Early in the morning, Ramiel woke up and saw three people that were right there with him. "Yare, yare. I am such a sinful man." He shook his head and woke them up. "Alex, Aerith, Tifa. Come on, it's morning already." He had a wry smile on his face as he has 2 lolis and his sister clinging on him.
"Ugh, but you're so warm Ramiel-nii. It gets cold at night." Aerith whined and just nuzzled her face on his chest as she was in the middle. Tifa then gave a lazy nod as she was still sleepy. "That's righhht~" She went back to sleep.
"I know you're awake." Ramiel looked at Alexandra who was pretending to be asleep and sighed. He made them float in the air and he started the day with a cold one. Needing a nice sip of beer because of all of his troubles.
"Ramiel-nii, you shouldn't be drinking first thing in the morning." Alex nagged him and he rolled his eyes. "Great, you aren't even in a relationship with me and you're nagging me already. Besides, you know that alcohol doesn't work on us. I just like the taste of it."
Alexandra squinted her eyes on the can of beer he had. "Why do you even like the taste of that thing? It's too bitter and yucky." She scowled and he sighed. "Only adults know why, clean up the bed okay? You still forget to make the bed." He ruffled her hair and stepped outside on the veranda.
The pleasant sunlight hit his body and he stretched a bit. "Ahhhh, nothing like not minding your problems for a moment and deal with them later." He yawned and felt tired just thinking of tracking Hojo everywhere in the world.
He felt two pairs of hands tug at his shirt and he looked down to see Aerith and Tifa rub their eyes. "What's for breakfast?" They asked at the same time and he gave an amused smile. "How about we have a takoyaki party?"
The two tilted their heads, the former running away all the time from Shinra. And the latter lived in the mountains of Nibel all her life. So they didn't know what was that. "It's a fried ball of goodness." He ruffled their hair and they started to wake up a bit more.
He told them to brush their teeth first and he entered the living room with Alex, seeing Vincent at the couch just stare into oblivion. "What's up Vin-chama? You're up early." Ramiel patted him on the shoulder.
Vincent noticed that they had the same pajamas and they also exited the same room. "Listen to me, it's too early for you two to do that okay?" He warned them and ran away. Ramiel tilted his head and was confused.
Ramiel then looked at Alexandra and she was blushing and fidgeting a bit. "Ahhh, what a perverted old man with a baby face." He shook his head and prepared for breakfast. So they could enjoy playing in the beach before lunch.
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After a week of having a bit of a vacation in Wutai, the team returned to Midgar and it was of course still needs some work. "Hah, this is going to be a pain in the ass." Ramiel scratched his head and sighed.
"Don't worry, we'll help you with your work Ramiel-nii!" Tifa did a fistpump and he smiled at her enthusiasm. "Sure thing, how about you plant some things with aunt Ifalna over there." He pointed at Ifalna and she nodded. Stoked to sow life in Midgar's barren lands.
"No fair! I want to help too!" Aerith puffed her cheeks. "She's a Cetra too, you help your mom okay? You two work on different parts of Midgar." He patted her head and she was excited to use her powers.
"How about us?" Elmyra, Vincent, and the other adults wanted to help too. "Hmmm, Claudia. You go with Aerith to supervise everything she grows, Bryan and Thea with Lazard. He needs all the help he could get. Vincent and Elmyra you guys check for insurgents and deal with them." Ramiel squinted his eyes.
Everybody went to their places as his voice rumbled, he wasn't there to play and he made it known. "How about me though?" Alexandra raised her hand and waited for her role. "You supervise all of them, go to the skies and redirect them when needed. Contact me if there's trouble."
He was preparing to leave, but she noticed something different with him today. "What's the matter?" She got anxious and thought that her advances was still bothering him. "I need to talk to Angeal and Genesis." He sighed.
"Why though? Ohhh, their origins?" She frowned and thought that telling them sooner than later will be much better. Especially when they are now teens that could at least think for themselves. Or they will give them a hard time later with all the emotional baggage. Especially with Angeal, he was the type to just bottle it in and explode.
Alexandra nodded at him and wished him good luck. Ramiel flew to Shinra HQ and met up with Lazard. "What's up old man? How's life treating you?" He smiled at Lazard who was tired, but pleased with the events.
