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[Mission] Number 10
Topic Started: Sep 24 2009, 01:15 PM (79 Views)
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Thoughts in Chaos
“You’ll be alright Jackie! I promise!” That was the last words that Cisco managed to say to her before she was rushed through double doors on a stretcher. Someone pulled something over her face, and a little disoriented, Jackie tired to take it off. A nurse prevented Jackie from moving the mask… it was very hard to breath for some reason… everything started to become blurry as shouts of doctors filled the backgrounds…why were all these people hovering over her? Slowly…slowly…everything began to fade into black. Was this what death was like? Just endless black for all eternity? This couldn’t be…It can’t be…What about all those superstitions about the life stream? Wake up Jackie…Wake up!

Several weeks later she had been given a clean bill of health and returned to Midgar. It was business as usual for the entire Dorado group, and Cisco had even finished teaching her the rules to chop sticks…even though he won almost every time, Jackie felt that she was starting to get pretty good too. The Rec. Room was seldom filled in the SOLDIER HQ…Everyone always had a mission, but Dorado Group was special. They did pretty much every kind of mission there was. They could almost be considered a special ops unit in SOLDIER. Jackie sat with three fingers on her left hand and one on her right.

Across from her was her opponent, Cisco. He had two fingers on one hand and one on the other. After analyzing the situation Jackie promptly said, “You’re letting me win…” Cisco shook his head and replied with, “Not at all.” A sly smile crossed his face, so Jackie decided to trust him and tapped his right hand with her left. She eliminated that hand from the game. Cisco tapped her right hand with his left and she now had two on her right. Jackie tapped his hand with her right again and he had four fingers on his hand now. Then he did something unexpected. He brought his other hand back into the game with two fingers out, and with his left hand having two fingers as well.

“Hey, you can’t do that! That’s cheating.” Cisco shook his head at her, “No its not. I wanted to use this time to explain to you another of the rules: Whenever you are holding up an even number of fingers on one hand, and your other hand has been eliminated, you can split the number of fingers between your hands to remain in the game. Like what I did just now.” Jackie eyed him skeptically, “You’re not just making up rules on me are you?” Cisco smiled innocently. “Who would try to pull a fast when over you?” Jackie gave him a wiry smile that was followed by a look that clearly said, ‘You…duh.’

Cisco laughed it off. “Blah. I’m bored now.” He replied to her. He promptly ended the game in search of a drink from the minifridge that sat in the Rec. room. “Are you kidding? All they serve in here is water?!” Jackie walked over to the fridge and took a water bottle…just to spite him. “Man…” Cisco took one too out of defeat. “Is this how it always is? They keep us here when we’re not on missions so they can call us any time we’re needed?” Jackie nodded slowly as she twisted the top to her water bottle off. “Jabus…this is boring as all get out.” Cisco twisted his hands and lifted the cap off of his water bottle as well.

Cisco took a deep swig from the bottle and wiped his mouth with his forearm. “Do you think anyone would listen to me if I made a formal request for some soft drinks to be put into the Mini fridge?” he asked Jackie. The woman SOLDIER shrugged and the pair fell silent. Jackie stared into her water bottle, or rather through it for a moment before she gobbled it down thirstily. “If you want some soft drinks in the fridge why don’t you go get your own and put them in there?” she suggested, tossing the empty plastic bottle into the trash bin.

“Yeah, but then I’d have to share with everybody, and plus, it would be coming out of my pay check.” Jackie put the top to the water bottle she had thrown away on the tip of her thumb and tried to flick it into the basket as well, but it fell short. “I’m sure you could get some of the other 3rd Class SOLDIERs to help you pay for it all.” Cisco scoffed, “Too much work.” Jackie wandered over towards the fallen cap, picked it up and tossed it into the trash bin. “Hey, I’m not the one complaining because there aren’t any soft drinks.”

“Point.” Cisco lifted up his hands as if he was surrendering. “Got any paper?” Jackie watched with an amused expression as Cisco took a turn about the room in search of something to write on. At last he found a crumpled receipt in the trash bin and unfolded it. He placed it so that the front of the receipt was facing the desk and the blank back side was facing up. Cisco pulled out a pen from a desk drawer and scribbled something onto the note before showing it to Jackie. The SOLDIER took the note from her companion and read it aloud, “If you would like the mini fridge to be stocked with soft drinks please leave a donation inside of the mini fridge.”

