The file you are reading is not meant for your eyes; put it down and walk away or I Tseng Director of the Turks, or my successor, will find you and silently and effectively remove you from society, to then slowly starve and torture you to your breaking point. It is as this point that we will bring you do the absolute middle of nowhere where you will be given your freedom of choosing how you would like to die. Should you ever make it back to society the Turks will take this is as you rejecting our kindness of letting you choose your own death, and will be subject to a death at either my, or my successor's, discretion. This is the record of six of my most extraordinary Turks. They came from another world, a world where Final Fantasy 7 is owned by Square Enix but this is their story and theirs alone. For the sake of the future I left a record of their adventures locked deep in the Turk Archives but only if the fate of the world is threatened should this file be opened. You have been warned. Read at your own risk.

-Tseng Akira, Director of the General Affairs Department, Shinra Electric Power Company

Chapter 13: Why is it always Wutai?

Ryu stood by the small chopper waiting for her passengers to show up.

"Relax." Reno told her as he walked by, a small bag thrown over his shoulder. Ryu smiled uneasily.

"First solo flight." She muttered, "Nerve wracking." Reno grinned over his shoulder.

"You'll do fine." Morgan and Matti walked by him, heading toward Ryu. Matti was dressed casually, with a small duffel bag in his hand. Morgan was dressed like Ryu in the Turk uniform, and was carrying a metal brief case. The rest of their supplies were already loaded into the chopper.

"Welcome to Shinra Air." Ryu said plastering a fake grin on her face. Morgan scowled at her. He was not a morning person. Matti looked as if he contemplated murdering her. He wasn't a morning person either. Mary was really the only reasonable one in the mornings.

"Well if you'll get aboard we can get this party started." She continued brightly before she stepped into the cockpit and firmly closed the door. She leaned forward to start the engine as they climbed in.

"Why are you flying this thing?" Matti called.

"Because everyone else is busy." Ryu replied with a snap. She pulled her goggles down firmly over her eyes.

"Now if everyone has fastened their seatbelts, we can get going." She called back to them, without listening for any answer. She was glad it was the small chopper she was flying.

Morgan came up front and sat in the co-pilot's seat.

"In case you need help." He said. Ryu nodded and took the chopper up.

"Pretty exhilarating." Matti noted from where he stood in the entrance. Ryu grinned.

"It's a long flight to Wutai Matti, you might want to sit." She said.

"Are you going to be okay?" Morgan asked. Ryu's grin dimmed a little, but did not fade completely.

"No probs, I was co-pilot when I came back from Wutai, and I've got an energy drink and some coffee stashed somewhere. And I plan to buy chocolate while we're in Wutai." Morgan laughed.

"You didn't get any last time?" He asked surprised. Ryu shook her head.

"Sadly I had no time to..." She said looking woe begone.

"How long is it until we get to Wutai?" Matti asked. His dark blonde hair was pulled back into a small ponytail at the base of his neck.

"Hours." Ryu replied. Matti groaned.

"And there's nothing to do." He muttered. Ryu grinned and pointed to the bag between the two seats, "There are a couple of logic puzzles in there. I packed them just for you." She told him, in a mockingly sweet voice. Matti carefully fished around in the bag and pulled them out. He happily sat on the floor and worked on them.

"Easily amused." She muttered.

"Hey!" He protested.

