The story of Core Crisis takes place in the time of Advent Children about seven years ago, when Claude was only 16 years old, and at the age of 14, he left his hometown to enlist in the Shinra army in order to make himself stronger to protect his childhood friend, TIFA. But two years had passed and he was still a weak ordinary soldier of Shinra due to his cowardice coupled with his weak body. At that time, Zacks was already a famous Shen Luo first-class special forces, although the two status disparity, but Zacks is modest and optimistic and positive, and soon the two in many missions to cultivate a deep friendship, Zacks also in the spirit of the spirit level to give Claude a lot of courageous encouragement.
Alice is the last descendant of the ancient race of Setra on the planet, living in the slums, and has been under the close surveillance of Shinra's intelligence department since she was a child. Once in a while, she had a chance encounter with Zax, and was soon attracted by his charisma and the two of them fell in love.
Zax has always taken becoming a righteous hero as his only goal. But in many in-depth missions, Zax gradually discovered the evil nature of Shinra Corporation, making his loyalty to Shinra gradually blurred. After he, Claude, and fellow First Class Special Forces soldier Sephiroth traveled to Claude's hometown of Nibelheim to investigate. In the course of investigating the incident, they discovered that Shinra was actually engaged in a lot of evil human experimentation, which was unacceptable to them. Sephiroth even mistook himself as a descendant of the ancient species Setra (he was actually an experiment of Shinra and was implanted with the Jenova virus before his birth, which is why he was so powerful), and developed a hatred for the world, and burned down Cloud's hometown with a fire, killing and injuring many people, and the young TIFA as well.
Zax angrily confronted Sephiroth and eventually fell without being outmatched, while Claude mustered up the courage to sneak up on Sephiroth from behind, seriously injuring him but also being knocked unconscious by Sephiroth.
Sephiroth was seriously injured and left, TIFA, Claude and Zax fainted on the ground, then TIFA was rescued by his master, while Claude and Zax were captured by Dr. Pojo, who arrived at Shinra and brutally used them as experiments.
The two were immersed in the magic shaking liquid with the Jenova virus for a long time, four years. During those four years, Alice lost contact with Zax and became anxious.
One day, four years later, Zax, driven by a strong sense of realization, broke free of the magic shaking liquid and came out, and rescued Claude, but Claude was already delirious because of the deep poisoning. Zax begins to carry Claude on his back as he goes on the run. Shinra sends out a large force to chase them. At the border of Midgar, the two of them were surrounded by thousands of Shinra soldiers, but Zax hid Claude in a stone cave beforehand and escaped, and he himself fought against 10,000 people, and was finally killed by random gunfire.
Before Zax died, he handed his Sword of Destruction into Claude's hands and said, "The fact that you are alive is proof that I am alive." Due to the fact that at that time, Claude was infected by the magic shaking liquid that had been soaked for four years, resulting in confusion, at the same time, Zax's death, with the dying account engraved in his mind. From then on, he began to chaotically replace his identity with Zax's, resembling Zax in his speech, behavior and beliefs, and began the journey that would ensue in Final Fantasy 7 proper.
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Final Fantasy 7 proper
In a distant era on Earth, people have acquired a high degree of mechanical civilization, and little by little, new sources of energy have been discovered - the "Magic Light", and the substance that concentrates the power of Magic Light is the Magic Stone. This special substance can release extremely powerful energy, which can be applied to many aspects such as scientific research and military. The development and utilization of magic light has made human civilization advance by leaps and bounds.
The use of magic light and magic stones was controlled by a huge corporation called "Shinra". Due to the great application value of magic light, Shinra soon dominated the entire planet and devoted itself to the development of magic light, which was used all over the world. However, there seems to be some kind of terrible secret hidden in the Magic Light ......
Magic Light Metropolis, the largest metropolis in the world, is also the location of Shinra's headquarters. Shrouded in a cloud of gloom all day long, it is a collection of bustling upper class markets and slums filled with violence and destitution. Right in the corner of this bustling city, a girl selling flowers was walking slowly, softly hawking. At this time where she knew what kind of fate she was carrying ......