Cisco nodded proudly and put the note on the fridge via a magnet. “You know how some street performers put gil in their own hat to get people to throw in money into it?” Jackie nodded. Cisco pulled out some gil and demonstrated to Jackie by holding it up for her to see, opening the mini fridge and then inserting the gil onto the bottom shelf of the fridge. “Hopefully we don’t have any ding bats in the barracks that’ll try and take the donation money.” Jackie nodded and walked over to the fridge. She pulled out the spare change in her pocket and dropped it on top of Cisco’s. “That’s mighty generous of you ma’am.” Cisco gave her a salute. “Pffft.”

Jackie chuckled, she turned to look up at Cisco’s face which had sudden gone pale…he looked like he saw a ghost. “Cisco? What’s wrong?” She turned to see what he was staring at and felt her heart skip a beat. “Sephiroth?” It would appear indeed that it was the long haired SOLDIER. His sword was casually held at his side as he stepped into the Rec. room. He raised his blade. Jackie kicked the nearby love seat over at Sephiroth, but he sliced it in two. This was the amount of time she needed to grab her rifle and defend against his second attack. “Too fast!”

Cisco whipped out his gigantic weapon and tried to smash Sephiroth, but the one time SOLDIER caught it with the palm of his hand. The man stared into Jackie’s eyes and said simply, “Mother?” Jackie wasn’t sure what to say to him. “Umm…yes?” Sephiroth shook his head. and spun around so that he made a torrent of slashes, Cisco defended by holding up his gigantic sword, while Jackie jumped out of the way. She raised her gun and fired. It blew a whole into Sephiroth’s chest. “Sephiroth? I thought that loser was dead!” Cisco panted at long last.

Jackie looked over at the Sephiroth clone. It was definitely a clone, the face didn’t look anything like Sephiroth’s now that she thought about it. “Its not the real one. Its just a clone.” Cisco did a double take, “Just a clone? Could’ve fooled me.” Jackie rolled her eyes, “You goof ball, if he was the real one we’d probably be dead. That’s the difference between us 3rd class and a 1st class.” Jackie whipped another bullet into the chamber of her rifle. “I think something is seriously wrong if there are Sephiroth clones inside of Dorado’s Barracks.” Cisco nodded, “Probably. Lets get on it!”

Jackie and Cisco ran down the hallway towards the commander’s office. Jackie felt like she needed to check with the commander since he probably knew what was going on. She kicked the door in and looked around…Another sephiroth clone with a masamune. He had beheaded the commander. ’What rank are our commander’s anyways? Second Class? Or just third?’ Jackie lifted up her rifle, took aim at the clone’s head and blew it off. “Looks like we’re on our own.” She told Cisco. The big man nodded. “At a time like this…I wish I had my gas mask.”

“Pffft, you don’t need that thing.” He shrugged in response, “You never know Jackie.” He then scratched his head and asked, “Well, where to now? The commander for Dorado group is dead, so that means we have no intelligence and no idea what is happening.” Jackie shook her head, “So far we’ve found two clones…I think we’re being invaded…by Clones.” Cisco nodded and lifted his mighty blade onto his shoulder, “And they all got a fraction of his skill…not to mention they all carry those Masamune.” Jackie sighed…This was going to be a pain she just knew it.

“I think we have the best chance if we stick together. I doubt either one of us could take on one of these clones on our own.” Cisco nodded, “Logical.” Jackie looked around the hallways surrounding the office. Unsure of which direction to choose. “Maybe we should head into the mess hall? Its possible that some other SOLDIER would have been able to make a stand there.” Cisco shrugged and started down that way. Jackie didn’t need any encouraging to follow after him. She was constantly watching her back…she felt like something would pop up from behind them at any second.

