FB - ShinRa part 5

Title: FB – Shinra part 5

Author: Enide Dear

Pairing: Valenwind, Lozoo, Renaj

Rating: rather dark

Warning: Character death, violence, rape, dungeons, evil!Sephiroth

Summary: The Remnants and ShinRa comes to their final face down and Reno gets caught in the middle.

  

  

"Get him! Reeve, no!" Tseng gestured at Rude and Elena, placing himself between the Remnant and his boss, but Reeve was quicker. He dashed for Yazoo , falling to his knees in the spreading puddle of blood, but carefully not touching the naked youngling. Cid and Vincent had told him just what could happen if you touched the Remnants when they didn't want to be touched. *Poor, damaged boys.*

  

" Yazoo ? Yazoo ! What…are you alright?" Reeve shrugged of his coat, offering it to the dazed Sephling whose eyes seemed to have trouble focusing. Glazed green eyes stared at the engineer, blinking slowly, as if not comprehending who he was looking at.

  

"Dark…" He whispered, licking blood from his lips. "All was…dark." He shuddered. "And cold."

  

"Call Reno." Rufus whispered to Tseng as Reeve very carefully draped his coat over Yazoo . "Get the Valenwinds over here, before he goes insane again. They might be able to…stabilize him."

  

  

For once, Cid didn't argue as Reno simply stole a car, shuffled the whole family in there and drove hellbent for ShinRa tower, rushing them past security and up to Rufus' office. The scene that met them there made the pilot recoil.

  

Yazoo was struggling to get out of his shocked state, aided by Reeve. He was somewhat cleaned up and bundled up in warm blankets, holding a cup of cocoa in his hands. The soft hair still hung limp and heavy with clotted blood and the Sephling shook with despair and fear. Elena and Rude was standing over him, holding a gun each pressed to either side of his head although that was barely the source of his fear, whiles Tseng stood guard over a pacing Rufus.

  

"Care to explain this, Highwind?" The president of ShinRa said ice cold as the family rushed in, staring appalled at the ruined room. "It could have been me in here instead of those poor cleaners! Are you now willing to admit that something is wrong here?!" Then his eyes fell on the stumbling, hollow-eyed Loz, hanging between Vincent and Cid's shoulders. "What happened to him? Don't tell me he changed to…"

  

"No, but he was pissed as Hell. Chaos had to take him on a little flight up to the higher atmospheres. The lack of oxygen calmed him down…eventually." Vincent sighed. "He showed no signs of changing. But he got in some good punches on Chaos. The demon won't like them better after this."

  

Loz finally focused long enough to see Yazoo and gasped, pushing forward. He was pulled up to a short stop by both Rufus' and Tseng's guns aimed at his head. Yazoo tried to rise but was harshly pushed down on the floor again by Elena.

  

"Shit, boss, calm down!" Reno desperately tried to sooth the tension that was now thick enough to cut with a knife.

  

"No." Rufus didn't even blink. "This is my office. My building. My employees getting murdered. I *will not* tolerate this anymore! They will have to stay here where they can be monitored at all times. ShinRa has been partially responsible for Sephiroth's attempts to destroy the world twice. I'll be damned before I let that happen a third time!"

  

"Yer not keeping our boys!" Cid growled. "I ain't gonna let ya!"

  

"We're leaving here as a family." Vincent's eyes started to turn demon yellow. "And you will not stop us."

  

"I'll kill him if you so much as take a step!" Elena snarled, pushing her gun harder against Yazoo 's head.

  

"Wait, stop!" Reeve jumped to his feet as he saw Yazoo starting to tense, ready to make a leap rather than be caught hostage, which would have started a killing spree in the office. "Wait! We must be able to find a compromise here!"

  

"ShinRa security is not your business, Reeve." Rufus started, gun still unwavering at Loz' head.

  

"I am making it my business!" Reeve snapped, uncharacteristically decisive. "I have a suggestion. One that will please everyone. Look, it's simple. If the Seph….if the boys agree to regular medical checks here at ShinRa, say once a week, they'll be free to go. We'll get our data and they will get their freedom."

  

"We will never be *tested* again!" Kadaj snarled, Loz and Yazoo 's eyes also narrowing at far too many memories from labs.

  

"It's that or dying." Reeve said brutally. "Because we have no other choice." A bit more pleading, he turned to Cid and Vincent. "Surely you see that? It has gone too far. We can't let them run completely free any longer."

  

Vincent's eyes narrowed even as Cid turned a query glance at him and he crossed his arms.

  

"No, Reeve." Vincent quickly lifted his hand to stall of questions. "Listen to me. Every time this…mood…as affected our boys, it has been in Midgard. I will…*we* will not subject them to the horrors of ShinRa labs ever again, and we will stay away from Midgard. You will get your tests, but you will have to come to Rocket Town to get them."

  

"Deal." Rufus said quickly, ignoring Tseng's almost spoken protest. "But we need to get blood samples from Yazoo right away. And from the other boys. Then you are free to go."