Another corner of the city, the mercenary Claude was attacking the No. 1 Magic Light Furnace with the Anti-God Luo Army. The leader of the resistance, the large Barrett, tells Claude that magic light is the life source of the planet, and that the planet will be destroyed if it is mined for a long time. But Claude doesn't care, all he's interested in now is money and his own life.
The battle went well. While fleeing, Claude saw the flower seller girl. In the midst of the panicked chaos of the crowd, her surprising composure showed a remarkable temperament. Although time was running out at the moment, Claude couldn't resist buying a bouquet of flowers from her.
Following Barrett, they managed to escape to their secret base, a small bar owned by Claude's childhood playmate, Dove! At this time, Claude and Barrett argued over the matter of payment, but since Diff was there to dissuade them, Claude of course would not say anything more.
Unexpected to be separated so soon, there was an accident while attacking his next target, the 5th Magic Light Furnace, and Claude nearly fell to his death. However, the fall brought him finally together with the flower seller girl, and he learned her name was Elise. She was truly a peculiar girl, her place was a paradise in this dim and dirty city, and for some reason Shinra wanted to capture her as well. She had a strange magic stone, unlike the ones Claude and the others used in battle, hers was a white one and never knew what it was for.
Shinra kept chasing Aeris while trying to subvert Barrett's base. Despite their efforts to stop it, the people were unable to hold the base; they also fell prey to the enemy's ruse to distract them, and Aeris was captured.
The Shinra army had revealed that Iris was an Ancient Species before they left. ...... The 7th Street, where Barrett's base was located, was almost completely blown up by the Shinra.
We were all angry at Shinra's evil behavior and also wondered what an "ancient species" was. Wasn't Alice one of us? We learned from Alice's mother that Alice was not her real daughter, and that her real mother had died a long time ago; but Alice was no ordinary girl, and her attitude towards death was similar to that of the white magic stone left behind by her real mother.......
The group rushed straight to Shinra's headquarters in order to save Alice, and unexpectedly got a companion, the Lion, who was a member of the "ancient race". They were surprised to find a companion, the lion-like "Red Thirteen", who could also speak! With his help, the group finally defeats Shinra's test subjects, but is captured in a prison cell. But here, they learn a few more things about the Ancient Species.
The Ancient Race is a people who called themselves "Setra" thousands of years ago, but now seem to be extinct; only the Ancient Race knows the location of the "Covenant Land", where there is an infinite amount of magical light energy ... ...Iris, a descendant of the Ancient Race, can communicate with the stars, but she can only hear many of them speaking, not understand their meaning...
It's a gruesome sight to see how everyone in the Shinra Mansion seems to have been killed in one night. This must have been the work of the sample monster Jenova! But what surprised Claude the most was the long knife that killed the chairman of Shinra, the knife that was once the strongest warrior - Safiroth! Could it be that he is still alive?
The people took the opportunity to escape from Magic Light City. Claude couldn't forget about Safiroth, and he told the group about his past ......
Five years ago, Claude had accompanied Safiroth to investigate the abandoned Furnace of Magical Light near his hometown, where he discovered that Shinra's Dr. Treasure Stripes was using magical light to create monsters. Safiroth was furious, and after the mission was completed, Safiroth spent many days alone in Shinra's secret labs searching for information. When he reappeared, he was a changed man, killed Dove's father, firebombed the village, and said he was going to the Covenant Land. Claude chased him to the Furnace of Light, where he saw Sephiroth decapitate Dove with his sword. The angry Claude drew his sword and rushed towards Sephiroth ......
Claude doesn't remember what happened afterward, but he knows that he couldn't have survived Sephiroth's sword, and Dove doesn't know how she survived either. Later, he heard that Sephiroth was dead, but now ......
When she finished speaking, Dive's expression was a little different, as if she had something to say.
The group began a journey to track down Sephiroth. During the journey, the group made new companions Kate West, Zombie Vincent, and Ninja Euphie. And Barrett and Red XIII each recalled their own bitter experiences in their hometowns.......
