Infiltrating Tsviet Territory (open)

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Cal was setting down the stolen airship in Wutai. He hoped the ShinRa soldiers had enough sense to change out of their uniforms before leaving the ship.

"Alexia, can you make sure the ShinRa employees are wearing something else before we leave the ship? The last thing we need is an entire city trying to kill us."

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Alexia nodded with a smile then proceeded to check on the the Shin-Ra guys, a couple of them had changed and the others were just sitting around looking at things. "You need to change, or we'll die," She said bluntly with a smile.

"Into what?" one person from the back said.

"Good poin," She went back to Cal, "What exactly do they have to change into, there aren't any clothes lying aroun that I know of...

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"Hold on."

It'd been a long time since he was last on a ShinRa airship. Usually employees who were on an overnight voyage brought clothes with them, but unfortunately this ship was for day voyages. Then he remembered the captain's quarters. There should be clothes in there.

"Hey, I'm gonna get some of the captain's old clothes for the men."

After about five minutes of rummaging around, Cal was already bringing piles of clothes downstairs. "I guess the captain LIVED here," he said whimsically. "Hurry-up and get changed, then meet up on deck so we can organize the mission. Tonight, we'll probably go and scout out the area so that tomorrow night there are no failures. Any questions?"

A small, thin man with brown hair asked: "When will we begin training?"

Cal responded, "immediatly after we decide what the mission specs are. I want NO casualties, and Tsviets, as you know, aren't easy. This won't be too difficult since it's only a training facility, so your enemies will be quick but not as lethal."

Cal stopped. "Meet you upstairs in a few," the mercenary said, "good luck."

Before he made it to the top of the stairs he heard the thin man say "He's a much better man than our last leader."

With a smile, Cal walked into the sun.

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"I really don't understand how people can spend so much time on airships, I hate them, and I'd certainly hate to have to spen an extended period of time living in one," Alexia commented. "They seem rather willing to help, I expected...." She trailed off thinking of a good way to finish her sentance "less co-operation from them," She finished looking over to Cal. She then sighed gently and removed the swords from her back placing them gently on the floor, then she took off her coat which was tied around her waist. She slipped her arms into the coat and shrugged it on gently before picking up the swords and placing them neatly back onto her back.

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"Well, to be honest," Cal said, as he began to prepare his sword by sharpening it, "I didn't even expect them to be so damn nice. ShinRa must really be doing bad lately, considering their employees don't want to stick around."

Cal finished strapping on his sword, and then said "We'll go into town tonight. But, we need a name for our new organization. I think we need a home base too, but I think I'm jumping ahead of myself. Tonight, we'll stay in the inn, most likely, and I'll lead a scouting team to the location. Unless, of course, you wanna go with me, you can stay here with Reese and prepare everyone for battle."

Cal paused. He thought back to his first missions as a ShinRa soldier. He wanted to join the SOLDIER program, be like Sephiroth or Angeal, but it didn't seem like the right thing to do at the time. Instead, he became a Turk, and after that incident in Gongaga, he never wanted anything to do with ShinRa again. Unfortunately, these memories came and went, and much of his past still remained a mystery. He knew that a lot of his memories were imprints, like killing that huge dragon or the many "missions" he supposedly did for ShinRa. As well as all of the fake friends and family he lost. Unfortunately, the ones he did lose he couldn't remember.

After a few seconds of thinking, Cal loosened up and said, "Let's go to the inn. We need some rest."

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"Aaah it's cooler here!" Alexia sang happily, stretching her arms up towards the sky and sighing, "I hope I don't have to go back to Costa Del Sol any time soon, it really sucks," She said as she looked around. "rest..." she repeated the word after him "...sounds inviting, I could do with some R and R, but my guess is it won't last too long," She said scratching the back of her head "well, let's go then!" she said enthusiasticly swinging her arms and smiling, she was so happy she was no longer in the endless sea of sands, so pleased to grass and trees, and things that didn't grow in 'the desert,' the name which she would now refer to Costa Del Sol as. "I haven't been to Wutai in a while, last time i came here there was a war,and I was younger, and more stupid," She commented.

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"Hah," said Cal. "I remember that war. We both must have been fools back then, working for ShinRa...."

Cal paused again.

"Weren't you a member of SOLDIER back then?" He looked as if he had an epiphany, and he instantly began talking very fast. "I remember now... We were on a mission together in Wutai a long time ago, during the war. Damn, I can't believe you don't recognize me (although I can't blame you). You saved my life during the fighting, before I went back to Gongaga on a special mission. This was all, of course, before the reactor blew and I became some sort of experiment, but yeah! I can't believe I remember now!"

Behind Cal, Reese was busy pretending to ignore the conversation. Although he couldn't help but wonder how a bunch of ShinRa deserters wound up in Wutai. Ah, the irony.