"Well you are." Morgan pointed out. "But then again so am I." He added. Ryu snorted in laughter.
"Not just easily, but ridiculously easily." She corrected. "Somebody want to hand me my coffee?" She asked, plaintively.
"How are you so awake this early?" Matti asked her as Morgan fished around in the bag for the thermos. He'd asked her this before. She'd get up early to run with Alanna and be so bright and cheerful, that even Alanna who'd asked her to get up and help her, wanted to murder her. Ryuko knew this and did it on purpose.
"Just to annoy you Matti." She told him as she took the cup Morgan handed her. She took a sip and smiled.
"Ahhh nothing like a good cup of a coffee in the morning." She said. Matti scowled.
"Don't rub it in." Matti growled at her as he reached for the thermos. Morgan seeing it held the thermos out of reach.
"Nope. You aren't flying this thing." He told him. He opened the lid and peeked inside he wrinkled his nose in distaste.
"She doctored it anyways. Looks like there's cream and sugar in it already." Morgan told him. Matti sighed as he made a displeased face.
"Why didn't you have a cup of the pot I made this morning? I made it because I knew you'd need it." Ryu asked. Matti rubbed his forehead.
"Angeal and Genesis had already finished the pot." He admitted. Ryu made a face in sympathy.
"I should have left a note out, huh?" She said. Matti shrugged.
"The thought was nice." Ryu noted that Morgan was rooting around in her bag.
"What are you looking for?" She asked him. Morgan pulled the bag into his lap to dig through it.
"If you brought something for Matti to do, what did you bring for me?" He asked her. Ryu laughed.
"What am I Santa Claus?"
"No just the packer of fun things, clearly." Matti told her. Ryu rolled her eyes.
"There's what's left of my sudoku book and a notebook in there." She told Morgan. She glanced at Matti.
"You gonna be alright in Wutai?" Matti shrugged.
"You've been there before, what's it like?" Ryu shrugged.
"I didn't see much. I laid out on a rooftop for a day. If you know anything about feudal Japan it will help you. And remember most inner walls are rice paper and bamboo. You can rip through it easily, but you can't bounce off the walls."
"Speaking from experience?" Morgan asked, amused. He knew she was. She'd told them all the story of her encounter with the newest Turk. She grinned.
"Maybe I am." She reached over and pinched his leg just above his knee. Morgan pushed her hand away.
"Both hands on the wheel." He growled, teasing her. Ryu blew him a raspberry.
"There is no wheel here, just a joystick" She pointed out.
"Both hands on the joystick please." Matti muttered, "It's a long fall." He made a face as he realized what he said. Morgan traded a glance with Ryu they both knew what Matti was trying not to say.
"Happy? Both hands are on the joystick." She said as she wrapped both hands around the joystick. Matti's face flamed redder. Morgan slapped his palm against his forehead.
"Please stop." Morgan asked her slightly embarrassed by the direction this was going.
"Matti started it." She said trying, and failing, to look innocent.
"And you're handing it right to him." Morgan protested.
"True." She admitted she reached over and patted his knee.
"Better?" She asked. Morgan nodded his head.
"Only slightly."
"Then you're doing it wrong." Matti choked out around his laughter.
"Shut up man." Morgan muttered.
"Sooooo glad 'Lanna isn't here. She'd jump all over this." Ryu muttered as well.
"Oh what would she say?" Matti asked. Ryu shook her head.
"Go to sleep ponytail." She told him. Self-consciously, Matti raised a hand to the ponytail he'd been forced to grow out before he turned back to his puzzles. Ryu laughed softly before she focused solely on flying.

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"It's really simple, you're only supposed to watch me fight the monster. You don't have to interfere." Cloud explained to Piper as they stood by the fence leading to the field that the monster terrorized. Piper nodded her head. Cloud shrugged and vaulted over the fence and headed into the field.

"He'll be fine, he's a first class SOLDIER." Reno said as he sat on the fence, a cup of coffee in one hand. Piper looked up at him.

"I am not worried about him, much." Piper said.

"Oh? Cuz your face says you are." Reno told her. Piper grinned wistfully.

"I am actually worried about Matti." She told him. Reno nodded his head understanding.

"He'll be fine, Tseng never sends a Turk on a mission they can't handle." Reno told her. Piper shrugged.

"What if he meets something he can't handle? Something unplanned for?"

"There are two other Turks there collecting information already. They'll rendezvous briefly with him so they'll all know each other, and then if someone gets in trouble they just signal for help." Reno told her. Piper sighed.

"I know there's back up but why does it have to be Matti?" She asked plaintively. Reno shrugged.