Barrett's hometown had a debate over whether to install the Magic Light Furnace, and Barrett's best friend, Dane, disagreed, but Barrett convinced Dane because he couldn't bear to see the villagers continue to live in poverty. However, when the furnace explodes, Shinra blames the villagers for the massacre. During the escape, Barrett's wife is tragically killed and Dane falls off a cliff, while Barrett loses his arm trying to save Dane.
In the middle of the huge entertainment metropolis, a man with a gun in his arm is found killing innocent people, and Barrett knows it must be Dane. Confronted by his old friend, who had long been out of his mind, Barrett finally pulled the trigger ...... and Dane finally regained his senses before he died.
Red Thirteen also revealed his past in his hometown. It turns out that Red Thirteen's original name was Nana Orochi, and their clan had been tasked with defending this canyon and the ancient species. However, in a foreign attack, his mother died in battle, while his father fled the battlefield. Red XIII has always been ashamed of his father.
The elders here led Red XIII to the mysterious cave that had been sealed for a long time, where Red XIII was surprised to see his father, who had been transformed into a stone statue with enemy spears sticking out of his body. Originally, red thirteen's father in order to not let the enemy from this secret passage invasion, a person in this place to die, and asked the elders will be sealed up, and never again to the people mentioned, their own take up the charge of cowardice ......
Lastly, the crowd finally came to Claude's hometown, but they were surprised to find that the village didn't seem to have been burned as Claude had claimed, making it a bit unbelievable. At this time Diff seemed to have something to say again, but still didn't say anything. The group investigated the village's Shinra villa and accidentally found Vincent, an android created by Dr. Pojo, in the basement. Vincent, who had been ravaged by Shinra's human experimentation, resolutely joined Claude and the others after years of slumber.
Finally, in the library, the group meets Sephiroth, and Claude learns from his conversation with him that Sephiroth is going to the temple of the Ancient Species. After saying this to Claude, Sephiroth flew away.
Claude and the others chased after Sephiroth in the direction he flew off into the mountains north of the village, everything here was so familiar, that part of the past kept flashing before Claude's eyes, and each time it seemed to be slightly different ......
They kept chasing after him across the mountains, and there was no sign of Sephiroth, so they entered the foot of the mountain. So the group entered a small village at the foot of the mountain. There was a rocket launch site here. Claude and the others found Sid, the engineer in charge of the rocket research, and learned that the rocket was originally used for Shinra's cosmic development program, but at the moment of launching, Sid accidentally realized that his assistant, a young girl, was still on the rocket, and in order to save him, Sid gave up his lifelong dream and prevented the rocket from launch, and the program is stopped. Sid seems to be very upset and therefore dismissive of Claude's attempt to borrow his plane. At this point, Shinra's president suddenly arrives, and Sid mistakenly thinks that the plan is going to start all over again, only to realize after his excitement that Shinra just wants to take the plane.
With the help of Sid's aide, Claude and the others grabbed the plane ahead of the others and tried to escape with Sid, but the plane was hit by Shinra and was forced to land at sea.
The group had no choice but to use the plane as a boat and make their way west to a continent. When they came ashore, Euphie warned the crowd that it was dangerous, but when Claude and the others were dealing with a small group of Shinra soldiers, she actually stole all the magic stones from the crowd and fled. After chasing them all the way to a city with a very ancient Chinese flavor, this is Yuffie's hometown. After a lot of trouble, Yuffie was finally caught, and she finally joined in good faith.
The group returned to Entertainment City, as it was rumored that the key to the Temple of the Ancient Seed was in the hands of the Entertainment City's head gardener. Since Claude had helped the head gardener out with Dane, it didn't take much to get the key presented by the head gardener. Because the gondola unexpectedly broke down, the group had to sleep inside Entertainment City that night, but the accident happened again ......
