O' course, I wouldn't choose that.. [ Not that it makes any difference in the end, does it? Cloud still died. Even in the timeline where he apparently hadn't been pulled there in the degenerative state he was in, he'd still lived two years past only to be pulled into this world and to die yet again.

It might not have been his choice. But it doesn't change the results. Nor does the bleak statement Kunsel makes. It's enough to get Zack looking up sharply. ] So, I either die there or I die here. That doesn't sound too promising a theory whatever way you look at it, Kunsel.

[ And it doesn't feel right either. It doesn't from the moment he reaches up and touches his coat, knowing that underneath those layers are those scars they've both seen. That there's no way he wouldn't have bled out within minutes for how much and how hard he must have been hit. That no one had come to save him because he'd been a sample, so of course, it was him against the world back then. A very lonely world where the only company he'd had had been in a constant state of coma. And when he'd finally come to, it'd been...

Zack slowly shakes his head as he looks away. ] Better off to make the most of it at least.. Get the rest of you out of here. I failed Cloud- him, Tadashi, Hiro. But sure, I won't fail you guys this time.

[ It's impossible to shake the bitterness and Zack curses the moment those words come from his mouth. ]