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Power of the Turks: Part Two

PART TWO: The Meeting

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WARNING: Violence, Adult language and subject matter.

This is a CONTINUATION - ALTERNATE REALITY Final Fantasy VII fanfic.

It contains major SPOILERS for the game.

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Part two

The Highwind took off and started for Junon. The ground was covered in black and dark-red blood from the battle for miles. As the Highwind flew Cloud found Yuffie, who were on deck, looking over at the ground.

"I thought you had motion sickness Yuffie," Cloud stated.

" 'Had' would be the key term there, Cloud. I managed to get over it after looking at this ground. I guess it was that the ground didn't change, as we were moving so my stomach thought we weren't moving. So it didn't act up. Than when we left the field of blood it still didn't act up. Must have got over it."

"Well that's a good thing Yuffie. Now would you like to come up on deck and join us," Cloud asked.

"Sure thing cu… Cloud."

As the Highwind continued its journey to Junon it passed over a bridge that was under construction.

"Looks like the Junonites want access to the rest of the continent," Reeve started. "I'll have to keep this in mind if there are people looking for work."

"I do believe that unemployment will be at an all time low considering all the manpower required for the reconstruction."

This voice was mysterious and yet familiar. Vincent was the first to recognize the voice. He had a look of perplexity on his face at the moment.

"Lucrecia, how did you get up here," Vincent asked.

"Now you know that I can fly Vincent," she started calmly. "Not even the 'Highwind in flight' could avoid me. So how are you today my sweet sugarplum? Well now other than George and Gast we should have all the old crew back together. Wouldn't you agree Vincent?"

Lucrecia was acting wild and fidgety. She was walking around the deck acting like she was looking for something. Yet Vincent know she was just walking around. In a strangely familiar way.

(This could be trouble, Vincent thought. Last time she was so active and energetic was that one night.)

"Hmph. Sugarplum. When did you call me such a thing," Vincent asked her.

"Ha. Since I first fell in love with you."

"And how many seconds ago did it take you to plan that one."

(Hmph. What a mood. Why do you hate me? Or do you? Well whatever the case, don't think I never loved you. Or that I stopped."

They were given an armed escort to the Shinra Building. On the way they met a crowd of cheering people who were excited about Meteor's destruction. As they walked down the street Vincent noted some damage still left from Sapphire Weapon's attack, namely the hole in the gas chamber. They came to the monorail lift that led to the HQ and rode it up. At the top they entered the HQ. As they walked they came to a flight of stairs that led to a meeting room. On the way up the group was met by three very excited familiar faces.

Reno, Rude and Elena were standing in the hall waiting for the group. Reno was leaned against the wall on leg crossed over the other, the foot horizontal and bearing no weight. In his right hand he had his nightstick ready to use if necessary. Rude was pacing up and down the stairs waiting for news about the group that saved the world. Elena was sitting in one of three seats that were in the lobby at the top.

When the group appeared Reno moved from the wall to great Rufus. Elena became ecstatic when Tsang appeared. Rude just went to the top and waited.

"So not even Weapon could topple the President Shinra."

"Thank you Reno. Is the boarding room fit?"

"Yes. It's always fit for a meeting. Your father ordered it that way. And you never changed it. By the way, Tsang someone wants to see to you," Elena stated.

"Not right now, we have a lot to do today," Tsang answered. "And I don't want interruptions."

In the meeting room everyone took a seat. The room had a white tint to it, like a lab room. There were no windows and there was a big screen in the front. On the walls were paintings of Rufus and his father. Cloud noticed what appeared to be a painting of a young Vincent. In each corner was a plant. It appeared to Cid that there was one from each of the four continents.

There were just a few more seats that people in the room at the moment. Tifa and Cloud sat by each other about midway between table ends. Cid and Shera sat across from each other at the end. Barret, Yuffie and Nanaki sat near the other end. The four Turks sat by each other. Rufus and Vincent stood next to the podium talking about the presentation they had planned. When they were finished Rufus moved up to the podium. Just than the door to the room opened and a tall blonde headed man who carried a striking resemblance to cloud walked in.

