Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
(Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, Aerith, Barret, Red, and Yuffie, take the Ropeway to the Gold Saucer. As the Ropeway approaches. It is a huge golden structure, resembling something out of Star Wars, dotted with lights that shine and strobe happily. The Ropeway pulls into the station and Cloud gets off.)
Yakumo: Wow! Look at this place, you guys! It's like a theme park! I never seen anythng like it before!
(Yakumo was excited to see something so amazing for Aerith and Cloud to be happy for her.)
Chocobo: Welcome to the Gold Saucer.
(Cloud speaks to the ticket seller.)
"Welcome to the Gold Saucer. Are you together? A single pass is 3000 gil, or you can purchase
a lifetime pass for 30000 gil."
Cloud pays the man 30000 gil.
"Thank you very much. If you have a Gold Ticket, you can come and go freely into the
park... as long as you don't lose it. Here at the Gold Saucer, there are many places where you must pay with GP. Just think of 'GP' as money that you can only use at the Gold Saucer. GP can only be redeemed at the games in Wonder Square and at the Chocobo Races. Your GP limit is 10000, so please be careful. Please enjoy yourselves."
(Cloud and the others enter the Gold Saucer.)
Yakumo: So cool!
Aerith: It is, Yakumo! Wow! Let's have fun!
Yuffie: Yeah! Let's!
(She turns to Barret, who is facing the wall.)
Aerith:I know this isn't the right time to do this.
(She walks over to him for he was trying to feel better when Yakumo helped him out, still have a lot more to talk about his past than just a little.)
Aerith: Hey, Barret, cheer up!
(He takes a step away from her.)
Barret: I ain't in no cheery mood. So jes'leave me alone.
Yakumo: Oh, Barret.
(She goes over to him and looks at him.)
Aerith: Really? That's too bad.
(She runs over to Cloud.)
Aerith: Let's go!
Red Xlll: We might as well.
(Tifa goes over to Aerith.)
Tifa: ...whisper... whisper... (Wasn't that a little harsh, Aerith!?)
Aerith: ...whisper... whisper... (Just act normal when this happens)
Tifa: ...whisper... (You think so...?)
Aerith: Of course!
(Aerith runs over to Barret again.)
Aerith: We're gonna go play...
(Barret starts waving his arms).
Barret: So PLAY! ...messin' round # ^%$! Don't forget we're after Sephiroth!
Yakumo: No, we remember.
(Barret leans into Yakumo's ear to say something to her real quick.)
Barret: Listen, Yakumo...Thanks for cheering me up a little. You remind me of my wife.
Yakumo: Oh, I'm glad you're getting around. Remember, need more to talk about, we're here for you.
Barret: Thanks...
Barret move around like crazy to feeling better.
Barret: Alright! Let' just platy and get this over with!
(He runs and jumps in the Wonder Square portal.)
Yakumo: (Welcome back, Barret.)
Aerith: ...I think he's mad.
Tifa: He'll be fine. He seems to be doing a little better now.
(Cloud chooses who he wants to take with him into the Saucer being Yakumo. So like Barret, he Yuffie, Tifa, Aerith, and Red went to check the other places out in side to having some fun.)
Cloud: We'll meet back here.
Yuffie: Let's go have some fun then!
Red: I'll watch.
Tifa: Let's go, Aerith!
Aerith: Okay! Cloud, watch over Yakumo for me!
(They all went into different rooms, as Cloud and Yakumo go into another one together.)
Yakumo: Shall we?
Cloud: Sure.
(Cloud and Yakumo go to the Wonder Square. When he arrives, a... stuffed cat riding a giant Moogle approaches calling himself Cait Sith.)
Cait: Hey you! What're you lookin' so down for!? How 'bout it? Want me to read your fortune!? A bright future! A happy future! Oh, but don't hold it against me if it's not a great prediction! Oh, so sorry! I'm a fortune telling machine. The name's...Cait Sith. At your service.
Cloud: You can only read the future?
Cait Sith: You kidding!? I can find missing things, missing people, anything!
Yakumo: For a talking cat riding on a robot?
Cait: Ah, miss? I'm not just a cat, I'm a lucky one. And please, not cute talk on me.
