Final Fantasy 7
By Tayla Drago
(Going right back to the party- for Cloud, Yakumo, Barret, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, Cid, Rose, Dudley, Orbit, and Yumi all gathered on the bridge of the Highwind to flying to somewhere else next. From stopping Hojo from becoming a monster 'since he was Sephiroth's mess up father', and the others from Shinra to befriending Rude, Reno, and Elena, they need to stop Rei, Weapon, Sephiroth himself, and Meteor in using Holy of the White Magic. So far though...At least Shinra's finished for good. But was Rufus really dead or what? And what became of Reeve? As Cloud and Yakumo spending more time wither each other in bed again, to getting ready to go since they loved each other so much.)
Yakumo: Hey, you.
Cloud: Hey yourself.
(The two kissed to getting clean up and dressed.)
Cloud: Still feels nice everytime when we do it. And when I'm with you.
Yakumo: It does. We should get going.
Cloud: Yakumo, are you sure?
Yakumo: I'm fine. I can still fight, just needed to heal myself. And I was just freaked out for stopping Hojo by any needs.
(He holds Yakumo.)
Cloud: I understand, it was self-defense, you had to. At least you're still you.
Yakumo: I know...Shall we, Cloud?
Cloud: Yes, the other's are waiting for us.
(A few minutes later, all the teams were together after what happened yesterday to plan on hwat's about to happen for them next.)
Yakumo: Looks like we're all here.
Cait: Still can't believe it, Shinra's...finished.
Yakumo: Yes, they are...But Meteor...
Yuffie: On what we got, you think we can stop it in time?
(Cloud walks toward the huge bay window.)
Cloud: Meteor's gonna fall in about...
(He turns to face the others. Red XIII shakes his head.)
Red XIII: Seven more days. That's what Grandfather said.
Vincent: Then we have no time to waste to stopping it before the seven days are up, or die trying to.
(Cloud comes to him.)
Cloud: Red XIII...You want to see everyone in Cosmo Canyon again?
(Red XIII turns away.)
Yakumo: They're his family, Cloud, we all have something else to fight for.
Red XIII: ...yes. You're right.
Yuffie: Hey! I got a village to protect as well to fight for!
(He turns back to him. Cloud and Yakumo turn to Barret, who is gazing out at the clouds below.)
Cloud: You want to see Marlene, right?
(Barret turns)
Barret: Don't ask me that.
Yakumo: At least she's safe now.
(Cloud shakes his head.)
Cloud: And we will beat Sephiroth...Then, if we don't release the power of Holy in seven days...There won't be a planet left to protect.
Yakumo: So we have to. Tifa needs to fight for ALAVANHCE group to being avenged, Cid for his to follow his dreams to go to space again, Cait for his real body, you to helping me out, myself to stopping my half sister, Yuffie for her hometown, Red for his home and the people there, Barret for Marlene to protect along with my Mother, and...Vincent...Say what do you have to fight for?
Vincent: ...
(He shrugs.)
Cloud: We all have goals, Yakumo, we do. But still, if we can't beat Sephiroth...It's as good as death for us. We'll just go a few days sooner than the rest who'll die from Meteor.
Yakumo: Cloud...
(Yakumo hugs Cloud from behind.)
Barret: Don't be thinkin' you're gonna lose before ya even fight!
Cloud: No!
(He walks up to the bay window.)
Cid: Then what's on your mind?
Tifa: Please tell us, Cloud. What else is there?
Cloud: What I meant was...
(He turns to the others.)
Cloud: What are we all fighting for? Other than on what Yakumo just said...I want us all to understand that. Save the planet...for the future of the planet...Sure, that's all fine. But really, is that really how it is?
(He takes a few steps forward.)
Cloud: For me, this is a personal feud. I want to beat Sephiroth. And settle my past. Saving the planet just happens to be a part of that. He tried killing Yumi, then Yakumo saved Tifa and me...So I've been thinking.
(He nods.)
Yakumo: What?
Cloud: I think we all are fighting for ourselves. Remember that Sephiroth's clone was too powerful but Yakumo to withstand his? He effected me to being controlled, Tifa tried hurting Yakumo and Aerith, Aerith got angry...It could be worse on the rest of us, who knows. For ourselves...and that someone...something...whatever it is, that's important to us. That's what we're fighting for. That's why we keep up this battle for the planet.
Yakumo: You're right, Cloud, and we will too for sure. Right, guys?
(He looks at Barret. Barret scratches his head)
Barret: You're right...It sounds cool sayin' it's to save the planet. But I was the one who blew up that Mako reactor...Lookin' back on it now, I can see that wasn't the right way to do things. I made a lot of friends and innocent bystanders suffer...
(He thrusts his fist into the air.)
Barret: ...At first, it was for revenge against Shinra. For attackin' my town. But now...Yeah. I'm fightin' for Marlene. For Marlene...For Marlene's future...Yeah...I guess I want to save the planet for Marlene's sake...
(Cloud nods.)
Cloud: Go and see her. Make sure you're right, and come back.
(He turns to the others)
Cloud: All of you. Get off the ship and find out your reasons for yourselves. I want you to make sure. Then I want you to come back.
Yakumo: Cloud, I'm staying with you...I go see Mother later on. I know she needs some time to calming herself after losing Aerith...
Cid: Maybe ain't none of us'll come back. Meteor's just gonna kill us all anyway. Let's just forget any useless struggling!
Yakumo: Cid, please!
Cid: I'm just saying...!
(Cloud nods.)
Cloud: I know why I'm fighting. I'm fighting to save the planet, and that's that. But besides that, there's something personal too...To be with my Yakumo to make her life better now for this world to live in, together. A very personal memory that I have. What about you all? I want all of you to find that something within yourselves. If you don't find it, then that's okay too. You can't fight without a reason, right? So, I won't hold it against you if you don't come back.
