Last Order -Final Fantasy VII-

Last Order: Final Fantasy VII (ラストオーダー -ファイナルファンタジーVII-, Rasuto Ōdā -Fainaru Fantajī VII-) is an Original Video Animation based on events that occurred in Final Fantasy VII. The movie is part of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII and was released with Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children in Japan. The 25 minute anime is about 2 events that happened in Final Fantasy VII. One flashback takes place 5 years before the game begins, revolving around Zack, Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockhart, and Sephiroth at Nibelheim. The other flashback involves Zack and Cloud on the run from Shin-Ra. The anime cuts back and forth between these two events, with the Turk commander Tseng reminiscing on the Nibelheim event. Last Order also forms the basis of the Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII PSP game, and serves as a tie-in with the mobile phone game Before Crisis: Final Fantasy VII, as several of the game's playable Turk characters appear as minor characters, with some having dialogue. Although the anime was originally only released in Japan, it will be released in the collector's edition of Advent Children in North America.

Plot
The anime opens up with Cloud Strife being carried by Zack on his back in a forest. Zack tells him that he'd like to let him take a break but they aren't able to. Suddenly, three men wearing costumes similar to a SOLDIER with swords jump out of the bushes and rush towards the duo. Zack grabs the handle of his sword from it's sheath on his back.

The movie switches to Shin-Ra, where Tseng is talking on a cell phone, telling whoever he is talking to that the military has made contact with the "target". Tseng then says that the Turks will be sent to where the "target" was encountered, and that everyone else has go to back to the base.

The movie switches back to Cloud and Zack, with Zack placing Cloud on the ground and fighting the three opponents. Once they are defeated, Zack picks Cloud up again and continues walking through the forest. Almost immediately, more enemies arrive and start shooting at Zack and Cloud, but they escape and jump off a cliff.

The movie switches to Tseng, who says that 72 hours ago, the Turks received a mission to capture "samples" that were on run from a Shin-Ra facility. The targets are two adult males, one formerly a SOLDIER First Class. Tseng then says that because of what happened five years ago, the targets are somewhat related to him. He continues saying that if what happened five years ago didn't happen, then their lives wouldn't be this crazy. He then opens a book on his desk and goes to a page containing a picture of Sephiroth, saying that Sephiroth was the reason for their lives. The movie then goes black and shows the logo.

Once the logo fades out, Nibelheim is shown in flames with Sephiroth killing an inhabitant. He then walks away from the town, going to take back Jenova.

Tifa Lockhart is then shown walking around Nibelheim looking for her father. She sees her Master helping an injured civilian and asks him what happened to the town. He tells her that Sephiroth is the reason. Tifa is surprised that Sephiroth would ever do this and asks her Master if he has seen her father. He tells her he's at the Mako reactor on Mount Nibel. Before she runs to the mountain, he warns that Sephiroth is there too. Despite him telling this, Tifa runs off to the reactor, with her Master yelling from behind her that she won't be able to do anything.

Back to the Turks, Tseng is seen at his office again looking at the book that contained Sephiroth's photo. The Turks report to him that the target has been spotted.

Zack, still carrying Cloud, is shown surrounded with troops. As they ready their guns, Zack places Cloud on the ground against a pillar, shoving his sword in the ground in front of Cloud. Zack then begins to fight them all. One of the troops comments that he's too strong and that he has the power of a SOLDIER. As more troops arrive, Zack runs off, leaving Cloud behind.

Tseng is shown again in his office looking at the book on his desk. This time, instead of seeing Sephiroth's picture, Zack's is shown, along with some written information about him beside his picture.

Zack along with a troop arrives at Nibelheim and meets Tifa's master. Zack asks if Sephiroth was the reason why the town is up in flames and calls him a killer. Tifa's master says Sephiroth's gone too far and if Zack wants Sephiroth. Tifa's master then remembers that Tifa went to Mount Nibel and tells Zack that Sephiroth is also there. Zack tells the troop to help the man and that he will help Tifa.

Zack is then shown again, running down a street. Two troops on bikes race from behing him to in front of him, causing him to stop running. Suddenly, beside Zack, a helicopter arrives, containing the Turks Rude and Elena. They both have a headset on and Rude asks if they're supposed to kill or capture Zack. Tseng is shown on a cell phone in his office telling them to try their best to catch him alive. Elena then tells Zack to surrender and that if he does, they can promise his personal safety. Zack doesn't believe them, and the two troops on the bikes decide to take him, readying their guns. Zack then says all he wants is freedom and runs at the two troops.

Tseng is shown at his office again. His cell phone rings and answers it, saying, "What?"