Yakumo: Then a friendly coo cat?
Cait: Hmm...You seem to be a pure hearted girl with a...Special gift within you...That's what I'm getting.
(Yakumo sense some power in the Cait, not as much as she has it.)
Yakumo: I see...Cloud, what do you think?
Cloud: I'll think about it. Then can you tell me where a man named Sephiroth is?
Cait Sith: Sephiroth, right? Okay, here goes!
(He does a little fortune-telling dance...)
Cloud: ...Ordinary luck. It will be an active fortune. Give into the good will of others, and something big'll happen by summer. ...wait... what's this?
Cait Sith: Huh? Let me try again.
(He does the dance again.)
Cloud: Be careful of forgetfulness. Your lucky color is... blue? ...Forget it.
Cait Sith: Wait, wait give me another chance! Wait! Let me try it again!
(He does a super-fast dance!)
Cloud: ...What the!?
Yakumo: What?
Cloud: What you pursue will be yours. But you will lose something dear.
Cait Sith: I don't know if it's good OR bad...This's the first time I ever got something like THIS.
(He nods.)
Cait Sith: Then shall we?
Yakumo: Excuse me, but what are you talking about?
Cait Sith: As a fortune teller, I can't help but think about this. If I don't see what it leads to, I won't be able to relax. That's why I'm going with you!
Yakumo: You are? What are we going to do, Cloud?
Cait Sith: I'm comin' with you no matter WHAT you say! Want to be useful to you guys after all.
(He joins the party!)
Cloud: H... hey!
Yakumo: I guess we'll tell the others that we have another member with us being eight now. The more the merrier, right?
Cloud: I guess so.
Cait: Be greatful.
(As Cait introduces hismelf to the others and Cloud with Yakumo too, she plays a little of baskeball being good at it. Cloud tries out one of the games at a time. From fighting one against Yakumo to beat him a few times to be better than he was; the racing one and slashing bad guys on the streets 'like the one they escaped Shirna Buiding', for Cloud to be really good at it in doing two things at the same time. Then to Yakumo doing the Moggle love story very well.)
Cloud: You're not bad.
Yakumo: Youre not bad yourself. Come on, Cloud, let's go see what else we can play.
(Moving to more rooms to try out...Like the shooting game for Cloud to be good at to making a high score for himself. Yakumo enjoyed the ride though being like real roller coaster to her. Next was a haunted house the two had to walk all the way through, making Yakumo a bit jumpy to stay close to Cloud to be holding his arm, he liked it. They made it throught alright afterwards. Those two had a fun time today to wrap things up to meet back with the others now.)
Yakumo: Wow! That was sure fun! Thanks, Cloud.
(She even got a cute bunny doll that Cloud win for her at the crane game.)
Cloud: Glad you had a good time, Yakumo. We should see how everyone else is doing. Come on.
(He grabs her hand to stay close together.)
Yakumo: Okay.
(Cloud and Yakumo go to the Battle Square. When he arrives, he sees a guard standing at the foot of the steps.)
Yakumo: Oh, no!
Cloud: !
(Yakumo could already feel it within her, but the guard falls over, dead.)
Cloud: Mm!?
(The rest of the party but Barret for some reason runs over to them. Cloud checks for a pulse.)
Yuffie: What happen?
Cloud: Dead...
Yakumo: Too late to save him.
Aerith: What!? Why?
(Cloud looks up, then runs into the Battle Square lobby.)
Aerith: Cloud!? Where are you going?
Yakumo: Wait for us!
(The others follow him. When they arrive in the lobby, they find the floor covered in blood and debris. There are many bodies scattered around. Yakumo hated the horror of seeing more dead bodies wherever they go.)
Tifa: Just look at this place.
Red Xlll: ...
Cait and Yuffie: So mess up!
Cloud: Did Sephiroth do this!?
Yakumo: I don't feel him being here before. It's unlikely.
(He checks a body.)
Cloud: No... Yakumo's right... it's not him... They're all shot... Sephiroth would never use a gun...
"Ugh, ugggh."
Yakumo: Cloud, this on's trying to say something!
(A body in the corner moves slightly. They all run over to him.)
Cloud: Hey, what happened!
"Ugh... ugh... a man with a gun... on his arm..."
