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Flashback
As the time passed slowly at the ShinRa mansion for the turks, soldiers and the
scientists the Jenova Project went along well and Vincent and Lucrecia were getting quite
close. They often went on walks and close to the time that the Project was halfway
Vincent had proposed to her. Much to his dismay she refused to marry him and instead
opted for Hojo. Accepting it as long as she was happy, Vincent seemed to fade into the
background until he heard that the Jenova Project would be tested to it’s fullest on
Lucrecia and Hojo’s child. It never occured to Vincent that he might have been the father
seeing as the child could have been concieved during one of the times that he and Lucrecia
had been together before she went to Hojo. Hojo meanwhile had been busy on his own.
He had successfully kept the ex Turk leader Mym locked away in the reactor where he
experimented on her continuously. No one else knew of her presence there, especially
not the other Turks.
Towards the end of the project though Lucrecia found herself regreting the
decision to test this experiment with her child. She confided that to Vincent and one day
when she was sitting cuddling with him he vowed to take her away for the safety of herself
and the child since the experiment was killing her as the baby grew. Without even
thinking of how he’d get she mentioned that Hojo would never let them go, that he’d
chase them all over the face of the earth to which Vincent vowed to take care of Hojo.
Despite Lucrecia’s protests that Hojo might hurt him, Vincent went down to the lab that
evening and confronted Hojo while Lucrecia slept upstairs fitfully.
“What do you want?” Hojo asked irritably.
“You will pay for what you’ve done to Lucrecia,”Vincent stated coldly as he
glared at Hojo,”I’m taking her far away from here once I make it so you can never follow
us.”
“Oh really?” Hojo sneered,”I don’t think so. She’ll die as soon as that child is
born, a shame really. But it’s all in the name of science.”
With that he grinned and Vincent’s semi horrified semi enraged face fell into the
deadly stoicness that marked his face when he completed jobs for the President. As he
reached for his gun he noticed a movement from Hojo and before he could react, Hojo had
a gun drawn from his lab coat and shot Vincent in the arm and then again in the chest.
Falling down to his knees Vincent clutched his two wounds as best as he could and
growled at Hojo.
“You bastard....I’ll see....you...pay... Andy... and Vega.. they’ll...”
As he finished he fell unconscious and Hojo hoisted him up onto the lab table.
“They’ll be passed out in the bar for another few hours so no, they won’t be back
to help you,”Hojo muttered gleefully to himself and the unconscious body as he chuckled
picturing the two Turks passed out at the bar.
Hurrying to make sure he lived throughout the procedure, Hojo altered Vincent
and added the transformations as well as removing his left arm since it was useless from
where the bullet had hit. After replacing it with a large golden claw and getting some
more fitting clothes for the ‘monster’ Hojo stepped back to look over his handywork.
There on the table, in black and draped with crimson was Vincent Valentine, former leader
of the Turks. The golden claw glinted dangerously from the sharp pointed fingers and
Hojo smiled, taking a step back toward Vincent as he pulled an eyelid up to reveal the
now blood red eyes that had once been a gentle gray.
With a satisfied smirk on his face Hojo injected Vincent with a sleeping tonic that
would keep him asleep til someone woke him, no matter how long that took. Giving a
grunt as he hoisted his body up Hojo took Vincent into one of the rooms adjacent to the
lab and put him in a coffin, closing the lid on it and locking the door behind him.
“No one will find that monster in there,”Hojo sneered as he walked upstairs to put
the key in the old safe,”No one.”
With a chuckle after that he walked past Lucrecia’s room and heard her moving
inside. Giving no knock as a warning he opened the door and went in, trying to keep his
face straight and somber.
“Lucrecia,”he said as she looked up at him from her hurried packing,”I have some
bad news. Vincent... you know how ruthless he was as a Turk, well.... dear, I’m afraid I
just saw him with another woman... Riding out of town.”
Lucrecia’s face fell almost instantly and she sunk to sit on the bed, unable to do
anything other than stare at the floor from the shock.
“But... he..”she started quietly,”He promised....we’d go..away..together....”
As Hojo stepped out of the room, closing the door behind him he heard her
murmur one more thing before she broke into tears and even through the closed door he
heard the sobs loud and clear as if she were beside him. Giving a slight chuckle as he
walked down the stairs he thought of just how ironic this was. Here he was on his way to
go test things on the old Turk leader and he had just done things to the most recent Turk
leader.
“This is getting to be quite a good day,”Hojo remarked to himself as he exited the
mansion and got in one of the trucks to head for the reactor.