Hi again! Chapter 6 is finally here. Sorry for the wait! Yesterday I posted up a reference section for those of you who may have forgotten the game, so I can show you all the wonderful in which I was able to incorporate the story of the Fanfiction into the storyline of the game without disrupting the storyline, and making it all believeable. Well, enjoy the next chapter!
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Aeris woke up early the next morning. She thought she would be able to sleep well with all that work yesterday, but she couldn't. She had 2 hours before she had to be at Floor 68 so she could do whatever until then, so she went for a walk throughout the Slums.
After about 10 minutes she found herself at her old house; Elmyra must've been worried sick, so she decided to pay a visit, but only to find no-one there. on the fridge she found a note: "Marlene and I have gone to find a safer place." This left Aeris a bit uneasy, seeing as the Shin-Ra were probably still after Elmyra for information about her. Soon Aeris decided not to worry about it, and headed towards the Sector 3 Slums.
Aeris wondered how she was going to get into the Shin-Ra building, if she was caught using the elevator. The commander said they normally weren't allowed to use the Executive elevator. She made her way there anyway, since she knew of no other way.
She boarded the elevator, and pushed the 68 Floor button. "Hold it a second!" somebody yelled and the Turks entered the elevator; she was probably in trouble now, and decided to prepare for a fight, but remembered she was 'Aaron' and that there was probably nothing they could do about it. "Floor 39 please," said Reno, "Hey, I thought common soldiers don't use the Executi-wait-you're Aaron. Yes, you're all cleared to use this elevator seeing asyou're guarding Floor 68. I'm sure General Commander Anchors has leaked out everything there is to know about Hojo's experiments. Dumb bastard."
Aeris actually hadn't heard too much about them, so she decided to make a comment, in the most masculine voince she could muster, of course: "I know! He said a lot about Jenova treatments on beasts and things, and to be honest, it's getting me quite worried."
"We knew he'd probably go that far." said Elena, "But Hojo has gone so far that it is inhumane. Did you hear about Project (X)? He only called it Project (X) because he didn't know the actual name of the Ancient, but we all know it was Aeris."
"Yes, I heard about Project (X)" Aeris lied. She was soooo going to check the computer about that today!
"Here's our floor," said the normally silent Rude, "you do however know, how important it is that you do not say anything. Hojo would have your head in a specimen tank if you said anything."
"Yes, sir," said Aeris, annoyed having to answer to a Turk. She did not even know how surpreme their authority was, but she wasn't going to test it. Not alone, at least.
A few minutes later Aeris arrived at her own stop, exited, and relieved the current guard of his position, and prepared for a very boring day. Well, a very boring day until the lockdown at about 1900 hours anyway. Then she'd find out the truth about Project (X).
All day she waited quite patiently. In that time, she'd managed to capture one person trying to break into the floor, but turns out they were trying to get upto Rufus' office.
When 1900 hours finally came, she locked down the floor and turned the security system off as the commander had said so. She woke up Aetherius who was looking rather sickly, and fed her the Chocobo livers again.
Turns out Aetherius got sick due to the Jenova treatment, but Aeris didn't want it to go on any further. She's have to break her out tomorrow or the next day.
Tonight, Aetherius told Aeris where Hojo's private locker is, and the code. This was gonna be fun.
[36] [10] [58] [97]. Hey that sounds familiar. Heh. As if anyone couldn't guess that! Let's see what's in here. Hah!
Aeris found some...Black Hair Dye! "I knew he was getting old! Might as well put the joke on him..." she pocketed the [Black Hair Dye]. Further back she found a register full of names. She put that aside for a moment and checked to see what else was in there. Smuggled specimen jars with something's cell tissues or whatever in them. That creeped Aeris out, wondering who's or what creatures tissues that could be. Pocket Mirror, spare pair of glasses, gumboot, some old brussels sprouts?! To Aeris' horror they had eyes. She decided to get out of there!
Checking the register, she realised that Hojo runs a Science class! Now there will be more sick headed deranged mad scientists running about. This worried Aeris but she got over it. Instead she decided to feed it to the paper shredder. That machine had a bit of fun for a couple of minutes.
After that Aeris wasted no time and switched on Hojo's computer, entered in the password, and opened the menu. Next to Project (X) it had an 'updated' sign next to it. She clicked it and it said that Hojo had entered it through a different location. That didn't matter to Aeris. She just wanted to know what was going on. She was 'dead' for God's sake!
She opened up Project (X) and stared on in horror:
From various sources we have come to learn that the last Ancient is dead, however, the experimentation will continue.
"What the heck?" Aeris was shocked, "I can't believe he would do this!"
The Ancient, which henceforth will be referred ot as Ancient (X) (due to her name not being known), was not sighted with the opposing party AVALANCHE at the 'Promised Land', and we have further traced it back to not being sighted at Icicle Inn, but was sighted at the Temple of the Ancients when the Turks were dispatched there. It has led us to believe that following AVALANCHEs tracks will lead us to the Ancient, therefore, we have narrowed out search down to the City of the Ancients, Forgotten Capital. Her whereabouts is still unknown but this week search of that area will commence.
Aeris felt rather sick now. But then she couldn't help laughing. They'd never find her there!
She wanted to get out of there, but she would have to survive 5 more days of work guarding the floor.
She'd completely forgotten about researching Jenova, for she had the feeling she'd be finding out all she wanted to very soon.
