Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
(So much to give in the real truth for Yakumo...To learn that her real sister died to saving hers, Cloud, and Tifa's life being Mako monster since she was from SOLIDER from five years ago. After Cloud saved her and Yakumo first when Sepriroth killed and burned the village where their paretns were at. Along with having ESP Mako powers within her being a half breed of human and Mako; lately she use them to saving lives only for not only Shirna wants it as well as Rufus, but Turks as well. Being all true for Aerith to learning about it and being the last Anicents...Cloud goes to find Yakumo to cheer her up. For only thsoe two can save the world yet and stop Sepriroth, little by little remembering back then; along with Barret, Tifa, Aerith, Red, Yuffie, and Cait by their side on this journey. Cloud tires looking at one of the two Inn's in finding Yakumo for she was tired out from crying ot still feeling upset to still hide from the corners of the room in hearing Cloud calling out so many times.)
Cloud: Yakumo! Yakumo! Yakumo!
(Yakumo just covered her head, finally Cloud finally finds her to turning on the light to sit down next to her seeing that she was still upset.)
Cloud: There you are.
Yakumo: Please go away. I'm just a half breed.
Cloud: You just having trouble handling the truth, it's okay.
(Cloud rubs Yakumo's back.)
Yakumo: No, Cloud. I almost died, same with you and Tifa. But...My sister did to turn into those things and saving us. Not our parents or Tifa's father. I let her die.
(Cloud pulls Yakumo close to him.)
Cloud: Come here.
Yakumo: ! Cloud!
(He keeps Yakumo company to making her feel better.)
Cloud: That think we saw first Sepriroth and I, it dided once it was out of its pod. Your sister was lucky to live long enough to save us becasue I saved her. She wanted ot save you beccause it wassn't your time to go. She give you life before you were dead to save this world; you have a gift of ESP mix with Mako only you can use, Yakumo. I'm greatful. Tifa's greatful to still be alive. I'm happy because I was gald it was you I saved that day.
(Soon Yakumo stopped crying for she does remember aiding everyone so far on this journey, so they still love her. Just by being herself, even for Aerith's happy to have a sister in her life related or not, and Cloud...He was happy he met her five years ago to be meeting again, another reason why Cloud cares for her so much, love at first sight to him.)
Yakumo: You really think so...?
Cloud: Do you remember on that day?
(So far Yakumo started to put the missing memory pieces together at a time.)
Yakumo: Yes...I'm starting to...I was there with my Mom and Dad to visit with my sister who was in SOLIDER like you and Zack once were. Near the village she lived like you and Tifa grew up at. We waited, for she was not heard after three days for us to worry, only to get her note to say come by. We did...Until...He came to burn and kill everyone. My Mom and Dad were stabbed to death before the fire burned their bodies. I escaped but was burned badly to stopping Sepriroth alone. I don't know what I was thinknig...Then I felt his sword cutting me down, I had to stop the bleeding. I knew someone did for me, I didn't know it was you, Cloud. Until I remembered...As I was lying on the floor to crawl for help but stop and tried not to fall asleep, I heard her. My sister calling out to me. I didn't see her, but I knew she was there. Then she places her arms on me, I passed out, then I woke up losing my memories. I was alone to find myself in another village out of the blue. So wondered cold, scared, tire,d thirsty, and hungry. That's when Aerith's and my other Mother found me and took me new. To haveing a new step mother and older step sister in my life. They cared, loved, helped me in life, and train me. Yep. I learn how to control my powers more thanks to Aerith. She stood by me, and I stood by her at the times those people wanted her Anicent powers. We were close. That's when I met with you guys and the rest...It all makes sense now.
(Made sense what Yakumo remembers so far.)
Cloud: Feel better now?
Yakumo: I'm fine. It just...
Cloud: Why? You heard it from Red's grandfather. You and I are the only hopes left in saving our world and the others. They want to help out. I wish I knew more, it does sound important not to ignore.
Yakumo: So we have to do it, even for me since my Mako can make a difference. I'm surprise Aerith still loves me after hearing the whole thing. Barret, Yuffie, Tifa, Cait, Red, her, and you. They still care?
(Cloud looks at Yakumo.)
Cloud: Of course they do. I do. We would never leave you for being different, we like you on who you are and nothing else.
Yakumo: Cloud...Thank you.
(She goes up to hugging him for Cloud to embrace her with so much this time to grow much better.)
Cloud: We need you on this journey. Don't go. I'm nothing without you...
Yakumo: Cloud...
(Once the two let go, Yakumo had to see how everyone else was doing next since she was feeling much better this time thanks to CLoud.)
Yakumo: Okay, I think I'm good now. Should we see how everyone else is doing?
(Cloud smiles.)
Cloud: Don't see why not.
(Cloud and Yakumo leave the INN building and go down to the Cosmo Candle. The other six were all waiting there. They sits down and talks to each one at a time, and they see them happy so Yakumo was back to being her normal self.)
Yakumo: Sorry, guys.
Cloud: Don't worry. We talked, she's still staying.
(The others cheered wit hDudley there too, so during night time they all sat near the camp fire outside to eat, drink, and talk to one another on what just happened today.)
Aerith: I learned a lot. The elders taught me many things. About Yakumo...About the Cetra... And the Promised Land...
(She looks down.)
Aerith: I'm... alone... I'm all alone now...
Yakumo: What? No you're not, Aerith. You got me.
Cloud: But I'm... we're here for you, right? Like Yakumo said, she's feeling better now.
Yakumo: Why say this all of a sudden?
(She shakes her head.)
Aerith: I know. I know, but... I am the only... Cetra.
Cloud: Does that mean we can't help?
(She looks away. Cloud and Yakumo both get up.)
Yakumo: Aerith, don't. You're not alone. Don't say these things. You got Mom, me your sister, Cloud, and the others here being all of your friends.
Aerith: Yakumo?
Yakumo: ...I almost lost faith...And it's not just Cloud talking to me that got me through, no. I'm still scared, but I know I'm not alone. My sister knew I was going to live, she knew she was going to die, that didn't scare her. She kept on pulling through for me until the end so I can't let her death or her powers she gave to me go to waste. If she wants me to use it for good, then I will. Knowing I won't be alone after coming this far in our journey. So please, Aerith, don't let yourself down. Not like I almost did.
(Aerith smiled to cry tears of joy to hug Yakumo, she understood in not giving up.)
Aerith: You're right, Yakumo, if that's true then I will like you are. Sorry.
Yakumo: Don't be. We will do just fine as along as we stick together.
Aerith: Right.
