Hojo: *merely growls in response and heads out of the room to leave Noemi with her lab techs*
Noemi’s comments have had a lasting effect on Hojo, for throughout the course of the day there is sounds of yelling and heated argument at regular intervals in the laboratory adjacent to Noemi’s. It was partially fuelled by what Noemi had said to him, but mostly because of the fact that Hojo is angry with the hierarchy system in the laboratory environment in general, and tired of Gast being his superior on the Jenova Project, tired of being the one to be ordered around. Hojo had done far more work on the Project than Gast anyway, yet the Professor was getting all the acclaim, praise and support from higher management. He had tried a few times in the past to undermine his superior’s decisions and plans, but was only reprimanded as a result, despite the fact that some of his own suggestions were far better and more innovative than what Gast had done previously. The Professor himself even later implemented some of the suggestions and he had received praise for it. Hojo was tired of being in his shadow.
So when the lab techs take Sephiroth out of the room and into the radiation therapy area for his daily treatments, Hojo makes his move. He smashes the wide end of a conical flask off its neck, and then he lies in wait just beyond the Professor’s door. He proceeds to stab Professor Gast in the throat with the broken piece of glass when he comes out of his office to see what the noise was all about. Hojo then punches Gast in the face, knocks him to the floor, and then finally attempts to choke him to death. He is soon stopped however, when the lab techs return to the room and promptly activate the loaded tranquilizer guns on the walls intended for out of control experiments. There would be sounds of yelling coming from the lab next door once again, and then a lot of ordering around as a medical team is called into the room to deal with the situation. One of the lab techs then delivers Sephiroth into Noemi’s lab area with the instructions to her experiment team to keep him quiet and distracted for a few hours, or however long it will take until they can resume work next door. They also give the instruction of telling him nothing of what has gone on.
Sephiroth: *although he was out of the room at the time and didn’t see the incident happen, he wonders what is going on, but is very happy that he has gotten out of the laboratory for a while. He sits in the chair he was placed in and grins, thankfully taking a book he is handed by one of the lab techs, who promptly leave again to deal with the incident next door*