Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
(Cloud, Yakumo, Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, VIncent, and Cid went from the City of Ancients...Finding an sunken sub to getting the key, and returning back to give it to Bugenhagen to use. Something about White Magic and Holy to sotpping Meteor. As he was waiting for them, they see what will happen next once it's in.)
Bugenhagen: Oh! You've found it! That Music Box over there. We'll put the key in it.
Yakumo: Let's hope it works.
(Panning over to show the stone music box as Bugenhagen floats over to it. It is made of many blue crystals.)
Bugenhagen: I'll go use the key. You all wait here. And watch closely what happens.
(It moves over to show Bugenhagen as he places the Key into the music box. He bounces happily.)
Cloud: Here goes nothing, I guess...
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hooo!
(He tosses the key the rest of the way in. As he does so, the crystals vibrate as the stone pillar in front of it recedes into the ground. Panning up; high above the shrine, a wave of water pours over a cliff over the cavern, creating a curtain of water around the shrine. Bugenhagen floats back over to Cloud, Yakumo, and the others who were watching with awe.)
Yakumo: It worked!
Bugenhagen: Of course it did. Now, go inside. Hope may be inside...Or...
(Cloud, Yakumo, and the others entered the curtain of water. Bugenhagen floats by the shrine as the water pours around them.)
Bugenhagen: This was just a screen to project an image! Look! Look at the image projected on the screen of the water!
Yakumo: Okay...? Might as well.
(Floating passed on Cloud, Yakumo, and the seven other teams to show what he sees: Aerith. Her image is projected perfectly onto the moving pane of water, causing her to distort as if in a dream. We see her kneeling in prayer in the altar. She looks up, a smile on her face; then we see her body fall forward on Sephiroth's sword. We watch the materia fall from her hair as she falls, bouncing once on the floor, then twice. It falls with a small splash into the water. We now can see what happened to it after it fell. It is sitting peacefully at the bottom of the pool, nestled in the sand. It is glowing a pale green.)
Yakumo: Oh, Aerith, I still miss you, my sister...
(Yakumo was trying to be strong seeing Aerith's face again for CLodu to be cheering her up. They did see what they needed to find and where the pearl-like item fell into.)
Cloud: ...It's glowing.
Yakumo: I thought I felt more than one of those fell from her.
Bugenhagen: Ho Ho Hooo! It's pale green!
(Cloud touches his face to think as Yakumo now knows what Holy was.)
Yakumo: That means...Holy's a living power of a weapon of some sorts. Aerith was praying for Holy. That must've been...!
Bugenhagen: Corret, Yakumo! You're so correct! Ho Ho Hoo!
Yakumo: Cloud, do you know what this means?
Cloud: I think you're right, Yakumo. Maybe...Maybe Aerith. Aerith has already prayed for Holy...After I gave the Black Materia to Sephiroth...Aerith's words came into mine and Yakumo's dream...She said, she was the only one who could stop Sephiroth...And to do that, there was a secret here...That was Holy...That's why, she had the White Materia. Aerith knew about here...and what she had to do. Aerith has left us great hope. But, it cost her her life...her future...I'm sorry...Aerith. I should have figured this out sooner... Yakumo wanted to save you so badly, I had to for you and for her. You left us without saying a word...It was all so sudden, so I couldn't think...That's why it took so long for me to find out...But, Aerith...I understand now. Aerith...I'll do the rest.
Yakumo: I will too with you, Cloud. I think...Yes, I know like you that I understand what she did wanted me to feel out before she left us. We can do the rest for her.
Cloud: And we will.
Tifa: You mean, WE...
Barret: That's 'we' as in us, right?
Yakumo: Don't you get it, Tifa? You guys? Aerith had the White Materia to pray for Holy, the White Magic. Get it?
(Cloud turns to Tifa.)
Cid: The big gift the flower girl left for us...It'd be sad if we didn't finish it!
Yuffie: I would be upset!
Cait: Never go on living again if it was me.
Red Xlll: Dying before our very eyes without finishing something for him or her.
Vincent: So, Aerith with the White Materia, beign the White Magic...To praying for Holy. I think we understand what she was trying to do.
Yakumo: That's right! You guys are getting it! I'm happy at least...To be able to see the good image of Aerith when she was still alive once more.
(Cloud turns to Cid. He nods. He turns to face both of them, Yakumo, and raises his arms.)
Cloud: Thank you...Aerith. Aerith's voice has already reached the Planet. Just look at the glow of the White Materia. But...how about Holy? How come Holy isn't moving?
Yakumo: That's what I like to know too.
(He shakes his head.)
Cloud: Why?
Bugenhagen: Something's getting in its way.
Yakumo: It must be him.
Cloud: ...Him...He's the only one that could do it...Sephiroth. Where are you?
Yakumo: If stopping him means we can still save the world yet, then we have to.
(They soon leave the shrine. On the way out of the City, Cait was getting something on his radar to tell the others about it.)
Cloud: What the?
Yakumo: Something troubling you, Cait?
(He whispers to them.)
Cait: whisper...whisper...(Sorry I was a little surprised).
Cloud: What's wrong?
Cait: You remember when the Junon Cannon disappeared? Actually, Rufus moved it. I just found out from the ship reporting back to me, I wish I knew this sooner.
Cloud: Moved it? That big thing...? Where...? Why?
Yakumo: How's that even possible!?
Cait: Rufus wants to destroy Sephiroth with it. That cannon operates on Huge Materia. But the Huge Materia has already been used in the Rocket Plan. So since the cannon's useless right now, he decided to move it. To a place where Materia...no, where Mako is gathered...
Cloud: And, where is that!?
Cait: You got me! That's all I can learn about!
Yakumo: No...I already have a bad feeling about this.
(The camera shows Meteor hanging in the dark sky, not going anywhere. Then a chopper hovers up, obscuring Meteor, then a second and a third. They fly off, toward Midgar. As it moves moves along Midgar, showing the framework, the fuel souces, the barrel, and finally the tip of Junon Cannon, appended to the top of the Shinra building to fading into black after that. Reeve, Heidegger and Scarlet stand around Rufus, behind his desk at Shinra headquarters.)
Rufus: ...That's why, Reeve. It's your job to adjust the reactor's output.
(Reeve looks away.)
Reeve: I see...What about Yakumo? Looks like she's back to her normal slef by luck. No longer taking any orders from Sephiroth or that Mako monster appearnaces has disappeared on her.
Rufus: Good question...I never knew they would successed.
(Scarlet comes forward.)
Scarlet: Hah, hah, hah! Don't worry about adjusting it, Reeve.
(She punches the air.)
Scarlet: Once you open it up all the way everything will go full speed!
Heidegger: Gya hah, hah, hah! The President's sure done it this time! If we can only defeat Sephiroth, the idea that Meteor will also disappear is based on different objectives! Maybe Reeves has a point now that fine woman's back to normal, and by that which is very good...We don't have to destroy her after all. I knew...I knew she was the one who can save us form this crisis.
(Scarlet waggles her finger at Rufus.)
Scarlet: Please remember, Mr. President...It was my idea to fire Mako reactor powered shells after we escaped to seeing Weapon before our very eyes.
(Rufus flips a bit of hair off his forehead.)
Rufus: Will the shells really reach the far northern border?
Scarlet: Ah, hah hah! Of course!
(She makes a matter-of-fact gesture with her arms.)
