Prologue

by Kal

T minus six days until Meteor strikes.

Outskirts of Midgar

A thunderous blast could be heard for miles.In the middle of the battle, an Ultima spell roared,consuming all around it,except for the caster,a young blond man with a huge sword.The inmense beast was hurt,but it was nothing considering its size.Too big it could block the sun,it´s skin shinning as diamonds,and as hard as them.The Weapon was about to blast them to oblivion,when it heard the voice of the Planet,warning they were not the enemy.The Weapon turned and saw the source of the Planet´s pain, the huge city know as midgar.Slowly turning around,it went against the new menace.

"What´s happenning?." a young woman with brown hair asked.

"It senses murder." the blond man said.

"To my ship!." shouted a man dressed as a pilot.

They boarded theair ship,and while observing the Weapon,they could see it was charging a devastating attack.But at Midgar,a giant cannon was being charged,ready to destroy the Weapon and Sephiroth,the culprit of this madness.As they both finished charging the energy,they unleasheaded it and both connected.

The Weapon falled into the ground,with a huge hole in it´s chest.But it had unleashed it´s attack succesfully,so it wasn´t defeated.As the Weapon falled,the airship leaved to the north.

"Sir,the bird has left the nest." A soldier said.It had been observing the recent events from a nearby hill and was speaking to a radio.

"Excellent! Proceed with operation "Diamond burglar"." the radio crakled.

Out of nowhere,giant helicopters appeared,and inside of them,soldiers with a single objective.As the helicopters delivered them,they were securing the body of the massive monster,hooking it to the choppers,and with a sign,they left,carrying with them the Weapon and going without a trace.

20 hours after Meteor strike.

Midgar slums.

The young man was happy.Not because the Meteor strike had destroyed the upper plates of Midgar,killing thousands who didn´t get to the slums on time,or because the survivors were broken,if not in body,in mind.He was happy because this represented an opportunity.He now would make his dreams true and this was the right time and the right moment to execute his plans.As he walked trough the devastated slums,the people looked at him.Wearing a white as snow tunic,sandals and with a handsome face with long dark hair,he was quite a sight in the middle of the devastation.He irradiated an aura of confidence and power.A nearby man was in the floor,with both legs broken and his face was completely desfigurated,begging for someone to end his pain.The young man got close to him,and put his hands over the man.A wave of energy runned from the young man to the injured one.In moments,the man had ceased to yell,and was standing on his feet,his restaured face turned to the young man.A puzzled look on his eyes,he talked.

"Who are you?."

"My name is Joshua Garelk and I´m your savior."

"How do you do that?." asked someone from the group of people that was forming around them,attracted by the miracously recovery of the man.

"Does it matter?.The important thing is that I can help your injured, your homeless,your families.I have the power to do it as you have seen. The only thing I´m asking in return is you follow me,and together we will make our dreams come true,this place will be a paradise on earth and all you have to do is follow me."

"I´m with you,bro!." a man from the now giant multitude said.Many other joined him,the questions of the more prudent silenced by the sounds of the people attracted by the savior,their hero.Joshua smiled.Everything was going to work.

2 days after Meteor incident.

Kalm town.

"Medic!" Tifa shouted.Suddenly,the young man she was taking care of had started having convulsions.The man,in his mid-twenties,brown hair and somewhat short,had been in the care center for the Meteor victims after being unburied from beneath a building.He was in bad shape,his left leg broken,a injury on his head running from behind his head to his right temple.The paramedics that brought him said he may had internal injuries and he wouldn´t survive.Tifa had been at his side from that moment,since the others went to help at Midgar.Due to the inmense catasthrophe,there were many victims,and not enogh people to help them.

At the moment she had lost hopes of anyone sowing up to help the young man,Joshua appeared.

"What´s the problem?." he asked.

"He´s having convulsions and I don´t know what to do."

"Let me give it a try."

The power emanated from his hands,slowly covering the man and stopping his convulsions,and healing the injuries.Tifa was marveled at this,seeing how the man had beginning to breathe more slowly, and how he was beginning to awake.She then saw how a flow of people had begun to fill the center of the town.She turned to thank Joshua,and saw him going to the director of the victims center.Shecould hear them talking,and she saw among the people many familiar faces,people from the slums,who had been given for death.She heard Joshua offering their help to the director,and he,grateful,told the multitude what to do.The people began to disperse,ready to do as they were told.Tifa then saw Joshua was going outside the town and followed him.

As Joshua was going away,Tifa reached him.

"Hey,wait!."

"What can I do for you?." Joshua said,smiling and showing a perfect smile.

"I want to thank you for helping that man over there.It was impressive.Did you used materia?"

"Something like that." Joshua said,dodging the question.

"Why are you going? We could use your help back there you now."

"There´s still many people in Midgar who need me,and could not be able to get here on time.I´m going to help them.This people you saw were as bad,if not worse than that man,I healed them and brought them here to help."

"Well,I think you should wait.My friends will be here in an hour and could take you there in the Highwind."

"Thanks for the offer,but I have my own mediums.Goodbye."

"Well,then see you later." Tifa said.

She began to walk towards Kalm,and turned her head to see the young man again.She then saw that he was nowhere to be found.She searched for him briefly with a look,but then an old woman called her to go back to the medic center,wondering what happened to the young man.

At the Highwind.

Somewhere between Midgar and Kalm.

Cloud was at the bridge,seeing through the cockpit´s window.The recent events were still very fresh in his memory,and because they had to help the Meteor victims,he and the others didn´t had time to think about their battle against Sephiroth.Cloud remembered his final battle against Sephiroth. It was just the two of them,without materia,without armor,just they,their swords and their fury. Although it had happened inside his mind,it had felt so real.He hadn´t told anyone about this,except for Tifa.Even after revenging himself,his mother,his friends and stopped Meteor,something was still bothering him.

