"Follow me guys," Yuffie said, leading us out of the pagoda. She waved
to Godo before leaving, but Godo was too busy trying to revive his warriors.
"Hey Yuffie?" I asked as she led us
through several back alleys and restaurant kitchens. "Where the hell are we
going?"
"Like, duh," she replied.
Exactly Sephy. Like, duh! I'm going to use that from
now on. Hey Sephy! Ask me what's for dinner.
"Mother, what's for dinner?"
Like, duh! Oh my god Sephy that was awesome!
I'm totally using that.
"Yuffie, explain, now."
"I was going to, geez," she
complained. "We're going to see the guy."
"The guy?"
"Yeah, the guy. So anyway, this guy can hook us up
with the best damn resistance fighters this side of the-"
"Aww dammit," I said, stopping in the middle
of some soup kitchen. "The best resistance fighters means we'll be teaming
back up with Avalanche, doesn't it?"
"It's possible, but I know. I do know that you'll
at least be teaming up with the sexiest, best fighter in the world!"
"Tifa's here?"
"No!"
Then it must be Dio!
"NO NO NO! Me!" Yuffie said, pointing to
herself.
"Oh."
Well she does have nice legs.
"Fine! We'll take the short cut," Yuffie
said angrily.
Yuffie took us through a short-shortcut and soon
enough, we were there. Where? I dunno. There was a door. It was red with a
sliding door peephole thing like in Roger Rabbit. A man slid open the door thing
and looked through it at us.
"Password?" he asked us.
"You can see us you twit," Yuffie said.
"Open the door."
The peephole closed and the door opened. The man was
very average looking aside from his long beard, dark sunglasses, brown trench coat
with the collar up and matching hat. The man led us inside to a room that made
me want to commit suicide right then. There was a tie-dye couch, a lava-lamp in
the corner with no stand, shaggy carpet, a retro coffee table with a bong on it,
and a projector built onto the roof, projecting against one of the non-painted
walls. The rest of the walls were bright red.
"Yuffie?" I asked. "If you wanted to get
high and watch porno with some hippy, you could've told me. I'd have waited
outside and not had to be in this room that makes me want to throw up in my
mouth, then on the couch."
"Hey, don't disgrace man," the man in the
trench coat said.
"So who the hell are you anyway?" I asked
him.
"Me? You don't know me? I'm James.... FOOL!"
Sephy! It's James! He's here!
"Just pay attention and sit on the
couch," Yuffie ordered us. "We have a slide show prepared to show what
we need to do. We just need to wait for the rest of our resistance team to get
here before we can move on."
"Oh, there's only three of them aside from you
two," James told us. "Two of 'em are outside, and the little one's in
the bathroom."
The toilet in the next room flushed with a very awkward
sound, followed by a very awkward, yet familiar sound.
"Mutha of Niggapapa! I could've told you that shit
wouldn't flush! It's huge. It's bigger than a black man's-"
"Yo Marlene!" Barret said, bursting open the
front door and running to the bathroom door. He started banging on it.
"Just pull your pants up and get out here."
"I'm serious Niggapapa," Marlene's voice on
the other side of the door said. "I think I need a size comparison. Can you
come in here right quick?"
Dyne snuck in quietly and walked to the couch were
Mother and I were sitting. He waved without saying anything and sat beside us.
Barret made his way to the couch and offered me a handshake.
"Yo Seph, glad you could make it man," he
said. I shook his hand and he took a seat next to me.
Soon enough Marlene emerged from the bathroom with a
plunger in hand and water all over her dress. "Sorry about the crapper
Jamie," Marlene said to James. "You should've seen that turd. In fact,
you will. It's still there. I think that thing's wider than this here
plunger-ma-bobber. I think I might've given birth to some child. Some nasty poo-colored-"
"Marlene! Sit!" Barret ordered. "I know
you jus' plannin' to make some nasty reference, so jus' stop."
"Starting the show!" Yuffie yelled, clicking
off the lights in the room and turning on a projector. A picture of Midgar came
up. "This is Midgar. Like, duh!"
Like, duh! Yay!
"If Shin-Ra continues like this, we're gonna
have a world flooded with Mako cuz all these reactors will be all over the
world, along with all their pollution. Now-"
"If this is it, I'm leaving," I said,
standing up, blocking the projector. "You already explained all this, and
right now there's a window we're missing. Obviously the Turks have a boat or
airship or something that they used to get here, and we need to sneak on board
and kick some ass, right? So let's go. Our objective is to kick enough Shin-Ra
ass until they remember that they're only a damned electric company!"
"Good call Seph," Barret said, rising off the
couch. "Peace James, but we've got this bitch covered."
Barret, Dyne, Marlene, Yuffie, Mother, and I all left
the tiny room and without wasting any time, ran for the nearest harbor. The
streets were relatively empty, yet really really bright with all the lit up advertisements
shining up and down the street, so finding the harbor was a piece of cake. We
ran into the harbor immediately found the giant ship belonging to Shin-Ra. Hojo
was onboard talking to Heidegger while the Turks loaded up some Wutaian liquor.
Barret and I ran ahead while Mother and Marlene stomped noisily as they chased
after us. Dyne brought up the back, walking around pointing his gunarm
everywhere like some sort of commando. Yuffie was nowhere to be seen though.
Barret fired off a couple rounds from his gunarm at the
Turks' feet. The Turks spun around in surprise and Elena dropped a bottle.
"Elena!" Tseng yelled. "Don't spill the
beer!"
"Sorry Tseng," she replied.
"You'd do well to release the animals," I
told the Turks.
"You could always just give up what we need,"
Heidegger said, walking down the ship's ramp towards me. "I think you know
what we want." He pointed up at Hojo.
"You can have him," I said.
"No son," Hojo said. "He's pointing
because I'm going to tell you what we want. And we want Jenova. We never
finished doing all the research on her since the last time you broke in and
stole her from us."
"You mean this whole thing was a plot to get
Mother back? All this pollution nonsense and Wutai junk, just to get
Mother?"
"No no," Heidegger said. "We still want
to do all that too. But this whole encounter was set up just to get
Jenova to come with us willingly."
"Fine, let's go then." I pulled out my
Masamune and got into my fighting stance with my sword up by my face, pointing
it at Heidegger.
Heidegger stood his ground calmly, but the Turks
immediately brought out their weapons and surrounded Heidegger to defend him.
Barret and Dyne quickly jumped to my aid. Then, suddenly, a giant section of the
ship's decking moved aside and a platform below rose up.
"I'd like you all to meet the Proud Clod 4,"
Heidegger said. "Gya ha ha ha ha!"
"Yo Seph, who's takin' on the Turks, and who's
takin' on that thing?" Barret asked me.
The Proud Clod 4's loudspeaker came on a second later
and responded to Heidegger's laugh with it's own: "Kya ha ha ha ha!"
"Never mind," Barret said. "The Clod's
%#$^ing ours."
Barret and Dyne walked passed the Turks with no
resistance and faced off with the Proud Clod 4. The Turks faced me.
"Sephenstein, you're ours dude I guess," Reno
said.
"Good luck Seph McSephster," Tseng said.
"You'll need it."
"No he won't!" Yuffie piped up from behind
me. I turned and saw Yuffie lined up and posing with Gorki, Shake, Chekhov, and
Staniv. "We've got your back Sephiroth!"
"Yeah, now I've got confidence," I said
sarcastically.
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