"That's a Turk's life, we're dedicated to our jobs and we do whatever is asked of us." Piper sighed again.

"I know that too. Ryu's already killed for Shinra." She pointed out. Reno looked out over the field, falling silent. The last thing he wanted to think about was his sis having to kill like that. Cloud was sitting semi-patiently in the field waiting for the monster. They could just make out the tapping of his fingers on his knees as he sat crossed legged in the long grass.

"He almost blends in." Piper commented. Reno nodded his head.

"I think that was the point." He suddenly cocked his head to the side and lifted his free hand to his ear. He hopped off the fence and walked away from her.

Piper leaned against the fence and propped her chin up on her crossed arms.

"Boring..." She muttered under her breath. She watched surprised as a chocobo walked up to Cloud and started to nudge at him with its beak. Startled Cloud got up and tried to move. The chocobo herded him with light pecks and body blocks to its nest. Cloud realized what the mother wanted and tried to get away.

She caught the back of his shirt and pulled him back into the nest and sat on him. Piper stared horrified.

What do I do? She thought, panicked, as Cloud struggled weakly, he didn't want to hurt the chocobo. Piper turned to ask Reno and saw him laughing taking pictures of the incident. He clearly wasn't going to help. She pulled her PHS out and dialed.

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"Hello?" Sephiroth answered his PHS. He was sitting in his office working on the mountain of paperwork that he always had. Any distraction was something.

"Sephiroth?" Piper said over the phone. Seph frowned. What could possibly cause Piper to call him?

"There's a mother chocobo sitting on Cloud, and Reno and Rude won't do anything. What should I do?" She asked worried. Seph rubbed his forehead before he took a long swallow of his energy drink. He could feel a headache forming.

"I don't know... bark at it?" He suggested, unsure what to tell her.

"Uh... ok." Piper said before she hung up. Seph sighed and buried his head in his arms. He suddenly felt a lot like how Tseng must feel.

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Piper closed her PHS and carefully tucked it away. She reached up and touched the hilt of her shortened buster, Jr. Matti had told her that made it a baby buster sword. With a sigh she hopped over the fence and headed over to the mother chocobo. The chcocbo lifted her head from preening Cloud, who was pinned under her.

Piper cleared her throat and growled at the chocobo, who flattened her feathers, unsure of the danger. Piper yipped repeatedly and loudly as she charged toward the chocobo. Startled the mother chocobo leapt to her feet and ran away. Cloud leaped from the nest and brushed himself off.

"Thanks." He muttered.

"I didn't think that would work." Piper admitted. Cloud shrugged.

"I am glad it did." he told her. He looked up as a Redcap bounded towards them, the mother chocobo fleeing before it. Cloud pushed her forward.

"Catch her." he ordered her as he pulled First Tsuregi free and charged the monster. Piper ran toward the chocobo intending to catch her around the neck and slow her down.

Instead, Piper found herself on top of the chocobo's back, hanging on for dear life. In the blur the speed of the chocobo created, Piper saw Cloud cut down the monster easily.

"I need an adult, HELP!" She yelled. Startled Cloud turned and watched, dumbfounded by the scene of little Piper going for a ride on the chocobo.

"You are an adult." He called to her, unable to come up with a better answer.

"I need a full sized adult." She called back. Cloud shook his head looking for Reno. He was perched on the fence, camera in hand, videotaping the incident, as he was doubled over laughing.

"The only full sized adult here is Rude." Cloud called back to her.

Rude was sitting in the chopper, his hand over his eyes, trying desperately to block out the scene before him.

"Well do something." Piper called.

"If I get close to her she'll think I am her chick and the barking trick might not work, just jump off her back and tumble. You'll be fine." Cloud told her. Piper swallowed and shook her head.

"I can't." She admitted. Cloud glanced over at Reno, he'd sobered and actually put the camera away and was coming towards him, his EMR slung casually over his shoulders.

"Seems like you need a little help from a Turk." He said. Cloud grinned.

