[Telepathic conversation to Jenova and Sephiroth]
[Drowning again, the haze cool between his fingers, sliding without form over the scars on his skin and the crevasses of his mind. Within the tank, Hojo's head lolls, consciousness surrendered to the green mist before his eyes; an entire population of voices bypasses his ears and sings straight to the auditory centre of his brain. He follows. Green
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Mother... [No answer. That was strange. Just when he really needed her around right about now she was engaged. What in the hell could be so pressing, she knew what he had to do today, and truth be told he expected her contact well before now] Might have not been so bad [Futile thought that, this had been his fight, his victory and his vengeance. If she'd have interfered it wouldn't have been the same]
Mother... [Second attempt, a little more forceful on the telepathic push so to speak but a sudden flash of blurry vision soon informed him that maybe that wasn't such a good idea. He could just force his entire will over her closed door but it might be important. What if something had happened to Kadaj on his way back here...only one way to find out]
[Sephiroth allowed his eyes to close and reached out further, feeling around Jenova's defenses rather than trying to listen in at the closed door. Using his own concentration of Jenova cells to try and determine who was keeping Mother from him, who would have the indecency to strip him of her attention, and to let them know just how displeased he was at this.]
WHO HAVE WE HERE? [Sephiroth's voice bellowed down his own link through Jenova's cells to Hojo, as he had now identified which thread in the delicate spiders web of connections was causing the distraction. It might have been smarter to ascertain whom it was first and possibly attempt to eavesdrop but hey...bad mooded and bloody over here...]
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Consider it carefully. I am resourceful, as you will see. You-
[But, a sharp flare cuts off his words, the effect explosive in this mental arena. He cringes, feeling the other's anger like a shock wave through him, depriving him, for a moment, of the ability to think.
Goddess and God combined! There is too much he had not anticipated!]
Sephiroth!
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Now, what to do with Hojo... surely Sephiroth would have words with the man. Interesting days ahead.
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[So Hojo was back amongst the living too, or perhaps he had not really died. Sephiroth was almost 100% certain that the mad scientist would have stayed in Midgar until meteor had come crushing down on top of him, but then again trying to recall things that he should know from in the Lifestream is impossible. Too many blanks. Currently his healing condition is not helping with that, or his mood]
"Now what would a second rate scientist such as yourself be thinking to even consider yourself within right to engage with Mother?"
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Sephiroth... You haven't changed at all, have you?
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Answer my question. What do you want with Mother? [What sort of a question was Hojo's supposed to be anyway. Of course he had changed, he'd just proved that to Cloud and was not in the mood to have to justify himself, especially to such a insignificant man]
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[A touch of pride, still present. But, the remnant of their past relationship weighs on Hojo still. Before Sephiroth, Hojo's back is always bent, his words always lacking conviction.]
I am offering my wisdom. My guidance.
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Mother has always had her own life, Shinra merely assisted to release her. To speed up the inevitable. We have no interest right now in your 'guidance', what wisdom could a pitiful excuse for a mortal like yourself have for us that we couldn't otherwise obtain... [Sephiroth attempted to stay focused and not bleed thoughts into telepathic word but now was not a good time for this. Perhaps that's why Hojo just didn't get the metaphysical door slammed in his crooked face]
You did not give life to me...
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Hojo's spirit ignites - ever quick to anger when his brilliance is questioned.]
You have no understanding of yourself, Sephiroth! How can you dismiss me, when I was responsible for your upbringing, your education, your strength, your transcendence from the dirt of common existence?
[Plans lay temporarily forgotten. The iciness of the child with green eyes has haunted him for a lifetime and more.]
The boost of mako you received when shut up in the miserable coccoon... How dare you disregard all I have done! I am the reason you live, the source of your power!
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[How typical that Hojo would get so rattled so easily with mention of his failings, of the curtain of falsehoods he would forever sit behind. Mother had revealed to him all that he had needed to know, she had been more the source of his power. The sheer emotion with which Hojo attempted to spew all of these words was almost amusing. Sephiroth allowed a strained chuckle to travel back towards him.]
Even now you attempt to justify yourself, to rank yourself amongst the greatest! You need to learn... [A wave of steadily warming anger was pushed down this link now, it got hotter and hotter with each moment before it washed over the annoyance at the end of this thread. Sephiroth needed to terminate this conversation now, but he wasn't going to do it without at least issuing a polite warning]
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In the physical plane, the pattern of his brainwaves change dramatically. Knees collide with the floor of the mako tank as he falls against its walls, thin streams of blood crawling from his nose to his mouth, his eyes down his cheeks.
Then...only the silence of defeat.]
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