Chapter 18
Avatar Fenis and Sifan Leonhart ran inside the professor's house where they saw a Shin-Ra general standing with a scorn on his face, the aura of the firaga spell still revolving around him, "Don't ya twerps know, when nobody aint frickin home, ya go away!"
"That doesn't mean you cast a firaga spell at anyone who knocks on the door, you lard head!" Sifan said heatedly, recalling how the door had almost flattened him.
"Yeah!" Avatar shouted, "Whoever you are, I don't think you fit in here anyway. And you sure don't look like a Professor-"
Suddenly, A stifled cry from the adjacent room filled the air.
Sifan was the first to draw out his gunblade. He and Avatar ran towards the room the sound had come from, when the general stopped them and pulled out his pistol at Sifan, "Uh-uh, not so fast kid!"
A fire spell from Avatar knocked the pistol out of the general's hand as Sifan ran away to the room where he had heard the cry.
The general was about to follow him when Avatar cracked his jaw with a flying knee. The general fell down on his knees, holding his jaw, "Where'd ya learn ta kick like that ya little runt! Nobody kicks General Rupert that way! NOBODY!"
"I just did." Avatar said swishing out his katana sword, "Whatcha gonna do about it?"
"You're asking for a duel?" he scowled, "I bet you don't even have powerful spells on you. I have firagas, thunda-"
A shruiken whizzed through the air and pinned Rupert's sleeve against the wall, "Well, I got those."
He screamed in rage and ran towards Avatar who easily moved out of the way and spun kick his neck sending him crashing through a few porcelain vases. He got up rubbing his neck and turned to Avatar.
"You're a big boy to keep down, aint ya?" Avatar said playfully, "I mean those rocks in your head must be heavy."
The general cast a Thundaga spell at Avatar who jumped out of the way, avoiding it. Cursing himself, the general shot a firaga spell, which only managed to go out through the window as Avatar rolled behind the brown sofa.
"Ya can run kid." He bellowed, "But ya can't hide from my Ultima Spell!"
Avatar froze. He knew that meant trouble. Even if he was the faster than lightning, an ultima spell meant doom. Somehow, there was no sound of anything that sounded like magic being cast. Avatar waited, confused, when his ears picked up Rupert muttering to himself, "Shit, where the hell did that materia go...?"
That was all Avatar needed to hear. He jumped out from his cover and rushed to the general.
"Hey, Easy kid." The general said backing off when he saw Avatar run towards him from across the room, "I am a peaceful man, I really don't want any-"
His words were cut short as Avatar buried his sword's handle into the general's stomach. He bent forward, groping his stomach with pain. Avatar went behind the hurt general and climbed on his large back and brought his elbow down hard on his neck. He jumped across the room from the general's shoulders and turned around to face him.
General Rupert was semi-paralyzed, clenching his neck and biting his teeth,"Goddamn KID! What did ya do to my neck?"
"You have a thick nerve there buddy, so easy to flatten." Avatar said, grinning.
"Guards! Guards!" the general screamed as the door in a nearby room swung open and a couple of guards stumbled out, each with a sword in his hand.
"Where the hell are the frickin' gunmen?" The general said walking to the exit, still clenching his neck, which seemed to be stuck in one direction.
"Er...." One of the soldiers replied, "They left with the professor to the airship, sir."
"DAMN COWARDS!" the general scowled and limped out through the door after barking at the soldiers to take care of Avatar.
The soldiers raised their swords and slowly inched their way towards Avatar.
"I've always wanted a tough match." Avatar said tightening his grip around his katana blade, "Too bad this aint gonna be one."
Sifan ran in to the room. The whole room was dark from absence of lighting. He froze when he saw a large hole on the wall to the side of the room. A few soldiers were leading a scared scientist at gunpoint to an airship waiting outside. Suddenly, it occurred to Sifan that it was the same airship he had seen while he was having the sandwich at the Costa de sol restaurant. Even the general he had run into was the same one he had seen. So were the soldiers who were hurriedly taking the scientist to the airship.
[Damn. That must be Hamilton.] Sifan thought and ran across the dark room when a kick from someone sent him sprawling backwards. He shook himself and got up, searching the wall for the light switch. Soon it found one and he switched it on. A dim white light radiated the room. The figure that had kicked Sifan slowly walked in to the light, "What's the matter Leonhart? Thought I was dead?"
"Relafen!" Sifan muttered in anger, "Get out of the damn way!"
"That's Commander Relafen, my dear Leonhart." Relafen said unsheathing his gunblade, "As for getting out of the way, that's a no can do."
