Light to All/Epilogue

This epilogue, titled "Conclusion of the Cycle" is a retelling of Shade Impulse in the Story Mode of Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. This is the last chapter of Main Scenario 013: Light to All, and once again the player uses a party. This time, you must choose five of the ten Warriors of Cosmos to form a team, and may change the party at any time on the world map. The remaining warriors will randomly appear as Assists while in gateways.

Unlike Shade Impulse, this is a single long chapter instead of four parts as in Dissidia Final Fantasy, and the cutscenes where the Warriors of Cosmos confront their counterparts will play regardless of party composition. Of these, only Sephiroth, Cloud of Darkness, and Ultimecia can be skipped; the remaining seven are all in red gateways along the path to Chaos' throne.

Story
This chapter opens with the heroes gathering together, each holding his or her own respective crystals, ready to end the war between Chaos and Cosmos. But upon joining together, Chaos appears. He incinerates Cosmos, and disappears triumphant. The heroes, with Cosmos gone, begin to fade away. Exdeath and Kefka appear to despair the heroes in their final moments.

But the crystals kept the warriors of light alive, and they set out with a new resolve: to defeat Chaos. Making their way into the Land of Discord, they encounter Exdeath at The Rift. After learning the truth of the Crystals from him, that they are fragments of Cosmos' power and that collecting them doomed the goddess, the warriors strike him down and continue on their journey.

As they proceed to Chaos' lair, the warriors find and defeat Sephiroth, Kefka, the Cloud of Darkness, Kuja, Ultimecia, Jecht, Golbez, and the "pompous man in gold," the Emperor. Nearing their destination, they are faced with Garland once more. Again, they fight and defeat him, but as he begins to fade away, Garland reveals to them Chaos' true motivations: the destruction of everything, including himself, for without Cosmos there's no other equal to him in this world.

With only limited time remaining until they too fade away, the warriors finally face Chaos upon his throne at the Edge of Discord and defeat him, bringing an end to the conflict at last. As everything begins to return to how it was meant to be, the warriors find themselves outside Cornelia. The other Warriors of Cosmos fade back to their own respective worlds, and the Warrior of Light begins to stride toward the city, crystal in hand.

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Stage: Land of Discord

Trivia

 * Because Exdeath is the first Warrior of Chaos encountered in this retelling, the cutscene with Terra's confrontation with Kefka makes slightly less sense this time, as Exdeath already told the warriors about the truth of the crystals.