Gettin' sneaky with it.... ((Tifa))

((I couldn't find that other thread with Vincent where we started this, so I continued it here.....))


Seriously.... was this the best ShinRa had to throw at them? Shade was practically shaking her head in disappointment as another round of guards came rounding the corner, half of them looked as confused as a herd of pigs being shoved into a slaughter house! She raised her arm and fired her crossbow again, sending her rounds of arrows into the group which then exploded into bombs of fire. Their screams of panic were more annoying than anything as Shade casually looked back over her shoulder at Tifa and rolled her eyes. "No wonder you guys were able to take ShinRa down so easily..."


Now Shade took a gander at the napkin map to give Tifa her turn at the next wave of soldiers pouring out of the elevator. Whatever the barmaid was doing, it sounded like she was having a shitload of fun by the various cries of pain filling the hallway as Shade studied the crayon markings to locate the President's office. After random crashes and busted walls and broken bones, Shade looked up again at her boxer companion and pointed down the hall. "From the looks of it.... if we go down this way and make a left, there's a room to the right that's just above the President's private bathroom. Apparently they didn't think to be sure there was no access from above when they did the addition to his office."


Seeing one of the fallen soldiers make an attempt for his weapon lying on the floor, Shade whipped her crossbow over Tifa's shoulder and fired, nailing him square between the eyes through his helmet visor. She gave Tifa a smirk as the body slumped over onto the floor. "That gets me a free drink, right?"

Tifa strolled up behind Shade as she took care of the first wave of Guards while she fished around in her extra pocket for something "Maybe if I got one of those laundry organiser things for in here, I'd be able to find stuff...." she muttered to herself. She pulled out a handful of useless junk and sifted through it, sighed, picked out a half used chapstick and put the rest back. She stole a glance at the scene ahead of her as she absent mindedly applied a thin layer of the chapstick to her lips, just long enough for her to notice the number above the elevator rising as Shade's arrows connected with yet another of the hapless guards. As he crumpled to the ground, Tifa dashed passed him, casually darting out her foot to kick him squarely in the jaw causing his head to snap sharply round , finishing him off.

Tifa stood by the elevator doors as Shade studied the map. A playful grin spread across her face as the elevator pinged and the doors slid open, filling the air with gentle music and the hall with guards. Without saying a word, she dropped the chapstick she held in her hand and kicked it under the elevator door, jamming it in the open position, preventing anyone else from using it.

Tifa grabbed the last guard to rush out as he scratched himself, mistakenly thinking he would be safer at the back. Without making a sound she reached up, covered his mouth with her hand and deftly snapped his neck, never letting him drop to the ground. Counting the now fallen guard, Tifa counted eight guards in total, it seems they crammed the elevator full on their way up. She effortlessly lifted him up and swung his limp body round, knocking over two more guards.

Now that she had their attention, the remaining guards lifted their weapons in unison, opening fire as they did so. Tifa hoisted the guard she still held in front of her, keeping behind the large man's frame she waited for the familiar sounds of empty clips before she dropped the now limp body and dashed her way forward. Tifa quickly launched into the air, the guards still busy reloading as she aimed a punch down at the middle guard's forehead, shifting her body so as to guarantee the maximum amount of force. Heavily Denting the helmet, the guard dropped his weapon as Tifa landed and proceeded to kick him right at the diaphragm, causing the guard to fall back and tip over three of the guards behind him. "These guards tend to be lightweight, still fun to play with though" Tifa said, in regards to Shade's comment as she aimed a jab at a guard on her right and followed through with an uppercut aimed under the guard's chin, causing his head to dart up, the snapping sound indicating his defeat.

Tifa continued to pummel the remaining guards as Shade mentioned the room down the corridor on their left, prompting Tifa to quickly dispatch of the last guard, grabbing him by the collar as she punched deeply into his stomach, knocking the wind out of him and finished him off by throwing him forcefully against the nearest wall. Slumping to the ground, the guards body landed with a thud as Tifa walked over him and stood gazing at the corridor on their left.

