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He had already riffled through about a fourth of the files he had hoped contain the pass-codes needed only to find that they were all spread across different clearance levels which led to his current predicament of grabbing every file related to the underwater reactor and submarine docking station. Needless to say the files were in the hundreds and he only had a few hours to find what he needed.
It was only fair too that every file was kept in one storage room and not stored in...say a computer. But these had been made at a time when documents were still filed physically as digital record keeping was only just becoming prominent.
"Damn it where could it be." Reeve shoved another file back before rifling through the next one behind it.
Once again he found himself thinking about the circumstance he was in. When everything had started the mission had seemed so simple, well as simple as it could be to infiltrate a terrorist group and try to sabotage them from the inside. It was easy at first, apparently they didn't care at all who traveled with them. The flimsy excuse he used as a fortune teller had been spur of the moment since the mog body had the feature installed from years before when he was bored.
Slowly though he started to realize they were terrorists in only the barest terms. He had been given information from the Turks they may well have been the same AVALANCHE that had destroyed Sector six years ago. He went in thinking they were all cold extremists only to find out it was a complete coincidence that Barret chose the same name, even then unlike their previous incarnation they didn't like having people die for no reason. All of their attacks against Shinra were breaking into a few warehouses and blowing up a reactor, even then reactors only contained a few guards to deter vagrants, otherwise it was patrolled by the weapons department machines.
Now after traveling (in a sense) with the group, he saw that they were just trying to do the right thing. Despite being a small group they would have been able to do that too if it wasn't for him stealing it. He hadn't felt great when he had threatened the lives of their friends and family and at the time he believed it was so they could keep the keystone secure, only to find out the board had decided it lead to the promised land and used it. Ever since he had been angry with himself.
Angry at not standing up for what was right, for not fighting enough for the people against Shinra's shortsightedness and corruption. Angry that he actively fought people who were trying to do good.
He was no better than them...
"My you've made a terrible mess of this place haven't you?" He spun and stumbled on his cabinet. He took a few deep breaths to calm his heart.
"Scarlet, what are you doing here." She smirked before she had sauntered over to a pile of files he had left out.
"Just grabbing a few plans of Midgar to make sure the Sister Ray isn't going to be incorrectly integrated. Knowing those idiots they'll find a way to ruin the power output." She picked up a folder and started to read before she laughed.
"Kya ha ha, and what would you need with the plate blueprints? Hardly the time to be planning for city expansion don't you think?"
"I need them to find all of Shinra's old underground labs, they may be abandoned but they would be useful for evacuation."
"Evacuation? Nonsense, after we successfully launch the Huge materia Meteor will be a non-issue. Afterward we will use the Sister Ray to take down the WEAPON and destroy the North Crater. All problems are solved." His fist tightened.
"That doesn't mean we don't take precautions. Even if we get rid of Meteor there will still be fallout that we have not accounted for. We can't go at this half cocked like everything else we've been doing. This is the world at stake." He barely kept the growl out of his voice. Scarlet just smirked as she sat down on one of the cabinets.
"Reeve, everything is already in place. You've been to the board meetings and we all agreed that this was the best plan, you included. I can't see why you would protest now."
"Because we only have two Huge materia we can use and even then with all four we never would have had enough power to destroy Meteor, only try to shatter it and cause the entire planet to be riddled with craters. Even then those were SIMULATED predictions. Each and every one of you don't care, none of you have and that's why you keep failing!" She lost her smile and sat up. Before he even had a chance to regret his outburst she had gotten into his face, pinning him against the wall.
"Now Reeve I understand you are distressed." The grip she had on his arm became painful at the end. "But that doesn't mean you can talk out of turn. Now me and the rest of the board have tolerated your protests for a very long time. But as things have become a little more hectic you've become more of a nuisance. Now I believe I speak for everyone when I say if you keep this up you will find yourself on ice so thin even your mediocre career could crack it...now I need to go and I hope you understand me."
"Crystal..."
