Chapter Five: Why Sephiroth Went Insane

When they finally got back to the town, Sephiroth instructed Zack to get them rooms at the inn, although Cloud insisted that they just stay with him at his house so that he can also introduce them to his mother. Tifa, on the other hand, decided to go home and cool off because the trip back to the town wasn't that splendid, especially with Cloud around. She tripped five times during the walk down the mountains and blamed it all on Cloud… and for the finale, he was the one who tumbled down the mountain pathway because Tifa pushed her when she had enough of his silly games.

As soon as Zack and Cloud were able to reserve rooms at the inn, they went to look for Sephiroth because they realized that he was not even waiting for them in the lobby. "Where'd he go?" Zack asked in confusion. Cloud shrugged. "Beats me…" he muttered while looking around. "Oh well, it's a small town. Should be go look for him?" he suggested.

"I think I'll go look for him on my own. You go and visit your mother. I'm sure you're excited to see her already." Zack suggested with a smile on his face. Cloud was surprised at him. "…really?" he asked in awe. Zack patted his back, "I know how it feels like to be away from a parent. I miss my own mother too, you know." He said before going ahead to search for Sephiroth. Cloud was quiet for a while, checking the time on his watch. 6:00. He smiled slightly. He remembered that at that hour, his mother would be preparing dinner already. He felt his stomach rumble and he realized that he hasn't eaten anything else since breakfast. With that, he decided to hurry to his own house.

oOoOo

Sephiroth broke into the ShinRa Mansion while Zack and Cloud were getting rooms. A question has been bothering him ever since it has been asked of him… and he was going to find out by himself the answer if no one else can answer it. After searching, he finally found the library of the ShinRa Mansion and started to look for books related to JENOVA and Mako and the Planet. Gathering five books during his first search, he went over to a table, placed the books there and sat on the big armchair comfortably. The place was dusty but he tried not to mind it, although he sneezed a couple of times. "Darn dust…" he muttered as he flipped open the first page of the first book he had found on JENOVA…

oOoOo

From outside his house, Cloud could smell the dinner that his mother was cooking. He smiled slightly as he opened the door, his heart beating fast from excitement upon seeing his mother again. "Mom?" he called out.

The house was silent for a few moments before he heard a response from the kitchen, "…who's there?"

He shut the door, but before he could answer, his mother appeared from the kitchen doorway and stared wide-eyed at him. "Oh…. Oh my… oh my goodness! Is that you, son?" she asked in disbelief as tears welled up in her eyes. She ran to her son and embraced him happily, "Oh Cloud!" she said happily.

Cloud returned the embrace with a happy smile on his face, "Mommy…" he said softly.

She sniffed and looked up at him, and then studied him from head to toe. "My, you've grown a bit taller from the last time I saw you… and…you made it into SOLDIER? I can't believe it!" she said happily before gazing up into her son's blue eyes.

"Not just any SOLDIER, mom! I'm in First Class!" he told her proudly.

She gasped in shock. "Oh my! So soon? In one year?" she asked in disbelief.

"Well… General Sephiroth says I'm extraordinary so he asked for consideration from the President. Good thing he agreed." Cloud explained proudly.

The smile on his mother's face faded, getting replaced by a stunned look. "…the President?" she asked softly.

Cloud nodded proudly. "Yep. I spoke to him in person and he gave me the promotion right then and there at the luncheon wherein I was invited! I'm so glad I entered SOLDIER, I finally have a lot of good friends!"

Mrs. Strife just forced a smile and slowly turned away. She sulked. "That's… good to hear, Cloud…" and she walked back into the kitchen. Cloud put down his weapons by the couch before following after his mother, "What's for dinner, mom?" he asked, unaware of his mother's sudden change of mood.

"I'm… cooking some porridge for dinner." She replied plainly. Cloud sat down. "Oh cool! I missed your home-cooked meal, mom." He admitted. He was really glad to be home and even his mother could notice that in him, but she could not get it out of her head that he spoke to the President…

"Why? Didn't you like the food served in SOLDIER?" she asked casually.

"Well… nothing really compares to your cooking, mom." Cloud replied rather shyly. She smiled as she chuckled lightly while stirring the porridge in the saucepan. "You silly boy, you. Stop flattering your own mother." She said playfully. Cloud just smiled. "And we won the Wutai war, mom! I'm sure it will give me a raise in the salary!" he told her.

