Cefca is no more, and the world is freed of his maniacal whims, but towers made of random junk slapped together aren't exactly known for their stability.

After taking a few steps, Tina falls over.

Some of the party's magicite flies up and poofs into vapor.

Tina gets up slowly, but acts as if nothing had happened.

Fade to white, then to black.

The ending music, 3-15 "Ending Theme", starts up.

Brief scenes follow for each character, whether recruited or not, as remixed versions of their leitmotifs play. If a character is absent, the scene is replaced with the character portrait superimposed over a panning monochrome view of a location associated with the character. Additionally, the scenes for several of them are drastically different depending on the presence or absence of specific other characters.

Note that Celes, Edgar, and Setzer appear more often than anyone else, undoubtedly because only they are required by the storyline to be present. Tina will also show up and help with the escape regardless, but she isn't often used as a filler character in other scenes, so having her arrive before the escape may not have been finalized when the rest of the scenes were written.

Scene: Book on table. The pages start flipping on their own in the order that a Japanese book would be read (right to left). Pixelate to black.

Cayenne's theme remix. What I would guess to be a wakizashi (Japanese short sword) pans onto the screen, drawn partway from its sheath.

Monochrome scene: Celes, Cayenne, and Edgar walk down some stairs. Celes goes on ahead, but the stairs collapse under Edgar and he grabs onto the edge.

Cayenne circles the switch a few times, eying it suspiciously, before finally working up his nerve and jumping on it hard enough to knock himself down. The stairs reappear.

He laughs, and the scene fades out.

If Cayenne never rejoined, we see Doma Castle instead.

A Setzer's theme remix plays as numerous aces of diamonds float down.

Monochrome scene: Setzer runs ahead, with Celes behind, but the passage suddenly turns into a wall, leaving a fork. Setzer tosses a coin, which lands on the left side. Celes, with Edgar following, starts to go left, but...

The others go back to the right, Celes stopping long enough to give Setzer back his coin. The left path suddenly explodes. Setzer says, with a taunting look,

The others hurry through the safe passage. Setzer looks a bit annoyed.

Fade out.

Edgar and Mash theme remix. A two-headed coin spins along, stopping with Edgar's bust showing.

The coin spins a few more times, this time stopping with Mash's bust showing.

Monochrome scene: Edgar leads Setzer, Celes, and Mash, running up to a door that is reluctant to open. Suddenly, a massive steel beam falls toward Edgar, but Mash rushes forward to catch it.

Mash flings the beam away, and he, Setzer, and Celes hurry through the door. Edgar stops a moment to do his taunting pose. Fade out.

He steps aside to let Celes go ahead of him, and Setzer follows suit.

Mog theme remix. Dancing moogles on a wind-up toy hop off and start shimmying along.

Monochrome scene: Mog comes out of a tunnel, followed by Edgar, but the floor gives way, leaving Mog stranded to the side. Edgar manages to climb up to higher ground.

Edgar finds some controls and operates a crane to pick Mog up. Mog is rather startled. Edgar sets him down on solid ground.

Mog looks annoyed, and Edgar laughs.

If Mog never rejoined, or never joined at all, we see the icy cliffs above Narshe instead.

Fade out. Umaro theme remix. The shimmying moogles approach a crude skull and crossbones.

The skull's eyes glow and the jaw flips open. The lead moogle is startled, the others run into it, and they all fall down.

Monochrome scene: Celes, followed by Setzer, reaches a door that won't open, even when she rams it. Umaro walks up.

Umaro crashes through the thick barrier to the side, amazing the onlookers. They go through, stop as if to thank him, and continue through the door over there. Umaro does a little dance.

Fade out.

If Umaro never joined, we see the icy cliffs above Narshe instead.

Gogo's theme remix. An eye glimmers inside a strangely adorned as the camera pans by.

Monochrome scene: Celes, Gogo, Setzer, and Edgar run through a room, but the floor collapses, leaving Celes by the exit, Gogo across from her, and the others stranded on the far side. Celes tries hitting a switch.

Setzer hops up and down.

