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Chapter 2- Who is our enemy?

The heroes were all in the Waverider that was going through the timestream, mostly as a way of protection as Lyla had a feeling Sephiroth wouldn't come after them here…for now at least.

All of them were in pure shock. They had thought with the defeat of Anti-Monitor, the whole Multiverse had been saved from its destruction.

Instead, they were now besieged by an even worse foe in the form of Sephiroth, who had taken out Mar-Novu as well.

Though the Monitor did have it coming, but between himself and beings like Sephiroth and Mobius, one could say Mar-Novu was the lesser evil.

So now they were mostly at a loss.

"Who is this man and what do we know about him?" Oliver finally asked no one in particular, getting back into business mode.

"Never heard of him till now", Cisco muttered.

"Yeah, me neither, today is the first time I saw him", Barry said while massaging his leg that had been healed using Waverider technology.

"Don't think he's from our Earth, is he?" Sara inquired and all shook their heads. "Had a feeling."

"So who is he and where is he from?" Ray wondered.

"I think you'd know, right?" Caitlin looked at Lyla, and got a nod.

"Yeah, tell us then", Mia requested.

"If we're gonna take on him, better to know what we're up against", Roy agreed.

"Don't think we can really fight him", Clark said, exchanging a look with Lois. "Considering how easy it was for him to beat all of us."

When even Superman was unsure, things were really bad.

"He killed Kate too", Kara muttered sadly.

"Sephiroth comes from a world where the Earth is known as Gaia or the Planet, we call it Earth-7", Lyla explained to the group of heroes, who now all gave her their undivided attention. "A race called the Cetra came to the Planet Earth to help cultivate life", Lyla showed them a projection of Cetra on the Planet, "but a powerful creature called 'Calamity from the Skies', or Jenova for short, came too, and started infecting and killing them." Something was shown crashing on the Earth. "Eventually, Jenova was sealed by Cetra but the Cetra's number had dwindled, and the remainder all dwindled and joined the growing human population."

They listened, Lyla continuing. "Then in modern times a company called Shinra Electric Power Company was formed in a city called Midgar", The city of Midgar was shown, as well as the Shinra building there, "and they'd their scientists Hojo and Lucrecia. There was one more main scientist called Gast, who found Jenova's remains, but believed she's a Cetra, so Shinra decided to experiment and create humans with power of a Cetra."

"Great, so once more, people trying to mess with forces they don't understand", Barry commented dryly at what was going on.

"Shinra's main form of energy was Mako", Mako in a reactor was shown, "the liquid form of the Planet's own life energy called the Lifestream, the afterlife for the Planet's spirits that contained the summation of the cognition its inhabitants had accumulated", they saw the whole Lifestream flowing, "but the corporation was draining the Planet of its energy in their own interests", Lyla continued her tale.

"Like how industrialization damages nature", Caitlin pointed out to the rest.

"Crystallized Mako formed items known as the Materia, that can be used to manipulate nature and cast spells", a projection of glowing Materia appeared. "Back to the Sephiroth's tale, Lucrecia was pregnant from Hojo, but experiments were done on her unborn baby in a town called Nibelheim, and she consented to all of those in the name of science."

"What a lady", Diggle scoffed in disgust, the rest agreeing.

"Lucrecia during her pregnancy got nightmares that her son will grow up to be an evil monster, and eventually he's born and named Sephiroth but scientists take him away before Lucrecia even got a chance to hold him."

Now all felt bad for Lucrecia to some extent, since even she did not deserve that.

"Lucrecia now felt guilty and argued with Hojo to see Sephiroth but fell ill from the experiments", Lyla revealed to the group. "Shinra had a branch called the 'Turks' who're basically spies with various skills. One of them was called Vincent Valentine", a projection of Vincent in his Turk suit appeared, "and he loved Lucrecia, so her condition enraged him and he confronted Hojo, but Hojo shot him and experimented on him", they saw a projection of Hojo shooting Vincent, feeling their hearts go out to him, "making him more powerful, but Vincent died from the experiments."

"Poor guy", Kara said sadly, as he didn't deserve it.

"Lucrecia made Vincent's body a vessel for a being called Chaos. She revived him by infusing him with pure Mako and merged Chaos's spirit with Vincent's essence, putting a Materia Protomateria in his chest to keep Chaos under control. Lucrecia left Nibelheim, hiding away from the rest of the world in the Crystal Cave." A projection of Lucrecia in the Crystal Cave.