"That's nice to hear." She said.

"So, do you get the money that I send to you every month?" he asked.

"Of course. It's really helping me with the finances here at home." She replied. "So how's Midgar and ShinRa?" she asked.

"Midgar… seems fine, I guess. ShinRa… well, the President seems to be a nice man though." He replied. She frowned upon hearing that but she just shrugged it off, "So, got a girlfriend already?" she asked, wanting to change the subject.

Cloud blushed. "N…no, mom. I think I'm too young to…" he stammered uncomfortably, suddenly thinking about Aerith whom he had just met before he left for the Wutai War.

Mrs. Strife laughed. "When you left for the city, I was already betting that when you come back, you'd have a girl with you! Hahaha!" she said playfully before looking at Cloud. She could see that he was beet red and looking uncomfortably at her with a frown on his face. She smiled sweetly at him, "What's the matter?" she asked.

"I'm… just not into the thought of having a girlfriend yet… and I just don't care about girls!" he told her.

"Oh? Why not?" she asked curiously. "…'fraid of them…" Cloud muttered. She shook her head. "It's because of Tifa, right?" she asked.

Cloud blinked.

"Cloud, you don't have to hide your feelings for Tifa from me. I'm your mother! I know you like her!" she said.

Silence.

Cloud was mortified.

She smiled softly, "After you left, Tifa told us about the letter you gave to her. It's a love letter, right? And you promised one another that you'd be back…" she began, but Cloud got up in annoyance, "MOTHER?" he exclaimed.

She froze. "Is there something wrong?" she asked.

Cloud's temper rose. "Mom! I thought it was pretty obvious when we were younger that I –don't- like that—that Tifaat ALL!"

"You don't?" Mrs. Strife asked weakly.

"Of course not!I mean, she hates my guts and made my childhood a miserable hell! She always got me in trouble and blamed me for every possible bad thing that happened to her! Don't you remember the time when she blamed me of pushing her off a cliff! MAN! I wish I did, so I could have gotten rid of her for good—"

"CLOUD!" Mrs. Strife snapped. Cloud paused and looked at his mom. She inhaled sharply before saying, "Young man, I do not like this behavior at all! Goodness! One year in the Big City, and you're already back-stabbing! Why, you had completely forgotten that Tifa was one of your childhood friends…"

"Hah. Some childhood friend," Cloud muttered.

Mrs. Strife looked at him and sighed. "Oh, son. This is what I'm talking about—you badly need somebody to share your pains with. Keeping anger locked up like that isn't healthy at all. You might get wrinkles, or worse—hemorrhoids," she said, patting his back.

He looked at his mother strangely. "Hemorrhoids? Mom, I don't think I could get hemorrhoids that way."

"Yes you could," she said matter-of-factly. "That's why you need… hmm, an older girlfriend, that's it!" she brightened up and clapped both hands. "Someone at least one year older than you… somebody who'll take care of you! Maybe teach you some manners, cook you some good food, give my son tender loving care when he needs it—"

Cloud sighed. "Mom—"

"Yes, and somebody to help you get medicine when you do get hemorrhoids—"

His face fell. "Mom, why are so sure that I'll get hemorrhoids?"

She clicked her tongue. "Mothers are always sure," she answered simply.

"Yeah, like you were sure that I liked Tifa." Cloud shivered again.

"Oh, come on now, Cloud. I just assumed that because you always looked at her as if you want to go up to her and do something when you were younger. I didn't know that you wanted to go up to her to tell her off," she replied.

"Hah. To strangle her is more like it." Cloud muttered with contempt. He received a slap on the back of the head for that.

oOoOo

A week later…

Sephiroth's mouth was opening slightly as he continued flipping through various books and folders from the shelves. "Flip. Flip. Flip." His was the only voice that echoed in the library.

09.12.67. Approx. 5 months after impregnation. Potent liquid with JENOVA cells injected through womb of mother and into the fetus…

09.15.67. Approx. 5 months after impregnation. Fetus shows signs of considerably stronger respiration. Tests for presence of Mako are done on mother and fetus.

