Rod ( Male ) Rod ( Male ) , real name chosen by player , is a playable male Turk in " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " , whose chosen weapon is a Electro - Mag Rod augmented with Materia . In " " , Rod ( Male ) is used as the player character during a special feature , which gives the complete timeline of the " Compilation of Final Fantasy VII " . He is named " Crisis " in the presentation . On the production sketches for " Last Order - Final Fantasy VII - " by Studio MadHouse , Rod ( Male ) is named " Alvis " . Profile . Appearance . With unkempt auburn hair , Rod ( Male ) wears the standard Turk uniform of black suit with black tie , white undershirt and brown boots . Personality . A cocky and headstrong ex - bike gang member , Rod ( Male ) ' s arrogance due to constantly defeating anyone he came up against influenced his decision to attempt to steal from the Shinra Electric Power Company . He was humbled with the Turks ' arrival who showed him he was not as strong as he had thought . Now working as a Turk , Rod ( Male ) intends to become the best by working with the best , harboring aspirations of assuming leadership of the group one day . Like Reno , Rod ( Male ) ' s speech is informal , casually addressing everyone in the same crude way no matter their status , a habit that irritates Gun ( Female ) . Rod ( Male ) is an expert in the area of maintenance and repair of motorcycle s , and is a skilled driver . Story . Rod ( Male ) spent his time getting into turf wars with other gangs and riding about on various stolen motorbikes . Made the leader of his gang at the age of 18 , Rod ( Male ) ' s towering self - confidence allowed the members of his gang to place full trust in their young leader . Having come so far and never knowing defeat , he lived life with the certainty nothing could take him down . It was that sense of pride that prompted him to test out his skills by trying to steal a motorbike from the Shinra Building garage . Rod ( Male ) was caught and arrested by Reno . Recognizing his skills could be used to aid the Turks , Veld offered Rod ( Male ) a place in his organization . Combating AVALANCHE . As part of their duties as a new member of the Turks , the Player Turk is sent on patrol of Sector 8 . The Turk encounters the AVALANCHE organization by chance , an eco - terrorist group that opposes Shinra . After a brief skirmish , the Player Turk informs Tseng , another member of the Turks , on their PHS , who instructs them to investigate the group further and in turn notifies his superior , Veld . Discovering AVALANCHE is intent on destroying the sector ' s Mako Reactor , Reno is sent in to support the Player Turk as they enter the reactor to prevent AVALANCHE from detonating their bomb . Reno encounters Shears , an AVALANCHE leader , and is defeated . Shears defeats the Player Turk , who had returned after preventing the bombing , and is ordered to withdraw to Junon where President Shinra is residing to hold a news conference . Tseng sends Reno and the Player Turk to protect the President . While the pair reaches the President before the attack , the President ' s military escort proves ineffective against AVALANCHE ' s soldiers , who infiltrate and secure the President ' s hotel . As Reno stays with the President , the Player Turk clears the building before the President insists on leaving for the conference . Forced to act as the President ' s street escort when Reno is separated , the Player Turk protects the President until they enter the conference building . Dressed as Shinra troops , AVALANCHE momentarily captures the President before the Player Turk fights their way back to him as Reno returns to help . Cutting the power to the building , Fuhito — the leader of AVALANCHE — arrives to meet Reno and Shinra . While Reno escapes with the President , the Player Turk is defeated by Fuhito while attempting to distract him . It is revealed AVALANCHE has hijacked the Mako Cannon . As Reno returns the President to his quarters , the President ' s son and the vice president pf the company , Rufus Shinra , notes the new Turk ' s progress . Veld informs them of the Sister Ray ' s hijacking . The President sends Reno to liberate it , leaving him open for Fuhito to enter the room and shoot him . Still alive , the President orders Veld to send in Sephiroth , the legendary SOLDIER , to destroy AVALANCHE . With AVALANCHE intending to use the Mako Cannon to destroy the metropolis of Midgar , Shinra ' s seat of power , Reno leads a contingent