"well they aren't coming up that way, we should be clear for a while" Tifa said to Shade as she motioned towards the broken elevator. She blinked as Shades arrow whistled passed her ear and slammed into the straggler. She sighed and fished a small bottle out of her extra pocket, tossed it to Shade and said "You get more free drinks than anyone I know. Enjoy! This way?"

Tifa broke into a gentle jog as she dashed down the corridor, following Shades directions. As came to the door indicated on the map and rattled the handle to find it was locked. With a shrug of her shoulders she didn't think twice before kicking the door open, just as she had done before. Stealing herself for another fight, because every door she had opened so far had guards on the other side, she was pleasantly surprised to find the room empty and only stacked with stationary and office supplies.

"Well thats a bit disappointing. Now how do we get down there?"

Shade paused to guzzle down the few shots of whiskey from the tester bottle when Tifa began to head down the hall. She smirked after her friend about the free drinks remark while tossing the now empty bottle aside and following Tifa from behind. "Maybe it's because I save your ass more than anyone you know..."


She knew the comment would get her an "I'll kick your ass for that" look, but that's what made the sarcastic humor between the two work so well. Now closing in on their destination, Shade had about enough of the alarms blaring from the wall speakers and began firing at those too to give her poor head a break from the ear splitting noise. It was still quite remarkable to watch how things simply crumbled from Tifa's boots or fists, and such was a door that fell pitifully across the floor in shattered splinters. As the two women carefully ventured into the room, the silence was almost eerie. True, Shade expected even more confrontation, but of course, no one within the facility would be expecting an invasion into a bathroom of all places.


After Tifa's observant question, Shade stood silent while simply staring at the floor. With a concentrating crease across her brow, she began gazing over the walls of the room. She decided to do a little renovating herself, and fired a round off at each of the walls in order to locate the plumbing. Now with shattered plaster all over the floor, Shade ventured to the east wall where the bathroom below would most likely be located. Before her next move, Shade looked back to Tifa and smirked again. "Okay.... tell me what movie this next stunt is from...."


Without warning, Shade aimed her mechanical crossbow to the floor and began firing relentlessly in the pattern of a wide circle around herself and Tifa. Round and round and round she fired endless steel arrows to shoot entirely through the floor until suddenly, the joices began to give way, sending the two women to soar down to next level with a tumbling fall. With only minor bruises and coughing through the dust cloud, Shade couldn't help but snicker a bit as the pleasing effects of the whiskey found slight humor in her trick. "I always wanted to do that!"

Tifa looked down at the floor and stamped her feet a few times, she felt no hollow spots signalling to her that the floor was entirely and evenly solid. "I would say its about two feet thick" Tifa remarked, observing Shade as she randomly shot the walls around the room, causing Tifa to raise an eyebrow.

After her remark she noticed Shade stare at the floor beneath them, tirelessly turning in a circle as if studying the fabric of a carpet. "What movie? What are you..." Tifa began as Shade began to cut a circle around them both, the steel arrows piercing the concrete thick floor like butter. "...out of your damn mind woman!" Tifa said as the floor gave out and the two fell with a very loud thud, smoke and debris filling the otherwise brilliantly polished bathroom.

Catching a lung full of dust, Tifa began flailing her arms in an attempt to disperse the thick cloud before them. "...whoooooaaaa. Get a load of this place! Fancy." She walked over to the sink, flicked one of the taps with her finger and whistled "these things are solid gold, baby!" Without a second thought, she raised her foot and kicked the taps off the sink and stuffed them into her pockets. She did the same for the taps on the bath, shower, towel rail and all other fittings before looking up at Shade to say "what? This will pay for the library"

She looked around the room for anything else she could use and spotted a large mirrored cabinet and skipped over to open it. She shuffled the brightly coloured bottles inside, checking out the contents and picking out the occasional bottle of cologne and spritzing it in the air, inches away from her face. She wrinkled her nose in disgust at the last one "this one must be expensive, it smells like something a chocobo pooped out"

Out of the corner of her eye she caught sight of Shade and suddenly remembered why she was there. With a slightly embarrassed tone, she tried to shift the blame "You forget how to use a door or something? Get your skinny butt in there!"

