A/N: Patrick is certainly up to something if he is working with PSICOM back in the past. What could he be up to, I wonder? But the past is past. We should be focusing on the present.
Speaking of which, if you guys having figured it out. Yang and Ruby are the special guest stars. Ruby Rose and Yang Xiao Long from the anime RWBY. It's pretty awesome...but I think the running time could have been a little longer. Especially in the first volume. It's quite disappointing.
The bells of Notre Dame ring as the clock strikes four.
Chantal and Sky had a fine afternoon together at the park, despite the part where everyone else was casting eyes on them. Didn't bother Sky very much but Chantal speaks differently. The poor girl was embarrassed.
After the park, they go on for a walk around town, this time side to side instead of one on the others back or shoulders.
There is one place Chantal wants to visit today, but this time it is Sky who is nervous. They are going to visit Notre Dame. The holy church. The very home of the Maker. Since Sky is half demon, he feels nervous stepping upon the holy ground of the building, even though he was really born human and he still has a heart and soul even after the...dark incident.
But that still doesn't ease his conscious.
The young sort-ofish couple stands right in front of the large church. The tables have turn for it is Sky who is nervous and not Chantal. Chantal notices his tense. "You okay?" She asks.
"Uh...yes. It's just that...we're going to a church and...I'm just..." Chantal can get what he's trying to say. If there's one thing Sky fears it's his dark side, and I mean literally. The darkness within him takes form and he turns into a demon. It's a curse he's had in the last few years.
"It'll be fine. I'm sure of it." Chantal says.
Chantal knows the kind of person Sky is, even though sometimes he hardly ever shows it. That I can relate given to my cold-blooded aura.
Grabbing hold of Sky's arms, she helps him make his first steps on the church.
Upon his first step on the holy ground, Sky is expecting the holy flames to smite him all the way to the depths of the fiery pit where demons belong. After a moment of clarity, nothing happens. He relaxes, but remain cautious. He maybe fine now, but who knows what'll happen if he brings his unholy presence deep within the cathedral.
They walk into the foyer until they both stand in the light, shining through the stained glass window of the Savior's cross. Chantal and Sky look up on it.
"I've always wanted to come here." Chantal asks. "Being here makes me feel blessed, even after all I've been put through in this broken world."
Sky gets that feeling, all though his might be on a whole different level. A two sided dark suffering. One of turning into a demon, another being mistreated and unloved by his own parents, and abandoned by his older brother. "You sure went through a hard time."
Chantal changes into a depressed expression as the bad memories take place in her mind. "I had a happy love with friends and my family. But then Violet came into my life."
Violet was a total bitch, and I don't mean it in a rude bad attitude way, she literally is. A drinker. Smoker. Bad attitude of arrogance, anger and a hunger for lust. The worst part about Violet is that she's a bully. Chantals bully. Picked on her for being a nerd and beat her up for it. I've never really liked her for that, since it's a sign of dishonorable cowardice. Since then, Chantal's changed, mostly becoming shy.
Sky is aware of Violet. He is the who saved Chantal from her and her boyfriend. "You know, she always picked on me for being smart and for my love of fairytales. Ever since I've met you, she teased me for crushing on you." Chantal's too upset to be flustered or embarrassed by saying her feelings for him. "She always say that I'm just a loser and will never be with someone like you." And Sky dating her friend Katryx is certainly the reality of it.
Sky can feel her depression and cheers her up. "Well, you're not a loser to me." Chantal's depression suddenly disappears and she is caught by surprise as he wraps an arm around her, puling Chantal close. "You are a good friend, Chantal. And such a cutey too. If I was single-" And perhaps would have known about her crush on him years ago before Katryx came around. "I would go out with you."
Chantal can't help but turn completely red and smile. She has hardly been this close to Sky, other then being carried. And his words certainly speak the truth. He cares for her just as much as she does for him.
Chantal and Sky both look back up the picture of the cross. They are blessed by the Maker and the Savior, for the holy ground make their worries and darkness of the past disappear.
Outside of Paris is a dock where there are countless loads of shipment supplies.
Earlier today, I made a meeting with Don Vizioso. I demanded to know everything about Rufus's whereabouts and what he is planning. It's just as a feared. Rufus is planning on rebuilding the Abduction Agency. To kidnap and abduct women and turn them into sex slaves just like they use to.
However, Rufus is expecting my return to stop him once again, so he is planning on remedying that by getting his hands on powerful arsenal.
From what Don can explain, he has no clue of where Rufus is hiding out, but he is expecting more shipments of military weapons, either stolen from ORPHAN or delivered by PSICOM. Either way, it's bad.
Tonight, he's expecting a next shipment at the docks. We have to stop him there if we are to bring an end to the Abduction Agency.
