Scars of the Past

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What will I do - If I can't be with you - Tell me where will I turn to - Baby where will I be - We are apart - Am I still in your heart? - Baby why don't you see? - That I need you here with me - I've been sitting here - Can't get you off my mind - I've tried my best to be a man and be strong - I've drove myself insane - Wishing I could touch your face - But the truth remains - You're gone (N*Sync – Gone)

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Chapter 2 - The Plate Drops

"WHAT!?" Reno slammed his hands on Tseng's desk, with all the anger he possessed. "You can't be serious!?" The leader of the Turks just put his head in his hands, rubbing his whole face. "They want us to destroy a whole sector above and under it just to kill 6 people?" The red head walked away from the desk, muttering under his breath.

"Yes Reno. They want us to kill over two thousand people, just to get rid of Avalanche." Tseng leaned back on his chair. "Shinra doesn't like being threaten, so destroying the sector is like trying to regain their pride" He let his head rest on the back of the chair and started at the ceiling. "But they don't want us to do it, they want you to do it Reno." Reno stared at his boss for a few minutes, letting the news sink in. He shook his head.

"This is all fucked up." Reno let himself drop onto the couch. "I want them dead alright but I don't wanna drop the plate just to do it." His anger welling up yet again. "Hell, I bet it doesn't even work."

"I knew Shinra were immoral but I didn't think they were capable of doing this" Rude mumbled from across the room.

"I don't think any of us were Rude." Tseng sighed. He looked over to the bald Turk. "You'll pilot the helicopter, drop Reno off at the top of the pillar, then you and I will go and find the Ancient. There's been word that she's with Avalanche now, so she shouldn't be too far away. Once we get her, we'll go back for Reno..."

"Hang on a sec" Reno butted in "You mean I have to face Avalanche all alone while the two of you go after a girl. Why do I sense I get the bad end of the deal?" Tseng looked over at Reno.

"I know, but I can't do anything else we need someone to pilot the copter since I don't want to get anyone else involved in this." Tseng answered back. Reno hesitantly nodded.

"Ok. But If anything happens to me, I'll hate you for life got it?" Reno told him. Tseng glimpsed at Reno for a second.

"If there was any other way I would do it. You know that." The Turk leader got out of his chair and walked towards the door. "Lets get it over with then" With that he walked out the room. The other two Turks looked at each other, then followed.

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Aboard the helicopter, Reno was sat in one corner spinning his nightstick, now dressed in his Turk uniform with no tie and his shirt out. The Wutian glanced at the red head for a second and shook his head. Reno looked to be in deep thought, before he stood up and walked over to sit in the seat next to Rude.

"Rude if anything happens to me I want you to go and get Callum from Elly and look after him for me ok?" The youngest Turk asked quietly. He pulled a piece of paper out of top pocket and gave it his friend. "She lives here" Rude took a quick glance at Reno.

"Nothing is going to happen...."

"I know, but if it does" Reno cut him off. Rude stole another glance at his friend, before he hesitantly answered him.

"Alright." Rude replied. Tseng walked up to join the other two men.

"We're here Reno."

"Yeah yeah, I'm as good as gone. Wish me luck won't you?" With that Reno jumped onto the platform below. He landed gracefully onto the grating and ran over to the machine. 'Ignore Avalanche and they might not do anything........... yeah right Reno, that's just wishful thinking. May as well say something' He pressed a few buttons 'Which one was it again........ ah got it.' He pressed one more button before addressing Avalanche.

"You're too late. Once I push this button..." He found the big red button that was now glowing and pressed it "That's all, folks! Mission accomplished." He looked up to see three Avalanche members stood there their faces etched with panic. 'Heh they have no idea do they'. The girl decided to speak.

"We have to disarm it! Cloud! Barret! Please!" She shouted, Reno just looked at her 'These people so don't look like terrorists' He decided to speak.

"You people have no idea what you've got yourselves into do you?" Reno said while shaking his head. The blonde looked at him, Cloud he figured his name out to be.

