Chapter 3.
An evil snicker, the psychotic imp from the cell, now dressed in a lab coat, was performing an odd dance on the main lawn of Shinra HQ.
"Worked, worked, hihihihi! Told you! Hojo never give up! Hihihihi..." 'Hojo' leapt into the air and went sailing over our heads.
I collapsed, still conscious but unable to move.
"Alright guy's, let's get out of here." Hands picked me up and carried me to a Black Ops SUV. A black BMW with a small armory in the back as well as room for five people, the fifth was usually a 'guest' but now with Adom, things might have to change.
I was placed in the middle seat, held in place by Adom and Ed. Struggling I snatched my Tongfers from their place on the floor in front of Ed. Sparkling, multi-colored lights surrounded me as I used my most potent cure spell, Cure 2.
"Much better." I announced, beginning to examine all the material in my Tongfers. "Damn, I need all of this." I pulled back a sleeve and started looking at the material in my Imperial Guard. "There." I pulled out the Leviathan materia I never seemed to use and slotted the Blue Materia in, it blended well with the rest of the support materia I had, being only a few shades darker in color. "Are we there yet?" I asked, leaning forward in my seat.
"No," Roarke answered.
"There yet?"
"No." He sounded annoyed now.
"There yet?"
"No!" He turned and looked at me, his expression daring me to ask him again.
"No need to get snippy." I leaned back in my seat smiling.
******** I was pitched forwards as the vehicle suddenly stopped. I landed between the front bucket seats. Werner glanced down at me with a grin on his face.
"Hello."
"Hello. learn how to drive." I hauled myself to my feet and headed out the side door and proceeded to follow Roarke, Ed and Werner around to the back of the main building. Roarke faced the wall, raised his right hand, stared straight ahead and stated clearly.
"Black Ops member Roarke." A whirring sounded from behind the wall as his retinal data, finger prints and voice signature were processed.
"Access Granted." A panel on the wall slid out and opened into a door. At the end of a long hallway was an elevator that led directly into our office. Sometimes it was best if no one knew we were gone.
"David, write up a report, no complaints just do it."
"Aww, come on Roarke, they need to be able to read it."
"Just do it!" I gave in, muttering I wrote up the said report and set it in a black basket marked 'OUT'. I sat myself down in a swivel chair. Seconds later a duffel bag was flying at me.
"The hell's this for?" I asked.
"Your vacation. You go to Junon, guard a rather large shipment of materia to Costa del sol, once in Costa del sol you are to interrogate these two." Roarke handed me a small folder. "Then, wait three weeks and guard the return materia shipment back to Junon..." I flipped through the folder I'd been handed. Finding two poorly colored surveillance photos. One of a spikey haired blonde man and the other of a very large black man. Their names read, Cloud Strife and Barret Wallace.
"You gotta be kidding me." ******** They weren't. Two hours later I was aboard the 'Lurdai'. A transport ship carrying several tons of materia. It was a long, long trip to Costa del Sol, but finally I was back on land. Walking from the warf past a seaplane I slung the duffel bag over my shoulder and stepped into 'Villa David.', which was actually 'Villa Sarah', my sister's house that she never used. Dumping the contents of the duffel bag out onto one of the beds I found the perfect piece of equipment, a stun gun.
Pocketing the weapon I walked casually through the town about four times before I spotted my first victim. Hanging around outside the inn. I stopped in front of the door.
"Excuse me you wouldn't happen to know what time it is would you?" I asked.
"No."
"Oh." I shot, him, and caught the body before it hit the ground. Moving slowly back towards my place. "Heavy little bugger aren't you."
"Hey, that foo's got Spike." And that would be Barret. I sped up enough to keep him safely behind me, but not so much as to lose him. Up some stairs and into my living room. I dropped Cloud, turned and aimed at Barret's chest level.
"Don't worry; I'm gonna save yer spikey ass, damn blonde goin' an' getting' 'imself kidna." He stopped short as a small dart thudded into his chest. "Go.damn.Shi.nra."
"Nighty night." I muttered. Barret murmured something that sounded like, 'Marlene' as he tottered over backwards. I grabbed his feet and dragged him down into the basement and returning for Cloud. With both of them firmly strapped into their chairs all I could do was wait for them to wake up.
******** "The hell?!" Barret was awake now. Cloud was awake as well, though he pretended he wasn't, thinking I didn't notice. I moved from the corner I'd been sitting in and tossed the remains of my cigarette onto the floor. Flipping a switch on the floor I activated a pair of extremely bright lights.
