We postponed the drawing names until the houses were actually built, which scarily didn't take very long. The Turks, though high as hell, were very efficient workers. They built three houses in less than an hour. The houses weren't very good, but after they set it up, Cid and I went through them and fixed all the errors the Turks made. There were a lot of errors, but it only took us about an hour per house to fix them up. After one day's hard work, we were finished with the new Sector 5.
     The sector was extremely crammed together. We had many multistory buildings just to squeeze everything together. Cid and Shera had their own house with a garage/lab on the first floor, and a living area above it. The Turks had their dream house: a basement with a bar above it. The bar was constructed to look exactly like the Seventh Heaven, and this time the pinball machine trapdoor led directly to the Turks' front door. A new feature on this version of the Seventh Heaven was that the pinball machine could also go up to the second floor where Cloud and the Seventh Heaven girls stayed. The Wallace house (which included Dyne) was very small, and had strange, small, stone formations on the roof. We all knew what it was for, but we also had no idea how Marlene was able to move those stones by herself.
     I helped her.
     Rufus's Mansion was like a Transformer toy. His giant trailer parked in the rear part of the sector where it would seem most majestic. Then the front wall folded down and from that more walls rose up out of that wall. All around walls folded down and popped back up. Finally, his two-story mansion was assembled, painted, and making our buildings look like the shit they truly were. Vincent and Lucrecia built a Shinra Mansion replica for themselves, and while it looked decent from the outside, it was very wrong on the inside. Tifa and Yuffie decided to all move into Aeris's house, so I already knew where I'd spend most of my time. As far as my house goes, I got a small house to share with Mother. The house was built only feet from Mother's tuby, which Mother decided was going to be the new dog house. Mother also told me she'd be running all sorts of extension cords out of the house so she can watch Sonic with her favorite puppy Edwardo.
     After finishing the last of the buildings, everybody in the sector got together to have some drinks at the Seventh Heaven. Even Marlene sat in the corner drinking the apple juice Barret gave her. It was poured in the same glass as the beer so that Marlene could pretend she was drinking beer like the rest of them.
     "Yo Niggapapa," Marlene said to Barret. Barret sat at Marlene's table and set his beer down. "I was just wondering how cold it is in here, 'cause I'm kinda hot, but those girlies behind the counter and their tight shirts are telling me it's really cold." Barret turned to look at the Seventh Heaven girls and Marlene started laughing. "Ha ha, made ya look!" Barret looked back at Marlene as though she had just done something cute like a normal four-year old would do, then grabbed his beer and headed back to the bar to talk listen to the end of Dyne's joke and finish his beer. He took a big drink just as Dyne got to the punchline.
     Dyne finished his joke: "... so the frog says to the other frog, 'hey, I'll lick your back if you lick mine!"
     Barret spat his drink in Dyne's face.
     "Thanks Barret. I've never had someone think one of my jokes was that funny," Dyne said, almost in tears.
     "Yo, Dyne, your joke sucked," Barret said, "it's jus' dat dis isn't beer! It's apple juice!" Barret spun around to face Marlene's table in time to see her down the rest of Barret's beer. "Marlene!"
     "Oh crap!" Marlene yelled, jumping up from her seat, "angry black man! Run everyone!" Marlene bolted out of the Seventh Heaven. Barret started to chase her, but after taking a couple steps, he stopped and turned back to the girls behind the bar and ordered another beer.
     Who ordered pizza?
     "Why do you ask Mother?" I asked while everybody else stared at Mother hopping happily into the Seventh Heaven.
     Well, Dominos is here.
     "Dominos?" I said aloud and walked out of the Seventh Heaven and toward the entrance to Sector 5, with Mother following closely behind me. At the entrance to the sector was Mayor Domino with his companion Hart. "Mother, this isn't Domino like the pizza."
     Oh, okay, I get it now. I'll be back.
     Mother ran away, but what scared me most was that she ran straight for Marlene, whispered something to her, and both ran off. Cloud and Rufus both wandered out of the Seventh Heaven and joined me to talk with Mayor Domino.
     "Well hey there everybody," Mayor Domino said to all of us. "So who's in charge here? All of you? That makes sense. After all, you were all former Shin-Ra employees. I need to talk to you boys about the uhh, legality of your actions. Let's see, first you attacked the sector with outlawed materia, scaring out all of the residents, then, illegally rezoned the area and built your own buildings without building contracts or licensed contractors."
     Rufus and I gave each other the 'what-a-dumbass' look. Cloud smiled happily at Mayor Domino and Hart. Mother and Marlene were apparently continuing construction on Marlene's shrine because they were dragging several of the seven-foot-tall stones toward the Wallace house, but instead of bringing them all to the house immediately, they were lining them up starting at the house, and placing the last one near the mayor. Then, they ran back to the house, and the mayor began rambling again.
