After Meteor: Rise from the Ashes
President Shinra led his group of executives to the ruined city of Midgar. They had to climb through mountains worth of debris and the President was wheezing like there was no tomorrow while some of the others complained their heads off…
"DAMMIT! This freakin' sucks! Why don't we have a helicopter?" complained Reno.
"Well, don't you think…that POSSIBLY, MAYBE it was DESTROYED when the rest of the city was?! Think for once why don't you…" snapped the usually quiet Rude. Obviously he has had enough.
After 3 hours, the group was standing in front of the Shinra building. It was about 75% finished, judging by the outside. The lower half was being remodeled first, the top 10 floors were still a crumbly mess. The group of Shinra walked inside to the lobby.
"Hmm…I wonder if my lab is still intact…" wondered Hojo.
"What's it matter?" asked Rufus.
"Well, I was working on a new device. Something that could control the WEAPONS of the Planet."
"Why would you need to control WEAPON?" asked Reno, Tseng promptly thwapped him upside the head.
"Because, if we could control WEAPON, then nobody could stop us. We could destroy whole cities at our discretion. Construction would be a breeze too!" Tseng explained.
As the group of Shinra executive members stood around in the lobby dreaming of world domination (once again), Reeve came down the staircase.
"My, my…what a pleasure it is to see you all again." greeted Reeve with a hint of sarcasm in his voice.
"Thanks for holding down the fort. I'll be taking over again, thank you very much." sneered Rufus.
"Sorry son, I'm in control now. You'll get it once I pass away." President Shinra reminded Rufus, then stepped up to Reeve. "Where's my office?"
"WHAT?!" screamed an upset Barret.
"I'm sorry, but that's right, and I can't stop him. What am I going to do, I'm just the head of urban development." Cait Sith 'sighed' as he delivered the bad news. "I also sort of overheard them talking about some kind of device…but I couldn't get all of the data on it. Somewhere in Hojo's lab."
"But, Hojo's lab was destroyed along with the rest of the building, wasn't it?" asked Tifa.
"I don't know. I never checked the upper levels."
"Well, this is just great! Now, we have to deal with Shinra AND one of their messed up inventions! Oh, isn't life great?" said Barret extremely sarcastically.
"Well, who ever said life was fair?" pointed out Jessie.
"Can it."