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Little and in Trouble
Chapter 3: Friend or Foe?
Hojo left Sephiroth's office in a mood at the infantry break time, his formula that he tested on Sephiroth should have kicked in by now... 'Something should have happened by now, I got the whole phial in...' He thought. Then an unpleasant thought hit him. He had changed the coffee again! If Sephiroth only had taken a sip and then thrown the lot in the bin then there wouldn't be enough of the formula in his system for it to work.
"No!" Hojo yelled causing the entire solider floor to stare at him for a moment, then went back to their buissiness muttering about Hojo's over dramatic coffee break downs.
Hojo ignored them. 'I must recreate the formula...' He thought as he ran to his lab that everyone thought was haunted by past experiments.
The bullies meanwhile got off the elevator and walked to the leader's room.
"What can we use?" The bullies started to search the room, till one of their eyes fell on the jar of money that was filled with the money they had taken off cloud through out their time here. The bully pointed it out causing the others to laugh. The leader reached up to the top shelf and pulled it down, opened the jar lid then token the envelop out his pocket. He moved the envelope over the jar and just when Cloud thought he was safe the bullies tipped the envelope so Cloud came tumbling out and landed on the hard coins in the jar. He looked up just in time to see the lid of the jar go on then before he could do anything what appeared to be a huge pillar of metal came though the lid almost skewering him. This was repeated 5 times
"Looks like we gave you the money back." Said a bully looking through an air hole at Cloud. The others laughed. Then the leader became serious and lifted the jar level with his face so he could see cloud and cloud could see him.
"Now listen up and listen good, break this jar or let my no good roommate rip me off and my hand might just slip and you might just end up down the toilet. Got it?" He said.
Cloud nodded backing away from the glass shaking, though he was too small for the bullies to notice it thankfully. Just then the bullies heard someone coming down the corridor outside, so the leader opened a draw and threw the jar in and shut the draw, sending Cloud knocking around in the jar and not having a clue what was going on. When the lead bullies room mate Matt walked in.
"Err what are you doing?" Matt asked his suspicions raised by how odd the other boys where acting all gather around a shut draw.
"Hanging out. What, that against the rules now?" The leader snarled back, before him and his group left the room. They knew with their leader's roommate there they would have to finish with Cloud later.
Matt stepped in the room supposedly alone. He knew better then to trust his roommates word, and decided to have a look at what they had been doing. He walked over and opened the draw seeing his friends money jar there. He picked it out, it was out of place. He just sighed and put in back on the top shelf where it belonged. Cloud was resurfacing from coins at the time so Matt didn't see him, but when Matt had placed the jar on the shelf cloud saw him and started to jump up and down and wave his arms hoping Matt would look in his direction. But he didn't, and after Matt sat down at his desk and got home work out Cloud gave up and sat down in amongst the coins. 'Great,' he thought, 'What am I goanna do now?'
It was 15 mins later when the answer came in the form of Matt's phone ringing.
"Hey." matt said down his phone "Your hitting the slums for a drink? Corse I'm coming!Wait, what, I have to pay for myself but I haven't..." He stopped mid-sentence, an idea hitting him. "Actually yeah, I'm fine to come. See you in half an hour." He said then shut his phone. He turned round and walked to the shelf. Cloud, who now had his back to the boy, didn't see this so didn't know what was happening till he was thrown from his perch again and bury by coins right before suddenly he felt the jar get turned upside down and him and all the money fall out.
Matt had poured the money out on to his desk. He pulled out his wallet and opened the coin pocket and started to grab handfuls of the money and put it in his wallet, or he did till he was about to grab another handful of money and was surprised to see something moving.
"What the hell..." Matt exclaimed, thinking it was a bug. He picked up a book and tried to hit it... Cloud heard Matt, saw the book, and dived out the way and ran for his life. Seeing a crack in the wall he ran in it to hide.
Matt saw where the bug went but something didn't add up. Since when do bugs have blonde spikes? He decide on a different approach he picked up the empty jar and put it on the desk upside down and started to put money in his wallet again.
cloud saw Matt start to carry on like before and thinking it was safe came out. Matt stood with his wallet full of money and turned his back on Cloud. To Cloud it looked like he was looking for something on his chest of drawers, Cloud didn't notice when Matt turned round he picked up the jar. When Cloud came away from the wall and climbed on to Matt's open book to get across the desk Matt striked, and slammed the jar down trapping Cloud. He picked up the book that was acting as the bottom out the jar and bring the jar to face height.
"Cloud?" He yelled in surprise. Cloud started to yell something at Matt but because of the glass Matt couldn't hear anything. Matt toke the jar off leaving Cloud standing on the book.
"What did you say?" Matt asked.
"I said," Cloud yelled though coming out as a whisper to Matt "I need your help! I need to get to Zack!"
"What happened?" Matt asked.
"I don't know how it happen other than I shrank!" Cloud yelled back. Matt nodded.
"Well this is a predicament. Well I guess I can help you get to the postal office but after that you're on your own. After I take you there you find your own way to Zack's office, got it?" He said.
"But!" Cloud started to yell in protest.
"That or nothing." He said. "And you're lucky for that. Like the rest of the cadets I don't like you, I just tolerate you." He said. "So it's that or I can leave you in a load of chewing gum to face Steve when he gets back." He said smirking.
"Fine!" Cloud yelled back, but half way though yelling back Matt tip the book so Cloud fell into his out stretched hand... That he deliberately put what seemed like 4 foot away from Cloud just to watch him fall.
Matt curled his hand up in to a fist uncomfortably around Cloud as he walked over to the desk and picked up to a see though bag which had a copy of Loveless in that he had been meaning to get his idol Genesis to sign. Though the guy was only signing by post. He dropped Cloud into the bag not bothering to seal it.
Hojo was on his way from the Shinra basement back up to Sephiroth's office with his remade formula when he saw a cadet coming down the corridor with a see though bag with Loveless in for the postal people, but as he got right up close he saw something that made him drop his remade formula. He saw an inch tall person in the bag that was fast moving away from him. He turned and ran after the cadet.
Matt arrived at the postal station and the grumpy old woman that sat at the desk to recieve the post to put on the sort pile for later toke the bag off him not looking at it properly and Matt walked back down the hall.
By the time Hojo caught up to the boy he was coming back down the hall with no parcel or tiny person.
"Stop there cadet!" Hojo said
"Yes sir?" Matt said stopping.
"I need to ask you about something you just handed in at the postal office." He said
"You mean where my parcel's going? Depends which one." He said. 'Oh yes, talk about the perfect way to get rid of Cloud for good!' He thought.
"I mean, do you know there was a tiny person in your package?" Hojo said.
"Yes sir I did, and he's not going where my package is going, I told him I would get him up to the postal office so he didn't spill a secret of mine but I don't mind spilling the fact he shrank and would make a perfect test subject for you sir, and a way for us infantry to get rid of the weakling." Matt said grinning evilly.
"Indeed. Well I can help you to not have to ever see him again... If you tell me who he is trying to reach." Hojo said on the same wave lengh as Matt - the evil wave length.
"He's making his way to Leiutenent Zack Fair's office." Matt smirked.
"Thank you, I will see you are promoted for helping me." He said evilly and they both went on their way; Matt to his drinking in the slums and Hojo to wait till the post was sure to have been sorted and delivered round.
