Hojo is a simple man, doing arithmetic in his head, a god on earth that belonged to him that has his tag, a simple man indeed. Hojo was a good person, acing all his tests in high, able to go to any college. Although now he isn't much of a man, a professor of a dead company, locked away in a room with nothing but stress on him. Thus begins a chapter in this story.

'Another day another repair bill.' Hojo thought, 'this'd be nothing if I only had that money he was getting right now.' He yapped about in his mind. Footsteps were heard in the broken hallway. "Hello, have you got the money?" Hojo asked. "If I didn't it wouldn't matter." Sephiroth smirked, "but yes I have the money." A bag of cash was dumped besides Hojo. "Any trouble?" Hojo inquired. "They are weak, Cloud isn't strong anymore. It was only a mere bravado the last time…so I think." Sephiroth said kneeling down, sticking out his hand. "Ah yes the reward, this will last you 1 year, now run along now." Hojo responded as if to a begging puppy giving a small capsule to Sephiroth, "and oh yes, I know you like to toy with them…but please they may prove a nuisance." "As you want it you shall have it." "Good. If you finish them and SHINRA gets back running, the reward is immortality."

"Here we are, SHINRA." Cloud stated, "I'll go in first the rest of you cover me." Barret didn't like that as much as Cloud, "cover? Come on man, we're in on this to!" he responded to Cloud angrily. "Business, it's my business. I got us into this I'm going to complete it." Cloud said walking down the jagged rocks near the main building.

"They are here." Sephiroth said, "well don't just stand there get to the roof before nightfall and feed yourself with the capsule, and make yourself...live!" Hojo spoke out. Sephiroth glared at Hojo and then went straight to the smashed roof, but it was still the roof.

"Where is he? Where's Hojo?" Cloud busted the door open. Reno got up from a desk and pulled out a gun, "you're not supposed to be here." "I'm here for Hojo not to beat you to a pulp." Reno fired 5 shots right after Cloud kicked a metallic door in front of him. Reno huffed, "no one sees Hojo, he has a quarantine." He ducked under the desk he was sitting at earlier. "Who put that up-Rufus?" Cloud asked rolling to the other side of the desk, buster sword ready. Reno stood moving his gun along the room.

"Where are the other turks?" "Out on a road trip." Cloud sliced at Reno's gun then ran. The gun exploded. Reno screamed in pain and fell to the floor. Cloud sheathed his sword; his business was back on schedule. Once he hit the second floor he shot Reno's gun out to Barret, who was 10 miles away from Tifa, who'd enter from the back entrance.

Tifa was sitting near the back door cracking her knuckles; she was after all kind of nervous. Barret fired shots up into the air that was her cue; she ran in, the basement floor was clear. "I hope Sephiroth is really here, not back at Junon or where ever."

"Hojo!" Cloud ran to Hojo. "Hello…failure, I've been waiting." "You're the one behind Sephiroth!" "Of course fool, the capsules I've been giving him have been boosting his strength and allowing him to live." "How did you-" "Simple my boy, all I had to do was do some dirty work myself. I'm a scientist, a professor. I am all that I am, my genius was able to use a small titanium drill and a propeller to go down the crater. All that I had to do was pull Sephiroth out after that 'spiritual' battle you two had." "How did you get him from killing you and just taking all the capsules?" "A small electrical patch was pasted to his skin. Plus, I know tons of your information. After all you are his adversary." "You're getting at…?" "You fool, all your personal information, everything." "Your forgetting something…he already knows me."

"You are correct, but I still have the upper hand on him." "And me Hojo? What about me?" "Well this long talk has gone no-where, it's obvious, you have the same patch from when I created you." "There is one thing I'm here for, whatever you're giving to Sephiroth. I need it." "There is only one left, it will last 30 minutes, and the result of the capsule good murder you from the inside, and what makes you think I'd give it to you?" "In this order; don't care, that's long enough, I would die fighting him anyways, and I have a sword to your neck." Cloud said, ending the longest conversation he had had for a while, taking his buster sword to Hojo's neck.

Barret took the second floor, "clear, no one I here takin' my post." Barret said on a walkie-talkie Cid took the third post, "bla-bla-bla ditto." Tifa sat a cut up desk. She was sitting there for what seemed for an hour when she realized something, Reno. There was an access card on the knocked out man, he would die of blood loss soon, she wondered if she could sneak off for a while and try to get to the roof, maybe she could look at the sunset or something it definitely bested just sitting there. Barret was eyeing his gun, maybe he could grab a snack or something…it would only require him leaving his spot for a while. Cid was eyeing his empty cigarette case and sniffed, without his supply of nicotine he'd be sure to lose self-control.

Cloud started again, "I still don't understand, he was bad news for all of us…he'd bring havoc. Yet you keep on have him rebuilt…re- whatever it is you do to make him live…-for the third time-…why?" " Sephiroth is forced to do my bidding, you kill me, and he kills you and company." Cloud's eyes opened, "he's here?" "What he wouldn't be back at the raided towns. Don't be stupid…failure." A stinging sensation hit Cloud when he heard 'failure'. "Look, where is he, where is the capsule, and I'll leave you alone." Hojo responded silently, giving Cloud a small capsule or maybe a tablet. "Eat it." Cloud popped it in his mouth. "He's on the roof. Though I doubt you can beat him." Cloud walked out of the small room, he didn't need Hojo's support.

Sephiroth stood there waiting for Cloud to open the latch. It was nightfall, and he had been eager to see cloud's full strength. His power was surging through his blood, through his veins. Soon he would be able to defeat Cloud, the whelp will cower before him, and he'd show no mercy. "Hello, Cloud," Sephiroth greeted his enemy once he heard the hatch open. "Sephiroth, it's over. You know it's going to end with your body lying flat on this roof." Cloud said, climbing out of the latch, "but it's been a while, I'm warmed up now." Cloud said getting in a battle stance. "Now Cloud, don't be so hasty, there is plenty of time. Don't you want to hear something to fight against? Maybe some motivation?" Cloud shook his head. "Very well then." Sephiroth unsheathed the Masamune slowly, "let's begin."

Tifa took the card and slipped it in a small slot, the door beside the slot unlocked. "And here I go again." She talked to herself. "Maybe these stairs goes to the roof." She ran up the stairs. That's when she heard it, the sound of clashing swords. Tifa saw a ladder up ahead, she climbed up it and opened a latch made of wood, 'Sephiroth is here' that's bad, if he sees Barret and the others-' she thought, and there it was again. The sound of swords crashing, right in front of her was Cloud kicking up dust, blocking a rally of Sephiroth's blows. "You are weak Cloud, every time I see you, I see a coward." "Well I'm glad you see yourself in me." They charged at each other again. 'Why is he always fighting' Tifa asked herself, watching the tide of the battle turn.

"Good, good." Sephiroth smirked while being knocked by the flat end of Cloud's buster sword,
"much…better." Sephiroth realized the concept suddenly. Cloud jumped high into the air and swooped down, the buster sword lodged into the ground, Sephiroth started to crowd Cloud, but was kicked in the stomach, in reaction he skirted along the roof. "You're using Hojo's capsules?" Cloud nodded. "Then I'll have to use my full potential on you." "Then lets end this." They both grinned, it was the beginning of the end…again.