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Chapter Twelve

Reno and Tseng arrived in what used to be the slums of Midgard. They searched for Alberich's lab for a while. Even with the information on where it used to be it was difficult to find it. In fact they wouldn't have found it if it wasn't for Reno's carelessness.

"OWWW! What the fuck yo!"

Tseng turned around and if it wasn't for his incredible self-control he would have died laughing. Reno was stuck, or at least half of him was stuck in the ground. Apparently there had been some sort of establishment underground. Because of Meteor the upper part had been destroyed. They went in and saw that they were in a hallway. They walked for a while and soon they came to a door.

The door was big and required a code, luckily it was already open. They walked in the room and were surprised at what they saw. The walls were stained with blood and there were bodies on the ground. They must have been scientists because they had lab coats.

"What the hell happened here?" Reno said.

"I don't know, but we're going t find out."

They moved past the bodies and went into another room. In this room there were many machines. There were test tubes and other instruments, but no files or computer like they had hoped. They kept searching, but found nothing. The room was a mess. It looked like they had been attacked, but by who?

"Reno, I found something."

Reno went over to where Tseng was. He was pushing away some broken machines that were against a wall.

"It looks like there's something behind this thing. Help me move it."

They pushed it off and saw that there was another door. This one had a large hole in it. It looked like it had been blasted with something. They exchanged puzzled looks and walked in. Reno's jaw dropped when he saw what was inside.

"They were in a large room. In the middle of it there was a large type of tube. It was broken and there was some sort of liquid on the ground. There were many monitors around the container. There was also a large computer on the wall. Tseng went over to it.

"Reno, see if you can find out anything with those monitors. I'm going to see if I can find anything in the computer."

Reno looked around. There were some machines that looked to be used to watch the condition of whatever had been in the container. There were some wires that were connected to the container. They appeared to have been attached to what had been inside to watch for its vital signs. Did that mean that whatever had been inside was human? Could it have been Rei?

"Reno, come look at this."

Reno went over to Tseng. He had found something in the files in the computer.

"What is it Tseng?"

"It appears that they were experimenting with a living being in this room. This was supposed to be Alberich's most important experiment. It says here in his journal that it would revolutionize this world. Apparently he held a grudge against Shinra because they had discharged him."

"That's nice, but what info did you get on the experiment itself?"

"There isn't much. Apparently he wanted to keep the purpose of it secret so he didn't have much information about it here. But, it does say that the experiment was called "Project Firefly". It says that he had been taking careful measures in case it went berserk. He was about to unveil his project ."

"What happened then?"

"I don't know. He suddenly stopped writing. There are no more records after that. It's as if something had happened and he had tried to hide it."

Reno was puzzled. Why would he go through so much trouble to hide this experiment? What had happened and what had the experiment been? Could it be that Rei was Project Firefly? But, how could that be? This project had apparently gone berserk. It was probably the cause for all of the bodies in the other room. He couldn't see Rei doing something like that.

'But, what about that man? You saw what she did to him.'

He frowned at his thoughts. He knew that she would never do something like that. But, then again he hadn't known her for very long. He sighed. He would just have to find out who she was. That was the only way to see what had happened. As much as he hated to admit it he knew that it was possible that she had been the one that did all of that. He wished that there was some way to just forget about all of this and live happily with her. He knew that when they found out who she was it wouldn't be good, but he didn't know how bad it would be.

End Chapter Twelve


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