LYDIA DEETZ AND FINAL FANTASY 7
Capítulo 13: The frustrated cosmonaut
The group went to the mako reactor to meet Sephiroth, but it seems it was all a trap because there was only one monster in the reactor and they had to defeat it to get out of there.
“We'd better get out of Nibelheim," Wedge suggested, "we'll find clues to Sephiroth somewhere else.”
As the group was about to leave the village, Percy saw in the distance some suspicious men in black habits heading off a cliff.
“We're too far away, you go, Percy!” Wedge ordered him, and Percy flew away in his cat shape.
When Percy returned, he told them that the men had made the "lemmings" into the abyss, but the curious thing is that they seemed to pronounce the name of Sephiroth.
Unable to solve this mystery, they all decided to go to the nearest town, which was Rocket City.
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“Now I see why they call this place Rocket City," said Yuffie, impressed once they arrived in the city, and no one could blame her, as there was a huge rocket launch pad on the side of the town.
“Why is the rocket tilted?” Percy consulted them as he turned his torso and head to get a better view of the neglected launch pad.
“It's because Shinra cancelled the launch of the rocket," Lydia explained. “Shinra used to be a space explorer, but then went into the arms trade and the extraction of mako energy, which was what brought it the greatest benefits. I guess once the space program was cancelled, they didn't even bother to disarm the rocket.”
“Isn't this a silly place to set up a village? It's right next to the rocket," asked Biggs.
“The village didn't exist before," Lydia told him, "I suppose the people wanted to make money from the rocket's shell as a tourist attraction and founded the village alongside it.”
“Do you think there will be any clues about Sephiroth in this place?” Cait asked.
“We'll see about that now," Wedge said and ordered everyone to look for clues.
The group met after the search and Dyne told them that he had heard of a "captain" who might have information, so the group went to the famous man's house.
Upon arrival they were received by a woman named Shera, who looked like a scientist or a laboratory maintenance worker.
“What the...!” shouted a huge man with a cigar in his mouth. He looked unhappy to see so many people in his house.
“Captain Cid," Shera said nervously. “These people are looking for information about...”
“You are the ones from Shinra, aren't you? It's about time you two got here!” Cid shouted at them, confusing them with Shinra's emissaries.
Wedge cleared up the misunderstanding and Cid threw more insults.
Lydia and Percy didn't like that man because they (especially Lydia) didn't even use the word "asshole", but the adult would always let go of the loudest swearing they'd ever heard, and to the outrage not only of the girls, but also of the men, most of the insults were directed at Shera.
Wedge got up from his seat, but then thought better of it and decided to sit down again while biting his tongue.
"His house, his rules," Wedge thought so as not to criticize the man for his lousy attitude, which was also put into practice by the other members of the group.
Cid told them that he was waiting for President Rufus to come and give him the go-ahead to fly the rocket.
“It means the rocket is still operational!” Lydia exclaimed in surprise.
2I know it looks tilted," Cid said, releasing more insults, "but we set up a mechanism that will straighten the platform by the time Rufus gives the order for me to take off.”
“What about the villagers?” Tifa asked.
“What the hell..., who told them to build a village next to my rocket," said Cid and everyone looked at him frowning.
“Here's the tea, Cid," Shera offered after returning from the kitchen.
“Yuck, you call it tea! You're nothing but a f....”
“l'll... I'll make the tea again," said Shera and shot out into the kitchen. Lydia woke up indignant, but Tifa held her hand and together they went to the kitchen accompanied by Aerith.
“Why do you let him talk to you like that?” Aerith questioned her, and Shera told them her story of how Cid almost became the first man to fly into space, but because of her, the rocket was cancelled and Shinra decided to cancel the space program.
“It's my fault, his dreams were destroyed because of me, the dreams of the whole team, serving the captain is the least I can do," Shera sighed with an expression of resignation.
“This girl needs urgent therapy," Aerith whispered to Tifa.
“Hey girls," said Yuffie, who was entering the kitchen at the time, "look out the window, there's a huge hydrofoil in the back yard of the ship.”
“Let's see” Tifa said as she looked out the window, but immediately she hid.
“It's Rufus and Palmer!” Tifa whispered to them, making Yuffie sneak into the room and tell her friends.
The whole group took refuge in the kitchen, which was difficult as there were 14 people. Shera went into the living room and told Cid that Rufus was coming, so the man went into the backyard to greet the visitors.
“President Rufus! It was not necessary for you to come through the back of my house, I would have received you from the front," said Cid without uttering any insults this time.
In the kitchen things were not very comfortable, as they were all together and scrambled.