(As the sister were all good, how do the others feel about their goal?)
Cait Sith: I wonder how many years it's been...Gosh, it brings back memories...
Yuffie: Saving the world, helping people, stopping bad guys...I mean can this get any better than that? So cool! I mean...Of course I don't mind helping if Yakumo's going too.
Yakumo: Yes.
Cait: She's in, then I'm in too.
Barret: Cosmo Canyon... This's where AVALANCHE was born...I promised my guys someday... when we saved the planet from the Shinra, that we'd all go to Cosmo Canyon and celebrate...Biggs... Wedge... Jessie...Now they're all gone... died for the planet...Really? To save the planet? We all... we all hate the Shinra...Do I even got to go on? Will they... ...will they ever forgive me?
Yakumo: I'm sure they would forgive you, Barret. I can feel it within my heart.
(He shakes his head.)
Barret: Guess so, Yakumo. Reminded me of my wife and one of the groups...You're good kid, you helped me pull through my hard times too...Right now, I really don't know. But I know one thing. If there's anything I can do, to save the planet... or the people livin' on it... Then I'm gonna do it! I don't care if it's for justice or revenge, or whatever. I don't care...let 'em decide for 'emselves.
Yakumo: Really?
(He stands up and waves his arms around.)
Barret: Urrrrrgh! I'm gonna do it! Again... Again... AVALANCHE's born again! With more and awesome members!
(Yakumo laughs with joy.)
Yakumo: That's the spirit, Barret!
(He sits back down.)
Tifa: Cloud...Bonfires are funny, aren't they? They make you remember all sorts of things.
(She looks at Cloud.)
Tifa: You know, Cloud. 5 Years ago...
(Cloud nods.)
Cloud: Yes?
Tifa: ...It's nothing.
(She looks at the fire again.)
Tifa: No, forget it. I'm afraid to ask...
(Cloud looks at Tifa.)
Cloud: What is it...?
Tifa: It feels like... It feels like you're going far away...
(She looks at him.)
Tifa: You really, really are... you... right?
(Cloud gets up.)
Yakumo: Not as long as we stick together, Tifa, we won't leave anyone's side.
(Red says something next.)
Red XIII: ...Long ago...When I was still very small. We were all around this flame...
(He shakes his head.)
Yakumo: In the fire?
Red XIII: No, never mind...
Cloud: What happened?
Red XIII: It's about my parents. When I talk about my mother, I am full of pride and joy...And that's fine. ...But when I remember my father, my heart is full of anger...
(Bugenhagen floats over near them.)
Bugenhagen: ...You really can't forgive your father...?
Yakumo: It's you!
Bugenhagen: I knew you come through, young lady.
Yakumo: Well, I learn of my destiny, for my sister. I'll use these powers for good. She helped me live on after all. Thank you.
Bugenhagen: Good for you. And you, Nanaki?
Red XIII: Of course. He... left mother for dead. When the Gi tribe attacked, he ran off by himself, leaving mother and the people of the Canyon!
(He shakes his head.)
Bugenhagen: ...Come, Nanaki. There's something you should see.
Red XIII: ...?
Bugenhagen: The place may be dangerous.
(He floats off.)
Bugenhagen: Cloud. Will you and the others come with us?
Yakumo: Sounds important.
Cloud: Let's go see what he likes to talk about next.
Yakumo: I'm right behind you, Cloud.
(All eight of them follow Begenhagen to the sealed door.)
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo Are we all set?
Cloud: Yeah.
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. Shall we go?
Yakumo: We're ready.
(Bugenhagen flips a switch and the door opens.)
Bugenhagen: All right. Come in, come in.
Red XIII: Hey? Aren't you going with us, Grandpa?
(Bugenhagen shakes his head.)
Bugenhagen: What are you crazy? It's dangerous in there. I told you that! You want an old man like me should go first? I'll be right behind you.
Yakumo: Let's stay close, everyone. I feel something down there. I think I know why he wants only us to go.
(They enter the door. Climbing down a long series of ropes and ladders, they reach the bottom of a long tunnel. Traversing a cave by fighting lots of enemies down there; for Cloud, Yakumo, Barret, Tifa, Aerith, Red, Yuffie, and Cait fought hard as a team to make it all the was down. Working real well at that without stopping, they finally reach a doorway, where Bugenhagen speaks.)
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. Everyone here's a Ghost of the Gi tribe. Killed in a certain battle.
(Yakumo feels the spirits out on her end.)
Yakumo: He's right, they're all over the place.
Red XIII: Wait. A certain battle?
Bugenhagen: The vengeful spirits of the Gi didn't disappear, and couldn't return to the Lifestream...We still have far to go. Ho Ho Hoooo.
(They all travel through the next cave with Bugenhagen to continue fighting all the way through for Yakumo to keep on shielding her friends and healing them once in a while.)
Bugenhagen: As you can see, this cave leads to the back of Cosmo Canyon. It was unfortunate that the Gi were larger than us. If they attacked though here, we wouldn't have stood a chance.
Red XIII: ...
Yakumo: Guess we have to keep doing our best, right Cloud?
Cloud: No turning back now.
Bugenhagen: Very good... Now,let's move on."
(They pass the next cave. Still fighting other monsters, and sad lost spirits of the people from long ago tribe to be put out of their misery to rest in peace, lucky for Yakumo's powers of Mako did so after the other seven did the rest in battle. Also some being giant spiders being freaky to pass through them. Already making to other entrance to know what's in the next room.)
Bugenhagen: This warrior went through the cave all alone. Fighting attackers one after another...
(Yakumo could tell who it was in there.)
Yakumo: Red...
Red XIII: Grandpa... That warrior...
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo... We're almost there.
(In the next cave, they find a huge, grotesque statue on the wall, surrounded by lava. Kind of made Yakumo freak out for Cloud to hold her to seeing that up close.)
Yakumo: Cloud...!
Cloud: It's fine. This is something odd about this thing.
(The others see it even more for Red.)
Bugenhagen: What is this...?
Red XIII: Grandpa, is he...!?
Yakumo: Is that true?
Bugenhagen: After death...The ghosts of the Gi... Like stagnant air...This... can't be!
(Boss battle with Gi Nattak.)
Yakumo: It's coming! Be careful, everyone!
