A/N: Here's Chapter 12 for you all! YAY! Off to the Shinra building! hehe... SHOUT OUT TIME!
To Mystic: I love the song Pink too! XD It's so kinky yet so friggin awesome! Great band! I liked it instantly when I heard Jaded. BTW, have you seen the Pink music vid? It's funny! XD And Tseng and Elena are my fav pairing... It sticks to the game... And I could see them being together more clearly than Reno and her... I could only really see them as friends.
To LastTrojanNight: Our dispute about the music can so be put to rest! XD It ALL ROCKS! And Kadaj... How old is he anywayz? He looks 17 or 18 would be my guess... XD
To Flareie: YES! I got your name right finally XD forgive me. I was half asleep the other time. Wait until next chapter... is all I have to say .
Disclaimer: Everyone knows I don't own it! "... ... ..."
Disasters
Chapter 12: On To Shinra Inc!
Elena walked down the hall at a fast pace, to her car with Reno in tow whistling.
"Could you stop that? It's bad enough you made me cry this morning, then I had to face Tseng, which didn't go down very well because he kept asking what was the matter! I should beat you with a bookshelf, Reno!"
"I still say you should tell him, yo. We might not come out of this alive..." He muttered under his breath as they climbed into her car. Elena's expression hardened.
"What? You want to prove something to him?" Reno asked during the sudden silence.
"I don't want him thinking that I'm still a rookie Turk. Not after all of the missions we've done.
"So, you told Scarlet?" Reno asked leaning on his elbow.
"Yes."
"And?"
"She was ecstatic. She should be at the Shinra building right now." Elena explained as her sports car convertible raced through the streets of Midgar.
"Rude has the bomb in the helicopter. He'll give it to us when we reach the building." Reno stated as they spotted the chopper not far ahead.
"It's still better to die in am explosion, than from embarrassment. Unlike you, I do get embarrassed, Reno." She said ferociously, as they stepped out of the car and walked over to the helicopter pad. Rude handed Reno the Mako Bomb.
"Best luck to you." He stated, noticing Elena avoiding Tseng's gaze.
"Elena." Tseng called her attention and she faced him.
"Y-yes, sir?"
"Come back alive, understood?"
"I will, sir. I promise." Elena said, then fallowed Reno up to the Shinra building.
"This better be flashy, yo! I don't like dull explosions!" He called back to Rude.
"You'll love it. I know. It's beyond flashy." Rude called back, watching his friends enter the abandoned building.
There was rubble everywhere they looked. Definitely no electricity and all they had to go by was the light from outside, and flashlights. Of which, the batteries were a limited amount and they didn't have extras if they ran out.
"This could take longer than we thought, yo..." Reno pointed out, climbing over the rubble in the pitch dark, dungeon like ex-headquarters. Elena climbed over a crumbling wall, observing the disastrous area.
"You're not kidding, Reno. Say, how do we get up?" She pointed her flashlight toward the heavily cracked ceiling, waiting to collapse if she spoke any louder than a whisper. Reno pointed his flashlight in the direction of the exit stairwell.
"Bingo!" His quick paced footsteps, seemed to thunder off of the cracked cement walls as he ran to the doorway.
Elena followed behind closely, afraid that the ceiling afraid that the ceiling rubble would fall on her in the process. Reno then shined his flashlight up the pitch black, quiet, creepy, not-so-comforting stairwell. Meeting the wall at the top of the first set of stairs with a dull glow.
"Looks like we'll have to walk, yo... Got any extra batteries?" He asked, turning to Elena behind him. She shook her head solemnly.
"I have something better..." She took off her coat, tossing it to the floor, pulling a small pack within her view, that was strapped around her waist and pulled out a red flare stick. Reno watched as she lit it and threw the stick to the top of the stairs.
"Let's go. It won't last long. I have more, but we'll need to be conservative." Elena and Reno ran up the flights of stairs, being able to use the same flare for at least 5 flights, before having to light another one.
"Did you really kiss her?" Rude asked Tseng, as they waited for Reno to radio them for the chopper. It had already been 3 hours and nothing from the 2 Turks so far. So, Rude and Tseng were playing poker in the helicopter.
"I did. Oh, man; the things that must be going through her mind right now. That's probably why she was crying this morning..." Tseng said while looking at his cards and the layout.
"I'm in." He set a stack of chips on the floor in front of Rude.
"I'm out. Want to play again?" The brooding Turk asked his commander, who nodded.
"Saves us from boredom." Tseng stated simply.
"Did you mean to kiss Elena?" Rude asked, shuffling the cards.
"You mean to ask if it was intentional?" Rude gave a stiff nod.
"I think... it was... I was drunk, or at that was her impression. I knew what I was doing. So..."
"You had a reason to?" Rude asked lowering his shades slightly, to look at his commander over the rims. Tseng didn't answer, making Rude grunt.
"Up for Blackjack instead?" Tseng nodded. Reno and Elena continued climbing the stairs, wondering when it would end.
"This is going on for eternity, yo!" Reno complained as Elena lit another flare
"Stop complaining, Reno. We'll get there soon. Just concentrate on what we have to do."
"Easy for you to say! You're not the one setting the bomb! I have to hide from Scarlet!"
"So where are we planting it?" Elena asked as they ran up stairs while grabbing the flare in between flights of stairs and throwing it up to the next one.
"Jenova's tank, in the lab." Reno said as they came to a door finally.
"You ready, yo?"
"Yeah."
