Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
(And so it happened...Cloud, Orbit, Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffe, Cait, Vincent, Cid and Reno stand in the now space-borne rocket's cockpit because they were blasted off into space by accident. Only they need to be to stop Meteor in time and saving Yakumo from Mako form while Rude, Elena, Dudley, and Rose waited for the them back on the other planet to come back real soon. But what should they do first? That was only question...)
Cloud: So...We're in space...
Cid: I finally made it...outer space...
Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, and Vincent: We are!?
Reno: We are, okay? Can we just come to do what we came here to do? Stop Meteor from coming down and saving Yakumo?
(He scratches his head and looks at the controls.)
Cid: Give me a second, will you? Let's see, how's the course set...?
Barret: Ah, the buttons...?
Cid: Nice thinknig there, Dad. I got this.
(He punches some buttons and taps his foot as a depiction of the rocket's course appears on the monitor. A dotted line travels from the green circle of the planet to the red circle of Meteor.)
Reno: Here's the first one.
Cid: Yup, it's headed for a collision course with Meteor. What's more Yakumo in her Mako form is coming...
Cloud: Yakumo...!
Tifa: Can't we do something? If it goes on, we're...
(Cid presses more buttons. A red message appears on the screen. He kicks the panel.)
Cid: That Palmer went outta his way to lock the Auto-Pilot device. We might not be able to change the course.
Reno: Damn that idiot! Should've fixed it when I had the chance to, but Rude and I had to keep our cover! This is just perfect!
Cloud: ...this is the end?
Yuffie: No! I don't want to die!
Cait: Me either!
(Red growls a little to calming everyone down.)
Red Xlll: Calm down!
VIncent: He's right, let's trying to think before we can do anything else. Panicking won't get us anywhere.
Red Xlll: There's no way that we'll die in space without taking care of two things if we work together. We can do this.
Cloud: So...We won't die?
(Cid turns to him.)
Cid: Huh? What the hell're you sayin'? You're still young, and you give up that easily? For Yakumo's sake!?
(He shakes his head.)
Cid: And for the record, I'm not gonna crash into Meteor.
Reno: Like I want to go out like that anyways...
(He turns and presses more buttons.)
Cid: Just watch.
Tifa: Do you have a plan, Cid?
Red Xlll: I think he just might.
Yuffie Then we'll live?
Vincent: We will when we stop Meteor first. Just watch...
(An array of red lines and messages appears. Cid turns.)
Cid: I keep an Escape Pod on the rocket just for emergencies like this.
(He goes over to a hatch on one wall and turns some dials.)
Cid: I deciphered the lock code on the Escape Pod. We'll bail right before we crash into Meteor.
Reno: Okay...I think that can work. And Yakumo?
Cid: We can still do it before it does happen. She'll come to us after all.
Barret: But we got nailed by her fighting skills last time. She might kill us for real!
Cid: That's why we won't fight her, we'll restrain her for Cloud to take care of the rest. For us to make our escape back to our home world too, okay?
(Tifa walks forward.)
Tifa: Hey, what about the Huge Materia?
Yuffie: That's what I like to know about it myself as well.
Cid: ...
(He nods.)
Cid: If you want the Materia, do whatever you want! The Materia should be there after you climb that ladder.
Cait: So it is on this ship. Who knew?
Reno: That it is. Saw it for myself when they brought it abroad.
Cloud: ...You sure?
(Cid shakes his head.)
Cid: I dunno...I know what I said a minute ago.
(He turns his head upward.)
Cid: But maybe all that I really wanted was just to go into outer space.
(He looks down again.)
Cid: So, why don't you all do whatever you think is right?
(They climb the ladder to a room at the tip of the rocket. The Huge Materia is sitting in a glass case in the center.)
Reno: Here it is.
Cloud: I finally found the Huge Materia...Next if stopping Meteor and getting through to Yakumo.
(As Cloud looks at Orbit knowing that Yumi will come out again to being shown, he walks to the glass case.)
Cid: It's structured so that the lock can be opened if we enter the passcode from this control panel.
(Cloud operates the panel.)
Enter Passcode...
Cid: Hey, Cloud, you know how to use it, right? Everytime it says, 'Enter Passcode,' push from these four buttons...One of those Circle, X, Triangle, and Square. If you punch in the right code, it'll unlock and you can get the Huge Materia!
(Cloud looks at him.)
Cloud: So, what order am I supposed to enter the passcode in?
(Cid shrugs.)
Cid: I dunno. Just try and punch in the code randomly.
(Cloud turns his head back to the panel. He enters a random passcode.)
Reno: Try not to screw up. You have to do this.
Cloud: I'll try...
Reno: That won't do us any good with a try!
Cloud: Orbit, help me out.
(Orbit scans something to giving Cloud some clues on what it was to fnally put it ni. Cloud, with some marginally helpful clues from Cid, manages to enter the correct passcode- Square, Circle, X, X.)
Passcode Confirmed. Identified as an Authorized User. Unlocked.
Reno: Nice weapon she has...
(The glass case opens.)
Cloud: Thank you, Oribt.
Cid: Alright, Cloud! It's unlocked!
(He nods.)
Cid: Yup, my great advice saved the day. Let's get back down.
