A/N: Hrrmmm… really strange chapter…

Chapter Name: Shot Down

Chapter Summary: Is Sephy's day finally turning around…?

Rating: PG; Because I say so, and I want it to be

Disclaimer: BLAH! I said I don't own it! ANY OF IT! MWAH! … especially not the Odyssey, as if I were Homer. Pfft.

Warnings: Needles; random evil dementedness – but isn't that to be expected?

Cloud knew it. This boy, this deranged Sephiroth-wannabe that had weasled into his life, was trying to kill him. Be it with the maid he had been forced to hire, the sudden obsession Tifa gained from the kid, the random tag-alongs from the elementary school, or the weird Yuffie-e lady that was –essentially – spying on them, he knew the kid was killing him.

And especially when the silver-haired minified little pretty boy was asleep. Because, the chocobo-head could hear the whispers of evil coming from him. Like right now. Those murmurs waay to low for a child to speak. And I mean waaay. Like Sephiroth total uchi-mama I'm back to life sexy baritone thing. Yeah. Except Cloud didn't think it was too sexy, what with he being one of those, you know, anti-Sephiroths… he's an evil person inside. How dare he hate Sephiroth… ahem. Continuing….

As Cloud hobbled down the seemingly endless corridor, the little boy faar to heavy for how small he was – giving Cloud a hopelessly idiotic limp, the evil murmur-snores of evil intent met his ears, echoing across the walls… in evilness. You know, doomy evilness. The good kind of evilness… but wait, is there any other kind of evilness than the good kind…? Thought not. Ha! And as the moronic wielder of the Ultima Weapon began to limp under the strain of Shibi-Seph's amazing weight (it's his hair, we all know it is) he felt strange shudders of fear go through him at the words the boy spoke.

"Kill all humans," the murmur was followed by a snore. "Burn water formations," another snore followed, but this one much more soft. "Shave the chocobos," snore snore. "Mutilate the snow-storm wannabes." snore snore. "Eat pumpkins." There was silence for a minute, before Chibi-Seph continued, as if sensing the sudden impending dread that was Cloud stiffening. "Mhu hmgn hhnn."

The sudden incoherentness drew his bemused attention. Blinking away his confusion (wow, that'll take years!), the water-formation named man turned his blonde spikey head to face the little boy. And not a moment too soon, for cat-like eyes were glinting up at him with eviillll intentions. And, before aforementioned Cloud man could even state the obvious, again, or say something completely out of place – like let's mosey – teeth bit into him. And hard.

Now, be it well defined that Chibi-Sephy is utter awesomeness with his abilities of biting – that being because no child at the age of six could possibly bite through a hero's shoulder blade. Especially the 'great' hero's shoulder blade until he cried out in pain and fell to the floor. But, Cloud was too idiotic and must've thought pretty minified Sephy-kuns was some sort of tehddy bear. A very awesome, adorable, huggable, squishable, glompable, shmexy tehddy bear. Yeah… must've temporarily forgotten that he thought the kid was demented and deranged as he clung to Sephy the Tehddy. Oh look! Someone's coming!

Indeed. Someone, specifically a he, was coming down the hall. He practically sashayed his way over to where Chibi-Sephy was biting off Cloud's shoulder, and didn't seem to notice the fact of the famous sword-wielder writhing in pain against the incredulously strong jaw of Sephiroth! Sha!

Rikku, though, being the observant little counselor-ma-follower-thing she was, carefully took note of Chibi-Seph's aggressive behavior… and Cloud's complete submissiveness. Well, technically speaking, he didn't voluntarily submit to writhe in pain against the random, out-of-nowhere sexy man jaw power-bite. One could argue that it was instinct… but, ha! Who would say that Cloud in fact didn't submit to the awesome poweress of a power-bite? No one! HA! That's who! No, not Noh Bohdy (1), like Odysseus in the Odyssey, but literally: NO ONE! MWAH!

But, back to the story at hand: where Sephy's godly little boy teeth-jaw-power were kindly giving Nibel wolves a run for their moneyz… or gil… whatever. And, as minified Sephy practically choked on Cloud's downright disgusting flesh – seriously, does he ever shower? – the sauntering/skipping/whatever-the-crap he was doing man found it in his place to trip over them.

Of course, not being the all, 'oh, what's this?' trippiness, more around the lines of 'OMG! WTF? WTH?' all whilst falling on face… or, in this case, falling on clouds… and chibified godly gods of yore.

Anyway, enough of author ranting: NOW FOR PLOT!

As the unidentified man stood, brushing himself off, he blearily looked around the all for a moment, as if just now realizing he was not where he thought he was. Like, I don't know – a bed? Hmm, yes… beedd…. murmph…

And as sleepy eyes looked from the blonde man with his shoulder being bitten off by a very angrified little silver-haired boy (Not to mention that the blonde had the name tag: 'Savior of EVERYTHING, a.k.a. Cloud Strife,' stapled to his shirt for some reason and the little boy had a pair of scissors lodged in his forehead. Yep, no need to mention.) he noticed too the blonde woman seemingly taking notes as she watched their antics, I suppose they could be called. The rather oblivious man looked back down to the duo though, and something finally clicked within his sleep-induced brain.

