This is my first story so let's give this diclamer thing a shot. First off I do not own Final Fantasy. This story is very silly (this is your warning). And there won't be to many parings (That does not mean that there won't be any!

Chapter 1

Cloud walked into Seventh Heaven to find Yuffie at the bar laughing with Tifa.

"What are you two laughing about?" The spiky haired man asked.

"Oh, Cloud! You're back from your delivery early!" Tifa immediately ran out from behind the bar and hugged him.

"Yeah, turns out some raging fast food mascots torched his place, with him in it." The blond man said.

"That's unusual." Tifa responded, hugging him tighter. "Still, I'm glad you're safe."

Cloud heard some muffled laughing from Yuffie's direction and shot a glare towards the little ninja, who quickly turned back to her drink.

"Oh my, am I interrupting something?"

Cloud broke free from Tifa's grip and looked behind him to see a man in a red cloak standing there.

"No Vincent, you aren't"

"If you're sure…" The brooding man said, as he walked over and sat down next to Yuffie, pouring himself a scotch.

"Hmph!" Yuffie said, glancing at the drink. "Hey Tifa, whats the legal drinking age around here?"

"Umm…" Tifa pondered for a bit. "21." The bartender said

"Phooey!" the young ninja turned back to her non-alcoholic drink.

Cloud whispered to Tifa "isn't it 19?"

"Yup." Tifa said, a small grin forming on the side of her mouth as she headed back to the bar to pick up her drink.

"#&$in' piece of *$&!" A blond man with a cigarette came into the room, holding some mechanical contraption that was slightly burning and smoking profusely.

Cloud's attention turned to the explicit man. "Cid, your here too?"

"What's it to ya." The man said as he lit his cigarette on the contraption.

"Nothing." He shrugged.

"Oh my goodness!" Tifa exclaimed "Cid, what did you do to the toaster?"

"Hehe, turned the thing into a bomb!"

"Should it really be on fire then?" Vincent asked without even looking at it.

"No, I suppose not." Cid waved it around, eventually putting out the fire.

Cloud shook his head to clear the thought and asked "So, where's Red?" he followed everyone's gaze down to his own feet, and sure enough, right there was a red lionish creature.

"Hello." Red XIII said coolly.

After staring and wondering how Red XIII got there without him noticing, Cloud looked back up to everyone else and asked "So, is everyone here then?"

"That's right foo!" A large dark skinned man with a gun in place of his hand came into the bar. "And why you askin' where Red was, and not wonderin' 'bout me? Not that I'm complaining or nuthin'."

"Stuff it Barret." A black and white cat doll walked in. "He didn't ask about me either."

"Hey Cait Sith!" Yuffie shouted from across the room.

"Do you have to be so freaking loud?" Vincent asked.

"What! Do ya have a problem with it!?" the uppity ninja yelled.

"Let me think about it……….…..yes." The cloaked man said.

Yuffie picked up her drink and threw it at Vincent. "There!" she stuck her tongue out at the cherry smelling soaked man and stormed off towards the others.

"Well, now that everyone's here, I suppose that you can all see this." Cait Sith pulled a letter out of his cape.

"Let me see that" Cloud took the letter from the cat.

"Geez louise, let someone else do something once in a while." Cait Sith said.

Cloud just ignored the little furball and read "it says that we are invited to a competition, participation is not necessary."

"So who would purposely go to something like that?" Tifa asked

"Me, that's who," Cid said.

"Why?" the brunette said.

"To use this thing" The smoking man said, motioning to the toaster.

I wanna go!" Yuffie said leaping up and down in excitement.

"I'll go as well" Vincent said.

"Oh, then I don't want to anymore" the ninja said.

"We'll get you a mucho grande excelente Sunday." Cloud offered.

"When we leavin'!" Yuffie instantly perked up.

"Hmm" Vincent thought "you do realize that means 'much big excellent right?"

"Nope, all I care about is the taste!" the ninja said.

"Whatever…" the cloaked man mumbled.

"Come on foos! Let's go!" Barret joined in.

"Deneh told me to get out of the house more." Red XIII said

"Hold it, who the hell is Deneh?" the dark skinned man asked.

"Is she your wife?!" Yuffie jumped in.

"Not really, more like my fiancée." The red beast said.

"Heh, you go Red" Cid laughed "and spiky hasn't even done it with a chick who's throwing herself all over him!"

