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More story allusionssss! They include: "Ordinary Day" (by moi) and "Flour Cannons" (by Vietta ^.^)

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...Or Reno may just transfer YOU to the Men In Black! :O

-II. That's The Plan-

To Tseng's dismay, nothing could be done about the transfer order. As far as Shinra was concerned, it was official, and legitimate. It didn't matter to Shinra that it was all Reno's fault that Tseng was being sent to fight aliens with some nutcases from a place called Earth. What kind of name was that anyway? "Earth"? Weren't the inhabitants of this planet more creative than that?

Tseng had no choice but to prepare for his departure. But while he was packing the necessities (clothes, weapons, hanging rope), he kept pondering and wondering of ways to get the transfer reversed. There must have been some way to make his time with the Men In Black (Tseng shuddered at the very mention of their name) shorter.

No plans came to mind, but the Turk wasn't giving up just yet.

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Meanwhile, Reno was sitting with his feet propped up on his desk, leaning back in his chair, a proud smirk forever pasted on his face.

"You ever gonna stop smirking?" Rude asked.

"Maybe," Reno replied.

The sound of hurried footsteps appeared grew closer in the hall, and Reno held his breath for a moment, wondering if it was Tseng coming to confront him. And perhaps shout a whole stream of long four-letter words at him.

But, no...the pacing was all wrong... This sounded more like-

"Reno!"

Elena.

"'Sup, Laney?" Reno asked casually, tilting his head to look at her.

She was so angry, her whole face was bright red. You could practically see whisps of smoke coming from her ears hidden under her blonde hair.

"'Sup'?" she reapeated angrily. "You just transferred our boss to another agency -another friggin' planet-, and all you can say it 'Sup'? !"

Reno looked back at the ceiling. "Okay. If you wanna be all formal about this stuff... What's up, Elena? Or perhaps you'd prefer, Good morning, Elena. And how are you doing this lovely day?"

All Elena really wanted to do at that point was leap across Reno's desk, grab him by the throat, and strangle him to death. But then she wouldn't be able to get any answers out of him. So she pushed that idea aside...for the moment.

"Why the hell would you do something like that, Reno? ! What did Tseng ever do to you? !"

Reno sat up and leaned his arm on his desk, looking at Elena. "Don't tell me you didn't see the video he put up all over Shinra. Not to mention the internet."

Elena gaped at Reno, then began stuttering the beginnings of what were sure to be curses mixed with incredulous questions. "That's what this whole thing is about? A video of RUDE PUNCHING YOU IN THE FACE? !" she screamed.

Rude peeked around her to look at Reno. "She has got a point."

Reno blinked at Elena. "Well, it sounds not-so-bad when you say it like that."

Elena grunted, throwing her hands in the air. "Do you realize what a transfer to the MIB means?"

Reno grinned mischeviously. "Yes. Yes, I do, my blonde-haired Turk."

Elena raised an eyebrow. "You're just thinking about the aliens, aren't you?"

"What else would I be thinking about?" Reno asked.

"Uh, the fact that he could, oh, I don't know, GET KILLED? !"

Reno scoffed. "He won't get killed."

"She's got a point," Rude repeated.

"Who's side are you on, anyway?" Reno snapped.

Rude shrugged and sat back in his chair, his arms folded over his chest.

Elena sighed. "How can you be so sure he won't get killed?" she asked Reno.

Reno grinned again. "Because of this." He dug through the massive amounts of paperwork on his desk for the one piece of paper that would get Elena off his back about his revenge.

When he did unearth it, he held it up and pushed it in Elena's face.

Elena took the paper from Reno, and held it away from her face to read it. Her eyes widened as she scanned over it. She lowered the page and narrowed her eyes at Reno. "You really think that this is enough to make me not want to kill you?"

"She's-"

"Shut it, Rude!" Reno interrupted, cutting off another statement that would prove Rude was not on his side.

Reno looked at Elena. "So I take it you're still angry?"

She kept glaring at him. "What do you think?" she said dryly.

Reno smiled and leaned back in his chair, his arms behind his head. "Don't you worry your pretty little head about a thing, Lanely. I've got this all figured out."

Elena laughed once. "That's a first."

Reno gave her a look, unamused at her comment. "At any rate, don't you have anything more important to do than yell at me?"

"Not really," Elena replied.

