Howdy y'all! How was everyone's Easter? Good? Bad? Mine was alright. Well anyway I hoped y'all enjoyed the last chapter. As you can see already the world as Yuffie knew it is gone. Now Yuffie must try and get the hang of things around the base. Will staying in the base help Yuffie find out what happened to her friends? We'll have to wait and find out now won't we? Well let's get started.

Disclaimer- Of coarse I don't own Final Fantasy 7! I'm way to poor to own it.

The Vampire from the last chapter is not mine either so I can't add it to my list. The one who has created that vampire is actually none other then Die. Die is one of my most lovable and helpful reviewers. Die is a professional Sephiroth hunter, so if you see Sephiroth running in terror you know Die is right behind him with some sort of killing device.

Chapter 24- The New Liberator, Yuffie!

Yuffie sits quietly in a large room with a whole bunch of other people. It's basically a conference room as Yuffie can best describe it. The room is somewhat large and all it really has in it is a rather long table where up to twelve people can sit. Everyone in the room has their attention to the man at the end of the table as he discusses about clearing out zombies nearby. Yuffie isn't really paying attention to what the man is saying, she never was one to sit in one spot for long and listen to someone talk.

Yuffie leans over to the left towards Kao who is sitting next to her, "Who is that?" She whispers asking about the man at the end of the table.

"That's Kenji Julkowski. Everyone just calls him General though. He was the one that formed The Liberators. He's also the one that taught us how to kill zombies." Kao explained quietly as he listens to 'General'.

"Oh... But who are the rest of these people?" Yuffie whispered glancing around the table at all the unfamiliar faces.

"Everyone here is a captain to a small squad of their own. Each of us have three or four people in our squad." Kao answered back.

Yuffie's brows lowered questioningly, "Then why am I here?"

A grin plays onto Kao's face, "For two reasons, one, you need to meet the General. Two, we're going to get you your own.."

"Is there something you would like to discuss Brundel?" Kao sat straight up immediately like he would when caught talking in class back in school.

"Uh no sir." Kao immediately says.

General eyes him, "Are you sure? Because it looked as though you were in deep discussion with..." He looks over at Yuffie and gives a questioning look, "Who exactly is this?" He asks finally noticing Yuffie for the first time.

Kao stands up form his seat and turns towards General. "This is Yuffie Kisasagi sir. She is the one we found two months ago."

General nods his head, "And how do you feel?" He asks Yuffie.

Yuffie grew nervous at all the stares directed towards her, "Uh... fine?"

General turns back towards Kao, who's sweating under his gaze, "And why might I ask, is she here? Only myself and the squad leaders are suppose to be at these meetings."

"Sorry sir. But I thought it would be wise for her to meet you. I believe that she should have a squad of her own from what I know how her." Kao answered quickly.

General raised an eyebrow at Kao, "Really?" He says sarcastically, "And what led you to believe Miss Kisasagi is capable of handling her own squad?" He asks wanting an answer.

Kao took in a deep breath ready to give all his reasons, "Well as it turns out sir, Miss Kisasagi is actually one of the members of AVALANCHE. Last night I took her with my squad to the surface and she showed me that she's well qualified for the job. She also.."

"So you're from AVALANCHE huh?" General cut in, not sounding the least bit impressed.

"Yes I was part of the group." Yuffie replies.

"Was?" General questioned.

"I don't know if any of my friends are alive so I may be the last one left." Yuffie explained.

"Sir!" Kao cut in on the little conversation. General gave Kao his attention and Kao continues, "As it turns out Miss Kisasagi and the rest of AVALANCHE were part in the Battle of Cosmos."

General rubs his chin in thought, "I thought no one survived that battle." He said more to himself then anyone else.

Yuffie hung her head, "I was injured in battle. One of my friends put me on their chocobo and sent away from the battle. He saved my life." 'Cloud...'

Seeing how depressing the subject seems to Yuffie, General decided to change topics, "Well, do you have any valuable information for us?"

Yuffie thinks about it for a moment, 'No... not that I can think of. Oh YEA!' "Yes actually I do!" She exclaimed a bit happy now that she has some way to help. "Those shadow creatures at night are actually called Hadions. And we, AVALANCHE, found out a way to kill them!"

Whispering went around the table from the other squad leaders. General eyes widened a little bit in excitement, "Really now? And how do you kill them?" He asks anxiously.

Yuffie grins, "It's really quite simple. 'The darkness is their ally. The sunlight is their enemy'" She spoke remembering what the diary said that they found in the Shin-Ra mansion. Everyone gave her a confused look not understanding the quote. Yuffie rolls her eyes at their slowness, "LIGHT! Light kills them."

Kao smiles seeing that Yuffie has obviously impressed General, "So do you think she can have a squad of her own?" Kao asks

General pauses in thought for a moment. After agreeing with something in his head he nods once to himself, "Alright. Miss Kisasagi, you will form a squad of your own." Yuffie smiles pleased that SHE, Yuffie Kisasagi, gets to be the leader of a group. "Have a squad formed immediately because you're going to the surface at fifteen hundred hours!"

