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ARTEMIS: Assassin VII

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Information: So, you thought SOLDIER was the strongest fighters of ShinRa? Well, you were wrong. There is a level of fighters far surpassing SOLDIER in every way possible: ARTEMIS, named after the Greek goddess of the hunt. There are 13 members in all (not all are shown in this video, only XIII and VIII). ShinRa uses them as a secret elite fighting force to assasinate people detrimental to their cause without leaving any traces. The only problem is that all ARTEMIS members are unwilling to work for them; so ShinRa finds a "weakness" of theirs (not physical wise, it's something very dear to them that they take hold of for blackmail) which allows them to imprison the members and force them to work for them in fear of their loved one or object being killed. However, some are still free as ShinRa must gather data necessary for ARTEMIS. Take Assassin VII for example...

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Tifa is secretly under surveillance by ShinRa as they have reason to believe she has potential to become an ARTEMIS member. They start to collect data using their cameras that they have placed all around the world. However, before it can complete its analysis, Tifa notices the camera and breaks it using telepathic abilities. The ShinRa database still needs data and to provide an oppurtunity to analyze her, they load a test grid into Midgar, releasing Bahamut SIN into the streets. Tifa runs out to see the havoc and starts to advance towards the beast...until a stranger cuts her off with his motorcycle.
Assassin IX. Name: Cloud Strife. Cloud is also in progress and although Tifa doesn't know him, she summoned him into the test grid subconciously because in a time of need, she wished that she wasn't alone. Tifa agrees to let Cloud kill Bahamut and throws him upward and Cloud kills it himself. Thus, ShinRa is unable to collect information on Tifa. Awed by Cloud's power, she is unbelieveable attracted to him and they travel together. One night, when they are sleeping in a meadow together, ShinRa discovers that Cloud is Tifa's weakness. So they dispatch SOLDIER and take him away in the night. When Tifa awakens and Cloud is nowhere to be found, she attacks a nearby ShinRa member thinking he's the culprit. However, ShinRa members have a weapon to subdue even ARTEMIS members in emergencies and he captures Tifa. ShinRa takes her away and Tifa is placed in a mako chamber for two years. Tifa awakens in the middle of the experiment and with her powers, breaks the glass and escapes from the lab.
Now that Cloud is gone, she can't take it and in her anger, her powers combined with her newly enhanced body of mako do something very peculiar...Feathers start to rain down from the sky and Tifa grabs one of them, transporting her to the location of Cloud. She quickly breaks his chamber and catches him as he falls. As she sets him down, he seems to be in a daze but otherwise in good condition. But she's wrong.
Cloud's body rejects the mako in his body and he collapses as his body begins to degrade from the inside-out. ShinRa dispatches another SOLDIER member to "terminate the specimen", Sephiroth in this case. Tifa looks on in horror as Sephiroth stabs Cloud. Sephiroth smirks while behind him, mako evaporates from Cloud's body. All this time, Tifa's been holding back the mako in her body, but now she releases it and prepares to battle. Tifa wins and reverts back to her old self to conserve her mako stores. Cloud crawls over and she hoists him into her lap, and the mako releases itself and transports them to the meadow. Gaping in wonder, she looks back down to Cloud and is horrified.
He's dead. In a rush of feathers, she's transported back to the lab and reverts back to her old state (once again conserving mako). She reaches down and grabs Sephiroth's body and reads his uniform. She realizes that ShinRa's behind all of her suffering. With hatred consuming her entire being, she wants nothing more than to see ShinRa destroyed. She releases the mako again and flies above the ShinRa building. She causes an explosion in the ARTEMIS wing of ShinRa, releasing the members. Since ShinRa is caught off guard, they slaughter everyone in the building as they escape.  Tifa convinces them to slaughter all of Midgar, blinded by her rage and they agree.
ShinRa’s computer still instinctively tries to collect the remaining data but when it obtains her skill, only gibberish shows up and when it reads the threat level, the computer starts to short circuit and the computer has a meltdown, frying the hard drive and losing all data of ARTEMIS.
As all of Midgar is killed, Tifa looks on in an insane happiness as her revenge is being fulfilled. She reverts back to her old self and goes on to kill every last person in Midgar. After everyone is dead, she looks on in laughter, watching the ShinRa building burn to ruins.
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MixGoldenPhoenix's avatar
Oh, my, scary... Watching the video, I didn't understand most of it, save for there was a computer doing tests, and Cloud got hurt, and Tifa got pissed, and the computer went down, and I was like, "Haha, Tifa kicked yo ass!" O_O I did not yet know the severity of the ass-kicking. Meep! And, I still have not figured out why Cloud is number IX...