AN: This is the first oneshot that centers around the player Turks from Before Crisis. I decided to do these because in Case of Shin-Ra, Veld says the other Turks are living in all the different towns in Gaia. I figured they had to bump into Cloud and Co. sometime in the game. Most of these will be humorous in nature and will fill in the gaps of the game.

Enjoy!

Chapter 6
All Right! Who Stole My Equipment? ! ? - - - - - Kalm

Was that... Cloud? Karen turned around to get a look at the group of people who had just walked past her. Her Turk training took in a woman with waist-length dark brown hair, another woman with light brown hair pulled up into a ponytail and a guy with very spiky blond hair and the Buster Sword on his back in less then a second.

Karen blinked at the last one and scrutinized the guy. He was on the short side and was wearing the uniform of a SOLDIER 1st Class. On his back was the Buster Sword. He turned to talk to one of the girls and Karen got a look at his profile. It's him alright. Her hand dropped down to her gun and Karen slowly backed away from them. He wasn't causing trouble, and Karen had no reason to get involved, whatever her last mission might have been. Fortunately, Cloud and the girls turned and walked off down the street and out of Kalm. Well, at least he's not sticking around here for a while. Karen let out the breath she had not been holding and walked up to the square where the mako generator was. Her house was near it.

When Karen got to her house, Carla, the landlady, walked up to her. "You might want to make sure all your stuff is there."

"What do you mean?" Kalm had the lowest crime rate of any city on the Planet. Although there's a very dark reason behind that, Karen thought. Nobody knew about it now.

"Well," Carla grinned at the prospect of gossip. "Some travelers stopped by. They talked to a lot of people and looked through all the houses on this row. It didn't look like they'd taken anything, but after they left, we started noticing some small things were missing."

Karen's mind went immediately to Cloud. "What was missing and what did the people look like?"

"Little things. Mostly ethers and my kids noticed they came into my room. I looked in and noticed the guard source I'd been saving up for my husband was missing." Carla shook her head. Guard sources were hard to come by.

"What did they look like?" Karen prompted.

"What'd looked like?" Carla grinned. "Well, there was a guy who looked like a SOLDIER 1st Class. Had a gigantic sword on his back and hair like a chocobo's. Then there was the two girls with him. One showed more skin then's decent and had the biggest rack I've ever seen. Had long dark brown hair too. Didn't like the way she held herself. I liked the other girl a lot better. She had on a dress and had her hair up in a ponytail." Carla softened. "She had a really nice smile. To be honest, I wondered what she was doing in their company."

"I'll keep that in mind." Karen pried herself away from Carla and made her way to the back of the house. So Cloud somehow survived and is wandering with some people. I better tell Tseng. She climbed up the spiral staircase that led to the attic where she kept all her materia and weapons. The bookcase where she hid all her materia was untouched, but her weapons locker... Empty. Darn. Her Peacemaker was missing. It wasn't the gun itself she didn't like loosing, the gun on her person right now packed more of a punch, but the three double growth materia slots in the gun. At least most of my materia is close to being mastered already and it didn't have any materia in it. Karen reached for her PHS and dialed Tseng's personal number from memory. What would Cloud want with a gun anyway?

End

AN: None of the player Turks have set names as you (the player) get to name them. Karen is my name for Gun(F). Thanks for reading!