Tseng's lips actually twisted slightly, into the shadow of a smile.

"Neither."

In the case of Zirconiade, it had been the Turks and AVALANCHE, racing to get their hands on the summon materia, and ShinRa's whims had little do to with the materia's fate. In the case of Meteor, ShinRa hadn't stood a shadow's chance. He'd almost been trapped inside the temple, when it had changed to the black materia, and it had gone from Cloud's hands to Sephiroth's without ShinRa ever having a real chance at it.