Hello! Yep, I'm posting a little more often than never now. I just got so interested in my own fic that I wanna know what happens next [Yes, that IS the case. I haven't planned ahead, it comes to me at the time.] and generally I have to just type more. Might as well get on with it now anyway.

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"Why have you come back then?" asked Hojo, looking rather annoyed.

"Well, y'know, I figured since you captured everybody you could get near in Nibelheim while it was burning to death, I should come back and get revenge. After all, you DID do funny experiments on me. What were those anyway?"

"None of your damn business!"

"Jeez! So, does the President actually know that I had gone missing, or did you stage my death? So, if I go walking in there right now, he would recognise me, and you'd be, like, fired?"

"Don't even think about it," said Hojo, wishing that this weird pest would go away. Then he had a thought. "Hahahaha!"

"What's so funny old man?"

"Sure, you can go see President Shin-Ra if you like."

"Nah, you'll probably miss me. And besides, I'm guessing you'll send me up there because he's actually dead, and there'll be a trap waiting, due to the fact that when I'm gone, you'll call the Turks, and they'll be waiting up there to capture me with Rufus, who will be the new President now that the old one's dead, right?"

'This man...the Mako has got to his head, or was he just like this anyway?'

"By the way, where's Tseng? Haven't spoken to that guy in aaaaaaages!"

"Okay, why are you really here, Zack?"

"Well, I dunno. Revenge as I said, but I can't kill you in front of the lady," he shot a glance at Aeris. "That'd be uncivilised, so I figured I would just take her by force, y'know? So now, this is the part where you say that I'll never get out of here alive, and that you'll shoot me if I come one step closer, right?"

"...Right."

"Okay, you stand right there, and I'll free Aeris," Zack was going to be intimidated by no-one, except maybe Sephiroth. He just talked so much that Hojo couldn't really speak back. He freed Aeris, who wasn't really locked up or anything, but was still trapped somehow. "Okay, now, if you will kindly step through that door over there..."

Aeris followed Zack's orders and went through the door. It was a Shin-Ra lab records room.

"Now listen here, Hojo. I am going to beat the crap out of you for everything you have done to me, Aeris, Sephiroth, and even Cloud. Okay?"

But Hojo wasn't there to listen. He'd already left the room. Zack saw where he'd gone to and followed.

"Major Zackary Robins. Or should I say, Valentine?"

"Professor, what are you talking about?"

In the records room, Aeris was surprised to see a gigantic stack of tapes and paper files. There were several filing cabinets, but definately not enough to contain everything that was jammed into this room.

Aeris stared at the pile of tapes and files, then at the filing cabinet. And then she went to the filing cabinet.

She browsed through the cabinet until she found the pages she was looking for: J-E-N-O-V-A Project.

Jenova Project [Year X, Month X, Date X] - [Year X, Month X, Date X] [Period - 33 Years]

We found what we like to call Jenova inside a geological stratum, rather near to what one might call the Northern Crater. - Hojo [Month X, Date X].

[Date X, Month X]: Injected SOLDIER with first Jenova Cells. Theory Proven to be a success. The Jenova has enhanced physical ability by 715%. The subject [Sephiroth] will be raised within the Shin-Ra laboratory until [Year X. Month X, Date X]. - Gast.

[Year X, Month X, Date X]: The Jenova Specimen has been proven dangerous. We sealed it up within Nibel Reactor for extensive research.

Specimen [A] has been produced. [Year X, Month X, Date X]. Injected Specimen [A] with Jenova. [Year X, Month X, Date X] - Gast.

[Project Z] has been injected with Jenova. [Year X, Month X, Date X] - Hojo.

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Aeris soon tired of seaching through this new information, for there was no significant information on how to destroy Jenova; all anyone ever did was seal it up. Wouldn't Jenova have liked to be free? That really wasn't what was bothering Aeris though. Possibly some element, some pH level could be Jenova's weakness? They obviously haven't discovered it yet, or possibly they didn't want to know, or maybe they did know, but didn't want it destroyed...