"If you can get her off the chocobo, then yes, I need some help. If not, go away and get Rude, or the owner of the farm." Reno nodded his head, and took off cutting an angle so that he intercepted the chocobo, his EMR lightly tapping her side and shocking her into unconsciousness. As the bird pitched forward Reno caught Piper as she was launched forward and swung her to the ground.

"Not a challenge." He said. Piper clung to his arm until her vision stopped spinning. Cloud ran over to the two of them.

"She'll be alright?" He asked. Reno nodded his head and pointed to the mother Chocobo,

"She'll sleep it off," he nodded to Piper, "She'll probably talk it off." Cloud nodded his head.

"Let's go home." he said relieved. Reno chuckled.

"Come on chick, let's go before momma gets worried." Reno said as Cloud scowled at him he made a passable, warking, sound. Cloud narrowed his eyes and took a step forward towards him. Reno shrugged.

"Come at me, yo. You need me to get you home." He said cockily. Cloud sighed.

"So true, but I am kicking your ass in the VR room for this." He threatened. Reno laughed.

"Welcome to try any day, SOLDIER." He said cockily.

"Turks." Cloud muttered under his breath.

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Ryu glanced over at Morgan, he was curled up fast asleep in the co-pilot's seat. Matti appeared to be sleeping curled up on the floor. She smiled and shook her head as she reached for her second cup of coffee.

So glad I inherited an iron bladder from someone in the family. She thought to herself. She blinked repeatedly and lifted a hand to rub her eyes. She bit back her yawn. Even when they landed in Wutai there would be no rest for her.

Finally the landing spot appeared before her. Ryu smiled grimly as she set the chopper down in the small clearing.

"Wake up sleeping beauties, we're here." She said cheerfully, reaching down and over to flick both of their ears. Wincing they both woke up and scowled at her.

"We're here." She reiterated to them around a yawn. Morgan eyed her.

"You sure you're up to this?" He asked her, "Maybe you should stay and nap." She shook her head.

"Tseng said it would need two to finish." She said as she stood. She nudged Matti with her foot.

"Move, you're in the way." She told him. Matti shifted so that she could walk around him. She did just that, while heading to the back of the chopper. Matti stood and headed over to his duffel bag. He picked it up and turned to watch as Morgan pulled down several crates from the strapping in the overhead compartment.

"What exactly are you two doing?" He asked as Ryu emerged from the back half of the chopper, the silver case in her hands. Both of them shrugged and made noncommittal sounds. Ryu turned and pulled a duffel bag out from under a seat.

She hoisted it over her shoulder and carefully held the case in her arms. Morgan was unpacking the crates quickly, laying out the blocks of gray play-doh like material.

"Uh-oh" Matti said recognizing the C4. Morgan grinned.

"We're your distraction; any rebels will know a Shinra chopper landed, even way out here. So while you insert, we're blowing something up to make it look like that was the point of the chopper coming here." Morgan explained as he packed the C4 in another duffel bag.

"What exactly are you blowing up?" Matti asked. Ryu grinned.

"You'll find out tonight on the news. Better that you not know what's going on right now." Matti nodded his head and sighed as he pinched the bridge of his nose. Morgan looked thrilled at the prospect of the mission to come and Ryu looked tired. Not exhausted but tired, like running on two cups of coffee and under eight hours of sleep, spent the last several hours singing to yourself as you single handedly fly a chopper kind of tired.

"Are you even cleared for this kind of mission Ryu?" He asked, he knew better than most of the others what kinds of training was needed before you were cleared for different missions. Matti had thought Ryu was cleared for flight, and city missions, and minor undercover, not explosive missions. She shrugged.

"Tseng said I was part of this mission, so he's the boss I just do what I am told." Morgan snorted.

"I call shenanigans." He retorted. Ryu grinned.

"I do trust Tseng to know what he is doing most of the time." She said.

"You weren't very happy with him last time you were here." Matti pointed out.

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Piper stepped out of the bathroom to find Alanna and Mary sitting on the bed. They waited patiently as she walked over to join them.