Scarlet: But Mr. President, please do not call it a Mako cannon. This new weapon will be called...
(She sweeps her arm)
Scarlet: The Sister Ray!
Rufus: Well, I guess the Sting Ray it is then. As for Yakumo...
(He sees a image of her that he took to have with him, seems that he's looking at her beauty way too much.)
Rufus: I want her brought to me alive. Understood?
Scarlet: Ah...Yes, Mr. President.
Reeve: As you wish.
Heidegger: Sir! Do you want to use her powers?
Rufus: No. No, I have something else in mind. She will save us, however...She'll be a human not a weapon, I'm making Yakumo Lefy to be my wife.
(Goes into Black to fading out. Elsewhere Cloud, Yakumo, and the others leave the City of the Ancients. Outside, he prepares to board the Highwind, then stops and looks around.)
Yakumo: (What's that?)
Cloud: ...?
(The entire earth begins to vibrate in a huge earthquake.)
Cloud: Wh, what the...!?
Yakumo: Cloud!? What's going on!?
(Cloud grabs hold of Yakumo in time to keep close to him, as the others stay together while this was happening.)
Cloud: Get on the ship! This is no oridinary earthquake!
(They do so in time to take off, on what's to come next was horrifying...It shows just above Midgar. It zooms past, flying by to the northern continent. Just off the coast, the water begins to ripple, then wave, then splash hugely. The Weapon rises from the sea. It begins to slowly plod toward Midgar. Fading to the bridge of the Highwind; everyone is gathered there. A red alarm light is flashing.)
Yuffie: I don't like this!
Vincent: Sensing a lot of evil coming in this area.
Yuffie: You mean...?
Vincent: Either Mako Rei, Weapon, or Sephiroth. Because they're each dangerous any anything else.
Yuffie: That's bad then!
Vincent: Indeed it is...
(Someone then comes into the room to report on what's happening right now, for Dudley and Rose hated the alarming sound going on and off.)
Cid: What's wrong?
(One of the pilots turns.)
"It's a strange signal!"
(The light flashes again for Orbit to be picking it up as well, to Yakumo she knows that Yumi feels it out like her as well.)
Yakumo: Orbit! (Yumi, is Rei, Weapon, or Sephiroth nearby? I feel it as well as you are too.)
Cid: From where?
(The pilot faces Cait Sith.)
"It's coming from this... person (?)"
(Cait Sith raises his paws in the air as the pilot turns back to the controls.)
Cait: Wow!
Red Xlll: From Cait?
Barret: What about him!?
(He hops over to the rest of the group.)
Cait: Hey!
(He does a wild dance as the light continues to flash. He eventually stops.)
Cait: That was a surprise, the controls went crazy. This ain't good...Weapon came out of the sea and is heading straight for Midgar.
Yakumo: He's right! I feel it coming!
Cloud: The new weapon should stop him, right?
Cait Sith: I don't know if it's ready or not...
(Barret runs forward.)
Barret: Hey! What's gonna happen to Marlene!?
Cait: Doncha worry none, Marlene's in a safe place. She's with Aerith's mama.
(Barret scratches his forehead and turns away.)
Cait: Barret!
(He bounds over to Barret.)
Cait: What was that scratching just now!? As long as Marlene is safe, who cares what else happens, right?
(He slumps.)
Cait: I been itchin' to say this to ya fer a while now!
Yakumo: Yes, Marlene and Mother are fine. It just...Other lives are in Midgar still, Cait. We can't just let them die!
Cait: I know that! What do you think I am, a murderer?
(He waves his arms madly at Barret.)
Cait: When ya blew the Midgar No. 1 up, how many folks d'ya think died?
Barret: ...that was for the life of the planet. Ya gotta expect a few casualties.
Yakumo: True, Barret, but some escaped in time.
(Cait Sith turns away.)
Cait Sith: A few? Whaddya mean 'a few'? What may be a few to y'all is everything to them who died...
Yakumo: Three people that Cloud, Barret, and Tifa knew of didn't make it before the bomb went off...
(A pause. He turns back to face Barret, who is still staring out the window.)
Cait: Don't do you guys what I'm saying here!? Protect the planet. Hah! Y'all sure sound good! Ain't no one that'd go against ya. So ya think ya can do whatever y'all want?
(Barret spins to face him.)
Barret: I don't wanna hear that from no one in Shinra...
(He turns back to the window. Cait Sith slumps down.)
Cait: ...nuthin' I can do 'bout that...
Yakumo: Please don't say that, Cait!
Cait: I'm trying to prove a point here!
(Cloud turns to face them both, for Yakumo couldn't hear any of this no more.)
Cloud: Stop it!
Tifa: Cait Sith...Barret, he knows what he did. What we did in Midgar can't be forgotten no matter what the reason.
(She walks over to them.)
Tifa: Right? We haven't forgotten, right?
(She faces Cait Sith.)
Yakumo: She's right. We know what happened to doing it again, it can't be helped. But that doesn't mean we can try to fight back if we must. We can try to saving their lives if we needed to.
Tifa: I know, Yakumo. I know you. You can't quit the company because you're worried about the people in Midgar, right?
(She walks back over to Cloud and Yakumo.)
Tifa: ...Cloud?
(A pause.)
Cloud: OK! Let's go! We'll beat Weapon ourselves!
Yakumo: Can we really do it, Cloud?
(The two hold hands with each other.)
Cloud: I know we can try. Help us, Yakumo.
Yakumo: If you really so, Cloud, then okay. I'm with you.
(Cid crosses his arms.)
Cid: Hey Cloud...You think we can win against that monster? We got a chance of winnin', right? Also since Rei's become full Mako and unable to sad her? Just saying...
Cloud: How would yakumo and I know? But that's no reason for us to just let him go! We're goin' to Midgar and fight Weapon! Come on, let's move!
Yakumo: Yes! And Rei...I will stop her. She died along time ago to jon Sephiroth in his foolish goal to hurting more lives. Yumi's dead, but at least she's helping us until she can pass on. I will too, I am who I chose to be. No one will control me again, not into a Mako, I will use my powers for good. For my friends, Mother, the people, this planet, and my Cloud by my side.
Cait: Well said, Yakumo.
Barret: Thanks, Yakumo. Anyways, she's right! Let's not sit on our asses and wait to die! Let's go get Weapon already and to that machine Shinra has back on Midgar! Let's go!
Cid: Ha! Roger that!
Yakumo: To stopping Weapon first. Move out!
Cloud: Let's go.
(Orbit, Rose, and Dudley were ready to fight with them too.)
Tifa, Barret, Red Xlll, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: Onward!
(The Highwind takes off. Cloud pilots it, landing outside of Midgar. The Weapon continues to lumber slowly towards the city. At last it reaches the city; it releases a guttural roar. Cloud attacks it and the battle begins.)
Cloud: Everyone get ready.
Barret: Right!
TIfa: All good to go!
Red Xlll: Time we end this thing.
Yuffie: No Weapon will try hurting us twice!
Cait: Payback time!
Vincent: I'm ready whenever everyone else are...
Cid: All good to go!
Yakumo: Aerith, guide me. Ready, Orbit?
(Orbit was in battle mode.)
Yakumo: Rose, you can fight, just keep your distance to use long range attacks. Dudley move very fast in case Weapon strikes back, okay?
(They made noises to understand Yakumo. Rose got her shild and sword ready to go and DUdley to putting his speeding skills to the test.)
