Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
(Rude and Tseng lead Cloud, Barret, Tifa, and Red XIII into the President's office. Their hands and feet are bound. As Aerith was recaptured again, Yakumo was being held by Tseng to be close to her.)
Tseng: Let's go.
Yakumo: What do you want from us?
Tseng: They'll be fine. We got something special for you.
Yakumo: Don't hurt Aerith! Don't hurt them!
Tseng: Not for you two we won't.
(This mad Cloud unease to see Yakumo in grave danger.)
Cloud: You all got caught, too?
(He turns to the President.)
Cloud: Where is Aerith!?
President Shinra: In a safe place.
(He gets up from his desk.)
President Shinra: She's the last surviving Ancient...Don't you know? They called themselves the Cetra, and lived thousands of years ago. Now they are just a forgotten page in history.
(Yakumo couln't beleive in hearing all of this.)
Yakumo: No...You're wrong! You can't treat Aerith as your own tool! Let her go!
Red XIII: Cetra... That girl, is she a survivor of the Cetra?
President Shinra: Cetra, or the Ancients will show us the way to the 'Promised Land.' I'm expecting a lot out of her. And you, my dear, you are the socure of energy we need to gather. The survivor of the Jenova event that eccorted. You should be pleased we're having you well cared for more.
Yakumo: (Survivor of the Jenova event...? What does that mean?)
(Cloud could tell that Yakumo didn't remember that event or what President Shinra was saying to her to getting scared.)
Red XIII: The Promised Land? Isn't that just a legend?
President Shinra: Even so, it's just too appealing to not to pursue. It's been said the Promised Land is very fertile...If the land is fertile...
Barret: Then there's gotta be Mako!
President Shinra: Exactly. That is why our money sucking Mako Reactor is a necessity. Some to borrow within that girl. The abundant Mako will just come out on its own. That is where Neo-Midgar will be built. Shinra's new glory...
Yakumo: I'll never help you! Cloud! Help me!
(Barret struggles against his handcuffs.)
Barret: $#^%! Quit dreamin'!
President Shinra: Oh really, don't you know? These days all it takes for your dreams to come true is money and science. Well, that is all for our meeting.
(Rude hurries in.)
Rude: Come on! Outta his way!
(Cloud, Tifa, and Red XIII leave. Barret stays behind. Yakumo tries to go to the others, to be held back.)
Barret: Hold it! I got a lot I wanna say to you!
(He is dragged out, still struggling, by Rude. President Shinra polishes his jacket buttons.)
Yakumo: Stop! Tifa! Barret! Red! Cloud! Help!
Cloud: Yakumo-!
President Shinra: If you need something else... talk to my secretary.
(The four were taken away as Yakumo watches for the President Shinra, Tseng, and Rude take her somewhere else.
Rude: Let's go.
Yakumo: Stop!
President Shinra: No use struggling, my dear. Just relax, we got a lot of things to show and tell.
Yakumo: You won't get away with this...!
President Shinra: Oh, ho. I'm afraid we are, my dear.
(Yakumo closes her eyes to pray for Cloud and the others their safety.)
Yakumo: (Cloud, please escape. Save me.) Save me, Cloud!
(Cloud and the others wake up in the prison cells on the 67th floor. Aerith is in her own cell on the left, Barret and Red XIII share the right cell, and Tifa is in the cot in Cloud's center cell.)
Cloud: (Yakumo...! A feel her calling out to me!)
Tifa: Psst (Can we get out?)
Cloud: Let's do it. Yakumo needs us.
Tifa: Psst (Cloud, you're so brave!)
Cloud: I wonder how Aerith, Red, and Barret are doing?
(Showing Barret's cell.)
Barret: Hey! Aerith is an Ancient and the real name of the Ancients is Cetra. The Ancients know where the Promised Land is and the Shinra is searching for that Promised Land. I only hear stories 'bout the Promised Land. I don't know if it really exists. And of all people, Yakumo's ESP pwers is being use for it in being drained? That's mess up! Is that right? The Shinra believe that the Promised Land is full of Mako energy. Which means, if the Shinra get there, they'll suck up all the Mako energy...and the land'll wither away. The Planet's gonna get weaker.