"Vincent awakened in the Shinra Mansion basement where he believed his new powers and condition as a punishment for his failure to stop Lucrecia and her unborn child from being experimented on. He shut himself away in a room full of coffins in the basement of Shinra Mansion. Because of Hojo's experiments, Vincent could sleep without aging or having to sustain himself, having become biologically immortal." They saw a projection of Vincent sleeping in a coffin. Now dressed in red including a cape.

"This guy….." Oliver, Sara, Barry and the rest all felt for what he'd gone through, and would go through forever due to being immortal.

"Sephiroth is eventually raised by Shinra to be the perfect warrior, and is only told his mom's name was Jenova. Sephiroth also feels different from others", Lyla then took a detour. "Gast during this fell in love with a woman called Ifalna, an actual Cetra woman, and they had a daughter called Aerith, only, Hojo tracked them down and had his men kill Gast while Aerith and Ifalna were experimented upon."

They saw a very short projection of both Aerith and Ifalna being experimented upon and felt their blood boil, Ray finally saying. "I think this Hojo is the biggest monster here."

Lyla nodded in agreement. "Eventually, they escaped Hojo one day but Ifalna died, and in her dying moments, asked a woman called Elmyra to take care of her daughter, so Elmyra adopted Aerith."

"Well, at least Aerith's safe now", Sara sighed in relief, though Lyla know it'd be short-lived.

"The Shinra company eventually engaged in war with a country called Wutai, since they wanted to make a Mako reactor there but Wutai didn't want to be dominated. By now they'd made a branch called SOLDIER, where they kept their superhumans experimented on with Jenova cells, and there were 3 classes- SOLDIER First Class, SOLDIER Second Class, and SOLDIER Third Class. Sephiroth was SOLDIER First Class and the most powerful SOLDIER, as well as the strongest person on the planet. He took part in the war and his exploits made him a war hero, with Shinra now using him for propaganda, so many young people were inspired to join SOLDIER in Shinra. Sephiroth was basically the world's greatest hero."

They saw a projection of Sephiroth this time, much younger than what he was now, holding the Masamune as he stood victorious in the battlefield.

"The husband of Elmyra was killed in the Wutai War as well", Lyla added sadly, surprising the heroes a little as they realized all that Lyla said would be connected. "Sephiroth was arrogant but overall a good man, and wasn't fond of his popularity much, and eventually becomes best friends with 2 other SOLDIER First Class called Genesis Rhapsodos and Angeal Hewley. Now Genesis and Angeal too were born from Jenova experiments but these were carried out by a different scientist than Hojo called Hollander, who was inferior, so eventually they'd degrade and die." They saw projections of both Genesis and Angeal. "Genesis envied Sephiroth and in a training session challenged him to a duel."

The heroes saw Sephiroth sparring with Genesis and Angeal, and were awed by the power all three showed. Then next moment Genesis was trying to fight Sephiroth alone and not being able to make a dent in spite of going all out. Even Clark and Kara were stunned by the power of the three, they paled next to it.

"Genesis then got an injury", Angeal came between Sephiroth and Genesis, trying to stop them, but Genesis broke Angeal's SOLDIER sword as the pointed end flew and scraped his shoulder, "but instead of healing, it gets worse, and the other scientist Hollander tells Genesis the truth of his birth, so Genesis now deserts Shinra and takes many other SOLDIERs with him, and alongside Hollander, turns them into his copies, to make an army that'd take out Shinra and they can make a cure too."

A projection of 3 dead copies having Genesis' face, with Kara sighing. "So Genesis leaves Shinra with this Hollander and goes evil, right."

"More like desperate and evil both but I get what you mean", Lyla confirmed, then continued. "During that time, an anti-Shinra organization called Avalanche also launches an assault against them, and Sephiroth at one point battles their leader, a woman called Elfe, who asks Sephiroth if he fights for a reason. This has a profound effect on Sephiroth." They saw a little scene of Sephiroth and Elfe facing off.

"Genesis later also tells Angeal about the experiments, so a conflicted Angeal leaves Shinra, while Angeal's mother commits suicide due to guilt in her part in these experiments." A projection of the corpse of Gillian Hewley.

