Those choosen by the planet
Yuffie was delighted. Her plan, although complety random now, was finally coming together. Kandya was sure to know a way into the Shinra HQ. She stopped at the edge of the rooftop and looked back to the huge shape that was the finally fallen metal body of Red X. She still didn't trust it though. It had been relentless and it seemed nothing could stop it. She wondered about it. Sure she was no scientist herself but it didn't take a brain surgeon to fiqure out that Red X's biological parts should have been destroyed ages ago in the plates fall or even infact its own fall from the pillar. She definatly didn't trust it for one second. But in a way she still felt sorry for the beast. It was doomed to spent its life a slave to its mechanical body. Yuffie could be accused of being heartless sometimes but she could never be as cold to do what this Hojo man had done. She tryed to block it out of her mind...
"So whats the plan?. Yuffie broke the silence "There IS a plan right?"
"Well...Yes i do have an idea. Its a little know fact about Shinra that
they can be a little TOO saftey consious sometimes."
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The time was now 6:57 pm. It had been quite alot of effort to get to the Shinra HQ. The building stood in the center of the city but only had a few access points. The most common being at the edge of Sector six which was not easily accessed due to the plates fall and there was another often open at sector 3. Which would be the easiest to reach. It had taken quite some valuable time but now they stood in the early shadows of the night in an alley way at the side of the Shinra building.
"We're going in the fire escape?" Yuffie asked curious.
"Yup..." Kandya began to reveal her plan "Only one security door between us and Shinra. See what i mean. It was always pointed out to new recruits on their first visit to the facilities inside that in the unlikey event of an emergancy the fire escapes can be found on the left and right side of all non security floors. Though we often wondered what the people in the floors above that do in the "Unlikely" case of an emergancy"
The two of them now stood at the fire door. It was securied by an alarm
system that would sound when opened. Kandya personaly beleived this was
so President Shinra would know if somebody was getting out of the burning
building before him.
"One of my special training courses was on espionage and covert ops.
They practicaly thought me how to break in to this place" Kandya laughed
quitely.
Kandya began to gently tap on the wall. She moved her tap along quitely checking for the hollow spot that held the wiring. It didn't take long to discover. With one quick move she punched her fist a short distance at the wall breaking the plaster but not penatrating it. She gave Yuffie a smile. Yuffie recipricated with an "Are you done yet?" expression.
"Ok..." Kandya mumbled some technical stuff to herself that seemed to make Yuffies eye's cross involuntarily as she tampered with the security doors wiring. The door gave off two short beeps and one long and then the sound of metal sliding across metal could be heard.
"Aha.." Kandya exclaimed quitley as she twisted the door knob and pushed the heavy door in.
"The one problem is it can't be locked again so i can't cover our tracks. But it should be handy for getting back out. Yuffie wasn't listening. She was too busy staring in awe at the 60 flights of stairs that towered above them.
"Please tell me we don't have to go all the way up to the top" Yuffie said with a pleading sigh
"60 flights? nope....What sorta fire escape only has one door at the top?" Kandya replied giving Yuffie an impatiant look. "Well lets go...We can get into floor 47 with no problems. Its closed due to repairs. Another one of Hojo's specimens got loose up there. Man that thing was mean. Didn't get far though before Soldiers had shot it full of tranquilisers.
"47!!! Thats even worse than 60!!" Yuffie moaned as she trudged up behind Kandya.
Kandya smiled to herself. Where all these Ninja's so contrary?
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Laverne sat in his tiny little cubical office staring with awe at the
filing cabinet that contained the hidden Crystal Materia. Neither Hojo
or General Heidegger were to be found in the building. At least not on
the non-secure floors. And there was no chance of a grunt like him getting
even a look at a pass card to them. He just had to wait till the nightly
shift change rota at 8pm. General Heidegger always had to come down and
give a long drawn out speech about what an awful job his troops were doing.
Laverne was sure of one thing. This materia was only going to pass from
his hands into Heidegger's or Hoj's. He couldn't risk the possibility that
someone else might steal his glory and likely promotion. He looked at his
watch. It read 7:17pm. It wouldn't be long now till he was outta this job.
