He couldn't stop it because he'd never live to see it. Zack would have been better equipped to handle it than Cloud had been. Maybe. It was a gamble Reno didn't want to take.

He sighed and squished another bean. Die, beans, die.

"You don't know. That's why you don't talk about it. Capiche?" There was now bean goo on his hands. Oh, man. "It's bigger'n him, it was bigger'n us. But knowin' it's comin' and he can't stop it? For a kid like Zack, who wants to be the world's biggest shit?"

Reno didn't particularly like Zack, but he could appreciate that waiting for mass death that you can't stop probably had to suck.