Chapter 2
I opened the door and flipped the light switch on.
"This is it, your cells over there." I rummaged through one of the three closets, producing a comforter and pillow. "Here." I dumped them into Adom's arms. "Now if you'll excuse me," I sat down ion my den/bedroom. I planned on vegetating for the next seven hours and then sleeping a while. It didn't happen, I nodded off after twenty minutes of dancing Shinra MP's.
Cold, cold dark and raining. He was kneeling near the edge of the upper plate, holding onto...something, an arm. An arm attached to me...? I was hauled back up. He said something and we both started laughing. Blood sprayed from his chest and a surprised look crossed his face. A booted foot kicked his body off the edge.
A cold hand rested on my shoulder, I spun taking up the mans fallen gun and firing at...
"David wake up!" A girl I didn't remember bringing home shook me awake. Then something clicked.
"Sarah? Who the hell let you in? What time is it?" Sarah was my older sister; there was a three-year gap between us. She gave me a roguish grin.
"No door in Midgar is locked to me. And it's 4am Midgar time."
"The fuck'd you wake up for at this time of night? Just crash in the..." My voice trailed off, "the spare room like you normally do..." Like me my sister was tall, Caucasian, and waist length blonde hair and green eyes.
"Well, you see, I tried that," She held up a bandaged fore arm. "Your friend sleeps with a knife..."
"Hey, it's the slums..." I countered.
"In each hand."
"So, he's a little paranoid...I carry a combat knife..."
"These have eight inch blades."
"Fine, where is he now?"
"I think he's raiding the fridge..." An unpleasant odor confirmed her suspicions. Adom walked out of the kitchen eating a slice of cheese.
"Man, don't you ever clean that thing out?"
"I was going to warn you about that...I don't eat in often and some one..." I glared at Sarah, "Buys groceries every once in a while...and they don't get eaten." Someone started pounding at the door. "Get the hell out of here, I'm sleeping!" I yelled at them. The knocking turned to pounding and I heard a muffled voice holler something seconds before two SOLDIER barreled through my door.
"Aww come on, I just fixed that!" I grabbed an outsider off a ledge and dropped the two SOLDIER, one with a leg that probably wouldn't be serviceable for a year and the other with a hole in his skull. The Turks stepped through the doorway. "Oh, hi guys." I said just before Rude came crashing through the wall and decked me before moving to stand near his comrades.
"We don't have time for your...humor." Tseng said quietly.
"Rude, man, that was lighter than the last time, losing your touch?"
"..."
"Talkative as ever." I fired several rounds, which Rude neatly dodged. I whipped the empty gun at Tseng and ducked as he kicked it back at my head. As I rose I drew my Tongfers, crossing them in front of me I focused on a red materia. "Hellfire!"
A circular area in the middle of the floor exploded as the demon Ifrit rammed through it. He glared at me and turned his horned head towards the Turks. Flames began raging around him and, over the fury of the flames I heard Elena.
"Diamond Dust!" A glow lowered itself from somewhere in the room and slowly formed itself into the feminine form of Shiva. Ice crystals flew towards a now moving Ifrit. The collision caused an explosion, which knocked both my party and the Turks off their feet, and probably finished off the surviving, injured SOLDIER.
When the smoke and furniture remains cleared the battle resumed. Eat this! Fire 3!" I focused on an all materia and a Fire materia. Green energy swirled around me and a large cloud of flames enveloped the Turks. Adom drew and attacked with his war sword.
Reddish energy trailed after him and his sword as he attacked the Turks, shouting.
"Blade" He hit Tseng, "Of," He hit Rude, "The," He hit Reno, "Ancients!" He slashed Elena and performed an acrobatic maneuver that sent him flying backwards, slashing each of the Turks an additional time.
"The hell was that?" I questioned as I slammed into a bewildered Tseng, using my shoulder to complement the flurry of Tongfer strikes I was about to deliver. A purple aura surrounded Tseng, who kicked me faster than I could react.
"It's a limit breaker, a skill useable only when your anger reaches a sufficient level." He stated, calmly ducking under a roundhouse. Something struck me in the back of the head, pain seared through my body. Abruptly as it began, it stopped, and suddenly I realized I'd forgotten to keep tabs on Reno. I fell to my knee's struggling to keep my hands from trembling I hauled myself to my feet. I found my PHS and autodialed the company.