(He stands.)
Barret: I can't just leave 'em be. I'm recruitin' new members! Me, Tifa, Yakumo, Cloud... and Aerith too.
(He turns to Red XIII)
Barret: How 'bout you?
(Red XIII gets up, stretches, and lies down again.)
Barret: You're so damn boring...Grandpa.
Barret: Grandpa!? Ha, ha, ha... Grandpa, hmm... ha, ha, ha...
(Red XIII sits up.)
Red XIII: What's so funny?
Barret: Nothin'... ha, ha
(Now showing Aerith's cell. She is lying on her cot.)
Aerith: Cloud, are you there?
Cloud: Aerith!? You safe?
Aerith: Yeah, I'm all right. I'm more worried about Yakumo.
Cloud: I know. I hope she's okay too.
(She swings her legs over the side of the cot.)
Aerith: I knew that Cloud would come for me and my sister.
Cloud: Hey, I'm both of your bodyguard, right?
(She walks to the door of her cell.)
Aerith: The deal was for one date, right? For Yakumo?
(Tifa sits up.)
Tifa: That makes sense.
Aerith: ...!? Tifa! Tifa, you're there too!
Tifa: OF course I am. Don't get why the guards put us in the same cell together.
(She stands up.)
Tifa: You know, Aerith, I have a question.
Aerith: What?
Tifa: Does the Promised Land really exist?
(Aerith shakes her head.)
Aerith: ...I don't know.
(She walks to the middle of her cell and looks upwards.)
Aerith: All I know is...The Cetra were born from the Planet, speak with the Planet, and unlock the Planet. And... then...The Cetra will return to the Promised Land. A land that promises supreme happiness.
(She looks back down.)
Tifa: ...What does that mean?
Aerith: More than words... I don't know.
Cloud: ...Speak with the Planet?
(Tifa sits back on the cot.)
Tifa: Just what does the Planet say?
Aerith: It's full of people and noisy. That's why I can't make out what they're saying.
(A beat.)
Cloud: You hear it now?
Aerith: I, I only heard it at the Church in the Slums. Mother said that Midgar was no longer safe. That is... my real mother.
(She sits back on the cot.)
Aerith: Someday I'll get out of Midgar... Speak with the Planet and find my Promised Land...That's what mom said. I thought I would stop hearing her voice as I grew up, but...
Cloud: Let's just get some sleep. We'll get out somehow for her...
(Someone was watching on them from behind, as Yakumo shoves the three away by using her powers again to make her escape for losing Rude and Tseng to go after her, President Shinra comes close...For something hits him to be covered in red for her with some odd sound all of a sudden. Yakumo let's out a scarem really loud for Cloud to hear her out to having his eyes open. Cloud walks to the wall of the cell and sits down. Cloud wakes up in the middle of the night in his and Tifa's prison cell. He sees that the door is open.)
Cloud: Yakumo! (She's in trouble! What the...?) The door's open... When did it open?
(He goes through the door and walks down the hall. There is a guard, dead, lying on the floor. He kneels by him)
Cloud: What's happened?
(He goes back to Tifa's cell.)
Cloud: Tifa... Wake up!
(Tifa sits up.)
Tifa: What's wrong?
Cloud: Something's wrong. Look outside.
(She goes out to the guard. Cloud follows.)
Tifa: I wonder what happened...
Cloud: He should have the key on him...
(He gets the prison keys.)
Cloud: Come on, Tifa, get Aerith, I'll go help Barret and the others.
(Tifa goes to Aerith's cell. Cloud runs to Barret and Red XIII's.)
Cloud: Barret, Red XIII... come with me. Something's wrong.
(Barret gets up.)
Barret: How'd you get in? Why's the door open!?
(They run out to the dead guard.)
