Knights of the Roundtable (Zack's Alive)

Kieron and Nora were on the plate with Aerith when the explosion happened. The plate was trembling from the force as some pieces of the Reaktor came flying towards the Sector destroying some building like a shrapnel grenade through a human.

Kieron blocked some of the pieces that were coming towards them while Nora was looking after Aerith when suddenly some shadows appeared out of nowhere and dragged Aerith away from them.

"Kieron, Aerith is in danger," says Nora as she began to run after the shadows when suddenly more shadows appeared stopping her when she takes Excalibur out and pierces the ground making twelve pillars of light appear around her.

The light vanishes as twelve knights were now standing where the pillars were before as they wanted to kneel towards Nora she says, "We have no time for that. Lancelot, command the others to find a way towards the woman that is always by my side."

"Yes, my lady," says Lancelot as he looked at his comrades seriously.

They began to glow brightly as Lancelot stormed first holding his sword while saying, "Nothing should stay in the way of our Queen."

They charged at the shadows cutting them down making a path for Nora who says to Kieron, "Find your own way."

"I will just hurry already," says Kieron as he was still holding a collapsed building with his hands making it possible for people on the street to pass under the building to safety.

Nora was closing in on the shadows when suddenly something pulled on her leg only to find a hand stopping her.

The hand suddenly turned into an arm and continued until a man with long silver hair was holding her leg.

"And you are?" asks Nora as the person looked at her seriously.

"That should be my question. How comes a group of people that shouldn't be on Gaia is here," says the man as quite a long sword appeared in the hand that was manifesting itself.

"You might ask the person behind you to know why we are here," says Nora as the man only smiles while getting ready to slash at her when his blade didn't move an inch forward.

The man looked up as he found two fingers had stopped his blade. He was quite nervous since the person who caught the blade didn't give off any aura until now.

"Sephiroth," says Jack as it was he who stopped the attack.

"You are," says Sephiroth as Jack suddenly teleported both away making Nora stay alone in the storm of shadows until her knights returned.

"My lady, what happened why did you stop?" asks Lancelot as Nora suddenly disappeared from behind them.

"It's nothing let's continue," says Nora as she suddenly began to radiate light too. She entered Excalibur's Authority slaying her way through the shadows with the knights' help.

Jack, on the other hand, was in the white space with Sephiroth as he looked at him and says, "You should know who I am, don't you?"

"The person that helped one of my other me escape Shinra," says Sephiroth as Jack nods.

"As I thought, you are connected to all the others," says Jack as he found it quite magnificent. His stare was making Sephiroth feel quite uncomfortable as Jack says, "Don't worry you might be one of the perfect subjects to find out how it is possible but I think that we have another plan for you."

"We?" asks Sephiroth as suddenly quite the killing intent came towards him as the white space had suddenly a black hole in it as Logan passes through it.

"Yes, we," says Logan as Sephiroth almost couldn't breathe because of the pressure he was radiating off.

"I should have known that it was a bad idea to send them to the Remake World," says Logan as Jack smiles.

"Where is the fun if they already knew about what will happen. Now with this new variable, it will be more fun," says Jack as he thought that John and Nesiara should be able to make some things not happening at all.

"Why do I always listen to you?" asks Logan as Jack smiles

"Because I'm the more intelligent one," says Jack as he walked over to Sephiroth before saying, "You should stop radiating killing intent or he will die before anyone of the others has a chance to fight him."

"I thought you were angry that he tried to attack Nora too," says Logan as Jack laughs.

"I was more worried that Nora killed him in one swing since he doesn't have his full power," says Jack as Sephiroth was mostly shocked about that revelation that the woman he wanted to attack could have killed him.

"She is quite a fierce one if angered and even more when she can't fulfill her duty. But let's forget about that for now. I want to know where Zack Fair is in the moment," says Jack as he didn't ask but commanded.

"He should be in Gongaga Village," says Sephiroth as Jack smiles and looks at Sephiroth making him feel nervous.

