"Bishie Ball, check; big cliff, check..."

"Trainer no baka, check," Duo muttered, watching his trainer, Miranda, scope things out. Why the DeathScythe Hell she'd dragged him up here to the middle of nowhere (Final Fantasy VI actually) just to catch a bishonen was beyond him.

"I heard that! We're up here to catch Locke-kun," she explained, then smirked. "Bait, check!"

"ME?! BAIT?!" Now Duo was positive that she was out of her mind.

Miranda sweatdropped. "No, I've got something, or rather someONE for that..."

"Huh?" Miranda spun her belt buckle counterclockwise and the five balls around her waist disappeared, only to be replaced with different ones. The engraving on her belt buckle had also changed from "BSN" to "BSJ". One of them was yellow and white with a rose engraved on it. This one she unclipped from her belt. "Wait a sec... That's a bishojo ball isn't it?"

"Bingo!" She backed up a few feet then tossed the ball. "All right, Celes! Start singing!"

Out popped a tall, blonde-haired woman clad in a yellow and white leather body suit and a white cape. "I'm a general, not some opera floozy!"

Duo wolf whistled, only to be glared at.

"You pulled it off at the Opera House so good even Setzer was fooled* so I don't wanna hear it! And hurry up before he moves out of range!"

Duo was lost. "Now why would he do that?"

"Because he's a treasure hunter and adventurer! He travels all over the world looking for stuff! Luckily, someone spotted him around here this morning. Lessee..." She pulled out a pair of binoculars and looked through them, scanning the area. A familiar rogue-ish looking man with unruly blonde hair eventually came into view. "There he is! Start singing!"

Celes mumbled something under her breath but did as she was told.

"Oh my hero,
so far away now,
will I ever see your smile?"

"What the.." Below, Locke turned, startled. That voice, that song, so familiar, and yet... One part of him wanted to get a closer look and see if it really was Celes, the other argued that he would walk right into a trap.

"Love goes away,
like night into day,
it's just a fading dream..."

That settled it. He headed for the base of the cliff, looking upward. He could just make out a familiar female figure...

"Keep singing!" Miranda hissed loudly, pulling Duo along as she hid in a nearby bush so as not to give herself away.

"What am I doing out here anyway if you've got HER on the job?" Duo whispered.

"Backup in case Locke catches on too quickly and/or Setzer shows up thinking it's Maria."

"Right, whatever."

"I'm the darkness, you're the stars.
Our love is brighter than the sun."

Locke was now in the process of ascending the cliff, common sense lost. Miranda unclipped an empty bishie ball with a small dark blue bandana tied around the top and peered up out of the bush, waiting...

"For eternity, for me there can be,
Only you, my chosen one..."

"Celes?" Locke's hand grasped the edge of the cliff, and he started to pull himself up. Celes stopped singing and grinned down at him. "What?"

"Bishie ball, GO!" Miranda yelled, tossing the ball. Locke was halfway up when it bounced off his forehead before opening and sucking him in. Miranda and Duo pulled themselves out of the bush as it dropped to the ground. It wobbled for a few moments, then finally stopped. *PING!* "All right!"

A minute or so later, Locke reappeared on the ground, dazed. "Anyone get the license number of that chocobo..?"

Miranda scooped up the now-full bishie ball, kissed it, and spun her belt buckle back the other way. Her bishonen balls reappeared on the belt, and she clipped Locke's in the vacant spot. "C'mon you two, let's scram before he recovers," she told Duo and Celes as she pulled out her Dimension Hopper device.

"You're just going to leave him there?" Duo asked, surprised.

"He'll be fine! C'mon!" Miranda pressed a button and a portal opened. Locke groaned softly, and Miranda shoved Celes and Duo through the portal shortly before going through herself.

*game reference