Yes, yes, I know. "Slash you are such a procrastinator I may have to slap you!" Even my college professor says it. Right in the middle of two stories, I had an idea, AND I JUST HAD TO WRITE IT. I have my urges. Please don't hurt me. I'll give you cash if I need to!
Anyway, this story has a little action in it, but basically only some parts, not enough to change the genre to Action/Adventure. But I just finished the Crisis Core game and it ROCKS! I strongly recommend it for all FF7 geeks, or even just Cloud and Zack geeks. I know I am.
Rating: R for nudity, sexual themes, language, drinking, and a section of intense action. Plus, there's Zack in it. Do I need any more reason?
Disclaimer: Plase. Don't make me go through the pain that I don't own SquareSoft-I mean, *cough* Square Enix. :3
Enjoy!
Cloud lifted his head just above the rock. "Okay, target sighted. We're heading in, copy?" Cloud asked. All soldiers nodded once, and they all quietly walked toward the target's house. Apparently a member of AVALANCHE lived here and Shinra wanted him killed ASAP.
Cloud busted the door open and turned on his night vision, pointing the gun in front of him for protection. "We know your in here! If you refuse, I'll be forced to shoot." Cloud looked around. He turned to his troop. "Search the area." They all nodded and hustled around.
Cloud sighed and walked outside, taking off his helmet/goggles and sitting on the ground. His job was rough, but he needed to do it to protect his family, right? Cloud was the best of the best, top SOLDIER, in fact. Which made a bunch of people have a bone to pick with him.
A SOLDIER stepped out and pointed his weapon at Cloud. "Aren't you supposed to be working?"
"Aren't you supposed to be searching the place?" Cloud asked, slowly standing up.
"Don't you move! I'm taking you down, once and for all."
"Because..." Cloud asked, slowly reaching behind his back.
"I'm tired of you getting the attention, when you make us do your missions for you! It's...it's not right." The SOLDIER was shaking. Even though he wanted to kill Cloud, he was still Cloud, who was incredibly strong. Cloud whipped out his Fenrir in a matter of seconds and had it pointed to the man.
"You feel like playing? Then let's play."
The man dropped his gun and held his arms out. "Truce?"
Cloud sighed and reached for it. The man grabbed him and attempted to flip him over, but Cloud had grabbed him in a hemlock, pulling his arm down to the point where the man started crying. "Okay, you win! Just please don't break my arm off!" the man cried.
Cloud let go and started to walk away, but didn't realize the man punch him in the back of his head, knocking him out. Cloud fell to the floor, and the world slowly turned black.
"No way, you knocked out Cloud? How'd ya do it?" a SOLDIER asked.
"I had him begging for mercy, but I just gave him one in the face," the SOLDIER lied, mocking a punch in the air. Everyone gazed in awe. They examined Cloud. "His face still looks perfect, though," a SOLDIER noticed. They all looked at unconscious Cloud, propped up in a seat. Someone had bothered to carry him on the train back.
"You think the general will get mad we hurt his star?"
"Damn right. Hey, let's check his pockets."
"For what?"
"He might be hiding some drugs or something. How do you think he's so strong?"
"Strip him down!" someone agreed.
They pulled Cloud to the ground and checked his pockets first. Nothing in them. They put him down, shoes, to finally they reach the shirt. "Maybe he has a tattoo of some sort. No tattoos allowed in SOLDIER. Hopefully he has one so we can bust him."
The removed his shirt. They found a chest pad under it. "Look at this! He probably has no abs and he's so ashamed he put on a muscle pad!" They all laughed. He removed the pad and they all grew silent at what they saw. "He...wears a bra?" The SOLDIER checked under it.
"No. He needs a bra. This guy has boobage!"
"Holy shit. It's a..."
"Get the general."
"I'm tired of these stupid ass reports ruining my business progress! What's a girl doing in my SOLDIER, eh? Tell me how she got in there?" Shinra shouted, getting close to the general's face. Do to such a hard hit, Cloud was still unconscious, but buckled down to a chair just in case he woke up. He also had some pants on and a jacket, unbuttoned showing her B38 boobs as proof.
"I don't know, how, Mr. Shinra, sir. When he applied, maybe they forgot to-"
"I DON'T WANT MAYBES! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GIVE ME A MAYBE!" Shinra screamed, his face turned red. The general sighed and looked down.
"Kill her," Shinra muttered, sitting down and holding his forehead.
The general looked up with widened eyes of fear. "Kill her? But-"
"I don't like discussing my decisions!"
"But after all she went through to help your company grow...you just decide your going to kill her off without any thought?" the general asked, narrowing his eyes.
