Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
(From Yakumo's plan with Dudley's help who's entering the race, Cloud's way out who'll be in it, waiting for each other, their way out, and such to getting out of the prison was the only way. As Barret, Tifa, Aerith, Red, Yuffie, and Cait just sat to watch the race happened, Ester and Cloud were riding up the elevator to the Gold Saucer. For the full plan to happen was the only way they can get out. Since Dyne did the killings and not them in the first place.)
Ester: Hmm, so that's what happened. I'll talk to Dio directly. You just concentrate on the race. Oh yeah, getting back to the other thing, there are many different types of Chocobo jockeys. It's not only for criminals. Some people compete for the fame, some people compete for the money, some only for glory... And then there are people like you. Oh yeah, I'll teach you how to ride a Chocobo.
Cloud: All right.
Ester: Hmm...Okay. There are two ways to do what needs to be done in winning the race. In other words, either you control the Chocobo or let it run on its own. But it's pretty hard to make the Chocobo run the way you want it to. If the Chocobo doesn't like you, it won't listen. You can't really help on this one. But, most of the Chocobo's that I'll provide you with are mellow and you should be able to handle them. When you're riding, speed up or slow down if you have to. But, it you go faster than the Chocobo can handle, it'll lose its stamina really fast. And use the Directional button to move the Chocobo left and right, use the O button to get a boost of speed. Of course your stamina runs out faster though. There are some bad-tempered Chocobos that can't pace themselves and they'll lose their stamina pretty fast. For there kinds of Chocobos, you should set the controls on Manual and slow it down. Finally, some advice for the restless, once the first and second Chocobo cross the goal line, you know how to end the race after that.
(Cloud was thinknig about Yakumo for Ester could tell by looking at her.)
Ester: Don't worry, she's fine. You'll see her soon. I heard that your Chocobo's amazing.
Cloud: She rasie it when we found it in our travels.
Ester: Dudley, right? Cute name. You'll see her in a minute now?
Cloud: I will.
(They arrive at the top of the elevator and enter the jockey's lounge. Cloud sees Dudley first to be happy in seeing him and pats him.)
Joe: You new?
Ester: Hi, Joe.
Joe: Hey, Ester, you're looking pretty as usual.
Ester: Thanks. Let me introduce you, Cloud. This is Joe, one of the top Chocobo Jockeys.
Joe: Nice to meet you, Cloud. If you're with Ester, then...
Ester: Right! He's an up and coming jockey. He's only been down here for a day and already he made it up here!
Joe: What!? Oh, I see...So what did you do down there? Sorry... you're not supposed to ask about the past here...Pretty interesting... I have a feeling that we'll meet again. Then, until we meet again, Cloud.
(He leaves.)
Ester: I'm going to check on the Chocobo. You just wait here for a while.
(She leaves. There is a loud tone on the intercom system.)
"The race will start in a few moments. Will the jockeys for the next race, please proceed the the paddock. I repeat..."
(All the jockeys at the table rise and leave.)
Ester: Cloud.
(She arrives in the lounge)
Ester: Thanks for waiting. I registered you in the next race. This is a Chocobo I prepared myself. He won't lose easily. Oh yeah... You know how to ride one?
Cloud: Yeah, I got it.
Ester: Then, good luck.
(As Cloud got Dudley ready, someone gives him a hand to setting the bird up to go.)
Yakumo: Good luck, you two.
(Cloud turns around for Dudley to be making so many noises to be happy in seeing Yakumo again, he just smiles. He knew she would make it and come back to him.)
Cloud: Yakumo...
Yakumo: I manage to deguise myself as a sattble's person to get in thanks to Ester. I prove that Barret's old friend did it all after looking at the evidences from the cameras. So you guys are free to go if you win the race. I know you can do it, Cloud.
(He just goes up to Yakumo and hugs her without her sensing that part to her suprise.)
Yakumo: Cloud?
Cloud: I'm glad...I'm glad to see you safe. You're amazing woman...
(She smiels to hugging him back, for Dudley to rub his head on the both of them with joy.)
Yakumo: Oh, Dudley...Are the others doing alright?
Cloud: Yes. Baret's fine now, just about. Now I need you to watch us do our best in the race, okay?
Yakumo: Okay, you two give them everything you got.
Cloud: We will. Let's go, Dudley.
