Scene 23
- Sector 7 Falls -
(Cloud and Tifa climb the flights of stairs up the side of the tower. Along the way, they meet Biggs, who is leaning over the railing, wounded.)
Biggs
"Cloud... so you don't
care... what happens... to the.... Planet?"
<CHOICE>
Nope, not interested
You're wounded.....
***Cloud
Nope, not interested
Biggs
"Hmph.... you haven't
changed. Oh, forget it."
***Cloud
You're wounded.....
Biggs
"Thanks, Cloud."
"...don't worry 'bout
me.... Barret's... fighting up there. Go help him...."
<//>
(Continuing up the tower, they meet Jessie, who is lying on the stairs, also hurt.)
Jessie
"....Cloud... I'm
glad.... I could talk with you one last time."
<CHOICE>
Don't say 'last'.......
Is that so.....
***Cloud
Don't say 'last'......
Jessie
"That's.... all right......"
"Because of our actions...
many....... people died...... this probably.... is our punishment....."
***Cloud
Is that so....
Jessie
"...Is.. that so......?"
"Ha...... cool......
as usual... ex-SOLDIER. ...always... I liked that.... in you...."
<//>
(Reaching the top of the tower, they meet Barret, who is fighting the
numberous Shinra enemies.)
Barret
"Tifa! Cloud! You
came!"
"Be careful! They're
attacking from the helicopter."
Tifa
"Better equip ourselves
before they attack in full force!"
(They equip themselves)
Tifa
"Here they come!"
(A helicopter flies past, and Reno drops from it. He runs over to a mechanism on the side of the pillar and presses a few buttons on it. Cloud, Barret, and Tifa run over.)
Reno
"You're too late.
Once I push this button..."
(Beep.)
Reno
"That's all, folks!
Mission accomplished."
Tifa
"We have to disarm
it! Cloud! Barret! Please!"
Reno
"I can't have you
do that. No one gets in the way of Reno and the Turks..."
(Boss battle with Reno)
Reno
"It's time."
(Reno jumps off the edge of the tower. Tifa runs over to the mechanism and tries to disarm the bomb.)
Tifa
"Cloud! I don't know
how to stop this! Try it!"
(Cloud examines it.)
Cloud
"It's not a normal
time bomb."
(The helicopter hovers up to the side of the tower. A Turk, Tseng, pops his head out the side window.)
Tseng
"That's right. You'll
have a hard time disarming that one."
"It'll blow the second
some stupid jerk touches it."
Tifa
"Please, stop it!"
Tseng
"Ha ha ha....."
"Only a Shinra Executive
can set up or disarm the Emergency Plate Release System."
Barret
"Shut yer hole!"
(He fires on the helicopter.)
Tseng
"I wouldn't try that....
You just might make me injure our special guest."
(A woman in a pink dress raises her head up in the window.)
Tifa
"Aerith!!"
Tseng
"Oh, you know each
other?"
"How nice you could
see each other one last time. You should thank me."
Cloud
"What are you gonna
do with Aerith?"
Tseng
"I haven't decided."
"Our orders were to
find and catch the last remaining Ancient."
"It's taken us a long
time, but now I can finally report this to the President."
(Aerith leans over the side of the helicopter.)
Aerith
"Tifa, don't worry!
She's all right!"
(Tseng slaps her back into the helicopter. Hard.)
Tifa
"Aerith!"
(She leans back out.)
Aerith
"Hurry and get out!"
Tseng
"Ha, ha, ha... Well,
it should be starting right about now. Think you can escape in time?"
(FMV sequence. The helicopter flies away, and the pillar begins to explode, sending chunks of flaming steel and concrete falling to the ground.)
Tifa
"Once that plate starts
coming down it's too late. We gotta hurry!"
(Barret hops up on the railing of the tower and grabs a hanging wire.)
Barret
"Yo, we can use this
wire to get out!"
(Tifa climbs in Barret's lap. Cloud climbs up on his shoulders. FMV
sequence. The pillar explodes. The people in the slums panic as the upper plate
comes crashing down to crush their homes. Cloud, Tifa, and Barret swing on the wire and barely
escape the falling plate as President Shinra watches it all from his office window
in Shinra HQ, opera music blaring from the stereo.)
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