He had a white lab coat bearing the Shinra symbol on the right side of the chest and the Nibelhem Symbol on the left. He had glasses and was about six feet in height and was very slim. His hair was combed in the front and the rest pulled back into a tail. The front hair was separated at the center and was combed out towards the ears. His pants were blue and his boots were similar to Cloud's accept for the size.

"Sorry I'm late, did I miss anything," the man asked.

"No George you didn't. Actually we were just getting started," Shera replied.

"Well now that all the expected people as well as a few guest are here let's begin the meeting. First let me introduce the two different organizations that will run the company. Allow me to introduce the science division. You all served for the cause of science, you worked to improve the weapons that were manufactured, energy manufacture, and strengthen the military. Your greatness lasted until 30 years ago. What caused your downfall is what corrupted us and destroyed the other organization. Jenova.

"And now for the backbone of Shinra. The Turks."

Everyone had been listening with much enthusiasm until Rufus mentioned the Turks. At that moment Barret and Tifa jumped out of their seats.

"The what," Barret shouted.

"The Turks," Vincent began, "currently there are eight Turks in here, three new, five old."

The guests began looking for the three old Turks, which they couldn't identify. They knew Vincent and Tsang were considerably old Turks. But the other three just couldn't come to mind.

"I see there is a little confusion in the crowd," Rufus began, "That was expected. Let me introduce the five old Turks. Vincent and Tsang as you probably know are two of these five. I'll state their rank and status. Tsang was a Mark-3 S-Class Turk. Vincent was Mark-1 A-Class. His rank gave him command of all non S-Class Turks. Tsang had command of Vincent, Alistine, whom was Mark-5 S-Class, and Karanoke, whom was Mark-4 S-Class.

Cloud's thoughts began to rush. He felt like he knew them. As if he had met them. Even stranger was that a voice, one he rarely heard, was telling him that it recognized them.

(Could it be? Could 'He' have met them?)

"Now to introduce you to the three you don't know. First Reeve. His rank was Mark-2 S-class putting him at second in command of the Turks. Next was Rufus Shinra. As you all know that is me. I was of Mark-1 S-Class. That put me at the top of command for the Turks. Though today I command the entire company as president of the Shinra Empire."

There was a slight murmur is the crowd. Tifa and Barret were dumbfounded.

"Before you name the last person I'd like to know a few things 'bout the Turks. When were all you Turks? And what about your boss? Wasn't someone like Hiedegger around to command you guys," Barret asked.

"About the command part. No. At the time I was at full direct command of the Turks. There was none above me, only indirect command, which the president and vice president had. And there was no vice president at the time so my father was the only one to hold indirect command over me. And did he hate that.

"As for the other question. It was 30 years ago the last we all were together. We were forcefully divided due to certain circumstances including the Jenova Project," answered Rufus.

"From what I heard about when Vincent disappeared I can understand the effect of the Jenova Project," Cloud said. "But what about the other caused?"

"My father promoted me to Vice President 30 years ago. This he knew took away my direct command over the Turks. But it was a double-edged sword. It would place Vincent in S-Class giving him the chance to rise through the ranks yet again and become leader of the S-Class. He also place Reeve in charge of the newly formed Department of Urban Development, or DUD for short. This also worked as a double-edged sword since it placed Vincent's anonymous assistant in S-Class too."

Barret and Cid started laughing. "The department was a 'dud' alright."

Reeve had a smile on his face, "I just did what Shinra told me. If I was able to work more independently I could have done much better. Even rebuild some of the plates."

Rufus tapped the podium, "That would have been irrelevant Reeve."

"And how is that a bad separation," Reno asked. "All your comrades were in charge and even though you might not have had direct command I'm sure Tsang would have been welcome to 'advise'."

"Well I thought the same thing Reno. But Vincent's sudden absence depleted moral and power on a large scale in the organization as well as the company. Many left thinking that nothing could stop Shinra from oppressing them.

"My father was simply afraid of him. If my father was planning on doing something and Vincent outright disagreed with the idea my father would reconsider for fear of death or the likes. Vincent wasn't that type of person though. But he did like to take advantage of a good thing.

