1. Cloud claws his way to the surface, breaching the soil hand first and emerging like a demon who had just been summoned from hell.
It turns out that is rather appropriate, considering he now has slit pupils.
And is wearing a modified, all black, SOLDIER uniform.
...surrounded by Wutai troops. He hears the cry of "Demon!" In Wutainese and his first thought is, 'oh no'
It turns out alright cause Godo is almost giddy for Wutai to have a demon of thier very own to combat Shinras army
2. RM Tifa dragging Cloud out on that date
3. Barret finding out that Cloud taught Marlene how to ride a motorcycle.
....which is why he's currently dodging bullets
4. Everything is the same except some part of Sephiroth is still sane and doesn't want to do this
5. Genesis, Cloud, Sephiroth, Angeal, and Zack all wake up in the woods. Everyone is rejoicing about being alive and all, but Cloud has no idea who Genesis and Angeal even are. So how do they know him?
He knows who Zack is, obviously. But why on Gaias green planet is Sephiroth apologizing so desperately? Shouldn't he hate him?
Aka AGSZC was a thing but Cloud remembers none of it and is confused.
Also the thought that Sephiroth would drop to his knees and beg for Clouds forgiveness makes me cackle with glee
6. Sephiroth dragged his puppet into a blank dimension where technically nothing exists.
Sephiroth immediately turned to taunt his favorite toy. "You can't hurt me here, Cloud."
"I can damn sure try." He responded darkly.
7. Cloud gets one wish, but before he can make the forementioned wish, Aerith butted in and made the wish for him so that he couldn't revive her.
8. Time travel au where Sephiroth captures him, and upon feeling the connection from the J and S cells, demands to know who he is.
9. Time travel / cat eye au (at this point I have to give it a name) where Cloud is almost immediately captured and saved by the silver general who believes that "Strife" is of the same "species" as him, and Cloud sticks to that story like glue.
At the very least it keeps him away from the science department...until Sephiroth himself drags him down there to "Save thier species from the brink of extinction"
His first thought is, But im not ready to be a father!
Then, Oh gods, I'm going to be cloned.
At least, he hopes it's cloning.
10. OK. So I was practically raised on kid friendly A/B/O fanfics. Hand written by kids at school where we silently swapped notebooks and did. Not. Speak.
It was awesome. Need more of that.
11. Piggybacking off of 10.
Cloud landed in another new dimention thanks to his uncooprotive wing. At this point he knew the drill, proform basic recon in the new world and lay low until rescue.
This becomes difficult when everyone can smell you. Honestly, what the hell. Why does everyone he meet tell him he shouldn't be carrying a sword but instead, act like the perfect housewife. He knows he's somewhat feminine looking, but it's not that bad!
There's too many scents, too many people either glaring at him for the heinous crime of weilding a sword, or trying to flirt with him until they notice his muscle and scoff, usually spouting some variation of, "Who would want a buff Omega?!" before walking away.
That was fine with him. If they started flirting with him, he'd just subtly show some muscle and they'd leave.
Until he wound up fighting against Sephiroth in a successful bombing mission at a reactor and was able to go toe to toe with him and escape.
Then Omegas with muscle weren't only ok, but highly sought after.
12. The remnants being betrayed by Jenova and them freaking out like, "Mother has betrayed us! Mother does not love us! Jail for mother! Jail for a thousand years!"
Alternatively, they do this to Cloud and he just pulls the covers over his head.
13. Yuffie walked in to see Cloud frazzled and wearing semi-formal Wutainese clothing, and while he did look pretty good in white, she couldn't help the loud laugh that erupted from her gut.
After taking a few moments to come back to them, she asked if Cloud even knew what was going on.
When he shook his head she clarified, "this is a marriage meeting."
Cloud, to his credit, looked shocked, "You're getting married? To who?"
Yuffie giggled, "We're the only ones wearing white!"
She almost laughed again from the look on his face. Oh this was great.
"Why?!" He suddenly blurted out, loud enough for the other occupants of the room to look at least a little ashamed of trying to trick him.
"You're the Slayer of Sephiroth "she rolled her eyes, "of course they think highly of you."
Yuffie stopped him, "We talked about this. Besides, don't we have a more immediate problem at hand?"
Aka Wutai tries to trick Cloud into marrying Yuffie after she comes of age
14. Wutai refuring to Cloud as "The demon slayer"
15. Clouds friends finding him and rescuing him from a secret lab.