“Hey, don't touch it," complained Jesse, indignant at the sight of someone taking advantage of the situation, "wait a minute, it's my hand, damn it! I thought it was someone else's hand.”
“Lydia, are you okay?” asked Percy, who with his arms outstretched formed a barrier for Lydia to breathe.
“Yeah, thanks, Percy. What about you?”
“I'm fine, except for the fact that Dyne's arm is embedded in my back.”
“Thank you Wedge," said Tifa and everyone turned to see what was going on. Turns out Wedge was imitating Percy and giving Tifa some space.
Complaints here, complaints there, but the group had to put up with them in order to stay hidden and listen to Cid and Rufus' conversation.
“What the... so you didn't come to continue with the rocket, you just want my modified seaplane, the one that can take off either in water or on land!”
“My plane broke down and I need yours, Cid," Rufus told him, and each time Cid was throwing more and more insults.
“That's enough! Palmer, take care of the details with this one... Captain," said Rufus with a sneer and left the place with his men.
“Uff... this is when” Wedge snorted out of breath and the whole group went out to palmer.
“Avalanche will take the seaplane!” Wedge threatened and Palmer, pulling out a machine gun, started shooting left and right, fortunately the fat guy was more of an executive than a sniper and didn't hit any targets, well, except the seaplane.
Palmer, frustrated, reloaded his gun and was run over by a truck from I don't know where.
“Oh my meow! We were saved by Optimus Prime!” exclaimed Percy, unaware of the drunk driver behind the wheel.
Several Shinra soldiers are approaching! Barrett shouted and the whole group entered the seaplane, including Cid.
“This is my f... seaplane, if you go with it, so am," the man barked stubbornly at them.
The seaplane reached the coast of the continent and then began to lose height.
“That son of... palmer reached the engine of the ship” Cid told the others and they had to make a landing.
Cid, along with Barrett and Dyne, tried to repair the engine after the landing, but were unsuccessful.
“The good news is that we'll be able to get to Wutai and refuel," Barrett told them, and Yuffie was moved by the news.
“The bad news," Barrett continued, "is that the hydroplane won't fly again, so we'll have to use it as a ship.”
Cid was very upset with the news, but then a sadistic taste came over him when he heard that the group was going to defeat Sephiroth and also to Shinra, and he gladly offered his services to the group.
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The seaplane reached the shores of Wutai, but the group had to rest on the beach as it was dark. Or at least that was the idea, because Barrett and Cid got into a lot of trouble because they were too drunk and didn't even listen to Wedge who was trying to put the house in order.
“I think it would be best to move the camp somewhere else," Lydia suggested to Tifa, seeing that the racket promised to go on until dawn.
“But we've already set up camp," said Tifa.
“But we won't sleep at night with those two making a fuss," Lydia said.
“Where did they get the beers?” Aerith asked.
“They were in the back of the seaplane," Yuffie told them, who apparently had already consumed some cans and was laughing.
“Lydia's right," said Jesse, "we'd better go away. Let's take the tents apart and take Yuffie with us.”
“Hey, don't forget me," said Biggs.
“Don't you want to stay and enjoy the party?” Jesse asked him.
“No way," said Biggs, shaking his head, "you know how Barrett gets when he drinks, and I think that's what happens to that Cid. I already talked to Cloud and Wedge, they're coming with us too. What about Percy?”
“Percy and I are too young to drink," Lydia reminded him. What about the others?
“Well," said Biggs, "Dyne and Vincent, they're grumpy and absorbed in looking at the ocean, so I don't think they care where they are, as for Cait Sith, he's disconnected, and it turns out Nanaki's already gone ahead of you and gone away to sleep.”
The girls asked the men to dismantle the tents and they had no choice but to listen to them, then they got far away from the place and the boys started to set up the camp.
“Tifa, can I sit next to you?” Lydia asked her.
“Sure Lydia, is something wrong?”
“No, I just want to have some conversation, until the boys finish setting up the tents.”
“Soon they'll be finished and then we'll be able to sleep," Tifa said as she watched Cloud pitch one of the tents.
“I hope we can sleep, after the walk here, the dream has already passed.”
“You're right, Lydia, stupid Barrett and Cid, stupid adults," said Tifa and Lydia laughed.
“Well, I guess to you, Lydia, all of us here are the adults, except for Yuffie and Percy.”
“Maturity is not something that comes with age," says Lydia, her eyes narrowed and she pretended to be upset, but her smile gave her away.
“You're right, there's Barrett and Cid and they're behaving like two kids," nodded Tifa.
“I guess we'll have to leave them with Cait Sith," Lydia noted in a serious voice, "we can't go where Yuffie lives with the seaplane, we'll have to walk very early and the two "adults" won't be able to walk quickly.”
