Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
(Barret runs into Tifa's bar, the Seventh Heaven, and chases all the patrons out. Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie go inside.)
Barret: Ok! Go on ahead.
(Cloud enters the Seventh Heaven and a little girl name Marlene jumps up.)
Marlene: Papa!
(She sees Cloud and hides in the corner. Tifa Lockhart goes over to her)
Tifa: Marlene! Aren't you going to say anything to Cloud?
(She walks over to Cloud for they were really good friend growing up together.)
Tifa: Welcome home, Cloud. Looks like everything went well. Did you fight with Barret?
Cloud: Yeah
Tifa: I was worried.
(Tifa notices some flowers that Cloud bought.)
Tifa: Flowers? How nice...
(Cloud never admits his feelings for those he knows, but deep down he cares and gave it to Tifa to design the place. Only to think about Yakumo that he saved today for a few seconds to look shocked.)
Tifa: Cloud?
(He snaps out of it.)
Cloud: No big. Here…
(Cloud gives Tifa the flowers as Wedge was enjoying Tifa's fine cooking.)
Tifa: Thank you, Cloud. It smells wonderful. It'll look good at the bar.
Wedge: Oh. Cloud! Tifa really knows how to cook. Mmm, mmm...Anyway, let me tell you somethin'.
Cloud: About what?
Wedge: Tifa always lets me taste her cooking. And look at me now, I'm rolly-polly. Don't know whether I should be happy or sad. But it's the good food and drinks that make this shop famous."
Jessie: Careless... You're getting all excited. Wonder what for...?
(Biggs say something during the talk.)
Biggs: Aah! Nothin' like that first drink after a job. Hic! Why don't you have one too?"
Cloud: No.
Biggs: What!? you tellin' me you're too good to drink with me? Don't act big-headed jus' because you were in SOLDIER!
Cloud: Yeah, why not?
Biggs: Oh! That's more like it! Even if you were with SOLDIER, you're still a rookie here. So you'd better listen to whatever I tell ya! Hic...! Oh... Don't tell Barret what I just said.
Marlene: Papa, welcome home!
(Barret hugs Marlene, lifts her up on his shoulder, and was very happy to see her again. Barret was a bit out of it after today, in an odd way.)
Tifa: You all right, Barret?
Barret: Great! Get in here, fools! We're startin' the meetin'!
(He descends a hidden elevator in a pinball machine. Everyone follows but Cloud and Tifa. Cloud walks to the bar.)
Tifa: Sit down.
(He sits.)
Tifa: How about...something to drink?
Cloud: Give me something hard
Tifa: Just a minute. I'll make one for you.
(She mixes some drinks up and gives Cloud a drink.)
Tifa: You know, I'm relieved you made it back safely.
Cloud: What's with you all of a sudden? That wasn't even a tough job.
Tifa: I guess not...You were in SOLDIER.
(Cloud sets down with his drink.)
Tifa: Make sure you get your pay from Barret.
Cloud: Don't worry. Once I get that money, I'm outta here.
(Cloud gets up from the bar.)
Tifa: Cloud, are you feeling all right?
Cloud: …yeah... Why?
(Seems that his mind was on Yakumo for some reason, for Tifa knowing Cloud for years can tell that something was up.)
Tifa: No reason. You just look a little tired I guess. But if you need someone to talk to, you can always come to me, alright? Anyways, you'd better go down below.
(Cloud walks to the elevator in the pinball machine and goes down. Everyone is busy downstairs. Barret is punching a bag.)
Wedge: You think I'm a little too uptight?
Cloud: Yeah...
Wedge: The next mission will be to blow up the Sector 5 Reactor. Cloud, you're great! Don't you ever get nervous? Or are you like, impervious to feelings? Naw, that couldn't be it."
(Jessie is working on the computer)
Jessie: Oops...Hey, look at the news... What a blast. Think it was all because of my bomb? But all I really did was just make it like the computer told me. Oh no! I must've made a miscalculation somewhere.
(Barret was about done using the punching bag.)
Barret: Yo. Cloud! There's somethin' I wanna ask ya. Was there anyone from SOLDIER fighting us today?
Cloud: None. I'm positive.