of Shinra troops against AVALANCHE ' s street forces . The Player Turk enters the cannon facility from an underground passageway . Led by Tseng over the PHS , they work their way through the facility ' s security countermeasures and AVALANCHE personnel into the control room to turn off the cannon . Coming across the sight of a massacre at the control room ' s entrance , the cannon is turned off mysteriously before the Turk got to the control panel . Mistaken for the being responsible for the massacre , the Player Turk is attacked by Elfé , another AVALANCHE leader . The Turk is almost killed but for the intervention of Sephiroth who engages her . and is impressed she can defend herself against him . Elfé and AVALANCHE retreat . With President Shinra dedicating SOLDIER to deal with AVALANCHE , the Turks are instructed to locate new SOLDIER candidates . Reno , Rude and the Player Turk travel the globe , employing potential fighters . In Costa del Sol the Player Turk enters a fight club called Club Duel and beats the strongest fighter , known as " King " , and captures him for the SOLDIER . On the trip to Midgar the candidate population is killed by a sole candidate called Azul , whom the Player Turk confronts . Azul is suppressed by Rude . While on the docks , the ship is attacked by a contingent of AVALANCHE soldiers lead by Shears who boards the ship and frees the candidates , defeating Rude while the Player Turk attempts to recapture them . As the Player Turk returns , Rude goes after Shears and , partnered up with Reno , defeat the AVALANCHE commander . A freed Azul returns to the Shinra ship willingly to finish his fight with the Player Turk and become a SOLDIER to become stronger . Acting as escort for Professor Rayleigh , the Player Turk joins three Shinra troops in protecting the professor , who is carrying secret data on the SOLDIER program . When the troops encounter and are killed by a Raven — a type of bioengineered soldier AVALANCHE uses — Rayleigh ' s life is threatened . One of the troops , Cloud Strife , stands between the Player Turk and their orders to prevent Rayleigh ' s capture even if it meant killing her . As the kidnappers embark on a train , Cloud boards it leaving the Player Turk to deal with the Raven and catch up through the service tunnels . Boarding the train the Player Turk frees both Rayleigh and an injured Cloud . As more Ravens chase after them , the Player Turk , with orders to take the SOLDIER information and abandon the professor and Cloud , instead puts them on a separated train car and stays to hold the Ravens off . In spite of their best efforts the disk is taken by a Raven who was thought dead . Curious over Rude ' s unexplained disappearances after work , Reno orders the Player Turk to shade him in Sector 8 to discover he goes on dates with a woman named Chelsea . While the Player Turk deals with a monster infestation in the sector , Reno follows Rude to one of his dates and discovers Chelsea attempting to place a bug on his PHS . Reno follows her from the date and discovers her working with AVALANCHE , but she claims to her contact she was unable to place a wire tap on Rude ' s PHS in spite of Reno noting she had plenty of time to do that . The next day Reno informs Rude about his girlfriend ' s affiliations , but Rude already knew . When the Player Turk returns from destroying the monster nest they come across Chelsea attempting to quit AVALANCHE and defends her from her angered comrades . Chelsea asks the Player Turk inform Rude she would not meet him anymore , stating that , although she wished it otherwise , the Turks and AVALANCHE are enemies and cannot be together . President Shinra grows impatient to destroy AVALANCHE . Veld sends Reno and Rude to gather information on Fuhito ' s new Ravens while the Player Turk is to gather new Turk candidates . The Player Turk is sent to investigate the abduction of two SOLDIER members , Essai and Sebastian , in Icicle Inn . The Player Turk infiltrates the facility to ascertain whether or not it is an AVALANCHE base . Discovering the abducted SOLDIER members , the Player Turk frees them and sends them to a Shinra base nearby . Rendezvousing with a Turk who had been investigating another part of the facility , the pair escapes outside where they are caught in a fight against Fuhito and his Ravens . Saved by the timely arrival of Martial Arts ( Female ) , the Turks retreat to the Shinra base . Massing a search and destroy task force to attack the AVALANCHE base , Zack Fair from