Final Fantasy 7: The Return of the Crisis Chapter 1: The End of the World As Cloud dealt the final blow of Omni Slash, Sephiroth fell back and released streams of unholy energy. Cloud watched as the unholy energy mixed with holy ones which came out of the ground. Both energies gathered around Cloud and exploded into millions of small particles. "Lifestream?" Cloud thought as the small particles of energies drifted past him. Then, part of the small particles of energy formed a bright light above Cloud. He reached his hand out towards the bright light, attempting to touch it. A hand reached out from the light, and moved slowly towards Cloud's hand. A sudden tremble of the ground brought Cloud back to the reality. Cloud then realized that the hand trying to reach him is only Tifa's. But now he's got no time to figure out whose hand it was, as the rock platform of Tifa's was cracking. The rock that Cloud was standing on began to sink, and Tifa was falling off from hers. So Cloud jumped across and grabbed the edge of the cliff with Tifa safely in his arms. "...I think I am beginning to understand." Cloud said with a thoughtful voice. "What?" asked Tifa, completely puzzled. "An answer from the Planet...the Promised Land...I think I can meet her...there" said Cloud sadly. "Yeah, let's go meet her" agreed Tifa. Cloud gathered his strength and pushed Tifa over the edge. When Tifa got on, she helped Cloud up, and the trembling in the Crater seemed weaker. "Hey, where is everyone?" wondered Cloud. "Heeeey!" Barret's voice cuts across the air and overran all the other sounds in the Crater. He and the others were sitting on a higher rock platform. "I'm glad you're all safe!" cried Tifa joyfully. Barret turned to Cid and said, "They all seem to be safe, too. But... what're we going to do?" "Holy should be moving soon, and that means this place will..." said Red XIII, warning everybody that they should move on. Cid stood up and lightened a cigarette, then said worriedly, " Oh, Lady Luck don't fail me now..." But all of a sudden the whole place started to shake, with alot of crashing and beating on the top of the Crater. Boulders fell like rain and the rock platforms were cracking up. Cloud and Tifa hide under the edge of their rock platforms while the others do the same on the other side. After all the boulder rain and dust stopped, the group then find out that it was actually Highwind. The pilot thought it was the time to pick the group up so he drove Highwind down the Crater. "We better move quick, this place will get explode very soon." warned Cloud as he pushed everyone into the Highwind. As soon as Cloud finished talking, the whole place start shaking badly. The Pilot immediately closed the entrance door and started the engine. But the engine didn't move fast enough so the Crater exploded, sending Highwind in the air. Energies blasted off from the base of the Crater, creating a energy pole from the base of the Crater into the sky. Even though Highwind's engine has started, but the magnectic force from the energy blast gradually pulled Highwind back. Bits and pieces of Highwind disintegrated as it came closer to the energy pole. The whole Highwind rumbled violently, and everyone in Highwind fell over. "Shit!" Cid sweared as he knocked his head onto the monitor. "If we don't do anything, we all get fried!!" Barret shouted. Cid suddenly remembered that there was a Emergency Escape Pulley beside the control monitor, so he grabbed the handle and pulled it. The controller cabin was released and the steering wings shifted out. Cloud and the others escaped the burying Highwind just before it completely fades away in the energy blast. After a few twists and turns, the Escape Plane finally calmed down. Cid grabbed the controls and steered the Escape Plane towards Midgar. Just as they left the border of the Northern Continent, Meteor moved just above Midgar. Meteor gets closer to Midgar by the second. The earth began to shake, gusts of winds start to circulate Midgar. As the Meteor came even closer, gusts of winds eventually evolve into several small tornadoes and started to crush through the Sectors. A number of lightning strikes went off from the Meteor and struck the residential on the higher sectors, causing explosions. "Disastrous, lucky I moved all of the citizens of Midgar into Kalm. Otherwise, there won't be a single person left that is a citizen of Midgar." claimed Cait Sith, watching Midgar from a long distant via the Escape Plane's window. "Where the @#^% is Holy!! If it still don't come, Midgar will be torn apart, and the whole planet will explode!" cried Barret with anger. But as soon as Barret finish, Holy appeared right behind the Escape Plane and traveled across the sea. Holy moved in high speed and soon passed Cloud and others. It intercepted between Midgar and the Meteor, cutting off the tornadoes from the Meteor. Cloud cheered in his heart, knowing that Holy should be able to block off Meteor, but he gasped as they flew closer. Holy didn't block off Meteor, instead, it was used by the Meteor to create even more powerful tornadoes to ravage throughout Midgar. As the Escape Plane flew passed Midgar, Cloud saw the Sectors was mostly destroyed and Shinra HQ, the building that represents total power and authority of the Shinra Company, still stood there but half wrecked. Every single living creature in the world, watched this destruction in silence. "What's going to become of Midgar!?" questioned Barret as the plane flew further away from Midgar. "There's nothing we could do...Even Holy can't stop it...Forget Midgar, lets worry about the planet." said Red XIII, hopeless. Just as everyone was feeling that the world is about to end, Tifa suddenly noticed a green light moving in a distance. "What's that?" A stream of green light uncovers itself from earth in the far distance and start moving towards Midgar. While it moves, more and more streams of green light uncover from the ground. All of them flow towards Midgar and attracts more as they go. "Lifestream?"Cloud thought. Gradually, the streams of green light mixed with Holy and exploded. A bright flash occurred, blinding everyone temporarily. For a moment, Cloud thought he had seen Aeris's face in the light....