(Cloud gets the Huge it and the Huge Materia in his handd, he and the others come down the ladder, through the cockpit, and down to the oxygen-tank room. As they pass, one of the oxygen tanks sparks, then explodes caused by Mako-Yakumo using her ESP skills in doing so to breaking inside of the ship. From things going into white, then we see Shera, in some other room in the rocket, working on some repairs. She hears the explosion and rushes out. Then fading back to the oxygen tank room. Cloud, Barret, Reno, Orbit, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Tifa are ducking and covering their heads. The tank that exploded is emitting dense smoke. A huge chunk of metal from it is now on the floor. Cid's leg is pinned under it.)
Reno: Crap! She's here!
Barret: Already!?
Red Xlll: This is bad...I hope Shera's alright.
Cait: Is everyone alright!?
Yuffie: Cid...? Oh, no!
Cid: Grrrgh! Damn! My leg's stuck in the debris...
Vincent: He's trapped.
(Cloud and Tifa stand up.)
Cloud: Cid!
(They start trying to lift the chunk of metal for Orbit to try with its many arms as well but it was super heavy for this type of metal to be lifted.)
Tifa: ...I can't! It's so heavy, I can't lift it...Neither can the rest of us or Orbit!
Cid: Don't worry 'bout me. Hurry up and go! If you don't hurry, the rocket's gonna crash into Meteor!
(Cloud looks up at Cid.)
Cloud: ...I can't go without my friends.
Tifa: None of us will leave anyone!
(He goes back to trying to free Cid.)
Cid: You ^%# &%...! No time to worry 'bout other people!
(Cloud looks up.)
Cloud: I'm gonna do whatever I can.
(Cid wipes his eyes with one glove.)
Cid: You're stupid. You're really $#&^%$* stupid.
(He holds his head in one hand.)
Cid: Tank Number 8 blew up...So Tank Number 8...really was malfunctioning...
(He leans back, looking up at the ceiling.)
Cid: Shera...You were right. Yakumo was right all along, and I...What have I done...?
(He covers his face again. He is close to crying.)
Cid: But, ...this is the end for me.
(Mako-Yakumo makes her way inside for Vincent to create a shield to hold her over as along as he could.)
Vincent: She's coming!
Barret: That shield of your won't be strong enough to slowong her down!
Vincent: I have to at least try...!
Reno: How we suppose to reach to her like this, huh!?
(A door slides open at one end of the room.)
Shera: Don't say that, Cid.
(Shera enters the room. Cid looks up.)
Cid: Huh!? Shera!?
Red Xlll: How did you get on the ship?
Shera: I tagged along. I'm coming to help you.
Reno: Let's do this!
(She helps Cloud, Tifa, Reno, Orbit, and the others to lift the chunk of metal.)
Cid: You stupid &$#&%*%&%#!
(The others continue to struggle with the metal.)
Cid: ...Sorry.
(Cid was saved in time thanks to them, soon water blast fires at Vincent's shield to being destroyed. Though they saved Cid, they now need to same themselves from her and savng her life quickly.)
Cid: Shera!
Shera: I'm fine, Cid...I'm happy you're alright, but...Who's-?
Cid: I'll explain later. Let's move to the escape pods quickly!
(They move away slowly for Orbit to fire its laser blast at Mako-Yakumo to pushing them all away with her hands in seconds; allowing Barret and Vincent to do the same with their guns for Yuffie throwing her kunai-knives too to slowing her down enough for them, Cid, Shera, Cait, Tifa, Barret, and Red to move away in time. For Orbt grabs her from behidn to restraining her entire body as she tries to break free...As Reno comes in to using his staff to shock some sense into her while he still could.)
Reno: Come on, Yakumo! Wake up!
(It works to weaken Yakumo in time, for Yumi's spirit then shows up before her ver yeyes to be shocked out showing the real Yakumo was still in there.)
Yumi: There you are, Yakumo. It's me your sister Yumi. You miss me?
(Sephiroth tries controlling her more with Rei's help to go crazy from her body...So Yumi uses her powers to keeping Yakumo's Mako form under control as long as she could. For Shera heals Cid's leg to get better, the rest was up to Cloud to reach through to his one true love.)
Reno: Come on, Yakumo, wake up! It's me, Reno. From Turks. Remember me? I came back for you because I love you.
(He hugs her for Yakumo to stop being so crazy to look at him to start remembering a little.)
Reno: Don't know what your dead sister being a ghost is doing here, but who cares. Cloud and his team came here for you. We'll save you, stop Meteor in time, and stop Sephiroth next. But we want you back. So please come back to us...Cloud really loves you.
(Yumi turns to Cloud.)
Yumi: Go ahead, Cloud, it's your turn. You do love my sister right?
Cloud: I do...
Reno: Then don't blow this one. Orbit and Yumi has Yakumo restrained long enough for you to do the rest, I got your back. But if you do mess this one up...
Cloud: I know, I got it.
Yumi: Then reach out to Yakumi. Go!
(Once Cloud touches Yakumo's head for Orbit and Yumi to connect their thoughts within each other, he was inside Yakumo's head to swim out to her real body within the Mako being trap within a wall and frozen like ice. Only love can rescue her now for the others to listen in and see within their thoughts for Reno to do the same thing, unaware for Shera to not notices.)
