FFVII: Turks [Archive]

[Mikari]

This is an archive of the old posts from Hikou's Turks RP. I'm posting this here as a backup and for easy access at RPGalaxy.

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Role Playing => Games => Topic started by: Hikou on December 02, 2007, 09:31:42 PM

Title: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 02, 2007, 09:31:42 PM
O: Hikou wanted to restart her old Turks RP. Any interest before I start reposting babble?

Mission Objective: Since its foundation the Shinra company has made numerous enemies in high and low places, and although the corporation has been reforming since the meteor incident many of those enemies remain. It is the duty of the TURKS unit to neutralize all potential threats to the Shinra company and its President. Recently, a small rebellion-terrorist group, known only by the name VAGRANT has been attacking the Midgar area. Members have yet to be identified, and time grows short.

Dx HOSNAP

WE NEED:
Rufus
Tseng
Reno
Elena
Soldiers
Rebels
Turks

OCS WELCOME!

CURRENT PLAYERS:
Hikou -> OC TURK: Hikou Shinohara 5-8246471
-> TURK: Rude 2-9684512
-> OC TERRORIST: Biggs
-> OC TERRORIST: Unknown Boy

SnowRayjah -> OC TURK: Snow 7-7543350
-> TURK: Tseng 1-6659841

MikariStar -> OC TURK: Mikari 6-2236945

Don Vido -> OC Terrorist
-> Ka'agra, OC Siberian Tiger (technical terrorist)
-> Chocobo #12, Amazingly Stupid OC Chocobo

TO PLAY:
Give me a character name and title. IE: Masahiro Shun, OC TERRORIST. I'll add you to our lovely character list and assign you an id number if you're a Turk.

Because I like ID numbers.

RULES:
-> Character death is allowed if the character's owner agrees.
-> Mild language is allowed because I put in a d**n rating.
-> Character profiles/bios are not necessary and not encouraged.
-> No script format. Play as the English language intends you should.
-> Multiple characters per person allowed. No limit.
-> Be courteous OOC, RP land is a completely different story.

Hikou also assumes responsibility of first post once someone else with a pulse expresses interest.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP
Post by: MikariStar on December 03, 2007, 11:44:21 AM
I wanted to play last time but couldn't keep up, then there's my fangirl instincts getting in the way... but I still want to play!

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP
Post by: Hikou on December 03, 2007, 05:35:50 PM
Ssssssst. Shall we start from scratch or try to keep going from the old one?

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP
Post by: Miseishi on December 03, 2007, 07:47:58 PM
OHOH! I so want to join this, buuuuuut~ I dunno what to dooooo~ -Pulls at eyelids.-

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP
Post by: Hikou on December 04, 2007, 08:42:04 AM
Ssst. I R edit first post for info. Someone tell me if we're going to pick up or restart. D:

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 04, 2007, 07:04:24 PM
I guess we should ask Snow if she wants to pick it up. I don't mind either way, I just want to play but keep fearing I'll mess up or won't keep up...

Okay, OC, Mikari, make me a turks... *hides*

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 04, 2007, 07:05:44 PM
'kay. ASK SNOW! O;>

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 05, 2007, 11:38:29 AM
Okies, I shall go poke her, though she will have finals soon. D:

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on December 07, 2007, 02:31:03 PM
Hikou~ Mikari~
Snow is back! :'D

Characters: (Like woah)

SnowRayjah -> OC TURK: Snow 7-7543350
-> TURK: Tseng 1-6659841

I'll do my very best to keep up. X3

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 08, 2007, 01:23:16 AM
Added. <3

So we restarting or continuing?

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on December 09, 2007, 02:49:49 PM
Well, I don't remember where we were. XD So we can do either. I think starting over might be easier. But, I'm cool with whatever.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 12, 2007, 05:18:20 AM
Ack. 'kay. Let's restart. I'll make the new post after work today seeing as I'm running late right now. Dx

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Don Vido on December 16, 2007, 11:45:45 AM
I'll be that random dude again. And I also wanna be my own pet tiger.
holy paradox, Batman.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 16, 2007, 05:31:02 PM
)": ill add don and make

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 16, 2007, 05:34:25 PM
D< add don and make post when mom stops hogging the computer later tonight. This cellphone shenanigans is hard! D:>

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 17, 2007, 09:49:28 AM
[posty] It wasn`t so much the feel of the phone convulsing against the table that woke her as the awkward sense of it buzzing against her skin. A bobbed head popped up from the desk, and a tired hand retracted from the shaking plastic. "Mmrphh," she declared. The inevitable knocking of those not stuck with paperwork would be coming soon, and Hikou needed to regain the Shinra assassin exterior before the rest of the agents poked their stupid well-rested heads in. With a scowl she knocked the rather expensive company phs to the floor and stood to face the door.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 18, 2007, 11:16:07 AM
Mikari stopped in front of the door, behind which she expected to find Hikou. She placed her ear close to the door and heard the sound of something falling, or most likely being thrown or pushed into the floor. Yeah, Hikou was awake alright. Without knocking or calling, Mikari opened the door.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 18, 2007, 09:12:18 PM
[Oh man, this is gonna be 10x easier on the actual PC, not the crappy cellphone.]

Audience present, the girl deemed it necessary to start her tirade. "You know," she sighed, bending over to pick up the still vibrating phone, "you'd think it'd be enough that I have to actually go out and almost get shot seven times in the chest, but no. Tseng has to have me come back and write about it."

Glancing at the display screen, she rolled her eyes at the number, and tossed the phone aside yet again. "In excrutiating detail, might I add. You know he rejected my last three reports because they were, and I quote, 'too vague.'" Hikou took a seat and propped her feet up on the desk. "There's not really that much to say. I'm just going to start making things up."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 19, 2007, 12:09:53 PM
"I usually put up my reports in the systems as stories for employees who are avoiding work to read as amusement. That really annoys Tseng, but I call it hacking training. Just think of it as writing adventure fiction and you'll get it right." Mikari conveniently forgot to mention the fact that lack of commas was another thing that Tseng disliked about her reports. Well it wasn't her fault the Shnira computer's default spell checker wasn't good at placing commas. She paused and let a yawn of boredom escape. "Either way, blowing things up is much more fun than writing about blowing things up."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 19, 2007, 03:27:35 PM
Hikou sighed, flipping her phone open to look at the display screen for the first time. "Bah," was the only greeting she could muster for the missed call and promptly snapped the thing closed again.

"You really shouldn't do that, Mikari. You never know who's reading that stuff." She spun to pick up the navy blue blazer draped over the back of the desk chair. A trace of red hinted beneath her button up shirt, and as she slid the thing up her arms she had to wince. "Little bastard tried to shoot me, and he only half missed."

The girl frowned. "I'm getting sloppy, aren't I? Anyway, I think it was one of Greco's old guys--you remember him?--but Tseng didn't seem like he bought it." She didn't stop a second to even breathe, picking up the papers littered on the desk, Hikou did her best to shove them back into the blank folder from which they'd come. They ended up bent at the corners and crumpled a little at the side, but eventually they all found a place. "But you know how Tseng is." She had to roll her eyes again.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 19, 2007, 10:00:56 PM
Mikari shrugged. "It's pointless to write something no one will read." She didn't really care if the entire world knew what she was up to, the information wasn't specific enough to be useful anyway. "Besides, we could just solve things the Turks way if anything happens, right?" If the Turks were needed in action more often, they would spend less time doing paper work, at least while the action lasted. Procrastination was bitter-sweet.

Mikari nodded hearing Hikou's story and the part about Tseng. "Solid proof right? At the cost of a few bullets."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 19, 2007, 11:20:38 PM
Hikou grimaced, whether from pain or thought was uncertain.

She brought her unharmed arm up to scratch at the back of her neck. "Things got a little out of hand. We're waiting on confirmation of dental records." Cradling the plain folder against her chest, the girl pushed through the door. "You know, I've never been that close to a fire spell before. It smells awful." Crinkling her nose, she shook the thought away. "You seen Boss-Man?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 20, 2007, 11:51:17 AM
Materia... Mikari liked materia, not natural materia, only the kind that came from reactors, the kind made through technology, the kind that could easily be combines with technology.

"I think most spells are stinky," yet she loved the scent of machines, oil, fuel being processed into energy. She wasn't much of a planet lover and possibly one of the few who missed the old Shinra sucking the energy out of the incompetent slave of humanity, the planet.

"No idea, but he has to be somewhere in this building." That was not saying much since the building was so big. "We could try procrastinating and actually looking for him; or getting to the point and tracking his phs with Shnira's technology, assuming he still has it on him."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 20, 2007, 03:17:03 PM
"I was sort of hoping for a new assignment," Hikou sighed out. "And I was sort of hoping to edit this," she gestured to her arm, "to be edited into the report at a later date. I suppose we should just go look for him."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 20, 2007, 08:49:27 PM
"Sounds like a plan! Procrastination is always the best choice." They would take longer to find him if they didn't know exactly where to look, but that just made it better, more time to walk around while still getting paid for their time.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 20, 2007, 08:59:27 PM
Hikou slid quietly out of the door, waiting for Mikari to follow. "Mess hall or archives room?" A third thought rammed her in the back of the head; "Or the lab?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 20, 2007, 11:19:53 PM
Mikari grinned mischievously. "The lab!" It was a well known fact that she loved to play with machines. "If we don't find him, we might find something amusing."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 21, 2007, 05:05:31 AM
Suddenly struck by the sinking suspiscion that she was going to regret this, Hikou nodded and headed off towards the elevator. One of the many structures salvaged from the original design of the Shinra building, the two great glass elevators never failed to intimidate Hikou. Presented with the view of the city around her she felt small and insignificant in the grand scheme of things, and she was fairly certain Rufus had intended it to be that way.

Jolting out of her thought, she turned to Mikari, "You have your keycard? Mine's still in the locker room..."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 21, 2007, 11:55:24 AM
"Sure, I practically never let go of it," Mikari inserted the key card into the slot. She was looking forward to arriving at the lab and finding out if there were any interesting new toys there.

"I like these elevators but that look in your face tells me you don't..." The glass elevators gave a her a view of the city, and she loved cities, as opposed to forests and fields. She liked to evolve and conquer nature, she loved technology and having humans walk supreme all over the, sometimes disobedient, slave known as Gaia. From her point of view, the planet was there to be used, another reason to miss the reactors and dislike the entire restoration plan.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 21, 2007, 12:37:21 PM
"I`m not particularly fond of going up." Hikou sighed. She learned in soldier, the higher up you climbed the more trouble you werd likely to be in. At the chime of the door the girl stepped out and waited patiently for Mikari to lead the way, quite aware that she was completely out of her element.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on December 21, 2007, 05:04:50 PM
Snow sat on Tseng's desk. It was painfully apparent to him that she was not even listening to the words he was saying as he looked over the report. She kicked her feet for a moment as she watched his dark eyes read over the file. "This is sloppy for you." Tseng commented shutting the folder and setting it on the desk. he gave her a look that seemed to tell her to get off the desk, but she didn't - he wasn't surprised.

"Leader, it's not mine." Snow corrected. She hopped off the desk and opened it up. She took a red pen from his desk and circled, underlined, and otherwise tore up the paper. "Too many mistakes. This is something someone who wants to be a Turks submitted. I sent them away. I got into trouble for it."

Tseng could see why she was irritable now. "Very well. I'll see what can be done. Go to the lab and get those reports like I asked you to an hour ago."

Grimacing Snow left the office grumbling to herself. Since when was she the messenger? Ugh, she thought, if its not Rufus its Tseng. If its not Tseng its Reno. I'm going to shoot the next person who wants me to deliver something because they can't walk two feet from them. Not one for elevators, Snow used the stairs. She arrived in the lab. It smelled, to her like it always did, like that of disinfectant and Mako. She could feel the trouble that had been caused here, this was one of her least favorite places in the whole company. She could only imagine what was going on behind some of those closed doors. She stood next to one of the scientists.

"I'm here for the lab results." She dully spoke.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 21, 2007, 10:36:49 PM
"All the best stuff is kept in the higher floors!" Mikari exited the elevator noticing that Hikou didn't want to lead the way. It was a fact that went in and out of her mind in a split, before her thoughts focused on the arsenal of technology before her.

Giving the scientists a 'complain and I'll shoot you' look she made her way to the area designated for researching weaponry that used mako. She loved the scent of mako.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 22, 2007, 03:59:16 AM
Hikou did her best not to scoff, but was never quite good at the self-control game. "Yeah, right. If all the 'best stuff' is a bunch of snot-nosed young scientists who somehow think they're gonna save the world with the scrap-metal legacy of a madman."

She side stepped around the white lab-coats without an incredible amount of difficulty, not bothering to look any one of them in the face, or acknowledge any one of their questions. As far as Hikou was concerned any one scurrying around this floor was a shade too far beneath her.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 22, 2007, 11:22:10 AM
"That is not the best part," Mikari clarified. "The machines are the best part, the scientist can go get squished by a plate." She didn't care who heard her, in fact she spoke the last part rather loudly, as if wanting to be heard. Using technology to save some natural rock, was such a waste, even if they were stuck living on that rock. It should be used to control said rock into the will of humans, to take its power and claim it, to turn it into something better, not some big green ball of plants and dirt.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on December 22, 2007, 12:19:36 PM
She heard the steps of other Turks. Their boots always made a specific sound on the tiles of the Shinra building. "The machines are the best part, the scientist can go get squished by a plate." filled her ears, she knew of only one person who felt that way - Mikari. She turned on her heels to spot the two female Turks. It caused Snow to smile, though she knew they were not on some stupid delivery.
Snow took the results in the manila folder and gave the scientist the cold shoulder. Literally, as she stepped away from him she allowed ice to slip from her fingertips. He jumped up in a fit of shock and cold that caused his comrades to look at him oddly. He shot accusing glances to Snow who could only shrug as she stepped next to Mikari and Hikou. "Tseng's in his office." Snow said simply. "As always. But you didn't hear that from me."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 22, 2007, 05:06:17 PM
Hikou smiled ridiculously wide, tapping her own folder against her chin thoughtfully. "Tseng can take his paperwork and jump off of the building, but you also didn't hear it from me." She cast a wicked glance at the white coats bustling around, resting on Mikari. "I suppose that means we can be done here, hm? Maybe I ought to just slip this under the door, but I want a new assignment." She looked hopefully to Snow. "He didn't happen to give you a new one, did he?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on December 22, 2007, 07:04:26 PM
"With three of us, we could make it look like an accident." Snow mused to Hikou's comment about Tseng jumping off the building. She gave a sigh and held up the folder. "Half the details are here, the other half he will not relinquish until I have delivered the contents of this folder. All morning he's had me chasing shadows." She crossed her arms and tapped the folder with her finger. "Alexander knows what's going through his head, but Elena or Reno should have been doing this." She paused, "Or rather should I say, no, I did not have a mission until I had to pick up a bit of slack for whatever reason." A sigh escaped her lips as she tilted her head before giving a shrug and giving up on her train of thought. "I just think Tseng is a sadist and likes to watch me walk out of his office in a huff." she continued, "Either way, some thing's got him a wee bit agitated. He's not putting up with shenanigans like he normally does." Snow turned, she pondered skipping off to lunch. "Eh, what do I care, work is work. There are just as many idiots here as there are out there, the ones here just get paid better." She glanced to a group of scientists who looked like they wished to urge the Turks out. Snow opened the folder and began to read, "From the looks of his desk, Hikou, I'd say you'll get your wish."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 23, 2007, 05:09:10 AM
"Thank God," she sighed out. "This building is driving me crazy."