(As Yakumo and everyone else watches, all the racers with their other Chocobos along with Cloud rides his Chocobo being Dudley being to race and hopefully win with skills, no tricks here. And with the whole strange room Cloud and Dudley had to run all over inside of against the other racers, Cloud was doing it on his own for him and Dudley to come in first. They won and free to go.)
Yakumo: We won!
(Yakumo sees the others Tifa, Aerith, Barret, Yuffie, Red, and Cait to go up to her and saying things like 'glad you're alright' and hugging her. They did it all thanks to Dudley the most for Cloud to ride on him for a race they did. Cloud waits with Yakumo and Dudley on what they have to do next sinc they have won.)
Ester: Congratulations! Now you're home free! Oh yeah, the owner told me to give this letter to you when you won.
Yakumo: Hey, it's from Dio.
(Dio: "Boy, if you're reading this letter, then you must have won. And won a victory that I am sure you earned. I heard about Dyne from Ester. Now that you are victorious, I promise that you and all your friends will get a full pardon, and you will all be set free. It's all good. That's to the girl name Yakumo, we wouldn't have enough proof in seeing your innocences. Guess I was wrong. And also, by way of apology, I prepared a little gift for you to use on your journey. Sorry I couldn't be there to tell you this in person, but I'm a very busy man. Sincerely, Dio, P.S. You people behave yourselves, including Yakumo. She's lucky to have you around her. Ha!")
(Cloud turns red when he read that part.)
Yakumo: Cloud...?
Cloud: I'm fine... Huh? A gift?
(The PHS rings. Cloud answers.)
Yakumo: Cloud, the rings.
Aerith: Cloud, Yakumo, isn't this great!? The assistant manager just stopped by and dropped off a 'buggy' for you! Now you can go over 'deserts' and 'rivers' no problem. OK, Cloud. I'll be waiting outside.
Yakumo: Okay, Aerith, we'll be right out.
Cloud: (Hmm? The letter continues...)
Yakumo: Wait, there's more?
("Dio: P.P.S. I just recently met Sephiroth. He must have a lot of fans with boys your age. Why don't you get his autograph? It seems he's headed toward the South of the river, towards Gongaga.")
Yakumo: Sephiroth!?
Cloud: Sephiroth...!
Ester: I guess this is goodbye. Yeah. Well, and since you got your own Chocobo, come race again. I'll take care of your registration and everything. I'll see you again. Bye, Yakumo.
Yakumo: Bye, Ester! Thanks for everything! Say bye to her, Dudley.
(Dudley makes a noise in saying his good-byes.)
Yakumo: Let's go, Cloud, this is our chance.
(He holds Yakumo's hand to walk out together with Dudley following them to help them travel again and fight monsters on the way for more training.)
Cloud: Right.
(Cloud, Yakumo, and Dudley with the other six exit the Gold Saucer and drives south on his new buggy, towards Gongaga. It was some fun car ride for everyone and Dudley to be in to get around to that important place they needed to go to next. As Cloud and the others arrive in the Gongaga area. Cloud approaches an intersection along the forest path leading to the town, then stops. Yakumo had to go get something to drink by filttering the bottles clean near a lake, unaware that two people were in the forest too. For Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Aerith, Yuffie, Red, and Cait to be spying on.)
Aerith: Where's Yakumo?
Tifa: I thought she was behind us with Dudley.
Aerith: Where did she go?
(They soon hear a noise.)
Cloud: Is someone there?
(It was Reno and Rude are standing in the road for Yakumo to see them before showing herself to them.)
Yakumo: (Oh, no.)
Reno: Hey, Rude. Who do you like?
(Rude turns away.)
Reno: What are you getting so embarrassed about? Come on? Who do you like?
Rude: ...Tifa.
Tifa: (What? Me!?)
Reno: Hmmmm...That's a tough one. But, poor Elena. She... you..."
Rude: No, she likes Tseng.
Reno: I never knew that! But Tseng likes that Ancient...
Aerith: (I would never...!)
Cloud: (What are they talking about?)
(Yakumo tries sneaking away quietly for Reno smelled someone was near by that he know of.)
Reno: Hello! I know who I really like...
(He quickly moves next to her, and presents a rose to winning over Yakumo, or at least he's trying to.)
Reno: It's you.
Yakumo: Ah!
(Rude corners Yakumo with no way out for the others to see her in danger.)
Rude: Don't move.