[Great. Just great.]
Relafen was dressed in a commander's attire. He wore a dark blue over coat with the Shin-Ra symbol of a tiger and a unicorn fighting on his chest. The outline of the coat was lined in golden and silver threads. The rays of light coming through the hole on the wall made the gold buttons on Relafen's sleeve and coat shine. Along his side was a metal gunblade holder. And a thick platinum belt was around his waist carrying fine-tipped bullets. His pants were without a wrinkle and his black leather boots made the wooden floor creaked as he took a step in Sifan's direction.
"I say this suits me better." Relafen said, "Than some damn SeeD coat made of old, cheap material."
"You're kidnapping, Relafen!" Sifan said getting up on his feet, "You'll wear all that fancy clothes and do lowdown stuff like kidnapping?"
"HAH!" Relafen snapped, "Don't give me that Mr. Righteous crap, Leonhart! Go away, or fight."
Sifan looked out through the wall behind Relafen.
[The airship most probably wouldn't leave without Relafen. Maybe If I beat Relafen, those soldiers will come running and Avatar can get into the airship or something.]
"So this time." Sifan said pulling out his Phoenix gunblade, "We fight for real."
"That's right, Leonhart." Relafen hissed, "This aint no garden training session."
"Show me what this commander can do." Sifan said provoking Relafen.
"Find out for yerself!" Relafen screamed and rushed at Sifan. Sifan swung his gunblade and it clashed into Relafen's and they stared each other down.
"Why, Relafen?" Sifan asked, "Your father made the same mistake. He left SeeD out of the want to be a knight. He was paid with treason. You're not doing anything that different."
Relafen let go of his right hand around the sword handle and punched Sifan sending him staggering backwards, "I don't wanna be a frickin' knight Leonhart. Only sissies are knights, lapdogs protecting others. I want to be great, famous and any road to it is FINE!"
"You're star craving mad, Relafen." Sifan said equipping the wind materia he had received from Trex "Lets go home. Forget all your ambitions. We have to go home."
"Shut up, Leonhart. It's a whole new world. A world without that goddamn garden to direct our lives. My dad would want me to stay in this world as long as it means an opportunity to become someone. And I already am someone. The commander of Shin-Ra's army."
Sifan charged himself with the aura of the wind spell, "Shin-Ra is a bunch of power-hungry mongrels, Relafen. You want to be one of them."
"You would say anything to stop me, Leonhart?" Relafen said rushing at him, blade in hand, "Even lies?"
"I am not lying, dammit." Sifan said and released the wind spell. Powerful gusts of wind rushed in through the hole and caused the crumbled bits of the wall made by the hole fly and swirl in the air, dust getting into Relafen's eyes. It grew even more powerful knocking him off his feet. Soon the wind died out and Relafen was on the ground. He muttered something to himself and cried, "You asked for it Leonhart! Meet our old friend, IFRIT!"
The green aura around him soon swirled and disappeared making Relafen's body look like a ghost. And then he appeared, the ground tore and the fire beast broke out of the earth and stood in front of Sifan. The air suddenly became sultry and Sifan began to feel hot. Sweat formed on his brow, out of the heat and also out of fear.
Ifrit roared when he saw Sifan in front of him. He turned around to Relafen and opened his mouth to speak with hot breath, "Master Relafen. We guardian forces are beasts of great strength. Powerful and Strong, we can bring death in an instant. Before me is the flesh and blood of the same Squall Leonhart I still serve. Tell me, is this truly your decision that I kill him or did you summon me out of haste without proper thought."
Relafen rubbed his eyes. He looked at a very horrified Sifan and sighed, "Don't k-kill him, just keep him away till I get to the airship."
Ifrit nodded and breathed fire across the room causing a wall of fire in front of Sifan, "I am sorry, oh son of the warrior. I await to serve you inside the caverns of Mt.Duca."
Sifan sighed and watched as Relafen's figure ran out through the hole on the wall behind Ifrit to the airship. Soon Sifan could hear the airship lift and fly away. Ifrit was about to leave when Sifan spoke, "Ifrit."
The beast looked at Sifan, "I shall not hold conversation with humans for long. I shall be killed if his Majesty, Lord Orion should know about it."
Sifan nodded, "Well, please put out the fire. Relafen's gone, right?"
The beast grunted and swung its arms across the fire. The fire went out leaving the wooden floor stained in black. A magical aura surrounded Ifrit and he disappeared leaving Sifan alone in the room.
