To Hell and back just for the craic
Chapter 8: Tricky Devils
Tseng smiled as he came to the end of his report. He thought about how Rufus would let him torture Reno after seeing it. Then he could deal with what Elena was going to talk about.
Incident Report:Form Z9MGD666
Reporting Officers name: Tseng
Date: 32/9/3503
Shinra Division: The Turks
Report:
We finally come to the last part of the report. Again it is a video feed. This time it comes from Hojo's lab. Considering the location expect serious weirdness.
The video opened with Golden Devil floating in a stasis chamber while Hojo went about his normal mad scientist business. A strange blond spiky haired man stepped through the laboratory door. He was dressed in a suit and had a remarkable likeness to the creature in the stasis tank. He studied it with curious fascination.
"I say professor. Is that what I look like?" Hojo walked slowly to join him. He put a finger to his lips while he thought about his answer.
"In a manner of speaking…yes. He is your opposite and more. He is the elemental of fear and mischief at this point in time. He is fused with a dangerous materia so I have to attempt to extract it."
"Professor."
"Hmmm?"
"Why did you create me?"
"Oh you were a side project in case they couldn't catch him directly."
"So what do I do now?"
"Now? I never thought that I wouldn't need you. I suppose that you could be a lab assistant or something." The clone twitched.
"You suppose? The purpose for my creation is obsolete so you SUPPOSE I could clean up after your other failures?"
"Damn it I forgot the good could get angry if it was a righteous anger. Alright then if that's the way things have to be then it's time I got rid of you. Just relax, this should be relatively painless." Hojo produced a couple of scalpels from nowhere and gave a menacing grin.
The clone picked up a lab chair and threw it with all his might at the stasis chamber, smashing it to pieces. The clone smiled triumphantly before seeing the grin on Hojo's face.
"You've just caused yourself more bother there boy."
"That you have." Golden Devil announced. Hojo pressed a button, enclosing himself behind a protective screen and calling the Turks all at once. He sipped on a black coffee and waved goodbye to the Reno clone with a smile on his face. Golden Devil smelled the setup a mile away. The clone was about to speak; however the creature soon silenced him when it held its hand up. It resumed it's advance on Hojo and tapped on the thick glass.
"Hojo I know you can hear me and we both know that no one can get to you unless you come out but I have four words for you that will bring all your fun to a messy end."
"What are they?"
"The first one is laxatives."
"Huh there is an ensuite in here. Ohhh tummy not good." Before Hojo could get to the toilet he remembered something and came back to the speaker where the Golden Devil waited.
"What was the second word?" The creature grinned widely.
"I'll be generous and give you the rest all at once. You ready?"
"Yes. What is it?"
"No toilet paper."
"You sonova… I'll kill ooooh." Hojo ran for the toilet and closed the door quickly.
Golden Devil laughed.
"Hah that's him taken care of. Your turn." The creature transformed into a dragon that was covered with mouths. Some shouted insults, some spoke of dark and horrible secrets, others simply gnashed their teeth, hungry for flesh.
"Wait. There is something you must see before you destroy me." Golden Devil reverted back to human form.
"What?"
"This."
The clone opened a door to a room filled with the remains of Reno and moogle organs in jars. Lying there on a number of tables was a variety of Reno moogle hybrids.
"Why?" The solitary word silently escaped the creature's lips.
"To create me. They thought I could cancel out your evil and bring back the real Reno, that's why."
"Idiots."
"Not really."
"Why?"
"Because it's about to happen."
The clone inserted his hand, like a knife, into Golden Devil's back scar. He grabbed the materia that had clumped together inside Reno and pulled. A flash of red lightning hit the lab as the clone finally pulled the materia out.
The footage ends here as the camera blacked out. I will give a written description of what happened next. We opened the door to find the two bodies lying on the floor. I ordered that they be taken to the nearest medical facility. There was no sign of the materia anywhere. It is thought to have been destroyed causing the red flash. Both men have since made a full recovery. End of report.
Tseng sat back in his chair happy with his report. The Reno's had both made a full recovery which was good and bad. Reno had a good clone to try and corrupt. 'At least that will keep him occupied for a short while.' Tseng picked up the disk from his laptop, put it into an envelope and walked out of his office.
Almost finished the fiction. Just one more chapter to go. Hope you enjoyed this one. Please R&R.
Cheers
Wolf