"What do you mean?" Cloud looked at him puzzled.

"Well I sure as hell didn't want to do this, but I'm just Shinra's puppet I do whatever they tell me. If there was any other way to do this...." He stopped for a moment "Why am I telling you all this shit!" He started to shout. "You wanna know why? When you blew up reactor one, you killed my wife!" He looked at their faces. He was positive that Cloud and Tifa's faces faulted for just a second. "I want nothing to get revenge, but even I don't want it like this"

"It's all lies so shut yer hole!" The coloured man said before aiming his gun arm at Reno and shooting. The Turk felt every bullet enter him he had no time to dodge the attack, because it was so sudden.

"Neo-Turk Light!" The electrical ball shot towards Barret and hit it's target, the coloured man faulted a little, then stood his ground. Before Reno knew it, Tifa was nearly on top of him and made a well placed punch towards his jaw, which hit dead on. The red head stumbled back a few pace, brought his hand up to his lip and brushed away the tiny bit of red liquid that was there. 'That's it bitch.' He ran towards the brown haired woman and jabbed her with his nightstick. She fell to the floor, as soon as she did the blonde was upon Reno in a flash bringing his sword down. Reno managed to dodge out of the way but the blade caught his arm and drew more blood. 'Shit this really isn't going to well what next.........?' He brought up his nightstick again and casted a pyramid that encased the blonde. Reno watched at the blonde tried to slice his way out of it, Cloud singled Tifa to attack it 'Shit! More clever than I thought.' As soon as the girl finished attacking the pyramid, she ran towards Reno again. She thumped him in the stomach with all her might. The Turk cursed as she knocked the wind out of him. As he was trying to recover, Cloud was at him again bringing up his sword and slashed him across the stomach. 'God damnit! that's really hurts you bastard!' He cried in his mind. Lucky for Reno, he heard the helicopter coming back. He pulled himself up with the last bit of his energy and looked at the Avalanche members. "It's time" He hollered to them, as he ran to the platform edge and jumped off.

'Please be there.' He looked to see the copter and he grabbed onto the ladder. Tseng looked out the door, his eyes showing some concern. "You know Tseng, a little help would be nice." The Turk leader grasped hold of Reno's wrist and pulled him up. The red head landed on his hands and knees breathing hard. Tseng looked at him.

"Shit Reno, you ok?" He asked bending down.

"I'll be fine in a bit" Reno looked up to see the Ancient hugged into the corner. "You found her then?" He turned himself over and laid on the floor. Tseng looked out the door again.

"Just hang on a bit longer ok?" He then walked over to the door. Reno heard Tseng starting to talk to Avalanche though he wasn't concentrating on what was being said as he drifted into unconsciousness.

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A few hours later Rude found himself walking along a street on the plate in sector 2. In his mind he knew he would have to do this, but was hoping he wouldn't. Sarah insisted on following.

"Rude? Are you gonna tell me where we're going? And who's this Elly?" The black haired woman rambled on next to him.

"We are going...." He paused for a moment and looked around, then pointed towards a apartment block "There and Elly is Reno's friend" He walked into the building leaving Sarah to trail after him. After a while he found the door he was looking for and brought his arm up to knock. After a few seconds, the door opened to reveal a smallish blonde woman dressed in a SOLDIER uniform.

"Can I help you?" Elena asked the bald headed man stood at her door, noting the uniform he was wearing.

"I've come for Callum Reno sent me."

"Ah, you must be Rude right?"

"How did you......"

"Reno's told me about you and the fact you're wearing a Turks uniform gave it away, and you must be Sarah right?" Elena asked turning to the small black haired woman stood next to Rude. Sarah nodded.

"We're gonna look after Callum for a while." Sarah smiled at the blonde SOLDIER. Elena hesitantly nodded.

"Let me just go and get him" Just as she said that, Callum came darting to the doorway.