10.13.67. Approx. 6 months after impregnation. Presence of mako positive in both mother and fetus. JENOVA cells in fetus are fused with its nerve cells. Genes of fetus are modified considerably by alien cells…

10.14.67. Approx. 6 months after impregnation. Fetus shows signs of homeostasis to the alien cells. Scientists decide to rename this specific JENOVA project to the Sephiroth project…

Sephiroth angrily closed the folder. Holding it in his hands, he almost crushed it in anger. "So… I was an experiment! This mother of mine isn't JENOVA after all! She's actually some insane scientist who willingly had herself impregnated for a stupid ShinRa project that involved aliens!" he thought angrily. He threw the folder aside and angrily stormed in between the shelves to exit from the library.

"I wanna burn this stupid library… I could forget all that I'd read… then I'll leave Nibelheim and demand an explanation from those freaks in ShinRa Labs… and…" he stopped short when a certain book caught his eye.

"Hmmm?" he nabbed it and examined the cover. He traced the weird, foreign symbols on its hard cover and scanned it until he recognized a language that he could understand. "…. Hmmm."

Kama Sutra

Something clicked in his mind. "Kama Sutra… hey! I think I've heard of this somewhere… this is funky sex stuff from far-away, right?" he said, grinning to himself and suddenly/momentarily forgetting that he was in a murderous rampage a few moments before.

"This book is an ancient script that chronicles different sexual positions from a certain place in the East,… techniques here are detailed and illustrated as they were in the original manuscript…"

"All right, enough already! I wanna get to the good parts NOW!" Sephiroth cheered, skipping the rest of the foreword and started skimming through the pages. Upon seeing the first illustration that he saw, he frowned, "Damn. That's ugly." He muttered and looked at the description. The name of the illustration was in English…

He shrugged and flipped through another page and saw an interesting position. "Gee… how do you do this?" he thought in curiosity as he stared at the illustration. He smiled naughtily. "Heheheh. Once I get myself a girl…" he was thinking to himself… and remembered the female Turk that he has been eyeing ever since she entered ShinRa. He snickered maliciously and turned to the how-to on the next page… and his eyes widened.

The text was in Hindu.

He stiffened.

"What the f…?" he cussed angrily as he flipped through the next few pages and realized that the How-To's are retained in the original Hindu text while the rest are translated in English. He dropped the book in frustration as he stared blankly at the bookshelf ahead of him. "God… damn… it. I should've taken my Foreign Language lesson in Hindu seriously!" he snarled angrily at himself before searching for his mobile phone and once he found it, instantly dialed Rufus's number. After a few rings, his friend answered, "Yes?

"Do you know how to read Hindu?" Sephiroth instantly asked with a hopeful smile on his face.

Rufus was silent for a few moments before saying, "No. I don't. I didn't study it. I only know 2 types of Wutaian: Mandarin and Nihongo; Gongagan, Latin, German, Spanish and French. Why?"

"DAMN! I thought you're smart and you know a lot of languages?" Sephiroth demanded.

"I beg your pardon! Of course I know how to speak in other languages but I didn't study Hindu!" Rufus snapped angrily at him, feeling insulted. And he hung up.

Sephiroth threw his mobile phone at the wall, eventually destroying it. "AAAAAARGH!" he screamed in frustration; his voice echoing through the walls of the ShinRa Mansion and out into the town proper of Nibelheim.

oOoOo

Zack blinked. "That's Sephiroth!" he thought as he went towards the direction of the ShinRa Mansion where he thought he heard it. Cloud followed after him. They were strolling around Nibelheim but they were interrupted when they heard Sephiroth's scream. "Why's he screaming?" Cloud asked curiously.

"I don't know but he hasn't been coming out from there for a week now! He even gets angry at me for disturbing him sometimes whenever I'm asking if he's alright or whenever I decide to visit him." Zack explained as the finally arrived at the gate of the Mansion, but they stopped in their tracks when they saw Sephiroth marching to them with an angry look on his face.

Cloud took a step backward when he saw the deranged stare from Sephiroth's glowing green eyes. "Uhm… Zack," he began.

Zack was too preoccupied in asking Sephiroth, "What's wrong?" instead of paying attention to Cloud's concern.

"Well… you're out of the mansion. Is everything okay?" Cloud asked curiously, trying to sound casual.

Sephiroth stopped in front of them and opened the gates, glaring at them, trying to keep cool.

Silence.

"Anything… wrong?" Cloud asked.