Cloud: Hello, Yakumo? Can you hear me? Sense me? Feel me? It's me, Cloud. I came here for you. Reno and Yumi as a ghost has as well, she was inside Orbit this entire time. I got affected by the Lifestream after I failed to save you from Sephiroth's control, I'm sorry. I almost loss my memories too...But thanks to your sister's help in spirit, she guided me and Tifa to remember it all. I'm sure you did before Weapon and Sephiroth with Rei's powers of Jenvoa were awaken. Am I right?
(Yakumo's tears come running down her eyes meaning she understood him to glowing up a little.)
Cloud: Sorry. I guess it was faith we run into eah other again after five years from the horrible event. I saved you, Yumi saved you first, then Tifa, and the she saved me. Her body was gone, but her spirit lived on to seeing you again to getting back all three of our memories. Because of Sephiroth and Rei, we have to destroy Meteor while we still have a chance. Rose. Dudley. Marlene. Rude. Elena. Your step-Mother...They're all waiting for you. If you want Yumi to finally rest in peace, we have to finish this. I can't do it alone. You real family, Zack, Tseng, and Aerith wouldn't want that, right? They want you to live on in being yourself. Why else wouldn't you still be you if you still have your step-sister's staff? She gave it to you for a reason...Please come back, Yakumo, it's not me that I want to be with again, so does everyone else. Just listen to them!
(Yakumo begins hearing noises of everyone calling otu to her one at a time.)
Tifa: Please come back to us, Yakumo. I'm sorry for you losing Aerith. I'll be by your side now. I can be your sister. I want you to make Cloud happy for me.
Barret: You better come back to us! Yakumo! I need to watch over you since Aerith sadly passed, I owe you two for saving my daughter!
Red Xlll: I'll never leave my friends. Yakumo, you understand what it means to protect those you grew up with, and to those who care when they travel.
Yuffie: Come back! Come back! You promise Tifa and me we'll go to the hot srpings together, Yakumo! Don't you dare break that promise to me now!
Cait: I hate betraying you guys by force, even on you Yakumo. I hope you fidn it in your heart still to forgive me.
Vincent: Yakumo...You know, I could've falling for you if things met differently on the both of us only.
Cid: Yakumo! I said sorry to Shera. You were right! Just come back so I can show you how much we care ofr each other nd our dreams still! Please!
Reno: Yakumo! Even if Cloud still loves you, I will too. No one can beat someone who knows who is the cutiest girl in the world on my end is.
Shera: Please be careful...
(Even she hears Orbit nearby her and Yumi's voice to finally see the light slowly opening up to her and away from Sephiroth and Rei holding her back.)
Yumi: Yakumo...You can do this. Don't let your life be wasted. Fight back, by Cloud's side.
(She then sees images of those that she lost besides Yumi...Their parents, the real Rei, Zack, Aerith, Tseng, and everyone in Cloud and Tifa's old home for her father to lose his life as well. For Aerith's voice was heard to be thinknig about her step-sister, Yakumo remembers on who she realy was.)
Aerith: Come on, Yakumo, you can do it...
(Sephiroth tries his hardiest wit hRei's help to get Yakumo out of there.)
Sephiroth: What are you doing? FIght back! Attack! Obey me...!
(Cloud hears him too.)
Cloud: (Sephiroth...!)
(He reaches his hands out to Yakumo's to touching her face genlty.)
Cloud: Please, Yakumo. They all miss you. Don't let Sephiroth control you like he almost did to me, not anymore or to anyone else that we know and love. Yumi's waiting to see you, Aerith wants you to move on, and me...I need you. Rufus got me off the ship for a reason. To save me to remember you and to find you. I knew it was luck for us to meet again...I didn't know you were so special to me of a human and Mako being to be just your normal self. Smart, beautiful, pure hearted, strong, and caring for others. I was lucky to save you and you aving me back to live on, for us to remember on who we really were and I'm proud of it. You should be to, Yakumo. Whether those we loss, to never happen again and Reno and I fighting over you...I want you and I to lve a happy life once we stave the world and stop Sephiroth together. Along with Jenova, Weapon, Rei, and destroy Meteor first, okay? Please...Come back to me...To us...To your Mother...Because...I LOVE YOU!
(Yakumo's eyes go back to normal and opening up widely to glowing brightly into the blue color in breaking free as the inner Mkao of hers tries to fight it off but couldn't. Orbit knew then it had to grab Yumi and Reno out of the way on what's to come next.)
Yumi: It's working!
Reno: Come on, Cloud...!
Cloud: I love you since we saw each other again to be traveling...! Come back to me, Yakumo!
(Soon Sephiroth loss control of her to finally break free from his spell for good. As Jenova cried, so did he for losing one Mako being to joining him.)
Sephiroth: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Damn...you...CLOUD!
(As he slashes things in anger with his sword, Yakumo finally comes out of the shell to glow up, was all blue colored that was very good, her hair was long to reach all over her entire body since she was a bit nuded. She flies over to Cloud to hold each other.)
Yakumo: Cloud!
Cloud: Yakumo!
Yakumo: Cloud!
(Yakumo could finall speak again being back to her normal self. Soon they kiss for all to grow up so brightly for the Mako version screams in pain. Of a sound of a glass breaking, the two got out, for Cloud to cover Yakumo with a long coated hood around her body for the others to see.)
Shera: It can't be...
Yumi: She's back.
Reno: Yes!
(Everyone cheers with joy for Orbit to be lighting up all over the room.)
Cloud: We did it.
Yakumo: Yes, we did.