Yakumo: Barret!? No...! No, he wouldn't do anything like this. I sense no murder rage within him at all!
Aerith: It can't be!
"Hold it right there! And stay quiet!"
(They all turn to the door. Dio 'from aiding everyone on today's fun time today' and two guards walk in.)
Red: This is very bad here.
Dio: Did you guys do this!?
Cloud: N... no, it wasn't us!
Yakumo: We're innocent! Someone setting our friend up!
Dio: I must've been wrong...Arrest them...
Yakumo: No! Don't!
(Yakumo's powers blocks the guards in creating a wall-like sheild for them to make their escape. Cait Sith turns to Cloud.)
Cait Sith: I don't know what you just did, Yakumo, but nice job. It shoudl hold them off for a while. Now run! Hurry and run, it's gonna get ugly.
(Cait Sith runs into the arena. Aerith, Clud, Yakumo, Tifa, Yuffie, and Red follow him.)
Yakumo: Come on, Cloud!
Cloud: H... hey!
(Cloud runs after them as he holds Yakumo's hand to stay close to him. The two guards follow.)
Dio: Stop them!
(They arrive in the arena. There is no way out. Dio emerges on a high platform.)
Yakumo: Not good...!
Dio: That's as far as you go."
(He gestures with his hand. Cait Sith checks a door. It's locked.)
Cloud: Wait, listen to...
(Cait Sith comes back.)
Cait Sith: Cloud...
(Cloud gets Yakumo out of danger to leave without them, he tells her through her mind from her ESP powers.)
Cloud: (Yakumo, get out of here. I'll find a way to get us out and Barret.
Yakumo: ! (But, Cloud! I can't leave you guys!)
Cloud: (Just go! We'll be back, wait for us until it's clear.)
(Yakumo had no other choice.)
Yakumo: (Cloud...Everyone, I'll be back! Good luck!)
(She makes a run for it for Cloud to hold of the robots and Yakumo using her shiled to not get shot from the guard as she slides her way under them.)
Cloud: Run, Yakumo!
Dio: Don't let her escape!
Aerith: Keep running!
(As they go after Yakumo, she didn't stop running until she lost them. Cloud and the other five were trapped to being captured by Dio and arrested somewhere for only Yakumo to feel out where at while hiding somewhere away from the guards.)
"We can't find her!"
"She's not over here either!"
"Damn...! She might be going back down to the village. Let's check there!"
(Yakumo tries catching her breath to think of something to saving her friends and Barret was next on her to-do list, but she wonders how? Since she was alone since Cloud, Aerith, Yuffie, Red, Cait, and Tifa saved her life.)
Yakumo: (Cloud...Tifa...Aerith...Red...Cait...Yuffie...Barret...You guys saved me...I would've stayed with you...)
(She knew what she had to do, by going into the co-workers dressing room to change into something different in her own degiuse in getting through.)
Yakumo: (Well, it's my turn to save them. Dudley, it's best you wanted outside wherever you are next. I have some work to do. I'm coming, you guys.)
(Yakumo had to play her part no matter what it takes from her. Three huge robots leap into the arena and approach them soon things go into black. When it fades in again, we are at the "Gateway to Heaven." It is just a hole in the floor. One of the robots is holding Cloud over it.)
Dio: One more to go.
"Yes."
Cloud: Hey! Pay attention!
Dio: There's no need to listen. Pay for your crime down below! Your friends will be there and your girlfriend too once we find her! Do it!
"Yes."
(A guard presses a button, opening the 'Gateway.' The robot, still holding Cloud, leaps down. HE hopes that Yakumo escaped alright for him to worry about than his own.)
Cloud: (Yakumo...!)
(Cloud and the others land in the prison below the Gold Saucer.)
Tifa: Cloud!
Aerith: You all right?
Cloud: Where are we?
Cait Sith: A desert prison... Corel Prison...
Cloud: A desert prison?
Cait Sith: Yup, a natural prison in the middle of the desert... surrounded entirely by quicksand. I heard that once you get in, you never get out...But, there was one special exception...
(Showing something pointing down. It was Barret standing near some pipes. There is a man lying face down on the ground near him.)
Yuffie, Tifa, and Red: It's Barret!