Yuffie mouth drops in disbelief, 'That's..... THREE O'CLOCK! That gives me only two hours!' She yells in her mind.

"You may have anyone who is willing to join your squad. So I suggest you scout the base for people. Alright dismissed." General turns his back to everyone as they leave the conference room.

Kao gave Yuffie a smile, "I knew you could become one." He says excitedly as the two walk towards the exit.

"Brundel!" General calls out.

Yuffie and Kao stop. Kao quickly turns around, "Sir!?"

"I wish to speak with you." General replied back.

Kao turned his head and gave Yuffie a nod telling her to go on ahead. Yuffie nods back and left the room. Kao walks up closer, "Yes sir?"

General doesn't even bother turning around to face Kao, "You have broken the code 105. You brought someone to the surface without my consent. What's worse is it was someone just coming out of a coma."

"I'm sorry sir, I wasn't thinking." Kao tries defending himself.

"No you weren't thinking. As your punishment I'm relieving you from squad leader."

Kao frowned, "Understood sir."

"Alright dismissed."

Kao turned around and headed towards the door. When he opens it Yuffie stood there waiting for him. She noticed his depressed expression, "Hey what's wrong?" She asked concerned.

"I just lost leadership of my squad." Kao slouches his shoulders and sighs.

Yuffie gave him a sympathetic look, "Sorry to here that." They both began walking towards the mess hall to get some food. Both remain silent walking down the halls. Yuffie kept trying to figure out ways to cheer Kao up, then an idea struck her, "HEY!" Kao stops and turns towards her. Yuffie gave him the best grin she can muster, "How about you join my squad!?" She happily suggests.

Kao just stood there looking at her for a few moments. Kao sighs and then gives Yuffie a small grin, "Sure." He excepted.

"Great!" Yuffie exclaims. Yuffie scratches the back of her head and gave a smile, "Now you can help scout for me since I don't really know anyone else."

Kao just shrugs his shoulders, "You can look at everyone's files in room 134. We keep everyone's records there, so it'd be easier to find member if you look at their files."

"Where's the room?" Yuffie asks curiously.

Kao starts walking ahead, "Follow me." He calls out. Yuffie quickly catches up with him as he leads her towards the room. It took them about five minutes before they came up to a door with the number 134 on it.

Yuffie sighs in frustration, "You guys should have maps around here so everyone knows where their going.

Kao chuckles as he opens the door. He holds the door open as he allows Yuffie to walk in first. Yuffie walked into the room and glanced around seeing all the file cabinets. Yuffie groans, "There's so many."

"Actually only the cabinets up on the left wall have the files of everyone on base. All the others are just files we salvaged from the Shin-Ra building." Kao explained.

"Shin-Ra huh? And what did they have on file?" Yuffie asks a trace of hatred in her voice as she remembers back two years ago.

Kao shrugs his shoulders and shakes his head, "I don't know. We haven't really been through them. Everyone down here has been pretty busy after we started doing small missions to the surface and everything."

Yuffie glanced around the room seeing the few candles as the source of light. The a thought struck her, "If you guys go to the surface often, then why don't you try and get the power back?" Yuffie asks remembering the base doesn't have any electricty.

"Well the generator isn't operational. It takes a lot of time to fix the generator and we aren't out on the surface for long. We've been going to the generator and fixing it little by little but progress is slow." Kao starts walking out of the room, "Good luck in searching. I'm going to the mess hall."

Yuffie nods her goodbye and watches him walk out of the room. Yuffie turns around towards the file cabinets with everyone's file. Yuffie let out a miserable breath, 'Well might as well start. After all I only have a little over an hour.'

~Twenty minutes later~

'GAWD This is BORING' Yuffie thought annoyed. Everyone's file that Yuffie has come across weren't, to Yuffie anyway, qualified to be in her squad. She wants to have a squad filled with the best. Actually her problem is she doesn't know any of the people so she doesn't to put someone who she doesn't know on her squad.

Yuffie glances over to the other side of the room where the files from the Shin-Ra building sit. Yuffie began feeling her oh so familiar curious self eyeing the cabinets. Just starring at the file cabinets made her curiousness grow. Seeing how there really isn't any harm in it and that the cabinets seemed to beg to Yuffie to open them she stood up and headed towards the cabinets.

Yuffie grins mischievously and opens up the top drawer of one cabinet, 'Let's see if Shin-Ra had any other secrets they were hiding.' She thought to herself. Yuffie began scanning the labels of the files. Weapon Development, Space Exploration, Science Research. Yuffie groans, "BORING!" She chimes. Then her eyes catch sight of another file which made her smile, "Oh Classified Tee hee hee!"

Yuffie pulls the file out of the cabinet and opens it up. She began scanning through it, "Let's see here, Turk training, Materia enhancements, Rima Hikari?? hmm... What's a Rima Hikari?" Yuffie began reading the small amount of information that came with it.

Name- Rima Hikari

Age- Classified

Sex- Classified

Height & Weight- Classified

Blood Type- Unknown

Charges- Classified

"Well this was a waste of time. All they have written down is a frickin name" Yuffie says annoyed ready to shove the file back into the foulder.

