irvy!"

She shot Rydia and Edge a grateful look before standing up and facing them both. "Do either of you have a knife handy?"

[ladiesmanirvine.livejournal.com]

"No problem, Selph" replied the cowboy who was eager to get out of his ropes and possibly hug his rescuers. Maybe Rydia more but he wasn't focusing too much on that.

Irvine the yelled back, "A knife would be very handy for me...just to let you know."

[eidolon-soul.livejournal.com]

In order to overcome the door obstacle, Rydia raised one of her rods and sent a powerful burst of magic toward it. The door blew open, and she strode inside. Upon hearing Selphie's question, she nodded and headed over, withdrawing a dagger fro her belt.

"Stay still, alright?" She paused to work on the ropes, treating them with more care than the poor door. "I'm glad to see you both, though I wish we hadn't had to meet like this. Tidus and Laguna are working on freeing the others."

[arrogant-flirt.livejournal.com]

Edge can't believe Irvine allowed himself to be tied up while in a room alone with Selphie. Giving Irvine a smirk, he dips his head to Selphie. "I like to think we give a little warmer welcome than this in Alfitaria...We're glad you're ok."

sorry for the late tag D:

[boomchucka.livejournal.com]

While Rydia was working on the ropes, Selphie marched right past Edge to see if those idiot guards were still around. She wanted to know where their weapons were and would be quite content to beat the information out of them. She might go down a couple notches in rank but the perky brunette didn't particularly care. They'd been betrayed by one of their own and it was leaving a bitter taste in her mouth that wasn't likely to go away for awhile.

When she arrived at the door, Selphie saw that there was a trail of blood leading down the hallway but she knew that they had bigger fish to fry. Or at least that was the plan until she saw one of them still trying to run away.

"Get back here!"

The guard looked over his shoulder and started hobbling down the hallway before Selphie began her charge. Fired up, the girl raced down the hallway, reaching the injured guard in no time before she hauled off and resorted to hand-to-hand combat to take the SeeD cadet down. She made a few choice blows to the face, stomach and groin before watching her captor crumple to the ground. Her foot tapped impatiently before she collected the rapier the croney was using.

There was no point in questioning the idiot when they were unconscious as she poked her head around the shattered doorway with a devilish grin on her face. "Well... we don't have to worry about the guards at least."

You're sorry for your late tag? CHILD PLEASE!

[ladiesmanirvine.livejournal.com]

"Trust me the feeling is mutual Rydia, I hope our SeeD didn't cause too much of a problem for you," stated the cowboy who tried as much as he could to help with Rydia's cutting.

When the ropes were gone, the cowboy jumped up and looked at both Edge and Rydia stating, "Thank you both for helping us...but I don't think we're out of the woods yet." With that Irvine looked at the door and dashed to catch Selphie. Course by the time he got there he saw what she had done and stated, "Remind me never to get you angry...ever."