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Deehe got out from behind his desk, Nekro was gone with Wydda, Deehe could see a pairing like that problematic, but still they were both skilled, there wasnt any harm for now. Deehe exited out into the hall, Pyrus was still there, that was good, Pyrus was one of the best Deehe had, wouldnt want boredom having him cut himself away.

"Pyrus, I'm cutting out for today, want to go get a drink, talk buisness, you look like theres something on your mind." Deehe called.

He had a feeling that Pyrus was having similar problems to Wdda, and Deehe himself, but that wasnt an assumption you made without more info.

"No..." Nekro said coldly to Wydda's speach. He didn't have the time for this fun, plus he needed to do something. He needed to talk to Hojo. He would control himself, but he needed to know the truth. The sun was rising and this would be the perfect time.

"I have things that must be done...alone."

Nekro pushed a button on the lift and stopped it. He walked out and gave a final glance at Wydda before the doors closed. He walked to another lift, and walked inside. He pressed the button for the Science department floor and it began to move. He shouldn't have much trouble getting to Hojo, seeing as how he was supposed to get his treatment today, anyhow. He would just walk in like he always did, there shouldn't be a problem.

The lift doors opened, and he glanced inside before entering. Everything looked normal. People were busy at their jobs, no blood, no death. Nekro thought to himself.

'Well, Shinra works fast...'

He entered and a secretary at one of the tables called out to him.

"Mr. Nekro!"

He looked at him, and saw her motioning him to come to him. He walked over to the man, and they spoke.

"Yes, you've been expected Mr. Nekro. Hojo will see you know."

"I've been expected, but..."

Nekro kept quiet, he didn't understand but Hojo isn't one to understand. He thanked the man and left his presence. He continued to Hojo's personal lab, thinking how it could be that Hojo knew he was coming. He came to the door, and he heard Hojo's voice from inside.

"Come inside..."

Nekro opened the door, and quickly entered. He grabbed for his katana, just incase, but Hojo waved his hand to put it away. Nekro loosened up a bit, but still was quite tense. Hojo reached inside his cabinet and brought out the vial with the red liquid in it.

"You've missed your last treatment, you know it's not healthy fo..."

Nekro interupted Hojo in a harsh voice.

"Hojo! Explain yourself! What is Jenova, and who is Sephiroth! I don't want anymore of your lies!"

Hojo looked at Nekro and smiled.

"You want the truth? Take of your bandages..." Hojo commanded.

"What, why?"

"Just take them off..." Hojo began to prepare the shot.

Nekro began to unravel the bandages covering his face. He didn't know what Hojo was up to but he wanted to know. Slowly he finished the task then asked Hojo.

"Why did you want me to do that?"

Hojo's brows rose and he smiled yet again. He grabbed for a small mirror on his table and put it infront of Nekro's face. Nekro looked into the mirror, but couldn't believe what he saw. Half his face had actual skin. His right eye socket actually had an eye in it. The other half of his face was covered by the moving red liquid. Nekro remembered his shoulder. He quickly unravelled it, and saw skin. Human skin covered his shoulder and the length of his arm. He took of his shirt and again saw his body, covering itself with skin. He unreally looked at Hojo.

"You see, this is what these injections have been doing to you. We are trying to bring you back, revitalize you. We are giving you a second life...but you must believe in us and do what we say, or you might as well be dead." Hojo finished making the shot, he reached for Nekro's arm and plunged the needle in. Nekro didn't resist. It was too wild for him, and he actual wanted it. To be normal. Hojo put away the needle and looked at Nekro.

"You are free to go...Come back in three days for another treatment. Also try not to dwelve in Shinra's business, or he will attempt to silence you again like he did last night."

Nekro nodded acceptingly, and began to clothe. He put the bandages back on, it was too early to walk around with them off. He left the lab still amazed at what he had seen. It was his true face, not the mess that had been there before.

::So cold… What’s going on? Where am I? Victor… Fay… Hojo… no ones answering.::

Kenji moved a tried moving a bit but found it hard to do so. His hands were locked in one position, his legs as well, and the weight on his chest was almost to much to bare.

::What happened? Why am I so cold?::

Kenji continued to try and move about, finally getting one hand free from their unknown locks, Kenji began to move it about digging, scratching, and punching anything he could feel. Snow… and a lot of it. He rested his hand for a moment and sighed as his memories started coming back to him.