Reno: Rude, I got this. She's not going anywhere. Aren't, cutie...? What's your name?
(Cloud gets ready to stop the two men with his sword out.)
Cloud: Yakumo-!
(But Elena enters, coming up behind Cloud and the others.)
Elena: It's so stupid! They always talk about who they like or don't like. But Tseng is different. Ah! Oh no!
(She runs over to Reno and Rude are while Yakumo was being cornered.)
Reno: Yakumo, huh? That's a nice name. I'm Reno. Unlike Elena and Rude here, or Tseng, I'm different from the others. I'm the type that does my joy well to being paid for and to fall in love. From the moment we took down the area where AVALANCHE with the bomb I placed, I saw you with those guys. I fell in love. Head over heels for you, Yakumo. Must be destiny for us to meet again. I heard you had some powers, so why don't you come with me instead.
Yakumo: No. I'm with Cloud...
Reno: Really? Forget him.
(Elena runs over to the guys to report.)
Elena: They're here! They're really here!
(They see them.)
Cloud: Let go of her...!
Reno: Hmm... Then it's time...Rude... Don't go easy on them even though they're girls. I got her...
Yakumo: No!
(Reno grabs hold of Yakumo to keep her close to him.)
Reno: Nope. You'll be coming with us for now on.
Yakumo: Cloud! Aerith! Save me!
Aerith, Tifa, Barret, Yuffie, Cait, and Red: Yakumo!
Rude: ...Don't worry, I'll do my job.
Elena: Then, we're counting on you. I'll report to Tseng! And remember, Yakumo or her step sister must be brought back alive, the rest you may get rido f if you have to!
(She runs off.)
Reno: It's been a while. And I see you made new friends in your group. It's payback time for what you did in Sector 7.
Cloud: Out of our way. And let Yakumo go!
(Cloud never been tis angry before to see Yakumo in danger and being jealous at Reno for hitting on her.)
Reno: I don't like being taken for a fool. I'm a lover to Yakumo, but I'm still a fighter. That's as far as you and your merry-men will go.
(Yakumo manages to uses her feet to move to kicking Reno in the nts to make her escape in joining the others.)
Yakumo: Cloud!
(She hugs him for that hit injuried Reno a bit, but he was already use to it.)
Reno: Ow...! I felt worse-! My God! Smoking hot! Yakumo, come back to your Reno! Do that to me again and call me dirty names. I love a woman who's hot blooded!
Rude: Show off...
Cloud: I won't let you touch her again...!
Barret: That right, pervert!
Tifa: Pay back time!
Aerith: You will not lay a figner on Yakumo again!
Yuffie: Bring it on!
Red Xlll: I'm ready too.
Cait: All bets are off then. Ready...Go!
(Yakumo stay strong to aid the others to creating her shiled and they were all good to go.)
Yakumo: Try getting us...
Reno: Alright, let's dance!
(Boss battle with Reno and Rude. Yuffie's ninja skills, Red's animals insticts, Aerith's fire magic, and Cait's magchine beats Rude and Reno a little for them to move quickly to avoid their attacks really fast. They're not so easy to beat them. Compare how Rude is storng in hand to hand combat and Reno with his powerful staff was something else, Yakumo shielded the others in time; Tifa used Beta, Barret used fire missle skills, and Cloud used his Cross-Slash skills on Rude leaving Yakumo to cure them if she had to. From Barret's many gun shots and Big Shot, he was down, Though got back up to leave as Reno tries to deal with them to get to Yakumo, not on Cloud's watch. He cuts right through to him and was down but alright. They won. But Reno wasn't done with Yakumo yet, he grabs her to carry somewhere in the woods for the others to follow him.)
Rude: Not my problem.
(Rude takes off to wait for Reno.)
Yakumo: Ah! Cloud!
Aerith: Not again!
Cloud: After him!
(They follow, for Yakumo pushes Reno away to escape even though she fell to the ground, he pins her down with his body closes to hers.)
Yakumo: Get off of me!
Reno: Yakumo...You know you can't run away from your past. Your sister a SOLIDER, in finding her after your parents were killed five years ago...I'm on your side. We''re savng lives. We have to take what needs to be protected. Like you and that Anicent girl Aerith.
Yakumo: What...? How do you know?
Reno: I leanr a lot whe working. That doesn't mean I can give you pleasure than taking you to we Turks work at. I'll be gentle.
