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Chapter 10, also known as Thanks to You, Zack,[note 1] is the tenth and final chapter in Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII-. The chapter comprises events from Zack Fair traveling to Banora Underground up until Zack's Final Stand.
Story[]
Banora Ruins.
Zack puts together where Genesis Rhapsodos has been hiding for so long. Genesis is always carrying a Banora White apple, and thus must have been hiding in Banora the whole time. Zack leaves Lazard Deusericus to look over Cloud Strife while he makes his way into an underground cavern beneath the cratered land that used to be Banora Village. The land is inundated with lifestream, whose power makes the apples ripen on the surface.
Zack finds Genesis's old hideout he used as a child and learns Genesis's childhood dream was to share a Banora White apple with SOLDIER hero Sephiroth. More of LOVELESS is engraved upon stone tablets within the cave that tell a short story of a group of three friends who go in search for the "Gift of the goddess" taking on the roles of a "Hero", a "Traveler", and a "Prisoner". The Prisoner escapes and is critically wounded, only to end up in the care of a woman from the enemy faction whom he falls in love with. He lives a peaceful life, but is tortured by the promise he made to his friends.
Zack finds Genesis hiding at the end of the cave with a statue of "the Goddess" holding the Goddess Materia, a gigantic natural Materia, or crystallized lifestream. He claims the epic poem LOVELESS to now be fulfilled as the three friends the epic speaks of are "reunited", with Zack inheriting Angeal's will and Sephiroth's cells. Genesis absorbs the Materia's power, transforms into Genesis Avatar, and engages Zack. Zack defeats Genesis Avatar and Genesis returns to human form.
Minerva.
Now healed of his degradation by the Goddess Materia, Genesis fights Zack, but is defeated. Genesis finds himself in a place filled with lifestream and sees the statue turn into the goddess herself. As he approaches her, the goddess sees his desire to complete his duty as SOLDIER, and acting as the will of the lifestream, prevents him from returning to the Planet so he may one day achieve his goal.
Zack drags Genesis's limp body up to his campsite to join a comatose Cloud and a dying Lazard in a bizarre picnic of half-dead bodies. Lazard had just fought Shinra soldiers, with the help of a canine Angeal Copy, which Zack recognizes as the same one that defended Aerith at the church years ago. Both are dying from their wounds and degradation.
Zack gathers everyone with Banora Whites and symbolically completes the re-enactment of LOVELESS, with Genesis as the Prisoner, Angeal (represented by his copies) as the Wanderer, and Zack is the Hero. Zack bites into the apple, fulfilling Genesis's childhood dream in spirit. Through his fight with Zack, Genesis has realized the true Gift of the goddess: SOLDIER honor.
Genesis is taken away to Deepground.
As Lazard and the Angeal Copy die and fade away, a letter is left behind, one of eighty-nine Aerith sent during the intervening four years, and the last she sent before giving up on receiving a reply. Zack is shocked to discover he has been gone for four years and, desperate to return to her, makes his way toward Midgar.
After Zack and Cloud depart, Nero and Weiss, the future leaders of Deepground, arrive dressed as 1st Class SOLDIERs and take the unconscious Genesis away leaving his book of LOVELESS behind. Genesis's disembodied voice recites the final act of LOVELESS, which appears onto the book. Whether this is the original final act he had finally found, or his own conclusion to the saga, is left ambiguous.
Walkthrough[]
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- ↑ Named in the achievement/tropy of Crisis Core -Final Fantasy VII- Reunion. Because there is no save menu after completing the chapter in the original PlayStation Portable release, it goes unnamed in the original release.