Barret: You sound pretty sure.
Cloud: If there was anyone from SOLDIER you wouldn't be standing here now.
Barret: Don't go thinkin' you so bad jes cuz you were in SOLDIER.
Cloud: …
(Barret almost got into a fight with Cloud to ignoring him, as Biggs to go flying off screen. He calsm down after that.)
Barret: Yeah, you're strong. Probably all them guys in SOLDIER are. But don't forget your skinny ass's working for AVALANCHE now! Don't get no ideas 'bout hangin' on to Shinra.
Cloud: Stayin' with Shinra? You asked me a question and I answered it... that's all. I'm going upstairs. I want to talk about my money.
Barret: Shucks! ...money...
(Marlene goes up to Barret.)
Marlene: Papa. you're so great!
(Cloud moves to leave. Tifa runs in to try to stop him.)
Tifa: Wait, Cloud!
Barret: Tifa! Let him go! Looks like he still misses the Shinra!
(Now that really got to Cloud really hard there to snap at Barret.)
Cloud: Shut up! I don't care about either Shinra or SOLDIER! But don't get me wrong! I don't care about AVALANCHE or the Planet for that matter!
Tifa: Straighten things up with everyone for me.
(The TV goes on to talk about the news about today.)
Television: ...today the No.1 Reactor was bombed. The terrorist group AVALANCHE has claimed responsibility for the bombing. It is expected that AVALANCHE will continue its reign of terror. But citizens of Midgar... there is no need to fear. I have immediately mobilized SOLDIER to protect our citizenry against this senseless violence. Thank you and good night.
(Wedge had something to say to Cloud.)
Wedge: …Cloud. You say you don't care, but you came to talk to me. Cloud... you just want friends. Isn't that right?
Cloud: Blow off.
Wedge: Yeah, well. You look kind of lonely to me. If you ever got anything you want to get off your chest, you can always talk to me.
(Cloud goes back up the elevator and goes to leave. He is followed by Tifa.)
Tifa: Listen, Cloud. I'm asking you. Please join us.
Cloud: Sorry Tifa...
Tifa: The Planet is dying. Slowly but surely it's dying. Someone has to do something.
Cloud: So let Barret and his buddies do something about it. It's got nothin' to do with me.
(He moves to leave. Cloud then looks up for Barret to say something to him.)
Barret: Wait a sec big-time SOLDIER! A promise is a promise! Here!
(He tosses Cloud 1500 Gil.)
Cloud: This is my pay? Don't make me laugh.
Tifa: What? Then you'll...!
Cloud: You got the next mission lined up? I'll do it for 3000.
Barret: What...!?
(Tifa whispers to him.)
Tifa: It's ok, it's ok. psst, psst... (We're really hurting for help, right?)
Barret: Uh... ugh... (That money's for Marlene's schoolin'...)
(Barret turns.)
Barret: 2000!
(Tifa walks to Cloud.)
Tifa: Thanks, Cloud.
(The scene changes to Tifa's bar, the next morning. Cloud goes up the elevator. Tifa and Barret are standing, Marlene is mixing drinks.)
Tifa: Good Morning! Cloud! Did you sleep well?
Cloud: Barret's snoring kept me up...
Tifa: psst, psst... (Keep it down, they'll hear you. Barret's always edgy before an operation.) I'm going this time.
Barret: Our target's the Sector 5 Reactor. Head for the station first. I'll fill you in on the train. Yo! Cloud! Before the next mission, I got somethin' I wanna ask you! I, uh... I don't really know how to use Materia! I'll give you that Materia you found. Just teach me how to use it!
Cloud: …sigh...Ok, I'll explain it
(Cloud explains the Materia system, really I will. A basic function within your body from magic spells and/or powers; for each weapon and armor have different slot like upgrades for your choosing with different slots of it from anyone choosing on which part of Materia you have to know and upgrade to little at a time. Or calling it curative Materia…Wanting to know the effects are, to the cursor up by selecting battle commands. Like Magic to seeing it increased little by little, like cure to equipping. When removing any Materia, it's as easy pointing to the part of it of the slot; pushing the special move from doing it. One thing to be careful or aware of is whenever anyone's equip with any part of a Materia, that situation changes parts of them may become stronger than the other, while the other parts get weaker. Normally equipping magic Materia parts, the magic from that someone gets stronger. But their physical strength weakens instead. In other words – Materia of its magic will double up anything 'like Cloud's edge sword', seeing how much it can affect him more if so. So it would be wise to not to overuse Magic Materia, but to try to various things with it, so little by little you'll get better if you know what you're doing. All said from Cloud to me explaining it.)
