Viva la Vida (Zack)

[Zack Fair]

::...The Puppy...::

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Your gonna be my…Living Legacy.

“Aww man why does everyone hate Squats so much?” He said with a laugh, but shook his head, “No, but some other time I’ll force you so don’t worry!” He just shook his head, who would have thought that today he would be having such a funny conversation with a man thought to be his enemy? Even if someone had told him he probably wouldn’t have believed them. It felt nice. He always liked gaining new friends, so maybe just maybe he could become actually good friends with Reno. He got along with the red haired Turk, maybe it was because Reno was the crazy one.

He couldn’t believe he was having this odd of a conversation with a Turk. He liked it, the sun on his shoulders, wind on his face, just being alive, and conversing with a new friend made it all seem better. he could forget that Cloud was a l’cie for a few moments, could forget that Cloud had to destroy Gaia, everything…but in the end it would come back. He was alive now because he had to help Cloud, that was the point of his existence, it was just a plus that he had a second chance at life and having everything around him.

He smiled, “Well I suppose if you’ve made up your mind I can’t change it. You Turks always were Stubborn!” He said, although he said it with a warmth. He himself was stubborn and loyal, although he thought at least when it came to their jobs, the Turks surpassed him in both qualities. “Its nice being one of the favored Turks hmm? I bet you get away with a lot of stuff.” He said with a laugh. “If I was still in ShinRa I would help you with those pranks, it always serves to lighten the mood.”

“I never got how you Turks put up with all that work AND putting up with the president. I mean in SOLDIER I had a ton of missions, but being a 1st class I could deny them If I really wanted to.” He felt warm inside when Reno said that he truly meant it. And though Reno might not want to talk about the payment he felt like he needed to clarify that he would pay him back. His SOLDIER honor was still strong and that made him always pay back people, no matter who it was. “We’ll work out something! But…Reno thank you so much! You have no idea how much this means to me!”

Before he could say anything suddenly something caught his eye. Glancing sharply at it his eyes got wide. “What the…?! Holy!” He said in amazement and out of reflex his right hand whipped back and drew out his buster sword. He went into fighting stance as 4 huge beasts appeared out of nowhere. His blue eyes got wide and then narrowed, “What are those?!” He said in amazement, they were huge and were wildly moving around as they came closer and closer to him and Reno.

[Reno Sinclair]

Fiery Red Head
Looks like today we're clockin' out early

Reno raised an eyebrow as he looked at Zack. "You'll FORCE me to do squats? Well then, if thats the case, good luck to ya." He grinned folding his arms now across his chest. Reno was the type who couldn't really sit still in one spot. He always had to move sometime. But its not like Reno was a spazz or anything, he just liked to...switch things up a bit.

This was so weird. About an hour ago Reno didn't even know Zack was back and ALIVE. And now, he was making business offers and chatting as if they'd been friends for awhile. This was definately a good day, of course Reno figured this was for the better, friends instead of enemies...not really even enemies all that much. Just...a misunderstanding if thats what you wanna call it. Reno chuckled a bit. "Stubborn yes, do I get away with alot of things....depends on what exactly I do." And Reno looked away. His idea of humor was slightly different than say...Rufus ShinRa or Rude, they didn't exactly thing everything Reno did was FUNNY, even though it was.

Reno waved his hand with a grin. "Don't worry about it, im happy to help you out." Reno thought, this would be an even better way to score some brownie points with Zack, not that that was the only reason Reno offered this up on him, Reno really was trying to be nice and make friends with Zack. "You know i was thinking- WOAH What the-?!" and a disfigured arm was swung at him. These creatures were certainly not from Gaia! Reno was unfamiliar with them so they must be native...but...how did they get here? Reno pulled out his electro mag rod, not that it would help much, but maybe...he didnt know what these beasts were or could do... Reno's eyes just twitched at the ugly sight. Zack asked what they were and Reno didn't have an answer. "I dont know but they sure don't look friendly..."

[Zack Fair]

::...The Puppy...::

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Your gonna be my…Living Legacy.

