Mizuki sat in her cell, waiting and plotting. Nine years. She thought. Nine years in this place, in this nightmare. Her dress was grayish-white, the only non-training clothing this place offered her. And soon, so soon, Hojo would come in and start poking and prodding her with needles. Mizuki found herself shuddering. She hated needles, but was used to it.
Just as she had predicted, Hojo came in, but this time, he had another man with him, President Shin-Ra.
"Mizuki." Hojo said as he got ready to start poking her with the dreaded needles.
"Professor, President Shin-Ra." she nodded. Hojo chuckled as he pulled out her arm, taking a blood sample before the injections. Mizuki ground her teeth together as the needle went into her skin.
"Mizuki," the president started. "you will become an official SOLDIER in a month, you remember?"
"Yes." Of coarse she remembered. That's the only reason she was in this place. She groaned as Hojo injected her with an odd substance that she still didn't know.
"Good, after you rest, you will continue with weapons training." he said as he left.
Rest. They were going to inject her with Mako today. Crap, ohcrapohcrapohcrap! She thought, and no sooner had she finished that thought when she felt another needle enter her, filling her veins with a burning pain.
"SHIT!" she screamed, as soon as the needle left her she flopped back, her body flooded with pain.
Hojo chuckled. "Wonderful to know that you learned some new words." She groaned and pulled at her shoulder-length blonde hair. She sighed as she remembered that whatever they were injecting her with was turning her hair pale.
"I'll come and take you to training in an hour." He said as he left.
Wow, she thought sarcastically, fifteen more minutes then last time, so considerate. Her body begged her to sleep, muscles groaning in protest every time she moved, but she refused to sleep, not trusting Hojo at all. After all, she mused. He is the reason I'm in so much pain all the time. Instead, she thought of more ways to escape and what she would do when she was free, she had no intention on becoming a SOLDIER.
An hour later and she had changed into her black shorts and black T-shirt, ready to be handed her weapons for today's practice. She grinned as her first two swords were handed to her, Ryuu and Michi, then Kayo and Kazue. She strapped Ryuu and Michi to her back and Kayo and Kazue to her waist, then to be handed her four guns, Ironblaze, Makorein, Graveflame, and Silverdeath. She insisted on having four of each weapons, and that included her throwing knifes. The only exception she had for that were for her silver and black chain-whips, Blackchain and Magethorn.
"Okay Mizuki, don't kill any of the new recruits, okay?" The president said, laughing and looking at his son Rufus that she met once.
"But that's not fun!" Mizuki whined. He laughed at her sarcasm and watched as the new recruits came up and attacked. She sighed and took out Magethorn and Blackchain, striking the weapons out of their hands and knocking a few out. Mizuki herd Hojo chuckling and quickly wrapped the whips around her wrists and took out the dulled swords, Kayo and Kazue, and knocked the rest down.
"This is always too easy, when can I fight First Class?" The president chuckled and nodded to one of the guards who went and got First Class. She whooped and sat, waiting for the SOLDIERS to come.
After about ten minutes, five SOLDIERS marched in and got in fighting stances, looking at her oddly. Mizuki smiled and waved, standing. This confused some of the First Class, but they stayed in ready.
She dropped her whips to using position and quickly disarmed two SOLDIERS as the others attacked. She aimed at one of them and lashed out only to have the whip pulled out of her hands. She jumped back as on of them struck at her side, cutting her slightly, but enough to cause discomfort.
Mizuki wrapped her whip around her wrist quickly and took out Kayo and Kazue to block as a SOLDIER went to hit her, her blades stopping the attack a few inches before her face. She kicked him and made him step back. She struck out at him, hitting him at the top of the head with the hilt of the sword, making him fall, and not come back up.
Two of the SOLDIERS looked down at their fallen friend, giving her enough time to strike again, downing another with a hit to the groin, making him fall, but he still was able to get up. She frowned at him.
"I'm sorry, but, I think you may be sterile now…" She laughed at his wide eyes. He struck out and punched her in the chin, sending her head up, when she looked back down, her cat-like green eyes were filled with anger, pain and amusement.
Mizuki vaguely heard Hojo saying something that sounded like "She seems to be almost as good as Sephiroth." She grinned, scaring the SOLDIERS enough to make them back off a bit, as she thought of the slight compliment, being almost as good as the great Sephiroth was awesome to her, fueling her attacks, and before she knew it, the other four SOLDIERS were on the ground, in excruciating pain.
"That wasn't that much fun…" She yawned, picking up her whip and wrapping it around her wrist. She took out Graveflame and walked over to a little area that was there for her to practice her aim. Mizuki didn't look it, but she was a perfect shot all the time. She got bored after a minute and whipped around taking quick aim above Hojo's head and fired. She grinned again, and ran, it took a minute for the shock to leave, before they realized that she had left.
"Hello, Shin-Ra security." Is what President Shin-Ra got when he called.
"Experiment Mizuki is running, find her!" he snarled into the phone. The man was up at alert, and seconds later an alarm as going off.
Mizuki ran as fast as she could, jumping into the elevator and pressing the button for the first floor. A minute later the alarms went off, stopping the elevator. She sighed and jumped out through the emergency exit at the top of the elevator and looked down. She had made it to the fortieth story, the next stopped elevator was at the tenth story. Not bad, only thirty stories to fall. "Oh well, I've jumped longer distances." She said, taking a breath and jumping down. She landed on the elevator and almost slid off. "I really need to be careful." she muttered. Looking around, she saw bars and started climbing down until she reached the last floor, prying open the metal doors to hear the alarms still going off.
Mizuki jumped out and one person looked at her with wide eyes. "HERE SHE IS!" The man shouted.
"Stop!" A guard yelled at her. She sighed and ran out the door, faster then any guard could match. Mizuki heard a ticking sound with her superior hearing coming from a man walking towards the Shin-Ra building. She slowed for a second, and stopped before the man.
"May I help you?" he asked in a gruff voice.
"You're in AVALANCHE, right?"
"What makes you think that?" the man asked in an alarmed voice.
"You don't know who I am, you are carrying a bomb, and all real staff have been alerted of my running. If I were you, I would be turning the other way." She told him as she ran. Mizuki came to the gate, and could hear the angry shouts behind her. She looked up at the fifty foot wall. "Oh well," she said. "nothings gunna be easy." She jumped and was only going to miss the top by a few feet so she unraveled one of her whips with the flick of her wrist, and sent it towards the railing, wrapping around it securely. She gave it a tug and was pulled up the rest of the way. Once at the top, she gave the whip another tug, pulling it loose before wrapping it around her wrist again.
"Watch out Midgar, I'm back." She said as she jumped over the side and landed neatly on the other side. She walked carefully and quietly through the Sector Five slums until she found an abandoned building to sleep in. A week after her fourteenth birthday, she got news, that her idol, the great Sephiroth, was dead.