Barret: The hell's goin' on!?
Red XIII: No human could've done this. I'll go on ahead.
(Red XIII goes.)
Barret: I'll clean up back here, so you guys go ahead. And don't get caught by Shinra!
(Cloud collects Tifa and Aerith.)
Tifa: Come on, let's follow Red XIII!
(They follow Red XIII to the lab where he was previously imprisoned. The path there is stained with blood and littered with bodies. Where there was a door in the metal dome, there is now a gaping hole.)
Cloud: ...Did it get away? Jenova...?
Red XIII: Jenova Specimen... Looks like it went to the upper floor using that elevator for the specimens.
(Yakumo was screaming from afar for the others to hear her out.)
Cloud: Yakumo! We have to find her!
(They take the elevator up to the 68th floor. Red XIII is waiting.)
Red XIII: It looks like it leads up...
(They take the elevator up to the 69th floor., then the stairs up to the 70th. Barret and Red XIII catch up with the rest. They arrive at President Shinra's office. He is seated at his desk. A large sword is protruding from his back for everyone to join back, and seeing Yakumo to be covered in blood in corner on the ground scared and crying.)
Tifa, Red Xlll, and Aerith: Yakumo!
Barret: You alright!?
(Cloud rushes to Yakumo to see if she was alright. Once he touches her, he saw what happened. She used her powers again to make her esacape to lose the two men as President Shinra stopped her, someone out of nowhere stabs the man from behind to the heart. Dying with blood all over the sword to get all over the place, on Yakumo, and she witness him murdering the other people that some were still inside the building that got her so scared.)
Cloud: Yakumo saw the terror, she was hiding here. Yakumo!
Yakumo: Ah! Keep him away from me! He just killed...! He just killed...! No!
(Freaking out, Aerith tried to talk Yakumo to remain calm.)
Aerith: Yakumo! Please! We're here! There's no murderer here anymore!
Yakumo: Stop it! Stop it! Stop it!
(Cloud had his lip to bleed from biting on it, he hugs Yakumo to calming her down slowly at a time.)
Cloud: Yakumo!
Yakumo: !
Cloud: It's okay...It's okay...You're alright. We're here to save you...Aerith's okay, see? Just dont cry! I'm here for yo!
Yakumo: Cloud...!
(Cloud kept on holding her until Yakumo finally breaths to calming down again to being herself again.)
Cloud: That's a good girl. I got you.
Yakumo: Cloud...I didn't see who the person was, but I felt such hatred in his heart. He just murder that man. Just look.
(Yakumo pointed out for the others to see that President Shinra was stabbed to death.)
Barret: She's right. He's dead...The leader of Shinra, Inc. is dead.
(Tifa runs around to him.)
Tifa: Then this sword must be...!?
Cloud: Sephiroth's!
(That's the man who did it all for Yakumo to feel out.)
Yakumo: Sephiorth?
Tifa: ...Sephiroth is alive?
Yakumo: You guys know him?
Cloud: ...Looks like it. Only Sephiroth can use that sword.
Barret: Who cares who did it!? This is the end of the Shinra now!
(Yakumo spotted someone else hiding.)
Yakumo: Someone else is there!
Palmer: Uh!
(Palmer jumps out from behind the desk and makes a break for it.)
Cloud: Aerith, stay with your sister.
Aerith: I will. I got you,Yakumo.
(Cloud and Barret catch him by the arms.)
Palmer: P, p, p, please, don't kill me!
Cloud: What happened?
Palmer: Se... Sephiroth. Sephiroth came.
(Yakumo feels out Palmer's mind and he was right.)
Yakumo: It was him.
Cloud: Did you see him? Did you see Sephiroth?
Palmer: Yeah, I saw him! I saw him with my own eyes!
Cloud: You really saw him? Yakumo, did he?
Yakumo: He's scared. Scared in seeing the horror that happened like I was without seeing the face. He's not lying to us.
