Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
Final Fantasy 7 Characters:
Cloud Stride - Steve Burton
Tifa Lockhart - Rachael Leigh Cook
Aerith Gainsborough - Andrea Bowen
Barret Wallace - Beau Billingslea
Yuffie Kisaragi - Mae Whitman
Vincent Valentine - Steven Blum
Zack Fair - Rick Gomez
Red 13 - Liam O'Brien
Cait Sith - Greg Ellis
Cid Highwind - Chris Edgerly
*Yakumo - Michelle Ruff
*Orbit
*Rose, the Moogle
*Dudley, the Chocobo
Sephiroth - George Newbern
Reno - Quinton Flynn
Rude - Crispin Freeman
Tseng - Ryun Yu
Cissnei - Carrie Savage
Veld
Legend
Jenova
Rufus Shinra - Wally Wingert
Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo - Steven Staley, Fred Tatasciore, and Dave Wittenberg
Professor Hojo - Paul Eiding
Weiss the Immaculate - Dave Boat
Nero the Sable - Mike Rock
Azul the Cerulean - Brad Abrell
Rosso the Crimson - Mary Elizabeth McGlynn
Shelke the Transparent - Kari Wahlgren
Genesis Rhapsodos - Robin Atkin Downes
Fuhito
Elfe
Shears
Biggs
Reeve Tuesti - Jamieson Price
Shaalua Rui - Kim Mai Guest
Angeal Hewley - Josh Gilman
Lucrecia Crescent - April Stewart
Marlene Wallace - Ariel Winter
Danzel - Aaron Refvem
'Base from the popular Playstation classic RPG video game of the Final Fantasy series, brings you my version of Cloud Strife love story of my version mix in with the game itself, so half added by me with some I remember to type down. With one made up characters in it being my idea name Yakumo, the rest isn't mine. Enjoy! :D'
Intro…
One girl with short orange hair, brown eyes, and skin as white with rosy lips was sleeping somewhere in the middle of nowhere to slowly wake up to find out on where she was or why she was there. Confused, someone took her in to live with a girl and an elderly lady ever since then she had a normal life, or so she thought at first. Just who was she…?With no memory, she wears some new clothes, with a new life, a new family, a kind hearted person, and with a special gift that she has from within this a name she can remember from her past. Her name was Yakumo.
And now for the story…
(Introduction…It slowly shows across a star field for several seconds before we see a beautiful young woman looking directly at us. Green embers waft upwards around her face. Soon moving to show that the embers are generated by a Mako furnace in a dark alley as the woman stares into it. After a few moments, she turns and leaves the alley, a basket of flowers on one arm, and stops to stand at a street corner.
Our view of her is momentarily obstructed by a massive train as it speeds past through the town square. Swinging now outward through the dark, dingy square, under a stone arch, and then begins to swing again upwards. The view moves higher and higher until the entire circular city of Midgar comes into view. The Final Fantasy VII logo appears for a few moments before the image then begins to swing back down, into a different part of a city.
A train is pulling into a station in another dark alley. Two guards patrol the platform. Jessie flips spectacularly off the train. The guards attack the intruder only to be knocked out by her skillful hands and feet. Barret hops out of the train, turns, and motions for another to follow.)
Barret: C'mon newcomer. Follow me.
(He runs upstairs. Cloud flips out of the train and follows him. Two guards come down the stairs down to the train platform, blocking his path. Of course, this fighter fights one off within seconds for Cloud to keep on going after that for his huge sword was his weapon. After the battle, Cloud runs up the stairs and meets the group - Jessie, Biggs, and Wedge, opening the main gate to a Mako reactor.)
Biggs: Wow! You used to be in SOLDIER all right! ...Not every day ya find one in a group like AVALANCHE.
Jessie: SOLDIER? Aren't they the enemy? What's he doing with us in AVALANCHE?
Biggs: Hold it, Jessie. He WAS in SOLDIER. He quit them and now is one of us. Didn't catch your name...
Cloud: ...Cloud.
Biggs: Cloud, eh? I'm...
Cloud: I don't care what your names are. Once this job's over...I'm outta here.
(Barret comes running up.)
Barret: The hell you all doin'!? I thought I told you never to move in a group! Our target's the North Mako Reactor. We'll meet on the bridge in front of it.
