Final Fantasy 7: The Return of the Crisis Chapter 3: Hojo's Secret Experiment ".....Cloud......Cloud Stife.......you may have destroyed me.......but you will never.....ever.....destroy the true me......I'm Sephiroth!!!" "Urgh!!" Cloud shouted as he was awakened by this continuos speaking in his head. This voice sound so familiar to him... "It can't be...He should be dead already. I finished him with Omni Slash in Lifestream...The presence of him should be gone...Am I thinking too much?" Cloud thought. Sweat dripped from his chin onto the blanket, he can't believe that he is hearing from him again. "Whats wrong Cloud?" Tifa went in the tent and asked as she heard Cloud shout. "Nothing Tifa, nothing is wrong." said Cloud coldly. Again Tifa saw this cold, sad, lonely look on Cloud. She have never seen it ever since after he had killed Sephiroth. Tifa gave a questioned look on her face, hoping Cloud could answer her why is he behavin in such a way. But Cloud stood up and went out of the tent, leaving Tifa in the behind. Tifa sighed and followed him. In the morning mist, Cloud walked towards the wrecked Shinra HQ. There's something he have to find there, Hojo's report on Jenova and Sephiroth. Only this way, he can find out the true powers that Jenova and Sephiroth have. He turned around the corner and head for the centre of Midgar. He saw Junon Shinra work crew were already there, removing the corrupted building materials. Cloud walked to Welson, who is conducting all this. "What are you doing now?" Cloud asked curiously. "We are removing the waste materials to go in and search for documents we need." answered Welson. "Documents? What type?" Cloud asked again. "I'm afraid that I cannot tell you. Those documents are Midgar Shinra and Junon Shinra's most top secret informations and projects." replied Welson. "I don't need to know that. All I wanted to know is that, are you able to find any of Hojo's project information?" asked Coud. "Well, we will try to find it, if it got nothing to do with what we are looking for." just as Welson finished speaking, a Third Class SOLDIER came infront of them. "Sir, we found a trap door leading to a underground office. We belive that is Hojo's secret office as the entrance have Hojo's personal symbol. Shall we enter it?" reported the Third Class SOLDIER. "Of course, Cloud, you come too." Welson said as he followed the Third Class SOLDIER to where the trap door is. Cloud followed, with Tifa quietly sneaking up from behind. Soon they arrived infront of the trap door. The trap door is right under the stairs beside the Shinra HQ. The Third Class SOLDIER pulled opened the trap door and they went in. The atmosphere in there smelt more and more like chemicals as they went further downwards. Finally, they reached the very bottom, the Third Class SOLDIER reached left of the room and switched on the light. The light was dim, they looked around and found out it is running on its own electricity. From the dim light, they saw a large working desk with books, documents and papers scattered on top. Behind the table was a big bookself filled with books about how Shinra Company rose, projects they've done and other stuff concerning the company. Cloud walked up to the table and took a look on the documents while he others wander around, looking for the things they need. While Cloud was looking through, he saw this folder, on top it wrote: 'Jenova Project'. Cloud opened it and took a look inside. 'Jenova We belive that Jenova got some sort of special power that will increase its own strength everytime it escaped death. For example, when Jevona was still a specimen, Cloud, the failure clone attacked it and nearly killed it. It somehow escaped onto the cargo ship at Junon, and when Cloud met it again, it became Jenova-Birth. So this means that it will evolve evertime it nearly get killed and therefore it will be easy for it to cheat death. From the previous encounter of Jenova, we can tell that it is almost imposible to kill it. But there might be a way. Even though Jenova infected the Cetras and made them extinct, but from some sources it showed that Jenova was also afraid of the Cetras. We know this as Jenova so insist on getting Aeris killed, thats why was killed by the shadow Sephiroth in the Ancient City. This might be the key to totally destroy Jenova. But since the last Cetra was gone, this was is useless. Maybe we can try........' Cloud tried to read that sentence, but the letter is too faint so he skipped that sentence and jumpped to the next paragraph. ' However, even if we vanish Jenova comepletly, if there's a single object which was injected with Jenova cells, there will be a big possibility that Jenova will revive. And, if the injected object is a living creature and died, the living creature could be revived also. So if we want to totally destroy that thing, we will have to destroy every single thing I inject Jenova cells into. I have injected Jenova cells into........' Again, the letter is too faint and it is also the end so Cloud put this aside and opened another folder which the header is 'Sephiroth'. 