Mission 05: Cat
Reno's goggles slipped off his head and fell on Rude's head. They bounced off and were caught by the bald Turk. He considered taking revenge on his partner for all those times his sunglasses had to suffer, but Rude knew that Reno didn't do it on purpose, and he had an infinite supply of patience when it came to the redhead.
The aforementioned redhead was currently up in a tree, trying to reach a cat that her owners claimed was stuck. "Here, kitty, kitty." He called as gently as possible. "Here kitty..." but the cat ignored him and sat there regally grooming herself.
"Save her! Please, save her!" An overly dramatic young woman wearing fake cat ears begged.
"Save her, save her, saver her! Save our precious baby!" A chorus of a dozen other women also wearing cat ears echoed.
The cat was the precious mascot of their college sorority, and they have requested Shinra's help in recovering the little darling who got herself stuck in a tree.
"I'm trying!" The branch where the cat sat looked too fragile to support the weight of a human, so Reno was trying to reach her from a near by branch. "Come here kitty cat, be a good girl and come to Reno."
The white cat looked at the red haired man for a moment, green eyes glowing with interest for just a split second, before she returned to grooming herself and ignoring her would be savior.
"I don't think she wants to come down..." Reno concluded.
"She's terrified, petrified in fear!" The leader of the sorority cried.
"Terrified! Petrified! In Fear!" The other women echoed.
"No, she looks pretty calm to me..." Reno tried to reason with them from the tree but they weren't listening.
"Save her! Save her!" The cat obsessed women chanted.
"I'll try..." Reno grumbled. "Come on kitty cat, your owners will feed you if you go back with them, and I'm sure they have cat toys and stuff too, so come over here."
The cat ignored him.
"Here kitty, kitty, meow..." Reno kept trying to get her attention.
The cat's ears perked up with half interest.
"Meow?" Reno tried again.
The cat finally looked at him.
"Look at that Rude, I think she understands!" The only problem was that Reno didn't speak cat, so he had no idea what he was saying. "Meow, meow, meow, meow..."
"Reno," Rude tried to get his partner's attention without causing a commotion.
But Reno kept trying to communicate with the cat. "Meow, meow, meow..."
"Reno!" Rude called in alarm.
"What's is it Ru- hey what's that? How come the sorority girls are setting up that net, and chains... and a big cage... Is all of that just for the cat? Oh oh..."
The cat finally jumped into Reno's arms purring happily.
"If you want to get down from the tree, do it yourself, because I'm staying." Reno put the cat down on the tree branch and she easily jumped off landing on her feet, but her owners ignored her. Down below, the cat obsessed fan girls where trying to chop down the tree. "Rude... a little help?"
Rude shook his head.
Reno should have known not to try to speak cat around cat obsessed women. Now he held on to the tree for dear life. "I'm not a cat! I'm a human! Why must I be so attractive? Rude do something! Hey! Where are you going? Rude! Don't abandon me!"
A few minutes passed and a helicopter piloted by Rude flew by. Reno was able to grab the rope ladder and climb aboard, right before the tree went down. Then they safely flew away with another mission fulfilled.
End of Mission 05
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