Junon Underground Base

The couple walked downstairs as they find Yui and Nora healing the wounded when Kieron joins them with Aerith who had a Healing Materia on her staff.

It took them some hours until they were done when the old man hands something over to Aerith while saying, "This is our thank-you gift for helping us out and taking care of the wounded."

He gives them some Gils and a Blue Materia hoping it will help them as Aerith accepts it for the group and says, "Thank you."

"No, we have to thank," says the old man relieved that the battle was finally over as he continues, "You should leave before they recognize you all."

Aerith nods as they leave the Fort leaving the people behind while walking out Aerith sees the people that didn't make it laying on the ground.

"It would have happened sooner or later. Don't give yourself the fault because it isn't," says Kieron as he sees Aerith looking sad as if it was her fault.

"I know but still," says Aerith as Kieron takes her in his arms.

"It's not your fault. The sooner you comprehend it the sooner you will realize that we all are doing our best so it doesn't happen," whispers Kieron into her ears.

Aerith nods as they leave the Fort and summon the Chocobos to leave when Nora says, "It seems you are even closer now than in Midgar."

"Many things have changed since then," says Aerith as she was full of confidence while they were riding towards the meeting point.

In the meantime, Nesiara and John were entertaining Yuffie while Thor was laying on the ground waiting for something to happen when Nesiara asks, "Are using Genbu or Isobu?"

"Isobu would be perfect," says John as he was planning something else at the moment.

"What are you thinking about?" asks Nesiara knowing the look on her husband's face.

"You know that Junon has a Huge Materia under the city," says John as Nesiara looks at him angrily.

"Never you heard me. Let's think about that later on when they move the Cannon to Midgar," says Nesiara angry while John smiles at her.

"You sure because I wanted to ask you to do that," says John as Nesiara looked at him seriously while Yuffie seemed confused.

"What Huge Materia?" asks Yuffie curiously as both looked at her.

"You might see one in a moment," says John as they saw the Condor fly away making it possible for the group to pick up the Huge Materia while there.

"You wanted to send me, why?" asks Nesiara as John smiles.

"You can appear and disappear as if you weren't there remember," says John as Nesiara smiles.

"You mean Shadow Steps and Wraith Form," says Nesiara as Yuffie was back in her confused state.

"Alright, I will infiltrate the underground base of Junon. You get them to the Western Continent we meet in Costa del Sol," says Nesiara as she leaves Yuffie and John behind while walking towards the coast.

She begins to make hand seals before placing her hand on the ground and Shinbu appears and says, "Ah, Nesiara it's been long. What are we going to do this time?"

"We are going to infiltrate an underground base. I will need your help since we need to dive into the sea," says Nesiara as Yuffie had her eyes wide open.

"The T-t-turtle talks," says Yuffie as John calms her down.

"That's right. Shinbu is like a Guardian that comes when Nesiara calls for him. I have also such a Guardian see," says John as he rolls his sleeve up showing the tattoo in his arm resembling a Dragon to Yuffie.

"See you two later," says Nesiara as she jumped onto Shinbu's back and they took off towards Junon.

John began to teach Haki to Yuffie while waiting for the others to arrive as it seemed they will be camping outside today because it was getting late. After putting the tents in place, he could see a group approach and Yuffie seemed nervous as she had her shuriken in her hands.

"Don't worry, they are on our side," says John as Yuffie lowered her shuriken when the group was better visible and she could see they weren't Shinra she was calm.

Nesiara, on the other hand, was inside Junon's Underground Base. She took out the guards without killing them as she used mostly her Wraith Form to take them out while using Shadow Steps to get further inside.

"It should be here," says Nesiara to herself as she was in front of a giant door that wouldn't open.

"Well, I might have to use Queen on this," says Nesiara as she takes Queen out and began to melt a hole into the door entering the room seeing the Huge Materia and says, "Bingo."

She stores it away before an alarm resonates through the whole of Junon making it obvious to her that she was caught when she only smiles at the camera and disappears in front of everyone's eyes.

She appears beside John and sees a group approach and asks, "Did they really take this long?"

