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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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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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Reno's amused and almost pitying headshake was perhaps not fair to Rude, but it was fondly meant, in its way. "She really should follow my good advice. One of these days, maybe she'll learn."