Barret: Shi...! What's this 'It wasn't that tough' crap! I'm clueless...Well, you handle the Materia then!
Tifa: Cloud! I got a message from the Weapon Shop man upstairs. He has something he wants to give you. Don't forget! Marlene, you watch the store while we're gone!
Marlene: All right! Good Luck.
(It would seem that Biggs, Jessie, Wedge, Cloud, and Barret were ready to move out to another job to saving lives along with Tifa joining in. As Marlene stayed at base to protect the village and keep things at hand to being safe in. Also thanks to Tifa's gift, Cloud was all geared up with his own Materia to be ready for anything just in case.)
Barret: Alright, team! Move out!
(Cloud arrives at the train station. Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie are waiting there. Cloud approaches the train and everyone gets on. Unaware for Yakumo to be on the train nearby and afar where Cloud was sitting at.)
Yakumo: (It's that man…!)
Barret: YO! Looks like this ain't no private car! So split up!
(They meet the well-dressed Shinra manager again.)
Shinra Manager: ...hoodlums again. God, don't I just have all the luck...
(Barret got up to not looking happy after hearing that.)
Barret: You say sumthin'? I said, 'you say sumthin'!?
(Barret walks over to the man.)
Barret: Yo, look at that! It got empty alluva sudden. What's goin' on?
Shinra Manager: DAMN! I... its empty because of... g, guys like you...
(Barret smacks him. Yakumo had to hear and watch this from happening.)
Yakumo: (My God, what's wrong with that man!? He sure has some anger issues…!)
Shinra Manager: Y, Y, YIPES! You... you've seen the news, right? AVALANCHE says there'll be more bombings. Only devoted employees like me would go to Midgar on a day like today.
Barret: You workin' for Shinra?
Shinra Manager: I won't give in to violence...
(Tifa gets out of her seat to stop Barret in time from doing something crazier.)
Tifa: Barret!
Yakumo: (Good, she stopped the fight.)
Barret: &$#%! You lucky ^$#$,!
Shinra Manager: Waaaaah! Don... don't worry about me. (Oh man, oh man, oh man...! I'm gonna brag to everyone at work about this...)
(Barret and Tifa run to the back of the car leaving Yakumo to act normal in the train quietly.)
Cloud: So, what are we going to do now?
Barret: Shit! The hell you so calm about? You bustin up my rhythm...
(The train starts moving.)
Tifa: Seems like they just finished connecting the cars. We're finally leaving.
Cloud: So what's our next target?
Barret: Hah! Listen to Mr. Serious-about-his-work! Awright... I'll tell ya! Jessie's probably already told you, but there's a security check point at the top plate. It's an ID scan system checkin' all the trains.
Tifa: Which Shinra is very proud of.
Barret: We can't use our fake ID's anymore...
(The train intercom comes on.)
Good Morning, and welcome to Midgar Lines. Arrival time at Sector 4 station will be 11:45.
Tifa: That means we've only got three more minutes to the ID Check point.
(Barret runs forward.)
Barret: Alright, in three minutes, we're jumpin' off this train. Got it!?
(He sits.)
Tifa: Cloud, come over here! Let's look at the Railway Map Monitor.
(Cloud looks at the map with Tifa.)
Tifa: Hmm, it looks like you've seen this already...It's all right. Come a little closer.
(A red light starts flashing.)
Tifa: That's odd. The ID Check Point was supposed to be further down.
Type A Security Alert! Unidentified passengers confirmed... A search of all cars will be conducted! Repeat! Type A Security Alert! Unidentified passengers confirmed... A search of all cars will be conducted!
(This got Yakumo's attention to think that she knows who the intruders were.)