Right now, Yang, Yuffie, Slash and I hideout on one of the cargo loads. We wait all evening for the arrival of the shipment. It's already 7 and the dark skies take place.
"Are you sure about this?" Yang asks.
"I have my doubts about Don as well, but we don't have any other leads at the moment." I say.
Yuffie crawls between Yang and I and hands us some apples. "Luckily I brought some food for this occasion."
"Stealing food again?" Slash says.
Yuffie gives Slash an offended look. "Wh-hey. How dare you. I'll have you know I bought these..." She turns from Slash then quietly whispers. "With the money I stoled." She is not helping herself. Yuffie is her own defendant and witness of the crime.
Just then, I see someone coming. "Shh. Get down!" Yuffie gets down on her stomach and the three of us watch while Slash just sits behind, sharpening his knives.
On the ground are three men. Cain O'Neil, who I once knew as Rufus's vice leader, and two other men who would serve as his bodyguards.
"Cain O'Neil." I whispered.
Yang is disgusted at the sight of him. He use to be her trainer, or master as they call themselves, when she was enslaved. "Never thought I'd see that monster again."
I look through the scope of my Sniper Bow, I always make sure the safety is one that way I don't accidentally shoot and give away my position or hurt someone I didn't mean too like that Russian helicopter. I can see Cain is talking, but can hardly make out his words. I've been learning how to read lips, but I'm no professional. I can only understand "Don't shoot" or "use Explosive Arrow".
"We need to get a closer look, hear what they're up too." I say. "Follow me."
We hide on ground level. I warn everything to stay quiet and hidden in the shadows, then we split up. We hurry when out in the open darkness, moving from one hiding spot to the next. I stop once I am close to Cain, I cannot say for sure how the others are doing, until Yang appears right next to me.
Just then, an airship appears out of nowhere. It lands at the docks and the hanger door opens. PSICOM troopers and their new leader, Jeannette Nabaat who happens to be the sister of my monstrous enemy Jill Nabaat, walk right it.
"Jeannette?" I whisper in surprise.
Jeannette is dressed like Barthandelus, when he is in human form, and her hair is long and brown. Just like Jill, she is smart and she works on the evil Cie'th experiments. I'll be cutting her heart out if I hear she's doing the same experiment of testing people's family love with l'Cies fate like she did me me and my father.
"You know her?" Yang whispers.
"She's the sister of the monster I told you about." I say. "I'm guessing she must have taken leadership after I cut Jills black heart out. Which quite frankly I'm surprised that bitch even had one."
I remain quiet as I see they're about to talk.
"Jeannette. You're looking as lovely as ever." Cain says. I cann't tell if her means it or just says it in sarcasm. "Do you have the shipment?"
"First thing's first: Do you have what I requested?" Jeannette asks.
Cain is a bit irritated that she demands to have her money first, cause otherwise it's either a scam, she take the money and run, or he's paying for something that's a rip off or not as promised. That much I can relate to the feeling.
Cain's right man approaches and opens the suitcase, revealing a whole case of Gil within. Jeannette smiles and then looks at one of her soldiers. "Bring in the stuff."
The soldiers head back to the airship and they unload all the stuff. Crate loads of missile launchers, machine guns, mega fists. Looks like PSICOM has been busy after their defeat. Once everything is unloaded, I search to find Yuffie and Slash, whom are not too far from us.
I gesture hand singles, telling them to sabotage the weapons but remain hidden, they nod and we all make our move. While the enemy are not looking, we dash around through the docks. Some of them can sense something's up, almost detected some of us running around them.
Yuffie is the first one to get to the shipment. She bends down, hiding behind from the enemy to remain unseen. Yang and I see where she is and take notice that she's about to steal a way. I mouth at her to not do it, but she doesn't listen. Yuffie takes one of the missile launchers and ends up yelling as she falls back and fall on the ground.
The enemy have spotted her and I slap my head in disappointment. She just can't last five minutes without having to steal something, can't she?
"Intruders!" Cain and his men and the PSICOM troopers take out their guns. "Attack!" Then they start shooting.
We all make a run for it, avoiding getting shot at. I rush to Yang's side, still running as I give her an order. "Take out their weapons!"
Yang nods then we disband. With my speed, I become the bait for the enemy, running close for them to pay attention to me. What they don't know is once I'm close, I toss my throwing stars at them. Six of then fired, they only hit two of the guns, which overloads from damage and explodes.
With them defenseless, Yang and Yuffie assaults them. While Yuffie only fights with her large shuriken and make her enemies lose their balance and flip them, Yang hits her enemies hard with her punches and kicks. Whenever her fists made contact, they shoot powerful shots on them. It doesn't kill them, but sure hurts a lot.
Cain shoots to hold us off. "Get these things loaded!" He shouts, and a truck appears.
The drivers come out and get ready to load the crates. "Stop them!" I order.