She turned to leave for the door, calling back over her shoulder, "Well, come on? There's things to do, places to go, people to see, bosses to be assaulting, and I need someone's keycard!"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 23, 2007, 01:14:15 PM
Mikari slipped away from the other two Turks for a moment and slipped back just on time to catch the end of the conversation. "Right, new assignment, let's go," Mikari lifted her key card pointing in a random direction. She was good at blowing things up, not having a sense of direction. A straight line was the best way to move and obstacles could be disposed of.

The look in her face could be described as angelic by those who did not know her, though those who did would say it was the expression of a death angel. It was rather obvious that she was simply trying to get away from the scene of the crime if she left the lab so willingly. "Any explosions that may or may not happen here are not my fault..." Mikari whispered only loud enough for Snow and Hikou to hear.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 23, 2007, 07:57:40 PM
"Tell that to Rufus." Hikou rolled her eyes, reboarding the elevator. It'd been a while since the drug induced sleep in the company rejuvenation center, and the longer it took her to find Tseng the less she found it worth her while.

The world spun slightly around her, a blur of fading lights and rising people, and when the machine finally came to a chiming stop she had to do her best not to stumble out. The office would be down the hall to the left.

Straight. Left.

Straight. Left.

It was a simple instruction to follow, really, but it was hard to wrap her head around for some reason.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 24, 2007, 12:40:50 PM
"Let the scientists deal with him," Mikari was tempted to press the buttons on the elevator some more, but she knew Hikou might not like that. Too bad, she liked riding the elevator, though it was too slow for her liking. She left the buttons alone, decided that enough mischief had been caused for now, and smile after hearing a loud noise which she assumed came from the lab. She followed Hikou out of the elevator and towards the office.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 24, 2007, 04:13:49 PM
Hikou wasn't quite sure why she knocked. A precursor to invasion, she supposed, as she flung the door open a little harder than she had originally intended. It slapped against the wall with a resounding thump, that left the room nestled in a particularly awkward silence.

At a loss for words, she dropped the folder on the desk, trying to ignore how the sandwiched papers that hadn't quite fit in suddenly slithered out onto the polished wood.

"Erm."

That about summed it up.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on December 24, 2007, 04:46:08 PM
Following Hikou's lead Snow dropped her folder on the desk. Tseng glanced at the two of them and caught Mikari out of his eyes. He scanned her hand for a third messy delivery. Upon not seeing a thing he looked back at the folders that were already added to his increasingly messy desk. His eyes scanned the three for several minutes. He could have been at a loss for words, he could have been angry. It was hard to tell unless you knew him really well. Reno might argue it was his "thinking" face.

"There're your results." Snow dully responded.

"Yes, I assumed." Tseng answered. "I am a little more concerned about a message I just got from the lab about the three of you being there." His eyebrow raised and he read out loud, "Causing trouble and intimidating the lab staff. Damage of company property." He looked back to the folders and picked Hikou's up. Then handed each woman a new folder. "Details, you're big girls I'm sure you can compare notes and figure out what you are supposed to be doing." He handed Snow's original file back. "You'll need this more than I will." Tseng 'contented' himself to go back to work. He said no more about the lab, what could one say? He didn't come off as wanting them to leave. Should they have questions he would be required to ask.

"Are these numbers all Mako levels? Or what?" Snow inquired after a moment. "Or people? What?" They were all jumbled together. It was hard to tell population levels, mako poisoning, if it was a number had some value it was all shoved into one very unclear graph. She paused. "Ah wait, here we go. This is crap done by the lab."

Tseng looked up. "Complaining again."

"Did you look at these, honestly look at them? The lab sucks." She handed the folder back so that their fearless leader could over look it.

"I would...assume this is the list of potential terrorists. As well as target areas and their weaknesses" Tseng answered. "However, if the lab is this bad about Reno's data, perhaps someone should redo the investigation." He looked at the three. "Think of it as a bonus mission." his eyes widened for a minute then returned to normal.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 24, 2007, 07:09:40 PM
"I'm sure Reno's data is fine, the lab people are just idiots," blame it on the lab workers, blame everything on them. After all, there were many things that many would agree were Hojo's fault, and he had been a scientist, they inherited his reputation. Their databases should start automatically locking themselves soon, not be unlocked until tomorrow, or until someone managed to hack them, but Mikari didn't want to look at her watch so as to not hint at anything.

"Bonus mission..." Mikari would prefer a gil bonus, but if a mission was the way to obtain it then that was the way to go.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 24, 2007, 08:40:04 PM
"Oh, they've developed technology that can organize Reno-files?" Hikou murmured a bit too loudly to be to herself. "Will wonders never cease?"

Her hands twitched at a loss for a moment, before folding behind her back neatly. Leaning over Snow's shoulder, she scanned the information. Unable to suppress a theatrical sigh, she asked, "Are we taking prisoners?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 25, 2007, 12:29:35 PM
Mikari shrugged, lack of organization had never been an issue for her.

"But they're whinny!" Mikari complained before she was even officially told to take prisoners. "Are we?" She was tempted to add 'and if yes, does it matter if they're unconscious?'

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on December 26, 2007, 01:56:10 PM
"I think it would be easier to take prisoners." Snow noted. She flipped through some of the pages. "Leader never said we couldn't, and," Snow continued as though they were walking out of the building rather than standing in Tseng's office. "He did want reliable data. I think a prisoner or two might be beneficial."

Tseng cleared his throat.

"Leader, leader." Snow replied, "We are working for public safety. Don't worry. We're just taking a few priso--witnesses who might be tro-....helpful. Not killing anyone." She rolled her eyes. "Besides," she called from the doorway, "You didn't give us details on the 'bonus' mission."

Tseng stood to protest. "Snow!"

"You're breaking up~ I can't hear you!" She shook her head and continued down the hall, knowing that Hikou and Mikari would be close behind.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 26, 2007, 06:04:37 PM
Hikou tried her hardest to bow out gracefully, but found the situation quite beyond her, and was left to scamper after Snow much like a child. The click of her heels haulted quite abruptly from a run to an even pace as she pulled to the side of the girl.

"So where should we start? I vote Midgar wreckage."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 26, 2007, 08:53:40 PM
"I guess that could work..." Mikari hurried out after Snow.

"Midgar wreckage... I'm fine wherever we start really, as long as it's not some jungle in the middle of nowhere. Where ever there's a wireless signal I'm willing to go."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 26, 2007, 09:37:30 PM
"You get a signal under the plate?" Hikou questioned.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 27, 2007, 02:05:21 PM
"Yeah, not the full signal but this will do. Shinra really needs to improve this, get a satellite out there or something." For some time, Mikari had been wishing that the Turks got their own satellite. Actually, she wanted a one for herself, but one to be shared by the Turks seemed more likely to happen, eventually... maybe.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 27, 2007, 04:14:21 PM
"Hah!" Hikou guffawed. "A satelite. Let me know when you ask Rufus about that one. I wanna be there."

Quickly, she made inventory of what she was equipped with. "I'll need to go back to the locker room to get my things. I'm hardly Midgar-ready. I'll meet you in the garage... or are we going to take the Chocobos?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on December 27, 2007, 05:57:31 PM
Snow made no comment about the signal. What could she say? Snow had hte strong belief that since they were Turks they could get anything they needed - with or without Rufus's approval. She glanced at Hikou at the mention of Chocobo. "Garage, I'd think. Less time consuming that way." she replied. If they were going to the wreckage a truck or something would be nicer than those moody birds. Chocobo were more versatile though, they at least could climb. "I'll go to the locker room with you." Snow added, "I need to make sure I have everything." She looked at the two, "Do you think chocobo would be better?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 27, 2007, 06:13:18 PM
Hikou shook her head adamently.

"Those birds can't stand me," she hissed as she headed off down the hallway. Her fingers ghosted over the smooth metal rat-trap that was the Healing and Rejuvenation floor. The locker rooms would be just around the corner. Hikou silently hoped she had remembered to lock hers.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 27, 2007, 10:01:06 PM
"He so cheap, I'm sure that if he cut the restoration budget, Shinra could afford it. Let the planet fix itself!" As far as Mikari was concerned, spending a single gil on the planet was as bad as throwing it away if not worse.

"I'll tag along too!" She followed the other Turks to the healing and rejuvenation center, might as well check her locker just in case.

"I've never has any bad experiences with chocobos." She had never thought about it before but it was an irony. "Isn't it odd? I'm probably the one who dislikes nature the most but I've never had any chocobo problems."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Don Vido on December 28, 2007, 01:10:22 PM
/Ooooh! Ooooh! I wanna be a chocobo!/

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 28, 2007, 02:44:14 PM
Hikou rolled her eyes. "If he cut the restoration budget there wouldn't be a Shinra Inc and then we'd all be out of a job."

She huffed at her open locker, quickly thumbing through the wallet she'd left in there for gil, and checking the clip in her gun. "Not only would the people start one of their lovely little uprisings, but Cloud would be on top of us in half an instant." The wallet fit nicely into her pocket, then gun in the holster on her hip, and a few marbles of materia were added to the bangle hidden up her sleeve. "I can't imagine all of our little underground enemies standing and watching pleasantly, either. We'd have more trouble than even the Turks know what to do with."

[Uhhh.............we gonna use the chocobos?]

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Don Vido on December 28, 2007, 03:36:51 PM
/*bounces* chocobochocobochocobo!/

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 28, 2007, 04:25:21 PM


"Our job could be to make sure Shinra isn't destroyed... or hunting down Avalanche, or something cool like that." It was obvious that she wasn't too fond of Avalanche.

"It's just so easy to squish them all and move on to more important things. They're hindering Shinra's progress. Besides," Mikari grinned evilly, "there is more than one way to deal with Cloud, the most effective being to push him into becoming emotionally unstable, and it would be his own fault." She chuckled and continued to grin, but quickly regain a neutral expression so she wouldn't creep out her companions further. "Oi, I really have nothing against him, good boy, makes timely deliveries, I just like satellites."

She opened her locker and looked around it's contents. She usually carried all the materia she needed, but there was that one other thing she could take along...

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 28, 2007, 05:53:22 PM
A bottle of painkillers rattled as Hikou picked it up and crammed two down her throat without much of a fuss.

"You're missing the point," she argued. "We wouldn't--Hauggggh." It was a bizzare mixture of a sigh and snarl. Idly, she fished another two pills out of the bottle and swallowed. "Hmph. I could think of plenty of ways to deal with Cloud."

With that, her locker snapped abrupty shut. "Are we ready?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 28, 2007, 08:38:37 PM
Mikari grinned, a mischievous spark in her eyes, "I'm sure you could."

Mikari grabbed the long shiny item she lad been eyeing in her locker and waved it around. "It's new," The electrorod was the standard silver, though the handle was blue instead of black.

She clicked a tiny switch at the handle with her thumb and the end of the rod emitted electric sparks. "It's all charged up and ready to be used. I want to play with it," by that she meant to say I want to knock the living daylights out of someone with this electrorod. At least with this she would be less dangerous to her teammates, bad aim and all.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Don Vido on December 28, 2007, 11:45:51 PM
At the stable, Chocobo #12 wonders why there is a saddle on his back. he tugs at it with his beak, and flaps at it.
Do to his two-second memory, he goes back to pecking at his food.

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Post by: Hikou on December 28, 2007, 11:55:49 PM
Hikou's mouth turned in a downward slant, as she headed off through the door. "I don't know how I feel about you and that rod."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 29, 2007, 12:46:54 AM
Mikari activated the electrorod again, admiring the sparks. "What do you mean? Isn't this safer than having me try to use a gun?" She ran a hand on the new shiny, silver metal. "Besides, it looks so nice and new, it's just begging to be used. Maybe we'll run into some mutants!" Not that Mikari particularly liked mutants, but they were certainly not her least favorite kind of creature in the world, frogs were, which why she made sure she had the necessary equipment to avoid being turned into one, just in case.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on December 29, 2007, 12:57:44 AM
"I trust her more with an electric stick than with a fire arm." Snow chimed in lightly. "I don't care one way or another about what we do so long as I get paid for it." She gave a shrug and shut her locker. "I don't like chocobo much, but they are much more flexible than vehicles." She grimaced. "It might be cheaper in the long run to get a chocobo or two. It would keep us out longer." she had only grabbed some materia from her locker before heading out after Hikou and Mikari. Her boots clicked along the tiles. Suddenly she felt as though she were not cut out for her job. She tried to banish the thoughts, it could have just been anxiety from the idea of having to ride a chocobo again.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 29, 2007, 05:53:00 AM
Hikou sighed in defeat. "I suppose..."

Standing, once more, inside of the glass elevator, Hikou's hand hesitated on the pannel of numbers. "Say," she couldn't stop the grin from spreading across her face, "you think Rufus would mind if we borrowed some of the prize winners from upstairs?" Her finger hovered on one of the higher levels. "I mean, this is a very, very important mission, right? And we can't just be using any old chocobo..."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 29, 2007, 12:08:51 PM
"I don't know if would mind or not, but let's take them anyway!" Good Turks were hard to find, Rufus couldn't afford to fire any at the moment, and like any good Turk, Mikari wanted to take advantage of the situation.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 29, 2007, 01:17:56 PM
Hikou pressed up. [lol phone posting at work]

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 29, 2007, 02:06:29 PM
Mikari pushed back the urge to see how resistant the glass was by hitting it with the electrorod. She heard it had been improved after it was broken in the past, but she decided that maybe it was best not to put it to the test.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Don Vido on December 29, 2007, 04:06:24 PM
/You know, I feel really stupid right now, but I totally forgot the name thing, didn't I....

Don Vido, OC Terrorist.

Ka'agra, OC Siberian Tiger (technical terrorist).

Chocobo #12, Amazingly Stupid OC Chocobo

There they are. I'll just drop the Chocobo when you dismount./

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on December 29, 2007, 11:00:26 PM
Snow shifted uncomfortably in the elevator. Her ears perked up at the mention of Rufus. Even he was a godsend to keep her mind off of being in the elevator. "If he thinks we're going to go all the way to the Chocobo farm, he's dumber than he looks." She crossed her arms and prayed they were almost out, seconds in an elevator seemed like hours to her. "Technically we'll save him money by using the company's best. For that, should he come to us about, he should be grateful."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 30, 2007, 01:42:24 PM
"You're absolutely right," she agreed. "In fact, he should give us all a nice bonus, or a vacation!" Sadly the long vacations Mikari enjoyed, felt unlikely in their current situation, but a bonus would be nice if Mr. Cheap President decided to stop wasting gil and stop being cheap, which sadly, also seemed unlikely.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 31, 2007, 09:52:55 AM
"Right," Hikou nodded, looking more as if she were trying to convince herself than actually speak to the other girls.

The metal doors eventually parted ways, revealing a metal rat-tunnel big enough for at least four grown men to walk abreast in. Hikou proceeded onward, trying to ignore the annoying clicking sound her shoes made on the ground, and the way it amplified and echoed down the hallway. She didn't have to walk long before she reached the first set of doors, the familiar red light barring entrance above the doorway.

There were at least twenty stables, that all looked rather like the containment cells that used to be counted as part of Dr. Hojo's laboratories.

Fishing out her keycard, Hikou clicked her way to the fourth door on the right and slid it. The light flash green, and a whir of grinding gears sent the metal door spiraling upward, revealing a seemingly empty room. It was much too dark to actually see what was inside, but the florescent light of the hallway caught on one single, black, beady eye, and the girl had to force herself not to shudder.

The bird stepped forward.

Hikou had a fairly good idea how hard it would be to be threatening if she were colored a pale mint green, but Sypher did a spectacular job. The animal wasted no movement, every step on its razor-sharp talons, elegant and graceful. It moved more like a raptor than a chocobo ought to, and she supposed that was why he was one of the leading S-Class chocobos, but it still gave her the creeps.