(Yakumo begins to cry.)
Yakumo: No...No stay away...!
Reno: I know you'll love me back, Yakumo. If you just let me. I really do love you.
(Reno holding Yakumo to kissing her, triggers something with her to snap to glowing up to letting out a big scream.)
Yakumo: NO!
(This sends Reno flying off of her to the ground really hard. He gets up to go back for her, but he gets a call from headquaters to retreat with Rude for now.)
Reno: Ouch...! Damn! Not now! Great...Yakumo, I will come back and save you. You have my word. I won't give up on you! (Cloud so going down for this!)
(He leaves, for Yakumo couldn't beleive to see how much she has grown stronger than she ever thought she would.)
Yakumo: Did I...? (Oops, I didn't want to hurt him...He still isn't my type.)
(Dudley calls out for he spotted Yakumo safe and sound for Cloud, Tifa, Aerith, Barret, Yuffie, Cait, and Red to be happy to see her alright.)
Aerith: Yakumo! You okay!
Yakumo: Aerith!
(The two step sisters hugged and so did Cloud to everyone else's suprise.)
Cloud: Yakumo.
Yakumo: I'm fine, Cloud. He ran off. I guess my ESP powers are getting stronger.
Cait: So they are.
Red Xlll: Not bad.
Yuffie: You're skillful as I am, Yakumo.
Barret: Kick ass there! Show the loser who's boss!
(Yakumo laughs, for she's happy to have another sister, friends, and Cloud in her life.)
Yakumo: Oh, you guys...Anyways, wasn't strange that the Turks were waiting for us?
Aerith: No kidding...How could they know we were coming here?
Cloud:They followed us... But there weren't any signs of it. Then, that means...
Tifa: A spy!? ...No way.
Yakumo: Cloud?
(Cloud turns away and looks up.)
Cloud: I don't even want to think that there's a spy...
(He turns.)
Cloud: I trust everyone. I trust Yakumo.
Yakumo: Oh, Cloud...I sense no traitors here.
Cloud: Then let's keep on going.
Yakumo: Okay. (I know they're on our side, the Turks. It just...Why do they want to capture me and Aerith to keep us safe? From Sepiroth? From my Sister?)
(Cloud, Yakumo, and the others goe up one path to a reactor in the distance. The surrounding area is littered with massive chunks of steel debris, and the reactor itself stands in ruins, as if blown apart.)
Yakumo: It looks diserted.
Cloud: A ruined reactor.
(A helicopter lands near the entrance, and Scarlet and Tseng get out of it.)
Yakumo: Cloud!
Cloud: It's Scarlet, Head of Shinra Weapon Development.
Yakumo: From the Shirna Building.
(They hide behind the reactor. Scarlet and Tseng approach. Scarlet pokes around in the rubble. Yakumo senses other things from them, though on their side they were still dangerous.)
Scarlet: ...Hmph! This isn't any good either. You only get junky materia from junky reactors.
(She walks back over to Tseng.)
Scarlet: This reactor's a failure. What I'm looking for is big, large, huge materia. You seen any?
Tseng: No, I haven't seen it. I'll get on it right away.
Scarlet: Please. We could make the ultimate weapon if we only had some.
Tseng: I just can't wait.
Scarlet: With Hojo gone, the Weapon Development's been getting a bigger budget."
Tseng: I envy them.
Scarlet: But, even if we make the perfect weapon, could that stupid Heidegger ever use it?
Tseng: ...
Scarlet: Oh... sorry! I forgot Heidegger was your boss! Ha, ha, ha!
Tseng: ...
Scarlet: Let's go!
(They leave.)
Yakumo: No way...They're serious.
Cloud: ...Big, large, huge materia? An ultimate weapon? The perfect weapon? Just what are the Shinra up to...?
(Shows Scarlet and Tseng getting into the helicopter, which takes off. Cloud grabs the materia Scarlet passed up, Titan, and heads back to the intersection and down the other path. It leads to Gongaga town. As Cloud, Yakumo, and everyone else enters, then shows the ruined reactor we already visited.)
Cloud: A ruined reactor...
Yakumo: My God, look at this place.
(Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, Aerith, Yuffie, Red, Barret, and Cait had a look around a hand made village. From Inn's, item, armor, to weapon shops, other people living a normal life, and then they enter a house near the southern edge of Gongaga. A man gets up from a chair inside.)