"Good, I will be seeing you later Reeve. Do take care to watch where you step, you never know what kind of accidents might happen if you're not careful." She sauntered over to a cabinet, grabbed her files, and left the room slamming the door. He waited a moment before finally taking a breath and taking the sub-station files from under the table. He was lucky he had the forethought to hide the actual folders he was looking for and place fake ones out in the open. A brush with a SOLDIER grabbing some old files had nearly given him a heart attack when he thought he'd been caught. He needed to be more cautious. It was a matter of when, not if they found out what he was actively doing. He still had to get the hostages to someplace safe and plan an effective evacuation when Meteor-fall started to hit. But in the meantime he had enough of the codes to get them through, the problem was they wouldn't be able to lock them up behind them to stop interruptions. It would only be light infantry but it would still be a problem he would have to bring up if they ran into trouble.
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The trudge up to Junon was quiet. There really wasn't much to remember about the fields that led to the seaside base. However flying in would have keyed what armed forces to start shooting us down. So Cid had the Highwind touch down a few hours walk away. In that time Reeve had gotten whatever codes we would need to get to the submarine docks so we were as prepared as we could be with the plan we had.
"I need everyone to let me talk. I can pass you guys off as a squad sent with me but that if anyone asks who you are we're screwed, making up stories and who you are or your rank will not help. No does everyone have their weapons hidden?"
"I'm surprised they had a case big enough for my sword. Think it'll draw attention?" Cloud asked, Kunsel shook his head.
"People will assume it's a tent or equipment set along with Cid's spear. Any other questions?"
"I just want to say if anyone asks and you're not around. I'm private first class Leroy Jenkins and this was my first mission back on duty after I took an arrow to the knee when I went on tour in Wutai." I smiled as Kunsel took a breath and shook his head.
"I know you're joking but please don't. We should be fine till we get to the docks. After that I can't guarantee we won't be questioned. We're lucky with what we got now ."
"Honestly I'm surprised you had these uniforms Cid."
"Leftovers along with the weapons, when they took her from me they used her for a lot of transport. When I took her she still had a few in cargo."
"Kinda essential at this point." I continued to comment, adjusting my helmet. The plan had been to sneak in but the odds of us not being recognized by a guard now would be slim along with the ability to bribe them. Thankfully Cid showed us the uniforms. Unfortunately we had very few on hand so the only ones who could go in without looking to conspicuous were Cid, Cloud, Kunsel, Vincent, Tifa and myself. Yuffie wouldn't come after I told her that submarines were able to induce motion sickness, Barret, Nanaki, and Cait were too recognizable, and we ran out of uniforms so Aeris opted out. After that Kunsel just edited his story so that we were sent out with him to Medeel before reporting back to Junon. It had the highest success considering it was mixed with some truth. The sleeves easily went over my gauntlets, covering up my new materia setup of my Hp and Mp absorbs, fire, lightning, cure and contain.
I was defiantly keeping the Kevlar vest though. I'd had enough of being shot at in my life without some hope of protection. Hell when I get the gil I'd get me an armored one down the line, hell maybe my own custom set of armor after everything was said and done.
We all went quiet as we approached the village at the bottom of Junon. The same depressed atmosphere clung to it as we passed everyone by towards the elevator. The one guard stationed there held up his hand as we came up.
"Name and assignment?" Kunsel pulled out a sheet of paper and handed it over before holding up a badge from his waist.
"SOLDIER second class Kunsel on investigation to Medeel, coming back to debrief." The other MP whistled at the name.
"Heard about what happened. That WEAPON they're calling Ultima has been flying around terrorizing everything. Soon as they finish moving the SISTER ray everyone's being sent back here so we can mobilize against it. Odds are you and your squad have to wait till then." He spun and entered the code for the elevator and stepped to the side. Kunsel nodded to the man before he signaled us to move forward. Once all of us were on the door closed behind and lifted us up to the dispatch area.
Once at the top the doors opened with two more MP's looking us over. Kunsel held up his badge again before they nodded and relaxed. As we walked through the offices and outside to Junon proper we saw very few people around compared to the last time I had been there. What people we saw were some civilians doing something in a hurry and a few squads of infantry patrolling. Kunsel marched us through as the most we got in looks was a nod to our supposed leader while we ran through. The only big difference around being the unobstructed view of the sky now with the cannon moved.
Much the same happened as we marched. More patrols would pass us by as we went into a familiar series of tunnels. I tensed the moment we passed by a group of twelve infantrymen being marched by their commander but thankfully we were ignored as we found ourselves in front of the elevator to the reactor.
"This is were I have to cut out. I'll need to report back before I head out to Midgar. Anything I need to know before I meet your informant?"
