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Power of the Turks: Part Five
PART FIVE: A Time of Peace.
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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.
Text Conventions
( ) are character thoughts
, and /- -/ are mental dialogue
[ ] are miscellaneous effects
- - and - - are flashbacks
A Time of Peace
The celebration was highly praised. The city of Midgar had been completed in two months time and all the reactors shifted to coal burning. Biggs, Jessie and Wedge had joined the Turks and were doing a good job. They decided to take command from Reno. Though he felt that they should hold seniority since they had been in the company for over 30 years. Many new villages sprang up and old ones began to grow. North Coral had returned to a bustling town since the coalmines returned. And it looked permanent. Gongaga had also rebuilt what was lost to Shinra in the past. The reactor was removed and the people given new Gil from the company as an apology. The town of Entika was built near the Mythril Mines to accommodate the miners. It was built on the southern side of the mountain since people couldn't seem to figure out how to remove the Zolums that swam in the marshlands. Aeris though the Zolums might be created by the planet as a Weapon since they seem to come back a lot.
Wutai was also prosperous. The materia industry was helping and the culture was revived. People began making pilgrimages to the Da-Chao Statues and converting. For the first time in 200 years there was a major religion on the planet.
Cloud had been making frequent trips to labs and to villages that were in Shinra land. Barret was proud of the new energy system and was glad to see North Coral in such good shape. He was even prouder that the nation of Coral had a better economy than the Gold Saucer. Nanaki was of great pride over Cosmo Canyon. People would come to hear tales and legends and learn of the planet. The Wutain religion was also preached at Cosmo Canyon.
Many of the new transit systems were in place. The railroad system spanned the entire empire and was in good purpose. One line going from Midgar to Entika was use to pick up coal from the Mythril mines. Other lines removed the stress of walking or driving from town to town. Since monsters seemed to be everywhere above ground. Almost all the lines were underground to stay away from the monsters. Occasionally a few monsters got into the tunnels but were quickly exterminated.
Rocket Town had built four more Highwinds and had launched a shuttle. Seattleites were taken up and placed into orbit. Cid was also having something big constructed in the planets orbit. This project was Cid's though. Other than the people that worked on it directly none knew of the project.
All seemed to go smoothly. The people were enjoying the prosperity. Shinra was growing and had become friendly with everyone. All corruptions seemed to fade. Midgar was back to its former self save a few things and the crime. Poverty seemed nonexistent. And if any was found the local charities that were established removed the poverty.
"Nanaki, what are you doing here. I thought you were at Cosmo Canyon," Yuffie said.
"I'm sorry to startle you. I decided to drop by and talk. How are things going in this wonderful nation," Nanaki said.
"Good, just dandy. Say, did you hear about that one Weapon that was swimming between this continent and the Gatarian continent," Yuffie asked.
"Not until now. So which one is it," Nanaki replied.
"The people that have been watching in say it may be the one that attacked Junon. The blue one," Yuffie replied.
"Well I guess I may have to stay here a little longer than expected. I don't want to take any chanced with that monster in that part of the sea," Nanaki said.
"Well we could call Midgar and request for them to send a helicopter or a Highwind," Yuffie said.
"Yes do so. In the meantime wile I wait we could catch up on our conversations," Nanaki said.
"Sure. Mesto. Call Midgar and have them send a Highwind," Yuffie ordered.
"Yes your highness. I shall do so immediately," Mesto answered.
"General Sephiroth, General Zack, to what do I owe the honor of your visit," Cloud said firmly.
"We have been protecting as much as possible. And the people are fairing well due to your aids but we seem to have some problems still. The Icicle Area seems to have gained quite a few rebel factions. Many of which want Shinra's form of government changed. Worse of all they've captured the dig sites that we placed and may be using some of Hojo's old technology to create stronger fighters. They may have a SOLDIER program of there own. And worse of all I think they may be using the hostages as lab rats so they can determine what is needed to make the perfect SOLDIER," Sephiroth said.
Cloud cracked his neck. "Cowards. Ok Form a team to hunt down any of Hojo's equipment and destroy it. You know as well as I do what may happen if they get their hands on that stuff. And I don't want anyone suffering as we have. Zack," Cloud finished.
"Yes sir," Zack waited for an order.
"Take this report to upstairs. Here I wrote down everything so you don't have to remember much. Be sure that Vincent or President Rufus gets it," Cloud finished by putting his seal on the paper.