Yakumo: Please do.
Cid: Alright, let's get to it then.
Tifa: We'll be back.
(The other took off - Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, and Cid to seeing people before they go into battle. Rose went to see her Moogle family and friends on her end, as Dudley became part of their lives too since he only hangs out with his heard to seeing a female Chocobo nearby...Soon to fade into black. Then coming back again As Cloud, Yakumo, Orbit, and Yumi waited for everyone to soon return, Vincent appears to be saying something to them.)
Cloud: Vincent.
Yakumo: Something the matter?
Vincent: No...I don't have...Anyone I know who's still around anymore.
Yakumo: That's right...So sorry to hear.
Vincent: You did ask me who or what I'm fighting for, right? Why I was in the coffin that you guys found me in and knowing Sephiroth?
Yakumo: We do.
Cloud: Care to tell us about your past? If you want...
Yakumo: You said something about you use to work with Turks. To knowing Hojo, some woman, and knowing Sephiroth a lot, right?
(Vincent takes a deep breath to finally tellign his sotry to the two.)
Vincent: Very well, I shall tell you all...About twenty-five to thirty years ago, I was a member of the Turks, then known as Shinra Electric Power Company "Department of Administrative Research". When I was assigned to supervise the Jenova Project in Nibelheim, I fell in love with a scientist named Lucrecia Crescent, an assistant to Gast Faremis. When he discovered her link to my deceased father, Grimoire Valentine, Lucrecia distanced herself from me and entered a relationship with her associate, Professor Hojo. Lucrecia became pregnant and Hojo planned to use the fetus as a test subject for the Jenova Project. I soon objected to the use of humans — especially Lucrecia — as test subjects. In the interest of science Lucrecia proceeded with the treatment and became sick as a result. That's when I confronted Hojo in the Shinra Mansion's underground laboratory and amid the heated argument Hojo and then shot me in the chest. Hojo used my half-dead body as test subject for experiments involving strengthening the endurance of the human body and metamorphosis, enabling the body to transform into various monstrous forms. While Hojo made my entire body stronger, the experiments failed because me, though still living, remained in a death-like state. As a last resort to rehabilitate myself, Lucrecia infused the Chaos-tainted Mako into my broken-down body. The procedure worked, as my body, due to Hojo's previous experiments, was strong enough to become a vessel for Chaos, a mysterious entity with incredible power. However, Chaos was uncontrollable, and was only stopped when the Protomateria—a one-of-a-kind Materia—had a reaction to it. The Protomateria, discovered by Grimoire alongside Chaos, was theorized by Lucrecia to have been created by the Planet "out of necessity as a means to control Chaos and prolong its own inevitable fate", and was placed in Lucrecia's laboratory. Lucrecia put the Protomateria inside my own chest, enabling me to control Chaos to a degree. As a result of Hojo's experiments, and the combination with Chaos, I then acquired superhuman abilities, such as amplified strength, speed, endurance, agility, regeneration, shape-shifting, and other powers. As soon awakened on the operating table and responded to his modified body with anguish and rage. Believing himself responsible for Lucrecia's illness after her son Sephiroth's birth, that's when I soon locked myself within a coffin in the Shinra Mansion basement, where I slept mostly undisturbed for thirty years to atone for my "sins". I constantly relived so many of my nightmares as a punishment for my inability to stop Lucrecia from submitting to Hojo's experiment on her unborn baby. My long sleep was then disturbed during the time though sadly it never ended. On December 19th, 0006, the a Turk member and Veld search for the Support Materia for the summon Zirconiade at the Shinra Mansion. Veld awakens me, and despite the differences in their physical appearances, the two recognize each other as I and Veld were contemporaries at the Turks. I did helped the Turks fight AVALANCHE and displays sharp shooting skills, though I was jaded after his long sleep. The Materia is hidden in the mansion and I knew of its existence; as I give it to Veld before I returned to my resting place, refusing to leave with the Turks. And that's when you guys came along Cloud and thereat of you to discover me in a locked room in the basement of Shinra Manor in Nibelheim where you Cloud and I talked about Sephiroth, for I knew him too. For I did know him when he was the child Lucrecia had conceived, considers it another "sin" and attempts to return to sleep. When you guys almost left, I knew I had to follow and asks if they will meet Hojo. You then, Cloud confirmed it, and I soon agreed to join because of claiming my revenge on him...But I didn't do a thing but stopping his creations in battle. And when I saw Yakumo...She reminded me of Lucrecia. Which after the battle with Hojo, had me feeling it out without any relives memories from my past, remembering the argument between himself and Hojo over her, and Hojo shooting me and being experimenting on. When Lucrecia asks him about Sephiroth, as he lied that he is dead, wanting to spare Lucrecia from the whole truth of what her son has become. She did turn her into Jenova because of it. Then Rei, Yumi, and Yakumo got lucky...I would've been Sephiroth's father instead if things turned out differently for Lucrecia and I. Sorry I didn't say anything sooner. But Yakumo, I made up for my sins in protecting you from Hojo. You shown me the light. And I want to think you for it. I could've falling in love with you. Soon becoming a vampire and Lucrecia...Turning into a Mako being...I regret it all, only to try to move on now.
(Hard story for Cloud to Yakumo to hearing it all)
Cloud: Wow...Hojo was a monster even back then.
Yakumo: I never knew. Sorry, Vincent. What I did to him...
Vincent: It's nothing. You did me a favor, Yakumo, you saved me for myself before I tried doing it, but I didn't. 'She' wouldn't want that from me. So thank you.
Yakumo: You're quite welcome.
Vincent: Cloud?
Cloud: Yes?