"It's Reeve in Urban Development. Get to him and he'll be able to fill you in and get you to help out. Until then it was nice knowing you man." If he was surprised our guy in Midgar was an executive I wasn't able to notice under his helmet but he nodded before jogging in the opposite direction.
"Everybody ready?" Everyone nodded as Cloud entered the code to call the elevator. It took a few minutes before I heard the ding as the doors opened to a woman glancing over at two MP's behind her that were playing rock, paper, scissors before they all looked at us. Everyone tensed up again before Cloud piped up.
"We'll...take the next one down." The two MP's nodded before one who looked like the winner of their game walked up and pressed the button and started to talk to the now happy looking woman as the doors closed. After that we all just stood still as the elevator chimed.
"Okay we can't just freeze up every time we pass someone by, we'll get outed way before we even get close to the reactor." Cid spoke up as everyone started to relax again. Vincent nodded before he stepped in front of the group.
"I'll take lead. Outdated I may be but I still know procedure better than the rest of you. I'll do the talking." All of us agreed as the elevator finally came back to us empty. Cluttering in Vincent entered the code to get us down to the connection pipe for the underwater reactor.
Again we were silent as we started to descend into the deepest parts of Junon. My stomach dropped as I felt the change in pressure around us change to what I thought was just below sea level. I was slowly able to adjust as the decent took some time before we finally arrived at our floor. The doors opened to a guard to the left leaning against a wall nodding and a now attentive dog next to him. He didn't immediately respond but another guard was already approaching from further down.
"Alright back to work!" The first guard snorted before standing straight up. The previous eyed us right away. "You lot, what are you doing down here?" This time Vincent stepped up right away.
"We're the extra guard detail sent to help secure the Huge materia after the submarine docks at Rocket town. Executives are feeling nervous after the last few incidents, the same is being done to the one being flown as well."
"Wait what incidents?" The drowsy guard earned a slap to his helmet from the other as he stopped in front of us.
"You idiot the last Huge materia was a wash when Fort Condor wiped a squad of SOLDIER's before they could get it. Not to mention the train losing all of its personnel and almost crashing into North Corel." He took a step next to the dog before waving us through.
"Heidegger wants more troops than go ahead, you got the codes so head to the next checkpoint ad be quick about it. I think they're almost done with loading procedures and I don't want my ass chewed out because you were late." No one commented as we proceeded down the hall with no fuss from the guards or their dog. No one spoke as we walked down the empty corridors until we reached the much larger elevator leading further down.
"I don't remember there being a second checkpoint, and I doubt they'll be as lenient with us like those other guys." Tifa turned as I voiced my concern.
"So we have to get rid of these ones before they sound an alarm."
"We can surprise them. They won't expect an attack down here. Just don't use lightning or anything that will short-circuit any panels. We don't want to be trapped down here." Cloud said as he removed his buster sword and tossed his equipment cases to the side as he removed his helmet. Everyone else followed suit as we got our gear ready while the elevator descended. Vincent took point with Cloud to his right and Tifa left. I was back just a foot behind Vincent and Cid behind Cloud. The ride was longer and I felt the change in pressure again as we waited for the stop. We started to slow down before we stopped to a large steal door. It slowly slid up as it showed three sets of feet before it fully opened.
"Ident-" Before he could finish the first guard was shot three times as Cloud moved left to cleave another guards legs as Tifa smashed the helmet of the third guard. Me and Cid moved through to check around when I saw one more guard booking it to the door across the hall, firing blindly with one hand as he started reaching to a panel a few meters in front of him. I panicked and readied a fireball just as something long and silver flew past me and straight through the fleeing guard, skewering him as he tripped to the ground without moving afterwords.
"Holy shit Cid." The fire in my hand died down as everyone cleaned up.
"I'm a bit rusty when it comes to throwing but I still got it." He walked up and took his spear out of the dead man. All of us gathered at the next door entering another code before a yellow light started flashing. Slowly it opened up to a clear glass walkway that showed that we were indeed underwater as the sea life swam around us with the sun just barely shining through.
"We should hurry, no telling if they're done or not." Cloud started jogging ahead as we followed. The winding glass lead us to a view of a large darkened reactor letting off large jets of water from the top. Entering one last code opened up an elevator with water windows around us. I froze when I heard a large his in the chamber as it closed behind us. It took a minute before it started to descend slowly, the windows showing water slide past us when I felt the hiss increase in intervals. Just as I realized the elevator doubled as a decompression chamber it stopped and hissed one last time before the door opened.