"Hey, buddy..." she greeted weakly, and held her hand out. The bird took a snap at it.

Well, at least she wouldn't have to worry about defending it from the monsters of Old Midgar, but who was going to defend her?

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 31, 2007, 01:16:47 PM
Mikari ran to end of the room and opened a door rushing into the room, his boots noisy on the floor. She came out with a large bowl of quality greens and set it down in from of the seventh stable, then opened it with her keycard. "You're so cute and blue! I brought food for you."

The chocobo started eating. Mikari let him enjoy the food for a few seconds before petting him. It tensed up at first and gave her a threatening look. "Cutie!" A few sparks escaped her electro-rod as she squealed in delight, or evil, it was hard to tell.

Then the chocobo went back to eating and ignoring the girl who was petting him. "Hurry up and finish your snack Arquan, we need to get going soon."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on December 31, 2007, 03:37:40 PM
As confident as she wanted to be, she swore that if that bird took a snap at her she would be sending it to an early grave. She pulled her card key from her jacket ignoring the sound of her boots. It was a steady pace, an almost comforting sound. With a sigh the key slid and lit up the locked door. It opened, much to her dismay. Snow hissed. "Thanatos."

His black eyes peered out. Today, she thought, he looked somewhat different. Calm almost. It could be that her hand held an ice spell should he move too fast or provoke her. It could have been the scent of greens brought for Arquan. Whatever the case, Snow was not expecting Thanatos to be...loving? The black bird rubbed his head against her nearly bowling her over.

"What the..?" she hardly had time to stammer before he nudged her again. For a bird, he seemed quite skilled in screwing with people's minds. With narrowed eyes Snow hissed again.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on December 31, 2007, 03:45:47 PM
Hikou wasted no time in pleasantries or surprises, instead opting to saddle the bird from behind as quickly as humanly possible with as little bloodshed necessary. It was short work, and soon the green monstrosity was being gently tugged to prowl out of the room next to the girl, blinders secured over his evil little eyes.

Quietly, so as not to alarm the little beasty, she whispered, "We ought to take them to the freight elevator where they ship up the feed, and leave out the doors of the loading bay. It'll cause less of a commotion that way."

Sypher's head cocked abruptly to one side, his beak giving two warning clicks.

"Scary little nuts, innit he?" Hikou asked and gave him a slow pull forward.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on December 31, 2007, 10:26:48 PM
"Aw he likes you!" Mikari petted Arquan, "c'mon pal finish up." Once the chocobo was done with his greens Mikari led him out. "I think they're cute little chocos." She followed the other Turks, ready to leave on the mission.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on January 05, 2008, 09:28:02 AM
Sypher stalked forward, Hikou walking alongside him to the end of the hallway. The animal's head gave a sharp turn as it sensed the girl walk around behind it, and it's taloned foot raised off the ground in warning. His beak may have been temporarily put out of commission from the riding gear, but Sypher still knew how to make the most of the weapons he was graced with.

Pressing the "up" button, Hikou waited patiently for the whirring of gears around her to raise the dimly lit platform that was the freight elevator. As it arrived, the chain-link wall in front of it split apart into two separate gates, one tucking underneath the doorway and one above it. Even after all movement ceased, it still took the gears a moment to stop their turning. The dim light hanging from the ceiling of the elevator swung silently from side to side, casting one side of the platform in darkness and then another.

Hikou groaned.

The thing was still half filled with feed. Trust the Shinra grunts to actually do their job.

Regardless, Hikou led her bird forward, pretending not to notice as he made to perch himself onto one of the expensive sacks, ripping a new hole open with every step. "Well, c'mon," she urged, "let's go.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on January 05, 2008, 12:27:54 PM
Mikari kept petting Arquan as she remembered an article she read about how to pet chocobos. It wasn't something she would normally read, but she had paperwork to ignore at the moment.

Arquan pecked at the feed. He wasn't particularly hungry, having recently finished eating some greens, but if you put feed in front of a chocobo, even if it has a full stomach, it'll will try to eat some.

Mikari led the blue chocobo away, following after Hikou.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on January 05, 2008, 04:23:41 PM
Snow followed silently. Too many lifts and elevators seemingly broke her voice in two. She would just be happy when they got out of the Shinra building. It was a great company to be sure, but sometimes it felt too cage like. She didn't remember the path out being so long. She stepped over some feed only to step in some more. She let out a sigh as she led Thanatos forward.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on January 08, 2008, 01:22:01 PM
"Relax Snow, we're nearly there," Mikari noticed Snow's dislike for elevators, it was quite hard to miss. Hikou appear to be particularly happy about it either. "I'm the only one who likes elevators..." Mikari concluded. "Unless the chocobo like them too," but it looked like they only liked the feed.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on January 19, 2008, 12:46:42 AM
The elevator came to a jerky halt, the chain link gates sliding open once again to reveal the cold cement of the loading dock. Cold air hissed into the room in short bursts underneath another large metal door.

Purposefully, Hikou strode forward and pushed a button on the wall, sending a new set of gears into motion, pulling the metal curtain up to reveal the city outside. Sypher trotted behind the girl, giving small warning snaps every few moments. Doing her best to get onto the chocobo without losing an arm, the girl set out through the city.

People stopped to stare as chocobos were beginning to become few and far between in the city scene. It wasn't until the wasteland of the world outside came into view.

"I wonder how long it'll take for all the vegetation to grow back," she breathed.

The Midgar ruins weren't far from the city of Edge, and at the sight of them from the city limits a giddy sort of anticipation burrowed out of the back of Hikou's mind. It felt almost like going home.

She set out for the old city.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on January 19, 2008, 11:42:13 AM
Mikari followed Hikou at the loading dock and paused to look at Arquan. "Okay, pal, time for you to give me a ride," without much hesitation, she hoped on the chocobo's back, the large blue bird protesting when she held on to his wig to get on with long nails. "Sorry Arquan..." The blue chocobo looked displeased, but the girl on his back merely smile and showed off her electro-rod with shiny sparks. The chocobo wasn't stupid, it left the incident in the past and strode out into the city.

"Not long enough," Mikari breathed the city air, which was to her disappointment less city-like than when the plates were up and the mako reactors were operational. She didn't like nature, the less trees and plants near her, the better.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on January 19, 2008, 03:20:43 PM
Snow's nerves were much easier calmed once they were outside. She glanced back at Edge only once. She would be glad to get away from all the people for a few hours. The idea of visiting the ruins of her once beloved city were not comforting, but the feelings it stirred in nostalgia gave her hope. She rode along side of her companions.

"Considering we were draining the planet, I'd imagine it will take some time. It's not just the vegetation that needs to come back." Snow mused. She looked forward. It had been too long since she had visited Midgar.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on January 20, 2008, 01:29:24 PM
"That's good to hear. If it takes five hundred years it'll be too soon." Funny how people sometimes made it sound as if draining the life of the planet was bad. It's not like the planet talked or anything, it was to Mikari, more like energy than life; energy that could be made useful in making life easier.

She didn't like the idea of plants eventually taking over Midgar ruins, she liked cities, though she did not like people, but she liked the buildings, the covered grass-less ground and the feeling of being able to put the raw materials nature provided into good use, into something better.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on January 21, 2008, 02:52:23 AM
There was about a ten second span, long enough for Hikou to breathe, before her bird took off into a break-neck run. She did her best to pretend she'd coaxed the creature to do that, digging her fingers into the leather of the reins and watching the scenery flit by in blurred snapshots of dust and rock.

She could remember far enough back that the cliffs surrounding the city were covered in green, and for a brief instant she wasn't on a testy chocobo, she was in that terribly designed Shinra Transport truck with men uniformed in blue.

More like boys.

Boys that were most likely long since dead.

And it was in this way, on this ghost train to no where, that Midgar managed to sneak up on her in all its hulking glory.

Sypher was stomping angrily, scaley feet nearly avoiding broken glass at every angle. It lead a fantastic trail of dim sparkles to the glass wall that had once been the gate to Sector 7. It was supposed to be unbreakable, but Hikou supposed the desperation of a couple hundred refugees would've been more than enough to break it. The wreckage of the plate drop would've been a nice heap of scrap metal they could've dragged over to the ramshackle city on the edge of Midgar.

It was the most logical access point, but the most difficult path.

She dismounted and said, "I hope you guys don't mind getting dirty. Most of the Sector 7 wreckage is pretty well picked over, so we can squeeze up and out into Sector 8. The old Shinra building has an underground access point down there for SOLDIER use. I think that'd be the most comfortable place to hide out if I were a terrorist. There's gotta be a lot of untouched weaponry and whatnot in there, god knows whatever else Hojo left behind, some of the old files maybe..." Taking out her gun, she rechecked the round in it.

"Then again, I've heard tell the old Don in Wall Market had a lot of unregistered copies of our files, most likely still intact since they'd have to have been portable to take out of our main database. Less weapon options to support a terrorist group, but a helluva lot more homey, and quite a few less creepy crawlies." Satisfied, she lowered the gun to her side.

"We could always cut through what's left of the Train Graveyard, pop out right ontop of whose his face's old mansion..." She shrugged. "Take your pick."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on January 21, 2008, 05:56:43 PM
Mikari watched as Hikou and Sypher sped away. Actually, it was just Sypher running away full speed, Hikou just happened to be sitting on him, and it looked like fun.

"Go Arquan, run!" No sooner had the girl encouraged the large bird, it was already speeding in the same direction as Sypher. Mikari held on tightly but she was amused. Arquan however, did not appreciate the tight embrace around his neck. Though Mikari liked chocobos and held no fear from them, and no bad experiences to relate, that did not mean she was an expert chocobo rider; but she had fun.

"Run Arquan, faster!" She lessened her grip while Arquan tried to been his neck more than was healthy to get the strangling hand off him. He pecked at the electro-rod the girl held and let out a wark of complaint. "Silly I told you it was dangerous." No problem, should the initial effect of the green bribery ware off on the bird, he could be controlled the Turks way, -that- would be fun.

Mikari took a moment to have a mini battle with Arquan until he understood the meaning of "bend down so I can get off".

She finally got off teasing or threatening, as it could be seen differently depending on one's point of view, the chocobo with the electro-rod. It went from that to waving the rod left and right with the chocobo mimicking it with his neck as if in a trance, until it later calmed. "there now, be a good boy."

She looked around the wreckage. "Looks messy up both ways, I would say which ever is the fastest. I have the worse sense of direction here, I'm sure, so I'm fine with any choice you make."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on January 21, 2008, 09:38:09 PM
True enough she and her chocobo did not get along. They seemed reach a mutual agreement. The quicker he was the less time she had to ride. It was beneficial for both. Still Snow muttered a few swears to Thanatos as he took off similarly to Sypher. Snow dismounted with a definitive lack of grace, she nearly fell on her face, if not for the fact her foot was caught in the reins she would have most likely broken her own nose on her dismount.

"Alexander, why me?" she muttered. Chocobo were one bad experience after the other. She caught up with the conversation straightened her jacket and pants and crossed her arms. "We'll have to go through all of them at some point, won't we?" She stepped forward and contemplated. "How about we start at the old building." there was a pause, "I'd want to see what I was up against if I were dumb enough to go against Shinra. Its remains might be the best place to start. I'd also like to know if Hojo did leave anything behind. It'd be better to know now instead of...later."

She may have sounded paranoid, but it was her experience that monsters grew. Better to find something now then to give a few days when it may be larger, angrier, and much harder to fight.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on January 21, 2008, 10:02:24 PM
"Plate-dump it is," Hikou chirped, eyes trailing across the poorly beaten path through the wreckage. She eyed Sypher warily, "Stay."

He snapped back.

With a huff she stomped off through the dust, kicking chunks of glass the size of baseballs out of her way as she went.

"You know," the girl thought out loud, "I haven't seen headquarters since the old President Shinra..."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on January 24, 2008, 12:29:14 AM
"Don't run away Arquan. Stay right here and wait for us with your chocobo friends. I still think we can get along, I'll give you green when we get back, just be a good choboco." She knew the large blue bird would not answer, and possibly didn't understand or didn't care, but Mikari spoke to him anyway.

Soon after she hastily took off following the other two Turks. "If something was left behind, I hope it's something fun, like a cool invention; one that doesn't want to eat us."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on January 27, 2008, 09:06:51 AM
Trying to ignore her poor footing, Hikou did her best to scale a rather large piece of metal blocking their path. The edge of it bit into her fingers as she hauled herself up onto the top, a long slice running through the leg of her suit as she moved over it, but the girl didn't really seem to much notice.

She paused to glance at Mikari. "Anything left behind would probably have been mako-powered, how would you propose we run it?" And with that dropped off the other edge, a faint scuff of boots on dirt marking her fall before she jogged onwards.

Ahead the ceiling narrowed down to a small angle, and one could safely assume this was the tilt at which the upper plate had fallen to rest. Crushed metal of tin shacks and stands of the slums formed a harsh and rusted wall, leaving only the crunched and darkened path sandwiched between the two plates open for access to Sector 8.

Hikou sighed, waiting for her team mates. "Anyone got a pen-light or something?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on January 27, 2008, 01:50:54 PM
"I propose we suck all the mako off this giant battery we're standing on," That was what the planet was to Mikari, if it's not useful to humans, then make it useful, and if it cannot be made useful, throw it away. Her world revolved around herself and a few other close friends. She felt disappointed in the human race when it failed to claim the superior position that intelligence should provide. Maybe Sephiroth's idea wasn't so bad, suck the battery dry, then find another one and repeat the process. For all she knew that could have been Jenova's genius concept; and by the time it all dried up, she would be long since dead after one or two hundred years passed, so it wouldn't be her problem. Consequences that didn't affect her where simply not there, it was part of her Turks way.

Mikari looked at the large piece of metal, trying to find the best angle to scale it from. Took a pair of leather gloves from her pocket to make her grip on the metal more comfortable and tried to start scaling it, making slow progress following Hikou; and for a moment she considered having Arquan carry her, but he and the other chocobos would probably result too noisy.

"Pen light..." Mikari should have known something was forgotten. Her phs could produce light, but it was only enough to see the screen. The sparks from the electro-rod provided a little light, but it wasn't enough. "Materia..." Comet, one of her favorites, lightning good for recharging electric appliances, no fire... "Did anyone bring some fire materia?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on January 28, 2008, 08:22:54 AM
Hikou shook her head, trying her best to ignore Mikari's comment. It was pretty obvious where she stood on the subject of mako depletion, and it was a difficult topic for Hikou to take a side on. The girl had seen many a man, and friend, die to support and upkeep the old reactors. She'd been raised with the old Shinra mentality of power and conquest.

But she'd also seen the horrors that power and conquest brought, and she'd seen the SOLDIER mutations, all made possible by mako.

Yet here she was. Still standing in the Shinra uniform, just one in a different shade.

It was easier just to sit in the middle and not think about it.

"I left it behind since last time. I absolutely cannot stand that smell."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on January 28, 2008, 11:23:43 AM
"I thought it was a nice scent..." The smell of flowers and perfume wasn't quite Mikari's thing. She very much proffered the scent of machines and mataria, a scent that reminded her of the things she liked.

"Maybe if I throw some electricity around something will catch on fire." Though she was only kidding this time, is wasn't something that should be thrown into the real of impossibility with this girl, impatient as she could be, she often did not measure consequences too far.

