The Final Battle
By Kwaje Bethea



      The Meteor exploded over Midgar as the team watched.  Holy had done it.  They were blinded by the light of the explosion.  Once it was over, Midgar was trashed.  Avalanche and holy had done it.  Speechless, they just stared at each other.
      "I. . .I. . .damn," Barret said.
      "Oh my god.  We did it.  WE ACTUALLY DID IT!!" Tifa screamed in joy.
      "Sephiroth's dead.  The Shinra is history.  And the Meteor is gone.  No more fighting.  No more terror.  No more.  We did it," Cloud couldn't believe it.
      "You know where we have to go right?" Barret asked.
      "No.  Where?" Cloud asked, still stunned.
       "Cosmo Canyon!!  To celebrate," Barret said.
      "Yeah, I guess so," Cloud dropped down onto the ground exhaustedly.
      "Hold on!" Cid said.
      They sped off in the Highwind.  They landed and loaded out of the Highwind.  They all sat around the bonfire.
      "I wish that Biggs, Wedge, and Jesse could be here," Barret said.
      "Barret, they are with us.  In our hearts.  So is Aeris," Tifa said.
      Barret looked toward the fire, "I know i just-"
      "Hey.  Let's all go get a drink," Yuffie said.
      They all went to get a drink.  They all got tired after about an hour of drinking.  They went to sleep in a motel nearby.   Cloud went to sleep and had a dream about Aeris.  Aeris was praying on that platform.  Cloud walked up to her.  He raised his sword.  Tifa and Barret had stopped him.  Then Sephiroth came down with his long sword.  Then Cloud watched as Aeris was killed.  He dropped to his knees and cried.  Then he jumped up out of bed, scared.
      "A dream.  I gotta calm down and get over this," Cloud laid back down in the bed and fell asleep.
      He had yet another dream.  The exact same one.  Sephiroth came down with the sword but this time Cloud jumped up and hit Sephiroth with a swift swing of his Buster Sword.  Sephiroth fell in the water and drowned.  Cloud fell to the ground next to Aeris.  She handed him the White Materia.
      "Take it.  This will resurrect all who have died," Aeris said.
      Cloud grabbed it.  Then he woke up.  Someone was shaking him.
      "Cloud!  Cloud!!  Wake up," Tifa shook Cloud.
      "It's morning?" Cloud asked.
      "Yup," Tifa said.  "It's 11:30 in the morning."
      Cloud got up, got dressed, and went to the Cosmo Candle where everyone was waiting.
      "I have a plan.  I have a feeling that you all will love it," Cloud said.
      "What is it?" the team asked.
      "We will . . .revive Aeris," Cloud said.
      "Cloud, we've been talking about that all along and there's no possible way," Tifa said.
      "Yes, there is," Vincent spoke.
      "How?" Yuffie asked.
      "The White Materia," Cloud and Vincent said.
      "How can that bring Aeris back to life?" Barret asked.
      "It can bring anyone back to life.  But it can be used only once.  After that, it will destroy itself," Vincent said.
      "Holy crap," Cid said sat down for a second.
      "Where is it?" Cait Sith asked.
      "The last place where it was," Vincent said.
      "The City of Ancients," Cloud said.
 

      They loaded up on the Highwind.  They flew off toward the City of the Ancients.  They ran until thet got to the water.
      "It's at the bottom," Vincent said.
      "Who's gonna get it?" Yuffie asked.
      "Me," Cloud said.
      "Good luck," Tifa said.
      Cloud saluted and dived into the water.  He swam to the bottom as fast as he could.  He saw the materia but didnt see Aeris' body.  That made him feel so relieved.  He swam down to the bottom and grabbed the materia.  He went back up.  He swam as fast as he could and burst up to get air.
      "Got it?" Tifa asked.
      Cloud just raised his hand which had the materia in it.
      "Yes," Cloud said.
      "What next?" Yuffie asked.
      "Get a revive materia," Vincent said.  "Who has a revive materia?"
      "I do," Cloud said.
      He handed it to Vincent.
      "Now we need to go to that platform that she got killed on," Vincent led the team.
      They walked on it and all got on.
      "Now Cloud, since you were closest to Aeris when she died, you have to summon her back," Vincent said.  "Hold both materias."
