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Now for the 3rd chapter! Enjoy!
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Chapter Three
Everyone was in the Mideel hospital for the next week, healing up from the battle. But mainly waiting for a plan to come up.
It turned out Tifa had only one broken rib, which was easy for the Doctor to fix. Yuffie, on the other hand, was suffering from lead poisoning and had to get the bullet removed immediantly in an operation that took three hours long. First, they had to remove the bullet, then they had to remove the infected blood out of her body. A simple antidote fixed the remainder of her blood, and it would be another three days in order for her to move her wrist again. The doctor, who knew how active they all were, told Yuffie to stay at the hospital until it was completely healed. She was a little angry at this, but she went with it reluctantly.
"So… How are we gunna take care 'bout Rufus??" Barret asked Cloud.
"Well.." Cloud thought. "I say we get some information first."
"How?" Tifa asked.
"I think Cait Sith would be a good source of info." Red suggested.
"But how the fuck are we supposed to find that damn cat??!" Cid asked.
"We will. I have a feeling he's around." Vincent said. They all turned to look at him. "We all know how Reeve is. He was with us in the beginning, he'll be with us in the end."
"Then all we got to do is wait?" Cloud asked.
"Seems so." Vincent replied.
"But what if ShinRa finds us?" Tifa asked. Everyone turned to look at her. "Then we'd have to hide out somewhere else. And I don't think Yuffie's well enough to run around saving the world yet, either."
"You shouldn't be talking." Barret pointed out. "Ya still gotta wait for your bone to heal all the way, then we'll be ready to go."
Tifa sulked.
"Don't worry." Cloud said, trying to brighten things up. "Everything'll be fine! The good guys always win. That's us!"
"Yeah, you're right, spike-head!" Cid said, taking a drag from his cig. "No one 'ill beat AVALANCHE, we're still strong, and ShinRa is just a rebirth of a living hell!"
"Hey, where's Yuffie?" Tifa asked.
"She's in her room." Red said.
"That's kid's been awful quiet lately." Barret observed.
"We'll ask her later." Cloud said. Everyone else nodded.
'Oh GAWD… This can't..this CAN'T be happening!!!' Yuffie thought, hoping for the answer, 'no', but instead she got no answer at all. Did she really like him…?
She didn't have much time to think. Because then the nurse came into the room. Yuffie looked up at the nurse.
"The doctor says you're well enough to go now." The nurse said. Yuffie's face brightened up. Maybe now she could see what her answer was.
Yuffie jumped out of the bed so quickly, that the nurse was surprised by how quickly she had recovered.
She ran into the others in the hall. Tifa had recovered, too. But when they looked at her, they looked concerned.
Yuffie raised an eyebrow. "Eh.. What did I do this time??" she asked.
"Yuffie, why the hell have you been SO quiet lately?!" Cloud asked.
"Just cuz I don't wanna talk doesn't mean it's a crime!" Yuffie shot back.
They sighed and everyone started to walk out.
Then a familiar sight ran to them. A little black and white cat with a crown on top of a giant stuffed moogle hopped over to them.
"Cait Sith!" Tifa exclaimed.
"No time!" Cait Sith said. "ShinRa's back!"
"We know that!" Barret said.
"Well, then what are you doing at the hospital??" Cait Sith asked.
"Tifa and Yuffie were injured by Don Corneo." Red explained.
"Oh." Cait Sith said. "Well, I've come to help you."
"Figured you would." Cloud said.
Cait Sith scratched the back of his head. "Eh… Sorry about being too late for beating Don's ass, though. Reeve found out that while we weren't fighting that a bug had gotten into the box-thingie that makes me able to transmit." He said
"Yeah." Cloud said. "It's okay."
"Say, could yeh start by telling us where the new base fer ShinRa is?" Cid asked. "I'd like to give a warm welcome to Rufus." He said with a slight smirk, and then took a drag of his cig.
Cait Sith nodded. "Okay. Let's go to the Highwind." He said. "Everyone ready?"
They nodded. Then they all ran off towards the Highwind.
Reeve was at his computer, typing away. At the moment he was making a transmission through Cait Sith, and after he was done he was going to put it on auto-pilot. But then he heard footsteps down the hall. They were loud, forbidding ones. Ones that usually brought trouble.
Then two ShinRa soldiers busted into the room abruptly. Why were they after him??
"Hey!" Reeve protested as the guards took him by both arms and dragged him out of the room. "What do you think you're doing?!!"
All of the sudden Cait Sith's head sunk.
"Huh?" Tifa wondered. She walked over to Cait Sith and tapped it on its crown. Nothing happened. Its mog was out too.
"Dude, what the hell's wrong with it?" Barret asked.
"Cait?" Cloud asked. He walked over to Cait also and looked at him. Then he forced-pulled his right eye open and looked inside. He jumped back suddenly.
"What is it?" Red asked.
"If you look through his eye you can usually see Reeve on the other end, right?" Cloud asked.
The others nodded hesitantly.
"Well…" Cloud began. He showed the eye to everyone else.
All that was left was a headset on the ground…
"Um… Rufus!" Reeve began but was soon cut off.
"I'm very disappointed in your behavior!" Rufus said to Reeve.
"Huh?" Reeve asked. "Why am I wearing handcuffs? What did I do?"
"You betrayed ShinRa." Rufus said. "Don't think I'm too stupid to have figured out what Cait Sith is REALLY doing!"