"Poor woman", Cisco commented, speaking for the rest.

"During this time, Sephiroth meets a SOLDIER called Zack Fair who was Second Class but is now promoted to First Class, and Zack was Angeal's protégé, so he's just as shook up by Angeal's defection as Sephiroth is", a projection of Zack now appeared for the group to see. "Sephiroth befriends Zack, and they bond over the loss of their good friend. Sephiroth is torn up and refuses missions regarding Genesis or Angeal. Eventually, Zack is confronted by both in a mission. Genesis apparently commits suicide while Angeal forces Zack to kill him, and in his dying moments, he dies honorably, giving up his sword to Zack." A projection of Genesis seemingly falling to his death and Angeal dying, with Zack standing over him as Angeal bequeaths his sword to Zack, who breaks down.

"Guess he didn't like the monster he was becoming", Oliver realized about Angeal, which was why he wanted to die.

"Sephiroth and Zack are then to be sent to Nibelheim to investigate a Monster outbreak near the reactor, and Sephiroth tells Zack he's going to retire after this, so this will be their last mission together."

"I've a feeling it didn't turn out that way", Clark knew already, as did the rest.

"So the two go there, with 3 Shinra grunts. The grunts are neither superhuman like SOLDIER nor skilled spies like the Turks, just infantrymen with weapons. One of them is called Cloud Strife who is a very good friend of Zack as they'd met in the mission where Genesis and Angeal died, and bonded due to being originally from villages." A projection of Cloud was shown, he was young and blonde with spiky hair.

"Guessing he's gonna be important in the future", Mia noted.

"Most important", Lyla confirmed. "Plus Nibelheim is Cloud's hometown, though Cloud hides his face with a helmet as he'd set out to be SOLDIER, but failed and is now just a grunt so he's embarrassed, but he does meet his mother in private to tell her about his life in Shinra."

"Yeah, that had to suck", Sara agreed with a nod.

"Sephiroth asks Cloud how it feels to be back in his hometown, and says he doesn't have one. Zack asks about his parents and Sephiroth only says his mom's name was Jenova. Zack now gets suspicious as he'd come across the name while going through research regarding Genesis and Angeal." Lyla looked to see if all were following or not. "At the Mako reactor, Sephiroth makes two disturbing discoveries: several pod-like chambers containing monstrous creatures who used to be human, mutated by exposure to Mako and a section labeled "JENOVA" containing a feminine-looking creature. When Zack suggests a connection between SOLDIER and the creatures in the tanks, Sephiroth flies into a rage, horrified that he is "different", perhaps because he was created similarly to the monsters in the pods." Projections of the monsters in pods and the chamber with 'JENOVA' on it. "A still-alive Genesis then returns, revealing Sephiroth was born from the Jenova Project, its goal to produce the "perfect monster". Genesis is still degrading and asks for Sephiroth's cells to be healed as he was a success. Sephiroth rejects Genesis's request for Jenova cells from him and walks off." A projection of a still-alive but degrading Genesis asking Sephiroth for his cells while Zack was on the ground.

"No more than he deserves I say", Dig shrugged.

"Disturbed by the creature in the reactor having the same name as his "mother", along with the once-human monsters in the pods and Genesis's words, Sephiroth made his way to the manor that had been occupied by Shinra researchers. He pored over the research notes in the basement library, wondering why he was never told the truth of his origins. He comes to believe Jenova is a Cetra, and therefore he, as Jenova's "son", is the last Cetra survivor. He believes the human race had betrayed the Cetra 2,000 years ago, leaving them alone to defend the planet from a calamity, eventually revealed to have been Jenova itself, and resolves to take vengeance for his "ancestors"."

A little projection of Sephiroth going through all notes in the basement like a man possessed.

"So this is how he goes bad", Oliver realized, summing it up for the rest. "He thinks he's a descendant of the Ancients and Jenova is his mother, a Cetra, resolving to take vengeance in her name."

"That's true", Lyla confirmed sadly. "A week later, Sephiroth burnt down Nibelheim, killing many townspeople", a projection of Sephiroth standing in the center of the burning town, having an insane smirk before he turns around and walks off. Every single one of them was disturbed by the scene. A once good man now a complete monster.

