The Threat that Pierces the Heavens is the twenty-second episode of Before Crisis -Final Fantasy VII-. The Turks are split into groups to save Verdot and his daughter Elfe.
Story[]
While Tseng, Rude, and Reno attempt to discern the location of where Verdot is being held, the other Turks and Shears meet in Wall Market and split the materia orbs among themselves before dispatching to look for Elfe. Meanwhile Elena, Gun (Female)'s sister, witnesses a trio of insurgent Ravens and attempts to follow them before getting bored and going home.
Assisted by Rufus, Tseng locates Verdot and attempts to liberate him while ordering the Player Turk, who is being pursued by Shinra troops through Wall Market, to secure an escape out of Midgar. While abducting a truck to get through checkpoints set up by the military, the Player Turk discovers that not only was the truck being driven by a Raven dressed as a Shinra troop, but that Elena has been kidnapped and is in the truck with her. After leaving the truck while Elena is still on board, the Player Turk follows it to a train where they exchange the support Materia with the Ravens for Elena.
Elsewhere in the Sector 5 slums, Shears is confronted by Fuhito and opts to go with him, giving him possession of the support materia, in order to find Elfe. Shears is instead beaten down and the support materia stolen from him. While Reno, Rude, and Tseng free Verdot, the Player Turk commandeers a helicopter to chase after Avalanche before they use the support mteria to summon Zirconiade and kill Elfe to make it whole.
Crashing the helicopter into the truck the Ravens were using, the Player Turk witnesses Fuhito gathering the support materia around a limp and weak Elfe on the highway and summoning Zirconiade above Midgar. While saving Elfe, the materia inside her fuses with the support materia and Fuhito ascends to give the newly formed materia orb to Zirconiade.