Yakumo: Good. Cloud...
Cloud: Stay close to me, Yakumo, do what you've always do. Protect, heal, and fight if need be with Oribt by your side.
Yumi: Yakumo.
(Yumi comes out as well.)
Yakumo: Here it comes. I know, Yumi, I won't let Sephiroth, Rei, or Weapon change to controlling me no more. I use my powers for good.
Cloud: Here it comes.
(With everyone all geared up and the ship moving a bit further from the battle field, Weapon makes its appears to stopping the thing for good, but what was on Yumi's mind as she watches...? Boss battle with Weapon. This was going to be a tough one to facing a very big creature like Weapon for Sephiroth orders it to kill them all since Yakumo broke free from his spell, but not for this thing...Its blast were too powerful for Rose to fire off many sword she could throw as Dudley let's her ride to aiming at it over and over, Yakumo shields the otjhers in time from the powerful blast. Allowing Barret to blow it away, to Tifa beating it up, Red striking at it, Yuffie throwing her weapons, Cait punching to gamlbing away using his dice too, Vincent to move and use dark magic within his bullets of a gun, Cid kept on stabbing many times with his staff. As Yakumo controls Orbit to moving around and striking at Weapon many times with its arms to stabbing it. Soon those two things were fighting at each other. Cloud then strike at Weapon many times to moving really fast using his sword. Weakening it, but wasn't down yet.)
Yakumo: So much power Weapon has...!
Cloud: Keep attacking! Don't stop now!
(And so they did over and over again, stil Weapon can pack a powerful punch for the other stayed strong and Yakumo was doing well to healing her friends and shielding them in time. But for how long? That's when something happens, Rei was powering up Weapon a lot, for Yumi to sense it out, she quickly takes over Weapon to draining all of his energy in time weakening it and her half sister, allowing the others to fight back this time. And so they do.)
Yakumo: What just happened?
Yumi: It won't hold it for long. Quickly! Strike back while it's weak!
Cloud: You heard her!
(Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid finally hit Weapon hard as a team in combining moves over and over. With Orbit whacking Weapon hard leaving Dudley and Rose to use a strong rope with some magic to holding it down...This was both Cloud and Yakumo's chance to finish Weapon off together. As Cloud and Yakumo use their magic, good Mako Energy, with the sword and staff, and firing at Weapon to release a wind-like lighting energy to go flying right into the creature really hard. It worked, for it was crying out while it was still standing.)
Cloud: Did we just...? How was that possible?
Yakumo: I don't know...Must of been luck. But did we do it?
Cloud: I'm not sure of it either.
(Yakumo sees Rei was able to heal Weapon in time to getting away from the two. For Weapon turns and slowly moves back toward the sea. Cloud, Yakumo, and the others stayed behind; as it leaves, the huge shadow it casts recedes from where the party stands. They watch it go.)
Yumi: Seems that we won this round, but it'll be back.
Yakumo: And Rei...She was aiding that thing.
Yumi: Should've known.
Yakumo: We did our best at least. Right, Cloud?
(Cloud was just staring at Weapon leaving.)
Barret: Wassup, Mr. Monster? What're you lookin' for?
Tifa: Yeah, what's wrong? Are you still looking for something...?
(Cloud shakes his head.)
Yakumo: No, I think Cloud knows it too.
Cloud: No, nothing's wrong. And she's right. It's...feeling something. ...Yeah, it senses murder.
(The Weapon continues its journey to the ocean.)
Cid: To my ship!
Yakumo: Rose. Dudley. Orbit. Move out!
(They all run to the Highwind as the Weapon reaches the edge of the water. As Cloud, Yakumo, and the others along with Rose, Dudley, and Orbit with Yumi inside of it turns around to go, for Cait Sith knows what was about to happen next to seeing the view and figure out something on his own, to tell the others quickly.)
Yakumo: Now what's wrong, Cait? Please tell us.
Cait Sith: Oh no! Let's hurry out of here! Something big...I'm talkin' REALLY BIG's comin'!
Yakumo: How bad is it...?
(From fading in and fading right back in to President Rufus' office. Rufus stands, looking out the window at the sea as Heidegger comes over the intercom.)
Heidegger: Hah, hah, hah, Mr. President, preparations for Sister Ray are now in order.
(Rufus turns to face his desk as Scarlet comes on as well.)
Scarlet: Hah, hah, hah! Anytime is fine.
(Rufus nods and turns back to the window.)
Rufus: ...Fire.
(Panning along the length of the Sister Ray. It looks ominous as it shines metabolically in the night. To circling Midgar as the Mako reactors activate, one by one. When all are burning, pure Mako energy begins to emanate from each one through small holes in the metal walls. The cumulative energy of the reactors combines, flowing into the receptacles of the Sister Ray. The energy builds. The cannon begins to vibrate as a blue halo of light forms around the barrel; the molecular energy of the very air being drawn into the cannon as it prepares to fire. The halo of light is then too drawn into the barrel, and all the Mako energy, molecular energy, light, everything is compressed into a single pinpoint of light. The light from the surrounding area is as well drawn into the cannon and the countryside goes pitch-black. It fires. A colossal helix of energy launches from the cannon; the supporting structures collapse and every window in Shinra building shatters outwards from the sheer force of the fire. Then changes back to Rufus' office. He nonchalantly flips a lock of hair from his forehead. Then again; the Weapon, now across the ocean, turns. It lifts the armor plates on its body with Rei aiding it, revealing countless orifices from which bullets of energy begin to shoot across the ocean in the direction of the Sister Ray. And again to the deck of the Highwind. Everyone is gathered there.)
Tifa: Which direction is it going to attack from?
Red XIII: Midgar!
Yakumo: This looks bad! Mom! Marlene!
(They all run to the railing and look out at Midgar. All except Cait Sith. He stands facing the rudder, away from the group.)
Barret: Marlene!
(The Highwind circles as the fire of both the Weapon and the Sister Ray intermingle with each other, mixing. The white energy burst of the cannon strikes the Weapon square in the chest. It flies backwards as the entire length of the fire slips through its body. Once it is past, it then moves to show in seeing the inside of the Weapon's body, plainly shown, torn open. It sparkles with violet energy for Rei tries getting it back up on it's feet. That was a powerful hit there. The Weapon hits the ground, bounces once, then comes to a stop, dead. Was it really dead though? Rei disappears in seconds...Then changes back to the Highwind.)
Vincent: It was hit...
Yuffie: Just like that!? Wow...!
Yakumo: Why...? How could Rufus do this...? Mako Energy into a weapon...
(Yakumo hated it the most to see something strong to be use as a machine.)
Barret: Damn...
Red XIII: It went right through Weapon...
Cait: It did?
Cid: Talk about a direct hit.
(They all turn to face Cloud as he speaks.)
Yakumo: Cloud...
Cloud: I see! They're after Sephiroth! The crater on the Northern boundary!
Tifa: They are!?
Yakumo: That would make sense. Saving the world and stopping them is one thing...This is madness!
(The energy blast from the Sister Ray shoots along the northern mountains, towards the crater. Following it along, moving to show the inside of the blast as it speeds toward its target. It hits it mark. The blast slams into the energy barrier around the northern crater, spraying outward as if it were water from a garden hose striking a tree stump. The energy barrier dissipates. Then fades in to Rufus' office. Rufus still stands, not moving, staring out the window. The operator comes on the intercom.)