"So, are you okay with Matti being gone?" Mary asked getting right to the point. Piper shrugged and sat between the two of them.

"I don't have much of a say in it. And he seemed thrilled at the thought of getting sent to do spy work." She said hugging her Cloud plushie. Alanna frowned and rested her arm around her shoulders.

"That's not what we asked." She pointed out. Piper shrugged.

"No, I wish he was here and not over there. But I just have to get through these few months, and then he'll be back." Piper said chewing on her lip. Mary and Alanna traded a look over Piper's head, silently agreeing to keep her busy until Matti got back.

"Come on we have something to prepare before Ryu and Morgan get back." Alanna said pulling Piper to her feet. Mary stood and followed them. As they left Piper's room, Genesis grabbed Alanna's arm.

"A word?" He asked softly. Alanna nodded and waved at Mary and Piper to go on.

"What?" She asked propping her fists on her hips to hide to butterflies he was giving her. He rarely spoke to her alone. He pushed his auburn hair out of his eyes and handed her the package he had been holding.

"You are to be congratulated, I expect to see you properly attired at our next training session." He told her, as she opened the package to find a blue 2nd's uniform inside. She looked up at him holding it close.

"Which is when? You haven't been training me yourself since the accident." Genesis took a deep breath. Accident so did not cover what had happened.

"Tomorrow." He told her, cautiously. Alanna squealed, delighted, and forgetting who he was, hugged him.

"Thank you Genesis." She said before she fled, her cheeks bright red. Genesis stared after her bemused, slightly red faced, and grinning a little.

Well that's something to tell Ryu about… I can't believe I hugged him… Alanna thought to herself, surprised by her own daring. Oh My God… she realized I HUGGED Genesis, my mentor, my other half, my crush… Alanna tried to pull herself together before she put on a big grin of delight to show Mary and Piper her new uniform.

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Reno sat at his desk in his cubicle, his laptop open on his lap, his report half written. He sighed and tipped his head back and stared blankly at the ceiling.

"You worry too much about her." Rude said quietly from his doorway. Reno turned his head to look at his partner.

"Aren't I supposed to? She's my sister and this is her first solo flight, she isn't even certified yet." Rude leaned against the doorway.

"She'd scold you for worrying." He pointed out, still speaking quietly. Reno sighed, blowing his bangs out of his eyes.

"I can't help it, yo; did you read their mission while over there?" Rude shrugged noncommittally. Reno scowled.

"You did, I know you did, you always know what everyone is doing." Rude shrugged again. Reno sighed again and tipped his chair forward, setting his laptop on the desk.

"If you're that worried, you could just listen to the automatic updates from her A.I." Rude reminded him.

"I know, I know." Reno said his worried scowl still on his face.

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Ryu stayed half a step behind Morgan as they walk through the busy streets. They were dressed as Turks to draw attention to themselves. Everyone gave them wider than normal berths because Shinra was both feared and hated in Wutai. Feared because of what they might do if angered. Hated because of what had happened during the Wutai War.

"Do you feel like at any minute they're going to start throwing tomatoes?" She asked quietly. Morgan curtly nodded his head. Ryu kept her short tempered sigh to herself and struggled to keep up with him much longer stride.

She cast a brief glance around, thinking how, if this was back on Earth, they wouldn't be packing C4 through the streets. No, the whole group would probably be on vacation, and everyone would be laughing and joking. And Ryu and Alanna would be oogling all the Eastern styled pieces. She made a mental note to grab Alanna some nice chopsticks while they were here, along with the chocolate. Morgan slowed and pointed to a vendor.

"Why don't you buy your chocolate now, before we get to business?" He suggested. Ryu nodded her head and trotted over to the vendor. He gave her an odd look, but when she politely asked for a couple bars of chocolate, and also pointed to a pair of chopsticks painted beautifully with bamboo leaves on a pale blue background, he smiled slightly as realized her intent to buy.

