Cloud looked at Shinra-Junon, the Planet's tallest building. Instead of being round like Shinra-Midgar was, Shinra-Junon was rectangular and tall. It had one hundred and thirty stories against Cloud.

"We enter through the front. We place one of our Midgar Charges there. And then we'll place one on each floor. But, we are putting ten on floors thirty and thirty-one. That's where Lucrecia's Order is being kept. And I have something of my own to take care of before we leave." Nanaki said.

Vincent was gone from his lab. Nanaki took his blood sample. He activated a computer. Luckily it was voice controlled. Nanaki altered his DNA. He changed it into what a female of his species would be. Now, time to run the machine . . .

All charges set. They had split the floors in half between them, which made it a lot quicker. Cloud joined Nanaki in the elevator on floor sixty-five. As the door closed Cloud gave a sigh of relief.

"Looks like it ends, again." Cloud said.

"Yes I . . ." Nanaki froze.

"What?" Cloud asked. Gunshots rang in Cloud's ear. Vincent dropped in from above. He shot the emergency stop button on the large freight elevator.

"Been watching the whole time." Vincent said. "The bombs are remote detonated. That I know. Too bad you won't set them off. In fact, Sephiroth won't. He'd never do that."

Can't believe he calls you that. Sephiroth said.

Not now. Cloud replied. Cloud brandished his new Rune Blade, which he bought in Midgar.

He made a swing towards Vincent but missed. Nanaki lunged at Vincent, but Vincent rolled out of the way.

"Not again." Vincent said, pointing to the large scar on his face.

Cloud made a few more attempts but missed every time.

Stop! Sephiroth yelled in Cloud's mind. Freeze! At those words the world around Cloud froze in suspended animation. Cloud moved freely though. Sephiroth appeared.

"What?" Cloud asked. "You can't harm me. You can't actually change the world. I bet this is your power's limit." Cloud said.

"Correct, you are. Cloud, I told you the truth about Zack. Will you believe the truth I tell you now?" Sephiroth's spirit asked.

"Perhaps." Cloud answered.

"I have to take you back to a very painful place." Sephiroth said.

Cloud was now going through wormholes. Just like the ones that led to Sephiroth's true form after his Safer defeat.

And there he was, at the Forgotten Capital, about to cut Aeris in two with his Buster Sword. Now about here the group would tell him to . . .

He didn't stop, but instead changed his angle of the sword. He brought it to a stabbing position and . . .

No! No! No! No! He stabbed Aeris. Cloud Strife, failed clone of the evil Sephiroth, stabbed Aeris Gainsborough.

Sephiroth, I won't believe it! I can't believe it!

Sephiroth appeared. "It is the truth. As I said, I told the truth with the Zack incident. Now listen Cloud, I changed it, in your minds. I had to. If not you could of committed suicide, or a member of the group could've killed you. I needed you for my plans. Now lets move on."

He was back into the wormholes.

"Junon, Cloud, four years ago, on this day too, my day of death. Watch."

Barret, holding Tifa, fell as the Junon cannon shot. Cloud ran to grab Barret's slipping hand but . . . he took out the Buster Sword. He made a giant swing and . . . chopped Barret's fingers off. Sending him and Tifa down into their watery grave.

"I couldn't of done that? Why would I do that?" Cloud asked his enemy.

"Vincent calls you Sephiroth. Remember Cloud, you giving me the Black Materia at the Temple of the Ancients? Cloud Strife, your like my son. You're a spawn of me. Therefore as they say, like father, like son. When you saw Barret and Tifa hanging there you had to make a choice: whether or not to save them. Being you Cloud, you conjured up every bit of angry feeling you had towards them. Same goes for when Aeris was kneeling there." Sephiroth explained.

"I loved Aeris, Sephiroth."

"Wrong Cloud, wrong choice of words. You love Aeris. You didn't love her then. But you do now. You hide it somewhat. Actually Cloud, loved may be the correct word. But it applies to about the time directly after my defeat. When there was nothing to worry about you fell in love with the memory of Aeris. But then the Galians attacked. No more room for love Strife, so you got rid of it. Now Cloud, search yourself. You know this is true."

Cloud sat for a long while. A very long while in wherever he was. At least a month he sat, a month of silence, and thinking.

"Your right Sephiroth. Take me back. Back to the true time." Cloud demanded.

Sephiroth cleared his throat. "You've thought for an entire month. But back in the real world, time's been suspended. You'll join it where you last left off." Sephiroth raised his hands. Before they traveled again Cloud tossed the Rune Blade.

And back through the wormholes.

Cloud now brandished the Buster Sword. He stared at Vincent, long and hard.

Vincent and Cloud walked towards each other. Soon their noses were separated by a millimeter of space.

"You know." Cloud said.

"He revealed it. In the final battle." Vincent said with astonishment in his voice.

Cloud nodded downward. Vincent looked to see the Buster Sword through him. Cloud removed it and Vincent fell. Cloud looked at Nanaki. Somehow, unexplainably, Cloud transmitted the truth into Nanaki's mind. Cloud turned the Buster Sword around and made a quick thrust . . .

THE END



AUTHOR'S NOTE

There is no doubt that this Final Fantasy VII fan fiction has baffled you, surprised you, and made you downright angry with me. Why kill off everyone but Nanaki, who has to survive? I guess your glad I explained the way Nanaki has children four hundred and ninety years later.

I wrote such a story because I'm sick of happy stories where Aeris is revived and Cloud and the group go on and lead great adventures.

NO! No more of that!

I won't write a sequel. Nanaki isn't interesting enough to write a whole story about.

As for Vincent being the baddie, why not? Look at this guy. He's the evilest one in the whole group. And on top of that he's destroying the world for a goal he can NEVER accomplish!

So I hope you've enjoyed this story. As for the Junon cannon being restored, I bet they still had the tools to move it back or build a new one.

Is Shinra gone now? Nanaki blew up the building but Wutai still remains. But hey, he's pretty resourceful so we'll just say he eventually gets rid of them.

Oh, by the way, the Turks are gone, finished with. They annoyed me in the game. I really got sick of them fast. So they died in the onslaught of Meteor.

And I know, Diamond WEAPON killed Rufus, not the Meteor. But you think Shinra's going to say that Diamond WEAPON could harm them?

You can send QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS to Starcraft86@Yahoo.com. PLEASE NO HATE MAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!

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