A/N alright guys we have our votes and i think i did well enough on this chap. Also I want to notify people i am looking for a beta reader since one of my major problems is my spelling in here. I was told nicely by one of my reviewers that I need to work on that so anyone up for helping me with this would be appreciated.

so now without anything else the chappa that had two polls.

Ch 15

Its the greatest thing I have ever seen. The lights...the cheering...the loud obnoxious music only a theme park would play.

The Gold Saucer was now hands down my favorite place ever. The lift ride just couldn't go fast enough for me to contain my excitement.

"WOW look at all the lights!" Yuffie was in the same state I was in. She was bouncing all over the trolly though.

"It looks amazing!" Aeris was gazing out into one of the tree like bulbs of the structure. Tifa was looking out with Aeris. Cloud and Red seemed impassive, and Barret sat by himself staring at the ground, obviously irritated about what was going on.

"We're not here to play, we are looking around for Sephiroth." Cloud announced. However it didn't deter me from thinking about all the things I could do here...until I get arrested that is...come to think of it how long did it take before everyone got blamed for Dynes actions? In the game it took a very short time if Cloud went straight for Cait Sith and then to the battle plaza. But looking at how huge this place is I'm not even sure that will happen withing the week.

The trolly came to a halt and everyone exited. I looked at the huge moogle head and then around the area to see a man walking around in a fat Chocobo costume and then the attendant at the front entrance waving to us enthusiastically.

"Welcome to the Gold Saucer, are you all together?" Cloud nodded his head.

"Oh good, our group rate is 3000 gil for all of you to be here for a day, but you can purchase a lifetime pas for 30,000 if you like." Half the groups jaw dropped at the latter mentioned price. I however did the math and since this was probably another group deal then...okay divide by 2.5...then 7...That's like 1700 bucks per person! Holy shit that's high! But considering this place I could believe that.

"Alright everyone lets see how much we have." Cloud said. Pooling all of our travel as well as personal spending money we kept it came out to 4152 gil. I still shuddered at seeing these guys pick coins and bills out of monsters like it was an everyday occurrence. Cloud gave her the 3000 and split the rest between everyone as equal as possible.

"Thank you very much." She handed everyone some temporary pass cards.

"Now if you leave Gold Saucer your tickets will become invalid. Now here at the Gold Saucer, there are many places where you must pay with GP, just think of it as money you only use here. But it can only be redeemed at Wonder Square or the Chocobo races, your limit is 10,000, please enjoy yourselves. We all went through the entrance and came up too the beginning area. Aeris was jumping for joy.

"Wow lets have fun!" Cloud looked at her before she turned. "I know this isn't the right time to do this, but we deserve to relax today." She went up to Barret and tried to lighten him up only for him to stomp away.

"Hey Barret cheer up."

"...I ain't in no cheery mood. Just leave me alone."

"Suit yourself." Aeris ran up to Cloud pulling on his shoulder. Tifa went up and whispered pointing at Barret about how harsh she was acting. Aeris just brushed it off and ran back to the large man.

"We're going to go play." Barret turned and basically exploded right in her face.

"SO PLAY! Messing around and shit! Don't forget we're after Sephiroth!" He then ran off and jumped down the wonder Square slide or tube thing.

"I think he's mad." I face palmed.

"He'll be fine, he seems to be doing a little better now." Tifa said.

"Yes because exploding is way better than not talking." I chimed.

"Just let him blow off some steam, he'll be fine." Cloud said looking around the colorful room

"Alright, I guess we can take a short break while we look for some clues. Stay in touch until then." Cloud went to the haunted hotel tube with Aeris close behind.

"I wonder what this place has?" Tifa said. I walked over to the wonder Square tube and looked down, seeing nothing but a dark tunnel.

"I don't know about you guys but I'm going to play some games, maybe win me some prizes, later" I waved and fell backward into the slide, feeling the rush of wind as I was shoot through what seemed like a frictionless surface, then after around a minute I landed on a soft pad and looked up to see another attendant who was next to a line of tubes.