“Okay, it looks clear this way!” she heard Cisco yell. She back peddled towards the sound of his voice until she arrived at the corner. She was making sure nothing was following them. She turned and followed after her partner down the corner and into the Mess Hall. It should have been somewhat she expected. It was called the mess hall after all…but this was a massacre. Not a mess. There were at least seven Sephiroth clones in here attacking some 3rd Class SOLDIER that had all gathered together and were opening fire upon the clones.

One of the Clones got hit on the leg and then gunned down by another SOLDIER. A clone was about to slice these 3rd class into pieces, but Cisco ran forward and held his massive sword to defend against the falling masamune. Jackie lifted up her own gun, she got a clone into her sight and tried to follow him despite his quick speed. She aimed a little ahead of where he was moving and fired. The bullet dug straight into his brain. Suddenly she felt a presence behind her and rolled forward. She felt some of her hair get sliced.

The woman slid on the ground and lifted her gun up again to defend against the Masamune. Her gun was against her chest now, she wasn’t able to compete with the clone’s strength. Instead Jackie swept the clone’s legs from out from underneath him using her own legs. The clone hit the ground and Jackie jumped on top of him. He tried to use his Masamune, but Jackie shot his arm off. The clone began to struggle underneath Jackie’s weight and knocked her gun out of her hands.

She was forced to pull out her boot knife and plunge it into the clone’s chest. She pulled the blade out and threw it at another clone. It hit him, well…hit his sword. ’Unless it’s a coup de grace, I can’t seem to use my knife very well.’ She thought quickly rolling over to grab her gun and fire at the clone that had deflected her knife. A random 3rd class SOLDIER gunned him down from behind, while Jackie covered him by blowing off another clone’s head. Jackie looked over at Cisco and saw him pin a clone against the wall with his sword. Cisco quickly maneuvered his blade and blocked an attack to his back before countering and smashing the clone with the broad side of his weapon.

“Sometimes I still wonder how you manage with that gigantic weapon.” She inquired of him. Cisco simply chuckled and gazed over at the dead Sephiroth clones. “We took them out pretty fast….good work guys.” Jackie examined the five remaining third class SOLDIERs that they had with them. They were all the new recruits from the days before. They were definitely scared. “Okay guys, listen up. We’re going to stick together and take these guys out. They aren’t the real thing guys. They are just clones.” She tried to explain to them. Some of them nodded and one of them even picked up a masamune. “Hey, you’re better off with a gun. You have to be crazy good in order to use one of those things.” She told the young recruit concerning the masamune.

“Okay Jackie, we got some reinforcements, so what do we do now?” Jackie wasn’t honestly sure how to answer Cisco’s question. All her life she had been told what to do, and now she needed to figure out what would be best to get these guys out alive… “These guys can’t have gotten in here without tripping some alarm system…I’m thinking this is an inside thing.” Jackie looked at the five mooks that she had gained as subordinates. “Okay, we’re going to head down into the labs and shut down whatever the crap the scientists are doing down there. There is no doubt that they are causing this.”

“Cisco! You take point, I’ll cover the back. I want you men to support Cisco with cover fire. You guys aren’t experienced enough to take on these clones, so just leave it to me and Cisco. Oh! And try not to shoot us please?” Everyone nodded, and Cisco took the lead like she had ordered. “Okay team, follow me.” Cisco folded his great sword in half as he marched down the hallway. He held it across his chest, using it like some kind of shield. Jackie on the other hand was back peddling again. She had the weirdest feeling like there was something behind them…

She could hear her team, as they continued to open fire on enemies as they continued forward. Jackie couldn’t spare a single look forward. She would just have to trust Cisco. She could hear the sounds of weapons clashing and rifles firing. Suddenly one of the men screamed. Jackie turned her head quickly and saw that a Sephi – clone had gotten past Cisco and was about to attack one of the mooks. Jackie opened fire and turned back to look at what was behind them. She was face to face with her own Sephiroth clone. She looked down at her chest to see that the clone had stabbed her through her heart. Jackie shook her head and lifted her gun and shot the clone. ’Its not my heart anyways…’ she thought to herself.

