With Crisis Core coming out soon, seeing so many travel-back-in-time-to-fix-things fics, and reading some Zack-survives fics, I have decided to come out of lurking and write this. Bear with me since I am not a veteran at fanfiction writing. At this point, the only thing that is certain is that this will not have yaoi or shouen-ai in it, go read Tenacity instead if you prefer that. Stay if you want light doses of Zack/Aerith and Cloud/Tifa
I own nothing! If I did, this fic would be made into an anime OVA like Last Order.
Endless Crisis
"Hurry up, Strife! Our ride to Midgar won't be waiting for us forever!"
The addressee, one Cloud Strife blinked. Midgar? Wasn't Midgar destroyed during Meteor 3 years ago? Not to mention the most recent resolved Omega incident, with which everyone is completely certain that there is nothing hiding there anymore. Not to mention that the last thing he remembered was that he was visiting Zack's grave.
Taking a scan of his current surroundings, Cloud first noticed that he is in an aged room with several empty bunk beds. He himself is currently sitting in the only one that still had clothes, hygienic necessities and what not sprawled over it. Taking a look at the side of the bed, Cloud noted that there is a half-filled luggage. Some fading, distant part of his mind tells Cloud that this is the barracks. Slowly, he looked down to check if he is wearing the blue uniform of the Shinra infantry. Sure enough, he was.
After some more impatient calls from whom he assumed to be his comrades in his squadron. Cloud pushed the confusion to the back of his mind and resumed his packing and quickly moved out with them. Apparently, they were done with their time of training in Junon and were being transferred to Midgar.
At that point, Cloud tuned out everything else that is said, and focused on the more important issue of why he was here. Cloud's mind was running like a golden chocobo trying to make sense of this situation. He was sure that his memories of the past few years were real. But then how come he's suddenly here? As far as he remembered, he had not made any wishes on shooting stars, nor tossed any gil into the new Fountain of Wishes in Wutai.
Cloud let out a dry and bitter chuckle at that. Those are just like the stories that parents told their kids. Even if he did make a wish, it would never come true. He has learned from experience that life is cruel, and if anything is too good to be true, it is too good to be true. Yes, that must be it; he is not really in the past, Cloud decided. His musings were interrupted as he noticed that the truck had arrived at Midgar and everyone was just getting off. Cloud quickly followed them into the city of mako.
Just before walking into what will be his new barracks, Cloud paused and took a good look at the main Shinra building in all its glory. It loomed over all of Midgar, shadowed all of the residents' lives, just like how he remembered it.
Cloud turned his eyes away, "This is not real, just a very lucid memory." He decided and continued to settle into his life as a grunt in the capital of the greatest empire on the Planet.
I know! I know! This is too short and it's evil of me to have him in the past and in denial about it. But review! I am a college student that will be having finals next week! So if you want me to update faster, review, give suggestions and plain just bother me to update. Of course, do that only if you want to know where this is going.