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A/N: Co-Authored by ItanliUchiha

Chapter One: Out of Hell and Into Midgar?

Ryu opened her eyes and blinked surprised. Leaning over her was a red head with a pair of goggles perched on his forehead with twin red tattoos following the lines of his cheek bones. She reached up and poked him in the forehead. He blinked, surprised.

"Whoever you are, you did a better cosplay then I did." She muttered. Her head hurt badly. She tried to sit up. The room tilted and spun. Slumping back down, she curled into the fetal position.

"I think I'm gonna hurl." She moaned. She felt awful and she hadn't been drinking.

"Me too." She heard Alanna muttered from not too far away.

"Glad I'm not the only one." She muttered. Rough hands pulled her up right.

"We've got some questions for you, yo." The red head said. Ryu squinted at him and the bald, glasses wearing, guy holding her up.

"Okay that's going a bit far." She muttered, "I am seriously going to be sick, I don't know what prank you played, whoever you are, but it's not funny." She growled.

"What are you doing in the Shinra building?" The red head asked as she was hauled off. Alanna was being pulled to her feet by a guy with auburn hair and a red duster.

"Very funny. Shinra is in Gaia, this is Earth, the joke's up buddy this isn't funny." Ryu said.

"You are in the Shinra building in Midgar, on a very restricted level, I might add yo." The red head said.

"You're in a lot of trouble." The bald guy holding her said. Ryu was about to answer when her stomach lost its battle and she hurled. Annoyed as she was, she aimed right for the red head's shoes and succeeded.

"EWWW" He said horrified.

"I warned you." She said weakly, slumping down in the grasp of the bald guy. She didn't feel much better, and her brain was beginning to kick back in.

"Look, there's clearly been some kind of mistake. We were on our way to the University of New England, in Biddeford." She began.

"Save it for interrogation." The redhead growled. Ryu swallowed as her over active imagination, and one too many fan fictions, had just given her head a very VERY bad idea. If it was true they were in so much trouble.

Ryu was right, she was in trouble. She was sitting in a metal chair with her arms cuffed behind her. She kept her head down and tried to take deep breaths. She didn't want them to know how freaked out she was.

-It's all right Ryu… this is just a really bad dream. Yeah, that's all it is. You'll wake up to 'Lanna banging on your door with a cup of coffee and it'll all have been a dream. Any second now.- She told herself.

"She's scared yo. That's good." Reno said from the observation room watching the girl who looked like him. They could pass as twins except for their height. Rude said nothing for a moment.

"She's definitely ill." He said finally. The girl was shivering and given her vomiting in the hall, on Reno's shoes no less, he was worried. What if she had taken poison or something?

Ryo looked up as the two entered the room.

"So you gonna tell us what we want to know, yo?"

She nodded her head. Ryu had already decided it was best to tell them the truth, dream or not, it was better.

"Who are you?" Reno was tapping his elctro-mag rod against his shoulder.

"Ryuko Sverd." She said calmly, keeping her eyes fixed on her knees. –Don't let them scare you.- She told herself.

"Who are the others?"

"Alanna, Mary, Piper, Matti, and Morgan. They are my housemates." She answered. Her voice had dropped into a monotone. She jumped when the elctro-mag rod lightly touched her knee. She glared at Reno that light shock had hurt, by God.

"Do that again and I'll projectile vomit all over your new shoes." She threatened; she'd noticed he'd changed his shoes. "Trust me you don't need to cause me pain to get me to tell the truth. I already decided I would. I know what you are capable of and I don't want to go down that road." She snapped at him with a defiant shake of her head. Oh she looked confident but she was far from it, her whole body was shaking like a leaf, and she knew they could see that. But to hell with that, she was not letting dreams intimidate her. She heard Rude chuckle dryly behind her as Reno paced around the room.

-I think this IS Midgar. That zap hurt too much for a dream. I should have woken up but I didn't.- She realized. She bit her lip. If that was true, she was in so much trouble. Reno lifted her chin with his EMR.

"Look me in the eyes when you answer me, Little Me." He said. Ryu dropped her gaze.

"I never look people in the eyes," She looked up her eyes focusing on his nose.

"But I'll address your nose." Reno blinked, taken aback by her statement.