"Now with Vincent gone nothing was holding Shinra back. That's why so many left, even the anonymous fifth Turk. We were hoping that Vincent and Tsang would fill in for us but with Vincent gone and the bulk of the organizations leaving a 'need' for new offices and organizations, such things arose in this shift of power."

"Excuse me but what do you mean by 'need'," asked Yuffie.

Tsang answered, "That need was control of weapon development and new military command since SOLDIER was starting up. Two offices that Scarlet and Hiedegger would have loved to fill."

Lucrecia stood up and had the same style of grin as Vincent.

"I take it that eliminated the biggest threat in Shinra's eyes. With the Turks falling to peaces I'd say he was quite happy. But what of the Science Division, I'm sure just Gast and Hojo couldn't run that without me or the Turks. Or did Shinra get around that," Lucrecia finished.

"Well With Sephiroth and SOLDIER going the Science Division had a new job. But because Gast left Hojo took over the division," Rufus said.

"You know. I've been listening to this meeting and was thinking about when this all occurred. And I don't remember any of it. Then you state that it happened 30 years ago, which leads me to just one simple question. How the hell are you all older than me when you don't even look older than Lady Aeris," a mysterious voice said.

Everyone's blood ran cold at that moment. They recognized the voice but just couldn't believe he was back.

"What the fuck is going on here," Yuffie started. "We just killed you a few days ago."

"How could you do that when I've been 'dead' for 5 years?" the voice replied.

"Se… Sephiroth. Is that you Commander Sephiroth?"

Cloud's mumbling shocked everyone.

/ Don't call him commander you idiot. You were never in SOLDIER so don't. /

/ Well what about you, would you call him commander/

/ He He He. No. I was of higher office than him. I would be the one called commander. /

/- But he is commander. He is to all SOLDIER. So he is commander. -/

/ What? I thought we got rid of you, you pathetic loser. Don't you start living a lie again. /

/- Why are you so mean? -/

/ Because he hates you. He hates what you did to him and me. You liar/

Cloud was phasing out. He began to hold his head.

"Yo cloud. You all right," Barret asked.

Cloud shook his head wildly.

"Yes I… I'm ok. Um shall we move on?"

"Yes it is me. The great Sephiroth," he said. Sephiroth was now standing in the room next to Lucrecia. Why he chose to stand by her he knew not. But he felt safe. He had his usual uniform. And there by his side was the Masamune. There was just one small thing missing from him that cloud looked for

"Considering their reaction to you I don't think I should go in there," a female voice said.

"Don't worry daughter. They wouldn't hurt you."

No one recognized the voice at first. Than Vincent and Lucrecia both laughed.

"Long time no see Professor Gast," they both said in unison.

"Indeed. I bet your wondering where I came from and how I got here," he said.

"Not really. I think George would have something to do with this," Vincent replied.

"Yes he does. Actually he brought all three of us back," Gast replied.

Gast had an attire similar to George's but the symbol on his left was the Junon symbol. Aeris had on her basic dress but there was no hole in the dress where the blade that killed her passed through.

"Tell me S… St… George. How and when did you meet up with them," Vincent asked.

George looked around the room and noticed quite a few angry faces. Tifa, Barret, Cid, Yuffie, Tsang, and Reno were indeed angered by the interruptions.

"It's a bit of a story. And I think it would be wise to tell it some other time," George replied.

"Can you please shut the hell up and let this meeting go uninterrupted," Reno shouted.

"Yes I think it would be wise to do that," Rufus said.

"Well now that everyone's here I will gladly continue," Vincent started. "First of all I would like the introduce the 5th Turk. She was my personal assistant in the organization and Mark-2 A-Class, which placed her at second in command of A-Class. Her name is Shera Highwind.

Cid, who had almost fallen asleep, sat up with eyes wide as billiards.

"Shera's a Turk," Cid wheezed in surprise. It took a quick shake of the head and a glass of water to get him back to normal. "Damn! And I thought I knew her."

Faint giggles arose in the room. Vincent, Cid, Shera, and Lucrecia were the only ones with a serious look on their face at the moment.

