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--Fallen Angels And Lost SOLDIERs, Chapter One: MIA - Presumed Dead--
Tseng sat at his desk, trying to decide who would be best to send on the latest mission Rufus wanted done from their make-shift HQ. The mission consisted of searching for some old, abandoned lab of Hojo's that supposedly existed somewhere in the vicinity of Gongaga. The true object of the search, however, was inside the lab: what Rufus really wanted was to find the person supposedly sealed inside the lab in a state of cryogenic-chamber induced suspended animation. Rufus wanted to find the one and only female SOLDIER on record, who had been thought dead since Sephiroth's destruction of Nibelheim. This meant that she had been listed as "MIA - Presumed Dead" for a little over eight years.
"Rude! Reno!" Tseng called, coming to a quick decision that he was certain he'd probably regret later. The two Turks entered his small office with obvious apprehension; Tseng only sounded like that when he was annoyed with them.
"Sir?" Both said carefully, for Tseng had hung his head in his hands and was rubbing his temples in aggravation. Tseng snapped his attention back to his subordinates and grimaced.
"President Rufus has decided that two of us must go and search all of Gongaga and the surrounding landscape for an abandoned lab that Hojo hid there many years ago. What you seek is within the lab." Here he received a pair of puzzled looks so he explained further. "You are looking for someone all of us once knew rather well. Rufus found a file indicating that Sayuri is sealed within this lab, if it even exists, and he has decided that she would be an asset to his plans." He paused and smirked, for Rude had risen both eyebrows in surprise, though he showed no other emotion. Reno, however, had predictably flushed and was gaping like a goldfish.
"Sayuri's there? But they told me she died! I mean, what's up with that, yo?!" Reno finally managed to sputter. Rude and Tseng both knew that the two had been fond of each other in their youth as rookie Turks; when Sayuri was retired from SOLDIER after sustaining injuries that almost killed her, the former President Shinra had made her a Turk so as to continue her usefulness in a less health-hazardous fashion. This was because Sayuri had been created with hopes for breeding her with Sephiroth, Genesis, and Angeal to produce even stronger SOLDIERs.
Angeal had refused to touch the child, as had Genesis, while Sephiroth had taken to her with frightening speed. It was true that the creators of the Jenova Projects had hoped for this because of Sephiroth's place as the strongest SOLDIER, but he was still a few years her elder and this worried some of the people involved. Professor Gast had been strongly against it, as had a teenaged Rufus, who was slightly younger than Sayuri. This in itself should have stopped the attempts that Hojo was making to produce super-SOLDIERs, which was ironic since SOLDIER was a group of already super-elite warriors.
Unfortunately, a few months after he began letting Sephiroth take the girl, Hojo proudly announced that the girl was pregnant with Sephiroth's child. Genesis and Angeal were reported MIA so they were not informed, but Zack had met her and was outraged when he was told. His anger then transferred to Tseng when the head Turk learned of the situation. It was only a week later that Sayuri was injured in combat with ten Genesis copies.
Sayuri had tried to stop the Genesis copies from entering the Shinra facilities and they had very nearly killed the young woman. She was airlifted to Deepground and treated for her injuries; that had been back when it was still a medical facility for SOLDIERs. It was from them that the President and the executives, including Hojo, learned that the copies' attacks on her had caused her to lose the child she had been carrying. The young woman did not mourn the loss, however, and was more than happy to once again take up a position as a Turk. Over the next few months to a year, she fought along side the Turks as one of them; no, she was the best of them and they knew it. She had always been fond of Reno and Rude; therefore it hardly surprised anyone when she and Reno had gone on a couple of casual dates.
Unfortunately, Sayuri was reported MIA and later presumed dead shortly after Sephiroth was reported killed in the Nibelheim incident; President Shinra, his executives, Rufus, Tseng, Reno, and Rude were the only ones who knew of her origins as a SOLDIER and it was speculated that Hojo had kidnapped her to try his "experiments" anew. Hojo's labs were all raided, because the President wanted his best bodyguard back, but to no avail. Sayuri was never found and eventually listed as "MIA - Presumed Dead". Reno, of course, pretended to get over it. But it was only after she was presumed dead that he became a heavy smoker and drinker rather than a light/social smoker and drinker. Rude noted the change, as did Tseng, but neither of them said a word about it.
Now here Tseng was telling them that she might be out there somewhere? It didn't take either of them more than a heartbeat to think of their answer: "When did we leave?"
"Yesterday." Was all Tseng said in return, watching their retreating backs as they left, not even waiting for the rest of his answer.
