Who: Tifa, Reno
What: Serious business/secret date
Where: Just north of the church
When: Present
Reno ran a hand through his hair and stared intensely into the space in front of him. First Yazoo and Kadaj, then Hojo, and now he thought he'd heard... it was getting too hard to ignore. Sitting back and minding his own business wouldn't keep him out of the crossfire if it kept up.
He let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding and pulled his thoughts together. Working alone must have been starting to get to him; he was too tense. He knew it was a risk picking fights with everyone who pissed him off, but Rude normally stopped him before he got in over his head. It was going to get dirty before too long.
Especially if it involved him. He didn't care what the man said; he was almost positive there was a connection between Hojo and what was happening. It felt too much like one of his old experiments. The sooner he got to him, the sooner he could find out what was going on. After he beat the living hell out of a few other visitors...
It was a lot easier to make a plan when he had some fucking backup in any case.
So he did the only thing he could think of. Tifa was one of the few there that didn't seem to hold onto pointless grudges, which made her the easiest to talk to. It made sense to ally himself with the people with the best track record for surviving these things. At least until more of his colleagues showed up.
Then all he had to do was figure out how to get the others behind him.