"Why not?" He asked. Ryu sighed and shrugged.

"I just don't, I never have, I only look my friends in the eyes, and then only rarely." She said. Reno sighed shaking his head.

"What were you doing in Shinra?" He asked, getting back on topic.

"I don't know how we got here. I only know what I remember of what happened, and that's a bit foggy." She said. Reno had prowled behind her; she twisted her neck to keep an eye on him so she saw his EMR coming at her shoulder. She twisted frantically, and managed to get partially out of the way of the blow.

She lurched forward gasping for breath as the blow had caused her shoulder to sublaxate, or partially dislocate, out of place.

"Son of a Bitch." She hissed between clenched teeth. Just because she often sublaxated that shoulder didn't mean it didn't hurt any less.

"Let me explain dammit." She snapped at him, "We were in our living room, at home, well in the rental since we're only there for nine months and then we're done school." – You're rambling — her brain pointed out.

"The TV was on, 'Lanna's new game console with her game, she'd just hooked it up but she hadn't changed to the channel yet. The TV was on ABC family, Hocus Pocus, I think." She frowned and bit her lip trying to remember. Reno and Rude watched her silently for the minute.

"She picked up the remote to change the channel and the TV just went white. It was really bright, and it hurt to look at it. The lights flickered and went out. We all thought it was really spooky and kept telling the boys to confess what prank they'd played. They insisted they didn't do anything." She shrugged her good shoulder.

"The next thing I remember is seeing your ugly mug in my face, and suddenly I was in very deep shit." She said.

"Reno." A new voice called, "The other girl's story confirms it." Ryu looked up and almost swallowed her tongue. Tseng was in the room. It is never a good thing when the director of the Turks, and the best damn assassin of this world, was in the same room as you.

To Ryu's surprise Reno unlocked her cuffs. Falling to the floor Ryu curled into the fetal position and shoved the wrist of her injured shoulder between her knees and pulled. She gasped as her shoulder moved back into place.

"Oh that never hurts less." She hissed. Reno and Rude pulled her to her feet.

"Don't jostle me." She groaned as her stomach rebelled again and her eyes swam. They guided her back to the others.

Alanna, seeing Ryu's return between the two Turks, jumped to her feet and rushed over to her.

"Ryu are you all right?" She asked, glaring at the two Turks. Ryu grinned ruefully and rubbed her shoulder.

"Aside from Reno sublaxating my shoulder. I'm good." She said. Alanna moved so quickly Reno didn't have a chance. She nailed him in the balls with her foot, dropping him to the floor. She stood over him, still dressed as Genesis, hands propped on her hips, ignoring Rude's intimidating stance.

"Do that again and I'll EMR your balls and dye your hair black." She snapped. Reno's eyes widened in shock, and Ryu laughed holding her stomach.

"I don't think he meant to do it 'Lanna." She said. It was then that she realized that Sephiroth, Genesis, Angeal, Zack, Cloud, Vincent, Cissinei, and Tseng were watching them. Morgan, Mary, Matti, and Piper were still curled up on the floor.

"'Lanna are the others okay?"Ryu asked. Alanna nodded her head.

"Just passed out." She steered Ryu to a seat, "sit" She commanded before she leaned back against the wall, as Reno climbed to his feet, glaring at 'Lanna.

"So, what now?" Ryu asked. The SOLDIERs and Turks traded looks. Piper stirred, saw Ryu in the chair and made her way over to her, crawling into the chair, and into her lap.

Piper was shorter and smaller then Ryu, coming in at just about five feet she was the smallest, smaller even then Cloud. Her dark blond hair was dyed black and styled like Zack's.

"Good puppy." Ryu murmured, patting her on the head. Piper grinned and cuddled closer. Zack jumped startled by the nick name. Ryu let her head fall back against the chair so she could see Alanna.

"How do you feel?" She asked. Alanna glared at Genesis.

"I have a splitting headache, and he didn't help at all." She snapped.

"What do you think we should do with them?" Sephiroth asked Tseng. Tseng frowned and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Boss if Hojo…" Rude murmured. Tseng sighed. Rude was right. Both girl's had implied that they were from another world, caught in some freak accident that had brought them here. If Hojo found out about them, he'd conduct unethical experiments on them.