When he gave her the purchases, Ryu took them and bowed, thanking him. He looked even more startled. Ryu slipped her purchases into the bag that she carried on her back. She turned and trotted back to Morgan.

"Ready?" He asked. Ryu nodded her head and set her jaw. Their target was a famous monument of a Wutai rebel. A shrine, to be precise.

Morgan led the way to the shrine just on the other side of the town. They'd purposely walked through the town so everyone would be talking about the Turks, and not the stranger in another town that showed up during a festival.

Ryu looked up the small hill to the shrine. It looked like any other Wutainese shrine. In fact she'd seen a much smaller version in the compound she'd destroyed.

Their main problem was the two guards flanking the top of the steps.

"Do we shoot them from here, sneak up on them, or try to get past them?" Ryu asked Morgan. Morgan frowned in thought. He eyed the wall; it was covered in thick thorny vines.

"I'd try to go over the wall, but those vines look troublesome." He said, thinking out loud. Ryu snorted.

"Those were the same vines I had to go over to get into the compound on my last mission." She told him. Morgan nodded his head.

"We'll sneak around to the back, you'll go over the wall taking the supplies with you, I'll go through the front gate," Ryu opened her mouth to object. Morgan silenced her with a finger over her mouth. Huffing Ryu shut her mouth and waited for him to finish.

"I'll take out the guards if I have to, but I want people to see us so they'll leave the shrine in fear, we aren't here to kill people; just destroy the shrine." He said. Ryu nodded her head.

"Once I am in I'll meet you to help lay the charges." Ryu nodded her head, turned, and walked down a side street.

They threaded their way through the side streets until they found an alley that lead out to the back side of the hill.

Ryu approached the wall, eyeballing it critically. It was shorter than the previous one she'd had to climb, but the vines were denser. She pulled out her gloves and slipped them on as she flexed her fingers.

"You're going to have to throw the bags up to me." She told Morgan. He nodded his head.

"Let's make this quick." Ryu nodded and grabbed her first finger hold and started to climb. Morgan kept an eye out for people who might see them; they weren't nearly as concealed as he'd like them to be, and Ryu was climbing slower then he'd have liked.

"Can you go faster?" He hissed. Ryu glanced down at him; she was about half way up the wall.

"You want to do this? It's harder than it looks." She offered. Morgan shook his head.

"Sorry." Ryu gave a soft snort and continued up the wall. When she reached the top she balanced precariously on the thin lip.

"'Kay, throw me the bags, carefully." She called down to him. Morgan hefted the first bag and threw it up to her. Ryu caught it, her balance making her sway dangerously from side to side. She steadied herself and lowered the bag down the inside of the wall, to land gently in the dirt. They repeated it with the other duffel and then Ryu dropped down the inside wall. Morgan threaded his way back through the streets to the entrance of the shrine, while Ryu headed toward the entrance to meet him. The people that saw either of them paled, particularly if they saw Ryu carrying two black, ominous looking duffel bags. They met outside the actual entrance to the shrine. Ryu handed him one duffel bag and then calmly the two of them split and walked the perimeter of the shrine. The guards, seeing Morgan pull out some kind explosive from his bag, rushed forward shouting. Ryu calmly reached to the small of her back and pulled out a hand gun. She aimed at the lead guard and shot him in the knee. She aimed her gun at the second guard as he slowed to a stop as his partner fell to the ground screaming.

"We aren't here to kill, leave and take him with you, or stay here and die." She said slowly in Wutainese as Morgan continued to lay charges. Ryu's part in the mission wasn't to lay charges but to protect Morgan while he laid the charges. The guard scowled and took a half step forward.

"I warned you." Ryu said in common as she calmly took out both guards.

"Damn." Morgan swore as the guard hit the ground. She turned and gave him a confused look.

"I was hoping you wouldn't have to do that." Ryu shrugged and tucked her gun away; the remaining people were fleeing except for one old man. A priest Ryu guessed by his dress.

"Shit." She swore under her breath redrawing her gun and aiming it at him.

