(Author's Note: Hello! Well…here's chapter 30…enjoy!)

Disclaimer: FF7 and Squaresoft are not mine. Rueh belongs to Rueh. Curtis belongs to my friend Curtis. Dete belongs to me…

Chapter 30

Just Another Trip up the Stairs…?

"Hey Rueh…you can wake up now…"

Rueh groaned and opened her eyes. "Do I have to?"

Zack smiled. "Yeah. Do you remember what happened last night?"

"Aaa…Reno was in the living room…he kidnapped Dete and…PUT ME TO SLEEP!" Rueh sat up with an annoyed look.

"Calm down Rueh. If you'll get ready we'll be going to the Shinra tower to find her," Zack held his hands up in defense.

Rueh gave him a blank look. "Why there?"

"That's where they always are when captured."

"Oh yeah…OUT!" Zack fled from the room. He shut the door in time to hear something hit it hard.

He went to the living room where Sephiroth sat waiting impatiently. "She'll out in a minute."

"Good. Hojo's still alive…I think he has something to do with what Reno did," Sephiroth said darkly.

"Well we'll know when we get there. RUEH ARE YOU READY YET?" Zack yelled to be sure that she heard him.

"YES I'M READY!" Zack and Sephiroth jumped to the ceiling. They hadn't even heard her behind them.

"Okay let's go," Sephiroth grumbled. Rueh was laughing at the fact that she had scared both of them.

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Midgar was still in the process of being rebuilt. It was better than before already. The plate was gone. The biggest building was the new Shinra tower.  Rufus had barely survived the weapons attack but he had. Now he ran Midgar and with the help of Reeve they were fixing the wrongs President Shinra had done. So far Midgar was more peaceful than ever…but that peace in the tower was soon to be broken…

"HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO CLIMB THESE STUPID STAIRS?!" Rueh exclaimed.

"You know we could take the elevator," Zack told her.

"No because in the elevator there is a trap," she was very sarcastic.

"Yeah the elevator always is a trap," Sephiroth agreed.

"Okay okay…hey Rueh why did you bring all those notebooks?" Zack asked with a confused look.

"Oh you'll see…"

Sephiroth and Zack looked at each other. "I don't like the sound of that," Sephiroth said.

"I agree," Zack sighed. They continued up the stairs in silence.

They were on the 50th floor when Rueh turned to face both of them. "Now for my plan…"

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Hojo nodded his head in satisfaction and looked at Dete who was strapped down on top of the metal table. She was unconscious. He waved his hand as he turned away and his lab assistant undid the straps then took her to the cell with a glass wall.

Hojo went to his messy desk and found a notebook to write in. He began writing things down. The lab assistant left the room.

After a few minutes a noise outside the door made him look up. Then there was silence again. He shrugged and went back to writing.

A few more minutes passed and he heard the noise again but this time it was in a different place inside the lab. But more noise followed it. Voices. He got up and walked in the direction the noise had come from…

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SLAP!

*speaking in hiss like whispers*

"OW! What was that for!"

"You did it AGAIN!"

"It wasn't me!"

"Hey don't look at me!"

"Both of you be…quiet…" Rueh, Sephiroth, and Zack looked up when whatever they were hiding under suddenly disappeared.

"What are you doing?" Hojo asked looking down at them.

They stood up and brushed themselves off.

"We were looking for Dete. So we found her and we'll just be leaving with her," Sephiroth stated. Zack and Rueh nodded.

"Umm…no," Hojo shook his head and crossed his arms.

"Okay let's try this again…we're leaving with Dete and now you say sure the door's over there," Rueh said slowly.

Hojo shook his head again. "Afraid not."

"Okay looks like we're going to have to do this the hard way," Zack shrugged. An evil grin slowly spread across Rueh's face.

"I don't like that look," Hojo slowly began to back away from them.

"PAPER WAD FIGHT!" Rueh yelled and threw her first bombardment at him. Zack and Sephiroth did the same.

Hojo yelled and ran to his desk. He hid underneath it. He reached up and pulled a few of his notebooks under the desk. He began to make his own paper wads.

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A few hours later Dete groaned and sat up. She glanced out at the lab then rubbed her eyes and looked at the wall. She quickly looked back at the lab her eyes going wide. The lab was a mess. There were paper wads everywhere.

Hojo was using his desk for a shield. Rueh, Zack, and Sephiroth had overturned a few tables and were using them as a shield.

"Hey Dete's awake! Okay here's the plan. Sephiroth, me and Zack will cover you while you go unlock the cell door and let her out. Then bring her over here. Got it?" Rueh asked looking at both of them. They nodded. "Ready…GO!" She and Zack started to threw the paper wads faster.

Sephiroth went for the cell lock. Hojo popped up over his desk and threw a paper wad at him.

"Oh no! I've been hit! I'm going down!" Sephiroth slowly fell to the floor.

Dete slapped her face with her hand and groaned. Rueh and Zack gasped while Hojo laughed triumphantly.

 "You can not stop me!" he exclaimed.

"Whatdowedo! Whatdowedo! Whatdowedo!" Zack was starting to panic.

Rueh slapped him upside the head. "This is no time to panic!" she snapped.

He nodded and started throwing the paper wads again. Rueh did too. Sephiroth lay on the floor playing dead. Dete shook her head. 'I'm never going to get out of here now…'

After a few minutes a soldier walked into the lab. Rueh stopped throwing and looked at him. "Hey…I know you!"

The soldier stopped and looked around then pointed at himself. "Who me?"

"Yeah…Curtis…right?"

"Yeah…you're Rueh!"

"Yep!"

"So what's going on?" Curtis asked looking around.

"We're fighting Hojo…wait! You can take Sephiroth's place! He's on our team!" Rueh exclaimed.

"Now that's not fair! It's 3 to 1 again!" Hojo pouted.

"Good! That means we'll win!" Rueh stuck her tongue out at him.

Curtis walked over to where Rueh and Zack were and picked up a paper wad. They began fighting again. This lasted for a few more minutes. Dete just watched with an annoyed look.

After a minute Zack cried out. "PAPER CUT!" he then collapsed.

"Stay down soldier…you've done enough," Rueh said patting his head.

Dete looked like she might start to cry. 'And they are supposed to be rescuing me?!'

After a second Hojo suddenly bolted out from under his desk and ran towards the other side of the room. Rueh and Curtis threw paper wad after paper wad at him until…

"NO! I"VE BEEN HIT!"

"HA! WE WON!" Rueh jumped up and down.

"Wow they actually might pull this off," Dete spoke aloud.

"Are you talking to yourself?" Rueh asked looking at her. Dete nodded with a sarcastic look on her face.

"…I'm…not…finished…yet…" Hojo pushed a button next to the phone that was on the wall he had collapsed against.

"You better start acting serious NOW!" Dete warned.

Sephiroth and Zack sat up and looked around.

"Did we win?" Sephiroth asked.

"Yep!" Rueh said. Curtis nodded vigorously.

REAL soldiers suddenly burst into the room just as Sephiroth let Dete out of the cell. She sighed and went back in it shaking her head.

"Hey…paper wads won't stop them…" Rueh took a few steps back.

"Looks like we'll have to really fight now," Sephiroth said drawing his sword. Rueh and Zack did the same. Curtis was suddenly no where to be found.

There wasn't must of a fight…they were all caught.

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