Eidoloned!

The chapter I played today was short but a lot happened.

Sazh and Vanille are currently at their world's equivalent of Disney world and are spending their time running around to avoid being caught and Sazh is trying to not think of his problems. This is even harder for Vanille since she knows she is the cause of most of those problems. After running around among some Chocobos (to a great rendition of the chocobo song with lyrics!) Sazh says that he's going to give himself in and this was all just so he could tell his son about the chocobos before he's executed. Vanille tries to distract him from this idea buy trying to reveal that she was the one to blame for everything, but the military show up and start shooting at them.

After taking out a bunch of soldiers and a relatively easy boss, Sazh's son finally shows up out of nowhere, then he turns into crystal. The odd thing is that when Sarah turned to crystal she turned into a solid crystal sculpture of herself, yet Sazh's kid just gets surrounded by crystal like an ice-cube. Either this means that he's not really turned to crystal or Square just didn't want to bother making a crystal model of him for 1 scene.

Right after this the head of the military group that was running tests on Sazh's son shows up and shows a video of how Vanille and Fang were planning to attack a power station when his son happened to come by and got the power station's brand to stop them. Vanille cries and runs off and the guards let Sazh go off to kill her. When he confronts her he's over come with emotion and triggers another summons battle, this time against the game's equivalent of Ifrit.

After a rather close battle (won with abut 10 seconds left), Sazh admits that he can't kill Vanille and that it would be pointless any ways, then turns the gun to his own head. There is a shot heard off screen and in the next scene the military are taking him away in a floating stretcher and Vanille is in handcuffs. I seriously doubt that he is dead since the game just went through the trouble of having him learn a new summons, I'll probally find out tomorrow.