Chapter 15
Shadows of the past

Hojo was sitting in a chair in a room full of computer monitors. From the room Hojo was in he could monitor what was going in NERV at all times. He had his hands held up in front of him while he was bust observing the Eva pilots who were sitting down together at staff cafeteria talking. The three pilots seemed to be getting along nicely, but on occasion Sephiroth junior and Asuka would get into an argument. While Hojo was busy observing them Jen approached him from behind.

"So professor...what are the pilots up to?" Jen asked with an emotionless expression. The Professor looked over his shoulder and replied "They are just chatting, but so far I haven't noticed any of the pilots other Jenova powers surface yet."

"I see...then it is time to take matters into my own hands." Jen said while walking away. Hojo knew what Jen was planning to do, but the professor didn't care he thought that the coming battle with Jen and the pilots would prove to be interesting.

Meanwhile Sephiroth Junior, Shinji and Asuka were still in the staff cafeteria. Shinji was watching as Asuka was trying to get Sephiroth junior to tell her how to use energy attacks with her Jenova powers, but so far the sliver haired swordsman had refused. Cloud and Misato were still at a table near by watching them to make sure that Sephiroth junior wouldn't cause any trouble. At the same time Cloud and Misato were busy having a nice little chat while Shinji was still being forced to listen to Asuka's bitching.

Shinji saw there was a cup of Jell-O available so he went up and he grabbed it. He returned to his table to eat while a woman wearing black leather entered the room. He walked up to Shinji. Jen looked down on him with a scornful glaze. Shinji finished eating when he looked up to see the young beautiful fourteen year old looking down on him with a very vicious glaze.

"Uh I can I help you with something?" Shinji asked quietly. "Yes you can help me with something?" Jen said as a twisted smile appeared on her face. Sephiroth Junior and Asuka stopped arguing to see the new person in the room standing in front of Shinji.

"Oh shit!" Sephiroth shouted as he reached for his sword that NERV let him keep only if he didn't try to kill anyone.

"Who is that?" Asuka asked as she looked at the woman with a curious expression. "Remember that girl I told you about? The one who was a clone of Jenova and the one person I told Shinji to be worried about?" Sephiroth said as he drew his sword.

"You mean that's her? That is the girl who had a crush on Kaoru?" Asuka asked as her eyes went wide when she realized who Sephiroth was taking about. Cloud and Misato stopped chatting to notice the new arrival. Cloud saw how Sephiroth junior and Asuka were reacting, at that moment Cloud new that woman in black had to be bad news to startle Sephiroth junior like that. Cloud got up from his seat as he walked over to the woman in black cautiously.

"Jen why are you here?" Sephiroth junior shouted. Jen laughed as Shinji blood went cold and he remember to be worried about a woman named Jen. He knew he was in trouble. "I am here to kill Shinji for murdering Kaoru. I can see that Loz failed to kill you three." Jen replied as she looked over her shoulder at Sephiroth Junior.

"You knew about Loz's allegiance to Sephiroth?" Junior shouted at the woman.

"Of course I did. Hojo knew as well."

"Where is Hojo?" Asuka shouted while giving Jen a scornful look. "He's here...somewhere in NERV. But if you want to find him that is something you'll have to do yourselves." Jen replied to Asuka with a coy expression on her face.

"Tell us Jen where is Hojo!" Cloud demanded.

"I am not in the mood to fight all of you. My power shouldn't be wasted on weaklings like you five. Besides I wouldn't want my beautiful face to get ruined." Jen replied as she tossed back some of her hair black with her hand. She pulled back a sleeve of her black shit on her left arm then she drew a knife with the other arm.

She stabbed the knife into her arm. Then purple blood dripped out from the wound. The blood on the ground began to move as it started to grow larger. Seconds later the drops of blood transformed into a large monster. The monster grew to a good twenty feet tall, it massive size almost broke the ceiling of the cafeteria in the process. The monster was very similar to Jenova-birth. This monster shared the same attacks Jenova birth had as it started attacking the pilots with its tail laser.

Shinji and Asuka evaded the laser by dropping to the ground and rolling to the side while Sephiroth Junior protected himself with his AT field. Jen disappeared from the room, but that didn't stop Cloud from attacking the monster with his sword. He cut deep into the monster's chest, but a pair of tentacles threw him back. Misato ran over to a wall and she hit the alarm to alert the rest of NERV to the monster attack. Misato pulled out her gun then she started blasting the monster. Her gun proved to be useless against the monster as it simply regenerated after each shot.

Cloud cast an Ultima spell on the monster, but the attack wasn't strong enough to finish it off. Sephiroth Junior ran up the side of the monster's large tentacle as he stuck his sword into it and he was dragging it along as he ran up to the head. When Junior reached the neck of the monster he jumped up and he beheaded the monster. While he was falling to the ground he blasted it with a flare spell. The monster fell down to the ground as Junior landed a few feet away from the monster's body spinning his sword around in his hand. The creature wasn't dead yet as it began to rise up once more.

"Damn it! What dose it take to kill one of those things?" Misato yelled in frustration as she tried to re-load her gun.

"Don't worry we'll have that thing dead before" Cloud was saying, but he was interrupted when a massive onslaught of energy shots that was pouring into the room and they were quickly reducing the Jenova monster into a pile of smoking ashes. Fuyutski accompany by a few security guards entered the room from the other side to see the dead remains of the monster.

"What happened here?" Fuyutski demanded as he examined the burnt remains of the monster.

"Hey Sephiroth Junior did you do that?" Shinji asked him as he crawled out from underneath a table.

"I wish I did, but honesty I didn't do that...did you do that Cloud?" Junior asked as he looked at the blonde swordsman with an observant glaze.

"Well if you didn't do it and if I didn't do it then who did?" Cloud said as he raised his left hand up to rub his chin to think.

If anyone had bothered to run out to the back door of the cafeteria they would have seen Rei walking down the hall with some energy sparking off of her left hand. "Your Jenova abilities have grown stronger" Sephiroth voice was heard in Rei's mind.

"I know. The abilities and skills you taught me when you passed you knowledge of fighting onto me through the metal link we have. They will prove useful towards completing my objective." Rei replied in her mind.

"Indeed, but why did you save the pilots?" Sephiroth asked the blue haired girl.

"You still need them to fulfill your own ends don't you?"

"Very true my dear." Sephiroth replied coldly.

Meanwhile in Gendo's office he was sitting in front of his desk waiting for any kind of information that would be helpful to him. Suddenly he saw something appear on his computer screen in front of him. He looked at it closely and it said "Jenova project phase two." The Magi system had found what Gendo needed on the Jenova project. Gendo opened the folder and he started looking through it. Meanwhile in a dark room somewhere on the planet was Sephiroth sitting in front of a desk looking at a computer monitor watching Gendo in his office with a smile on his face.

"I think I have kept the secrets of the Jenova project long enough Hojo. I'll let Gendo find out the full details of the project and he will take care of you for me." Sephiroth thought as his laughter grew louder and colder at the thought of what will become of Hojo once Gendo knows everything about the Jenova project. However though the only bit of information that the folder Sephiroth sent Gendo doesn't have is the current whereabouts of Jenova's remains. One of a few secrets Sephiroth indented to keep for a little while longer.