Zack nodded with a chuckle, “you better believe it! I am he squats master Reno, don’t doubt that I couldn’t!” He said and tried to have the most evil of faces he could make. He himself was twitching on the inside to have some action, some movement. He couldn’t sit, or stand still in this case to long without wanting to do something, or see some action. Maybe that was why he had made such a good SOLDIER, he was always ready and willing to have a good fight, and he never backed down from one either.

He wasn’t surprised at all that Reno was still a Turk, actually he would have been surprised if he wasn’t. It did surprise him that Cissnei wasn’t with the Turks anymore. Why had she quit? No Turk Quit…and besides no one quit the Turks or even SOLDIER because ShinRa wouldn’t allow them, so how had she gotten out? He was brought back when Reno said that he was in fact stubborn. “I always thought I was stubborn…until I met the Turks.” He cocked his eyebrow. “Depends on what you do? I suppose the president doesn’t share the same humor as you do hmm?”

He just nodded, “alright. I won’t worry to much.” He said with a nod, before the creatures emerged. Now all his attention and that of Reno was directed toward the beasts that were now advancing toward them swinging their limbs wildly. He wasn’t sure what they were but they weren’t friendly. He hadn’t ever seen anything like them before, was it something new to Gaia? He ducked a limb and rolled before leaning on his hand before standing up, his right hand going back and drawing out his sword in an easy graceful movement.

“Man I had hoped you would know!” Shrugging, he just smirked at them, forgetting the danger and just exhilarated by the thought of combat. “I guess we’re just gonna have to take em down!” he said and jumped to avoid being hit again. Landing deftly on his feet he ducked as all four started to surround them. Shaking his head he stood back on his heels, twirled the buster sword gracefully in his hand and attacked one of them. He did so with the poise of one that had done it often and many times, jumping up, before plunging his sword into it’s hide. It gave a mighty bellow and writhed as Zack pierced it through again and jumping off of it, did a flip in the air and landed once more on his feet.

It fell to the ground and flailed there before picking itself up and coming after him again. “Come and get it!” He yelled before dodging its wild unreasoning attack. There seemed to be no reason or way that it attacked, it simply flailed its grotesque limbs at them. He found himself being closed in as he had focused on only the one for a second. Grunting he swept his sword up and away, slicing through the first beast and while bringing it down he felt his sword slice through a second one, which proceeded to howl in pain and come after him again. “Jeez!” He said before shaking his head, he was going to have to start concentrating his attacks and start bringing them down one by one, although they held an odd power. Pushing off quickly into the air, he thrust his sword deep into the chest of the beast, feeling it shudder and groan before collapsing to the ground and lying still. One down, three to go!

He thought to himself as he picked a second target. He hoped Reno was doing alright…he only had that Mag Rod, so he hoped to not let Reno get hurt. Reno was a Turk, which meant he was pretty damn strong, but he was also a regular human, not enhanced like he himself was. He had been programmed for fighting like this, so it was all to natural for him, He didn’t worry to much though, Reno would still be standing when this was over and done with, that he was confident off.

[Reno Sinclair]

Fiery Red Head
Looks like today we're clockin' out early

Reno chuckled, this was an entertaining conversation, you bet it was. Something Reno liked about Zack is that he at least had a sense of humor. Being around Rude and Mr. President was all about seriousness...the occasional prank on Rude and well, Reno was still left standing. "Okay then Squats master...I seriously do doubt if you could get me to do squats...no matter what the circumstances." And Reno ended that with a grin before chuckling about Turks being stubborn. Not all of them were...? Okay, well most probably were, Reno of course being one of those.

"Ah. Lets just say my humor is a thousand times greater than Mr. President's humor....that is if he even has one." Reno shrugged obviously being humorous and poking fun at his boss! The one who pays him and what not. But its not like Zack was going to RUN back to ShinRa and tattle on him, that wouldn't be cool and well, Reno just figured Zack wanted nothing to do with ShinRa now. Lucky him.