Yakumo: Unidentified passengers!? (They mean them?)
Tifa: What's happening?
(Barret jumps out of his seat.)
Barret: What's goin' on!
(Jessie rushes in.)
Jessie: We're in trouble. I'll explain later. Hurry! Get to the next car!
Barret: ^%# %! Someone blew it...
Unidentified passengers located in Car #1. Preparing for Lock Down
Barret: Let's go! Keep it up!
(They rush to the next car. This gets Yakumo's attention to follow them.)
Yakumo: The ALVALANCHE group…I have a strange feeling about their reason, better go check it out.
(She stays behind to keep a eye on them very quietly.)
Car #1: Locked Down. Upgrading to Level 2 warning
Biggs: Hurry!
Wedge: They're gonna lock the door, sir!
Unidentified passengers located in Car #2. Preparing for Lock Down
Jessie: Just run! Changing to Plan 2!
(They rush to the next car.)
Car #2: Locked Down. Upgrading to Warning Level 3
(The light stops flashing. Yakumo hides near one of the passengers sits in time before they notices her.)
Barret: Awright! We clear!?
Jessie: Not yet. They're starting another search. If we're caught, we're done for! But, don't worry. If we move up the train, car by car, we should get past it!
(Jessie breaks her way out. Light starts flashing again.)
Yakumo: They're some terrorist type of groups of some kind…
Unidentified Passengers: Moving to front of Train Currently tracking location.
(They reach Car #4.)
Car #4: Locked Down. Upgrading to maximum security alert!
(Barret runs to the front of the car as Yakumo sees them about to make their escape, she had to jump off the train as well.)
Barret: All right! We made it! Yo! This way!
(He opens the door of the train.)
Barret: Let's go! We're gonna dive outta here!
(Tifa turns to Cloud to say something to him.)
Tifa: Scary... huh?
Cloud: Too late to be saying that now. Why'd you come along anyway?
Tifa: Because...You're my friend and if anything were to happen to you…You know…
Cloud: Know what?
(Barret tells the two to hurry it up.)
Barret: Hey you two! There ain't no time for that!
(They get ready to jump. Jessie is disguised as a Shinra soldier as Biggs was dress up as well and Wedge sees the three off.)
Cloud: You don't care if I go first?
Barret: A leader always stays till the end. Don't worry 'bout me, just go!
(Cloud moves to the door.)
Barret: Yo! Don't go gettin' your spikey-ass hurt! It's only the beginnin' of the mission!
(Cloud jumps.)
Barret: Later! You take care of the rest!
(Barret jumps as Yakumo does the same for the other three to see and to be confused about just came out of nowhere.)
Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie: Who was that?
(As Cloud, Barret, and Tifa landed somewhere safe off the train to some area, Yakumo was the same to be hiding from them to still do what needs to be done. For some reason, she can feel and sense things from afar or up close to know that they're doing this for a reason, part of Yakumo's gift that she grew up with some ESP abilities she can use.)
Yakumo: (These people…I have a feeling that they're not bad at all.)
(Cloud, Barret, and Tifa land in an underground subway with Yakumo still spying on them.)
Barret: Good, so far everything's going as planned.
(He walks down a bit.)
Barret: Better not let your guard down till we get to the Sector 5 reactor. Biggs, Wedge, and Jessie got everything ready for us. So MOVE it. Well, the reactor is just down this tunnel!
(They walk down the tunnel and Yakumo does too, until they reach a grid of laser beams crossing the tunnel.)
Cloud: Those light beams are the Shinra's security sensors. We can't go any further.
(They see a ventilation duct in the wall.)
Barret: That's one damn tiny hole. You tellin' me to squeeze into that to get under the Plate? No way! Yo, Cloud, what're we gonna do?
Cloud: Go down
Barret: But, damn man, that thing gives me the chills.
(They climb into the duct as Yakumo follow them from behind. Cloud, Barret, and Tifa enter the ventilation ducts and work their way into the Reactor. Along the way they meet Wedge, Jessie and Biggs.)
Wedge: Cloud, this way. The reactor's up this ladder."