"Well now, it seems the two of you have a little problem. I'm going to ask you a few questions, answer truthfully and you'll leave here with no bruises other than the ones on the back of your head. You were a little to heavy to carry down the stai." I stopped my explanation. "never mind."
"Shaddap you Shinra bastard."
"Oh, I don't work for Shinra." Although the t-shirt I was wearing had 'Shinra Inc.' written across the front. "Question number one, what do you know about Neo-Avalanche?"
"Not a goddam thing."
"Mr. Wallace, lying to me is not suggested." I held up a large baton. "Recognize this? No? Well, it's an electro mag rod, a Shinra design but," I turned it on and jabbed it into his shoulder. "It's effective none the less." Cloud's head snapped up.
"We're not going to tell you a thing ass hole." He said quietly.
Shit I'd hoped that they would still be slightly drugged and stupid, no such luck there. These two were almost legendary; I wasn't going to get a thing from hem with my current tactics.
"Well then, I suppose I'll just have to go interrogate Marlene." I walked off towards the stairs.
"What?! You wouldn't! Hey, where are you going?" Barret screamed.
"I told you, I'm going to get Marlene. I doubt she'll hold out as long or as well as the two of you will."
"Stop! Come back here, I'll.I'll answer the question." An air of defeat in his voice. "Neo-Avalanche is a so called terrorist group led by his son Biggs." Barret nodded at Cloud.
Bingo, he doesn't re-alize that I don't even know who the hell Marlene is! I calmed myself, draining emotion from my voice. "Interesting. Do you happen to know where their base is, no, don't tell me, just give them this." I tucked an envelope into Barret's pocket. "No, it is not a bomb. Now, one last question do you know where you are?"
"No." They said in unison.
"Good." I shot them with the stun gun again. And had them both untied and dragged out to the beach. Finding my PHS in one of my pockets I phoned in like I was supposed to. "Yah, Roarke, mission accomplished, they have the document. Leader's name is Biggs. uh huh, yes, I know sir, yes, no, alright. Yes 'I know, three weeks. Bye." The PHS was shoved back into one of my pockets. Now, to find my way to the Gold Saucer.
An evil snicker, the psychotic imp from the cell, now dressed in a lab coat, was performing an odd dance on the main lawn of Shinra HQ.
"Worked, worked, hihihihi! Told you! Hojo never give up! Hihihihi..." 'Hojo' leapt into the air and went sailing over our heads.
I collapsed, still conscious but unable to move.
"Alright guy's, let's get out of here." Hands picked me up and carried me to a Black Ops SUV. A black BMW with a small armory in the back as well as room for five people, the fifth was usually a 'guest' but now with Adom, things might have to change.
I was placed in the middle seat, held in place by Adom and Ed. Struggling I snatched my Tongfers from their place on the floor in front of Ed. Sparkling, multi-colored lights surrounded me as I used my most potent cure spell, Cure 2.
"Much better." I announced, beginning to examine all the material in my Tongfers. "Damn, I need all of this." I pulled back a sleeve and started looking at the material in my Imperial Guard. "There." I pulled out the Leviathan materia I never seemed to use and slotted the Blue Materia in, it blended well with the rest of the support materia I had, being only a few shades darker in color. "Are we there yet?" I asked, leaning forward in my seat.
"No," Roarke answered.
"There yet?"
"No." He sounded annoyed now.
"There yet?"
"No!" He turned and looked at me, his expression daring me to ask him again.
"No need to get snippy." I leaned back in my seat smiling.
******** I was pitched forwards as the vehicle suddenly stopped. I landed between the front bucket seats. Werner glanced down at me with a grin on his face.
"Hello."
"Hello. learn how to drive." I hauled myself to my feet and headed out the side door and proceeded to follow Roarke, Ed and Werner around to the back of the main building. Roarke faced the wall, raised his right hand, stared straight ahead and stated clearly.
"Black Ops member Roarke." A whirring sounded from behind the wall as his retinal data, finger prints and voice signature were processed.
"Access Granted." A panel on the wall slid out and opened into a door. At the end of a long hallway was an elevator that led directly into our office. Sometimes it was best if no one knew we were gone.
"David, write up a report, no complaints just do it."
"Aww, come on Roarke, they need to be able to read it."