"Highwind!" Barret laughed, "I thought you weren't married.

"How could you tell if they were married," Rude and Elena chuckled.

"Nice one Vincent. This is the reason why they keep it secret," Lucrecia replied coldly. "Though they have been together for 36 years and are still holding strong. Yet to most people it would seem strange that they even live together. Yeah they have fights and make mistakes. But don't we all."

"Well put Lucrecia," Rufus replied, "Now to introduce the members of the Science, Research, and Development Department. Vincent I hand the stand to you."

Vincent stepped up to the podium. Then back down. "I just made the last introductions. You take over."

"First the old head of the organization and his assistant Professor Gast and Lucrecia. Also my assistant George S um."

"Might as well Rufus," George said.

"Ok, George Strife."

"Strife? Does he have a relation to me," Cloud asked.

"Um well," George started.

Barret and the others were getting really annoyed by now.

"Can we do this latter Cloud," Tifa asked.

"Now I will state the top officers for the new government. For president we will keep Rufus. Though you probably guessed that. Next will be the Vice president. After a formal discussion that we had recently it has been decided that I Vincent shall take that office."

"Sure you didn't just give yourself that title," Yuffie said.

"Will you shut up little girl? I'd like to know what this government things going to be like," Sephiroth snapped. Cloud noticed he sounded like on of his drill sergeants.

Vincent moved on.

"Now to introduce the rest. In the Department of Urban Development we will again have Reeve. In the department of The Turks we will have Tsang as Stage-1 S-Class. Sephiroth would you like to take over Hiedegger's position as head of the military?"

"Sure. I'd love to," Sephiroth replied. "What will I be commanding?"

"Well since SOLDIER is out of commission you will take up the normal divisions," Vincent answered, "I think that is all for the Military."

"What about the Shinra Elites or S-Class Soldiers," Cloud suddenly shouted.

"The wha," Sephiroth was perplexed.

(S-Class. Vincent's thoughts began to race. How did he gain knowledge of them? Let alone the Shinra Elites. )

Rufus on the other hand had a different thought.

(Thoughts slipping from the back of your mind, to the tip of you tongue and out as words Strife? This is a rather good sign. He'd waking up and taking control. Soon no enemy will bother us.)

"Cloud. You scare me at times you know," Aeris mumbled.

"Well lets move on," Vincent said trying to brush off the subject. "Those are the people who will be in the Top positions and will work on the top two floors of the Shinra HQ back in midgar. Those whom will now be mentioned will work in either the lower floors or in another town based on conveyance of work. Also these jobs aren't being forced on you so you can decline if you don't want the job. And ask what you will do in this job if you're unsure.

"Now to introduce the Space and Aeronautics Division. Cid Highwind. Would you like to head this department? I'm sure you know what you will be doing."

"Yes I'll take it. Will I be able to go into space again?"

"Yes Cid you probably will. Now Shera would you like to head the Aeronautics Department?"

"Sure. Um why are you asking me and Cid this now when you could have asked us when you all decided on your positions?"

"Yes tell us," Cid asked.

"Well we found the chamber so silent that we decided not to interrupt your slumber," Vincent answered. Now in Science Research and Development we will have Gast as head of the Research Department, Lucrecia as head of Weapon Development, and George at head of the Science Department. Are you all alright with this choice?"

"Yes," the all said in unison.

"And what will we do," Gast asked.

"Basically you will be doing the same stuff as before but with the few enhancements that the 30 years gave us," Rufus answered.

"As for the other offices," Vincent began, "We have abruptly decided on asking Yuffie Kisaragi to be the head of the Materia Development Department, Nanaki to be the head of the Environmental Protection Department and Cloud Strife to be the head of the Humanitarian Department. Yuffie you will probably understand you purpose, Nanaki you the same. Both of you can easily guess the reasons you were chosen for those jobs. Do you accept?"

"Yes," They both answered.

"What about me," Cloud asked.

"Your job will be to check on the humanity of each department and weather or not certain things may result in disasters or as something like the Jenova Project. You were chose because you went through allot of the stuff we want to remove. So you know what to look for better then us. Even I didn't take what you did," Vincent Finished.