(operator) "Sir! Weapon's been defeated! The barrier has disappeared!"
(He moves for the first time and walks over to his desk. He stops and looks up at the ceiling as the operator speaks again.)
"Sir! A mass of high-density energy is heading towards Midgar!"
(The energy bullets from Weapon sail over Midgar. People run panicking in the streets.)
"Weapon's attacking! Run for your lives!"
Rufus: What!?
(The bullets continue to sail past, striking the city in several places. Moves to show Rufus in his office. He stands motionless before his desk, watching calmly as the yellow bursts fly past his office. To making a close-up on his eyes. He blinks once. Then a blast strikes his office. He doubles over, silhouetted against the flame for a moment, before his entire office is consumed for all to fade away. Yakumo felt it out to be on her knees crying, she was unable to shield Shinra building to saving Rufus in time, a bad person but didn't need to die like that.)
Yumi: No way...!
Yakumo: Rufus...Weapon and Rei...Got to the building and Rufus...No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
(Cloud, Yakumo and the others are on the bridge of the Highwind back inside. After what they just seen, places in Midgar were destroyed...But no signs of Rufus, Scarlet, Reeve, and/or Heidegger to be seen or heard from anywhere after the blast attack. The other weapon that stopped Weapon itself has failed.)
Yakumo: Why, Sephiroth? Why go this far...?
Cloud: Yakumo.
Yakumo: I know. Shinra is mess up, still...Rufus should've gotten out of the building. Now that cost him his life.
Cloud: With Rei and Sephiroth taking off...What happened to...Sephiroth?
Yakumo: Where did he go? Wait...Cloud, I think we do know where Sephiroth went.
(He nods.)
Cloud: Yes. To the Northern Cave...Let's go see what happened to it.
Yakumo: Then let's hurry.
(Cloud pilots the Highwind over the Northern Continent. He, Yakumo, Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid all had a look out at the Northern Crater.)
Yakumo: Couldn't kill Weapon, it did destroy the energy barrier all over the place. I can feel it.
Cloud: You're right. Sephiroth's energy barrier is gone...
(He turns to Cid, who stands near the pilot in training.)
Cloud: Cid! Can the airship get inside?
Cid: Huh? He's my student, ain't he!? Of course he can go anywhere!
Yakumo: He's right about that.
Cloud: Right, sorry about that.
Cid: Don't be.
Yakumo: Yeah, Cloud, we all make mistakes.
(Barret turns to Cait Sith.)
Barret: Yo, Cait Sith! Now what?
(He jumps.)
Cait: Hold it!
(He hops a few steps away.)
Yakumo: Oh, I see...Still spying, you need to know if they're still alive. I sure hope so.
Cait: You got it. Scarlet! Heidegger! What's going on?
(Cuts right to the board room in the Shinra building. Heidegger has a phone pressed to his ear. Reeve and Scarlet look on. After a moment, he puts the phone down. Yakumo feels three living beings who are still alive.)
Yakumo: Yes...Those three are alive! What about Rufus?
Heidegger: Strange. I can't reach the President.
Reeve: Not the President. To Sister Ray!
Scarlet: Ha, ha, ha. What is it Reeve? You're speaking strangely.
(Reeve shakes his head.)
Reeve: None of that matters! The reactor's output is increasing all by itself!
Scarlet: Wow, wait a minute. That's not wise! It must be cool for 3 hours or it won't work. Reeve, shut off the machine!
(He shakes his head.)
Reeve: We can't do that! It's inoperable!
(He pulls out a portable phone and holds it up to his ear.)
"Someone has switched the machine over to mainframe operation! We can't operate it from here."
Reeve: What about the mainframe? Who!?
(He turns to Heidegger.)
Reeve: Hey, call the mainframe!
(Heidegger picks up the phone for a moment, then puts it down and looks at Reeve.)
Heidegger: Huh? Why are you giving orders?
Reeve: I don't give a damn about the details!
(He turns away and listens into his phone again. Showing now to a small lab at the top of Shinra building. It is exposed to the open air; electric sparks jump along the metal walkway. Hojo is pressing buttons at a large control panel.)
Hojo: Ha, ha, ha...Just you wait, Sephiroth. I'll give you all the Mako you want. I'll get Yakumo back to draining all of hers if I have to for you.
(The intercom comes on; Reeve called it from his portable phone.)
Reeve: Hojo, STOP! The cannon, no, Midgar itself is in danger!
Hojo: Ha, ha, ha...One or two Midgars? ...It's a small price to pay.
Reeve: Hojo! HOJO...!
(Hojo doesn't answer. He continues to press buttons and pull levers for a few more moments.)
Hojo: Show me...Sephiroth. It should be near...Ha, ha, ha...Go beyond the powers of science...Before your presence, science is powerless...I hate it, but I'll concede to it. Just...let me see it. Ha, ha, ha...
(Going right back to the bridge of the Highwind. Barret shakes his arms at Cait Sith)
Barret: YO! Do somethin'! Ya big cat!
Yakumo: What an we do!? Hojo has lost it. I knew he would from the beginning of all of this. Man is pure evil.
(Cait Sith slumps and tiptoes timidly up to Barret.)
Cait: We're sunk. Hojo's doing this on his own...? ...? H, huh!?
(He turns.)
Cait: I don't like this...
(Barret steps up to him.)
Barret: You're busted, Reeve!
(Cait Sith waves his arms madly.)
Barret: Too late tryin' to hide it now...
Cloud: Can't you stop the Mako reactor?
Yakumo: You have to!
(Red XIII, Yuffie, Vincent, and Tifa gather around.)
Cait: ...We can't stop it.
Yuffie, Red Xlll, Tifa, and Vincent: You can't!?
Barret: You're from Shinra, ain't ya? So why's it impossible!?
Cait: ...No.
Cid: We came a long way to get here. You better not double-cross us now!
Cait: I can't make you trust me...
Cid: You damn fool! Don't you understand anything I'm saying? I don't give a damn about Shinra. If you're a man...no, if you're a human being, you'll save the planet! Don't you even care?
Cait: No way! If we shut down the reactor, all hell will break loose!
Cid: Why? Can't you just shut off the valve?
Cait: Yeah, it's easy to shut off the reactor's pipe valves...But the reactor made a path for the energy to escape from below. Once you open that, it'll be impossible to close it until everything blasts out...And we can't try to stop the energy from gushing out...
Barret: An explosion!
Yakumo: How bad will it be?
Cait: This blast'll be way stronger than when the number 1 reactor blew up!
(Barret turns away.)
Barret: Damn...!
Cait: Forget about that...the CANNON! We've got to get to Midgar! That's the first thing!
Cloud: Must stop Hojo...first.
Yakumo: Yes, yes we should.
(Going back to the Shinra board room. Reeve, Heidegger, and Scarlet stand at the end of the long table. Reeve turns to Heidegger.)
Reeve: Looks like Cloud and the others are on their way. Stay out of the way!
(Heidegger laughs.)
Heidegger: Ghaa haah hah hah! Don't be so ludicrous! I don't recall you giving me any orders! The Peace Preservation will give their best effort to make the enemy retreat!
(Scarlet laughs.)
Heidegger: Because of them, I...I..!
Reeve: That's a private matter...
Heidegger: The President is dead! Now I'm doing things my way! Ghaa haah hah hah!