[Mikari]

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on January 30, 2008, 08:52:48 AM
"Please refrain," Hikou muttered, fishing through the her pockets. A small blue orb came out of the pocket with her hand, dull in luminocity but a faint sparkle shimmering within. Hikou scrunched her nose and the ball flared brightly, the afterglow of the activation holding for a decent amount of time. "Leveled up All," the girl explained. "It's a pregnant dog to keep activated, but it'll hold the glow for a while longer than the other materia, and you don't have to worry about accidentally setting anyone on fire. ...I just hope my MP doesn't run out."

Dropping to all fours, Hikou crawled forward on her elbows into the wreckage that had once been the most wealthy city in the world. Now, resting against the biggest garbage heap in the world. The faint light of the materia, which hadn't seemed like much on the surface, suddenly felt as if it were the only little light in the entire world. Not that there was much to see to begin with.

A few rats skittered by a large wooden sign that read "TEXAS," squeaking on towards something in the distance. Trying to ignore the loose metal scratching in long strokes across her back, Hikou followed the rather large rodents.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on January 30, 2008, 01:41:48 PM
"I guess that will work,"Mikari liked shiny things, though shiny and powerful sounded even better, it sounded like materia. "Let me know if you start to run low on MP."

Mikari hissed, glared and a faint glow overcame her lightning materia only to fade before it activated when she realized it almost did. "Rats..." She hissed at them again, and pictured the entire wreckage blowing up; that would make things nice and flat, and easy to walk on.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on January 30, 2008, 04:10:36 PM
The narrow passage way only grew more narrow as it progressed. A small circle of light illuminated the tunnel ahead, obscured by the crowd of rats. Their furry little heads bobbed in a semicircle around something propped against the far right side.

Hikou hoped she could fit that far down the line.

Jamming an elbow into the dirt, the girl clawed her way onward, sending the rats squeaking away in terror as she approached, half weaseling their way up through the hole in the roof and the other half scurrying past the girls back out the other way. Hikou moved to duck as a rather large rat scurried his way right up over her head. Her elbow slipped as she moved, and instinctively a hand went to brace the fall. Her fingers snagged on what felt like wet fabric before snapping through the object she'd landed on. The glow of the materia had slipped out of her grasp.

A sour scent filled her nose.

With a sinking feeling in her stomach, Hikou looked down and did her d**nedest not to vomit.

A tattered bit of fabric outlined the fading blue, the frail remnants of what had once been a ribcage enclosing it. She closed her eyes before she could look at the half-decayed face, and instead reached her hand up towards the light coming from above and gave a hard yank, waiting for the metal to collapse in on itself.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on January 30, 2008, 09:39:32 PM
Snow could hardly keep up with conversation so she didn't even try. Her mind wandered to many places most of them were the dark recesses of her mind and her old ideals of Shinra. Snow might argue that she had fallen from her former glory much like her beloved company before her. Still, the efforts she made to get through the wreckage were not foreign to her. She felt like she had done this at least once before.

The smell of death was thick, it often was in abandoned Shinra areas. It was a smell she was used to, one that should have made her want to vomit. One that should have made her shriek out in terror. She made little note of the rats, as odd as it may have sounded they were nothing to her. She had met worse Shinra executives.

"Is everything okay?" Snow called from the back.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on January 30, 2008, 10:00:38 PM
Idly, Hikou wondered what had happened to her gloves as the scrap metal began to give way, shaking lose a cloud of dust, and opening the passage up from the top. Popping her head out, the girl took a deep breath of air.

"Yeah, fine!" she called back. "We've got a dead one up here. Either starvation or the stigman--any way you spin it you should watch your step!"

Hauling herself up, Hikou crouched on the wreckage of the plate. The road of metal was dwindling back down into the crumbling pavement, and a half-charred Loveless banner was waving pathetically in the distance. The cracked tile of the old forum lead a warped sort of yellow-brick road out into the main street that felt so familiar.

This was it.

This was Sector 8.

Or what was left of it, at least.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on January 31, 2008, 12:46:09 PM
It wasn't until she was deep into the tunnel of wreckage that Mikari noticed the foul scent. Her nose could be quite slow at time, not catching scents until she was either searching for them, or they became too strong to ignore. "It stinks and the rants are ugly, no cute little lab mice."

She was thankful she remembered to bring and put on her gloves, as getting her nails dirty was a big no, and would piss her off enough to want to go on a rampage of destruction, which may just cause the entire tunnel of junk to fall on their heads. Something about keeping a certain superiority above the situation but not getting too dirty, though her clothes would inevitable get dirty; it just wouldn't be the Turks way if there wasn't a certain level of control.

"As good as it could be on such a low tech mission." Even so Mikari stubbornly held on to the hope deep down, of finding something cool even if it was hard to provide energy for it. She very much prefered missions infiltrating nice bi high tech buildings, but the high tech buildings were her base, so in that case the roles would be reversed and it would be her job to catch the invaders, not to invade. That could also be fun.

"No wonder those rants are so ugly if they're feeding on this thing," Mikari observed the dead body, it was disgusting yet somehow unimpressive. "If this were my horror movie, I would ad spiders but a better effect." She avoided touching the dirty body, though she had no problem simply looking at it from a somewhat sanitary distance; then pulled herself up following Hikou.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on January 31, 2008, 10:13:05 PM
After hearing Hikou speak, Snow paused to look at the body once she made it that far. Call it morbid curiosity but she had to know if she once knew the guy. When she didn't recognize him (or what was left of him) she gave a small nod. She pulled herself out of the tunnel, wiped off what grime she could and knelt near Hikou and Mikari.

"If this were a horror movie," Snow commented, "Then we'd all be dead." She looked up for a moment at the two girls and contemplated on if she should head further first since she had been the tail in the tunnel. The light whipping sound of the Loveless banner in the breeze brought back a school girl feeling in Snow. Standing she stepped forward mumbling, "How far we've fallen."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 01, 2008, 07:49:34 AM
"If this were a horror movie," Hikou parroted, "we would be getting paid at least twice as much."

That said, Hikou hopped down off of the wreckage and onto the deteriorating tile of the forum. Half of the roof had crumbled away and the other half of the building was left nervously standing with only a portion of its foundation. Old posters and fliers still littered the walls and the floors, and new graffiti had been sprayed on halfway in, halfway out of the filth that covered the city.

It should've been nostalgic, but it was not.

She'd probably spent countless hours here with her comrades, but it seemed the older she got the less she remembered. Only blurred faces haunted these hallways, and it was simple enough for the girl to just walk past them.

The path was relatively clear, messier, creepier, yet somehow less threatening than the streets and alleyways of the lower plate had once been. It felt so natural to reach out and push open the door out even though it was only hanging by one hinge, so completely normal to stroll the three blocks through the wreckage to the center of the beast.

So casual to walk up to that door.

And it didn't even feel like a small wonder that when she pressed her fingers to the keypad--

0
0
6
9
7
0
3
8
3

--that the door groaned and creaked open.

Because why wouldn't it? It was like she'd never even left.

"Well, something's powering the building," Hikou breathed out.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 01, 2008, 11:54:55 AM
"Nah, the heroes always survive somehow..." She paused and thought about her own words, were the the heroes or were the Turks actually the anti-heroes, or even the antagonists of the story? "Actually, it doesn't matter if it's the heroes or not, the cool people will survive. If it pays more than being a Turk I wouldn't mind being in a horror movie, I'll even do my own stunts," by that Mikari meant that she would shoot and blow up things for real, instead of only pretending to do so. It was the Turks way of filmilng.

"Very far since we stopped using our giant battery, what a waste..." The planet was useful to stand on, but if it could provide energy and it was not used, it felt as if it was being wasted. Mikari never really cared about what happen a hundred or two hundred years into the future. She didn't understand why anyone did if they wouldn't be around to find out. Wherever she may be at the time, floating in the life stream or else where, she would laugh in sweet irony if the planet they protected was destroyed by a sudden shower of meteors, natural meteors not summoned, and the energy they left to waste would be destroyed. She did not know what the fate of the life stream would be then, but she knew some would think 'we should have used the mako, now it's lost' and that thought, morbid as it may be, amused her greatly. The Turks were victorious, one way of another.

The sign of some form of power being found was a good one for Mikari. "Good, it's not all stone age style in the wreckage." Any sign of working machinery of any form was very welcome, enemy or not, but if it was an enemy they would just have to take care of it.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 01, 2008, 12:12:53 PM
"It's not a battery, Mikari," Hikou chided. "It's a living thing. And you're gonna end up part of it when you finally kick it." She flicked her bangle casually, trying to get the feel of the materia off of her skin, the hypocrisy of it all weighing down on her shoulders.

Pulling out her gun, Hikou carefully nudged the door open with her foot and took a cautious step inside.

Really, it didn't look all that bad.

It had that too-old hospital feel to it, flourescent light bouncing on white walls, and the fake plants nestled in the corner gave a mocking sort of greeting, but all in all it could've still been operational. The damage had to have been heavier higher up in the tower, where all of the equipment and files worth looking at would be.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 01, 2008, 09:09:23 PM
"It's a bio-engineered battery." That sounded like an explanation that could combined the battery and living thing arguments, it was a living battery, happy medium.

"Besides, I rather be pulled out to power a computer than be used to heal dirt." The thought of it was just wrong. Mikari, individualist as she could be and with a sense of superiority above the living battery, she just couldn't picture herself melting into the life steam.

She glanced at the fake plants, she very much preferred the fake ones to the real ones, but then again, both were equally useless, the fake ones just felt cleaner.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 01, 2008, 09:16:02 PM
Hikou shook her head. "Well, this ought to make your day then."

She stepped towards a large metal doorway, and began to fiddle with the keypad again. "This place has to be operating on mako energy. Nothing in this building was ever designed to run on anything else, even the back up generators are just mako-charged."

The doors slid open with a smoothness that was uncharacteristic of their rough home.

"I'm surprised no Mr. McHeropants has caught onto it yet."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 01, 2008, 11:36:55 PM
"I really liked this place, having an alternate energy source just in case is the smarter way to do things, but the big bio-battery won't run out any time soon." Mikari watched the door slide ope with anticipations. "It's profitable, it's effective, why not?"

"Mr. McHeroPants is probably caught up thinking peace is finally here... Or maybe he forgot to search for a possible new adventure in the most obvious of places, because it's just so obvious."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 01, 2008, 11:45:22 PM
"It's not economical," Hikou replied. "The old turbines are practically archaic and only produce about a fifth of the energy of a reactor half the size and half the price."

Hikou stepped on the elevator and pushed the button for ground level on the upper plate, unsure of exactly how far the lift would be able to take them.

"He's probably out and about trying to pretend he's still sixteen," Hikou muttered spitefully. "You know, I understand he's been through a lot of nuts on our behalf, but I wish he'd just stop and take a look in the mirror once in a while." She tried to pretend she couldn't see herself scowl in the metal doors. "He's a twenty-four year old delivery boy, living above a bar. You can't tell me that's not pathetic."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 02, 2008, 11:37:12 AM
"But the energy is free, the mako I mean. We just need better generators, which we would have if the entire mako reactor thing hasn't been shut down." Mako was shiny, mako was useful, mako was good, and Mikari wanted that mako were it could be used, it was too good for the rock they stood on.

Mikari shrugged. "It is unusual... But whatever makes him happy. It does make things easier for us if he's too busy making deliveries and stuff, to notice what's going on. Unless you want Mr. Hero to be here helping clear the way with his shin giant sword? ...Do you want to see him?" She grinned.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 02, 2008, 04:40:24 PM
Hikou snorted as the doors slid open. "We can't see each other anymore. I think we both hate each other too much and are just too nice to say it." Stepping out into the lobby of Shinra Inc pressed a heavy weight on Hikou's shoulders. Probably heavier than that d**ned buster sword. "He still resents that I took the company job back, and I still resent that he can pretend he's no more responsible to clean up this mess than any other Joe on the street."

Deep purple carpet still trailed the way up to the next level, marred in dirt and what once might have been blood. Hikou followed it, unblinkingly. "Enough about it."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 02, 2008, 10:23:58 PM
Snow listened to Hikou and Mikari, she followed closely behind but offered nothing to the conversation about Mako or Mr.McHeropants who she did not realize was that Strife kid at first. After listening for a moment she summarized it all with a sigh. Snow stepped into the lobby behind Hikou, her head lightly spun at the recognition of her old "home".

She mused at the power running through the building. "Since the back up generators are working, we should be able to get to the old office and access files." She crossed her arms and inhaled deeply. The smell of mako was thicker than she'd like to admit. Something about the generators kicking in after all this time made her uneasy. Maybe she was used to things being quieter now. "Before that though, I am a little more concerned about the lab." It was clear she was trying to change the subject. Maybe she was feeling out for her companions concerns. They were in the middle of a mission, the debate about the planets uses, and Cloud's, were least on her mind.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 02, 2008, 10:33:06 PM
Hikou's face fell at the mention of it. The lab was the bane of her existence.

There probably should've been a cheap montage of terrible images, but there was only that fading heaviness in her stomach that followed the mako infusions.

"Do we really want to be poking our noses in there?" she asked, moving towards the door to the main stairwell, a vision of countless concrete steps awaiting her expectantly.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 02, 2008, 10:41:25 PM
Snow stopped on the steps. "I'd prefer not too." A shrug slipped passed her shoulders, "If you feel we don't need to, then we can skip it." Her face distorted in thought, "I just don't want to be attacked by what could be in there." Pain had always run thick in the lab. It was troublesome for Snow to go in there and if she could avoid it she would.

"Or," Snow offered, "One of us could take the lab and the other two could proceed as..." she wanted to say planned but they weren't really working on one, scheduled wouldn't have been right either. As her mind weighed the choices she just conceded to her thoughts, "planned. In which case, since it is my concern, I'll take it." Her stomach flipped at the mere thought of her volunteer. There must be something wrong with her. But wouldn't it be better to stick together? her mind chided.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 02, 2008, 11:30:53 PM
"I'm still mad at him for going against Shinra, but he is too much fun to annoy. We should send him on a delivery with bad directions when this is over." Mikari grinned mischievously at the imagi of Cloud Strife traveling the entire city and beyond trying to deliver a package. "I won't how long before he'll give up..."

"Computers... lab... Well the computers are old, I still want to have a look, but the lab might have something interesting..." The mission, of course, there was a mission, but it wasn't odd for Mikari to take missions lightly, at least until the action really got started. "Why don't we just check the computers and if nothing interesting pops up, I'll head over to the lab?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 03, 2008, 08:39:01 AM
Hikou scowled, clearly outnumbered and clearly unhappy about it all. "Fine."

She began to climb.

Each step was a blur of grey on grey, the oddly colored stains not registering too well in the girl's head. It was an easy enough place to tune out in, and that's exactly what Hikou intended to do. The slant of the staircase was so slight at first it was difficult to notice, but by the 19th set of stairs it was painfully obvious.

Cracks spiderwebbed down the steps and chunks of rock kicked off on the worse-off steps, the lights began to flicker every level higher until finally they simply stopped altogether, the structural damage most likely having ruined that set of circuits.

The slope cut off at Level 36, though Hikou was sure she should've realized it sooner. The steadily growing cold breeze, that slant. Hell, the view from the Shinra copter.

It just never made sense, that everything that looked so much the same would be so wrong.

A cage of pipes and electric lines pulled taut between the two chunks of the tower, split neatly down the center and propped against each other for support.

Hikou said the only thing that came to mind. "Holy nuts."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 03, 2008, 10:07:46 PM
"Lack of elevators suck," Mikari was impatient but running up stairs led to falling down stairs. It was not productive so she climbed at a normal, yet somewhat relatively fast pace, but not by too much. She liked the glass elevators, the normal ones were okay, but she preferred the glass ones.