The creatures seemed to have no idea what they were doing, just staggering around swinging their limbs away trying to hit something as if they were blindfolded. No precise aim, so it was all pretty easy to dodge, unless you pissed them off. Like Zack had so wonderfully and successfully done seeing as they started going after him. Reno sighed. He was always very quick and had swift movements to avoid any of the swinging limbs so he would be fine, of course the mag rod wouldn't help so much, and neither would a good genuine fist fight. Against these things? No way. Reno would probably walk away with a few broken knuckles if he tried that.

"Just because Im a Turk doesnt mean i know everything! But...pretty close." He had to add with a chuckle over the wailing of these beasts. Reno figured he had to find a way to help, mostly with dealing with monsters he used his helicopter for that. Fire arms worked wonders when you didn't have great weapons on you. But that was a little ways away and running off, coming all the way back, might not be a good thing. Reno figured after this he might want to invest in a new weapon or something. He gripped the rod tightly as one of the creatures came towards him, not really in an aggressive way, not yet. But once it was close enough the tazer on the end of Reno's weapon sure made it howl with pain. Success! It drew at least one creature away from Zack in the mean time. and Reno...dodged about every attack this thing could throw, he was very light on his feet and was very good and being missed on attacks.

Reno dodged to the side as another limb swung at him. He looked over at Zack. "How you holdin up over there? Still alive aren't you?" Reno said rolling back to dodge another swing. "Man! I wish I could help more, but dodging is pretty much all im willing to do right now...seeing as i don't want to break my arm off."

[Zack Fair]

::...The Puppy...::

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Your gonna be my…Living Legacy.

He was puzzled, although probably wasn’t thinking about the beasts as much as Reno. He had always been paid to fight, not to think, although later on he had thought a lot about everything. That’s what had probably gotten the president to send everyone after him. He knew to much, had learned to much, and for that reason he couldn’t stay living. He should have just stayed fighting and stopped trying to learn more, to gather information, but he had continued, and thus the Army, Turks and fellow SOLDIER members had been sent after him. Right now he should probably be doing more thinking then fighting, he was just pissing off he beasts, but he was SOLDIER, trained specially in fighting…

He actually stopped fighting to chuckle at Reno’s words about not knowing everything but being knowing pretty close to everything. “So full of it Reno! Better put your money where your mouth is then!” he said teasingly. He wasn’t paying attention and suddenly he snapped back to having a limb smash into his midsection. “Ughhh!!” He exclaimed as he was sent staggering backwards. He caught himself and stood there, left hand held on his stomach. That had hurt, even for him. He could stand more then the average person for being beat up, in fact, although it had hurt, it had no where even close to actually stopped him.

Now he was just pissed off himself, although only at the beasts. The one was down and he was pretty sure one of them had directed its attention toward Reno. Two for him at the moment. That he could handle! He wished Reno had another weapon other then the tazer. In hand to hand combat with a human or a smaller monster he was sure it was effective…against creatures this size he personally didn’t think it was going to do anything. He did think Reno could hold his own till he dealt with these two and went to help him out with the last one. He heard Reno talking to him again. “Yeah I’m alive! Pissed off and ready to take it out on some beast! Yourself? You just keep yourself alive and let me handle them! Its what I was trained for 10 years to do!”

Twirling his sword and standing by the body of the first monster he cocked his brow cockily and smirked. “Come on then!” With that he took a running jump toward them. Striking one with his sword, he felt it shudder and bellow before he propelled himself upward, bringing his sword down once more into the hide of the beast, feeling his sword go down until it was at the hilt. He felt it go crazy as it died and as it fell it knocked him off as he was avoiding an attack from the second beast. His sword was still embedded in the skin of the first beast as it slowly fell toward the ground. Sliding back, he came to his feet and ran towards the beasts, jerking his sword out and doing a flip into the air. He came down hard on the second one and sliced through, piercing him through with his sword. It didn’t even make a sound, just dropped where it had been standing. He stood there for a second, blue eyes staring at it before he turned, remembering Reno was still dealing with the last one…

