Chapter 7 Pre-mission.

I awoke to Riker licking my face and Barret staring at my arm. "Kid ya awake?" I heard. I moaned and turned away. "GET UP DAMNIT!" I jumped and stood up straight, Riker sat in an obediant sitting position.

"Yes sir!" I responded, like I was in the military.

Barret stared at my arm and asked "How did it happen?" He asked. I was awake enough now to see that this was the underground base for AVALANCHE. It had a fuzzy looking moniter and a lift that was made to look like a pinball machine. I asked the first thing that came to mind/

"Am I in AVALANCHE?"

"This test was ta see if you had in in ya to fight, but you proved better. Yes kid yer in, NOW ANSWER ME BEFORE I CHANGE MY MIND"

Talk about two-faced, he was responsibe sounding one second, and a bastard the other. "This was lost in the reactor explosion at Gongala." I lied. " My family was wiped out, but I made it out ok, except my arm was gone. Shinra took me away from my home, and gave me this arm, with a prototype they built, along with experiments on how to connect tissue to metal and nerves to wiring." Ryan looked down, trying to really pull it off. "But, in exchange, when they finished, they wanted me to become an assasin, and hunt down rebel leaders like you, and I did think of concetering it." Barret stared at me. "But when word got out that they were the cause for the explosion, I fliped, and took out the whole lab, and all blueprints of the design. This was years ago, and now I want revenge for what they did to my parents." Ryan started to cry. Thank you, and the emmy goes to Ryan. He thought to himself.

"...Holy shit, man your that young and you already went through experiences like that, Shinra also screwed up my life as well." Barret was silent. "thats for another time, lets meet the team." Barret lead me to the elevator, and bashed on it, and it went up. Looking down on him, I almost considered Barret a type of father figure, and I even started to believe my story.

There was the AVALANCHE gang sitting at the tables and having drinks. When I came up, though, they started to stare at me, some in amazement, while wedge was trerrified. The elevator went down again, and up came Riker. "AHHHHH KEEP THAT MONSTER AWAY FROM ME!" Wedge yelled.

I responded. "Whats wrong with Riker, he is as kind as a saint".

Tifa added in, behind the bar. " He stole his bacon and eggs, so don't listen to what Wedge says."

"Thats Biggs in the black shirt, Jessie is the redhead, and Wedge...well ya already met him by now." Barret said introducing me to everyone. "Eat up, we leave in an hour. There will be one more hand on this mission. He was an Ex-SOILDER, so keep you eye out for him. The code is :the tulips are green.: He will respond with :but the fishes are purple.:" At that point I burst out laughing, rolling on the floor. Everyone moved away from me, looking a little scared.

"HAHAHAHA GREEN TULIPS, PURPLE FISH." I calmed down and got got up. Everyone just stared at me."Sorry about that, but that was really funny. Tifa can I have some eggs." She just looked at me, a little ticked. "Fine, Fine, please can I have some eggs."

"Thank you." She responded and began to work on the eggs.

I wispered under my breath. "What are ya, my mother?" No one heard me. When she was done, I grabbed the plate and scarfed it down in a few bites.

"Lets get going, we have to leave now to get there by da meetin time." We all started to walk out.

"Here ya go." Jessie handed me an I.D. "This will get you past the checkpoints."

"Thanks, wouldn't want them after us because of me." We continued to the station. I stopped and asked."Can I go pick up some armor and junk?"

"Hurry It up, train leaves in fifteen minutes." Barret told me. I ran into the building with the all materia, I got it and ran to the front desk.

The man there said "Buy somethin' It will be good for your health I ya know what I mean." Not wanting to get into a fight before the train leaves, I take a look. To my surprise, there was a barrel attachment, which allowed meto fire two shots at once, but it was like ten thousand gil, and I didn't have enough at the time, so I bought a few Iron bangles, but one on my real arm, and ran to the train. As I was there, I saw the large sword, the blue outfit, and the spiky blond hair. I was looking at Cloud.