Slash goes after the truck, but Cain is expecting an attack and he defends his men. Jeanette sees the situation they're all in, and she decided to bring in the calvary. "Release the experiments."
The hanger door on the airship opens. I take notice that something is going on, and I am not too pleased to see it. Coming out are dozens of Cie'th, in various types. I'm just lucky there's no Titan Hulk Cie'th, cause I can't even look at those without being paralyzed in fear.
Jeannette puts on a metal headband, and the second she turns it on the Cie'th act in different behavior. They're eyes glow for a second and they went from mindless creatures to mentally enslaved monsters.
"This is bad." I take out my Bowswords, wielding the right one normally and the left one backhanded, and I attack the monsters. My attacks are swift and powerful, even though Lightning says my sword skills need some work.
Yang is busy taking care of the soldiers, the second she has them all down, she is greeted by a Winged Cie'th, who swoops down and nearly took Yang's head right off. "Whoa!" Yang looks up to see the monster. "Huh...well that's new." Yang turns to see I'm busy fighting the Cie'th. Even though I have the beasts under control, she comes to my aid anyways.
I'm caught by surprise to see Yang throwing herself against a Cie'th. Then again, that's what she does. She's like a female, reckless but smart and cunning, version of Snow. Without any arrogance I might add. If only Snow can be more like Yang.
I figured Yang can handle the ground Cie'th, so I switch my attention to the flying ones. I shift my weapon into a bow, the hilts linked together like two halves, the blades on each end and they bend to take place as the limbs and a metal coil coming out of each end of the blade to form a bowstring.
With the bow at my hand, I load it with arrows and shoot down the Winged Cie'th.
The workers are about to load the final crate onto the truck, but Yuffie and Slash stands in their way and attack. Cain gets in between the two teams and shoots. "Leave it! Take what we have and let's get out!"
In a hurry, the workers get in the truck and start it up. Cain back steps as he sets his eyes on the two members of Burn. Yuffie is running and dodging the bullets while Slash deflects with his Katana. The truck starts up, and that's when Cain jumps into the truck with the crates, and drives away.
Jeanette notices the Abduction Agency members leaving, she takes her leave as well. The airship starts up and then flies away. Yang and I finish off the last of the Cie'th. Finally out of combat, we see that both of our enemies have left, and one of them got away with the new set of weapons.
After our mission on the docks, we return to the hideout. "Well...that went...well." Yang says.
"Yeah, the enemy got away with the weapons and we end up with an army of Cie'th and only a crate of their weapons." I say. "If PSICOM are working with the Abduction Agency, then we're in a staggering amount of trouble."
Violet is not too pleased either. She lets out a sigh as she lays down. "You should have just let me come along. I would have taken at least one of them for interrogation. Maybe then we'll learn their next move."
"Maybe we still can." Hearing Yuffie say that sends us to a confusion, then we notice that she's holding a flashdrive in her hand, showing it to us.
Hope is surprised by it and takes it. "I know this...it's a PSICOM Data COM."
I'm surprised to learn that and then look at Yuffie. "You stoled it from Jeannette?"
Yuffie shrugs her shoulders. "It was very easy. She wasn't even paying attention to me when I was on the move."
"If we can decode this, maybe we'll find some valuable information about Rufus." Hope says.
"I like your thinking kid." I put a hand on Hope's shoulder. "Let's head back to the hotel. It's been a long day." Hope and I make our leave. I wave back at Yang and the others before we leave. "See you all in the morning."
Hope and I make our way back to the hotel. Meanwhile, Chantal and Sky are both putting an end to their day as well. even though Chantal doesn't want it to end, she has no other choice. But it's really nothing for her to worry about. There's still tomorrow.
As of right now, they are both in front of each others rooms. Same hallway, their rooms across from each other. "S-so..." Chantal nervous scratches her head. "I-I had...some fun tonight."
"So did I...can't wait to see what's in store for tomorrow...unless that friend of yours already captured that man he is after." Sky says. Chantal giggles, knowing what he says is a joke. If I was there, I would feel offended, even know it's true despite Rufus's power and cunning.
No more words come out of the young couple. Sky decided to end this night by giving Chantal a kiss on the cheek. Doing that, the girl's face brights up in redness, eyes shot wide open as she gives off the thousand yard stare.
Sky unlocks the door and goes into his room, leaving Chantal behind, frozen, and then fainting. Just as that happens, Hope and I now make our return. "Just one day and we are hardly any close to finding Rufus." Hope says.
"He's a smart and cunning man, Hope. Because of him, the organization got away with everything 100% up until-" I went silent and Hope and I stop on our trail when we see something is in out way, or someone I should say.
We both see Chantal fainted on the ground, smiling. "What...happened?" Hope wonders, unsure how to feel for this situation.