Aerith: Hey! Barret!
(They all run over to him.)
Cloud: Barret...
(Barret turns.)
Cloud: Did he really...
(Barret steps back. Cloud steps forward.)
Barret: Stay back! This's something I gotta deal with.
(He turns away.)
Barret: Jes' leave me alone...What happen to Yakumo? I did something to make her leave, didn't I...? Damn it!
(He runs off.)
Yuffie: Barret! It's not like that!
Tifa: What's wrong, Barret!? Let us help you!
Cait Sith: Whew! That's one of your friends? He sure looks dangerous...
Aerith: Cloud, what should we do? Barret's not his normal self. I mean, I'm glad Yakumo got out safely, but...We need to worry about him first before we can escape here somehow.
(Cloud checks the dead man.)
Red Xlll: A human?
Cloud: This one's been shot too...
Cait: I think things have got from bad to worse here.
Tifa: What do we do now, Cloud?
(He knew what he had to do for Barret if Yakumo was here right now.)
Cloud: Follow me.
(Cloud and the other five enter inside a small shack on the edge of the prison. As he enters, we see that it is the same house we saw during Barret's story, only it is rundown and sooty, ravaged by fire. Barret bursts in the door.)
Tifa: Don't scare us like that!
Barret: Didn't I tell you not to come here!?
(He raises his gun-arm.)
Cait Sith: Ju... just hold on for a second! We just want to talk! You'll understand if you just hear us out! That kid Yakumo, she escaped. She's fine!
(Barret fires. Cloud and the others lift their arms and try to protect their head, but they are not hurt. Barret continues to fire... A person falls to the ground. He was hiding behind the couch. They lower their arms. Barret turns away.)
Yuffie: So wait...You saved us?
Red Xlll: Yuffie, you know he didn't murder anyone.
Yuffie: What? I'm just saying...
Barret: Didn't want none of ya to get involved...
(Cloud shrugs.)
Aerith: Hey that's Cloud's line! '...It's too dangerous, I can't let you get involved...' blah, blah, blah...
Tifa: Yeah. We're already involved in this. We saw you and hurried here. So come on Barret, just tell us what's going on.
Barret: You guys...
Red XIII: I heard that the murders at the Battle Arena were done by a man with a gun-arm. ...Was that you?
Yuffie: Just say it wasn't you.
(Barret shakes his head quickly, then looks up.)
Barret: There's another... another man that got a gun grafted inta one of his arms... It was four years ago...
(Everything fades out for Barrets tells the story to image while hearing the whole thing on their own with their thoughts. Yakumo could feel it out from a far on her end. When it comes in again, we are at the train tracks that join the Mako reactor they passed on the way to Corel.)
Barret: I remember... I was on my way home from visiting a Mako Reactor being built.
(Barret and Dyne come across the train tracks when the village headman rushes up from the direction of North Corel.)
"Barret! Dyne! Come quick! The village's being attacked! It's Shinra soldiers!"
Barret: What!?
(Barret and Dyne leap off the track and run to the cliff's edge. They see their village, in flames. Black smoke rises into the sky. Barret raises his arms and trembles.)
Barret: What the hell happened? ...
(Barret falls to his knees. Dyne looks away. Barret punches the ground and Dyne shakes his shoulder.)
Dyne: Hey, Barret! It's not over yet! Everyone's waiting! Let's go back to the village!
(Shifted back to the train tracks. Four Shinra soldiers come onto the tracks and aim their guns at the village headman.)
"Barret! Dyne! Protect the village!"
(They fire. The village headman falls.)
Barret: Hmp! Old man!
(They start firing at Barret and Dyne. Dyne leaps under the tracks, but Barret is left dancing his way though their fire.)
Dyne: C'mon, Barret! We gotta hurry!
(He runs off.)
Barret: Krggh!
(He follows Dyne. When he reaches him, they stop, standing at the edge of a high cliff. Scarlet enters and stands by the guards, still firing.)
Dyne: Barret! You stay here!
Scarlet: Kyaa haa, ha! You can shoot all day and never hit them with an aim like that.
Barret: Shu'up!
(Scarlet knocks one of the guards off the tracks. The rest stop firing and face her.)