Palmer: Uh! Would I lie to you at a time like this!? That girl's right! She does have special powers after all. And I heard his voice too! Um, he was saying something about not letting us have the Promised Land.
Tifa: Then what? Does that mean that the Promised Land really exists and that Sephiroth's here to save it from Shinra?
Barret: So he's a good guy then?
Yakumo: No, not after what this Sephiroth did today.
Cloud: Save the Promised Land? A good guy? No way! It's not that simple! I know him! Sephiroth's mission is different!
(A helicopter hovers into view in the big bay windows. Palmer breaks free and flees.)
Yakumo: Someone's coming!
Barret: Rufus! &*%$! I forgot about him!
Tifa: Who's that?!
Barret: Vice President Rufus. The President's son.
Yakumo: (Who knew that man had a son.)
Tifa: I wonder what kind of person he is...
Aerith: I've heard that no one's ever seenhim bleed or cry.
Barret: I heard that he's been assigned somewhere else for a long time...
Red XIII: I only know his name.
(Cloud runs out onto the balcony at the top of the Shinra Building for Yakumo t follow him too with the other four catching up. The rest follow. They find Rufus and Palmer there.)
Rufus: So... So Sephiroth was actually here. ...By the way.
(Palmer runs away.)
Rufus: Who are you guys?
(Theysaheir names to Rufus a few at a time.)
Cloud: I'm Cloud, former SOLDIER First Class!
Barret: My name's Barret Wallace! I'm from AVALANCHE!
Tifa: Same here! Tifa Lockhart!
Aerith: Aerith Gainborough...a flower girl from the slums.
Yakumo: Yakumo. Step sister to Aerith and cares for others using my powers for good.
Red XIII: And Red Xlll. A research specimen.
(Rufus shrugs.)
Rufus: What a crew.
(He smooths his hair with nonchalance.)
Rufus: Well, I'm Rufus. The President of Shinra, Inc.
Barret: You only President, 'cause your old man died!
Rufus: That's right. I'll let you hear my new appointment speech.
Yakumo: How can you that about your own father!? Don't you have a heart!?
(Rufus goes up to Yakumo.)
Cloud: Get away from her!
(He moves Yakumo's head up to touching it.)
Rufus: You don't get it, do you? He was a monster. Good thing he didn't hurt you.
Yakumo: Don't touch me!
Rufus: Hot temper one, I like it. But please try to understand the situation with the so call father of mine 'once'.
(He walks to Tifa next.)
Rufus: ...Old man tried to control the world with money. It seems to have been working.
(He walks to Aerith.)
Rufus: The population thought that Shinra would protect them.
(He walks to Barret.)
Rufus: Work at Shinra, get your pay. If a terrorist attacks, the Shinra army will help you. It looks perfect on the outside. But, I do things differently. I'll control the world with fear. It takes too much to do it like my old man.
(He walks to the railing.)
Rufus: A little fear will control the minds of the common people. There's no reason to waste money on them.
(A pause.)
Tifa: He likes to make speeches just like his father.
Yakumo: Too much at that. What do we do now, Cloud?
(Cloud turns.)
Cloud: Get outta this building with Aerith!
Barret: What?
Cloud: I'll explain later! Barret! This is the real crisis for the Planet!
Barret: The hell's that supposed to mean?
Cloud: I'll tell you later! Just take my word for it! I'll go after I take care of him!
Barret: Awright, Cloud!
Yakumo: Go, Aerith, I'm staying with Cloud to back him up.
Aerith: Be careful.
(They all head back down but Yakumo to the 69th floor, but Cloud and Yakumo. Aerith pauses on the way out.)
Aerith: Cloud... I just thought of something.
(Tifa goes back to Aerith.)
Tifa: ...I'll wait for Cloud with Yakumo too! Everyone, get to the elevator!"
(They all head back toward the stairs. Tifa stays in the doorway.)
Aerith: Hmm, it's going to get pretty ugly from here on. We should check on our equipment.