  

  

The Sephlings didn't like it, but let Vincent take a small needle to their arms and draw some blood before they left. Loz carried the tired Yazoo , hugged tightly to his chest, although the eldest clone was still rather unsteady himself. Kadaj tried to support them, lending a slim shoulder to lean on.

  

Reno tried to follow them, but Cid put a scarred hand on his chest, holding him back.

  

"Not now. This is family business." The pilot growled, walking out and ignoring the red-head's protests.

  

"Fuck!" Reno screamed. "Whatever the fuck is happening, I'll make sure whoever is responsible will suffer!" He stormed away down the corridor in an opposite direction to the family.

  

"Follow him." Tseng nodded to Rude. "I'm not sure whose side he's on any longer. Don't let him leave the building." Watching the dark Turk hurry after his partner, Tseng turned to Reeve and handed him the blood samples. "Here. I want you to check this out. Compare them to Sephiroth's files and see if you can find any similarities apart from the obvious ones.  

  

"Why me?" Reeve said surprised.

  

Tseng smiled, tiredly.

  

"We're spread to thin as it is. I can spare no Turks. And…I trust you." He kissed him.

  

Reeve nodded, clutching the samples.

  

  

"Tseng don't trust me, does he?" Reno sighed as Rude sat down next to him, stealing his cig for a few drags.

  

"No." Rude shrugged.

  

"Fuck him." Reno sighed and took his cig back, laying down on the ShinRa roof where he'd fled. "We're looking at this the wrong way. We're missing something."

  

"You know something?"

  

"Maybe." Reno sat up again. "Do you trust me, partner?"

  

Rude sat quiet for a long while, staring of into the sky.

  

"Yeah." He said finally.

  

"Good. Then you got to get me out of here. I have an idea."

  

  

"I'm sorry I hit you." Loz said to Vincent as the cramped car bounced its way through bad roads towards Rocket Town . Yazoo was lying with his head in the eldest clone's lap, his eyes shut although he was awake, cuddling against his lover. "I wasn't thinking straight. I'm not going to hurt you again."

  

"I know, Loz. You get away with it this one time, do you understand? Never again." Vincent rocked a loose tooth.

  

"I understand." From somewhere best left to the imagination, Loz found the little kitten known as Spunky and started petting it nervously, even though it and Yazoo hissed at one another with pretty much the same expression of distaste.

  

The mood in the car grew dark and skittish, enough so that finally even Loz noticed. He shifted nervously, glancing around the car. "Why is everyone staring at me?"

  

Kadaj, Vincent and Cid exchanged worried glances. Yazoo winced and tried to cuddle deeper, ignoring even Spunky's claws in his hair.

  

"'Cuz," Cid said slowly. "Yer the only one left that hasn't changed…I mean, that nothin's happened ta yet. We're jest worried fer ya."

  

Loz blanched – if such a thing was possible for the pale Sephling – struggling for words. Spunky yowled as the Remnant involuntary hugged it too tight.

  

"We saw what you did at the bar, just being you." Vincent added quietly. "You are a lot stronger than either Kadaj or Yazoo . If Jenova, or Sephiroth, takes over you…"

  

"I don't want to turn into anyone!" Tears sprung up in Loz's eyes, desperate and fearful. "I can't…I barely know how to be me!"

  

"It will be alright." Kadaj put an arm around him and Yazoo took his hand, kissing the palm. "Sephiroth was clever, he wouldn't…"

  

"I'm too stupid to be clever!" Loz started breaking down, clutching Yazoo who held him tightly.

  

"It ain't gonna happen!" Cid growled. "We'll stay away from Midgard and everything will be alright!"

  

Something buzzed in Kadaj's pocket. He picked up his cell phone, glared at it, and turned it down.

  

" Reno ?" Vincent asked.

  

"Yes. I don't' want to talk to him now." Kadaj leaned against Loz's shaking shoulder, caressing Yazoo 's bloody shoulder. "I don't want anything to do with ShinRa for a while."

  

  

"Nothing, Tseng, I'm sorry." Reeve's voice was tired on the phone. "I've gone through all of Hojo's journals about…creating…Sephiroth." Even over the phone, Tseng could hear his lover shudder. "There is nothing there that could explain the Remnants' behaviour. Yazoo didn't have higher levels of mako or dead Jenova cells than Loz or Kadaj."

  

Tseng swore, quietly in wutai, in his head. It had been three days since Yazoo 's attack on ShinRa, the security cameras showed nothing and the bodies revealed only hideous wounds.

  

"Please keep looking. There must be something." There was a knock on the door, an urgent one. "I have to go, Reeve."

  

"I love you."

  

"I love you to, kitten." He hung up, just as a badly beaten Rude staggered into the office. Tseng rushed from his desk just as Rude collapsed, managing to catch him before he crashed onto the floor. "Rude! What happened?!"

  

Rude's voice was thick with desperation and his brown eyes fearful and confused.

  

"Sephiroth…Sephiroth took Reno ."


TBC