Jessie: I'm sorry. The ID scan problem on the train was my entire fault. I made your ID card special... So that's why it happened. I put my heart into making it. But I failed."
(She shakes her head.)
Jessie: Next time, I'll give you something more decent. I'll be back at the hideout in the research room workin' on it.
Biggs: We're gonna pull out now. We'll meet up at the hideout. Cloud, we're countin' on you to blow the reactor!
(Cloud then exits. The three work their way deeper until they reach the core. The area soon goes red and Cloud clutches his head and falls to his knees for Yakumo to feel the pain he was feeling within her head. The scene shifts as Cloud hallucinates. He sees the inside of a Mako Reactor. Gears are spinning. On the floor lies a long, thin sword. Tifa, as a younger girl, sometime between the well flashback and the present, kneels on the floor. A man lies before her, dead.)
Tifa: Papa...Sephiroth!?"
(She sits up.)
Tifa: Sephiroth did this to you, didn't he!?
(She shakes her fists and looks skyward.)
Tifa: Sephiroth...SOLDIER...Mako Reactors...Shinra...Everything!"
(She rises; then, vehemently)
Tifa: I hate them all!
(She picks up the sword on the floor and runs into the reactor core. Cloud comes out of his hallucination with Yakumo too in seeing on what Cloud was remembering. The scene changes back to Reactor No. 5.)
Yakumo: (What just happening…? I saw something from that man, but why?)
(Barret and Tifa went to see if Cloud was alright.)
Barret: Damn man, get a hold of yourself!
(Tifa kneels by Cloud.)
Tifa: You all right?
(He rises.)
Cloud: …Tifa.
Tifa: Mmm?
Cloud: No... Forget it... Come on, let's hurry!
(Cloud plants a bomb in the reactor. They hurry out with Yakumo tagging along from behind. They reach a mechanism with three buttons.)
Yakumo: I heard about this area being very bad in killing innocent lives, but I never thought it would be this terrible. This must be their reason why they're doing all of this, they're on our side.
(Yakumo knows what their goal was in doing so.)
Tifa: Jessie said we all have to the buttons at once.
(They do so. A door opens and they hurry through onto a walkway.)
Barret: This way!
(His way is blocked as Yakumo was caught up into this mess.)
Yakumo: (Oh, no.)
Barret: Shinra soldiers!? SHIT! What the hell's goin' on?
Cloud: …a trap...
(We hear footsteps, then, Shinra theme music.)
Barret: President Shinra?
Tifa: Why is the President here?
Yakumo: Why is the president here of all places?
(The Shinra President walks onto the walkway, his expensive shoes echoing.)
President Shinra: Hmm... So you all must be that... ...what was it?
Barret: AVALANCHE! And don't ya forget it! And you're President Shinra, huh?
(Cloud steps forward.)
Cloud: Long time no see, President.
President Shinra: …Long time no see? Oh... you. You're the one who quit SOLDIER and joined AVALANCHE. I knew you were exposed to Mako, from the glow in your eyes...Tell me, traitor... what was your name?
Cloud: Cloud.
President Shinra: Forgive me for asking, but I can't be expected to remember each person's name. Unless you become another Sephiroth. Yes, Sephiroth...He was brilliant. Perhaps too brilliant...
(Cloud steps back.)
Cloud: Sephiroth...?
(That got Yakumo's attention.)
Yakumo: Who's Sephiorth?
(Barret runs forward.)
Barret: Don't give a damn 'bout none of that! This place'e goin' up with a big BANG soon! Serves y'all right!
President Shinra: And such a waste of good fireworks, just to get rid of vermin like you...
Barret: VERMIN? That's all you can say... VERMIN! Y'all Shinra're the VERMIN, killing the planet! And that makes you King VERMIN! So shu'up jackass!
President Shinra: …You are beginning to bore me. I'm a very busy man, so if you'll excuse me... I have a dinner I must attend.
(Barret runs right up to him.)
Barret: Dinner!? Don't gimme that! I ain't even started wit' you yet!
President Shinra: But, I've made arrangements for a playmate for you all.
(President Shinra snaps his fingers...)
Yakumo: Whoa!
Tifa: !? What's that noise?
(Barret runs back.)
