Scene 27
- 140 Flights... -
(Cloud, Barret, and Tifa arrive at the foot of the Shinra Building.)
Barret
"Hey, you oughta know
this building well."
Cloud
"......Not really,
now that I think about it."
"This's the first
time I've ever been to the Headquarters."
Barret
"I heard about this
place before."
"Every floor above
the 60th is special and not easy to get to even for employees."
"Must be where they
took Aerith."
"The security's pretty
light now. Awright, let's go!!"
(Barret runs toward the door.)
Tifa
"Wait a second! You're
not thinking of just going right through the main entrance, are you?"
Barret
"Well what else does
it look like!? I'm gonna kick some Shinra butt and......."
Tifa
"That's not going
to work! We've got to find another way...."
Baret
"Ain't gonna be no
other way! If we keep wastin' time like this, Aerith'll....."
Tifa
"I know that! But
if we get caught here...."
"Hey, Cloud. ...What
should we do?"
<CHOICE>
Let's bust on in!
Let's sneak in quietly
***Cloud
Let's bust on in
Barret
"That's more like
it! C'mon, let's go!!"
(Cloud, Barret, and Tifa bust on in Shinra Headquarters....)
Receptionist
"Excuse me! If you
don't have an appointment, you'll just have to..."
Barret
"Don't need no appointment...
This is a 'mergency!"
"Anyone who don't
wanna get their face bashed in better git outta the way!!"
"Yaagghh!"
"Who do they think they are?"
"Hey, you don't think that's AVALANCHE?"
"Intruders! Sieze them!!"
(Battle sequence)
Barret
"Let's go to the top!"
***Cloud
Let's sneak in quietly
Tifa
"See? Let's be careful
and find a different route!"
(They go down a side alley and go through a door. Inside, they find... stairs.... Lots of them.... They start climbing.)
Barret
"Yo... You really
gonna take these stairs all the way up?"
Tifa
"Well we've got to
get to Aerith to help her somehow."
Barret
"Talk about out of
the way..."
Tifa
"I don't have time
to argue with you! I'm going!"
Barret
"Y, yo, Tifa! Don't
go off alone!"
(They continue to climb... and climb.... They are climbing stairs throughout
this whole conversation.)
Barret
"Don't know... why
the hell... we gotta climb..."
Cloud
"...because we don't
want to start a commotion until we've saved Aerith."
"I doubt that's possible
though..."
Barret
"...heh heh heh."
Cloud
"Knock it off. You're
giving me the creeps."
Barret
"So even you will
fight for someone else. I had you figured wrong I guess."
Cloud
"Who cares what you
figured!"
Barret
"I'm just sayin' mebbe
I was wrong..."
Tifa
"Heh heh heh......."
Cloud
"What's that supposed
to mean, Tifa?"
Barret
"How much farther
do these stairs go on?"
Tifa
"Why don't you ask
them?"
Barret
"It's not one of them
endless stairways or somethin', d'ya think?"
Tifa
"Of course not!!"
Barret
"Right... couldn't
be that...."
Barret
"Are we there yet?"
Tifa
"Not yet."
Barret
"...there yet?"
Tifa
"I said not yet!"
Barret
"Yo..."
Tifa
"Look, don't even
ask! We're way way way way far away from being there, ok!?"
Barret
"Damn, man! I've had
it! I'm going back!"
Tifa
"And take just as
long going down as you did coming up?"
Barret
"............."
(Barret stops to rest, panting.)
Tifa
"C'mon, Barret. Pull
it together!"
Barret
"Yeah, well all I
know is I'm just flesh 'n' blood.... 'cept for this arm of mine."
"Don't treat me like
I'm some ex-member of SOLDIER or somethin'........"
Tifa
"What about me!? I'm
human too! Oh, do what you want, I'm going on!"
(She pauses.)
Tifa
"......?"
"Yaah! Barret! You
go first!"
Barret
"What're ya ignorant?
I didn't mean that..."
Tifa
"All right, all right!"
(Barret goes on.)
Tifa
"Cloud, you go on
ahead too!!"
(Cloud goes ahead.)
Barret
"Yo... What floor
is this?"
Tifa
"...I gave up counting."
Barret
"Why they gotta build
these buildings so damn tall?"
"That Shinra.... They're
just no damn good."
Tifa
"........."
Barret
"huff.... Man, I'm
beat..."
"Marlene, Daddy wanted
to see your face one more time..."
Tifa
"Would you stop acting
like a retard and climb?"
"It's just a bit more!"
"...maybe."
(They reach the top floor.)
Barret
"F... finally... M...
made it..."
"N... never wanna
see... no more stairs the rest of my life..."
Tifa
"huff... puff... this
really takes it out of you..."
"But this is it. We'd
better get ready...!"
(They enter the door at the top of the stairs...)
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