"You are travelers? Hey wait, that glare in your eye... you in SOLDIER?"
(Meaning that Cloud was from looking at him A woman, presumably his wife, comes around the table.)
"Oh you're right! Don't you know anything about our son?"
"His name is Zack."
(Yakumo remembers that person name Aerith once knew of.)
Yakumo: (That was Aerith's boyfriend.)
"It's been close to 10 years since he left for the city, saying that he didn't want to live in the country..."
"He left saying he's going to join SOLDIER. You ever hear of a Zack in SOLDIER?"
Cloud: Hmmm... I don't know.
Yakumo: He doesn't, but both Aerith and I do.
(Aerith looks down.)
Aerith: Zack...
Yakumo: You don't have to tell them if you don't want to.
"Young lady, you know him?"
"I remember he wrote us 6 or 7 years ago saying that he had a girlfriend. Could that have been you?"
(Cloud turns to Aerith.)
Aerith: That can't...
Yakumo: Aerith!
(She turns and leaves the house.)
Tifa: Zack...
Yuffie, Red, and Cait: Zack?
Barret: Another SOLIDER?
(She follows Aerith.)
Cloud: What happened to you two?
Yakumo: Cloud, help me talk to her.
(He follows them with Yakumo outside. Aerith is standing behind a house, facing a rock.)
Cloud: Aerith...
Aerith: What a shock... I didn't know Zack was from this town.
Cloud: You know him?
Yakumo: She did. We did, but he liked her more.
(She turns to Cloud.)
Aerith: Didn't I tell you? He was my first love.
Cloud: ...
Aerith: Zack... SOLDIER First Class. Same as Cloud.
Yakumo: Yes. I remember that he was!
Cloud: Strange, there aren't that many who make First Class, but I've never heard of him.
(She turns back to the rock.)
Aerith: That's all right. It's all in the past now. I was just worried because I heard he's been missing.
Cloud: Missing?
Yakumo: Yes, like my older sister was. That helped you and that girl out. Did you know of her?
Cloud: Sorry, Yakumo, afraid I never saw her when I was in SOLIDER.
(At least Cloud tried to remember her and Zack that he never see them.)
Aerith: I think it was 5 years ago. He went out on a job, and never came back. He loved women, a real lady's man. He probably found someone else...
(She walks to Cloud.)
Aerith: Hey? What's wrong?
Cloud: Poor guy.
Yakumo: Aerith, a good man he was, it felt like he was cheating on you.
Aerith: I don't really mind that I haven't heard from him. But I feel for his parents.
Yakumo: You can tell us the story now or later if you like to them.
Aerith: No, it's fine. Just needed to get it out of me. Let's go, Cloud and Yakumo.
Yakumo: Got it. What's up, Tifa?
(Tifa wanted to say something to Cloud about this whole issue.)
Tifa: You know, Cloud...That sounds just like you, leaving town, and saying 'I'm joining SOLDIER!'
Cloud: There were a lot of guys like that back then.
Tifa: You must really be something making it in SOLDIER out of a group like that. I really respect you...
Cloud: I worked hard for it.
Tifa: Hard work pays off, huh? Cloud, thanks for caring.
Cloud: I did once want to be like Sephiroth once, but now...
Yakumo: You do what you want to do.
Cloud: That's right. Let's keep going.
(Everyone left the village to head to where they needed to be in the car with Dudley following them from behind since he was part of the team.)
Yakumo: (Everyone has some good to bad times from the past, hard to change for the most parts. But moving on to a better future makes us on who we are and always will be. Like Zack and my older sister, I hope they're alright somewhere in this world still.)
Cloud: You okay, Yakumo?
(Yakumo lays her head down on Cloud lap.)
Yakumo: I'm okay, Cloud, I'm okay.
(They board the buggy and head northeast, to Cosmo Canyon. Right outside the town, the buggy begins to spark.)
"!?"
(The buggy makes some loud banging noises. Cloud gets out)
Cloud: Oh man... a breakdown? Now?
Yakumo: Guess we're riding on Dudley later on. Let just stop at the village to know where we have to go to. Dudley, stay there until we need you again.
(For Dudley to wait as Cloud, Yakumo, and everyone else have entered the town of Cosmo Canyon. At the entrance, Red XIII comes bounding up and speaks with the gate man.)