"They look so much like us, they could be us. Can we keep them?" Zack exclaimed.

Reno jumped as a pillow smacked into his back. He turned his doppelganger who, cheeky girl that she was, had thrown it at him.

"Don't talk about us like we aren't here, yo." She said. Gen's doppelganger smirked and nodded her head. Reno's jaw dropped.

"You little…" He sputtered as she'd copied his speech pattern perfectly. She smirked at him.

"Yes?" She asked primly.

"What floor are we on?" Gen's doppelganger asked suddenly.

"90," Zack blurted out. They watched as both girls relaxed slightly.

"At least it's not 69." Ryu murmured, naming the science department.

"And Hojo." Gen's doppelganger said with a shudder.

"How do you know about Hojo?" Tseng asked sharply. The two traded a glance.

"Because in our world, your world is a story." Alanna said quickly, "It's a story someone made up. But I guess it wasn't made up. They knew about this world somehow." She said adlibbing.

"So what happens in this story? When does it end?" Tseng asked.

"The story ends after the Wutai War, the author never wrote anything more." Ryu jumped in quickly. The last thing they needed was Sephiroth, Genesis and Angeal finding out the truth from them, if they had guessed correctly, Zack had already burned the mansion down that contained any information about the experiments.

"I wonder how your author knew about us." Tseng murmured. Ryu shrugged.

"I dunno, I'm just a college kid." She said. Alanna went to Mary's side; she was dressed as Angeal, and began to gently nudge her in the stomach with her foot, repeatedly. Mary jumped to her feet with a shriek.

"'Lanna, I swear to God I am going to kill you," and started chasing her. 'Lanna ran behind Ryu's chair.

"Mummy she's awake and she's mad." She said cowering. Ryu laughed.

"I would be too if you'd have woken me up that way." She reached out and snagged Mary's pant leg.

"Let it go we have more pressing matters." She said directing Mary's attention to the other group, as Alanna crept from behind the chair to wake the others.

"What the hell Ryu?" She said surprised. Ryu shrugged.

"'Lanna! What did you do?" Mary snapped, spinning to glare at her friend again.

"Why do you always assume it's my fault?" Alanna rubbed at her face dejectedly. "I didn't do anything."

"This time," Mary grumbled. Alanna gave her a hurt look and went back to shaking Matti into consciousness.

"That isn't the point." Ryu said forcefully. Mary and Alanna could fight like cats sometimes and if you didn't know them you'd think they hated each other.

Mary propped her hands on her hips and regarded the group of SOLDIERs and Turks. She was dressed like Angeal, down to the fake buster sword on her back. Her normally blonde hair was dyed black. It had taken so much work to get her to let them dye it. Her gaze met Angeal's and her eyes narrowed even as his did. They both realized that in each group they were the brute strength.

Matti and Morgan came to at almost the same time. Once he was able to move Morgan went over to Ryu's chair and sat on the arm of it. Seeing where Piper was curled up, Matti shook his head and sat with his back against the chair his head propped up between his hands as his head throbbed.

"What happened?" Morgan asked her. Ryu inclined her head toward him and mouthed the words "Final Fantasy 7, we're in it." to him. Morgan's eyes widened and he pinched himself a look of disbelief on his face. She snorted.

"I could you have spared you that, the EMRs really hurt. If you think the double AA one we made was bad, then you're in trouble." She told him.

"They zapped you?" He asked horrified. Ryu shrugged.

"At least they didn't beat me up." She said.

"I'll take Piper from you." Matti said suddenly recovering a bit. Ryu nudged Piper, who grumbled.

"Off puppy." Ryu said, pushing her off. Matti caught her ankle and guided her to sit next to him. He caught Tseng staring at him. Matt was dressed as Tseng, well a Tseng with short hair. They hadn't been able to convince Matti about the wig. He met his eyes and then just as casually looked away. Matti could be pretty calm even with a splitting headache.

"What do we do with them?" Angeal asked. Tseng shrugged.

"For now let them stay here, they can sleep in a spare room. We'll figure it out in the morning. But for now that's as good as it will get." He said.

"They need to change. They can't look like any of us." Cissinei pointed out. Tseng nodded his head.

"We'll scrounge up some clothes." He nodded to the others. Reno sighed.