"And then he goes to the reactor to reclaim Jenova's remains. Cloud has a childhood lady friend here called Tifa Lockhart", a projection of Tifa was shown, "who was the group's guide to the mountain that had the reactor. Tifa's father, Tifa herself, Zack and Cloud go after Sephiroth. Plus Cloud's mom has been killed too in the fire, sadly."

The heroes could only feel their hearts go out to all victims of the situation.

"Sephiroth kills Tifa's father in the reactor and leaves his sword next to the corpse", a projection of Tifa's dead father with the sword next to him. "Tifa takes the sword and attacks but is disarmed and brutally injured." A projection of Tifa trying to attack only to be defeated easily. "Shortly after Sephiroth enters Jenova's chamber, Zack arrives to confront him. Sephiroth only keeps talking to his "mother", saying they will reclaim the planet and head to the promised land, which was a quasi-mythical land believed to house infinite Mako, and also believed to be where the remaining Cetra are supposed to be. Sephiroth and Zack engage in a long and brutal fight, but Zack is eventually beaten and ejected from the chamber, nearly fainting."

A projection was shown of Sephiroth and Zack having a long and brutal battle, but no matter how hard Zack tried, Sephiroth didn't budge. It was impossible to believe both were in the same SOLDIER class. Eventually, Zack is ejected from the chamber onto the stairs as his sword is planted on the ground.

"Cloud now arrives. Now remember, while Cloud never made it to SOLDIER, like all candidates, he'd been injected with Mako, he just wasn't mentally strong enough. Now seeing his hometown burnt, his mother murdered, and his 2 best friends Zack and Tifa wounded, Cloud gets a burst of strength and adrenaline. Taking Zack's sword, he stabs Sephiroth from behind, brutally wounding him, then goes to check up on Tifa."

A projection of Cloud stabbing Sephiroth deeply from behind, then going to check up on Tifa.

"Guess this is how he loses then", Barry commented.

"A wounded Sephiroth takes Jenova's head and staggers out of the chamber, as an enraged Cloud tries to attack him again, but is stabbed through the chest and lifted up via sword." A projection of an impaled Cloud being lifted by Sephiroth, all cringing at how painful it looked. "Only, Cloud's enraged state gives him more power and he grasps the sword, using it as a lever to lift up Sephiroth, and hurling him away into the Mako below." A projection of Cloud doing to Sephiroth just what Lyla described him do.

"Wow, so the world's greatest hero got beaten by a grunt at day's end", Clark realized. "A very determined grunt that is, with secret power."

All felt a lot of respect for Cloud here, Lyla nodding. "Shinra seals the records on Sephiroth, declaring him killed in action, and rebuilds Nibelheim to cover up the incident, populating it with Shinra employees paid to act as the villagers."

"That's just horrible", Caitlin said, realizing the whole incident was just erased. All felt their disgust at the company increase.

"Sephiroth falls into the Lifestream. Portions of the Lifestream are believed to be used to create new life on the planet, and the energy of a person returns to the planet when they die, bringing with it the emotions, memories, and knowledge they obtained during life. Sephiroth's willpower was too great to allow himself to be consumed. Over the next several years, Sephiroth traveled the Lifestream. Growing in power and knowledge, the fragments of his body congregate at the Northern Cave inside the North Crater, joining to recreate Sephiroth's physical form in a cocoon of mako. Sephiroth's new goal is to merge with the Lifestream and seize control of it to become a God." An image of Sephiroth in the North Crater. "Though his physical body is encased in mako, Sephiroth can control Jenova's cells as an extension of his body and thus act out his plans through the remains of Jenova's body. Hojo has injected Zack, Cloud and the other survivors of Nibelheim, save for Tifa who was rescued by her mentor Zangan before Shinra found her, with Sephiroth's cells, turning them into Sephiroth-clones: people whose wills have been over-ridden with Sephiroth's will. Hojo believes the Jenova cells within Sephiroth would call for a "reunion" of those who share its cells and wishes to see his theory put to the test."

"This guy is putting every evil scientist I know to shame", Barry said in disgust of Hojo.

"Yeah, he's probably the biggest monster in all of this", Oliver agreed there.

"Yep, only someone with no humanity can do all of this", Dig nodded.