Scarlet: Ha, ha, ha. Heidegger! Now I'm going to use the new weapon!
(Two guards come in and surround Reeve. Scarlet and Heidegger laugh and exit.)
Reeve: Hey! Wait!
(He shakes his head.)
Reeve: Cloud, Yakumo, everybody! Sorry...But!
(Back to the Highwind bridge.)
Cait: But! But you'll come, won't you!?
(Cloud walks to him.)
Yakumo: We do.
Cloud: And I know!
(They all nod.)
Cid: Hey!
(He turns to the pilot in training.)
Cid: I'm leaving the ship in your hands!
(He nods.)
CId: We're heading for Midgar!
Yakumo: Then let's go. Dudley. Rose. Stay here to protect everyone else, we'll handle the rest with Orbit by my side.
(They understood. As Cloud pilots the Highwind to enter Midgar airspace for he, Yakumo, Barrett, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid will stop Hojo and the weapon first with Orbit coming along with Yumi too. Shirting to the bridge of the Highwind. A crewman salutes and clicks his heels.)
"We've reached Midgar!"
Barret: Even if we get there, Midgar's under martial law! There'll be no way we could slip into the slums.
Tifa: Looks like all transportation from the slums is cut off...
Cid: Hey, hey, whaddya think we have Highwind for? Where are we now!?
Barret: Huh? Where are we...?
Cid: If land's no go...We'll go by air!
Cloud: Okay then! We'll parachute into Midgar!
Yakumo: Everyone, stay together! Rose. Dudley. Stay put.
(Rose and Dudley will protect the people back on the ship on their end. They all exit the bridge as Cloud and Yakumo hold hands with each other on what they're about to do next. Crewmen salute as they run past, single file, onto the outer deck. Cloud, Yakumo a'long with Orbit', and the others step to the railing.)
Yakumo: Has Everyone got their parachutes?
Tifa and Yuffie: Ready!
Barret and Cid: All good to go!
Red Xll and Cait: So are we.
Vincent: I'm all good.
Yakumo: Okay, then. Orbit. we'll see you down.
(Orbit jumps off first no problem for Yakumo and Cloud to jump down together while holding hands.)
Yakumo: Ready, Cloud.
Cloud: Here we go!
(They all leap over the railing. As the Highwind flies overhead, the party plummets past. The camera follows as they fall high above Midgar, finally opening their chutes just above the city streets. Cloud, Yakumo, Orbit, and everyone else all landed softly near an alley. Cait Sith comes bounding up.)
Yakumo: We're here. (We're in Midgar again.) Oh, Cait.
Cait: Let's keep moving, people. Heidegger is going after you all. That's why it's dangerous out there. Let's go underground!
Yakumo: Cloud.
Cloud: Let's get going.
(He runs off into the alley. Cloud and Yakumo followed to find the rest of the party waiting there and Orbit too.)
Barret: Sounds strange comin' from me...But it feels like home bein' back in Midgar. Kinda makes me sick...
Yakumo: Home sick or the people running it?
Red XIII: I have an old score to settle with Hojo, so let's hurry and go!
Yakumo: Good idea, Red.
Cid: I'm ready whenever everyone else's are.
Tifa: Same here.
Vincent: Then let's stick together.
Yuffie: Agreed!
(Cait Sith is dancing with excitement next to a storm door at the end of the alley. Cloud speaks to him and the music fades.)
Cait: This is where we go in.
Yakumo: Good call, Cait, thanks to you we'll stop Hojo in no time.
(He throws the door open.)
Cait Sith: Please! Hurry and come to the Mako Cannon!
Yakumo: We're going!
(He leaps down first to the storm door. Cloud, Yakumo, and the rest of the team follows Cait. Beneath the storm door is a vast maze of pipes, walkways, and ladders. Traversing the mechanical rooms and fighting off monsters to guards all over the place, they soon arrived in the subway beneath Midgar. He begins to head through it when he hears a voice behind Cloud.)
Elena: Oh, no! They're here!
(Elena comes running up to them.)
Yakumo: Reno, Rude, and Elena are here. We got backup.
Cloud: They are?
Yakumo: We do owe them.
Elena: What are we going to do!? I think it's okay for you to ignore your orders now.
Yakumo: Don't tell me that Elena still think we killed Tseng...
Elena: I was told the truth, but...That doesn't mean with have to do our jobs!
(Reno walks up behind her.)
Reno: ...Elena, don't act so weak. Yakumo, sorry. We said we help you out, but only for you. Not for him...
(Rude enters.)
Rude: We're Turks, Elena. They would never murder Tseng or anyone.
(She shakes her head.)
Elena: ...Yes, sir. You too, Rude. You're both right.
Rude: Come on, we've got work to do.
Reno: I'm not really up for it, but...
Elena: Our orders were to seek you people out and...Kill. Except for you, Yakumo. Our company may be in turmoil, but an order's an order. Besides you saving my life that time. That's 'we' the will and spirit of the Turks! Believe it!
(Reno and Rude scratch their heads.)
Cloud: ...
Elena: What are you doing! Let's go!
Cloud: Okay, let's end this
(The party assumes a fighting stance.)
Reno: I know we've got a weird relationship, but...Want to figt with Cloud again, we have to keep our job. We have to end this...like Turks!
(Before anyone could battle against each other, Orbit jumps in to grab hold of Elena to calming her down, not to hurt her for Rude and Reno to move away in time.
Elena: What is this...!? Let go of me!
Reno: Saw this one coming...
Rude: Me too.
Yakumo: No, let's not go. I knew you guys were good Turks. Reno, you save my life, Rude, you helped out the others to get to Cid's ship. And Elena, we did save you and Yuffie from Don and this is what you guys want to do? Hurt us!? I won't allow it!
(Cloud was about to say something for Barret to stop him in time.)
Barret: She's got this.
Cloud: But why...?
Tifa: Yakumo's, Yakumo. She's knows who's good or not. She's just that type of person.
Cid: Pure hearted really.
Yakumo: Now, Elena, let just work together as a team or other areas on what we're dong now. Don't do this. Just say uncle and Orbit will free you.
Elena: No!
(Elena pulls the arms off of her to jumping away in time.)
Elena: What are you saying, Yakumo!? You're showing pity!? Don't take the Turks for fools!
Yakumo: We're not! Tseng was a good leader to you and a better person, he was to Aerith and to me. As crazy as he was, he wasn't bad. Just wanted to see the power before Sephiroth took it all, he gave up his life for my step-sister. He was like a brother to her! You loss him, I loss her too because of Sephiroth! Heck, I wouldn't be me still if Cloud and my friends haven't come to save me! Reno allowed it! Rude went along! And you...! You think any of this will bring him back!? Those people but Reeve...I bet they're mess up! They're about to do something foolish by Hojo's doing if we don't do this now! I feel and sense these things, Elena. Believe me. We're not your enemies. The few people from Shirna are. Please...
(Yakumo goes over to Elena to touching her head to feel out the good and the bad times she had to joining with Turks. She begins to fall down to her knees and cry. Trying to fight back to reaching out her gun, Reno grabs her hand in time to removing it.)
Yakumo: Reno!
(No gun fire didn't go off, but he did crush Elena's weapon using his staff.)
Reno: Wait, Elena.
Yakumo: Ah! Elena! Were you trying to kill yourself!?
(She begins to cry.)
Reno: Almost. It's alright, she just needed to open her eyes to seeing reality at the same time. And she did.