Red XIII: I am home! It is I, Nanaki!
"Hey, Nanaki! You're safe! Come on, and say hello to Bugenhagen!"
(He runs off, up some stairs.)
Cloud and Yakumo: ...Nanaki?
Aerith: Cosmo... Canyon? I wonder if there's any relation to the planet or the Ancients...
Barret: Oh, great. He didn't tell us more than we thought we knew of him!
Yuffie: Maybe he's an magical creature.
Cait: Maybe a God...Or not.
Tifa: Red XIII seems different, doesn't he?
Yakumo: That he is. But is his real name Nanaki?
(Cloud speaks with the gate man.)
"Welcome to Cosmo Canyon. Are you familiar with this land?"
Cloud: No.
"Let me explain. People from all over the world gather here to seek the Study of Planet Life."
Barret: Really!? I always wanted to come here!
Yakumo: You did?
Barret: Well, I didn't think it was real until now.
"Ummgah! It's full capacity at present, so I'm afraid I can't let you enter."
(Red XIII comes down the stairs.)
Red XIII: They helped me some when I was on the road. Please let them in.
(He runs off.)
"...Oh, is that so? You helped our Nanaki? Please, come in."
Yakumo: Thank you very much.
Cloud: Who is Nanaki?
Yakumo: Is it Red Xlll?
"Nanaki is Nanaki. That's his name."
Yakumo: Really?
(Red XIII was waiting at the top of the stairs.)
Yakumo: Red, this place is so cool.
Red XIII: Thank you. Here is where I was... I mean, ...this is my hometown. My tribe were protectors of those who appreciate this beautiful canyon and the Planet. My brave mother fought and died here, but my cowardly father left her... I am the last of my race.
(Yakumo felt half of Red's pain to sense what happened to him in the past being true.)
Yakumo: Oh, so sorry to hear that.
Cloud: Cowardly father?
Red XIII: Yes. My father was a wastrel. And so the mission I inherited from my ancestors, is to protect this place. My journey ends here.
"Hey! Nanaki-! You're home!"
Red XIII: Coming, Grandpa!
(He runs off.)
Yakumo: What did he mean by his journey ends here?
Tifa: That's perfect. Why don't we take a break too? We can meet back here in a while, OK?
Yakumo: We better go see how Red's doing in his hometown. (I hope he won't be leaving us.)
(The others run off. as they, Cloud, and Yakumo traveled to the very top of Cosmo Canyon, not being too high for them of course. He enters the shack there. Red XIII and Bugenhagen are waiting.)
Red XIII: Cloud, everyone, and Yakumo, this is my grandfather, Bugen. He is incredible. He knows everything.
Yakumo: Just different, right?
Cait: Compare to me and Yakumo?
Red Xlll: Sort of different than reading someone's future or sensing things out. That different.
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. I hear that you looked after Nanaki a bit. Nanaki is still a child you see.
Red XIII: Please stop, grandfather. I'm 48.
(Everyone else was shock about this seeing that Red's different than just a type of wolf.)
Tifa, Yuffie, Barret, Aerith, and Cait: 48 years old!?
Cloud: You are?
(Yakumo feels Red out being more than a trapped lab rat, he was captured by Hojo, meaning he was one of his last kinds in the world.)
Yakumo: He's right! Amazing...
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. Nanaki's tribe has incredible longevity. So you see his 48 years would only be equivalent to say that of a 15 or 16 year old in human reckoning.
Yakumo: Well, that makes sense there.
Cloud: 15 or 16!?
Bugenhagen: He's quiet and very deep. You thought he was an adult?
(Red XIII looks down.)
Yakumo: No, I knew the was around that age.
(Bu the others didn't know, not even Cloud.)
Cloud: I didn't...
Red XIII: ...grandfather. I want to be an adult. I want to grow up to be able to protect you and the village.
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. No Nanaki. You can't stand on your own yet.
(He shakes his head.)
Bugenhagen: To do that now would destroy you in the long run.
(He looks up.)
Bugenhagen: Reaching up into the heavens, threatening to snatch the very stars from the great city of Midgar. You're seen it, haven't you?
(He looks forward again.)
Bugenhagen: Well, that's a bad example. Looking up too much makes you lose perspective.
(He jumps up on the table.)
Bugenhagen: When it's time for this planet to die, you'll understand that you know absolutely nothing.
Cloud: ...When the planet dies?
