Chapter 7- A Field Test
Sephiroth tossed and turned in his bed. He had grown accustomed to sharing a room with Tifa; it seemed strange to have it all to himself suddenly. He would never admit it, but he missed her presence. Ever since she began sleeping in his room, he had grown strong feelings for her, something else he'd never admit. Frustrated, Sephiroth threw off his blankets and his SOLDIER gear. He just wanted to see her.
He trudged out of his room and went down to the lab where she was being held in. It was late and no one else seemed to be up. Sephiroth entered the room silently. The lights were dim and he could make out the majority of the details of the room. In the center of the room was a large class chamber. Tifa's unconscious body was being suspended in some sort of greenish-blue liquid. She was in her underwear with a few needles attacked to wires in her legs and arms. Her wrist had been tied together so she couldn't break free. He recalled the time she had shown him her back, but he never imagined that the rest of her body was just as scared, if not worse. He noticed a few new marks on her face, such as a bruised cheekbone, a fat lip and a black eye.
He looked around the room some more. His eye was caught by a stack of empty needles lying on a table; there were about 10 of them. Sephiroth frowned in disgust. He didn't like this at all. He knew Zack was right about something having to be done about the situation. Though, he'd never admit it. He eyed up the release button for the chamber. Slamming his fist down on it, the liquid in the chamber began to decrease. He smashed through the glass and pulled Tifa out. He'd had enough. Too long he worked as Shinras lap dog, too long he'd followed orders and dig things he considered immoral, and for too long he'd been subjected to keeping quiet about the awful sites he'd seen.
Sephiroth draped her damp body over his shoulder and left the chamber. He walked swiftly back to his room when he put Tifa in some warm clothes, tucked his masamune into his belt and wrapped a black traveling cloak around himself. He pressed the girl closely to his body and covered her with his cloak so no one would notice he was taking her away. Her hair felt cold and wet against him. As casual as possible, Sephiroth left the SOLDIER Head Quarters. He went to the underground parking lot and straddled his motorcycle. One hand steering and the other holding Tifa in place, he sped off out of Midgar.
About 3 hours out of Midgar it started to rain. He remembered a small abandoned shack that he had once come across during one of his missions that was about another 10-15 minutes away. His cloths were getting soaked and since it was night, the air was quite frigid. He felt Tifa shiver against him beneath his cloak. After hiding his bike behind some bushes, Sephiroth took the girl inside. He striped her and himself down to their underwear and hung their drenched clothes out to dry. He managed to find some blankets, they were old, but at least they were dry. Tifa's skin was ice cold. He carried her to a ratty old couch and wrapped all the blankets around them, hoping that his own body would warm hers.
Many thoughts drifted into his mind as he lay there pressed against a girl in her underwear. He tried to shake off his vulgar ideas, but they seemed to linger. Sweat began to form on his brow; he wasn't going to sink to that low of a level where he had to get his pleasures from an unconscious girl. It was immoral. He couldn't restrain himself much longer. The tips of his fingers slowly fluttered down her spine. This caused her to shiver and press herself closer to him in her sleep. Her well developed chest pressed against his was driving him crazy. His hand moved lower and he soon found himself stroking the fabric of her panties.
"Sephiroth…?" Tifa snapped him out of his trance.
Mortified, he immediately stopped what he was doing now that she had now woken up.
Her face went beat red when she took account of her present situation. "Where… where are we?"
"In hiding…?" His face was equally as red, but was slightly hidden by his long strands of silver hair. He nodded slowly, his lips pursed together, embarrassed and ashamed that he had been caught.
Sephiroth shook his head, shaking off his fantasies. He was still in the lab, looking at Tifa through the glass chamber. Saving her right now would probably not be the best idea. The weather was getting colder and he didn't know what kind of drugs she had been injected with. He'd probably end up killing her if he took her out of the chamber now. He'd have to wait and devise a plan. When the time was right, he'd come back for her and throw away everything he had. She was strong, but taking her away and abandoning SOLDIER would put them both on the top of the Midgar Most Wanted List. Soon there would be hundreds of people trying to track them down. As of right now, it wasn't worth the risk.
Sephiroth eyed up a computer that seemed to be analyzing her. He pulled up a chair and began to read the screen, he wasn't too found of science. There was a diagram of a double helix with labels shooting off in different directions. Her body seemed to be completely derived of materia. Was she being used as a weapon? The thought sickened him. There were so many other things, unnatural things, inside her body. Scrolling down the page, he saw a list of her genetic makeup. The Chaos gene, Jenova cells, materia and a whole bunch of other stuff that wouldn't necessarily work well together. He had read some where that The Chaos Gene and Jenova Cells could not coexist, that was probably the reason her body was so unstable at times.
She had mentioned that many had died because of her, but not by her own hand. Most likely Hojo had been trying to recreate her in the form of a clone, but had failed.
Sephiroth spent the rest of the night in the lab, reading everything he could get his boney hands on. It was when his stomach began to protest that he finally left to get some food. He would've been able to hide her from Hojo if only Zack hadn't let it slip.
It was much later. Hojo had pulled the girl out of the chamber and tied her to the examination table. Her eyes were wide open, but she seemed to be in a trance, unblinking and unmoving.