Celes blinks, and so does Gogo. Celes and Gogo run up and hit the switches, moving as mirror images. Edgar and Setzer get across safely, and they leave, followed by Celes, but Gogo isn't paying attention (I guess) and falls in a pit, where only cartoonish glowing eyes are seen. Fade out.

If Gogo never joined, we see the first room inside Gogo's cave instead.

Gau's theme remix. The scuba helmet is shown.

Eyes blink inside the helmet, then a big mouth. Monochrome scene: Gau, Celes, Edgar run by. Gau stops suddenly and looks around.

Gau slides down the cliff face. Edgar and Celes follow, but look a bit shaken up. Gau leaps triumphantly (I guess).

Gau shoves Celes, who looks shocked, down the next cliff, and follows. Fade out.

If Gau never rejoined, we see the inside of the Crescent Moon Mountain cave instead.

Celes theme remix. We see a bouquet of roses.

The Celes theme remix starts to transition into a Lock's theme remix.

Monochrome scene: Tina (transformed) runs across a walkway, followed by Edgar, Lock, Setzer, and Celes, who drops a bandana then stops with a look of shock.

Note how this scene makes little sense unless Cid died and the ensuing scene occurred.

Celes runs back to grab the bandana, but the walkway is already crumbling. She manages to grab onto the edge of a section that seems stable for now, and Lock runs and dives for her hand.

He pulls her up, probably with more enthusiasm than is needed.

Edgar runs on ahead and Setzer follows. The room starts shaking again, so Lock grabs Celes and carries her across, even leaping over a section. Fade out.

The others run ahead.

A Tina's theme remix plays over two wineglasses, one with a fancy pendant draped over it. Symbolic of her dual nature?

Monochrome scene: Tina (transformed) leads Edgar, Celes, and Setzer through the ruins of the Sorcery Research Laboratory, but stops suddenly with a look of shock. The others stop to see what's the matter. One magicite floats up.

She nods, but Madin's stone puffs into vapor. The others run ahead, and Tina follows with visible reluctance. Fade out.

Relm's theme remix. A brush is shown.

Monochrome scene: Relm and Stragus slowly move down a conveyor belt the wrong way. Stragus slips and starts to slide back, but Relm notices and runs after him.

Relm continues against the belt's movement, helping Stragus along.

Fade out.

Stragus is the only character to both affect another character's mini scene and also get his own, for what it's worth.

The others drift back with alarmed expressions, only for her to shove them out of her way and rush ahead.

If Relm never rejoined, we see Thamasa Village instead.

Transition to Shadow's theme, remixed and orchestrated into something more moving and tragic, as an apple appears.

Two throwing stars thunk into the apple.

Monochrome scene: Celes, Edgar, and Setzer rush up the tower. Interceptor follows them, and Shadow follows behind, but suddenly stops, stares at the ground, and deliberately goes the wrong way. Interceptor runs back to him and tries to get him to move, but Shadow just shakes his head and pushes Interceptor away.

Interceptor starts to go, then turns back, reluctant to leave.

Shadow rushes up to a far corner of the tower.

The tower's crumbling intensifies. Fade out.

If Shadow never rejoined, we see... huh. Thamasa Village. How about that.

Transition to a Stragus's theme remix, as the book with flipping pages reappears.

Monochrome scene: Stragus and Relm reach the top of the tower, where the airship's line dangles just out of reach, even with Stragus's exaggerated anime-ish jumping.

He climbs to the highest point, jumps a few times, and grabs the hook.

His weight pulls the line down far enough for Relm to grab on. Fade out.

If Stragus never rejoined, we see Thamasa Village instead.

The book reappears, and the music comes to a conclusion.

After a pixelized fadeout, a dramatic minor key remix of Setzer's theme plays as everyone (except Shadow, Mog, Umaro, Gogo, Gau, and anyone other than Tina who wasn't recruited by the end) is seen rushing onto the airship deck.

Tina takes off and flies ahead. Setzer starts up the airship and follows. Another magicite flies out...

...and poofs into vapor.

I can almost hear the pleading tone in her voice...

The airship and Tina clear the tower and rise above the clouds into open airspace. The sky reverts to its usual blue-with-white-clouds appearance. Tina, on the other hand, is looking distinctly off-color...

