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jasmine32: I had to look up daft in the dictionary. Yes, Laguna is pretty boneheaded.

Griever Weapon: Not stopping this till it's done! The only things I know about FF7 are the names of some of the characters. I've never played it, much less had time to get into it.

OK, here's the moment some have been waiting for, the (official) introduction of Miss Heartilly. Also, I put the mission briefing in a nutshell.

CHAPTER 11: THE FOREST OWLS

A few minutes later, the train arrived at Timber Station. Squall, Zell, and Selphie stepped off the train and took a few seconds to breath in their surroundings. As they began to leave, they heard someone on their left say, "Oh, the forests of Timber sure have changed." Squall recognized this as the prompting for the password, and replied "But the owls are still around."

"Welcome to Timber, sir," The young man said. "Follow me, sir." This guy was probably around the same age as the SeeDs. He led them to another set of tracks, where a Single locomotive pulled up. the young man led them inside, where there was another young man, about the same age, waiting for them.

"So, you guys are the SeeDs we hired?" Said the other young man.

"I'm the Squad Leader, Squall." Squall told him, "This is Zell, and Selphie." The young man went to shake Squalls hand, but as always, Squall refused the gesture. However, Zell and Selphie accepted it.

"Nice to meet ya," He said, "I'm Zone, the leader of the Forest Owls, and I see you've already met Watts."

"So lets get on with it," Squall said, "What do we do?"

"Take it easy," Zone said, "There's one more person, our princess."

"It's the princess' nap time, sir." Watts reminded him.

"Ahh man," Zone groaned, but then got an idea, " Hey Squall, sorry, but could you go wake up our princess?"

"We were hired to run errands?" Squall asked him, "Well?"

"Whoa," Zone said stepping back, "You're not...mad? Are you?"

"We're not gophers, we're SeeD. Special Forces," Squall thought to himself. He looked Zone in the eye and said, "This is the last time for this kind of thing."

"Ow, owwwwwch, my stomach!" Zone whined, getting motion sickness. Squall headed for the back of the train, but not without hearing Zell whisper something about these guys not having a clue.

Squall found a single room at the back of the train decorated a certain color. "Got enough pink?" he thought. He saw a black haired girl in a blue windbreaker sleeping on the bed with her back to him. A border collie laying next to the bed noticed Squall and let out a bark, waking the girl up.

"Angelo, be quiet," she said groggily as the train came to a stop. The girl looked at Squall, and Squall instantly recognized her as the girl who danced with him at the SeeD party!

"Hey!" she said upon seeing Squall. "You're...you know...from the party. Does that mean...you're a SeeD?"

"I'm Squall Leonhart, the squad leader," Squall told her. "There's two others with me."

"YEEESSSS!" She yelled, throwing her arms around his neck in a hug, which, for some reason, was a foreign concept to Squall. "SeeD is here!"

"Take it easy!" Squall said as she dropped to her feet.

"It's just that, I'm so happy." She said, "I've been sending requests to Garden forever, but nothing. I'm so glad I spoke to Cid face-to-face."

"Oh, so you were looking for the headmaster at the party?" Squall asked.

"You know Seifer Almasy?" she asked.

"Yeah," said Squall, though sometimes he wished he didn't.

"Well, he's the one that introduced me to Cid." She said. "Cid is such a nice man."

"Well, I'm going back to the others," Squall said.

"OK, let's go." She said, leading the way, before stopping suddenly. "Um Squall, is he here?"

"He who?" Squall asked.

"Seifer?"

"No, he's not a SeeD." Squall told her, reminding himself that Seifer had failed. Again.

"Oh. By the way, I'm Rinoa." She said, "Rinoa Heartilly. Nice to meet you Squall. That's my dog, Angelo." Referring to the dog, who had hopped onto Rinoa's bed. "SeeDs dance well, don't they?"

"There may be jobs that require the skill." Squall said. "I just don't like doing it."

"So it's work related?" Rinoa asked. Squall gave her a nod. "That's too bad." With that, Squall and Rinoa headed for the front of the train, where he introduced her to Zell and Selphie.

"Ok, now that we all know each other, what do we do?" Zell asked. Zone led them all into the Conference room.

"This is a full-scale operation." Zone said. "Our resistance, 'The Forest Owls' will forever be known in the pages of Timber's Independence! Exciting, huh?"

"Whatever." Squall replied.

"It all started when we got a hold of some Top-secret info from Galbadia." Zone said.

"I got the info, sir." Watts said.

"There's a VIP from Galbadia coming to Timber."

"Super VIP!" Watts added

"The guys name in Vinzer Deling." Zone said. "Our archenemy and President of Galbadia."

"Vinzer Deling is a scoundrel!" Watts hissed. "He's a dictator, not a president. Not even popular in Galbadia."

"President Deling is taking a train from the Galbadian capital." Rinoa said.

"Our plan is to..." Zone began

"Blow it to smithereens with a rocket launcher?" Selphie interrupted.

"Ahh...not quite," Zone said.

"So get on with it," Zell said, "Just tell us what to do."

"We're going to be pushing a Dummy car with our base." Rinoa said, "Deling is riding on a train with four cars, with his in the middle. Our plan is to switch our Dummy car with his presidential car."

"So basically, we're kidnapping the president." Squall said.

"Exactly." Zone said.

"So how do we uncouple the cars from a moving train?" Selphie asked.

"We have to tamper with the control system that manages the coupling." Zone said. "By entering the codes that Rinoa has, it should be possible."

"On the control system is numbered buttons 1 through 4." Rinoa said. "I'll relay the codes to the one entering them, and that person has to enter them in exact order. Once the codes have been put in, the cars will uncouple automatically. For instance, if the code is 1432, then those buttons must be pushed in that order to verify. We're going to need four people for this." As if on cue, Watts excused himself.

"Umm, my specialty is just to gather more information, sir." He said. Catching on, Zone began to fake motion sickness.

"OWWWWWWW. My stomach!" he whined.

"Fine, you big babies," Rinoa said, "I'll relay the codes!" Rinoa led the SeeDs out of the conference room, where Watts was in the dummy car, with a fake president with a newspaper in its hands. On the dummy, there was a motion sensor hooked up to a tape recorder.

"Watch this, sir!" He said, approaching the fake president. As soon as he got close enough, the tape recorder switched on.

"I'm in a bad mood right now!" The tape recorder said in Delings voice. "If there is nothing in particular, I order you to leave immediately!"

"That should fool the soldiers long enough to do our thing." Rinoa said. If there's nothing else, I guess we're ready to go." Rinoa led them to a ladder near the front of the train, and climbed up, Squall, Zell and Selphie not too far behind. As they climbed out, the train was going full speed, with Deling's train coming into view on the other tracks.