(Yakumo sees Yumi in ghost form again.)
Yumi: Yakumo...
Yakumo: Yumi!
(The two were so happy to seeing each other again to holding hands, but Rei now in the liquid body of Yakumo's old shell got mad, screams out loud, and tries attacking them. For Yakumo uses her own ESP powers to holding her up and sending her flying out of the ship to die in space outside.)
Yakumo: Rei...Sephiroth...You two can't control me...Anymore!
(She throws the creature into space, to go flying and die to being frozen up all over in being so quiet. Yakumo was weak but will heal up on her own for Cloud to carry her for a while.)
Cloud: Nice shot.
Yakumo: Thanks, Cloud.
Cloud: Here's your hairpin back.
(He puts it on to Yakumo's hair.)
Yakumo: Thank you...
(The two smiled at each other.)
Yakumo: Welcome back, Orbit.
(She pats her robot friend. Reno hugs her for Cloud to keep her away from him.)
Reno: Yakumo-! Ah!
Cloud: Back off.
Yakumo: Oh! Hello to you too, Reno.
Reno: Cloud! The hell!?
Cloud: She's mine after all.
Reno: I still love her too!
(Yakumo laughs for Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid all come up to her to be so happy in seeing the real her back in action.)
Yakumo: My friends...Thank you...You all came to me...And Shera...Cid said...
Shera: Yes, I know...
(Soon the Meteor was getting close. So holding up in the welcome backs, Yumi tells the others to get back to stopping the other thing next.)
Yumi: Everyone, hold that thought. We better stop Meteor while we still have a chance to. Come on!
Cloud: Shes right. Let's go. Yakumo, hold on tight.
(And so she does.)
Yakumo: Right. Meteor must be stopped.
(They headed to the other room in time as Yakumo heals up Cid to feel much better now. Showing now in to the room where Shera had been making repairs. A circular portal slides open and Shera and Cloud, Yakumo, and the others to come through it.)
Shera: The Escape Pod is this way. Please hurry.
(They all continue to the escape pod. Shera turns to them, waiting for them to enter.)
Shera: Hurry. I'm going to detach the Escape Pod.
Yakumo: Okay!
(Cloud and Yakumo get into a pod together, as Reno goes into the other with Yumi still inside of Orbit. Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid go into the rest of them to all fit in alright.)
Cid: Hey, Shera! Does this Pod really fly?
Shera: It'll be OK. I've been checking it till now.
(Cid rubs the back of his head.)
Cid: ...Then I'm relieved.
(Shera looks down.)
Shera: ...Thanks. Everyone in.
Cid: Let's get out of here.
(As Shera goes in with Cid to being last, it was all set up for Yumi and Orbit to hck into the rest to escaping as the ship headed towards Meteor.)
Yumi: Now let's get out of here while the ship does the rest.
Shera: Contact back to our planet and hold on tight.
(The outer shell of the rocket tears away in one spot and the escape pod tumbles out. One piece of the rocket still attached falls away, leaving the pod, a sphere, floating back towards the planet. For everyone inside had escape just in time. Then shows the interior of the pod. Cid is peering out of the view port with wonder.)
Cid: So this is...outer space...Man...it's the real thing...I'm really here in outer space...
(He looks back in the direction of the rocket as the blue curve of the planet's surface comes into view.)
Cid: So long, Shinra No. 26...
(The escape pod hurtles back to the planet, a small flame forming around it as it re-enters the atmosphere. Switching it to show the rocket heading straight for Meteor. It shrinks to a pinpoint as it plummets toward the surface of Meteor. They collide in space with a blinding flash of light. Next to fading to the exterior of the Shinra building. The light from the explosion lights the area up like fire; the people standing in the road all duck in fear. The scene changes to Cosmo Canyon, also bathed in the blinding light. The scene moves to show Bugenhagen, floating next to his model of the planet. The tiny replica of Meteor hovering above it also explodes in a light just as bright as that outdoors. Bugenhagen throws his arm over his eyes until the light fades. Moving back to the exterior of Shinra Building. The people slowly stand up as the light fades. One person frantically points at the sky. Panning up to show Meteor. The camera moves along the surface of Meteor. Huge fragments of the rock orbit above the surface of Meteor, creating electrical sparks along the dry stone. Some of them crash into one another in huge explosions. The rocket crashed into Meteor, causing great damage to one side of it, but it was not enough. Meteor still hangs in the sky. Going back to Cosmo Canyon. The entire village is silent and still, save the windmills which still turn expectantly. Then changes back to Bugenhagen's lab. He floats next to the model of the planet, shaking his head sadly as the tiny Meteor still hovers above it. The scene changes again to the exterior of the Shinra building. The people in the street begin to realize what has happened. One young girl begins to cry; others just shake their heads; one falls to his knees in the street, futilely beating his fist on the asphalt in anger and frustration.)
Yakumo: It can't be...!
Yumi: Afraid so. Meteor regenerated itself back to normal...
Reno: Damn, this is very bad...