      Cloud walked up beside Vincent, took the materia, and closed his eyes.  He called a upon the materia.  A white liquid came out of the materia.  A voice yelled out.
      "How dare you try to resurrect?  Destruction will be summoned upon your souls!" the voice yelled.
      They heard an explosion outside.  They ran out.  They were blinded by smoke.  Then it cleared up.  They saw bodies lying on the ground.  They looked harder.  It was Aeris.  And the Shinra.  And Sephiroth.  They rose.
      "What the . . .?" Barret was shocked.
      They grabbed their weapons.  Aeris found out where she was and ran toward AVALANCHE.  Shinra stood up and backed off.
      "Thanks for the revival!  Ha ha ha ha!" Rufus backed off and ran.
      "Idiots," Sephiroth flew off.
      AVALANCHE stood there.
      "CLOUD!!!  HOW DA HELL DID THIS HAPPEN!?" Barret swung around toward Cloud.
      "I . . .I don't know," Cloud said.
      "I should bust you up!" Barret pointed his gun toward Cloud.
      "Sorry.  I didn't know," Cloud said.
      "Shut your spikey-headed butt up," Barret lowered the weapon.
      "Well," Aeris said.
      "Oh yeah!  Aeris!!!!  Your back!!  Wow," Yuffie and Tifa yelled.
      "Nice to see you again, Aeris," Cid said.
      "You look well," Red XIII said.
      "Hello, Aeris," Vincent said.
      "Wass up?" Barret said.
      "H-hi Aeris.  I can't believe it's you," Cloud said.
      "Well, it is.  Hello you all," Aeris said.
      "Right now, we gotta kill those criminals again.  Whose wit me?" Barret asked.
      "US!!!" AVALANCHE yelled.
      They ran toward the Highwind.  Aeris stopped.
      "Cloud!" Aeris yelled.
      "What?" Cloud stopped and turned around.
      "Is this the aircraft that you promised me to ride on?" Aeris said.
      "Yep.  I always keep my promises," Cloud said.
      "Thanks, Cloud!" She hugged him and ran onto the Highwind.
      Cloud paused and then ran onto the Highwind.  They took off.  They were flying toward Midgar and then an object crashed into the back of the Highwind.  The aircraft shook.
      "What the hell was that?!" Cid yelled.
      "You must be mad.  This is your aircraft," Tifa said.
      "I ain't mad about that.  It knocked the cigarette out of my mouth," Cid said.
      "I'll check," Aeris said.
      She went onto the deck.  She looked and saw another aircraft.  A Shinra aircraft.  It had another missile.  Aeris looked down and saw the badly damaged butt of the ship.  The Shinra aircraft shot another missile.  She ran back into the cockpit.
      "It's Shinra!!" Aeris said.
      They were over Midgar.  The missile hit.
      "I'M LOSING CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT!!!!!" Cid yelled.
      They fell to the city below.  The ship crashed into Shinra Headquarters.

 
      "A-aa-ow!!"  Cid said.
      They all stood up.  The ship was sticking out of the headquarters.  The windshield of the Highwind was cracked.  That was the part of the Highwind that was in the headquarters.
      "We gotta break the glass more!" Cloud said.
      "Ok," Barret walked up to the glass and punched it.
      It shattered.  They jumped into the headquarters.  They saw the Turks lying on the floor.  The impact of the Highwind had knocked them out.  Rude had a broken arm and cracked skull.  Elena had a broken leg.  Reno had a punctured lung, his skull cracked, very severe brain damage, and both of his legs broken.  Tseng was perfectly okay.
      "Should we kill him?" Cloud said.
      "No!  I'm not with them," Tseng said.
      "How do we know that?" Cloud said.
      "Remember at the Temple of the Ancients.  I gave you that Keystone.  I am still with them just now because I knew that they would kill me if I didn't stay," Tseng said.
      "That's believable," Tifa said.
      Then the Highwind made a beepong noise.  It was about to detonate.
      "Run!!!" Yuffie said.
      They ran.  The Highwind exploded, killing Rude, Elena, and Reno.  They stopped.  Tseng was nowhere to be found.  Aeris started crying.
      "We have to continue.  Are you okay Aeris?" Cloud said.
