In Regards to the Stars
By: Strange and Intoxicating -rsa-
Author Notes: This is part one of fifteen for a story for The Genesis Awards' "Opposite Fic Exchange." The pieces will be in drabble-form, and should be funny. The pairing is, I kid you not, Cid/Lazard/Barret. Your brain bleeding? Mine is.
Disclaimer: I, Strange and Intoxicating -rsa-, do not own, think I own, or will ever own Final Fantasy VII or its Compilations. Even if I did, this is not what I would be writing. Heh.
This was a fool mission and Cid Highwind knew it. But, what else was he supposed to do—wait for those asshats in Shinra's Space Exploration Department to notice he had the talent? Gaia, he had more than talent—he built the entire ship, knew the intricacies to every button and every wire. Of course he knew how to fly it.
They would never let him, though.
Cid wasn't sure why they ignored him and pretended like he didn't exist. There wasn't any problem with his test scores—he was at the top of his class all throughout the Academy. He passed all of his classes with glowing recommendations into the Space department, to be an astronaut. Every day he breathed in potentially harmful fumes and worked until his fingers bled, yet the Head of the Department, Lazard Deusericus, picked Barret Wallace.
Barret Wallace barely knew enough about a space ship to turn the damn thing on.
And Cid didn't even want to get on the topic about the Head of the Department. The guy had no passion whatsoever for the stars—never even wanted to see them with his own eyes. There were rumors that Lazard wanted to work for the SOLDIER Department, but there was bad blood between him and the SOLDIER First-Class, Sephiroth. Cid didn't even want to think about what he did to get that kind of hate—probably screwed the guy's girlfriend or something.
But that all didn't really matter. What mattered was if Cid could go to space. He wasn't going to go down without a fight, and if that meant stealing the damn thing, so be it.
After all, what was the worst thing that could happen?
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