(Though Yakumo was back, Sephiroth still had Meteor under his control with Rei's for his own powers of Mako Energy and the Jenova. He laughs to continue his job with Weapon's help. All that and for what? It didn't work. As the others landed alright for Shera helped out the village once Shinra left, for Reno told Elena and Rude what happened to following the others in car throughout the land where the Highwind ship was going to next. The entire party is on the bridge of the Highwind; Barret, Cloud, Yakumo 'now back to normal and wearing Aerith's clothes to having Orbit, her hairpin, and her staff back into her hands', Rose and Dudley 'happy to see her again' and Tifa stare out the window at the clouds passing by below; Cid and Cait Sith face their backs; Red XIII looks in another direction, distant. Along with Vincent and Yuffie on the other side just standing up.)
Yakumo: Well...Reno, Rude, and Elena...Soon enough for her are on our side now...We're back on our home planet, but...For what we tried to do.
Cloud: Rufus and the others plan was a failure...
Yumi: Afraid it was...
(Cloud and Yakumo walk closer to the window, watching the clouds, shaking his head. Barret turns to them.)
Yakumo: What can we do in stopping all of this?
Cloud: That's what I like to know too.
Barret: What a bust...But I kinda hoped it'd work.
Yuffie: Me too...
Vincent: We did do our best on it.
(Cait Sith slumps.)
Cait Sith: We been botherin' them as much as we can...But there ain't no other way...Wonder if we've been wrong all this time?
(Red XIII turns toward the group, shaking his head.)
Red XIII: Makes you worry, doesn't it?
(Tifa turns to the group.)
Tifa: Don't worry! Think!
Yakumo: Think?
(Cid steps forward.)
Cid: Hey! The girl's right. You start worryin' and there's no stoppin' it! Things just start fallin' apart and get worse and worse.
(Barret turns to him and thrusts his fist in the air half-heartedly.)
Yakumo: Yes, yes, yes! You guys are right!
(At least Yakumo could feel out on what Cid and Tifa were getting at before the rest of them could.)
Barret: You're pretty damn optimistic! You up to somethin'?
(Cid walks up to him.)
Cid: Yeah, I been thinkin' about this and that. All the time we been up here lookin' at the planet. I been thinkin' even when we were floatin' in the ocean in that escape pod.
(Cloud turns away from the window to face the group.)
Yakumo: You too, Cloud?
Cloud: Yes. I've been thinking too. About the universe...planet...ocean. How wide and big...No matter where I go and what I do it won't change a thing.
(Cid turns to him, shaking his head.)
Cid: Maybe you're right. I mean, Yakumo gets it since she can understand what we're getting at.
(Cloud turns back to the window.)
Cid: But I came up with something different.
(He turns to face Cait Sith, Yuffie, Vincent, and Red XIII. Cloud, Yakumo, Barret, and Tifa gather around him.)
Cid: I always thought this planet was so huge. But lookin' at it from space, I realized it's so small.
(He turns to Barret.)
Cid: We're just floatin' in the dark...kind of makes you feel powerless. On top of that it's got Sephiroth festerin' inside it like a sickness.
(He turns, shaking his head.)
Cid: That's why I say this planet's still a kid. A little kid sick and trembling in the middle of this huge universe.
(He turns to Red XIII.)
Cid: Someone's gotta protect it.
(He turns to Cloud, Yakumo, and Tifa and cocks his head to one side, tapping his foot.)
Cid: Ya follow me? That someone is us.
(Tifa steps up to him.)
Tifa: Cid...that's beautiful.
Yakumo: Of course! If none of you couldn't get me to my senses, who would? Only us can do this, the way Aerith would've done differently. Good thinking, Cid.
Cid: Ah, come on now...! Good to have you back on this one, Yakumo, we're going to need it.
Yakumo: I know. I won't let Sephiroth get the best out of me anymore. I'm fighting back.
Barret: Yo! Cid! You even got to me! So, now what? How're we gonna protect the planet from Meteor?
(Cid turns to face Cait Sith, Vincent, Yuffie, then Red XIII, then Tifa, to Cloud and Yakumo to seeing Barret last again to go back and forth. He scratches his head. He sits down on the floor, leaning against a control panel.)
Cid: ...I'm still thinkin' about that.
(The others turn away silently and take a seat in their usual places.)
Red XIII: Huh!?
Yakumo: Red?
(He comes bounding back up the steps to the others. They all turn to face him.)
Red XIII: Did you...hear something?
(The planet begins to cry for Yakumo to hear it and feel it's pain too.)
Yakumo: Yes...I hear it...So sad, I could almost feel it out...!
Tifa: The planet's scream...or Meteor...? Is it this planet?
(They turn to face Cloud.)
Cloud: Hey, how do we know that this is really the planet's scream?
Tifa: Did you forget? Bugenhagen told us.
(Cloud nods.)
Cloud: Bugenhagen...
Yakumo: What about him?
Red XIII: Let's go see Grandfather! To Cosmo Canyon! I'm sure he'll be able to tell us something that will be helpful!
Yakumo: Right, good idea!
(Yumi fades away for now inside of Orbit until she comes back later on to helping the others if needed.)
Yumi: In that case, I'll eave to rest to everyone else. Yakumo, Cloud, stay strong. Until then...
Yakumo: Okay, I will. We will, Yumi.
(She disappears after that. For it was back to Cosmo Canyon to seeing Beegenhagen once again.)
Cloud: Yakumo?
(She holds Cloud's hands.)
Yakumo: I'm alright. I know Yumi's gone, but at least she'll rest in peace once this is all over with. Let's do what we can.
Cloud: Okay, I'm here for you. I'll always be with you, Yakumo.
Yakumo: Thank you, Cloud.
