Cal ran a hand through his jet black hair before turning to face the four men.
"We all know how things have been going Sephiroth," Cal informed him, "So far things have been going well. That time though, has unfortunately stopped. ShinRa has been re-started by Kaze. This phinox is incredible smart, and strong. Apparently it is in the form of a human and is using the system that the old ShinRa used to gain power."
"That is outrageous. I already made that mistake and died when I realized it. ShinRa was a mistake, So many people died due to that pathetic company's mistakes." Rufus voice was harsh and barely above a whisper. He lifted his head up and look around at the group. He smirked, the same smirk that makes you wonder if he's happy, sad, or just plain crazy.
"You're surprised that I hate my own company? Don't be, I hate it just as much as you do, or more. Don't think I became President by choice, you agree to do things fast when your being beaten to death by your father."
"Rufus-sama, I never knew about that." Tseng said.
"Never knew what? That I hated ShinRa? or that I was beaten as a child?"
"Either one." Tseng replied, bits of symphony could be made out in his voice.
"Well, you learn new things every day, don't you?" Rufus ran his hand through his hair and looked back up at Cal.
"So Cal, what are we going to do about this?" The blond asked "And why isn't Aeries here?"
"Aeries is asleep. The reason she isn't here is because she won't be going on the next mission." Cal stopped and pulled a trunk out of under the table.
"From what I've gathered the main computer systems there is full of information on the guardians. Our current goal is to receive this information."
"Why didn't you just let me go get it when I was on earth?" Sephiroth asked.
"Because it's not that simple. The ShinRa headquarters is a maze. Only people working there can find there way through, and even fewer know how to work the system. Actually the only one left of Earth that knows how to work it is Kaze."
"Then how are we supposed to get the info?" Zack asked.
"It's simple. First of all we need someone who is strong and smart." He looked towards Sephiroth.
"Sephiroth I'll be assigning you with this part. Second, and most importantly we need some one who knows ShinRa inside out, someone who has a impressive past experience with ShinRa, someone who wants nothing more then for ShinRa to be destroyed, and most importantly someone who happens to be the only other one who knows how to work the computers." He reached into the trunk and pulled out a shot gun and tossed into Rufus's hands.
"Rufus ShinRa, I hoping that you'll take this part, after all no one know ShinRa better then you."
Rufus smiled and looked over the shot gun. It was about two feet long and had two barrels. From it's deadly look you could tell that it had been sawed off.
"It would be my pleasure."

Rufus looked down at the new ShinRa building. It was no different then the one he had controlled only half a year earlier. He dropped his hand down to his side to where his Shot gun was latched onto his belt and grabbed it into his hand.
Cal had supplied them with efficient supplies. Rufus was now dressed in a red T-shirt with a skull on the front. He wore black pants and a black belt. Sephiroth had on black pants and a green sleeveless shirt.
He raised his shot gun up to meet his target of the watching guard and posed to fire. Just before pulling the trigger Sephiroth pushed his gun towards the ground.
"Aeries did want us to kill anyone unless we have to, remember?"
"And since when do you take orders from her?"
"I'm not taking orders, I just don't think we should kill anyone until we get the information."
"The great General Sephiroth, since when have you pitied people's lives?"
"I never have, I'd kill them if we were in different conditions. Remember Rufus we're dead. It would be to our advantage no to get seen yet."
"Fine, we'll go in the back way."

"I....hate.....stares." Sephiroth complained.
"We're almost there." Rufus told him. He stopped at door and read the code written accost the door.
"It says 'Floor 34'. This should be high enough." Rufus hit the security button on the door and waited for it to beep. The he pulled off the side panel and crosses a few wires.
"Please state your name." The lock said with a dyeing voice.
"Name confirmed." Rufus replied.
"Please state your password."
"Password confirmed."
"Access granted." The door open with a clicking noise, allowing Rufus and Sephiroth to enter.
"Rufus your brilliant."
"I rather the word genius." Rufus said, obviously kidding.
"So then Mr. Genius, where do we go now?"
"To floor 61, that's where they should be keeping the information."