"Hi" The little red head shouted and grinned. The phone in Elena's apartment began to ring.

"I'll be back in a minute ok?" She turned and walked to the phone. Callum looked up at Rude.

"Where's daddy?"

"Erm.... Daddy's a little bit... unwell right now, so we're going to look after you for a few days. Ok?" Sarah answered for the Turk. Elena came back to the doorway with a set of keys in her hand and her coat in the other.

"Stupid fat ass wants to see me." She let out a long sigh "It better not be about not being at work today. Reeve was meant to get me out of it" She turned to Rude. "Are you going back to HQ? If you are, mind if I walk with you?"

"Yeah I'm going back and no I don't mind." Rude looked to his wife. "Sarah take Callum back home ok? I'll be back a bit late." Sarah nodded and began to walk away with Callum holding her hand. The other two began their walk back to the Shinra building.

"What happened to Reno?" Elena asked after they had been walking for a while.

"What makes you think something's wrong?" Rude retorted back.

"Well the fact you came to pick Callum up. If he was ok, Reno would have picked him up himself"

"You heard about the sector seven plate collapsing?" The blonde nodded a little. "They sent Reno up to release the plate and he got into a fight with Avalanche." Elena stayed silent for a while, contemplating everything that had happened in the last week. She looked back at the Turk.

"I wouldn't mind killing Avalanche myself. Addy didn't deserve to die" Elena said in a whisper. Rude silently agreed. The rest of the trip was made in silence.

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Elena found herself in front of Heidegger's office door. She took a deep breathe and knocked loudly.

"ENTER" Came a shout from in the room. The blonde opened the door to find Heidegger sat at his desk just as she thought he would be. But what she didn't think she would see was the Leader of the Turks sat to one side. "Take a seat. I want to make this as quick as possible." Heidegger responded. Elena sat down in the chair that was placed in the middle of the room. "Since we are a Turk down at the moment and since you're the best SOLDIER in the company we've decided that you will be promoted to Turk status. G'yaaa Haaa Haaa Congratulations." The blonde haired woman just stared at the man for a minute.

"I'm a t...Turk?" She stuttered after a while.

"G'yaaa Haaa Haaa of course. Tseng will show you around" The blonde stared at the fat man some more. She couldn't believe it. She was a Turk! Though the idea of being one never interested her, she was determined to show Heidegger that she could do this. Heidegger rose from his leather chair and walked over to the door. "If you don't mind, I have somewhere I need to be". The door slammed shut behind him. Elena remain in her seat, still gazing at the leather chair until the Turk leader's voice broke her from her trance.

"Well Elena, do you want that tour fat.......I mean Heidegger was talking about?" Elena nearly burst out laughing

"I'm glad SOLDIER's aren't the only people to call him that." She said still trying to hold back her laugh. Tseng smiled at her.

"I'm sure everyone calls him that. I know for sure that the President does." The Turk said as he opened the door. Elena couldn't keep her laughing held in any longer and she started to giggle. "Ladies first" The blonde rose from her seat and walked towards the door. She thought about it but couldn't resist the opportunity.

"I swear if he laughs like that one more time, I'll rip his vocal chords out". Tseng looked at her for a moment then chuckled.

"I'm sure you're going to fit in just find Elena" The Wutian whispered as she strode out the door.

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Reno awoke to find himself in a room with painfully bright white walls. He squinted for a moment while his eyes got used to the light. As he did he saw a shape that vaguely looked like Tseng. The red head turned towards it and waited for his eyes to focus.

"So you're back in the land of the living are you? How do you feel?" The Wutian asked.

"I feel like I was run over by a truck, then Palmer and Heidegger kindly took it in turns to jump on me." Reno winced as he tried to sit himself up a bit. "So what do you want I can tell this isn't a pleasure visit?"

"Well it kind of is." Tseng motioned for someone to come into the room "Reno, this is the new Turk" Reno jaw nearly hit the floor when he saw who walked through the door.

"Elena?"

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