(Aerith, Barret, and Red XIII re-equip themselves and get on the elevator. As soon as they press the button to go down, they are attacked. Boss battle with Hundred Gunner. A giant robot tank-like machien gun to shoot through the elevator glasses, the three used from bolt, ice, and fire attacks on it and watching out from its powerful shooting range; from Barret's Big Shot and Red's Strikes was wekaen the machine little by little without giving up the fight. Also Aerith heals them and herself to keep on going, her healing skills are strong compare to Yakumo's too. Avoiding the machine's big cannon blast was a little hard to dogde away from the three to do...Once that was finally destroyed after a few hits, a small helicopter-like robot came in to fight with next. So same old moves, magic, and healing they did against it; Red's stirkes were still strong to Aerith's fire magic to healing spells, and Barret's firing gun to keep taking that thing apart. And so they did together to destroy two machines in time to making their escape.)
Barret: Take that!
Red: Well done, everyone.
Aerith: Right! Now we wait for the other three to catch up with us. (Stay strong, Yakumo.)
(Cloud stands on the balcony on the top floor with Rufus as Yakumo watches. They face each other. Cloud equips himself.)
Cloud: Yakumo, you know what to do. Stay next to me.
Yakumo: And aid you only in battle. Yes, Cloud, I can do that.
Rufus: Why do you want to fight me?
Cloud: You seek the Promised Land and Sephiroth.
Rufus: Hmm, exactly.
(He walks to the side of Cloud.)
Rufus: Mm? Did you know that Sephiroth is an Ancient?
Cloud: ...A lot has happened. Anyway, I can't let either you or Sephiroth have the Promised Land! Not even getting Aerith and Yakumo for your own sick games!
Rufus: I see. I guess this means we won't become friends.
(Boss battle with Rufus and Dark Nation. One of those type of wolf-like machine fighters. As the Dark Nation created a shield and Ru as using his shotgun for Yakumo to create her own shield in protecting herself and Cloud, he uses Bio on the beast to be dead in no ti But Rufus kept on fighting. Cloud uses his Cross Slasher skills next to bio on Rufus this time, also lots of hacking and slashing from Cloud's sword until Rufus smiled to call it a draw for now to make his escape.)
Rufus: Heh... That's all for today.
(Rufus grabs the runner of the helicopter circling overhead and makes a spectacular getaway, as is typical of the villain. Cloud and Yakumo run back down to the 69th floor, where he meets up with Tifa.)
Yakumo: Tifa!
Tifa: Where's Rufus?
Yakumo: He escaped during the battle.
Cloud: I couldn't finish 'em. Looks like this's gonna get complicated.
(Aerith, Barret, and Red XIII arrive on the bottom floor. They go to the main exit.)
Barret: I'll go on ahead!
(Barret goes out, to be met by a hail of gunfire. He ducks back in.)
Barret: *&^%(*... surrounded, huh? If I was alone this wouldn't be a thang but, I gotta reputation to protect.
Aerith: You all get out while you can. It's not you they're after... it's me.
Barret: Yeah, well that ain't happenin'. You got caught up in this over Marlene. Now, it's my turn to watch out for you!
(He turns back to the doorway.)
Barret: OK, playtime's over for you jackasses...
(Aerith takes a step toward him.)
Aerith: ...thank you, Mr. Barret!
(He turns.)
Barret: Who you callin' Mr. Barret? That don't sound right!
Red XIII: Well then...If you are through talking, may I suggest that we think of a way
to get out of here.
Barret: Huh? Oh, oh yeah... You a cold man. Just like someone else 'round here I know.
Red XIII: Did you say something?
Barret: Notta thing. So what're we gonna do?
Tifa: Barret!
Yakumo: Aerith! Red!
(Tifa and Yakumo come sprinting down the stairs.)
Barret: Tifa! Yakumo! Where's Cloud?
Yakumo: He'll be coming Right now, we need all of you trust and listen carefully to us.
(Tifa runs over to the side of the room.)
Tifa: Everyone, over here!
Yakumo: Let's hurry!