'Sephiroth We seem to have Sephiroth under control since when he is 17. He went beserk at that time, and went on attacking every single person or thing. We had seen most of the attacks and magic he can use at that time, but there's one strange thing. He evolved into a beast with one wing and four tentacles acting as his legs. His top part body remains the same when he was in human(?) form. Even he turned into this kind of form, we can still know, that is not his full power. He seem to be calmed down after that incident, but he exploded again in Nebleheim a few years later. Afterwards, he disappeared. I wonder where he could be? He could become a real threat if we don't do anything......' Cloud now have a rough idea of what powers that Jenova and Sephiroth have. He fold the two documents up and ready to leave. But one thing caught his attention. He found two more folders with the heading 'Zack' and 'Aeris'. 'Zack The coming First Class SOLDIER after Sephiroth. Even though he is the Elite force of SOLDIER, but he knows too much stuff about our company. We have to get rid of him somehow. We decided to kill him after he returned from the Mt. Nibel Reactor inspection mission. But it went wrong. Sephiroth somehows that Jenova was kepted inside the reactor and actually broke in to take her out. Zack tried to stop him, but was severely injured. All we know later on is that, Sephiroth had taken Jenova out, and burnt the town. When we received the news that the inspection mission went wrong, we rushed there o see what happened. When we got there, we saw Zack, an unknown Low Class SOLIER and a local girl, all injured there. We sent the local girl back to here house to recieve medical treatment, and took Zack and the unknown Low Class SOLDIER back to the secret undergound room in Shinra Mansion. We might be able to put them into good use.....' Thats the end of the report. Cloud laid down the folder and opened Aeris's folder. 'Aeris Last surviving(?) Cetra. Since the death of Eflana, our concentration for Cetras was on her. From the studies of the cells of her's from last time's capture, we believed that Cetras have a very strong life force. But why did they die when Jenova infected them? Probably it was because the invasion of Jenova cells lead to the corruption of inner organs. There might be a possibility that some of the ancients escaped the Jenova infection, but most likely they were already hunted down by Jenova. I remember in the report that Prof. Gast did with Eflana, she mentioned that there was a Promised Land, where they said that the surviving Cetras escaped to. But the report say that Eflana don't know about this place too, so I doubt that there's such a place.' Cloud folded up all the 4 folders he had seen and put it under his arm. As he was about to walk out, he noticed a folder with the heading 'Top Secret! Jenova Cells Bio Experiment'. Cloud sat down again and opened that folder. 'Jenova Cells Bio Experiment We have tried injecting Jenova cells into alot of living things. But this time, I am going to try something different. Try to inject Jenova Cells into plants. We started this about 2 years ago. We gathered some plants and went to my secret lab at 2 o'cl 300m r200m ungr. There, we injected Jenova Cells into the plants and left it there for a few days. We went back to observe it, and nothing happened to them. Weeks, months went past, and still nothing happened to them. We tried every single chemical on it and still no reaction. It wasn't until one of my work crew accidentally spilt some Mako Energy on it, then we saw the reaction. The plant mutated a little and grew a bit larger. Then we dropped a few more drops of Mako Energy on it. It mutated more, and grew more. We finally came to the conclusion that injected plants will mutate once exposed to Mako Energy. Even though this is dangerous, we still kept this experiment going as we were doing further inspections. But beware, do not expose the plants to an over amount of Mako Energy, as it may cause some effects to Jenova and to the plants!!!' Cloud gasped. This was the thing he was worried about, the possibility of Jenova reviving. He found Welson in the corner taking neccessary books. "Welson! Where's Reeve and the Midgar Shinra SOLDIER group?" Cloud asked, loudly. "They are in.....Sector 3. Why you need to know that for?" asked Welson back. "Don't ask! Get your SOLDIER group ready, the world might be threatened again!!" Cloud replied as he ran out of the underground office. He bumped into Tifa just around the corner. "Tifa! Get the others to Sector 3. Just say it's emergency!" demanded Cloud. "Oh..okay Cloud." said Tifa as she ran off. Cloud then ran towards Sector 3, along with the top secret folder.