(As Tifa tries punching and kicking the ghost many time, Yuffie using her weapon, Cait using his machine to hitting it so many times, and Aerith with her fire magic, it did hurt the spirit. Just hasn't made it disappear completly. So Cloud uses his Diamond Dust move on it to see what it does this time...It did work, for Yakumo shielded everyone from its fire possesing them or draining their eneries for her to healing them back up as Barret kept on shootting at the ghost and Red giving it everything he's got within him to becoming stronger today. Also using the Chocobo with Moogle move on it. Somehow Yakumo knows how to weaken a ghost and healing it to tell the other to do both at the same time.)
Yakumo: Quickly! Heal and attack the ghost!
Cloud: Come again, Yakumo?
Yakumo: I know it sounds weird, but trust me. It wants to be free. Just help it out.
Red: You heard her. Let's do it!
(And so they do, for fighting and healing the ghost that is to see if Yakumo was right about it as Bugenhagen could only watch on the rest...Seems that Cloud hurting it and Barret healing it, it was hurting it. Cures, healing spells from Yakumo, and Phoenix Down item can stop it yet to be weaken so they kept on going. Red's Slege Feng attack did a number out of the ghost pretty well; Barret get lucky to using his Big Shot attack to blow the ghost's double fire so it wouldn't hurt anyone else this time. As Red and Cloud finish the ghost off together to finally rest in peace forever in spirit. For what coast of that creature who wanted to fight them, in what reason?)
Yuffie, Tifa, Aerith, and Cait: It worked!
Barret: Ah yeah! We rule!
(Yakumo hugs Cloud with joy.)
Yakumo: We did it, Cloud! I was right!
Cloud: Thanks, Yakumo.
(Cloud smiles at Yakumo a little for the others to see that.)
Bugenhagen: Thank you, Cloud. And thank you too, Yakumo. Because of you two, we survived. Nanaki, you have grown strong too.
Yakumo: You're welcome.
Red XIII: ...Oh yeah? I have?
Bugenhagen: Now I know that it wasn't a mistake bringing you here...Come, I have something I want to show you. Right over here.
(They all file into the next room. There is a huge pile of boulders surrounded by fog in the center. Red XIII leaps onto it.)
Yakumo: (It can't be!)
Red XIII: This is...
Bugenhagen: ...The warrior who fought against the Gi. He kept them from taking even one step into Cosmo Canyon.
(Bugenhagen floats, slowly, into the room.)
Bugenhagen: But he was never able to return to town...
(He hops up on a stone and gestures upwards.)
Bugenhagen: Look, Nanaki. Look at your father, at the warrior, Seto.
(Pointing up, they see a stone figure of one of Red XIII's tribe atop a high cliff. The moon glows red in the sky as it swings around the figure.)
Red XIII: ...That... That's... Seto?"
Bugenhagen: Seto continued to fight the Gi tribe here. ...To the protect this Canyon. Even after the Gi's poisonous arrows turned his body to stone...Even after they all ran away... Seto, continued to protect us. And he continues to protect us, even now.
Red XIII: Even now...
(Goes back in showing Red XIII and the others.)
Bugenhagen: You thought that he was a coward and ran away. But he, alone, risked his life to protect Cosmo Canyon. That is your father, Seto.
(Red XIII turns to Bugenhagen.)
Red XIII: That... that is Seto? ...!? Did mother know?
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo... She knew. The two of them made me promise to keep this cave shut. They asked me to seal it myself and not to tell a soul. They said we should forget about this cave.
(Red XIII looks down.)
Red XIII: ...
Yakumo: I guess your father was a hero after all, Red. That's wonderful.
(Bugenhagen turns to Cloud.)
Bugenhagen: Cloud... Would you mind leaving the two of us alone?
Yakumo: Of course. (Please say you'll go, Red, for your father, mother, your Grandfather, and the people of the village's sake. We need you.)
(Cloud nods. He and the others exit.)
Bugenhagen: Nanaki, I want you to continue your journey with Cloud and the others.
Red XIII: Grandpa!?
Bugenhagen: Listen, Nanaki.
(Bugenhagen floats back and forth.)
Bugenhagen: Cloud says they are trying to save the planet. Even Yakumo had trouble excepting the truth, but she knows she's not alone as long as she stays true in being herself. She never gave up hope yet to continue onward. And she still is. Honestly, I don't think it can be done. For even if they stop every reactor on the planet, it's only going to postpone the inevitable. Even if they stop Sephiroth, everything will perish.
(Bugenhagen stops and looks at Red XIII.)
Bugenhagen: But, Nanaki. I've been thinking lately. I've been thinking if there was anything WE could do. As a part of the planet, something to help a planet already in misery...No matter what happens, isn't it important to try? Am I just wishing against fate?
(He shakes his head.)
Bugenhagen: I am too old to do anything about it...This year, I'll be 130. Ho Ho Hoooo.
(He raises his arms.)
Bugenhagen: That is why, Nanaki, you must go with them! For my sake. And maybe hers too...She's a good kid.
(He stops and hovers.)
Red XIII: Grandpa...
(Bugenhagen floats away from Red XIII.)
Bugenhagen: I wanted to show you your real father before you left...I'm so glad that you came back while I was still alive to show you.
(Red XIII shakes his head.)
Red XIII: Grandpa... don't talk like that. I don't want to think of life... without you...
(Bugenhagen starts bouncing, then stops.)
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. Well, I've had a long life.
(Red XIII stands up courageously.)
Red XIII: Grandpa! You must live! I'll see to it. I'll see to what's happening to the planet. And I'll come back to tell you.
(Bugenhagen turns towards him.)
Bugenhagen: Nanaki...
(Red XIII leaps forward.)
Red XIII: I am Nanaki of Cosmo Canyon! The son of the warrior, Seto! I'll come back a warrior true to that noble name! So please, Grandpa...
(Red XIII looks up. Looking up; small drops of water are falling from above.)
Bugenhagen: That's... Seto's... Seto...
Red XIII: Seto... Fa... Father...
(Red XIII leaps to the highest point on the rock structure and howls up to the moon, and Seto. Then shows up at Seto, tears falling from stone eyes for Yakumo to feel out both Red and Seto's pain together, for his father to rest in peace in spirit as well to see his son one more time.)
Yakumo: (Red...Your father's very happy that you showed up in the end. I would be too for my family, just like you were...)
(Cloud, Yakumo, and the others, save Red XIII, are sitting around the Cosmo Candle.)
Barret: They said they finished fixin' the buggy.
(Cloud stands.)
Cloud: Shall we get going?
Aerith: So this is it, Red XIII...
Yakumo: Wait. We can't just leave without him.
(Barret stands up.)
Barret: That's just the way it goes. ...You came in handy at times...I'm sure he'll be fine.
Yakumo: I hope you're right, Barret.