"That's true, anyway, 4 years later Zack escapes with a comatose Cloud, and before Nibelheim, he was in a relationship with Aerith, yes, the same one", Lyla confirmed on seeing their shocked looks as a projection of an older Aerith appeared, near some flowers in a church. "She was encouraged by Zack to sell flowers, which was a success. Zack wanted to return to her, and evaded Shinra's forces, with the Turks, who were his friends, trying to help him. He even ended the conflict with Genesis here", a projection of Genesis being defeated by Zack, "and was close to Midgar, but here they were ambushed by the whole Shinra force." Lyla sighed sadly, a projection appearing of Zack facing an entire army on his own. "Zack fought bravely, but it wasn't enough", a projection of Zack being gunned down by the 3 remaining solders, meaning he had killed the rest of the entire army by himself. "In his dying moments, he bequeathed his sword to a finally awakened Cloud." An image of Zack passing on his sword to Cloud, like Angeal had done to him.

"He couldn't meet Aerith again", Sara muttered, all of them feeling sad again that Zack had died before he could reunite with the woman he loved.

"Cloud's mind took all of this really hard, with all the trauma and Mako poisoning he had, his mind shattered, and he adapted Zack's memories and persona into his own. His mind basically erased Zack, and he believed he was the SOLDIER First Class who'd gone to Nibelheim, but his memories were all fuzzy", Lyla said, the shock and sympathy of the group only increasing due to what Cloud had to go through.

"Cloud's trauma must have been too much", Oliver sighed, wondering if he could have had a psychotic break of that sort.

"Eventually, Cloud joined another incarnation of AVALANCHE, and Tifa was part of it too", Lyla revealed to all of them. "Sephiroth now enacts his plan and puts out the call for the reunion to summon the Sephiroth-clones to the North Cave. Jenova's remains, which had been moved to the Shinra HQ in Midgar, shapeshift into Sephiroth's form and break out of containment. Jenova/Sephiroth releases Cloud and the members of AVALANCHE, who were being held prisoner, along with Aerith who Cloud had met and befriended. Sephiroth kills President Shinra after declaring Shinra should never acquire the Cetra's fabled promised land. Cloud, seeing Sephiroth's Masamune left at President Shinra's murder site, surmises Sephiroth is alive, and sets out with Avalanche to find him and settle the score for what happened to Nibelheim. However, what Cloud doesn't know is that his drive for pursuing Sephiroth is compounded by the Jenova cells calling him toward Sephiroth to reunite with the main body as per Hojo's "Reunion Theory". The party finds Sephiroth on the cargo ship headed to a place Costa del Sol, where he alludes to the reunion and leaves Jenova's arm behind that transforms into Jenova∙BIRTH, and they battle it. He appears sometime later in the Nibelheim Shinra Manor basement, where he mentions the reunion and calls for Cloud to follow him. In this crisis, Vincent finally awakens and joins the rest", a shot was shown of Cloud and his whole group, and it included Aerith, Tifa and Vincent. "At the Temple of the Ancients, Sephiroth reveals the full extent of his plans—the planet relies on the Lifestream to heal itself when wounded, and the North Crater, where the Lifestream is abundant, is where Jenova fell two thousand years ago."

"All part of his plan to be a God", Kara noted.

"Using the Black Materia, Sephiroth plans to call the Ultimate Destructive Magic—Meteor—to injure the planet and place himself at the center of its impact zone as the lifestream emerges to heal the planet's wound. Sephiroth plans to merge with the lifestream, becoming a God", Lyla explained his plan in detail. "Cloud acquires the Black Materia first, but Sephiroth exerts his influence over the Jenova cells within Cloud's body and takes control of him, forcing Cloud to hand the Materia over. Aerith uses the White Materia to summon Holy, the only power able to counter Meteor. During her prayer, Sephiroth, or rather, Jenova transformed into his image, impales her with his sword, killing her." A shot of Aerith praying as Sephiroth/Jenova descended, stabbing and killing her, then later Cloud gently put her body in a lake.

"That monster", Clark snarled as he clutched his fists, the rest feeling their rage at him increase.

"He may have had a tragic backstory, but he's an irredeemable monster", Oliver finally said, no one disagreeing.

