Miles and Weiss had just entered the reactor's main chamber. Unaware that there were multiple Genesis', Weiss stopped in his tracks upon seeing him standing on the staircase between the rows of pods.
"Brother?" Weiss asked, looking shocked.
Genesis shot Miles an irritated look, angry that Weiss was kept in the dark.
"Oh, yes," Miles said, realizing what the look was for. "I forgot to mention; that other Genesis was a copy, this is your real brother," he informed Weiss nonchalantly. "That's why we didn't stop in Nibelhiem."
As Miles talked, he was walking up the stairs towards the room marked Jenova. He opened the door and inside the room was a make-shift work station which consisted of a table, chair, and a computer with multiple monitors that were all turned off. He looked around his station and frowned.
"What's the point of taking the time to set up the security cameras if you don't turn on the monitors?" he asked Genesis, sounding annoyed.
"Relax, nobody knows I'm here," Genesis called out to Miles as he walked down the steps towards Weiss. "After the Turks showed up looking for Cloud, I have not seen anyone since. We were just lucky they didn't have time to inspect the place before they were called away. I had my doubts about your convoluted plan, but your distraction worked, and you revived Weiss like you said you would." Genesis put his hand on Weiss shoulder and smiled.
"If you haven't noticed," Miles called out from the room sounding a little insulted. "My plans always work!"
"What plan?" Weiss asked Genesis, starting to get a little angry at the fact he was not trusted with the truth from the beginning. He was Weiss the immaculate, not some pawn in their scheme.
"Don't worry," Genesis reassured, sensing Weiss' anger. "I told my copy to protect you at all costs. You will understand once you see what I have planned."
He motioned to the mako chambers in the room.
"More copies?" Weiss asked, not sounding very impressed.
"Better," Genesis smiled. "It took a long time, but I was able to recover a few of our injured brothers and sisters who were sealed in chambers before the fall of Shinra. We've healed them using my DNA and concentrated mako. They will be as strong as you and me, perfect additions to our family."
Weiss smiled at the thought of Deepground still being alive. He considered the members of Deepground a far superior species and he hated seeing them reduced to just a hand full of followers.
"When will they be ready?" he asked.
"They're ready now," Miles called out to them, still in the room. He was leaning on the table working and half-listening to the conversation. "We've been treating them for months but when I heard of the WRO's plan to destroy the reactors, we needed a distraction to buy us some time."
Weiss was happy with this plan, but he had many questions. He walked up to the first pod in the front row closest to him. He looked in to see a young female with wavy dark hair and lightly bronzed skin. Weiss could make out a few faint scars on the side of her face and arms. She was wearing SOLDIER 1st class armor and uniform but had the Deepground crest.
Weiss looked through the next pod to see a tall bulky man with dirty blond shoulder length hair. He looked to be in his late twenties or early thirties. He was wearing a Deepground body suit with no armor and had a long coat over his clothes.
The last occupied pod on the other side of the stairs had a young slender man with short spiky brown hair and was wearing the Deepground uniform and body armor.
All three of them were floating unconscious. He did not recognize any of them, but Deepground was large and made up of many different groups with the Tsviets being the smallest and most elite amongst them.
Since he was defeated during the Omega incident, he had no idea how many of his fellow Deepground members survived. He heard the fake Genesis elude to Deepground being alive and well.
Weiss looked at Genesis. "Are you sure they will join us after all this time?" he asked.
The original Deepground was full of strong independent SOLDIERs. They had very little loyalty to any one person and would constantly attempt to overthrow the leaders; he was especially guilty of this. It was so bad the Restrictors had to use implanted microchips in order to control him and the other Tsviets.
"The same way the Restrictors controlled you; with a microchip," Miles answered matter-of-factly. He was now standing at the top of the stairs looking down at them with his arms crossed.
Weiss laughed at the scientist. He hated humans and was not very fond of Miles. If it wasn't for the fact that he was helping them, Weiss would have killed the smug bastard by now.
"Like the chip you implanted in Cloud?" Weiss commented sarcastically. "That worked out well."
If the chip could not work on a fake SOLDIER like Cloud, it would not be powerful enough to stop his fellow Deepground members.
Miles shot him a dirty look and walked down the steps towards the two. "That chip was Hojo's primitive design and it had been implanted in him for years. Although it was probably more effected when first implanted, it appears overtime Cloud had adapted to it and learned how to overcome the mind control feature. I should add that the remote feature I designed was doing a stand-up job at frying his brain before it was destroyed."
Miles turned to first pod with the woman inside it. He checked the pressure valve next to the pod then turned back towards Weiss and continued talking. "My design is based on the microchip that the Restrictor implanted in you. It is designed to prevent the subject from harming its master, in their case, Genesis."
"Did you implant a virus like they did with me?" Weiss asked. When the he was under the control of the Restrictor, he was implanted with a chip that released a toxin when he murdered his master, but that still wasn't enough to suppress him because he eventually found a way to overcome it.
Miles nodded yes. "Of course," he replied.
Miles was not dumb. He was creating very powerful humans and needed a failsafe in case they turned against them. He understood the importance of learning from other's mistakes. The only difference was his poison would cause instant death to even the most powerful creature. It took Miles a long time to prefect the design the Restrictor's used on Weiss. In Weiss' case, the microchip would prevent the subject from harming the master, but if they did manage to rebel, the poison would only release if the subject killed the master. Miles did not like this idea, he adjusted it so every time the subject even attempted to attack their master, not only would they experience pain, they would also risk releasing the toxin causing instant death. He figured this would be a greater deterrent to the subject and was little risk to master. In Weiss' case, he killed the Restrictor not caring if he lived or died. With Miles' design, death to the master is less likely because the subject should die before it got to that point.
Miles walked back up the stairs towards his makeshift office. He glanced at the screens to see a Shinra helicopter parked out front of the reactor. On another screen he noticed the Turks arming explosives in the back of the building and on another one Cloud, Tifa and Cid were outside walking towards the reactor's entrance.
"It looks like we have company," Miles called out, informing Genesis and Weiss.
Miles was watching his adversaries on the screen as he formulated a plan of action. A big smile grew on his face as he thought of a perfect way to turn this situation around.
"We should free our comrades," Genesis suggested to Weiss.
Miles walked out of the room and walked down the stairs next to Weiss.
"After you release them, I need you to do something for me," Miles told the Tsviet.
Weiss and Genesis were about to walk towards the pods when everything around them went pitch black. A few seconds later the emergency lights came on consisting of just a few dim yellow lights and red lights marking the exit.
Miles frowned. "Now what?" he demanded, looking around.
Genesis and Weiss started to manually open the pods. Due to having no power, they were unable to drain the liquid prior to opening causing it to pour all over the floor.
The SOLDIERs instantly awoke when the pods opened. They stepped out of their containment and looked around trying to figure out where they were. All three of them smiled when they noticed the familiar face of Genesis standing before them.