"H..elp..T...ur..ks." I said, before another electrically charged attack dropped me into oblivion.
Cold hand on my shoulder, I spun taking up the mans fallen gun and fired at...Tseng. The bullet struck him in the leg. He cursed and I was hit on the head by something, I don't know what, but it hurt like hell. I fell backward into a bloody puddle.
When I woke up, they were gone and I was still here...why?
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I opened my eyes and immediately squeezing them shut. A bright light hung from the ceiling. I attempted to raise my hand to shield my eyes but found I couldn't. Forcing my eyes open I found myself in a small cube shaped room. With a windowless door on one wall, and a mirror, which probably had someone one the other side watching, on the other side.
Reno walked into the room followed by Rude.
"What, the good cop bad cop routine again, how lame..." I muttered.
"No," Reno stated with a smirk. "This is the bad cop, fucking psycho cop routine. I'll let you figure out who's who." He back handed me across the head.
"I already knew you were a fucking..." He brought his fist back around. He backed off, signaling for Rude to take over. "What no questions." Reno laughed and paused just before he left the room.
"Who said we wanted to know anything." Rude's fists flew faster than I could keep track of hitting me more times than I could count. Almost making me wish I hadn't insulted him earlier, almost.
Again I woke up in an unfamiliar room. Though this time I had company.
"Ohhhh, it's awake, it is yes yesss." It, or he, was a pitiful sight, at least what I could see of it...him...it. Hunched over and holding hands that had probably been broken more than once. It had thinning hair and kept rocking back and forth, staring at me with glowing yellow eyes. "Missed reunion, must resurrect master." It said matter of factly.
"Yah, whatever." It pulled itself to its feet and scuttled over to a corner of the cell, it snatched something from a small hole in the wall and thrust it into my hand. It looked like a light blue marble. "The hell is this?" I asked.
"It's the blue materia." It made a shrieking noise and dove into the back of the cell. Two SOLDIER entered and grabbed my arms and dragged me out of the room.
"They did a number on him." One of them said in a slightly familiar voice.
"Yeah, he's like bleeding profusely man." That one I knew, maybe.
"Ed?"
"Damn straight dude. This here's a breakout."
"I gotta kill Reno he's got my stuff."
"Been there done that."
"Bought the t-shirt."
"And stole your stuff back." He added enthusiastically. We were now outside and Ed pulled his mask off. He ran a hand through his spiky aqua green hair. I laughed, it hurt but I did it anyway.
"What?" The second SOLDIER removed his mask.
"Roarke? Wow, Someone big must be on the end of this."
"Your sister would have killed me if I hadn't come." Again I laughed. "You managed to get yourself three weeks paid vacation at Costa del Sol."
"Oh joy of all joys. I can walk you know." I was let go and promptly fell on my face. "Shut up, just shut up!" I rose to my feet and sauntered forward, more of a stagger though. "You guy's coming or what?" Ed and Roarke shrugged and were joined by Adom and Werner.
"So what happened?" I don't know who asked.
"Well, they tied me up, and Reno hit me, then he hit me again, then Rude hit me lots...and some freak gave me this." I held up the blue materia.
"No questions?"
"Nope I figured it was a trap to get you guy's here...shit!" I muttered the last part.
"Bravo mister Boekal, bravo." A man I could have sworn was dead announced. "Ahh, I see you've noticed the uncanny resemblance I bear to my late nephew. Allow me to introduce myself...I am Michael Shinra, current president of Shinra Incorporated. And you are all dead." He walked off, white trench coat trailing behind him.
My mind was racing, I was unarmed, and all I had was the blue materia. I focused on it, nothing then. Pain immense pain. I grew distant, becoming a cold unfeeling husk of what I had been. Faint noises, screams I thought, reached my ears and then, blissful silence. F\Gradually I grew less distant, the silence grew louder. I became aware if the fact that I was on my knees, when had that happened?
Ed turned towards me eye's full of wonder.
"The fuck was that man?" I shook my head, suddenly short of breath, sweat dripping from my forehead. Why in Odin's name was I so tired all of a sudden?