Vincent: Yakumo has a gentle heart. Love her the way I would with Lucrecia.
Cloud: I will.
(At least Vincent was happy to seeing Yakumo happy to keep being himself. Free, a good alley, and some type of being who's powerful in battle. It would've work wit Yakumo and Vincent, for him to pat her on the head.)
Vincent: Good. Please excuse me, I need to time to prepare and say good-bye to my past. I got a new future to move on to, I'l be in the other room.
Yakumo: Okay, see you in a while. (Who knew Vincent was suffering. At leasr not anymore thansk to me, I guess...I did save him.)
(Next to showing both Cloud and Yakumo alone on the bridge for her to still watching the clouds go by.)
Cloud: What are you going to do, Yakumo?
(She turns to him.)
Yakumo: Did you forget? I'm...all alone. I don't have anywhere to go. Besides seeing my step mom, and Aerith gone...What's there for me?
Cloud: You have friends here. Orbit, Dudley, Rose, and me...Our love for each other, remember?
(Fading out, then in to showing Cloud and Yakumo on a grassy hill. Yakumo stands close to Cloud, as he was behind her, staring in another direction. The Highwind hovers above. The only sound is that of the wind.)
Yakumo: But Tifa and Barret loss their friends, you too. My parents...Yumi...Aerith...Everyone's gone...
Cloud: Yeah, between me and you having the same problem...we don't have anywhere or anyone to go home to.
(She looks down.)
Yakumo: You're right...
(A pause. She looks up and straightens her hair with one hand.)
Yakumo: But...I'm sure someday...they'll come back like Yumi did in spirit, don't you think?
(He crosses his arms.)
Cloud: Hmm...I wonder...? Everyone has an irreplaceable something they're holding on to...But this time, our opponent...
(A long pause. The sound of the wind fades. Yakumo nods.)
Yakumo: Hmm...But that's all right, even if no one comes back. As long as I'm with you.. As long as you're by my side... I won't give up even if I'm scared. Im sure that Aerith would say the same thing, same with Tifa. She'll be like...'Cloud, you keep Yakumo happy, if you know what's good for you. Or else.' Like you and me being in love, I hope she finds someone someday as well that she'll love.
(He uncrosses his arms and looks at Yakumo.)
Cloud: ...Yakumo...
(She moves her arms behind her.)
Yakumo: No matter how close we are...We were far apart...before this. But when we were in the Lifestream surrounded by all those screams of anguish, I thought I heard your voice...During the time I was being controlled by Sephiroth in that other form.
(She closes her eyes, crying softly. Her arms fall to her sides and she bows her head.)
Yakumo: ...sniff...you probably don't remember this...But deep in my heart I heard you calling my name when I was being controlled...Or at least I thought I did...I was crying because I knew then that the real me was still in there.
(Cloud looks away and puts a hand to his face.)
Cloud: Yeah...At that time I heard you calling me. You were calling me back in from the stream of consciousness in the Lifestream. You were when I saw Sephiroth taking you away from me before I got sick.
(He lowers his hand. He nods.)
Yakumo: You did? So I was right.
Cloud: After all, I promised. That if anything were to ever happen to you, I would come to help. I saved you, you saved me, and doing the same thing again and again, it's like we were meant to in falling for each other.
(Tifa opens her eyes and looks up.)
Yakumo: Cloud...? Do you think the stars can hear us? They look nice.
(She gazes off to one side.)
Yakumo: Do you think they see how hard we're fighting for them?
(Cloud looks up at the sky.)
Cloud: I dunno...But...Whether they are or not, we still have to do what we can. And believe in ourselves...Someday we'll find the answer. Right, Yakumo? That's what I learned from you when I was in the Lifestream and while you were under his spell, I felt you out.
(She nods.)
Yakumo: Yeah...that's right...
(Cloud stares off into the distance. He turns away from her slightly and lowers his head.)
Cloud: Hey, Yakumo...I...There are a lot of things I wanted to talk to you about.
(He shakes his head slowly.)
Cloud: But now that we're together like this, I don't know what else I really wanted to say...I guess nothing's changed at all for us...Kind of makes you want to laugh...
(Yakumo shakes her head.)
Yakumo: Cloud...Words aren't the only thing that tell people what you're thinking...
(Cloud looks at her. She continues to stare past from looking into the night skies and into space. She straightens her hair again with one hand.)
Cloud: ...Yakumo...
Yakumo: Cloud...
(Cloud and Yakumo hold each other, he plays with her hair to touching her face to wipe the tears away, and they kiss passionitly for lip to lip, and their tounges dance inside their mouths.)
Cloud: Listen, Yakumo...I know it's not planned out, but...
Yakumo: What's wrong?
(Cloud places Yakumo's hands on his chest to hear his heart beating like crazy over her.)
Cloud: This is...How much I care about you, Yakumo. And for that...I need to ask you...Please live with me somewhere for a new home and travel by my side.
Yakumo: You mean...Move in together...?
Cloud: That and...I love you...Please marry me?
(Yakumo was freaking out to be hearing this from Cloud to be crying again with tears of joy this time.)
Yakumo: Cloud...
Cloud: Sorry...I thought about it. Haven't planned the ring or told anyone yet. Just...I had to say it. I love you so much, that it's hard for me to hide it. So say you will, be mine?
(She hugs him to fall to the ground and they both laugh about it.)
Yakumo: Cloud! Yes! I will marry you! I love you so much!
Cloud: Thank you...Sweet heart.
Yakumo: Well tell the others about this later?
Cloud: To invited those we know of, yes.
Yakumo: Nice and simple I see. I love it!
(The two kissed for Yakumo sits on Cloud's lap for him to holding her with his arms wrap around her body.)
Cloud: I won't let anything happen to you, Yakumo. I'm with you always.
