(Author's Note: Hello! Here's chapter 16! Not much to say here so I'll leave and let you start reading…)
Disclaimer: FF7 and Squaresoft are not mine. Dete is. Rueh belongs to Rueh.
Chapter 16
Hojo's Temper
Sephiroth woke with a headache.
"You and Rueh tried to get me out of here didn't you?"
"Yeah…you okay Dete?" he asked.
"I'm fine…what about you?" she asked.
"Just have a headache," he said sitting up.
"Now what are we going to do?" she asked.
"Give me a minute and I'll think of something," he said.
"Escape is impossible," Hojo said walking up to the glass wall of the cell.
"Why do you say that?" Dete asked.
"Your friends will come here looking for you…but…you won't be here," Hojo said.
"What do you mean?" Sephiroth asked.
"I mean I'm moving my lab someplace else," Hojo said.
"You're moving your lab?" Dete said. She and Sephiroth looked at each other and smiled slyly.
"Yes. Why? Do you have a problem?" Hojo said completely ignoring their smiles.
"No. None at all," Sephiroth said still smiling.
"Good then shut up. I have work to do," Hojo said and turned his back on them. Dete made a face at his back. Sephiroth laughed.
"I told you to shut up!" Hojo said with an annoyed look.
"How 'bout…no," Dete said.
"Shut up," Hojo said in a deadly tone.
"Nope," Sephiroth said.
"1." Hojo said.
"Blah, blah, blah," Dete said.
"2." Hojo was starting to get angry.
"Nuh-huh," Sephiroth said.
"3."
"All I hear…is blah, blah, blah," Dete said.
"4."
"Wow! He can count past 3!" Sephiroth said.
"5!"
"Blah, blah, blah!"
"6!!"
"He can count past 5! Without using his fingers!" Dete started laughing.
"7!!!"
"Ooooo. He can count to 7!" Dete said.
"Can he make it to 10?" Sephiroth asked.
"You don't want me to reach 10. 8," Hojo said.
"Blah, blah, blah, blah."
"9."
"He's just one away! Can he do it?"
"Hojo! Hojo! Hojo!" both started to cheer.
"…9."
"Hoj…"Dete started to laugh.
"What's so funny?" Hojo asked.
"You said 9 twice!" she said.
"Looks like he couldn't do it. Ha! Hojo can't count to 10!" Sephiroth laughed too.
"10!" Hojo yelled.
"Oooo. What ya going to do now?" Sephiroth asked between laughs.
"Oh don't worry. I have some soldiers for you to play with…" Sephiroth and Dete stopped laughing abruptly. "…and I have a Mako injection for the girl," Hojo finished.
"You'll have to get us out of here first," Sephiroth said.
"I don't have to do anything. These soldiers will do it for me," Hojo said snapping his fingers. Five soldiers entered the cell. Sephiroth stood in front of Dete. They were backed against a wall. It took all 5 soldiers to restrain Sephiroth. Dete jumped on one soldier's back distracting him from restraining Sephiroth.
"Careful! I don't care what you do to the boy but I need the girl to remain conscious!" Hojo snapped.
Two more soldiers came in. One helped to restrain Sephiroth. The soldier slammed his back against the wall. The breath was knocked out of Dete. Two soldiers restrained her.
"Bring the girl out first," Hojo said. Dete found her struggle useless as they dragged her into the lab.
"Put her under the machine. Get him out of here," Hojo said. The soldiers got Dete to the machine and started to put the straps around her wrists and ankles. She struggled. She got one hand free and punched a soldier. Unfazed he grabbed her wrist and fastened the strap. The other soldier got her other wrist.
Sephiroth was in the lab now. He saw Dete was almost completely strapped down. He knocked 3 of the 5 soldiers that had him down and ignoring the other 2 ran at the 2 by Dete. He knocked one away. Six soldiers lunged at him.
One strap was fastened around Dete's ankle. The soldier reached for her other foot. She swung her foot up and kicked at him. He was out of reach. When he stepped closer she tired again. This time she caught him under his jaw. His head snapped back with a sick sound. The soldier stumbled backwards then fell.
Hojo rolled his eyes and caught her foot. He pressed a few buttons to adjust the machine.
Sephiroth struggled against the 6 soldiers. There was a sharp scream that caught his attention. He looked at Dete. The 5 needles had entered her skin in various places and a glowing blue-green liquid was being injected to her. Sephiroth struggled more to get free but it was useless. The soldiers overpowered him.
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