"As you know the insurgent group named AVALANCHE has made their presence know by blowing the Mako reactors in Sectors 1 and 5. Our sources say they are located in Sector 7 and the President wants the group terminated." Tseng said as he stood in front of the remaining three Turks.
"How?" Reno asked.
"That is to be determined." Tseng replied as he walked towards this desk.
Rude and Riyu remained silent as they waited for Tseng to continue. Riyu glanced at the taller man next to her noticing he was not wearing his sunglasses and his green eyes.
Usually hidden behind his sunglasses, Rude mostly kept to himself when on an assignment, but when it came to drinking with his fellow co-workers he spoke more than usual.
Rude glanced at Riyu causing her to quickly look away, embarrassed that she was caught starring at the man. Riyu had worked with Reno and Rude for several years and had not known the color of Rude's eyes due to the older man wearing his sunglasses every time she saw him. She was surprised.
"We are to do our assignments efficiently and effectively no matter the consequences. Once we receive an order we are to follow through with it." Tseng looked at three Turks in front of him.
"Make sure that you are available I will relay the orders on how to deal with AVALANCHE once I receive them."
"Alright… Alright we get it." Reno replied as he began to leave.
"Yes. Sir" Rude replied, and also began to follow Reno out.
"Yes." Riyu replied and began to follow the two men, but was stopped before she was able to get to the door.
"Riyu…" Tseng called after her. Riyu stopped and turned towards the older man.
"Yes Sir?"
Tseng held a file in her direction motioning her to take the file. Riyu hesitated and walked back towards his desk taking the file.
"What is this?" she asked as she opened the folder.
"It's a report that the President requested. You are to report to him the findings." Tseng said as he turned to face the large window in his office.
"The report reading is for tomorrow evening at 0600 hours."
"Yes Sir." Riyu replied and closed the file. She glanced at her superior officer and exited his office.
Riyu looked around to see that her two co-workers were nowhere to be found, figuring they were already headed to their nightly meeting place. Without wasting any more time she made her way to the elevator and back to the 61st floor.
Sitting down at one of the many white tables that were scattered across the floor she began to look through the file Tseng had given her. Memories of the previous year began to flood her mind keeping her from retaining what she looked at. The previous AVALANCHE group, Ziraconiade, and the former members of the TURKS flooded her mind.
"All of that happened…and then Chu…" Riyu said quietly. Without warning she looked up and leaned back into her chair.
"Why am I so bothered by this…" Riyu sighed as she closed her eyes sighing heavily.
Reno and Rude were at the bar called 'Lady in the city' their nightly meeting place for their get together after work. Rude had his usual beer while Reno had something different that night.
"Whisky?" Rude asked noticing his friend's new drink.
"Yeah, I'm feeling stressed." Reno said and took a swig of his drink.
"Stressed? You? About what?" Rude asked. Reno looked at his friend knowing that he didn't believe him. Reno smirked as he looked away from his friend.
"You're bluffing…" Rude said as he looked at his red haired friend.
"Heh…I am, but…" Reno said before he took a quick sip of his drink. Rude continued to look at the younger man his curiosity piqued.
"Our lovely female companion" Reno replied.
Rude took a large sip of his beer a looked towards the bar. Their lovely female companion usually meant Riyu. The two became silent as the jazzy music continued to play in the background. The bar wasn't crowded as usual on this night, there were several chairs open at the bar, and few people sat in the dim red light booths.
"What about her?" Rude asked quietly.
"She's changed big time. For good or worse I can't tell." Reno replied as he leaned on to the bar.
"Perhaps…" Rude trailed off as the female bar tender placed another beer next to his current almost empty glass.
"Thanks."
The bartender winked and continued her duties. The two men remained silent as they continued to drink.
"You're just supposed to watch her right?" Rude asked.
"Yeah..." Reno replied as he scrunched his nose in distaste. Once again the two men were silent.
"Let's talk about something else…I'm starting to feel depressed." Reno joked, Rude nodded.
"So about this new girl…" Reno smirked as he looked at his bald friend.
"Reno No." Rude said as he began to drink his next beer. Reno turned to him smiling causing Rude to sigh.