"How about you come up with something! She obviously can't go back home punishment-free."
The general thought about it. "Put her in surveillance."
"Surveillance?" Shinra spat.
"Yeah. She can't go home...but she'll be under our eyes for a long time. It's like prison...but you have more freedom. Whenever we feel someone is either being threatened to death or needs hiding, or is hiding something from us, we usually send them directly to surveillance. This, of course, can be one of the circumstances."
Shinra looked over at Cloud, who still seemed dead.
"Sounds good enough to me. Get the Turks. Have them take out anybody who's in surveillance right now. I don't want her talking to other people, or even interacting with them. She's violent...at times." The general smiled, cleared his throat, and saluted Shinra.
"And...can somebody close up her jacket? It's not necessarily good for a man to stare at..."
"On it, boss." And they picked up Cloud over their shoulder and left the room.
"Congratulations, Zack. You're now a 1st class SOLDIER."
"No way!" Zack exclaimed, grinning. He stopped. "Wait, what's the catch?"
"Catch?"
"You want me to do something, don't you."
The accountant sighed. "There's a girl who somehow made it to SOLDIER. No woman allowed in SOLDIER, so we put her under surveillance, and she needs someone to watch her so she doesn't try anything stupid, like trying to escape or something."
Zack sighed. "So now I'm a bodyguard to a person I don't even know?"
"It's Cloud Strife."
"I heard of him...but I don't know him, really."
"Her."
"Her?"
"Zack!"
"Sorry."
"As a 1st class, you have to learn how to handle any mission under any circumstances. This one is one of those missions. Handle it, with your life. You copy?"
"I copy."
"LET ME GO!" Cloud shouted, squirming in her seat at the back of the helicopter. She didn't even bother to make a man voice now that she was found out, and they made her take a bath, which made her gel come out, leaving her long blond hair flowing a little past her shoulders. That didn't mean she wasn't strong though.
"Sorry. Orders from the boss, sweet thang," said a redhead with a headset on his head. He smirked and turned the helicopter.
"I'm guessing they want me alive before I get back. I will jump out of this thing!"
"They were going to kill you. You think they would care if you die now?"
Cloud groaned and pouted, looking out the window, not even fighting her handcuffs on her feet and arms. "I hope all of you bitches try to fuck with me one more time..."
"If I have to, I will put tape over your mouth, Sassy."
Cloud rolled her eyes.
When Reno had safely pulled the helicopter down the to surveillance grounds, Cloud started to squirm again. "I DON'T BELONG HERE! THIS IS FOR CRIMINALS!"
"You are a criminal." A man with a tiny brown dot on his forehead walked up to Cloud, who was being held by two SOLDIER. "I am Tseng, and I want you to meet my fellow Turks, who will be watching you for a long time." Tseng turned around and a bunch of people in black suits walked up, including Reno.
"This is Cissnei, Rude, Reno, Elena..." he droned.
Like I'm going to listen, Cloud thought. She looked around, wondering how she can get out of here.
"Bring her in," Tseng ordered. The SOLDIER jerked Cloud forward, making Cloud grimace at them. They pushed her into large grounds, with a building that was a bathroom, a building for sleeping, a building to think, a building for visitors, a beach, and just a couple more buildings.
Cloud groaned. "So help me, if you don't take these things off me..."
"Relax your temper. The longer you fight, the longer your confinement." The SOLDIER took off her handcuffs but quickly grabbed her hands so she wouldn't try anything slick. "You'll find it lonely sometimes. Maybe you can try talking to your guard," Tseng teased, and walked away. Cloud ran after them, but a gate closed in her face. A long gate, that wasn't climbable. With barbed wire that was turned on.
Cloud screamed and went to her knees. "I don't belong here..." she whispered.
"Uh, you okay?" a man asked.
Cloud glanced to the side and saw a guy in SOLDIER uniform. "If you're my guardian or whatever, you can leave now. You have the day off." The man laughed.
"You seemed pissed. It's probably hard being separated from the world. I don't wanna be here as much as you do." The man put his hands behind his head. "When you fall asleep, I'm outta here." Cloud stood up, still having he back toward the man. She knew there were cameras around, but she would have to do her best.
Cloud slowly turned to the man. "Cloud."
Zack widened his eyes at the sight of the girl, and then cleared his throat. "Uh, Zack."
Cloud had a sudden feeling of relief that her guard wasn't one of those bossy old men, who were perverts, and tried to fuck you while you sleep. She walked toward Zack, standing close to him for seconds, close enough to kiss him. Zack stared as she ran her hand down his chest, keeping eye contact with him.
She held up a microphone. "How stupid do they think I am?" She laughed in an evil way and crushed the microphone, walking away. Zack cleared his throat.