"Welcome, where would you like to go?" I shrugged when she pointed at a map next to her. Looking at it I found that the wonder Square actually had multiple gaming stations. It made sense considering the place was to big for the bunch of small areas in the game.

"I'll go to the main attraction room in Wonder Square" She pointed to the first tube on her left. I got in and she pulled a lever, I was sucked up and sped through another tunnel until I shot out and found myself at the wonder Square from the game. I hunched over and tried to get my bearings, I wasn't expecting to be shot around like a piece of mail. Looking around I immediately spotted a cat on top of a large stuffed moogle and ran to the nearest pillar to hide behind.

"Just my luck, he's here before we are." I mumbled and looked back. I saw him talking to people saying he could tell their fortunes. I was tempted to get mine told but I really didn't want to be the one to have Cait Sith tag along with, he is Reeve...in a way. Actually I never understood that, Reeve controls Cait with his own special power. Yet Cait has his own personality, hell he has Scottish accent and last I heard Reeve he sounded like a regular businessman. Right when the cat looked to another potential victim of his vague fortunes ran for the arcade, jumping onto a ladder leading to the higher platform and slowly hugging the wall making sure the cat couldn't see me. When I was inside the first arcade room I looked around, the sounds of buttons being pressed and the buzzes from the machines. Going deeper I found the room I was looking for. I went to the back and started playing Mog House.

Honestly it was the easiest game in this whole place, feed the thing a nut and get him to fly. At least that's how it was before I was in the game. Now apparently there was more to it. You had to impute multiple buttons in the right order to make him fly, he had about four different reactions to eating nuts compared to his two "I want more" and the "I'm full." The extra was him getting sleepy which made it so you had to wake him up and another where he was hungry but didn't want to eat so you had to play a mini-game to force him to eat it. It took me a full fifteen minutes to beat the game because of the new stuff and the fact I had this feeling I was being watched. Finally I won the game when I heard a guy cheer behind me. I looked at it was some nerd.

"That was great! You beat the game on your first try! I could never pull that off!" I sweat-dropped. Seeing this guy this into the game in real life is kind of embarrassing. "Thanks." I said. He reached into his pocket and pulled out some gold coins.

"Here, you did really good." I took the thirty gp coins and pocketed them. I left the arcade and looked to see Cait Sith was nowhere to be found. So I hoped into the speed Square tube and chose the main attraction location. I eventually came out of a tunnel to see Tifa.

"Yo!" I waved.

"Nathan, have you seen Barret?" I shook my head. She sighed.

"Hey he'll take care of himself, he's a big guy."
"I know but he at least needs someone to keep him out of trouble. Didn't you notice him in Wonder Square?"
"No, I went to the main attraction rooms, he must have gone to the smaller stuff." She started rubbing her forehead.

"Just let him have time to himself Tifa, he came to a place that blames him for its destruction, hell he even blames himself. He needs time Tifa, everyone has their skeletons."
"Okay I get it." She conceited. I walked off to the long tunnel.

"Where are you going?"
"I'm going to see whats so awesome about this laser coaster thing."
"But you need gp." I help up a handful of coins.

"Where did you get those."
"The way I always hoped to get money easy, playing games. Later Teef." I waved and walked down the tunnel. Coming out I saw the line completely empty and walked up to one of the attendants.

"Hey I want to ride this."
"That will be five gp sir." I gave him the coins.

"Alright, the laser controls will be right in front of you, their easy too. Just shoot it like you would a regular gun. Enjoy yourself, and if you make it on to the high score board you get a prize, now I need you to leave your weapon and materia here, safety precautions you see." I nodded and gave him Fusion. and got into the first passenger seat. I strapped on the metal thing over my head until it clicked and held my waist down.

"Alright have a nice...oh you want on to, sir do you mind if someone else gets on?" I tried to look over but the seat blocked my view and the place holder made it so my neck couldn't twist well.