Yakumo: And I'll be too, Cloud. Let just rest here for a while, okay?
Cloud: Only if you go see you Mother when this is over.
Yakumo: I will, don't worry. We'll tell her the news and everyone else afterwards.
Cloud: Good idea...
(The two made out for Cloud to rub his hands all over Yakumo's legs to her hips. She closes her eyes to sleep in Cloud's arms to do the same. Soon to go up into the skies to going black after that to fading. Coming back in once more to the grassy hill. It is still mostly dark out, but the hint of a sun is glowing beyond the horizon. Cloud and Yakumo are seated on a small rise in the ground. Yakumo is resting her head on his shoulder; both are dozing. Cloud lifts his head slightly.)
Cloud: ...It's almost dawn...
Yakumo: H, huh...?
(He lifts his head further, just enough so that he can look at her.)
Cloud: Sorry. Did I wake you...? It's almost dawn, Yakumo.
(She lifts her head off his shoulder and looks around sleepily.)
Yakumo: Umm...G, good morning...Cloud. Give me a little longer...Just a little bit longer...
(She rests his head on his shoulder again.)
Yakumo: I know we can do it, we can save the world. But just in case, this day will never come again...So let me have this moment...
(He nods to kisses her on the head.)
Cloud: Yeah...okay.
(He lowers his head again.)
Cloud: This is probably the last time we'll have together...If not, we'll leave on. Find a place to live, travel, get paid, and you'll become Mrs. Strides later on.
Yakumo: I would love that..
(They kept on holding each other without ever letting go once. Now showing back the Highwind hovering in the bright morning sky. Panning back down to the hill. Cloud is still sitting down; Yakumo has risen and is gazing up at the Highwind, her hands behind her back. After a few moments, she drops her hands and shakes her head.)
Yakumo: That was...Nice.
Cloud: It was perfect.
Yakumo: ...
(Cloud stands.)
Cloud: We'd better go.
(They hold hands on the way back, Yakumo then turns to him and makes a pleading gesture.)
Yakumo: But, I still...!?
(He turns to face her, shaking his head.)
Cloud: It's all right, Yakumo. You said so yourself yesterday. At least we don't have to go on alone. We will win and get married.
(A pause. Yakumo nods.)
Yakumo: Yes...That's right!
(He nods.)
Cloud: Okay! Let's go!
(They walk together toward the Highwind hand to hand holding. It begins to lower to the ground. To showing the walkway to the bridge. Yakumo is following Cloud there.)
Yakumo: The airship is too big for just the two of us. Yeah, it's a little lonely without everyone.
(Cloud turns around to face her.)
Cloud: Don't worry. It'll be okay.
(He does his squat-thrusts.)
Cloud: I'll make a big enough ruckus for everyone.
(He stops and straightens his hair.)
Yakumo: You do make a good point there, Cloud.
Cloud: Besides, I'm the pilot. No more flying around casually like before. We won't have time to feel lonely.
(She nods. A long pause. Suddenly, the entire Highwind shakes as the engines fire up.)
Yakumo: Huh!?
(She looks around.)
Cloud: It's moving...
Yakumo: Then the others are back! Let's go see.
(They dash to the bridge. They find Cait Sith dozing in one corner. For Red, Yuffie, and Vincent were hanging in there; along with Orbit, Rose, and Dudley on their end. They run past him and find Barret, Tifa, and Cid working with the pilot's controls.)
Tifa: Oh! Cloud. Yakumo. You two are back.
Yakumo: And the others?
Cloud: Hey! Barret! Cid!
(Barret turns and looks at Cloud, then at Tifa, Yakumo then back to Cloud.)
Barret: O, oh...is that okay with you?"
Yakumo: Okay with what?
(Red XIII runs up to them.)
Cloud: Red XIII!
Yakumo: Oh...! You seen Cloud and me!?
(Cloud and Yakumo look back to Barret and then at Tifa.)
Tifa: Why didn't you tell them!?
(Red XIII looks at Cid, who still is operating the controls.)
Red XIII: But, you know, Cid.
(He looks at Cloud. Cid leaves the controls and stares at Red XIII.)
Cid: Hey, Red XIII. If you butt in now, you never know what they'll say later...
Tifa: So sorry, Yakumo.
Yakumo: ...So all of you were watching!?
(They watch her as she runs away, clutches her head and falls to the floor in embarrassment. Vincent enters the bridge. All except Yakumo turn to see him enter.)
Cid: Too to say congrats to them now...
Cloud: Vincent!
Tifa: You had to say it to us, didn't you? This is what happens...
(Tifa stands up and turns to look at Vincent. Vincent turns away.)
Yakumo: (So Vincent told them and they over heard us...I forgot he was still around.)
Vincent: Why the puzzled look? Don't you want me to come?
(Cloud turns his head away.)
Cloud: No, it's just that you're always so cold. I thought you didn't care what was happening.
Yakumo: Come on, Cloud, he didn't mean to spy and tell about our time last night.
(He looks up. Vincent spins, his cape flying, to face Cloud.)
Vincent: Cool? Hmmm...I guess that's just how I am, sorry.
Yakumo: It's fine, Vincent, really. Accidents happen to all of us. Anyways, anyone seen Yuffie and Cait?
(He does a spectacular back flip and lands on a platform in a corner. The room flashes red and the sound of static blares as Cait Sith was calling them up, seems he went somewhere to not coming back this morning.)
Barret: Well lookey-here. The Shinra manager's has awaken up.
(Cait Sith stands up and bounds over to the rest of the group. He bows deeply.)
Yakumo: Something up, Cait?
Cait: Uh, excuse me but...I wanted to come with the main group in my real body, but I couldn't get away...So some people in Midgar took me in.
(He straightens.)