{There goes your trip back to balamb.}
[................................]
{I am sorry, Sifan. But it's the way of things. You can't run from your fate.}
Sifan heaved a tired sigh and sheathed his gunblade. He heard footsteps behind him and he turned to see Avatar, his sword in his hand.
"It was those Shin-Ra guys, they kidnapped Hamilton" Sifan said walking to Avatar who sheathed his sword, "And Relafen was their commander."
"What!" Avatar exclaimed as they walked through the hole to the outside. Only eagles few around and there wasn't anything that looked like an airship in the sky.
As they walked back in to the house, they came upon a man in a white coat. He was thin in appearance and had unruly hair. A long face and a weird smile were his other characteristics. Near his feet lay a couple of Shin- Ra's soldiers, each with a shruiken on his forehead.
"Hey." Avatar said, yawning, "They asked for it."
"Uh hello." The man in the white coat said, "What happened here?"
"Um well, we were supposed to meet Professor Hamilton." Avatar said, "But Shin-Ra kidnapped him."
Sifan nodded, "Who're you?"
"I am sorry. Let me introduce myself." The man said in a frail voice, "My name is Professor Lorenz, Hamilton and I are but the closest of friends."
"Um, well, he aint here." Avatar said, "Shin-Ra just took him."
"Yes, they've been after him for sometime." The professor replied, "Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about it."
"Guess there isn't." Sifan said, deeply in thought.
"They wouldn't hurt Hamilton." Lorenz replied.
"Yeah, I am sure they wouldn't." Avatar said and sat down on the stairway. Sifan leant against the wall as the professor sat on the sofa.
"Hey." Sifan said to the professor, "You're close to Hamilton right?"
"Yes. We share all our ideas and even our intellect at times."
"Well then, do you know anything about the guys at Mideel? You know, they're supposed to be friends of Hamilton."
"Oh you don't mean Cloud Strife's daughter, do you?" Lorenz replied, "Yes of course, me and Hamilton are close friends of theirs."
"Um...." Avatar said, "So are we. Well, kind of."
"Anything I can do to help?" Lorenz said, a cheeky smile on his face.
"Look, you may not believe this." Sifan said, "But we have been warped here from another dimension."
The professor just stared as Sifan as if he had made the strangest statement in the world.
"Don't worry." Avatar said, "He's not insane. Well it kinda happened. So we landed up here, I mean, in Mideel. We're trying to get back. So we came to take Hamilton's help."
The professor thought for sometime and then smiled, "Yes of course. Hamilton had a few projects on inter and intra dimensional optronics."
"Uh." Avatar sighed, "English please?"
"Well, He was working on something involving time and dimensional warps." The professor said thinking, "In fact, his papers on those projects are at my place at Aquadia city. So if you could come by my place tomorrow morning, we'll plan something."
Avatar's eyes lit up, "Hey wow, that's pretty cool."
Sifan just sighed, "Very well, can I have your address?"
The professor took a card from his pocket and handed it to Sifan.
"Well, I am going to make a few calls and get Hamilton's place fixed. I can't leave it around like this."
Sifan agreed, "Yeah you do that. We'll leave."
Avatar got up and yawned. Soon he and Sifan left the professor and walked out of the room.
"This day just keeps getting better." Lorenz snickered to himself and punched a few numbers on his cell phone, "Hello? That you Rupert?"
He put his legs up on the table and leaned back on the sofa, lighting the cigar he had placed in his mouth with one hand while holding the phone on the other.
"Got everything?" The general said at the other end, "We got yer Hamilton warm and cozy in our airship."
"Good. Well, I got news for you too."
"Better be good. I have a frickin' bad neck."
"I met a couple of friends of Phillona Strife."
"Phillona? You mean that Mideel resistance group leader I've been tryin' ta nail?"
"Yes, A plan's already on my mind. A plan that could finally get you Mideel and a name with the president, Rupert."
"Well, What is it this time?"
"Bring Hamilton at midnight to the midgar computer floor. If I am happy with the way things go, I'll hatch a plan for your brainless ass, and get you your Mideel using those two kids I met a few minutes ago."
He cut the phone and leant on the sofa, enjoying his cigar. His eyes burnt with curiosity when he wondered about the information he would find that night using Hamilton's passwords. He mused as to what he should do with Hamilton after he'd serve his purpose.
"That's an easy one." He said crushing his cigar on a photo frame of Hamilton on the desk, "I'll mutate his ass. Who knows? I may create another Vincent Valentine like Hojo did."
