~ Final Fantasy Deathmatch 2000 ~
THE FINAL BATTLE:
ALL VS. NEO-SEPHIROTH









   VS.











(Squall and Cloud cautiously enter Neo-Sephiroth's throne room.)
-Cloud: "Neo, We've arrived! Show yourself!"
-Squall: "Let us finally end this!"
(A voice comes from all around.)
-Neo-Sephiroth: "THEN END IT. MY PRESCENCE IS NOT REQUIRED."
-Cloud: "I don't think you understand. We're not here to fight each other. We're here to fight you."
(There is a moment of uncomfortable silence.)
(Squall and Cloud back closer together.)
-Neo-Sephiroth: "WHAT?! JUST WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? YOU WILL FIGHT WHO I TELL YOU TO, WORMS."
-Squall: "I'm afraid we can't do that. We've learned of your plan to eliminate us and we won't stand for it."
-Cloud: "This is the part where we fight back!"
(Another stretch of awkward silence.)
-Neo-Sephiroth: "YOU? FIGHT ME? DON'T BE SILLY. WHO TOLD YOU ABOUT THIS `PLAN'?"
(Sephiroth steps from the shadows.)
Sephiroth: "I did. Your game is through Neo."
-Neo-Sephiroth: "YOU! YOU! HOW ARE YOU ALIVE!? SQUALL LIED TO ME! YOU WILL ALL SUFFER!"

(Everything grows eerily quiet for a moment before an explosion of energy and fire explodes from the center of the room, and Neo-Sephiroth materializes on a huge, sinister throne.)


"PREPARE TO DIE."

-Cloud: "Watch out!"
(A streak of blue and white light slices from Neo at Squall and Sephiroth.)
(Cloud grabs Squall just as Sephiroth rolls away in time to dodge the deadly blast.)
-Neo-Sephiroth: "PUNY MORTALS! WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACCOMPLISH? SURRENDER NOW AND YOUR DEATHS WILL BE MERCIFUL."
-Squall (yelling in defiance): "There will be no surrender you shithead!"
-Cloud: "What the hell are you doing, Squall? You're just gonna piss him off!"
-Squall: "So? I'm sick of this asshole! He's gonna try to kill us anyway, no matter what we do!"
-Sephiroth (from across the room): "You idiots! Duck!"
(Squall and Cloud both hit the floor just in time to avoid Neo's next spell blast.)     
-Sephiroth (to Squall and Cloud): "Flank him and rush in! I'll complete the triangle and we'll attack him from all sides!"
(Cloud dashes to the left while Squall manuevers to Neo's right side. Sephiroth half levitates/half crawls across the ceiling to land directly behind Neo.)
(As the three rush in and bring their weapons to bear, Neo explodes in a sudden flash of action, sweeping low and taking Squall off his feet while simultaniously parrying both Cloud's and Sephiroth's slashes with his Dark-Masamune and his wrist gauntlet.)
(He continues his momentum and spins around to drive himself fully into Sephiroth, while allowing his sword to complete its motion and turn from a parry to a full assualt on Cloud.)
(Squall falls to the ground with the air knocked out of him, while Cloud falls back with a nasty wound from the Dark-Masamune. Sephiroth goes spinning across the floor with Neo and slams into the large throne moments later.)
-Cloud (falling back): "Damnit, I'm hit!"
-Squall (gasping for air): "..hang...in there."
(Sephiroth lets out a cry of rage as he lands a punch right in Neo's face.)
(The pair, too close to bring their extensive blades to bear, engage in painful fist fight as they try to disengage from each other. Sephiroth is driven on by his fury, but because Neo's punches are terribly stronger than his, Sephiroth begins to fade quickly.)
(It's not long before Sephiroth lets his guard down sufficiently for Neo to get a solid grip on him. Neo proceeds to send him flying halfway across the room to crash into a wall. He crumples on the floor and begins struggling to regain his footing as Neo stands, virtually unscathed.)
-Neo-Sephiroth: "HOW DARE YOU DOGS DEFY ME! DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT I AM DESTINED TO BECOME? DO YOU HAVE ANY COMPREHENSION OF WHAT YOU'RE DEALING WITH!?"
-Neo-Sephiroth: "I AM NEO-SEPHIROTH! I WILL BE THE EMPEROR OF ALL REALITY! I WILL BE THE GOD OF ALL CREATION! WHY DO YOU WISH TO CHALLENGE YOUR RULER?"
-Neo-Sephiroth: "LOOK UPON ME LOWLY MORTALS! LOOK UPON ME AND KNOW THAT I AM THE ULTIMATE ENTITY! KNOW THAT I CAN NEVER BE DESTROYED! KNOW THAT I AM THE MASTER NOW AND FOREVER!"