"Hey!" he called, drawing the attention of two pairs of mako eyes, one with slitted pupils and another with well… normal ones. And as Almight minified Seph looked up to the strange man, whose presence hadn't been noticed when he fell onto the two men (for some reason that should coincide with the story inserted here!), his gaze locked with a familiar nametag, read earlier that day, of the one and only 'Bobathon.' Immediately, the coil of anger flicked at Sephy and the chibified almost-god god gave him an evil glare, included with a growl. A very evviilll growl.

The man loomed over them, all loomeh and stuffz, and pointed a stern finger at the blonde hero. "You shouldn't be terrorizing small children!" came the cry, near hysterical. Sephy, realizing, that this man was oblivious to their past relation, even though no one else on the planet could look like Sephy in his adorable shmexyness, and quickly formulated a plot. Yes, the ex-general godly man that he used to be (and still is at heart!), decided to use this righteous anger to his full advantage.

Releasing Cloud, and simultaneously wiping his mouth with the back of his hand (he need lot's mouth wash now… yuckeh! Cloud skin taste!), Sephiroth turned his big, adorable, green eyes to the school nurse. Decidedly, the man wasn't supposed to be there. You know, being a school nurse and all… but, nonetheless he was there, and little Sephy-kuns was about to extort the 'working with children' aspect of this certain Bobathon's life to the fullest extent.

The fury that was Bobathon standing over Cloud soon melted at the sight of Sephy, gently cooing at him those little know-nothing nonsense you babble at children in that tone of voice that only baby-talk can bring. For, as the silver-haired boy looked upon him, his green, slitted eyes glistened with tears (compliments of Cloud's skin… yuckeh… whose eyes and mouth wouldn't burn at its taste!) and were wide against the pale skin, looking all the adorable and innocence that Sephy's inner child truly was… when it wasn't dancing with a Tornberry with his Hojo killing knife.

Gingerly, the man bent down, scooping the little ex-general in his arms. For a moment, Sephiroth allowed a smirk. That is, before he saw Cloud get to his feet and reach out a hand. He thrashed for a moment, but it was too late.

The scissors had been pulled.

Looking triumphant, the savior of the planet held the blood-covered blades to the ceiling, as if awaiting for someone to cheer him. Only…

Well, Bobathon gently placed a fresh bandaide on the not-so-much bleeding wound on Sephy's forehead, before letting him back to the floor. He patted the boys back for a moment before turning on Cloud, hands digging in his pockets. And then, the school nurse pulled out a deadly-looking must-be-directly-Hojo-type-DOOM syringe from his pocket.

Cloud, too lost in his stupor of, well, being an idiot, didn't notice the man with the very scary looking needle. Actually, he didn't even seem to notice Bobathon until said man had begun wiping hand sanitizer on his arm. Well, because he didn't want to get his scary needle of death and doom dirty.

Yet, when the evil pokey thing that was the shot of some strange purpley liquid that I failed to mention earlier, Cloud screamed. A deathly scream! A girly scream! A Cloudy scream! But, being the idiot that he was, didn't do a thing about it and was injected whatever was in the gigantamongous needle and soon fell back to the floor, scissors stabbing his evil little Sephiroth killing hands as he did so.

And, at this point, the school nurse gestured for said minified man to leave. "Go on now, little boy," he said, already pulling out his needle and preparing another one. "You can wait out there and the doctor will see him shortly."

In victory, Chibi-Sephy smirked, his evil sexy I-know-I-won-now-worshi-me-smirks, before turning and heading back down the hallway. Perhaps today was getting better… the idiot Bobathon hadn't called him a little girl again… a doom-inducing chuckle came to his lips, evil as always. Except, it was still all little boyee, and not to fear-inducing, really just, kind of eyebrow quirking.

But, that wasn't his point. Sephiroth, now back from his temporary hiatus of memory lapsing, was laughing his evil laugh™. And no one could stop him. NO ONE!

Except for the pink women that crowded the hallway, looking at his bandaged head expectantly. They all seemed to sigh in relief, except Kelly, at the sight.

"I was scared," admitted Skipper, wiping away the faint sheen of sweat that had built there. "I thought you'd never be pink again – only red!"

"Yeah!" the whole of Barbie's family echoed.

A silver eyebrow quirked at their antics, but he recalled a certain rule… a certain rule that said he could do whatever he liked as long as he wore pink… the smirk grew wider and the laugh more evil.

And Rikku documented it all.

1 – In order to trick a Cyclops on his journey, Odysseus deceived him by telling the mythical creature that he was Noh Bohdy, and when the Cyclops realized Odysseus had tricked him and stolen his meal, he called for aid, yelling 'Noh Bohdy tricked me.' Yeah… now you know

A/N: Hey, did you know minified is actually a word? O,o I knowz! But, enough distractedness – Sephy's day finally does turn around! And, though I'm rather disappointed that only one of you allz reviewed last chappie, I guess I'll let it slide. This chapter was good randomness for me. WOO! Review all please!