SOLDIER is sent to bolster the Shinra forces . While embarking to their destination , a breaking bridge leads to Zack and the Player Turk being separated from the main force . The force is led into an AVALANCHE ambush and the remaining SOLDIERs , Essai and Sebastian , are recaptured . As Zack moves to free them , the Player Turk is instructed by Veld — who notes AVALANCHE is receiving information from within Shinra — to assist in rescuing the SOLDIERs . Making it to the captured pair first , the Player Turk discovers the two SOLDIERs have been warped to do AVALANCHE ' s bidding . The Player Turk is saved by Zack , who attempts to hold off his friends while pleading for them to fight their way back to their senses . While successful , the attempt costs Essai and Sebastian their lives and Zack remains to mourn their passing as the compound ' s self - destruct is activated . As he tells the Player Turk to go on ahead , he is confronted by the Raven responsible for capturing Essai and Sebastian . Zack discovers the process the Ravens undergo leave them without humanity , becoming mere drones of their former selves . After Zack and the Player Turk escape the destructing compound , Zack erects a small memorial for his deceased friends . President Shinra , having become irate over his inability to uncover how AVALANCHE is receiving information from within the company , removes Veld from his post and replaces him with Heidegger . Hearing that AVALANCHE is targeting Junon , Heidegger sends the Turks as scouts who are to call him on anything suspicious so he can send in his military . His insistence on using the military rather than Turks ' specialized skills leaves the members , when AVALANCHE does attack Junon , reluctant to inform Heidegger . Tseng discovers AVALANCHE is after the airships docked in the city . Heidegger wants to let the situation escalate until it is viable to send his military and uses the Turks as expandable distractions ignoring their requests for coordinated information . Veld approaches the President in Midgar and threatens to reveal all classified information he was privy to the media unless he is reinstated as head of the Turks . His request granted , Veld co - ordinates the Turks into retaking the Junon airport , sending in additional troops and Martial Arts ( Male ) to assist . While the operation is a success , the Turks are no closer to discovering the leak within the Shinra executive offices . Monsters from Professor Hojo ' s laboratories run rampant in the 65th to 68th floors of the Shinra Building . While Tseng evacuates the employees , the Player Turk is sent to contain the outbreak . Upon reaching Hojo ' s lab , it is discovered the outbreak was a ruse by Fuhito and Shears to capture Hojo . Escaping via a B1 - Alpha Helicopter , the Turks give chase along the highway only to have Shears blow it apart and acquire the time AVALANCHE needed to bring in one of Hojo ' s experiments : a green dragon . Sephiroth eviscerates the dragon and downs the helicopter , but while Hojo is retrieved , Shears and Fuhito escape . Informed by their Shinra contact of the existence of a Cetra descendant named Aerith Gainsborough , AVALANCHE attempts to capture her to protect the location of the " Promised Land " , a fabled land said to be the Cetra ' s final destination in life . The Player Turk , having gotten lost in the Midgar Slums , has found their way to Elmyra Gainsborough ' s house where they come across Aerith who escapes on sight . AVALANCHE causes Aerith to return and is protected by the Turk much to her surprise . Hiding in the Sector 5 slums Aerith loses her White Materia . As the Player Turk goes to retrieve it , Shears locates them and disposes of the Player Turk , taking Aerith to the Sector 5 Church where Fuhito and Elfé await . As they attempt to convince Aerith to tell them the location of the Promised Land , Aerith notes an ancient voice emanating from inside Elfé is in pain . Fuhito becomes flustered and attempts to divert the subject . When Shears notices the Player Turk eavesdropping , a fight in the church results in Aerith preventing Shears and Fuhito from killing the Turk , claiming that she is defending her flower bed . Elfé withdraws along with the rest of AVALANCHE . As the Player Turk and Aerith also leave the church , Tseng , who has been assigned for some time to capture Aerith , arrives in another attempt to convince her to work with Shinra . Misunderstanding , the Player Turk prevents Tseng from seeing Aerith as she runs back