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Last Order: Final Fantasy VII is an addition to the Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children film and part of the Compilation of Final Fantasy VII
. It is an OVA (Original Video Animation) that was released with the "Ultimate Edition" of the movie (Advent Pieces: Limited). It is an anime rendition of two flashbacks that took place in the game. One details events from five years before the game took place, revolving around the Nibelheim scenario that focused on Zack, Cloud Strife, Tifa Lockhart and Sephiroth. The other involves Zack and Cloud on the run from Shin-Ra. The anime cuts back and forth between these two flashbacks, linked by the Turk commander Tseng's reflection on the nibelheim events. 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 even geting spoken lines.

Plot

One year before Final Fantasy VII begins, former SOLDIER 1st Class, Zack, is able to break free of his confinement within Nibelheim's Shinra Mansion. Having journeyed here four years earlier at the order of the Shin-Ra Company, Zack accompanied Sephiroth, Shin-Ra's elite SOLDIER, in the investigation of a malfunctioning mako reactor. During that mission, he bore witness to Sephiroth's descent into madness and the merciless slaughter of the village at Sephiroth's hands.

Though he survived that massacre, he and his friend, Cloud Strife—Final Fantasy VIIs main protagonist and a native of Nibelheim himself—were taken captive when Shin-Ra officials arrived to round up the few survivors and cover up the tragedy to prevent their name from being sullied. Professor Hojo, the Head of Shin-Ra's Scientific Research Division, decided to use Zack, Cloud and the other apprehended survivors in an experiment to test his Jenova Reunion Theory, but after four years of stolen freedom, Zack has escaped from Hojo's lab and taken Cloud with him.

They quickly slip away from Nibelheim, with the intent being to return to Midgar
, the heart of Shin-Ra's empire and home of Zack's girlfriend, Aerith Gainsborough
. However, Shin-Ra orders their elite espionage and assassination division, the Turks
, as well as regular military units to find, and, if necessary, eliminate the two escapees. Yet Tseng, the leader of the Turks, is hesitant to take Zack and Cloud's freedom from them a second time. Conscience-leaden and wracked with conflicting emotions, he orders his subordinates to capture them alive if at all possible.

With Zack and Cloud approaching the end of their year-long trek back to Midgar and the pursuit of the two escapees building to its head, Tseng reflects back on the events that have led to this situation before departing with his subordinates to intercept Cloud and Zack along the last leg of their journey. It is here, on a bluff within sight of Midgar, that fate will take a tragic, unexpected turn, and the events of Final Fantasy VII will begin.
Unseen epilogue
Shin-Ra soldiers—acting on their own, despite orders to await the Turks' arrival—kill Zack, who falls easily in battle due to a wound he took in Cloud's defense. However, they spare Cloud's life, noting him to already be in a heavily-impaired state and expecting that he will shortly expire anyway. They lie about the outcome of this situation, stating that Cloud escaped while Zack was killed in his resistance.
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