We arrived here at Icicle Inn at 0800 hours by the Gelinka that Cid was piloting. We landed and departed from the Gelinka as it took off saying that it would return at later that week. The others and myself made our way to the village only to see that it was completely empty. There wasn’t a person to be seen. It was like they packed up and left without a trace. What was going on here? I had the others scout the area only to prove what I was thinking to be true. So instead of going through with our plan of staying at the Inn, I decided to have the men go and find Prof. Gast house. Within 10 minutes they had returned with an exact location and with news that he was still there along with one other. I smiled at the simplicity of this mission and at the thought of being back in my office within the next day or two. Before we moved in, I radioed Cid to return as soon as possible as he confirmed my request with a

“No F%$*in way! We’re low on fuel you crazy sonb*$#@”

I smiled and said,

::Fine, go and refuel at the nearest Shin-Ra base and return ASAP, got it!?::

“You bet your a** I got it. You think I’m stupid or something?”

With that the radio was turned off and I motioned for everyone to move in. Victor, Fay, and one other Soldier that we had brought along went around the back to ensure that they wouldn’t escape from there and Hojo, Myself, and two other Soldiers went to the front door. Knock, Knock…

‘GO AWAY!! WE DON’T WANT ANY PART IN YOUR IDIOTIC EVACUATION!’

I shook my head and looked at Hojo, who by the looks of it, was anticipating this moment like a father anticipating his son’s birth. I proceeded to knock again. There was no answer. I knocked again, this time with more force.

‘Who is it? What do you want?’

The idea of toying with him popped up in my mind several times in this brief moment but I decided to get down to business.

::You know who it is Professor Gast and we’re here to have a long overdue talk.::

The sounds of yelling could be heard, obviously to this unknown person that he has with him.

::You can let us in like a nice, kind person or we can let ourselves in, your choice.::
There was a brief silence for a few seconds and then the door began to unlock. As soon as the door swung open, there was Gast with some woman behind him.

:: I’m glad you saw it my way Professor.::

I closed my hand as the cold started getting to it, trying to warm it up. It was time to get out of this snowy version of hell and back to the real world. I struggled until I got my other hand free and started digging my way out. Not saying it was a breeze to get out of him and that my figures didn’t suffer, because they did. Cuts, frostbite, you name anything that you can suffer form the cold and my hands probley suffered from it. Finally, a ray of hope…the sun. A small hole had made itself evident and I kicked, punched, and scratched more then before until I couldn’t anymore. And when I thought all my energy was gone and that I wasn’t going to make it, I realized that I had indeed made it out. Looking around, I no longer saw the village of Icicle Inn was no more. It had been whipped out by an avalanche and the only remains were just a few pieces of wood that were sticking out of the snow. After seeing this, I had nothing left, not even enough energy to call Cid on the radio…that is if it even worked at the time, and pasted out.

When I awoke, I was in the back on the Gelinka, wrapped in a blanket with Hojo sitting next to me and he filled me in on where we were going… back towards ShinRa headquarters. “How long was I out?” Was the only thing I could think about. The fact that I had lost all my men or where Hojo had been didn’t matter to me. The Turks and the mission had priority over them. Men could be replaced as well as scientist but not his company or missions.

Over the course of the flight I discovered from that we did in fact complete the mission but with the loss of everyone that was with us. Hojo had killed Gast but the Ancient had escaped our grasp because of the avalanche. After I had passed out, Hojo found me who had taken shelter inside a partially fallen down house. There, we waited 6 days for weather conditions to settle down and then another two days for Cid to make it back with the Gelinka.

“HQ, this is Cid and I’m returning to base with the package. ETA, two hours and have a F---ing med team ready! We’ve got two sick kids joining the ranks again.”

Krain walked inside the plain, took a seat and layed the boy down on the seat next to him. He looked at the kid and said.

"Rough day at work, eh?"

He sat back and began to think. The mission was done and now all he needed was his pay. He took out his bottle again, but it was empty.

"Damn..."

He dropped the bottle on the ground and looked out of the window. He noticed the same Neo Turk girl that he saw sitting in between the other two. She was standing outside, alone.

"Ooh, here's my chance!"

He looked at the kid, and asked.

"You think you gonna be alright sitting here alone?"

Noticing that there is no answer, he grabbed the kid by the hair and slowly made his head nod.

"Good! I'll be back soon."

Krain got of his seat and ran out the airplain door, but as he got outside he noticed the Neo Turk girl running somewhere. He scratched his head and decided to follow. The girl ran quickly and because Krain had a slight hang over, he was trailing far behind her. He stopped to catch his breath and saw that she went into forest brush.

"Damn, she's...quick..."

He cought his breath and silently followed on. He went inside the brush and quickly stopped as he heard voices. It was that of a man's. He hid low in a bush, without making any sound, and listened. He heard the man interigating the Neo Turk woman, then she spoke. He heard her say things about betraying Shin-Ra. It was unreal, but it was true. He heard there talk come to an end, and he ducked deeper into the bush. The woman started to walk of, as did the men.

