Hey everyone, I am sorry that it has been such a long time and the fact that I am starting to write right before actual classes isn't the smartest thing that I have done. I have finally gotten some inspiration from the wonderful LyanAvalin on Youtube, her videos always help me when I am in a writers block. Now this story isn't a copy off any of her videos and I don't ever plan to do something like that, I was watching one of her videos and my mind created a story from something out of the blue. I don't think that I could describe in words how my brain operates, especially when it decides that writing is a must and I have to hurry to put the idea onto paper. Haha. Anyway enjoy I have missed you all and I am glad that you are all reviewing on my stories! It means so much to me! (BTW I have to take a English class while I am in college, so expect my writing to slowly or greatly improve! ^_^ )

This story takes place at the end of Crisis Core to begin with and once the story actually gets going it will take place AFTER Advent Children. ENJOY!

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Zack laid on the cold wet ground with his eyes closed, the metallic taste of his own blood covered the inside of his mouth. He heard Cloud's footsteps slowly leave, followed by sharp metal scraping the ground and giving a slight ping when the blade encountered a small rock. Zack had already accepted the fact that he was going to die and he awaited his life to finally slip into a eternal sleep, this peaceful sleep he expected took way longer than he expected.

Slowly the rain began again and lightly drizzled down onto him, his eyelids giving a small twitch with every drop that landed on them. Zack opens his eyes and gaps for air, he only receives a small amount before his lungs fill up with blood once more. This was the most pain he had ever been in, he stared up into the clouds looking for a reason why he is still living.

In the distance, Zack heard footsteps approaching. He thought it was going to be more SOLDIER troops trying to make sure that he was really dead. He blinked slowly and looked at the large white figures approaching him, before his world slowly started turning black. Voices shouted and the footsteps increased their speed, but what the voices said was just a mumble to Zack as his world turned completely black.

Zack slowly woke to beeping sounds and bright lights. He could tell that he wasn't on the large cliff anymore, but where he was now was very unknown. Brightness, whiteness, and the loud pounding beeping is all that filled the Ex-SOLDIERS world,. He could feel his hair was matted and was stiff from where it had dried from the rain, mud, and blood, some of his hair was almost glued to his face and it felt so weird to him. Luckily for Zack it wasn't long till his world went black once more and all the noises and lights vanish.

When Zack woke again he found that he wasn't hurting anymore and that his body had been washed recently. This worried him as he didn't know who had washed him nor where he was at, or how long he had been in his coma like state. He slowly sat up finding the movement more painful that he thought it would be. He laid back down, thinking about what was going on and why the room he was in looked so familiar. The Infirmary? He thought but he wasn't 100% sure on that, it looked like the infirmary but it didn't all at the same time. Maybe he was trapped in some sort of a lab and was becoming their lab rat, he looked around trying to figure out if that was a possibility or if his thoughts were correct about his location.

A nurse came in to check on Zack, she smiled when she seen that he was a wake and kept her distance as she wrote things down on her clipboard. She knew he was a 1st Class SOLDIER and that if he were to flip out and attack, he could kill her in the blink of an eye.

"Where am I?" Zack asked with a slightly scratchy voice.

"You are in intensive care. You sustained severe injuries that should have killed a normal human, we are giving you some Mako injections to help heal you." she replied with a smile on her face.

"How long have I been asleep? Am I still in Midgar?" His bright blue eyes practically stared a hole into her causing her to shift before she answered.

"Y-yes you are still in Midgar, or what is left of it. You have been here for about 5 years." She looked at her clipboard and slowly made her way to the door. "I'll make sure you get something to eat when meal time comes around." With that she left.

"Oh yay, hospital food." Zack slightly cringed, he didn't know if he was hungry but the thought of food sounded good.

The rest of the day seemed to drag on, Zack watched the news for a while and got to see the "new" Midgar. He had to admit that he was shocked to see how much it had changed. It wasn't all that glorious to start out with but now was definitely worse. He seen Cloud driving around in the background of a few different stations, he was happy that the little chocobo was still alive. Zack wondered what it would be like to see Cloud again.

"Cloud! Run!" Zack screamed at Cloud as he fought against Genesis and his copies. He glanced back to see panic stretched across Cloud's face, he could see the blonde was frozen in fear of what he was seeing. "Cloud!"

Zack turned and grabbed Cloud once the battle was over and Genesis had flew away. "What was that! SOLDIERS don't lock up like that!" Zack knew he shouldn't of been mad at the young blonde, but that was a mistake that could have cost them both of their lives.

Zack woke from his dream and stared up at the ceiling, his memories played like old movies in his head. He wanted to savor them all. The raven haired man thought about one memory that he would always cherish, and that was the day that he seen the beautiful chocolate haired woman at the Mako reactor in Nibelheim.

"I hate you! I hate SOLDIER!" She screamed as she tries to crawl away from Zack. She cradled her wounds as she cried and continued to talk about her hate for ShinRa.

"Sephiroth…. I trusted you…" He ran up the stair case and began working on opening the door at the top. He looked back at the beautiful girl that laid on the floor, he thought that maybe he should just stay with her and help her to get better. It wasn't long before the rage in Zack's body flooded his judgment. He hated Sephiroth for hurting Tifa, and he hated him for burning down Nibelheim.

Zack laid awake for the rest of the night thinking about Tifa, he wished that he didn't leave her behind and that he could change the past. This was definitely going to be the hardest night that he was going to have to live through.