Prompt: Tifa punches Rufus as requested by Emerial.

And yes, you are correct, they did totally skip a turn for Rufus. While I can chock it up to a horrid oversight on my part, I think I'll just say they were both too drunk to care. Rufus was too into Tifa's body or whatevs. We'll go with that. It's a much more entertaining explanation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I had fun with this one. It's short but hopefully you'll enjoy the punchline. Heh. Keep these prompts coming!

Rating: K+

Rufus Shinra all but leapt into the helicopter the moment the news reached him of his father's demise. Finally, after many years of waiting and plotting, his father was murdered while Rufus was thousands of miles away, making him completely blameless. He was certain he'd have to wait at least another year or so. But it seemed that destiny had other plans for him. He had been preparing his acceptance speech in his head for years and now he was bursting at the seams, ready to deliver to someone who hadn't heard it. His Turks had no doubt known the gist of it, and now soon he would have a fresh set of ears upon which to deliver it.

After an interminable four hour long flight, he finally saw the Shinra building coming into view. 'Five long years…' he thought.

"I just got a report that it was Sephiroth," said Tseng, hanging up his phone.

Rufus cocked an eyebrow. "That can't be. Sephiroth has been dead for years."

"I'm just relaying what I've been told sir."

Rufus gave him a curt nod. That would certainly complicate things once he assumed power, but it did little to dampen his excitement. He nervously tapped his foot, going over the speech once more. It wasn't very long. He would explain how he would control the world with fear, how his old man's way took too much for too little. He would deliver to his father's direct reports, he decided, knowing it would be too forceful for the general public. He couldn't wait to see them.

When the helicopter landed, he jumped out and saw Palmer, his father's incompetent space program head. He saw him running toward the sight of him, explaining the situation and everything he saw. "So, Sephiroth is back," was all he managed to say before the oaf broke down in front of him. Rufus rolled his eyes and let him run past him to the helicopter, catching sight of four people and an animal of some sort on the same floor as his father's office. "By the way, who are you guys?"

They all unassumingly explained who they were, introducing themselves as the infamous AVALANCHE team. "What a crew," he said with a shrug. This was perfect. He could deliver his speech to these losers. It didn't matter how intimidating it sounded to them since they were criminals; criminals in which he could instill the fear of God. 'Five long years…' he thought again. With an arrogant flip of his hair he said, "Well I'm Rufus, the President of Shinra Inc." It sounded so good saying it out loud for the first time and it be true.

"You're only president because your old man is dead!" bellowed a large black man with a gun for an arm.

Rufus chuckled. "That's right. I'll let you hear my new appointment speech." He turned to face the crew and walked up to the busty young woman in a white shirt and short black miniskirt. "Old man tried to control the world with money. It seems to have been working." He spoke as he walked up to her and was pleasantly surprised to see her stiffen as he drew closer. That's all these terrorist scum were, cowardly, misguided fools. He stopped short a couple of inches from her face, towering over her. "The population thought that Shinra would protect them-"

Rufus didn't have time to react as he saw the young woman draw her hand back and sock him in the face with such a force, the whole world went still for a moment. He wasn't expecting that. Rufus leaned back on one foot, paused, and then rolled his eyes back into his as he collapsed into the ground beneath him, stars hazing his vision before everything went black.

When Rufus came to, he realized he was staring at the ceiling of his helicopter, watching the afterglow of Cure materia fading away from the center of his face. "Glad to see you're okay, sir," said Tseng. "That woman gave you quite a blow."

Rufus groaned. "Wha-what happened?" He was still dazed and his cheek bones and area around his eyes throbbed. He sat up slightly.

"You were in the middle of your speech when an AVALANCHE member sucker punched you and knocked you out. They fought their way out of the building before we could catch them, but we have a good description of them. They can't get very far." Rufus groaned and fell back down on his back with a plop. "What's the matter sir?"

"Five long years…." was all he managed to say as he slapped his forehead with the palm of his hand.