(Cloud chooses his party and everyone leaves. On the way out of Cosmo Canyon, Red XIII comes running.)
Red XIII: Wait for me! I'm coming too!
Yakumo: Red! You're staying with us!
(Yakumo runs up to Red to hug him, to be shy he was happy deep down.)
Red Xlll: I know, Yakumo, I am. Knock it off, okay?
Cloud: Mmm? You are?
(Bugenhagen makes his way down the stairs.)
Bugenhagen: Cloud. Please both you and Yakumo look after Nanaki.
Cloud: What happened?
Red XIII: I think I grew up a little. That's what happened!
Yakumo: It that case, let's go, Red. Come on, you guys.
Tifa: Right!
Aerith: Okay.
Yuffie: Yes!
Cait: Sure!
Barret: I guess he's staying after all.
Cloud: Okay.
Yakumo: Thanks for everything! And we'll care for Red! Bye, Buenhagen!
Bugenhagen: And you take care of yourself as well, young lady! Follow your goal for your family's sake!
Yakumo: I will! I'm not alone!
(Red XIII runs off. Cloud and the others leave Cosmo Canyon, board the buggy, and head west, towards Nibelheim. For Bugenhagen could do was to wish everyone lots of luck in saving the world and stopping Sephiroth.)
Bugenhagen: (Stay strong, Yakumo. You are our last hope of a half breed Mako in our world who can change everything as long as Cloud's by your side. Pray you don't fall into the wrong hands, not even 'him'.)
(And so the eight with Dudley continue with their journey to the lands to drive and ride throughout the fields and battle one; for Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, Aerith, Barret, Yuffie, Red, and Cait stay together to know what their goals were. Cloud and the others board the buggy and head north, to Nibelheim. They arrive in the central courtyard for Dudley to wait near the village not too far.)
Yakumo: So this is Nibelheim... (But it looks new, why is that?)
(Something wasn't right around the city for Cloud and Tifa to have a funny feeling about it, even for Yakumo to remember everything was burned, ut it was like it never happened at all.)
Tifa: What-!?
(She makes a pleading gesture at Cloud.)
Yakumo: What's wrong, Tifa?
Tifa: This was all supposed to be burnt down, right?
Yakumo: You're right.
Tifa: Right, Cloud?
(Cloud nods.)
Cloud: I thought so.
Yakumo: You sense it too, right?
Cloud: I'm sure of it Yakumo. You're thinking the same thing as us.
Tifa: Then why...? My house is still there too...
Barret: This is super weird...
Yuffie: Freaky!
Cait: Odd.
Red Xlll: More like something strange about this place, I can even smell it.
Aerith: ...something's strange?
Cloud: I'm not lying!
(He shakes his head.)
Yakumo: Of course you're not.
Cloud: I remember... the intense heat of the flames...
Yakumo: Me too...
Barret: Then what the hell's up with this place? A bad dream?
(Yakumo sees someone wondering around alone.)
Yakumo: No it isn't...Follow me. Cloud, I feel something strange within that mansion. Very odd feeling I'm getting.
(Cloud knew what to do for the others to follow him inside.)
Cloud: Let's go find out then.
Yakumo: Got it.
Cloud: Can you lead us while we follow you and keep guard?
Yakumo: Yes. Stay close, you guys, and keep your eyes open from any danger.
Cloud: Let's go.
(And so they went inside and staying close all eight of them, as Cloud and the others enter the Shinra Mansion for Yakumo to lead them and being well protected for her to use the shield barrier on her end. As they travel to the Shinra Mansion in Nibelheim. Just inside, he finds a letter on the floor.)
"I must get rid of all those that stand in the way of my research. Even that one from the Turks. I scientifically altered him, and put him to sleep in the basement. If you want to find him, then search the area. But... this is merely a game I thought of. It is not necessary to participate if you don't want to. There seems to be another letter."
Yakumo: A letter about the Turks?
Cloud: Read it.
Yakumo: Okay...
"Move the dial on the safe carefully, but quickly. You have 20 seconds. You can not go past the numbers while turning. The 4 hints for the numbers are..."
(Dialing at a time - from 1...The lid of the box with the most oxygen. Two - Behind the Ivory's short of tea and ray. Then three - The creek in the floor near the chair on the second floor... then go to the left five steps, up nine steps, left two steps, and up six steps. Last was invisible...The fourth row has been written in invisible ink... Dial (4) is Right 97. They got it open...Cloud and the others then follow the first hint to a circular room on the second floor. There is a treasure chest in the center, and the walls are bordered with green plants. He checks the chest.)
"Something is written on the back of the lid." (1) Right 36
(The second clue leads him to the dining room on the first floor. There is a grand piano in one corner of the room. He checks behind it.)
"Something is written on the floor." (2) Left 10
(Cloud finds the third number written on the floor in a hallway on the second floor.)
"Something is written on the floor." (3) Right 59
Yakumo: I got the numbers down!
(They then headed up to the safe in a back room on the second floor and inputs the combination. The door opens and a Summon materia pops out - and a boss monster follows close behind.)
Yakumo: Incoming enemy within the safe!
(Boss battle with Lost Number. As Cloud, Tifa, Barret, Aerith, Yuffie, Red, and Cait trying to destroy the beast. Being big, but not as strong...Yakumo backs them up with barriers to healing them to stay strong. They stop it for good using team work in the end to continue on.)
Yakumo: Cloud, I feel it. Inside the coffin. It's not a normal human. He's not the enemy, rather a sad being...
Cloud: What is he?
Yakumo: Something called...A vampire.
Cloud: A vampire?
Yakumo: That's all I'm getting from him. (And maybe...Maybe a lot more...)
(Cloud and the others get a Key to the Basement from the safe, grabs the summon materia (Odin), and heads to the basement. He uses the Key to unlock the door there, Behind it, he finds a room filled with coffins. All of them are open, displaying rotting bodies, save one in the center of the room. Cloud and Yakumo approaches the one closed coffin first by standing close to each other.)
Vincent: ...To wake me from the nightmare.
(The lid of the coffin flies off to one side, revealing its contents: a sleeping man dressed in black and red known as Vincent Valentine.)
Yakumo: Oh!
Vincent: Who is it!?
(He sits up, sleepily.)
Vincent: ...Never seen you before. You must leave.
Cloud: You were having a nightmare.
(Yakumo places her hands near Vincent's face to feel out that she was right about him.)
Yakumo: So...He is for real.
Cait, Red Xlll, Yuffie, and Barret: Vampire!?
Aerith: Who knew.
