01 Voice:Zack Fair: This isn't the right way, is it?

[notenoughsquats]

[The communicator is turned on to see Zack with a quizzical look on his face as he pulls at the crown atop his head] Oy, Cloud--you out there? Shit, she's really gonna forget me if I get lost on the way home.....

[He puzzles again for a moment in silence; things were a bit upside down could he just broadcast across a strange network like this it

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[power_soul]

[Tifa recognized the voice immediately but paused before responding.]

There's no way back to Midgar from here, Zack. I'm guessing you don't recall being here before?

[notenoughsquats]

[Hey! He knows that voice; but wait how did he get back to Nibelheim. Confusion is clearer this time in his voice.Crap, doesn't that mean he's right back where he started and what about Cloud]

Oh hey Tifa, sure I remember meeting you in your hometown...but, well yeah I'm not sure how I got back here or why it looks so different.

[Pause, please don't say Cloud got captured again while he was knocked out.]

Cloud's with you, right?

[power_soul]

He's not with me at the moment but he's here in Demeleier. We're not on the Planet anymore, Zack

[A pause.]

It's been a few years since you two ...were on your way back to Midgar.

[notenoughsquats]

Huh?

[He's just quiet for awhile, a few years? Man, how long had he been gone then? He already hadn't been back to Midgar in four years that he remembered. How did this happen.]

How? I remember, me and Cloud--we just left Genesis, we were headed back to Midgar as fast as I could get us there. But, he's here, wait Demeleier? Not on the planet, okay TIfa you're confusin' me this doesn't make any sense.

/belatedly hops in?

[wyvern_guardian]

I don't believe I've heard of Midgar or this Cloud fellow.

My apologies, sir...I'm not sure there's a way back to your home from this place.

it's all good, he'll just be a bit depressed since I'll play this while he's waiting for Tifa.

[notenoughsquats]

Yeah, Tifa told me there's no way home

[Excuse that voice while it cracks, he'd been crying and hadn't stopped but he's trying to cover that because Zack just found out it wouldn't matter if he went back; he doesn't make it home anyway.]

He's, he's here....I'm sure I'll find him, thanks.

awww :< /hugs him

[wyvern_guardian]

Oh? I see.

[ Mel notices this. Cue concerned sounding voice. ]

Are...A-Are you alright, sir?

/clings

[notenoughsquats]

[Takes a few moments before responding in a less than convincing tone.]

Sure, just waitin' on a friend to get up here......I'm fine.

[Audio]

[proff_treacle]

Oh! You're not dead! [Abruptly through the audio feed. First impressions are important after all!]

[Audio] Note: playing this as if he's waiting on Tifa XD

[notenoughsquats]

[A gasped breath and broken sob are all that comes at first. Bad timing on the others part, considering he'd just learned of his death back home]

Not...yet.

[Audio]

[proff_treacle]

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you sir.

[Audio]

[notenoughsquats]

No, no it's not your fault man, you didn't have anyway of knowin', forget it, alright?

[voice]

[notenoughsquats]

C--cloud?! [There's a heaved breath, a sob as he nearly loses it here.]

Where, where is he? I've got to find him if Tifa can't take me to him, I really, I have to find him.

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[notenoughsquats]

[He just breaths for a few moments.]

Definitely, once Tifa gets here and we get back I need to find him, before I do anything else.

You talked to him, is he alright?

[vanitynightmare]

...

[That voice. He knows that voice.]

Well well well...I was wondering when you would show up.

[notenoughsquats]

[The original voice had lost some of it's spark, it was faded and more rough around the edges now]

Huh? Who is this?

[vanitynightmare]

[And the other voice, however silken, is wary, and guarded, either from rage or grief or a radical combination of both.]

...Dog. Do you remember the end of the world? Answer quickly.

[notenoughsquats]

[Zack's just silent for a moment, how the hell did he answer that quickly?! Really, he'd just found out he died and now some strange guy was calling him a dog? Did he think he knew Zack, he didn't sound familiar at all, finally he gives the only response his broken heart and over loaded mind can offer.]

Huh?! Tell me who you are! Wait--the end of the world....

[He stops talking then, his heart dropped is that what Tifa had meant when she said that alot of things had happened since he died?]