-Squall: "...nice speech."
(Cloud and Squall both struggle to their feet.)
-Cloud: "Well I still don't like his ugly ass."
-Sephiroth (regaining his composure): "I say we go for Round 2."
-Neo-Sephiroth: "YOU IDIOTS STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND, DO YOU?"
-Squall: "Apparently not. Why don't you enlighten us?"
-Cloud (falling back to the ground): "Arghh! I'm hurt worse than I thought!"
-Squall (in response): "Hang on Cloud, I'll be right over!"
(Sephiroth draws his sword and strides purposefully toward Neo.)
-Neo-Sephiroth (noticing Sephiroth's approach): "HMMM? DID YOU NOT GET ENOUGH THE FIRST TIME? ARE YOU ASKING FOR MORE PAIN?"
-Neo-Sephiroth: "I'LL BE HAPPY TO OBLIGE."
(Suddenly Sephiroth and Neo meet in a ferocious clash of arms as they initiate a monsterously violent duel.)
(The Masamune and the Dark-Masamune smash terrifyingly into each other again and again as the two weave a frightening dance of death. The battle shifts constantly from high routines down to low patterns and back up again with abandon, and sometimes the blades begin to move so fast they become lost in a blur of motion that is only interrupted when one of the pair goes in low for a spin move or a change up.)
(Squall meanwhile assists Cloud with the last cure potion and brings him back to fighting condition.)
(They ready their weapons and try to find an opening that will allow them to assist Sephiroth, but the fight is moving so fast and so furiously that anyone who goes near it is sure to be sliced into ribbons.)
(Helplessly Squall and Cloud look on as Neo-Sephiroth slowly gains the upper hand.)
-Neo-Sephiroth: "YOU OF ALL PEOPLE! WHY DO YOU RESIST YOUR OWN SELF!? I HAVE ACHIEVED THE DREAM THAT YOU NEVER COULD! I HAVE GAINED THE ULTIMATE POWER, IS THAT NOT WHAT YOU HAVE ALWAYS SOUGHT?"
-Sephiroth (barely deflecting a mortal blow): "Perhaps I was wrong to want such power! Perhaps if my plan had succeeded and I had aquired all that I sought, then I would have turned out like you! In failure I have succeeded and been saved from myself! You are the one who has lost!"
-Neo-Sephiroth: "I DO NOT LOSE!"
(In an almost direct defilation of the laws of physics, the battle yet again picks up intensity and tempo and the twin entities begin colliding with such force and speed that only a continuous, resounding, all-encompassing clash can be heard in every direction.)
(Suddenly, the pair comes together one final time, and an explosion loud enough to send out a small shockwave rips through the throne room.)
(When the energy finally settles, Neo stands triumphant over Sephiroth. Pieces of the Masamune lay scattered all around Sephiroth's semi-conscious body, and Neo holds the Dark-Masamune to Sephiroth's chest.)
-Neo-Sephiroth: "NOW WHO IS THE LOSER?"
-Sephiroth (attempting to cast a final spell): ".....super-nova...."
-Neo-Sephiroth: "DON'T MAKE ME LAUGH."
(Neo waves his hand and dismisses Sephiroth's building spell.)
-Neo-Sephiroth: "THAT'S NOT A SPELL YOU PITIFUL MAGGOT!  THAT IS A TOY."
-Neo-Sephiroth: "I'LL SHOW YOU A SPELL. I'LL SEND YOUR DYING BODY BACK TO THE PLANET WHERE YOU BELONG!"
(Neo begins gathering his energies in a cloud of gravitational distortion.)
(Sephiroth looks on helplessly.)
-Cloud: "Quick, Squall! We've got to do something!"
-Squall: "What are we going to do? We'll never get through his defenses!"
-Cloud: "But we've got to try! If he finishes that spell and sends Sephiroth back, then..."
-Squall: "...Sephiroth will die and Neo-Sephiroth will be born..."
-Cloud: "...but if we can stop him..."
(The pair exchange a wide-eyed look as they suddenly come to a realization.)
-Squall: "Holy shit! This is our only chance!"
-Cloud: "We've got to do something to stop that spell!"
-Squall: "But what?"
(Neo's energies begin approaching critical mass. The spell will fire at any second.)
-Cloud: "DAMNIT! WE'VE GOT TO THINK!"
-Squall: "There's no time to think. We've got to use brute force, that's all we've got. Do you know what a limit break is?"
-Cloud: "Yes, do you have one too?"
-Squall: "I have my Renzokuken."
-Cloud: "I have my Omni-Slash."
-Squall: "Alright then. We'll strike him from behind on the count of three. Ready?"
-Cloud: "One..."
-Squall: "Two..."
-Cloud & Squall: "Three!"




"Game-over Neo!"


(Just as Neo completes the final castings of his Dimensional Rip and lets loose with the almighty power of the universe, Squall and Cloud focus all of their remaining power into their ultimate limit breaks, and in a sudden burst of movement close the distance between Neo and themselves and begin pummeling him with a legendary series of blows and attacks.)
(Neo-Sephiroth's entire train of concentration is ruined as he absorbs these blows into himself to avoid taking damage. His focus instantly drops and the tentative control he had possesed over the raw and dangerous energies of reality is immediately and irrevokably lost.)
(The terrifying power he had hoarded within himself is too far built to disapate and it is abrubtly released in a massive, ground-shaking explosion of energy. Black tentacles of nothingness tear across the throne room as glitches in the fabric of space-time rip outward in every direction.)

-Neo-Sephiroth: "NO! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?"
(In the fury of the storm, the injured Sephiroth is suddenly swept toward one of the pulsating rifts that have grown in the room.)

(Sephiroth and Cloud share one last look before Sephiroth is sucked into the wormhole and vanishes forever.)

(Suddenly, everything stops.)




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