"Sure. I could use an extra set of hands to get on the board." I heard a few clicks behind me and the coaster started up. I held onto the turret in front of me ready to aim. When we exited the dark tunnel I was looking at everything in awe. The welcome sign had fireworks explode behind it and looking out the side of the coaster I saw the animated rocks as well as ghost and planes. I held onto the gun and aimed at my first ghost. Pulling the trigger I saw a blue light come out the gun and the ghost explode into pixels, my school appearing on the dashboard.

"This is so cool!" I started shooting ghosts left and right, however I didn't take into account that I was on a roller coaster at the same time. So at times I would feel the G forces tugging at my face while I would try to hit something. Lucky for me the extra person helped at these times and nail almost every ghost, plane, rocket, or any other moving object. I remembered the extra stuff like the giant icicles or the cacti so I would focus on them for extra points. After a few minutes it got to the end with the giant UFO just flying around.

I yelled to the guy just to tap the trigger to hit it with as much laser as possible. Although me and the guy were doing that we didn't have enough time to take down the giant flying saucer and were shot past the big flying ship and into the stopping point. I looked down at the counter and saw we had 3580 points. It was decent, at least I would get a prize. The attendant came and unbuckled my bar and I jumped out and stretched.

"Hey dude you did good, but can I get the prize? I really want that..." My eyes bugged out when I saw the man in front of me.

"Sure you can have the prize yo."

ATE

Cloud was starting to think he had a magnet for strange people to follow him. Tifa and Barret were normal but he had Nathan, then Red, Yuffie, and now a giant stuffed moogle following him. Meeting Cait Sith was a little odd, after all what kind of fortune teller follows you just to see what his fortune was. Then again it was a little cryptic. He even tried to tell the talking cat about how they were being pursued by Shinra, and the thing just brushed it off and said he could defend himself.

"So where are we going?" Ask the cat in a very thick accent Cloud couldn't seem to place.

"I think we should look for Barret, we can't find anything about Sephiroth, so we need to move on."
"Well then where should we look?" Aeris asked. "Lets look in battle Square, we haven't checked there yet." All of them went through the tubes and were eventually directed to a few tunnels. When they arrived the first thing Cloud noticed was a Shinra guard posted in front of the entrance fall.

"What!" Cloud ran up to the body and checked his pulse. "Dead."

"What! Why?" Aeris asked. Cloud looked at the body then the building. He sprinted for the top. Aeris soon followed along with Cait. Inside the Square was even worse that what happened to the MP outside. There were more body's and blood riddled most of the floor.

"Was this Sephiroth?" Cloud ran up to another body and his eyes widened.

"No...these are bullet wounds...all of them were shot, and Sephiroth would never use a gun. Clouds ears perked up when he heard someone groaning behind him. He looked and saw that the attendant behind the counter was just barely moving. He went and tried to hold her up, only to see the multiple bullet wounds she had.

"Hey, what happened?" Cloud asked. The woman struggled to answer him.

"A...m-man...with a g-gun...on his arm..." She let out a breath and fell limp onto the counter.

"It can't be!" Aeris said. Thinking exactly what Cloud was. Barret would never kill for no reason.

"Hold it right there and stay quiet" Cloud looked and saw the overly muscular man that he had talked to come into the area with some personnel with. He looked around at the body's until his eyes rested on Cloud.

"Did you do this?"
"No it wasn't use!" Cloud defended.

"Hurry and run! Its going to get ugly." Cait Sith made way for the arena. Cloud cursed under his breath when the cat and then Aeris ran off. Only to make his argument useless with Dio yelling for his men to get them. He followed the two until they were in the middle of the arena. Looking back he saw Dio.

"That's as far as you go."
"Wait listen to..." Cloud tried to say, that is until Cait Sith interrupted.

"Cloud..." He looked back and saw a large machine come into the room with sights on him. He turned and two more jumped into the arena.

