Embrace Your Dreams

It was a beautiful day, somewhere.

( It was never really a beautiful day. )

[OOC: Establishy, naturally. This guy is gonna be hard to contact for a while, I'm afraid. BUT IT'S GOOD TO HAVE HIM BACK. Even if it's just to prove that I'm a horrible person.]

Okay. So, Mideel had been a bust. But once Zack had been given clearance to leave the clinic that they'd found there, he and Ino had hunted down transit to get them the hell out of there. It didn't even matter where, at this point. Civilization. Any continent would do, so long as it wasn't Wutai, and wasn't drowned in mako. Fortunately, for some extra Gil, it wasn't difficult to find a ship captain who wasn't adverse to letting two stowaways hang out in the cargo hold, just so long as Zack was certain not to make eye contact with any of his crew.

And that was how they wound up on the coastline in the Gongaga region, casually beating up the occasional Beachplug before turning to head to the broad expanse of trees not far to the north, inside which was the small town that Zack had grown up in.

Just a quick stop, he'd promised. Mostly because he was curious to see how far Gongaga had come along, over the years.

This was shaping up to be one hell of a vacation.

[For the giiiiirl.]

Before they left, Zack and Tseng had a conversation that started off in a manner that Zack would consider rocky (Be alert or you'll fail? Thanks, Tseng!), but it ended on an okay enough note. Sure, Zack had learned during the talk that originally, this had been Sephiroth's mission, but the SOLDIER 1st was refusing to go. But when Zack had insisted that they spoiled Sephiroth too much, Tseng had nearly laughed!

And so he was added to Zack's list of "bestest friends forever." It was a Zack thing, and really shouldn't have come as a surprise to anybody.

( Now they had arrived at their destination... )

[Mmm, delicious canon catchup. Ganked in entirety from Crisis Core and adapted for Fandomy-Zacky goodness. NFB and NFI for distance and such, but OOC is welcome, if you wanna. There... will be more on the way, yes. Later today, so as not to be spammy.]

The flight into Wutai? Completely uneventful. Getting a run-down of the plan from the Director? Equally so. Zack was practically twitching by the time he and Angeal were finally on solid ground again, making their way toward Fort Tamblin. Any minute now, things would start to get interesting. Please. Really.

( The Puppy should be careful what he wishes for. )

[NFI, NFB for distance, ganked entirely from Crisis Core, which is now my archnemesis for not believing in inconsequential plot points that I can just skim over without missing out on something huge somewhere down the road. This wasn't supposed to be a small novel, and yet, here it is. OOC is love, and cookies, and pie, and all of that good stuff.]