Reeve looked surprised. How could of Rufus found out…?
After a moment of silence, Rufus brushed his hair back and looked at the guards. "Take him away." He said. "He is to be executed tomorrow at sunrise."
"WHAT?!" Reeve exclaimed, but was then dragged away by the guards.
As soon as Reeve had left, Rufus looked into the direction of a shadowed portion of the room. "Turks." He said.
Then the three turks stepped out of their hiding places.
"Yes, boss?" Elena asked.
"I got a little riddle for all of you." Rufus said, clamping his hands together as a couple of clapper-lights went on behind him. "Who's cowardly, owns a whole continent, and will do anything in his power to save his remaining family member?"
"Godo Kisaragi?" Reno asked.
"Bingo." Rufus answered. He turned back towards them again. "And how are we going to be able to make him hand over Wutai?" he asked.
"Kidnap his daughter!" Elena piped.
"Exaclty." Rufus said.
"So." Reno began. "You want us, the turks, to kidnap Lord Godo's daughter, Yuffie, and AVALANCHE member?"
Rufus simply nodded.
Reno smirked. "Consider it done, boss." He answered. They both shook hands.
"Okay. Scratch trying to get to the base." Cloud explained. They were all in the infirmary, in the Highwind. "Now we got to focus on getting to Junon to save Reeve. Any objections?"
"Hell no!" Barret said, pounding his large fist on the table, making it shake. Tifa had to hold her coke to stop it from falling off. "As much as that guy was a damn traitor before, he always had a plan! In fact, without him, Tifa would've been dead right now because of dem ShinRa!" he paused to glance at Tifa, then he looked around the room and continued. "Why the hell would we let him die if he's one of us?!"
The others muttered stuff like 'Yeah!', 'He's right!', and 'Uhuh!'. Cloud scratched the back of his head and then smiled. "Okay." Then he turned to face Cid. "Cid---" he began, but was cut off when the pilot sniggered, and pointed to his pilot badge proudly.
"Heh heh. Don't worry, spike!" Cid said. Then, walking out of the infirmary and yelling at the in-trainer pilot, "HEY GET OFF YOUR FUCKING LAZY ASS YOUR BREAK'S OVER! WE'RE FLYING THIS PLANE TO JUNON!!! COME ON!!!" and with that they could hear a large scuttle on the main deck.
After a few moments the ship's engines began to roar and the Highwind slowly lifted off the ground. Everyone departed and walked off to their own places. Yuffie stayed behind a few moments longer.
Before she left, Tifa looked behind her and saw Yuffie. Her face was now a familiar shade of green. She merely smiled. "Yuffie, have you ever tried tranquilizers?" she asked pleasantly.
"They never worked…" Yuffie half muttered half whimpered as she lifted herself up from her seat. Tifa shook her head dismissively and walked to the main deck.
"Okay everyone." Cloud said as they were starting to reach Junon. They were all on the main deck, waiting for the lecture on how they were going to sneak in. "This is what we do. We'll divide into two groups. Me, Tifa, and Barret go in one while Red, Cid and Vincent are in another one." he began.
"What about me?" Yuffie asked.
"You're on your own." Cloud said. "Being a ninja and all, if we get into trouble--"
"I'll be up in the rafters ready to kick some ShinRa ass, yada yada yada." Yuffie sneered.
Cloud frowned at being mocked, but then he continued. "My group will enter from the left side of the building, while Cid's group enter on the right side. After that we should all meet up at the Highwind in two hours from now. If you don't find Reeve right away, then get out of there, we can't spare anymore mistakes. Got it?"
Everyone else nodded.
"Okay. Let's mo--" Cloud began but yet again was cut off by Cid's smirk. He grined sheephishly and then started again. "MOVE OUT!"
Everyone then ran in their own seperate directions as the airship landed.
Cloud looked to his left and his right. Good. Tifa and Barret were still with him. They ran to the left side of the building and waited. They saw several ShinRa guards surveying the area. They ducked behind a few crates to keep out of sight.
"What are we going to do, Cloud?" Tifa asked him in a hushed whisper. "There's no way we can get in there!"
"Hush, spike's prolly' gotta plan!" Barret hissed back. Then he looked over to Cloud. "Don't ya?"
Cloud nodded, not looking at either of them, but with a distant look ahead. Then he fished out a sleep materia from his pocket and it started to glow. Himself, Tifa, and Barret backed away a little more and then Cloud casted Sleepel on the guards, a big purple star bonking each of them on the head sensless.
After the coast was clear and all the guards were down, they darted into the building. As they turned the corner another guards spotted them, and as of on instinct, he raised his gun. Before he had a chance to fire, Barret has blown him away, only having enough stomache to take once glance at the dead coarpse as they passed it.
After running and killing guards for another few minutes, they reached the execution room. Cloud looked over to Tifa. "Hey, Teef." Tifa looked over at him, wondering what he wanted her to do. "Call Cid on his PHS and tell him we're there. Also tell him to head back to the Highwind."
Tifa nodded and picked up her PHS. Before she could dial anything, Scarlet and Heideggar stepped out of the room to go get some coffee, and came face to face with the three.
Scarlet grinned evily as she walked over to them. Heideggar just buffawed in laughter.
