Disclaimer: I own nothing save for Tobias, Micah and Lyra. I couldn't stand to see Sephi as the only female of the Numbers. This is completely AU. Please bear with me. I have only seen Advent Children. I have not played any of the games that relates to these characters. Everything I know is from asking friends who know more about it than me. When I read the Black Cat manga and watched the anime series, this idea came into my head as me and my friends are cosplaying as the TURKs next year.

Anyway, on with the show.

Chapter 1

President Shinra stood looking out on the city of Midgar from his office window, watching the people scuttle by without a care in the world. He smirked at the thought, knowing that the people did suffer, and that their suffering was only going to get worse. A shrill ringing sound rang out through the office as he turned towards his desk. Couldn't he get one moment's rest? He picked up the receiver and held it to his ear. The person on the other end spoke quietly, as if their conversation might be heard. The President smiled and nodded his head at the words. "Please show them in." He told his receptionist.

A moment later and the door to his office was opened, admitting two people. The male and female stood in front of the President's desk, obviously annoyed by something. He assumed that it was because they had been summoned in front of him. He smiled at them as he offered them seats. Both remained standing.

"It is not every day I get to meet two outstanding members of the Chronos Numbers. Nor is it every day that I get to do business with you either." The man smiled grimly.

"Well, it's not every day we get treated like messengers." Jenos replied, giving one of his award winning smiles. Lyra stood in a huff beside him. President Shinra shrugged.

"Please, won't you sit down? It might make things more comfortable." He again offered the two seats opposite him.

"I'm fine standing. Thank you." Lyra replied curtly. She was going to have to have words with Nizer and Beluga when they got back. They were supposed to have controlled Jenos's behaviour by now. Jenos gave him a small smile.

"I don't think this will take all that long. Now what exactly do you need the Number's help for? You have your own army to take care of you, why do you need us as well?" President Shinra's demeanour darkened. He should have guessed that they would know about them.

"I'm afraid they are under my son's power than my own. And I fear he may use them to eliminate me." He explained. Lyra scoffed.

"From what I understand Mr Shinra, the world just might be a better place without you." She told him, facing him straight on. Jenos shook his head, as President Shinra gave her a sad smile.

"My dear girl, the world might be better off without me, but it would be in a worse state of affairs if my son was in control." He paused and gave the information time to sink in. "What you really need to ask yourselves is this: which is the lesser of two evils? Me or my son?"

"Why should your son be such a priority to us?" Jenos asked. President Shinra lifted up a file that had been the centre point of his desk and handed it to Jenos. Before Jenos could accept it, Lyra had it in her hands and was reading through it. She tried to keep all emotion from her face as she read through the file. Nano technology within a person to alter their fundamental DNA. She shuddered at the prospect but instead of allowing President Shinra to know how much she really understood, she closed the file and kept a firm grip on it.

"Nano technology is nothing new. We have seen the effects of it before. And so far all of these experiments have been failures. Chronos will not send the Number's into action unless it directly affects them, and you have had no dealing with Chronos at all. In fact you've avoided them more than anything else." President Shinra had to admire her. He had seen her eyes widen slightly as she had begun to read the file, but she had quickly controlled her expression. If he had not been looking for it, he would have probably missed it.

He handed another file over that had been hidden underneath. Jenos took this one as Lyra refused to relinquish her hold on the first file. He gasped as he saw the photos within the file, and not just the photos. Copies of contracts made between Chronos and major business owners and political figures. Jenos sighed in defeat.

"Blackmail is unbecoming. We will show these to our superiors." He bowed slightly at the President. "Thank you for your time." Lyra bowed slightly as well and left the room. A death grip on the file. This was worse than they thought. Jenos came up behind her and slung an arm around her shoulder.

"See I told you we had nothing to worry about." She glared at Jenos, having not forgiven him for the scene the two of them had made before entering the office. She shrugged his arm off her shoulder and carried on walking.

"Actually we have a lot to worry about." She told him, looking down at the file.

As they walked down the corridor to the lifts, neither of them had noticed that they were being watched.

"Yo dude, who were they coming out of the President's office?" His silent companion merely shrugged his shoulders. "She sure was hot." The red said as he walked back down the corridor. Tseng was not going to believe this.

Once they had reached Tseng's office, Reno happily knocked on the door, excited that they might actually have something to report other than a bunch of stiffs in suits. Sure the two of them might have been in suits as well, but they were nothing like the President's usual visitors.

"Come in." Reno opened the door and bounded in.