"Right. The microphone."
"You didn't bother stopping me. What did you think I was doing?" Cloud laughed, this time more in a happy way, smirking at Zack. Zack's ears went pink. He scratched his head.
"Uh..."
Cloud smiled. "I'm just kidding." She started to walk to her bedroom. Zack's eyes slowly trailed down her body. She's...
"Don't get me wrong, I know you have a camera in your right ear too. I'm just gonna give the Turks a break and won't break that too."
"How do you..."
"I was SOLDIER, you know. They keep forgetting that." She started to remove her shirt.
"What what...what are you doing?" Zack panicked, turning away.
"Can't a girl change?" Cloud tossed the clothes the Turks had supplied her, and searched through her suitcase for decent ones, not caring that she had no bra on in front of a guy. She wasn't the type of girl to really worry about those kind of things. Right now, what she needed to worry about was her escape.
"Don't you..shouldn't you well...change where I'm not?" Zack curiously, turning away from Cloud.
"You wanna look, be my guest," Cloud sighed, slipping on a bra, and a t shirt. "I won't look at you differently for having human male curiosities." She's...Zack thought. Cloud turned to Zack, and turned her head sideways, looking at him closely.
"I guarantee, I have no more cameras." Zack held his hands up.
"No, it's just...I thought my eyes were bright from the mako. But...yours...is such a beautiful shade..." Cloud mumbled, not realizing what she was saying.
"Why thank you. It's the beauty of mako. Want a closer look?" Zack asked, putting his face closer towards Cloud. They both stared at each other for a while, but then Cloud realized she was technically flirting. She shook her head and turned around, walking away.
"Forget I just said that."
"Okay..." Zack mumbled, scratching his head. Cloud walked around the surveillance grounds, crushing cameras and mics one by one. "They must really think I'm stupid, those dumb fucks..." Cloud groaned, stepping on another camera. Her observant skills are basically beyond ordinary. No wonder they say she's a legend. But not only that. She's...what's the word for it?
Cloud stood up and wiped her forehead. She climbed up onto a roof, a pulled out a long cable and ripped it open, exposing colorful wires.
Zack gazed at her. Beautiful.
"Zack, can you read me? Zack?" someone asked on his camera/mic in his ear. Zack flinched at the sudden noise and sighed.
"Yeah I hear."
"Why are we suddenly losing signal to the surveillance cams? All we have access to is the one in your ear," Tseng noticed, looking at the camera screen and all of the TVs making a fuzzy grey screen.
"Oh, she's destroying them," Zack said bluntly, staring at Cloud who flipped off the roof.
"ZACK!"
"What?" Zack asked, clutching his ear.
"You can't just stand there and let her rip apart our only way of eyes! This is not what SOLDIER is about."
"She doesn't mean any harm-"
"Open your eyes. This is a mission, not a date. Quit flirting and stop her from destroying those cameras." And Tseng hang up. Zack's face grew red, mortified at what he said. So it was obvious he liked Cloud. What if Cloud noticed it? Zack's ace grew its regular color, but he sighed in disappointment.
Cloud smirked and brushed her clothes off. "Let's see if you have any way of spying on me now, Shinra." She looked at Zack. "You are the best guard a girl could hope for." She walked towards him and gave hi ma kiss on the cheek, walking off to her room and closing the door.
Zack stood there and touched his cheek. It felt warm and tingly. He goofily but lightly smiled.
"Zack..." Tseng tried to get Zack's attention, but Zack wasn't aware he was on the line again. He just stood there with that goofy smile. "Zack! Focus! Zack, listen to me! ZACK!"
He sighed happily and crushed the camera in his ear.
Rufus laughed to himself as he watched Cloud unpack her stuff. Shinra paced the room, still pondering how a woman managed to get in to SOLDIER without anybody knowing for so long. And yet in only took a punch in the head to find out, even when all those cameras...
"She's beautiful. I already like her, dad," Rufus noticed, continuing to watch Cloud like a pervert. "If only I was in Zack's place I would do so much more..."
"Rufus, she's a criminal," Shinra reminded, lighting a cigar while pacing the room.
"That doesn't change her beauty," Rufus sighed, silently hoping Cloud would never find the hidden camera in her room.
"Yes, that's true, but, to fall in love with a criminal...who ruined your father's business?" Shinra reminded.
"Who cares. She's lovely, she stands with pride, she walks with grace..."
Shinra suddenly stopped and smirked. "You like this girl?"
"Love at first sight."
Shinra laughed. "I'm gonna take that to heart." He turned toward the door but stopped. "And...get the Turks. I need to have a...special meeting with them."