We went through more winding hallways before we ended up in the docking bay. Two submarines, red and silver, with military personnel present. What caught my eye though was a large crane slowly descending into the red one.
It was the Huge materia.
"Fuck!" We all started sprinting down the walkway. We entered the next door as a klaxon started blaring. The next room had three guards with their guns ready. Cloud jumped forward using his sword to block most of the shots. I tossed a fireball at the closest guard as Vincent started blasting away. Two went down as the third fell behind a corner. Cloud ran and slashed sideways as the man ducked. Cid pulled up from behind to spear him as three more guards fired from inside the next room.
"You're not getting the Huge materia!" I heard between gunshots as we all fell back behind our wall. Vincent took pot shots while Cid readied a stick of dynamite.
"Rush'em!" He tossed it, I heard a few curses before the explosion hit. We all rushed as the men gathered themselves. Tifa rounded one corner and threw a hammer fist on one man as I drew my sword and slashed the gun arm off a man just reloading. The others ran past stepping on the chunks of our sixth guard. I made one last slash on my guards torso and Tifa electrocuted hers as we followed.
The next room was the containment chamber of the materia but we kept sprinting through and down some stairs before we ended up on the docking floor with no guards in sight.
"To late, the submarines already diving!" I looked up to see Reno riding the crane towards the walkway.
"It won't matter we'll fucking get it!" I barely heard the chuckle but I did see his smug look.
"Security will be here in less then ten minutes, in the mean time I prepared you guys a farewell gift." As he jumped off the crane and ran we all looked at the heavy thumping to our left before everyone jumped away from a heated beam being fired on us. The large arched arms of the carry armor started to spin right at us.
"Blast it!" Me and Tifa started tossing lightning, trying to fry the machine but it just stuttered before firing off a short beam at us. Cloud tried to capitalize but as he jumped and swung his sword the machine shifted its arms back, showing that it wasn't connected at the shoulders and grabbed Cloud sword and all as it tried to crush him.
"Disable the arms!" I yelled, running in to take a slash at one of its three prongs for legs and followed with more lighting. I looked to see its second arm go in for a grab before it flinched back as Vincent forgo his pistol in favor of the high powered rifle he kept on his back. He kept firing until Cid dived in with his spear and lodging it into the robot. Tifa came in and grabbed at the arm right after as the machine tried to tug away but her muscles strained, staying planted to the ground.
Cloud not being idle in his escape had kept wiggling and straining against the arm as he was slammed to the ground and let go as it reached to grab at Tifa. Again Vincent blasted the arm, riddling it with bullet holes as Cid started to stab at its bid section. I saw its recital shift at him as it readied to blast him before he stabbed through it. It looked like it stopped charging but the torso around the eye started to glow bright red before panels started blasting off of it. Tifa fell beside me as we both restarted shooting lighting at the exposed parts, the machine started spinning its arms randomly and moved to Cid. It stumbled on its damaged legs before it started to topple over. Everyone fell back as more and more of its plates started to glow and blast of as its arms screeched horribly against the ground looking like a broken top.
Cloud had recovered and came from its side. He slashed down and bisected it as it slowed to a stop. All of us tried to catch our breath before we heard another alarm sound as we saw a few men start to board the silver submarine as it started to submerge in water.
"Get them before we get locked out!" Cid yelled as we ran again, I didn't bother searching any crates as we ran. More shots fired at us and I stumbled a few stray bullets hit my chest and legs. I could feel the pain swell as the armor protected me but the impact defiantly bit at me. Cid and Cloud started to slash and toss men over before they entered. The rest of us followed inside the hatch as Vincent closed it behind us. I looked to see three guards having been painted against the walls with swords and electric batons strewn across the floor.
Everyone stopped as we felt the drop in water before one of they're radio's clicked.
"Hatch squad give safe code, I repeat give safe code!" Vincent picked it up and clicked one of its buttons.
"Gamma, niner, Theta, Omega. Gamma, niner, Theta, Omega. Hostiles were locked out, I repeat hostels are locked out." Vincent released the button and we all waited.
