While following Tifa, they both fell from the mountain trail. Miraculously, he escaped with minor injuries.

On the water tower, he announced to Tifa that he would become a SOLDIER. He promised to save her if she got into trouble, and left the village.

He became a member of ShinRa's army, and was dispatched on a mission where he met Zack, SOLDIER: 1st Class.

Dispatched on a mission as a member of ShinRa's army, and met Zack again.

Assigned to protect Professor Rayleigh, he worked together with the Turks. In a raid by AVALANCHE, secret data on SOLDIER was stolen.

As part of a full-scale investigation on Mako Reactors after a mass outbreak of monsters, he visited the Nibel Mako Reactor with Sephiroth and Zack.

In the Mako Reactor he fatally wounded Sephiroth, who had gone out of control and burnt down the village, while receiving heavy injuries himself.

Under Hojo's instructions he was captured and used as a sample for the Sephiroth Copy experiment in the basement of the ShinRa Mansion, where he contracts Mako Poisoning.

With Zack's help, he escaped from the basement of the ShinRa Mansion.

Just outside of Midgar, Zack was killed by the pursuing ShinRa army. Cloud was left at the scene.

While being tended to by a station worker in the Sector 7 Slum train station, he was reunited with Tifa, and using the abilities of Jenova's cells formed a new personality. With Tifa's invitation, he decided to assist AVALANCHE.

Worked with AVALANCHE when they bombed the Sector 1 Mako Reactor. During his return to Sector 7, he met Aerith.

During a bombing mission with AVALANCHE in the Sector 5 Mako Reactor, they stumbled into a ShinRa trap and Cloud was caught in an explosion, falling down into the church in the Sector 5 Slum. He met Aerith again, and escorted her to her home.

The team failed to stop ShinRa's plans to drop the Sector 7 Plate. Aerith was taken to the ShinRa building.

The team was captured while attempting to rescue Aerith, but in the confusion caused by Sephiroth's murder of President ShinRa, they escaped the city. Together with Aerith and the rest of the team, they pursued Sephiroth.

He found Aerith, who had been acting on her own, but shortly after lost her at the hands of Sephiroth.

He attempted to settle things with Sephiroth, but upon listening to his speech, Cloud's self-image collapsed. He handed over the Black Materia, triggering the summoning of Meteor. Cloud then fell into the Lifestream and went missing.

Now suffering Mako Poisoning, he was nursed by Tifa, but they fell into the Lifestream. With Tifa's help he retraced his memories, and regained his true self.

With his friends he was victorious in the final battle with Sephiroth, and prevented the fall of Meteor.

After visiting various locations with Tifa and Barret, Tifa opened the "Seventh Heaven" bar. Before setting off on a journey, Barret left Marlene in Cloud and Tifa's care, and the three of them began living together.

While searching for provisions for the bar, more and more people began to ask him to make deliveries for them, so he set up the Strife Delivery Service.

He took Denzel, who had collapsed at the Sector 5 Slum church, into his care and brought him back to Seventh Heaven, where Denzel then also started to live.

Because he contracted Geostigma, he left Tifa and the children, and began living in the Slum church.

He was attacked by Kadaj's gang on his way to see Rufus, but still refused Rufus' request to become his bodyguard.

He battled with Kadaj's gang, who had kidnapped Marlene and the children, but found himself in a dangerous situation before being saved by Vincent, and made a temporary retreat.

With the help of his friends, he defeated Bahamut SHIN, which Kadaj's gang had summoned. He defeated Sephiroth after his Advent, and returned to Tifa and the children.

With his old friends he went rushing to Vincent's aid, and battled the DG forces.