Lucas found himself sitting on the border of going up to the first four sectors which led to shin-ra hq, his job and in sector 5 commonly known as old town he knew this place was famous, not because the wealthiest families lived here but this was the only sector where you could see flowers in midgar anymore. he had lots on his mind from this suicide mission of playing double agent for shin-ra whiich involved infiltrating AVALANCHE and finding out their next missions because he had to be careful when sending messages about what the group was planning to hq he walked a very thin line to be found out, some times he wished he could abandon mission
There would be a faint vibration in the double agent’s pocket as his burner phone received a text message. The sender was unknown but the words illuminated on the screen could only be from SWITCH.
Wh3R3 4r3 j00 g01NG, LUc4s?
A pair of tea-saucer sized orange cat eyes gleamed from the shadows just a few yards away. Switch had been crouched, hood up, on a fire escape in a nearby alley as she observed his strange behavior.
lucas took out his burner phone feeling the faint vibration in his pocket before reading the text on his phone, he could only recognize the way the text was typed out and unknown sender to be SWITCH:
I'm not g01NG anywh3r3 what 4r3 j00 talking about SWITCH?
SWITCH slunk further into the shadows as he began typing a response. She pulled out her phone and stared at the screen until his text popped up. The Hacker scoffed. He was being awfully defensive and he was awful at lying.
GR8! She grinned maniacally as her thumbs moved across the number pad. 1 n33d j002 h31p w17h 4 j08.
She’d already formulated an opinion about Lucas and she knew what needed to be done but SWITCH was like a cat playing with a mouse. There were ways to test a person’s loyalty. She would be pleasantly surprised if he passed and if he didn’t she would enjoy watching a snitch squirm. This was basically a win-win.
'GR8!' he got a respond from her making him worry 'damn that switch' he thought before recieving another message '1 n33d j002 h3lp w17h 4 j08' the message explained to him now making him worry even more "what do joo n33d me 2 d00?" he messaged having a feeling like he wasnt gonna walk out of whatever idea switch had in one piece 'sorry sis....just wait a little longer for me'
SWITCH waited a moment before swinging down from the fire escape and landing in the side alley. Heavy thuds accompanied her footsteps as a hulking yellow robot followed her like a bodyguard. It was built like most of the sweepers the Shin-Ra corporation used for defensive purposes except that this one had been outfitted with two circular saws in place of machine guns.
She emerged from the shadows with her hood up, grinning like the Cheshire Cat, as she slung her arm over Lucas’s shoulder and started guiding him back towards Old Town proper.
in the movement that he stopped recieving messages to hearing heavy thuds accompany a pair of footsteps as a hulking yellow robot followed her he could obviously tell the designwas based off their sweepers but two circular saws instead of machine guns moved as a body guard next to her before suddenly feeling her sling her arm over his shoulder leading him to old town proper seemed like an absolute second "where are we going switch?"
SWITCH just continued grinning as they made their way through the back alleys of Sector 5. It would be pretty apparent that she was avoiding the main road as she traveled parallel to it while keeping to the shadows. Her sweeper tended to draw unwanted attention in larger crowds.
Finally, she turned and led him towards the back of an abandoned warehouse that’s entrance opened up onto the main road. The sweeper hung back a little as she crept up to the back door. There were several barn style windows with broken panels at eye level and she jabbed her pointer finger towards the people inside before running that same finger across her neck. It was her way of telling him to kill them.
Inside the back room were a couple of off-duty Shin-ra troopers. They were still in their uniforms but their helmets had been removed and they were playing cards and smoking. On the table there was a pile of cash and a couple of hypers. It looked like they’d been dealing the drug to the locals.
lucas looked at the group he was litterally caught it was either kill them like switch wants him to do or not and blow his whole cover these morons! why are they here?! he couldnt help but scream to himself thinking before nodding and slowly opening the door to let himself inside casually trying to act like he didnt know shin-re procedures "so...what brings shin-ra here?" he asked
The two guards looked up as Lucas walked through the door, their expressions going from casual amusement to alarm in the blink of an eye. They men looked at each other and then stood in unison as they both turned to face him. The one nearest to Lucas drew a pistol from his and aimed at Lucas while the one on the far side of the table picked up his semi- automatic rifle.
SWITCH leaned against the doorframe and watched the interaction between the three guys in the room. What would Lucas do now that the element of surprise was gone? These troopers were ready for a fight if he wanted one.
“We could ask you the same.” Responded the gruff voice of the nearest shin-ra grunt. “You better get out of here if you know what’s good for you.”
looking at the nearest guard he then scanned the room as the guards picked up their guns from pistols to semi-auto rifles before rushing the nearest guard "no offense or anything..im just doing my job...my name is lucas garrett...if you make it out in one piece..remember it for when you get back to hq...." he whispered quietly in the mans ear before giving him a punch to the face to knock him out but trying to disguise it as a different punch for switch
SWITCH narrowed her eyes as Lucas moved in on the guard nearest him. There was a slight delay between when she expected his punch to land and when it actually did. The trooper went down nonetheless, the power behind the punch was plenty to knock someone unconscious. Although, from the angle she was watching from it would have seemed much more severe to the hacker.
The sight of their newest recruit doling out punishment on the invading force within the slums brought the twisted grin back to her face. She crossed her arms over her chest and leaned casually in the doorframe to watch him finish off the second shin-ra grunt. This one began firing on Lucas after witnessing him take out his companion.
lucas began to bob and weave his way inbetween the rest of the group stopping at one and giving him a hard punch that looked liked there would be more damage if he wore heavier gloves or even knuckledusters 'i know i have to keep my identy on the low but this doesnt feel right..."
The second man managed to fire off a couple of rounds that narrowly missed Lucas before being knocked unconscious with a single punch. The room went quiet as the two AVALANCHE members were the only ones left standing. SWITCH straightened up. She could tell he hadn’t killed them but it was good enough for her as long as he didn’t try to stop her.
SWITCH entered the room and strode over to the table. The hacker scooped up the pile of gil and a couple of hypers and shoved them into the messenger bag that hung loosely at her hip. She glanced down at the two troopers and then at Lucas before giving him a nod of approval. She turned to leave and motioned for him to follow her.
As she excited the warehouse, a monodrive came zooming in over her shoulder. It hovered over the wooden table between the two downed troopers before unleashing a rapid volley of fireballs towards one of the unconscious men.
Lucas straightened himself and turned to face her as the hacker scooped the gil and hypers into her messenger bag before watching as a monodrive zoomed in 'oh no...' he thought before the monodrive suddenly open fired fireballs onto one of the unconsious men "SWITCH dont thats too far!" he yelled to her obviously the monodrives attack being much "we got what you wanted! thats more than enough!"