"Exhausted, but better than ever." Ramiel then patted him on the shoulder. "What about your brother though? Rufus Shinra if I recall correctly?" He doesn't know much about the kid, but if he was a piece of shit like his dad. Then the best course of action would be to dispose of him.
They have no use for someone that will only bring trouble to them. "He's been taken care of, not like that though. He's surprisingly accepting of this outcome. Though I do need to monitor him still if he has any stupid plans in his head." Lazard shrugged.
"You take care of that guy, he's what? About the same age as us? Then he's basically harmless, pick his brain later with the interrogation department. You don't know if he has contact with Hojo." Ramiel squinted his eyes.
"You know what? Order a full on investigation on everyone that is still here." Ramiel wasn't cutting corners and wanted to make sure. "Aye, I want to as well. It would be for the best that there aren't any festering wounds waiting to blindside us." Lazard fixed his glasses and thought that was for the best.
"Do you know where Genesis and Angeal are?" Ramiel wanted to straighten them out immediately. "They're in the training room." Lazard excused himself and went to work on the screenings for everyone in Shinra.
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At the simulation room where the SOLDIERs train, Angeal and Genesis were currently fighting a sim of Ramiel and Alexandra when they first entered Shinra. The data was when they were about 10 and still it was a rough battle for them.
Ramiel watched on as they do their thing, Genesis was having a 1 on 1 with a little Alexandra and he was struggling with her proficiency with the sword. He was only able to hang on by using his relatively fast magic casting.
Angeal held on with his patience and good basics, though he was getting beat up real bad. They were going to lose, but Ramiel didn't step in. They got done in with a sudden stop spell from his simulation and they got owned by Alexandra's simulation.
"Hah, hah. Master and her sister are monsters, they're still virtually unbeatable even years ago. And Lazard also told us that the data that they left weren't even them in their full strength back then." Genesis was a bit frustrated.
Angeal was about to tell him better luck next time, but they heard a clap. "You two were doing pretty good, pretty good indeed. Ramiel walked in and smiled at them. Genesis sulked at him and thought he was making fun of them.
"Honestly, you're pretty close to getting the 1st class promotion." Ramiel shrugged and they both went wide eyed. The two then smirked at each other and was pretty glad that they were improving.
"But what's next if you reach 1st class though?" Ramiel asked them and they went quiet, honestly not having any idea what to do next. "Y-you think we can get to the level where we can go toe to toe with summons?" Angeal thought of their battles with the summons.
"Good thinking Angeal. Next would be those summons." Genesis gave a thumbs up to Angeal and they thought they would really need some serious training for that. "Good, at least you two have a nice goal." Ramiel tossed them some drinks and towels so they could freshen themselves up.
"What are you doing here though, master? I thought you should be busy right now in making Midgar great again." Genesis tilted his head and wondered what his business with them was.
"Long story, but I guess I'll cut the crap and just tell you two." Ramiel sat down with them and they got nervous. "Are you cutting us off! No!" Genesis misunderstood and Angeal got depressed.
"No, stupid. You guys are my disciples. It's about the reason for your strength... Have you ever thought that the two of you were stronger than anyone you knew?" Ramiel started and they perked up.
"Yeah, it was pretty weird when you think about it. The both of us were the strongest in the village. We even used to hunt some monsters on our own." Angeal reminisced and Genesis nodded. "Why are you asking us about that though?" Genesis was confused.
"I want you to read this." Ramiel gave them the files of project Gillian. So they could understand more of the experiments done to them.
As the two read, their frowns went deeper and deeper. Especially Angeal who was directly related to the progenitor of the experiment. "I-is this real?" Angeal thought about his mother and felt complicated about it all.
She agreed to experiment on herself technically. And all it brought him was strength and enhanced abilities. But when he got to the part that they were flawed organisms. Things got different quickly.
"So... We're going to experience this degradation? How long do we have?" Genesis' face went dark as he never thought that they will die early. "About now? Maybe 2 decades before your body can't keep up with the enhanced abilities and your cells will get exhausted." Ramiel gave them their ultimatum.
The two of them went quiet and was experiencing a crisis, more so because they were still young and have been given some terrible news. Ramiel then ruffled their hair and slapped them on the back.
