Double-Agent
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By Kattz Maricle
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Ok, I admit it. I won't admit to much, but I will admit to this. I worked for the Shinra. You wouldn't expect someone like me to work for Shinra Inc., especially when I'm a member of a group that's fighting against it. I was fighting against Shinra Inc. at first, too, but that was before I was offered a hell of a lot of money. A lot more than Barret would ever think of even paying, that's for sure.
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The No. 1 Reactor had just blown, due to my amazing mechanical expertise...
Ok, so it was due to the time bomb that I had made. I guess that in a way I can still take credit for it. After all, I created the computer program that helped me put the bomb together in the first place. Anyway, Barret had told us all to split up and meet on the train in Sector 8. Easy enough. I've done it nearly a hundred times before.
As I was running through the streets toward the train station, someone grabbed my arm and roughly pulled me to the side. I expected to see Barret, Biggs, or Cloud, so I didn't bother to fight back, but it wasn't any of them. The man I was looking at was wearing a dark maroon suit, and with his dark hair gelled back as it was, he looked to be some type of businessman. Probably works for Shinra or something like that, I guessed immediately. I frowned and pulled my arm out of his grasp.
"What do you want?" I growled.
"Jessie of AVALANCHE, I presume?" The man asked as he looked at me.
I didn't answer. I still had to meet up with the guys at the train station in Sector 8. I didn't have time to be talking to this man. Besides, I thought I could almost smell the grease from his gelled hair. I turned and started to walk off, but he said something that caught my attention.
"Would you be willing to do a job for 6,000 gil?"
I turned around and looked at him, frozen in my tracks. "What?"
"Well? Are you interested?" He asked.
"What's the job?" I asked him in reply, a note of caution applied to my voice. All the same, my attention was caught. That's all I basically am, anyway. A mercenary for hire.
It ended up that the man was a Shinra employee after all, just like I had guessed. Shinra had known for a while that AVALANCHE had been using the train system to get around from the slums to the upper plate, but Shinra could never catch them. All I had to do was find a way to help the Shinra out a bit. If I agreed, I would be handed the money right then and there to use for whatever I saw fit, and all I would have to do was give the train security just a little hand up on AVALANCHE.