Ness x Lucas: Destructive Love

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Cloud Strife III POV - Chapter 28

Saturday - 2:17 am   

Saying your goodbyes to a group of people may always be hard. Especially when you know you have to leave in order to do something important. A mission. A very important task that relies specifically on you... on me, in this case. If I fail, I will let everyone down. Everything is in my hands. At least for now.

I said my goodbyes to Snoop, Nicki, Naruto, and Paula some hours ago, and left with a backpack on my back and a map in my hand. Our temporal farewell was soon over, and I left through the HQ's front door. I got on my 1956 Toyota, a very nice, comfortable, cheap, and trustable car. After turning the car on, I left the garage where my car was previously on and left towards the road with San Francisco as my destination.

Many hours passed by, and I got to San Francisco. I used the map Paula gave me and tried locating myself. I was in a specific place marked in the map, and I remember her words "Go left. Not right." I stopped the car for one minute. The map indicated that Hydra was at the right... but at the right side there was a gay bar. Paula said I should turn left. But the map says opposite. Was the map wrong? Or was Paula wrong? What if I turn right? I think the map is right. Maps are always right. ...Or was Paula right?

I questioned myself as I gripped the car's wheel nervously. Could the gay bar be Hydra? Because the map suggests so. Could Hydra be entirely disguised as a gay bar? No... But in that case... That would mean that Paula is wrong and the map is right. But what if it is just a gay bar and not Hydra? Shit.

I decided to follow what Paula told me and turned left. I turned on the car, and with a swift movement I was finally moving to the correct direction. I then saw a sign which said 'здесь.' Thankfully, I prepared myself for this and understood 'здесь' meant HYDRA in Russian. I then parked my car behind a bush behind the sign, in order to hide it. After all, I can't let anything happen to my precious car.

I ran as quietly as I could, trying to camouflage into the darkness of the night. Soon, I was standing in front of the main door. Would it be too suspicious if I just open it in order to enter? Absolutely.

I looked around me in hopes of finding another way to infiltrate into the building. Through a window? No. Through the ceiling? No. Then, I got to see an air vent. That'll do it, I guess.

I removed the air vent from the wall, and introduced myself into the ventilation duct previously connected to the air vent. Once in, I finally managed to begin crawling myself into the Hydra headquarters.

Being inside of here is strange, but interesting and exciting as well. The ducts are not very big and felt kind of fragile, so I had to move rather carefully in order not to break them, and to evade causing any sound. It is dark in here as well, but fortunately, there were some other air vents which were put on the walls of some rooms and few rays of light projected through them. The fact that there were vents on the rooms also helped me take a peak of where I was and where I should go next.

I moved as slowly as I could since everything was extremely quiet in here. That stayed that way until some loud banging noises could be heard from the walls of the duct I was on. At the beginning, I thought it was someone trying to capture me, so I sped up my pace. The bangs became louder, and I felt someone getting on top of me. I got scared and froze, letting whatever was on top of me move away from me.

"U feel laik Cloud. ^___^" Who ever was on top on me said while sniffing my back. That voice... it's obviously–

"KERMIT!" I exclaimed joyfully.

"Ohhh! Cloud~! o3o"

"Wha-what are you doing here?"

"I'm part of Hydra remem–"

"I know that, I meant, what are you doing in the ventilation duct!?"

"I WANT TO GIVE SOME FRINDS A GIFT!!!"

"O...kay?"

"^/////^ yess!!!!"

Then, we stayed quiet for minutes.

"Kermit..." I said, breaking the silence.

"Wut? :0"

"Why don't you... come back to the Snoop Headquarters?"

"Nah. xD"

"B-but Kermit! Everybody misses you there... including myself."

"You do??? :0"

"Y-yeah."

"Do you have chiken? :$"

"Um... no?"

"THEN IM NOT RETURNING ANYWHERE. I HAVE ALL DA CHICKEN I WANT HERE. IM HAPPY HERE. BYEBYEBYEBEYEBEY." Said Kermit, running away from me and jumping outside the duct from an air vent.

"Bye..." I whispered sadly, my mind completely out of place.

I decided to sleep in the air ducts for a while.