"If I had to guess. I'd say her day with Sky went well." I say. If that's true, then I'm glad. At least my plan for those two are going well. Hearing that makes Hope feel a bit sad, losing the girl he's crushing on with some shady prince charming. but, that doesn't overwhelm when he smiles, realizing how beautiful she looks asleep. I notice the kids crush-like state and snap my fingers in front of him, waking him from his trance. "Focus casanova. You take care of decoded that drive. I'm gonna take princess here to her chambers."
That said, I grab the key from Chantal's hand. Once I open the door to her room, I carry her back into her room. Hope just watches him until I'm gone, and then lets out a sigh.
The very next day, I called Rufus Zero telling him I accept the job working for the Abduction Agency. Saying that just made it feel like there's a knife cutting the inside of my mouth.
Last night, I told Yaag Rosch and the Sanctum soldiers I have a plan to put an end with the Abduction Agency. With the job opportunity they gave him, I'll infiltrate they're headquarters, gather information. I have a feeling their security is greatly high, that if the Guardian Corps will try to invade, great tragedy might strike. For either them or the female victims being tortured in such slavery.
I devised a careful plan, that I will do what I can to buy their loyalty while in secret, I'll sabotage their plans and do what I can to help and free the victims.
Cain O'Neil dropped by in Bodhum to pick me up. He takes me to a dense forest almost hundreds of miles from the town. Took two hours to get here. Deep within the forest we have reached a dead end. Only it wasn't a dead end for Cain. He pushed a button on his prison truck and the wall slides open, revealing a hidden tunnel.
Beyond the tunnel, shows a large mansion surrounded by mountains from behind and both sides. It looks like one of those sinister cathedrals in the movies where the villains have their hideouts or a dungeon for their enemies to suffer in. I wouldn't be surprised if the inside is stone made with touched on the walls as the only source of light.
The gates open and the large van drives in and stops in front of the dungeon. Cain and I come out. I wait by the entrance while Cain unloads the truck. I'm not even gonna say what's in it, you can already guess.
"You must be Patrick." I turn. Walking into the outside is a man. He looks at the age of 40. Tall. Strong. Tough expression. Short black hair and cold soulless black eyes. He's the one. "Rufus Zero. Please to meet you."
I shake his hand. "Like wise." Not really it is.
Rufus escapes me down the hallways, and I was correct on what the inside is like. While giving me the tour, Rufus talks about how it's an honor for him to help out a fellow brother of Lust. How it makes me boil for him to judge me as one of their own. But I have to make him believe otherwise my cover will be blown.
Rufus first takes me to his office. His computer is right in front of me which is just what I need. He adds me to the system so I can gain access to certain places around the hideout. The second he is not looking, I open the hard-drive and attached a hacking chip within. That why I'll have access to it on my laptop.
I made that chip for just this occasion. Guess those four months of Advanced Computer Aid during my Freshman High School paid off well.
After making me an official member, Rufus takes to the my room, which is no different from my whole house, except there's no basement. "Tomorrow, we'll assign you to a team we're sending to pick up our targets. You will be paid 10,000 Gil for each target you have acquired." I grow bitter on the inside. By 'pick up' he means kidnapped. I am also in shock to hear how much money they're offering me. How much are people paying to have sex slaves? My guess is beyond thought. "You'll have the necessary supplies you'll need on your missions. Lock pads. Chains. Chlorform and a rag. Voice operated slave collars."
That last part has my attention. "Voice...operated sir?'
"Yep. Collars that respond only to my voice." Rufus says.
"Uh...wouldn't that be a bit of a problem?" I ask, trying to find some useful information about it. I even move my hands behind my back and turn on the recording device I hid in my sleeve.
"Ah, don't worry about it. They'll automatic lock once it's been placed on the targets neck." Rufus says.
"Right...but...what happens if I accidentally put it on one of our own? Or maybe someone who manages to fight back outs it on me?" I ask.
"Well, you better make sure that doesn't happen. If it does, come to me and I'll deactivate it by saying the deactivation code: Freyja." Bingo! He walked right into my trap. "Anyways, ready yourself for tomorrow's assignment, it won't be easy for newcomers."
"Thanks for the advice." I say, watching Rufus leave.
The second I'm alone, I turn to my watch and turn it on.
In Eden, Yaag Rosch sits in his office in Edenhall. He looks over his computer to see a window pop out. A message window from me, and all it says is that I am online.
"He is in." Raag Rosch says.
"That's just great. So what do we do now? Track him down?" The general asks.
"No. We wait for any further instructions. This maybe hard to do, but we are just going have to leave everything to him...for now." Yaag sets his attention on the message window saying that.
Just like him, I desire to bring an end to the Abduction Agency. But I must remain patient. For when the time is right, the organization will fall.