Through Clouds eyes
By Cloud Strife
I
heard the train, and the train was always soothing to me it helped me
think. I tried not to think too much
though. Especially about the past, when
I thought about the past it usually got me one of two things, in trouble or
confused. So I tried to focus on the
present on "the mission" about what I had to do and about what I knew, I knew
that my name was Cloud Strife, I knew that I was an EX-SOLDER now a mercenary
for hire, and I knew that we were on our way to the number one mako
reactor. Just then I heard huge
footsteps coming towards me. Hmm, must
be, what was his name? Oh yeah Barret,
just then he reached me. "Yo, were gona
be hitting the end o the line here and you need to get ready". I saw him walk away, then I grabbed my sward
and the 2 materia that I had and went our to the car where, yet again I
encountered Barret, he looked at me like I was some useless idiot. "Damn rookies!!!" I just shrugged and went up top of the train for a better
angle. Finally we got to the station
and the train screeched to a halt. 2
people immediately hopped out and took care of some guards. I thought they were pretty effective but
when I hopped down 2 more guards came out of nowhere and attacked me. I took them out easily and went on to meet
up with the rest of the group, when I did they were just staring at me. "You sure were in solder all right" another
one chimed in "SOLDER aren't they our
enemy". "Hold on wedge, he was in
SOLDER but now he quit and is with us".
While they were talking I was wondering where and the hell Barret was,
and if this was the way he handled his team, well it wouldn't be a team for
long. He had one lookout and the rest
were sitting around on their asses.
Well scratch that one other one was working on the lock. After a while they asked me a question, "Didn't catch your name". "Cloud" I said, they wanted to tell me
their names and I didn't have time to screw around on a mission so I said "Look
I don't care what your names are, as soon as I'm done with this mission I'm
outa here" finally Barret walked in and I could tell he was pissed at
them. "The hell are you doing, I
thought I told you never to move in a group"!!! Well, maybe this guy has a head on his shoulders after all. The next voice I heard was Jessie's "Code
Deciphered" finally the doors opened and we all ran through except for me who
stood there for a minuet looking at the reactor which would be no more than a
melted hunk of metal in a matter of minuets.
The rest of the operation went smoothly. At every gate one of the crew left off, I assumed it was for
extraction help if we needed it.
Finally we got to the inner core but before I could get there I had to
endure lecture after lecture by Barret.
Finally we were at the central core and I went to hand the charges to
Barret but he surprised me by saying "No you do it, I gota see if you do it
right" he must think this is some sort of test for me, I smiled inwardly as I
thought, little does he know that I don't give a damn about the Shinra, ever
since they, what did they do? NO! I
abruptly pulled myself back to the present.
I was thinking of the past again damn it! I went to go place the bomb and was almost there when I felt
this shooting pain throughout my body, if felt like someone was ripping me
apart, I fell to my knees and then I heard a voice in my head, it almost
sounded feminine. WATCH OUT!!! THIS ISNT JUST A REACTOR!! I had no idea what she… he… it meant but the
pain had stooped and I looked up to see beret's face. "Hey you all right, man I thought you were tough, pull it
together"!! That pissed me off so I
rose to my feet, placed and set the charges, I thought we were out easy but
soon an alarm sounded. "Here they
come!!!"
Soon we were in battle with a huge machine.
Barret kept plastering its armor with bullets for distraction while I
jumped up and stabbed my sward straight through a set of electronics then I
used my materia to damage it further but before I could finish it off Barret's
limit broke and I had to jump off before he fried both of us. As I hopped off I forgot my sward but at the
last second I somehow grabbed it and got down before it was blown through the
wall. Then we ran like hell because
those alarms were still sounding and we knew that all hell was going to break
loose. On the way up I saw Jessie and
she had her boot stuck in one of the holes of the rafters. I helped her out of it and we got out of the
building just in time to watch it explode.
Again I stayed for a moment and watched in awe as huge electric currents
ran through the reactor. My sense of
awe ended rather quickly as it turned to pain I looked over ready to kick the
robot or guard's ass when I saw it was Barret,
"DAMN ROCKIES!!!!" I finally got
him to let go of my arm as we made it out of the reactor and I was almost to
safety when I was knocked unconscious.