(Cloud pilots the Highwind to Cosmo Canyon once again. For him, Yakumo, and the others meet the doorman at the gate.)
"Oh, it's you. This is terrible. The color of that unlucky star...The children are all so scared that they won't even go outside. I'd rather not see it either..."
(Cloud, Yakumo, and the others headed up to Bugenhagen's observatory. Bugenhagen is waiting for them there.)
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. If you are ever in need of my wisdom, you are always welcome here.
Yakumo: Oh. Thank you again.
Cloud: Yeah, that's why we came.
(Bugenhagen bounces up and down.)
Yakumo: Good to see you again and all, but...Could you please help us out?
Bugenhagen: What to do? Have you lost your way? When that happens we each have to take a good long look at ourselves. There's always something in the deepest reaches of our hearts. Something buried, or something forgotten. Remember it...Whatever that is, must certainly be what you are all looking for...
Barret: In English please?
Cloud:That's easy enough to say...But, I can't remember a thing.
Bugenhagen: It must be there. Look harder!
Cloud: Got anything, Yakumo?
Yakumo: At least my powers are back...I'm trying to feel out on what it is.
Tifa: Let just keep trying you guy, okay?
(Cloud and Yakumo nodded for everything soon faded into black.)
Bugenhagen: Do you see it? What is it that you are searching for?
Yakumo: Wait! Now I know! Cloud, you guys, go to this spot from here, there, the rest...go stand around there, okay?
(Faded back in; we are at Bugenhagen's observatory, now, the entire party is present. Cloud and Tifa stand on either side for Yakumo to staying close to him of Bugenhagen; Barret stands in the back; Cait Sith stands behind Cloud, Red XIII is in one corner, Yuffie standing next to Vincent that they were closer behind everyone, and Cid is leaned casually against a wall, smoking a cigarette.)
Cait Sith: Nope. Not a thing. Naw. Can't come up with a thing.
Yuffie: Me either! I don't get any of this!
Vincent: Well, it's there. We need to find it and only us.
(Cloud looks down.)
Yakumo: Well...I remember Aerith, I still miss her.
Cloud: I remember Aerith a lot too.
Bugenhagen: No...not that. You haven't remembered. You haven't forgotten. That's not it...How would you say it...Aerith was right there all along. Right by our side. She was so close, we couldn't see her. What Aerith did...The words she left behind...
Yakumo: Really?
Bugenhagen: Well, Yakumo, you were used when you saw Sephiroth murder Aerith, for you to fully awaken as a Makoinoid and lots more when he used you, how did you feel?
(How could Yakumo not remember that happening to her?)
Yakumo: How did I feel...? Quiet, scared, couldn't stop myself, and...I hated it, but I know...I knew Cloud and the others would come for me in the end. I was happy, joy, loved, and freed thanks to them.
Bugenhagen: Yes, yes, that's one of them...
(Soon they all start to remember little at a time.)
Tifa: That reminds me...I was the same.
Red XIII: As was I.
Barret: Me too...
Cloud: She said that she was the only one who could stop Sephiroth's Meteor.
Tifa: But Aerith is gone.
Red XIII: Is it impossible for us to carry on...what Aerith tried to accomplish?
Yakumo: If there's another Ancient being out there, then maybe...
Barret: We ain't no Ancients, if that's what ya mean.
(Cid turns his head toward the group.)
Cid: What, did that girl go off to that place?
Yakumo: What? When people die to become spirits to leaving the planet...Cid! You're right! Cloud!
Cloud: Yes! That's it!
Cid: What's it?
Cloud: We don't know about it. What did Aerith know? Why did she face Sephiroth without running away?
Yakumo: She didn't do those things because she wanted to or get herself killed just like that.
Red XIII: I see...She returned there once again, correct?
Bugenhagen: Hmmm. Perhaps I'll have you take me there.
Yakumo: You mean-!? (Why? What does he need to see?)
Red XIII: You're going too?
Bugenhagen: What's so surprising about that...? Even I want to get out from time to time and see the outside world. I wonder what did it? I haven't felt like this in ages.
(Red XIII turns to him.)
Red XIII: It must be the planet. The planet is calling you!
Yakumo: Calling out to Bugenhagen himself? (I didn't feel that out myself.)
Cid: Yeah, hoo boy, the planet calling...right.
(Cid walks out. Bugenhagen bounces happily)
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. Then let's go.
(They all leave except Cloud, Yakumo, and Bugenhagen.)
Yakumo: Cloud...
Cloud: Oh yeah, thank you Yakumo. By the way, Bugenhagen. I have one more thing I want to ask you. We're carrying around Huge Materia. This is pretty delicate stuff and we would like to keep it in a safe place...
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. Then we'll put it upstairs. Now, shall we be on our way?
Yakumo: Good idea.
(Cloud and Yakumo step onto the elevator. Bugenhagen moves over to a switch on the wall.)
Bugenhagen: I'll teach you two how to work the machine. Watch carefully now. You just pull this here...
(The elevator lifts them up to the solar-system model. The Huge Materia is now floating in space.)
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. Is this what you call Huge Materia...? This is really rare Materia, indeed. Materia this rare is certain to have a special consciousness enclosed in it.
Yakumo: Thanks again, Bugenhagen.
Bugenhagen: Don't thank me, glad to see you back to normal self again.