(She spins to face him.)
Elena: Reno! You're not violating the order...are you!? All because of this girl!? She's taken by Cloud already, or are you that stupid!?
Reno: I know. I lost to Cloud. I trust him to being with Yakumo. Don, if he was still alive, I would've kill that son of a bitch i nthe first place. Glad I did anyways. Besides...Shinra's finished. It's come down to this.
Rude: ...
Yakumo: See, Elena? Live on. He would've wanted that. You people are good. Live your life and dreams, just don't throw it all away.
Elena: What...? You tried saving him?
Yakumo: ...I did, but I couldn't. Died from losing lots of blood. Forgive me.
(She looks at Rude, then back to Reno.)
Elena: Rude...Reno...
(She turns her head away from both of them.)
Elena: I'm sorry. Yakumo...Please be my friend!
Yakumo: Me?
(She hugs her to stop crying.)
Elena: Please!?
Yakumo: It's alright. I will be your friend, Elena. Just promise me that you'll live on.
Elena: I will.
Rude: She will...
Yakumo: Rude, take good care of her.
(As the two moved aside, Reno comes up to them.)
Reno: Elena, you were a great Turk!
Elena: Shut up...! I was from the very beginning. You two are nothing without me around.
(A pause.)
Elena: ...So yeah...
(Reno goes up to Yakumo next as she tells Cloud to stay calm, she knows what she had to do around this guy.)
Yakumo: Cloud, it's fine. I'll deal with him.
(And so he does.)
Reno: Yakumo. Well be helping out on the other line, and maybe more in the future. Guess you guys need to do this right?
Yakumo: We have to, Reno. Listen...I owe you a lot for helping me. But my heart belongs to Cloud. Please understand.
(Reno touches Yakumo's hand and face to stroke gently to at least leave her a quick kiss on the forehead.)
Reno: I do. But still...Damn! You're such so beautiful to look at. You and your smile. Yakumo, you've changed our lives thanks to you. I'm glad I was able to save you. Cloud, he's a great man. So keep him happy, for me to see you happy.
Yakumo: I know you'll find someone close to you one day.
Reno: You think so? I better.
Yakumo: So...Where will you guys be?
Reno: We'll be around to help. For now, go do what needs to be done. Take care, Yakumo.
Yakumo: You too, Reno. You, Rude, and Elena.
(Reno waves to Cloud and the rest of the party.)
Reno: Farewell. If we both survive...If we can save our lives...Cloud, protect Yakumo with your life the way I do. If something happens to her again, I will save her before you can and kick your ass for leaving a pretty girl behind.
(Yakumo walks back to Cloud to hold him.)
Cloud: I will. I will protect my Yakumo.
Reno: Good to know. Laters!
(He turns and walks away. Elena turns to the party.)
Elena: Remember the spirit of the Turks...! Yakumo! Remember! We're friends you and I!
(She waves and runs off.)
Rude: Our mission's finished...Yakumo, you and your friends take care...
Yakumo: Bye! Take care! Hope to see you all later!
(He turns and leaves. The party continues on.)
Yuffie: Way ago, Yakumo!
Cait: Nicely done!
Red Xlll: Way to talk some sense into them.
Vincent: Things would've gotten ugly.
Cloud: But she pulled it off without fighting.
Yakumo: That's good, right?
(Cloud rubs his hands on Yakumo's face.)
Cloud: Some cases, it is. We should continue on.
Yakumo: Right. Cait, lead us the way.
Cait: Righto, Yakumo! Follow me!
(A bit further down the subway, they reach an exit that takes them to an exterior street of Midgar. They climb a tower marked '59' to reach an upper road and are about to continue when they hear huge robotic footsteps behind them, getting closer and closer.)
Yakumo: Trouble! I can feel it nearby!
(They soon see and hear it coming for them)
Barret: What the...hell is that!?
Tifa: This can't be...
(A huge mech arrives behind them and comes to a stop.)
Cid: Hey-hey! You serious...?
(A door in the front of the robot swings open. The robot lifts a huge hand to the opening.)
"G'yaaa, Haaa, Haaa! Here they come!"
(Heidegger steps out onto the hand.)
"G'yaaa, Haaa, Haaa! So they really showed up!"
(Scarlet exits the robot and stands next to Heidegger. The robot swings its hand outwards, holding them both.)
Yakumo: Scarlet and Heidegger!
Heidegger: You sure did treat us like dogs up to now! And you brought our savior Yakumo to us, how nice of you.
Scarlet: You killed off a lot of my precious soldiers!
Yakumo: Because they try to kill us! It was self-defense!
(Heidegger starts to cackle vigorously.)
Heidegger: G'yaaa, Haaa, Haaa! But let's see how you do against anti-Weapon artillery!"
Scarlet: You guys are worthless, but my proud creation is a sure thing!
Yakumo: Like I'll join your group!
Scarlet: Oh, really...?
(She gestures and the robot deposits the two of them back inside. The door swings closed as it swings a massive fist down to punch the ground near the party.)
Scarlet: I'll show you the destructive power of the Proud Clod! Yakumo, you'll have no choice but to be our savior after this, it's your destiny.
Yakumo: No!
Heidegger: Tough woman, aren't you? We love to see you try.
Yakumo: Cloud!
Cloud: Time we stop them for good and their machine.
Yakumo: Okay...You guys want a fight with your robot!? I got one of my own. Orbit!
(Yakumo summons out Orbit for they, Cloud, Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid fight on. Boss battle with Proud Clod as Scarlet and Heidegger had full control of it. As Cloud, Red, and Yuffie cut their way through at the giant machine, Barret and Vincent try gunning it down; to Cid striking hard with his staff, allowing Tifa and Cait to beating it up hard multiple times. Soon Yakumo shields everyone from the robot's on coming strikes to unable to hit them all, for Orbit strike back to a fighting robot showdown, as Yakumo takes control of it for power of the Mako Energy to strike hard, firing at each other, weapons all over them to use it was something. Firing a fire-like blast, for Orbit to run like a spider really fast to drilling through...Yumi goes inside the machine to do something to the two.)
Scarlet: What was that?
Heidegger: What was what? Probably the wind.
(She then sees Yumi standing next to her to think it was a ghost. Freaking out, she points at Heidegger to getting his attention to seeing her as well.)
Heidegger: What? I'm fighting them the best I can here!
Scarlet: I think...There's a ghost inside...!
Heidegger: I doubt it...?
(They see Yumi to look at them, smile, and say this to them only.)
Yumi: Ah...Boo.
(They screamed to stop controlling the robot, allowing Orbit to send it flying to push it aside to being drilled over and over for the metal body to be ripped apart. Also for the buildings being made comes crashing down all over it to being destroyed. Yumi returns with Orbit.)
Yakumo: Nice work, you two.
(Yakumo hugs Orbit for Yumi to smile for her sister.)
Yumi: Thanks. Those guys were nothing.
Cloud: Strong on the outside, just not the inside. Cowards...
(With Yakumo alright for Cloud to see and her doing another r fine job, the Proud Clod freezes. It begins to make electrical sparking sounds.)
Scarlet: Not that! This is the Proud Clod...!?
(It begins to glow white and makes thundering sounds. It falls to its knees.)
Heidegger: Whoooooooa!
(Going completely white as it explodes. It begins to rain leaving them all burned up and very freaked out. The others were about to fight with them, only to be scared and flee off.)