Kate West surprisingly stole the key to the Temple of the Ancient Species and gave it to Shinra. Under everyone's questioning, Kate West admitted that he was Shinra's spy, and the muppet underneath him was under Shinra's control, so there was nothing he could do about it himself. After understanding Kate West's plight, the group decides to follow Shinra to the Temple of the Ancient Species, which is located on a small island in the south.
Coming between the murals inscribed with knowledge of the Ancient Species, the figure of Sephiroth kept flashing here and there, giving the impression that he should be nearby. After defeating a dragon, Claude found the powerful Black Magic Stone, which was what Sephiroth had come here for. However, once the magic stone is taken, the temple will also collapse with it, Claude then decided to leave, at this time, Kate West regretted that she had given the key to Shinra, and decided to exchange her body for the black magic stone ......
The temple collapsed, Claude got the black magic stone, and what is more surprising is that Kate West actually didn't die, only replaced with a body underneath a muppet! However, just then, Safiroth appeared, and a scene that surprised everyone suddenly happened: Claude seemed to be controlled by Safiroth, and involuntarily handed over the hard-earned Black Magic Stone to Safiroth! Then, a white light flashed ......
In the dream, Iris's figure kept flashing in and out of the dream, while her words came vaguely from afar.
"Claude, I'm leaving, I'm going to the civilized capital of the Ancient Race, to find the power to fight against Sephiroth ......"
Claude awoke from the dream with a jolt of knowledge of what he'd done, and almost lost his faith in the fight . But with the help of Barrett and Dive, Claude finally realizes that to learn his own secret, he must defeat Sephiroth. The crowd tells him that Iris has gone somewhere, and the group sets out to find her.
The Forest of Sleep, which is where Claude dreamed of being, is followed by the Ancient Species' metropolis. Inside the Ancient Species' metropolis, Claude and the gang found a crystal path leading underground, and followed it down to the temple. Alice was indeed here, she was on her knees praying for something. Claude slowly approached, but suddenly drew his sword in a trance, and slowly slashed at Ellis ......
A white light, and a blade was thrust into Ellis' chest.
It wasn't Claude's knife, Dive's shouts woke him up at the critical moment.
It was Sephiroth's knife!
A white magic stone rolled off of Aerith's body and sank into the pool of water below the temple.
Angry Claude was unable to stop the flying Sephiroth, and could only gently
put Aerith's body into the water with tears in his eyes, as the beautiful girl slowly sank to the bottom.
Burdened with great pain, Claude was on his way again. In pursuit of Sephiroth, the group headed for the bounded lands of the far north. On the way, they passed by Aerith's hometown, and from inside one of the huts there, Claude learned about the circumstances of Aerith's birth. After a grueling journey, the group climbs to the top of the Great Icefield, which turns out to be a huge crater! And in the center of the crater was the Binding Zone.
In his constant pursuit, Claude finally found Sephiroth, and it was at this time that a familiar vision broke into Claude's mind again, the same time he accompanied Sephiroth in his investigation of the Magical Light Furnace. However, this time, the memories seemed to be very different from before, vaguely, Claude seemed to hear the words of the Treasure Bar that followed ......
"Claude, you are a copy of Sapphiros, just like him... ."
Claude's mind was once again confused as he awakened the true power of Sephiroth. The Binding Zone was destroyed and turned into a huge void with a knot protecting it.
Shinra, who then arrived in a blimp, captured Barrett and Dive. When Diff woke up from her coma, Barrett opened the window and showed her a terrifying sight of a huge red meteorite slowly descending in the sky! It turned out that due to the awakening of the true power of Sephiroth, the ultimate magic in the Black Magic Stone had finally been unleashed, and the world was about to be destroyed ......
However, at the moment, Diff was more worried about the fact that Claude fell into the sea during the Destruction of the Binding Zone, and his life and death were unknown... ...
Shinra was about to execute Barrett and Dive when a giant prehistoric creature suddenly attacked Shinra's base, and Barrett, Dive, and Kate West, who had rushed to help, took advantage of the situation to escape in a blimp.
