Six years after the Deepground crisis, Sephiroth returns - with no memory of anything that happened at Nibelheim, or afterwards. Cloud Strife, convinced it's a trap, advocates for his old enemy's immediate execution - but Rufus Shinra, determined to reform the image of the new Shinra Electric Company and earn the goodwill of a population tired of violence, has other ideas.

Cloud has suffered and asked for forgiveness, but Aeris knows she alone cannot give him it. He must find that forgiveness and peace where it began, back at SOLDIER. SephirothxCloud REWRITE PLANNED (see profile for details)

Sephiroth materialized on the outskirts of a small village a few hundred miles south of the ancient city of Midgar. With silver hair shorn to the barest inch and green eyes lacking their usual luminescence, he looked very little like the man who had played a large part in the near-ruin of the world, just as Cloud Strife looked very little like the man who had defeated him.

The Planet isn't willing to let death take away its greatest weapon. If Cloud can't save the past, then he'll be damned to watch history repeat itself. Time travel, SxC, ZxA.

Although controversial, mako injection is the first step toward becoming a SOLDIER. Fresh out of the country, Cadet Cloud Strife is eager to receive his 'rite of passage', at whatever the cost. But when he finally obtains his wish and is injected the mysterious cells, the side effects prove deadly and threaten his sanity and life. (C/S: M for language, violence, sex, drugs)