"Just do it!" I gave in, muttering I wrote up the said report and set it in a black basket marked 'OUT'. I sat myself down in a swivel chair. Seconds later a duffel bag was flying at me.
"The hell's this for?" I asked.
"Your vacation. You go to Junon, guard a rather large shipment of materia to Costa del sol, once in Costa del sol you are to interrogate these two." Roarke handed me a small folder. "Then, wait three weeks and guard the return materia shipment back to Junon..." I flipped through the folder I'd been handed. Finding two poorly colored surveillance photos. One of a spikey haired blonde man and the other of a very large black man. Their names read, Cloud Strife and Barret Wallace.
"You gotta be kidding me." ******** They weren't. Two hours later I was aboard the 'Lurdai'. A transport ship carrying several tons of materia. It was a long, long trip to Costa del Sol, but finally I was back on land. Walking from the warf past a seaplane I slung the duffel bag over my shoulder and stepped into 'Villa David.', which was actually 'Villa Sarah', my sister's house that she never used. Dumping the contents of the duffel bag out onto one of the beds I found the perfect piece of equipment, a stun gun.
Pocketing the weapon I walked casually through the town about four times before I spotted my first victim. Hanging around outside the inn. I stopped in front of the door.
"Excuse me you wouldn't happen to know what time it is would you?" I asked.
"No."
"Oh." I shot, him, and caught the body before it hit the ground. Moving slowly back towards my place. "Heavy little bugger aren't you."
"Hey, that foo's got Spike." And that would be Barret. I sped up enough to keep him safely behind me, but not so much as to lose him. Up some stairs and into my living room. I dropped Cloud, turned and aimed at Barret's chest level.
"Don't worry; I'm gonna save yer spikey ass, damn blonde goin' an' getting' 'imself kidna." He stopped short as a small dart thudded into his chest. "Go.damn.Shi.nra."
"Nighty night." I muttered. Barret murmured something that sounded like, 'Marlene' as he tottered over backwards. I grabbed his feet and dragged him down into the basement and returning for Cloud. With both of them firmly strapped into their chairs all I could do was wait for them to wake up.
******** "The hell?!" Barret was awake now. Cloud was awake as well, though he pretended he wasn't, thinking I didn't notice. I moved from the corner I'd been sitting in and tossed the remains of my cigarette onto the floor. Flipping a switch on the floor I activated a pair of extremely bright lights.
"Well now, it seems the two of you have a little problem. I'm going to ask you a few questions, answer truthfully and you'll leave here with no bruises other than the ones on the back of your head. You were a little to heavy to carry down the stai." I stopped my explanation. "never mind."
"Shaddap you Shinra bastard."
"Oh, I don't work for Shinra." Although the t-shirt I was wearing had 'Shinra Inc.' written across the front. "Question number one, what do you know about Neo-Avalanche?"
"Not a goddam thing."
"Mr. Wallace, lying to me is not suggested." I held up a large baton. "Recognize this? No? Well, it's an electro mag rod, a Shinra design but," I turned it on and jabbed it into his shoulder. "It's effective none the less." Cloud's head snapped up.
"We're not going to tell you a thing ass hole." He said quietly.
Shit I'd hoped that they would still be slightly drugged and stupid, no such luck there. These two were almost legendary; I wasn't going to get a thing from hem with my current tactics.
"Well then, I suppose I'll just have to go interrogate Marlene." I walked off towards the stairs.
"What?! You wouldn't! Hey, where are you going?" Barret screamed.
"I told you, I'm going to get Marlene. I doubt she'll hold out as long or as well as the two of you will."
"Stop! Come back here, I'll.I'll answer the question." An air of defeat in his voice. "Neo-Avalanche is a so called terrorist group led by his son Biggs." Barret nodded at Cloud.
Bingo, he doesn't re-alize that I don't even know who the hell Marlene is! I calmed myself, draining emotion from my voice. "Interesting. Do you happen to know where their base is, no, don't tell me, just give them this." I tucked an envelope into Barret's pocket. "No, it is not a bomb. Now, one last question do you know where you are?"
"No." They said in unison.
"Good." I shot them with the stun gun again. And had them both untied and dragged out to the beach. Finding my PHS in one of my pockets I phoned in like I was supposed to. "Yah, Roarke, mission accomplished, they have the document. Leader's name is Biggs. uh huh, yes, I know sir, yes, no, alright. Yes 'I know, three weeks. Bye." The PHS was shoved back into one of my pockets. Now, to find my way to the Gold Saucer.