Gast survives being shot by Hojo, only to wake from a coma seventeen years later. Searching for his wife and daughter, events find him in Nibelheim on the day Sephiroth disappeared. A Sephiroth redemption exploration.
Sephiroth is victorious over Cloud and his friends. Having no other choice, Minerva sends Aerith Gainsborough back in time to change the future. In order to do so, Aerith must overcome her previous life as a delicate mystical flower girl and become a true force of nature destined to save the world from the Calamity, and perhaps, even save the Calamity's children from it's grasp...
Slightly AU. The events at the Nibelheim reactor happen differently for Sephiroth. Four years later a mysterious man with silver hair and mako eyes is living in the Sector 5 Slums and getting on Aerith's nerves.