Celes and Edgar run to the railing as Tina starts to plummet. Edgar signals to Setzer, who takes the controls and guns the engine.

The following lines from the ROM look appropriate here, but are unused.

The airship goes into a dive, and the music comes to a local climax before settling into something more peaceful...

Some children on a cliff overlooking a waterfall see a plummeting shiny something change course and start to slowly rise. Another girl comes up and hops, and the others follow her away.

Mobliz ruins: The kids all run into a house (wrong house, oops), looking excited. Catalina is lying on a bed, with Dean by her side.

They look around as if trying to figure out where the voice is coming from.

Fade out, then fade from white to the airship deck. Everyone who had joined the party except Tina, Shadow, Gogo, and Umaro is visible, and they all look passed out.

I'm pretty sure those are supposed to be Tina's words, but you'd never guess it from the NA version.

Celes sits up, then Edgar.

Edgar and Celes stand up. The others start to sit up (Mog gets to his feet pretty quickly, for what it's worth).

Celes runs around, checking that everyone's fine, but mostly looking for Tina. She turns toward the bow, and with a look of surprise...

...the camera pans to the bow, where Tina, back to her human self, lies. As the others continue to get up, Celes pulls Tina into a more open area. Setzer comes over too, and Tina slowly gets up.

The music transitions into a boisterous Setzer's theme remix

Credits, with airship flybys, a sailing ship on a blue ocean with seagulls, the airship skimming the ocean with seagulls all around, and the airship flying over green grasslands and forests and blue lakes with an escort of birds. The music transitions into a Tina's theme remix as the screen pans over green land, then switches to a close-up rear-view of the airship cruising over the same.

The music transitions into a remix of the classic Final Fantasy track "Prologue" and soon after we see everyone on the ariship deck (again except for Shadow, Gogo, and Umaro). Tina walks around, looking down over the sides.

Anyone who never rejoined the party is simply absent; everyone else behaves the same regardless of whether they're here or not.

In Mobliz, Catalina now has a baby. Isn't that special. All the kids hop around. And Dean just grabs the baby like some kind of kleptomaniac, prompting the kids to hop some more. Another kid comes in and hops, and most of the kids run outside. A brief shadow passes by, probably the airship flying overhead, and the kids run off as if to chase after it.

Back on deck, Tina waves and laughs. The focus moves to Stragus and a happy-looking Relm.

In Thamasa, a shadow passes overhead as people (and possibly a familiar dog) run around. The burned-down house is finally being repaired, and is mysteriously finished in about ten seconds despite having remained in ruins for over a year.

Back on deck, Celes looks off the side, Edgar comes over (and flirts with her, I think); she heads to the other side with Lock, Mash, and Tina. Relm then runs up to Edgar, probably to flirt (which, you may recall, even he finds kinda creepy). Meanwhile, Celes looks toward Lock, who waves his arms and points over the railing.

In Kohlingen, a shadow passes overhead, and that seed has finally sprouted. The brown flower bushes also turn blue.

Back on deck, Mash heads over to Edgar and says something that breaks Relm's seemingly smug look. Relm leaves them to go back to Stragus as they look over the edge.

The music adds a regal-sounding tone as a shadow passes by Castle Figaro, where the chocobo soldiers are drilling and the chancellor watches the airship fly by (presumably).

Back on deck, Mash waves. Tina walks up to the bow of the airship (Celes follows halfway), undoes her ribbon, and lets her hair blow in the wind. Birds fly by and the music gets more energetic as if to emphasize the sheer coolness of this event.

Maybe I'm missing something cultural? ...I know cutting hair is a Big Deal, anyway...

We see more birds flying around various places that have become healthy and green once again, as the music continues to build. Birds also flock around the airship, and then Setzer guns the engine. We finally get a brief glimpse of Gogo and Umaro—but not Shadow, I'm afraid—at the aft end of the deck just before the fadeout as the camera pans that way.

The music goes wild, and the Falcon flies off triumphantly. After a fadeout, "THE END" appears, with flowing watery colors filling in the letters, and the ending theme comes to a conclusion. Around thirty seconds later, a streaming starfield materializes and this game's version of "The Prelude" plays.