"This is going to hurt a lot, my dear," Hojo chuckled as he pulled a large needle towards her, "Just a little something that will make you more obedient." Tifa shrieked at the top of her lungs as the man injected the clear, cold liquid into her neck.
Genesis' ears caught the sound from his comfortable seat in the library. Sephiroth raised his head from his paperwork as listened to the unmistakable sound. Angeal and Lazard paused from their conversation for a moment. Zack stopped dead in the hallway, fist balled at his sides.
The door to Lazard's office burst open. Hojo was standing there with Tifa trailing behind him like a slave. The four first class SOLDIERS were also in Lazard's office, called on for a mission to Wutai. Tifa's skin was a pale ash color like Chaos' normally was, only she seemed to be in human form.
"I've done it! I'm a genius!" He pushed his glasses farther up his nose. "My experiment is finished!"
No one said anything. Though, Zack would've beaten Hojo if it were just the two of them alone.
"I've stopped its freewill completely. It will do anything you tell it to. Virtually indestructible, inhumanly fast, and the strength of over 3000 times its own body mass. Truly a work of art!" Hojo eyed Tifa like a piece of meat, and then turned to face Lazard. "I want you to put it into the field, test its abilities."
"Very well…" Lazard sighed, unhappy with the turn of events. "Sephiroth, she's your new partner."
Sephiroth gritted his teeth. He didn't want to subject her to this sort of thing, but at least she wasn't in the lab anymore.
"You're under control of Sephiroth now. I look forward to the test results. You can hit it if it gets out of line, though it shouldn't be a problem anymore." Hojo left the office.
Tifa kept her head down and stood behind Sephiroth quietly. Zack ran over to her and shook her by her shoulders. "Tifa! Tifa!"
She looked up at his eyes. Her eyes depicted no emotion, but they seemed to glow an even brighter, fierier red now. She grabbed him by the cuff of his shirt and hurled him across the room. She returned to her neutral stance behind Sephiroth.
Without another word, the five of them left Lazard to his work and headed out on a train to Wutai. During the trip, no one said a word. Sephiroth hadn't mentioned what he had discovered to the others just yet. The exited the train and went off in different directions. Angeal and Zack went one way, Genesis went another and Sephiroth and Tifa began heading a third direction towards the heart of Wutai. Their mission was to infiltrate and destroy any and all weapons that Wutai had created. Sephiroth had to continuously check over his shoulder to see if Tifa was still following him, her steps were silent as they walked down the path to Wutai.
The path led to a ridge over looking Wutai. Tifa and Sephiroth crouched down behind a bush as they surveyed the land.
"Keep quiet, destroy all weapons Wutai posses." He instructed. With that, running at break-neck speed, Tifa jumped off the ridge and onto a building. She ran up to some guards, destroyed their guns, knocked them unconscious, and then quickly disappeared within the city. She was much faster now; Sephiroth had to actually try for once to keep up with some one. He quickly dashed after her. About 15 Wutai soldiers were lying on the ground, their weapons completely smashed into billions of pieces. He followed the trail of unconscious bodies for about another 5 minutes, and then he felt a presence behind him. He swiveled around quickly and readied his sword.
It was Tifa. She was standing there with her head down waiting for his orders. "All visible weapons terminated." Her voice was lifeless and dry.
"Man I got no action! Sephiroth you could've left some for us!" Zack came walking up to Tifa and Sephiroth, followed by Angeal and Genesis.
"I didn't get any either," Sephiroth replied coolly.
"You mean that was all her?!" Genesis pointed at Tifa.
"Yea," Sephiroth shrugged.
"I see SOLDIER has a new pet!" A large armored man stood on the roof of a building, sneering down at them. "Did Shinra really get that desperate where they had to start recruiting girls?"
"Who are you?" Angeal readied into a battle stance, getting prepared if there was going to be a fight. The moment the man looked away from Tifa was his mistake. In the few seconds the man took to glance at Angeal, Tifa was up on the roof behind him. He turned around to see her fiery eyes locked onto his, the moonlight illuminating her silhouette. "What the hell?"
Tifa kicked him in the stomach, sending him crashing to the ground in front of her comrades. The man slowly got to his feet and was attacked by the four SOLDIERS. The alarms went off and Wutai warriors began flooding the paths towards them. Sephiroth, Angeal, Genesis, Genesis and Zack wasted no time. They began fighting instantaneously. Tifa waited for her orders.
"Take out the rangers," Sephiroth pointed to a row of Wutaniese warriors aiming guns at them from a high walkway.
Tifa glided along the roof tops until she reached the end of the line. She grabbed the man on the end and threw him into the man next to him. Like a bowling balls and pins, the rangers were all knocked over onto to floor. She trampled on each of their guns, rendering them unusable.
Sephiroth caught glimpses of her from the corner of his eyes as he savagely slashed through foes. With a significant amount of force, he slashed five warriors in half. Panting, the four SOLDIERs wiped the blood off their blades. Tifa stood patiently in front of Sephiroth.
A/n: I found it hard to write this chapter. I think I rewrote it about three times. I'm still not too fond of how it turned out, but it's a necessary stepping stone for now. The next chapter will be better!
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