The Fifth Act, Chapter 27

[sinnatious]

Title: The Fifth Act

Rating: T for violence.

Summary: FFVII Time-travel. Gen. Cloud has an accident with a Time Materia.

Author's Note:  Big chapter, this one.  I angsted over it a lot, so let me know what you think (and as always, please point out any typos or mistakes you see.)  Oh, and Happy Year of the Tiger/Valentine's Day!

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[yukitsukihana]

FIRST COMMENT (I never get these)

will reply with a real comment once I've read it...

[yukitsukihana]

I knew it! I knew Hojo killed Hollander! Poor Genesis-and-gang...they got the third party right...but failed to think it could be anyone inside...

!!! Could, one of the President's children? le gasp! I didn't see that coming!

and woah, Hojo's figured it out. wonder what'll happen when the others find that out, too. if they find out at all.

heh. Hojo's forgotten to take Lazarus into account. I know the Director likes Cloud, and probably wouldn't list him as a deserter, especially if he knew about Hollander taking him. He might be off the payroll, but I don't think it's as simple as that...
I'm kinda looking forward to the Turks coming in, on Cloud's side, this time.

all-in-all, yaay update =D and already I wish it was next week so I could read the next chapter ^^;

[sinnatious]

LOL, Lazarus. *Lazard rises from the dead like a zombie*. XD

So quick off the mark you were! But that means you have the longest to wait for the next chapter. ;)

[yukitsukihana]

...Lazarus. what was I thinking.
probably not much.

I probably should have gotten some sleep before I reviewed, seriously.
I think you also made me lose some sleep, thinking about the possibilities now...
like the gang going to investigate Nibelheim and Genesis being idolized by mini!Cloud...

and I knoooow I have the longest wait D: augh, why couldn't I wait until later so I'd have 6 days of waiting instead of 7...? x_x

[firedraygon97]

Oh OH, this chapter is brilliant. What a perfect way to end it before I go into fic-withdrawal

[sinnatious]

Yes, have to start cramming answering questions now. :|

Glad you liked this brand of time travel! It's my personal favourite. There's nothing very satisfying about self-fulfilling prophecies, and self-erasure would be confusing and prone to too much angst. Or you, know, leave the story open to paradox.

LOL, I can't get a Cloud-scrying scene out of my head now. XD I'm picturing it with a materia on a string and everything.

Thanks! Will miss you until after Easter! ♥

[firedraygon97]

You follow Reborn, right? Because what Hojo's suggesting with the time materia kind of reminds me of that kind of time-jumping parallel-worlds craziness. @__@ He always wants to complicate things, the creep.

It'd be Cloud's mastered Comet on a string!! And Genesis would insist on reading/chanting Loveless while Sephiroth did it.

I'm still curious as to how Hojo's other time experiments went...what on earth did he send back? :O

You haven't gotten rid of me entirely, I'll be sticking around for you non-fic posts~

[sinnatious]

I follow Reborn, but I'm so embarrassingly far behind... ^_^;

XD Brilliant! Or even better, if they used the materia on a string to dowse for him! Only ever time they come across a wall, they just cut through it. All the way across the continent.

An unimportant detail, but for Hojo's other time experiments... I'm thinking books about Jenova before she was even discovered turning up in the Manor. Oooooo.

Heee, not like I make many non-fic posts these days! But wow, you have self-discipline. I doubt I could resist clicking the link if I saw any fics I followed updating. .__.

[kaorismash]

ahjkglkasklghjaskjgklasjgkhasglkjasklghasg

So you spring a surprise like that when we least expect it, huh. We should have, too, given that hint with his mother's reaction. So genius of you, of course. I didn't bother thinking about it at all until Hojo mentioned it and then you confirmed it but man, Rufus and Lazard and Cloud, aww. Most screwed up family ever. Okay, Sephiroth's is. But, akjshg aaaw. ;;

ALSO WHEN CLOUD REMEMBERS HIS LITTLE SELF AND THINKS OF GENESIS INSTEAD OF SEPHIROTH something in me may have just died a little I REALLY WANTED HIM TO REALLY ADORE HIMSELF, EVEN THOUGH HE DOESN'T KNOW IT

[kaorismash]

I SEEM TO BE USING THIS ICON A LOT BECAUSE OF YOU 8|

[sinnatious]

BUT IT'S SUCH A GREAT ICON THAT'S A GOOD THING. :D

Well, at that point in time, little Cloud had only just met his 'uncle' and hadn't even seen Cloud fight yet. :3

I LIKE YOUR SCENARIOS BUT AM TOTALLY NOT TELLING YOU WHAT HAPPENS NEXT.