Avatar Fenis and Sifan Leonhart ran inside the professor's house where they saw a Shin-Ra general standing with a scorn on his face, the aura of the firaga spell still revolving around him, "Don't ya twerps know, when nobody aint frickin home, ya go away!"
"That doesn't mean you cast a firaga spell at anyone who knocks on the door, you lard head!" Sifan said heatedly, recalling how the door had almost flattened him.
"Yeah!" Avatar shouted, "Whoever you are, I don't think you fit in here anyway. And you sure don't look like a Professor-"
Suddenly, A stifled cry from the adjacent room filled the air.
Sifan was the first to draw out his gunblade. He and Avatar ran towards the room the sound had come from, when the general stopped them and pulled out his pistol at Sifan, "Uh-uh, not so fast kid!"
A fire spell from Avatar knocked the pistol out of the general's hand as Sifan ran away to the room where he had heard the cry.
The general was about to follow him when Avatar cracked his jaw with a flying knee. The general fell down on his knees, holding his jaw, "Where'd ya learn ta kick like that ya little runt! Nobody kicks General Rupert that way! NOBODY!"
"I just did." Avatar said swishing out his katana sword, "Whatcha gonna do about it?"
"You're asking for a duel?" he scowled, "I bet you don't even have powerful spells on you. I have firagas, thunda-"
A shruiken whizzed through the air and pinned Rupert's sleeve against the wall, "Well, I got those."
He screamed in rage and ran towards Avatar who easily moved out of the way and spun kick his neck sending him crashing through a few porcelain vases. He got up rubbing his neck and turned to Avatar.
"You're a big boy to keep down, aint ya?" Avatar said playfully, "I mean those rocks in your head must be heavy."
The general cast a Thundaga spell at Avatar who jumped out of the way, avoiding it. Cursing himself, the general shot a firaga spell, which only managed to go out through the window as Avatar rolled behind the brown sofa.
"Ya can run kid." He bellowed, "But ya can't hide from my Ultima Spell!"
Avatar froze. He knew that meant trouble. Even if he was the faster than lightning, an ultima spell meant doom. Somehow, there was no sound of anything that sounded like magic being cast. Avatar waited, confused, when his ears picked up Rupert muttering to himself, "Shit, where the hell did that materia go...?"
That was all Avatar needed to hear. He jumped out from his cover and rushed to the general.
"Hey, Easy kid." The general said backing off when he saw Avatar run towards him from across the room, "I am a peaceful man, I really don't want any-"
His words were cut short as Avatar buried his sword's handle into the general's stomach. He bent forward, groping his stomach with pain. Avatar went behind the hurt general and climbed on his large back and brought his elbow down hard on his neck. He jumped across the room from the general's shoulders and turned around to face him.
General Rupert was semi-paralyzed, clenching his neck and biting his teeth,"Goddamn KID! What did ya do to my neck?"
"You have a thick nerve there buddy, so easy to flatten." Avatar said, grinning.
"Guards! Guards!" the general screamed as the door in a nearby room swung open and a couple of guards stumbled out, each with a sword in his hand.
"Where the hell are the frickin' gunmen?" The general said walking to the exit, still clenching his neck, which seemed to be stuck in one direction.
"Er...." One of the soldiers replied, "They left with the professor to the airship, sir."
"DAMN COWARDS!" the general scowled and limped out through the door after barking at the soldiers to take care of Avatar.
The soldiers raised their swords and slowly inched their way towards Avatar.
"I've always wanted a tough match." Avatar said tightening his grip around his katana blade, "Too bad this aint gonna be one."
Sifan ran in to the room. The whole room was dark from absence of lighting. He froze when he saw a large hole on the wall to the side of the room. A few soldiers were leading a scared scientist at gunpoint to an airship waiting outside. Suddenly, it occurred to Sifan that it was the same airship he had seen while he was having the sandwich at the Costa de sol restaurant. Even the general he had run into was the same one he had seen. So were the soldiers who were hurriedly taking the scientist to the airship.
[Damn. That must be Hamilton.] Sifan thought and ran across the dark room when a kick from someone sent him sprawling backwards. He shook himself and got up, searching the wall for the light switch. Soon it found one and he switched it on. A dim white light radiated the room. The figure that had kicked Sifan slowly walked in to the light, "What's the matter Leonhart? Thought I was dead?"
"Relafen!" Sifan muttered in anger, "Get out of the damn way!"
"That's Commander Relafen, my dear Leonhart." Relafen said unsheathing his gunblade, "As for getting out of the way, that's a no can do."
