Issue 4 October 1999
It started as just a night of partying. When I left the party I started walking home...luckily for me I was just to out of it to make it home, I passed out in the alley infront of the Rocket Town Inn. The next morning I was awoken by a loud crash over at the inn. When I got up to go look around I saw a man come running out. He had on bright white armor. I could tell who it was when I saw him. It was Corwyn. He was saying that he was going to go after Shadow and he had to do it himself, because no one in Rocket Town could handle it. I was going to go after him, but he was gone in an instant over the hill outside of RT.
I went in the inn to see if I could help anyone, but there was no one there. Just as I was about to leave two men jumped down from the roof. One was tall and looked strong. The other was a short man, and looked extremely strong. I stood ready to fight. It seemed to be just me and the short guy, because all the tall guy did was talk and cast spell's on himself. It was a good battle, I knew he was almost done with because he was bleeding as much as I was. I thought I was just about through when the man fell and died. The tall man looked at me and said "Don't worry Roberts, (my last name) you will get yours, but not now." At that moment he ran out. I went to chase him, but once again I was outrun.
I went back in the inn. I found a note on the man. (sorry but if I could remember it I would tell you it.). When I returned outside there was a big ship in the sky. Just as I saw it, it's gun's centered in on me. Just when I thought I was dead, there was a large blast and a puff of smoke came from the back of the ship. The gun's went down and so did the ship, crashed on the outskirts of town. When I looked up I saw what made the ship go down. There was a Solaris war jet. When it landed, Prince Blade came out.
After we talked we went to the big ship, just before we got there four men came up out of the smoke. One of the men was the other man that I had been fighting, two of them just looked like common hoods. The one that that we could tell was the boss was wearing a black cape and was very strong looking, stronger than the one in the inn. The boss called out to Blade; he knew who he was and how strong he was, he wanted to test Blade. The boss sent the other three after me, but the same man that left in the inn ran away again. Blade took care of the boss with not much pain and the two boy's were simple.
After Blade and I talked for a second we heard the sound of a song from over the hill. When we checked it out it was the man that ran. He was dancing to a New Kids on the Block song. When he heard Blade and I laughing he turned around and looked at us. Just then he was hit by something and fell dead. Wendy walked up and picked up her shuriken. After the three of us talked for awhile we headed east. At one point we heard a noise in the bushes. When we checked it out we were in for more than we could handle.
It was a ninja, he was dressed in all dark cloth. He cast small on us all. He wounded me. Blade was wounded too, but Wendy used my PD on him, then she was wounded herself. After a long battle of Blade and the ninja, it got to the point were we were all scared of being defeated, the ninja just left. The good thing about our fight was that he dropped a note. As Blade rested, he called in his friend Punisher form Solaris. In a few minutes three jets landed. Punisher and two other men came out. The two men cast Life on Wendy and I, then they left. After catching up for Punisher we headed east.
After walking awhile we saw Corwyn talk to a man that was in front of a cave. A few seconds later Corwyn went in and the man followed. When they were in a the ninja we fought earlier ran into the cave. Just as we got up on the opening the guy that Corwyn was talking to and a few others came out. We talked to them for a little while until we heard some commotion in the cave. Our group and the other group both went to see what was up. When we got there, there was a group of Blind Maphisto agents fighting the ninja.
The leader of the BM group started talking to us while the others fought. After awhile the cave group was dead. Just before the last of them fell a cave door opened and some more bandits came in, the ninja ran away at this point. The bandits battled the BM agents till they were gone. The bandits thought we helped kill Blind Maphisto, so they were friendly towards us. The group leader introduced himself as Eagle, he let us save and rest.
The next day Eagle started taking us to the dimension chocobos, but on the way there we were attacked by a large metal spider. Just at that point Lee Cole came running down the cave. Wendy fought the back part I fought one side and Lee and Dragon took the other side. Blade and Eagle fought the front, in which they would have failed against, but the ninja from before came to help them, he turned out to be Clyde. Punisher waited back to be our backup. The battle was long, but we won.
We made it to the D. Chocobo stables. When we talked for awhile about not being able to come back till Shadow was dead. At that point Jaden came up from the cave. After a long talk Blade decided to stay back and watch over RT and Midgar. Plus he wanted to stay because Elly was pregnant. Because Blade was not going Punisher decided to stay. So it was Lee Cole, Jaden, myself, Wendy, Dragon, Eagle, and Clyde.
On the other side it was a strange place. When we looked around we saw a little village that was guarded by two little elves. After talking with them we learned that we needed special money that we had to obtain from beating animals. That night we rested for free planing our next move. Check out Part 2 of "The Misty Vale Special" To see what happened!