Yakumo: What?
(The music fades.)
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. It may be tomorrow, or 100 years from now... But it's not long off.
Cloud: How do you know this?
(Bugenhagen looks down for a moment.)
Bugenhagen: I hear the cries of the Planet.
(There is a loud sound, resembling a whale song, very guttural, and natural. From up of the top of the house, showing the observatory there.)
Cloud: What's that?
Yakumo: Sounds awful!
Bugenhagen: That sounds of the stars in the heavens. While this goes on, planets are born, and die.
(There is a much louder sound, mixing with the others, much like the others, but.. mournful, painful.)
Yakumo: Too loud!
Cloud: What was that?
(Goes back down to Bugenhagen, Cloud, Yakumo, Red XIII, and everyone else in the team.)
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. That was a scream from this planet. Didn't you hear it? As if to say... I hurt, I suffer...
(The louder sound stops.)
Red XIII: They have come here on a journey to save the planet. Why don't you show them your apparatus?
(Bugenhagen jumps off the table. The music fades back in again.)
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. To save the planet? Ho Ho Hoooo!
(He turns to Cloud and Yakumo.)
Bugenhagen: But, then again, I guess it wouldn't hurt to show him or her.
"Bugenhagen!"
(A young boy enter the shack.)
"Several odd looking people have come."
Bugenhagen: The whole place has gotten busy all of a sudden.
Red XIII: He brought friends too. I'll go get them.
(Red XIII leaves the shack.)
Red XIII: Cloud, you, Yakumo, and the rest of the gang please call one of them to my grandfather's machine.
Bugenhagen: Don't worry. My machine won't run away. You go and invite your friends.
Yakumo: Cloud? Should we?
Cloud: Guess we have to. Let's go.
(Cloud, Yakumo, Barret, Tifa, Aerith, Yuffie, Red, and Cait scattered around Cosmo Canyon where Bugenhagen was waiting for them in the other room...)
Yakumo: We're all here, sir. What is it about this machine Red wanted you to show us?
Bugenhagen: Oh, that's right. Glad you all ca come. Here, over here. The door's unlocked, come on in.
(Cloud and the rest of the team enter in the observatory room.)
Cloud: Here goes.
Red Xlll: Go ahead, grandfather, whenever you're ready.
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. It looks like you have them all together. Then let's begin. I'll stand there.
(Bugenhagen activates the elevator. It takes them to the upper level, where there is a model of the solar system.)
Yuffie: Cool!
Cait: It looks so real up close.
Tifa: Amazing...!
Aerith: So pretty... It's just like the real thing!
Barret: This is what the solar system looks like?
(Bugenhagen floats up near Jupiter.)
Bugenhagen: Hmm, yes pretty good. This is my laboratory. All the workings of space are entered into this 3D Holographic System.
(Aerith looks around.)
Aerith: Hey! A shooting star!
(A shooting star rockets past Aerith, followed by a glowing orb, and several meteors. All of these are sucked into a black hole in the corner.)
Aerith: Wow, how wonderful.
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. Yes, it is something, isn't it? Well, let's get to the subject. Eventually... all humans die. What happens to them after they die? The body decomposes, and returns to the Planet. That much everyone knows. What about their consciousness, their hearts and their souls? The soul too returns to the Planet. And not only those of humans, but everything on this Planet. In fact, all living things in the universe, are the same.
(He raises his arms.)
Bugenhagen: The spirits that return to the Planet, merge with one another and roam the Planet. They roam, converge, and divide, becoming a swell, called the 'Lifestream'. Lifestream... In other words, a path of energy of the souls roaming the Planet.
(He lowers his arms.)
Bugenhagen: 'Spirit Energy' is a word that you should never forget. A new life... children are blessed with Spirit energy and are brought into the world. Then, the time comes with they die and once again return to the Planet... Of course there are exceptions, but this is the way of the world. I've digressed, but you'll understand better if you watch this.
(Zooms in on model Earth. We see trees and humans being born, then die. Their bodies becomes masses of swirling light, then streak across the surface of the Earth, merging. On the other side of the planet, the energy forms into a new being. Streaks of energy cover the planet, glowing many colors. Bugenhagen floats over to the planet.)
Bugenhagen: Spirit energy makes all things possible, trees, birds, and humans.
(Bugenhagen lifts his arm.)