"You should know that I know that he is a sleeper. I won't remove him nor will my brother. It will be nice to see how you will try to manipulate him and Cloud as long as you can that's it," says Jack as Sephiroth opens his eyes wide in shock when Logan looks at him suspiciously.

"What do you mean with a sleeper? Do you mean a sleeper agent?" asks Logan as Jack nods.

"You know very well that he can control everyone injected with Jenova's cells in some way. Remember the people with the numbers on their bodies. He controls all of them to perfection while making Cloud only hallucinate for now," says Jack as he was quite excited to examine this lab rat when he holds himself back while saying, "Almost let my instinct to study this take the better out of me."

"That isn't possible he wasn't that powerful before," says Logan as he remembered that he could play some trick when Jack waves his index finger from side to side.

"There you are wrong. This Sephiroth has all the memories of all the other versions making far dangerous than the others we know about. But he is still not complete," says Jack as his aura began to show as a giant monkey with a third eye in its forehead appeared behind him.

"This will be so much fun to see them solve all those problems and still come out on top. That's why we are testing them," says Jack smiling as he couldn't retract his aura from the excitement he was feeling.

"So Zack is still alive but is a sleeper but my question is how is Zack still alive shouldn't he be dead because of the Whispers?" asks Logan as he knew that the Whispers would try anything to kill Zack since his survival could change the future of the planet.

"You really think the Whispers still are protecting the planet. They are under the control of Sephiroth. He is after all in the lifestream. That makes him one with the planet making the Whispers confuse him with the voice of the planet," says Jack as he smiled at Logan who was quite suspicious since Zack should be dead.

"If that is true then I will have to talk with my wife about changing the authority if the Whispers have such fault in them," says Logan as he looked serious at Sephiroth when Jack snaps his finger making Sephiroth disappear.

"But they have a bigger problem that the family should be able to take care of," says Jack with a smile as Logan looked at him seriously.

"You mean the brainwashing of Cloud and Zack," says Logan as he hit the nail in the coffin.

"Exactly but let the children deal with that while we deal with other more important things," says Jack as Logan smile.

"Then let's hope they know how to do that," says Logan as he leaves the white space by opening a black hole.

"Yes, let's hope so," says Jack as he snapped his fingers and he disappears.

In the meantime Jack and Logan had the conversation, Kieran was finally able to put the building down and began to move towards where the mark was as he couldn't Hiraishin over.

He flew through a group of shadows as he summoned the Keyblade Graveyard to ride it crushing the shadows in his way.

He could see a light penetrating the shadows as he passed it saying, "I think, I will be faster."

"Then make haste. I already encountered an enemy," says Nora as Kieron suddenly became serious.

The keyblades became faster as he penetrated through the shadows and he finally arrived at the other side finding Aerith.

"Aerith," says Kieron as the landed beside her as the Keyblades all disappeared in his Gate of Babylon. He looks at her up and down before sighing in relief before saying, "You are fine. I was worried."

"Thank you for coming this fast," says Aerith with her smile when Kieron noticed that a man was also there holding a flower when Aerith says, "We should leave mother must be worried."

"Alright," says Kieron when suddenly Nora landed surrounded by her twelve Knights. She sees that Aerith was fine and gives her a hug while her Knights returned to Excalibur.

Then she takes a look at the man with short blond hair with almost the same eyes as her father just that they were blue when she says, "Thank you for keeping her safe. We will take it from here."

"Wait," says the man as Nora and Kieron suddenly disappeared with Aerith in front of his eyes.

They appeared in the Slums as Aerith says, "So that's how it feels to use Hiraishin."

She was quite excited it seemed as they looked around only to see chaos. Many people were afraid because members of their family were on the plate.

"How was the Sector when we left?" asks Aerith now worried.

"I moved some wrecks away so the people could escape safely," says Kieron as he was convinced that the people should have made it out of the Sector.

"Thank you," says Aerith as she smiled at him.

"No problem. I couldn't just let the people on their own and Nora was right behind you until she was attacked," says Kieron as Aerith looked at Nora worried.

"Don't worry nothing happened," says Nora making Aerith smile again when she continues, "We should return home for now."

Aerith nods as they began moving home