Despite having a sword through the chest, she was still alive. Jackie put another bullet into her gun and shot the sword and broke it. She put another bullet it and held the gun behind her back and shot the other side of the sword out of her. This way she just a piece of metal sticking out of her chest instead of an entire sword. ’Dang it…I knew I shouldn’t have taken my eyes off of our backs…I need to make sure that we’re not going to be followed. I hope I don’t regret this.’ Jackie lifted her gun and pointed it at the ceiling behind them and opened fire so that the ceiling collapsed and blocked the path behind them.

“What’s going on?” one of the men with them asked, “Don’t look back.” Cisco told them. Now Jackie could safely focus on what was occurring in front of them. Cisco clearly had his hands full Sephi-clones. It wasn’t so much that fact that they were that much more skilled than him, it was that he couldn’t use the full length of his sword. The suppressing fire from the mooks did help though. They continued to press the clones back so that Cisco could deal with only one at a time. Jackie calmly lifted her rifle up and fired a shot that put holes into two of the clone’s chests.

“Eat that mother buzzards.” She told them quietly. The group continued to press forward, the skipped the elevators, and instead used the stairs to make their way down into the shinra laboratory. “What the faux?” Jackie heard Cisco announce as he opened the doors. She walked into the room as well and saw something horrific. Sephiroth clones turning more people into Sephiroth Clones. She watched a SOLDIER get dragged and get put inside some kind of mako inducement tube. The clones then activated it and the man would slowly change into a copy of Sephiroth. “OPEN FIRE!”

Cisco extended his blade while Jackie began to unload bullet after bullet into the mass of Sephiroth clones. She could tell the newly formed ones against the ones that had been made for a while based on the fact that the ones that had been formed already carried masamune, while the others didn’t. ’Where are they even getting all of their gear?’ She questioned mentally. She lifted up her gun and leveled the barrel with the head of another clone and blew his head off. The five mook SOLDIER that they had with them blocked the doorway and began to unload clip after clip of suppressing fire into the crowd of clones.

Jackie was surprised that they all managed to survive. ’Looks like we just cleaned up the last of them here…’ Jackie pressed forward and patted Cisco on the back. “We did it.” He shook his head, “I’m not so sure. I think we need to blow this place just to be safe.” Jackie nodded sadly. “So much for the soft drink fund.” She muttered to him. He chuckled and turned to her. When he finally saw the blade sticking out of her chest his face went pale…again…”J-JACKIE!” He gasped pointing to her chest. “Cisco. Cisco.” She put her hands on his shoulders. “Calm down. My heart is still beating, and I haven’t lost any blood.”

Cisco took a deep breath. “Okay…we need to get you to the hospital.” Jackie nodded, “Okay, but first.” Jackie pulled out her cell phone and dialed Shinra HQ. “3rd Class SOLDIER Jackie Reporting, Dorado Group HQ has been compromised, requesting extraction and Air strike.” The woman on the other side of the phone asked, “What is happening over there?” Jackie sighed before saying, “Enemies have taken over the compound, please provide Extraction for 7 SOLDIERs.” The woman on the other side seemed to think to herself before complying.

“Roger that, Helicopters will arrive at the helipad on top of the building in fifteen minutes. If you are not there within five minutes of arrival, the helicopters will take off. I don’t need to say what happens after wards do I?” Jackie shook her head, even though the woman probably wouldn’t be able to see her do so. “No ma’am.” Jackie sighed once more and hang up. “to the roof.” She told her team. She had half the team go with her one elevator, and the others with Cisco on the next trip. They reached the helipad within moments, but then they realized their folly.

“Okay…we have to defend this area if we want to get out of this alive. Take positions around the Helipad.” Jackie inserted another bullet into the feed ramp of her gun and shoved it through with the bolt. “Okay, lets hold on for just a few minutes!” Jackie announced to the team. The five guys nodded, while Cisco simply spat. He unfolded his blade, releasing it to its full glory and held it in front of him warily. “Jackie…you better survive.” He told her. She looked at him and beamed a smile. “Don’t worry about such stupid things. We’re all going to make it.”