"Hey you! Stop!" A guard yell out to them not seeing who he was facing. With one swift movement Rufus picked the guard up the throat and held him against the wall.
"Sephiroth, how do you think I should kill him?" Rufus looked over at the sliver haired man. Sephiroth recognized what he was doing. When Sephiroth was in Soldier him and Rufus used to scare people, just for the fun.
"Well, you could always rip out his organs and strangle him with them." Sephiroth suggested.
"To messy, how about we rip out his hair and hand him with it?"
"No, that takes no long. How about you cut him into tiny pieces and light them on fire?"
"To tedious. How about we through him out a window and see how many times we can shoot him on the way down?" The man by this point had turned completely white.
"Sounds good Rufus." Sephiroth said. The guard voice was weak, though he tried to make it sound threatening.
"Your going to die an awful, awful death, you know that Rufus ShinRa?" Rufus yawned like he was bored.
"Been there, done that." With that Rufus punched the guy in the face, knocking him out. As soon as his body hit the ground Rufus and Sephiroth burst out laughing.
"We haven't done that in awhile." Sephiroth commented.
"No we haven't. Hey, do you remember the time when we rearranged all the labels on Hojo's tubes?"
"Yes, we got in so much trouble."
"Oh but it was worth it when Hojo realized that what he was drinking wasn't his potion, but urine from one of his monkey specimens."
"Those were the finer times.":


"You didn't tell me there were going to be this many reinforcements!" Sephiroth yelled. They had only been in the building for ten minutes and already they had been ambushed by hundreds of Soldiers. Sephiroth and Rufus had already taken down most of them, but the last group were First class Soldiers and required more time.
A soldiers lunged towards Rufus, short sword in hand. Rufus, nit giving him a chance to attack, grabbed the man by the thought and slammed him against the wall, shooting him in the head in the process.
Thrusting his blade outward, running it though the heart of on unlucky soldier. He turned around, doing the same to several more.
Rufus hocked his gun back on his belt. Just second earlier he had taken down the last of the Soldiers that threatened there lives. He quickly spun around when he heard someone clapping. Leaning against the wall was a man in mid thirties. He had short, blood red hair, that was streaked back. He had on black pants, and silver shirt. Directly under his right eye he had a strange Japanese symbol tattooed.
Sephiroth raised his blade, ready to attack the man. The man laughed and put up his hands in surrender. He walked forward facing the two dead men.
"I'm impressed, I've never seen just two men take out so many soldiers before."
"How about I make you join them, would that make you any more impressed?" Sephiroth growled.
"You can if you wish, but you may be destroying you only hope to get out of here alive."
"What are you talking about?" Rufus said, his voice sharp.
"You're here to find out information about this company, right?"
"What's it to you?" Rufus asked, his voice even more deadly then before.
"Well, it just so happens that I work here. I joined this company so I could get more information about it, so I could destroy it in the future. It would only make since for us to work together. I know where the information is, but I can't read it. As the former President, I would assume you would know how."
"I'm sorry you've got the wrong guy, that man died when the original ShinRa blew up."
"Well then, my apologias, Mr...?"
"Rufus, but call me ShinRa and I'll kill you."
"Understood," The man then looked towards , "General? Is there anything you would puffer to be called?"
"Sephiroth is fine." He replied dryly.
"Excellent. Call me Raven. Come on, lets go. We have much to do."

A young blond squinted her eyes as she watched Raven, Rufus, and Sephiroth walk off. Reaching in her jacked pocket she pulled out a PHS and called one of her colleges.
"Reno, I've found more then just information. Find Rude and get your Asses over to the east section of floor 37, and be fast."

Another attack, not much long after the first one had happened. Sephiroth could see Rufus through all the mess, but he couldn't make out where Raven went. Part of him wondered if the guy had got killed, the other half didn't care. Rufus cursed when his shot gun ran out of ammo. Sure he had extra in his pocket, but loading his gun wasn't something he had time to do in a battle. Attaching the gun to his belt he concentrated on grabbing soldiers and snapping there necks, or knocking them unconscious by another why of swinging his wrists.
Sephiroth's weapon wasn't made for fights that involved close up fighting, and that was what this one featured. He mane object became speed, and taking his foes by surprise. It was at one point that almost made Rufus' stomach turn. Sephiroth had slammed one soldier against the wall. The helpless man looked up at Sephiroth who just politely waved good bye to him, then slit his skull in half. It almost turned his stomach, but not quite.
"We're fighting a loosing battle!" Rufus grounded, "We may have the advantage in strength, but by my guess they still at least a couple hundred to send out."
Sephiroth cast a fire 3 spell on one soldier and then yelled back to Rufus.
"We have to get out of here. We can't accomplish anything if we die again."
"You guys!" It was Raven. He ran over to Sephiroth's side. As far as Sephiroth could see he was unarmed, and wasn't hurt.
"Come on, I'll hold them off with a spell. You guys run up the 65 floor and get the info."
"It's on the 61 floor." Rufus corrected him.
"Not any more. I'll catch up with you, now get going!" Raven weaved his fingers in a incantation and cast some kind of barrier spell, stopping all of the soldiers in there tracks. Sephiroth, who was one of the strongest magic users on the earth, stood wide eyed while watching Raven cast the spell. Rufus ran over to Sephiroth and broke his out of his trance, dragging him up the stares to the next floor.

