Here we go 'round again...

Disclaimers: Final Fantasy VII is copyright its creators and all
distributors of their work and is used without permission. The product
advertised is fake, to the best of my knowledge.

Camera directions are on the smiling moogle to your... scratch that, they're
in [].

*****

[Open on a shot of the grotto below the city of the Ancients. Cid and Red
XIII have just stopped Cloud from running Aerith through, and the rest of
the team is waiting at the bottom of the stairs to the grotto. Aerith looks
up at Cloud and smiles, and Sephiroth descends from on high to skewer
Aerith. Her smile still in place, she collapses to the ground, her White
Materia coming free.]

[As it hits the ground and slowly bounces away, Aerith's theme starts
playing. (Go on, put on that 20-minute MIDI. I know you have it.) Cloud and
everyone else can only stand, shocked, at the tableau, and Sephiroth lands
beside Aerith, laughing. The White Materia bounces down the pillars in slow
motion as Aerith's theme continues to play, and just as it is about to hit
the water...]

[There is a sound like a record scratching and the theme abruptly shifts.
(For those of you playing along at home, pause the MIDI, go into the mixer,
and bump the music up a couple steps while changing all the instruments to
brass sections, percussive organs, overdriven guitars, and tubular bells.
Then resume.) The White Materia explodes in a flurry of greenish crystal,
and a massive rush of energy threads its way around the pillars leading to
the grotto, does a few circuits of the grotto itself, and slams into
Aerith.]

[Aerith is lifted into the air by the force of the blow and remains there,
suspended, as the helix of green energy swirls around her. Her eyes pop
open, and then narrow at Sephiroth. She gestures, and Sephiroth's figure is
outlined in green flame. He abruptly stops laughing. Sephiroth screams once
before collapsing into a pile of ash, and Aerith lands on the spot where she
was praying. Everyone's eyes are opened as wide as they can possibly be, and
Cid mouths a few comments which shouldn't be repeated in polite company.]

[Aerith walks up to Cloud, who is just staring at her. She taps him on the
shoulder, and the Mako glow abruptly fades from his eyes. He looks at her
and smiles, and she pulls him down into a loving and passionate embrace...]

[The mood is frozen for a moment, and then Yuffie tosses her razor-edged
chakram into the air with a whoop. General partying ensues.]

[A can of cola, decorated with some kanji and a very familiar bird, appears
over the scene.]

Announcer (v.o.): New reformulated Chocobo cola.

[Cut to a shot of Vincent, holding the Black Materia in his claw. The
glowing sphere goes dim and crumbles to dust.]

Announcer (v.o.): Hey, change is good.

*****

I still don't know where all these come from...

--G. Falconar