"I told you her name what else-" Rude began but was cut short by both of their cell phones vibrating. In Sync the two men quickly answered their phones, a few seconds later the two men closed their phones.
"and I thought I was going to get lucky tonight…hm." Reno sighed as he place a few gil on the bar.
"Not tonight." Rude replied and also placed several gil on the bar and quickly exited from the bar.
"Reno you are to release the bindings on the plate above Sector Seven and failure is not an option."
"The president is serious about this huh?" Reno asked as he stood inside the helicopter headed towards the Sector Seven pillar.
"Unfortunately" Riyu replied as she sat next to Rude in the front of the helicopter. Reno glanced at the woman and noticed her glum response.
"This is what Tseng was talking about when he said we have to do our jobs no matter what…" Riyu started.
"AVALANCHE has been sighted on the pillar grounds, and now are engaging the soldiers there…"
Riyu listened to the radio chatter from Sector Seven's station about AVALANCHE's appearance.
"This is the TURKS. Hold them off as long as you can we will arrive there shortly. Make sure to evacuate as many people as you can and get the hell out of there." Riyu replied.
"Understood."
"You're so thoughtful Riyu~" Reno teased.
"Some people have to survive…the fact that this is happening is crazy to begin with…" Riyu started.
"Right. You knew the president was going to do some crazy ass shit so he can get rid of them. He was stabbed last time by a member, remember?" Reno stated.
"This is too—" Riyu started when Rude's voice cut her off.
"Riyu."
Riyu quickly looked at the older man in surprise that he was speaking.
"Remember what Tseng said earlier…"
Riyu sighed as she realized what he was referring to in Tseng speech earlier.
"Yeah yeah…Reno get ready…" Riyu sighed.
Suddenly a hail of bullets flew pass the helicopter as Rude approached the pillar.
"We've got gun fire." Rude said as he continued to approach. The helicopter slight weaved dodging majority of the bullets that headed for them. Cautiously Riyu and Reno quickly looked out to survey the situation. There were bodies hanging on the bars and stairs leading to the top of the pillar.
Reno whistled as he saw mostly the guards of Sector Seven's bodies on the stairs.
"They are going all out on this…" Reno said as he saw people running up the stairs. Rude slowly flew pass the top of the pillar allowing Reno to jump off. Riyu got up from her seat to watch the situation as Rude hovered.
"You're too late…once I push this button…"Riyu heard Reno through her headset. As the trio of people surrounded Reno, Riyu bean to make mental images of the three that surrounded her co-worker.
"That person…looks familiar…" Riyu thought to herself as she continued to watch.
"Sorry folks, Mission accomplished." Reno's voice echoed through Riyu's headset.
"He's ready—" Riyu started but was cut off by Reno's voice through her headset.
"I can't have you do that. No one gets in the way of Reno and the Turks…" Reno said as he pulled out his electric rod.
"Of all the times to get in a fight…" Riyu trailed off as she disappeared into the back of the helicopter.
"Two minutes til the plate drops…" Rude mentioned as he kept the helicopter steady.
"Turks to Sector Seven guards…" Riyu started as she loaded a rifle she found in the back of the helicopter.
The guards replied with silence.
"They better have done their job or else." Riyu threatened as she kneeled at the opening of the helicopter.
"ah. Yes Sir." Rude said confirming an order through another radio channel.
Riyu aimed and began shooting down at the group causing them to defend, at that moment Reno took off running towards the edge of pillar. Riyu continued to fire warning shots as Reno jumped in.
"All clear!" Reno shouted.
Rude pulled the helicopter away from the pillar. Riyu remained in her position as she stared at the blond haired man that stared back at her.
"C-cloud? He's alive?" Riyu thought as the helicopter pulled away.
A/N: Chapter two of TURKS, as of right now this is following the final fantasy VII storyline until the 5th chapter. Rude was a very interesting character to me when I first 'met' him in FFVII and when I saw him in Advent Children it made me like him more. Now I am not completely sure if his eyes are green or not, they might be hazel but I think it would be cool is he had different colored eyes that no one expected him to have no? More to come in late December.