[Reno Sinclair]

Fiery Red Head
Looks like today we're clockin' out early

Reno rolled his eyes some as he continued to evade attacks right and left. These things were really starting to get on his nerves, and especially since Reno had no idea what they were or what they could do. No weaknesses to be aware of, nothing! It made it really hard to decide how or when to fight, but at least Zack was doing okay, and even making a joke or two about Reno being full of it, thats where the eye rolling came in. Reno decided he needed to do at least something to help. "Me? Full of it? I don't know what you are talking about..." Reno chuckled as he ducked another oncoming attack. This was starting to get old, Reno felt useless as Zack was doing all the work.

Reno backed up against a wall and smirked. He waited for the attack, the beast pulled its arm...or whatever it was back and Reno ducked out of the way again, making it smash its arm into a sturdy brick wall. Reno moved as the thing started to turn back around and delivered a kick to the things back, smashing it back into the wall, which still was standing, good thing too. The thing wailed- and ear splitting screech that almost made you want to cover your ears if you were too close. Reno almost chuckled, well the thing was starting to feel even the slightest bit of pain. But then again, after Reno pissed it off, it came right back and hit him.

Reno was hit in the gut and he practically skidded across the pavement on his back. The hit didn't hurt as much as the skidding did but Reno leaped back up to his feet as he looked over at Zack, seemed he was finishing things up. Reno decided to try one last thing. The Rod in his hand was active now, ready to tazer anything, he held it out as the monster got close and the thing jolted with a spasm as the electricity from the rod actually effected the beast. Reno watched at the thing fell over in a wail and just flailed its arms around screeching. It was weird looking but Reno couldn't help but laugh, at least he got it down to where it wouldn't get back up, easy enough for zack to slice right through it now.

Reno looked over at Zack. "Im doing just fine..." Reno said feeling a bit winded from the attack he got earlier. At least nothing was broken right? Maybe. "I got you a head start on this one..." He said backing away fromt he flailing limbs and taking in deep breaths. "Well this was...fun." His tone sounded a bit sarcastic but truthfully it was somewhat entertaining. "Should probably try to find out where these things came from...before more show up."

[Zack Fair]

::...The Puppy...::

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Your gonna be my…Living Legacy.

He just snickered, “Oh yeah sure you don’t know what I’m talking about…Liar!” He said as he was battling the other two monsters. When he finished up with them he turned to see how Reno was doing. He saw Reno tazer the beast and watched it flail wildly. Hearing Reno laugh he couldn’t help but chuckle himself. It was…very odd looking, to say the least anyway. He walked toward him, heavy buster sword held effortlessly in his hand as he did so. “Pretty odd lookin’ things aren’t they!”

He smiled, “I can see your doing fine…I guess we owned those beasts eh?” With that he glanced down at the last one flailing its limbs and writhing around on the ground. He nodded, somewhat professional at the moment. It was like a mission, so raising his buster sword, he took a step closer while avoiding the limbs and raised his sword up. Repositioning the sword hilt in his hand he gave it one last look before plunging his sword into its chest. It stopped flailing and just laid still as he withdrew his sword.

He just looked over at Reno and raised his brow before laughing. With that he settled the buster sword on his back, “Fun for you maybe, you made me do all the work!” He said jokingly, before slapping Reno on the shoulder and crouching down to look at the beast. “What is it anyway I wonder…?” He reached out and touched the beasts flesh with his gloved hand, wondering what it felt like.

He nodded, “Yeah good thinking, I really don’t think anyone would appreciate those things running around Edge!” He raised himself to his full height and glanced around, “Hmmm…seems to me they came from that direction.” He said pointing to the west. “I was talking to you and then WHAM, there they were. Maybe we should go check it out.” With that he ran his left hand through his hair and turned toward the way he had pointed. “I’m just wondering what they are and why they appeared so fast…almost like they appeared by magic.” He scratched his head then, not sure what they heck they were or what they should do.

