Unwelcome Memories
Now this is set far into the future, and flashes back to AC. And if I haven't alienated most of my readers by now I'm not doing my job properly.
Disclaimer: Square-Enix owns most of the stuff, can't be assed to give full disclaimer.
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It came down to this, 2 years after meteor fall where AVALANCHE had defeated Sephiroth and Cloud had forced the last remnants of Sephiroth's control from his mind.
Remnants was an appropriate phrase since 3 'remnants' of Sephiroth, failed attempts to clone him in order to test the reunion theorem, rose to bring his third coming. His first being his relatively normal life, second when he was fused with JENOVA or something like that, this being the third time.
The group had re-formed to destroy Bahumunt SIN and Cloud had defeated the leader of the remnants, Kadaj. It looked like it was all over, except for when Sephiroth finally returned.
After 15 minutes of fighting it looked as though Sephiroth was going to win, or so everyone watching thought. What they didn't see was that Cloud was intentionally playing possum, waiting for the right moment to strike with the one technique that was guaranteed to put an end to Sephiroth, the Omnislash.
Although Sephiroth never uttered his final words before being struck down by such a move it would have most likely been 'oh crap'.
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"And that's how I kicked your ass and saved the world again." Cloud concluded.
"Cloud?" Sephiroth asked after he had been forced to relive his more shameful moments (except for the whole Mary Sue parasite thing but all the men involved had agreed to never talk about that again, it never happened alright? Good).
"Yeah?"
"You're a douche."
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Yes, every character (save from probably Zack) in this fic so far is a douche or is crazy. I like consistency with my characters personalities. If there are any continuity errors between Cloud's recollection and AC, attribute it to Cloud having developed a large ego in his final years.