Barret: Huh? What's up? Where's Cloud?
Tifa: I'll tell you later! Hurry, Hurry!
(The party follows Tifa and Yakumo to a safe distance. Cloud rides a motorcycle from the Shinra Showroom down the stairs. The party jumps into a pickup truck also from the showroom and follows Cloud as Yakumo jumps on to hold on to Cloud while he was driving they drive up the stairs and crash through a window onto the freeway outside.)
Cloud: Hold on tight, Yakumo.
Yakumo: I will, Cloud. Let's get going!
(As Yakumo shielded the others in the front, Cloud slashes the other soldiers following after them. He uses his sword from left and right to move the away from the others on the highway as they keep on driving. Soon a on coming robot-like tank car comes out of nowhere to stopping them at a dead end with no road done. So Yakumo goes out to aid Cloud, Barret, Red, Tifa, and Red in this battle.)
Yakumo: In coming enemy!
(Boss battle with Motor Ball. Trying to run into them from a car and turning into a giant robot. As Tifa used Ice, Barret with bolt, and Aerith with fire to attack the machine many times, leaving Red and Cloud to slash the thing many times from claws to swords. Doing it many times more and Yakumo kept on shielding the others for protection from Motor's swing metal arms attack just in time. Just using the flame thrower at the six, Yakumo had to put her heart into making it much stronger to hold out the flames as much ass she could do...Tifa goes in to using her Beat Rush at it, and same thing with Cloud with his Cross Slash attack along with Barret's Big Shot as well. From a few more hits and magic to being used, the machine was destroyed. After the battle. The party stands on the freeway. They are at the edge, where it must have collapsed some time ago and never rebuilt, only added warning lights. The purple mountains of the eastern continent are visible in the distance.)
Barret: Well, what do we do now?
Cloud: Sephiroth is alive. I... I have to settle the score.
Yakumo: Cloud...
Barret: And that'll save the Planet?
Cloud: ...Seems like it.
Barret: Awright, I'm going.
Aerith: I'll go too. ...I have things that I want to find out.
Cloud: About the Ancients?
Aerith: ...Many things.
Yakumo: Anywhere you go, Cloud, and Aerith, I'll follow.
(Cloud didn't mind having Yakumo around, not only for more protection, but she's been very helpful for the others lately.)
Cloud: I would really like that, Yakumo, I'm...Glad you're alright...
Yakumo: Same here, Cloud.
Tifa: I guess this's good bye, Midgar.
(They all climb down a rope hung from the edge of the highway, landing in the outskirts of Midgar.)
Yakumo: So this is the outsides of Midgar.
TIfa: First time?
Yakumo: I never go anywhere but there so yes.
Red XIII: I'm going back to my hometown. I'll go with you as far as that.
Tifa: ...I guess this is the start of our journey...
(Cloud heads out, away from Midgar.)
Cloud: Then...Let's go!
Yakumo: We have to ave the world. Our world and protect the people.
(Barret starts boxing with the air)
Barret: We need a group leader for our journey. 'Course only me could be the leader.
Tifa: You think so...
(Aerith walks to Cloud.)
Aerith: It would have to be Cloud.
Yakumo: i second that.
(Barret stops abruptly and looks at Aerith and Yakumo.)
Barret: ^#$^%... awright. Go Northeast to a town called Kalm. If something happens, we'll meet up there.
(Barret sits down.)
Barret: Fine. I guess so...Thought you'd do that. Later, at Kalm!
Yakumo: So Kalm then.
(They all leave Midgar, and head out into the over world for the first time. Cloud, being the leader leaves the area with the other five tomorrow in going to Kalm first. For him, Yakumo, Tifa, Aerith, Barret, and Red stickily together to fighting off other villains including the wicked Sephiroth running on the loose after killing President Shinra for his son to take over next. What will happen next? is Yakumo's gist so special for the others to have besides Aerith being the last Ancient? From the new lands of a huge field and surround seas they travel for their real journey to begin.)