Tifa: How bad was your dream?
Vincent: Hmph... a nightmare...? My long sleep has given me time to atone.
Cloud: What are you saying?
Vincent: I have nothing to say to strangers. Get out. This mansion is the beginning of your nightmare.
(Cloud turns his head down to one side.)
Cloud: ...you can say that again.
Vincent: Hmm? What do you know?
Yakumo: Yes, Cloud. How do we know? About Sephiroth?
Cloud: Yes. Like you said, this mansion is the beginning of a nightmare. No, it's not a dream, it's for real. Sephiroth has lost his mind. He found the secrets hidden in this mansion...
Vincent: Sephiroth!?
(He, Yakumo, and Cloud speak in unison...)
Cloud, Yakumo, and Vincent: You know Sephiroth!?
(Vincent rises, does a slow back flip, and lands on the edge of the coffin, standing.)
Vincent: You start first.
(Cloud tells his story about Sephiroth to Vincent and a bit from Yakumo in between, from the beginning to the end.)
Cloud: ...That's how it was.
Vincent: So Sephiroth knows he was created five years ago? And about the Jenova Project? ...He was missing. But he just recently reappeared. He has taken many lives and is seeking the Promised Land.
(Cloud makes a "go ahead" gesture with his hand.)
Cloud: Now it's your turn.
Yakumo: Please tell us about you now.
Vincent: Sorry... I cannot speak.
Tifa: Hmmm... I'm disappointed.
Barret: Hey! What the hell gives!?
(He hops back down into the coffin.)
Vincent: Hearing your stories has added upon me yet another sin. More nightmares shall come to me now, more than I previously had.
(He lays back down.)
Vincent: Now... please leave.
(The coffin lid replaces itself over him.)
(Cloud and Yakumo speak to Vincent once more. The coffin lid again flies off and he sits up.)
Yakumo: No, wait! Please!
Vincent: ...You're still here.
Yakumo: Of course we are, we haven't finish talking yet. Who are you?
Cloud: At least tell us your name.
Vincent: I was with... the Shinra Manufacturing Department in Administrative Research, otherwise known as- the Turks...Vincent Valentine.
Cloud and Yakumo: The Turks!?
Vincent: Formerly of the Turks. I have no affiliation with Shinra now...And you?
Cloud: Former Shinra soldier, Cloud.
Yakumo: I'm half human and Mako being, Yakumo. This is my older step-sister Aerith, Barret, Tifa, Yuffie, Red Xlll, and Cait.
Vincent: You were also with Shinra...? Then do you know Lucrecia?
Cloud: Who?
Yakumo: Who was she?
Vincent: ...Lucrecia.
(Cloud shakes his head.)
Vincent: The woman who gave birth to Sephiroth.
Yakumo: She was!?
Cloud: ...gave birth...? Wasn't Jenova Sephiroth's mother?
Yakumo: That has to be it!
Vincent: That isn't completely wrong, but just a theory. He was born from a beautiful lady. That lady was Lucrecia. She was an assistant to Professor Gast of the Jenova Project. Beautiful... Lucrecia.
Cloud: ...A human experiment?
Yakumo: Something happen to her?
Vincent: There was no way to cancel the experiment. I couldn't stop her. That was my sin. I let the one I loved, the one I respected most, face the worst.
Tifa: So the punishment was sleep? That's weird."
Yakumo: So sorry...And disturbing you. Please excuse us.
Barret: Hard to facing your fears by hiding, huh? Gimme a break!
Yakumo: Please, Barret. (So sad...)
(Vincent lays back down as the coffin closes once more. Cloud and the others leave the room and heads out of the basement.)
(They first taken a hidden passage in the fireplace, they head down to the library in the basement. Cloud stops in the hallway. Sephiroth stands at the other end for Yakumo to fear the worse coming from a dangerous man.)
Yakumo: Cloud!
(Yakumo stays close to the others for Cloud to see that mess up man again.)
Cloud: Sephiroth!
Tifa: You!
(Barret, Aerith, and Red see Sephiroth again and first time for both Yuffie and Cait here.)
Barret, Aerith, and Red Xlll: It's him.
Cait and Yuffie: So that's Sephiroth...
Sephiroth: Being here brings back memories. Are you going to participate in the Reunion?
Cloud: I don't even know what a Reunion is!
Sephiroth: Jenova will be at the Reunion. Jenova will rejoin the Reunion becoming a calamity from the skies.
Cloud: Jenova, a calamity from the skies? You mean she wasn't an Ancient!?
Sephiroth: ...I see. I don't think you have the right to participate. I will go north past Mt. Nibel. If you wish to find out... then follow...
Cloud: ...Reunion? Calamity from the skies?
(Sephiroth throws a green materia at Cloud, then rises into the air and shoots past Cloud, out of the library. Cloud picks up the materia- a Destruct materia. He leaves the library and Shinra mansion. He floats above the others to see who was who, he points out to Yakumo just out of nowhere.)
Sephiroth: You.
Yakumo: Ah! Who me...?
Aerith: Yakumo! Stay away from him!
Yakumo: (Aerith...!)
Sephiroth: What is your name?
Yakumo: Yakumo...I'm Yakumo! I remember you trying to kill me and my sister trying to stop you!
Sephiroth: Yes...Yes, I remember you now...And that Mako creature, makes sense that she was 'once' your sister.
(Sephiroth raises his sword out to point it at Yakumo close to her face from the tip of the blade of his.)
Sephiroth: Keep high hopes on what's soon to come.
(He leaves for Cloud to be confused, seeing that Yakumo was alright leaving the others to be worried and feared from Sephiroth's powers.)
Yakumo: (What was that all about...?) Cloud?
Cloud: Let's leave here.
Yakumo: Right.
(As they is approaching the stairs back to the Shinra mansion to leace, he hears a voice from behind him.)
Vincent: Wait!
Yakumo: Vincent! (So he's joining us. Good.)
(The party turns around as Vincent comes out from his room.)
Vincent: If I go with you will I meet Hojo?
(Cloud shrugs.)
Cloud: Dunno. But we're after him and Sephiroth. So, I guess sooner or later...
(Vincent turns away from them.)
Vincent: Lucrecia...
(He turns back.)
Vincent: All right. I've decided to go with you.
Yakumo: Wonderful!
Tifa: What? You're coming with us?
Vincent: Being a former Turk, I may be of help to you...
Yakumo: Please, Cloud?
Cloud: All right, then.
Yakumo: Welcome to the group, Vincent.
Vincent: Thank you.
