"So, Aeris, there are a few more questions I wish to ask you about the Cetra." Aeris awoke to that statement of Hojos'.

She didn't respond.

"You are awake, Gast, the brain monitor tells me." Aeris still didn't respond

Aeris suddenly clicked on and realised the pain she was in; there appeared to be some weird device connected to either side of her head, and that, she figured, was where the pain was. Then, she responded to a swift slap on the cheek.

"I would first die before I say anything to the likes of YOU," said Aeris bravely. She wasn't sure if she could manage however, if it was going to get worse than this, but then she remembered what Cloud had been through, and that gave her strength to continue. Cloud had been through this kind of pain, but worse, for about 5 years possibly, but then, so had Zack.

"I know more about you, than you may think, but I just need to know a few more things before I can confirm my theory."

"You and your stupid theories are a load of crap. What I don't understand is why you want to know so much about the Cetra anyway. We are just a figment of the past, me being the last one, it won't really matter what happened to us once I die, you're just going to destroy the planet with your stupid Mako power anyway!" That little speech made Aeris feel good for some reason. Maybe it was because of the look in the poor professor's face.

Hojo didn't say anything. He just walked off.

'Hey, that turned out pretty well,' thought Aeris to herself. 'I should try that more often.'

Looking over at the computer screen, Aeris saw that it was reading something from inside her head. It was showing on the computer screen in numbers and waves, which she did not understand. It annoyed her a little, wondering what was being read in her mind, but then, she had a theory of her own in which she decided to put into practise.

Aeris used an old trick she learnt when she was young, to shut out any intruders from her mind. Surely it could work on a computer too. She relaxed and put the trick into practise. Surely enough, the wavy line thinned down into just a pixel, and the numbers slowed down until just one digit was showing up per minute instead of the usual tens of thousands. That, she hoped, would piss Hojo off!

Aeris awoke to Hojo's voice.

"Hmmm...this program is malfunctioning. Too bad. We will have to do it the hard way then."

'I wonder what the hard way could be?' Aeris thought to herself.

'(You will tell him everything.)'

'You have no control over me now.'

'(You may think that...your father...)'

'My father is dead! He has nothing to do with this!'

'(Oh, but he does, Aeris. Hojo will complete the final stage of the experiment, and Sephiroth...Hojo seems to have forgetten what he did...)'

'Shut up, Jenova.'

"Ms Gast, I have several questions I wish to ask you."

Aeris stared blankly at Hojo.

"Firstly, the Ancients, or Cetra, originated over 2000 years ago. Then Jenova came down onto the planet from a meteor. I have several theories from there, but I do believe you have the power to discover the truth."

'(...it is, of course...)'

"SHUT UP!" yelled Aeris.

"Excuse me?!" said Hojo angrily.

"Not you," said Aeris suddenly. "Oh wait, what am I saying? You shut up as well!"

"Then who else are you talking to?"

"No one. How do you think I have the powers to discover the truth then?"

"You are an Ancient. You can apparently 'speak with the planet'," said Hojo.

"What of it?" asked Aeris mysteriously.

"So you can? Great! I want you to find out what happened from between the time when Jenova wiped out the Cetra, to when Gast and I found Jenova in a Geological stratum 33 years ago."

"How will I go about that?"

"'Speak with the planet'."

"Yeah, right. The planet is way too noisy, and full of people. I can't hear what it is saying."

"Yes you can. I know where too. Your favourite little church in the Sector 5 Slums." Hojo's phone started ringing. "Oh, just a minute. Hello? Yes...excellent! Oh, that...really? What do I need to do? The rocket? ... Where am I going to get some huge materia from? Oh yeah, I knew those Turks were good for something. They're not going? On holiday?! Just deploy the troops. Yes, yes...okay...bye... ... That was President Rufus. Your friends are going to be executed right about now, you know."

'Tifa...I can't help you now...good luck.'

"And Meteor is still on its way too." Hojo informed her.

"..." Aeris didn't want to talk to him, but did anyway. "So why are you telling me all this?"

"I just thought it would be nice if I told you, you know?"

"What the...?"

"Oh no, there's no need to thank me..." Hojo was sneering again. Then he gassed Aeris again, who passed out.

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Really sorry for not posting again in like, weeks, you know? I've been busy with school and work, but now I've had a few more ideas for the story, and I can therefore continue writing. Please review, it'll probably help motivate me to write more, okay? Yeah, thanks.

Crisis from the Sky