[Reno Sinclair]

Fiery Red Head
Looks like today we're clockin' out early

Reno chuckled some, still keeping the last one occupied, which was a fairly easy job. "I am not a liar! I just might be...not telling the exact truth?" Reno said moving easily around, as this thing was just not knowing which way to swing its arm or whatever. "I've seen many things being with ShinRa and what not...but these have to be...the weirdest!! I've never seen anything even close to them!" Reno said, a little puzzled on what they were, how they got here, where they were from? The typical, Who? What? When? Where? Why? and How? questions running through his fiery red head.

Reno raised a brow at Zack. "What do you mean WE? I practically did nothing..." He said agreeing with zack doing all the work. "Hey now, you're a SOL- Ex-Soldier..." Reno said catching himself carefully there. "You should enjoy fighting...so I believe it was fun for you too...not that getting slapped around by these things is very fun..." Reno mumbled as the pain in his ribcage and what not started to die down.

If these things ran around Edge, Reno would certainly hear about it. The turks would more than likely be sent out to try and help take care of it, figure out what they were yadda yadda. Exactly what Reno and Zack were trying to do...figure out what these things were. "Well if they came from that direction...lets see where it leads...." Reno said staring off into the direction that the beasts had come from before starting a quick stride in that direction. "If these things are getting let loose around Edge, oh I can hear the orders now..." Reno sighed anticipating what Mr. President would order he and the other turks to do.

No sign of any monsters yet. "Well...the good thing is i dont see anymore of those...whatever they were..." Reno scanned the area, not seeing anything that unusual. Until a small looking portal caught his eye. "I think...we just found our problem..."

[Zack Fair]

::...The Puppy...::

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Your gonna be my…Living Legacy.

He scratched his head, “Yeah I know what you mean about seeing weird things…but this tops anything I’ve ever seen…and they sent me on all the weird jobs when I worked in SOLDIER.” He just stared at them. Their skin had felt so weird…even under his glove. He shuddered, wondering what exactly they were and why they were in his planet. If he could just figure out what they even were it would make him happier.

He laughed though when Reno asked why he had said we. “Well you kept em busy for me. I don’t know how I would have faired with ALL of them attacking me at the same time.” He nodded at what Reno mentioned about him being an ex-SOLDIER. “Yeah…I guess you could say I’m programmed to fight…it was all I did since I was 13 years old…I’m used to all of this, you in the Turks section do more black opps then actual rough fighting don’t ya?” He raised a brow when he rubbed his rib cage, and sincere interest
was across his face, “hey man, you alright?"

He shrugged, “ok!” He agreed perkily, following Reno when he started in the direction he had pointed towards. He glanced around, “Yeah you won’t have a fun night if the president decides that you have to make rounds tonight around Edge…I know what that’s like!” He smiled, “Sucks to be you!” He had been looking out to make sure that there weren’t in fact, more about to appear and start creating chaos. He nodded in agreement, when he caught the same thing Reno did. “Hey what is…” but then Reno said he had thought they found the problem. He walked up to it and glanced into the whirling mass. He had never quite seen anything like this…it kind of looked like a huge piece of Materia swirling around there.

“What the heck is that anyway? I’ve never quite seen anything like that either…” He reached out to touch it, but right before his gloved hand would touch it he stopped himself and withdrew it. “maybe I don’t want to touch it eh?” He stood back on his heels and contemplated about what it might be, who could have put it here?

[hey do you want while they are standing there for one more to come out and make them know for sure that’s what it was?]

[Reno Sinclair]

Fiery Red Head
Looks like today we're clockin' out early

Reno nodded some as he stared down at the beast. They definitely had to be from somewhere else. Edge just didn’t pop out new beings or creatures randomly, these things had to have come from somewhere else. He looked at Zack for a moment. “Well then fighting for that many years you should be used to this. No matter how big or small the target is eh?” Reno chuckled a bit before deciding that wasn’t a good idea when the pain hit again.

So he just smiled. “We don’t do THAT much fighting, but there’s a little action here and there.” He said remembering back to the Geostigma, when he and Rude took on Yazoo and Loz, that wasn’t fun but Reno discovered he sure wasn’t a bad hands on fighter. It was good to know now.

