Fighting fit

After running around town all stealth like, Lightning and Hope are ambushed by the military and surrounded, but Just then Snow shows up and takes on the whole army with several layers of awesome. During their escape Hope winds up with Snow and Lightning winds up with Fang, the woman that picked up Snow and crystal Serah. Hope finally confronts Snow about the death of his mother and Snow shows that under his action hero attitude he's just as confused and full of regret and self doubt as any one. Hope comes to terms with the fact that getting revenge on Snow is pointless and that Snow is suffering offer the death of Nora as it is.

Fang explains to Lightning that she teamed up with a branch of the military that was against the whole "purge a whole city" plan, the group is a massive fleet of airships with no solid jurisdiction so they don't have the strong government ties as other groups. Of course Cid is the head of all the airships. She also explains that her and Vanille were originally from the lower planet and that they too were turned to crystal but woke up a few days ago. The battles with Fang and Lightning were awkward since they both have the same basic skills, so it's like using 2 hammers, great on nails but both useless with screws.

Eventually they all met up again at the home of Hope's father and in a surprising turn he is one of the rare understanding and supportive fathers in video games. The visit is cut short though when the military finally catches up with them, but after a bit of a stand off confusion erupts when some of the soldiers start lobbing gas bombs and shooting at each other. Then there is an incredibly tedious boss fight against a warship, doing about 1% damage er round. Fortunately the Party is Fang, Lightning, and Hope, so there as aenough of a mix of attack and support to make it through the battle.

I don't even know if i was suppose to win that fight since right after destroying the ship another takes it's place only to be shot down by Cid's own airship, and it turns out his soldiers were disguised among the other army to cause chaos. So all of the party leaves on the Airship and Hope's father stays behind tied up so he would not get in trouble for helping fugitives.

Tomorrow it's back to Sazh and Vanille!