"Though Aerith had successfully called Holy, Sephiroth holds it back within the planet. Cloud and his allies continue tracking Jenova's remains in Sephiroth's form to the North Crater. Cloud and his party kill Jenova in Sephiroth's form and reclaim the Black Materia. Cloud entrusts it to a party member for safekeeping while he and Tifa continue deeper into the crater and find themselves in an illusion of Nibelheim's destruction that Sephiroth conjured. Sephiroth wants to break Cloud by making him believe he is but a simulacrum created by Professor Hojo with false memories. Sephiroth deceives Cloud into thinking he is a mere cluster of Jenova cells that assumed the identity of a boy named "Cloud" from Tifa's childhood. Tifa tries to tell Cloud that Sephiroth is lying but cannot deny that she never saw Cloud at Nibelheim during its destruction."

"Have a feeling that didn't work so well", Roy realized, Lyla nodding.

"Tifa's words, along with Sephiroth's manipulations, take their toll and shatter Cloud's fragile mind. Sephiroth projects an illusion of Tifa before the party members left behind to bring the Black Materia to Cloud. Once Cloud takes back the Black Materia, he hands it over to Sephiroth's true body residing within a mako cocoon. Sephiroth summons the Meteor, which awakens the planet's defense mechanism, the Weapons. The area's walls crumble as the Weapons, colossal monsters, arise from their slumber, and Sephiroth's mako cocoon falls into the crater. Cloud's allies flee with Rufus Shinra, the new president of the Shinra Company, on the airship Highwind. Sephiroth erects an energy barrier over the crater to keep the Weapons from detecting him. Cloud falls into the Lifestream but resurfaces at Mideel, subjected to intense Mako poisoning, his state similar to when he and Zack had escaped Shinra. Eventually, Tifa helped repair Cloud's psyche as he finally remembered Zack again, as well as the fact that he was an infantryman, and so Cloud returned. Hojo is taken down during this mess too", a shot of Hojo's corpse, with everyone looking satisfied, "and then they go through the Northern Cave to confront Sephiroth."

There was a projection of Cloud and his whole group battling Sephiroth who'd transformed into different forms. "They eventually beat him as Holy and Meteor clashed, and Aerith commanded the Lifestream itself to push Meteor back, allowing Holy to destroy it."

First a projection of Cloud defeating a shirtless Sephiroth and then the Lifestream pushing Meteor back for Holy to destroy it.

"Is that the end of it?" Kara asked.

"Unfortunately, no, there's some more", Lyla revealed to their horror. "Sephiroth's consciousness corrupts part of the Lifestream, spreading a fatal disease called Geostigma. Children are a major target, and Cloud gets infected too. During this time he lives with Tifa and an orphan called Denzel they adopted, who also has it, and a girl called Marlene who is the foster daughter of their friend Barret Wallace. The former vice-president of Shinra, Rufus Shinra, gets it too, while residing with his former Turks Tseng, Reno, Rude and Elena", a projection of people dying from Geostigma, then Cloud and Denzel both having symptoms on their arms, followed by a projection of Rufus, Reno, Rude, Tseng and Elena together, Rufus covered in a blanket and on a wheelchair, his hand showing symptoms. "Rufus was repentant, one can say, as were the Turks."

"They've a lot to make up for though", Oliver noted, no one disagreeing. "And looks like Rufus is hit pretty badly too."

"Sephiroth's will gets 3 physical manifestations in the form of Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo, who want Jenova cells to be reunited with her, not knowing Sephiroth is using them and Jenova's remnants to resurrect himself", a projection was shown of the 3 Remnants, followed by Loz and Yazoo and an army of what looked like shadow dog Demons trying to fight Cloud in a wasteland, then the 3 torturing Tseng and Elena, followed by Kadaj confronting Rufus as Reno and Rude lay wounded. "The Geostigma-afflicted children were abducted for the Reunion, as the Remnants threw everything they had at the heroes."

A projection was shown of Kadaj summoning a Dragon-like creature. Cloud, Tifa, Vincent, Barret Wallace and their other friends Yuffie Kisaragi, Nanaki, Cait Sith and Cid Highwind battled it, with the rest eventually giving Cloud a leg-up, as Aerith's spirit did the same, and Cloud defeated the Dragon while at the same time Reno and Rude battled Yazoo and Loz.

"Rufus finally revealed that he wasn't as sick as they thought", a projection was shown of Rufus rising from his wheelchair in front of Kadaj, throwing off the blanket to reveal he had the box holding Jenova's head hidden under it the whole time, while the Remnants were looking everywhere else for it.

