A/N: Here's Chapter 13! YAY!!!! Thank you for being so patient! Mystic you finally get your explosion! There are only 3 more chapters left though, then I'll begin to post my new story, which of you could see it as a sequeal to this one or a stand alone. XD Have fun and please review! I'm not giving out spoilers though, because that ruins it... Anyway, I discovered on Parasite Eve, the Shin-Ra logo in Chinatown XD I was playing it today and was like "Is that the Shin-Ra logo?" whoa... Whatever, don't mind me. XD Go ahead and read on OH! And don't forget to review because that does make a fangirl happy! XD LOVE YA!!!

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Disasters Chapter 13: Distracting Scarlet

"This doesn't look good, yo." Reno said jumping over rubble to avoid tripping. Elena climbed over a bent up elevator door, that somehow flew across the room in the past.

"You're telling me? We still have to climb up 10 flights of stairs and you'll have to avoid Scarlet somehow." Elena pressed a signal on her ear piece. Tseng heard the signal and rushed to the cockpit.

"Elena, report your status."

"We're on the 63rd floor." She shone her flashlight in the direction of the huge black numbers on the wall.

"Commencing operation. Give us 3 hours, Reno will signal." Tseng had never heard Elena sound so professional and confident before and it got him wondering if this was the same Elena that he was paired with as a partner.

"Let's go." Elena nodded toward the staircase with Reno right behind her, watching for any of Hojo's specimens.

Reno had the bomb hidden away in a pack, waiting to be placed inside Jenova's tank. Ready for the fireworks to be ignited and things to blow up. The 2 Turks ran up staircase after staircase, avoiding everything, until Elena broke off from Reno on the 68th floor and he continued up to the 72nd. So far, everything was going according to plan, as Elena walked cautiously through the darkened floor, looking for Scarlet. She was bound to be here, Elena knew Scarlet would do anything to have her way. Meanwhile, Reno was racing up staircases, like the monkey-boy he was. Having the ability to climb walls and tarp on the sides of buildings was his specialty. Stairs were easy, running down the hallway, finally on the correct floor now. He ran through the cleared area of the floor, occasionally jumping over rubble. Scarlet was easy to spot in her red dress, inside the control room with the door open and surprisingly electricity.

"Scarlet. Nice to see you again." Elena stated dryly, watching the other woman pound the control board, trying to get it to work.

"Why isn't this damn thing working?!" She turned to Elena.

"You did something to it! I know you did!" Her words came out at a hiss to Elena. Elena leaned on the door jam casually crossing her arms over her breasts.

"I didn't. I wouldn't have the time. Besides, it was you who shot the main electricity supply to all of Midgar the last time the cannon was used."

Scarlet turned back to the cannon controls, as Reno made his way through the rubble to the lab and setting the bomb gently into Jenova's tank.

"Elena, I'm setting the bomb, yo. Get up here so that I could call for the chopper!" Reno said in his ear piece. Elena nodded to herself, then slunk away from Scarlet, closing the control room door and locking it, then tossing the key to who-knows-where. Scarlet didn't even notice, she was too busy ranting about the controls. Elena made a good pace up to the lab, skipping stairs.

"Hurry, yo! The thing will go off in 2 minutes!" Reno called into his ear piece. Elena was now on the 70th floor, running up the stairs to Reno's location so that they could get the hell out of there with their skin intact.

"I'm on your floor, Reno. Let's get out of here." She ran into the laboratory, with her flashlight and met Reno at the specimen elevator.

"Going up." He pressed the key, sending the elevator up quickly to the second level, where they jumped out and ran for the next stairwell. Reno checked his watch.

"Oh, man! We have a minute, yo!" He sent a signal to Tseng and Rude for the chopper, which they received during a game of Speed.

"Send the chopper now, yo!"

"We're on it!" Tseng responded, starting the chopper controls with Rude sitting to his right. Elena felt something sharp hit her side as she and Reno raced up the stairs to the last floor, but she ignored it. Her vision began to impairing, when they reached the helicopter pad and and boarded the chopper 5 seconds before the explosion occurred. Reno whistled, watching the bright green consume the entire building in milliseconds. Pleased that they made it out alive, almost.

Elena lay on the chopper's floor, breathing heavily to regain her breath, but it wouldn't come. Pain rigged her entire body, taking her conscious over, wanting her to black out and give in to the comforting darkness. No more pain would be there, she knew as the darkness slowly ebbed at her conscious.

" 'Lena! Did you see that, yo?! It was great!" Reno asked mystified by the explosion that sent a shock wave of 5 G's surrounding the area. He turned to the blond Turk, watching her skin lose color, then immediately rushed to sit next to her. Her hand covered the wounded area of her side, as her blouse was drenched crimson with blood.

" 'Lena! Tseng get us to a hospital!" The redhead demanded of his commander, while trying to stop the bleeding stab wound.

"I... I didn't notice it..." Elena stated, breathing heavily. Opening and closing her eyes, attempting to keep herself conscious.

"Don't talk, yo." Reno laid a finger on her lips to stop her as Tseng turned in his seat to watch Elena's labored breathing.

"Take the controls, Reno." He instructed, swapping seats with his subordinate.

"Elena. You'll survive this, I know you will. We survived the reminates torture, didn't we?" He asked quietly. Tseng's throat went dry and his heart pounded inside his chest cavity, as he watched her collectively.

"I'm... a rookie... Tseng... I make... rookie mistakes..." Her voice was cracked with every word, her breath wanting to give out at any moment.

"I believe Reno told you to keep quiet. Just nod to answer." Tseng turned to Reno.

"Are we there yet?!" The commander asked harshly to the redhead piloting. Reno didn't answer, as the chopper flew to the nearest hospital and landed on the helipad.

"We're there." Tseng moved to lift Elena, but she let out a sharp gasp and semi scream in agony, as he changed his mind. Impulse got the better of him at that moment. He didn't want to kill her by moving her.

"We can't mover her, yo! Rude and I will get some doctors and a stretcher, then call Rufus."
Tseng watched as the 2 other Turks ran from the helicopter to the building and disappeared. He turned his attention back to Elena, who was weakening every second.

"You're no rookie, Elena..."