(Cloud reassembles his party for Vincent to be joining in and they leave the Shinra mansion. As Dudley gives Cloud and Yakumo a ride; Tifa, Aerith, Barret, Red Xlll, Yuffie, Cait, and Vincent drove in the car to get where they needed to be that Sephiroth was going to.)
Yakumo: (I don't like where's this is going...)
(Cloud holds Yakumo's hand to show her in being strong so she won't lose hope yet like everyone else was being strong like them. While trying to fight enemies on their way there little at a time as always.)
Cloud: It'll be okay, Yakumo. Trust me. We'll stop him. You have me.
Yakumo: Thank you, Cloud, we will stop him together.
(Cloud and the others heads north, to Mt. Nibel. Traversing narrow pathways and a twisted cave through it, they emerge on the other side of the mountain range. Along with beating a strange dragon-like creature in their path to continue on. They arrive at Rocket Town.)
Cloud: What's that...!?
(Points up in showing a rocket, tilted quite badly in its launch platform.)
Yakumo: It looks like...Some old rocket ship. I never seen one up close until now. Amazing...
Cloud: Yeah, a rusty old rocket... wonder what they'd make something that huge for?
Yuffie: Don't know...Let's go check this place out!
Cait: Good idea!
Tifa: Sounds like fun!
Aerith: Come on, Yakumo!
(The first four groups go on ahead for Cloud, Barret, Vincent, Yakumo, and Red to be sure if it was alright in this village.)
Red Xlll: Well? Any danger, Yakumo?
(Yakumo senses nothing so far.)
Yakumo: No. We're good.
Vincent: She's right. Carry on.
(So the other two looked around next for Barret follow afterwards.)
Barret: Might as well, I guess...Wait up, you guys!
(A big yes for Cloud and Yakumo to be the last ones to join with the others after that.)
Yakumo: You heard them, Cloud, we can go.
Cloud: I guess so.
(Cloud and the others goes through a house and enters the back yard. There is a large pink plane there.)
Cloud: There's a Shinra logo on it. Tiny Bronco... This is cool.
Barret: Kick ass kind of style here.
Yakumo: It's cool alright.
Aerith: Let's take it! OK, Cloud!
Yakumo: Aerith, this belongs to someone else.
Aerith: At least I asked.
(A woman comes out of the house calling herself Shera.)
Shera: Um... may I help you?
(Cloud shrugs.)
Cloud: No... We're just looking at it.
Yakumo: Love the plane.
Shera: ...If you would like to use it, please ask the Captain. The Captain should be in the Rocket. I'm Shera. And what are your names?
Cloud: I'm Cloud.
Yakumo: Yakumo. Please to meet you, Shera.
Aerith: I'm Aerith.
Tifa: Tifa. Nice to meet you.
Barret: I'm Barret, of AVALANCHE.
Yuffie: Yuffie who takes Materia.
Red Xlll: Red Xlll, I'm the last of my kind.
Cait: Cait Sith at your services. Want me to read your fortune?
Vincent: Please, call me Vincent.
Shera: Hmm... So you're not with the Shinra. I thought the approval for the reopening of the Space Program came.
Cloud: ...!?
Yakumo: You don't mean...
Shera: That I do. President Rufus is scheduled to come here. The Captain's been so restless all morning.
(She leaves.)
Cloud: Rufus!?
Tifa, Barret, Yuffie, Aerith And Red Xlll: Rufus!?
Yakumo: Not him again!
(Good thing Yakumo explains to Vincent and Cait who Rufus was to being a long story to heat about... Cloud and the rest of the gang leave the house and heads north, to the rocket. Climbing ladders and traversing platforms, he reaches the interior of the rocket, where a gray-haired man in a flight jacket is working on some mechanics, he was known as Cid Highwind.)
Yakumo: Look at this thing...
Cid: What're you guys doin' here?
Cloud: We heard the Captain was here.
(He laughs.)
Cid: Captain? I'm the Captain!
(Yakumo senses Cid out being the captain alright.)
Yakumo: He is!
Cid: Got that right, honey. The name's Cid. Everyone calls me, 'Captain,' though. What d'ya want?
Cloud: Tell me about this rocket.
Yakumo: Please?
(Cid laughs.)
Cid: Wow! Not bad for a kid. Alright then, I'll explain it to you and your group.
(He, uh, scratches...)
Cid: You know Shinra developed a lot of technological gadgets during the meaningless war, right? Now it's a Mako company, but in the old days it was a weapons manufacturer.
(Cloud nods.)
Cid: Well, they came up with a Rocket Engine. There was so much excitement about the thought of going into outer space. Our dreams got bigger and bigger. They put a major budget into it and made prototype after prototype! Finally, they completed Shinra No. 26. They chose the best pilot in Shinra- no, in the world- me. I mean, come on.
(He faces the wall and sighs.)
Cid: And finally we get to the day of the launch. Everything was goin' well...
(He kicks the wall.)
Cid: But, because of that dumb-ass Shera, the launch got messed up. That's why they became so anal!
(He turns back to Cloud and Yakumo.)
Cid: And so, Shinra nixed their outer space exploration plans. After they told me how the future was Space Exploration and got my damn hopes up... DAMN THEM!
(He turns back to the wall.)
Cid: Then, it was all over once they found out Mako energy was profitable. They didn't even so much as look at space exploration. Money, moola, dinero! My dream was just a financial number for them! Look at this busted Rocket. I was supposed to be the first man in space with this.
(He shakes his head.)
Cid: Everyday, it tilts a little bit more. At this rate, I don't know which will come first, this thing falling down or me gettin' outta here.
(He turns back to the wall, and slumps.)
Cid: My last hope is to talk to the President...
Yakumo: And is it true that Rufus was coming?
Cid: Yeah! It must be news about restarting the Space Program. A young President, that's what we needed! He still has dreams, too!
Yakumo: I see... (Why would he rely on that man of all people...?) Cloud, we should head back to his house real quick. Shera might want to speak to us again.
(And they do so after talking to Cid inside the ship...Cloud, Yakumo, and the rest of the team return back to Cid and Shera's home.)
Shera: Excuse me... Cloud? Yakumo?
(She comes in from the back yard.)
Yakumo: Oh, Shera. It's you.
Shera: Did the Captain say anything?
Cloud: Nope...
Shera: Oh...?
Yakumo: But he will now from all the anger going on within him.
Shera: Huh?
(Cid enters the front door for Yakumo to sense this part coming.)
Cid: ^%$#! Shera. What are you, blind!? We got guests! GET SOME TEA! ^%$#! And being rude to asking them including this nice little lady, for God sakes!