"In that case when do I start," Cloud responded.

"Right when we get done," Lucrecia answered.

"Hold up," Shera started, "We had no say in those decisions. Did you just cook them up or something?"

"Indeed Vincent," Tsang started, " You did this with out our consent."

"Will you all just bloody shut up," Sephiroth shouted, "I'd like to get this over with as quickly as possible."

(Hmm there's a recognizable temper. George thought. But it sure isn't Hojo's or Lucrecia's that's for certain. Vincent I remember having this kind but not them. Could it be? Nay.)

"Rufus you take over," Vincent said.

"Sure thing Valentine. Now for Utilities and energy. Barret Wallace, we have chosen you to head the Energy Department since you seem to be so concerned with that kind of stuff and your back as a coal miner. Tifa Lockheart, you have been chosen as the Treasurer. Aeris you have been chosen as the Utilities Department supervisor and beautification director. Now are you ok with the choices?"

"Rufus you just made my day," Barret said, "I been complainin' about the way you guys produced energy for so long I did thing my own way. Of coarse this will be as little less violent."

"I didn't know you actually had something for me," Tifa said, "I guess I can handle that since I am well aware of what money can do and conversion prices are something I'm really good at."

"And you Aeris," Rufus asked.

"Sure. I've been living in Sectors 4 and 5 for so long I'm sure I'd know all about that stuff. But I do hope you will watch Sectors 1 and 2. That place is more corrupt then Don Cornio's place."

Vincent Glanced over at Rufus with a dumbfounded look.

"Rufus. You mean to tell me that in 30 years you still haven't cleaned up those two Sectors?"

"Well I should be the one to take the blame. I didn't think about the problem much and when I did I put it off," Reeve said.

"My father's the one that didn't make it a priority," Rufus started, "he just shrugged it off as some simple problem that will die out or take care of it self. So don't blame yourself."

"Anyways lets move one. You will all work together and will coordinate with the Executive Officers. Most of you will have two offices. Barret your first office will be on the 60th floor. The second we will place where the most raw material comes from for energy production. Of coarse that's either North Coral or the Mythril Mines in which you will be stationed at Ft. Condor. What do you think about that?"

"Hay Rufus I know there's more coal in Mt. Coral than at the Mythril Mines if that's whatcha' talking about," Barret began, "So I guess I'll be that will be my field office. And wasn't the 60th Floor the one with all of those guards? I don't think you'll want to remove that."

"My father chose to place the guard section of the building in the 55th-60th floors. Of coarse my associates and I didn't think that was useful considering the stairway ended at the 59th floor. But who would want to climb 59 floors worth of stairs right. You proved if someone was determined to do it peacefully the 55th-58th floors could be bypassed. I will be moving the main guard to the lowest floors. And the Stairway will be restricted to those without cardkeys. And of coarse getting those is going to be rather tough. I wasn't really impressed with the Avalanche infiltration. Considering security was still lame."

Barret looked slightly proud to learn that he sort of taught the Shinra something.

"Now moving on," Rufus started, "Yuffie we decided to help Wutai get back on its feet through industrialization. And since you are the leader of Wutai you have the choice to make. If you wish for a boost from us, your field office, as Barret called, it in Wutai, or if you want us to leave your nation out of the organization we will do any of the above. Also your main office will be on the 60th floor along with Barret's. What do you say?"

"Well it seems like you really want to help," Yuffie began to answer, "But indu… whatever you call it? I don't think my people will like that. But if my field office is there I take it the main research will have to follow also.

"Wait a minute. If I place the field office there could I have minor research and development done and jobs made to the people? And have the main research done at HQ?"

"Sure thing Yuffie," Gast answered.

"Well I guess we can move on," Vincent said, "Rufus I'll give you a break and take over."

"Nanaki you will probably wan to take up your grandfathers work so we'll let you stay at Cosmo Canyon during your free time. Which you will have loads of. You will only have to attend the main meetings in which we plan to place something into motion that might not be environmentally friendly and need your word. You'll probably not have an office anyways since you aren't human. So what do you say?"

