The Fifth Act - Chapter 35

[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:  Been a busy week, but we have a new chapter at last!  Honestly, this chapter could probably still use more work, but I’ve made you wait long enough.  Hope you enjoy it.  Nice and long to make up for the delay.

Comments

[swyrel]

NONONONONONONONO WHY DOES SEPHIROTH HAVE TO STAY?! AND ALONE TOO?! OMG Cloud, wake up! You need to stop Sephiroth from reading and going to Jenova...Is Sephiroth going to go crazy and Angeal is going to sacrifice himself to stop Sephiroth b/c Cloud is still unconscious and not fit to stop anyone? If Sephiroth burns the town and Chibi!Cloud dies w/ his Mum, does that mean Cloud will not exist anymore? D8

Also, YAY VINCENT! You fially got your revenge~

'The dated architecture gave it an impression of a hunched, sleeping monster, with the grimy windows its many eyes, and the heavy wooden doors its dark maw.'

I love your metaphors~

'He eyed several rust-coloured patches on the carpet with distaste. It looked like dried blood.'

Those lines made me really, really sad. Poor Cloud. T_T

Please tell me there will be an update next Sunday.

[sinnatious]

(In the event that mini-Cloud were to die, adult Cloud would still exist, as he's from a separate timeline. That's why he doesn't remember idolising Genesis or meeting an identical SOLDIER uncle Although with so many holes in Cloud's memories, I suppose it could be entirely possible yet).

Thanks, glad you liked the metaphor. I like Genesis POV, let's me be a bit more flowery and over-the-top with them.

Yes, barring any horrible disasters, there should be an update next Sunday.

:)

[anonymous]

SEPHY- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!(I think this: http://nooooooooooooooo.com/ fits quite nicely with my feelings xD)

In other news... Ding-dong, the witch is dead!! ;)

And Genesis is such a primadonaa xD

Awesome chapter, I'm really looking forward to the aftershocks of this. I realy hope Sepherith does't go off into the deep end now that Genesis, Zack and Cloud are around, he's not as alone as before... and I LIKE HIM! ;__;

Excellent update, I was waiting for this!

Re: :)

[teekoness]

Genesis isn't a prima donna at all. Really! You clearly just hate the character.

...he's a primo uomo. ^_-

Re: :)

[mieva_r]

In other news... Ding-dong, the witch is dead!!

I laughed so hard at this! When reading, I got so caught up in NO NOT THE BOOKS!! that I forgot to cheer about Hojo's death! Honestly, that man-- like the Joseph Mengele of FF-verse, only possibly worse because Hojo has access to mako and magic... >>

[anonymous]

Longtime reader delurking~ (I have an account now! Hurrah~)

Augh, I was getting bad feelings throughout the entire chapter regarding Sephiroth and the libary. With the rage and the hatred and "Who is Jenova?"; I was all, YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW no really don't go to the library HEY WAIT GENESIS DON'T LEAVE HIM ALONE THERE
You're quite good at foreshadowing - I think this could go either way, and I'm not sure which one I'm hoping for.

K-keep it up! Every day after Sunday, I wonder why it isn't next Sunday yet. |D;;

[saturnring5]

/nervous laugh
Wow, I'm dumb. The above comment is me; I guess I forgot to login or something. o.o;

[sinnatious]

Hey, nice to see some delurking! :D Welcome to LJ proper.

Thanks! Sunday will come soon enough, I'm sure Too soon for me, really, *writes furiously.

YAY FOR BEING NOT-AS-LATE-AS-USUAL!

[demon_vampirate]

I love Vincent. He also does his antisocial best to secede his little corner of space from the rest of the world, no? (Something I've obviously taken to saying. I've been doing it for years.)

AERIS IS AMAZING, OF COURSE SHE CAN TAKE CARE OF TSENG. AND PROBABLY NOT GET CAUGHT. BECAUSE FUTURE!CLOUD TIPPED HER OFF WITHOUT TIPPING HER OFF. AND NOW SHE AND KUNSEL WILL BOTH KNOW. *nodnod*

This may be a bad chapter to read when you feel ill. Hm.

