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The first thing I want to say is thanks! Thank you for all of my readers. And thanks to T.R. Blessing for all of the help!

So in this chapter Cloud uses a wind material. I know for some strange reason that FF7 doesn't have it, but for my story, it does. Hey, it's a FanFic. I can bend reality however I like! :D Mwahahahahah!

Zack was laying down on his sorry excuse for a bed. His mind was going in different directions. He was glad that the Turks gave him something to counter the stupid Truth Serum. He can't believe he said that his favorite color was pink! However, he was glad that he was able to keep his mouth shut over the more sensitive information. He was also worried about Angeal. Angeal might go poking around for questions, which would not be good. He wasn't worried about Cloud. He could take care of himself.

"Agh!" Zack jumped up and stated to do squats. I am so board!

Zack got to 100 squats when the doors opened to reveal Tseng and Lazard.

"Fair, you cannot have the information that you have and still live." Lazard said.

"So, just like that, you're going to kill me?" Zack asked standing straight. His heartbeat stopped when he saw Hollander. "What is he doing here?"

"He is the solution to our problem." Lazard said emotionally.

"No." Zack's instinct to run took over his limbs. I will not go back!

Cloud was now standing in front of Shinra. The morning's heat warmed his back. This was a crazy idea, but he couldn't stand by and do nothing, especially if Zack could be in trouble. He was glad that the lifestream sent his friend back with him. He wasn't sure why it did, but it was a great relief.

A white curtain caught Cloud's eye. He looked up to see a window opened. He smirked to himself. At this distance, he shouldn't have been able to see it, but his enhancements made it easy. The window would be the perfect way to get in. He was surprised to see it still opened. Now how to do it?

Cloud decided to look around the sector to see if there was anything useful. As he walked around, he realized how dreary this place was. No wonder flowers never grew here. It wasn't a place for such beauties to flourish. He knew the real reason was the Mako reactors. The reactors soaked up everything that made a place flourish. The only thing that it left was the broken, the greedy, and the needy.

Cloud walked into an ally and saw a rope with a grappling hook. "How convenient."

Cloud walked over to the rope and picked it up. Once he got to the Shinra building, he decided it would be better if he got onto the building next to it. He looked up at its height. He ran towards the building and leapt in the sky using Aero. It sent him far enough that he did a flip in the air and landed gracefully on top of the building. He looked up at the window to see it was still opened. Cloud swung the grappling hook around in a circle and then sent in flying at the window. It went straight in. Smiling, he tugged the rope to make sure that it was stuck then he rand and jumped pulling himself up.

It had only take Cloud a couple of minutes to scale the side of the Shinra building. Thankfully, this side of the building was still in the dark. Cloud jumped into the room and wound up his new tool. Once he was satisfied, he dropped it. The grappling hook disappeared, like his weapon did when he didn't need it anymore. Cloud looked around to find himself in Zack's apartment. Quietly, Cloud made his way to Zack's room to find it empty. He hadn't seen anyone in the living room either. Footsteps in the hall encouraged Cloud to hide.

"No, he just said that Zack left ahead to Wutai." Angeal said. "I did think it was strange, but should I have told him I believed him lying?"

Cloud peeked out from his hiding spot to see that Angeal was talking on the phone.

"It is something he would do, but not without talking to me first." Angeal smiled. "I know I am not his parent, but I am his mentor. I have the right to worry about a puppy that constantly gets himself into trouble."

Angeal walked into the Kitchen to come back out.

"It doesn't seem right. Something must have happened." Angeal replied as he walked out the door.

Cloud climbed out of his hiding spot. So Angeal doesn't know what is going one, but Lazard does. I must have a chat with the director.

Cloud walked over to the air vents and climbed in. He smiled to himself. Shinra never did have the tightest security in here. Reno said so himself. Accessing Zack's memories, Cloud navigated his way to the director's room.

"Yes, Fair stabilized." A voice that Cloud didn't recognize answered. Cloud looked at the source to see a Turk setting across from Lazard.

"Thank you Vlad." Lazard said from his desk.

"You are not your dad Lazard." That last comment made Cloud worry.

"I know, but Tseng was right as well. What I decided to do was the same as dying in a case." Lazard said as he ran a hand through is hair. "I just hope that Zack survives Wutai and life, so I can apologize for it."

"By what he said he won't have a problem. What are you going to do about the cadet?" Vlad asked.

"I want to leave him where he's at. I don't think he will hurt anyone unless we give him cause." Lazard answered. "I just hope that if he hears what happened that I only did it to save Fair."

"So when is Fair leaving?" Vlad asked.

"As soon as he can," Lazard said with a sigh. "Vlad my friend I hope I did the right thing."

"We all do whenever we act." Vlad got up. "I will get Zack over to Juno by helicopter so that he is there to ship off."

"Could you have one of your man find Strife and follow him. I don't want anyone to die," Lazard asked.

"Consider it already done." Vlad walked to the door and opened it. "Lazard, sometimes we make a choice that seems horrible, but given the surrounding information people find out that it the choice was the best that they were given."

Lazard didn't get the chance to reply, Vlad left the room and closed the door softly behind him.

"I hope that Fair will forgive me."

Cloud sat down on the other side of his unconscious friend. He was glad that Reno didn't realize that Cloud wasn't an officer. He smiled under his helmet at the thought of some Turk running around Midgar trying to find him. They would probably look for Cloud in the Infantryman suit; the same suit that he had abandoned on his shopping trip for his phone. He had his regular clothes on underneath.

Moaning caused Cloud to look down at his friend.

"Shh, sleep Zack." Cloud confronted his friend as he laid a hand on his shoulder. The trip was short. They landed a little ways away from Juno where a van was waiting. Cloud helped transport Zack to the van. As soon as the two of them were settled in the back with other infantryman, the van took off. Cloud was glad to have gotten rid of his motion sickness. Cloud looked around to see eyes staring at Zack.

"What's wrong with him?" One of them asked Cloud.

"He had some bad food and is sleeping it off." Cloud thought that this was reasonable. "He eats everything he can get his hands on."

His muscles relaxed as the other man laughed.

"Your target was last seen getting on the helicopter with Fair. Your job is to get them separated and keep Strife out of trouble." Vlad said as he drove the helicopter to land on Juno's helipad. "Don't kill him, use force if you need to."

"Understood," the burnet Turk answered as she climbed out of the helicopter and to the vans where the next regiment of Infantrymen were filling out of.

Okay so I want to write and upload another chapter for you people. I thought that it was somewhat mean of me to leave you guys off like that. However, I still haven't told you about what Lazard did to Zack yet… I guess you just have to keep reading. ^.~

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