"We tried. One of us came up with this idea, get to the summon before they did. Call the thing- just a part of it. Not at full strength or whatever, I dunno how that works. Fight through it and the AVALANCHE psychos and save the world." He lifted a shoulder in a bit of a shrug. "Tseng, Rude, and I were off takin' care of somethin' else. ShinRa was tryin' to kill the whole freakin' lot of us for goin' against orders, and when it was all over with, the only ones who came back were me, Tseng, and Rude. No word from the others, nothin'. Just gone, zoto. We hoped maybe AVALANCHE was gone with 'em, at least."