Reno must’ve been showing some sign of weakness or something. “Oh. Im Fine really.” He shrugged before the thought of having to research these things later came to mind. Why not get the ball rolling and get ahead of everything? Figure out what they were, where they were from and how to defeat them easily instead of whacking the crap out of them. “Can’t wait for that order to be issued…unless we figure it out before hand.” Reno stared at the portal with a look of thought on his face as he rubbed his chin.

“I think…its some sort of portal…This has to be where those things came from.” Reno said staring into the portal and glancing at Zack as he reached out towards it then pulled his hand back. “Yeah, touching it probably isn’t the smartest idea.” He grinned before hearing a giant WAIL and another beast stagger out of the portal. Reno backed up quickly. “Guess we found the problem…no doubt about it.” Reno said pulling out his electro mag rod ready to…tazer it? If need be. But it was just one right? Anymore and it’d be a simple repeat of what happened a few minutes ago, and if Reno got ‘gut crushed’ again, something would break, if not EVERYTHING would break inside of him.

[Zack Fair]

::...The Puppy...::

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Your gonna be my…Living Legacy.

“Yeah I guess I’m pretty much as used to it as a person could be. It was always just a job to me, although don’t get me wrong, when I was younger it seemed like the most exciting job in the world.” He glanced at him up and down, not seeing any blood, but that didn’t mean automatically that nothing was wrong with Reno. His own ribcage hurt, but he was used to being banged up, this little thing wouldn’t effect him that much. Bigger things then that had hit him, he was used to it. “You should be glad you don’t have to do as much fighting, it isn’t that fun when they pit you against everything and anything and every day of your life you risk your life…it was an exciting living though.”

When he said he was fine Zack raised his eyebrows, “well if you say so, but tell me if you hurt ok? Did you take a hit? I did, damn thing hit me right in the ribs…” He knew that as soon as Reno got back to ShinRa he would start the ball rolling with the research and figuring out what these things were. While he and Aerith had been in the lifestream she had told him about something that involved the fal’cie, and now he knew Cloud was a l’cie. Did this have to do with them? Or was that not even close? He wished he knew.

He nodded, “Yeah it looks like a portal…but I always thought that was little kid stuff. But I guess not hmm?” He kept looking at it and wondered if anything more would come from it. “I agree, how else can we explain those things? No other option seems likely if you ask me.” When Reno agreed that touching it probably wasn’t the smartest thing he chuckled and nodded, “exactly why I changed my mind about touching it!” He smiled before yawning and walking around, arms swung at his sides as he contemplated what to do and what it might be. He always thought better while moving around. “So What do yo-“ He stopped suddenly when he heard another wail. Turning around sharply he felt his heart beat quicken. “I guess your right, at least we know it IS the problem hmm?”

Shrugging, he decided to just take it down quickly and get it over with. Channeling his power, he lifted his sword above his head and behind him a bit, took a deep breath, crouched down and shot off toward it, giving a war cry as he did so. “Aghhhhhh!!” He cried as he flung his arm forward to slice across its chest and feeling his feet touch the earth again he bunched his muscles and jumped in the air, twirling his sword before coming back down hard, imbedding his sword into its hide. At least now he had some experience with them, so he knew the easiest way to take it down. Being an ex-SOLDIER he was always looking for weaknesses, and right in its neck area was the softest place it would seem to him. Feeling it roar and start to fall he jumped off and landed on his feet, sword still in its hide. When it fell he walked toward it and placing a hand on the hilt of his sword he jerked it out, looking at the beast. “Sorry…” he muttered out apologetically at it, even if it was a beast.