home . Nibelheim Incident . Called in due to reports of the staff manning the Nibel Reactor disappearing , Tseng pilots the Player Turk to the Mt . Nibel where they were supposed to parachute to the reactor . A rogue wind causes them to parachute off course and , forced to traverse the mountainside to reach the reactor , the Player Turk comes across Tifa Lockhart chasing after her cat . Following the discovery of multiple dragons massing around the reactor , the Player Turk is ordered to fall back to the town of Nibelheim to await further instructions . Taking Tifa with them , the ropeway back to town is destroyed by a dragon , forcing the pair to traverse the rest of the way on foot . When Sephiroth and his company are sent in to deal with the monsters , the Player Turk recruits Tifa to guide them up the mountain . Following the investigation party ' s return , Sephiroth locks himself away in his hotel room for several days until coming out and massacring the town . Leaving to return to the reactor , the Player Turk follows after him , clearing the path along the way for the incoming Shinra forces . After confronting Sephiroth , the Player Turk is knocked unconscious , coming to when Cloud arrives , a member of Sephiroth ' s party . As Cloud pursues Sephiroth deeper into the reactor , the Player Turk looks over Tifa until her martial arts teacher Zangan arrives to take her away . She witnesses Cloud ' s stand and Sephiroth jumping into the Mako pit and informs Tseng of the events . When the Shinra clean - up crew arrives at Nibelheim and the reactor , the Player Turk is instructed to help look for survivors . Upon reaching the town they are given new orders by Tseng to check on the laboratory equipment in the basement of the Nibelheim Mansion for Professor Hojo . Entering the mansion , the Player Turk receives new orders to liquidate certain documents . The Player Turk discovers the documents and attempts to read them only to become confused . Veld arrives and leads the way into the laboratory where they are trapped in an illusion of the Player Turk ' s first encounter with AVALANCHE in Sector 8 during their first day on the job , caused by Lost Number . Lost Number changes the illusion to that of when Kalm was destroyed , wherein Veld ' s wife and daughter were thought to have been killed and Veld was responsible for the incident ' s cover - up . Lost Number paralyzes Veld with guilt , but is defeated by the Player Turk and his illusion vanishes , freeing Veld . As the Nibelheim survivors are gathered they are to be shipped into Hojo ' s laboratory , but the Turks are indecisive over the immorality of it and are allowed to leave while Veld handles the operation . Destroying AVALANCHE . Discovering AVALANCHE ' s base in Wutai Village , the Player Turk is sent to bomb the pagoda . Meeting Yuffie Kisaragi the Turk inadvertently informs her of the powers of Materia . Infiltrating the pagoda ' s top floor from the Fire Cave , the Player Turk fights their way down each floor , placing bombs as they go and meeting Yuffie again as she seeks out AVALANCHE ' s Materia supply . Due to her sickness , Elfé withdraws as the AVALANCHE troops are marshaled to face Shinra . Yuffie has stolen the detonation switch and leads the Player Turk on a chase through the AVALANCHE base before pressing the switch . Attempting to escape the underground base before the timers go off , Yuffie and the Player Turk are chased through the underground tunnels , encountering and seemingly defeating all three of the AVALANCHE commanders ( Elfé , Shears and Fuhito ) . After escaping , Yuffie deduces the Player Turk is working for Shinra and flees in a fit of betrayal due to the realization that her new friend is affiliated with the enemy responsible for damaging Wutai . With the public ' s confidence in Shinra shaken due to the AVALANCHE attacks , the launch of the Shinra No . 