"What a mess... I guess it's fine as long as it doesn't fall on us." She did not believe in jinxes or else she might not have said that.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 04, 2008, 09:54:42 AM
"It's always something, isn't it?" Snow half grumbled. A shiver raced up her spine before she crossed her arms and she was forced to stare at a mix of darkness and uncertainty. She then heard Hikou swear and Mikari complain.

She opened her mouth to speak and shut it again. Was there anything that could be said? Her eyes paused on the tower that supported itself.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 04, 2008, 12:05:15 PM
Mikari pictured the tower falling, the wreckage blowing up, a mess of destruction and when the smoke cleared, a new city, like none other would be there. She pictured Midgar, only better, too bad it was just a day dream, Midgar wouldn't come back, mako wouldn't be used... but not so secretly, Mikari wished for it to start all over again.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 04, 2008, 03:54:24 PM
"I... uhh." Hikou stopped, mid sentence, staring down the mess ahead of her.

Reaching up, the girl grabbed ahold of one of the rusted over bent pipes that protruded out from the side of the building and carefully hauled herself up onto the ledge. It was quite a long drop back to the plate, and the building itself only touched the tower several feet below.

There was no pipeline still fully in tact, and no real efficient way to trapeze from one chunk of debris to the other.

Hikou stared downward, trying to determine if the force of the drop would really injure her that seriously, or if it would be enough to cause anymore damage to the already precarious balance.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 04, 2008, 07:17:12 PM
Snow's face distorted from serious to a frown as she watched Hikou climb up. She watched the other girl and hoped that it would not break, that it would not fall and that if it did Hikou would come out unharmed. She snapped her wrist as her mind scrolled through the materia she had brought with her. Tornado would be a bit messy to be using on a comrade but with some control it might just be a nice cushion.

"What are you trying to do?" Snow called up, "Be careful! You're more useful uninjured and alive."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 04, 2008, 09:15:19 PM
"I'm more useful down there," Hikou replied, shrugging her head towards the wreckage below. "I don't know about you, but I didn't walk up ten million steps for nothing."

The thought of materia never really registered to Hikou. Having worked her way up from the bottom of the SOLDIER ops she'd spent the majority of her training without it, and even when she'd managed to obtain it she'd never had an adequate amount of MP to sustain it.

So gaging the fall, she took a deep breath and did the simplest thing she could think of. She hopped off.

There was a loud scraping noise, and Hikou feared for a brief instant that it was all collapsing. She could see it in her mind's eye, the brick chipping away, crumbling in on itself and on her until it all reached the bottom. Just another body buried in a pile of rocks in what had once been the most powerful city in all of the world.

But once her body hit the relatively soft ceiling tile, and her head bounced back off of the cheap filing cabinent, she realized she'd only hit a stray office chair and that bit on her temple was only a scratch.

Shaking her head, she stood uneasily. The ground--or the ceiling, rather--wasn't quite level. Doing her best to balance her weight on the metal supports instead of the actual tiles themselves, Hikou edged over to the shattered remains of a computer of some sort, ripping its plug from an extension cord and rolling the thing up.

"Snow?" she called up. "If I toss this up you think you can tie it to one of the pipelines and slide down?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 04, 2008, 11:34:26 PM
Snow's ears struggled to listen, for a moment she was sure Hikou was injured only to hear that particular partner call her name. She couldn't quite see Hikou from where she was standing but she gave an odd look to the structure before her. She looked at Mikari for a moment and called back.

"Yeah, that'll be no problem!"

Thoughts of her Youth rushed back into her head. She remembered meeting a Shinra soldier on a ship once and he taught how to tie several different knots that she had assumed would never be useful in her entire life. They did not distract her but he caused chuckle to rise up in her throat. Her gray eyes scanned the structure again and before she knew it, she had a decent plan on how to get everything done as soon as she saw whatever Hikou was going to drop.

Her hand reached up and felt the nearest pipelines, then gave a small rattle to see their stability. The ones nearest, she figured were not quite usable and she'd have to go a little higher up, but it was no problem.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 04, 2008, 11:40:59 PM
Without hesitation, Hikou tossed the rope.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 04, 2008, 11:49:56 PM
Snow grabbed the rope as soon as she saw it. She scaled a little ways up, far enough to find a secure pipeline or some other sturdy object - she wasn't quite sure as it didn't look like a pipe or it was too weathered on surface to be easily recognized. It held when she hung on it, it held when she gave a small jump and it held when she did a mixture of both.

Over the pipe, around itself, and through the loop that was made and then the knot. She checked it only once but it was strong enough to hold, and she slid down her own knot to make sure first.

"The anchor'll hold." she offered. She gave it a tug and listened for any sound of creaking noises. There was what she thought was the sound of something dropping far away from them. She tossed the rope back to Hikou.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 05, 2008, 12:03:13 AM
Catching the opposite end of the cord, Hikou spun a moment too quickly to find something to anchor it with, and had to struggle to catch herself from tumbling down yet again. Deciding her best bet was probably the large (though rather cheap looking) desk, she quickly tied the cable taut to the leg.

She gave it an experimental push.

"Ready on my end!" she hollered up.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 05, 2008, 12:07:54 AM
"I'm coming down then!" Snow said the second after Hikou said she was ready. She pulled her gloves from her jacket pocket and slid them on. She hated the idea of possible burns on her lovely hands. Once her gloves were on she cracked her knuckles and before she knew it she had joined Hikou.

Her landing was much better than her previous once. She landed with a small thud. She took a breath and looked around, it took her a moment to adjust to the floor as her equilibrium began to correct itself on the slight slant before she her eyes had time to register it. Her ear gave a slight pop. But she smiled at Hikou for her quick thinking.

"It's not completely level here, Mikari." Snow called up as a warning in case the eldest girl had more balance troubles than she did.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 05, 2008, 12:25:49 PM
Hikou brushed off her hands and took a deep breath. "Okay, so up is now offically down. We could try to find the stairwell again and slide down the ceiling, but if it's destroyed somewhere along the way it's going to be a pregnant dog trying to get back up..."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 05, 2008, 01:28:02 PM
Mikari watched Hikou climb, the the rope toss between her and Snow. She remembered that her own balance wasn't the greatest thing ever, but it only got bad when she had to stand on small spaces. If the there was enough room to walk, the level of the floor didn't bother her, if she had to jump from one tiny surface to another, that would be big trouble, even if they were all level. Luckily she had enough room to land, otherwise she might have missed the landing point all together, though if clinging to anything she could get her hands on worked, then she should be fine.

After completing the rope leap with an ungraceful landing, Mikari gave a thumbs up, as she got to her feet again. She grinned, unable to let go of the opportunity to say: "I bet you're both missing the elevators now." It just wasn't like her to take thing too seriously, but she still knew not to push her luck with the unstable structure.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 06, 2008, 10:46:31 AM
Hikou shrugged, earnestly, an idea slowly uncoiling in the back of her mind. "It might be easier just to slide down the old elevator cables and hope the shaft isn't clogged. There won't be a car, but it's still the same basic concept of an elevator: faster and no stairs."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 06, 2008, 11:48:41 AM
"Good idea, so the elevators are useful even when they're useless." It was an oddly amusing irony, or maybe Mikari was too easily amused.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 06, 2008, 12:40:49 PM
Snow gave a slow nod. "Might be..." She paused, "If the cables aren't snapped for whatever reason. Worth a try I suppose..." She didn't quite like the idea of having to be in an elevator shaft. Considering up was now down and the previous wreckage they had encountered there was the chance that the cables weren't connected. "Worth a try no matter how you look at it." her stomach flipped at her words. "Better than waiting for something to go wrong, right?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 06, 2008, 06:33:29 PM
Hikou nodded. "Well, it's not like we can't pry the doors apart at whatever level the cable ends on..." The girl turned to walk off, stumbling only minimally as she approached the large metal doors. "Since the cable will be on a slant it'll be more like rappelling than actually climbing."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 06, 2008, 08:14:12 PM
"We're going to beat this mission, we're Turks we'll find a way to win." Mikari tried to stay cheerful despite any 'annoying drags' as she would say, that they might encounter, such as climbing or rappelling up an elevator shaft.

If she had to pick, rappelling was better, as she was not exactly a fan of climbing. It was one of those things she just wanted to get done and over with and stayed optimistic with the knowledge that it would end, preferably without falling.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 08, 2008, 07:22:09 PM
"I suppose so." Snow unwillingly agreed. "Best just to get it done with, right?"

Unlike Hikou she nearly fell on her face. She swore to herself and readjusted her balance as well we her equilibrium would allow. It wasn't the climbing, scaling, rappelling, shooting, exploding, killing they might be doing that bothered her. She tried to push the thoughts from her mind and prayed that there would be a better option than the elevator shaft.

Snow walked behind the group as she had been doing the whole mission. She looked around at certain things and tried to make out anything that was odd or out of the ordinary, even though they were technically on the ceiling.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 09, 2008, 12:08:52 PM
"C'mon Snow it'll be okay. There's no elevator so the elevator shaft is more spacious than just a box," Mikari tried to find some optimism for Snow. "The fun part will start soon I'm sure."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 10, 2008, 04:21:59 PM
"That's true." Snow agreed. She contemplated Mikari's words and decided it was time to pull herself from the dark habit she was creating for herself. "I suppose I'll just be quick. In and out, right?" From where they were on the ceiling she'd imagine it would be annoying to find the elevators as everything was opposite how she remembered.

Another thought struck her. "If the upper floors are this bad, I'd imagine the lab is of little use now."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 11, 2008, 12:23:46 PM
"Right, we'll be out of there in no time." Mikati nodded energetically, though she was a moment later a little disappointed to head about the lab. "You're probably right..." it was too bad really, she liked mako powered machine, and there could be some pretty good data too. "Sucks when the good stuff gets crushed, why couldn't a random forest get crushed or something?" Because there was no plate hovering above it, but that was not the point.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 11, 2008, 05:05:57 PM
Walking was an adventure Hikou figured out relatively quickly. The first time her foot went through one of the ceiling tiles was also the last, and she found herself balancing--more or less like a tightrope act--on the steel framing that lined the tiles. Stray furniture, she discovered, was more of a trap that a help. Having steadied herself on too many desks or file cabinets that slid out and down the slope at the slightest touch, left her grasping for nothing but the walls.

The metal doors of the elevator were clamped firmly shut, the light above the steel stuck in perpetual blankness. Sticking her fingers in the indent between the two pieces of steel, Hikou gave a great heave, and the gears behind the door were forcefully shoved into motion, and they gave way.

In the dim light left over from the room, a cord was visible, pulled against the far side of the shaft, most likely hooked somewhere in the wreckage between the two buildings. It spiraled down into blackness.

Really, it was a terrible idea. The cable was unchecked, very likely unstable, possibly broken, but there was no better way to get to it. So Hikou slipped her foot on the inside of the little metal ledge that should've gapped the ceiling and the car, reached out her hand, and dove for the line.

Worse case scenario, she still reached the bottom, and Cloud could testify himself that SOLDIERs were designed to take a fall or two.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 12, 2008, 01:24:08 PM
Mikari stepped on a tile and it crumbled she set her foot down on the steel frame next to her other one. "I know I've seen something like this in a movie before but there were letters on the floor or something..." She watched Hikou go for the cable and hoped it wouldn't randomly snap or become unhooked from whatever was holding it.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 13, 2008, 05:20:24 PM
The cable looked shady. Like it would be fine if it were just Mikari and Hikou. But to Snow it seemed taunting. She swallowed her pride and a little less than one fourth of her claustrophobia and leaned on the doorway If she was going to die it may as well be on the job outside of the office. Besides all of that the sooner they got through of all of this the better.

"Looks like that's as safe as it'll get." Snow commented. "You trust it to hold, Hikou?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 14, 2008, 12:16:25 PM
"If it holds Hikou and I, then it will hold you too." Really what was one more person climbing for a cable that had no reason to fall. If it was going to fall, it would have fallen already. It was a strange baseless logic of the hopeless optimistic variety, but whatever worked.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 14, 2008, 09:46:49 PM
Slowly, Hikou began to descend the rope into the darkness below. The generators, if they were still in one piece would not be in tact. There would be no light below.

"Aw, hell..."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 14, 2008, 09:54:30 PM
Snow followed the lead of her companions. "No lights, eh?" She thought about what to do, it wasn't like they could shoot a fire ball or something below them. Her nose scrunched in thought as she tried to remain on the cable and fish through her jacket for something.

"Here we go." She fished out an all materia and thought to do as Hikou did in the tunnel earlier. Then she thought about if she had a small flashlight. Did she ever own one of those. She had one in her desk drawer to annoy her partner on late nights, but a lot of good that did her here. "I can hold the light in an All if you think that'll help."

The further Snow went down the more relaxed she became. Lack of light was a good thing while they were in the elevator shaft.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 15, 2008, 08:26:59 PM
"The darkness is low tech" Mikari didn't like the lack of light because it meant lack of electricity, and she liked being surrounded by it. However, not falling was the first priority. "It won't interfere with your grip on the cable?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 18, 2008, 05:50:21 PM
Snow liked the dark, it was calming. She thought about Mikari's words. "Nah, It;ll be fine. I've had to do with with less." Her job had always been about making it work, this was no different. A little more dangerous than normal, but really no different.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 18, 2008, 10:37:52 PM
Mikari considered setting her cellphone to beep annoyingly to remind her that civilization existed and so did machines. If it was dark she needed sound, like the soft purr of a machine's engine... then again that put put her to sleep.

"There better be machines were this this is going," thing as in the elevator shaft, but Mikari decided it was best to simply refer to it was 'thing'.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 19, 2008, 07:07:44 AM
The cable--quite suddenly--felt ten times more unstable to Hikou, and she was forced to come to an abrupt halt, shouting, "STOP!" so as not to get a boot in the face from Mikari. The cable had more than likely ended.

It was a short moment the girl hung there, clinging to the rope for dear life, trying to come up with some semblance of a plan. She was one of the most developed in hand to hand combat, able to give and take a lot of physical damage, and there was a good chance she could support herself with one arm long enough to pry the sliding metal door next to her open, but there was also a fairly good chance that she'd fall...

And while the fall might not kill her, there wouldn't be much of a way for her to crawl back up out of the wreckage uninjured, and Mikari and Snow would probably have to call for help from headquarters to haul her ass out, and she'd never hear the end of it from anyone ever again.

Flashy and showy was not Hikou's way, and she hated having to ask sacrifice the element of surprise, but she did it anyway. "Mikari, you think you could blast that door open?

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 19, 2008, 01:26:52 PM
Mikari stopped suddently, aware that Hikou was climbing down bellow. "Huh? Is something wrong?" She paused, wondering what was going on, and hoping the cable wouldn't snap. She couldn't feel Hikou moving.

She grinned listening to Hikou's request. "Sure, a little electricity should do it." With emphasis on a little, too much could knock them off the cable, or make the cable snap. She aimed at metal door, good thing wasn't far. "Hold on, I'm blasting this thing open!"

The elevator shaft was filled with light from the electricity. Mikari tried not to over do it, but the blast had to be strong enough to get rid of their obstacle. The shock wave made the cable shake and she clung to it for her life. It was noisy, it was flashy, but it was hard to appreciate it from such an uncomfortable position. The cable felt particularly unstable, as if it were about to give out. "I think we should get off this cable..."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 20, 2008, 03:32:21 PM
"This job will be the death of me" Snow commented under her breath. However getting off the cable sounded like and outstanding idea. The only problem was that she had to wait for two other people and if the cable were really as unstable as it felt Snow might be in trouble.