Shera: I... I'm sorry.
(She hurries to the stove.)
Yakumo: I just sense Cid feeling angry for Shera asking us so many questions at us. He didn't mean to...
Cloud: Really, don't mind us.
(Cid waves his arms around.)
Cid: Shut up! Sit your ass down in that chair and drink your goddamn TEA! Arggggggh! DAMN, I'm pissed! Shera! I'll be in the backyard tunin' up Tiny Bronco! An' make sure to serve them some tea! All right!? Excuse me!
(He leaves out back.)
Yakumo: My goodness...
Barret: The hell crawl up his ass?
Tifa: Don't look at me, Barret.
Yuffie and Cait: Same here!
Aerith: Sheesh...! What bad manners!
Vincent and Red Xlll: ...
Cloud: Sorry. It's our fault.
(Shera turns from the stove.)
Shera: No, no. He's always like this.
Yakumo: He is? (I feel something else than anger within Cid.)
Tifa: Is it always like this...? Why is Cid so hard on you?
(Shera shakes her head.)
Shera: No... It's because of my stupid mistake. I was the one who destroyed his dream...
Yakumo: You were?
Cloud: What happened? Yakumo...
Yakumo: Yes. Gather together, everyone.
(Yakumo holds Shera's hands to read her thoughts for everyone else to close their eyes to see within their thoughts...Everything fades out to a view of a room in the rocket, lined with oxygen tanks; it is sepia-toned. Cid watches Shera work on one of the tanks.)
Cid: Hey! Get your ass in gear! You work like a snail! Even the moon'd get tired waitin' around for your ass!
(Shera gets up.)
Shera: I'm... I'm sorry.
Cid: Don't take so much time checkin' that *%$^# oxygen tank! Shera, bein' careful's good, but it won't do any good no matter how many times you check that oxygen tank. That thing wouldn't break even if hell froze over.
Shera: But...
(Cid waves his arms around.)
Cid: No buts! You're not stupid, so be more efficient!
Shera: I'm sorry...
(Showing now at the room at the top of the rocket, where Cloud, his team, Yakumo, and Cid had their first discourse. Several men are running around working on the rocket. Cid comes in, sans flight goggles.)
"Captain! Our dreams are finally coming true!"
"We are so proud to be a part of the launch of Shinra No. 26."
"Captain, preparations are complete! All that's left is lift off!"
(Cid laughs.)
Cid: Yeah! Leave it all to me! I'll be back in a few!
"All right, Captain! Fly our dreams into outer space!"
(The workers line up and Cid walks between them, into the cockpit.)
Cid: Thanks, guys!
"We're praying for your safety!"
(Cid sits down at the control panel of the rocket.)
Cid: Instrument panel... all clear. Shinra No. 26, ready for launch.
(Static comes over the radio.)
"Engine pressure rising. Shinra No. 26, 3 minutes to launch. Beginning countdown."
Cid: ...finally.
(An alarm sounds. Red warning lights begin to flash.)
Cid: What the? What happened!?
"Cid! We have an emergency situation!"
"A mechanic is still in the engine section of the rocket!"
Cid: What!? Who is the little ^%$ !?
"I don't know. Activating the intercom in the engine section."
(The scene switches back to the oxygen tank room. Cid comes over the intercom)
Cid: Hey, goddammit! Who the &%$#'s still in there?
Shera: It's Shera, Captain. Don't mind me, go ahead with the launch.
Cid: Shera!? What are you still doin' in there!?
Shera: I was still concerned. The results of the oxygen tank test weren't satisfactory.
Cid: You stupid little ^$#^%! It's gonna get so hot in there that there ain't gonna be SHIT left when we blast off! You're gonna be burnt to a crisp! You're gonna die! You know that, doncha!?
(Shera shakes her head.)
Shera: I don't mind. If I can just fix this, the launch will be a success. I'm almost done.
(She goes back to the tank.)
Cid: Almost done!? You're gonna die!
"Cid, we must start the countdown. We won't make it if we don't!"
(The scene switches back to the cockpit.)
"Starting engine!"
Cid: Hey, wait a minute! Shera's still in here!
"What are you going to do, Cid? If we cancel now, it'll be another six months until the next launch!"
Cid: GODDAMMIT, Shera... you wanna make me a murderer?
(Shera comes over the intercom.)
Shera: Captain!
Cid: Shera!?
Shera: Tank Number 7 check is complete. Once I complete Tank Number 8, it's all clear.
Cid: Come on, Shera... hurry up... You're gonna die...
"30 seconds until ignition. Beginning countdown."
Cid: Hey, wait a minute! Shera's still in here!
"Cid! Forget about her. We won't make it in time!"
Cid: What... what am I... What am I supposed to do...?
"15 seconds until ignition. Internal temperature rising."
Cid: Oh man, the moon... outer space... my dreams...
"Ignite engine!"
Cid: SH-IT!
(He, resignedly, drops his arm and presses a button. The rocket engine ignites, then stops within seconds. The rocket falls back down to earth, loses its balance, and tips over, coming to rest off-center in the launch platform. The scene switches back to Cid and Shera's home.)
Yakumo: So that's why the ship's tilted...
Shera: He pushed the Emergency Engine Shut Down switch, aborting the mission, to save my life. After that, the Space Program was cut back and the launch was canceled. It's my fault his dream was destroyed...
(She shakes her head.)
Shera: That's why... it's all right. I don't care what the Captain says, I'll live my life for him.
Yakumo: Well...He still shouldn't treat you like trash! I'm sorry.
Shera: No really, it's fine.
Yakumo: No it isn't!
(Yakumo was never this way for the others to see her even for Aerith and Cloud.)
Cloud: (Yakumo?)
Aerith: You okay, Yakumo?
(Cid comes back inside.)
Cid: Shera! You still haven't served 'em tea!
Shera: I... I'm sorry.
(Shera rushes back to the stove. Cid crashes in a chair and hoists one leg up onto the table.)
Cid: Hurry up and sit down! Or ain't my hospitality good enough for you!?
(He leans his head in one hand and taps his foot.)
Cid: They're late... Where is Rufus...?
(Yakumo goes up to Cid for she looked angry at him and was about to do something on her own free will.)
Yakumo: Cid?
Cid: What is it?
(She slaps Cid in the face really hard for his side to turn red and bleed a little.)
Shera: Cid!
Tifa, Barret, Yuffie, Red Xlll, Cait, and Vincent: Yakumo!?
Cid: What the hell was that for!?
