Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
(Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, and Barret go to Wall Market. They go to the Weapon Shop and speak to the old man there.)
Yakumo: So this is the place…
Old Man: You goin' up to the plate? You better have a battery.
Cloud: You're gonna sell me something you just found?
Old Man: Hey, you knew? But I repaired it, so it's all right.
Cloud: Why do I need a battery to climb up to the plate?
Old Man: You'll find out when you get there. How 'bout 100 Gil for each?
Cloud: ...All right, I'll take them
(He gives you the Batteries. They continue north. When they reach the Don's mansion, they see two children.)
Yakumo: Are those children?
"Wanna see something awesome? Follow me!"
Yakumo: Come on!
(Yakumo felt something to see it for the other three to follow. They follow the children to a large wall. A small girl is sitting at the base. There is a power line running up the wall.)
"Everyone climbed up this wire. Looks scary... Brr."
Tifa: Can we climb it?
"Yeah. It leads to the Upper World."
Barret: Awright! We'll climb this wire!
(Yakumo and Cloud didn't think so.)
Yakumo: Doesn't look like it to me…
Cloud: She's right. There's no way we can do this. You know how far it goes up?
Barret: There IS a way! Look! What's that look like?
Cloud: Just a normal wire.
Barret: Oh yeah? Well to me it looks like a golden shiny wire of hope.
(They peer up the wall. Yakumo knows that with this way was the only way to reach to the top for Aerith.)
Yakumo: Say…Being silly as it sounds, I think…No! I know this has to be the way up.
Cloud: Yakumo, you mean it?
Yakumo: She's there up top alright. I know it. I feel out Aerith being scared and alone. But she knows we're coming for her. She's there!
Tifa: You're right, Yakumo. This is the only way to save Aerith...
Cloud: Ok, that was a bad analogy, but, Barret, I understand how you feel. Let's go! Yakumo, you go first, I'll follow you, Barret will go next, and then Tifa.
Yakumo: Got it, Cloud.
Barret: Now we're talking!
Tifa: here we go!
(They climb the wire... and climb... and climb... when they reach the top of the wall they see the two children from earlier, sitting on the top.)
"Oh man! This is horrible..."
"Hey, scary, huh? Dad told me that it's the Shinra's doing."
(They climb some more...scaling power lines, broken propellers, and pieces of debris, until they reach the top. While placing in some cores for Yakumo to start them up and kept on going little by little, to continue on Shinra Building. Cloud, Yakumo, Barret, and Tifa arrive at the foot of the Shinra Building.)
Barret: Hey, you oughta know this building well.
Yakumo: Could be…
Barret: Is it or is it not?
Cloud: …Not really, now that I think about it. This is the first time I've ever been to the Headquarters.
Barret: I heard about this place before. Every floor above the 60th is special and not easy to get to even for employees. Must be where they took Aerith. The security's pretty light now. Awright, let's go!
(Barret runs toward the door.)
Yakumo: Wait, Barret! We need to think of a plan before heading inside!
(Tifa stops Barret in time.)
Tifa: Wait a second! You're not thinking of just going right through the main entrance, are you? Listen to Yakumo, she feels these things out in time.
Barret: Well what else does it look like!? I'm gonna kick some Shinra butt and...
Tifa: That's not going to work! We've got to find another way...
Barret: Ain't gonna be no other way! This is all for Yakumo. If we keep wastin' time like this, Aerith'll..."
Tifa: I know that! But if we get caught here...Hey, Cloud. ...What should we do?
Yakumo: What can we do first?
Cloud: Let's bust on in.
(Guess Cloud wants to for Yakumo's sake.)
Barret: That's more like it! C'mon, let's go!
Yakumo: (We're coming for you, Aerith.)
(Cloud, Yakumo, Barret, and Tifa bust on in Shinra Headquarters...)
Yakumo: How do we fight off the guards? Too many innocent people here.
Barret: Leave it to me.
Receptionist: Excuse me! If you don't have an appointment, you'll just have to...
(Barret points his gun out at the man.)
Barret: Don't need no appointment... This is a 'mergency! Anyone who don't wanna get their face bashed in better git outta the way!
Yakumo: This is the plan!?