[Great. Just great.]
Relafen was dressed in a commander's attire. He wore a dark blue over coat with the Shin-Ra symbol of a tiger and a unicorn fighting on his chest. The outline of the coat was lined in golden and silver threads. The rays of light coming through the hole on the wall made the gold buttons on Relafen's sleeve and coat shine. Along his side was a metal gunblade holder. And a thick platinum belt was around his waist carrying fine-tipped bullets. His pants were without a wrinkle and his black leather boots made the wooden floor creaked as he took a step in Sifan's direction.
"I say this suits me better." Relafen said, "Than some damn SeeD coat made of old, cheap material."
"You're kidnapping, Relafen!" Sifan said getting up on his feet, "You'll wear all that fancy clothes and do lowdown stuff like kidnapping?"
"HAH!" Relafen snapped, "Don't give me that Mr. Righteous crap, Leonhart! Go away, or fight."
Sifan looked out through the wall behind Relafen.
[The airship most probably wouldn't leave without Relafen. Maybe If I beat Relafen, those soldiers will come running and Avatar can get into the airship or something.]
"So this time." Sifan said pulling out his Phoenix gunblade, "We fight for real."
"That's right, Leonhart." Relafen hissed, "This aint no garden training session."
"Show me what this commander can do." Sifan said provoking Relafen.
"Find out for yerself!" Relafen screamed and rushed at Sifan. Sifan swung his gunblade and it clashed into Relafen's and they stared each other down.
"Why, Relafen?" Sifan asked, "Your father made the same mistake. He left SeeD out of the want to be a knight. He was paid with treason. You're not doing anything that different."
Relafen let go of his right hand around the sword handle and punched Sifan sending him staggering backwards, "I don't wanna be a frickin' knight Leonhart. Only sissies are knights, lapdogs protecting others. I want to be great, famous and any road to it is FINE!"
"You're star craving mad, Relafen." Sifan said equipping the wind materia he had received from Trex "Lets go home. Forget all your ambitions. We have to go home."
"Shut up, Leonhart. It's a whole new world. A world without that goddamn garden to direct our lives. My dad would want me to stay in this world as long as it means an opportunity to become someone. And I already am someone. The commander of Shin-Ra's army."
Sifan charged himself with the aura of the wind spell, "Shin-Ra is a bunch of power-hungry mongrels, Relafen. You want to be one of them."
"You would say anything to stop me, Leonhart?" Relafen said rushing at him, blade in hand, "Even lies?"
"I am not lying, dammit." Sifan said and released the wind spell. Powerful gusts of wind rushed in through the hole and caused the crumbled bits of the wall made by the hole fly and swirl in the air, dust getting into Relafen's eyes. It grew even more powerful knocking him off his feet. Soon the wind died out and Relafen was on the ground. He muttered something to himself and cried, "You asked for it Leonhart! Meet our old friend, IFRIT!"
The green aura around him soon swirled and disappeared making Relafen's body look like a ghost. And then he appeared, the ground tore and the fire beast broke out of the earth and stood in front of Sifan. The air suddenly became sultry and Sifan began to feel hot. Sweat formed on his brow, out of the heat and also out of fear.
Ifrit roared when he saw Sifan in front of him. He turned around to Relafen and opened his mouth to speak with hot breath, "Master Relafen. We guardian forces are beasts of great strength. Powerful and Strong, we can bring death in an instant. Before me is the flesh and blood of the same Squall Leonhart I still serve. Tell me, is this truly your decision that I kill him or did you summon me out of haste without proper thought."
Relafen rubbed his eyes. He looked at a very horrified Sifan and sighed, "Don't k-kill him, just keep him away till I get to the airship."
Ifrit nodded and breathed fire across the room causing a wall of fire in front of Sifan, "I am sorry, oh son of the warrior. I await to serve you inside the caverns of Mt.Duca."
Sifan sighed and watched as Relafen's figure ran out through the hole on the wall behind Ifrit to the airship. Soon Sifan could hear the airship lift and fly away. Ifrit was about to leave when Sifan spoke, "Ifrit."
The beast looked at Sifan, "I shall not hold conversation with humans for long. I shall be killed if his Majesty, Lord Orion should know about it."
Sifan nodded, "Well, please put out the fire. Relafen's gone, right?"
The beast grunted and swung its arms across the fire. The fire went out leaving the wooden floor stained in black. A magical aura surrounded Ifrit and he disappeared leaving Sifan alone in the room.