The idea of a tornado did not please her, but if need be she'd conjure one up; better to be stuck there for a moment then plummeting to some uncertain doom. That or Hades, she decided. She'd rather land in the Black Cauldron than demise or being stuck. The shaking of the cable did not shake her nerves as much as it should have but in the shaking she dropped her mastered all materia.

"Crap." escaped her lips and she felt it was the tame and first of a long line of swears coming on.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 20, 2008, 04:24:50 PM
Mikari hear the sound of something falling, occasionally colliding with pieces of wreckage. The thing could have gotten stuck a few feet bellow or fallen all the way, she did not know. "What was that?" She hoped it wasn't something too important, something that couldn't be replaced.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 20, 2008, 10:53:03 PM
Hikou had realized what had happened the instant she heard that awful tell-tale plink beneath her and jumped for the doorway before she mistimed and forgot where it had been.

The girl swung away from the rope as if she were playing on a jungle gym, and not dangling above what was most likely certain doom and untimely death. The pads of her fingers scraped across the cinderblock of the wall opposite her, wearing the thin layer of skin there away, before hooking around an edge of jagged metal.

She almost fell for a moment, stumbling backwards into a darkness that felt less whole than the one in front of her, but the heel of her foot came crashing through something soft, and her toe hooked in what must have been a ceiling tile, and she was unable to fall backwards any farther.

"Haaaah," she breathed. It didn't sound as much like laughter out loud as it did in her head.

Pushing herself up and out of the tile with her good arm, the girl shuffled towards the wreckage of the doorway. She hadn't had very many mako infusions, but she still worked well enough to see the outline of where the doorway was, if not much past it.

Grasping the interior of the wall tightly, she leaned out and reached out blindly with her other hand, feeling for one of the other girls. "Are you guys alright?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 21, 2008, 12:31:31 AM
"We're fine for now, okay here I come," Mikari felt for a hole in the wall and jumped into it taking Hikou's hand in the process to avoid falling, and nearly crashing into the other girl. Well she did say she was coming and her landings were never graceful... "Oops..."

She made some room for Snow and reached out standing to the side. "Snow?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 21, 2008, 06:50:46 AM
Hikou pushed up her sleeve again, and carefully detatched her all materia from its slot. With a groan of discomfort, she activated the thing again, and a small glow illuminated the room. She knew that it really shouldn't have been all that hard. It should have been concerning, but she was just so d**n tired she couldn't quite think in any other direction but one.

There was a tree in the center of the room.

A big, plastic, fake tree that everyone had secretly laughed at.

"Level Sixty-Two," Hikou announced in her best elevator attendant voice, "mess hall and break room." In a fit of something akin to rage, she kicked the nearest plastic chair into her, sending it spiraling out of the small circle of light she was engulfed in. Tables and chairs lined the floor, flipped upside down and over on their sides, and the ceiling tiles seemed burnt away in places near the walls--disintigrated by the mako that had disappeared from the shattered glass tubes lining the walls, or perhaps just collapsed from the water damage a collapsed building was bound to have.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 21, 2008, 11:23:45 AM
"This place had such ugly decorations. Sure the tree tree was fake, but it was a tree," Mikari didn't like trees, she didn't like the sun, she honestly didn't like weather at all. It was the weather-less weather that she liked with no wind or rain, when no one could tell if it was sunny or cloudy because truly it was either both or neither. A fake tree was ugly to look at, a real tree would have made her lose her appetite altogether if she ever had lunch there.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 21, 2008, 09:01:30 PM
"I'm here." Snow replied. She closed her eyes before letting her body react. She didn't see herself get down so the memory of the action was not there as she straightened her jacket once she reached Hikou and Mikari. She must've survived or lost her life, she wasn't quite sure. But her ankle stung a little from the effort, that much, she was sure of. "Better here than there." Snow commented looking back to the shaft. Snow knelt down to feel her ankle, check for blood should it somehow be there and groaned in irritation as she felt it.

Her hands illuminated in a pale green light as she activated cure. She gave a sigh, there wasn't a way to get back up there. She wouldn't agree to that a second time.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 23, 2008, 01:52:45 PM
Good, at least they were all together. "Is there anything important we should be searching for in the mess hall?" Mikari suspected the answer was no, she practically knew it was, but the purpose of the question wasn't really asking, but communicating her wish to move on to a cooler place.

Honestly, the action heroes in movies didn't go around having their coolest scenes in cafeterias, and it was that detachment from the harsh reality of the situation hat gave her the cool collected feel of a Turks on top of the situation even under tons of wreckage that could very well collapse on her head seconds later, but that didn't happen in the movies, not to the stars.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 25, 2008, 09:45:29 PM
Hikou didn't bother to answer, already halfway to the new big metal blockade by then. She'd kicked, and pushed, and thrown herself a war-path from the elevator to the stairwell.

Staring at her wavy reflection in the door in front of her, the girl did her best not to hurl the materia cupped in her hand into the nearest wall. With short, restrained motions, the all was deactivated and clicked back into place, and in the same short, restrained motions her hand closed into a fist in front of her.

It was such a simple gesture, but a cold sweat broke out on her brow from the effort as all of her energy focused on the fingernails now curled into her palm.

There was a rush of air. A harsh, roaring sound.

And heat.

Intense heat.

A few chairs skidded inward towards the stairwell where the door had once been, now exploded in on itself. The dim, blue light of the materia had been replaced by an unsteady, living flicker of flame clinging to the insides of the wall that encased the stairs. The spell had left Hikou totally MP-dead, but for the most part, she felt better.

Digging her fingers into the wall, she chipped out a piece of the wreckage still aflame, and held it out in front of her as a make shift torch to guide the way down the sloped ceiling of the staircase.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 25, 2008, 11:52:08 PM
"Materia rocks!" Mikari stopped herself from yelling, though if anything they have already done didn't give away their location, she doubted that would. She followed Hikou, though she preferred flashlight to torches, it was certainly better than wandering around in the darkness and accidentally kicking random things that were in the way.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 26, 2008, 11:46:42 PM
Snow trailed behind for a moment readjusting her ankle, the pain was lessened and from what she could tell there were no serious injuries. It didn't make the situation any less annoying, but at least she wouldn't scream when she stepped on it. She half lost site of her companions but the scent of the fire form the torch led her along more than enough.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 27, 2008, 12:48:15 PM
Mikari looked back searching for Snow, she was indeed still following. Better make sure they don't split up after coming all that way. Maybe, just maybe, they were close to finding something interesting among the wreckage.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on February 27, 2008, 10:08:21 PM
The slant-ceiling of the stairwell, slid away easily enough beneath Hikou's feet. The floors slipping by in unmeasured minutes.

A glow from below cast the rest opening of the staircase in shadow as the girl decended. It came from beyond the doorway labeled 66, the sheet metal that should've been covering it long since pried away. Somewhere a backup generator or some warped spell was powering the cords around the floor.

And while it was entirely plausible that the backup generator would kick itself on in such a scenario, she just couldn't buy that the technology would last so long separated from the main powerlines and energy source. Whatever mako cell had been shoved into the thing should've since worn itself out.

They were not alone.

Again, the gun from inside Hikou's jacket made an appearance, as she stepped through the doorway. Briefly, a shimmer of a memory slithered across her mind. There would be three computer centers, the biggest of which would be located down to the right, around the conference room. Hikou ignored the large double doors. There was nothing worth subjecting herself to the tacky red carpet for.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 28, 2008, 11:59:11 AM
Mikari's mood improved at the feeling of energy near by. Sure it could, and most likely did, mean that there was someone else there; but there was also working technology, energy, she remembered the greatness of mako powered generators and missed them even more, at least she got be be near one, bad sign or not, it was welcomed. She gripped her electro-rod and looked over her materia, then followed Hikou.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Lupe on February 28, 2008, 03:19:26 PM
Lots and Lots of writing on this thread *reads*

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on February 28, 2008, 10:15:22 PM
There were two things she could do well read energy and shoot things. She could shoot things with energy if MP permitted. She, like the others, made note of the energy. She felt a bit uneasy but made no move to grab the gun from her jacket. Perhaps being paranoid and forever suspicious she tailed at the end of the group in case of a back attack.

Snow thought of maybe splitting up, but there wouldn't be much to look at. The conference room might hold something, people for all they knew. She looked at the large double doors for a moment before deciding she should probably keep up with Hikou and Mikari. Something echoed in the back of her mind, she wasn't listening too well or she didn't want to know the answer to the question she had been asking since they got there. Either way, the further down they went the more trouble she was sure they'd fin.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on February 28, 2008, 11:45:08 PM
Something tech and cool, something tech and cool. Even if it's a killer enemy robot, or guarded by a giant radioactive monster, I want to find something tech and cool. Sometimes Mikari's own crazy train of thoughts amused her, though on the outside she remained quietly following Hikou, occasionally glancing back at Snow. She wanted to hit something with her electro-rod, or blast it with materia if it dared not come close enough.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on March 21, 2008, 10:29:53 PM
One more room was surpassed for the strange blueish glow of the main computer center. A red light stretched across the base of the doorway, its color fading into the carpet. Hikou's toes propped carefully against the bulb, gently applying increasingly more pressure until the plastic casing cracked and the glass underneath shattered with a satisfying crunch.

She'd been waiting much too long to do that.

With a quick stomp the flaming piece of wreckage she held was put out and shoved into the metal doorway, prying it open again and bathing the world in that awful blue color.

She stepped up into the room, examining the large L-shaped hole in the ceiling, wires dangling helplessly out of it. The desk that had once been grounded there was now pushed into the far corner, flashing a hauntingly familiar screen, a long trail of forgotten file attempts left across the screen.

Welcome to the Shinra Database!
Codefile 348: hojo.elfe is a restricted file. Please enter access code and password.
Codefile 295: terrorists.sears is a restricted file. Please enter access code and password.
Codefile 967: avalanche.ravens is a restricted file. Please enter access code and password.

And so Hikou did. Of course she'd been removed from the old system upon her first termination with Shinra Inc, but the good boys and girls of SOLDIER shared their passwords more often than was probably necessary, and deceased employees were considered a waste of time to take out. As her fingers slipped over the keypad they fit right into the familiar walk of numbers and passwords that probably hadn't been keyed-in in years.

She didn't bother writing any of it down. There had to be copies at the new office, but every file was strikingly similar.

"They're all terrorists. Really old Avalanche." She closed the screen out. "Mikari, can you see what else they've been doing? If they've added any new information into the system?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on March 22, 2008, 01:04:05 PM
Mikari smiled at the blue light, she adored that light, she was happy to be surrounded by computers and it showed. She wanted to play with them all, discover any possible secrets, take them apart and put them back together.

"No problem," the girl began typing some codes and passwords, accessing the depths of the data base for new information. "Looks like someone's been playing with the system and it wasn't all that long ago."

The words access denied appeared on screen. "Like that'll work," someone had indeed been playing with the database but they weren't too good at hiding it, or maybe they weren't trying. Either way Mikari accessed the most recent data forcing the system to grant her access that she was pretty sure she wasn't supposed to have, even if she was a Turk.

"There we go, take a look at this," a list of files appeared on the screen, many of them marked as restricted.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on March 22, 2008, 08:10:54 PM
Hikou stared at the screen for a long moment, wheels turning over in her head.

There were several articles involving the old band of Avalanche, their old leaders and troops, a long list of notable Shinra executives and field operatives--many of which were long since dead. Beneath it stretched a list of reactors, ordered in demolished to ruined. Detailed plans of standard, old weaponry--guard scorpions and heligunners that used to protect the old reactors.

And one last file labeled; Biggs, Martin.

Sub-categorized: Avalanche.

It was an oddly specific name to choose, and the girl had to wonder why. The man hadn't been prominent or popular. Alone, he'd never posed much of a threat. Privately, she was a little shocked he'd even managed to get his own file, but she supposed the Shinra liked to keep tabs on just about everything under the sun.

"Any way to trace the dates these were accessed?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on March 23, 2008, 12:30:02 PM
Although they were probably on the verge of discovering something, which could be seen as good since they would be advancing on their mission, or bad since that would confirm the magnitude of whatever problem they were up against; Mikari was relaxed, she was much calmer now than during the elevator shaft climb and the initial arrival, not really because of the obvious danger of those other situations, but because to her the computer screen irradiated peace. It was in fact the only time when she was completely at peace, in front of a glowing screen.

"No problem," she typed a little more entering a few commands and accompanying the file list, a list of dates appeared along with specific times. "Even if the time and date settings were a bit off, I doubt it's too far from the truth. I would say a few days of a difference at most, maybe even just a few hours."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on March 23, 2008, 12:57:59 PM
Hikou frowned at the screen, slightly relieved but mostly annoyed. The files had been accessed at least a week prior, and while the strain of crawling up and around old Midgar with the sizeable wound she had was draining on her, she'd much rather have taken care of this all at once.

Several different knots had tied very carefully together in Hikou's mind. There were an infinite amount of reasons to be looking up reactor statuses and weapon plans, ranging from attempted re-creation to plans to destroy whatever new toys Shinra might have dreamt up. If they'd been looking up reactors maybe they were still trying to break into the old ones.

The possibilities were endless.

But there were only so many ways to spin a list of company enemies that long--hopes to recruit them maybe, perhaps a simple copycat gang, maybe just trying to figure out what went wrong, how to not get caught. But definitely a threat.

And they could've been anywhere by now. They could've left the city completely, or they could still be downstairs.

"This is gonna suck," was the only thing Hikou could think of to say. "What we really need is a search-team." This would've been so much easier to deal with in old Shinra. It would be as simple as a text for back up, and they would've had one hundred willing volunteers to come and sweep the ruins. But, no. There would be no ordering and no troopers. Reeve would want a good excuse to have to send out his precious W.R.O. A good excuse pretaining to saving the world, and helping people, and nothing to do at all with someone still trying to take out the company name. "But I doubt we'll get one. We should check out the labs before we go, make sure no one's still down there and nothing too big is missing."

Her head hurt.

"I don't know what we're going to tell Tseng."

Bad.

"Or what he's going to tell Rufus."

[Mikari]

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on March 23, 2008, 04:07:59 PM
Information sunk in and placed itself into the recesses of her mind. She really paid very little attention to what was going on. Her eyes constantly scanned the room and she felt like she was being watched but she said nothing as she crossed her arms.

"I don't know what we're going to tell Tseng." she heard Hikou say.

"I wouldn't worry about him." Snow mouthed. Then she heard something about Rufus. "And I'd waste even less time on him," she looked over at the glow of the monitors, "I can talk to Tseng, I'll think of something. I'm more concerned about convincing him to get us that search party." Snow thought of many ideas, she'd have to twist this just enough to make it logical but still keep the importance and all manage it for World Peace and restoration.

The Journey to the labs surfaced again and Snow felt herself seem almost pleased to be this far in old Shinra territory. It wasn't like going home, this was mixed feelings of anguish and pride. And somewhere in the back of her mind whatever they found there, would strike her mind to get her tongue rolling.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on March 23, 2008, 05:52:56 PM
Hikou sighed, stepping out into the hallway. "It'll take a stretch, but if they're investigating old reactors we might spin it like they're hoping to restart them. All of our old technologies are mako-powered too, it'd take a hell of an alter in design to change the plans on the guard scorpion or the heligunner for that matter, almost not worth taking at all."

As they approached the stairway her voice dropped to a whisper. "Reeve'll strive to make my life a living hell, though, just like he always does." Hikou had quite a few ideas about how the W.R.O. should've been run, and who exactly should've been running it, and Mr. Tuesti wasn't exactly at the top of the list. It was something to be said for Shinra Incorporated when one of their most powerful units was run by a man who spent the majority of his time playing with dolls.