"It seems so," says John as the group finally arrived and he asks, "Why did you take so long?"

"We were taking care of the wounded," says Aerith as she smiled innocently at them.

"It seems Aerith is the leader of your group. Anyway, I should present you to Yuffie our new teammate," says John as Yuffie was hiding behind him.

"Hello," says Yuffie as she jumps out of John's shadow as everyone was looking at her.

"Are you serious?" asks Barret seeing a teen instead of an adult.

"Pretty much she is more qualified than you three were since she took down most of Shinra's Materia around the Junon Area," says John as Yuffie smiled at them.

"I heard a lot about you from John. Nice to meet you all," says Yuffie as she smiles and Aerith hugs her to welcome her.

"Welcome," says Aerith before releasing Yuffie.

"We will be camping here before traveling towards Costa del Sol," says John when Nesiara shakes her head.

"Not a good idea. We should leave right now before they begin searching for us," says Nesiara when they suddenly hear sirens go off in Junon.

"They caught you," says John surprised as Nesiara nods.

"The Huge Materia was guarded quite well. Anyway, let's summon Isobe and be on our way," says Nesiara as John nods and begins to make hand seals before placing his hand on the ground and Isobe appeared in front of them.

The group was quite shocked to see Isobe while Yuffie was already adjusted to it by seeing Nesiara summon Shinbu.

"The water around here is quite contaminated," says Isobe who was accustomed to Paradise's Lake.

"You just need to take us to Costa del Sol that is North-West from here. Then you can return back," says John as Isobe looked at him.

"Why not ask the one inside you?" asks Isobe as he was curious about that.

"Because you are faster than him," says John as Isobe nods.

"Then let us not waste time," says Isobe as he went into the ocean with only his back visible saying, "It's not even deep enough for me."

John just placed the tents in Paradise since he didn't have time to dismantle it. The Chocobos went to Paradise as well as Thor before they jumped onto Isobe's back so he could take them over in the middle of the night.

They were over the ocean when Barret asks, "How is it possible to summon such a thing?"

"Isobe is one of the Nine-Tailed Beasts that Nesiara and I carry within us. We can summon them when they want to help us since we are friends. But this Isobe is one that resides in Paradise with the other Tailed Beasts they followed Nesiara's Great-Grandfather," says John as they were in the middle of the ocean.

"I can feel some kind of Life energy coming from him," says Aerith as Nesiara nods.

"It's because the Tailed Beasts are made out of Chakra. We five have it in our body that's how Yui, Nora, and Kieron heal the people as well as make clones and other things," says Nesiara explaining Chakra to them.

"Are we going to learn how to do that?" asks Yuffie curiously since she wouldn't mind creating clones of herself as Nesiara and John did against her.

"Sorry, we can't do much about that except we had a Chakra fruit," says Nesiara as Yuffie looked down disappointed when Nesiara continued, "But we can teach you about something you have in your body already Yuffie."

"Yes, hers is even stronger than Tifa's it must be because she comes from Wutai," says John as the four companions almost fall from Isobe's back while Aerith only smiled.

"Wutai?" says Cloud as Yuffie nods.

"Yes, I am from Wutai does anyone have anything against it," says Yuffie angry against them.

"Nothing, I was just shocked that was all," says Barret as the other nod in agreement.

"Once we are in Costa del Sol we will train you in Ki. Yuffie and Tifa will have an advantage in it since they already cultivated it for a long time," says John as he created a ki ball in his hand and throws it at Kieron.

Kieron caught it easily and throws it back at John who catches it and continues, "But we could begin with meditating and increasing your Ki while Tifa and Yuffie begin with creating an actual Ki Ball."

They nod as they meditate while the others placed their hands on their shoulder infusing a little bit in them so they could circulate it in them making their own Ki form from it.

Yuffie and Tifa, on the other hand, were trained by Nesiara as they were trying to create the ki ball as taught by Nesiara. It might look easy but it isn't since it's hard for an adult that never has done it before.

It took them a while when a city was in their view and Isobe says, "I think we are there. I will go near the city on land so we don't scare them."