Shade gave a low, long whistle as she looked about the over sized, over dramatically ritzed out bathroom as Tifa shot around her in all directions to snatch every valuable faucet ware and items about the room. It wasn't that Shade gave her friend a disapproving look, it was simply her brow pinched up with a befuddled thought. "That's great for the library, Tifa.... I just didn't know you had that much.... pocket space..."


She couldn't hold back the smirk from mentioning the chest humor Tifa often joked about herself before looking towards the door with the return of her usual scowl. Surely they're dramatic entrance in here was heard, yet no sound or alarm came from the office on the other side. The complete silence gave Shade a foreboding chill as Tifa nearly choked over the cologne. As the barmaid joked with her again about the use of doors, it was then Shade had her ear pressed flat against it and listened. Something didn't feel right and she held up her gloved hand for Tifa to be aware before slowly backing away from the door and whispering. "I have a hunch we're expected..." She turned her head to give the same smirk at her friend. "And we're probably in deep shit for not having an appointment..."


With a nudge of her finger to the back of her neck, it was the tell tale sign that it was Skittle's turn to play. The small squirrel poked out his colorful head with an excited squeak in his throat and leaned out from Shade's shoulder to sniff at Tifa with a twitching nose in greeting before leaping to the floor and now sitting on his rump. With his bright colorful tail all flared out and swatting through the air with excitement, he waited eagerly for Shade's instructions. "You know where we're were at, fuzzball... just who do you think is the last person they want to see?" With what could only be described as a squirrel's giggle, Skittles exploded into a mini hurricane as the winds turned into an eerie teal color. When he came to an abrupt stop, the full body of Jenova with the various tubes, medical head gear, grotesque blue skin, and crimson eyes now stood before them.


Shade raised her arm that was strapped to her crossbow weapon while giving Tifa one of those gagging expressions as the Skittles Jenova now positioned himself against the wall beside the door so not to get struck by her arrows. He seemed rather hindered and annoyed by all the test tubes dragging behind him and getting tangled into each other as he tried to move.

"The third boob thing still grosses me out..."


Then she pulled the triggers and sent 5 exploding arrows into the door with a grenade like explosion that sent the barrier soaring into the next room. What soldiers were on their knees prepared to fire got slammed right in their faces and thrown aside by the sheer force of the flying door while the remaining troops within the office could only stand in stunned silence by the unexpected Jenova now standing there before them when the smoke cleared.


In one fluid motion, Skittles roared out and lunged viciously at the enemy, who now turned on their heels, tearing out of the office as fast as they could with echoing screams.... leaving their precious President to fend for himself.

Tifa gave Shade a playful grin at the mention of company and tightened the laces on her gloves. She took a few steps forward towards the door and stopped to look down at her chest. The extra baggage she was carrying made clunking noises as it moved around inside her clothing and the extra weight of all that gold impeded her movements "This ain't going to work so well, hold up a second"

Tifa looked around the room and grabbed one of the thick, expensive white towels from the polished glass display cabinet. She raised an eyebrow at Shade as she ran her fingers over the thick pile "This thing is thicker than my coffee" She shook her head as if to focus her thoughts and unrolled the enormous towel onto the floor and began laying all her borrowed goods onto it. As she did this, she saw Skittles emerge from his hiding place and she reached out to tickle him behind his ear. She smiled at his enthusiasm "I missed you too, sweetie pie" She carried on with her task, adding in a few bottles of expensive lotions, figuring she had room for it now and in all the chaos, no one would miss them. She tied the corners in a big knot and moved her package nearer the door

As she stepped towards the door, she looked on as Skittles changed into the image of Jenova. She clamped her hands over her open mouth in disbelief, even though she knew it was Skittles under the illusion, the likeness was so convincing that she had to stifle her instinct to attack "Genius. Just... Genius." She whispered to herself. She walked back behind Jenova to stand next to Shade, and tickled the squiggle behind a test tube as she passed him. She readied herself to move as Shade blasted the door and Skittles roared into action.