"Looks like the scrawny Rude is gonna have to wear my clothes." He complained.

"I'll lend me some clothes." Zack said brightly. He zipped over and pulled Piper to her feet, pouncing on her, and picking her up for a tight hug. Surprised Piper squeaked and hung on to the SOLDIER. Matti gave a slightly traumatized look at the man holding his girlfriend but didn't move. He knew when he would get his ass kicked.

A pillow sailed through the air and smacked Zack in the face.

"Put her down, Puppy." Two voices snapped. Zack looked surprised as the doppelgangers of Genesis and Reno were glaring at him, and pointing to the floor.

"Play nice, if you aren't careful you'll end up throwing poor Piper over your shoulder." Ryu said. Piper gave another squeak.

"And stop suffocating her." Alanna snapped. Zack put Piper down.

"That Piper was Zack Fair, aka the puppy." Alanna added. Piper nodded her head, and grinned at Zack.

"Pleased to meet you, Zack."She said.

"Hi Piper Puppy." Zack grinned, "You don't look so comfy dressed as me, wanna a change of clothes?" He asked. Piper nodded her head.

"A shower and a change wouldn't hurt any of us." She admitted.

"Hot water." Ryu sighed blissfully.

The first one out the shower was Mary. Showered and changed in ten minutes she re-entered the common living room in one of Angeal's over sized shirts and a pair of his shorts. They all gasped. Aside from the glasses she looked very different. Her square rim glasses were purple framed. Her hair was once again sunny blonde. With her hair down and gently curling up at the ends she looked very different.

"But you… you had black hair." Cloud protested, he was pretty quiet and shy. She grinned.

"Hair dye." She said.

"Oh."

Next to come out were the two guys. Morgan appeared in a pair of Reno's slacks and a shirt that he'd borrowed from Zack. Matti was dressed in a pair of sweat pants and shirt Tseng had had somewhere. Piper appeared after them. She was dressed in baggy sweat pants rolled up and a sweatshirt with the sleeves rolled up. Both loaned from Zack. Her hair was once again dark blonde.

"Blonde?" Zack said surprised, he'd been doing squats as he waited. Ever the hyper puppy, he had to stay active. If he couldn't run around he was doing squats.

"Hair dye." Mary repeated herself.

Alanna came out next, her hair was still auburn, and she was wearing a pair of Genesis's slacks and one of his sleeveless turtle necks in black.

"You need to work on the selection." She told him, before calmly moving behind Mary. Genesis stared at her.

"You raided my wardrobe?" He asked surprised, "And you have the gall to complain?" He looked downright enraged and offended. He was about to say something.

"She wasn't dressed as you for nothing." A voice said from Cloud's apartment.

Standing in the door way, dressed in a pair of cargo pants, and loose shirt, dark red hair pulled up in a high pony tail, bangs swept to the side and clipped up was Ryu.

Reno was puzzled. Who was the red head in the doorway? Hadn't the girl called… Oh what was her name? He'd forgotten. Ryu something. Anyways that girl had gone into Cloud's room this girl looked nothing like her. His eyes feel on a pair of goggles hanging around her neck.

"Holy Shit!" He exclaimed. She'd seen his look of confusion. Now she smirked at him. Rude grunted beside him.

"So it is possible for you to look presentable." Tseng said.

"HEY" they both yelled.

"I don't look like him at all." She protested.

"I am presentable yo." Reno protested at the same time. Reno scowled at her when he heard her protest. She stuck her tongue out and then hid behind Morgan.

"Anyways," Tseng said pinching the bridge of his nose, "you will stay here until we figure out how to keep you safe, how you got here, and how to return you." He said. They nodded their heads.

"Awesome so we are keeping them." Zack cheered.

"Zack," Angeal started as Zack gave a fist pump, "They aren't pets to keep." He scolded. Zack sulked for a minute.

"I know that." He said.

Tseng sat down across the group, who where all sitting, standing or perched on the chair Ryu sat in.

"We know you aren't spies but we don't know anything about you, which means you are still a large security risk." He said. They all traded looks and shrugged.

"What do you want to know?" Mary asked.

"First of all, your names." Genesis muttered. He was still grumpy with Alanna.

"Ryuko, Piper, Alanna, Mary, Matti, and that's Morgan." Ryu said pointing at each.