Tifa is then seen running towards the Mako reactor. She sees her father lying on the ground, with a bloodied sword beside him. She runs to him, and he tells her to run. He then dies, and Tifa cries over his body. She then says that Sephiroth killed him and grabs the sword beside him. She then says that she hates SOLDIER, Shin-Ra, and the Mako reactors, all of them. The door Sephiroth was standing in front of opens and he walks in.

Sephiroth is shown going up the stairs inside the reactor. He stops at the top, faces a door, and says, "Mother. I've come for you." Tifa, holding a sword in both her hands, runs in the reactor and up the stairs towards Sephiroth, yelling how he dared to kill her father and everyone in the village. As soon as she reaches his back, she swings her sword down at him. Sephiroth quickly turns around, grabs the sword, and knocks her in the air and down the stairs. She lands at the bottom of the stairs, reminiscing about a promise that when she's in trouble, Cloud will come to save her.

Meanwhile, Cloud is still lying motionless against a pillar with Zack's sword in front of him. Two troops try to lift the sword from the ground but are unable to. A bike's tire is then shown approaching them.

Tseng is then shown on his cell phone talking with Rude. Rude says that Zack has acquired a bike and that his escape region has increased.

Back to Cloud, Zack approaches the two troops trying to lift his sword from the ground and punches one in the face and smashes the face of the other into the pillar. Zack easily lifts the sword from the ground, spins it, and puts it on his back. He squats down to Cloud and apologizes to him for making him wait. Zack and Cloud are then shown on a bike, with Zack asking Cloud to not be mad, and that he wouldn't leave his friends alone. However, Rude and Elena are in a helicopter above them, following them. Zack speeds off into a narrow road, and Elena reports that they've lost them. Rude says that they're heading off to Midgar. Tseng is shown in his office, saying that Midgar has to be cordoned off.

Back at the reactor, Zack wakes up Tifa. Tifa says that she hates Shin-Ra, SOLDIERs, and him. Zack doesn't ask her to forgive him, and walks up the stairs towards the door Sephiroth went through, now closed. Once at the door, Zack grabs his sword and smashes it open. Zack sees Sephiroth in front of the metallic sculpture of Jenova. Sephiroth says to her that they should take back the planet together and that they should go to the promised land. Zack then yells at Sephiroth, asking him why he killed the villagers in Nibelheim and why he hurt Tifa. Sephiroth only laughs and tells Jenova that "those people are here again." Sephiroth continues, saying that with Jenova's superior powers and knowledge, she should have became ruler of the planet, but that "those people" took her planet from her hands. Sephiroth says that she doesn't have to be sad anymore and that she can come with him. He then rips off the metal cover and sees Jenova inside a large glass chamber. Zack places his sword right beside Sephiroth's neck asking him, "What the hell is wrong with you?" Sephiroth then laughs and calls him a traitor. Sephiroth quickly grabs his sword and the two fight.

As they're fighting, Zack says he trusted Sephiroth a lot, and that he's no longer the Sephiroth he once knew. As they continue fighting, Sephiroth says that he is the chosen one, the chosen ruler of the planet. He continues talking, saying that he will take back the planet from humans and return it to the Cetra, and that that is what he was born to do. Despite Zack's attempts at fighting him, Sephiroth defeats Zack, who is thrown out of Jenova's chamber to where he woke up Tifa, with his sword left in Jenova's chamber.

Sephiroth walks up to the glass and places his hands against it, saying that every thing's all right now. Right when he finishes saying this, the camera shows the glass break, and then shows a sword shoved through him. Asking who it is, a man in a troop costume responds, "Give me back mother, Tifa, and the whole village! I used to respect you, admire you!" Sephiroth responds by calling him a bastard. The man removes his sword from Sephiroth, and he falls to the floor. The man says Tifa's name and runs to her. He removes his helmet and runs to Tifa, the camera showing that the troop was Cloud. Tifa is amazed that Cloud is there, and that he kept his promise, that he came for her when she is in danger.

A loud crash is heard. Sephiroth has broken the glass containing Jenova and cuts off her head. Cloud looks up at the door to her chamber to see Sephiroth walking out of it, with Jenova's head in his hand. Zack encourages Cloud to finish him off. Cloud runs at him, yelling his name. Sephiroth stops him right when he reaches him and stabs Cloud through the stomach. He then throws him back into Jenova's chamber. Sephiroth walks up to him, saying, "Do you think a mere human could defeat me?" He then stabs Cloud again, and lifts him up over a ledge. Cloud says that he can never forgive him. He grabs his sword, pulls himself back onto the platform, and swings the sword, causing Sephiroth to be thrown aside. Sephiroth can't believe what Cloud did, and then sees his glowing eyes. Sephiroth then laughs. He tells Jenova to come with him to the promised land and jumps off the platform, falling to the bottom of the reactor and disappearing. Cloud, still with Sephiroth's sword in him, passes out. The camera moves to a Turk dialing on her cell phone outside Jenova's chamber.