      "Yes.  I'm okay," Aeris stopped crying.
      "Let's go," Red XIII said.
      They all ran.  They went down some stairs and bumped into Scarlet and Heidegger.
      "We'll take you out," Scarlet said.
      Cait Sith ran up to Scarlet and hit her.  She fell.  She grabbed a whip and swung it.  Aeris grabbed her ultimate weapon, the Parasol.  She smacked Scarlet and Scarlet flipped over the stairs' railing, falling to the floor 50 feet below.  Heidegger grabbed a gun and pointed it at Aeris.
      "Gwa ha ha!!  Decisions, decisions," he tanuted.
      Then Tseng jumped out of nowhere and stabbed Heidegger to death.  They both flipped over the railing.
      "TSENG!!!!!!!!!!" Aeris said.
      "We have to go get President Shinra, Rufus, and Sephiroth," Tifa said.
      "<sniff> Right," Aeris said.
      They went down the staris more.  Then they went into a door which seemed to be a laboratory.  They saw Hojo injecting himself with Jenova cells.  A lot.
      "I will become stronger and will . . ." Hojo started choking.
      He fell.
      "Too much cells, huh?" Cloud taunted.
      Cloud raised his sword but Vincent stopped him.
      "No, let me," Vincent said.
      Vincent shot Hojo to death.  Then they went into another room.  It was President Shinra's Office.  Rufus and his father were arguing.  Rufus grabbed his shotgun and pulled the trigger.  Cloud grabbed his sword and block his face.  The bullet bounced off.
      "Not this time," Cloud said.  "Do it!"
      Vincent and Barret shot their guns at Rufus and the President.  Rufus was shot in the chest and fell.  President Shinra was shot in the head and fell over on his desk.
      "We destroyed Shinra," Aeris said.
      "Now, Sephiroth!" Cloud said.
      They walked out of the headquarters.
      They saw Sephiroth in the field.  They walked up to him.
      "After all this terror, you will die.  Once and for all," Cloud said.
      "This is it.  THE FINAL BATTLE!!!!!!!!!" Sephiroth said.
      His height tripled, his weight doubled, and he transformed into a creature with his face.
      "I am . . .Destructive-Sephiroth!!"  he yelled.
      Cait Sith ran up to Destructive-Sephiroth.  He did his Limit Break, Slots.  He got three bars which was Summon.  He summoned Knights of the Round.  Sephiroth wasn't even effected.  Yuffie ran up to him.  She did her limit break, All Creation.  It hit Destructive-Sephiroth and he stumbled back.  Vincent did his limit break Chaos.  Sephiroth fell but got back up.  Cid did his limit break.  Sephiroth was really hurt.  Red XII did his and hurt Sephiroth.  Barret did his too.  Destructive-Sephiroth was hurt and then Tifa did hers.  Then Cloud ran up and did his limit break, Omnislash.  The rapid hits brought blood from Sephiroth.  Sephiroth fell to his knees.
      "My new summon!!  Arising Death!!!!" Sephiroth said.
      The sun went down.  The Earth started spinnig 100 times faster.  The sun got closer.  Then the ground got hotter.  The sun was getting closer.  Then fire exploded from the ground.  Then before the sun came down on earth Aeris said a prayer and the summon stopped.  It effected Sephiroth too.  Tifa grabbed a Restore materia and an Al materia and casted Cure 3 on everyone.  Then Aeris leveled up.
      "I just gained a new limit break," Aeris said.  "And i was at level 4."
      "This is level 5.  I've heard of this," Red XIII said.
      "Do it," Cloud said.
      Aeris got on her knees and prayed.  A green liquid came out of her hands.  It shot at Sephiroth and hit.  It hit Sephiroth and it blasted his chest open.  Cloud ran up to finish the job.  Sephiroth's face split open.  Blood splattered.  Sephiroth fell and died.  His body exploded into flames.
      "We did it," Cloud said.
      The headquarters exploded.
      "Well, there's only one thing to do now," Cid said.
      "What?" Tifa asked.
      "Celebrate!!!" Cid said.
      "No," Aeris said.
      "Well, what else is there to do?" Cloud asked.
      "Revive Tseng," Aeris said.
      "Oh no!!!!" Avalanche complained.
 

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