"We didn't kill anyone! We just got here!" Aeris was trying to say. The machines coming closer.

"Take them to the prison." Dio ordered and walked off. Cloud was soon restrained by the machine. He couldn't reach for his sword, and even if he could he didn't want to hurt anyone innocent only to be convicted of another crime.

"Sir, there were more people in his group." Said one of the personnel.

"Find them and throw them in as well. This is more than a one man job." Clouds eyes widened as the order was given. The entire group was about to be thrown in prison for what they didn't do. However he couldn't do anything. He just stayed still as he was carried off.

"Sure you can have the prize yo." The red haired man said with my sword strapped to his back with a apologetic looking attendant next to him. I couldn't believe Reno was here. The only person that was part of Shinra here was supposed to be Cait.

"How bout you and me take a walk. And no funny business, you don't have your flaming glove, sword, or your materia. So if you know whats good for you you'll comply." I clenched my fist. He had me right where he wanted me. I nodded and went over to the prize counter, the worried attendant looking at me and the Turk.

"Let him have his prize, I ain't that cruel yo." The attendant went under the counter and seemed worried at giving me my prize. I realized why when she gave me a six foot long blade complete with sheath and display holder. I looked back and saw Reno's eyes widen and him pull out his stun rod. I took the sword from the display piece and tossed it to him. He caught it and looked at me.

"Show of good faith. Now what do you want." I said.

"Just to talk to you, nothing that will cause you or your group problems." He said with sincerity. I sighed and he made me start walking out of Speed Square. He pushed me through the tunnel making me take the tubes to Event Square, however when we went through multiple men showed up. "Hey what the hell is going on." Reno said.

"Sir, this man was with a group of people who murdered multiple attendants. Please step aside so we can apprehend him." Wait Dyne already came through? I thought it would take longer than that. I really didn't want to get thrown in though.

"Now just hold on I need to talk to this guy here." Reno argued.

"Sir, we don't want any trouble, just let us take him into custody and you go on your way." Reno grumbled and reached into his coat. He held up a card for the guards to see.

"This man being held by Shinra now, anyone that has a problem with that answers to the Turks, that good yo?" The main man took a look at the card and nodded his head before walking off with the rest of the group. Reno turned back to me.

"You guys can't keep yourself outta trouble can ya?" Reno snickered.

"Lets just get this over with, I have questions myself." Going into the tubes we were shot into one of the sub areas not in the game and ended up in a crowded food court kind of area. We kept walking until he made me sit down inside one restaurant in a corner booth, we away from prying ears. We sat down and a waitress came by but Reno waved her off saying he'd order later. I was glaring at him the entire time.

"What?"
"Why are you here?" I said.

"Oh come on, aren't you glad to see me." He joked. I didn't find it funny.

"Well you being here complicates a few things for the group." I said. Why is he here? He should be investigating somewhere else. This is not how everything is supposed to go.

"Calm down I already told ya I'm not going to cause anyone any problems, I just need to speak with you. This situation actually works out for me."
"How did you find us." I asked.

"I was sent with someone else." I thought about Cait Sith. But that doesn't explain why he was here. It wasn't something that was part of the game. This irritated me since I had little knowledge to go by. Then again his business is with me so my being here is what changed this. He reached into his suit pocket and pulled out a folded piece of paper. He handed it to me and I looked it over. I realized it was the employment form that I had given them back in Midgar. I raised an eyebrow.

"What do you want me to do with this."
"Finish it of course."

...

"Run that by me again." "Shinra is willing to over look your past crimes to give you a chance at starting a decent job in our offices." He said with a straight face. My jaw almost dropped at the offer. This was something that didn't make any sense. Why would they want me?

"Now what makes you think I would join you?" I asked defensively.

"We do offer a lot of cool stuff to people who really interest us, after all you have caught our attention." Reno said in a business like manor, though still slipping in his casual tone. I was shocked at this. I tried to process Shinra looking over everything I did to have me. Honestly what brought this on?