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"47....This is it." Kandya whispered as she leaned her ear into the door to listen for signs of life on the other side."The repair men oughta be gone home by now. Shinra don't do overtime" She smiled. She was clearly loving the adrenaline rush this was giving her. She pushed the door open. It was completley dark inside.
"We can most likely make it up to the secure floors through the ventalation system from here. More hard work i know Yuffie but it's for the sake of humanity right?.........Right?" Kandya turned around to Yuffie. She was gone again. "What?...Yuffie? Where are you?" Kandya whispered out into the darkness. There was no reply. It seemed she had been ditched again by this mysterious girl.
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The internal cronometer hit 7:20pm. A low beeping sound began to emmit in the night sky. A small darkened LCD panel lit up the darkness with tiny green glowing letters.
BEGINNING DAILY SECURITY UPDATES........PLEASE WAIT.....PLEASE WAIT.....PLEASE
WAIT....SECURITY MALFUNCTION DETECTED.....BEGINNING SYSTEMS SCAN....MAIN
POWER OFFLINE.....ACCESING SECONDARY SYTEMS....PLEASE WAIT...PLEASE WAIT...PLEA...SECONDARY
POWER OFFLINE....CONTACTING HOJO ONE.....PLEASE WAIT.... PLEASE WAIT...UPLINK
ESTABLISHED....
High above midgar in the secure floors of Shinra HQ a small man in a lab coat responded to his bleeping computer terminal.
"Whats this?" He mumbled as he tapped on the keyboard. He read the words
off the screen.
RED X UNIT MALFUNTION.... PRIMARY AND SECONDARY POWER OFFLINE....87
MINS OF BATTERY POWER REMAINING.
"Stupid machine!!!" The man grumbled as he typed up commands looking for more information. He turned to look at a line of glass containers. There were twelve in total each was labeled from Red to RedXIII but skipped from Red X to RED XII. The beast in the last container snarled at the scientist.
"Tsk Tsk Tsk....Don't make me sedate you again beast" The man taunted
as he turned back to the screen.
BIOLOGICAL COMPONANT NON RESPONSIVE......
The scientist turned again to look at the container labeled Red X. Inside a large headless body kicked at the glass. The body was covered completly with bright red hair. It was quite a sight.
"Hmmm?....Must have damaged the conection...What happened to you?" he
asked to no-one."Very well" He sighed as he typed on his keyboard.
Access Phoneix protocall....Begin Mode XI....Return to Hojo One.
Back on the roof of the abandoned warehouse in sector 9 the large shape of Red X creeked and groaned. The LCD screen went blank and any of the tiny lights on the body still working dimmed. The shape graoned and creeked again. The beasts biological head still lay silent. Its eyes moved rapidly. It was dreaming. The machines left arm moved. Then the right leg. Suddenly with one quick burst all four metal limbs extended outwards leaving Red X lying on his back with his arms and legs spread out.
The sound of steam jetting out filled the air. Then the beast lay silent again for a couple of moments. The huge ape like robot suddenly jumped into life again. Its hands and feet closed into fists and the long metal climbing spikes emerged again like switchblades opening. A gentle whirring noise began that grew louder by the second. soon it was a piercing screech in the night sky. With one quick movement each of Red X metal limbs split apart. The beast now had eight legs with two long metal spikes on each end. The four right legs lifted up into the air and launched towards the opisite side turning the beast over on its stomach. It raised itself up onto its eight legs. The beast now stood 6ft high on eight limbs. Its biological head was still unconsious. The LCD screen lit up again.
LARGE POWER DRAIN DETECTED..........
BATTERY POWER WILL EXPIRE IN 56 SECONDS.......BEGINNING PHONEIX PROTOCAL.
The huge metal spiders back lit with a soft blue glow. Two rows of four
little lights lit up over the biological head giving it the final touch
of its arachnid apperance. The beast scuttled forward returning to Hojo
One. The biological head remained unconsious unaware of what it now was.
Dreaming of its life long gone.
Back at Shinra HQ the small man in the white coat smiled at the decapitated body kicking at the glass.
"Ha Ha Ha......Guardians chosen by the planet" He laughed more as he thought back to the creatures session in the information extraction chamber....." Your gift form the life stream will leave you my slave forever" Hojo laughed at the helpless beast as he walked towards the Labs exit.
