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"Fuck."

The single curse drifted aimlessly in the cramped laboratory, eventually dying on the walls. Computer keys clacked furiously in the dark, the keyboard illuminated only by the dim bluish glow of the monitor.

SUBJECT : Zack Avirin

AGE : 19

CLASSIFICATION : SOLDIER - First Class

MAKO RATIO : 89.99%

E.V.E. RATIO : 69.32%

STAGE : 3

STATUS : M.I.A. ; presumed dead

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"All fucking dead and missing."

A hand ran furtively through limp, greasy hair, the product of several days of staring mindlessly at the computer screen, hoping for the break that wasn't coming. Scouting the list of names, he moved onto the next.

SUBJECT : Cloud Strife

AGE : 16

CLASSIFICATION : Foot Soldier, squad A; Sephiroth Genome Experiment (failed Specimen)

MAKO RATIO : 96.59%

E.V.E. RATIO : 0%

STAGE : N/A - failed requirements

STATUS : M.I.A. ; presumed dead

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He couldn't help but laugh, despite his frustration. Someone really needed to update these files; it had been five and a half years since the Niebelhiem incident. It was funny that the one they had thought was a failure was the one to destroy Sephiroth in the end. It figured that the easiest person to find would be the most useless to him. Strife hadn't met the program needs, and was therefore a dead end.

If only the beta specimen hadn't disappeared, he wouldn't be stuck in this Planet forsaken laboratory trying to round up the names of the other test subjects. More than half of them were dead, and the rest were difficult to track down. Meteor had thrown a huge dent in their project, and it was only now that things were beginning to take shape again. But the little progress they were making was hardly worth the countless hours in a subterranean bunker. What he wouldn't have given for a nice weekend at Costa De Sol.

"Have to keep looking," he muttered placidly to himself.

He closed that directory and accessed a much more recent one, only a year old, and smiled slightly when Hojo's specimen files appeared on the desktop. The man had been a God Damned genius, though most people thought he was a psychopath.

"Might as well start at the top ..."

SUBJECT : Reno Hideaki

AGE : 24

CLASSIFICATION : Turk

MAKO RATIO : 68.77%

E.V.E. RATIO : 0%

STAGE : N/A - failed requirements

STATUS : Alive; Currently assigned to Cetra Retrieval Team

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A frown creased his brow. It was going to be another long night.