Bugenhagen: Not just living things. But Spirit energy makes it possible for Planets to be Planets.
(The energy begins to converge at a point near Bugenhagen's hand.)
Bugenhagen: What happens if that Spirit energy were to disappear?
(The energy is all drawn into Bugenhagen's sleeve. When it is all gone, the planet turns jet-black, and crumbles, huge chunks floating off into space.)
Bugenhagen: ...These are the basics of the Study of Planet Life.
Cloud: If the Spirit energy is lost, our Planet is destroyed...
Yakumo: How awful! Hoe do we stop it? Is there a way?
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. Spirit energy is efficient BECAUSE it exists within nature. When Spirit energy is forcefully extracted, and manufactured, it can't accomplish its true purpose.
(Cloud and Yakumo look up at Bugenhagen.)
Cloud: You're talking about Mako energy, right?
Yakumo: But didn't that part turn some people like my sister from SOLIDER into monsters because of it?
Bugenhagen: Everyday Mako reactors suck up Spirit energy, diminishing it. Spirit energy gets compressed in the reactors and processed into Mako energy. All living things are being used up and thrown away. In other words, Mako energy will only destroy the Planet...
(The elevator lowers again. Bugenhagen and the others are lowered to floor level.)
Bugenhagen: The story of the planets... and those who lived with them...You want to know more? Then you must listen to the words of the elders.
Yakumo: Guess we have to, right?
(Yakumo then had this to ask Bugenhagen because she sense a lot more within him on what he knows about her past, her sister, and what's going on now besides Aerith is the last Ancients.)
Yakumo: One more thing I wish to ask you...
(He already knows what it is to answer her.)
Bugenhagen: About your memory and your older sister's whereabouts to the mysterious girl that this young man saved? Easy! Your parents were killed by an evil man in black carrying a sword for you to go after him barely burned, to being stabbed to be hanging on the edge of death...That girl was you. For Cloud saved you that day, that the Mako energy turning your sister into a beast, she was saved by him too, but died for saving him, his best friend, and you. Couldn't save her parents in time, the father of the girl, or a few others from the village five years ago. Afraid you're the key, young lady. You are half human and Mako lucky to still be alive, you're the last Mako being who saves lives and the main reason you have ESP powers.
Barret, Yuffie, and Cait: What!?
(With that said, this shocks Yakumo completely to start remembering. Same with Cloud to remember that part, a little for Tifa, Barret, Yuffie, Aerith, Red, and Cait to hear about as well. Yakumo couldn't even move but to fall on her knees.)
Red Xlll: Grandfather...
Bugenhagen: Hard to handle it all, but it's true I'm afraid. So sorry.
Aerith I never knew...Oh, Yakumo.
(Aerith goes over to Yakumo hugging her.)
Tifa: This is such...Cloud!
(Cloud remembers now, the girl he saved was her sister to Yakumo's for she gave up her life to saving the three from five years ago.)
Cloud: Now...I remember...! I did save them then she saved us and Yakumo!
Yakumo: No...
(Everyone hears Yakumo talking.)
Yakumo: No...I can't be a Mako being, a half breed...My sister's dead...! She gave up her life to saving me! Same with Cloud and Tifa with who knows what! So why...? Why do I have these powers? Is that why Turks, Rufus, and Shinra are after me too!? I...I don't believe it!
(Yakumo goes running off to the nearby Inn building to be crying on the bed in sorrow. Aerith tells Cloud to go to her as the others waited to leave the two alone.)
Aerith: Cloud!
(Bugenhagen places his hand on Cloud's shoulders.)
Bugenhagen: Go to her, young man. Both you and her are the keys that can still save our world. Cheer her up, she does care about you so.
(Cloud understood and goes to Yakumo.)
Cloud: Thank you.
(As the other six waited for Red to leave it be, Tifa and Cait to be confused about, Aerith prays for the best from Yakumo to still be sisters with her, and Yuffie worried to go see her too, but Barret stops her in time.)
Yuffie: Yakumo-!
Barret: Don't do it. This something they need to work out together...Trust me.
(So Yuffie had to listen to him. Leaving Bugenhagen to stay calm through the whole thing. As Cloud races to Yakumo side wherever building she was at to finding her, she just cries out the whole truth being very hard to deal with. Will they still try to save the world as a team in time after that? And keep on going? It was hard, but some destinies by luck must be made for the greater good.)