Scarlet: Ha, ha, ha! Stop playing around and cover me!
(They surround Scarlet and resume firing at Barret and Dyne.)
Dyne: Watch out!
(They hit Dyne, who falls from the cliff. Barret grabs his left arm just in time to save him from falling.)
Barret: Dyne! Hang on! Lissen to me! You're comin' back the the village, hear!?
Dyne: Yeah... I ain't lettin' go...You're comin' back... Everyone's waitin' for ya...Eleanor... and Marlene... They all waitin' on us...
(The guards continue to fire. Their fire sweeps along the edge of the cliff, hitting Dyne's and Barret's arms. Dyne falls from Barret's grasp, into the chasm. Everything fades after that to going back to the house in Corel Prison.)
Barret: From then on, I couldn't use my right arm no more.
(He looks down.)
Barret: ...I was depressed for a while.
(He straightens.)
Barret: But then I threw away my artificial arm and got this gun grafted in.
(He turns away.)
Barret: Got a new right arm to get revenge on the Shinra, who took everything away...
(He faces the others again.)
Barret: Back then, I heard the doc say there was another man who got the same operation as me. But, his was the left arm...
Cloud: ...
Yuffie: Really!? Well, unlike him, mine is a glove which I use to fight with.
Aerith: But... Dyne's injury was the same as yours, right?
Tifa: Yeah, that's right. He was deceived by the Shinra too. He'll probably join us to fight against the Shinra.
Barret: ...wouldn't bet on it. I gotta 'pologize to Dyne before I can rest in peace. An' that's why, I gotta go alone.
Cloud: Do whatever you want... Is that what you want to hear? Well, I can't let you do it. Because, if you die on me, I'm gonna have nightmares.
Aerith: Barret, this isn't the end. Weren't you going to save the Planet?
Yuffie: Giving up your life from doing this is pointless!
Red Xlll: I have to agree with them on that.
Cait: Me too.
Barret: Shit! Tifa, you oughtta know by now.
Tifa: ...That's all right. I'm not so different from you.
Aerith: That's easier to understand. It's you, Barret.
Cloud: So there it is, Barret. So I guess it'll be Barret and the rest of us sticking together this time on this one...
Barret: And Yakumo?
Cloud: She'll be fine. We'll see her again. Until then, it just the seven of us.
Barret: If you say so. Good to know she's alright.
Cloud: (Yakumo, we got Barret back. We're coming back for you next.)
(Yakumo hears Barret calling out to her, making her move to sneak pass the guards to finding the others somewhere outside the place.)
Yakumo: (They found Barret! Time to move out...Once I find them, Dudley will meet up with us in no time. I have to move!)
(Cloud, Barret, Tifa, Aerith, Yuffie, Red, and Cait travel north from Corel Prison to the junkyard. At the north side of the junkyard, they meet Dyne, who his shooting his gun-arm at random things. The ground is littered with debris, and the gives way at a cliff's edge into a deep gorge. There are two crosses, one large and one small, crudely stuck into the ground by the cliff's edge.)
Cloud: Let him handle this one.
(The others watch for Barret to do this one on his own.)
Barret: ...Dyne ... Is that you?
(Dyne looks up.)
Dyne: Now that's a voice I haven't heard in years...
(Dyne comes toward Barret. He is limping.)
Dyne: A voice I'll never forget...
Barret: I always hoped I'd be able to see you again someday...I knew you were alive somewhere... we had the same operation. Listen to me Dyne. I want to...
(Barret walks toward Dyne. Dyne fires at him and he stops.)
Dyne: What's that? ...I hear her voice.
Barret: ...?
Dyne: I hear her voice, Eleanor's voice. Begging me... not to hate your rotten guts.
(He looks down.)
Dyne: That's why I didn't hunt you down...
Barret: I know I was stupid. I'm not asking you to forgive me. But... What're you doin' in a place like this? Why ya wanna kill those that ain't even involved? Why?
(Dyne lifts his good arm.)
Dyne: ...Why!? The hell do you care for!?
(He points at Barret.)
Dyne: Are the people killed going to understand 'why'? Are the people of Corel going to understand just hearing Shinra's excuses?
(He lifts his other arm.)