Barret: The hell is this!?
(A huge robot buzzes in and looks menacing as Yakumo makes a run for it to safety for Cloud to see her again.)
Cloud: (That girl…!)
President Shinra: Meet 'Airbuster,' a techno-soldier. Our Weapon Development Department created him. I'm sure the data he'll extract from your dead bodies will be of great use to us in future experiments.
Cloud: ...Techno-soldier?
(A helicopter hovers up to the walkway.)
President Shinra: Now then, if you'll excuse me.
(Cloud runs forward, too late to intercept him. President Shinra boards the helicopter and flies away...leaving Cloud and the others alone with Airbuster.)
Cloud: Wait, President!
(Barret turns toward Airbuster.)
Barret: Yo, Cloud! We've gotta do somethin' about him!
(Airbuster buzzes toward Barret and Tifa.)
Tifa: Help, Cloud!
(Cloud runs in behind it.)
Tifa: THIS is from SOLDIER?
Cloud: No way! It's just a machine.
(Airbuster spins.)
Barret: I don't care what it is! I'm gonna bust him up!
(Boss battle with Airbuster. As Yakumo watches from hiding near a door, she sees Cloud, Barret, and Tifa working together n destroying the Airbuster machine; from its dangerous stomps to bomb set offs, Barret kept on shooting at it as Cloud cuts right through many times. As for Tifa, she was really good at fighting skills from fast speed, kicks, and punches she can really hit hard at anything. And Cloud's limited Breaker, he quickly slices the machine really hard from behind, Yakumo was amazed in seeing them fight like this. With that, Airbuster explodes, taking half the walkway with it. Only for Yakumo to warn Cloud a little too late to try to help out.)
Yakumo: Get away!
(It goes off in seconds, Cloud is left hanging from a piece of broken metal. It's a long way down.)
Barret: It's gonna blow! Let's go, Tifa!
Tifa: Barret! Can't you do something?
Barret: Not a damn thing.
Tifa: Cloud! Please don't die!
Cloud: I know, Tifa...
Barret: Hey, you gonna be awright?
(He was strong as he looks.)
Cloud: ...You worry about yourselves! I'm all right, but take care of Tifa!
Barret: …Alright. Sorry 'bout all this.
Cloud: Stop talkin' like this is the end!
Barret: Alright, then, later.
(Yakumo begins to worry; she couldn't let Cloud fall to his doom. The bomb explodes, knocking Cloud from the walkway. Tifa tries to grab him, but he is too far away. Cloud plummets from the upper plate down to the slums below. Falling into the waters really hard to drown, so Yakumo goes in after him without thinking about it.)
Yakumo: No!
(She jumps in for only Tifa and Barret to see that happen to lose sight of Cloud after that.)
Tifa: A girl?
Barret: Where the hell did she come from!?
(With the two having no choice but to get out of the area, Yakumo jumps into the water to pull Cloud out of there from being crushed by heavy objects under him for Yakumo to pull him out to the surface land. Not breathing, she begins to panic.)
Yakumo: (He's not breathing…! I won't lose you like this! You hear me!? I owe you for saving my life!)
(She begins doing CPR on Cloud many times from mouth to chest pressing over and over again; he then coughs up water out of him to breathe again. He felt weak but will be alright after resting to see Yakumo's face before passing out.)
Yakumo: Yes! You're alive! Don't move. I'll get some help for you; I know a place where we can go. Just stay strong.
(Yakumo rest Cloud's head gently on the ground for him to reach out his hand to her.)
Cloud: …Thank you…
(He then falls asleep, for Yakumo got all of his things to gather up and his huge weapon in a bag to carry it and Cloud's body to safety to bump into that person name Aerith just passing by to aid Yakumo. Seems that they know each other very well.)
Yakumo: (Oh, thank God.) Aerith! Give me a hand here! Someone needs our help! Hand in there, okay?
(So Yakumo and Cloud meet again to get to know a lot about them later on, will they? Will he meet up with Tifa and Barret again with the other three? And what is the Present Shinra doing of all places for the AVALANCHE team in stopping the machines and such, is he responsible? So much going on with a new character in it in seeing who this Aerith person really is…)