'Well, this will prove interesting.'

They all left and he waited until enough time passed to get out. Finally it was time and he silently took a different path to the plain as not to arouse suspicion. As he arrived at the plain he noticed everyone standing waiting for him. Quickly brushing himself of he walked up to them.

"Ahaha, sorry about that. I had to take a tinkle, and got lost."

Everyone gave him an evil gaze as he walked into the plain. The Neo Turk woman was sitting in the far end of the plain. He wasn't going to sell her out, he like her too much to do that, but he had to take some action.

The next day they arrived at Midgar. Krain woke up in his seat, and looked around, the kid was gone. Probably taken to the infirmary for proper care, and nobody else was inside the plain.

"Bastards could've woken me up at least..."

He got up and stretched. Remembering what had happened yesterday, he began to think.

'Well I think I should go report our mission...after breakfast, and a good bottle of Vodka!'

With a smile he ran out into the gigantic city.

As Kazuo exited Hojo's lab he noticed some woman with black/red hair running out of the door. He took little notice of it, because he was too deep in his own thoughts. He continued walking down the hall until he arrived at the lift. He walked inside and the doors closed. He just stood in the lift for while still being amazed that his face is almost normal.

He pressed the button for his floor and waited. The lift slowly came to a stop and the doors opened. He walked out and followed down the hall until he reached his chambers. He opened the door and walked inside.

Everything was now clean, the blood was washed away and the bodies were disposed of. He walked to his bed, sat down and began to unravel the bandages on his face.

He glanced in his mirror and saw his face, or at least half of it. He didn't remember it, and this scared him. He was becoming a new person, normal, like the rest. But he didn't remember. He slid his hand along his cheek and felt the skin. Such a delightful fealing. Again he noticed the red liquid moving, he thought to himself.

"If this is what Jenova cells can give me, then I will accept them..."

He rapped hismelf back up and lay down on his bed. He couldn't sleep, he just wasn't tired. In fact he was never tired, like a machine. At least with his face back to normal he would feal human, even if he really wasn't. He closed his eyes, and just layed still.

Wydda Looked at the girl who had almost run into in her hurry to get to her destination as she headed for her dormitory. Wydda turned the corner and headed for the elevator. She swiped her keycard in the panel so the elevator could take her to the lobby.

She stood in front of the door waiting for it to open. After what seemed to be about a halfhour of people pileing in and out of the elevator she finally got off on the first floor lobby.

She left the Shin-Ra building and headed for the under ground parking where her Motorcycle was taken.<.I still do not understand why he had suspended me due to my lack of..Vincent Valentine..>Wydda climbed onto her motorcycle and placed her helmet over her head and slipped on her knee length black overcoat. She sped out from the underground parking and onto the streets of midgar.

Wydda thought thinking that it might be enough to keep her form suspended any further.

The car had begun to move at a quick and steady pace, heading who knows where.

Sanae handed the papers to the man sitting across from her. He flipped through them seemingly impressed. "All that I asked is not here. Where is Wydda's profile?" He asked with a hint of anger in his voice. Sanae pulled out a file from her Turk uniform and handed it to the man.

"If I may ask what exactly do you have planned with this turk?" Sanae asked carefully, hopeing to not anger him.

"Why did you with hold these papers from me?" He asked completely ignoreing her question. "I wanted to see why you wanted them first, I was still going to give them to you." Sanae replied quietly.

"Well it seems you have done you part well. You will not recieve, acess to any floors below three, and you will always be accompanied by a trusted guard of mine wherever you go. No exceptions" He stated sternly.

Sanae nodded, a man in a dress suit opeoend the door to the car as it stopped abruptly. "You will be given a tour of the floors you are allowed on. By the way my name is Thomas, that will be all you need to know of me for now." He smiled as he finally introduced himself to her.

Sanae smiled back and replied. "Thank you for this." She then got out of the car and looked around herself to become aware of her surroundings.
She recognized this place, it was sector one of the slums, the least used sector of them all, it used to be full of industrious buildings, now their just empty shells.

Sanae heard the sound of some sort of vehicle, she thought to herself, but then the sound had disappeard. Sanae tried to see beyond a pile of refuse but was pulled aside by Thomas. "We will teach you all their is to know about our faction. I think you will be very pleased."

The two guards and sanae walked behind the Thomas and entered the dark looking and seemingly empty building.

Thomas gave her a tour of the building showing her the dorms and introducing her to her team."You will be the leader of our highest ranking officers." Stated Thomas as he finished up their lesson, he looked proud to have found someone as worthy as Sanae to lead their assasinations.

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