First things first, CLOUD, they said you were here. Are you doing okay?
Second things second, spent awhile trying to decide whether or not I'm suffering some sort of post-battle hallucination, but if nothing else, the things people have been saying on this network thing make me think that it would have to be something especially crazy to get this kind of scale. Mako can do some crazy stuff, but suddenly hallucinating that everyone is hallucinating is probably pushing it on the craziness scale.
If nothing else, it's nice to have Shinra off my back. Hopefully these SHIELD people knew what they were talking about when they said Shinra isn't an issue here. Aaaand guess I'd figure it out pretty soon if not.
Haven't introduced myself, though! The name's Zack Fair, first class SOLDIER. SOLDIER doesn't seem to exist here, but I guess it's pretty self-explanatory, huh?