(Cloud places his hand on Yakumo's shoulder.)
Cloud: Be strong, Yakumo, we got this. Stay close.
(And so she does.)
Yakumo: Ah…Okay…
"Yaagghh!"
"Who do they think they are?"
"Hey, you don't think that's AVALANCHE?"
"Intruders! Seize them!"
(Battle sequence. Little by little, Yakumo shields the other three and the people getting caught in the cross fire to escaping in time. Cloud slashes through them, Tifa punch and kicks them hard, and Barret blows them away with his gun but doesn't kill them. Team work is all it takes.)
Yakumo: Wow! We did it!
Barret: Not bad, Yakumo, stick with us and you'll be fine. Not bad with your ESP skills, they're real to me.
Yakumo: Thanks…I do my best.
Barret: Let's go to the top!
(Cloud spots a tiny card on the floor where the guards had stood.)
Cloud: What's this?
(He stoops and picks up the Keycard 60. They enter the elevator to the 60th floor.)
Yakumo: A keycard. It can get anyone anywhere in the buildings that are members. But since we have it…
Barret: This is the real thing. Don't let your guard down.
Tifa: I hope Aerith is all right.
Yakumo: Me too.
(They go into the elevator to the next floor while talk to each other.)
Barret: Don't know... why the hell... we have to take the elevator…?
Cloud: ...because we don't want to start a commotion until we've saved Aerith. I doubt that's possible though...I hate to see Yakumo sad if anything were to happen to her.
Yakumo: Oh, Cloud…
(Barret laughs for he knew what was going on between the two.)
Barret: …heh, heh, heh.
Cloud: Knock it off. You're giving me the creeps.
Barret: So even you will fight for someone else. I had you figured wrong I guess. Even more for a pretty lady like her…
(The two turn red when Barret said that.)
Cloud: Who cares what you figured!?
Barret: I'm just sayin' mebbe I was wrong...
Tifa: Heh, heh, heh...
(Tifa knows of Cloud's little crush on Yakumo.)
Cloud: What's that supposed to mean, Tifa?
Yakumo: Cloud? Why are they saying about us?
Cloud: It's nothing…Don't worry about it.
Yakumo: Okay..?
Barret: How much farther does this thing go?
Tifa: Why don't you ask them?
(Once out, a guard was asleep at the surveillance system. They exit the elevator onto the 60th floor. They see two guards.)
"People like you don't belong here! Go on, get out!"
"What're you doing here!? No unauthorized people are allowed here!"
(They duck into a side room. They see four guards on patrol.)
Barret: Look it that, all them guards is runnin' around.
Cloud: You go on ahead and signal us when it's safe to come.
Yakumo: Everyone hide while moving slowly.
(The guards are patrolling behind a row of statues, for some reason. Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, and Barret hide behind each statue, moving forward when the guards look away. He signals the others to follow. If they are spotted, they fight a battle and start over. They make their way past the guards.)
Barret: Ok! We gonna rock!
Tifa: Remember, we're here to save Aerith.
Yakumo: Let's find her.
Barret: Hell, I know that!
(They climb the stairs to the 61st floor. It is an employee lounge.)
"The hell are you? What're you doin' around here?"
Cloud: ...
"Oh, I see. So you must be the whatcha call it...Shinra, Inc. Repair Division! You know, it looks like this building is starting to fall apart. This door was just pushed open. You ought to fix this right away. Oh yeah, and take a look on the other floors too. I'll give you this."
Yakumo: We're in.
(He gives you the Keycard 62. They go up to the 62nd floor. It's the Mayor's floor. There are four rooms, full of bookshelves. Standing outside the Mayor's office is Hart.)
Hart: How do you do? This is the Midgar Mayor's Office. Mayor Domino is in his office. I am the Deputy Mayor. If you should have any questions feel free to ask me...
(They enter the office.)
Domino: Hmm? Oh, and who might you be? You all must be those... ahem... Me? I'm Domino, the Mayor of Midgar. Actually, I'm Mayor in name only. The city and everything in it is really run by Shinra, Inc. My only real job is watching over Shinra's documents...Me! The Mayor! A librarian! Ohh...You want to get upstairs? I tell you what, if you can guess the password, I'll give you my keycard. Yes, that's it. Guess the password and I'll give you my keycard! Get it on the first try and I'll even throw in a special item!