Sephiroth was about to speak but was interrupted by Zack, "Oh yeah! Mister Lockheart had copies developed for you and me! So here you go! This one's yours!" he said, handing a photo to Sephiroth. Sephiroth just snatched it, mindlessly putting it inside his wallet and then still tried to keep cool. "Alright… who among you can read Hindu?" he asked.

Zack and Cloud exchanged confused glances with each other before turning back to Sephiroth. "I… no… The only languages that I can read and speak correctly would be Gongagan and Midgarian English. Why?" Zack replied uncomfortably.

Cloud shook his head. "I… didn't study any foreign language." He replied quite sheepishly.

Silence.

Zack noticed the sudden glint of anger in Sephiroth's eyes. "…Are you alright? You haven't eaten for a week, I think you need to eat something…" he began, but trailed off when Sephiroth just growled, "AAAAAAARRRRRGH!" and brought out his Masamune, almost slashing Zack and Cloud's heads off their bodies in the process. The two dodged. "Sephiroth, what's wrong with you!" Zack demanded. Cloud saw the wild look in Sephiroth's eyes and he knew at that instant that the General had lost his marbles. He instantly moved away, taking Zack with him.

"THE WORLD IS SO UNFAIR!" Sephiroth shouted in frustration before proceeding to the direction of the mountains. "I'm gonna get rid of that goddamn JENOVA head! I'm showing those ShinRa asses that I am not a specimen! I am a person! I AM SEPHIROTH! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" he laughed victoriously.

"What the--! What happened?" Zack asked in confusion as he ran after Sephiroth. "Hey, Sephiroth! Come back here! It's dangerous in the mountains at this hour!" he called out. Cloud did not know what else to do so he just ran after them.

From Tifa's house, she could see the commotion that was being caused by Sephiroth. Curious enough, she decided to follow them since it was alarming the citizens. When Cloud realized that she was trailing behind, he stopped to confront her, "Go home. You are not needed here." He told her.

She frowned at him. "I want to know what's going on!" she demanded.

"What's going on is that you have to go home because this is very dangerous. You don't know Sephiroth!" Cloud told her before turning away.

"Well I do. He's a nice man and he's the best SOLDIER there is!" she said rather proudly and dreamily. Cloud was mortified. "Oh don't tell me you have a crush on him!" he demanded in shock.

She stuck out her tongue at him, "That's none of your business, Strife." And she pushed him off her path to follow after Zack and Sephiroth.

Cloud was surprised at her. Clenching his fists, he still ran after her, "Tifa, please! If you don't want anything bad to happen to you, I suggest that you just go back home!" he told her; this time, he sounded worried. He wouldn't wanna be blamed for anything else that is negative regarding Tifa! He has had enough suffering and humiliation for the last several years as a child in Nibelheim because of her! But she didn't listen; she just went on…

oOoOo

Sephiroth finally arrived at the place where JENOVA's head is located. He sneered as he peeked inside, "Open the door, mother! I want to talk to you!" he said rather sarcastically as he began to destroy the door.

JENOVA's head just seemed to stare back at him… and he thought he heard her tell him, "Finally! You've discovered the truth about your true identity! You are not my son, for crying out loud! Whoever told you so should take a hike, for cryin' out loud! My golly, you've been living such a big lie all your life! You should kill that scientist!"

He shook his head in shock. "Did you just talk to me!" he demanded. He felt like he was really losing his mind.

"Oh yes, I just did."

Silence.

"I am JENOVA, your—quote-unquote—mother, according to that Hojo guy. My oh my, he sure showed you, huh? Blame it all on that guy who experimented on me!"

Sephiroth was dumbfounded, just staring at the head talking to him.

JENOVA seemed to smile at him as she proceeded, "Hey, don't blame me, boy! I didn't do anything bad! I had been exploited! I was just passing through your Planet's orbit going to Pluto when your Planet's gravitational pull just had to pull and drag me all the way down inside your Planet… and then eventually made me crash. By the time I realized that I was in this Planet, my body was missing, dammit! Unfortunately I couldn't react and even if I did, those humans wouldn't hear me! Only the Cetra can…or my own kind!"

"Does that mean I'm just like you?" Sephiroth demanded in confusion.

"Well… you have my cells… but you're not a pure breed. You're still human in every other way." She stated flatly.

"AAAARGH!" Sephiroth clutched his head. "No! My mind's playing tricks on me! All because of that book!" he wailed in annoyance.

"Whoa… what book?"

