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onepassingnight2012-04-01 04:39 pm
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So You Want to Sell Your Soul...
The city, Midgar was full of people. Soulless, faceless people that ate and breathed and worked and slept. People who didn't have a prayer when it came to protecting themselves from the evils of the world. The monsters that lurked in the darkness, in the streets at night and threatened their very lives as they lay sleeping. Then there were the creatures that inhabited the city, just as monstrous and inhuman but somehow more honest about wanting to destroy you and for what reason.
The Turks were the last bastions of defense against the evils that was AVALANCHE led by Fuhito. They were the only thing separating the world from teetering beyond the brink of despair and falling into destruction. Everything they cared about would disappear. Homes, lives, family. They were a family. Drastic measures had to be taken, consequences notwithstanding. They were underpowered, short handed. There was no way to win against these guys. Reno could not let any more fall to Fuhito and his bunch. He had lost too many people he was willing to call friend. This was where it ended.
This room.
Reno held the grip of his EMR tightly, knuckles turning white with the force, standing in front of an impressively carved oak desk. It was an audacious plan, one that could backfire or cause any number of unexpected things, but it was their one last hope. They needed help, more power, something, and Reno was going to sacrifice himself to get it- not that he had that much humanity left anyway. Not with most of his friends six feet under. He was a lone turk against the world.
The person behind the desk was sitting in an over-sized winged back chair, facing the large floor to ceiling window overlooking the city basking in the glow of mako. Nothing was going to get done like that, he had power to buy and a soul to sell. He walked forward and grabbed the chair to swing it around.
The Turks were the last bastions of defense against the evils that was AVALANCHE led by Fuhito. They were the only thing separating the world from teetering beyond the brink of despair and falling into destruction. Everything they cared about would disappear. Homes, lives, family. They were a family. Drastic measures had to be taken, consequences notwithstanding. They were underpowered, short handed. There was no way to win against these guys. Reno could not let any more fall to Fuhito and his bunch. He had lost too many people he was willing to call friend. This was where it ended.
This room.
Reno held the grip of his EMR tightly, knuckles turning white with the force, standing in front of an impressively carved oak desk. It was an audacious plan, one that could backfire or cause any number of unexpected things, but it was their one last hope. They needed help, more power, something, and Reno was going to sacrifice himself to get it- not that he had that much humanity left anyway. Not with most of his friends six feet under. He was a lone turk against the world.
The person behind the desk was sitting in an over-sized winged back chair, facing the large floor to ceiling window overlooking the city basking in the glow of mako. Nothing was going to get done like that, he had power to buy and a soul to sell. He walked forward and grabbed the chair to swing it around.
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The concept wasn't completely strange or novel to her. She did recall Cloud and others mentioning a male version of her (if Tseng had thought much of it, he hadn't said, but he didn't ever give much away). It was an idea she'd found intriguing, though obviously, in her mind, she was the real Reno. Still, if he really was her, she was inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt and assumed he must be a worthwhile and likely superior person. Compared to others, if not herself.
"Oh, so it's you," she said, pleased to be the knowledgeable one in this situation, as she'd had some forewarning. She grinned. "Took you long enough to get here."
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"What the hell do you mean by that?" He demanded, still not sure if he liked the idea of female doubles, dream visions or not. "I got here right on time. I was about to make the deal until you showed up."
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It was weird to see herself as a guy, but she--he--was good looking, as expected.
She had no idea what this deal was that he was talking about, but she shrugged, as if she already knew everything. "Well, looks like I'm here, too. I was waiting for you to catch up." This may not have been true at all (and it wasn't), but that didn't stop her from saying it. Without having anything pressing to worry about--after all, this wasn't her dream--she could afford to mess around. She nodded toward the chair. "But you go ahead, if it means that much to you." She was so gracious, too.
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"Who the hell are you?" He demanded, frustrated because dreams were supposed to make sense, even if it was illogical dream sense. "You're not the one I'm supposed to deal with, are you?"
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"Deal with me?" She was rather amused by this prospect, so she wasn't going to say no. At least, not right away. Besides, she wanted to know what this was all about. "You can try, if you want to. What've you got? It had better be good."
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He shifted his weight and placed a hand on his hip. "Besides, if you really are me you wouldn't have what I need."
That was true, if they were the same person he doubted she'd have the power he needed to protect the others, and- do dream visions have souls? Didn't matter anyway, there was no way this woman was him.
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"That depends. I might. I don't know what the hell you need. I've got everything I need." She could say this from the relative certainty of Rufus having been healed and the Remnants being mercifully dead. Things were a whole lot better than they had been.
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"And what's that, babe? What do you have that I don't?" He sounded skeptical, as if daring her. That was the idea behind this dream, wasn't it? Maybe what he was seeking here was something he had to give himself - and he had to admit it was coming from a rather sexy version of himself- that would give him the answers he needed.