The feminine screams of the guards that awaited their arrival brought a smile to her lips as she peeked around the doorframe and witnessed the apparently once organised men scatter like leaves in the wind. She used the dust and smoke that partially blocked her view to her advantage and silently slipped out into the room and made her way unseen to stand behind the President of ShinRa as he cowered in front of Jenova.

As the debris settled and the room became silent, the quivering man began to stutter and incoherently babble. Tifa paid his words little attention as he was clearly terrified beyond anything she'd seen in her life. She silently moved closer, still unseen as the small man couldn't take his eyes off Jenova. With a playful wink in Shades direction she moved inches away from the man, leaned as close as she could without physically touching him and simulatneously tapped him on the shoulder and whispered "boo" This was too much for the man, who screamed and promptly fainted from the sheer horror of the experience.

"At least he didn't pee his pants!" Tifa quipped cheerfully as she picked the limp president up and unceremoniously plopped him down on the long, expensive looking leather sofa. She rubbed her palms together and rushed over to his desk, planting a kiss on Skittles' cheek as she went by him "awesome work as usual, little guy"

She began ripping open the desk drawers and riffling through them as fast as she could before the man woke up, she pulled out stacks of official looking paperwork and piled them up on the desk surface before flicking on the computer and clicking on random files. Suddenly she stopped and sat still for a few seconds then looked up with a dead pan expression at Shade. "I have no idea what I'm looking for. What am I doing? Skittles! Wake the idiot up, however you need to"

Shade must have cracked a smirk more times today than she had in her entire life. Tifa had a knack for causing that, no matter the situation, and even without the effects of alcohol. When seeing the cowering man shrieked and flail his body about like a teenage valley girl from Tifa's little "boo", the brief scene actually lured a laughing snort in the back of Shade's throat. "I hate it when they do that.... but at least he's not still conscious to be crying like a baby, too." She gave a disinterested sigh after that while Tifa practically threw the man onto the couch before trotting back to his desk to get started.


Meanwhile, Skittles was amused with his new form and began practicing lasso tricks with the medical tubes and wires to his new Jenova form and squeaked a giggle when Tifa gave him a peck on the cheek with her compliment. But it wasn't long until Skittles got his newly learned form all entangled and fell dramatically to the floor with an angry screech. With a long, heavy sigh, Shade just shook her head slowly. "I guess I should at least be proud of the fact he can focus during pressure in battle..."


Hearing Tifa's questions from the desk, Shade answered her while heading over to the still unconscious President. "See if you can find ShinRa's financial accounts.... That way this pissant can't lie to us about just how much this place racks in with its siphoning endeavors..." As Shade stared down at the hairless man, her eyes narrowed a bit. "And Skittles already had his fun.... Now it's my turn..." This wasn't the very same President who over saw the entire Jenova Project experiments, but that was no matter to Shade. This one still sat in his fancy office wearing his three thousand gil suits and sipping his imported wine while everyone on the outside suffered in poverty needlessly due to this company's greed and control over the planet's natural resources. Even worse in Shade's eyes.... children were practically dying on the streets from being orphaned due to ShinRa's actions in the past.


Now grabbing the man slowly by his collar, Shade lifted him from the furniture and gave him a hearty shake to wake him up. When his eyes finally fluttered open, he was instantly pissed off. "Who in the hell do you think you are!? I'll have your measly little lives for this!! And YOU, you little TRAMP!" His arm swung out to point a jabbing finger in Tifa's direction as he strained his glare to see her at his desk. "I'll be sure that scum filth bar of yours is...."

WHAM!!!!