The clone began to emerge. Cisco and Jackie quickly proved their level of experience…especially Jackie. ’If my heart rate increases too much I can damage myself due to the blade that’s stuck in my chest. I just have to stay calm…and make the shots…’ She initiated a breathing excersize just for this purpose and lifted the barrel of her rifle and started leveling it with enemies before firing. “I’m out of bullets!” Screamed one of the men. “Just stand your ground! Don’t move! We’ll be okay!” Easy for her to say when she was killing two clones with a shot.

Cisco ducked underneath an attack and smashed a clone into the ground. He spun and swung, slicing seven clones at once. Cisco took one gaze at Jackie and the five SOLDIER and he nodded to himself. He lifted his blade high up into the air and slammed it into the concrete. A huge pit was created between the Helipad and the spot where Cisco had smashed it into existence. As the Helicopter arrived, they had to drag Jackie on board as she watched in tears as Cisco stood alone…smiling…in a crowd of Sephiroth clones. “You better live Jackie! You Here me?!” He yelled at her as the helicopter took off.
An airship soon followed the helicopter. It swooped down and something large was dropped off of it and onto the barracks. The entire thing ignited in a fantastic fireball…the likes which Jackie had never seen in Midgar before. Tears streamed down her face as one of her longest running comrades was killed…she thought she could see his form among the flames, but that was just her mind creating illusions… Because of Jackie’s crying she had forgotten all about her breathing techniques and stared with wide open eyes as there was a sharp pain in her heart.

She was surrounded by the five SOLDIER 3rd class who looked down upon her with mixed looks of sympathy and respect. Jackie’s breathing began to slow…her eyes flittered…blackness. ’This place seems very Familiar.’ Said a voice in her mind. ’Its too bad you don’t have any good childhood memories…it would have been nice if you could have shared some with me.’ Jackie wanted to shake her head no, “I…Its not my fault…” ’I know its not Jackie.’ The voice continued to say in a very sympathetic voice. ’Don’t feel too bad about it.’

’But maybe…your childhood wasn’t as bad as you thought it was.’ “What do you mean? How could you even say that? Do you know what its like to live everyday in fear? Do you know what its like to be a woman in a world run by men?” ’No…why don’t you show me?’ “How am I supposed to do that?” ’Just remember it, and I’ll remember it with you.’ Jackie brought up all of her old memories and fears. It was almost like she was reliving the entire thing all over again. Every now and then the voice would make a comment about something. ’That’s your mother?’ It would ask. ’She is very pretty.’

“I’m a bastard. I was born into a whore house. By a whore.” ’Is this a cause of much sorrow for you?’ “Yes…It was painful. Even as a little girl, I wasn’t spared. They made me a whore early on.” ’I’m sorry that I couldn’t ever truly understand now. I understand because I can feel what you felt back then. But That has only served to make you strong Jackie.’ “Strong? How?” ’You’re a strong person Jackie. You are smart, brave, funny. You’re a crack shot. You’re a woman. I’m not sure what else I could say. I just know that Shin-ra are fools if they don’t realize the kind of asset you are to them.’

“Who are you?” ’What? You mean you forgot about me already? That makes me sad.’ “Seriously…who are you?” ’Fine…I’ll give you a hint. Starts with a “C”.’

Jackie’s eyes popped wide open, “CISCO!” She screamed at the top of her lungs. A doctor placed his hand upon her chest and pressed her back down onto the bed. “Take it easy.” He told her. Jackie looked at him uncomfortably, he didn’t even really seem to be paying attention to her. “What happened?” She questioned the man. “Well I shouldn’t have to fill you in on much since your men are the ones who told me most of what happened…” He looked around the room and picked up a clipboard and began to write down information he copied from various monitors.

“They said that the Dorado Group base was attacked by Sephiroth look alikes. You found those fives guys, and you and another SOLDIER are pretty much responsible for their lives. You fought down to the labs, wiped it clean and then moved to the roof for extraction. Cisco was his name? They said that he sacrificed himself so that you all could get on the helicopter and escape. Afterwards, your men claimed that you passed out.” The man walked over and hung the clip board off of a string on her bed post. “That’s all?” The Doctor shook his head.

