"Still no contact with President Reeve sir!" a crewman saluted to Cid.

What the fuck do I do? Alright Cid, you can do a search for Cloud, or you can start trying to save the people of the city. Whoever might be alive that is? Why do I have to make these fucking decisions?

Cid looked around the room. Crewmen were running all over the place trying to get figures, and all sorts of things figured out. "Where the fuck is Reeve when you need him! This is the kind of decisions he supposed to make." Cid looked down. "Not even, Reeve and Shinra corp. could just do the search for survivors by themselves while I search for Cloud."

Tifa was in the planning room. She had her arms around her knees; she was sitting in the far corner to the left. Tifa heard a knock on the door. "Come in."

As the door opened, Lina's face came into view. Tifa thought about something that really did not occur to her before. Lina looks very familiar. But who? Tifa thought, nobody she knows looks exactly like her.

"Hi." Lina said softly, as she walked to the corner Tifa was sitting in.

Tifa faked a smirk and dug her head into her knees.

"Are you ok?" Lina asked. Stupid question, she thought

"I guess." Tifa said

"Cloud is fine, I know he is." Lina smiled, as she sat down next to Tifa. Lina moved her braid around her left shoulder. When she looked to her right, she noticed Tifa was not even looking up.

"The last time I thought I lost Cloud, we found him in Mideel. Apparently he fell into the lifestream. Before that, Cloud fell off the top plate of Midgar, down into the slums. He told me he fell into the Sector 5 slums. Suddenly Tifa stopped. She looked at Lina. "That's when he met Aeris I think, he never told me if he met her before." Tifa studied Lina's face.

"What?" Lina asked.

"You look like her." Tifa said.

"Like who?" Lina asked not knowing how to feel about this.

"You look like Aeris. Not completely, but you do." Tifa's eyes narrowed, "You also look like someone else."

"I don't understand."

As Tifa was going to continue, the door to the planning room slams open. Cid barges into the room and stops a few feet away from the two women.

"Tifa I'm sorry." Cid looked down. "Were going to find survivors at Junon. We can't look for Cloud now."

Tifa looked at Cid in shock, her eyes started to tear up. ".." She opened her mouth, but couldn't say anything. Finally she stood up, nodded at Cid, and ran out of the room crying with her hand cover up her mouth.

Cid felt really bad. "I hate this."

Lina looked up at him. "Why?" she was hurt, she wanted to see Cloud. Lina did not know why, but she wanted to see Cloud, and she wanted to make sure he was ok.

Cid looked away, "I can't get in contact with Reeve, so I have to find survivors."

"Who's Reeve?" Lina's green eyes started to form tears.

"The new president of Shinra." Cid finally looked at her. "Junon is almost completely destroyed." He looked away again. "They couldn't get the armor up in time."

Lina stood up readying herself to run after Tifa. "Anything I can do?"

"Talk to Tifa first." Cid turned around and walked out of the room.

Lina cleared up her tears, and then exited the room.

Tifa looked out to the ocean from the deck. The wind was howling in her ears. She could not stop crying. "Cloud!" she yelled out to see. "Cloud!" she tried again. "Cloud I love you!" she yelled out knowing he couldn't hear. Something inside her did not want to give in though; a little ray of hope was flickering in the dark.

Closing her eyes, Tifa kicked the railings of the flight deck. "Cloud I love you. Why couldn't I tell you before?" she spoke almost under her cries.

Lina slowly walked up the staircase that led up to the deck. "What do I tell her?" Suddenly, Lina had an idea. She sped up the stairs and ran to Tifa. Lina looked at what Tifa was wearing. The miniskirt and white shirt seemed like something Tifa would wear. "Tifa?"

"Yes." Tifa said not looking up.

"Let's go find Cloud."

Tifa looked up at her. "Really?"

"Yes." She smiled warmly to Tifa. "I want to find him almost as much as you do."

Tifa nodded, and stood up correctly. She dried her eyes with her hands. "Thank you Lina." Tifa walked up to Lina, and gave her a hug.

Lina smiled, and hugged back. "Lets go, time is wasting."

"But where do we look?" Tifa asked.

"I don't know. Second of all, how are we going to look?"

"Hell the fuck no!" Cid yelled

"Cid how you expect us to find Cloud on the ocean?" asked Lina.

Tifa was still to hurt to speak.

"I'm not lending you the Highwind." Cid told her.

"But Cid, you don't need it right now."

"I have to put the survivors somewhere!" Cid said

"Cid then why don't you send your crewmen to find survivors, and you come with us, you're not going to let two women go off on their own are you?" Lina smiled to him

Cid started to feel a little manipulated. "Alright, whatever. BUT I'M FLYING!"



When the Highwind was actually able to land on the landing strip, everyone went to the deck.

Cid paced back and forth. His men were in a line looking at him. "Alright, do whatever you can to find whoever you can." Cid was never much for words. "If you find anyone alive, bring them by the landing area. I don't care if you find a dead family member or friend. No dead bodies in the Highwind, we don't have much space."

Some of the men looked down, but they seemed like they understood the dilemma.

"Alright then move out." Cid took a puff of his smoke and tossed it out. Turning to the two women. "Alright now we head to where Cloud fell. If we don't' find him, were going back."

Tifa didn't answer. Lina nodded in agreement.

Cid felt bad. Looking to Tifa, "Tifa you have to understand the balance is just fucking wrong, Cloud is one person. Survivors are more than one."

Tifa looked away. "Yes I know.

Lina smiled. "Alright then, let's find Cloud.