Now that his entire body was slammed hard against the wall face first, his crunched nose and missing front teeth made it rather impossible for him to complete his threat. Shade kept him pinned there with her hand gripped into the back of his neck with one hand while the other delivered back handed smacks to his head. "Ya done yet? Ya done yet? Ya done yet?" It took several more of her smacks and his shouts and cries for the President to finally get the point and finally shut up. Satisfied he was going to behave and cooperate, Shade gripped into the back collar of his suit jacket and drug him across the floor toward his desk where Tifa busied herself searching for ShinRa's finances in the computer system. Upon passing Skittles, the summons remained in his Jenova form and took advantage of the moment to leap towards the President, grab his head, and shove his face into the Jenova chest and shake his head vigorously in the middle with obnoxious squeaking laughter.


His summoner could only groan and roll her eyes while shaking her head slowly and dragging the shocked man away from the smothering Jenova to then throw him in a chair opposite of his desk. "Don't you move.... or you get suffocated again." He was still sputtering in complete shock by the Jenova form and what had just happened while Shade helped Tifa shuffle through the random forms sprawled all over the desk. "Screw it, we'll draw up our own contract..." Suddenly, there was an explosion down the hall, warning Shade and Tifa they were about to have company again. The President now found the confidence to sneer at the pair who held him captive. "Hear that? That's the Turks coming for you little bitches, and you better be...."

WHAM!!!!


As he lied on the floor, still within the toppled over chair and now bleeding profusely and wailing in pain, Shade stood over him looking rather annoyed. "Damn, you never learn, do you?" But sure enough, the threat he promised was getting closer. Shade knew about the Turks and their better fighting skills, so for now, she gave Skittles a quick nod and pointed for the door. "Have a ball, rat.... you know what to do, but if it gets too much, you take off"


What could only be described as maniacal laughter, Skittles burst into his tornado form and went soaring out the door as Vincent Valentine only to be greeted by startled screams and frantic shouting.

Tifa nodded at Shade and kept up her search, a task which should go a lot smoother now she knew what she was looking for. She lifted her eyes for a second while she quickly typed her commands into the computer, just long enough to see Skittles leap to his feet and spin around, frantically searching for the unseen 'person' that tripped him.

She shook her head with a raised eyebrow and an amused smile and quickly got back to her task. She came across a file named "Fiscal Inventory" and tapped to open it. She was confronted by a page full of unfamiliar characters and words that didn't make sense. This was obviously encrypted. Her concentration was momentarily broken by the Presidents outburst. She couldn't help but laugh at the absurdity of his words "Tramp, huh? That's a new one!"

As Shade slammed his face into the wall, Tifa collapsed into a fit of giggles and clutched her ribs as she struggled to breathe. "What are you going to do to my bar? Seriously, dude. We just broke into this fortress of yours, took out most of your security and managed to get into your office without so much as breaking a nail. What do you possibly think you could do that we couldn't handle? Break in and rearrange the furniture?" Tifas tone quickly turned from jovial to menacing in the blink of an eye "Be very careful, little man. your desk gives away more about you than you think" She hissed, tapping a gold picture frame that held a portrait of a woman with 3 small children.

Tifa turned her attention back to the screen and flipped her mobile open "Squeaker..... Yes.... We're fine, just shut up a second. I got something I want you to take a look at, I'm forwarding it to you now.... yes....I know... I will.... alright!! jeeeeeze" She closed her phone and stuffed it back into her pocket as she quickly typed and sent the file to Squeaker back at 7th Heaven.

She Returned to the piles of paperwork and Helped Shade shuffle through them. Her hands came across a small leather book, she quickly picked it up and flipped through the gold rimmed pages. It was full of personal notes of no real interest to their current mission, but may prove useful later Tifa decided. On the last page there was a list of phone numbers and, stupidly, one listed as "safe combo". Surely the President of ShinRa couldn't be this idiotic? Only one way to find out, she thought and took a few quick strides over to where he lay bleeding. She knelt down on the floor next to him and quietly and calmly spoke to him "you got a safe? His eyes gave him away as he stole a fleeting glance towards his lavishly stocked minibar. She didn't wait for him to answer and left him to splutter and think up new insults to hurl at the women in his office.