"AVALANCHE come to save lil ol' Reeve, eh?" Scarlet asked. Then she clapped her hands twice. "Come, boys! We got some more people for you play interactive hang-man with!" she called, directing it somewhere over Tifa's shoulder. They turned around in time to see three ShinRa SOLDIERs run around the corner.
Then they turned towards Scarlet and Heideggar to see three more SOLDIERs run in from behind them. Soon they were surrounded.
Scarlet sneered, snickering evily. "Heh heh heh. No where for you guys to run, now, is there?" she asked.
"Shi'!" Barret cursed.
"Come on, run faster you fucking slow pokes!!!" Cid yelled at the others from behind his shoulder. Red was bounding right behind him, not going as fast as possible but fast enough. Vincent was to the side of Red, his scarlet cape flailing behind him, gun raised in case they came into any trouble.
Why the hell was Cid complaining?
Because they hadn't found Reeve yet!!!
Then they heards the alarms blaring like crazy. They all stopped and assumed their own battle stances, but nothing happened.
Then Scarlet's voice came on the intercom.
"WE GOT THREE MEMBERS OF AVALANCHE! YOU MUST FIND THE REMAINING FOUR NOW!! DO NOT LET THEM ESCAPE, NO MATTER WHAT THE COSTS!! BRING THEM TO ME, DEAD OR ALIVE!!!!!" she beamed.
"Fuck.." Cid swore under his breath.
"They got the others." Red said. "We have no other option then to keep going. We must find them all."
Cid looked over to Vincent. "Well, vampire-boy. What's your say on this?" he asked.
"....." Vincent looked calmly ahead. "I say we go after them. We are going to win this battle together. And we need the others to help us." Then he raised his quick silver, aimed, and fired. They heard a cry of pain as a SOLDIER fell limp the ground from out of the shadows. Then six other SOLDIERs ran into the scene.
Red concentrated hard. He then let out a wolfish cry and threw up a red materia into the air with his teeth. A big beast with devil like horns appears in the sky, and then blew fire at the SOLDIERs at full force before disappearing again. They all fell to the ground, only showing the remains of the burnt coarpses.
"Good show!" Cid commented. Then he turned to run again. "COME ON!!!"
Vincent and Red shot after him at an instant.
A couple corridors down they saw a couple of red-suited ShinRa guards.
One of them noticed them.
"AVALANCHE!!" He yelled in a disgusted voice. He lifted up his rifle and aimed at them.
The other guard got into a battle stance and held up an ice materia. "ICE THREE!" He cried.
For a split second, the AVALANCHE members felt their insides beginning to stiffen. A very sickening feeling came over Cid as he felt a gigantic icicle form in his stomache. Then he noticed his skin AND insides were turning into ice! Before he knew it, the ice had expanded even more until it had covered him completely and then cracked into a million or so pieces, pain surging through his body.
They all staggered to the ground, trying to regain their composure. No matter how strong they were, nothing could go through an Ice Three and feel perfectly normal afterwards. But Vincent still had his gun raised. He took aim on the first guard and shot five bullets to his chest. They all found their way, and the guard crumpled to the ground in a heap.
Then they all focused on the other guard. Frightened, he raised his own rifle and fired a dozen electricity bolts of sleepel-attributed fires at them all. Only Cid was affected, and he fell down to the ground, unconsious.
Red quickly cast fire on the rifle, making it explode.
"HEY!" The guard squealed. Then, seeing it was all useless, he ran out of sight, not wanting to turn out like his partner.
"Wake up, Captain Cid!" Red said, and batted at him with his paw.
"Eh?...Where's my tea...?" Cid asked sleepily.
"No time for tea. We got to save Reeve and the others." Vincent stated.
Cid quickly got to his senses and stood up with the support of his spear, and then went back to running as if it were some instant reflex. Red and Vincent followed.
Then soon, they got to the door of the execution room. Oddly, there were no guards. Probably because they were all inside. They all ducked behind the door. Cid stood up slightly and peered through the door window at what was happening. Scarlet was giving a speech to a whole bunch of reporters and internationalists, with a few ShinRa SOLDIERS at her side. Against the wall, tied up to chairs, were Reeve, Cloud, Barret, and Tifa.
"Okay. We need a plan." Cid said.
"I already got one." Vincent said, surprising the other two.
"What might that be?" Red asked.
"We have to wait until they're inside the room though. And we will have to move fast. Are you sure you want to proceed with my idea?" Vincent asked.
"Spit it out! We don't have all fucking day!" Cid hissed.
"Okay." Vincent complied. "We have to sneak in as soon as they've locked up the room. When they least expect it. Then we attack Scarlet and her SOLDIERs from behind while those news reporters retreat. Then we grab the key from Scarlet, grab the others, and run." he explained.
"Good idea." Cid said.
"Most thought out." Red replied.
They waited. It almost seemed like forever to wait for Scarlet to get done with her speech. All that she talked about was how scared she was durring Meteor, how frusterated she was by AVALANCHE, and how the weapons in ShinRa were going to be advanced. Nothing big. Then she turned to the SOLDIERs.
"Put them in the room." She ordered.
The SOLDIERS then tied Reeve, Cloud, Barret, and Tifa and led them into the gas chamber, guns poking them in the back to insure that they didn't escape.
Then Cid slowly opened the door, as quietly as possible. Red closed it softly behind him with his hind paw. They slowly crept quietly through the shadows. Scarlet had then continued her speech, the SOLDIERs lined up behind her again. By the time they were behind the SOLDIERs in the shadows, they were already powering up their most powerful materia.