Yakumo: Glad to be back. Never again I want that to happen to me.
Cloud: I'm not mad on what you tried to do, Yakumo, I'm glad you're still alive.
Yakumo: Oh, Cloud. I don't know what I would do without you in my life.
(The two hugged each other to Cloud choosing to go back down with Yakumo.)
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. Good. Now let's leave. Do you remember how to use the machine down below? If you ever want to see Materia, come here anytime.
Yakumo: And we will too. We should get to that area then.
Cloud: Right.
(Then fades into black after that to fading back again...Soon to be back in the main room of the Highwind ship with Cloud, Yakumo, Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid; Bugenhagen is floating outside the Operation room. With Rose and Dudley seeing the man again and Orbit seeing him for the first time to gathering data on its end for others to remember by in it's system.)
Yakumo: Amazing ship, isn't it? First time flying on the real thing.
Bugenhagen: Hmm, hmm, hmm!...Smells like machinery. I love this smell. Of course, I also love the smell of nature, too...Hmm? Is the deck up there? Then I'll be on the deck just passing the time. I can feel the workings of the planet in the smell of the wind. I also feel the greatness of man's wisdom and the knowledge in the smell of machinery...Well, bye for now.
Yakumo: Don't get lost.
(Cloud pilots the Highwind to the City of the Ancients. He, Yakumo, and the others along with Bugenhagen take the same path he took when they first arrived on his search for Aerith, heading west, then north, to the small shrine in a huge cavern. The shrine is a clear blue, beautiful, pure, crystalline.)
Yakumo: Here it is. I never thought of being here again...
(Bothering Yakumo to remember that horrible event which Aerith was killed in by Sephiroth's doing, Cloud hugs her.)
Cloud: It'll be okay, Yakumo. Be strong for Aerith.
Yakumo: I know. I'm trying.
Cloud: You're doing well.
(Knowing Cloud, he was right. Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and CId will always be by her side no matter what with Yumi to within Orbit and Aerith's staff where her spirit lives from within will keep Yakumo strong.)
Yakumo: Thank you. Thank you, everyone.
(Bugenhagen sees the area for himself for the first time.)
Bugenhagen: This is...
(He floats over to the shrine.)
Bugenhagen: Yes...exactly...
Cloud: Are you getting something?
Yakumo: I feel like he's sensing something from it.
(He floats closer to the shrine, inspecting it.)
Bugenhagen: She's right...Give me a moment.
(Cloud, Yakumo, and the others must run around the perimeter of the cavern to reach the shrine. When they arrive, Bugenhagen is floating next to it.)
Bugenhagen: The knowledge of the Ancients swirling around here is telling me one thing.
(Both Cloud and Yakumo look at him.)
Bugenhagen: The planet's in a crisis...
(He shakes his head.)
Bugenhagen: A crisis beyond human power or endless time. It says, when the time comes, we must search for 'Holy'.
Cloud: Holy?
Yakumo: may we ask who Holy is?
Bugenhagen: Holy...the ultimate White Magic. Magic that might stand against Meteor. Perhaps our last hope to save the planet from Meteor. If a soul seeking Holy reaches the planet, it will appear.
Yakumo: You know something? I think he's right.
(He bounces happily.)
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hoooo. Meteor, Weapon, everything will disappear.
(He leans conspiratorially toward them.)
Bugenhagen: Perhaps, even ourselves.
Cloud: Even us!?
Bugenhagen: It is up to the planet to decide.
(He floats higher, above them.)
Yakumo: Our planet has feeling?
Bugenhagen: What is best for the planet. What is bad for the planet. All that is bad will disappear. That is all.
(He bounces.)
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hooo. I wonder which we humans are?
(Cloud looks down at the ground for a moment, then up at Bugenhagen.)
Cloud: Search for Holy...How do we do it?
Yakumo: Is it a person? A thing? A creature? I can feel out which one is which from this Holy.
(Bugenhagen lifts his arms up, his too-long sleeves drooping down.)
Bugenhagen: Speak to the planet. Get the White Materia...This will bond the Planet to humans.
(He nods.)
Bugenhagen: Then speak to the planet. If our wish reaches the planet, the White Materia will begin to glow a pale green.
(Cloud slumps.)
Cloud: ...This is the end.
(He looks up, shrugging.)
Cloud: Aerith had the White Materia...But when Aerith died, it fell from the altar...
Yakumo: I remember! I thought I saw something fell into the waters.
(He shakes his head sadly.)
Cloud: That's why...this is the end.
Yakumo: We can't give up now, Cloud, we just can't.
(Bugenhagen bounces.)
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hooo!
(He bounces again as he floats back down to the party. He stops in front of the altar.)
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hooo! Ho Ho Hooo!
(He moves aside.)
Bugenhagen: Look at this!
Cloud: !?
(Moving in closer to the altar. Cloud, Yakumo, and the others turn to look as Bugenhagen floats closer.)
Yakumo: What is this...?
Bugenhagen: Ancients' writing.
Yakumo: You're right. Aerith could understand the writing's back at the temple.
Cloud: Can you read it?
(He turns to face Cloud and Yakumo.)
Bugenhagen: I can't even make it out!
Yakumo: Oh, sorry.
Cloud: This's no time for jokes...
Yakumo: I don't think it is a joke, Cloud, we need another Ancient. We to find this Holy person or thing.
(He floats to the front of the altar.)