Tifa nodded and the two women continued to observe the boys' work. Aerith and Jesse took care of a sleepy Yuffie.
“Yes, they are useless," said Tifa, referring to the work of boys, "men are bad at this kind of thing.”
“Men and women are not really that different," Lydia reasoned, "men should stop watching so much sport and pay more attention to us, and women should stop watching so many soap operas and give them more attention.”
"Tell me, Tifa, who do you think will be the first to set up the tent?”
“Cloud," said Tifa without hesitation.
“It's funny, Tifa, because Wedge has long since finished lifting his own, now he's just fixing the details.”
"When I asked you if we could put up the tents faster and better, Wedge was finished, but you were just looking at what Cloud was doing or rather at what Cloud wasn't doing.”
Tifa stared at Lydia.
“Cloud will never raise that tent.”
“Cloud will finish it.”
“Perhaps, but it will take so long that a new day will come. You're still gonna pretend it's night, as long as you wait for Cloud to finish?”
“Cloud could hurry up and finish my tent.”
“Sure? It won't be that if he hurry, it will be to finish someone else's tent," Lydia whispered as she pointed her face at the beach.
Cloud had finished setting up the tent but was on his way to Aerith and offering her his sleeping tent. Tifa was looking down at the hurt scene.
“No tent has your name or anyone else's name on it," Lydia pointed out. Don't you think it would be better to help to set up the tent together?
Lydia got up and went to help Percy, while Wedge went to Tifa and offered her the tent he had set up.
“Thank you Wedge, now finish setting up your tent” Tifa thanked him and Wedge went to the beach.
Once all the individual tents had been set up, the group went to bed, but Tifa sat there watching the stars shine in the black ocean waters.
“I was right, my sleep stopped," Lydia muttered angrily and sat down next to Tifa.
“Lydia...” was starting to call her Tifa. “You think I'm wrong to expect a tent to have my name on it?”
“In the end, nothing bears your name, nothing falls from the sky," Lydia told her. “My thing with Percy, although it may seem like something out of a romantic fanfic, was also the result of the effort, acceptance and commitment of both of us.”
“Effort, acceptance and commitment...”
“Those words are scary, Tifa, because they imply not only being for the good but also for the bad.”
"Tifa," Lydia surprised her in a serious voice and sat facing the woman. “Tell me why you're so interested in Cloud, and don't tell me the same story you told Percy in Canyon City.”
Tifa was surprised, but told her all about her childhood and her brief contact with the blond man.
“From what you tell me," Lydia analyzed, "you're putting Cloud on a pedestal, you never knew him well, you never talked enough.”
“We talked enough," Tifa cut her off, "enough for him to promise to come to my aid when something bad happened to me.”
“At that age no one knows what commitment means," Lydia contradicted, and Tifa frowned.
"It's nice, Tifa," Lydia sighed, "to wait for your knight in shining armor to rescue you. I wished for that myself as well, however, you know what, the taste for knights in shining armor went away when I was ten or eleven years old.”
Tifa felt as if she had been slapped and looked at Lydia angrily, but the Gothic girl did not look away.
“And I'm sure that my other schoolmates, too, discarded those tastes at the same age, and they are some...” Lydia wanted to continue, but she bit her lip so as not to resort to insults. “Tifa, you never came out of your coma after falling off the bridge, you're still waiting for your Prince Charming, with your lovely ten years.”
“I'm an adult” was starting to say angry Tifa, but Lydia cut her off.
“You know how to fight, you run a bar," Lydia assessed with unnatural calm, "but as far as I know, you learned to fight so you wouldn't get hurt anymore, you run a bar because you hate being alone. All you do is escape, or rather, bury your head in the sand like an ostrich and take refuge in the childhood memory of someone you didn't even know well at first.”
Tifa covered her ears with her hands, but Lydia continued.
“One should not discard the memories, even the painful ones.... But if we hold on to these, we run the risk of losing what is valuable right in front of us and which extends its hand to us or even as in your case both hands.”
“You mean Wedge?”
“Wedge always extended his hand to you, but what you refuse to see is that he also extends both hands to you. Not only does she appreciate and respect you as a friend, she also appreciates and respects you as a woman, the woman he desires with all her heart and body. Wedge, will never put you on a pedestal and see you as a doll, will never transform you into his mother or his maid, you will always be to him that precious object of love and passion that he will always be willing to reciprocate.”
Lydia stood up and then caressed Tifa's face.
“I just want you to think about what I told you," Lydia concluded and went to sleep in her tent.
CONTINUARÁ...
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