"Yes sir," Zack quietly rushed to the elevator. When he got to the highest floor the elevator went (still the 69th floor) he exited the elevator and walked towards the stairs he hadn't been up this high in the building for a long time. He began noticing differences. The decorations were classier. And he noticed an office.
When he walked by the office he saw Vincent sitting behind his desk. It looked like Vincent was twiddling his thumbs. How Vincent could do that he knew not considering Vincent's claw on his left arm. Zack walked in to give the report to Vincent.
"Well Zack haven't seen you up here in a wile. What's the reason of this visit,' Vincent asked.
Zack handed Vincent the paper.
"Hmm the Box of Charity, the symbol of the Humanitarian department. I guess this if from Cloud. What's this about," Vincent said as he opened up the report. "By God these damn northerners are getting really annoying. Tell Cloud and the General that I approve of such a search party. I agree with Cloud on removing such equipment."
Zack decided to skip the elevator and rushed down the stairs. When He got to Cloud's office he told Sephiroth and Cloud that Vincent approved of such a party. As soon as Sephiroth heard that he bid his farewell to Cloud and walked out toward the elevator. He commanded for Zack to follow. Soon they were both headed out the door of the Shinra building.
As Zack left his office Vincent pulled an odd looking phone out of one of his pockets. This wasn't like the usual PHS phones that Cloud had. It was shaped and dialed differently. An employ was watching this and noticed that Vincent had a sly devilish look on his face. He heard Vincent say some weird unknown coadunate and than heard Vincent say, "Nuko el Diabolical." Who Vincent had called the employee didn't know. But he did know that those words must have been a signal.
Back near Wutai Cid was looking at shadowy figure swimming through the water. Cid had decided to personally go to Wutai to pick up Nanaki with his Highwind. Soon the Weapon dived out of site. Cid turned around and walked over to the navigator. As he walked he noted the pipes above and the mettle floor. He loved listening to the clanking sound of boot impacting the floor. He loved it enough that sometimes he'd listen to it just to help him fall asleep. When he reached the navigator he took out his cigarette and pounded it into the ashtray.
"How far to Wutai Navigator," Cid barked.
"Just another 10 minutes Captain,' the navigator replied.
Cid looked up towards the horizon and saw the De-Chao Statues. "I see. Good, just a little longer," Cid finished.
They all heard a big explosion.
In the laboratory of the Shinra Building Gast was working on a new project. He was trying to figure out how to refine Mako and policticus juice to form a Mega-Potion. He was also working on a way to make it possible to manufacture the X-Potion. Just as he was about to let a drop of policticus juice fall into a test tube a massive blast was heard from the north.
"What in the hell was that?" Gast shouted.
"I don't know," Lucrecia said.
Near by Aeris was looking through her father's works. She had seen many similar projects before but those seemed to be failures.
(I guess my dad is better than Hojo.)
Further up Rufus heard the blast and thought it was from the lab. Fearing someone was hurt he ran down the stairs towards the elevator. As he passed Vincent's office he noticed Vincent was somewhat calm. He also noticed Vincent had a weird grin on his face. When Rufus saw this he tripped over a wire. When he got up he noticed a strange phone on Vincent's desk.
"You didn't?"
"Oh but I did."
As Sephiroth was entering the lobby from the stairs they noticed many people had been startled.
"That sound musta' had something to do with it," Zack said.
"Most likely," Sephiroth replied.
As they began to head for the main door a trooper ran in towards Sephiroth. The trooper stopped and saluted.
"Generals. I have a very strange report from the north. Our enemies have been whipped off the map. Not to mention one of the dig sights. We think Weapon my be responsible," The trooper caught his breath.
"What all is left," Sephiroth asked.
All that's left is some charred remains and a strange object that looks like the one at the bone village," the trooper finished.
"Zack I need you to take this to the top. You trooper follow," Sephiroth ordered.
Both saluted and ran towards the elevator.
"By god what's going on here?" Sephiroth asked.
A/N
Well so much for peace. The War on Weapon is next. And start thinking of ways to take out Weapon. And I don't mean strategies that would be used in the game. If you e-mail the to me I may use them. Well anyways the next chapter will display all five Weapons (Ultimate, Diamond, Ruby, Emerald, Sapphire).