He was too weak.

He tough Sephiroth was stronger.Although no living being could withstand his Omnislash limit,he tough it would had taken a lot more than his fury to take him down.And he couldn´t forget the look in his icy blue mako eyes.It was a look of sorrow,as he felt...sorry?.How it was possible that after all the horrors he had commited,he still could feel bad about them?.As his conscience, after having slept for years,had finally awakened and made him realize all the horrors he had done.Lost in his thoughts,he couldn´t see Red XIII aproaching him.

"It´s beautiful,isn´t it?."

"Huh? what?."

"All.The sky,the plains,the sea,the mountains.It doesn´t seem as Meteor almost crashed on the Planet."

"Yes,you´re right.I think Aeris was thinking about it all when she sacrificed herself to save the Planet.She must have thinked her life was a small price to pay to save all of this."

"Indeed.The recent events had made me see how valuable life is.Maybe I should think more about my influence in the world and how may I can do it a better place.Grandpa told me once that to change the world,first I had to change myself.I think he wanted me to go outside the canyon so I could change and become a better person."

"That´s good to hear Red."

"Nanaki,my name is Nanaki,have you forgot?."

"Sorry,I just have grew accustomed to call you Red.But tell me one thing,how are you going to tell the people at the canyon Bugenhagen died?."

"What!?.Did you knew?." asked a very surprised Nanaki.

"Did you really though we believed Bugenhagen had gone in a travel?.We knew you didn´t wanted to make the people at the canyon be sad,since they had to worry about the Meteor.But now,what are you going to do?." Cloud said,waiting for Nanaki´s answer.

Nanaki was very worried.He hadn´t though about it.What would the people think of him when they discovered he had lied to them?.It had been for a good cause,but still,a lie was a lie.

"I tell them the truth.I´ll explain them my motives to do it and they will understand it.I still think it was for the better." Nanaki said.

"Well,I hope they understand.They loved Bugenhagen,and altough they will be hurt because of his dead,they will understand it was for their own good."

In that moment,Barret got into the cockpit and saw Cloud and Red talking,and Cid piloting.Vincent was in his usual corner,watching everything and everybody.Barret then got close to Cid.

"Wassup?."

"I think we should reach Kalm in another fifteen minutes or so,if the wind doesn´t changes.How´s everybody at the cargo area?."

"The doctors said the most ill will survive until we reach the help center.But some of them look very weak,I dunno if they will pass after dis night."

"Humpff!.This is Sephiroth´s fault.I´m glad that psycho is now dead."

"What´re you going to do from now on,foo?."

"Dunno.Maybe I will start working on a new rocket,or make a new plane."

"What ´bout Shera?."

"I´ve already apologized for all those years I treated her bad.Isn´t that enough?"

"I though yo foo were going to propose to her."

"HA!.Of course not,I´m not crazy."

"I´ll not said so."

"And what´re you going to do?"

"I´m going back to Corel.I´ll help put the town back on it´s feet."

"That´s good.Those poor fellas have suffered enough already.You know Barret,I have a question."

"Shoot."

"How did you,well,you know,proposed to your wife?" Cid had lowered his voice until it was only a whisper.Barret then grinned and saw Cid embarrased.That guy isn´t very bright at doing casual questions, Barret though.

"Why,are you going to propose to Shera?" Barret said with a big smile.

"Of course not! Heck,can´t I do a little question about your past?" Cid said,trying to hide the obvious.

At that moment,Kalm appeared over the horizont,making Cid cut his talk with Barret and focusing on landing the ship.It was more difficult now that it was like a plane,but Cid wasn´t the best pilot for nothing.It landed smoothly outside the town.At the moment,the people that had accompannied Joshua helped with the victims.Cloud and the others were surprised,they didn´t had seen that people when they left.Cloud then saw Tifa waving at them,and ran to her encounter.

"Tifa,where do this people come from?"

"They were brought here by a strange guy.He healed a guy with some kind of power,and when he left,he dissapeared in the thin air."

"I had heard rumors of some kind of prophet among the people at Midgar.Could it be this guy?"

"I don´t know.But I´m sure we will meet him again."

"Let´s help the others and tell them what has happened."

At Midgar

That night

Reeve was very tired.Coordinating the efforts of the rescue teams was no easy task,but someone had to do it.That day´s work had finished to him,and now he could turn to other business.He took out his laptop ,and started to look to some files he had managed to rescue from the Shinra building.He was intrigued by the dissapearance of all the SOLDIERS and regular forces of Shinra.Where would they be?.They were almost 1500 SOLDIERS,500 officials,30000 infantery corps,3000 pilots and 5000 navy marines.They just couldn´t dissapear suddenly,they should be somewhere.Reeve began to search through a list of Shinra´s secret bases,thinking they had hide from the Meteor.The word "Access denied" appeared on the screen. It was protected by a password,and the only two people who knew it were dead.But he wouldn´t give up. He though he knew the guy who designed the system,and would eventually find a backdoor.He turned his attention to more inmediate affairs.Thanks to a quick response,almost everybody had been saved, except for the ones who stayed in the plates and were crushed by the gravity of the Meteor.He saw the starry sky,and wondered what the future would hold for all of them.

Well,did you liked it?.This is just the beggining and I think you will have many questions now like "Who was the voice at the radio?" "Who is Joshua?" "What is going to happen to the Diamond Weapon?" "What happened to the Shinra Army?".All these questions will be answered,so wait for the next chapter.

Just to tease you all I tell you some little about what´s next.

-A new Tiny Bronco,and if I have time,i will put a drawing of it.It wil have tting edge technology and a more modern design.

-Reeve´s now without a job,what´s he gonna do?.Are you ready for "Reeve Responses"?.