"Cloud and Tifa were part of a group called AVALANCHE, which they named after a different AVALANCHE that was even worse," Reno replied. "They'd run around Midgar, settin' bombs in the reactors that fed power to the city. Blowin' up the factories and the people in 'em all at once. Anything to hurt ShinRa."

He swallowed at the lump that he was trying damn hard to keep from forming in his throat.

"You know they wouldn't come back. Am I supposed to pack up Tseng and Rude and Elena and tell 'em they're comin' with me? It might be hell, Romeo. Yeah, there's demons and worse runnin' around the place. But it's still home."