Ha ha, read the second part first so you can finish the chapter with fluffy Zack feelings? :D

[kaorismash]

RE: YOUR ICON, THIS TIME THERE IS NO ZACK WITH HIM, AND THERE IS NO CHANCE OF MAKO COMAS TO TAKE HIM AWAAAAAY FROM HOJO IF ONLY MOMENTARILY AKSJGL :((

HE TOTALLY SAW HIM WITH THE DRAGON DIDN'T HE. :((

YOU'LL SLIP UP EVENTUALLY. REST ASSURED. 8> I MEAN TOMORROW'S SUNDAY RIGHT. :D

YOU TELL ME THIS NOW. But awwww, Zaaaack. *_*

[anonymous]

YEEEEEEEEES/NOOOOOOOOOO.

[sinnatious]

lol anon

:spasmswildly:

[daemoninwhite]

WHAT JUST HAPPENED? HOJO? CLOUD? AN 'unexplainable sixth Cloud-sense'? ZACK STANDING AROUND IN THE BACKGROUND GOING '...HUH?'

Zack's reaction pretty much equals mine atm.

ASDFGHJKL; ASDFGHJKL!!!!!!

:dead, on ground:

I think that my brain just imploded. Or exploded. Or something.

And Hojo's being a little creepy fuck as always. Reading his bit literally sent shivers down my spine. He's creepy in a thriller/horror villain way. IT CREEPS ME OUT AND NOW I HAVE TO GO AND WATCH SOMETHING HAPPY TO CHEER ME UP. Like, the first series of Pokemon or something. Because, seriously, Hojo's so twisted and sick and blergh, there are no words. I can picture everything happening to absolutely clearly, and with Hojo that's not always something that you want to happen

Re: :spasmswildly:

[daemoninwhite]

AND WHAT I DIDN'T EVEN TOUCH ON IS THE FACT THAT CLOUD IS SHINRA'S SON? AND HE'S ONE OF MANY>

:foams at the mouth, passes out:

SEE? This is what happens to your audience when there's too much awesome in one story.

Ficcy~

[daemoninwhite]

I do not have an icon that fully expresses my horror/glee with the above chapter. It's a mixture of GODDAMNIT WOMAN and OOOOOOOOHHHH and FUCK IT'S A LIONHOJO, GET IN THE CAR, I just don't know what to use.A miniskirt with extremely thin material that was not the best choice to be wearing in the middle of Nibleheim winter (and it was the middle of fucking winter, not matter what Cloud said or how many times Sephiroth 'patiently' explained that if the season was summer in Midgar, it was summer in Nibleheim too). It was kind of cute in a way, pleated and dark navy blue, the kind that upper-class Midgar schoolgirls wore to their extremely expensive and elite private schools. The problem was that it was very short. Now, if it were on Aeris or (his brain short circuited at the mental image that produced - his Aeris, done up with pigtails, a short little skirt and a short little shirt, blushing and apologizing about handing in her homework late …. Ohhh yeeeeaaaah) he would have absolutely no complaints at all, but on him, the skirt was so

Re: Ficcy~

[sinnatious]

aldskfjlskfjasfj *FLAILS*

ROFLOL, the mental image is too priceless! XD And Zack's boxer shorts! Dancing tonberries aslkfjs. AND HIS REACTION. Oh this is GOLD.

AND NOW CLOUD! *___* XDDDDDD So awesome.

It's a fuckin' lion. A fuckin' sweet lion. Fuck this shit. XD