"Now." They heard Vincent whisper.
All at once, a varage of spells hit the SOLDIERs. Fire exploded over their heads, while the earth shook rapidly beneath them. Scarlet let out a shreik of terror and fell to her knees, covering her ears and squeezing her eyes shut. At once all the news reporters scurried out, not wanting to be in the line of fire. Then a great surge of electricity formed a ball around the SOLDIERs and exploded, sending sparks everywhere. After the attack, Cid, Vincent, and Red saw the six SOLDIERs fall to the ground, crumpled. The visors in their helmets to singed to see inside. Cid was sure he didn't want to see anyway, no matter how much he hated the ShinRa.
Scarlet had disappeared, obviously driven and outnumbered. She was actually hiding behind the door. She growled angrily and raised her fist to herself. "Those jerks are gunna pay!" she thought, and then darted back off towards her office.
Too bad she dropped her key!
"Stupid ass." Cid snickered, picking up the key. He then ambled over to the gas room door and inserted the key. He turned it and unlocked it. A moment later Reeve, Cloud, Barret, and Tifa all walked out of the room, still covering their mouths. Tifa swung the door shut behind her, her face contorted with disgust.
"Ugh, that's the second time, already!" she shreiked.
"Come one, we gotta get outta here!" Reeve explained.
"Well duh, foo'! What else?" Barret hollored back.
"No. I mean NOW! Rufus is probably gonna arrive with even MORE forces!!!!" Reeve explained, panicked.
"Okay. MOVE OUT!" Cloud ordered.
Then they all ran towards the exit, Cid muttering, "He's getting too use to that phrase..." on the way out.
As they made their way out across the Neo Sister Ray, they heard the Highwind hovering above. One of the crew members was on the side deck. Cid waved for him to throw out the rope ladder, and the crew member complied. Then they all got onto the ladder and climbed up to the airship. Soon after, they all had returned to the infirmary.
But somone was missing!
'They haven't come back for a while...' Yuffie thought as she ran through Junon, towards the upper plate of the town. 'I gotta see if they're all right!'
As she approached the guard, she quickly handed him ten gil and scuttled into the elevator before he could even react. The guard simply scratched the back of his head and went back to usual duty.
Comming out of the elevator, Yuffie ran down the streets of Junon, looking around frantically for any sign of the others. As she passed a few alleys, she began to wonder if they had just gotten back.
Then somone grabbed her by the arm and pulled her into one of the alleys. She whirled around and tried to rip the hand from seizing her arm, but she had no avail.
Soon they shoved her against the cold, brick wall. She felt them pull her wrists together and then the short clink of handcuffs could could be heard. As soon as she was left free, except for the handcuffs, she spun around to see her enemies.
"TURKS?!" she screeched.
"Sorry, Yuffie. But..." Reno began, but was then cut off.
"--You're under arrest for being a part of a terrorist group! That group's name is AVALANCHE!" Elena butted in.
"And don't you forget it!" Yuffie growled.
"Shut up!" Reno declared. He then shocked her enough so that she would pass out. But nothing happened.
All that she did was jerk in pain and slid to the ground, on her knees, keeled over. She winced and clutched her stomache. The three turks looked down at her as if she was some pathetic ladybug. She looked back up at them, glaring.
"You're gunna pay." She snarled. "I swear. When my friends find out..." she trailed off as soon as Reno pointed the nightstick at her once more.
"Shut up." He repeated. Then he shocked her once more. Yuffie gave out a cry as it hit her, and then her head sunk, unconsious.
"Come on." Rude said. "We have to get her back to the boss for further orders."
The turks nodded triumphantly. Reno picked Yuffie up and they started to head back to their helicopter.
"We're missing Yuffie!!!" Tifa screeched. "HOW COULD YOU LEAVE HER BEHIND?!!!!" she screamed at Cid.
"Fucking hell!" Cid cursed. "We didn't even see her!!!"
"YOUR PLANE DROVE AWAY!" she screamed back.
"WOULD YOU OF RATHER LIKED IT BACK THERE, SUFFOCATED IN THAT DAMN GAS ROOM?!!!"
Tifa went silent after that. Then she looked up again, not knowing what to say.
"She's in big trouble."
AVALANCHE turned towards Reeve at the sound of his voice.
"....What do you mean....in trouble?" Tifa asked.
"BIG trouble? Dat's bad." Barret observed. "Explain, foo'."
"They had plans to kidnap her." Reeve explained.
"...Who?" Cloud asked, cursiously.
"The turks." Reeve stated.
The others went into an immediant uproar.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE FUCKING TURKS KIDNAPPED HER?!" Cid exclaimed.
"DAMN SHINRA!!!" Barret countered.
"How could they do this?!!" Tifa asked.
"Why would they want to kidnap her?" Red asked.
"To get Wutai." Reeve said. "They're going to hold her for ransom, but then go back on their word and take everything for themselves. Rufus is..." he paused.
"What?" Cloud asked, taking a step closer to the black haired ShinRa executive.
"Rufus...H...H...He's going to destroy the entire continent!!" Reeve shouted, as if he didn't want the information in his head anymore.
Everyone gasped, and there was a long, awkward, silence....
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Gawd.. That was long... Plz R n R! ^-^
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Now for the 3rd chapter! Enjoy!