(The group heads through the gate. Barret stops and turns to face Cloud.)
Barret: Ex-SOLDIER, huh? Don't trust ya!
(Shows the Shinra headquarters towering above as Cloud following Barret through the gate. Cloud follows the others to the Reactor. Wedge stays on the bridge in front of the reactor as the others head inside.)
Wedge: I'll secure the escape passage. Concentrate on the mission, Cloud. Geez, we're really gonna blow this huge furnace up? This'll be somethin' to see!
(Cloud follows the others into the Reactor.)
Barret: Yo! This your first time in a reactor?
Cloud: No. After all, I did work for Shinra, y'know.
Barret: The planet's full of Mako energy. People here use it every day. It's the life blood of the planet. But Shinra keeps suckin' the blood out with these machines.
Cloud: I'm not here for a lecture. Let's just hurry.
Barret: That's it! You're comin' with me from now on.
(Barret joins Cloud. The group works through the locked doors deeper inside the reactor.)
Jessie: Biggs and I got the code for this door.
Biggs: Code deciphered
(They go through the door.)
Biggs: Think how many of our people risked their lives, just for this code...
Jessie: Code deciphered
(They go through the door and work deeper into the reactor. Biggs stays at the door, and then they enter an elevator.)
Jessie: Push that button over there!
(Cloud presses the button. The elevator starts moving.)
Barret: Little by little the reactors'll drain out all the life. And that'll be that.
Cloud: It's not my problem.
Barret: The planet's dyin', Cloud!
Cloud: The only thing I care about is finishin' this job before security and the Roboguards come.
(Barret turns away; shaking with anger, then looks back over his shoulder at Cloud and rejoins him. The elevator stops and Jessie gets off. They continue into the reactor. Jessie stays behind. Cloud continues to the reactor core.)
Barret: When we blow this place, this ain't gonna be nothin' more than a hunka junk. Cloud, you set the bomb.
Cloud: Shouldn't you do it?
Barret: Jus' do it! I gotta watch to make sure you don't pull nothin'.
Cloud: Fine, be my guest.
(As Cloud moves to set the bomb, but stops for something speaks into his mind.)
"Watch out! This isn't just a reactor!"
(It stops abruptly.)
Barret: ...What's wrong?
Cloud: Huh?
Barret: What's wrong, Cloud? Hurry it up!
Cloud: Yeah, sorry.
(Cloud sets the bomb. An alarm begins to sound and red lights flash.)
Barret: Heads up, here they come!
(Boss battle with Guard Scorpion. Throughout the battle, both Barret and Cloud gave it their all against the giant machine-like scorpion; avoiding its tail, stomping legs, and strong body, Cloud use speed and his sword to slash at the machine and Barret to keep on shooting to slow it down. Yeah, Barret had a machine gun-like gun that can fire off really powerful-like. Cloud could also use some magic skills to weaken it more for him and Barret to beat it up until it shuts down. So besides the robot scanning the two, Barret uses his gun to fire off a bigger blast to be blown to bits, they make a good team to put the scrap metal to bits. Soon the alarm goes off, it wasn't good…)
Cloud: Come on, let's get outta here!
Ten minutes to detonation!
(They rush back out through the reactor until they meet up with Jessie where she had stayed behind. She has one leg caught in the grate she's standing on.)
Cloud: You all right?
Jessie: My leg got stuck.
(Cloud pulls her out.)
Jessie: Thanks!
(They continue to hurry out of the reactor, along with fighting off strange monsters, machines, and more soldiers wherever they go to escaping.)
Biggs: Let's go!
Jessie: Code deciphered.
(They go through the door.)
Jessie: Alright, be careful.
Biggs: Code deciphered.
(They go through the door and exit the reactor. On the way out, Jessie falls. Cloud helps her up and they sprint away. The reactor emits a ring of fire as it explodes spectacularly against the night sky. Cloud, Barret, Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie are in a dark tunnel littered with debris and broken metal.)
Biggs: That should keep the planet going...at least a little longer.
Wedge: Yeah.
Barret: …
(Jessie plants an explosive against the pile of debris blocking their exit.)
Jessie: OK! Now everyone get back.
(They stand back and a wall explodes, opening a way to a courtyard. Wedge's butt seems to be on fire.)
Barret: All right, now let's get out of here. Rendezvous at Sector 8 station! Split up and get on the train!