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This is probably my last chapter for a little over a week, for I'm going away on holiday. However, when I have nothing to do there, I'll probably start writing down the next chapter on paper, and when I get back there'll be a few new chapters, or one very long chapter. Think I'll settle for one very long chapter though.
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Aeris woke up early the next morning. She thought she would be able to sleep well with all that work yesterday, but she couldn't. She had 2 hours before she had to be at Floor 68 so she could do whatever until then, so she went for a walk throughout the Slums.
After about 10 minutes she found herself at her old house; Elmyra must've been worried sick, so she decided to pay a visit, but only to find no-one there. on the fridge she found a note: "Marlene and I have gone to find a safer place." This left Aeris a bit uneasy, seeing as the Shin-Ra were probably still after Elmyra for information about her. Soon Aeris decided not to worry about it, and headed towards the Sector 3 Slums.
Aeris wondered how she was going to get into the Shin-Ra building, if she was caught using the elevator. The commander said they normally weren't allowed to use the Executive elevator. She made her way there anyway, since she knew of no other way.
She boarded the elevator, and pushed the 68 Floor button. "Hold it a second!" somebody yelled and the Turks entered the elevator; she was probably in trouble now, and decided to prepare for a fight, but remembered she was 'Aaron' and that there was probably nothing they could do about it. "Floor 39 please," said Reno, "Hey, I thought common soldiers don't use the Executi-wait-you're Aaron. Yes, you're all cleared to use this elevator seeing asyou're guarding Floor 68. I'm sure General Commander Anchors has leaked out everything there is to know about Hojo's experiments. Dumb bastard."
Aeris actually hadn't heard too much about them, so she decided to make a comment, in the most masculine voince she could muster, of course: "I know! He said a lot about Jenova treatments on beasts and things, and to be honest, it's getting me quite worried."
"We knew he'd probably go that far." said Elena, "But Hojo has gone so far that it is inhumane. Did you hear about Project (X)? He only called it Project (X) because he didn't know the actual name of the Ancient, but we all know it was Aeris."
"Yes, I heard about Project (X)" Aeris lied. She was soooo going to check the computer about that today!
"Here's our floor," said the normally silent Rude, "you do however know, how important it is that you do not say anything. Hojo would have your head in a specimen tank if you said anything."
"Yes, sir," said Aeris, annoyed having to answer to a Turk. She did not even know how surpreme their authority was, but she wasn't going to test it. Not alone, at least.
A few minutes later Aeris arrived at her own stop, exited, and relieved the current guard of his position, and prepared for a very boring day. Well, a very boring day until the lockdown at about 1900 hours anyway. Then she'd find out the truth about Project (X).
All day she waited quite patiently. In that time, she'd managed to capture one person trying to break into the floor, but turns out they were trying to get upto Rufus' office.
When 1900 hours finally came, she locked down the floor and turned the security system off as the commander had said so. She woke up Aetherius who was looking rather sickly, and fed her the Chocobo livers again.
Turns out Aetherius got sick due to the Jenova treatment, but Aeris didn't want it to go on any further. She's have to break her out tomorrow or the next day.
Tonight, Aetherius told Aeris where Hojo's private locker is, and the code. This was gonna be fun.
[36] [10] [58] [97]. Hey that sounds familiar. Heh. As if anyone couldn't guess that! Let's see what's in here. Hah!
Aeris found some...Black Hair Dye! "I knew he was getting old! Might as well put the joke on him..." she pocketed the [Black Hair Dye]. Further back she found a register full of names. She put that aside for a moment and checked to see what else was in there. Smuggled specimen jars with something's cell tissues or whatever in them. That creeped Aeris out, wondering who's or what creatures tissues that could be. Pocket Mirror, spare pair of glasses, gumboot, some old brussels sprouts?! To Aeris' horror they had eyes. She decided to get out of there!
Checking the register, she realised that Hojo runs a Science class! Now there will be more sick headed deranged mad scientists running about. This worried Aeris but she got over it. Instead she decided to feed it to the paper shredder. That machine had a bit of fun for a couple of minutes.
After that Aeris wasted no time and switched on Hojo's computer, entered in the password, and opened the menu. Next to Project (X) it had an 'updated' sign next to it. She clicked it and it said that Hojo had entered it through a different location. That didn't matter to Aeris. She just wanted to know what was going on. She was 'dead' for God's sake!
She opened up Project (X) and stared on in horror:
From various sources we have come to learn that the last Ancient is dead, however, the experimentation will continue.
"What the heck?" Aeris was shocked, "I can't believe he would do this!"
The Ancient, which henceforth will be referred ot as Ancient (X) (due to her name not being known), was not sighted with the opposing party AVALANCHE at the 'Promised Land', and we have further traced it back to not being sighted at Icicle Inn, but was sighted at the Temple of the Ancients when the Turks were dispatched there. It has led us to believe that following AVALANCHEs tracks will lead us to the Ancient, therefore, we have narrowed out search down to the City of the Ancients, Forgotten Capital. Her whereabouts is still unknown but this week search of that area will commence.
Aeris felt rather sick now. But then she couldn't help laughing. They'd never find her there!
She wanted to get out of there, but she would have to survive 5 more days of work guarding the floor.
She'd completely forgotten about researching Jenova, for she had the feeling she'd be finding out all she wanted to very soon.
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This is probably my last chapter for a little over a week, for I'm going away on holiday. However, when I have nothing to do there, I'll probably start writing down the next chapter on paper, and when I get back there'll be a few new chapters, or one very long chapter. Think I'll settle for one very long chapter though.