(A few days earlier. Junon Harbor )

"Who called it? I did, and I have bragging rights." Tseng sighed as he sat at his desk in Shinra's ocean side headquarters . He had hoped Reno would have just skimmed through the reports sent in. However when he noticed that they had priority over other reports he actually read in detail the ship incident. He had been bugging him for the last twenty minutes about it.

"Could we please stay on topic?" Tseng said. Covering his annoyance.

"Yeah yeah. What did you want yo?" Reno leaned back in his chair. "The president has recently decided to send in a spy to AVALANCHE, I hope you read that report?" "huh? A spy?" Tseng closed his eyes, of course everything else went out the window the minute other reports didn't have what he wanted.

"Your lucky you have secretary's, if you managed all of your reports the Turks would never have a second in command."
"Whats the point in reading about stuff that doesn't need my attention yo?" Reno said.

"To keep yourself informed so when something involving them happens and you get called on you know what is happening."
"Can we just get through this, I want to go get a drink and see the town." Tseng passed him a piece of paper.

"Unfortunately you won't be able to do that." Reno sat up and looked at the paper.

"This is that Nathan guys employment form."
"That's correct." Tseng said.

"Well what do you want me to do with this?"
"Get him to complete it of course." It took about a minute before Tseng's words sunk into Reno's head.

"This the prez's spy idea?" Tseng shook his head. "No. in fact I am a little skeptical Rufus' plan will work, it is almost too simple. Its to have Reeve's toy infiltrate as an ally and report back when ever possible." Reno looked like he was thinking about the situation.

"So what am I supposed to do?" He said sounding a little interested.

"We are sending you along with the doll, you are to make contact with Mr. River and try to convince him to agree to be an employee of Shinra."
"And that makes more sense?"
"Reno have you read the report on Mr. River?" Tseng asked. The red head rubbed the back of his head. Tseng sighed again.

"From what information we could gather, unlike his companions he has absolutely no connection to Shinra, positive or negative." Tseng paused to let his words work though Reno's head.
"None?" Tseng shook his head.

" Rufus believes he may be an old experiment of Hojo's much like Strife, considering his magic capability's that you had reported on as well as the security tapes from HQ, that isn't too far fetched, but the Science Departments doesn't have any files on him, it took Rufus a while before he even found Strife's records. But none the less, since he doesn't have any known connection or recollection of experimentation, and posses great scientific knowledge we could possibly bribe him into our hands."

"What gave you the idea to send me? I'm the one that's fought the kid." Reno argued.

"He hasn't shown to much hostility to you, and the encounters that have happened he acted rather light heated when you were mentioned." Tseng explained.

"Still doesn't explain why you would send me."
"Unlike Rude, myself, and Elena, he has a sense of familiarity with you, and even after the tower its been hard for the rest of us to not here about how much you want to get back at him." Reno looked down at the paper, then sighed.

"How long till I get sent in."

(end)

"Now look I know we've had some tough times between us but if you sign this it will all blow over." I looked at Reno in disbelief, for them t think this was even a good idea...they must not have thought Cait Sith would make it this time. I passed back the paper.

"It wouldn't blow over for everyone else." I said. Humoring their plan.

"If they are willing to stop tailing Seph, I'm sure Rufus can pull some strings so the public will forget about the tower incident, and the rest of the army will be off your backs."
"If I recall we actually saved a lot of people, aren't the accusations on them saying it was Shinra MPs that took it down?" I said. Reno grumbled.

"That may be dude, but its only a small amount to the rest of the city wanting AVALANCHES blood." He replied. I thought about my next set of questions.

"Why were you even given this mission?" I asked. Thinking through what scenarios led to this.

"The higher ups recognize how you could be a useful asset, considering you have a 'clean' record with us." I looked at him when he mentioned my record. He wasn't implying he knew that I didn't technically exist, but a clean record...what about everyone else? I thought for a minute before answering.

