Shade Impulse

Shade Impulse is an optional mode playable in Dissidia Final Fantasy. It is more difficult than the original Story mode. : Plot and/or ending details follow. (#|Skip section) Shade Impulse 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: destroy Chaos .

Shade Impulse has four chapters in which all the characters must get to and defeat their storyline bosses again before facing off against Chaos.