Bugenhagen: She's right you know...I'm not an Ancient. I can't read this thing!
(He turns and floats lower down along the altar.)
Bugenhagen: I may be old, but my eyes aren't completely bad yet. Look closely below the writing.
(Cloud and Yakumo stepped forward and they look at it closely.)
Yakumo: What does it say, Cloud?
Cloud: There's something written in chalk...(even sunlight can't reach)...(Key).
Yakumo: Key?
Bugenhagen: It was probably written by a scientist who's been here...He probably used all his energy to make out these two words.
(Cloud and Yakumo. look at him.)
Cloud: Key...? To what?
Bugenhagen: I don't know...But, it probably has something to do with our riddle. The riddle... then it must have something to do with Aerith.
Yakumo: So it's like a map.
Cloud: Maybe you're right, Yakumo. So this note points to where the key is?
(Bugenhagen floats higher.)
Bugenhagen: Probably...Use these words as clues and go find the key. I'll continue to figure out the Ancient's writing.
Yakumo: Just one question, Bugenhagen.
Bugenhagen: You're asking what brought you back to your normal self from the Makoinoid inner you?
Yakumo: Was it from true love and those who care for me? I just need to know for sure.
Bugenhagen: It was...Like Aerith, she would give her life to save this planet. Your sister in spirit is doing the same until her timing, must've been the human heart within her mix with the Mako Energy to wonder around this long. Rei...Not so lucky. Like her dead mother, she gave up her humanity for power; turning into something she thinks she could get back at everyone and everything, she just brought pain upon herself; all by Sephiroth's evil doings that changed her since they were real brother and sister. But you, Yakumo, you almost did, but you didn't. You had a feeling they would come for you and in the end they did. Love, friendship, and kindness kept you strong to breaking free in the end. Also Cloud Strife, a lucky man who fell head over heels for you. You, Yakumo, a half breed human and Makoinoid, you are you and nothing else.
(This made her happy very much just to hear it coming from Bugenhagen.)
Yakumo: You're right. I knew that had to be it. I won't let My parents, Yumi, and Aerith's deaths be invalided. I will fight on. (I knew deep down...That had to be all true.)
Barret: Glad to have our old and loving to caring Yakumo here.
Tifa: She changed our lives forever. Well, her and Aerith did.
Red Xlll: She's a very kind person in the world.
Yuffie: She also grew stronger to aid us in battle.
Cait: She help us through the right path.
Vincent: She opened both our hearts and minds for what our destinies to dreams might be.
Cid: We'll make sure Sephiroth will pay to not hurting our friend ever again!
Cloud: Because we care for Yakumo, I love her more than anything.
(The two kissed each other.)
Yakumo: Again, thank you everyone. And thank you, Cloud. You guys are the best, my dear friends. Aerith would be so happy for me just hearing you guys say that.
Cloud: She would.
Yakumo: Okay, now that's out of the way...We need to figure out the clue in finding Holy.
(Cloud turns and looks up at him.)
Cloud: A place (Even sunlight won't reach) is where the (key) is, right?
Yakumo: I guess this is all we can make out from it.
(Bugenhagen turns.)
Bugenhagen: When you find the key, or when you can't go any further, come back here. Maybe I'll understand more from the writing and get some new information for you.
Yakumo: That would be wonderful, thank you. Cloud, let's take the sub I heard that you guys had. I know where to find it.
Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: You do!?
Yakumo: Well...Yes...
Cloud: Then lead us the way, Yakumo.
Yakumo: Right. Let's go.
(Cloud nods. As he, Yakumo, and the others set off in search of the key. They take the sub by Junon in search of the key. While he's down there, Cloud finds the red leader sub he sank before for Yakumo to feel out.)
Yakumo: Over there!
Cloud: So this is the Leader Sub...Damn...makes me sick just thinking about it...
Yakumo: I'm surprise to feel it out all the way in the ocean. But thanks to my ESP powers, we found what we're looking for.
Cloud: We did. Looks like whoever had it first, they didn't make it in time.
Yakumo: So sad...
(Cloud gets the Huge Materia from the sub.)
"...Huge Materia recovered...no damage appears to have been sustained..."
Yakumo: Yes...As it said itself, it's okay.
Cloud: ...Phew... That's good to hear.
Yakumo: It is.
(Cloud, Yakumo, and everyone else on the team continue searching until he finds the "Key" hiding in a small crevice.)
Yakumo: This way! Look at this.
Cloud: Do you think it's...?
"...analysis completed...exact date of origin cannot be determined...estimated to be several thousand years old..."
Yakumo: Yes, it's the real thing. We did it, Cloud.
(Everyone else cheered too.)
Cloud: Key of the Ancients...
Yakumo: Time to give this to Bugenhagen right away. Let's go, you guys.
Cloud: Right.
(Cloud gets the Key. As they return back to the City of the Ancients. He, Yakumo, and the other seven fighters headed to the small shrine where Bugenhagen is waiting. Just like that, with skills, hard thinking to knowing where it is and making it quick to getting it done by staying together, Cloud and Yakumo were back which could possibly save the world yet. From Meteor, Weapon, Rei, Jenova, and Sephiroth himself sooner or later. By getting the White Magic itself for the Ancient being weapon or human calling itself Holy. For them to find it once this first part is taken care of.)
Yakumo: It's time...It just has to work.