[Reno Sinclair]

Fiery Red Head
Looks like today we're clockin' out early

Reno wheezed out a chuckle as he listened to Zack. “Exciting. Right. I don’t think I could live with all the fighting that they had SOLIDER doing. I’ll stick with the boring stuff.” Reno shrugged some thinking about his job, it was pretty good. A few rumbles here and there and definitely never that dull, there was always something to do, but compared to the life of a SOLDIER, or in this case Ex-SOLDIER, his life was pretty dull. “As you can see, I’m not equipped enough to take on creatures like these…just a stupid little tazer to take on regular people with.” He said patting his jacket where he kept his electro mag rod when not using it.

A grimace crossed Reno’s face, he wasn’t as…used to getting slapped around as Zack was. “Eh. Looks like these things target your lungs eh?” he said with a wheeze before deciding it was nothing…actually, he’d check it out once he got back to ShinRa HQ, no need to look like a wimp in front of Zack, at least today. Any more hits and Reno would probably fall over, hopefully that wouldn’t happen. So he just smirked a smile. “I’m fine, I’ve taken a few hits before.” Trying to act tough was…well tough, but Reno had a surprisingly good poker face, so this was good. While keeping his poker face going Reno studied the portal. This wasn’t normal.

Reno rubbed his chin with his fingers as he looked at the portal from all directions as he circled it. “It’s definitely a portal…but the thing is…how did it get here? Where does it lead?” These were very good questions, and Reno wanted answers, but there was no way he was going into that portal or sending someone in there. It could be very dangerous, and with those monsters popping out of it, it was sure to be a suicide mission if someone entered. “I’m going to do a little research when I get back to ShinRa…This could be a big problem, we need to find a way to close this thing before anymore of those monsters-“ And well, what do you know. Zack took down the beast and had apologized to it? Oh well, Reno didn’t comment about it. But at least this one went down quickly and no more were with it.

Staring down at the beast Reno shook his head. “This is going to be bad…I fear that these things will pop out and run around Edge.” He sighed heavily, oh the stress! “We can’t guard this portal…what if there are others?” This was a problem, a big problem. “Im going to figure out what these things are…or try to…Once I find anything out about them…want me to fill you in?” Reno asked looking at Zack before looking down at the beast, trying to capture a mental picture of the thing.

[Zack Fair]

::...The Puppy...::

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Your gonna be my…Living Legacy.

He nodded at Reno as he explained he had only his tazer to take on regular people with, but was distracted while fighting the monster. After he took it down he turned to Reno with an odd expression on his face, “If you want my advice, I’d get something that packs a little bit more power for cases like these. Maybe a gun? You don’t seem like a sword kind of guy.” He shrugged, anything would be better then just the tazer.

He mused on what he asked about why it was here and where it led to. “Personally I don’t wanna find out today where it goes. And…well I would say Sephiroth but that doesn’t seem like his style…I’m not sure Reno, but one thing’s for sure, that isn’t something that I’ve ever heard of before.” Glancing down at the swirling mass…it couldn’t have anything to do with Cloud becoming a l’cie could it? He didn’t know everything about the l’cie, but while he was in the lifestream with Aerith he had learned some, and she knew more then he did about the subject, he should talk to her about it. “One things for sure though…keep your eyes open and try not to let yourself be caught off guard anywhere. Since we don’t know what’s behind it whoever put it there has the advantage. It couldn’t have gotten here without someone putting it there for a reason.”

Zack’s job had never been to think, that was Reno’s job, but he had always thought more then the average SOLDIER member, which in the long run had led to the end for him, learning to much and knowing to much. He had always had a bit of contempt for SOLDIER’S that just did a job without thinking about it. The problem with him was that he had a conscience, took things into consideration…but he hated the thought of being a puppet and just being a machine.

Nodding, he swept a hand through his hair, “Yeah I was hoping you’d look into it too. I’m gonna ask around and try to learn a few things, but ultimately you’ve done more researching, thus you’re better at it.” He nodded again when Reno asked if he wanted to be filled in, “Yeah Totally, I’m in this too since I was here, and I’ll help with it. As much as I dislike ShinRa, if you guys need help with any of this just call me ok? For old times sake I’ll help you if you need some more man power.”