"I don't know. How do I know you'll tell me when you're unsure? Or will ever be unsure," Nanaki answered.

"I think Barret would warn us," Vincent answered, "Besides nothing can go into effect until all have reviewed it and the majority agree with the idea."

"Than I guess. But I won't live stay in Midgar any longer then I have to. Did you get that," Nanaki finished."

"Ok. He's in," Vincent said.

"Tifa and Aeris. You'll both be working on the 60th floor with Barret."

"Um one question Vincent. Why is it that there's so many floors between us and you," Tifa asked.

"Well we liked what was on each of the floors so we decided to keep them that way. The 61st floor will be the break area. The 62nd floor will hold the library and Domino's office. He will be the librarian by the way. There will be no mayor as Rufus will be in charge. The 63rd Floor… Wait a minute. That was just a storage floor. You three will be placed there and the storage moved to the 60th floor. That good enough."

"And what about the 64th and 5th floors. Better yet why can't we be right under you," Tifa asked.

"The 66th floor will be the meeting floor. The 67th and 8th floors will be for SRD. We will place you on the 65th floor and no farther."

Cloud. You'll be on the 62nd floor. Peace and quiet will be something to keep your mind clear. Besides I hear you like books."

"What," Cloud said. "Me like books? I don't read."

/ Um I'd say Rufus leaked that statement. And you aren't the one who loves to read. I am. /

/ You… like… to… read… /

/ Liar//

"Um Vincent your presumptions are a bit off," Tifa began. "I know Cloud. And I know he doesn't read much. Heck I've never seen him pick up a big book in my life and I know what kinds of books are in that library. The type he wouldn't like."

/ You know your girlfriend is quite ignorant when it comes to our mental complex. /

/ She's not my… Ok I admit it I guess she is. /

/- What, wasn't Aeris our…? -/

/ Shut up will ya. Better yet go back to sleep. /

"What about us," Cid asked.

"I was going to save you till last," Vincent replied, "Now for you two. Cid your field office will be in Rocket Town since you will need to be near the launch pad and construction facility. Shera your field office will be at Junon. Both of you will have a primary office on the 35th floor."

"Um wouldn't Rocket Town be a better place for me to have my field office," Shera asked.

"I guess so. Ok it will be at Rocket Town," Vincent said.

"What about us," Reno asked.

"You will be placed into the S-Class of Turks and will work under Tsang. We will be reinstating the Rank System so you will be getting company," Rufus said.

"Tsang you might as well present the Rank System," Rufus said.

"Sure thing Rufus," Tsang answered. "30 years ago we had a ranking system based on performance, skill, and intelligence. Which worked very well cause of the set up. There were 50 active members of the Turks and 100 inactive members that were in training. There were 5 S-Class members, 10 A-Class, 15 B-Class, and 20 C-Class. D-Class was the training Class. When you enlist and are qualified you may enter D-Class if needed. If not you were placed in the bottom rank of C-Class. If you show the 3 abilities better than others you move up rank and bump those of who are between your new and old position down. If you only go up one place you just switch with the person above you. If it is more then you are placed in that position and the 2+ members that are skipped will be bumped. So if you move two ranks you will skip a rank and push the two above you down a rank. You also had to be the top of the current class.

"To move to the next class you needed to take a test and show abilities better then the lowest person of the next rank. Of coarse S-Class being more of an officer Class you really had trouble getting in. Mainly the only way to get promoted is if a vacancy in the S-Class occurred."

"Fill in the vacancies? What do you mean," Rude asked.

"Well," Tsang star6ed, "If a member of S-Class is promoted, killed, fired, or resigns than a vacant slot appears. And we need all five slots filled so we replace."

"So S-Class is really hard to enter," Cloud said.

/ Sounds a bit like me. Waiting and Waiting for a slot to open in the S-Class of the military. /

/ What? You almost got there/

/ Yes /

"Yes," Vincent started, "I should know. Considering I had to wait an entire year for a vacant slot to open. An when the opening came, Hojo puts me in that damn coffin."

