Follows a communication with Tseng.

To: AVALANCHE

Have been in communcation with Tseng. We'll be engaging Sephiroth in battle at Nibelheim; I'm to sneak in ahead of time and distract/wear him down long enough for Tseng to shoot him with a magic bullet. (This was not my idea.) The rest of you will have to come in after we've started fighting. (Yes, Yuffie, you can make your own way in. Sneakily.)

That's it.

Talked to Reeve at the party. He said to coordinate with you.

Also: this is the dumbest plan I've ever heard. Does Shinra like having the monopoly on dumb ideas?

- Cloud

(Just after these events.)

[Eventually Cloud has the energy to rise again. The PHS is a few feet away from him, having dropped it at the visions. He stumbles slightly when he walks over and picks it up.

He should call somebody. Find out what's going on. Find out where the kids are. Find out what he's missed while he's been... under.

A moment of indecision tears through him, while he considers who he should call first, but finally, he frowns and dials Tifa's number.

He waits.]