A Light That Penetrates Through the Darkness is the eighth episode of Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-. Shinra Electric Power Company deploys a large force to destroy the Avalanche base near Icicle Inn. Apart from Essai and Sebastian, Zack Fair is dispatched from SOLDIER to stop them. However, Fuhito has a plan of his own ready.
Story[]
Massing a search and destroy task force to attack the Avalanche base, Zack Fair is sent to bolster the Shinra forces. While embarking to their destination, a breaking bridge leads to Zack and Gun, Rod, Two Gun, Shotgun, Nunchaku and Knife being separated from the main force as the force is led into an Avalanche ambush and the remaining SOLDIERs, Essai and Sebastian, are re-captured. As Zack moves to free them, the Player Turks are instructed by Verdot, who notes Avalanche is receiving information from within Shinra, to assist in rescuing the SOLDIERs.
Making to the captured pair first, the Player Turk discovers they have been warped to do Avalanche's bidding. He/she is saved by Zack, who holds off his friends while pleading for them to fight their way back to their senses. While successful, the attempt costs Essai and Sebastian their lives and Zack remains to mourn them as the compound's self-destruct is activated. As he tells the Player Turk to go on ahead, he is confronted by the Raven responsible for capturing Essai and Sebastian and discovers the process the Ravens undergo make them mere drones of their former selves.
After Zack and the Player Turk escape the compound, Zack erects a small memorial for his deceased friends.