Yakumo: Leave now. Live your lives, and never come back again.
Scarlet: NOOOOO! My dress is ruined!
Heidegger: I hate losing!
Barret: Ha! That's right! Go back where you two came from, you bastards!
(Barret throws a trash barrel on to Heidegger to fall down, as he grabs hold of Scarlet's dress to still run with him behind her and complaining to not being touched on their way out for the others to laugh at this.)
Tifa: Nice shot, Barret.
Barret: It was worth it. Let's get back to what needs to be done.
Yakumo: Okay!
(The party continues. They head north along the street, reaching a set of wooden stairs. Cait Sith points out that they were going the right way.)
Cait: This way, Cloud! Yakumo! You guys!
Cloud: We're almost there. Yakumo, we can do this.
Yakumo: I know. I'll be strong as you will two. I love you.
Cloud: And I love you always, Yakumo.
(The two kissed for them to continued on, unaware that Sephiroth with Rei by his side will soon make a move for him to draw his sword out.)
Sephiroth: Cloud...Yakumo...
(He does something to Rei's body, but what? Jenova thing started to glow up in a bad way though...They bounded up the stairs and motions for them to follow. They do so. They continue to climb the stairs, ascending a huge metal tower. At the top is a large instrument panel. Hojo is feverishly pressing buttons and flipping switches.)
Yakumo: (There he is...!) Everyone, stand your ground!
(Tifa, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid do so along with Cloud and Yakumo staying close together.)
Cloud: Hojo! Stop right there!
Yakumo: We're stopping your wicked games right now!
(Hojo does not turn to face them. He merely continues his work.)
Hojo: Oh...the failure. Two failures...
Cloud: At least remember my name! It's Cloud!
Yakumo: I'm Yakumo Lefy. Nothing else or a Makoinoid! I am me and only me!
(Hojo stops working but still does not turn.)
Hojo: Yakumo, huh? So you're back to normal I see...Every time I see you, I...It pains me that I had so little scientific sense...
(He resumes.)
Hojo: I evaluated you as a failed project. But, you are the only one that succeeded as a Sephiroth-clone. And that so called Cloud there, an image for him to go from his powers to seeing everything thanks to me. Heh, heh, heh...I'm even beginning to hate myself.
Cloud: None of that matters...just stop this nonsense!
Yakumo: Do it or we'll make you!
Hojo: ...nonsense? Oh, this?
(He finally turns to look at Cloud and Yakumo.)
Yakumo: We warn you...
(Hojo grabs hold of Yakumo to being so powerful for a human.)
Yakumo: Ah! Cloud! Help me!
Cloud: Yakumo!
(He licks her neck to touching her breasts.)
Hojo: So lovely you are. I could've falling for you if you just stayed with me for saving you and testing your body like a good girl from five years ago...Guess we're doing this the hard way, you'll help me.
Barret, Tifa, Red Xlll, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: Yakumo!
(Hojo then draws out some blood from Yakumo filled with Mako Energy from within her, to being thrown and trapped into a glass case with lots of energy poles all over, Cloud tries cutting through to getting electrocuted and the others could break it either. Orbit tries, only for Hojo to make a hole to being trapped in with Yumi too.)
Yumi: No! Don't do this, Hojo! Save her, Cloud!
(Cloud or the others weren't going to give up in saving Yakumo. She couldn't use her powers or punch her way out this one.)
Cloud: Let her out!
Hojo: Ha, ha, ha...Sephiroth seems to be counting on the energy. So I'm going to lend him a hand. What better way...Than having my future bride to be in doing so with my help. She's the fully complete half breed Mako I've saved and reawakened. Yakumo is the key to everything to changing this planet for the better with me joining. Isn't that right...?
(Hojo sticks his hand out to Yakumo's body to rub, make noises, laugh, and be sick for the other to watch the horror. Leaving poor Yakumo to cry in sorrow.)
Yakumo: Cloud...
Cloud: Stop it! Why!? Why do that!? Why are you doing this to her!?
Hojo: Quit asking me why, you moron.
(He walks up to look Cloud in the eye.)
Hojo: Hmm...actually, you might be cut out to be a scientist.
(He turns back to the panel to looking at Yakumo's beauty. He starts the machine up to shock her painfully for more Mako Energy to absorb it into the machine, though taking so long in doing so.)
Hojo: Energy level is at...83%. It's taking too long. Come now, bride to be. He needs us...
(He resumes his button-pressing to make Yakumo suffer inside.)
Yakumo: Stop this!
Hojo: My son is in need of power and help...That's the only reason. Yakumo, don't fight it. Aid me. Aid Sephiroth. Aid your half sister who's my daughter!
(This changes everything on what Hojo was saying.)
Cloud: ...your son?
Yakumo: Then...Sephiroth's father didn't die...You are...And you killed to turning Rei...Try to do the same on Yumi and me...You bastard! You murdered Jenova! You did all of this! You killed Aerith's parents!
(Yakumo knows it, it had to be all true. Shocking even for Cloud to be hearing this.)
Cloud: No way...!
Hojo: Ha, ha, ha...Correct, my beautiful Yakumo! Although he doesn't know yet.
(He begins to laugh so hard he has to stop working.)
Hojo: Ha, ha, ha...HA, HA, HA...! What will Sephiroth think when he finds out that I'm his father? Always looking down on me like that. HA, HA, HA...! Come, Yakumo, give me your energy! Scream for me! It turns me on...!
Yakumo: No! No! Cloud! Save me please!
Cloud: So you are...Sephiroth is your son!?
Yumi: I knew something was wrong with this man. You try subduing Rei the way you did to me, but I failed for you to get rid of. Doing the same to Yakumo again, you want a new breed of power in your family. You hurt your own wife for this!?
Hojo: Correct, failure! I had!
Yumi: But you can't! I won't lose her again! I died once from your sick games like Cloud and Zack's to escaping to seeing my sister become the same! Not again!
(Hojo resumes his work once more to really hurting Yakumo inside the machine, but kept alive along enough to have lots of Mako Energy from within.)
Hojo: Ha, ha, ha...I offered the woman with my child to Professor Gast's Jenova Project. When Sephiroth was still in the womb, we took the cells of Jenova...HA, HA, HA! I think my so call wife for that, her death was not invade after all. Ha, Ha, ha!
(Yakumo started to cry to glowing up all over for the other seven, Yumi, and Orbit to feel out her pain.)
Hojo: Love it! Energy emotions...What else can you not do!?
(Cloud runs up to punching Hojo hard in the face to still be standing up after taking a hit like that.)
Cloud: I can't believe you're the one who did this...The exclusionary crime against Sephiroth...And you...Dare touch my Yakumo!?
(Hojo stops and calmly turns to face Cloud. They stare at each other for a long moment, then Hojo begins to laugh.)
Hojo: Heee, hee, hee, hee! Your Yakumo!? Don't you me mind!? The one I saved and tested on...To fall for her!? She became a Makoinoid...I fell more heavenly in love with her. So no, you're wrong! It's my desire as a scientist! Heee, hee, hee, hee! Yakumo belongs to me. She's back where she belongs, we'll change the world together.
Cloud: She's not a weapon or your lover!
(He stops abruptly.)
Hojo: I...was defeated by my desire to become a scientist. I lost the last time as well.
