Akane was staring at her sister Nabiki, who was standing on board of an Al Bhed ship, wearing an Al Bhed suit and carrying a gun, while she was kidnapping her friend Yuna, who she swore to protect from whatever danger there may come.
And that she was going to do.
She made fists and quietly said to Nabiki: "Nabiki, I don't know what has happened that convinced you to kidnap people, but I won't let you take Yuna! Release her, or else..."
Nabiki just glared back. "I don't want to do this, but you leave me no choice." She turned around to the two men. "Diga ran tufr," she said.
"Hey, since when did you learn to speak Al Bhed?" Tidus said in a surprised voice. Nabiki looked at him, while the two men vanished with Yuna inside the ship.
"It really isn't that hard! But that's not important now! You want the girl, take her!"
Akane growled. What was wrong with Nabiki. "Well, if you insist," she shouted and jumped on board. Kimahri and Tidus quickly followed her.
Nabiki just took a step aside and pressed a button.
----
Kasumi hurried up the stairs. She opened the doors and reached the second honorary loge. Across the stadium, she could see the figures of Mika and Seymour.
'All right, Lenne!' she thought. 'Let's do this!'
She closed her eyes and hold her microphone up to her mouth. The air around her seemed to darken, while a lone spotlight appeared above her.
And then, she began to dance and sing:
What can I do for you
What can I do for you
What can I do for you
Far beyond the hazy borders of my heart
I can see a place
It's something like this
Every now and then I don't know what to do
Still I know that I can never go back
All the things I've seen
In those hazy dreams
Can't compare to what I'm seeing now
Everything's so different
That it brings me to my knees
----
Kasumi's voice echoed through the stadium, so that the audience, that was originally focussed on the game, stared up to her loge. Maesters Mika and Seymour exchanged puzzled looks Even though the water was absorbing the sound of the music a little, every player in there could clearly hear the singing voice.
'Kasumi,' Ranma thought. 'She's trying to raise our team's motivation!'
And after a short while, the players returned their attention on the game, only that the Aurochs were playing with a determined look on their faces.
----
And though, I know, the world of real Emotion
Has surrounded me
I won't give into it
Now, I know,
that forward Is the only way my heart
Can go
I hear your voice calling out to me
You'll never be alone
What can I do for you
What can I do for you
What can I do for you
What can I do for you
I can hear you
----
While the metal hatches in the middle of the ship's deck opened, the beautiful singing voice could be heard even here. Nabiki didn't hesitate while activating the battle robot, but for a while, she glanced towards the stadium.
'Kasumi...?' she thought.
The big robot had two objects on his back that looked like giant turbines, and they were spinning wildly. Akane and the others prepared themselves for an attack, when suddenly the robot opened up a hatch on his front and shot out a barrage of metal spheres, that curiously looked like blitzballs.
Kimahri quickly stepped in front of them and tried to deflect most of them with his long spear. After the assault, Akane jumped forward and punched the machina, but it didn't do much.
"You have to do better than that, little sister," Nabiki shouted.
----
An Al Bhed was swimming towards Ranma as she was approaching the enemy's goal, the ball in her hands.
Almost too late she registered that the gloves of the player were coated with a green substance - the mild poisoned that some of the players were allowed to use in this game. She barely avoided the attack, but that made her even more angry. It was in the rules, sure, but she still couldn't forgive anyone who used poison in a fair sports game. She punched her opponent so that he groggily floated away from her.
Wakka, who was swimming nearby, gave her a thumbs up.
----
Kasumi could feel the emotions in her heart. She continued to dance and sing, stimulated by Lenne's passion:
And if I find the real world with emotion
Has surrounded me
And I can't go on
And you are there
The moment that I close my eyes
You comfort me
We are connected for all of time
I'll never be alone
----
"Akane! The turbines!" Tidus shouted. Akane nodded. Tidus was right, they must be what was powering the ball attacks. She jumped on the big robot and used all her might (enforced by her Berserker abilities) to pull one of them off. It detached in a shower of sparks, and Akane hurled it into the port water.
The machina weapon was still moving and fighting, but without its dangerous attack, it would only be a matter of time before they won.
----
Ranma rapidly was coming closer and closer to the goal. Three of the Al Bhed were trying to block her way, but she took a good hold onto the ball, sped up even more and lowered her head.
Like a living torpedo, she rushed through the opponents, not even stopping when she was past them.
Directly in front of her was the goal, only protected by their goalkeeper.
Ranma concentrated and focussed her Ki. She felt it flow around the ball until he glowed like one of her typical Ki attacks.
Then she cried: "Moko Takabisha Mark II: Sparkling blitz torpedo!"
And when the gleaming blitzball was soaring through the water, the goalie had never any chance of catching it. It came through, and at the same time the lights above the goal lit up:
'2:1'
...and then the time was over! They had won!
----
And oh, I know, the world of real Emotion
Has surrounded me
I won't give into it
Now, I know,
that forward Is the only way my heart
Can go
I hear your voice calling out to me
You'll never be alone
What can I do for you
What can I do for you
What can I do for you
I can hear you
I can hear you
And when the song was over, the spotlights vanished with a bright flash. Kasumi was quietly standing there, grasping her microphone, while colorful, glittering confetti was raining down on her shoulders.
----
The robot was almost down, and Akane shouted: "Give up Nabiki! You have to stop this! I don't want to fight my sister!"
'No,' Nabiki thought. 'You won't have to, Akane...'
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