Aeris then continued her search throughout the the room for files. She could now hear Hojo banging on the door yelling at her to come out, but she wasn't leaving until she knew everything! Looking through the filing cabinet, she found a series of disturbing information.

[Projects A to Z]

Aeris [Project A:Ancient] and Sephiroth [Project S:Unconfirmed] were concieved 30 years ago inside an Ancient by the name of [Ifalna]. (Notes Hojo. Hojo decided to do several more sick experiments in which Gast agreed on. He was just as bad.) We have extracted both foetus'es from the Ancient, Ifalna, and inserted the female foetus, [Project A] into crygenically frozen storage. [Project S], however, was shifted, and grafted into a Scientist named Lucretia, who had recently miscarriaged Professor Hojo's original child already. Five months later, Lucretia gave birth to Sephiroth, who was originally conceived by Ifalna, being the biological mother.

Seven years later, [Project A] was taken out of cryogenic storage, and grafted back inside Ifalna. Ifalna five months later gave birth to Aeris.

[Project Z] was insignificant; while experimenting on the Ex-Turk named Vincent Valentine, Hojo took several semen samples, and had atificially inseminated them into Lucretia, since Hojo could no-longer have children of his own. This happened two years after the birth of Sephiroth. Nine months later, Zack was born. Being insignificant to his experiments, Hojo had him adopted into a family living

in Gongaga. [Report by Gast]

Professor Gast was unfortunately killed, and therefore can no longer continue this project. All further reports shall be made by me. [Professor Hojo.]

Ten years later Zack returned to Shin-Ra for SOLDIER training.

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Aeris stared at the report wide-eyed. She read it twice over. It was clear as crystal. This is what had happened to her. Her father, Professor Gast, had been as bad as Hojo, in the name of Science. There was nothing she could do about it now, however. She could no longer hear Hojo outside, but then she heard Zack, requesting she come out. And so she did.

"Hey there! Listen, let's get out of here. I've locked Hojo in one of those cells over there, it's only a matter of time before he gets out. Let's leave."

Aeris hugged Zack. "Thank you very much. First, there's something I have to do," she went back in and grabbed the report. "Now, I'm just going to free Aetherius.

"Who's that?"

"A friend of mine. Just a moment."

"Damn, we really leaving Midgar? I can't wait to see the world!" said Aetherius excitedly. They were now in the Sector 5 Slums, and were preparing for their departure. While they were leaving, Zack explained how he came up and got Aeris, and went even further back to the time when he got shot up by Shin-Ra Soldiers with Cloud.

"Jeez, so, I dunno how I survived that shooting, but I felt real weak, and so Cloud, he just thought I was dead, dragged himself up, got my Buster Sword, and left for Midgar. From what I saw, he fell down the hill. That must've really hurt."

"He ended up in the Sector 7 Slums Railway Station," said Aeris. "Tifa told me he was really beat up bad, and they helped him out."

"Yeah, well I made my way down to Midgar too. You know the story from there."

"What happened? Fill me in," said Aetherius, obviously interested in what was happening.

"Well, I found him while I was in the church. He was crawling past," said Aeris, suddenly remembering what had happened. "He was completely covered in blood, and there were bullets under his skin everywhere. I had them extracted, and healed him with my Cetra powers. But then, he suddenly had no idea what was going on anymore, and couldn't speak clearly or nothing, so I found him a home in Sector 5. Inside an old pipe somebody else had abandoned. It had a bed, TV and everything. When I met Cloud, I brought him to see Zack to see if he could help him, but he said he was no doctor, and generally didn't seen to remember Zack at all. And I told you my story from thereon."

"Thanks. That's an interesting story."

"So you took Cloud to see me too, AND he didn't recognise me?! No way!"

"Sorry, but it's true. Hey, I'm going to go to the church before we leave, okay?"

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That's the end of this chapter! I guess it's starting to go downhill from here, but I know exactly what is going to happen next, so bear with me!