Disclaimer: I do not own nor claim to own the rights to Final Fantasy VII, they belong strictly to their respective owners, Square-Enix. I own the rights to Resia Tomebar as she is of my own imagination as well as Kenichi. This is meant only as entertainment.

Gemini Syndrome

Chapter 1 - Return to Seventh Heaven

A soft sigh escaped his body as his glowing blue eyes rested on the sign of Seventh Heaven as his boots halted their approach. His eyes were framed by golden hair as he continued his approach once more towards the only home that he ever knew. A small voice resounded through the bar and he smiled and he recognized the voice as Marlene. His blue eyes held the smile that appeared on his lips as he pushed open the door to see Marlene and another child with brown hair and blue eyes standing next to her.

Marlene and the boy, Denzel, said happily, "Welcome back Cloud!" Both ran up to him and wrapped their arms around him while he placed a hand on Marlene's back and a hand on Denzel's back in return.

"Hello Marlene. Hello Denzel," he replied and they ran off yelling that Cloud was back. He smiled as he looked at the black-haired woman behind the bar. The smile on his face never left as he looked at her and took a seat on one of the bar stools, "It's good to see you again, Tifa."

"It's good to see you too Cloud," Tifa replied with a smile lighting her face. Her brown eyes shone, "How did your scouting go? Find anything that would be able to bring Sephiroth back to life?"

He shook his head, "No, there's nothing that could possibly bring that nightmare back into existence. I searched everywhere and there's nothing left of Jenova to be found. Kadaj and his gang will also not be returning for reasons that we both know about." Cloud ran a hand through his hair and asked quietly, "But why do I feel so uneasy? I feel like I missed something."

Tifa placed a hand on Cloud's cheek and replied gently, "Perhaps it's because there's no one left to fight. Cloud, there's peace now and Shinra Inc. is helping Edge to become a better place than what it was before. Everything will turn out for the better, you'll see."

"And if you're wrong? What then Tifa?"

"We'll see when we cross that road, alright?"

Cloud smiled, "Sure, sounds like a solid plan." Tifa patted his cheek and turned away from him, when she faced him once more; she slid him a mug of liquor, and smiled. "Thanks," he responded and smiled back at her. Cloud was sipping at his drink when the door opened and a familiar voice brought a smile to the corners of Cloud's lips and an irritated twitch at the corner of his eye.

"Hey, Tifa! Can I get a beer, yo!" stated the man happily. He sat at the bar with his dress shirt untucked, his spiked red hair had a ponytail, and he placed his electro-rod on the counter. "Hey Cloud! You're back! I guess if you're back then there's nothing to worry about," stated the man.

Cloud smiled while Tifa handed the man a beer, "Just calm down, Reno. This'll be on the house if you tell us why you're so happy, yo." She smiled at him and placed her hands on the counter while Cloud smirked.

"Alright, alright. You drive a hard bargain. Well to be honest," he took a sip of his beer and continued, "the Boss has been able to help your friend Barret in North Corel with the oil. He's actually very happy with oil and with Barret's efforts." Reno took a large gulp of beer and said, "I dunno about you two but there is one thing that the Boss is worried about even though it's been a long time."

"Which is?" inquired Tifa with a suspicious gleam in her eyes.

Reno downed the rest of his beer, stood up, grabbed his electro-rod, and headed for the door. He paused before opening it and replied, "The Gelinka plane and its crash. He wants something from it but Rude and I haven't been able to find anything even though we've searched it many times." He shrugged, "Something about the roster not being correct and someone missing. Who knows what he babbles about sometimes." With that he left the bar with the empty beer bottle sitting on the counter.

Cloud and Tifa looked at one another for a few moments and Tifa asked, "The Gelinka crash. Why would Rufus be worried about that? It doesn't make any sense at all. I wonder if there was anything important on the ship besides materia and those weapons."

Blue eyes stared at the counter top, "I don't know Tifa but Reno said 'someone missing'. Who could be missing from the plane crash?" Cloud held a hidden not of worry in his blue eyes at the thought of something concerning the Gelinka crash, "I may just go and ask him myself."

"You can't! You just got back!"