Yakumo: Like a puzzle…?
(Now the PLAYER must solve a puzzle.)
Hart: Did you speak with the Mayor? What? A password? Oh, I get it...He's got way too much time on his hands. But you can't really blame him. Everything in Midgar is controlled by President Shinra. Maybe I can help you.
(Hart will offer help in the puzzle, but it costs money. You won't need it, since I'm going to tell you how to solve it!)
Tifa: Solving a puzzle?
Yakumo: The library. Let's look in there.
Barret: We have to read?
Cloud: Come on…
[To solve the puzzle: Look on the nameplates outside each of the four rooms. They will tell you what the subject of the rooms is. Enter the room and search the bookshelves until you find a book whose title does not match the subject of the room. Look at the number of the book you chose. Now, take the letter of the title corresponding to that number. That is, if the number was 3, you would take the third letter. Now, look at the four letters from the four rooms and anagram them until they match one of the Mayor's passwords. That's it! If you got it on the first try, you will receive an Elemental Materia. Yakumo finds it in one of the words hidden on the shelf's of the books being hidden, after reading some of the parts really fast.]
Yakumo: Got it!
Cloud: She's got it. Let's go back.
Tifa and Barret: We hope so!
(They went back in the other room to give Domino the answer he needed.)
Domino: Got it? Then tell me.
(Cloud and Yakumo tells him the password. This time it was BEST, your results may vary - it's random each time, so don't just choose BEST.)
Yakumo: The answers is 'best.
Cloud: How so?
Yakumo: You think the Mayor's the only one who's better than everyone else? He's one of the people who wants to be more than better.
(With that to everyone else's suprise, she was right.)
Domino: BEST! God, I love the sound of that! BEST! I AM the best... ME! No matter what anyone else says, you'd better believe it...hmm. Well, ok. Here, take it.
(He gives you Keycard 65.)
Domino: I never thought you'd get it on the first try...Just goes to show you can't judge a book by its cover. Oh well, a promise is a promise. Take this, too.
Yakumo: Told you so.
(He gives you Elemental Materia.)
Domino: Why would I do something like this, you ask? To mess with them, of course! Shinra's been torturing me forever. That's why I was a little rough on you all just now. Now go up there and really make them suffer. This ought to make us even! Heh heh heh...
Yakumo: Thank you very much.
(They go to the 63rd floor, a maze of doors and ventilation pipes. They go to a computer terminal in the corner.)
"... beep...beep... ...verifying key card..."
"Level B employee: verified. You are permitted to open doors on this floor up to three times. blip... If you receive an item coupon, remember to exchange it for an item...warning... refrain from entering the air conditioning ducts recklessly - they are very dangerous.
(They mess around with the doors awhile and enter the ducts, of course, until they get the three item coupons. They go back to the terminal.)
...bing... bing... Enter command. You can exchange your coupons for items. Here are the items you can have...A coupon...'Star Pendant'. B coupon...'Four Slots'. C coupon...'All Materia' Please use caution... once you have exchanged coupons for items you may not use 'All Clear' function. Exchange coupon? ...Coupon exchange complete."
(You get the three items. They go up to the 64th floor, the employee gym. They go to the 65th floor, where they solve a tedious puzzle. There are several treasure chests, but only one is open. You must find the unlocked one, get the Midgar Piece from it, and place it in a hole in a large model of Midgar. You are being attacked the whole time. If you want the chest sequence, it's 2nd from top on left, 3rd from top on left, top right corner, top left, bottom left. The Keycard 66 is in the chest by the stairs. Cloud and Yakumo examines the model at the far left, where Sector 6 would be.)
Yakumo: Cloud, look at this.
Cloud: Midgar... born from Mako energy which was sucked right out of the earth. A model of the city...When construction of Sector 6 finishes, Shinra's plan will be complete. That must be why he took Aerith...
Yakumo: That's right...Explains everything. We have to hurry.
(They go to the 66th floor. A secretary passes them on the way up.)
"Whew, I'm so sick of carrying all these files."
"But I get to meet lots of guys. I guess that's the benefit of being a secretary!"