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Chapter Three
Everyone was in the Mideel hospital for the next week, healing up from the battle. But mainly waiting for a plan to come up.
It turned out Tifa had only one broken rib, which was easy for the Doctor to fix. Yuffie, on the other hand, was suffering from lead poisoning and had to get the bullet removed immediantly in an operation that took three hours long. First, they had to remove the bullet, then they had to remove the infected blood out of her body. A simple antidote fixed the remainder of her blood, and it would be another three days in order for her to move her wrist again. The doctor, who knew how active they all were, told Yuffie to stay at the hospital until it was completely healed. She was a little angry at this, but she went with it reluctantly.
"So… How are we gunna take care 'bout Rufus??" Barret asked Cloud.
"Well.." Cloud thought. "I say we get some information first."
"How?" Tifa asked.
"I think Cait Sith would be a good source of info." Red suggested.
"But how the fuck are we supposed to find that damn cat??!" Cid asked.
"We will. I have a feeling he's around." Vincent said. They all turned to look at him. "We all know how Reeve is. He was with us in the beginning, he'll be with us in the end."
"Then all we got to do is wait?" Cloud asked.
"Seems so." Vincent replied.
"But what if ShinRa finds us?" Tifa asked. Everyone turned to look at her. "Then we'd have to hide out somewhere else. And I don't think Yuffie's well enough to run around saving the world yet, either."
"You shouldn't be talking." Barret pointed out. "Ya still gotta wait for your bone to heal all the way, then we'll be ready to go."
Tifa sulked.
"Don't worry." Cloud said, trying to brighten things up. "Everything'll be fine! The good guys always win. That's us!"
"Yeah, you're right, spike-head!" Cid said, taking a drag from his cig. "No one 'ill beat AVALANCHE, we're still strong, and ShinRa is just a rebirth of a living hell!"
"Hey, where's Yuffie?" Tifa asked.
"She's in her room." Red said.
"That's kid's been awful quiet lately." Barret observed.
"We'll ask her later." Cloud said. Everyone else nodded.
'Oh GAWD… This can't..this CAN'T be happening!!!' Yuffie thought, hoping for the answer, 'no', but instead she got no answer at all. Did she really like him…?
She didn't have much time to think. Because then the nurse came into the room. Yuffie looked up at the nurse.
"The doctor says you're well enough to go now." The nurse said. Yuffie's face brightened up. Maybe now she could see what her answer was.
Yuffie jumped out of the bed so quickly, that the nurse was surprised by how quickly she had recovered.
She ran into the others in the hall. Tifa had recovered, too. But when they looked at her, they looked concerned.
Yuffie raised an eyebrow. "Eh.. What did I do this time??" she asked.
"Yuffie, why the hell have you been SO quiet lately?!" Cloud asked.
"Just cuz I don't wanna talk doesn't mean it's a crime!" Yuffie shot back.
They sighed and everyone started to walk out.
Then a familiar sight ran to them. A little black and white cat with a crown on top of a giant stuffed moogle hopped over to them.
"Cait Sith!" Tifa exclaimed.
"No time!" Cait Sith said. "ShinRa's back!"
"We know that!" Barret said.
"Well, then what are you doing at the hospital??" Cait Sith asked.
"Tifa and Yuffie were injured by Don Corneo." Red explained.
"Oh." Cait Sith said. "Well, I've come to help you."
"Figured you would." Cloud said.
Cait Sith scratched the back of his head. "Eh… Sorry about being too late for beating Don's ass, though. Reeve found out that while we weren't fighting that a bug had gotten into the box-thingie that makes me able to transmit." He said
"Yeah." Cloud said. "It's okay."
"Say, could yeh start by telling us where the new base fer ShinRa is?" Cid asked. "I'd like to give a warm welcome to Rufus." He said with a slight smirk, and then took a drag of his cig.
Cait Sith nodded. "Okay. Let's go to the Highwind." He said. "Everyone ready?"
They nodded. Then they all ran off towards the Highwind.
Reeve was at his computer, typing away. At the moment he was making a transmission through Cait Sith, and after he was done he was going to put it on auto-pilot. But then he heard footsteps down the hall. They were loud, forbidding ones. Ones that usually brought trouble.
Then two ShinRa soldiers busted into the room abruptly. Why were they after him??
"Hey!" Reeve protested as the guards took him by both arms and dragged him out of the room. "What do you think you're doing?!!"
All of the sudden Cait Sith's head sunk.
"Huh?" Tifa wondered. She walked over to Cait Sith and tapped it on its crown. Nothing happened. Its mog was out too.
"Dude, what the hell's wrong with it?" Barret asked.
"Cait?" Cloud asked. He walked over to Cait also and looked at him. Then he forced-pulled his right eye open and looked inside. He jumped back suddenly.
"What is it?" Red asked.
"If you look through his eye you can usually see Reeve on the other end, right?" Cloud asked.
The others nodded hesitantly.
"Well…" Cloud began. He showed the eye to everyone else.
All that was left was a headset on the ground…
"Um… Rufus!" Reeve began but was soon cut off.
"I'm very disappointed in your behavior!" Rufus said to Reeve.
"Huh?" Reeve asked. "Why am I wearing handcuffs? What did I do?"
"You betrayed ShinRa." Rufus said. "Don't think I'm too stupid to have figured out what Cait Sith is REALLY doing!"