26 rocket is used as a publicity stunt to buy back public support . The Player Turk escorts Rufus Shinra to a rehearsal for the event in Rocket Town . During the rehearsal the point vehicle for the air show , the Tiny Bronco , is hijacked by Shears ' s underlings . With Cid Highwind ' s help the Player Turk retrieves and lands the aircraft . Cid takes the Player Turk and Rufus on a tour of the rocket and they come across one of Shears ' s underlings attempting to steal an oxygen bottle , essential for the launch . In spite apprehending the underling , the ship ' s oxygen bottles are stolen and have to be replaced . On the President and Cid ' s insistence , the launch continues as scheduled . After Cid becomes embroiled in fighting the underlings responsible for sabotaging the rocket . and the Player Turk almost becomes caught in the rocket ' s launch blast , the launch is aborted mid - air as Cid opts to preserve the life of a mechanic who had been caught inside the rocket engines . Reno and Tseng discover AVALANCHE has infiltrated and taken over the construction site of the Corel Reactor . Infiltrating the construction site through the Corel Mines thanks to a local miner named Barret Wallace , the Player Turk enters the reactor to find Rufus Shinra . Veld informs the Turks Rufus is the informant and supplier for AVALANCHE in a bid to remove his father from presidency . As Veld instructs his subordinates to place Rufus under arrest , Fuhito appears to kill not just the Turks but Rufus too , reasoning that AVALANCHE no longer needs him . Elfé appears and her voice is recognized by Veld as that of his deceased daughter : Felicia . Her memories revived as Veld explains who she is , Elfé is taken by her mysterious illness . She is carried out of the reactor by a jovial Fuhito as Shears looks on in shock . Torn between his duty and his desire to chase after his rediscovered daughter , the Turks encourage Veld to go after her . Veld resigns his position to Tseng , who leads Rufus out of the reactor before Fuhito destroys it . While covering their escape , the Player Turk is thought to have been caught in the facility ' s explosion . Trapped in the lower facility of the destroyed reactor , the Player Turk fights alongside Shears , who had been betrayed by Fuhito and left to die in the explosion , against a swarm of monsters and Ravens . Shears explains about Elfé ' s Materia and how Fuhito hopes to use it to wipe out life on the Planet and return it to the Lifestream . Explaining his reasons for joining AVALANCHE , the injury that Shears had sustained during Fuhito ' s betrayal begins to wear on him . As the facility collapses Shears , instructing them to save Elfé , throws the Player Turk out of the facility as the exit collapses with him inside . For his crimes , Rufus is put in house arrest within the Turks ' hidden headquarters . With the Player Turk rendered comatose due to injuries and Mako poisoning , and Veld having deserted to pursue his daughter , Tseng is instructed to link with the Turks ' secondary division to bolster numbers . Three years after the Corel Reactor ' s destruction the Player Turk awakens , and three months later the Player Turk and Reno are tasked with the capture of an endangered species known as " Guardians of the Planet " in Cosmo Canyon for Professor Hojo . While searching the canyon the pair visits Bugenhagen on Tseng ' s instruction . They learn more about the monster Fuhito hopes to summon through Elfé ' s Materia , and discover the Materia is sapping Elfé ' s life force to exist . Veld , who has not been sighted since Corel , is searching for a way to remove it without harming his daughter . Resuming their pursuit of the " Guardian " , the Turks come across new Raven operatives , far stronger than previously encountered , also pursuing the animals to disrupt a sacred ceremony held in the canyon . While the groups initially pursued Deneh , Nanaki interferes and attacks the Turks to give Deneh time to flee . While capturing him , the Player Turk allows Nanaki to perform the ritual before taking him away . Conflict with Shinra . Pursuing two research samples that had escaped from the Nibelheim Mansion , the Player Turk finds themselves in competition with the Shinra Army to locate them . The Player Turk questions why they are hunting the subjects whom they were partially responsible for imprisoning in the mansion four years previously . Coming across the escapees on the beach , the Player Turk discovers they are hunting Zack and Cloud . The Player Turk attempts to do their duty and capture Zack , but after seeing the extent of damage the experiments have done to Cloud , they report Zack is no longer around and let Zack escape . The Player Turk returns to Nibelheim to investigate the mansion where they discover Veld poring through the mansion ' s archives . Learning he needs a certain Materia to remove the Materia from Elfé ' s body and stop it draining her life , Veld has been searching for these support Materia , learning the Turks already possess one given to them by Shears during the Corel Reactor incident . The pair searches through the mansion , and