He suddenly looked at Reno, “Hey, um…Aerith is alive too, she’s back like me. Now I know the Turks had been watching her and going to take her to ShinRa in previous times. Just a word, mainly for the president, or Tseng or whoever, I’m not gonna stand for anyone spying on her ok? I respect and like you all, but if anyone threatens her or if you try to take her to ShinRa I won’t allow it to happen. She might be an ancient but she’s also a human being…” He wasn’t threatening Reno at all, more like warning the president through him. He held out a hand to shake with him again a smile on his face, “Don’t think I’m threatening you, just clearing that up.”

[Reno Sinclair]

Fiery Red Head
Looks like today we're clockin' out early

Reno rubbed the back of his head as Zack mentioned getting another weapon of some sort. “Ah, that might be a good idea.” Reno shrugged before a smirky grin appeared on his face. “You know, after you get this weapons shop up and running, I know exactly where to buy it too.” It truly was a nice idea for Zack to be running his own business, seemed everyone now and days rather be their own employer than work for someone else, but not Reno, he was a Turk for life. And he wouldn’t have it any other way, he liked the way things were turning out lately. Hopefully, they would stay that way.

Mentioning Sephiroth actually gave Reno quite the dark little chuckle. The thought of Sephiroth going through that portal, and possibly never coming back, was almost a dream come true, that was unlikely to happen though. “Sephiroth, Eh, if he goes in…let’s hope he doesn’t come out…and while he’s at it…he really should take those remnants of his with him.” Reno grumbled a bit, still feeling a bit sore over the crash of his helicopter and the little remnant that had zoomed right through his copter making a mess of everything. Poor Rude, almost falling off the helicopter, but that was the past, although Reno still held a slight grudge against those 3 brothers, the terror they put Midgar through, what a pain. “I’ll stay on guard…and I’ll find out as much as I can about them…if there’s any information I find, You’ll be the first to know.”

Aerith, she was back too? Uh oh. Reno got a hunch he knew where this was heading. Of course Zack wouldn’t be happy if someone hurt and or spied on Aerith, weren’t they an item or something? Or was Zack just protective? Either way, ShinRa didn’t know Aerith was back and if anything should happen, Reno would do his best to talk them out of it, she really was no threat to anyone…just an overly sweet girl was all really. Reno held up his hands in defense. “No no, I believe you, no threats, I totally understand. She’s your…significant other I suppose?” Reno smirked a bit resting his arms at his sides now. “I’ll personally make sure ShinRa leaves her alone…if they even know about her return…”

[Zack Fair]

::...The Puppy...::

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Your gonna be my…Living Legacy.

He shook his head before slapping Reno on the shoulder happily, “Your right, don’t buy one till we get this up and running!” he said with a wink and glanced around, wondering in his mind where he should start up his shop. Then something hit him…if Cloud was going to destroy the world…what did that mean? Why bother setting up a shop for himself if the world was going to be destroyed? He sighed slightly but chose to push it out of his mind for now, he would think about it more later on.

He nodded actually seriously when Reno said Sephiroth should go in and never come back out. “I would have to agree with you. It seems I’m one of the only people that doesn’t hate Sephiroth, and yet never seeing him again would eliminate a lot of problems.” He nodded again, thankful that Reno said he would fill him in if he found out anything else. “I appreciate it. We really do need to get to the bottom of this, and fast. No telling who’s gonna stumble across this.”

He rubbed the back of his neck, realizing how awkward what he had said was. He didn’t mean it as a threat…well, not entirely. He wasn’t going to stand around and let ShinRa ruin her life either, but from what Reno said they had changed somewhat. He smiled, “She’s my Girl friend, but she’ll be my wife one day.” He said almost wistfully. They had talked and determined that they had to focus on Cloud right at the moment. Cloud was a l’cie, Cloud needed them, plus his focus was to destroy the world. So they had agreed not to think about Marriage or anything like that until it was all cleared up. Still it was hard, what if the end of the world meant the total destruction of everyone?

He nodded, “Thanks, personally I would like it if you didn’t tell them, the longer they don’t know about her, the better I think personally.”