Chapter 8 (Crisis Core)

Chapter 8, also known as See You Soon and I'll Come Visit, is the eighth chapter in Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-. The chapter comprises the events of the Nibelheim Incident from the perspective of Zack Fair. The final boss of the chapter is Sephiroth.
==Story==
Sephiroth, Zack, Cloud Strife, and another Shinra Electric Power Company infantryman arrive in Nibelheim and are led to the Nibel Reactor on Mt. Nibel by a guide, a village girl named Tifa Lockhart. Cloud, who is originally from the town, conceals his identity from the villagers, due to embarrassment of having failed to enter SOLDIER.
At the reactor, they find monsters created by over-exposure to Mako. Sephiroth finds a tank labeled "JENOVA"—the name of his "mother"—with the vaguely feminine form of an alien creature. Genesis Rhapsodos appears and tells Sephiroth he was born out of Jenova Project S, Professor Hojo and Gast Faremis's side of the Jenova Project. Sephiroth cannot create copies of himself, and thus doesn't degrade. Genesis asks for Sephiroth's genetic material to help him cure his degradation, seeing as Sephiroth is the "perfect monster" created from the Jenova Project, but Sephiroth refuses his old friend. With his past in doubt and Genesis's words in question, Sephiroth descends into the local Shinra Manor basement and reads Professor Gast Faremis's files on Project S of the Jenova Project.
Sephiroth comes to believe Jenova is a Cetra and the last of their race and the rightful heir to the planet, blaming the extinction of the Cetra to the humans who abandoned them during a time of need. Driven to insanity by the flawed knowledge of his birth, Sephiroth goes on a rampage and torches Nibelheim, killing most of the population. Zack pursues him up the mountain to the reactor where Sephiroth tries to free his "mother" from her containment tank, cutting Tifa down along the way. Sephiroth defeats Zack before Cloud arrives and catches him off guard, furious over his mother's death and his childhood friend Tifa's grave injuries. Cloud throws Sephiroth into the lifestream along with Jenova's head he was holding onto before falling unconscious.
Professor Hojo, the mastermind of Project S, takes Zack's and Cloud's beaten bodies and starts a new experiment to create Sephiroth-clones to test his Reunion Theory. Zack and Cloud are infused with Sephiroth's cells, but are deemed failures and left lying asleep in tanks for four years until Zack is awoken by what seems to be Angeal. Since Zack is a SOLDIER, and resistant to mako due to the SOLDIER process, he has the strength to drag himself and a catatonic Cloud out of a rebuilt Nibelheim through the ranks of Shinra soldiers. To ease Cloud's recovery from mako poisoning, Zack lends Cloud a SOLDIER 1st Class uniform, discarding his old mako-soaked clothes.
==Walkthrough==
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Category:Chapters in Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-