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Post by mistervillainman on Oct 17, 2006 4:59:05 GMT
Rufus tilted his head to the side.
"Are your ears not functioning correctly? There is a certain marking that should be on you that resembles the one wing of the Sephiroth line. If you have this marking... Your the one I'm looking for. It should be somewhere in the vicinity of your shoulderblade."
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Oct 17, 2006 5:08:57 GMT
Ami's stomach churned and boiled with rage and disgust as her steely glare returned. "You know, it figures we'd wind up here alone in your office... and you'd ask me to take my shirt off. You wouldn't be the first president to do the same, I'm sure." Now I think I begin to understand why the Template's anger was so great. Nothing can justify what he did... but this comes awfully d**n close.
She glanced at the clock. Thirty seconds to spare.
Trying to keep herself from shuddering as violently externally as she was internally, she slowly turned around and lifted the back of her tank top, hooking it on her shoulder.
The scar was there, a dark gray wing that was once stained black by Geostigma.
Ami let one tear slip out from behind her eyelids. "And now, Mr. President... you have your information. You know the truth about me. So..."
Ami looked down at her left hand, cradled under her chest. It had begun to shimmer silver. Yes, now is the time to tip the scales.
"...Don't you think it's time we ended all this?" Ami asked softly, her voice colored with false sorrow.
There was no warning. She flung her arm towards the window, and a bolt of silver energy shattered it, flying into the cloudy sky.
Ami launched herself at the Turk guarding Squall with a horrific, desperate, wild scream. BOYS, HURRY!
A deep thrumming sound came from far away...
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Post by mistervillainman on Oct 17, 2006 5:15:35 GMT
Rufus dropped his walking stick and reached into his jacket, whipping out his automatic mini-rifle and bringing it to bear on the escaping figure. In the split second he had to make a decision, Rufus came up with this... He needed Ami alive and in relatively good condition... but she wanted to get her friend out of here too...
He fired the rifle, blowing a hole into Squall's left thigh. The sudden drop in support caused Ami to faulter and Rufus rushed forward, slamming her up against the wall and he put the gun to her chin.
"That wasnt a good idea my dear... I'll do far worse next time you do that. and you KNOW I dont bluff."
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Oct 17, 2006 5:28:24 GMT
A cacaphony of splintering glass suddenly began.
Moments earlier...
Three figures, each seated on a motorcycle, had braked to a stop at the base of the new Shinra office building.
Each one had given the other a knowing look.
"Time to bust some glass, brothers," said the middle one.
The tallest had grinned a wicked grin. "D**n right."
Each had reignited his engine and sent his cycle on a head-on course towards the glass facade of the building, popping a nearly vertical wheelie that propped his vehicle's front wheel on the wall... and cranked up the ignition to send the cycle roaring up the side of the building, shattering every window that crossed under his wheels on the way.
As they approached the top floor, as one they jumped their cycles into the hole Ami had made in the window she faced when she called them...
And skidded to a stop in the middle of Rufus Shinra's office, lately a civilized prison for their youngest sister.
The cycles had not even stopped sliding as they sprang into action.
The youngest of the three snagged the corporate monster's shoulder from behind and swung him around, slamming him violently back against a wall before pressing a very sharp and incredibly deadly double-bladed katana against his throat.
He spoke with the low, hissing voice of an angry snake.
"What... in the h**l... do you think... you are doing... with MY SISTER?!"
Kadaj bashed the hilt of his Souba into Rufus' head, savoring the irony of this moment, knocking him to the floor. He kicked the rifle away to Yazoo, who was at the time checking Ami to see if there was a single mark on her. He swung the point of the sword down at Rufus' head. "If I do not enjoy your answer... this moment is your last."
Loz giggled with oafish delight as he plowed through the Turk guards. "This is gonna be FUN."
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Post by mistervillainman on Oct 17, 2006 5:34:06 GMT
As Rufus dropped to the floor, pain pounding through his brain, he couldnt help but laugh at this situation. At first he sincerely doubted wether or not it was happening, because it should have been impossible... Then he felt the blood moving down his face and he knew it was real.
"Well hello again Kadaj..." He said, still chuckling slightly even though his mind pounded and blood trickled down his temple. "I was just trying to have a civil conversation with her... But she chose to make it difficult. So she decided to call her sisters in to help her."
As he spoke, he tried lifting his head up to look at Kadaj, but his hand slid under his jacket to the panic button at his belt, struggling to slide it under his own weight without signalling them to what he was doing.