"Oh, this is great. I have some red headed kid that's better at magic then I am." Sephiroth complained.
"You never know, he may have some Jenova in him also."
"Oh, I'm sure. It is so very common." Sephiroth said scarcastly.
"It doesn't matter. Chances are he'll be dead in a matter of minutes. A spell like that tiers people out. Once the spell in broken the soldiers will kill him."
"Probably." The two continued in silence for a while until Rufus spoke up.
"Hey, so how is your power coming?"
"Power?"
"Ya, you know. All of us guardians were assigned a power. Mine is to be able to go transparent for a few minutes. If I have time, attacks can go thought me. Yours was to be able to take to people through there minds, that is if you really care about them." Sephiroth's mind flashed. He could remember talking to Aeries through his mind. He missed her. The sweet smell of her hair, her soft skin, the sweet way she said his name...
"Hey, Sephiroth? Are you there?"
"Ya, sorry. Ya I'm getting used to it." Rufus eyes the Ex-General for a moment and then shook it off. Once again he hit the pad lock on the 65 floor door. This time the door opened with out having to do anything to it. Kind of like it had already been broken.
"Strange, the only other on who knows that trick is..."
"RUFUS!" Rufus was caught off guard when the door opened. A young blond had sprung from behind the door and had attached herself to him.
"Oh Rufus! I knew I would see you again! I'm so glad to see you!" Taken aback by his younger half sister Rufus stuttered with his words.
"Elena, what are you doing here?"
"What am I doing here?" She let go of him and crossed her arms, "Saving your life would be a first. Did it ever occur to you that Raven might be tricking you?"
"It crossed my mind a few times." For the first time Rufus noticed his surroundings. Dead bodies lie all around the room. In the back stood a very prod Reno and Rude.
"He was planning an ambush. Reno, Rude, and I were here to find out more information about this company and discovered that he was planning to ambush someone in the building. It just occurred to me that it was you when I saw you walking off with him. We had already got all the info of this company, and what ever the 'guardians' are when I discovered this. We made our way up here and killed all the soldiers before they had a chance to hurt you."
"El, you the best." Rufus said.
"Oh don't go all sort on me Rufus, you still owe me for making me think you were dead." Rufus swallowed and ran a hand through his hair.
"Actually Elena, I am."
He wasn't sure why he did it. Maybe it was the look on her face that made him pull her into a hug. He gently stroked her hair as she tried not to cry into his chest.
"Look, I'm just back here to finish up a few things. I'm sorry El."
"Rufus, it's not fair."
"I know. Be brave for me, ok?" She nodded, but refused to back away from his safe grasp, especially when a chilling laugh broke the sweet moment.
"Isn't that cute. Half-brother and sister, reunited." Sephiroth drew his sword. From the beginning he figured that Raven was no good. Now it was time for Raven to realized that he had no one to spare his life. Raven walked jumped from one of the roof supports down onto the ground. Unlike before his hair was actually burning with real fire, but not fire that would hurt him.
"I should have known it was you." Sephiroth cold voice cut, "Though your plain might have seen fool proof at first now it's all going down the drain. Isn't it Kaze?" Raven smiled.
"It's about time you caught on. Raven, Kaze. Two names, two bodies. Would you puffer me transform now? Or shall I kill you later?"
"You'll never win Kaze. No one will ever win with my company. I learned that myself. If I have to go to hell and back you will die, long and painfully if I can help it."
"That very heroic, isn't it Lone Wolf?" Rufus flinched. His old nickname, Lone Wolf. He hadn't been called that in years, not since he was young at least. At once all the pain, loneliness, and sorrow, hit him. Sending him into darkness.



