Scene 22
- Encounter At The Reactor Tower -
(Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith fall down a chute, landing in a sewer. Cloud
gets up and walks over to Aerith.)
Cloud
"You alright?"
(Aerith stands up.)
Aerith
"Yeah."
(He walks over to Tifa.)
Cloud
"You alright?"
Tifa
"Man! This is terrible."
Aerith
"Well, the worst is
over..."
(They hear a loud rumbling. Cloud looks around...)
Aerith
"Maybe not..."
(Boss battle with Aps)
Tifa
"It's too late.....
Marlene... Barret... the people of the slums."
Aerith
"Don't give up, never
give up hope. It's not easy to destroy the pillar, right?"
Tifa
"......Yeah..... you're
right! We still have time."
(They work their way out of the sewer, arriving at the Train Graveyard, a vast wasteland of broken trains and rubble.)
Cloud
"Aerith. I got you
mixed up in all of this..."
Aerith
"Don't tell me to
go home."
(Tifa looks around.)
Tifa
"Let's see... If we
can just get past the trains that are lit up, we should be able to get
out of here."
(They climb over and through the trains in the Graveyard until they reach the Reactor Tower. Several people are milling around the base of it, and we hear noises of shooting from above.)
Tifa
"We made it! The pillar's
standing!"
Cloud
"Wait! You hear something....
above us?"
Aerith
".....gun fire?"
(The camera shifts to show the tower, slowly panning upward, until we see the top of the tower. Guns are blazing. At the top, we see a flash of gunfire, then someone falls twenty stories down to land at the base of the tower. It's Wedge. Cloud dashes over and kneels by him.)
Cloud
"Wedge!! You all right!?"
Wedge
".......Cloud......
You remembered..... my name."
"Barret's up top.
...help him......."
"An' Cloud.... Sorry,
I wasn't any help."
(Cloud, after a silent pause, stands.)
Cloud
"I'm going up!"
"Aerith! You look
after Wedge."
(Tifa walks to Aerith.)
Tifa
"Aerith, do me a favor."
"I have a bar called
'7th Heaven' in this neighborhood."
"There's a little
girl named Marlene there......"
(Aerith nods.)
Aerith
"Don't worry. I'll
put her somewhere safe."
Tifa
"It's dangerous here!"
"Everyone get away
from the pillar, quickly!"
"Everyone get out
of Sector 7!"
(They all scatter. Cloud and Tifa climb the tower.)
People by the tower
"L, look... This is
my job, so I have to be here until the absolute last minute."
"Umm.... I just LOVE
men with a sense of duty. Let me stay here with you."
"Uhh..... Help! My strange and wonderful little place."
"Doh! And this was
supposed to be my last job! Do something!!"
"I never thought this
would ever happen to me! Great..... I'm quitting tomorrow!"
"Uh oh..... There goes
the pillar."
"I'm scared, but it's
for you own good." (sells items)
"If things get too
hairy, we'll escape. It's not something you'll see happen very often."
Aerith
"Don't worry, you
let me handle this."
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