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Reno studied the room and that view again. "Let me guess, you still live in Midgar?" She shook her head. She did miss those days, the way it used to be, although she had to admit, they'd all fucked themselves over in order to get where they were today, and she wasn't much for nostalgia usually. But it had been fun, and they'd lost a lot since then.
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By that he meant Fuhito, although the more he thought about it, the more the feeling occurred to him that Fuhito was already gone.
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"Sephiroth? Is that what this is about?" That asshole automatically translated to Sephiroth for her now, whereas Fuhito would maybe be that other asshole, or even that other asshole scientist, having since been trumped by Hojo in that respect. "Yeah, I know how to get rid of him, but you're not gonna believe me if I tell you." It wasn't as if Cloud had believed her prophetic speech about the Remnants, and so he hadn't been able to save himself any trouble.
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He might have remembered what had happened then, but her words made him focus on her all the more. "Try me." If her info was good, he would reserve judgement on it until afterward. "I want to hear it." Smirking, he added, "'sides, if you're me I wouldn't lie to myself, would I?"
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She laughed. "No, I wouldn't, just most everybody else." She shook her head. "It's a fucking pain, but the only thing good for killing Sephiroth's Cloud." That was what they kept him around for, after all.
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"You gotta be kidding me. There's no way that guy's gonna go up against the General."
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She laughs. His intel is clearly inferior (even that's only to be expected, considering). "That thing's not the General anymore."
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"Then enlighten me, oh wise one." Sarcasm tainted his words. Not that he was sorry or anything. "What is it, if not the General? And while I'm at it, if you know the future, what the hell happens next? I team up with AVALANCHE?" Even he had to laugh at that one.
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However, as this guy was her, somehow, she was willing to be helpful without mocking him too much. "Not only am I wise," she laughed, though less scornfully, "but I am from the future, so I think I know it. So you'll be just as wise as me someday."
What Sephiroth was was hard to explain. Because it sort of was the general and sort of wasn't. "Let's just say it's a monster. Courtesy of Professor Hojo and some alien bitch that fell from the sky." At least it was easier than explaining the Remnants to Cloud. Maybe it didn't make a whole lot of sense, but things had stopped making sense like they used to a long time ago.
A pause. Working with AVALANCHE was not her proudest moment. "You don't technically team up with AVALANCHE. You temporarily have a shared objective."
She glanced out at the cityscape again, laughter fading from her voice. "Then Midgar gets destroyed." And yes, she was skipping a few details in between, there, but that was the big one, isn't it? All this, just flattened and wrecked. "And Shinra."
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Midgar, and Shinra being destroyed, though. That made his brain want to shut down and storm off. "Riiiight, Midgar gets destroyed. How does that happen?" He was going to ignore the part about AVALANCHE. He didn't see any need to team up with those guys just yet, not because a dream told him to. "The Legendary Giant Chocobo appears and squashes it?"
He had had enough by now, and he leaned on one foot, a hand on his hip. "Listen, babe. The day Shinra gets destroyed is the day I quit being a Turk. That's not going to happen any time soon."
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She shook her head with a world-weary air, not worrying about his denial. She was the one from the future, after all. "Man, I don't envy you havin to live through all that. What a fucking nightmare." Not just Meteor itself, but everything after, up until a few weeks ago. It really had been like a waking nightmare.
But then, suddenly, she grinned, as if all misery were forgotten so easily. "Don't worry, the boss brings Shinra back."
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His hopes sank as she spoke, shifting into folding his arms while he listened. All right, so apparently he was in store for a long waking nightmare. And Rufus was going to bring Shinra back. "Anything else? Or is that it?"
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"Oh, there's other stuff. A lot of it. There's a plague, then Sephiroth comes back to life again... But I don't want to take all the fun out of it for you. And what if I mess up the future? Wouldn't wanna do that." She laughed, just joking about these reasons, but it was a companionable kind of laughter. Reno knew what it was like, joking aside. One thing after another. Same shit, different day. Also, it was hard to condense everything, and she knew that the more she said about it, the more unbelievable it was likely gonna sound. Besides, she probably wouldn't be so eager to necessarily believe dream versions of herself, so why would he? Though at the same time, if she can't believe herself, who can she believe? "When're you from, anyway?"
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"Vacationing in Wutai." He mumbled, trying to process the part about the plague. Now that was a pretty nasty piece of business. The idea of trying to even deal with the plague gave him the shivers, and in response the view outside turned cloudy with threats of rain. "Why?"
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Besides, who doesn't want to give their past self advice?
"Wutai, huh? Been a couple years for me since then." She thinks this over, remembers what happened there. "So hey, is Rude a guy too, where you're from?"
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Screw the rest of that. He just stared at her for a while, incredulous. "Rude... is a woman?"
Well, that answered that.
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