After marching out of the canteen, Sephiroth went straight to his office, locked himself in and then sank down on the chair, in furious misery. Zack! Damn that Zack! Snatching his sexy baby chocobo away before he'd had a single peck!

Oh, he'd get him back. Oh, he'd make him suffer, make him pay, really pay, really, really regret getting in the way of the Silver General!

Sephiroth took a deep breath, fists clenched, and then stood up again. After a few seconds, he started to laugh, his shoulders shaking. There was a cunning look in his eyes.

Time for a plan...

.

"I need a love potion," said Genesis, marching into Hojo's lab. He'd just taken a boat to Nibelheim.

"Hello, friend of my son!" Hojo got up from his test-tube-covered desk and slimed his way over to Genesis. Genesis glared.

"Don't call me that. He will never be your son."

Genesis would never forget what Sephiroth had told him. The needles, piercing his skin and his internal organs when he was little more than a baby. His screams, which Hojo had ignored, laughing madly as the light glinted off his glasses like the sun glinting off a guillotine in a public execution. The pain as mako burned its way through his system, turning him into a creature that was more monster than man.

No. Sephiroth would never forgive Hojo, and neither would Genesis.

But he needed that love potion.

"One can't change one's genes, Genesis!" cackled Hojo. "We scientists may be able to clone people, but genetic manipulation is still a long way off!"

"Shut up and give me a love-potion," said Genesis. Hojo frowned, apparently hearing him for the first time.

"What do you want that for?"

Genesis bit his lip. "Don't ask stupid questions," he said, with a flamboyantly dismissive gesture.

"Ooh, grumpy, grumpy..." Hojo giggled, voice squeaking. "Well now, come this way..." He led Genesis deeper into the lab, seeming innocent.

But there was a creepy gleam in his eyes. It looked like Genesis might be in trouble...

Back at Shinra, Zack was giving Cloud the tour of the barracks. They went up a narrow corridor that was so narrow that they were almost touching as they walked down it. Cloud closed his eyes, feeling sparks.

"Hey, open your eyes and look!"

Cloud's eyes flew open as Zack opened a door in front of them. After a nod from Zack, Cloud leaned forward to see what was inside...

… And a pair of hands pushed him in!