Fullmetal Core:

A Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII and Hagane no Renkinjutsushi/Fullmetal Alchemist Crossover

Disclaimer: I do not own neither FF VII nor Fullmetal Alchemist nor any of their affiliates, so don't sue me... I'm broke anyway... FF VII belongs to Square Enix and FMA belongs to Hiromu Arakawa. Who is also apparently affiliated with Square Enix.

Spoilers for Crisis Core and Fullmetal Alchemist

Chapter One: A Contrived Coincidence? Part I: Gates of Nibelheim:

It was the dead of night. Uneventful as of that moment, but that would not last long at all. Shrieks of terror pierced the air, alerting two sleeping men assigned to a mission in Nibleheim. One, a young, blonde-haired Shin-Ra officer who aspired to become a SOLDIER, and the other, SOLDIER First Class - Zack Fair, who had recently garnered a lot of respect and powerul Materia after defeating a strange mass of energy in an area called the "Great Cavern of Wonders", and strived to become a hero as his predecessors, Genesis Rhapsodos, Sephiroth and the late Angeal Hewley .

Zack immediately sprung to his feet, and looked out the window of the rather average hotel room they were in, only to see raging flames covering the once quiet city of Nibelheim. Immediately, he ran over to his young friend Cloud, and exclaimed, "Cloud, Get up! Quickly! There's no time to explain!"

Cloud was startled, but complied, quickly rising from the sheets of his bed.

Meanwhile...

It was an uneasy night in the Country of Amestris. An sudden chill filled the air as a strange array began to cover the ground. In the depths of the area beneath Central City, a white-haired, seemingly elderly man sat at what appeared to be a throne. His clothes consisting of rather elegant looking robes. However, not all was at it seemed, for this man was actually no man at all. He was a Homunculus known as Father, and he had a disturbing plot in the works. Before him knelt a young man with his arms shackled by chains to nearby pillars, and around the young man was a similar circle to the one that had appeared above ground.

"Yes..." said the one known as Father. "Perhaps the Sacrifices I have chosen will not be neccessary for the completion of my plans..."

The young man screamed in anguish as a rather ominous-looking gate opened above his head. At that moment, the hand of the elderly Homunclus warped itself into the form of a dark hand, which reached into the gate.

Within the gate, a strange, dark figure appeared, whose smile would come to haunt the few who had seen it. The figure proceeded to speak to the young man who had opened the gate, but his words were inaudible. At that instant, the man fell over in agony at the realization that his hearing had been taken. Meanwhile, the twisted hand of the Homunculus grew ever closer to the form of the figure within the gate.

The figure smiled at the Homunculus. "You thought you were clever, eh? Trying to kidnap me? Heheheh..." The figure stated. "You should know me far better than that... But since you seek something of me, I will give you something."

With that, a large number of gates sprang open in the den of the Homunculus as well as above the ground..

"If it's power that you want, I will give you the opportunity to take it from someone other than myself..."

"What trickery is this! Truth! Answer me!" the Homunculus shouted. "Who else could possibly possess so much power!"

The figure known as The Truth made his grin even bigger. "You shall see... 'Dwarf from the Flask'..."

With that, the Truth's gate closed while all of the other gates remained open.

Meanwhile...

Zack and Cloud ran through the flaming town, only to see yet another SOLDIER standing amid the flames, cackling madly.

"Sephiroth!" Zack shouted. "What happened here! Answer me, Sephiroth!"

"I'm going to see my Mother...", he replied. With that, Sephiroth turned toward Nibelheim's outskirts, but was caught off-guard by the appearance of a three gates in his path. "What type of spell is this! Zack! Are you responsible? Genesis! Are you behind this!" With no warning, Sephiroth was sucked into the middle gate, greeted by the cackle of the figure known as The Truth.

Almost immediately, Zack and Cloud ran over to inspect the remaining gates. "What is-" Zack tried to inquire, but was cut off by the same force that had scked Sephiroth into the middle gate. The gate on the left closed as well.

"Zack!" Cloud cried, and was sucked into the final gate, which promptly closed as the three gates disappeared.

Zack and Cloud fell into the Gate of Truth, spiraling toward an uncertain destination.

To be continued