"Roger that. No hull damage detected. We are go to follow." We all let out a breath. I thanked whatever deity that Reeve gave us current pass-phrases along with the codes. Once I met the man I was going to kiss the fucker.
"Alright we're almost in the clear. I know this thing like my airship so follow me and hurry. Don't know if more guards with come through here but we need to get to navigation and hold up there." We all made a beeline down the corridors following Cid's lead. Lucky for us with the all clear everyone was stationed in life support and the engine rooms so there wasn't anybody running down the halls that would alert us to anyone. All of us stood in front of a door clearly labeled navigation before we all barged in.
Two MP's were seated as a man in a red commanders suit stood up. Vincent pushed his pistol to the mans head and shoved him to the ground as Cloud and Tifa pulled the two others back into there seats, lighting cracked in Tifa's hand for a second as Cid's flared flaming red to the other.
"Move and all of you fucking die." Cid spoke. The commander grunted as Vincent twisted his arm. and pressed his gun harder.
"You're stuck here with us. None of you can escape from underwater so you can't do shit." I got right into the mans face.
"You want the lives of yourself and dozens of men fucking wasted because you're to fucking proud." He hesitated for just as second as I breathed down his neck. "None of you have to die. We just want the materia. Play ball and everyone here comes out alive and okay. Out us and we all die a slow fucking death as we get crushed underwater, every god damned scream being the last thing you hear as we all get turned to paste or drown to death. So whats it gonna be? How many families are going to be broken. Husbands, wives, and children ruined because you don't play ball. You have fifteen seconds to give your answer. Fourteen...thirteen..." I stared into his eyes as I started counting down. He kept gazing between me and his other men.
I saw the pleading in his eyes as I passed five. I wasn't bluffing though, this was do or die and after everything I saw and had to do I made peace with the fact I killed people and might die in the process. he was not willing to die.
"GIVE THEM THE CONTROLS! PLEASE...please do it!" I stopped staring and stood up. The two underlings were let go but had Tifa and Cloud both present behind them. Cloud kept fidgeting as Cid smiled and took the seat in front of the large screen.
"Ah brings back memories. Now, going silent." Cid started to press buttons and flip switches I couldn't even know did what. But all of us slowly started to come down from our respective battle highs. Now we were going to play the waiting game. The sub would take a few hours to reach the docks near Rocket town and I had decided during planning that we would not shoot down the red sub before then.
Originally the game made it so we had to shoot the sub and recover the materia using ours. The idea had been scrapped when I mentioned more submarines would be following us some time before we started to scavenge the thing. We all instead opted to ride with the silver submarine pretending to be support so we wouldn't get shot at and get the drop on them at the docks. A few other ideas had been pitched to just wait and drop in with the Highwind but it was scrapped when the problem of them simply diving back or seeing us ahead of time and alerting those at the rocket to launch early or just forget it and run with the last Huge materia. In the end we settled on this since it followed the closest to the original script I knew. Once we docked we would meet everyone in Rocket town after they had landed and traveled over.
Time passed to long for my tastes as we followed our target. The first hour was tense as we kept watch on each of the navigators and making sure they wouldn't alert anyone to our presence. We made sure nothing was being passed through com's as our radars started to pick up two more blips from behind us.
"There's support, S2 and S3. They're requesting safety codes sir." One MP mumbled, staring at his panel.
"Give them out." The commander sounded so defeated as he had been kept on the ground for the entirety of the trip, Vincent kept his pistol pressed against the mans cranium the entire time, hardly moving an inch.
"We also know the safety codes, so no funny business." Cloud spoke up. The man had been been glittery the entire trip, memories of his motion sickness and maybe claustrophobia coming back to him was what I had guessed.
"Opening com's." We all went silent as the man spoke giving the codes over.
"S1, Intel shows that they could not find what was AVALANCHE in the reactor. We have reason to believe they are one you're vessel. Have your men start searching. They are more than likely on-board. Report when you're search is over" The comes cut out as my breath hitched.
"Nice to know someone is on our ass every step of the way." Cid noted, never taking his eyes off the screen.
"Wait thirty minutes then tell them we can't find anyone." Vincent spoke up. Everyone nodded as we waited out the time limit before opening comes again.
"Reporting. That's a negative. No hostiles found on-board, repeat no hostiles on-board." All of us waited for their confirmation.