"What'cha looking at?" Yuffie nearly jumps in surprise. She quickly turns around at the sound of the voice. Mika stands only a few feet away since she was looking over Yuffie's shoulder at the file.

Yuffie shakes her head, "Nothing." She chimes innocently.

"Let me look!" Mika says cheerfully as she outstretches her right hand waiting for the document. Yuffie hands the useless document over. Mika's brows lower in wonderment as she examines the document. "Oh!" Mika exclaims suddenly as the light bulb lights up in her head, "This is that killer from years back." She says recognizing the name.

Yuffie raises an eyebrow, "Killer? How do you know that? The document doesn't say anything other then a name." Yuffie asks curiously.

Mika smiles, "Because I've lived in Midgar all my life. About five or six years ago there was murders going on. And the not all the people killed were just common people, some were important political leaders. Anyway, nobody really knew who the killer was. After a while a name was being spread. That name was Rima Hikari!"

"So... They don't really know who actually killed all those people?" Yuffie asks skeptically not really believing someone who killed all those people wouldn't be captured yet.

Mika just shrugs placing the document back in the folder, "I don't really know if Rima Hikari is a real person. It was probably a name made up by some people so they had someone to blame. No one really saw who actually killed all those people. And it wasn't just Midgar that their was killings. Several towns on the central continent as well had murders. And since we've been having several killings at the time, Rima Hikari was blamed for those too." Mika says recalling what happened several years ago.

Yuffie nods her head listening to the story of the so called killer. Mika shook her head getting out of her daydream of the past, "Anyway, what are you doing in here?" Mika finally asked the question that has been on her mind since she saw Yuffie in the room.

Yuffie gave a proud grin, "I was made squad leader. That old guy Julkooki or whatever his name is, told me to get a squad together by three o'clock and then he's sending me up to the surface."

"Really wow! Did you have any luck finding people to get in your squad?"

"One." Yuffie hangs her head a little embarrassed at the fact that she could only find one person so far, "Kao is in my squad."

"Kao?" Mika repeats confused, "But Kao is a squad leader." She points out.

Yuffie shakes her head, "No not anymore. He got er... fired from the position."

Mika shakes her head disappointedly, "Poor Kao, he just became a squad leader last week too. Well, you better hurry up and find someone else. You need at least two people with you to be allowed to the surface." Mika says then walks towards the door.

"How about you?" Yuffie suddenly suggests causing Mika to stop dead in her tracks.

Mika turns around and stares at Yuffie in disbelief, "M-me? I've never fought in my life?" She quickly stated.

Yuffie thought for a moment, "That may be, BUT, you're trained in helping out the wounded. Someone who can heal the wounded is just important as someone who fights. At least I think they are." Yuffie says trying to convince her.

Mika seemed skeptical about the idea, "I don't know..." She trails off.

"Oh come one please... At least just for today? You said it yourself I need at least two people to be allowed to the surface. I don't have time to find someone else." Yuffie gave her the best begging eyes she can make and puffs out her bottom lip.

Mika sighs giving into Yuffie's pleads. Yuffie smiles seeing she won her over and quickly gave Mika a hug, "Oh thank-you! I was so sure you wouldn't do it."

"But only for today. After that you'll have to find someone else." Mika warns.

"Deal!" Yuffie says having no problem with it. "Well then, we might as well start towards the exit, it's almost time to go." Yuffie said happily as she heads out of the room. Despite the feeling she's going to regret agreeing with Yuffie, a smile plays on Mika's lips as she follows Yuffie.

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"Mika? What's she doing here?" Kao asks surprised as Yuffie and Mika walk up to him. Each ready to go to the surface and kill off some zombies.

Yuffie looks back and forth between the two and smiles, "She's a temporary member of my squad."

Kao frowns, "She could get hurt out there?"

"And so could you." Mika points out clearly growing annoyed by her brother treating her like a child. "I'll be fine." She reassures her older brother.

"I still don't like it." Kao says.

Yuffie gives him a grin and pats his shoulder, "Well as her older brother it's your duty to protect her like you're suppose to." Yuffie walks over to the later and looks up at the hatch that leads to the surface, "Well enough standing around blabbering, let's move it."

Yuffie starts heading up the later and begins opening the hatch. Her two squad members following behind her. Eventually there's a click meaning the hatch is unlocked. Yuffie immediately pushes the hatch open and sticks her head out above the surface to look around. A move, which she greatly regrets the moment a gunshot is heard ringing through the air, followed by Yuffie's scream.

ยง=0) Well I think that we have gone far enough Mwahahaha! Look at that I made another cliffie! Heeheehee. I know I usually don't make much of those but you know what? I think I'll begin writing more of them. They seem to be so much fun! I know I know this chapter was a bit dull compared to the last one. But never fear! Action is near!

But unfortunately, my break from baseball is finally over so I'm starting to have practice again and I have a game on Thursday. (Sigh) It's really getting in the way but hey! If I wanna be a professional ball player I gots ta keep on practicing nay? Well anyway I'll see if I can get the next chapter up soon. TTNC! Oh and REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!