(He begins to gleefully dance about. Soon he takes a needle to inject something within his blood vain along with Yakumo's DNA.)
Yakumo: Don't do it!
Hojo: Thanks to her blood cells, I'll soon be completed. I've just injected Jenova's cells into my own body combined with her blood into one. Heee, hee, hee! Here are...Heee, hee, hee! ...my results!"
(Yakumo gets shocked again for Hojo to have his whole body transformed into something big.)
Yakumo: Cloud! You guys! Getaway! He'll turn into a monster like Yumi did and Rei who was worse by force. With those many things into a human's body, he'll change and he'll die for it!
Hojo: We'll become one, Yakumo...! Give me your powers to fight!
Barret, Tifa, Red Xlll, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid: That's Hojo!?
(Cloud was ready to save Yakumo by beating Hojo.)
Cloud: Stay put, Yakumo, we're coming to save you from that man.)
Yakumo: Be careful!
(Boss battle with Hojo. He undergoes three transformations during the battle, each more deformed than the last, as Jenova's cells take effect. Cloud gives it his all to fighting really hard to saving Yakumo, he doesn't allow him to, but he keeps on going for only Yumi and Orbit could watch the rest. He creates more monsters for Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid to fight off whenever he releases them; they stop the creatures but not Hojo to soon change into a Jenova monster to stopping the rest to go down in seconds along with killing his creations for power. It was up to Cloud to stop him.)
Cloud: Hojo!
(His sword strikes on Hojo to getting it stuck within his body, allowing his arms to cutting him down many times while holding him up and then get sprayed with acid all over to be burning up, allowing Hojo to hurt him more.)
Yakumo: No! Cloud!
Cloud: Yakumo...
(Hojo kept on doing it some more for Yakumo's energy was making him stronger in his new form.)
Hojo: Ah, so sad. You can't even fight back at me...That's enough for Yakumo to watch your dying breath as I finish you and your friends!
(Cloud moves away as much as he could to burn, freeze, or shock Hojo to having no effect on him.)
Hojo: Miss me!
(He shocks back at Cloud to whacking him some more.)
Yakumo: Stop this, Hojo! Please! Don't kill Cloud or my friends!
(He stops to get what he wants out of Yakumo.)
Hojo: Say you'll be mine, and I might do it. Or I just have to make you.
(He holds Cloud down to the floor to try stabbing him with his long arm that was very sharp.)
Yakumo: Stop!
(Cloud holds it up only to pierce him, that'll go in deeper if he couldn't hold on to Hojo' arm anymore. Yakumo seeing the horror, she then snaps for her powers to glow up blue again to having some Mako Energy from within being a good thing; for her arm changes to powerful up Orbit and her staff to breaking out of the box for it to short circuit for Hojo to still be powerful enough to win without it.)
Yakumo: No! Enough, Hojo! No more being pushed around!
Hojo: Impossible! How did you...!?
Yakumo: Leave...Him...Alone...
(She controls Orbit to getting back up to rolling at the machine to being destroyed the best she could, as she uses her other special arm 'which was the only thing to morph and nothing else' to healing all seen party members and Cloud too. He then takes control to pushing Hojo off of him, cutting his sharp arm off to falling to the core and being electrocuted hard to be screaming in pain like a dying beast. Losing an arm to going into a his smaller form a bit too late now, he tries getting back up.)
Cloud: Stay down!
(Cloud points his sword at Hojo.)
Hojo: No...No...No...! My son...My bride...My creations...Gone!
(Yakumo comes up from behind to firing a powerful blast to making a hole through Hojo's Mako-like body to having is heart being ripped apart from him.)
Hojo: AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! YOU...!
Yakumo: You're no longer human. This will put you out of your misery, Hojo.
Cloud: ...Yakumo...
(At least Yakumo was still herself.)
Yakumo: Cloud?
Cloud: I'm fine. We all are. You're doing the right thing. He was dying, wasn't he?
Yakumo: He is. This is the only way to end his misery from this cause only. Good-bye.
Hojo: I...FAILED!
(She moves away to stop glowing for Cloud to get her. For they, Orbit, Yumi, and the others see Hojo crying out so loud to letting out a screaming to slowly rotting away to finally exploding. For there was nothing left from him but his glasses. Yakumo hugs Cloud for he was happy to have her rescued and still herself.)
Yakumo: Cloud...I was so scared...
Cloud: It's alright. You had to. He won't hurt you anymore.
(He kept Yakumo close to him to kisses her so much.)
Yumi: She'll be fine. Yakumo can finally control her own inner Mako Energy for power to save lives, not to become a monster. Like he was. He's finally gone for good and gets what he wants, in hell.
Yakumo: For once, Yumi, I agree with you. He got payback from us in end. But...Was it right for me to kill someone like him...?
Cloud: To me, and what he turned himself into, I think it was alright for this one, Yakumo.
Yumi: You're still you after all.
(The other gather up with Yakumo to prove it to her too like Cloud did.)
Yuffie: That's right!
Vincent: You are you as you said you were.
Red Xlll: You're a pure hearted person, both you and Aerith.
Cait: Yakumo is still fine after powering up like that.
(Cid sighs.)
Cid: No one holds anything against you here today, but still... %$#&$*&^%^ man!
Tifa: I can't believe Sephiroth is Hojo's son...And almost made Yakumo his bride, that would be distrusting.
Yakumo: Glad I wasn't...
Barret: Anyways...that's the end of the cannon...
Cloud: Good. Just a few more to take care of next. Yakumo...
(Cloud carries Yakumo in his arm for her to like that.)
Yakumo: Cloud. I was so scared...!
Cloud: Sweetheart, it's okay. You're still you. Thank you for saving us.
Yakumo: Oh, Cloud...You guys are the best. And thank you for being there for me. By now, Aerith would get into our relationship by now.
Cloud: She would alright.
(The two smile and laugh at each other.)
Cid: I guess we'll head back then.
(Once Orbit disconnects the entire machine, they were all set to go. It was long dead thanks to Yakumo's weapon/partner.)
Yakumo: Yes we should. Well done, Orbit. My friend.
(The sound of the wind and rain continues as it soon at slowly fades the area into black, but not before the team headed back to the Highwind ship to their next stop in saving the world.)
Tifa: Let's go then.
Barret: More saving the world, and half the less people we stopped so far...
Cait: I wouldn't want Yakumo to married Hojo either. Serves him right in the end.
(They all looked at Cait, for he didn't know what was on their mind.)
Cait: What?
(As the seven with Orbit now going back into ball mode for Yakumo to hold on to again, Cloud carries her back to the ship for her to rest with him by her side.)
Cloud: Yakumo, you're amazing.
Yakumo: Cloud...You're just saying that...
Cloud: I mean it. You stood up on what was right and you won in the end. And you had three of the Turks on our side. I guess...I'm proud of you.
Yakumo: It was nothing really...Thank you, Cloud, because of you. I know what I'm suppose to do. We will save this world.
Cloud: Of course we will.
(The heroes take off, but where to next? And did Sephiroth really knew on his won of Hojo being his father and doing all the terrible things that Yakumo revealed? Maybe...But who knows. The final showdown has just started. For Yakumo can fight back even more with love, friendship, and controlling her own Mako Energy and inner looks from within. The new one was better than the other, only her aura and her arm changes, and that's it. With Heidegger and Scarlet out, Reno, Rude, and Elena on their side, and Hojo long gone, the next one will be something else.)