My stomach dropped when two blips showed up on the large screen. Both approaching faster than the two vessels behind us.
"...I'm sorry but command isn't taking any chances S1..." I channel cut out. Cid stood.
"Take evasive maneuvers!" The two MP's started shouting into com's as I felt the sub lurch. All of us grabbed hold of something as we all stared at the screen. A boom resonated through the submarine as one torpedo went of near us.
"Damage report!" Cid shout. Out of all of us he looked the most level headed as his hands flow across the panels in front of him, concentration never wavering.
"Both exploded close, hull damage minimal. Systems still running but we're getting interference."
"Start dropping radio decoys and mines. We're moving away from our payload." Cid started shout coordinates as we moved away from our mark and closer to land. If we got hit we would need to be as close as possible if we wanted any chance of escape.
All I could do was listen and look as all of our lives were in Cid's hands. Every second was an eternity as the shouting became white noise interrupted only by the occasional boom vibrating us. Time kept ticking as we kept running away. It was when we were maybe a half hour from land when a huge blip started moving towards us on the screen.
"Unknown entity! None-mechanical is approaching fast!"
"What! What the fuck could that possibly be?!" The commander yelled from the ground. All of us stared as multiple dots started flowing out of the unknown.
"Its firing at all of us! Non-tracking! Its going to bombard us." My mind scrambled at that moment. Every gut feeling in me screamed as I only knew of one thing that would attack us indiscriminately.
"...Emerald..." I whispered. I couldn't believe it but everything in me screamed that the super WEAPON was right here and was about to kill us all.
"Start rising! I don't give a fuck about decompression. We'll live if we fucking rise! Tell them to surface. Tell them!" Cid barked as I started to feel sick. The dots kept approaching as I felt a huge pressure on all of my joints and lower back. I felt dizzy as my sense of balance started to get thrown off. The pressure persisted as I kept looking at the screen, holding my breath as the dots met us.
Nothing happened as every dot passed by us. I did feel a solid minute of vibrations as the two attacking submarines behind us were destroyed, both being lower than us since we were already planning on staying closer to surface level. Slowly the large blip went out of our sensors range. Everyone kept quiet as all of us felt the accent and surface to above sea level. Cid had been the only one to never waver during the entire encounter but I could see his blood-shot eyes.
"Tell everyone to start curing each other and take potions, continue course for land. We are leaving." It took ten minutes of continuous high level cures for any of us to start functioning properly. The MP's started to tell the engine room to slow us down as we got close to land, miles away from Rocket town. Once we were close enough we made the call for everyone to stay in their respective blocks as we all prepared to get the fuck off, taking the commander and two MP's with us until we would release them away from the sub.
I felt the shakes hit me. I started shivering as an old game model appeared in my head, now increasing into impossible sizes and bearing down on me. I started breathing heavy as I started to kick and punch one of the navigation chairs at the implications. Cursing everything in the universe for one life saving moment that only showed a crueler truth.
"FUCK FUCK FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK!"
It was some time before I finally had some semblance of calm. My thoughts scrambling to find a solution on the knowledge that there were two more weapons no one knew of...
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Note
Tl;dr updates up in the air, found a place i feel good writing in.
This is mostly just me saying to everyone I bounced back a little better than usual. Some of you may have noticed the new cover photo I got to upload for this story and that is to my wonderful friend FoxtailDustR whom I hang with on almost a regular basis and I had commissioned to have a face put to the name.
So everyone meet Nate, based how I look in real life so a face to the author as well. Now I must mention the armor and everything is basically after this fic how my character is going to be decked out and I am so happy with this. It's also because of this pic i got just enough juice along with writing next to my artist buddy i feel everything flowing with this story, though i will admit the sub battle feels lackluster to me but I know next to nothing about any type of sea or air battles so I have to compromise on this. I will also stop promising update times because I don't want to keep hurting you guys by breaking them.
Last thanks for the reviews guys. Joseph know that i still thank you for getting me out of my initial funk and don't worry about other peoples reviews, i accept any and all criticism and understand I will either make mistakes or can't please people. I also want to thank the review from the 33 year old man reading in his workplace because i do the same thing during me breaks so its nice to know a little about the regular life of a fan. Last but not least the person telling me my story got you through tough times, i can imagine how my story can help people escape in times of strife and i am touched mine helped you but its still unbelievable to me personally how I can help people.
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