The blimp landed on a small island in the southeast of the world with a hot spring village. In conversation with the villagers, the group learns that an unconscious youth was found on the beach a few days ago and is now being treated at Lifetime. Dive is in a state of surprise, is that Claude? He was alive! She dashed into the village hospital and finally saw Claude, who she had missed day and night, and two lines of tears flowed down from her beautiful eyes ......
However, no matter how much Deeve called out to Claude, Claude was still unconscious, and his mouth was speaking words that no one could understand. The doctor said that Claude was poisoned because he was subjected to the effects of an overly strong magical light, and that it would be difficult to heal. A heartbroken Dove resolved to stay with Claude while Barrett and the others set off on their journey again.
On the blimp, Kate West overheard a meeting at Shinra's headquarters. Shinra wanted to collect the energy crystals from the magical light furnaces around the world to destroy the meteorite. Barrett is furious when he learns of this and decides to stop Shinra.
With the efforts of the group, Shinra's two collection plans were unsuccessful, and the group decided to return to the Hot Springs Village to visit Claude and Dive.
After returning to the Hot Springs Village, the crowd realized that Claude's condition had not improved at all, and Diff, who was accompanying her, seemed to be in despair.
Just then, a giant dragon suddenly attacked the small village and caused a sea current, a huge shockwave that destroyed the village.
Div fought to escape by pushing the unconscious Claude in a wheelchair, but fell into the hot springs ......
In a trance, Div entered a mysterious place where there were four Claude's! It turns out that this is Claude's spirit world, and the four Claude figures are Claude's already fragmented memories.
With Dove's help, Claude's memories merge, part by part, and he finally remembers the truth.
It turned out that Claude was not a high-ranking warrior of Shinra as he had originally recalled, but merely a small Shinra soldier. In that action, the warrior carrying the greatsword was actually Elise's first love, Sax, and when Sephiroth rushed into the Furnace of Magical Light, it was Sax who tried to stop Sephiroth, but was knocked down, and that's when Claude, in an attempt to avenge Dief and the villagers, picked up Sax's greatsword, rushed in and stabbed Sephiroth, but was himself killed by Sephiroth. Several years later, under the research of Treasure Stripes, Claude was revived, but became a copy of Sephiroth, and all of his original memories were modified ......
After learning the truth, Claude was finally restored to normal. The two were rescued by Barrett and the others, and Claude got back on his feet and returned to the group. And the one who was most happy about this was, of course, Dove.
The giant meteorite still kept falling. Shinra had loaded the energy crystals onto a rocket and was going to use it to impact the meteorite, but it failed to destroy it. Nothing seemed to be powerful enough to stop the evil meteorite's descent now. In desperation, the group
arrived at Red XIII's hometown to consult with the elders here, the old astrologers. The Elder told the group to once again travel to the metropolis of the Ancient Species.
Although Claude really didn't want to go back to this place with such sad memories, for the sake of the planet, the group complied with the Elder's wishes.
After investigating the city of the Ancient Species, the Elder came up with a way to fight the ultimate black magic unleashed by Sephiroth, which is the ultimate white magic "Sacred". But what exactly is "Sacred"? The answer from the Elder is astonishing: Alice's white magic stone is "Sacred"! However, the stone had already gone to the bottom of the lake with Alice. The hearts of all the people fell to the bottom once again.
After they returned to the ground, they found a prehistoric monster rising up from the sea and walking slowly towards the city of Magic Light; at the same time, they were shocked to find that a huge turret had been set up in the city of Magic Light. It turns out that Shinra, after a series of failures, decided to use all of his last strength to build such a cannon to break the boundary over the Bound Lands. The prehistoric monster was right between the cannon and the boundary ......
"Boom ～～～～～～～～～"
The cannon fired!
The monster was shattered by the cannon's powerful force; the boundary over the Bound Lands also went up in smoke from the energy; but the monster delivered one last blow before dying, and the Shinra Mansion was drowned in flames as a result ......