"By record you mean my past, as far as you guys know there haven't been any incidents that involve me, while everyone else in the group has had something happen do to Shinra's greed and politics."
"Your just to damn smart for your own good, you know that?" He grumbled.

"I wouldn't sign the rest of that paper no matter what you offer. Even if you offered me a seat with the executives and full protection with the worlds greatest pay." He looked at me a little irritated before signing and taking back the paper.

"I told Tseng this was a dumb idea." He stood up.

"So what are you going to do to me?" I asked. He shrugged.

"Tseng was confident that his plan would work better than that dumb doll. He is not gunna like this. My orders are to let you go, but the next time we meet I wont hesitate to beat your ass, though that may be a while..." He threatened. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding, then smiled.

"I highly doubt that, you guys will just follow us around after all." He looked at me funny.

"What do you mean?"
"I know more than you could imagine Reno, now while you will be getting information it will be futile eventually." I got up and took my stuff back.

"Now if you'll excuse me I have to help my friends out of jail. If everything goes good then it should be only one Chocobo race for Cloud, unless I messed up again." I muttered out loud.

"What are you taking about." I started walking off.

"Rambling, until next time Reno." I left the area and told one of the attendants about my situation. I was guided by them until I came up to Dio in his main office in an employees only section of the huge building.

"Isn't this the kid who was under Shinra's arms?" He asked. I walked up front.

"I just had business with them, however you got this all wrong, my friends are innocent." I pleaded.

"And why should I trust you." He asked.

"Listen they would never hurt innocent people. I know about the jail under Gold Saucer. Isn't there a possibility that a prisoner could have escaped?"
"The prison under Gold Saucer hasn't been broken out off for a long time kid." I rubbed my head.

"I can vouch for every one of my friends."
"I should just throw you in with the rest of them."
"What will it take to convince you?" I yelled.

"You can't. The information I have says that it was a man with a gun attached to his arm that killed those people." I got an idea right there.

"I bet you have at least one man in that prison with the exact same injury, show me your criminal list." He stared me down but I kept my gaze at him.

"Well you heard the boy, get Coates on a line. Lets see if the kids right." It was a few uncomfortable minutes before Dio was handed a PHS.

"Mr. Coates. I wanted to be informed. How many men with guns on their arms do we have in the prison at this moment." It was a few seconds before his eyes widened a little.

"That trouble maker has one too? He has been causing quite a commotion in the prison., tell me did you meet the newcomers? Yes the other one with a gun arm...He said he would do what?..." He kept talking to the guy on the other line. I vaguely remember the Coates guy who sent you up to the Chocobo races for prisoners to get out or something. If I'm listening correctly then Barret should be or going to fight Dyne.

"Keep me informed on the situation." Dio closed the phone and looked at me.

"Your lucky kid. It seems one of our residents has been causing more trouble lately. Same injury as your friend." I sighed in relief.

"However, rules are even if they aren't guilty the only way for them to get back up is to win a Chocobo race."
"I have every bit of faith in my friends." I said. He just nodded in acknowledgment. I was held in the room since everyone wasn't fully innocent. It wasn't until about a couple hours later Dio received another phone call.

"Your friends are innocent. I have claims bout the trouble maker sneaking out at one point. And a few people saying your friend is innocent. Your all clear, its just the race matter we have to worry about."
"Whats the problem?" I asked.

"Your friends still need to go through the basic registration system, as well as a handler..."
"Couldn't you provide someone to help them out?" I asked.

"hmmm...I do know one person who could help your friends. She is one of our better handlers and she would be willing to help them." He dialed a number and started talking to someone again, it was only a few minutes before he looked at me again."
"You may go, meet a woman named Ester in the Chocobo racing lounge. You can help your friends then. I'm sorry for my rash behavior. I hope that I can make it up to you and your friends." He held out his hand. I shook it.

"I may have a few suggestions." I said with a smile.