Reeve looked surprised. How could of Rufus found out…?
After a moment of silence, Rufus brushed his hair back and looked at the guards. "Take him away." He said. "He is to be executed tomorrow at sunrise."
"WHAT?!" Reeve exclaimed, but was then dragged away by the guards.
As soon as Reeve had left, Rufus looked into the direction of a shadowed portion of the room. "Turks." He said.
Then the three turks stepped out of their hiding places.
"Yes, boss?" Elena asked.
"I got a little riddle for all of you." Rufus said, clamping his hands together as a couple of clapper-lights went on behind him. "Who's cowardly, owns a whole continent, and will do anything in his power to save his remaining family member?"
"Godo Kisaragi?" Reno asked.
"Bingo." Rufus answered. He turned back towards them again. "And how are we going to be able to make him hand over Wutai?" he asked.
"Kidnap his daughter!" Elena piped.
"Exaclty." Rufus said.
"So." Reno began. "You want us, the turks, to kidnap Lord Godo's daughter, Yuffie, and AVALANCHE member?"
Rufus simply nodded.
Reno smirked. "Consider it done, boss." He answered. They both shook hands.
"Okay. Scratch trying to get to the base." Cloud explained. They were all in the infirmary, in the Highwind. "Now we got to focus on getting to Junon to save Reeve. Any objections?"
"Hell no!" Barret said, pounding his large fist on the table, making it shake. Tifa had to hold her coke to stop it from falling off. "As much as that guy was a damn traitor before, he always had a plan! In fact, without him, Tifa would've been dead right now because of dem ShinRa!" he paused to glance at Tifa, then he looked around the room and continued. "Why the hell would we let him die if he's one of us?!"
The others muttered stuff like 'Yeah!', 'He's right!', and 'Uhuh!'. Cloud scratched the back of his head and then smiled. "Okay." Then he turned to face Cid. "Cid---" he began, but was cut off when the pilot sniggered, and pointed to his pilot badge proudly.
"Heh heh. Don't worry, spike!" Cid said. Then, walking out of the infirmary and yelling at the in-trainer pilot, "HEY GET OFF YOUR FUCKING LAZY ASS YOUR BREAK'S OVER! WE'RE FLYING THIS PLANE TO JUNON!!! COME ON!!!" and with that they could hear a large scuttle on the main deck.
After a few moments the ship's engines began to roar and the Highwind slowly lifted off the ground. Everyone departed and walked off to their own places. Yuffie stayed behind a few moments longer.
Before she left, Tifa looked behind her and saw Yuffie. Her face was now a familiar shade of green. She merely smiled. "Yuffie, have you ever tried tranquilizers?" she asked pleasantly.
"They never worked…" Yuffie half muttered half whimpered as she lifted herself up from her seat. Tifa shook her head dismissively and walked to the main deck.
"Okay everyone." Cloud said as they were starting to reach Junon. They were all on the main deck, waiting for the lecture on how they were going to sneak in. "This is what we do. We'll divide into two groups. Me, Tifa, and Barret go in one while Red, Cid and Vincent are in another one." he began.
"What about me?" Yuffie asked.
"You're on your own." Cloud said. "Being a ninja and all, if we get into trouble--"
"I'll be up in the rafters ready to kick some ShinRa ass, yada yada yada." Yuffie sneered.
Cloud frowned at being mocked, but then he continued. "My group will enter from the left side of the building, while Cid's group enter on the right side. After that we should all meet up at the Highwind in two hours from now. If you don't find Reeve right away, then get out of there, we can't spare anymore mistakes. Got it?"
Everyone else nodded.
"Okay. Let's mo--" Cloud began but yet again was cut off by Cid's smirk. He grined sheephishly and then started again. "MOVE OUT!"
Everyone then ran in their own seperate directions as the airship landed.
Cloud looked to his left and his right. Good. Tifa and Barret were still with him. They ran to the left side of the building and waited. They saw several ShinRa guards surveying the area. They ducked behind a few crates to keep out of sight.
"What are we going to do, Cloud?" Tifa asked him in a hushed whisper. "There's no way we can get in there!"
"Hush, spike's prolly' gotta plan!" Barret hissed back. Then he looked over to Cloud. "Don't ya?"
Cloud nodded, not looking at either of them, but with a distant look ahead. Then he fished out a sleep materia from his pocket and it started to glow. Himself, Tifa, and Barret backed away a little more and then Cloud casted Sleepel on the guards, a big purple star bonking each of them on the head sensless.
After the coast was clear and all the guards were down, they darted into the building. As they turned the corner another guards spotted them, and as of on instinct, he raised his gun. Before he had a chance to fire, Barret has blown him away, only having enough stomache to take once glance at the dead coarpse as they passed it.
After running and killing guards for another few minutes, they reached the execution room. Cloud looked over to Tifa. "Hey, Teef." Tifa looked over at him, wondering what he wanted her to do. "Call Cid on his PHS and tell him we're there. Also tell him to head back to the Highwind."
Tifa nodded and picked up her PHS. Before she could dial anything, Scarlet and Heideggar stepped out of the room to go get some coffee, and came face to face with the three.
Scarlet grinned evily as she walked over to them. Heideggar just buffawed in laughter.