"How are you guys going to be heroes if that gets you in the dumps that easily? You can do a lot with 2 decades you know? Leave your footprints as heroes." He smiled at them and they gave a wry chuckle.
"You know, we'll just work harder. Then we'll catch up to you and your sister. Then we will be the second youngest SOLDIER 1st class in existence." Genesis confidently announced. Angeal was still a bit bummed out because his mother basically gave him a shorter life, but he thought about it and remembered all her hard work to raise him.
"That's the spirit, you'll both be splendid heroes. I can confidently leave the world in your hands then." Ramiel smiled at them and they both got touched. "Now, eat this." Ramiel plucked out some hair from his head and gave it to the two.
"W-wha?" Genesis and Angeal held on to it with confused faces and Ramiel laughed at their reactions. "You didn't finish reading it, did you?" Ramiel shook his head with a smirk and they scrambled to finish the notes on Project G.
After a few minutes, they looked at him and was astonished. "We can get genetic material from other things?" Angeal thought that was quite an absurd ability. "Umu, you can. It's because Jenova copies the genetic traits of what it possesses. That's the main characteristics of people who underwent project G."
The two then stared at the strand of hair they had in their hands. "So, if we eat this. Then we will be more like you or something?" Genesis raised a brow and thought they'll be clones of him.
"Hmmm, yes. Don't worry though, you won't look like me or anything. You can bestow genetic material though. Make clone armies of yourselves." Ramiel shrugged, casually dropping some pretty important things.
"C-clone armies? I don't think I want to see more of this guy." Angeal pointed at Genesis and his friend glared at him. "What'd you say, punk!? Like I want more of country bumpkins like you!" They started quarreling and Ramiel chuckled at their antics.
"That will fix all your problems from project G. Give you a boost too, I'm not one to brag. But me and Alexandra are perfect life forms. Though you'll probably gonna live forever if you take that. Pick a side." Ramiel took a blue pill and a red pill.
"What's with the gel filled pills?" Genesis looked at it warily and thought they will have different outcomes. "Ahh, don't worry about them. It's just a metaphor, they're jellybeans." Ramiel ate them and he gave them some time to think.
"I don't know about you Angeal, but I'd like to live a long and nice life." Genesis made a decision and thought that if he ever got tired of living he'll just kill himself. Angeal nodded as well, agreeing with him.
"I gotta warn you though, if you consume that. It's gonna hurt like a bitch." Ramiel prepared Curaga spells for them as they will reform their bodies entirely. And even have a high chance of dying due to it. The only reason he's giving them his cells is project G's ridiculous adaptive traits.
They would need tons of Minerva cells, basically a one is to one ratio because of its stability. They won't evolve due to its mutative properties being culled. And they don't have a whole person's worth of it lying around.
Genesis and Angeal stared at each other and looked at him with a nod. "We're prepared, no pain no gain I guess. Besides, how can we call ourselves future heroes without withstanding some pain?" Genesis gave a confident smile.
The two rolled it up like fruit loops and swallowed the strand of hair. Nothing was happening at first, but Ramiel forgot that they would need to actively try and get the properties of it. Or they would just mutate wildly.
He gave them a boost and put a hand on their heads. Kickstarting the process by circulating Mako in their bodies. The process started and they immediately dropped on the floor due to the searing pain.
"See you later, they can't even hear me anymore. That's going to be the most miserable time of your life." Ramiel shrugged and started to check up on them if they were being damaged too much.
He casted a prophylactic regeneration spell so they could quicken up the process and used a healing spell on them from time to time to give them reprieve.
Once an hour passed by, the two passed out and grew tremendously. "Shit, I forgot about that. Well, they can change on their own later." Ramiel carried them and put them in their room so they could rest. They passed out right after the process stopped due to exhaustion and intense stress. (pic)
"I guess that's that. Maybe they'll give Alex a run for her money now after a few months or years?" Ramiel chuckled and thought that she will respect them more if that was the case. An equal or rival would be really good for her too.
He then got a bit melancholic, hoping that Genesis and Angeal could ground her if she ever does go on a rampage later. "Lazard, tell me what needs the most help with large scale construction. Let's make Midgar great again. He called Lazard and stretched a bit, starting with their reformation of Midgar.
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Thanks for reading everyone. Ciao.