A wave of relief washed over her when the aeon had appeared. Despite her grave mistakes in the lab that day -- they still trusted her. And as the great thunder-infused soul loomed above her, she smiled gratefully as he disappeared.

But now wasn't the time to be emotional. As she snapped back in the reality, Rikku was just about finishing her flurry of attacks, and Yuna leapt backwards in the air, raising her staff in front of her defensively.

There was no one in Crystallis she felt better fighting alongside, able to communicate wordlessly with her cousin through brief looks, knowing the Al Bhed's style and mixing it with her own... for the first time since being captured, she finally felt confident in her own abilities again.

"Magic Field!" she cried, raising her free hand into the air, as the area around her sizzled and hummed with lightning and thunder, the magic lacing itself around her weapon. "I... I think it's weak to thunder! Just like the machina back home!"

She turned to face her cousin -- knowing the other girl's aversion to the element of choice. "I can imbue your weapon with it, but... only if you say so."

Clank, clank, whirrrrrr the machina buzzed, stopping ominously a short distance away -- and settling into a position as the exposed mechanisms started to turn and grind within.