comes across clues to another of Hojo ' s " research subjects " , Vincent Valentine , Veld ' s old Turk partner , who informs them of the location of such a Materia elsewhere in the Mansion . As AVALANCHE appears to also seek the support Materia , the Player Turk and Veld lose the orb to Fuhito . Shinra executive Scarlet informs the President in Midgar the Turks are assisting Veld in spite of their orders to " shoot on sight " . Hidden within their headquarters within the Shinra Building as Scarlet embarks on a hunt for them , the Turks meet with Reeve , another Shinra executive , to locate the next Materia . Learning it is in the remains of the Gongaga reactor they , along with Cait Sith , steal a submarine from Junon to evade the Shinra military . Entering the reactor they find AVALANCHE troops already combing the facility but thanks to the arrival of Veld and Shears , the latter of whom was rescued by Veld in Corel and has been working with him since , the next support Materia is obtained . When the fugitives Zack and Cloud are relocated , the Turks attempt a Priority - S retrieval attempt , but are unable to acquire them before the Shinra military ambushes them . Learning the AVALANCHE is attempting to break into Corel Prison , the Turks presume a Materia piece must be there and embark across the desert to obtain it . Discovering Shalua Rui , the Player Turk brings her to shelter in the caverns under the desert . The Player Turk finds the final support Materia within the caverns while being pursued by AVALANCHE Ravens . Escaping with Shalua , they brave a sandstorm before being cornered . Shalua announces her hatred of the Turks , but the Ravens still attack . Shears and Veld arrive to support them , and Shears takes Shalua to a safe location . Scarlet catches up to and surrounds the Player Turk and Veld and , attacking them into submission , Scarlet captures Veld and takes him back to Midgar to be executed . While Tseng , Rude and Reno attempt to discern the location Veld is being held , the other Turks and Shears meet in Wall Market and split the Materia orbs among themselves before dispatching to look for Elfé . Meanwhile Elena , Gun ( Female ) ' s sister , witnesses a trio of insurgent Ravens and attempts to follow them before getting bored and going home . Assisted by Rufus , Tseng locates Veld and attempts to liberate him while ordering the Player Turk , who is being pursued by Shinra troops through Wall Market , to secure an escape out of Midgar . While abducting a truck to pass the checkpoints set up by the military , the Player Turk discovers that not only was the truck being driven by a Raven dressed as a Shinra troop , but that Elena has been kidnapped and is in the truck with them . After leaving the truck and having it leave while Elena is still on board , the Player Turk follows it to a train where , onboard , they exchange the support Materia with the Ravens for Elena . Elsewhere in the Sector 5 slums , Shears is confronted by Fuhito . He opts to go with Fuhito to find Elfé , but is instead beaten down and the support Materia stolen from him . While Reno , Rude and Tseng free Veld , the Player Turk commandeers a helicopter to chase after AVALANCHE before they can use the support Materia to summon the monster Zirconiade and kill Elfé to make it whole . Crashing the helicopter into the truck the Ravens were using , the Player Turk witnesses Fuhito gathering the support Materia around a limp and weak Elfé on the highway and summons Zirconiade above Midgar . While saving Elfé , the Materia inside her fuses with the support Materia on its own and Fuhito ascends to give the newly formed Materia orb to Zirconiade . As the Player Turks all chase after Fuhito along the construct created by Zirconiade ' s summoning , Tseng , Reno , Rude , Veld and an awakened Elfé are captured by the Shinra military . Splitting into teams of two when the pathways branch into a maze , the Turks come across Behemoths . As the others battle the Behemoths , the Player Turk catches up to Fuhito and is saved from his attack by Shears . Teaming up against the AVALANCHE commander , the Player Turk and Shears defeat Fuhito , but to continue Zirconiade ' s awakening he places the Materia inside himself and transforms , mortally wounding Shears in his new form . As the Player Turk bests Fuhito even in his transformed state , Fuhito attempts to take them with him in his defeat . A dying Shears holds him back , and the pair erupts in a blast of light . Meanwhile , confronted with the