She paused for half a second outside the door that read 67. "What I want to know, is why Biggs."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on March 26, 2008, 12:56:26 PM
Mikari grinned at the possibility of checking out the labs, never mind what they might find on the way there. She hoped that something big shiny and radioactive was growing there, or at least a part of her did, another part knew that even if she would love to what the big shiny radioactive thing wreck havoc, she would be one of the people most likely assigned to stop it. At least it might be fun, forget what Reeve and Rufus said, the part of her Turks self that liked power and chaos was still alive and kicking to be let out.

"Biggs should have been crushed long ago... If he's alive, Reno's gonna catch holy hell."



Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on March 26, 2008, 01:37:12 PM
"Well, not that it wouldn't have been the first time someone limped away from Shinra Inc with bullet-holes, but the way I heard the story they were half-bleeding to death anyway, without all the extra added effort of the plate falling on their heads."

Carefully, Hikou stepped up and into floor 67, the first level of Hojo's labs. She trod past the open door of the computer room, following the grey ceiling tile until, without warning, it turned into a hallway of familiar-looking sheet metal.

That would've led to the containment cells.

The girl stared down the hallway two moments longer than she ought have, fighting off the notion of something growing in the back of her mind, and turned instead to face the door ahead of her.

The familiar red light pulsed lightly against the ceiling tiles, but this door somehow felt bigger than the others. Thicker in size, denser in nature, heavier in weight. Altogether, indestructable.

She glanced up to the right, and the keypad--still intact and lit--blinked down happily at her.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on March 28, 2008, 08:18:32 PM
Snow followed along, "Why Biggs?" she repeated, "Because that, my dears, is our luck." Her ears perked up at hearing Reno and holy hell in the same sentence, "It's not the first time Reno would be there." She added in comment to Mikari. She gave a shrug her head shaking in the process as she readjusted her materia and looked at her bangle. "So if anyone can survive, it will be him."

She processed how to win over Reeve and she thought she had a good enough idea. Now if they made it out alive, she would be able to convince him. Or at least she was pretty sure.

Her eyes glanced down the hallway that Hikou had first glanced down. She remembered that she disliked this place more than anywhere else in the entire building. That feeling of loathing had transfered to the new lab, but this place was the type of place that wreaked of ill intentions more than her job did.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on March 28, 2008, 08:55:44 PM
Hikou stared at the keypad and steeled herself for the worst. Slowly, her fingers began to graze over numbers, low beeps accenting each gentle push. She tried to imagine what it should've looked like. Wooden crates would be toppled over at all angles, contents spilled about the sound, metal ceiling, sometimes eating straight through it. The grating in front of the small left would've been torn asunder. A spare test subject or two might still be scuttling around the floor, perhaps nibbling on one of the carcasses of its dead cohorts. The glass containment cell in the center of the room would most likely be shattered, destroyed at impact. Whatever creature who'd had the misfortune of being inside at the time would most likely be nothing but picked-over bones by now.

But when the girl pressed enter, and the door went whirring down, the world revealed to her was not at all what she had envisioned.

It was cold.

It was spotless.

And it was empty.

There were no broken crates; there were no crates at all. Wherever the containment cell had fallen, broken or not, it was no longer decorating the room. The elevator gate had been neatly unlatched and pushed to one side.

It was shocking, and awe-inspiring, and...

...very spacious.

Hikou counted four very careful steps in, her footsteps echoing solidly for the first time since they'd entered the building. "What the f**k could they've been doing in here?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on March 30, 2008, 12:28:29 PM
"Well, this is unexpected," the lab looked a bit crowded with things when it was in use, crates, test tubes, unknown substances, lab coats and the walk talking lab coat filling; but not it was so spacious. "Or maybe not," she looked amused for a moment then glared at nothing in particular. "Whatever cool things were left here must be now gone. The ruins are ruined..."

Mikari stepped fur then into the lab, "they were stealing out treasures of course or maybe trying to create some of their own," it was a theory, she had no base for it but what she saw, but considering that, it was a possibility. She gripped the handle of her electro rod. "I want the hit whoever stole whatever was here." She walked further in.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on March 30, 2008, 08:02:21 PM
Hikou's mind was flying ten million directions all at once. Surveillance shots, inventory lists, anything that might tell them what had actually been present, but there was margin for error in every outlet. Every notion was a dead end.

She was left speechless, absolutely bewildered, at a complete and utter loss.

But then she heard it. There was a slow scratch-tap, scratch-tap sounding across the ceiling. Lifting her hand in a subtle motion for quiet, she followed the noise in muffled steps. Scratch-tap, scratch-tap. In a wide arc around the ceiling. Scratch-tap, scratch-tap until it was almost on top of where the containment cell should've been.

Some sort of appendage peeked out of the large hole there, the remnants of the lift halfway between the floors where Shinra hid all of their best nasties. Shortly, it was joined by another, and then a pair of small, thick hands, and then eight beady little eyes attached to a fat, discolored head. Veins ran in hues of blue and green under the yellowish skin, pulled tight around the brown, decaying fangs hanging out of its ugly little mouth.

Hikou couldn't remember what the spider-beasts were called, but a sinking feeling hardened in the pit of her stomach.

It was looking at them.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on March 31, 2008, 12:20:41 PM
Mikari was alert seeing Hikou's motion to be quiet, and listening to the sounds. She watched as the creature peeked out and looked at them. 'Of all the creature we could have found, we had to find the ugly one' were her thoughts, because even if a creature was bent on killing them, if it was cute it would be a much more pleasant find. Oh how she hoped for a robot, but no, it had to be a mutant spider.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on April 02, 2008, 04:45:37 PM
The gun she had kept close to her heart finally made an appearance as she whipped it form her jacket and stared their new friend in the face. It wasn't as empty as originally thought, Snow mused to herself. She wasn't sure when she had gained the stomach for creatures like this but she knew it didn't freak her out or even merit the slightest bit of disgust. If she knew anything about Shinra, it was that they had a knack for secrets. This should be one less secret and the sooner it was gone, the better.

With the darkened back drop it was hard to see exactly where her comrades were and for that fact alone she did not pull the trigger. She stepped forward, her eyes on the creature whom she was oddly sure she should address or name. Just for the sake of it having something before it returned to the life stream. She couldn't remember the proper name, of course, when it was staring you down anything might have worked.

"We have more important things to worry about." Snow voiced. She wanted to say 'Keep going, I'll catch up.' She stopped herself unsure if she needed to add it. Her right hand light up in a pale blue light, the Shinra issued hand gun firmly held in her left.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 02, 2008, 11:54:29 PM
Hikou did not need to be told twice, or even once for that matter. The girl, while normally ready for battle at any given moment on any given day, was nearing the end of her run. She was completely and totally MP depleted, and while this state didn't jarr her much, her physical strength was beginning to wan as well. Her two consecutive missiosn were taking their toll, as well as the lack of sleep that accompanied them.

She assumed the gunshot wound wasn't helping much either.

Carefully, she sidled towards the elevator, stepping inside the grating and reaching for the "UP" button. She waited to see if Mikari would follow.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on April 04, 2008, 01:43:50 PM
"Squish that spider Snow!" Mikari gave a cheer, seemingly glad to be seeing some action even if Snow would be the one having all the fun with it. Maybe there were more little creatures to play with ahead.

She rushed after Hikou noting that she appeared to be getting tired. "Next one's mine, okay?" she offered.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on April 04, 2008, 04:49:37 PM
A smirk placed itself on her lips hearing Mikari cheer and knowing that her comrades were moving on. Best to keep them out of the line of fire...er ice. And with those thoughts Snow let the energy build up in her hand go. The ice crashed about her eight legged "friend" but he didn't seem to take the greeting too well. Snow did not care as she pulled back her hand to distract it, ice forming on her finger tips as she used the pale blue light to see enough to aim.

The shot rang throughout the hallway, but missed it's target by a hair. "Smarter than I give you credit for." she grumbled, she would not miss again. It's fangs seemed to move threateningly about and as it tried to make off down the hallway a second shot was heard. She got it that time, but succeeded in her goal to turn the creature around and piss it off.

It snarled as much as it could, or as much as Snow could tell it could. A shattering sound followed her thoughts, a second and third Ice 3 spell filling the hallway behind the spider. It would hold as a wall for a bit, she mused. Hopefully long enough for her to finish this and be on her way.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 04, 2008, 10:05:13 PM
Everyone aboard, Hikou pressed the button, and the rickety lift shuddered into motion. The girl wasted no time closing or opening gates. She didn't even wait for the cart to come to a complete stop before she jumped off.

The upper level of the lab was just as empty as the first had been, although Hikou couldn't quite recall anything special being held up there anyway. Mostly, it seemed like a center for experimentation as opposed to an actual warehouse for data or tools.

The same passcode found her up and through the long stretch of hallway that was meant to be more of a security measure than anything else, and back into a world of flimsy ceiling tiles and thin, aluminum balance beams.

"Through the stairwell," she thought aloud, "past 69, out of the President's office through the roof-door." There was a solid 5 floors of attic-padding left unexplored and untouched, but Hikou figured the best of it would've been crushed in the wreckage of the landing.

She had to stop before she made it to the door.

Doorway.

There was no door.

The door had been completely removed from the wall--not blasted, not pried, but removed, purposefully and strategically taken out of its little metal cradle. It was propped up inches from where it should've stood, a screwdriver sitting innocently next to it.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on April 05, 2008, 11:07:11 PM
It was a pain that was easy to admit and if she could somehow live through this day she'd be extra nice to the first idiot she ran into. Snow dodged the angry attacks of the spider only to realize the hard way she didn't have as much room as she'd like. Sure it was spacious, but her forte was not seeing in the dark and that was a problem. Her problem amplified as he ankle began to sting. "Well crap." she muttered and as she knelt down to tend to it quickly before the eight legged creep could hurt her.

Then an idea struck. This was real life. Let's see how smart, she mused to herself, you really are. It came for her as she knew it would. It towered over her, readying what she was positive would be the arachnid death blow. And so, she put her gun to its head as it lunged down and she delivered a Snow death blow. Because when you get shot in the head chances of your survival are not good.

A pale green light escaped her hands and surrounded her ankle before she forced herself to stand up. She stepped down and then flexed her foot for a moment to test her ankle's receptiveness to the motion. "Ah...well, I can still walk.."

The ice from her wall shattered apart and she turned to walk away but not before setting off another Ice 3 and a shot or two into the corpse of the spider...just in case.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 05, 2008, 11:18:00 PM
On a normal Shinra day, Hikou doubted anyone would've heard someone talking more than four feet away from them, but the hallways had long been left empty, and the various tunnels and defects left over in the wreckage made more than enough space for sound waves to travel.

So it was no wonder she heard the gun shot from below.

It shouldn't have been concerning. If anything, it meant that Snow had finally beaten the little nasty they'd left behind down, but staring at the neatly disassembled world before her, the girl was starting to wonder if there wasn't more to it than creepy crawlies and over-powered generators. Silently, Hikou removed the PHS from her pocket and sent an extremely brief message.

Level 69. Be careful.

Anxiety nicely satisfied, she stepped through the doorway and began the arduous process of tromping down the slope of the stairwell.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on April 05, 2008, 11:26:41 PM
Snow flipped opened her PHS and read the message and replied, On my way - Cleaning up. "Alexander, bless that girl." She mused as she snapped the device back shut and slowly continued down the path way. She stopped in her tracks feeling for a moment like she should not move. She glanced back. She would clear out every creepy crawler from here to Edge if she had too. "And for the love of your holy divine powers, keep me alive to finish this job."

It wasn't unnatural for her to talk to herself, animals, or monsters, so why should it be weird to assume Alexander could be a divine being looking out for her. It was Alexander or Hades and while she wasn't always sure which she knew something, somewhere had their say in her fate.

She took a deep breath, she'd have to take the elevator and there was nothing to distract her thoughts.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 05, 2008, 11:37:03 PM
Level 69 was not as well-maintained as the rest of the floors, Hikou discovered.

Again, the door leading out from the stairwell had been neatly removed from its slot in the wall and propped against the inside of the enclosure. No tools had been left behind this time, but Hikou was sure this only meant that they'd needed them for something else later.

Probably still lurking around.

She'd never been quite sure what the purpose of the 69th floor had been. It wasn't a place she often visited, but a location practiced in memory--something she'd seen in blueprints and fire escape plans, silly things. From the looks of what was left over, it was just another place for the employees to wait for his lordship to descend from his office in the sky.

Sparse furniture remained toppled over on the floor from its initial fall, nothing of particular importance scattered amongst the wreckage that lead up to the two large, carpeted staircases. They were the same sort as the ones on the second level of the building, without the oppressing velvet ropes.

But the closer she got to the staircase the more things seemed amiss. It was hard to see from her current standpoint, but around the corner it looked almost as if a panel had been plucked right out of the wall, cut in a perfect rectangle.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on April 06, 2008, 01:49:25 PM
Mikari followed after Hikou, taking notes of the unusual things they came across. "What kind of an intruder doesn't blast things?" She thought aloud. The intruder, be it Biggs or anyone else, was strangely neat removing doors instead of breaking them. It made her think that who ever it was, was not simply breaking in but maybe making a base out of the wreckage to hide in the long run. After all if you're just going to steal and go, there's no need to worry about the mess.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 06, 2008, 02:27:47 PM
Hikou was standing in front of the far wall now with her arms folded carefully in front of her, appraising the slice of beige panel before her with a wary eye. It didn't look cut up close, but simply popped out of place. The edges were neatly curved, and the paint extended around the corner of the cheap material, which made absolutely no sense, as the panels clearly extended in full sections up to the base of where the floor had once been.

Unless the doorway had been there to begin with, implemented by Shinra.

Hikou glanced over her shoulder at Mikari's approaching form. "An intruder who doesn't want to trip the alarms," was the first and most obvious response. This, also, made no sense, as the intruders were clearly the ones powering the building to begin with and had more than demonstrated their ability to outsmart the security locks of Shinra's old system.

"Nothing was really blasted to begin with, though," Hikou reminded her comrade. "We were the ones who did most of the damage busting our way through." But Mikari had been right. There was a very real possibility that someone was waiting for them.

She continued to stare at the doorway, racking her brain for some Shinra blueprint she'd missed.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on April 06, 2008, 04:02:06 PM
Had the hallway always been this long? She couldn't remember and as much as she'd have liked it she could not find an alternate route. The original staircase had proven to be useless and she'd have taken flights of stairs before she conceded defeat and started at the lift that would be taking her to the others.

Snow grimaced and groaned. Something felt wrong, though she couldn't place it. And as she stepped onto the cursed lift and forced her hand to press the buttons she gave a second groan as she turned around. "Of course there can't just be one monster can there." The thought of fighting served well enough to distract her mind and as she placed a shot into the creature stepped off of the lift in a fit.

A shiver ran up her spine as she whirled around on her heels. "Just die already!" She took a hit to the arm and as much as she'd have liked to reach over and heal it she had too many priorities. Another shot echoed through the building. "YOU CAN TRY AND KILL ME AS MANY TIMES AS YOU WANT!" Snow called to whoever and whatever might be listening. "But, I'll take you to hell with me!" Her ankle wavered and she nearly fell beneath her own wait. "Shi~t," she barely caught herself grabbing the closest item to her. "There has got to be a quicker way..."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 06, 2008, 04:32:33 PM
Cautiously, Hikou put one foot into the dark world that existed beyond the walls of floor 69, stradling the entryway. It was much too dark to see the contents of the room, but it felt decidedly minimal. Like a garage, the room was made up of the bare essentials--concrete floor, aluminum walls. She couldn't be sure, but Hikou had the distinct impression the room was comparatively small for Shinra standards, hardly big enough to store anything worthwhile, maybe a few file cabinents at most.

