Chapter 2
"Damn it Rude." Ramses spat venomously "you're supposed to keep the recruits from wandering off, not me from training."
"I'm supposed to keep everyone in the barracks at night." He responded calmly "and that includes you, why would you want to train in the middle of the night anyways?"
"Probably the same reason you wear sunglasses in the middle of the night!" Cedjka jumped in. Ramses snickered at the remark.
"What? To busy to train on your off days?" Rude said with a sneer, Ramses immediately tensed up, "You know, I went a bar in Midgar the other day, I was served by a beautiful girl. She was a pretty fine piece of ass," he smiled slyly "but you don't need me to tell you that."
Ramses hated when other guys talked about his girlfriend this way. "Tifa isn't some piece of meat for you to stare at." Ramses said coldly. He knew she dressed that way for tips but he still hated all the crap he caught for it. One of the recruits had been foolish enough to tell him that Tifa dressed like a slut and he might have a go at her. Ramses hit him so hard with his metal hand that Cedjka was afraid that Ramses had killed him. He managed to wake up a few days latter.
"Anyways, I'm not letting you out." Rude said "There have been reports of Genesis copies in the area."
"Who says you can stop me from leaving?" Ramses Challenged
"Don't start this," Cedjka complained, "you remember what happened after you decked Reno?" Ramses winced at the memory, a few weeks earlier Reno actually hadn't fallen asleep while on duty. It wasn't the fact that he'd stopped him that made him angry, it was his remarks about Tifa that earned him a fist to the face. He went out to train after that and was apprehended by a whole squad of Shin-Ra infantry. Instead of making him go back however they forced him on a chopper that took him to Hojo's lab. There he was subjected to 15 times the amount of a normal Mako treatment. He had fallen unconscious for five days and the worst part was they kept him in the lab for that amount of time rather than just send him back.
"Fine" Ramses growled and they headed back to the barracks. As soon as Rude was out of earshot he erupted "Damn Turks, I could take out the whole lot of them with my prosthetic taken off."
"The Muramasa would give you a big advantage." Cedjka remarked
Ramses glared at him "So all my power is from the sword is it? Fine, let's have a little sword fight, give me yours and you can use mine." He smiled wickedly knowing he would refuse.
"You're the better swordsmen," he said sheepishly "and you are the only one who can use the Muramasa's real power."
Ramses suddenly unsheathed his sword "back up" he instructed "We are starting the day early."
Cedjka Smiled "You're gonna piss Rude off."
"Like I give a damn what Rude thinks." The air around the Muramasa was suddenly distorted. Ramses focused on the abandoned house a few hundred feet away from the barracks. He swung hard and the distortion left the sword and grew quickly heading for the house. The ground shook and the barracks rattled. When the wave hit the house it sounded like a bomb had just exploded right outside the barracks.
Some of the recruits came running out with swords in hand thinking they were under attack. 'Oh look, volunteers' Ramses thought to himself. "You Men!" he bellowed at the recruits "Make sure the entire unit is out here within 20 minutes!"
They suddenly realized what was going on "yes sir." They grumbled.
Ramses stepped back and admired his work. The house was completely gone, he was sure people in Midgar could hear what he had just done, he might even ask Tifa when he saw her tomorrow.
"A pulse attack?" Cedjka questioned "a little lazy of you don't you think."
"I needed something loud." Ramses retorted "You want to see lazy? You're in charge of drills today."
"What are you going to do?"
"Why, I'm going to oversee of course."
"You're just going to pull that cloth over your eyes and go to sleep aren't you"
"Pretty much"
"Damn you"
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I decided to match Ramses up with an 18 year old Tifa just to keep familiar faces in the story . At this point it would have been 4 years since she last saw Cloud and I figgure she would have at least a couple of boyfriends durring his six year absence from her life.