"The Kama Sutra! I have to know… I have to know Hindu!" Sephiroth snapped.

JENOVA was quiet for a while before laughing. "Well, well, looks like you're the first one with my blood who couldn't even read or speak in Hindu huh? Oh too bad…" she said pitifully.

Sephiroth clenched his fists. "You… mock me… I am not… an idiot… I am… intelligent… I am the best… I am…" He began, gasping. He was already hyperventilating.

"Tell you what, boy, if you free me and get me a ship to Pluto out of this god-forsaken planet, I promise to give you the knowledge you'll need to be able to understand and read Hindu." She told him.

Sephiroth froze and blinked. "…really?" he asked.

"We aliens don't make promises if we don't know how to keep them." She responded with a promising tone. Sephiroth smiled gleefully. "Alright!" and he began to think of a way to unlock the door… until he was interrupted by Zack. "No, Sephiroth! Do you want to get killed! What you're doing is dangerous!" Zack called out.

"What do you know anyway? Stay back!" Sephiroth snapped at him, pulling out his Masamune. Zack raised his hands at him. "Alright, alright, calm down! Tell me what's wrong!" he said, hoping that Sephiroth wasn't as crazy as he had thought he could be.

Sephiroth sneered at him. "Nothing… is… wrong." And he turned back towards JENOVA again. "Sephiroth… don't tell me you're going to free that?" Zack asked in shock, feeling nervous all of a sudden.

"I am going to free this. I have to!" Sephiroth told him with a shaky tone.

"What for?" Zack asked in confusion.

"None of your business, Knightblade!" Sephiroth snarled as he began to use the Masamune to cut through the locks even if he knew that it would take him hours before he could finally undo everything. The locks weren't ordinary after all. They were specially designed by Hojo and Gast way back.

Zack rushed to him. "Sephiroth, don't! Do you want to get fired!" he said in protest as he began to restrain his friend.

"I don't care if I get fired! I have to free JENOVA!" Sephiroth snapped as he tried his best to squirm away from Zack's strong grip against him.

Tifa and Cloud finally arrived at the scene and were dumbfounded by what they saw: Zack hugging Sephiroth. Tifa's jaw dropped. "Oh my God!" she reacted in shock.

Cloud accidentally dropped his rifle to the ground due to ultimate shock.

Silence.

Zack let go of Sephiroth. "Hey it's not what you think!" he told the two. Sephiroth waved an angry fist at him. "Now look what you've done! Now they think I'm gay! You…" he began in anger as he clutched the handle of his Masamune tightly, wanting to use it against Zack. Zack stepped away. "Hey… Sephiroth… look buddy, I'm sorry!" he said in protest. Sephiroth began to slash random things just to get to Zack, but his friend was really good at dodging his attacks. "Ack! Sephiroth! Stop that! You're acting like a deranged maniac!" Zack told him in panic as he continued to dodge.

"HACK! HACK! HACK! Nobody messes with my plans!" Sephiroth snarled angrily.

"Sephiroth, stop that!" Cloud said, trying to restrain him from behind. Sephiroth squirmed away from Cloud's grasp and went on to chase Zack.

"Why are you over-reacting to the supposed-homosexuality! It's not true anyway, right?" Zack asked in confusion.

"What about my pride and my reputation!" Sephiroth snapped angrily.

Cloud jumped onto Sephiroth's back, basically hugging his neck from behind. "Alright, stop that now!" Cloud warned. Sephiroth couldn't breathe. "ARGH! Let…go! choke…" he began to swing his Masamune in random directions. Cloud was beginning to worry for his own life and for Zack's life as well.

Tifa just stared in shock, watching them in horror.

"Tifa, run back to the town and ask for help!" Zack instructed.

"NO! Help me out here! Zack get out of here!" Cloud commanded. Without thinking, Tifa rushed over to Cloud to help him restrain Sephiroth. "What is wrong with him!" she cried out in confusion.

"I don't effing know!" Cloud answered… and then in one swift motion, Sephiroth was able to push them off away from himself. Cloud and Tifa landed in opposite directions, but the one whom Sephiroth approached was the latter. Tifa stared up at him in horror. "Shit!" she thought in panic.

"What I can't really stand are people who meddle in other people's private matters…" Sephiroth sneered as he raised up his Masamune at her.

"NO!" Zack cried out, rushing to Sephiroth to restrain him.

