A/N: Just to let anyone who is interested in my fanfic (if there is anyone that is), I am going to be slow and unpredictable with my updates at the moment as I'm swamped with college, coursework, exams and work. But do not fear, I've got a hell of a lot of ideas for this story so I will not be abandoning this. I will be attempting a shot at Reno's point of view in this chapter, please let me know if I'm doing a good or bad job at this, I'm sorry if he seems out of character at any point. I will always mark when a character's point of view is not Sky's. Please review so I can improve.

Reno's POV

I finally manage to get to sleep; after I had to put up with a whole half-hour of Sky tossing, turning, kicking, occasionally muttering something in costan and I think she bit me. As soon as I close my eyes and feel the familiar pull of slumber I'm interrupted by the obnoxious ringing of my PSH. "Yo," I sit up rubbing the sands of sleep that have already formed in my eyes.

"Reno, Avalanche has attacked again. They've targeted the sector five reactor this time, I need you to report to headquarters right away. Cissnei is on her way to watch over Sky."

"Yes sir." I get up and quickly get changed back into the clothes I was wearing a few moments ago. I walk past Cissnei as I head out of the apartments front door.

"How is she?"

"She's settled down, and asleep. Do you know what's going on with all of this Avalanche shit yo?"

"I heard that president Shinra caught them but they escaped. Do you think that they could pose a threat to Sky?"

"It's possible; I guess it's another reason why they want to keep her identity secret yo. Anyways, I gotta go Tseng's probably pissed off as it is, I better not keep him waiting any longer." The roads of sector one was near enough completely empty, after the terrorist attack on this sections mako reactor last night everyone has been desperate to pack up and move to another sector. As no one wants to be here what better place to hide the illegitimate daughter of Mr Shinra.

The higher up the Shinra building I go the more people I see running around in blind panic, scientists, soldiers, I see Scarlet sitting in her office crying. As I walk passed her office I catch between wailing sobs "my beautiful Air Breaker!" on any other occasion I would have tried to "comfort" her, however I'd rather not have Tseng chewing my ear off for choosing a easy shag over my duty again. On the way to my office I bump into Rude, "Tseng's looking for you, left paperwork in your office." I notice he's holding his helicopter keys and even though he's wearing his trusty sunglasses I can see he's trying to hide a grim expression, it's only because I've known him for so long that I can tell this.

"What's goin' on yo?"

"Got new orders, plant a bomb on the sector seven pillar."

"What why?"

"Tseng has good reason to believe Avalanche is based in the sector seven slums. If not, maybe it'll scare them into stopping what they're doing."

"What, Tseng's decided to do this?"

"No, the order's come directly from President Shinra. "Squash them like bugs" I believe was the expression he used."

"When are you detonating it?"

"I'm just setting it up, you're the one pushing the button." He gives me a sympathetic look before he heads for the elevator.

"What the fuck Tseng? I've just heard from Rude that I'm gonna be dropping a sector plate!" I'm fuming as I storm into his office, he doesn't even look up as I lean over his desk glaring at him.

"Hello Reno, yes Rude's setting up the bomb tonight and tomorrow night you'll be setting it off. There's more information on you desk, as well as your mission for this morning. That is all." He rose from his chair and left heading towards President Shinra's office. As I walked into my office and saw a large pile of papers and folders, I search through them for the information on the sector seven plate bombing. Flicking through the file I see that there's strong evidence that Avalanche is based in a bar of the sector seven slums, there's a small record of each of the current members, two girls and four men; one's noted to have a gun-arm device and another claims to be a first-class solider. The only other information I find is the code for the bomb and instructions to keep Avalanche busy so they can't deactivate it; basically I'm on another suicide mission. Sometimes I get the feeling that Tseng doesn't want me around anymore I seem to be more of a punching bag than a Turk. I open the file with today's mission, I have to try to convince that cetra girl from the sector five slums to join Shinra, and I honestly don't know why Tseng won't let me just drag her here. He claims that she's special and she should only come of her own free will but I'm starting to get a feeling that he's got a bit of a soft spot for the flower girl. The file says that I should find her at the sector five church roughly around five am, that's when she's usually tending her flowers. I also notice a parcel, opening it there's a note on top of a neatly folded girls school uniform.

– Reno

Do not forget to drop off Sky at school at nine am. If you do Darknation will hurt you.

– Rufus

Bastard, just because I'm second in command I'm stuck with all this shit, I do more running around than Tseng. We'll I've still got a few hours to go before the whole ancient thing so I might as well get some shuteye, only a few hours later Tseng checked up on me to make sure I don't over sleep when I'm supposed to be on a mission again.