"I know but if there's someone and not something missing from the crash then that causes suspicion. Besides who could have survived that crash?" Tifa bit her lower lip, Cloud leaned forward, used his thumb to free her lip and whispered, "Don't do that. You're far too pretty to be worried about something like this. I'll take care of these things, as I always have." When Cloud had given her a compliment she blushed as he pulled his hand away from her face. "Besides I heard that Vincent was going to be in town today. He actually called me on the PHS so I think he finally got himself a phone."

Tifa laughed with Cloud until Marlene and Denzel appeared at the base of the stairs with wondering eyes. Tifa explained to them about Vincent's predicament and all four were laughing though it was wonderful inside the bar, on the outside it was a bleak day. While the four inside were speaking, on the outside of Seventh Heaven, gray clouds passed over the city of Edge which was in the process of reconstruction.

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Crimson eyes stared at the front of the sign, it read: Seventh Heaven and he knew that he arrived in the right sector. Although things were looking up for Edge City, it was still undeterminable if ShinRa Inc. truly were doing things in the interest of the citizens. However the man in the red garb decided that he would not bother with such things, he had learned of something interesting, and he wanted to share the news with his former teammates. He raised his human hand, that was clad in a glove, pushed open the door to the bar, and entered. No one stared at him but he knew that others would recognize him for what he was; a monster. However it didn't bother him as he strode towards the bar since he recognized the man with blond hair. He took a seat, "Cloud." Blue eyes glanced over to the side, he became startled at the dark tone of the newcomer's voice, but he soon calmed down. "Did I startle you?"

"No, no you didn't Vincent. It's nice to see you here. How...did you get here anyway? Last I heard you had just left Junon."

His eyes focused on Cloud's glowing blue ones, "I travel quickly when I need to."

"I see."

Just then Tifa approached him and smiled, "Hi Vincent. How are you?"

"I'm well Tifa. I have some interesting news for the two of you."

"Oh? I suppose that Reno isn't the only one with interesting news today. I heard you got a phone," replied the bartender. She smiled at him while he only nodded to her. "So what's the news?"

"Rumor has it that there is a body missing from the Gelinka Plane."

This caused Cloud's eyes to widen in shock, "Someone survived?!"

Vincent shook his head, "No, no one survived the crash. ShinRa Inc went to recover the bodies of the crew so that they could have a proper burial and one body was missing. I thought I should tell you."

"Why? It doesn't have anything to do with us."

Once more the enigmatic man looked between the two of them, "I have a feeling that it has everything to do with us."

At this Cloud's eyes began glowing darkly, "Hojo's dead. There's no one else to clone people."

"He may be dead Cloud but we didn't destroy his work as we should have because of the danger ShinRa posed to us at the time."

Cloud slammed a fist on the counter, "Damn!"

Vincent's melancholic voice coasted over the noisy bar, "Don't worry Cloud. I'll keep tabs on Rufus Shinra and we'll see what he uncovers. I'll call you if I find out anything else." The former leader of AVALANCHE nodded as he left the bar in the same quiet fashion as he had arrived. The two watched him go before looking at one another.

"Didn't I tell you I had an uneasy feeling?"

Tifa sighed, filled up his mug once more, "Should I start calling the others?"

He thought for a moment and shook his head, "No. Leave them alone, they don't need this right now especially since we're not even sure what it means to us. But I'm positive that he'll get Nanaki involved as he visits Cosmo Canyon often." The bartender nodded and returned to serving her customers while Cloud sat at the bar and contemplated the news that he had just received. "This is going to be a disaster."

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"But Boss I don't understand who's missing from the roster!" exclaimed a man with dark eyes and dark who was dressed in a suit. He ran a hand through his black hair and looked over the roster once more as his boss told him to examine it closely. "I've read through this many times and still nothing clicks into place." A feminine hand caressed his arm, he looked over to see a blond woman with green eyes, "Elena...here you have a look at it."

She nodded, looked over the names, the bodies, and blinked twice, "Where's Resia Tomebar?"

"Who?" asked the man with black hair.

"Tseng how could you forget her? She was so cheerful and her red hair was unmistakable as well as her pastel eyes. She was the technician and pilot of the Gelinka Plane."

He rubbed his chin and nearly smacked himself in the head, "Resia! The woman who didn't talk about her past." Elena nodded as they both turned to face their boss, "Sir how can she be missing? You saw the front of the ship, there's no way that she could have survived."