A dim light reached out from a short distance out, lighting the edges of a small square cut into the floor. The rusted rungs of an iron latter stretched out just below the hole in the ceiling, extending out, probably down the the floor.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on April 07, 2008, 10:38:45 AM
"Ironic," that the Turks were the ones doing all the damage breaking into their own building, or what had been their building in the past, the headquarters of Shinra.

She continued following Hikou and noticed the ladder. "How convenient..." the intruders had laid out a path of clues for anyone who came afterwards to follow their previews footsteps, or maybe to think they were following the clues and end up walking right into a trap. She wondered if the idiot, or idiots, who broke in assumed no one would try to go deep into the wreckage, let alone make it this far; or if they were simply careless... or maybe it was all a trap.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 07, 2008, 10:45:35 AM
"I suppose," Hikou agreed, "but then again, when have we ever been known to take care with anything?"

Tucking her gun away for the time being, the girl reached up to pull herself onto the ladder. If not a lead to whatever trouble makers were still roaming around the building, the path at least might take them out. The old metal creaked as she stepped up, and for a second Hikou was certain the rusted bar she was standing on was going to snap, but it did not.

She began to climb.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on April 08, 2008, 12:15:11 AM
Eventually Snow made it to the rooms Mikari and Hikou had just passed through. She gave a sigh as she looked about. Everything seemed out of place, at least according to her memory nothing was the same and it probably never would be. "We've made a mess of things, eh?" She gave a shrug stepping through the darkness and mused as to herself as she wondered what else might jump out at her.

Her eyes had adjusted well enough to know an outline or perhaps it was her body not her eyes, but a desk here or there was now easily avoided. Now all she had to do was catch up. That was the hard part really, she had no idea where her comrades were now only that they had been on the 69th floor and that she needed to be careful. There were few places they could go, honestly, and she knew where she should head in regards to old memories.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 08, 2008, 10:33:18 AM
The world Hikou hoisted herself up into was simply a larger scale model of the floor below her. The walls were lined in aluminum, the floor and ceiling covered in concrete. There was a distinct warehouse feel to the place.

She had a good idea that was what it was.

While Hikou had never seen the upper levels of the building, she'd been privy to the basement more times than she could count with her SOLDIER comrades, and this place had the same sort of ambiance.

The light that had illuminated the small square radiated from a light bulb, trapped in a cage directly to the girl's left, and though it's rays didn't stretch particularly far, what they uncovered was more than enough for the Turk. She almost had the good sense to remain blocking the entry between the two floors so that Mikari couldn't climb the rest of the way up, but it was too late. She'd already flopped herself onto the floor like some sort of dying fish.

Scrap metal, it looked like at first. They were all tilted at odd angles, jarred from the initial fall of the building, and although some were missing blades, and others were smashed in at the sides they were all recognizably intact. Heligunners were leaned about on their sides, upside down, in great numbers. Random arms for Scorpions, and Spiders, and machines that had yet to be imagined were sprawled about carelessly. Weapons Hikou couldn't identify from memory were dusted over in disuse.

The thick smell of oil and rust permeated the air, as Hikou sighed helplessly. They'd said five. Five levels of storage between the top of the building and the President's office. And they'd scrambled their way into the first one.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on April 08, 2008, 01:00:38 PM
Mikari waited for Hikou to go all the way down the ladder before following, to avoid accidentally kicking the other girl if she stretched her leg down too much to reach for the next step of the ladder. She skipped the last two and hopped down then took a deep breath.

"It smell nice in here." Of course she would say that. Mikari liked the scent of new and the scent of tech, which could include the smell of plastic, machine fuel, oil and any scent associated with metal.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 08, 2008, 08:14:33 PM
Hikou found her eyes rolling up involuntarily. "It smells like awful."


Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on April 09, 2008, 08:16:36 PM
Slowly and silently she made her way through the floor, hoping that it would not give out beneath her or that her ankle would stop throbbing for just a few more steps. The dim light caught Snow's eyes and it was almost annoying. She wasn't quite sure when everything got so empty but it was and that should have been cause for alarm.

"A ladder, great." she mumbled. She looked at it long and hard hoping it would just go away but when it didn't figured that this is where Hikou and Mikari had gone off too.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on April 09, 2008, 09:24:07 PM
"It smells like machines, I like it," she loved the smell of machines, oil, plastic, fuel; and she loved the smell of candy, which was probably the only scent she liked that was acceptable to most people. But one thing Mikari couldn't stand was the smell of flowers, grass, and nature.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 09, 2008, 10:44:01 PM
The scent was already starting to wear on Hikou's nerves, giving her a slight edge of dizziness with a heaping side of nausea. She probably would've huffed or sighed at Mikari's response, but that would require breathing, and breathing, as of this time, was not in the least advisable.

So she shut her mouth and continued walking.

It was a lot like the busted reactor in Gongaga, she'd decided. The remnants of machinery were lost somewhere between the majesty of Shinra at its highest and a flat-out garbage dump. While several isolated machines still stood proudly, many were collapsed into make-shift walls of wire and rust, creating a maze Hikou didn't have the patience to navigate, but she had no other choice.

The next light was calling out from around a heap of metal down to the right. Long shadows reached out from around the corner, waving to and fro across the aisle.

Probably rats.

She suppressed another sigh.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on April 10, 2008, 12:47:58 PM
Even if it would be a pity to trash any semi-functional machine that was in the way, the option of blasting things, as real intruders, not cowardly ones, would do was very tempting, especially for someone with a sense of direction as bad as Mikari's. But she decided against it, at least for now, not need to throw more dust into the air.

There was something movie up ahead. Rats had never been one of her favorite animals, though not her lest favorite either, if they were even rats. For a moment she wondered if one of them would be stupid enough to approach so she could shock it with her rod, not enough to kill it but enough to send it squealing in a mad dash, that would be amusing.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 10, 2008, 01:19:25 PM
It was a particularly low and quiet rumble of a moan, hardly a wheeze at most, but most definitely un-rat-like in nature. She probably should've jumped about ten feet into the air, but Hikou had been specifically trained for rationale and battle-planning, strategic combat, so the excess emotion and energy was left pumping through her veins in circles until she swore her tongue went numb.

The shadows stretched out slowly, suddenly feeling incredibly too close.

She glanced silently back at Mikari.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on April 11, 2008, 01:02:06 PM
The sounds were not the somewhat amusing 'squee's that rants tend to make. Was it an intruder or maybe just another mutant creature? Mikari mentally laughed at her disregard for it if it were just another mutant creature, but of course since that wasn't exactly what they were looking for, it wasn't were the gil was.

She gave quick glance to her materia, swung the electro-rod in the air and gave a nod.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 11, 2008, 07:25:22 PM
Hikou edged around the corner, gun pulled up defensively to her chest, arms ready to extend and fire at the tiniest cue. She moved so fast she was sure she hadn't seen right. Something was terribly wrong with situation.

Terribly lucky.

Terribly hilarious.

In the morbid sort of humor Hikou possessed. Her neck craned around the corner one more time, just to be sure, before she let the gun fall at east to her side and casually stepped around the wreckage, shrugging Mikari in to follow her.

Shadows flickered again as a hand reached out in a pathetic scrape and the moan sounded again, echoing out from the mouth of a boy no older than fifteen. A red bandanna was wrapped about his neck like a bank-robber, his face was thin and sickly, and his clothes were greasy and dirty.

"Shinra," he croaked, and Hikou laughed. She had to. It was ingrained somewhere down in her company training that she must laugh evilly when things like this happened. She couldn't even remember why it was so funny. Except that she was the one strolling over to the rather impressive shotgun he'd left propped up against the wall--for what purpose, she didn't know--and aiming at him.

He was pinned to the floor, right leg lost somewhere underneath a toppled heligunner, defenseless, and weak, and dying.

But most importantly, at their mercy.

"Shinra," she crooned back at him, giving her blazer a light tug to display.

With substantial effort, the boy inhaled, and for a moment, it seemed as if he would never exhale, but eventually he managed, spitting at the Turk's feet.

Hikou frowned.

She was fairly certain she wasn't supposed to find this part funny.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on April 11, 2008, 09:03:44 PM
She couldn't hear anything, and she was trying very hard. She stepped down the ladder despite her better judgment. She couldn't be that far behind the group and perhaps fortune would smile upon her and she'd be free of the confines of the building. She readjusted herself as she stepped off the ladder, gave a sigh and decided it might be nice to call in sick tomorrow. Snow shifted, she hated warehouses and any place that felt like them. 'Aggravating' she thought. But she moved on stepping as silently and lightly as possible.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on April 12, 2008, 05:04:40 PM
"I was hoping for a mutant," Mikari admitted. The boy was just pitiful. "Shinra, Shinra, yeah it's Shinra, not even my sense of direction is bad enough not to know that. Hey Hikou, can I hit it?" she asked holding up her electro-rod.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 12, 2008, 08:24:04 PM
Hikou shook her head sharply. "We shouldn't. Runt is weak enough as it is. We oughta play nice if we're gonna get him back to headquarters for a proper interrogation."

The boy scowled up at the two women, trying to tilt his head up defiantly, but finding his shoulder signficantly hindered. "Like I'd ever talk."


Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on April 13, 2008, 01:56:59 PM
"Aw," Mikari gave Hikou a sad kitten look that completely contrasted with her not so nice request.

She grinned at the weakened boy. "If you don't want to talk you can scream in pain instead. It's all just as amusing to me."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 13, 2008, 05:16:46 PM
Hikou rolled her eyes again, whether at Mikari or the boy it was unclear, and moved to inspect the hunk of metal pinning the boy down.

The machine had fallen horizontally across his leg, the long barrel of one of the three canons had certainly crushed the bone there, just above his knee. Brown blood crusted around his frayed pant leg on both sides of the barrel. Scrap pieces sticking out of the machine's side had sliced into his leg between this first barrel and the second one, just across his ankle.

Hikou was no doctor, but she assumed it would be a painful road to recovery if there even was one, but there was no medic on call and there was only one way to get him back to headquarters. "We gotta lift this thing off."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on April 13, 2008, 09:05:50 PM
She made her way through the passageway warehouse area, she hadn't quite decided what it was yet, but 'Hell' seemed a nice enough filler word. Snow spotted her comrades hovering about something or someone. And she took her place in the group silently catching Hikou say something about lifting the metal off of the boy.

She lifted an eyebrow noting the scowl on the boy's face. "I see you two made a friend while I was away." She looked around the boy, most likely searching for extra weapons or to see if he had a bangle and some materia. "Not the pleasant type," Snow half mumbled. "Though," her tone was soft but more audible compared to her mumbles. "I assume we're taking him with us?"

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 13, 2008, 09:58:26 PM
Hikou smirked, glad to see Snow and finally caught up and relieved to know the little nasty they'd left behind was taken care of. "Can't leave any more food lying around for those monsters. They'll take over edge if they get much bigger." She returned to the gunner, trying to find a good hold for her hands.

The boy, however, had other things in mind. A new sort of craze had wormed its way into his dim eyes, and his hands began clawing at the bandanna around his neck, twisting and twisting it, allowing it to slowly cut off his air supply. His head thumped back repeatedly into the floor as hard as he could manage, which, albeit, wasn't very hard, but the impact of skull on concrete still made an impressive sound.

"Hell," Hikou hissed, untangling herself from the machine, "someone grab him."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on April 13, 2008, 10:03:16 PM
Snow grabbed him, as hard as she could and couldn't help but utter, "Kids these days." before giving an annoyed "Hmph" but more so to the boy than to Hikou. She couldn't help but think it might be easier to kill him.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 14, 2008, 08:21:01 AM
Rehooking her hands into the metal of the machine, Hikou braced her legs against the floor and gave an enormous heave. The gunner hung at an angle for half a second, arched between the girl and the floor before toppling back onto the boy's leg, finding more bone to crush and making new holes in the flesh.

Hikou winced before she heard it. The boy's scream echoed throughout the room without end, reverberating off of all the rusted steel in a terrible ear-piercing pitch. His body jolted once, and the girl felt the tiniest wiggle of guilt in the pit of her stomach.

Silence filled the room.

"Well, at least it shut him up," she muttered to herself, and gave another push. This time, the hunk of metal toppled over onto its other side, revealing all of the damage that had really been done to the boy's leg.

Quickly, she ripped his pant leg up to inspect. "Compound fracture on his upper leg," Hikou paused to point at the white bone sticking out just below his knee, "and I'll be d**ned if that second hit didn't cause a comminuted fracture lower down." She frowned at the blood beginning to pool beneath his leg, feeling ever more the idiot for having dropped it to begin with. "You think we should put a tourniquet around his leg, or you think he's got enough blood in there to last to Edge?"

The boy was shivering now, a cold sweat running down his forehead. Hikou bit the inside of her cheek. It could've very well been the shock of breaking the bone, but there was also a good possibility there was blood loss to blame.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on April 14, 2008, 01:08:17 PM
"Better safe than sorry." Snow replied kneeling down. She would go on the assumption that they needed him to live for some important purpose and for that, she'd administer first aid as best she could. Snow looked at the break and then to his face before wondering how they were supposed to get him out, she almost let herself think too far ahead to how they would get him back.

She pondered healing materia but as far as she could tell it would heal a wound not a break and it did nothing for the pain.


Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 14, 2008, 05:25:21 PM
Hikou bit her lip. "Yeah, I suppose so." She reached up for the bandanna wrapped around the kid's neck and ripped it off, wrapping it tightly around his upper thigh.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: MikariStar on April 15, 2008, 01:23:14 PM
Mikari was not really the medical type. She had decent knowledge in repairing machines, but knew next to nothing when it came to living bodies. All that she knew was that if she avoided being wounded, she wouldn't need to figure out how to fix herself, and if she ever did, she would find an elixir something or go complain to Snow to get healed up. She contemplated mentioning that burns sealed open wounds but concluded they must have already known and decided not to take that route.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 17, 2008, 02:36:53 PM
Job completed, Hikou stood. She rubbed her hands together in an attempt to brush them off, but the amplified clap the sound of the blood coating them made stopped her before she'd really much started. Looking down, it occured to her that somehow she'd managed to become the dirtiest Turk between the three of them. The girl had grown a second layer of blood, and dirt, and oil, and there was no way her shirt would ever be white again.

She imagined her face was streaked with as much filth.

"We'll have to take him down one, maybe two, more levels of storage," she reasoned aloud. "There were supposed to be five, but I imagine the top few will be pretty well crushed. There must be a way to break out from there. It ought to be about ground level."

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Snow on April 18, 2008, 03:25:19 PM
Despite her small frame she hoisted the boy up and prepared to carry him through said levels. Snow was as gentle as one thought she might have been but not as gentle as a nurse or mother. She looked at Hikou and gave a nod. "Then let's get out of here." A silent, 'I'm sick of this place' attached to her words. She hoped there was nothing else important in here and if there was, they'd have to come back for it. Or one of them would have to take this kid in and the other two could stay to rummage through the wreckage.

She didn't care.

Title: Re: FFVII: Turks RP [PG-13]
Post by: Hikou on April 18, 2008, 04:28:53 PM
Hikou gnawed on her lip and moved forward around the corner. The ladder they'd obtained access through had extended down farther, but there was no way to manuever the boy through it.

But it was illogical to make a storage room with such a small access point. Clearly the weapons and supplies had all fit in somehow, and she assumed there would be more to come. A frieght elevator had to exist somewhere within the confines of the storage turned junk heap. Though, where exactly, she hadn't the slightest clue.

[Mikari]

The Final Fantasy Turks RP continues HERE!