She made her way to the mini bar area and opened a few of the cupboards there. They held nothing but mundane items such as napkins and such like. There must be something she was missing. Her eyes skimmed the bottles on the shelves. The perks of running a "scum filth bar" was that she had an intimate knowledge of brands and what the bottles should contain. So when she noticed a bottle of a not-so-expensive Scotch that was just the wrong shade of amber, she knew something was out of place. She reached up and tugged the bottle, causing something hidden to click and slide into place as the wall slide silently open revealing a large safe.

She cocked her head and smiled at Shade and she entered the code from the notebook into the safe. Remarkably, it opened. "Wow, that's a whole new level of stupid" Inside they found the files along with an enormous stash of cash. "library AND gymnasium all in one day? Awesome." She looked around the room for something to hold all the stuff she would be liberating from this dispicable mans office and spied another door. She hurried over and discovered that, thankfully, it was indeed a closet. She began pulling things out and discovered amongst the expensive suits, a large, expensive holdall. "PERFECT!" She yelled just as they were interrupted by a large explosion. As Shade dealt with his latest outburst, Tifa busied herself with retrieving the towel full of gold and stuffing it into the holdall along with the bundles of cash from the safe. She handed the financial files to Shade. "these any good? I wonder how Squeaker is getting on..."

Screams could be heard coming from the hall where Skittles was enjoying himself with the Turks. She flipped open her phone and called Squeaker once again "Any luck?... Really?...... That much, huh?..... Yeah, stop that one and re-route it into the orphanage account.... permission???... I think he agree's...... no,no. It was Skittles.... RELAX!, he's got this and he's having fun.... yeah... later." She snapped the phone shut and pocketed it quickly. She walked over to the computer and watched as Squeaker operated it remotely from his small room back in the bar. "I need to get him his own office" she murmured. She looked up at Shade and turned the screen around so she could see as he worked his tiny squirrel-magic on the numerous bank accounts and hidden pockets of money he had managed to find. "We probably got enough to run the place for 5 years so far. And I'm sure we will find more in that lot" She nodded her head towards the stack of paper files.

"Now thats enough of the serious stuff for now, I'm going to have some fun with that squiggle of yours!" She dropped the holdall at Shades feet and ran out into the corridor, stopping only for a split second to kick the President squarely in the groin.

Tifa was an absolute delight to watch her own style of intimidation at work. She had a knack at keeping her charm no matter how threatening she had to be, and that snide charm seemed to piss off the President even more... until he blanched when she made an insinuation about his family.


Shade gave her friend a passing curious glance while the barmaid flipped through what appeared to be a journal, but then returned her attention back to shuffling through contract papers to see which one would be easiest to modify to their needs. Now and then, she would lift her intent gaze to watch out for Tifa's back for any surprise visitors that may have gotten past Skittles, then smirked with a chuckle at her humorous remark regarding the man's level of stupidity, then shrugged. "One man's stupidity is another man's fortune, I say..."


As Tifa collected her bountiful rewards, Shade settled into the President's chair just as the man was trying to move from the floor. Without sparing him a glance, Shade used the computer to create the forms she needed as her boot came slamming down at the back of his neck to crash his face back to the floor. "Stay ......Good boy..." The crunch of his nose and a muffled scream into the rug was his only reply as Shade continued typing on the keyboard before finally printing out the documents and taking the files Tifa quickly handed over. Through all the crahing and yelling and gunfire out in the hallway, and Tifa's phone call to her educated squiggle, Shade flipped through the information in the files and whistled. Daaammnnnn.... this place grosses THAT much in just in a month's time!? I could have 3 new Gardens built in a year with these kinds of funds!"


