Midgar Continued...

[gotitmemorised]

Continued from here.

Axel didn't think that the self-given mission was going too badly, all things considered. Nobody in Midgar suspected a thing, that much was clear, not even Aerith. He listened to her, the apprehension and questioning near-disbelief in her voice and actions clear. Despite his desperation to get her and them out of there, he found it to be a fairly understandable response to such a suggestion. It wasn't exactly an easy story to believe. He had to wonder what he would have done or said in her position. Laughed, probably.

As for her question... that was a little more difficult to answer. He glanced at Saix, a disturbingly disguised Saix, at that, and scratched the back of his head.

"Not a lot," he sighed. Way to sound convincing, idiot. "Whatever they're going to do, they intend on blowing all of the reactors. When one went, it destroyed the residential area in the immediate vicinity, right?"

Of course, that wasn't the worst of it. Not this time.

"If they blow all of them ... the support pillars don't stand a chance and neither does anything below the plate."

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[innatelunacy]

Saix wondered if Axel had more to tell, but shelved the thought in favour of the immediate concern. "I'd be willing to attempt it," he answered, "but it's a high risk tactic, especially with non-combatants in tow." Which, Saix considered, was an argument for leaving the crowd behind, even if it wouldn't give them time to save them. "You seem to be more familiar with them than I am, perhaps you're the better judge of their likely combat abilities."

He added, after a very short pause, "And how screwed we will be if they have back up."