Tifa shot a dagger like glare at Cid.

"We have so 'done it'." Everyone turned towards Cloud and Tifa. "I probably shouldn't have said that…"

Just then a bus came swerving up and stopped inches from 7th Heaven.

"Enough chit chat lads and lassies, our ride is here." Cait Sith said in a Scottish accent.

"Why're ya Scottish now foo?!" Barret asked.

"I'm not quite sure, must be a programming glitch" the now Scottish puppet said.

Meanwhile, in Reeve's office.

"#&$, stupid voice controls!" Reeve said, as he started tampering with random switches and buttons.

A man in a grey suit poked his head in and said, "Sir, you have a meeting with the board in five minutes.

'All well' Reeve thought, "This will just have to wait." He said as he jammed the reset button on Cait Sith's control panel.

Back at 7th Heaven.

"What's wrong with Cait Sith?" Cloud asked.

The cat-like machine had stiffened and fallen over.

"I don't know" Cid said walking over to it, "hmm, maybe if open it up I might be able to figure it out. He said as he lit another cigarette.

Out of the blue Cait Sith jumped up and said "I don't denken so herrn!

"Does anyone else know what it just said?" Cid asked.

"Maybe you should open it up anyway." Yuffie said.

"Berühren sie mich und sterben sie!" the cat said.

"Let's leave it alone for now." The smoker said.

"Danke, jetzt wartet unsere fahrt." Cait Sith said and walked out to the bus.

Cloud shrugged and left, followed by the rest of the group.

As he entered he noticed the light brown haired driver looked like he was around 19, but acted like a child.

"Hi!" the driver waved to everyone as they walked by.

'He's kinda cute!' Yuffie thought as she took the seat behind the driver.

Cloud boarded and proceeded to a window seat closer to the back, Tifa took the seat next to him.

Cid took a seat up front, "Hey, Vince, sit here!" he said, patting the open seat next to him.

"Very well" Vincent said, ignoring the waving teen and the fact that Yuffie was staring at him.

"Dumme stücke mist!" Cait Sith said from outside, "Unten gesetzt mit!" Red entered with the

German cat in his mouth, "You could be a little more gracious" Nanaki said, as he put Cait Sith on the floor and curled up on a seat.

"Yeah, you guys are always leavin' me behind!" Barret complained, as he entered and sat down behind Cid and Vincent.

"So," the young ninja said "do you wanna go and get some ice cream sometime."

"Hey, Yuffie" Cid started "stop askin' random guys to buy you ice cream."

"Hey!" Yuffie exclaimed "I'm goin' out with him, the least he can do is buy me ice cream!"

Vincent leaned over to Cid, "Could she have a bigger ego?"

"Only if that guy says yes." Cid laughed.

"Okay!" The over the top happy driver responded ever cheerfully.

"Oh, Sh-"Cid started.

The driver gasped and clapped his hands over his mouth.

"Can we start driving?" Cloud asked from the back.

"That's you" Vincent whispered to the unwitting driver.

"Oh!" he said noticing the wheel in front of him. "Let's go!"

The bus left for their destination, swerving every which way.

'I'm bored.'

The lone man thought to himself in his dorm room, as he sat up on his bed.

'It's been rather quiet lately, Zell left to study spaceships in Esthar, Rinoa enrolled in some classes at Balamb Garden, Selphie started up a band over in the Quad, Quistis was back being a teacher and Irvine, well-'

A loud banging noise on the door snapped him out of his thought.

"Yo, Squall open up!"

'Zell was back.' He thought to himself, as he opened the door.

"You're back early." Squall said, crossing his arms.

"That's right!" the energetic teen said "And you won't believe what I heard!"

'Oh, God.' He thought to himself. "What they have a sale on hot dogs or something."

"WHAT, Where!" the blond readily responded, looking back and forth.

"Sarcasm Zell." He said as he placed his head in his hand.

"Oh, heh heh, I get it." He replied while rubbing the back of his head.

"You were going to say something." Squall was getting agitated.

"Sorry, the whole hot dogs on sale thing got me there." Zell said sheepishly

"Zell!" He had no intention of putting up with this for much longer.

"Hey, look all business." The SeeD straitened himself out. "Sir, I have come here to deliver a most urgent letter!"

"Let me take a look." He snatched the letter from his stiff comrade.

He scanned through, only paying half attention; Zell was starting to turn blue from holding his breath to long.