"AVALANCHE come to save lil ol' Reeve, eh?" Scarlet asked. Then she clapped her hands twice. "Come, boys! We got some more people for you play interactive hang-man with!" she called, directing it somewhere over Tifa's shoulder. They turned around in time to see three ShinRa SOLDIERs run around the corner.
Then they turned towards Scarlet and Heideggar to see three more SOLDIERs run in from behind them. Soon they were surrounded.
Scarlet sneered, snickering evily. "Heh heh heh. No where for you guys to run, now, is there?" she asked.
"Shi'!" Barret cursed.
"Come on, run faster you fucking slow pokes!!!" Cid yelled at the others from behind his shoulder. Red was bounding right behind him, not going as fast as possible but fast enough. Vincent was to the side of Red, his scarlet cape flailing behind him, gun raised in case they came into any trouble.
Why the hell was Cid complaining?
Because they hadn't found Reeve yet!!!
Then they heards the alarms blaring like crazy. They all stopped and assumed their own battle stances, but nothing happened.
Then Scarlet's voice came on the intercom.
"WE GOT THREE MEMBERS OF AVALANCHE! YOU MUST FIND THE REMAINING FOUR NOW!! DO NOT LET THEM ESCAPE, NO MATTER WHAT THE COSTS!! BRING THEM TO ME, DEAD OR ALIVE!!!!!" she beamed.
"Fuck.." Cid swore under his breath.
"They got the others." Red said. "We have no other option then to keep going. We must find them all."
Cid looked over to Vincent. "Well, vampire-boy. What's your say on this?" he asked.
"....." Vincent looked calmly ahead. "I say we go after them. We are going to win this battle together. And we need the others to help us." Then he raised his quick silver, aimed, and fired. They heard a cry of pain as a SOLDIER fell limp the ground from out of the shadows. Then six other SOLDIERs ran into the scene.
Red concentrated hard. He then let out a wolfish cry and threw up a red materia into the air with his teeth. A big beast with devil like horns appears in the sky, and then blew fire at the SOLDIERs at full force before disappearing again. They all fell to the ground, only showing the remains of the burnt coarpses.
"Good show!" Cid commented. Then he turned to run again. "COME ON!!!"
Vincent and Red shot after him at an instant.
A couple corridors down they saw a couple of red-suited ShinRa guards.
One of them noticed them.
"AVALANCHE!!" He yelled in a disgusted voice. He lifted up his rifle and aimed at them.
The other guard got into a battle stance and held up an ice materia. "ICE THREE!" He cried.
For a split second, the AVALANCHE members felt their insides beginning to stiffen. A very sickening feeling came over Cid as he felt a gigantic icicle form in his stomache. Then he noticed his skin AND insides were turning into ice! Before he knew it, the ice had expanded even more until it had covered him completely and then cracked into a million or so pieces, pain surging through his body.
They all staggered to the ground, trying to regain their composure. No matter how strong they were, nothing could go through an Ice Three and feel perfectly normal afterwards. But Vincent still had his gun raised. He took aim on the first guard and shot five bullets to his chest. They all found their way, and the guard crumpled to the ground in a heap.
Then they all focused on the other guard. Frightened, he raised his own rifle and fired a dozen electricity bolts of sleepel-attributed fires at them all. Only Cid was affected, and he fell down to the ground, unconsious.
Red quickly cast fire on the rifle, making it explode.
"HEY!" The guard squealed. Then, seeing it was all useless, he ran out of sight, not wanting to turn out like his partner.
"Wake up, Captain Cid!" Red said, and batted at him with his paw.
"Eh?...Where's my tea...?" Cid asked sleepily.
"No time for tea. We got to save Reeve and the others." Vincent stated.
Cid quickly got to his senses and stood up with the support of his spear, and then went back to running as if it were some instant reflex. Red and Vincent followed.
Then soon, they got to the door of the execution room. Oddly, there were no guards. Probably because they were all inside. They all ducked behind the door. Cid stood up slightly and peered through the door window at what was happening. Scarlet was giving a speech to a whole bunch of reporters and internationalists, with a few ShinRa SOLDIERS at her side. Against the wall, tied up to chairs, were Reeve, Cloud, Barret, and Tifa.
"Okay. We need a plan." Cid said.
"I already got one." Vincent said, surprising the other two.
"What might that be?" Red asked.
"We have to wait until they're inside the room though. And we will have to move fast. Are you sure you want to proceed with my idea?" Vincent asked.
"Spit it out! We don't have all fucking day!" Cid hissed.
"Okay." Vincent complied. "We have to sneak in as soon as they've locked up the room. When they least expect it. Then we attack Scarlet and her SOLDIERs from behind while those news reporters retreat. Then we grab the key from Scarlet, grab the others, and run." he explained.
"Good idea." Cid said.
"Most thought out." Red replied.
They waited. It almost seemed like forever to wait for Scarlet to get done with her speech. All that she talked about was how scared she was durring Meteor, how frusterated she was by AVALANCHE, and how the weapons in ShinRa were going to be advanced. Nothing big. Then she turned to the SOLDIERs.
"Put them in the room." She ordered.
The SOLDIERS then tied Reeve, Cloud, Barret, and Tifa and led them into the gas chamber, guns poking them in the back to insure that they didn't escape.
Then Cid slowly opened the door, as quietly as possible. Red closed it softly behind him with his hind paw. They slowly crept quietly through the shadows. Scarlet had then continued her speech, the SOLDIERs lined up behind her again. By the time they were behind the SOLDIERs in the shadows, they were already powering up their most powerful materia.
