Reno was the first to wake up, feeling extremely hungry and he was also surprised to feel something poking his butt. Scooching over, he reached down and was surprised to find that the culprit was a feather. "What is with this place?" he asked out loud, waking everyone else up.

"Angel!" Zack smiled when he noticed the feather in Reno's hand.

"I wonder if he means Angeal and that's who brought him here." Cloud mused, remembering Vincent had also made an angel reference when he mentioned Zack might be in this place.

"But why bring him here of all places?" Yuffie asked.

"Let's ask him." Cloud walked over to Zack, who was still sitting on the floor. "Do you remember an angel bringing you here?"

Zack concentrated for a moment, then looked up at Cloud with a bewildered expression on his face. "You mean I wasn't always here?"

"Since he remembers how to speak, and he obviously has some limited associative memory, his amnesia could be temporary." Rude told them. "If he's gently reintroduced to familiar things, he should remember everything in time."

"We don't have time, we have to get out of here!" Reno's empty stomach was making him cranky again.

"And how do you suggest we do that?" Cloud wanted to know.

"Easy, roll some of those boulders in the hallway under the hole in the ceiling and widen it to get out." Yuffie chimed in. Everyone looked at her with embarrassed looks on their faces.

"How come we didn't think of that yesterday?" Rude was chagrined that they missed such an easy solution.

"Who cares, let's try it and get out of here…we need food! But since this was Cloud's mission, if it doesn't work, I still say we eat him first!" Reno exclaimed as he hurried out of the warm chamber to start rolling boulders, Rude not far behind him.

"Can you walk on your own?" Yuffie asked Zack. He had some trouble standing up, so Yuffie and Cloud supported him back into the passageway where the two Turks were already busy at work.

Soon they had enough boulders in place for Reno to reach the hole if he stood on Rude's shoulders. He took out his electro-rod to gently tap the stone around the hole, not only because he didn't want to damage his weapon, but also to see how thick and strong the stone was.

Remembering what Rude said about Zack's memory, and bored with just standing there, Cloud turned to Zack. "Do you know what this is?" he took the Buster sword out of its sheath and handed it out to him.

Zack stared at it for a few moments before reaching out and grasping the hilt. Suddenly a blast shot out from it and hit the wall near Rude and Reno, causing them to fall. As Reno fell, he accidentally hit the trigger button on his weapon and a bolt of lightning shot through the
hole in the ceiling.

The fog started to lift as Aerith and Tifa finished their lunch. "Good, now we can see where we're going." Tifa commented as they started out again, each woman being careful to use a ski pole to test the ground in front of her. When they could see the Crater, they changed their direction slightly to keep themselves heading in a straight line towards it.

"Did you see that?" Aerith exclaimed as lightning appeared in the Crater.

"Yeah, but it came from the ground, not the sky, that means..." Tifa started to say.

"Reno's there, so the others should be too!" Aerith picked up the pace as fast as she could, keeping her eyes on where the lightning came from.

"Time for plan B." Rude said as he picked himself up off the ground and dusted himself off. "Right, Reno?" he turned to ask his partner who was hidden by the stack of boulders. "Reno?" Concerned, he went to check on him. "Dammit!"

"What's wrong?" Yuffie hurried over to see, and saw the unconscious red-headed Turk lying on the floor with his right leg bent at an awkward angle and his head bleeding. "Uh-oh..."

"He's still alive." Rude sighed with relief as he checked his pulse. "I don't think his head wound is serious, but we don't have any way to set his leg."

"So what do we do now?" Yuffie asked.

"If the Buster sword didn't start an avalanche when it went off, should we try and use it to widen the hole?" Cloud wondered.

"We can't get out with Reno down, so I don't think it matters now." Rude offered his opinion. "We might as well just try and sleep some more and see what happens."

"It came from around here, didn't it?" Aerith asked Tifa as they got out of their sleds after riding down the snowy rim of the Crater.

"I think so." Tifa replied. "Hello?" she called out as she walked around, Aerith doing the same in a different direction. "Can anyone hear us?"

"Do you hear that?" Yuffie asked the others.

"Probably just some birds." Cloud said dispiritedly, then the sounds got closer. "Wait...is that...Tifa!" he yelled out, and the others added their voices.

"I hear something!" Tifa told Aerith, who found the small hole first.

"Hello? Are you guys okay?" Aerith yelled down through the hole.

"Not quite, do you have a first aid and rope with you?" Rude asked.

"Just a minute, lemme get our supplies." Aerith replied as Tifa was already dragging the sleds over. She handed Aerith the hammer and pitons, and she used the hammer to widen the hole and carefully threw them down so Rude could hammer them into the cave wall and climb out.

"We've got injured down here, they need some treatment before we can leave." Rude told him as he stood in the open air for a moment before rummaging through their supplies to find what he needed. "And we all could use food. Oh, and um...you better get down there, Aerith."

Curious as to why his voice sounded different when he said that, Aerith climbed down and gasped, the sound echoing. Tifa saw her just standing there at the bottom with her hand over her mouth, and was curious as to what so surprised her friend. She gasped as well to see Zack supported by Cloud and Yuffie. He was staring hard at Aerith, and then moved away from them, taking hesitant steps on his own towards her. He reached out his hand and gently laid it on her cheek. "Flowers?" he asked.