Cait: I know I have a stuffed animal body, but I'll work really hard!
Yakumo: Oh, no. You couldn't get your real body back. So sorry to hear.
Cait: Thanks, Yakumo, I'll be alright though.
(Cait Sith hops to his usual place near a secondary control panel.)
Barret: I guess that's everyone.
(Red XIII shakes his head.)
Red XIII: No, Yuffie's missing.
Barret: She ain't gonna show up. 'Least this time she didn't steal our materia. Guess we gotta be thankful for that.
Yakumo: Nope, she's above us.
(Yuffie suddenly drops down from the ceiling, lands in the middle of the group, and shadowboxes energetically.)
Yakumo: See?
Yuffie: How could you say that!?
(She looks at Barret.)
Yuffie: I came all the way here after being seasick as a dog!
(She shadowboxes a bit more.)
Yuffie: I didn't go through all that just to have you guys have the best parts all to yourselves!
(Cloud turns to face her and nods.)
Cloud: Welcome back, Yuffie.
Yuffie: Gee, Cloud...that's so nice of you to say that...You sick?
Yakumo: He feels fine to me.
(She launches back up to the ceiling.)
Yuffie: Well, whatever. I'm gonna be in my reserved seat in the hall...waiting...upp! ...Urk!
(She drops back down and heads off to the walkway. Cloud goes to stand near the head of the bridge and bows his head deeply.)
Yakumo: You guys do care for us. True friends you all are.
Cloud: Thanks everyone.
(Barret turns to face him and Yakumo. Cloud looks up.)
Barret: We didn't come back for your spikey headed ass! Maybe for helping out Yakumo here and you two in staying closely in love! We also came back for Marlene. Guess it's jes' my...whatcha call, feelings or somethin'. I, uh, I ain't got no words now...
(Aerith's Theme begins to play in the background.)
Yakumo: Still, we owe her so much...Aerith...
Red XIII: ...Although she's not here, she left us a window of opportunity...
(He looks at Cid. Cid turns to Cloud and nods.)
Cid: We can't let it go like this.
(Cloud turns away and stares out the window for Yakumo to be standing by his side.)
Cloud: ...Aerith. She was smiling to the end. We have to do something, or that smile will just freeze like that.
Yakumo: And we will. I will live on for my sister.
(He turns to the others. He nods.)
Cloud: That's right, Yakumo. All for Aerith. Let's all go together. Memories of Aerith...Although she should've returned to the planet by now, something stopped her and now she's stuck...We've got to let go of Aerith's memory.
Yakumo: Right!
(Cid looks around at the others.)
Cid: Has anyone here changed their mind?
Yumi: I haven't, and neither have these two either.
(Yumi, Orbit, Rose, and Dudley were in this as well. For Cloud nods to him.)
Cloud: I'm counting on you, Cid.
Cid: Yeah, yeah...There are 2 levers here that've been buggin' me for a while now...
(He runs over to the instrument panel.)
Cid: Let me try them out.
(The music fades.)
Yakumo Time for us to go. Orbit. Yumi. Going need your help in this one. Rose and Dudley, stay close and aid us for support. We're going to need it.
Cid: All right, so what should I do? You decide, Cloud.
(Cloud stands tall at the head of the bridge. The others all turn to look at him as Yakumo holds his hands for their promise to be made once this was all over with, for he begins to lead them all to victory.)
Cloud{ This is our last battle. Our target is the North Cave. Our enemy is...Sephiroth!
Yakumo: Along with Weapon, Rei, and destroying Meteor using Holy!
(He steps forward.)
Cloud: So let's move out!
Yakumo: For victory!
Barret, Tifa, Red Xlll, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, Cid, and Yumi: Yeah!
(Rose and Dudley made noises as Orbit glows up too. Cid flips the levers. Panels strip away from the exterior of the Highwind and various extensions emerge such as extra rudders and jet-propulsion engines. The Highwind speeds away over the horizon. As they all see in back inside the ship of the bridge.)
Yakumo: I'm with you, Cloud, until the very end for our time together.
Cloud: I am too, Yakumo. We will win this. We're almost to the North Cave! We're on our way, Sephiroth!
Cid: Man, I'm going to stick it to him!
(A red warning light begins to flash and an alarm begins to sound. The others rush over to the instrument panel.)
Cloud: What is it, Cid?
Yakumo: I don't like this feeling!
Cid: Errrrggh! Some incredible force! Losing...control...!
(The three-man Highwind crew comes dashing in and begins to assist Cid.)
Cid: Get the hell outta here, flunkies! Didn't I tell you all to go home!?
"Yes, sir. This is our home!"
Cid: Oh ma- ...stop trying to act so cool. All right, you jokers! Hold me down with everything you got! Geronimo!
Yumi: Yakumo! It's Rei! Sephiroth order her to take us out!
Yakumo: Yumi!
(The two touched the walls of the ship to create a powerful shield together for Orbit to helping them out too.)
Yakumo: Everyone! Hold on to something! Brace yourselves! (I won't let you hurt me and my friends again, Sephiroth!)
(And so they do, for it was going to be a big drop for Cloud and Yakumo to still hold on to each other's hands as she makes a very powerful barrier to protecting them all from the crash._
Cloud: YAKUMO!
Yakumo: CLOUD!
(Cid pushes the Highwind to the red-line; with the energy as the Highwind speeds off then everything suddenly goes completely black. Coming in back from fading in again in to showing the mural of a bikini-clad woman painted on the side of the Highwind. Panning down to show the rest of the ship; it is docked just outside the North Crater. A crewman marches to the railing and unrolls a rope ladder over the side, offering passage down into Sephiroth's lair. Seems like everyone survived the crash thanks to Yakumo and Yumi saving all of their lives to land the ship safely to keep on flying. Orbit helps out Cloud and Yakumo back up.)