"Damn! Now that was smart, making them look everywhere else while he had it under his blanket the whole time", Barry said, everyone impressed.

"Manipulative too, but he was right to hide it from them, considering their plans", Oliver agreed. Rufus was like a nicer Amanda Waller here.

"The Remnants are defeated", Cloud was shown cutting off the weapons of Loz and Yazoo, who are then caught in an explosion set by Reno and Rude, before he is shown beating Kadaj too. "Aerith's flowerbed in the church is destroyed but Lifestream-infused water rises, summoned by Aerith, and cures him." The Lifestream-infused water was shown rising and curing Cloud's Geostigma. "However, Kadaj managed to merge with Jenova's remains, and Sephiroth was reborn."

They paled, seeing Kadaj turn into Sephiroth. "So Cloud and Sephiroth engaged in battle again, with Zack giving Cloud a little push-up." A projection of Zack's spirit encouraging Cloud. "And Sephiroth was beaten." A projection was shown of Cloud defeating Sephiroth who faded away. "But he promised he'd never be a memory. Aerith called down healing rain as her waters healed all of Geostigma." The healing rain was shown healing Rufus, as later children including Denzel too were healed. "And that was the end of it."

"Until now", Clark said. "Now that Sephiroth is no longer a memory."

The entire group felt helpless, seeing the power possessed by Sephiroth, Cloud, Zack, Vincent, Aerith, Genesis, Angeal, the Remnants and even the more human residents of this world like Tifa, Yuffie and the Turks. They paled in comparison.

And now the most powerful of all, Sephiroth, was against them. What could they do?

"From what I know, he was gaining a lot more power in the corrupted part of Lifestream, which is bigger than any of them knew at the time, and Mar-Novu decided to bring him of all people back as a last resort to take out Mobius. It worked a little too well", Lyla winced.

"Great job, bringing in an even worse and more uncontrollable monster to defeat the current one", Oliver scoffed.

"Why didn't you ever tell us before?" Dig asked again, feeling hurt.

Lyla sighed. "Now that he is dead, I remember. He messed with my mind to make me forget every time I tried to bring it up to you two", Lyla looked at Oliver and Diggle directly. "And when he made me Harbinger, he made me think I hid it all on purpose."

"That rat bastard", Diggle snarled angrily, walking to Lyla and hugging her as she hugged back. "I am so sorry, Lyla. I never should have doubted you."

She nodded, looking at Oliver who looked back in sympathy.

"I guess its settled then", Barry realized. "We need Cloud and the rest to beat Sephiroth."

"True", Lyla nodded. "We'll have to go to their world and ask for their help."

There was a huge quake as Sara asked. "What was that?"

"The timestream is shaking from Sephiroth's power."

All paled as Lyla said. "Let's do it fast."


Meanwhile, many Earths had been ravaged by Sephiroth's powers already, with everlasting darkness on them. He'd taken out Earth-3, Earth-9, Earth-19 and Earth-X already, the heroes and villains of those worlds having stood no chance against him.

He gave an insane smirk, as now he was in the Dominators' world in Universe-1. As they faced him, Sephiroth flew, grabbing a bigger Dominator and flying it through various buildings, shattering all and killing everyone within while the Dominator's body also got broken.

By the end, only its head remained that Sephiroth crushed into a pulp. With that, he flew at high speed, destroying all buildings in the area as they exploded into nothingness, also destroying all Dominator satellites.

A majority of the whole Dominator planet was now gone. Sephiroth called down Meteor, using it to wipe the planet out. He decided he could go to Earth-167, as that Earth had a really powerful Superman, one who would be a worthy opponent, or he could go to Earth-21 to fight Dante the half-Demon or his twin brother Vergil, those would be worthy opponents too.

However, his focus was on his archenemy, whom he'd first kill before moving onto others.

"Time for us to meet again, Cloud."


And that's the end of this one, now all know Sephiroth's backstory, and the plot of FFVII and its compilation in general, except Dirge of Cerberus but its not too relevant here, and I'm ignoring the Genesis scene from its end to make this work.

The Harbinger thing ruined Lyla so I'd the Monitor mess with her mind, because he's a piece of shit like that, FUCK HIM!

Anyway, 2 more chapters to go, as Cloud and Company show up. Hope all enjoyed and see you all next time with another chapter.