In the last chapter Aeris was just going to feed the vicious cloaked specimen, and is just going to find out what it is...

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Aeris pulled away the cover to the specimen tank and gasped - it was just like Red XIII!

"Who are you?" It asked. It had a feminine voice and was tatooed in the same place as Red XIII, but with a XIV which meant 14, Aeris was suprised to see.

"My name is Aeris," she said, not thinking whether the unknown beast could read or not. She could.

"Says Aaron on your name tag."

"I know. Can I trust you not to say anything to Hojo?"

"I won't tell Hojo nothing. Hey, can I have dinner please?"

"Sure," Aeris opened up the feeding section of the tank and inserted the Chocobo liver.

"Ugh, Chocobo livers. The same every day. I am sick of them. And to think he feeds me them too! No Iron in them whatsoever! You'd think he was trying to make me wask or something. But that's exactly it. He won't want me ripping the shit out of him if I get the chance. By the way, why do you think I should trust you? You're from Shin-Ra too."

"Not exactly." Aeris smiled, and took off the slimy soldier helmet.

"So you were once a specimen too? I share your pain. See this bandage? That's where I got slit in the leg when he injected me with something."

"That's awful!" Aeris looked at the time. Only 2010. "So why does he keep you in the dark?"

"You know the effect on most animals when you cover their head and all they can see is black, how it calms them? Well he thinks it'll work on me too. I'm just putting on a front. I'm just as pissed of as ever, but if I can get his trust, I may be able to escape at some point soon, you know?" she cringed, "So, why are you here, even though you aren't even working for Shin-Ra? Don't they know?"

"I was stationed here. I beat up a soldier and snuck in. I am here in this particular place by pure luck, exactly the place I wanted to get to. I am here to find out information on Jenova. I want to help my friends defeat it, but they think I am dead. I had to fake it so I could do my own part, but I am also risking my life to the extreme. Hojo really wants me back, you see?"

"I understand. Hey listen, sometime before this week is over can you let me out of here? We could pretend I attacked you, and..."

"I'm really sorry. I was ordered to kill anything that attacks. Apparently I'm a level 4 common soldier so it would be no problem. But I promise, I will get you out somehow, even if I have to walk in through the front door to get you. It could take a while, but..."

"It's okay. I've sort of given up on escaping anyway. I've been here for a few weeks already. Hojo said that Specimen Number 13 escaped just before I was discovered, so I couldn't help 'save a dying race'."

"Oh my goodness, Red XIII..."

"Do you know him, Aeris?"

"Why yes, I do. I helped him escape. Do you know him?"

"Nope. Wish I could meet him though, we're probably the last of our race, Hojo says. The other 12 died during experimentation."

"That's totally sickening..."

"I'd say! But then, if you were able to get Red XIII out, then you'd be able to get me out right?" she was ecstatic. Aeris felt really sorry for her.

"I'll try my best," said Aeris, "but for now, I must not rouse suspicion, this is a very critical moment in this mission I myself took on. I can't screw it up yet."

"That's okay, but will you talk to me every day at least?"

"Of course I will, but Hojo will be back in three days time, and I cannot let on who I am, and in his prescence speak, move or do anything for that matter. Just...guard the floor."

"Okay. While we're here, might as well have some fun, huh? You wanna know the password to Hojo's computer?"

"Oh my gosh!" Aeris was surprised, "you KNOW the PASSWORD?"

"Of course. Long hours sitting here watching Hojo has taught me a great many things. His computer is that silver one over there. As soon as you turn it on all you need to do is write his username and password. His username typically is Hojo and his pass word is Cetra."

'Why doesn't that come as a surprise to me?' Aeris thought to herself.

She typed in the password. It came up as incorrect. She tried again. Incorrect. Then, she had an idea. She tried

[Hojo]

[Ancient]

Access Granted.

Hojo must have changed the access code. Hey, never mind, so long as she was in.

She was inside some sort of data storage program. There were heaps of different projects Hojo was working on, but Aeris wanted to ignore most of them; she didn't know what most of them were anyway.

Onscreen was a large list of data she was able to veiw all too easily thanks to... Aeris just realised she didn't know Red XIV's real name.

"Hey, um, if I may ask, what is your real name?"

"I have no name."

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That's all for chapter 4. Review please. No more about Aeris and her dying without blood. We all saw with our own eyes that she got stabbed, and there was no blood whatsoever on there, and the perfect excuse for me to write a Fic about Aeris remaining alive, and it would explain a damn lot of things about Final Fantasy VII that were unanswered.