Reno sighed and sat up again. "Look, Laney-"

"Stop calling me that idiotic nickname!" she cut in. "It's not even clever!"

"Anywayyyy!" Reno near-shouted. "Chill out. Everything is going according to plan. I'm just making our beloved, black-haired boss sweat a little, and then I'll fix everything."

"With this piece of paper?" Elena asked, holding it up.

Rude sat forward in his chair.

"Don't say it, man."

Rude shrugged and sat back again.

Reno shrugged at Elena. "If one piece of paper got him transferred..."

"Do you honestly believe you're going to get away with this? Aren't you worried about Tseng getting revenge on you?"

"Not really," Reno said. "Because now he knows who he's dealing with."

Elena snorted. "Yeah. An idiotic moron who can't even tie his own shoes, who had a stupid idea for revenge and enlisted his partner -who actually has a brain in his head- to help him out."

Another set of footsteps in the hall cut off any smart remark Reno might've made in reply. (Which might've gone something like, "Oh, yeah?" or "Says you!" or any other one of Reno's brilliant comebacks.)

A SOLDIER uniform came into view first, and Reno again held his breath. He thought for a split second it might be Sephiroth, who scared him more than Tseng and Elena combined. But when he saw the black, spiky hair, he relaxed.

"Reno!"

"You come to yell at me, too, Zack?" Reno asked, pretending to be hurt. "I thought we were friends."

"Turn off the fake water works, man," Zack said, shaking his head and glancing back down the hallway. "I heard Tseng's shipping out tomorrow."

"Yeah, that is the story goin' around," Reno replied, smirking.

Zack looked over his shoulder out the door again, then crossed the room, stopping next to Elena. "I just gotta ask you something."

"Shoot," Reno said.

"How'd you do it?"

Reno blinked at him, then chuckled once. "It takes a lot of cunning and skill, my sword-wielding friend." He looked at Zack. "Why? You got someone you wanna transfer out of Shinra?"

Zack scoffed. "Psh, no! Me? Noooo. Why would you think-?"

"ZACHARY FAIR!" Sephiroth's voice echoed down the hallways and into the room the SOLDIER and the Turks were in.

"Uh...yeah... Gotta run!" Zack said quickly, heading for the door.

"What'd you do this time?" Elena asked, annoyed.

"Too much to explain, but...it wasn't my idea!" Zack said, talking even faster now.

"Oh, really, Mr. Flour Cannon?" Rude asked dryly.

Reno sniggered, remembering the day when he'd found Zack hiding out behind Shinra.

"It really wasn't my idea!" Zack snapped, not wanting to take the time to explain yet again that the flour cannon hadn't been meant for Sephiroth. Besides, it had all been Genesis' fault anyway. "Blame Kiku! It's all her fault!"

The three Turks blinked at him in confusion.

"Who's Kiku?" Reno asked, grinning. "Correct me if I'm wrong, but that sounds like a girl's name."

Zack's face flushed red. "She's, uh... Kiku's just a friend, okay? !" he said quickly.

Angry footsteps could now be heard stomping down the hall.

At least he saved me from having to explain anything else, Zack thought, half-grateful and half-"I wanna get outta here NOW!"

"That's my cue to make a quick exit," Zack said. "See ya!" He gave a quick wave to the three Turks, then took off running down the hall.

"ZACHARY, GET BACK HERE!"

"IT'S NOT MY FAULT, I SWEAR! I'm sorry! I'm sorry, Sephiroth! Please don't kill me! KIKUUUUU! I'M GONNA GET YOU FOR THIS!"

The Turks stared at the doorway for a moment as the sounds of the chase faded.

"Think he'll catch him?" Reno asked.

"Oh, yeah," Rude said.

"Definitely," Elena said, nodding.

"Ten gil says Zack gets away," Reno said.

"I'll take that action," Elena said.

And, just like that, Tseng's departure was almost forgotten.

But, inside, Reno was still grinning at his own brilliance. Yes, he'd make Tseng worry a little. Let him think the transfer really was permanent...and then he'd send off that magic piece of paper he'd shown to Elena, and everything would be alright.

At least, that was the plan.

Or perhaps Sephiroth will come after you if you don't review! :O Either way, you should let me know what you think of it! ;D Chapter 3 coming sooonnn! Thanks again my reviewers! A cookie for each of youuuu! *hands you all a big cookie* heehee ^.^ Thanks!

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