The ridiculous amounts of fortunes and investments made Shade sick and disgusted. There was no excuse for a company that squandered in the resources of the planet just to keep a controlling hold over the population, then not give back to the people who suffered for the cause. Especially the young, which was what she and Tifa were here for. Her hand reached out and caught the wad of cash as her companion and friend set off to have fun with Skittles... who by now turned into his Sephiroth form and was throwing random Turks through the walls and out of windows. Meanwhile, Shade casually sat back within the reclining office chair of plush leather, reaching down to snatch the President by the collar, then rising him up on his knees as she propped her boots up upon his desk in a rather relaxed position. She now held the printed forms in front of him with her other hand and spoke cooly and softly. "See these? You're going to sign these... no questions asked..."


Another crash erupted from the hallway, and as Shade spared a glace to the door, it was just in time to see another body wearing a black suit going flying soaring through the air, screaming in a state of panic with Tifa bidding him a lady like farewell. '"HAVE A NICE DAY!!"


After arching an eyebrow at the scene, Shade returned her attention back to her victim, who still groaned in pain. She gave him a slight shake by the collar with a scowl. "Hey! You paying attention?" His head bobbed about, but she suspected it was more do to her jostling him about rather than nodding yes. "Says here, your most generous and sentimental company is going to start a grand, new project... you're going to give back to the children who you left to suffer in the streets when their parents went off to fight and die under the orders of ShinRa. How gracious and sentimental of you..." He spittled a bit of blood from his lips when he coughed in defiance, but he was silenced again when Shade's fist gave him another ragged shake as if he were no more than a rag doll. "Shoosh... it gets better.."


She went through the most important details, listing what all was to be funded for the project she and Tifa would run, noting each monthly allowance for every segment, building, taxes, upkeep, union dues, deposits, as well as temporary shelter and funds to the orphans until the project was complete, also noting that ShinRa was fully responsible for the future upkeep and expenses so long as the facility continued to be needed. Through his ragged breath, the pathetic man managed a moan of whine here and there while bodies and gunfire continued blasting around outside of the office with another shout by Tifa. "Damnit!! I just had a manicure yesterday!! UGH!!" A vibrating crash followed after that with a man's ear shattering scream of terror.


"Alright then! Time for your autograph!" As Shade dropped her boots back to the floor with a thud, she shot up from her chair and yanked the President up to his scrambling feet, then threw him into the chair. She forced a pen into his hand, but he turned his glare of defiance up at her with his hand held firmly still. Shade simply gave him the deadpan look with a sniff of annoyance before unsheathing her sword and bringing it barreling down into the side of his desk with a resounding WHAM!!, landing the blade's edge directly beside his stubborn fingers. His face went stark white, gawking at the weapon before looking up at Shade again just as she sneered and growled out her words. "....Sign...it."


With a trembling hold of the pen, he finally submitted, even with a few drops of his blood dribbling onto the paper... an ironic way to seal the deal. The minute the last letter was scratched, Shade whipped the papers off the desk and gave them a final look over. "And I suggest you get that thought of coming after us out of your head..." Just as she warned him, Skittles went skidding across the doorway to stop right where the President could see him, now in the form of Genesis, then sauntered into the office with an arrogant gait to his step as Shade continued speaking. "You see, good sir.... all this is what happens before you really piss us off.... if you would really piss us off..." Just then, the imposing Genesis copy whipped out a thick version of the Loveless book and whacked the President across the head so hard, it rendered the man immediately unconscious for his forehead to fall on the desk with a resounding thud.


Shade raised an eyebrow at Skittles and rolled her eyes. "You're supposed to wait until AFTER my threat to hit someone. How many times do we have to go through this!?" Skittles gave a cheerful squeak, which was rather haunting to see from his Genesis form before shrugging his shoulders. Giving up on the argument, Shade headed for the door, only to lean back just as another Turk went soaring and screaming past. "TIFA!! Time to stop flirting! Let's get started!!"