Loop: Heya guys! Yeah, I've been okay at least, I'm not really good at my grammars aha... I haven't have any time to even check them if I'm wrong or not. I'm rushing because of my everyday life now. Super busy and I can't even feel my fingers

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irkraz: Ah, thank you for pointing that out! I thought that there was something wrong about Genesis' surname. I haven't researched it yet and well, I feel kinda embarrassed aha

To everyone: Thank you so much again and hope you like this next chapter ;v;

Now on with the story!

SOLDIERS, ShinRa and the Clown

Chapter 2: Trouble

Wearing his hood up, Allen looked around the slums in search for the item store. He was going to buy some supplies because he was running out in his little cabin.

Midgar was a huge place, with him being there would be a disaster, one main reason was that he easily gets lost. Yup, even for those so many years he lived he still couldn't get his sense of direction right.

He turned to his right and ended up into a dead end AGAIN. Allen facepalmed and turned around, backtracking his tracks. If only he had Timcanpy with him this will be much easier but he left him in Wutai with the Princess, watching over 'her' so that she won't do anything stupid.

Yes, she's friends with the Princess of Wutai. He met her when the war was going on. She ambushed and stole from him some items that he looted throughout the years he spent walking around the world. When she was attacked by those men in Shin-Ra, he saved her from her doom.

Allen smiled at that memory, she reminded him of Timothy.

His phone rang and he picked it up without even looking who it was.

"Hello?"

"Yo, Allen!"

"Reno?" Allen raised a brow.

"The one and only yo!"

"What is it this time Reno?" he asked and walked, trying to backtrack his tracks but it seems he already forgot.

Reno laughed at the other side of the phone. "It seems that you lost your way again, yo"

Allen couldn't help but sigh. It was true. He was completely lost. But how did the Turk know that? He raised his head and looked around, looking for any signs of the red head. He knew that Reno was watching him but where?

"So what brings you here in Midgar?" the red head asked.

Allen gave up looking for him and turned his attention on the phone. "Just out to get some supplies"

"Ya know you should live here, I mean not in the slums but in the plates, it's much more… Shi- BEHIND YOU!" Reno cursed in panic.

Allen blinked and all of the sudden he felt a powerful punch that hit him in the back in full force. He was thrown, hit and smashed the wall into tiny little pieces. Great, he hoped that it won't

An ordinary human would have been killed with that blow. Good thing that he was not human but it doesn't mean he can't feel the pain of that impact. He coughed up the dust and looked at the smashed phone on the ground.

Great, Rufus gave him that phone. When this was over he will seriously buy a new one, but with his little money, he bet that he could only afford a cheaper phone.

Allen slowly stood up and looked at the dusty cloud that was covering his attacker. A monster?

When the dust was already cleared up, there were people… two of them who were wearing helmets and they have a single wing on their backs. Black wings to be précised. Allen winched at the memory. Wings reminded him too much of Apocryphos. That monstrosity… he was still alive until now but he doubted that he would follow him in this side of the dimension.

The single wing men slowly went to him, their swords ready to strike. He heard screams, his eyes looked at the source and found three more identical men with their swords covered in blood, the civilians ran as fast as they could to get away from here.

A strike and Allen easily dodged it, he looked at the five one wing men, slowly approaching him, he could use Crowned Clown to battle them but that would mean blowing his cover. He needed a weapon or something to fight with these men. Where the hell was Reno or the SOLDIERs?!

"Maybe he is calling for backup" Neah said and Allen winched.

Three of the men charged at him. Allen prepared himself for battle. He dodged them with ease and punched one of them in the stomach, threw him two feets away. Behind him, there was an incoming attack and Allen turned, kicked the hand, making his sword fell to the ground. He threw a punch at his face with his left hand and sent him flying.

"Two on your left" Neah warned and Allen quickly dodged the attack again.

If only he had Kanda's sword with him, this won't be hard. He then looked at his right to see another incoming attack but it was too late to dodge right now. He lifted his left hand and grabbed the sword then kicked him. Where the hell was the back up?!

He can keep this up forever, truth be told but it was getting ridiculous and he doesn't want to waste his time on them. He grabbed the sword on the ground and attacked the one who was near him but his blow was blocked. "Three of them, on your back"

Allen swing his sword and successfully hit the three, he then dodged another attack on his left. The sooner he will finish this monsters off, the better.

He heard something from a far that was coming his way and when he looked up, he saw a helicopter and the one who was in the driver sit was Rude and Reno. "Well, aren't they late" Neah commented.

Allen jumped off to dodge another attack and sighed.

Five minutes later…

Allen looked down at the fallen men as they dissolve into the Lifestream. He dropped his sword and immediately turned his back to see Reno's smiling face and Rude's emotionless one.

"You did a great job, Allen" Reno said with a thumbs up.

Allen ignored the red head and stared at him. "What took you so long?" he asked and Reno just put his hands on his pockets. "It was not that easy yo" Reno said with a whine. "Heck we even 'borrow' one of the helicopters in a hurry!"

Allen sighed.

"So Allen, what cha say we have a drink in a bar and get this day off our back?" Reno offered and Allen raised a brow.

"Rude's buying" Reno said and Rude could only stare at his partner in disbelief. Allen chuckled. "Aren't you guys busy?"

Reno chuckled. "You have no idea"

Tseng looked at the hooded figure on the other side of the building, observing. On his hand was the file of the young man, with his photo and data.

At first he was just observing the young man who everyone in the slums called 'White Devil' Rufus insisted making him one of the Turks or SOLDIER. He was there to observe if the man was qualified to join them.

One thing about him was that he lacks a sense of direction, second was that he was not paying attention to his surroundings but what caught him was that the young man can fight, with ease not with brute force but with skills.

Though he wondered, he saw him hold the sword's blade with his bare hand and yet Tseng noticed that there was no sign of him bleeding. He was curious.

What was behind that glove?

TBC

Loop: Thank you so much for reading~