"Hey Tseng, you aren't going to believe what we saw." Reno started speaking before he had chance to look around the room properly. In front of Tseng sat the Vice President of Shinra Corp. Rufus looked up at the red head slightly annoyed by the intrusion. Rude shook his head in dismay at his parent. Reno ended up looking back and forth between them before finally piping up. "Well, we can tell you later." Both Rude and Reno made to leave the room when the caught sight of Tseng holding his hand out to stop them.

"Come in and close the door." Tseng said. Rufus glared at him, but he ignored the look he was getting from his superior. "I set them the easy task of watching your father's office. At least that, even he couldn't botch up." Tseng explained, indicating to Reno.

"Hey dude, not my fault trouble follows me." He said with a slight laugh. Tseng tried to ignore but it was too hard. The red head was just too annoying and he had little patience for his antics any more. Things were becoming too dangerous for all of them. Yet there was nothing any of them could do to stop the wheels that had already been set in motion.

"What did you see?" Tseng asked a slight impatient tone to his voice.

"Well there was a chick and a dude and he talked about destiny and how they should embrace it and all this and she told him to get lost but he never took the hint. I mean come on, a chick as hot as her could do so much better than that dude." He turned to look up at Rude who were stared down at his partner. "Any way he tried it on with her whilst they were waiting to go into the President's office and she hit him. Man, he was not impressed with that at all. Then they went in. Come to think of it they weren't in there for very long. When they did come out though both of them had a file in their hands. Couldn't say what was in them, but that chick had a death grip on it like you wouldn't believe." He laughed as he saw their unbemused faces. Rufus was taking it in turns to glare first at Reno and then at Tseng for allowing them to stay when he had important matters to discuss with him.

"So, they sound like the usual types of people my father deals with. What makes them so special?" Rufus asked Reno, hoping he could say something important.

"Well," Reno laughed and began rubbing the back of his neck trying to think of something to say.

"They wore matching suits sir. Black with purple shirts and yellow and black ties." Rude added to bail his partner out, again. When this looked insufficient he continued on. "They were young too. Neither of them could have been older than mid-20s at least." A shrill laughter could be heard behind all of them.

"Well, well. It turns out your father isn't as dumb as we thought he was." A tall man with white blond hair stepped out of the shadows and turned his icy gaze on each of them.

"You know who they were Creed?" Rufus asked. Creed laughed again.

"Of course. They were none other than Chronos's best. The Numbers." Tseng took a quick sharp breath. He had heard of the Chronos Numbers before though why an elite group of assassins would be interested in Shinra Corp had him slightly confused.

"The Numbers?" Rufus asked thoughtful. "I wonder what he wants with them."

"What did they look like?" Creed asked the two TURKs who had intruded on their meeting.

"Well," Reno began to start rubbing the back of his neck again. "The chick was hot. Seriously, you wouldn't believe how hot-"

"What colour hair?" Creed asked, cutting him off.

"Black." Rude replied. Creed's smile grew.

"And the man?"

"He had black hair as well. Though he didn't wear a tie like the woman did. The top few buttons of his shirt was undone." Reno replied.

"I guess he has no respect for rules and decorum either." Tseng muttered.

"Jenos Hazard and Lyra Glasson. Sephiria probably sent them on an errand." Creed explained. "We have nothing to fear. Professor Hojo and Doctors Lunatique and Kanzaki assure me that we are near completion of our first goal. After that it will be too late for the Numbers to stop us." Creed began laughing manically. Tseng cast Rufus a worried look, Rufus ignored him. Creed had proven his worth by leaving Chronos and joining him. The two of them working together could bring around an amazing revolution.

"Well, we'll be going yo." Reno said as he and Rude left Tseng's office. Once the two were safely away from the office Reno spoke up. "Dude what was up with the crazy guy and the laughing?" Rude shook his head. Whatever was happening he did not like the feel of things.

"The Numbers are a dangerous force. We cannot underestimate then in the slightest." Rufus told Creed and Tseng.

"Don't worry so much. My Apostles will take of any trouble the Numbers might give us." Creed assured them before leaving the office himself. Echidna appeared beside him. "You heard everything I trust."

"Yes Creed, I did. Should we send anyone after them?" Creed smiled slightly. How he would love to remove that smirk that was always plastered on Jenos's face.

"Yes, have Charden and Kyoko follow them. I want to know where the headquarters are for this region."

"As you wish." Echidna replied before disappearing again. Creed continued down into the depths of Shinra Corp, to parts very few knew existed, and looked upon their creation. Soon it would all begin.