“Of course not. Seldom is what you’re told the whole truth correct?” He tapped the clipboard he had been writing on, “Listen Jackie, I know you’ve had a heart transplant before, but this time we couldn’t find a suitable heart for you.” Jackie looked down at her chest, she opened her shirt so she could see the scar on her chest…fresh. “So…?” Jackie was asking. “We gave you a mechanical heart.” The man told her. “You’ll need to be careful about what you eat. This machine can’t deal with clogged up arteries that well, but as long as you eat a steady and healthy diet, it should be fine.”

“Is that all?” Jackie questioned, this time hopeful that it indeed was true. “Well not exactly.” The man walked over towards a cabinet and pulled out a mirror. “This isn’t a hospital Jackie.” Jackie looked up at this fellow with confusion as he approached her with this mirror. “This is a laboratory.” He held up the mirror and Jackie looked at the demonic eye in her right eye socket in shock. “You’ll find that if you close your left eye, you’ll be able to see with extremely acute vision.” The lab technician was explaining to her. Jackie indeed tested what he had said and closed her left eye. Everything became sharper…clearer.

“I suggest that you keep this eye closed a majority of the day though, since its still a new technology that we’ve been working with, you can possibly damage yourself with prolonged usage.” Jackie nodded and closed her right eye, opening up her left. “Oh…and you also might have noticed that you will no longer need to use a scope. Your eye has the ability to see clearly ” Jackie sighed and looked around the room. “Do I have to pay for all of this?” The scientist nodded, “Yes. Since this eye is experimental, we wanted to test it on someone with your abilities. That’s pretty much why we saved your life. So if you could just pay the price for the eye, we’ll provide you with whatever medicine you need after this point.”

Jackie sighed and nodded, “How much is this costing me?” She questioned the man, who opened up his wallet and pulled out his receipt for a demon eye, “2300 gil. Don’t worry, you don’t have to transfer the money, its already been taken care of.” Jackie laid back on her little hospital bed in defeat. “you guys…you know how annoying this is to me right?” The scientist shrugged, “Would you rather be dead?” She shook her head no. “But you could have at least asked for my consent before screwing with my eyes.” The scientist placed the clipboard back onto her bed post. “By the way, due to such high commendations from not only your previous commanders, but also those five guys who claim to be under your command, SOLDIER has decided to promote you to second Class.”

For some Reason Jackie wasn’t even happy. She had been ranked up to Second Class at what cost? At Cisco’s life? Was that the price? They kept Jackie in the lab for a few more days until they decided at last that she was ready for life again. She had missed Cisco’s official funeral, so she traveled down to the cemetery alone and sat by the grave. She pulled a bottle of soda from the sack she had brought with her and poured it onto the grave. “How does it taste?” She asked at last. Tears were streaming down her face. One of her friends had died… Jackie had to admit to herself that this was the only time that she actually felt sad that someone on her team had died.

“I’m kind of a monster aren’t I?” She questioned herself. The woman stood up, satisfied with her time spent with Cisco’s grave she began to walk away from it…Quite suddenly a monstrous blade dug itself into the ground in front of her. “Its pretty fun being dead.” Said a voice. She turned around and saw no one. “You should try it some time.” Cisco hopped off of a tree branch and onto the ground below. “Miss me?” Jackie ran over and hugged him. “Asshole.” She said through her tears. “Yeah…I don’t even know who they buried…Believe me I tried to convince them that I was alive still.”

Jackie looked up at him with a large smile on her face. “I thought you were a goner.” He shrugged and then looked down at her, “I thought you were a goner…hey…whats wrong with your eye?” Jackie sighed and opened her eye to reveal the demon eye hiding beneath her eye lid. “Holy!” Cisco jumped back in surprise. “Is it infected or something?” He asked her, Jackie shook her head no. “Yeah…that helicopter dropped us off at a laboratory apparently…and the only reason those scientists save my life was so that I could be a test dummy for this demon eye.”

Cisco nodded slowly, “Dang it…I shouldn’t have let you go off on your own.” Jackie shook her head, “I didn’t have anything to do with any of that. I passed out on the helicopter and woke up like this.” Cisco nodded and pointed towards a soda machine sitting on the side walk nearby. “Hey Jackie…want to have a soda?” She nodded, “I’d love to.”

’Game over.’ Jackie thought. ’I win.’
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