Yakumo: Cloud?
Cloud: ...I'm fine, Yakumo. Are you?
Yakumo: I'm good too. Is everyone else alright!?
Yumi: They'll be fine.
(Seems that they were. Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, Cid, Rose, Dudley, and the rest of the crew would be fine.)
Barret: We're okay!
(They all get back up too for both Cloud and Yakumo to check on them for her and Yumi to heal them just in case.)
Cid: Other than a big bump, doesn't seem to have any problems on my ship. So we'll get going in a few minutes. Thank God it isn't destroyed.
Cloud: Or us.
Yakumo: We sure are lucky on all two.
(Cloud and Yakumo hold each other for Yuffie to go up to the two.)
Yuffie: Huh? How would you even know? You don't know how tough it is... getting sick on boats and rides...So, please... just leave me alone.
Yakumo: Yuffie? I never knew you never like flying. Why didn't you tell us?
Cloud: ...I really do understand, Yuffie. When I get sick on a flight, it's a real killer. When I was in SOLDIER, I completely forgot about my motion sickness.
Yuffie: Oh...Isn't there any way to prevent this?
Cloud: Well, according to my research...
(He nods.)
Cloud: First off, if you're nervous a lot, you won't get sick. But you can't always be nervous.
Yakumo: It's call, facing your fears to getting use to.
(He does his squat-thrusts.)
Cloud: With this much space, your best bet is to move around while you're riding. It also might be a good idea to stretch sometimes, too. But in SOLDIER, we spent a lot of time in trucks.
Yuffie: That sucked!...
(He clutches his head as he remembers.)
Cloud: And there's one thing you mustn't do when riding. And that is...
(He nods.)
Cloud: Read! Once you get sick, there's nothing anyone can do. I know it's tough...
Yakumo: But you'll be fine.
(He shakes his head.)
Yuffie: ...so you two are a little better off than me. But I don't feel...well.
(She goes back to her position of clutching her stomach near the walkway.)
Yuffie: Cloud...sign this.
Cloud: What is it?
Yuffie: It's a contract that says when the war is over, all the materia will belong to me. It's all in there. Read it carefully and then sign it, all right?
Yakumo: Still stealing Materias...
Yuffie: I take to collect and protect my home, I'm not a criminal, Yakumo.
(He shakes his head.)
Cloud: Forget it, Yuffie. I'm not even gonna read it. Whenever I read, I get airsick.
Yakumo: Please don't make this harder on him than it already is on you too.
Yuffie: Oh yeah...? I'm the same way, so I can't say too much...Damn! My plan failed. Let's pick on Red XIII later to let off steam.
Yakumo: Okay...? And you guys?
Cait: But I ain't gonna forget, no matter what happens. Not about this here trip, or them folks- none of it!
Red XIII: I am Nanaki, son of Seto...I am afraid of nothing...It's all right, all right. I'm Nanaki, the son of brave Seto...I'm not afraid of Sephiroth...
Yakumo: You'll be fine, Yuffie, alright? And good for you two, Red and Cait. What about you, Vincent?
Vincent: Cloud...Yakumo...take the ship to the Northern Cave. The time for flying is now past. Our battlefield is now beneath the earth...The gate to tomorrow is not the light of heaven, but the darkness of the depths of the earth...
Yakumo: Well do fine. Barret knows that we will.
Barret: Heh heh...heh heh heh...Time's got a way of sneakin' up on ya, huh?"
Yakumo: You sure you're feeling alright, Cloud?
Cloud: I'll be alright. I don' think that person is.
"I'm shakin' all over... Heh heh... I feel sick..."
Yakumo: Good point.
Tifa: Hey, Cloud...Would you tell me 'It's all right'?
Cloud: It's all right, Tifa.
Yakumo: He's stronger than he looks.
(He nods. Tifa claps her hands happily.)
Tifa: Yep, we both know that. Now I feel like things are really going to be all right. Thanks, Cloud.
Cid: You two ever see the play 'LOVELESS'?
Yakumo: Cid, please!
Cloud: Mind your own business.
Cid: Yeah, I figured someone like you wouldn't be much on plays. You two were made for each other.
(He turns away and taps his foot.)
Cid: I remember thinking when I heard those lines, *&%! What the hell's he talkin' about? But, you know...now I'm not so sure...I think I understand...Maybe Shera does love me, and...I love her...
Yakumo: That's the spirit, Cid.
Cid: Please...I knew from the beginning to open my mind more to realizing it.
(Soon Yumi had something to say as the ship takes flight again before going to Sephiroth's hideout.)
Yumi: Cloud, turn the ship back around to your home town of the Shinra Mansion.
Cloud: Why?
Yumi: Something that you and Yakumo must see left by Zack.
Yakumo and Cloud: Something left of from Zack?
Yumi: Trust me, come on!
(And so they do. Cloud, Yakumo, and the others quickly travel back to the Shinra Mansion. They headed downstairs to the basement. Upon entering the laboratory, to fading to black and a pounding heartbeat begins to sound. Then to showing the two vertical glass tubes in the basement, now glowing green light. In one tube floats Zack, in the other, Cloud. Then shifts to show the entire lab again. A man in a gray suit arrives, carrying a plate.)
Yumi Now. Listen and feel out the past to remember Zack on what he was from before and ours, Cloud.
(The started to see it within their thoughts.)
Yakumo: Cloud.
Cloud: I know. I see it too.
(They watch and listen to the whole thing that did happened during the time.)
"Hey! This is your food."
(He places the plate on the table in front of the tubes. He opens up Zack's tube, planning to give him his supper, to be greeted by one of Zack's fists. As he goes down, Zack leaps out of his tube and opens Cloud's. The tube comes open with a hiss of escaping steam, steam which Zack's tube didn't emit.)