(They all exit except for Barret and Cloud.)
Cloud: H, hey!
Barret: If it's about your money save it 'til we're back at the hideout.
(Barret exits. Cloud goes after him into the streets of Midgar. A few people are running around a street corner, bumping into a woman standing there, knocking her down. As the other being Yakumo was just shopping to see what was going on. She stands up and calmly brushes herself off. Cloud enters.)
Flower girl: Excuse me. What happened?
(Cloud tells the girl there was nothing to worry about.)
Cloud: Nothing...hey, listen...
Flower girl: Oh, these? Do you like them? They're only a gil...?
(And he buys some flowers from her so he won't seem suspicious.)
Cloud: I'll buy one.
Flower girl: Oh, thank you! Here you are!
(She gives Cloud a flower and walks off. Cloud continues through the streets of Midgar.)
"Just what the hell's going on!?"
"Wonder what that is on the wall over there. Let's see..."
"Don't be fooled by Shinra! Mako energy doesn't last forever! Mako is the planet's life source! The end is in sight!"
Protectors of the planet: AVALANCHE.
(Cloud reaches a dark street. A soldier patrolling the area spots him.)
Soldier: Hey! You there!
Cloud: Shinra soldiers...
(Cloud choices to fight them. Three battles with Shinra soldiers. After the third battle, Cloud is Surrounded.)
Soldier: That's as far as you go.
Cloud: I don't have time to be messin' around with you guys.
Soldier: Enough babbling! Grab him!
(As Cloud tries out running them, he sees Yakumo passing by to see the mess only for one of the soldiers to push her off on to the streets from an incoming car to driving so fast to getting hit. She covers her body in fear for Cloud to see Yakumo in danger; so he in fast paste goes to grab hold of her and carry her away and off the streets before the car almost came close to hitting her, only a can of some food was destroyed instead. She opens her eyes to see herself still alive.)
Yakumo: Huh? What…? I'm not dead?
(Yakumo sees Cloud to letting her go once she was rescued.)
Yakumo: You saved me.
(The soldiers continued chasing after Cloud allowing him to make his escape, just to see something within Yakumo's eyes for a few seconds to getting back to work after that.)
Cloud: Stay out of trouble.
(He leaves for Yakumo still didn't know what was going on.)
Yakumo: Okay, thank you…Oh, right. Aerith's waiting for me! Better get back to her to go home!
(Yakumo walks off into the streets safely in time. The soldiers close in. Cloud backs away, but his path is blocked as he reaches a railing. Below him are the train tracks. Cloud jumps off the balcony onto the train as it rushes by, with one thing on his mind to think about Yakumo after only saving her, it was like that one girl was on his mind now all of a sudden.)
Cloud: Who was that girl?
(Barret, Wedge, Biggs, and Jessie are riding in a train car littered with crates and junk.)
Wedge: Cloud never came.
Biggs: Cloud...Wonder if he was killed?
Barret: No way!
Jessie: Cloud...
(There is thumping on the roof of the car. Barret glances up.)
Biggs: Say, do you think Cloud's...Going to fight to the end for AVALANCHE!?
Barret: The hell would I know? Do I look like a mind reader?
(He hits a crate with his fist.)
Barret: Hmph! If y'all weren't such screw-ups...
Wedge: Hey Barret! What about our money...?"
(Barret hits the crate again.)
Wedge: Uh, nothin'...sorry. Ahh...
(The train door opens and Cloud flips into the car from above.)
Biggs: Cloud!
Jessie: Cloud...
Wedge: Cloud!
Cloud: Looks like I'm a little late.
Barret: You damn right, you're late! Come waltzin' in here makin' a big scene!
Cloud: It's no big deal. Just what I always do.
Barret: Shi't! Havin' everyone worried like that you don't give a damn 'bout no one but yourself!
Cloud: Hmm...You were worried about me!
Barret: Wha!? I'm takin' it outta your money, hot stuff!
(He walks to the center of the car.)
Barret: Wake up! We're movin' out! Follow me!
(He exits the front of the car.)
Wedge: Hey, Cloud! You were great back there!
(He exits.)
Biggs: Heh, heh...Cloud! We'll do even better next time.
(He exits.)
Jessie: Be careful, I'll shut this.
(She closes the train door.)