{There goes your trip back to balamb.}
[................................]
{I am sorry, Sifan. But it's the way of things. You can't run from your fate.}
Sifan heaved a tired sigh and sheathed his gunblade. He heard footsteps behind him and he turned to see Avatar, his sword in his hand.
"It was those Shin-Ra guys, they kidnapped Hamilton" Sifan said walking to Avatar who sheathed his sword, "And Relafen was their commander."
"What!" Avatar exclaimed as they walked through the hole to the outside. Only eagles few around and there wasn't anything that looked like an airship in the sky.
As they walked back in to the house, they came upon a man in a white coat. He was thin in appearance and had unruly hair. A long face and a weird smile were his other characteristics. Near his feet lay a couple of Shin- Ra's soldiers, each with a shruiken on his forehead.
"Hey." Avatar said, yawning, "They asked for it."
"Uh hello." The man in the white coat said, "What happened here?"
"Um well, we were supposed to meet Professor Hamilton." Avatar said, "But Shin-Ra kidnapped him."
Sifan nodded, "Who're you?"
"I am sorry. Let me introduce myself." The man said in a frail voice, "My name is Professor Lorenz, Hamilton and I are but the closest of friends."
"Um, well, he aint here." Avatar said, "Shin-Ra just took him."
"Yes, they've been after him for sometime." The professor replied, "Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do about it."
"Guess there isn't." Sifan said, deeply in thought.
"They wouldn't hurt Hamilton." Lorenz replied.
"Yeah, I am sure they wouldn't." Avatar said and sat down on the stairway. Sifan leant against the wall as the professor sat on the sofa.
"Hey." Sifan said to the professor, "You're close to Hamilton right?"
"Yes. We share all our ideas and even our intellect at times."
"Well then, do you know anything about the guys at Mideel? You know, they're supposed to be friends of Hamilton."
"Oh you don't mean Cloud Strife's daughter, do you?" Lorenz replied, "Yes of course, me and Hamilton are close friends of theirs."
"Um...." Avatar said, "So are we. Well, kind of."
"Anything I can do to help?" Lorenz said, a cheeky smile on his face.
"Look, you may not believe this." Sifan said, "But we have been warped here from another dimension."
The professor just stared as Sifan as if he had made the strangest statement in the world.
"Don't worry." Avatar said, "He's not insane. Well it kinda happened. So we landed up here, I mean, in Mideel. We're trying to get back. So we came to take Hamilton's help."
The professor thought for sometime and then smiled, "Yes of course. Hamilton had a few projects on inter and intra dimensional optronics."
"Uh." Avatar sighed, "English please?"
"Well, He was working on something involving time and dimensional warps." The professor said thinking, "In fact, his papers on those projects are at my place at Aquadia city. So if you could come by my place tomorrow morning, we'll plan something."
Avatar's eyes lit up, "Hey wow, that's pretty cool."
Sifan just sighed, "Very well, can I have your address?"
The professor took a card from his pocket and handed it to Sifan.
"Well, I am going to make a few calls and get Hamilton's place fixed. I can't leave it around like this."
Sifan agreed, "Yeah you do that. We'll leave."
Avatar got up and yawned. Soon he and Sifan left the professor and walked out of the room.
"This day just keeps getting better." Lorenz snickered to himself and punched a few numbers on his cell phone, "Hello? That you Rupert?"
He put his legs up on the table and leaned back on the sofa, lighting the cigar he had placed in his mouth with one hand while holding the phone on the other.
"Got everything?" The general said at the other end, "We got yer Hamilton warm and cozy in our airship."
"Good. Well, I got news for you too."
"Better be good. I have a frickin' bad neck."
"I met a couple of friends of Phillona Strife."
"Phillona? You mean that Mideel resistance group leader I've been tryin' ta nail?"
"Yes, A plan's already on my mind. A plan that could finally get you Mideel and a name with the president, Rupert."
"Well, What is it this time?"
"Bring Hamilton at midnight to the midgar computer floor. If I am happy with the way things go, I'll hatch a plan for your brainless ass, and get you your Mideel using those two kids I met a few minutes ago."
He cut the phone and leant on the sofa, enjoying his cigar. His eyes burnt with curiosity when he wondered about the information he would find that night using Hamilton's passwords. He mused as to what he should do with Hamilton after he'd serve his purpose.
"That's an easy one." He said crushing his cigar on a photo frame of Hamilton on the desk, "I'll mutate his ass. Who knows? I may create another Vincent Valentine like Hojo did."