(They enter the bathroom, they need to go through by sneaking in to going up top.)
Cloud: Climb up?
Yakumo: We have to.
(They climb up into the ventilation duct above the toilet. It leads to above the Conference Room, which would explain the smell in there.)
[In the duct above the Conference Room...]
(They crouch above the vent. Through the slats, they see President Shinra and other employees sitting at a long table in the Conference Room.)
Tifa: They look important.
Yakumo: Yeah, some being bad. I can feel it.
Barret: Geez-! That's a lotta suits!
Yakumo: Keep quiet. Ler just listen in.
(They watch...)
Reeve: We have the damage estimates for Sector 7. Considering those factories we already set up and all the investments, the damage is estimated at approximately 10 Billion gil...
(Now looking at the table head-on.)
Reeve: The estimated cost to rebuild Sector 7 is...
President Shinra: We're not rebuilding.
Reeve: What?
President Shinra: We're leaving Sector 7 as it is. And restarting the Neo-Midgar plan.
Reeve: ...then the Ancients?
President Shinra: The Promised Land will soon be ours. I want you to raise the Mako rates 15% in every area.
(Palmer, a fat, bald, guy, jumps up and down.)
Palmer: Rate hike! Rate hike! Tra, la, la! And please include our Space Program in the budget!
President Shinra: Reeve and Scarlet will divide the extra income from the rate increase.
(Palmer sits down.)
Palmer: Oh man
(From looking down to seeing from above again.)
Reeve: Sir, if you raise the rates, the people will lose confidence...
President Shinra: It'll be all right. The ignorant citizens won't lose confidence, they'll trust Shinra, Inc. even more.
Heidegger: Ha ha ha! After all, we're the ones who saved Sector 7 from AVALANCHE!
Barret: That dirty #$*$^
(The going at the table head-on again. Hojo enters the Conference Room.)
President Shinra: Hojo. How's the girl?
(Hojo turns his head.)
Hojo: As a specimen, she is inferior to her mother. I'm still in the process of comparing her to her mother, Ifalna, but for now the difference is 18%.
President Shinra: How long will the research take?
Hojo: Probably 120 years. It's probably impossible to finish in our lifetime. Or in the lifetime of the specimen too, for that matter.
(Hojo turns away from the table.)
Hojo: That's why we're thinking of breeding her. Then we could create one that would withstand our research for a long time.
President Shinra: What about the Promised Land? Won't it hinder our plans?
Hojo: That's what I need to plan. The mother is strong... and yet has her weaknesses.
President Shinra: That concludes our meeting.
(The employees dissemble. Scarlet pauses and looks up.)
Scarlet: Something stinks...
(She leaves. Cloud looks up.)
Yakumo: Aerith...
Cloud: They were talking about Aerith... right?
Barret: I dunno.
Tifa: Probably.
Yakumo: I did to me.
Cloud: Let's follow 'em.
(They exit the duct and land back on the toilet. They exit the bathroom and come around a corner. They spot Hojo.)
Cloud: Hojo... huh...?
Yakumo: He'll lead us to Aerith.
(Hojo climbs the stairs to the 67th floor. They follow.)
(Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, and Barret follow Hojo to the 67th floor of the Shinra building.)
Barret: I remember him. That Hojo guy. He's in charge of the Shinra's Science Department. Cloud, don't you know him?
Cloud: This is the first time I've actually ever seen him. So...that's what he looks like...
Yakumo: He has Aerith, we need to keep on going.
(They follow Hojo to a dreary laboratory. A red, lion like creature is imprisoned in a glass tube, sitting apathetically in the far corner. They hide behind a crate, just in time to avoid an employee who enters the room. Yakumo could feel from the strange creature that he wanted out to be free.)
Yakumo: (What is this thing? It looks like he's suffering. Poor thing.)
"Is this today's specimen?"
Hojo: Yes. We're starting right away. Raise it to the upper level.
(The employee leaves. Hojo places his hand on the glass.)
Hojo: My precious specimen...
(He stands there for a while, then exits. Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, and Barret come out of hiding. Tifa goes to the creature. Yakumo does too in feeling really bad for him.)
Tifa: Precious specimen...? Is it going to be used for a biological experiment?