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Oct 17, 2006 5:44:01 GMT
Kadaj kicked him in the gut, sending him flying backwards. He would have kept going if not for the wall that got in his way. "That entire 'we look like girls' shtick is getting very f**king old."
Kadaj grabbed Rufus by the collar and shoved him into yet another wall, cracking the plaster, suspending him about a foot above the floor. "So maybe I should give myself a haircut... but I think I'll practice on you first." He traced a line across Rufus' forehead with his sword, leaving twin tracks of blood. "Take a little off the top, perhaps."
He hurled the creature at his desk, splintering it. He pounced on the intercom. "You call off your goons, NOW. In case you're too dense to realize it... that's MY family down there, too. And make no mistake-- filial loyalty..." He jabbed the sword at Rufus' throat. "...It's one of my sticking points."
Loz finished off the guards and pitched what was left of them out the window.
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Post by mistervillainman on Oct 17, 2006 5:46:51 GMT
Rufus cringed in pain, but he didnt DARE let it show on his face beyond a tightening of the jaw.
"Kadaj... I think you fail to realize something here... You need to ask yourself, which of us has more to lose? I have downstairs right now almost 300 soliders including Tseng, who has your family within INCHES of death... If I choose not to call them off, you kill me, my people kill them... Who loses more?"
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Oct 17, 2006 5:53:40 GMT
Kadaj didn't have to think twice. "You do... because if you don't call off those brutes of yours, I will mow down every last one of them before they have a chance to even blink. And don't think I'm bluffing-- you know I can. I simply wanted to save myself the trouble."
He swung the sword around at Rufus' crotch. "And of course, let us not forget which of us may wind up more like a girl after this business is finished." He smirked evilly. "Call off the goons. Last chance to die with your manhood intact."
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Post by mistervillainman on Oct 17, 2006 5:55:38 GMT
Rufus looked down at the sword and nodded, shrugging his shoulders.
"Well Kadaj... Your logic is infalible as usual." He said, pressing the button for the intercomm. "Tseng, the family stays alive."
"Yes sir." He replied.
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Oct 17, 2006 5:59:36 GMT
Kadaj promptly sliced the intercom in half. "You have approximately two minutes left to live... during which time, I have just one last task left for you to carry out."
He yanked Rufus up by the shirt collar and planted him, knees first, on the floor in front of his sister. "On your knees," he growled. "I want you to beg for her forgiveness. Loz!"
Loz lumbered over and took over, holding Rufus firmly in place as Kadaj gave his sword over to Ami with a nod.
She stepped forward, glancing over once at Yazoo, who was busy trying to do something about Squall's gunshot wound. "I'm waiting, b****h," she told him, sword gripped firmly in hand.
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Post by mistervillainman on Oct 17, 2006 6:06:36 GMT
Rufus guffawed a laugh at this.
"Well I see that brains are something only the original posessed..." At that moment he felt a small shudder in the floor below him, and only felt it because his knees were on the ground. He smiled to himself and nodded. "So Kadaj, how many times in your life have you ordered other guys down on their knees? Or was it YOU that always ended up that way?"
Before Kadaj could answer, the floor beneath Rufus suddenly shattered and he toppled through the new opening, slamming into the floor below and the wind left his lungs. Tseng and 30 Soldiers opened fire through the ceiling as they quickly evacuated the room, taking Rufus with them.
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Oct 17, 2006 6:27:14 GMT
Kadaj jumped out of the gunfire's trajectory, simultaneously tackling Ami out of the way, rolling across to her other side. "Sometimes I think the universe just waits for me to get c0cky," Kadaj groaned as he pushed himself up.
Loz, in the meantime, had barely dodged the bullets and was holding his shoulder, which seemed to be leaking a blue-green colored liquid. Kadaj noticed this ahead of the others. Great, they drew blood. "Oh, h**l..."
Loz started bawling. Yazoo facepalmed himself. "Loz, knock it off! Were in the middle of a battle here!"
Ami sprang up from the floor and made as if to plunge through the floor after them. Kadaj barely caught her in time. "Wait!"
"We've got to stop them!" Ami screeched, rage burning through her like wildfire. "He'll get away!"
"Ami, stop! Listen to yourself!"
Ami did, instinctively obeying... and realized what part of her had almost emerged in that one logic-burning moment. She began to shake and retch.
"Easy, easy..." Kadaj took her shoulders. "Ami, look at me. My eyes... look at my eyes, Ami."
Her breathing became more regular as she started to regain control of herself.
"We have to find Stephen and Nora and Lana. Understand?"
She nodded dumbly.
He straightened again. "All right. Yazoo?"