The group took advantage of the chaos and rushed into the Shinra Mansion, and found the surviving Treasure Bar at the very top. During the conversation, it was revealed that he turned out to be
Safiroth's father! And Safiroth's mother, in fact, was Vincent's original girlfriend! It was Baojiao who took Vincent's girlfriend and married her, gave birth to Safiroth with him, and transformed Vincent into a zombie-like monster; and then, used his wife and son's bodies as experiments, making Safiroth into his current appearance ...... Baojiao can be said to be the main culprit of all this!
Facing 0the angry crowd, Pojo injected Jenova's cells into his own body! What a horrible scientist.
The crowd defeated Pojo, and Shinra was finally completely destroyed.
Though Shinra was destroyed, Claude's mission was not yet over. Sephiroth must still be in the Bound Lands!
The group once again headed for the Bound Lands, where the boundary had been broken.
Safiroth had indeed appeared! At this moment, it was as if he already possessed the power of a god! However, everyone faced the strong enemy without fear, in front of the courage of the crowd, even the strongest enemy will be destroyed! Finally, Safiroth's body disappeared into space ......
The battle was over, but Claude felt Safiroth's presence again. It turned out that Claude was a replica of Sephiroth, and this Sephiroth's consciousness existed in his body. At this point, Claude bravely raised his sword ......
The last bit of Sephiroth's consciousness also disappeared with Claude's "super martial arts God Bajie Chop".
When Claude regained his senses, the Binding Place had already begun to crumble, and Dove reached up to save Claude from the rocks above, but lost her footing. Seeing this, Claude hurriedly leapt up and grabbed Dive with one hand and the edge of the rock with the other. Dove was shocked and relieved to be in Claude's arms, and Claude was happy to have finally saved his loved one with his own hands.......
Together, they all escaped from the Binding Place in the airship.
But the fate of the Earth was not good, the huge meteorite had descended over the Earth, and a huge cyclone had appeared between the Earth and the meteorite due to the gravitational force, madly destroying the surface. Everyone's lives were at stake! No one could say anything as they looked at the meteor, which represented evil and death, from the airships.
A miracle happened, in the midst of everyone's expectations, a white light flowed out of the lake in the capital of the Ancient Species, and soon merged into a barrier that stood between the meteor and the Earth!
The Sacred was unleashed!
However, it was too late, the energy of the meteorite was too much for the Sacred to stop, and it was slowly making its way through the white barrier ......
Then, from all over the world, a green light began to appear, which quickly merged and grew, and a green light began to appear, which quickly merged and grew, and a green light began to appear. merged and grew, and one by one it flowed under the white barrier, more and more, gradually covering the whole surface of the earth ......
This must be the source of life on earth!
The meteorite was finally destroyed under the onslaught of the entire Earth's power.
In the sky, the crowd seemed to see Alice's beautiful face again, and her smile ......
Five hundred years later, Red Thirteen, with his two children, came to the top of the mountain. Looking away from the ruins of Magic Light Metropolis, which had become a house of grass and trees, Red XIII told his children about the difficult past back then ......
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Adventure Child
Two years later, the cause of a Cloud is attacked by a mysterious group of black-robed men called Kadaj, who call him his brother.
The Kadaj trio, formed from Sephiroth's thoughts of Jenova, were commanded by President Rufus, the second generation head of Shinra, who commanded the TUCKS team to travel to a space cave, where he and Elena found Jenova's head. Rufus fantasized about using the head to revitalize Shinra, but it triggered yet another catastrophe.
It turns out that the real reason for the strange disease is the end of FF7, meteorite eruption in the air after Jenova's cells invade the body, the body produces resistance and pain, the Kadaj are controlled by the Jenova cells of the pining body body to identify Jenova is the mother, intends to snatch the Jenova is not yet completely eliminated to reintegrate. Claude, on the other hand, became weak and evasive because the two important people in his life fell in front of him (ZAX&AERITH) one after another, and was undefeated in the battle against the trio. Eventually Kadaj successfully fuses with Jenova and takes on the form of Sephiroth, Aerith sends Lifesteam, the spring of life, to the ground to cure Cloud and everyone else, and Cloud manages to defeat the reanimated Sephiroth with the encouragement of his companions.
That's about it