"Look at him!" a young girl said, "All he ever does is read, Wright, study, or fight. I don't even think he has any friends."
"Oh course not! Who would want to be friends with him?" another girl said.
"Not me. With all the money he has, you'd think he would at lease try to buy a friend."
"No, all the money in the world couldn't convince some one to play with him. Face it, all he is, is a Lone Wolf."
"Lone Wolf."
"Lone Wolf."
"Lone Wolf."
"Lone Wolf."
"Lone Wolf."
"Stop it!" A young blond boy sat watching the scene. He wasn't there physically, only mentally.
"I don't want to be alone! Just give me a chance!" the boy dropped down to his knees, crying into his pant legs. "I don't want to be alone."
The scene changed to one of the boy, even younger this time. He sat alone in rocks and dirt. A long red gash ran down his leg, blood dripping down onto the ground. No one was there to clean his cut. No one was there to whip away his tears, or to sooth his pain.
The sane switched again. The boy, now maybe about ten, sat in a room. this time he wasn't alone. A fat man grabbed the boy by the wrist and yanked him to his feet.
"Next time you will do as I say!" the fat man hollered. With one steady blow of his fist he punched his boy in the stomach, then again in the head. The boy feel to the ground weeping openly, this just caused him to get kicked in the ribs.
"Your not to cry you fool. the world needs to fear you, you may not show weakness."

"Rufus! Rufus! You got to wake up! Don't let this spell he cast take the better of you! Rufus!"

The scenes flashed again, this time the same, but with one added thing.
"I don't want to be alone." The boy said. His class mates were cruel to him, but there was one who was not.
"Hey Rufus! Wait up!" A young girl called. Elena ran up to him a passed him a picture of a butterfly. I made this for you today!"
"Hey, thanks El." Rufus hugged the younger girl and then frowned.
"I have nothing to give to you."
"That's ok, I'm just glad your my brother. Come on, lets go get some ice cream." she grabbed his arm and took off running.
The gash on the young boy's leg screamed as a sweet girl applied cream to it. Carefully she bandaged it up and looked at her older brother.
"You ok?"
"Ya, I'm fine. Thanks El"
"No problem."
She held ice to his wound, and told him stories about how their Father would meat his match some day. She whipped away his tears, and soothed his pain. Maybe that why no one else ever seen him cry, he didn't need to. He had his sister, Elena."

The light filled his eyes as he looked up at Elena. She hovered over him. Behind her stood Sephiroth, and behind him was Reno and Rude.
"Hey, you ok?"
"Ya, thanks."
"No problem." She giggled and helped him sit up. Rufus looked around at the surroundings. The appeared to be in some sort of a park. No one was hurt, and there was no sigh of Kaze.
"What happened?" He asked rubbing his head.
"Kaze cast a darkness spell on you. It caused you to reflect on all your worst memories. Most people never make it out of them. You were very lucky."
"All I needed was a little light to show me my way." He said smiling. He flipped his hair back out of his eyes. "So how did we get out of there?"
"I'm not sure," Elena said, "After you passed out we were getting ready to fight, when some how we were transported here, to Kalm."
"People don't get transported half way accost the world for no reason," Sephiroth pointed out "I think the life stream had something to do with this."
Reno walked forward tossing the information disks to Rufus.
"You said you wanted these." Reno said.
"Yes, thanks Reno, Elena, Rude. We couldn't of done it with out you." Rufus stood up glancing back at Sephiroth, "We better get going back to the life stream." He said, his voice suddenly dry.
"Rufus, we'll see each other again, you hear? You come back onto earth sometime soon and we'll get together!" Elena said. Rufus managed a small laugh and huge his sister.
"I will Elena, I promise."








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Hey, just so you know, in the game there si no proof that Rufus and Elena are Half brother and Sister.. I just thought it would be cute. Sorry this chapter has so much to do woth rufus.. I'm a big Rufus fa, so I had to put him in at least one chapter...
Next one will have much more Sephi/Aeris fluffyness, I promise.. Now, review or I'll hunt you down with a flameing clarnet case of doom!