Maybe Zack is killed halfway through the fic?

yesssssss, this is perfect. Then Cloud in all his unstable glory encounters the rest of the cast and ends up teaming up with them while constantly talking about what a loner he is.

Oh my gosh, I laughed so hard when Reeve got shot. Also I'm disturbed by how much Vincent sounds like Solid Snake. The voice acting is not nearly as ridiculously, deliberately monotone as he sounds in my head.