Dyne: I don't CARE what the reason is!
(He lowers it.)
Dyne: All they give us are artillery and stupid excuses... What's left is a world of despair and emptiness...
Barret: ...
Dyne: You still want to hear 'why'? ...All right, I'll tell you.
(He limps away from Barret.)
Dyne: Cause I want to destroy everything.
(He shoots at something.)
Dyne: The people of this city.
(He limps back and shoots again.)
Dyne: This city itself.
(He shoots at Barret's feet three times. Barret cringes with each.)
Dyne: The whole world!
(Dyne turns away.)
Dyne: I got nothing left in this world. Corel, Eleanor...Marlene...
Barret: Dyne, Marlene... Marlene's still alive.
(Dyne looks over his shoulder at Barret.)
Dyne: ...?
Barret: I went back into town. I thought she was gone for sure. That is why I wanted to be by her side till the end. That's when I found her... ...found Marlene.
Dyne: ...
Barret: She's in Midgar. Let's go see her together, all right?
Dyne: So... she's still alive...All right, Barret. I guess that means you and I gotta fight.
Barret: What!?
(Dyne turns back toward Barret.)
Dyne: Eleanor's alone all by herself. I've got to take Marlene to her.
Barret: Dyne... are you insane!?
Dyne: Marlene wants to see her Mom, don't she?
(Dyne starts firing directly at Barret. Barret tries to block the bullets with his arms.)
Barret: Stop, Dyne! I can't die yet!
(Dyne stops.)
Dyne: Oh yeah? Well my life's been over ever since then.
(He starts firing again.)
Barret: Stop it! I don't wanna fight you!
(Cloud wanted to help out Barret and only him, but he won't let him.)
Cloud: Barret!
Barret: Cloud, you stay the hell out of it! This is MY problem!
(Boss battle with Dyne for Barret to face alone as the others watched, same with Yakumo to sense his thoughts. Dyne kept on shooting at Barret for him to shoot back, or using his Beta move against him. Dyne goes with a S-mine shot to Barret's Big Shot counter attack. Back and forth, they were going all out. From shooting, blood shed, fist hits, big shots, to Dyne's powerful mocktiv cocktail shot was super powerful for Barret to withstand, all the pain and without Aerith healing him at all for this one; it was so much for them to be running fast to shooting at one another, until Dyne ran out of his and unable to load more bullet,s because Barret shoots him in the arm in time to going down. He has won to his surprise and everyone else's.)
Barret: Thanks for helping me win that one, Yakumo. See you soon.
(Guess it was Yakumo's wishful thinking that made Barret win in the end. Dyne falls to his knees. Barret runs toward him.)
Dyne: Back!
(He gets up and limps over near the cliff's edge. He leans against a piece of broken metal.)
Dyne: ...it wasn't just my arm... back then...I lost something irreplaceable. I don't know where I went wrong...
Barret: Dyne... I don't know either, man. Is this the only way... we can resolve this?
Dyne: I told you... I... I want to destroy everything...Everything... This crazy world... Even me...
Barret: An' what about Marlene? What's gonna happen to her!?
Dyne: Think about it... Barret... How old was Marlene back then...? Even if I did go to her now... she wouldn't even know me...And what's more... Barret...
(He looks at his hands.)
Dyne: These hands are a little too stained to carry Marlene anymore...
(Barret looks down.)
Barret: ...
Dyne: Barret...
(Barret straightens. Dyne tosses something to him.)
Dyne: Give that pendant to Marlene... It was... Eleanors's... my wife's... memento...
Barret: All right...
Dyne: ...wow... Marlene's... already... 4...
(Dyne limps over to the cliff's edge. Many rays of sunlight break through the clouds overhead, striking the ground below the two crude crosses.)
Dyne: Barret...Don't...make...Don't ever make Marlene...cry...
Barret: Dyne...?
(Barret runs forward.)
Barret: Dyne!
(Dyne falls backwards, his arms outstretched, off the cliff's edge.)
Barret: Dy-ne!
(He falls to his knees.)
Barret: ...Dyne. Me an' you were the same...My hands ain't any cleaner... I shouldn't be able to carry... Marlene either...Uuuuurrrrgghh!
