
Just as they were about to leave, Shinra Turks arrive to try and capture Aerith. Cloud agrees to be her bodyguard and escort her home. There, he meets Aerith again and they talk for a while, then she tells him about her situation with kidnappers. Cloud falls through a roof of a church and luckily, cushioned by a bed of flowers. They successfully defeat the guard but the explosion causes Cloud to fall off the upper levels and down to the slums. However, the President of Shinra would set a trap for them, and just as they were going escape after planting the bomb, they were attacked by a robot guard. After they finish preparing and planning, they head to the next Mako Reactor. He would finally arrive back at the bar and the AVALANCHE would plan their next mission. On the way, Cloud meets a flower girl named Aerith for the first time. Eventually Cloud would catch up to them and head back to Tifa’s bar. They were successful but Cloud was separated during the escape. Their first job together was to blow up one of the Mako Reactors. Tifa recommended to Barret that they hire Cloud to join the AVALANCE group, Barret skeptically hires Cloud. There he reunited with Tifa and was introduced to Barret. Cloud then dragged the Buster Sword and headed towards Midgar.Ĭloud would arrive in Midgar and claimed to be an ex-SOLDIER and a mercenary for hire. Cloud was left alone because he looked like he was going to die anyways.Cloud crawled over to Zack who used his final breathe to tell Cloud to live on as Zack's living legacy. The Jenova cells began to react, and it made him believe that Zack’s life and stories about being a First class SOLDIER were his own. While on their way to Midgar, Zack was finally defeated and shot to death by Shin-Ra agents.

Zack planned to become a mercenary and offered Cloud to join him, but since Cloud was still poisoned he could not answer. Cloud had Mako poisoning from the experiments, so Zack had to help Cloud escape. Cloud receiving the Buster SwordĬloud and ZackFive years after being experimented on, Zack was eventually able to break Cloud and himself out. They used Cloud and Zack in their experiments and injected them with mako and Jenova cells. They replaced all the townspeople with Shin-Ra employees and imprisoned Cloud and Zack in the Shin-Ra mansion. After the incident, Shin-Ra created a cover-up for it. Cloud was able to push Sephiroth off the cliff and into the Lifestream. Sephiroth was caught off guard and Cloud was able to stab him in the stomach, while Cloud was stabbed by Sephiroth’s sword too. Cloud picks up Zack’s Buster Sword and angrily charges toward Sephiroth. Finally arriving at the Reactor, he discovers Tifa and Zack wounded by Sephiroth. He then headed to the Reactor to find out who did it. Meanwhile, Cloud was able to just witness the death of his mother in the fire. He then proceeded to setting fire and destroying the village. Sephiroth would then discover the basement in the Shin-Ra mansion and found more answers. Sephiroth began to fall into madness after discovering Hojo’s lost experiments and began reading the logs of Professor Gast (A Shinra researcher) at the Shin-Ra Mansion library. There, Sephiroth discovers the failed experiments and his mother, Jenova. They head straight to the Mako Reactor with Tifa as their guide. However, he decided to hide himself by keeping his helmet on because he was ashamed to show himself as a low-class soldier to Tifa. When Cloud arrived at Nibelheim, Tifa was anxiously waiting to see Cloud. Cloud was accompanied by the legendary Sephiroth and another first-class SOLDIER named Zack Fair. They were to investigate the Mako Reactor at Mount Nibel because it has been having some problems. Eventually, Cloud would be assigned on an assignment that takes him back to his home town Nibelheim. Instead, he became an ordinary Shin-Ra guard. Training at ShinraYears of training go by, and Cloud was still unable to become an elite SOLDIER. Eventually, Cloud would leave Nibelheim for training at Shin-Ra. There, Tifa made Cloud promise that he will protect her whenever she was in trouble. One year before Cloud left to train for Shin-Ra and become a SOLDIER, he met up with Tifa at the village water tower.

Afterwards, Cloud decided he wanted to become one of Shin-Ra’s best SOLDIER, just like Sephiroth. When Tifa’s father discovers what had transpired, he blamed Cloud for almost killing his daughter. Cloud was able to survive with just a few scratches, but Tifa fell into a coma. Tifa fell off a bridge, Cloud tried to save Tifa, but he was too late and both of them fell off the bridge. Tifa and Cloud grow closer as friends while growing up, especially when Tifa and the other children decided to climb Mount Nibel. His only friend while growing up was Tifa. Childhood In NibelheimCloud Strife was born in Nibelheim, a village in the mountains.
