2-25-17: Minor edits made.
Challenge: Backstory for Reno's Scars from Sabith
One year ago
It was one of those days, Hojo had kidnapped Zack for experimentation and Reno, being the only one not tied up with some random project that required his attention, was elected to save him. Well Cait Sith was going along as well, but he wasn't much help considering that Reno had 'accidentally' slipped a tranquilizer into Reeve's coffee this morning and then scribbled on his face.
"I wonder if Hojo would agree to a trade." Cait Sith remarks aloud as the pair sneaks into the lab. Reeve was obviously mad about the tainting of his coffee, normally the redhead would be lying low in Sephiroth's office, but Zack had stupidly got himself kidnapped so he was in trouble.
" I've heard he's always wanted to dissect a robot." Reno says as they near the holding area. There was no way in hell he was allowing Hojo to touch him, he had seen the effects it had on Sephiroth and Zack and did not want that for himself.
Cait Sith huffs and together they step up to where Zack is floating in a glass aquarium with Hojo's beloved pet squid, Mr. Sparkles. Reno glances around, looking for the lab assistants and Hojo.
"Where in the hell are those freaks?" Reno mutters, scanning the room nervously as he hits the button to let the other man out. Zack collapses on the floor with a squelch, Reno shakes his head, kneels beside him and tosses the soldier's arm over his shoulder.
A whirring sound comes from behind them and a machine wielding a red knife approaches. Reno stares at it as it wheels around him and comes to a stop directly in front of him and Zack. He stares at it as it starts making odd noises and suddenly there is a blur and a pain in his right cheek. He blinks again and there is a pain in his left cheek. Then the machine blows up, leaving him bleeding and slightly charred.
He drags Zack back to his potted plant filled office, leaving Cait Sith laughing hysterically in Hojo's lab. Then he goes back and sets fire to Mr. Sparkles, starting 'The Great Lab Fire' and destroying Cait Sith.
To this day Reno has had an irrational hatred of Hojo for kidnapping Zack and making that machine...
He also was responsible for "The Second Great Lab Fire', 'The Burning of the Squid' and several hundred assassination attempts. Reeve however was responsible for the firing of his favorite lab assistants because Reno told him Hojo was the one to destroy Cait Sith.
This one... shamelessly promotes the Hojo fic. My Hojo fic. Which is not as good, nor as snappy as this one.
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