Surprises, he decided, must run in the Strife family.
Ohhhhh, Sephiroth, you have no idea.

Aww, our Cloud's so jaded... *NEEDS IMMENSELY TO HUGGLE*
I couldn't find a Cloud plushie at the convention... I was sad.

They both had a backbone made of adamantite, though, and a stubborn streak as wide as the Northern Crater. Maybe that too was a family trait.
Ohmygosh I have no idea why, but I love this line. Immensely. (Hm, I think I need to stop using that word so much. It seems to have become common. Like "I beg your pardon?" I use that way too much. I sound like Sephiroth.)

Genesis looked worried,

Re: YAY FOR BEING NOT-AS-LATE-AS-USUAL!

[demon_vampirate]

(And I exceeded the comment character limit by 859 characters-- which, btw, is all your fault because you said you didn't mind the ridiculously long Notepad!comments-- so here's the rest...)

*pumps fist* Go Genesis! *grrrrrrmblgrowlfuckingstupidbastardHojofuckingdirtymadscientistscum*
XD poor Genesis. "I’ll thank you not to mistake me for Angeal’s excitable Puppy.”
I think my slash goggles are welded to my glasses... All I see is that turning into "Wait... Genesis... Genesis!" *kiss scene*
Maybe I should put my contacts back in instead.

Ohhhhh poor Clooooouuuudd~
He's so disoriented and so there and paranoid about crazy!Sephiroth andandand waaaaaaahhh!

GO SEPHIROTH GO. GO SEPHIROTH GO. GO VINCENT GO. GO GENESIS GO. GO ZACK GO. GUAH. JUST EFFING GO.
Strife Team, go! *brick'd*Well, there goes 'Aeris cheated.' He's got the bullet hole back

You are indeed quite punctual

[sinnatious]

New levels of epic commenting have been achieved! Immensely. <3 (It's a good word, and I can think of worse things than sounding like Sephiroth). What a great blow-by-blow reaction account.

XD *Genesis has a bad hand of cards, clutches his shoulder*. Sephiroth: 'Raise!'

Oh god, the hair typo, so embarrassing, CLEARLY IT WAS MEANT TO BE EYES. Although Genesis IS pretty pro with the sweeping gestures. Anyway, it's fixed now. Good find with the 'I'd be' one too, thanks!

XD It would be fun to read this fic through your slash goggles. Genesis catches Cloud in his arms, they make out in a shower of mako, and everyone's just standing there watching, at which point Genesis explains, "CPR."

(I also now have the Speed Racer theme in my head thanks to you. Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer! Go Speed Racer Goooo!)

Re: You are indeed quite punctual

[firedraygon97]

...I have a practical exam tomorrow morning and instead of studying, I did this:

During the Cloud-Rescue Mission, Zack gets side-tracked by one of Hojo's experiments...

*growls*

[anonymous]

SO. NOT. FREAKING. FAIR! We wait for two weeks and YOU FREAKING LEAVE US THERE?! You evil, horrible Dalek wannabe! Cordially invited to spend the rest of your life in the theological plain of eternal torment.

Okay, so there were a few typos. So what? We got the picture.

But man, Cloud is NOT going to be happy when he finds out. I can imagine him making Zack get everyone out while he stumbles up to the reactor after Sephiroth...

Well, Cloud's been poisoned before...several times, actually. At least twice, right? He'll be able to recover somewhat, right? Or what else did Hojo put in him?! I mean...

I really hate you right now.

Give me a few days to get over it...

--Obi *still grumbling under breath*

Re: *growls*

[anonymous]

*sigh* Okay, not quite so angry anymore. Sorry that sounded so harsh. ^^; Forgive?

[sinnatious]

Heh heh, at least I didn't leave it on the third knock on the door!

I consider inspiring any sort of anger and hate a success?