(It shows Barret raising his arms to the sky. The sun shines on the forest in the distance. The screen fades to black. Yakumo started to cry to feel out the pain from Barret. Once she sees Dudley arriving after she out runs the rest of the guards trying to find her, she had an idea after seeing poster that she needed her Chocobo for something that was about to happen real soon...)
Yuffie: Bummer...
Red Xlll: With humans, they can be the worse animals on this planet. Some of them.
Aerith: If only we could've saved him.
Tifa: But we didn't...
Cait: Is he going to be alright?
(Cloud knows Barret by heart.)
Cloud: He'll be fine. I think we both know what we need to do next...
(Once Barret calms down a bit, Cloud and the others with him are in the truck where a man name Mr. Coates resides. Maybe a way out with his help? But what's the coast?)
Mr. Coates: You want somethin'?
Barret: I want to go up.
Mr. Coates: Like I told you before, you gotta get the Boss' permission, then win the Chocobo...
Barret: Dyne's got his reasons an' can't speak. So, I got this instead.
(He shows Mr. Coates Dyne's pendant.)
Mr. Coates: Yeah, bull-!
Barret: I want to go up.
(He nods.)
Mr. Coates: R, right. Did you kill Dyne? You must've. Or you'd never be holding that thing. So Dyne's dead... Maybe now, the place'll calm down a little. Dyne didn't care who anyone was...
(Barret grabs him by the neck.)
Barret: The hell do YOU know!?
Mr. Coates: R... ri... right! I mean, no, I DON'T know anything. S, s... sorry.
(Barret releases him. He brushes off his bright green coat.)
Cloud: Then, will you get us outta here?
Mr. Coates: Huh? Oh man, you guys are mistaken.
(He shrugs.)
Mr. Coates: I already told you, there's only one way to get outta here. That's to win the Chocobo Race and that's help up there, in the Gold Saucer. And, only one racer can go up at a time.
(Barret grabs him by the neck again.)
Barret: Say what!?
Mr. Coates: Nooo! Really, even if you threaten me! A rule's a rule. I can't change it. If I do, the whole system down here'll get messed up! An' I can't do that! Okay, ok, I'll let one go up there. After that, he's gotta deal with Dio.
(Barret lets him go.)
Barret: Awright then.
(He turns to Cloud.)
Barret: Cloud, you go. We'll wait down here. Hurry up an' win that Chocobo Race, an' get us outta here! Besides, your Yakumo might be waiting with a little help from Dudley. She might be getting all set up by now.
Tifa: Yu can do it, Cloud.
Aerith: Yes, good luck, Cloud.
Yuffie: Do it! Do it!
Red Xlll: We'll meet up with you. Just win.
Cait: Give them heck, okay?
(Cloud knows that Yakumo 'as Barret said it would happen was nearby waiting for him and the others.)
Cloud: I'm on it. (She knows. Then she's waiting for me.)
Mr. Coates: Have you decided? All you need now is a manager...and register and get a Chocobo...
Ester: Hi... I happened to hear your story.
(Everyone turns toward the door.)
Mr. Coates: Ester?
(Ester walks in.)
Ester: I'll be your manager.
(Seems that Yakumo talked to Ester earlier to have Dudley go into the race to make more money if she helps her out the place. Seems that it worked.)
Mr. Coates: Well, I have nothing against it, but...This is Ester. She may look kinda funny...But there's no better manager in the races.
Ester: That's so rude...Yeah, well. Nice to meet you, Cloud.
(She hands Cloud a letter from Yakumo saying, 'See you soon, Cloud.'. He knows that she's alright for the other seven to be happy about too.)
Mr. Coates: All right then, Cloud. I'll send you up on the elevator. Ester'll fill you in on the details.
Cloud: (Thanks, Yakumo...) Alright, I'm ready. Tell me what to do.
(A Chocobo race to freedom for Cloud and the others, for Yakumo and Dudley will be with them to getting out of prison for good to get the show on the road with Ester's help and in the memory of Dyne. But will it work? All of it? And where will they go to next once they made it when Cloud wins with Dudley's help? Mr. Coates gives Cloud the full details on how the race will go as everyone can hope and watch this whole thing happen. It won't be so easy, it's going to get crazy.)