Jessie: Oh, Cloud! Your face is pitch-black...
(She wipes his face.)
Jessie: There you go! Say, thanks for helping me back there at the Reactor!
(She exits. Cloud follows. The train intercom comes on.)
Last train out of Sector 8 Station. Last stop is Sector 7, Train Graveyard. Expected time of arrival is 12:23 AM, Midgar standard time...
(Barret and the others come into the next car and sit down. They disturb a well-dressed, official looking man.)
Barret: This is why I hate the last train. Hoo-boy...
(He leaves.)
People on the train.
Wedge: Huh? This is my house, so make yourselves at home. You see the headlines in the Shinra Times? "The terrorists that bombed the No. 1 Reactor are based somewhere in the slums." "...blowing up a Reactor...they sure put some thought into this one." "They must have a real calculating leader. I wonder what they'll do next?"
Barret: Stop actin' like a damn kid. Si'down an' shu'up!
Wedge: Someday AVALANCHE's gonna be famous...and me, too!
Biggs: It seems this train hasn't switched to security mode yet. I'm sure that will change by tomorrow.
Jessie: Hey, Cloud. You want to look at this with me? It's a map of the Midgar Rail System. Let's look at it together. I'll explain it to you. I like this kinda stuff. Bombs and monitors...you know flashy stuff.
(They look at the map.)
Jessie: Okay, it's about to start.
(A wireframe of Midgar is shown on the map.)
Jessie: This is a complete model of the city of Midgar. "It's about a 1/10000 scale." "The top plate is about 50 meters above ground." "A main support structure holds the plate up in the center, and there are other support structures built in each section..." psst... whisper... whisper... (The No. 1 Reactor we blew up was in the northern section.) "Then there's No. 2, No. 3 all the way up to the No. 8 Reactor." "The 8 Reactors provide Midgar with electricity." "Each town used to have a name, but no one in Midgar remembers them." "Instead of names, we refer to them by numbered sectors. That's the kind of place this is." Phew...this is next! Look.
(A dotted line appears on the Midgar wire frame.)
Jessie: "This is the route the train is on." "The route spirals around the main support structure." We should be coming around the center area, right now. "At each checkpoint, an ID sensor device is set up." "It can check the identities and background on each and every passenger on the train by linking it up to the central data bank at Shinra headquarters." Whisper...whispers... (Anyone could tell that we look suspicious, so we're using fake ID's.)
(A red light starts flashing.)
Jessie: Speak of the devil...That light means we're in the ID Security Check area. Whisper...whisper... (When the lights go off, you never know what kind of creeps'll come out.) ...anyhow, we're almost back now. That's a relief.
Biggs: ...snore...hee,bee,bee,hee,bee...snore... (Don't act so damn big, Barret...snooze...)
Barret: Look...you can see the surface now. This city doesn't have any day or night. If that plate weren't there...we could see the sky.
(Cloud looks out the window.)
Cloud: A floating city...Pretty unsettling scenery.
(Barret gets up.)
Barret: Huh? Never expect to hear that outta someone like you...you jes' full of surprises. The upper world...a city on a plate...It's 'cuz of that &^#$# 'pizza', that people underneath are sufferin'! And the city below is full of polluted air. On topa that, the Reactor keeps drainin' up all the energy.
Cloud: Then why doesn't everyone move onto the plate?
Barret: Dunno. Probably 'cuz they ain't got no money. Or, maybe...Cuz they love their land, no matter how polluted it gets.
Cloud: I know...no one lives in the slums because they want to. It's like this train. It can't run anywhere except where its rails take it.
(The train circles the support structure on its way to Sector 7. The train arrives at the station and everyone gets off)
Barret: Yo! Get over here, all' ya!
(Everyone gathers around Barret.)
Barret: This mission was a success. But don't get lazy now. The hard part's still to come! Don't y'all be scared of that explosion! Cause the next one's gonna be bigger than that! Meet back at the hideout! Move out!
(All of the five exit to their hide out. And to that, their goal, reasons on why they were doing this, saving lives, and stopping the one area they were targeting. So much for their home was somewhere at some nice village with lots of people living a normal life instead for the rich people. For Barret, Cloud, Wedge, Jessie, and Biggs, what will happen next? Who was the strange girl? And will Yakumo see Cloud more again? So much was going on.)