(Cloud turns. He sees a metal dome, with a single door. There is a window in the door, through which shines bright purple light.)
Cloud: Jenova...
(Yakumo felt something bad from the thing called Jenova.)
Yakumo: Cloud! Don't go near that thing-! Ah!
(He peers into the window and sees a strange, white, female being. Her head has apparently been removed rather violently. Cloud backs away and clutches his head. A high-pitched whine reverberates through the room, or perhaps only Cloud's head, and he collapses to the floor. Tifa and Barret run over.)
Tifa and Barret: Cloud! Yakumo:
(They come to.)
Yakumo: I knew that wasn't normal...Still...What is that thing supose to be?
(Yakumo feels out from Cloud that he knows of the thing.)
Cloud: Jenova... Sephiroth's... So... they've brought it here.
Tifa: Cloud, be strong!
Cloud: Did you see it?
Barret: See what?
Yakumo: I saw it, Cloud.
Cloud: It's moving... still alive?
(Barret looks into the window.)
Barret: Where's its $#&*& head? This whole thing's stupid. Let's keep goin'.
(Cloud gets up with Yakumo's help. They continue, further into the lab, reaching an elevator. They enter and climb to the 68th floor. Yakumo knows that there was more about the Jenova than meets the eye to her to feel strong sense from it, in not a good way.)
Yakumo: (What was that 'Jenova'?)
(Cloud, Yakumo Barret, and Tifa arrive on the 68th floor. It is a research lab, more advanced than that on the 67th floor. There is a glass tube like that on the 67th. Near the glass tube is Hojo. Inside the glass tube is Aerith.)
Cloud: Aerith!
Yakumo: She's okay!
Hojo: Aerith? Oh, is that her name? What do you want?
Cloud: We're taking Aerith back.
Yakumo: That's right!
Hojo: Outsiders...
Barret: Shoulda noticed it earlier, you...
Hojo: There's so many frivolous things in this world.
(Cloud, Yakumo, and Barret move forward.)
Hojo: Are you going to kill me? I don't think you should. The equipment here is extremely delicate. Without me, who could operate it? Hmm?
Cloud: Ugh.
Hojo: That's right. I recommend you think things out logically before you make any rash moves. Now, bring in the Specimen!
Yakumo: Aerith!
(The red creature from the 67th floor is lifted into the tube. Cloud, Barret, and Tifa run to the tube. The creature twitches its tail. Aerith runs to the glass.)
Aerith: Cloud! Yakumo! Help!
(Cloud turns to Hojo. He had to save Aerith and all for Yakumo so he won't see her looking sad, he just had to stop Hojo.)
Cloud: What do you think you're doin'?
Hojo: Lending a helping hand to an endangered species...Both of them are on the brink of extinction...If I don't help, all these animals will disappear.
Tifa: ...animal? That's terrible! Aerith is a human being!
Yakumo: You shouldn't treat any animals or humans like th, you monster!
Barret: You're gonna pay!
Cloud: Barret! Can't you do anything?
(Barret aims his gun at the tube.)
Barret: Awright! Step back!
Hojo: Stop!
(Barret fires at the tube. The inside of the tube glows a brilliant white as it malfunctions. Hojo runs to the tube.)
Hojo: Wh... what are you do- Oh! My precious specimens...
Yakumo: Let my sister out!
(Yakumo's body glows up really quick to touching the tube too 'for Hojo to see little of that point of view, causing the tube glows brighter. The door opens... the light dims, and we see the red creature poised in the door. It leaps forward and starts attacking Hojo. Yakumo goes back to normal after that to see the door opened on it's own 'or so she thought'.)
Yakumo: Cloud!
Cloud: Now's our chance to get Aerith!
(Cloud runs into the tube and helps Aerith up from the floor.)
Aerith: Thanks, Cloud. Yakumo!
Yakumo: Aerith!
(She runs out of the tube for Yakumo and Aerith were happy to see each other again to be hugging each other, which starts to glow a dull blue. Cloud backs out of the tube.)
Tifa: Cloud... what's wrong?
Cloud: ...The elevator is moving.
(Hojo pulls himself out from under the red creature.)
Hojo: This is no ordinary specimen. This is a very ferocious specimen!