(Aerith and Cloud pull Yakumo away from Cid in time before things might get worse.)
Yakumo: Let go!
Aerith: Yakumo, no!
Cloud: It won't solve anything no matter how much it hurts seeing others suffer!
Yakumo: Cid! You know better, treating poor Shera like crap! No matter how many times she did ruined your dreams back accident to die for you, you ended up saving her life! She helps, works, and ares for you and for what!? Think about what would've happened if you took off and burned her alive instead!? Hurts, doesn't it!?
Cid: Me treat Shera like crap?
Yakumo: She's hurt and she deals with all that you put her through! All for you! I lost mine parents and sister to avenge them for the greater good on my own terms! I'll never see them again! And you...! Hold on to the dream for a better tomorrow to pay attention to right now!
(With that anger out of Yakumo's system, the other never seen her act this way before for Shera and Cid were surprise on what she said after feeling and seeing their pasts.)
Cid: Shera...You told them, didn't you?
Shera: I did, but...She felt our pain.
Cid: You mean this missy here?
(Cid looks at Yakumo, feeling a bit sad after getting angry at him.)
Yakumo: For give me, Cid. Shera. It's unlike me to say that out loud.
Aerith: This was never like the Yakumo I knew at all...
(Aerith confronts her sister by hugging her for Cloud felt sadness through Yakumo's eyes from looking at her.)
Cloud: Yakumo...
(The front door opens and a rather portly fellow waddles in.)
Palmer: Hey-HEY! Long time no see! So Cid, how ya been?
Yakumo: (It's Palmer!)
(They all turn to face Palmer. Cid hops up.)
Cid: Well, if it ain't fat man, Palmer. How long were you figurin' on keepin' me waitin'!?
(He runs over to Palmer.)
Cid: So? When's the Space Program gonna start up again?
(Palmer dances side to side.)
Palmer: Hey-hey! I don't know. The President's outside, so why don't you ask him?
Cid: ^$#&! Good for nothing, fat &$#$^ !
(He runs out. Palmers starts swaying faster.)
Palmer: Don't say 'fat'!
(He stops and walks over to Shera.)
Palmer: Hey-hey! Tea! Can I have some too? With lotsa sugar and honey and...oh yeah, don't forget the lard!
(Too gross for something to eat or drink that much in a tea. Cloud and the others go outside. Rufus has arrived and is talking with Cid. Yakumo feels him out also sees it already to tell the others.)
Yakumo: Cloud. You guys. Rufus...!
(They stand near the house to hear what Rufus and Cid were talking about.)
Cid: What the...! You got me all excited for nothing!? Then, what'd you come here for?
Rufus: I want to borrow the Tiny Bronco. We're going after Sephiroth. But it seems like we're been going in the wrong direction. But now, we think we know where he's headed. But, we have to cross the ocean. That's why we want your plane...
Cid: &^#^%! First the Airship, then the Rocket, and now, the Tiny Bronco. Shinra took outer space away from me and now you want to take the sky away from me too!?
Rufus: Oh my...You seem to forget it was because of Shinra, Inc. that you were able to fly in the first place.
Cid: What!?
(Shera comes out of the house.)
Shera: Uh, excuse me...
Yakumo: You talking to us?
(Cloud and Yakumo turn around.)
Shera: This way...
Yakumo: Come on, Cloud.
(They go back into the house. Shera shuts the door.)
Shera: You wanted to use the Tiny Bronco, right?
(Cloud nods.)
Yakumo: Of course we do...We knew Cid wouldn't say yest to us if we tried to ask him...But we really need it to stop Sephiroth right away.
Shera: I see...I believe Palmer's going to take it. Why don't you talk to him?
Cloud: Do we have a choice?
Yakumo: Afraid so...Thank you again, Shera.
(Cloud, Yakumo, and the rest of the gang headed out back. Palmer is sitting on the Tiny Bronco.)
Palmer: Hmm... Why do I have to do this...? I'm the head of the Space Program...
(Cloud and Yakumo go up to him.)
Cloud: We'll be takin' that Tiny Bronco.
Yakumo: If you wouldn't mind.
Palmer: I've seen you somewhere before...
(He scratches his head. Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, Aerith, Barret, Red Xll, Yuffie, Cait, and Vincent all surround him to freak out and soon remember 'some' of them from before back at the Shinra Building.)
Palmer: I know! The Shinra building! When the President was killed! Ulp! Se... se... security! And the girl with the Ancient...We must have them!
Yakumo: Look out! He's a tough fighter than he looks!
(Boss battle with Palmer. As he was dancing around firing his long but powerful firing gun...Yuffie, Cait, Red, and Aerith stopped the other Shinra armies as a team for Yakumo to shield the others from the gun fire; also Vincent fires a powerful shot from his gun at the rest to all go down in one hit. He was good...Allowing Cloud, Tifa, and Barret 'with Yakumo's help too' stop Palmer using his weapon more and more. For a weak and coward man, he was strong. Tifa sneaks at him with her many hit fighting moves, Barret fires a lot of shots and stopping his firing range, and Cloud strikes with his sword many times. )
Palmer: Crap...!
(After the battle, the Tiny Bronco fires up. Palmer narrowly escapes being scalped by the propeller, then runs away... he almost makes it, except he manages to get hit by a truck. Cloud and the others all jump onto the Tiny Bronco. Yakumo couldn't stop the vehicle, but she could control it using her ESP powers.)
Yakumo: I got it! This is our chance, everyone!
Tifa: But it won't stop!
Cloud: Forget it! Get in!
Yakumo: Here we go! (Cid, if you want your dreams to come true, then come with us. Please...)
(Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, Aerith, Barret, Yuffie, Red, Cait, and Vincent all get on the ship as the Tiny Bronco takes off, loops around the rocket, and buzzes Rufus and his guards, who begin firing at the Bronco. Cid dashes to catch up with it and leaps onto the tail. The guards' fire hits the tail, which begins sparking.)
Cid: (Is that girl and the others...!) Shit! The tail's been hit!
Cloud: Emergency landing...
Cid: This's gonna be a big splash. Hold onto your drawers and don't piss in 'em!
Yakumo: Hold on!
(Yakumo quickly powers up again to create a bigger shield to protect the other nine people and herself from the big hit about to happened. The Bronco makes a crash landing in the middle of the ocean. For Rufus, Palmer, and the other Shinra armies lost it somewhere at sea for Dudley goes off the find them somewhere in a nearby shore to hope for their safety. What will happen next with Cid hanging out with them? Another new member, the bigger the journey they all have to face in saving the world.)