Chapter 3
Fifteen years later...It begins again
(After the death of the seventeen angel)

NERV was recovering from the last angel attack started by the Seventeen angel; who was also known as Kaoru Nagisa who had used Eva 02 to break into the Terminal Dogma. However Kaoru almost succeed at what the other angels had failed to do, but when Kaoru realized that angel in the Terminal Dogma was Lillith not Adam. To prevent humanity from suffering the consequences he had Shinji kill him by crushing him to death in Eva unit 01's grip killing the last angel. Now Nerv had defeated all of the angels...or so they thought.

In a research facility on the far side of Japan was the where a helicopter dropping off the Head of SEELE. Waiting for him on the helipad was Hojo. Hojo for the past fifteen years had been working with SEELE as part of the human instrumentality project. SEELE was impressed by the work Hojo had done with Shinra as their head scientist. Hojo had assisted them in developing the Eva series. In fact Hojo was the man responsible for developing the EVA units five through thirteen and their S2 engines. When Hojo created the next generation EVA series he used some of Jenova's cells in their creation. However the use of Jenova's cells was also used in the other EVA series. Little did SEELE know; that Hojo had been using the other cells of Jenova for other purposes besides SEELE's own. The chairman of the committee that made up SEELE Keele Lorenz was walking down a hallway with Hojo as the two men were exchanging words.

"I am sorry to hear about what happened to Kaoru" Hojo said as he adjusted his glasses.

"His lost doesn't really affect the human instrumentality project. It might have been affected if you haven't made our secret trump card" Keele said as the two men reached an elevator and Hojo pressed a button and they began to descend deeper and deeper into the facility. While the two men were standing in the elevator Keele turned to Hojo and asked "Are the new Angels ready?" "The Jenova-Angel hybrids are ready to be unleashed against NERV. However we have learned that there are still some other angels out there" Hojo replied.

"I recall the were suppose to be seventeen" Keele replied.

"That is what we thought, but it turns out that there are other angels out there. I think that they must have been kept around just in case something went wrong or if they were needed for something else" Hojo replied. "Alright, but I would like to know how is the sixth child" Keele asked. "He is fine. He is such a bright boy, and he is the most capable EVA pilot I have ever seen. He didn't take the news of his friend Kaoru being killed by the third child well. Neither did his brothers" Hojo replied as the elevator stopped and the two men stepped off the elevator. Hojo and Keele walked by a large window which showed an EVA in the shadows. It was ready for deployment. "Is that your masterpiece I have heard so much about" the chairman asked. "Indeed. Behold EVA Unit X-01 part of the X series. This EVA unit has an S2 engine and like units 5 through 13 it has retractable wings. It is indeed an impressive work of art. I would say that unit is my crowning achievement on the EVA project" Hojo said. "It is impressive what I have heard. Now the pilot; where is he" Keele asked. "He's down here. Follow me" Hojo said. Hojo led Keele down into a room where they found a young boy who was fourteen years of age judging by his appearance. He had short sliver hair and he had emerald green eyes that had a glow to them. His skin was almost pale as the boy was reading a book tiled Philosophy.

"Sephiroth; the chairman of SEELE Keele Lorenz is here to meet with you" Hojo said.

"Really this man is the head of SEELE" Sephiroth replied as he looked away from his book to face Keele.

"So you are the young man Hojo has been bragging about for fourteen years. Your two brothers were impressive with their powers, but Hojo told me that you stood out more and he saw fit that you were to given EVA unit X- 01 to pilot since you are the most powerful of the three born of Sephiroth's blood" Keele said. "I came here to ask you Sephiroth if you would like to do something for us" Keele asked.

"What is it" Sephiroth asked.

"Your friend Kaoru was supposed to find someone named Adam who is deep within NERV's LCL factory. I want you to finish what he started. I will give you the details later if you choose to accept to do what I want you to" Keele said. "I shall accept, but there is one thing I want" Sephiroth said as he looked over at a picture of him with Kaoru and his two cloned brothers. "If I get to use Unit X so I can use it to take Shinji Ikari's life" Sephiroth said.

"A interesting proposal; I'll consider it if you accept" the chairman said.

"Then I will accept if you will grant me that I can take Shinji Ikari's life then" Sephiroth asked.

"Agreed; then tomorrow I will give you the details" the chairman said as he and Hojo left his room. Sephiroth put away his book because he was never really looking at it. He only raised it up to hide what he was really looking at. He had a laptop hidden under a few books. He opened it up as he was searching around the facility's database for any information on himself he could find. Hojo knew he was hiding something's about his past from him and Sephiroth wanted to know what it was. He had been trying to hack his way through the database to unearth any information he could find. Finally Sephiroth got a message saying that he had finally broken through and now the information was his to read. Sephiroth had finally got the information he wanted and was examining it. Sephiroth was reading through the contents of his file as he learned many interesting facts about himself. Suddenly Sephiroth was receiving a telepathic message, so he answered it.

"Who is it" Sephiroth answered.

"Sephiroth its me" the voice asked.

"Did you find your target" Sephiroth asked. "We have confirmation on the location of our target brother. Do you want us yo go ahead with the plan" Sephiroth's brother asked. "Go ahead with the plan and if you cant nail the target then abort the mission. In two days we will go ahead with operation grand steal" Sephiroth said. "Then tomorrow while the target is out in the open we'll take him out" the brother answered. "Precisely" Sephiroth replied. Good bye brother. We'll see you in two days" Sephiroth's brother said as he severed the telepathic connection.

"My own destiny shall begin in two days" Sephiroth thought as he pulled out a katana with another blade attached to the sword positioned right next to other blade. (A/N: Kadaj's sword from the Advent Children trailer. I am not sure what kind of sword it is.) He began sharpening it; then he began to hear something in his mind. He could sense another being out there with the power of Jenvoa. Sephiroth and his brothers were capable of sensing one another thanks to the link that had because of their Jenova cells and the cells of their biological father. Sephiroth was confused by this new person he was sensing. He never knew that there was another out there who was like him and his brothers. Once his plans were carried out he would find out who was this person who had powers similar to him and his brothers.

"Who could be out there that would possess powers similar to mines. I know it can not be the original Sephiroth, because people say that he was destroyed with Adam" Sephiroth thought.

"Who is this being? Who ever it is; I will find out who it is" Sephiroth thought to himself.

Sephiroth continued to read the information on the computer screen as a plan formed in his mind. While far away a man wearing black sat in darken room was holding a sword. He stood up as he smiled and said "It's time...Time for the world to see the return of the angels." The man laughed as he left the dark room.

A/N: Hojo had made a few clones of Sephiroth and he helped build EVA units 5 though 13 and he has built an EVA as well. This is just the beginning of my surprises. Basically there are two Sephiroth's; one is young and the other is the original. The question is will both Sephiroth work with each other or will they try to fight one another. Now the real fun begins in the coming chapters and as my story unfolds you will learn of what Hojo and the original Sephiroth have been up to. I don't want to give away too much. But the three clones are based on the three sliver haired men in Advent children. Except the young Sephiroth in this story has slightly shorter hair than Kadaj in this fic. I would say the hair length is almost the same length as Shinji's hair length. Now next chapter Shinji will have a little encounter with the clones. By the way thanks for the info on Keele's name.