I opened the door and flipped the light switch on.
"This is it, your cells over there." I rummaged through one of the three closets, producing a comforter and pillow. "Here." I dumped them into Adom's arms. "Now if you'll excuse me," I sat down ion my den/bedroom. I planned on vegetating for the next seven hours and then sleeping a while. It didn't happen, I nodded off after twenty minutes of dancing Shinra MP's.
Cold, cold dark and raining. He was kneeling near the edge of the upper plate, holding onto...something, an arm. An arm attached to me...? I was hauled back up. He said something and we both started laughing. Blood sprayed from his chest and a surprised look crossed his face. A booted foot kicked his body off the edge.
A cold hand rested on my shoulder, I spun taking up the mans fallen gun and firing at...
"David wake up!" A girl I didn't remember bringing home shook me awake. Then something clicked.
"Sarah? Who the hell let you in? What time is it?" Sarah was my older sister; there was a three-year gap between us. She gave me a roguish grin.
"No door in Midgar is locked to me. And it's 4am Midgar time."
"The fuck'd you wake up for at this time of night? Just crash in the..." My voice trailed off, "the spare room like you normally do..." Like me my sister was tall, Caucasian, and waist length blonde hair and green eyes.
"Well, you see, I tried that," She held up a bandaged fore arm. "Your friend sleeps with a knife..."
"Hey, it's the slums..." I countered.
"In each hand."
"So, he's a little paranoid...I carry a combat knife..."
"These have eight inch blades."
"Fine, where is he now?"
"I think he's raiding the fridge..." An unpleasant odor confirmed her suspicions. Adom walked out of the kitchen eating a slice of cheese.
"Man, don't you ever clean that thing out?"
"I was going to warn you about that...I don't eat in often and some one..." I glared at Sarah, "Buys groceries every once in a while...and they don't get eaten." Someone started pounding at the door. "Get the hell out of here, I'm sleeping!" I yelled at them. The knocking turned to pounding and I heard a muffled voice holler something seconds before two SOLDIER barreled through my door.
"Aww come on, I just fixed that!" I grabbed an outsider off a ledge and dropped the two SOLDIER, one with a leg that probably wouldn't be serviceable for a year and the other with a hole in his skull. The Turks stepped through the doorway. "Oh, hi guys." I said just before Rude came crashing through the wall and decked me before moving to stand near his comrades.
"We don't have time for your...humor." Tseng said quietly.
"Rude, man, that was lighter than the last time, losing your touch?"
"..."
"Talkative as ever." I fired several rounds, which Rude neatly dodged. I whipped the empty gun at Tseng and ducked as he kicked it back at my head. As I rose I drew my Tongfers, crossing them in front of me I focused on a red materia. "Hellfire!"
A circular area in the middle of the floor exploded as the demon Ifrit rammed through it. He glared at me and turned his horned head towards the Turks. Flames began raging around him and, over the fury of the flames I heard Elena.
"Diamond Dust!" A glow lowered itself from somewhere in the room and slowly formed itself into the feminine form of Shiva. Ice crystals flew towards a now moving Ifrit. The collision caused an explosion, which knocked both my party and the Turks off their feet, and probably finished off the surviving, injured SOLDIER.
When the smoke and furniture remains cleared the battle resumed. Eat this! Fire 3!" I focused on an all materia and a Fire materia. Green energy swirled around me and a large cloud of flames enveloped the Turks. Adom drew and attacked with his war sword.
Reddish energy trailed after him and his sword as he attacked the Turks, shouting.
"Blade" He hit Tseng, "Of," He hit Rude, "The," He hit Reno, "Ancients!" He slashed Elena and performed an acrobatic maneuver that sent him flying backwards, slashing each of the Turks an additional time.
"The hell was that?" I questioned as I slammed into a bewildered Tseng, using my shoulder to complement the flurry of Tongfer strikes I was about to deliver. A purple aura surrounded Tseng, who kicked me faster than I could react.
"It's a limit breaker, a skill useable only when your anger reaches a sufficient level." He stated, calmly ducking under a roundhouse. Something struck me in the back of the head, pain seared through my body. Abruptly as it began, it stopped, and suddenly I realized I'd forgotten to keep tabs on Reno. I fell to my knee's struggling to keep my hands from trembling I hauled myself to my feet. I found my PHS and autodialed the company.