Cloud just sat up and stared for a while. "Gee… Sephy's gonna kill my mortal enemy. Hmm… this is cool. It will be the end of my misery! …oh what the hell, I'm not as mean as she is!" he thought silently to himself before shouting, "TIFA! Move away!"

Tifa didn't need instructions from Cloud. She instantly kicked Sephiroth's crotch. "Hah! No more babies for you, you big brute!" she screamed at him… well her attack could've saved her from the Masamune, but Zack jumping up on Sephiroth's back to restrain him did the trick: Sephiroth accidentally slashed Tifa diagonally from her lower left breast down to her right waist.

Silence.

Sephiroth dropped the Masamune in shock. "Now look what you've made me do!" he blamed Zack before pushing him away.

Cloud was just gaping at them in disbelief. "Are you stupid! I told you to move away but no, you didn't even care to listen!" he wanted to scream at her but all he could do is stare and gape helplessly at her, not knowing if he should pity her or just let her bleed to death and then celebrate during her wake and make sure there are fireworks after her funeral.

Sephiroth, on the other hand, was already thinking of other ways to get JENOVA out of there, but he couldn't think clearly because of the situation that they were all in. "ARGH! Stupid… stupid… stupid, stupid people! Everyone! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" finally, he completely snapped and ran off going down the mountain proceeding back to Nibelheim.

Cloud instantly got up and rushed after him, "NO!" he called out.

Zack went to Tifa, "You alright?" he asked weakly.

"…Yeah I guess so… ow…" she looked down at her slashed gut. "Ack!" she reacted in horror. "No, no, don't move so much, I'll get you back to town!" he told her as he carried her into his arms and went after Cloud and Sephiroth… but then there were already other ShinRa SOLDIERS who were following him, thinking that he and Cloud were the ones who caused the commotion. Zack had a hard time ditching the SOLDIERS and protecting Tifa at the same time, and by the time they finally arrived in Nibelheim, they were shocked to see that the whole town was already in flames. People were screaming, some were running for their lives, but majority of them were already in flames too. Tifa fainted in his arms, not being able to take the scenario. Approaching them was Zangan, Tifa's instructor. "Young man!" Zangan called out. Zack easily recognized him. "Please… take Tifa away from here! She needs to be brought to a hospital!" he instructed. Zangan took his student in his arms and nodded. "Sephiroth is over there by the mansion!" he told Zack.

Zack swallowed hard, "Thanks…" he said, thinking if he should still go and follow or not.

"But… Mrs. Strife is…" Zangan continued.

"Mrs. Strife!" Zack exclaimed before he clenched his fists. "…Alright, stay right over there away from these flames. I'll be back! I'll look for her, okay?" he asked before he looked up at the fiery red-orange atmosphere ahead of him, swallowing hard. "Here goes…" he thought silently before running through the flames go get to the Strife residence. When he finally arrived there, he went straight inside and started yelling, "Mrs. Strife!" while fighting the urge to cough and choke because of the thick smoke around him. Finally, he heard a woman coughing from upstairs. He instantly rushed upstairs and found Mrs. Strife in her room, struggling to breathe. Zack instantly grabbed her and led her out of the bedroom, "C'mon!" he urged. Mrs. Strife was already having a hard time focusing on where she was walking on, but she still struggled to do so. She was a strong woman after all. "Where's… where's my son? Is he safe?" she asked as tears fell from her eyes.

"…Yes he is," Zack replied, although he wasn't really sure… but he hoped Cloud is safe from Sephiroth. He didn't want to make Mrs. Strife worry so much about her only beloved son. Zack led her to the place where Zangan was waiting with an unconscious Tifa.

"Mrs. Strife! Are you alright?" Zangan asked in worry.

Mrs. Strife was still coughing even as she stared at Tifa in horror. Her mouth dropped open when she realized that the young lady was bleeding to death. "Oh my goodness!" she exclaimed in shock.

Zack got some keys in his pocket and handed it to Mrs. Strife. "Here's a key to one of the vehicles owned by us SOLDIERs. It's parked near the forest. I'm sure it's still there because I'm the one in charge of its keys. Use it to get away from this place as far away as possible!" he instructed. Mrs. Strife took the keys and smiled thankfully at Zack, "Thank you, young man." She said before she and Zangan turned and walked away with the unconscious Tifa.

With that, Zack decided to finally look for Cloud.