"Leave." She ordered him gesturing to the entrance. The old man shook his head. Morgan glanced at her worried. Ryu shook her head.

"Why do you do this?" he asked her in common. Ryu tilted her head to the side.

"Because it's our job." She said calmly. He shook his head.

"Do you have no soul, no conscience?"He asked both of them. Morgan continued as if the old man didn't even exist. Ryu shrugged.

"Some things have to be sacrificed so that the best possible option for all can be taken." Ryu said.

"This is not what is best for all; this is what is best for Shinra and no one else." The priest protested fiercely. Ryu shook her head.

"We didn't come here to argue, nor to kill, only to deliver a message. Don't rebel. It will only end in more dead for your people." Ryu said. He bowed his head.

"Sometimes people must die to uphold their ideals, their beliefs. Sometimes what is best is not what people need." he said. Ryu swore again.

"Either leave or die with the guards. That is your choice." She snapped. Morgan calmly dropped the empty duffel bag and drew his own hand gun.

A shot rang out and the old man dropped to the ground, blood seeping through his clothes, from the hole in his chest. Morgan casually turned and shot the injured guard as well.

"I had it covered." Ryu snapped. Morgan shrugged as he re-holstered his gun.

"I know, but there's no need for you to carry all the kills." He told her quietly, before he took the second bag and went back to laying out charges. Ryu shook her head.

"I am going to sweep the grounds, make sure there's no one hiding." Ryu said before she turned and trotted off.

Ryu swept all the buildings, freeing a tied up dog and cat locked in a room. Once both were clear she trotted back to Morgan who was checking his work.

"I hear people approaching," he said. Ryu nodded.

"Let's go over the back wall so we don't meet them and blow it once we're clear." She suggested. Morgan nodded and threw the empty duffel bags over one of the charges. Ryu settled her bag on her back more firmly.

They raced to the back wall, Ryu taking a running leap and grabbing a hand hold higher up the wall, and scrambling up it like a monkey.

"I knew you could climb faster." Morgan said, as he followed her, a little bit slower. Ryu blew a raspberry.

"It's easier when there are no thorns in the way." She said as she gained to top of the wall and waited for him. Once they were both on top of the wall, Ryu launched herself forward and off the wall. She landed and let her body tumble forward down the hill in a controlled roll.

Morgan sighed and jumped of the wall, tucking into a ball as he landed and following her example of tumbling down the hill. At the bottom they rolled to stop and headed into the town.

"How far away do we have to be? I don't want to blow it while there are people in it." Ryu said after they had run for a while. Morgan glanced over his shoulder and slowed to a stop.

"Here should be good." He decided and pulled the detonator out of his pocket. Ryu nodded her head and eyed the buildings around them, she ran over to one, shimmied up the building, and climbed onto the roof.

"Hurry, they're at the entrance of the gates." She called to him. Morgan nodded his head and hit the button as Ryu jumped off the roof and tumbled to break her fall as the shrine blew.

The ground shook with the force of the explosion, and Morgan, who was still standing, was thrown forward over Ryu with the force of the blast.

When the blast faded Morgan lifted his face from her shoulder and climbed to his feet. He offered a hand to Ryu, who took it gladly and let him pull her to her feet.

"Wow." She said grinning. Morgan nodded to the roof. Ryu scampered back up it. Ryu let the zoom in her goggles focus in on the wreckage. The explosives had taken out the wall as well. She watched as the survivors picked through the rubble looking for their comrades. She climbed down.

"Let's make like trees and leaf." She said walking away quickly. Morgan followed her.

"Did they make it?" he asked.

"Some." Ryu told him. Morgan nodded his head and pushed his sunglasses further up the bridge of his nose.

"Let's go home." He told her. Ryu nodded her head.

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A/N: A little longer than the last one. Still hoping to get the chapters longer for all of you lovely readers! We would love to hear what you all think of the story. Also, don't mind the new disclaimer too much. We got bored with the old one and asked Matti to make it better. This is what we got. Lol.