Yakumo: Cloud, that's...!
Cloud: Me and Zack from the event of five years ago before it happened. I remember...We were being tested on.
Yakumo: And before Yumi became a Mako creation. That's right.
(Then moves to show Cloud tumble forward out of the tube, landing on his hands and knees. He seems to have trouble supporting his head as it bobs up and down like a children's toy. Behind him, Zack retrieves his sword and holds it skyward. He looks down to see Cloud still collapsed on the floor and walks over to help him up. The camera shifts to the gates of Nibelheim as Zack practically drags the ever-uncooperative and malformed Cloud out of Nibelheim for Yumi awaits for them to return.)
Yumi: Zack! You alright!?
Zack: I am, so will he.
Yumi: He gotten lucky. We better leave.
Zack: Right. Hey, kid! You hanging in there!? Oh, here! Put on this.
(We hear sounds of clothes being put on.)
Zack: It smells a little though don't complain.
(Slapping sounds.)
Yumi: Good, he's a strong one.
Zack: You look pretty good with that. Well...
(Fades in. Zack, Yumi, and Cloud are in the back of an old, no-longer-white pickup truck driven by a farmer in a white suit. Cloud is leaned against the tailgate, head still bobbing, while Zack is up and around. He walks up and bangs on the rear window of the cab.)
Yumi: Some ride we've been having, huh?
Zack: Yo! Old guy! We at Midgar yet?
(The driver looks up at Zack in the rear view mirror.)
"Shaddap! You're lucky I even gave you a ride!"
(Zack surveys the passing scenery a moment and then sits down next to Cloud and Yumi.)
Yumi: Boring...
Zack: Yeah, but what can you do? Hey, kid, what're you gonna do when we get to Midgar?
(Cloud continues to bob his head.)
Cloud: ...
Yumi: For me, I'm going to see my Mom, Dad, and my little sister Yakumo to see me as a SOLIDER back home.
(Zack stands.)
Zack: I know what I'm gonna do.
Yumi: And what's that?
(He crosses his arms.)
Zack: I got a place I can crash for a while...
(He turns to Cloud.)
Zack: No wait, the mother lives there, too...
Yumi: Trying to get close to her daughter I se...
(He scratches his head.)
Zack: Guess that's out...
(He shakes his head. Cloud continues to bob his like nobody's business.)
Cloud: ...
Yumi: Quiet one, aren't you?
Zack: Yep... gotta change my plans! Hmm...No matter what I do, I need some money first...Hey, wanna start a business? But what could we do?
(He thinks a moment.)
Yumi: Like what? We're in the army.
Zack: I know, but still...Hey, Cloud. Think there's anything I'd be good at?
(Zack turns to the driver again.)
Zack: Hey old guy! What do you think I'd be good at?
"What're you yappin' about? You're still young ain't ya? Young folks should try everything! You gotta pay your debts while you're young. Go out and look for what you really want."
(Zack turns back to Yumi and Cloud again.)
Yumi: You're weird sometimes, Zack.
Zack: Try everything...That's easy for him to say...
(He does squat-thrusts for a few minutes as Cloud continues his head-bobbing.)
Zack: HEY!
Yumi: What now?
(He turns to Cloud.)
Zack: Of course! I got a lot of brains a skill that other guys don't! That settles it! I'm gonna become a mercenary!
Yumi: Really?
(He turns to the driver.)
Zack: Yeah! Think about it, Yumi, it'll be fun! Thanks pops!
"Hey... didn't you even hear a word I said?"
Yumi: I guess whatever makes you happy, then go do it.
(He turns back to Cloud.)
Zack: That's the spirit. Listen, I'm gonna become a mercenary and that's that. Boring stuff, dangerous stuff, anything for money. I'm gonna be rich! And you, Yumi?
Yumi: Just doing my job, but I will support you.
(The driver shakes his head.)
Zack: So, Cloud? What are YOU gonna do? No, wait...you got it all wrong.
Cloud: u...uhhh...
Zack: Just kidding...I won't leave you hanging like that.
(He sits down next to Cloud.)
Zack: We're friends, right? Like Yumi is to me too?
Yumi: And I'm here to keep an eye on you two.
(He leans his head over to Cloud's. Cloud stops his bobbing momentarily.)
Zack: Mercenaries, Cloud. That's what you an' me are gonna be. And maybe Yumi...
Yumi: I'll think about it!
(He stands.)
Zack: Understand, Cloud?
Yumi: I doubt it.
(He nods. Fades to black. It fades in again on a cliff in the mountains above Midgar. The ground is solid rock save a few patches of moss here and there. Zack enters, dragging Cloud along behind him and Yumi. They make it about halfway to the edge of the cliff when he hears shooting behind them. They dropped Cloud, who lays face down on the ground like a rag doll. Zack unsheathes his sword as the shooting comes closer and closer, then runs in the direction of the noise, only for Yumi to go down from one shot to the arm to really hurt her. He comes back a moment later, leans down and touches Cloud to check on him, when a bullet strikes him square in the chest. He flies backwards and lands near the edge of the cliff. Two Shinra soldiers and a captain come running past Cloud and gather around Zack and Yumi who was hanging in there, and him who was struggling to get up. They aim their guns and shoot him several times in his head, point-blank killing him, only for Yumi to pass out instead. One soldier goes over and aims his gun at Cloud, still motionless. He looks over his shoulder at the captain.)
Yumi: Zack...Yumi...Ah...!
Shinra Soldier: What do you want me to do with him and the girl?
"She's still alive. They both are but this one."
Cloud: ...Ah... ughhhh...
(The captain comes over and inspects Cloud.)
