Chapter 1: Sightings of a star

"Kupo?"

That’s the sound that rang in Clouds ears. A moogle? Where exactly was he. He opened up his eyes and peered out at his surroundings. A moogle was standing in front of him, in front of a town that somewhat resembled Nebelhiem, except much much larger, instead of the ShinRa mansion, there was a large castle.

"He’s dressed funny, Kupo." The moogle replied.

"Wh-where am I?" Cloud spat out finally. Was this a dream?

"You’re in Alexandria, Kupo, and I’m Kupo." The moogle cheerfully replied.

There was a loud roar and Cloud turned around to see what it was. Was that bahamut?! It couldn’t be. It looked different than the king of dragons. The large dragon fired a flaming projectile from its mouth. The fireball fell into the city, causing destruction and mayhem.

"Cloud. Cloud." Cloud heard a booming voice calling his name. He looked into the night sky, beyond that of Bahamut. He then woke up.

"Cloud? Are you all right? You have a big sweat going on here." Cait Sith was standing over him.

"Cait, what are you doing in my room at" He glanced at the clock "2 A.m.?"

"Getting you for some official business. AVALANCHE is needed."

Cloud had forgotten that behind the cute toysaurus was actually the president of ShinRa, Reeve. "And you want me to magically make everyone appear and ready for battle? Look, Reeve, AVALANCHE is gone. It’s over. Once Sephiroth and Meteor were put out of commission, we split up."

"Yes, I know that, but this is an emergency!"

"What could possibly be an emergency so dire you want AVALANCHE to rejoin?"

"Heh. Just look out your window."

Cloud stood up and walked over to his bedroom window. He lived at his villa in Costa del Sol by himself, a retired hero. Glancing out the window, he saw the town, the gentle tide of the sea, and a bright light rapidly descending from the night sky to the ground.

"We at ShinRa don’t know what it is, but it could be another METEOR, which would mean-"

"METEOR’s gone! The black materia was destroyed! What's so dire about a falling star?"

Cait Sith was silent for a moment, then looked into Clouds blue mako eyes. "Because it’s landing on the other continent. To see it from here would give you a guess on its size. It’s supposed to land in the inner sea, around Junon. But that’s not the problem."

"That thing must be huge! The size of Junon." Cloud stared into the sky.

"We had the people around there evacuate for a precaution, but the high walls around the sea should stop any waves."

"Yea, I remember. It’s where we fought Ultima WEAPON a couple years back."

"The thing about it is, it’s carrying a life form. The ShinRa space development program picked it up and our archaeologist fear the worst. Another JENOVA."

Cloud Strife looked over to the toysaurus. "So you want AVALANCHE to take out another JENOVA?"

"…Yea…that was the idea." Cait Sith stared at the floor.

"…Alert the others. I’m back." Cloud gave a weak smile "It’ll be good to see the others."

Cait looked up, merrily. "Really?! I will at once! Come on mog!" Cait jumped on his cave moogle and hopped out of the room.

Once Cait Sith had gone, Cloud looked back at the falling star through the window. "…A fireball…Bahamut?…"

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"I want that &^%$% thing take out right NOW!" Cid Highwind screamed at the troops. He was on the Highwind, leading a fleet of similar airships. Sister Ray had been destroyed with Midgar, so the ShinRa army was going to take the meteor out the old fashioned way. Cid had been promoted to the leader of the air ship fleet, because nobody knew more about airships then he did.

As the star fell through the night sky, so did the airships, rapidly approaching the falling menace. Missiles launched off the airships, flying through the air and hopefully to the meteor. Cid stood on the bow of the Highwind, a pleased look on his crusty old face. The missiles closed in on the giant meteor and struck a blow causing a flash of light to erupt. The meteor fell into several chunks, but the largest one falling into the inner sea. Cid cursed himself and everything in this world silly, throwing his cigarette on the floor and stomping on it. The other chunks flew all over, some into the ruins of Midgar, others into the ocean and some onto the western continent as far as Cosmo Canyon. A great explosion happened under the airship fleet, brightening the world for all to see. The waves left a watery crater for a mid second, then toppling into the sides of the mountains. Similar, but smaller explosions rocked the world for any that stood near.