     "I'm afraid you guys are going to all face serious charges in the Shin-Ra court. However, I'll let you guys get away with only a fine if you turn in all your materia to the Shin-Ra Board of Materia Prevention and if you guess the word I'm thinking of."
     Cloud, Rufus, and I all knew about Mayor Domino's obsession with word guessing games. Mayor Domino was holding back laughter and Hart was holding a sign that said Clues for Gil.    
     "Is it mako?" Rufus said dully.
     "Umm... why, y-yes, it was," Mayor Domino stuttered. "But I've got a different word now. Guess it and you'll have an even smaller fine, but this word is a tough one. You'll never-"
     "It's bomb, isn't it?" I said.
     "Well dang," Mayor Domino said. "I mean, uhh, that question wasn't for you, it was for Spike here," he motioned to Cloud. "Now, Spike, tell me, what word am I thinking of?"
     Cloud looked at him cluelessly. "I'm really not sure," Cloud said. "If I took a guess though, I'd guess it was king."
     "HART! You need to think up some new words for me," Mayor Domino yelled furiously. "These guys know all my words! They're cheating."
     "You know, you could always lie and say we didn't guess them," Rufus said cooly.
     "I-" Mayor Domino paused to think. "Why yes, I could. In fact, you didn't get any of my words right."
     "Rufus!" I yelled. "Why'd you tell him that!? You know he's not smart enough to-"
     Maple Bonsai!
     Mother's battle cry has never meant anything good, so I looked around to see where she was hiding, but in fact, she wasn't hiding at all. She had just thrown Marlene off the roof of the house toward the closest stone. Marlene soared feet first through the air until her sneakers collided with the stone. She bounced off of the top of the stone and landed on her back in the dirt and smiled evilly.
     "She didn't!" Rufus said to me, but the damage was already done, and unstoppable. The stone tipped away from the house, and the top of the stone collided with the top of the next stone. Rufus, Cloud, Hart, and I all looked at the placement of the stones and we found ourselves to be the focus point of the falling stones. Mayor Domino was still yelling about how much trouble we were in for not guessing his words, and didn't seem to notice the stones falling in the distance. The rest of the people in the sector did notice; however, and they all piled out of the Seventh Heaven to see what all the noise was.
     The falling stones started gaining speed and before any had thought to move, the third stone from us was already falling into the next stone.
     "Mayor Do-" Hart started.
     "Shut up!" Mayor Domino yelled, "I'm explaining their punishment and-"
     The second stone collided into the stone nearest to us. Cloud, Rufus, and I all turned and dove away from the stone, yelling our choice profanities. Hart turned and dove to the opposite side of the falling stone, but Mayor Domino only just noticed the giant stone bearing down on him, and stared silently at the stone as it fell toward him. The stone hit the ground flatly, unmoved even with the Mayor pinched between the rock and the hard place. The rock lay silently pressed against the ground, with no part of Mayor Domino to be seen at all, and no visible gaps between the rock and the ground. Cloud, Rufus, and I stood up and ran over to the stone, and started to lift it. Hart stared at the rock with his eyes wide open and lips trembling.
     "M-m-m-m-m-mayor?" Hart stuttered. Cloud, Rufus and I lifted the rock a couple inches off the ground, looked under, and dropped the stone.
     "Holy shit," Rufus said, then ran behind a building while covering his mouth. Cloud stared silently, but had a different look in his eyes, that made it obvious that the recent trauma had restored him to his normal self.
     "Y-y-y-y-y-you guys are in so much trouble," Hart said getting to his feet. "This is political assassination! You're all going to-" His sentence broke off as he fell backwards to the ground and lie face up. Cloud and I walked to his body and saw a small bullet hole directly between his eyes. We turned to see Vincent holding a smoking, silenced handgun.
     Yay for dominos! That was fun! Hey Sephy, why're you all quiet? Help me set these up so we can play again.
     "Okay, nobody panic," Tseng said. "We Turks will clean this up, the rest of you go to your respective homes. Nobody saw Mayor Domino nor Hart. They didn't come to visit us. None of us have seen either of them for years."
     "HOLY $%#@! I KILLED HIM!" Marlene screamed. "That was so friken funny!"
     Yay, let's play again!
     Nobody talked the rest of the night, but nobody went to their houses. We all just said in the Seventh Heaven drinking coffee and listening to Mother and Marlene talk about their game of dominos.
     "That was awesome!" Marlene said. "I just wish I heard a splat."
     Yeah, but I don't think dominos make those kinds of noises. They go tink and clunk and thwack.
     "I hope those Turks don't mess with that stone, 'cause I want that one in my shrine, right in the center."

     The next day the Turks set off with Rufus, Cid, and Shera to put their cover story into action. I didn't know what kind of story they had planned, but I knew my job was the most important part of their plan. I had to make sure Mother and Marlene did not speak to anybody outside the sector until the media had made up a believable story for the disappearance of Mayor Domino and Hart.