Commander: ...Forget it. Just leave him. Bring her back however, we might save her yet.
(He leaves. The other two soldiers follow while carrying the injured Yumi to soon becoming a failed Mako being. It begins to rain lightly. A few moments after they are gone, Cloud pulls himself up on his hands and begins to slowly drag the rest of his body up towards Zack's body. He sits up on his knees and picks up Zack's sword, still lying across his body. Cloud inspects it stupidly for a moment, then lifts it toward the sky, trembling under its weight, as it was panning up to show the city of Midgar beneath the overcast sky.)
Cloud: Yumi! Zack!
(Going back into the labs, it was very sad to watch...)
Yakumo: So that's what Hojo did to you two and Yumi. Poor Zack...Like Yumi, he died trying to stop Sephiroth too, and you guys had to become test subjects to getting killed...!
(Cloud holds Yakumo to make her feel better.)
Yumi: You remember now, Cloud?
Cloud: ...I do. I wish...I could say good-bye to him.
Yumi: Well, I'm sure you will for him and Aerith in spirit someday.
Cloud: I will?
Yakumo: Yumi, what does that mean?
(She floats out of the lab for them to follow her somewhere else.)
Yumi: You two will know someday. Now come, we better head back to stop Sephiroth now. They're all waiting for you two.
Yakumo: Oh...Come on, Cloud.
(As they leave the mansion for good, Cloud and Yakumo came back with the others waiting for them outside, for Tifa found some note underneath her piano sheets of her house she use to live in. Since she was getting some of her stuff out of there.)
Tifa: Look what I found at my old home...Nice, huh? Huh? Wait a minute! There's something inside the music sheet.
Yakumo: What does it say?
(Tifa discovers a letter hidden in the sheet music to read it for the others to hear.)
"Tifa, what's happened to our town? Was it all an illusion, or just a dream? No, it was neither. I remember trying to get people out of the flames, but not having the strength...Burning with anger, I went to the reactor to kill Sephiroth. But he was nowhere to be found. Instead, I found you, collapsed inside. I felt saving you was far more important than going after Sephiroth. There were several others that were still alive inside, but I was only able to save you. As I was coming out of the reactor, Shinra troops were just arriving. I recall a scientist named Hojo was in charge. He ordered the troops to gather up everyone still alive for the experiment. I didn't know what type of experiment he was talking about, but I wasn't about to let them have my dearest student. Putting you on my back, I headed down the mountain to the village. I used the Cure spell on you many times. And started to head for Midgar to look for a doctor for you. I don't like that city, but my Cure spells weren't helping. I decided to go to Midgar to find a doctor I could trust. I'm worried about you, but I can't settle down in one place for very long. Have you recovered fully? Are you well? I wonder how many years have passed since then? I just got into town again, but I can't believe it...The whole town is back to normal, except for the strange beings with black clothes all around...The town reeks of Shinra, but I won't go after them. You may think I'm running from them, but it's just that I don't want anything to do with Shinra anymore. Feels like time is running out. I'm sure you'll find this letter. And this gift for you. It should come in handy. I can't even jump anymore. But I hope you continue to sharpen your skills and remember what I taught you. To my most precious student, Zangan."
Yakumo: My God...! I wish I knew if he was still alive...I can feel it out.
(Tifa receives the Final Heaven, something special for her to use as her gear to equipped. She leaps over Cloud and practices her best fighting moves, then nods and leaps over Cloud again for Yakumo loves the way she fights, being trained really well. The party then leaves Nibelheim for good this time and not turning back.)
Tifa: It's...It's fine, Yakumo. It's best not to think about it. Now let's get going. (Thank you, Zangan, for everything.)
Cloud: Time for the final showdown then. Yakumo, be by my side for this.
(The two hugged and hold hands with each other.)
Yakumo: I will, Cloud, let's get going. And farewell, Nibelheim.
(The teams take off on the Highwind again to the hideout where Rei, Weapon, and Sephiorth were in. Once landed, they were all geared up, items all good to go, weapons all set, and they headed down for Rose and Dudley stayed on the button but far away just in case for the rest of the crew members stayed inside where it was safe for them. Cloud, Yakumo, Barret, Tifa, Red, Yuffie, Cait, Vincent, and Cid 'along with Yumi inside of Orbit' all climbed down the rope ladder and into the North Crater they go.)
Yumi: The time has finally come. Rei, we'll finish this you and I...For good!
Yakumo: No turning back now, we're moving out. (In the name of my parents, Aerith, Zack, and those we know that sadly died, guide us and help us win this.) Rose. Dudley. You two stay put. Wish us luck.
(They understood her for they do so.)
Barret: Hell yes! Lets do this!
Tifa: I won't fail my Father, Zangan, Jessie, Wedge, or Biggis on this final thing for AVALANCHE group's sake.
Red Xlll: For my people and Grandfather who helped us all.
Yuffie: So many Materias to hunt for after this! Can't wait!
Vincent: I will follow my path to ending Sephiroth to put out of his misery...All for her...
Cid: I'm all fired up and ready to go, Cloud! So lead the way!
Cloud: Right...Yakumo.
Yakumo: We're all ready, Cloud.
(The two kissed, hold each other to looking into each other's eyes, and hold hands to move out deep within the North Crater.)
Cloud: Good. Let's go end this together.
(As the nine teams moved out, for they know and Sephiroth already knows to be watching them. Rei and Weapon join him to begin the final showdown that'll happen within one big area in order to use Holy, the White Magic item to destroy Meteor for good. And in time as well.)
Sephiroth: So...They want to play? Let them come. Cloud and Yakumo have a surprise waiting just for me to give to them, right Rei?
(Rei let's out a big scream for being a full Makoinoid to kill Yumi's spirit and killing the others in their way. Not good...)