Yazoo stepped forward.
"Clear your head. Focus on their presences."
He closed his eyes and concentrated, searching the facility for his adopted family.
"Loz, head outside and see if Little Brother needs any help with the Iron Man out there."
All too happy to oblige, Loz sprinted into the corridor.
Kadaj's eyes narrowed. "Meanwhile, I'm going to see exactly where Mr. Shinra and his entourage are heading."
He prepared to drop through the hole and stopped when he saw Ami preparing to follow. "Not you. Stay here... Squall needs your help."
He vanished in hot pursuit of the mob, keeping a silent and healthy distance behind them... doing this alone was not a comfortable thought for him, but bringing Ami along was out of the question. She needs time to become herself again. A person can't spend too much time in the darkness before it becomes a part of them... a lesson I learned the hard way.
Ami nearly protested... until she saw Squall's leg, gushing blood. "Squall... my G**... did he...?"
She tore her skirt ragged, using it to fashion a crude bandage.
****
Rude, hearing the stampede below, cut off from b***h-slapping Mr. Roboto and peeked down. He saw the mob making its way outside... "Oh, c**p! Rude!"
Rude groaned and stirred, dragging himself off the floor and over to the hole. "He's getting away, right?"
"Yup. What do we do?"
"Good question."
They cut the conversation short as the cyborg loomed over them...
Loz hurled himself at the hostile robot, unloading the Dual Hound into the back of its head. "Having fun yet?"
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Post by mistervillainman on Oct 17, 2006 6:35:53 GMT
Rufus groaned in pain as Tseng shouldered him down the hallway as quickly as he could. They reached his emergency garage and his personal shuttle was waiting inside.
"Tseng... I want blood from them for this... No rules... No restraint this time. Blood." Rufus said, climbing painfully into the seat.
Tseng nodded. "Yes sir, we'll handle it."
With that, he and Elena hurried off down the hallway, leaving 5 soldiers to go with Rufus and taking a task force of 70 with them.
As Loz attacked the cyborg, Tseng's task force burst through the door and opened fire on any figures that moved, tossing gas grenades as they rushed in.
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Post by Amnesty Lazuli on Oct 17, 2006 6:49:11 GMT
Loz gave them all the pouting glare a six-year-old gives someone he's just caught playing with cards stuffed up his sleeve. "No fair!"
He gave the cyborg one more hard blow, just to make sure he'd stay down, for a little while anyway. "Let's teach these cheaters a lesson!"
He barreled into them both fists swinging... and giggled as he realized he knew something the task force didn't... They could unload all the bullets they wanted into him, and it wouldn't make one iota of difference... for how can you kill someone who's already dead, in fault of a proton pack?
Rude and Reno gave each other a look. It's either live hunted men, or die fighting back.
They shook hands before charging forward, smashing every soldier that happened to get in their way.
Reno singled out Elena. "Huh... not looking bad, yo. You been working out?" He swung at her, EMR aimed right at her neck.
Rude confronted Tseng. "I'd prefer to leave you alive... but since you don't seem willing to reciprocate the sentiment..."
He unleashed a powerful right hook on his former boss.
The tear gas erupted... Loz didn't seem affected at all, but Reno and Rude had to suffer it out...
****
Yazoo's eyes snapped open. "I've got them."
He pulled Squall onto his shoulders. "Come on, Ami... we're taking the back way out."
He dropped through the hole and began to lead the way through the endless corridors. Ami hesitated for a moment before following him.
****
Kadaj eyed the shuttle. Hmm... Five soldiers. What an insult.
He scraped the end of his sword on the floor to draw their attention before emerging from the shadows. "Question my wardrobe all you like... but sir..." Here he took a melodramatic bow. "Behold the immortal."
He clashed blades with the nearest guard...
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Post by mistervillainman on Oct 17, 2006 6:55:41 GMT
Elena just glared at the red-haired annoyance before her and ducked under his strike, driving her own EMR right up into his crotch, then elbowing him in the face.
Tseng felt the force of Rude's punch like a 90 pound weight fell on him, but he quickly regained his balance, shaking it off and swinging his dual EMR's at Rude's neck on either side.
the soldiers swarmed around Loz, trying desperately to take him down with melee weapons since their guns didnt have much effect... this method wasnt working out too good either.
Rufus groaned as Kadaj attacked his guards, he continued prepping the shuttle for launch and was already powering it up for launch. The Soldiers all attacked Kadaj at once, not able to match his speed, but they certainly managed to use their numbers to their advantage, each attack got closer to landing as the fight went on.
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