"Now." They heard Vincent whisper.
All at once, a varage of spells hit the SOLDIERs. Fire exploded over their heads, while the earth shook rapidly beneath them. Scarlet let out a shreik of terror and fell to her knees, covering her ears and squeezing her eyes shut. At once all the news reporters scurried out, not wanting to be in the line of fire. Then a great surge of electricity formed a ball around the SOLDIERs and exploded, sending sparks everywhere. After the attack, Cid, Vincent, and Red saw the six SOLDIERs fall to the ground, crumpled. The visors in their helmets to singed to see inside. Cid was sure he didn't want to see anyway, no matter how much he hated the ShinRa.
Scarlet had disappeared, obviously driven and outnumbered. She was actually hiding behind the door. She growled angrily and raised her fist to herself. "Those jerks are gunna pay!" she thought, and then darted back off towards her office.
Too bad she dropped her key!
"Stupid ass." Cid snickered, picking up the key. He then ambled over to the gas room door and inserted the key. He turned it and unlocked it. A moment later Reeve, Cloud, Barret, and Tifa all walked out of the room, still covering their mouths. Tifa swung the door shut behind her, her face contorted with disgust.
"Ugh, that's the second time, already!" she shreiked.
"Come one, we gotta get outta here!" Reeve explained.
"Well duh, foo'! What else?" Barret hollored back.
"No. I mean NOW! Rufus is probably gonna arrive with even MORE forces!!!!" Reeve explained, panicked.
"Okay. MOVE OUT!" Cloud ordered.
Then they all ran towards the exit, Cid muttering, "He's getting too use to that phrase..." on the way out.
As they made their way out across the Neo Sister Ray, they heard the Highwind hovering above. One of the crew members was on the side deck. Cid waved for him to throw out the rope ladder, and the crew member complied. Then they all got onto the ladder and climbed up to the airship. Soon after, they all had returned to the infirmary.
But somone was missing!
'They haven't come back for a while...' Yuffie thought as she ran through Junon, towards the upper plate of the town. 'I gotta see if they're all right!'
As she approached the guard, she quickly handed him ten gil and scuttled into the elevator before he could even react. The guard simply scratched the back of his head and went back to usual duty.
Comming out of the elevator, Yuffie ran down the streets of Junon, looking around frantically for any sign of the others. As she passed a few alleys, she began to wonder if they had just gotten back.
Then somone grabbed her by the arm and pulled her into one of the alleys. She whirled around and tried to rip the hand from seizing her arm, but she had no avail.
Soon they shoved her against the cold, brick wall. She felt them pull her wrists together and then the short clink of handcuffs could could be heard. As soon as she was left free, except for the handcuffs, she spun around to see her enemies.
"TURKS?!" she screeched.
"Sorry, Yuffie. But..." Reno began, but was then cut off.
"--You're under arrest for being a part of a terrorist group! That group's name is AVALANCHE!" Elena butted in.
"And don't you forget it!" Yuffie growled.
"Shut up!" Reno declared. He then shocked her enough so that she would pass out. But nothing happened.
All that she did was jerk in pain and slid to the ground, on her knees, keeled over. She winced and clutched her stomache. The three turks looked down at her as if she was some pathetic ladybug. She looked back up at them, glaring.
"You're gunna pay." She snarled. "I swear. When my friends find out..." she trailed off as soon as Reno pointed the nightstick at her once more.
"Shut up." He repeated. Then he shocked her once more. Yuffie gave out a cry as it hit her, and then her head sunk, unconsious.
"Come on." Rude said. "We have to get her back to the boss for further orders."
The turks nodded triumphantly. Reno picked Yuffie up and they started to head back to their helicopter.
"We're missing Yuffie!!!" Tifa screeched. "HOW COULD YOU LEAVE HER BEHIND?!!!!" she screamed at Cid.
"Fucking hell!" Cid cursed. "We didn't even see her!!!"
"YOUR PLANE DROVE AWAY!" she screamed back.
"WOULD YOU OF RATHER LIKED IT BACK THERE, SUFFOCATED IN THAT DAMN GAS ROOM?!!!"
Tifa went silent after that. Then she looked up again, not knowing what to say.
"She's in big trouble."
AVALANCHE turned towards Reeve at the sound of his voice.
"....What do you mean....in trouble?" Tifa asked.
"BIG trouble? Dat's bad." Barret observed. "Explain, foo'."
"They had plans to kidnap her." Reeve explained.
"...Who?" Cloud asked, cursiously.
"The turks." Reeve stated.
The others went into an immediant uproar.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE FUCKING TURKS KIDNAPPED HER?!" Cid exclaimed.
"DAMN SHINRA!!!" Barret countered.
"How could they do this?!!" Tifa asked.
"Why would they want to kidnap her?" Red asked.
"To get Wutai." Reeve said. "They're going to hold her for ransom, but then go back on their word and take everything for themselves. Rufus is..." he paused.
"What?" Cloud asked, taking a step closer to the black haired ShinRa executive.
"Rufus...H...H...He's going to destroy the entire continent!!" Reeve shouted, as if he didn't want the information in his head anymore.
Everyone gasped, and there was a long, awkward, silence....
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Gawd.. That was long... Plz R n R! ^-^
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