"And you are?" Matti said not recognizing all of the people in front of them.

"1st class SOLDIER Sephiroth, the Silver General." Sephiroth said, pushing his long silver hair back with one hand as he spoke for the first time. Both Ryu and Alanna wondered if he was as much a sugar junkie as the rumors said he was. Ryu saw the cookies he was holding in his other hand and concluded he really was.

"Commander Genesis Rhapsodos, 1st class SOLDIER." Genesis said his tone taking on a clipped military cadence, showing his pride in his ranking, but only after Angeal nudged him with his elbow in the side.

"Commander Angeal Hewley, 1st class SOLDIER. A pleasure to meet you." Angeal said. At that he received friendly smiles and a few murmurs of the same. He caught Zack before he could rush the group and hug them all.

"Lieutenant Zack Fair, 1st class SOLDIER." He said.

"Lieutenant Cloud Strife, 1st class SOLDIER." Cloud said shyly, barely looking at them.

"Tseng, Director of the Turks." Tseng said after a moment's pause.

"Reno, the best damn Turk." Reno said. This caused the group to giggle.

"Also the second in command," Cissinei pointed out, "Hello I am Cissinei." She said brightly.

"…Rude…"

"Vincent"

"Now do you know why you are here?" Sephiroth asked curious. Alanna shifted resting her hand on Ryu's head. Ryu tipped her head back to look at her. The two traded a glance.

"If it was a freak accident then there would be no purpose to us being here. Only that we have to make the best of it until we either return home or give up and make our lives here." Ryu said.

"If we are here for a reason it's a mystery to us." Alanna said with a small grin she quoted, "Infinite in mystery is the gift of the Goddess." Grinning Ryu said with her,

"We seek it thus and take to the sky." Morgan groaned.

"Great 'Lanna now you've got her saying it too, and I though the yo's were bad enough." He said acidly, pushing her hand off of Ryu's head. Ryu laughed.

"If you hear her say it often enough it will get stuck in your head. And you will learn it." She said. Genesis meanwhile was staring at both of them shocked. The rest looked horrified.

"My friend the fates are cruel." Alanna told Morgan. Irritated Morgan got to his feet hand poked her firmly in the middle of her forehead.

"Enough." He said, "Don't make me retaliate."

"You've been threatening that since the first time I annoyed you two years ago." She said. He grimaced.

"I am truly thinking about it now," He said before he sat down again.

"Oh, Morgan's cranky that's a first." Piper said. Ryu grinned as he made a face, she was about to speak when all the SOLDIERs stomachs grumbled at once.

"You wouldn't happen to be hungry?" Zack asked ruefully.

"I'm sure the boys are." Piper said. The boys grinned and nodded.

"We know Matti is always hungry." Mary said. Matti flushed.

"So is Morgan. He just won't admit it unless he's home." Ryu said. Now Morgan flushed a bit.

"Food!" Zack suddenly roared and took off towards presumably the kitchen, bouncing as he went. Angeal followed him presumably to keep the puppy from destroying anything.

"Come on," Sephiroth said, "We'll feed you." He beckoned for them to follow him. Hesitantly the group followed him. Genesis stalked behind them, presumably glaring at them the whole while or puzzling out how two of the group knew LOVELESS.

"What's it like being a SOLDIER?" Piper asked as they entered the kitchen. Zack had his hand in a cookie jar as Angeal was attempting to keep him away from the rest of the actual food had been prepared.

"It's AWESOME!" Zack said before he stuffed his face with cookies, grinning impishly at Sephiroth.

"Stay out of my cookies Zack." Seph said.

"At least it's not your energy drinks." Cloud said shyly from somewhere behind Seph. Seph frowned.

"What would you like to drink?" Angeal asked.

"We have water, soda, milk, coffee, tea, and juice, and Seph's energy drinks." Zack said. He ducked the playful punch Seph threw at him.

They all opted for water, unsure of the taste of the other drinks, and how their stomachs would handle anything.

"Where'd Cissinei go?" Cloud asked suddenly.

"She had a date." Tseng said unconcerned.

"Oh."

A/N: This one is a little longer. Hope you enjoy. Please review, we like hearing from you guys. THANKIES!