offer that the Turks would be spared from capture and execution if Veld and Elfé are killed , Tseng pretends to shoot the pair . As Tseng leaves with the bodies of Veld and Elfé , Reno and Rude wait for their remaining comrades still fighting Zirconiade . Reaching the end of the airborne construct , the Player Turk attacks Zirconiade but is unable to affect it . With the arrival of other Turks they damage the monster , but the other Turks are taken down by the summon and the Player Turk is worn down . With the memories of the people they met as a Turk , the Player Turk gathers their strength of will to continue the battle and destroys Zirconiade . The shockwave emitted from its destruction destroys the construct on which the attacking Turks are standing , and Reno and Rude watch in horror as the construction vanishes in an explosion of light . Exile . Following Zirconiade ' s defeat , the Player Turks go into hiding across the Planet ; retiring to Midgar , Junon , Costa del Sol , Cosmo Canyon , Icicle Inn , and Wutai . As Zirconiade had been summoned the Planet had awakened one of its Weapons to deal with the threat , but because the Turks defeated Zirconiade before the Weapon ' s arrival the Weapon no longer had a purpose . Instead of returning to sleep , the Weapon considers the Turks a threat due to their defeat of Zirconiade and how , technically , they had destroyed what was a part of the Planet ' s ecology . A number of weeks later , Veld calls the Player Turks to inform them the Weapon is hunting them . Given an advanced radar system on their PHS to track the Jade Weapon , and learning the dark mist the Weapon generates and surrounds itself with can only be penetrated by the light given from various Materia Pillars across the Planet , the Turks locate the pillars to enable themselves to do battle against the Weapon . Coming to a location covered in mist , the Weapon is supported by various oval - like constructs which the Turks battle while the Weapon attempts to bombard them from above . After numerous hunts and battles across the Planet , the Turks destroy the Weapon and return to their lives in exile . Return . During Meteorfall , Reno oversees the evacuation of Sector 4 while Rude clears Sector 2 and Elena clears Sector 3 . Moving to clear Sector 5 together with Tseng , the four are met and assisted by the previous Turks and Veld returning to assist in the evacuation of the citizens . Gameplay . Weapon upgrades can be purchased using RP ( Rank Points ) gained from completing missions . Rod ( Male ) ' s weapons , a collection of Electro - Mag Rods , are similar to Reno ' s weapons of choice , but while Rod ' s possess a blue emblem on the rod ' s grip , Reno ' s possess a red one . It is possible to have the weapon attacks take on elemental attributes by slotting the appropriate Materia into the weapon . Other appearances . " Last Order - Final Fantasy VII - " . The " Last Order - Final Fantasy VII - " OVA illustrates the events surrounding Zack Fair and Cloud Strife ' s escape from Nibelheim Mansion , overlapping with incidents depicted in " Final Fantasy VII " , " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " and " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " . The OVA covers the Turks ' role during both the Nibelheim Incident and events leading up to Zack ' s Final Stand against the Shinra military , addressing the Turks ' pursuit of Zack and Cloud through the Mythril Mine and their ill - fated search for the pair in the Midgar Wasteland . " On the Way to a Smile " . While not specified by name , many of the Turks who had gone into hiding following the battle against Zirconiade reappear during the events of " Final Fantasy VII " as specified in the chapter " Case of Shinra " . Following Tseng being attacked by Sephiroth in the Temple of the Ancients , Cait Sith appears to stable his condition before contacting three of the Turks to bring him to Junon for treatment . Later on , while observing the ruins of the Shinra Building following the attack by the Diamond Weapon , Reno and Rude recollect the times they and the other Turks had spent in the now ruined headquarters . During Meteorfall , the Turks and Veld return to assist in the evacuation of Midgar . Following the Meteor ' s destruction , the Turks return to the lives they had obtained in their exile , but also work to gather intelligence on the current state of the Planet from their respective locations , sending the information to Veld who would offer it to Tseng when required .