Final Fantasy VII: Lost Advent Child
Chapter 3:
"Do you think she's going to be ok?" Reno asked.
"She's going to be fine. Don't worry. You know Reno, it's not like you to be all nervous and riled up." Said Rude.
"Well it feels like-"
"If we were there we could have done something? Yeah, I have that feeling too. But if we were there, we might be in the same situation she's in."
"I guess your right."
"Damn right I'm right. When am I ever wrong?"
Two Weeks Earlier
Reno was holding a pair of wire cutters.
"Ok, red wire or blue wire?"
"Uh…" Rude attempted to read the instruction manual. "It says…uh…" He stared at the bomb, then the diagram in the manual again. "Blue wire."
Reno cut the blue wire and a five second timer started. He quickly cut the red wire and the timer stopped. Reno glared at Rude and slumped over the bomb, resting. The wire cutters spilled out of him hand, into the contents of the bomb. When Reno attempted to pull the wire cutters out, he cut another wire and the bomb timer started up again.
"Run!" Reno yelled as he ran for a window. Reno and Rude crashed out of the window, diving to the floor, awaiting the blast. When nothing happened, they looked back inside the window. A little chibi doll of Rufus and his father was swaying back and forth on a spring, holding a sign that said 'Got ya!'.
Reno and Rude glared at the bomb.
Three Hours Later
President Shinra was discussing with Rufus about how his son was to take over after he died. Suddenly, the bomb crashed through the window and the chibi dolls were beaten and battered. Random sharp objects were sticking out from all sides of the dolls and red paint covered where they were supposedly bleeding.
"Ha, ha! Very funny you guys!" yelled President Shinra.
End of Flashback
"About two weeks ago." Replied Reno.
"Shut up. It wasn't even real."
"You thought it was."
"So did you."
"If it was real, you would have killed us both."
"Do you have to keep bringing that up?"
"Unless you can change the past, then no, I'll always remember the day you almost got us killed by chibi dolls."
Something inside Rude snapped. No longer to hold himself back, Rude went crazy on Reno and chased him back to the lab. He caught Reno and threw him through a wall. Reno landed in a lot of rubble and sat up, wincing. "Oww…." Looking around, he noticed a girl about Yumi's age sitting near by, a totally blank expression on her face, with her black eyes half-closed and empty of life. Her long lashes were startling dark against her deathly pale skin. Her blue-grey, smoke-colored hair was up in a clip, except for her long bangs, which covered half her face. She wore a long, loosish black dress, black gloves, black shoes, and a gauzy black scarf that covered her neck and the bottom part of her face.
"Uh…who's that?" Reno asked.
"How should I know?" Rude asked sarcastically.
"Is she alive?" Reno started poking the girl. "Hello? Are you okay?"
"Uh… I got this feeling that you shouldn't do that…"
"Why?"
Suddenly the girls eyes opened all the way and she glared at Reno. He went flying and crashed through several walls, and the girl went back to blank.
And then the scientists came running. Some came through the door, others came through the giant holes in the walls.
Rude grabbed a random scientist. "What the hell is that girl!?"
"Hela, actually," the scientist said. "Named after the Norse goddess of death, admittedly called Hel too, but-"
"How did she throw him through the wall by glaring at him!?" He considered it. "And can I learn how?"
"I don't think you could. Her genes have been changed since she was an embryo."
"Oh."
"Hela has great telepathic and telekinetic powers, but unfortunately any show of emotions will affect them."
"Explains the blank expression."
"Yes."
"And you're telling me this because…?"
Another scientist walked up. "Hela is an experiment, but we've learned all we can in the lab. We were about to find a new environment for her. When you stumbled on her, you solved our problems."
"Meaning…?"
"She needs to go out in the world, but also have some one to observe her. We would like you to assist."
"So you want us to add her to our team?"
"And report to us about her."
Reno came over. "Are you crazy?! She'd kill us!"
"Probably only you." Rude said.
"But…but what about Yumi?"
"Yumi'll be fine. Besides, we might get a bonus for this."
"Ohhhh."
"One more thing," the scientist said. "Hela is not only powerful, but her DNA is a copy of the Ancients DNA."
"The Ancients?!"
"Yes. Imperfect, yes, but it may be useful."
About Two and A Half Hours Later…
Hela stood with her back against the wall, the blank expression still on her face. Rude stood next to her with an annoyed look on his face, and Reno was pacing back and forth in front of Yumi's room.
"It's been about four hours now, right?"
Rude was sick of answering him and ignored the question. Then a girls voice, soft and pretty but emotionless said. "Two hours, thirty-one minutes, five second."
"Uh…?"
Hela lowered the mask and said, "Ten seconds."
"Hey you guys. Whets going on? And why are you all standing around in the hallway?"
Yumi was only a few feet from them as she walked up. She was carrying her Turk uniform. She was wearing a black, loose tank top that showed her belly button and super short-shorts, also black.
