A/N And after that lengthy chapter I have some ideas that were meant to be in the last one...I was watching the Dirge of Cerberus walkthrough whilst writing this so it was quite amusing writing as Vincent at the beginning ;) (After that it's just a huge Cloud fest)

Vincent sat back in Lucrecia's cave pondering what to do. The two Turks he had rescued from the Northern Crater were badly injured; their wounds were obviously from torture, cold and ruthless torture.

Vincent had discovered the two Turks, Tseng and Elena, in the Northern Crater after he had travelled there to try and find the source of the troubles in the Lifestream.

Surprisingly there had not been anything of consequence there, although there was the evidence of helicopter ruts and also digging, the thick earth had been upturned in some places.

However there was nothing to explain the disrupted Lifestream

Vincent just hoped that the injured Turks could help him although he didn't know when they would be well enough to say anything much as their injuries were severe.

Vincent wasn't much of a medic he had done his best to bandage their wounds, but he had no Cure Materia or any potions on him.

There was a loud rumble and Vincent looked up to see an explosion of rocks and a tendril of Lifestream burst out followed by more, all of them writing and squirming.

Vincent's eyes widened slightly as the strips of Lifestream dived towards him and the sleeping Turks. Quickly he grabbed them and fled,

As soon as he had crossed the edge of the crater the storm of tentacles following him had fallen away.

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Tifa had just started to go downstairs having heard the front door shut (Unbeknownst to her that was Yuffie exiting the bar as Tidus had asked) and she had her foot on the first step of the stairs when the phone rang. Sighing slightly she softly slipped into what had been Cloud's study and answered the phone.

"Strife delivery service, you name it we deliver..."

A voice she recognised all too well spoke up on the other end of the phone, shunning her presumption that he was a customer

"Remember me, yo?"

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Cloud scrambled off of Fenrir and looked around, checking for any monsters that might leap out at him, before sliding the fully assembled sword into the sling on his back.

In front of him was the building that he had found Tidus outside of, strangely enough the building, which had used to contain offices for some branch at ShinRa, was crumbling and one of the walls had a large hole in it, however there was next to no extra rubble outside the building, which meant that the hole had been made by someone on the outside, however it was right in the middle of the tall structure, it was almost impossible to reach that height and no one could lean down and still create such damage. This implied that the gap in the building had been made by something that could fly.

There were a lot of monsters that could fly, but most of them weren't strong enough to create this amount of damage to one of ShinRa's buildings (ShinRa had always put a lot of money into their buildings to ensure the safety of the structures). Yes, there were plenty of flying monsters on Gaia that could cause this amount of damage, but none of the lived in Midgar, very few things lived in Midgar anyway, certainly not enough to feed one of the large beings that could create this damage.

This meant that the hole must have been caused by someone with powerful Materia, of either the spell or summoning kind.

But who would want to destroy an old ShinRa building? There was nothing left in it, any of the structures left standing after Meteor had been stripped of their contents, which was then used to build Edge. There was nothing in there worth getting at! And in any case, they could have just walked through the door and up the stairs...

Then Cloud noticed something, just off to the side there were large ruts in the ground, the kind that helicopters made...there weren't many people in this world that owned helicopters. He immediately jumped to the conclusion that ShinRa had been there.

It was probably the Turks investigating the Shadow Creeper attack last night. That still didn't explain the huge gaping hole in the side of the building.

Sighing to himself Cloud stepped into what had been the reception of the construction. He ignored the room to the side and headed for the stairs, hoping to find some clues in the room that had been broken into.

When he reached it he saw the large amount of rubble and dust that had accumulated around the gap in the wall.

There was nothing particularly special about the room, not at first glance anyway.

Just poking out from underneath the chunks of wall was a rod. The kind that the Turks used. Cloud had been right; it was ShinRa and the Turks that had come here. He still couldn't figure out why there was a crater in the wall though. Cloud supposed that there had been some kind of monster in the building and the Turks, whichever one of them had come to investigate, had panicked and summoned something. It was strange that there was no trace of a monster though...

Cloud shook his head, he didn't need to think everything through so hard.

Although one thing was still bugging him...the girl, he could have sworn he had seen the figure of a girl running into the building. Maybe it had only been a hallucination...but that made him sound mad and Cloud really did NOT want to think about hallucinations right now. A dream, he must have dreamt her up. Yeah that was it...

Cloud tried to push the girl from his mind when his phone rang.

Taking it from his pocket he saw the name...it was Tifa. Cloud immediately didn't want to pick it up, he was too ashamed to speak to Tifa at that point.

Fortunately she seemed to know this and after just a couple of rings it went into voice mail. Tifa's warm voice crackled out of the speakers.

"Cloud, Reno called..." She went on to say about how they wanted him to go to Healen.

This would be the perfect opportunity to find out about what had happened here.

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Cloud reached Healen without much incident, just a couple more voice mail, one from Barret, rambling on about Oil being an alternate source of energy to Mako and the other from Tifa telling him to hurry up and get to Healen.

He had brought the electromagrod that he had found in the ShinRa building with him, he didn't know how useful it would be, but it might be leverage if they denied being there.

Cloud opened the door without knocking and had already drawn his sword, ready for any intervention.

He wasn't disappointed.

A/N

I got terrible writers block on this chapter, I had to give up writing as Vincent and start on Cloud (I then went back and added in that little bit with Tifa)

The part with Tifa is supposed to explain why she didn't barge in on Tidus and Rikku after Yuffie had stepped out and why she called Cloud. Obviously the situation changed a bit, but hopefully the conversation didn't ;D Also, in ACC it's referred to as Healen but in AC it's called Healin (Maybe the other way round ^^''') so I used Healen.

Also forgive my lack of knowledge on the Monsters and Materia front, I've never played VII (Or any of the compilation) as I only have a DS and I wasn't even one year old when it came out!

And please review! ^_^ (If you can haha) it motivates me and reminds me that the story is loved XD