"H..elp..T...ur..ks." I said, before another electrically charged attack dropped me into oblivion.
Cold hand on my shoulder, I spun taking up the mans fallen gun and fired at...Tseng. The bullet struck him in the leg. He cursed and I was hit on the head by something, I don't know what, but it hurt like hell. I fell backward into a bloody puddle.
When I woke up, they were gone and I was still here...why?
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I opened my eyes and immediately squeezing them shut. A bright light hung from the ceiling. I attempted to raise my hand to shield my eyes but found I couldn't. Forcing my eyes open I found myself in a small cube shaped room. With a windowless door on one wall, and a mirror, which probably had someone one the other side watching, on the other side.
Reno walked into the room followed by Rude.
"What, the good cop bad cop routine again, how lame..." I muttered.
"No," Reno stated with a smirk. "This is the bad cop, fucking psycho cop routine. I'll let you figure out who's who." He back handed me across the head.
"I already knew you were a fucking..." He brought his fist back around. He backed off, signaling for Rude to take over. "What no questions." Reno laughed and paused just before he left the room.
"Who said we wanted to know anything." Rude's fists flew faster than I could keep track of hitting me more times than I could count. Almost making me wish I hadn't insulted him earlier, almost.
Again I woke up in an unfamiliar room. Though this time I had company.
"Ohhhh, it's awake, it is yes yesss." It, or he, was a pitiful sight, at least what I could see of it...him...it. Hunched over and holding hands that had probably been broken more than once. It had thinning hair and kept rocking back and forth, staring at me with glowing yellow eyes. "Missed reunion, must resurrect master." It said matter of factly.
"Yah, whatever." It pulled itself to its feet and scuttled over to a corner of the cell, it snatched something from a small hole in the wall and thrust it into my hand. It looked like a light blue marble. "The hell is this?" I asked.
"It's the blue materia." It made a shrieking noise and dove into the back of the cell. Two SOLDIER entered and grabbed my arms and dragged me out of the room.
"They did a number on him." One of them said in a slightly familiar voice.
"Yeah, he's like bleeding profusely man." That one I knew, maybe.
"Ed?"
"Damn straight dude. This here's a breakout."
"I gotta kill Reno he's got my stuff."
"Been there done that."
"Bought the t-shirt."
"And stole your stuff back." He added enthusiastically. We were now outside and Ed pulled his mask off. He ran a hand through his spiky aqua green hair. I laughed, it hurt but I did it anyway.
"What?" The second SOLDIER removed his mask.
"Roarke? Wow, Someone big must be on the end of this."
"Your sister would have killed me if I hadn't come." Again I laughed. "You managed to get yourself three weeks paid vacation at Costa del Sol."
"Oh joy of all joys. I can walk you know." I was let go and promptly fell on my face. "Shut up, just shut up!" I rose to my feet and sauntered forward, more of a stagger though. "You guy's coming or what?" Ed and Roarke shrugged and were joined by Adom and Werner.
"So what happened?" I don't know who asked.
"Well, they tied me up, and Reno hit me, then he hit me again, then Rude hit me lots...and some freak gave me this." I held up the blue materia.
"No questions?"
"Nope I figured it was a trap to get you guy's here...shit!" I muttered the last part.
"Bravo mister Boekal, bravo." A man I could have sworn was dead announced. "Ahh, I see you've noticed the uncanny resemblance I bear to my late nephew. Allow me to introduce myself...I am Michael Shinra, current president of Shinra Incorporated. And you are all dead." He walked off, white trench coat trailing behind him.
My mind was racing, I was unarmed, and all I had was the blue materia. I focused on it, nothing then. Pain immense pain. I grew distant, becoming a cold unfeeling husk of what I had been. Faint noises, screams I thought, reached my ears and then, blissful silence. F\Gradually I grew less distant, the silence grew louder. I became aware if the fact that I was on my knees, when had that happened?
Ed turned towards me eye's full of wonder.
"The fuck was that man?" I shook my head, suddenly short of breath, sweat dripping from my forehead. Why in Odin's name was I so tired all of a sudden?