The man they had been speaking to was sitting in a chair, wearing a white suit, with photographs laid out on his desk of the mangled crew members that they recovered. "Tseng, Elena, her body wasn't there but we did find something that belonged to her."

"The guns that she carried?" asked the woman.

He shook his head, "No, we found part of her right leg crushed under the front of the plane. It was from the knee down. Somehow she managed to get out of her seat, leave her leg behind, and escape into the water. From there, she could not have survived."

"Then what occurred down there President Shinra?" questioned Tseng.

Before he could answer the door was pushed open, Reno strode in with a bald man behind him. "Hiya Boss! Rude and I just came from the plane crash...again...and we still didn't find anything but that doesn't mean anything. We almost got squashed by-" He got cut off as Rude cleared his throat and the man with fiery red hair nodded. "Yeah yeah. Emerald WEAPON is patrollng that piece of real esate quite thoroughly. We almost got laser beamed, sliced, and stomped on!" The two approached the desk and tossed the picture onto it, the photograph revealed the Emerald giant of the seas staring at the plane as if it had forgotten something.

The man stared hard at the picture, "Why is it staring at the plane?"

Reno nodded, "We're not sure but every time we've tried to dock the plane, it would turn our way. So we gave up and decided to watch it instead. It doesn't move from there but occasionally turns towards the surface." He ran a hand through his blond hair and looked to the side. "Something's not right Boss."

"I know Reno. Just yesterday when I sent people to investigate the Shinra Mansion and Hojo's destroyed laboratory, they gave me some information that parts of his research were missing."

Elena asked, "Which parts?"

His blue eyes narrowed, even though he could only see out of one eye, they still narrowed the same, "The research he documented about cloning." There was a collected gasp, "If some of his assistants managed to escape, grab the research, I have a feeling that they're trying to finish his work and to do that they would need a female body. A strong one at that."

"What else was missing?" asked Reno.

Rufus glared at the photographs strewn across the top of his desk, "Research and samples taken from Lucrecia." When he received no response from his Turks he decided to explain it to them. "Hojo was in charge of creating a super soldier. Lucrecia volunteered to give birth to such a soldier and she was injected with JENOVA cells. That's how Sephiroth was created and during her pregnancy, Hojo and his assisstants took samples of her blood to make sure that she was healthy and so was the child. Those samples are now missing along with the information of his research and the fact that we cannot locate Resia Tomebar's body leads to everything that I fear."

Reno looked at the ground, Elean paled, Tseng ground his teeth together but it was Rude who spoke causing the others to stare at him, "They're not trying to recreate Sephiroth. They're trying to recreate JENOVA."

The president nodded, "And we need to stop them before that happens. Get to work, send out every available agent across the whole of Gaea. I want to find them as soon as possible before they create anything that can destroy this world!" They all saluted to him and dashed out of the office, he sighed, moved the photographs around until he found one of Resia. She was working on the plane, her varicolored eyes held surprise as she looked at the camera, there was a wrench in her hand, and grease marks on her face. A small smile graced his lips, "If you're alive then I'd like to see you again Resia, if only to know what happened to you, and...to apologize for being unable to help you."

"You might have your chance," came a cold voice.

A smirk presented itself on his face, "I thought you loathed me too much to come here, Vincent." The former Turk stepped out from the shadows into the light, now that they were alone; it would be easier. "Why have you come here?"

The man wearing the crimson garb stepped forward, his human hand grabbed a photo of Resia, and he looked at it for a time before putting it back on the table. "It seems that there are still many things ShinRa Inc. is keeping from its citizens once more." Rufus chuckled, "But I have no quarrel with you what I do have a quarrel with is the information you just handed out. Those scientists have probably already created some sort of rendition of JENOVA and it's already too late."

Rufus smirked, "Nothing is too late until you give up."

"Very true."

The president watched as the former Turk left in silence, "Where are you going?"

"To inform the others of your predicament." With that he left silently just as he had come and this left Rufus unnerved. The president sighed and looked at the photograph once more of the pilot. There was pity in his eyes but there was nothing for him to do now except wait for information to come to him.

"I've waited before but this is just grueling. I'm sorry Resia. None of this should have happened to someone as kind and stubborn as you."