"Seem Hojo really tried to torture you," Nanaki said.

"You could say that," Vincent answered.

Reeve stood up and looked at Tsang. They nodded their heads and Tsang sat down. Reeve stepped up to the back wall.

"Now for Midgar," Reeve started.

Reeve had a remote in his hands. With this remote he turned on the giant screen. He next brought up a diagram that looked like Midgar.

"This," Reeve began, "Is Midgar. As you can see it looks a little different. That is because this is what Midgar will look like when rebuilt. The city will be divided into 10 sectors. Sectors 1 and 5 will be used for industrial purposes, such as factory land. Sectors 2 and 6 will be used for commercial purposes. 3 and 7 will be the residency sectors. Sectors 4 and 8 will have government buildings such as police stations and hospitals. As will as the Airport and main train station.

"Sector 9 will be used for energy and utilities. Barret will oversee this section. Sector 10 will be the Shinra HQ.

"Sectors 1-8 will be placed like they were before. Sector 9 will be the gaps between the plates were the reactors are. And they will stay there. Finally Sector 10 will be in the center.

Sector 10, which is the tower, cannon and airport, will be set up as thus. The tower will be at the same height but further away from the rest of the city. We will get rid of the slums so sectors 1-9 will be on the ground."

"So basically the top of the tower will be at the same elevation but not the plates," Cloud asked.

"Yes," Vincent answered, "because of this the airport and cannon can be placed a different heights."

"Why is that important," Barret asked.

"Because the Sister-Ray will be on a full 360 rotation axis. Considering this we need to have the area clear for the turning. The elevation is also important because of the valley that Midgar sits in formed by Mako loss.

If you remember when the cannon was fired at Diamond Weapon we only hit him in the center of its body. If the valley wasn't there the blast would have missed it by a mile."

Barret began to snicker. He became overwhelmed with the knowledge that the reactors caused the giant brown patch and drop in elevation around Midgar.

"So your destruction of the planet actually saved a few lives," Barret said.

"Um what is this 'Weapon'," Sephiroth asked. "Are they powerful? Are they something that I need to worry about?"

(Rufus noticed that Sephiroth had a bit of fear in him. He guessed the Sephiroth thought that these were unstoppable monsters.)

"Weapon," Gast began, "Are bio-mechanical beings that were created by the Planet. I think there are about 20 types. But most are weak. Any one of us could handle them solo. It's the Gem Weapons and Ultimate Weapon we need to worry about. But the Planet didn't create Ultimate Weapon. It was created by the Cetra during the disaster 2000 years past. And after its creation it came across four monsters, demons of a sort. Ultimate Weapon somehow changed them into Weapon and took control them. These 5 are the ones that sleep dormant at the North Creator."

"They used to sleep. Until Jenova somehow woke them up," Reeve said.

Reeve turned off the screen and sat down. Vincent stepped back up to the Podium.

"And now for the provinces," Vincent began. "We will have an office placed in each town. Those offices will relay information about the province back to HQ. If any major trouble emerges we will get the reports from them. We will also be doing a lot of industry in the provinces."

"Well now that that's done," Shera started, "I'll take over."

"Now to discuss some issues in the Space and Aeronautics Departments. First I will present the Cargo Highwind. This was the original design with out the missiles or transforming features. Because of its torque and power it is ideal for lifting major loads. This would be useful in the cleanup and reconstruction of Midgar.

Now before you say anything about the Highwind we have consider this. The one Shinra, well Cloud has sacrificed its power and torque for speed and missile firing capability. Its purpose is for military use.

"Rocket Town will be where construction of the airships will be. The question is what the speed of production will be?"

A grin showed up on Vincent's face. He stood up to state an answer to shera's question.

'Shera, you mustn't have seen the two Highwinds that were at the airport. Though what I'd like to know is when you started constructing them? Rufus?"

"Oh about a month ago, after Weapon left the crater," Rufus answered.

"If it took four weeks to build two in a small building house… Hmmm I think we could put five out. Three cargo type and two military type." Vincent chuckled. "Shera I'll take over from here since I know the rest of the space plans.