Reno's jaw dropped. He stared at Yumi as she walked up and stood in front of him. "What's with you Reno?" They were standing so close that Yumi had to look up to see his face. Reno began to realize that he could practically see down Yumi's tank top and quickly turned his face away, blushing.
"It's nothing. Nothing at all Yumi." His voice was shaking slightly.
"It doesn't sound like its nothing. What happened? Are you okay? Yumi tried to maneuver in front of him but he only kept turning to avoid Yumi's face. "I don't get it. What's wrong!?" Yumi jumped up and threw her arms around him and let her feet hang in the air as she looked him right in the eye.
Reno's voice became high pitched and loud as he said "It's all in your head! Nothings wrong, nothings happened, everything just fine, you're overreacting!"
"Oh, really? Okay then. If you say so." She let go and dropped back down to the floor.
"What's with the outfit?" asked Rude.
"Oh. I had a heat stroke. No biggie. Although, they did have to get out an oxygen tank to help me start breathing again." She saw the horrified look on Reno's face. "But I'm okay now, really!" Yumi ran a hand through her hair and let her bangs fall directly into her face. "Um… I'm sorry, but I don't believe I've met you before. My names Yumi. I'm sorry for being rude earlier and ignoring you earlier, but to be honest, I didn't even see you. I'm very sorry. I hope you can forgive me." Yumi bowed as she finished apologizing to Hela.
"Nothing to forgive." Hela replied.
Yumi sweat dropped. "Uh…" Very emotionless voice…um… "Thanks…?"
"I am Hela."
"Um…?"
"The scientists created me… My telepathic and telekinetic powers are very strong and my emotions make me loose control of them."
"….oh. Okay." Yumi looked over at Rude. "What are you smiling about?"
"Nothing. Nothing at all…well, maybe the look on Reno's face but that's about it."
Yumi heard footsteps behind her and she turned around. Tseng walked up followed by another tall man dressed in a Turk uniform. "Oh! Tseng! Hello! Is something wrong? You have a strange look on your face."
Tseng stopped in front of Yumi and looked her up and down. "Nothings wrong. The outfit threw me off. Yumi blushed. "Anyway, I heard what happened to you came to see if you were alright. Also, the president told me to introduce you to Vincent. He was away on a mission when everyone else met you." Vincent stepped forward and bowed as Yumi did the same.
Yumi watched as Vincent stood straight up again. He just had to meet me when I'm dressed like this, didn't he? She was still blushing as she stood up straight.
"And by the way," said Tseng. "We stopped at the lab first to see if you were there. They gave us this bottle and said to give it to you right away. They said it's very important." Tseng handed Yumi a bottle of pills. She took them and stared at them for a moment.
"Oh yeah! I remember now! I'm supposed to take one pill every half hour until the whole bottles gone. Then I go and see the scientists to make sure I'm going to be ok. Let's see… I was good as new after the first hour, then I had to do fitness tests for another hour and I didn't take any…they told me to go eat and that took a half hour. So I'm an hour and a half late for my first dose." Yumi then collapsed into a heap on the floor.
Tseng sighed. "They said that might happen…"
"What do we do now?" asked Rude.
Vincent sat down next to Yumi and pulled yet another needle out of a small black case he had been carrying.
"Another shot?" asked Reno.
"Her thirteenth shot today." Said Vincent.
"Let me guess. They tried to drug her when she had the heat stroke?" asked Rude.
"Yep." Said Tseng and Vincent in unison.
Rude dug through the pants pocket of Yumi's Turk uniform until he found the key to her room. "She's gonna be out cold for awhile. Let's just put her to bed." The other agreed. Rude unlocked Yumi's door, Vincent put away the needle, Reno carried Yumi to her bed, and Tseng stood in the doorway and shook his head. "I don't see how anyone so serious could be so absent minded. And Hela," She turned her blank eyes to meet his. "You'll be sharing a room with Yumi. There's a spare bed inside."
Hela stared at Tseng for a moment. "Alright." She walked past him and into the room. Rude handed her the keys.
Reno then said "Just let us know if you-" Hela slammed the door in Reno's face. "..need…any….thing." Everyone else sweat dropped. Reno turned around to see everyone else. "You know," he started sarcastically. "You just gotta love Hela. She's so nice, so kind, so gentle!" He flew into the wall in front of him and fell down on his back. The others stared at Reno as he got up. "Thanks a lot Hela! I really need that!"
"Hela opened the door. "Wow. For once, we agree on something. Maybe your not completely hopeless after all." She slammed the door again. Reno was getting ready to go kick the door in, but Rude stopped him.
"The last thing you want to do is make her angry. And do you want to wake Yumi up?" Reno considered this for a moment then shook his head no.
"We should all be heading to bed." Said Tseng.
"I agree." Added in Vincent." Who knows? It could be a long day tomorrow" Everyone sighed in agreement, looked at Yumi's door for a moment, then went to bed.