"At ease Dincht."

Zell inhaled deeply. "Oh, thanks man, I almost passed out!"

"It's an invitation." Squall interjected.

"Excuse me?" He asked, face regaining color.

"The letter is an invitation to some sort of competition; it says 'Fighters from all across the universe have been called to participate in the events' pretty vague on what the 'events' are." He said unsure.

"Sounds eerie, what do you think?" Zell asked.

"I think……It sounds like fun." He said a small grin formed on the side of his face.

"Oh, maaan." The martial artist said, saddening.

"Dincht, gather Rinoa, Irvine, Quistis and Selphie. Then all of you will proceed to my office."

"All right." He started to mope away. "Let's see now, Rinoa is probably in homeroom right now with Quistis teaching, Selphie will be in the Quad, and Irvine…" Zell pondered for a moment. "Hey! Squall! Where's Irvine!"

"Just look for groups of female students." He called over his shoulder.

"Oh, yeah."

After rounding up the whole group, some force necessary, they met in Squall's office.

"So, why have we been called here?" Quistis asked. "I need to return to my class, my students are waiting."

"Don't worry instructor, I don't think they really listen anyway." Squall responded. "I know I didn't." He mumbled under his breath.

"I listen!" Rinoa said cheerily.

"Yeah, but you need all the help you can get." The Irvine spoke up. "That's why you always hang around Squall for protection, isn't it?"

"Hey, I can take care of myself you know!" She said getting a little angry.

"Whoa now!" The cowboy took a step back. "Alright fine you don't need Squall, nope, you'd be better off without him." He said a little panicky.

Squall took a step forward; both him and Rinoa had maddened expressions and were slowly closing in on Irvine.

"Um, heeey, were all friends here right?" He said backing off, but they continued to come, seeing no other way, Irvine ran and jumped out one of the oversized windows and landed on a moving bus.

After watching him fall Squall turned back to the others. "Now then, about why you were called here"

"Umm." Selphie interjected. "Shouldn't we wait for Irvine to come back?"

"We'll just fill him in later." The SeeD commander said. "It appears, from sources unknown, that we have been invited to a competition of…Something." He said pulling out the letter.

"So what did you want us for, I was watching some guy try to beat the Tetris world record!" Rinoa joyfully added.

"What ever happened to being a good listener, hmm?" Quistis craned towards Rinoa.

"Eep!" Rinoa squeaked, taking refuge behind Squall.

"Don't make me separate you two." Squall said jokingly.

"Heeeey! You meany!" Rinoa said stepping out from behind Squall and putting her hands on her sides.

"Alright people back to business." Squall demanded. "The letter says that you have the choice of attending, but, I'm gonna be honest with you, you guys don't have a choice, were going and that's final."

"That's not fair."

"Told ya."

"I don't really see why-"

"Okay!" Selphie said, almost too quickly, making all heads turn towards her. "What?"

"You three should be more like Selphie." Squall said. "She readily follows me wherever I go."

"Um, actually the drummer in my band just had a bad breakup with his girlfriend and the guitarist has a chest cold, so they don't really want to play. And besides, it's REALLY boring around here. The brunette said defiantly.

*Annoying intercom noise*

"Commander Squall, a bus has arrived to transport you to the dimensional rift (Whatever that is), please report to the parking lot immediately". Nida said from just above them.

*Annoying intercom noise*

"Nida I'm right here, you don't have to use the intercom." Squall said slightly annoyed.

"I know sir" The young SeeD said. "It's more fun this way."

Whatever. He thought as he sighed. "All right everyone let's head down."

The five crammed into the small elevator and headed for the parking lot. They walk over to the bus, and start to board.

Squall, in an attempt at being chivalrous walked over stood next to the door and said, "Ladies first." Rinoa and Selphie giggled to each other as they walked by, Quistis seemed amused, if only slightly and for his own amusement, he repeated himself as Zell walked by. "Ladies first" he smiled to himself as Zell got a little grumpy.

As Squall sat down he took note of the cowboy shaped imprint on the roof, how it smelled suspiciously like barbeque and where everyone was sitting, Rinoa took the seat directly next to him, Zell purposely took a seat far away from Squall (Probably for his earlier comment), Selphie sat all the way in the back of the bus and Quistis sat up front, right behind the driver, who was a short round balding man.

"Saddle up!" the balding man said "Were hitting the road."