(It turns away from Hojo and sits. The creature was known as Red Thirteen.)
Red: He's rather strong. I'll help you all out.
Tifa: It talked!?
Yakumo: You do have emotions. Amazing...
Red: I'll talk as much as you want later, Miss.
(Cloud runs out of the tube and to the creature.)
Cloud: We'll take care of that monster. Somebody take Aerith somewhere safe...Tifa, I'm countin' on you!
Yakumo: Keep Aerith safe for me.
Tifa: I will, Yakumo, stay close to Cloud and Barret. We'll catch up later.
Aerith: Be strong for me.
(Tifa and Aerith run out for Cloud looks at Yakumo to tell her that they'll be okay.)
Cloud: She'll be fine.
Yakumo: I know. We should go.
Cloud: What's your name?
Red: Hojo has named me, Red XIII. A name with no meaning whatsoever to me. Call me whatever you wish.
Yakumo: Then Red Thirteen it is.
Cloud: Come on!
(Boss battle with HO512. A big creature with many little robots with it surrounding it being one of Hojo's other creations fighting off with Cloud, Red, and Barret as Yakumo backs them up. From HO's bad breath attack to getting them poison, Yakumo heals the others in time when it happens to them; from fire and lighting attacks to shooting away and Red's killer instincts to using magic too, they were doing well in fighting. Also Cloud's amazing Slasher moves to use on the beast really hard also Barret's powerful big shot attack. With that, the creature was done and the robots to winning the battle.)
Yakumo: I felt sorry for these beings, people are the worse making them into something they're not.
Red Xlll: Afraid it can't be helped.
(Aerith and Tifa run into the lab.)
Cloud: Aerith, you all right?
Tifa: She seems all right, ...in many ways.
Yakumo: Glad to see you alright, Aerith.
Aerith: Same here, Yakumo. And thank you for coming to my rescue.
Red XIII: I have a right to choose, too. I don't like two-legged things.
Barret: What are you?
Red XIII: An informed question. But difficult to answer. I am what you see...You must have many questions, but first, let's get out of here. I'll lead the way.
Aerith: Cloud... so you did come for me.
Yakumo: Because he owe you for saving Marlene's life and I wanted him to because I was worried about you.
Aerith: I know, Yakumo, I'm glad he did.
(Red XIII leaps over the railing toward the exit.)
Red XIII: I apologize for what happened back there. I was merely acting to throw Hojo off guard...
Barret: Now we've saved Aerith, ain't no need to be in this buildin'! So let's get the hell outta here!
Yakumo: It's probably fo the best.
Cloud: If all six of us go together, we'll be noticed. Let's break up into two groups.
(Taking Red XIII, Yakumo, and Barret.)
Yakumo: You two know what to do. Be careful.
Aerith: I'll see you later! We'll be waiting at the 66th Floor Elevator.
Tifa: We'll be going first! Meet at the 66th Floor Elevator.
(They exit. A person in the lab gives them the Key card 68.)
"No! Please don't kill me. I only did what Hojo told me to do. To prove it to you... here, this is the key card to the 68th Floor. Would I be doing this if I was the enemy?"
Yakumo: Okay...? Thank you I guess.
(They go to the 66th Floor elevator and operate the switch. A Turk walks in and places his hand on Cloud's shoulder...Yakumo could feel out trouble already.)
Yakumo: Cloud...!
Cloud: H, hey! What is it?
Rude: Would you press 'Up' please?
Cloud: Turks? Must be a trap...
(Tseng comes into the elevator, as he holds Yakumo as his hostage for Cloud, Barret, and Tifa to listen in or else. Also Aerith and Red also get captured by Scarlet.)
Tseng: It must have been a real thrill for you... Did you enjoy it?
Cloud: Ggh...Yakumo!
Yakumo: Cloud!
(Now with the six being captured and trapped by the real enemy, what will happen to them? Along with Red, Aerith, and why did Tseng used Yakumo as his hostage, does he know something about her than anyone else doesn't know about? Well, maybe for Hojo to see Yakumo on what she did earlier, his eyes weren't playing ticks on her to have such odd ESP powers.)
Hojo: Yakumo, huh? Interesting...