She Goes To The Lab

Tifa opened the door to the small materia lab on the side street. It wasn't the big oppulant research dens taht Shinra used to have, but she imagined the fact that good work was being done here made up for it. She'd first tried the doctor's house, but no one was there to open the door. She must have been at work.

The building was small, but outside of the first hallway was a large white room filled with tons of pieces of equipment, and with an entire wall covered in materia in all shapes and colors. It gave the room a rainbow glow when the sunlight from the window touched the wall. No Dr. Chandaray so far, but she saw a short man with glasses in a white lab coat and bow tie.

"No visitors please," the man, probabily an assistant, said.

"I'm here for the Dr." Tifa said forcefully, crossing her arms over her chest. The biggest problem with her massive strength not being outwardly visible was it made her a less then intimidating figure.

"The Doctor isn't in today. You should try her home. Now I really must be getting back to-" Before the man could finish, tifa reached up to her neck and removed undid the knot of her scarf. As it came tumbling down, the choker (and the gleaming writing on it's sides) became visible. The assistant stopped mis-sentence and stared.

"My god, what is that?" he asked, his mouth hanging open.

"This is the reason I'm here. I know you're busy, but this urgent. Do you have the equipment to examine this?" she added a bit of sweetness at the end.

"I'm not sure if I'm suppo-" He pushed his glasses up on his face, his eyes remained fixed on the materia. She put her hands on her hips. That seemed to be enough for him to get the memo, because a moment later he went running to the back to grab a large piece of equipment.