"First of all we have sent only one ship into space. Its data was stored in the escape pod and we have recovered that data. We will use the data to determine what changes will be needed and what will be kept for a shuttle."

"Why will we need a shuttle," Cid asked, "We won't need to go up there much more."

"So you actually got that thing to launch," Sephiroth said.

"Yes it finally launched," Cid answered. "And I was piloting the ship. Ok I wasn't really piloting."

Cid looked at some of the angry faces in the room that knew of the autopilot system.

"It was sent to 'destroy' Meteor," Rufus said. "Of coarse I knew there would be special passengers. And I had a gift for them. I also had Shera stowaway to make sure you all got out safely."

"What would you give us? What did you give us?" Barret asked.

"The Huge Materia," Rufus answered. "Didn't you find it odd that you got them so easily. I practically handed them to you while making the rest of the company think you just plain stole it."

"You mean that crappy guarding that you had on the Huge Materia was just a ploy to give them to us. But why," Cloud asked.

"The Master Materia and Bahamut Zero are very powerful. Well when fully released in Vincent's hands Buhamut Zero can be powerful. I'm sure the rest of you made good use of the Master Materia," Rufus answered.

"Can be," Lucrecia shouted, "That monster can be down right evil when it comes to point-blank range. And in Vincent's hands Bahamut Zero will come to point blank. Vincent's the only person Bahamut Zero will do that for."

Yuffie was starting to get really annoyed.

"Will you all stop bragging and get on with this," Yuffie shouted.

"Yes," Vincent started. "Let's. We will need a shuttle so we can place a satellite up there and get more data on the effects of space travel. The satellite will be of Anti-Weapon capability. But it will have a short life span and will come down over the ocean when done. It will be of military use and will fire a high-powered mako cannon. The cannon will use five rounds before falling. It is programmed to return when the five shots are fired. And we will need to return it a few times."

"Oh I see now," Cid said. "And I'm in charge of that."

"Well let's move on to the Energy Department set up. To start off I will suggest some fuels to Barret."

"Good. 31 years ago Professor Gast came up with an environmentally friendly energy source. It was just as good as the new mako reactors and was cheaper and gave of more energy. This new idea was a chemical mixture that could take coal ash and re fossilize it in a matter of hours. In other words we could make the nonrenewable fuel known as coal and make it renewable. The method of doing this was simple. You had a chain factory of ten containers that were used for the re-fossilization of the coal. The upper part of each container would have the chemical that would be poured onto the coal ash. Mix the ash and chemical and compress the black paste that would form. Then let it dry and you have fresh coal. Now just brake up the coal and send it to the burners. Also there would be ten chambers because only 85 of the coal ash would re-fossilize. So once its all done and dry in one chamber just remove the 15 that remains and send it to another chamber while the last chambers worth of coal gets broken up and sent to the consumers.

"Of coarse all the coal ash that would be useable 30 years ago has been removed so we can't use that. We will have to mine fresh coal and use it before the factories will be usable if we take that approach. Now if we do we will need to mine on a large scale to get thing up in running by our reconstruction goal. My thought would be to use the mako reactor at Ft. Condor as an energy source to help the miners in the Mythril Coal Mines. We will also rebuild and reset the Coral Reactor to assist the miners there. That is if we use coal. And that's up to you Barret. What do you say?"

Down near the entrance to building Scarlet was walking towards a guard to request access to the building. Just before she could ask she heard a loud scream of joy come from the upper levels of the building. She recognized it as that of the head of Avalanche. She became worried.

"Aaaaaaarrriiiiiight! This has to be a dream," Barret shouted. "The Shinra are actually go'na do that! Your are actually goin' to give up mako if I say so. And you wish to revive to coal industry. Some'ody pinch me!"

"Well I take that as a big yes," Vincent said slyly.

"Indeed," Tsang started. "Perhaps this will go well after all. Well Rufus, what do you say? Meeting adjourned?"

"Sure. Lets get some rest," Rufus answered. "I know we didn't cover everything but we could do that later."

A/N: Not quite what you expected. Well things will be peaceful for a while. Be sure to send a review. Up next Reconstruction.