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"It was quite a long time ago, and I was young then, I was only 3rd Class I think might have been 2nd not entirely sure, but yeah I think I remember..." She said putting her index finger on her chin. "I had short hair then, it was only just past my chin, and I was shorter cause I was only a teenager, and my uniform was horrible, it was different to everyone elses cause I was a girl and they were ll guys, sexist pigs," she said smiling. "Although Shinra is a bad company, the time I spent working there were the best days of my life up until now, it was easy, I made a bunch of friends and I loved to fight, it was perfect for me, at the time," She said putting her hands on her hips. "Gongaga is one place I never went on my travels, never been there even to this day," She announced with a slight smile.

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"Funny..." said Cal. "You were the one who saved me from the ninja assassin so long ago..."

Cal looked up into the night sky. He vividly remembered trying to protect the old director of public affairs Reeve from a Wutai assassin. Squaring off one on one, Cal would have lost his life that day if it wasn't for Alexia's intervention back then. As the ninja was poised to stab him through the chest, she appeared from the rooftop and decapitated the would-be murderer on the heli-pad of ShinRa HQ. It seemed like yesterday. Funny that he would be so much stronger now, not needing the assistance from another to save his life in most circumstances. Maybe he would someday repay the favor...

"Huh... I guess you don't remember saving my life, do you." Cal laughed heartily, then said "back then I didn't have so many scars, and I only had short blond hair. Funny, I look like a different person now. Also, as a little forewarning: I'm not the only me. There's copies walking around... some old ShinRa copies, which are weak and mindless, and a few DeepGround soldiers. I don't know what's so damn special about my genes, but I suggest being careful during this mission. I have no idea what that genesis-geneal-jennifer guy is up to."

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"Sorry, that I don't remember....I've killed so many people in my SOLDIER career, saved so many lives that I don;t really remeber any of them least of all the ones from the beginning of my career," She said apolageticly scratching the back of her head and smiling. Alexia also looked up into the sky gazing at the full moon, which was shining brightly, and the stars twinkeling away, she smiled, she loved the night sky, she liked the dark and the cool weather. "To me that guy sounds like a bit of a weirdo, y'know what I mean?" She said smiling.

OOC sorry it's short, my muse is dead XD

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"Apparently, he used to be in SOLDIER." Cal sighed, and then said, stretching "I'm going to sleep. in a few hours, wake me up." And with that, Cal walked into the in, payed for their rooms, and went upstairs to sleep. As he laid his head down on the pillow, he began to think about his beautiful companion. He'd never been treated so nicely since the accident in Gongaga, and it was refreshing to have a friend. With that, Cal drifted into a deep sleep.

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"It might have to be the other way around if I fall asleep, I could sleep for days without a stir, a bomb could go off and I wouldn't know!" She said with a smile as she walked onto the inn. She walked into her room, kicked off her boots, took off her jacket and inspected her room. It was neat and cosy and had a tiny on suite bathroom, she would have to use that in the morning and have a nice refreshing shower. But for the time being all she could really think about was the inviting bed in the corner. She fell onto it and put her hands behind her head. Even thouh she had only known him a short while she was liked Cal, he was different to many other people she had met. She closed her eyes anddrifted off into a deep sleep.

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The next morning, Cal woke up to rain on his window. 'Perfect' he thought. 'This will make a perfect practice day.'

The man leaped out of bed, and went to the bathroom. Without any clothes on (except for skivvies) it was much more obvious that there were scars all over his body. His lean, muscular frame was covered in deep, sinister looking red scars. He didn't like looking at himself in the mirror, but in spite of all of his scars, he was still a fairly handsome man.

After getting dressed, Cal remembered what Alexia said the night before. Well, he figured, might as well let her get an hour of beauty sleep. With that, he woke up Reese and his men, and they went downstairs to breakfast. There, he explained to them that today they would train, and tonight they would gather info about DeepGround. Success was vital, especially if they wanted to survive. After he finished his food, Cal went upstairs to wake up his newfound friend.

Knocking on her door for nearly a minute, Cal began shouting at the top of his lungs "wake up Alexia!!!! WAAAAAAAKE UUUUUUUP!!!!!"

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Surprisingly Alexia had woken up before Cal had come to wake her up. She rubbed the sleep from her eyes and dragged herself out of the cosy, comfy bed. She then made her way lazily into the bathroom and took a shower. When she had finished she got dressed took a towel and walked into the bedroom, she began to dry he hair with it when she heard Cal's knocking. She held the towle in place with one hand and opened the door with the other. "Surprisingly I'm awake, I just need to do my hair, that'll take about 10 minutes," She said lazily, she still wasn't properly awake yet. "And you seem too active to me, have you had coffee or something?" She asked rubbing her long hair with the towel.

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Cal just grinned. Maybe six shots of whiskey in the morning was beginning to become a bad idea. Well, at least it amplified his psychic powers, which was what he'd used in the first place to convince those poor soldiers downstairs. Well, thankfully no one else realized that.

"Umm..." Cal desperately tried not to check her out, but after a few quick glances (which were as discreet as they could be) he continued, "Well, I was wondering if, after you get ready and eat some breakfast, you'd want to train with me and the guys. Maybe show them how to fight like a SOLDIER. I think they'll be the most loyal crew you'd ask for if you really wanna stick around for a while. Hell, I think you'd make a better captain than me..."

and with that, Cal gave a big grin.