CHAPTER 3
Barret: ...What did you say? But, aren't you her mother?
Elmyra: ...Not her real mother. Oh... it must have been 10 years ago... ...during the war. My husband was sent to the front. Some far away place called Wutai.
In Elmyra's memory...
Elmyra: One day, I went to the station because I got a letter saying my husband was coming home on leave. My husband never came back. I wonder if something happened to him? No, I'm sure his leave was just canceled... I went to the station everyday... Then, one day.........I saw a pretty young woman with a child at his side... the woman ...it looked like she was in the verge of the death... You used to see this sort of thing a lot during the war. Her last words were, "Please take Ginny somewhere safe." My
husband never came back. I had no child. I was probably lonely. So I decided to take her home with me. Ginny and I became close very quickly. That child loved to talk. She used to talk to me about everything. She told me she escaped from some kind of research laboratory somewhere. And that her mother had already returned to the planet, so she wasn't lonely... and many other things.
End of Memory.
Barret: Returned to the planet?
Elmyra: I didn't know what she meant. I asked if she meant a star in the sky, but she said it was this planet... She was a mysterious child in many ways.
In Elmyra's memory when Ginny was young...
Ginny: Mom. Please don't cry.
Elmyra: (talks about her memory) Ginny just blurted(añadió) that out all of a sudden. When I asked her if something happened...
Ginny: Someone dear to you has just died. His spirit was coming to see you, but he already "returned to the planet".
Elmyra: At that time I didn't believe her. But... Several days later... We received a notice saying my husband died... ...and that's how it was. A lot had happened, but we were happy. Until one day...
Tseng: We want you to return Ginny to us. We've been searching for her for a long time.
Ginny: No! Never!
Tseng: Ginny, you're a very special child. you are of special blood. Your real mother was an Ancient.
Elmyra: (talks about her memory) Of course I heard it. That she was an Ancient.
Tseng: The Ancients will lead us to a land of supreme happiness. Ginny will be able to bring happiness to all those in the slums. That is why Malfoy would like Ginny's cooperation......
Ginny: He's wrong! I'm not an Ancient! I'm not!
Tseng: But Ginny, surely you hear voices sometimes when you're all alone?
Ginny: No, I don't!
Elmyra: (about her memory) But I knew. I knew about her mysterious powers... She tried so hard to hide it, so I acted as though I never noticed.
The memory ended.
Harry: It's amazing how she's avoided the Malfoy for all these years...
Elmyra: The Malfoy needed her, so I guess they wouldn't harm her.
Hermione: But why now......
Elmyra: She brought a little girl here with her. On the way here, Tseng found them. She probably couldn't get away fast enough. She decided to go to the Malfoy in exchange for the little girl's safety.
Harry: Must be Marlene.
Barret: Marlene!! Ginny was caught because of Marlene!? I'm sorry. Marlene's my daughter. I'm ...really...sorry...
Elmyra: You're her father!? How in the world could you ever leave a child alone like that!?
Barret: ...please don't start with that. I think about it all the time. What would happen to Marlene, if I... But you gotta understand something... I don't got an answer. I wanna be with Marlene... But I gotta fight. 'Cause if I don't... the planet's gonna die. So I'm gonna keep fightin'! But, I'm worried about Marlene. I really just wanna be with her... always. See? I'm goin' in circles, now.
Elmyra: ...I think I understand what you're saying... She's upstairs asleep, why don't you go and see her.
Harry went upstairs with Barret. In the room with Barret and Marlene.
Barret: I'm so glad...... I'm so glad you're all right...
Marlene: Daddy, don't cry. Your whiskers hurt!
Barret: (to Harry) Harry! You gonna go help Ginny, right? She's done so much for me... If it's the Malfoy you're dealin' with, I can't just sit here! I'm comin' too!
Marlene: (to Harry) Guess what? Guess what? Ginny was asking me lots of questions. Like what kind of person Harry is. I bet she likes you, Harry!
Harry: ...
Marlene: I won't tell Hermione.
Before Harry could leave Ginny's house...
Hermione: You're going after Ginny, right?
Harry: Yeah.
Hermione: I'm coming with you.
Harry: We're going right to Malfoy Headquarters. ...You gotta be prepared for the worst.
Hermione: I know. Right now, I feel I have to push myself to the limit. If I stayed here... I'll go crazy.
Barret: (running downstairs talking to Elmyra) Sorry, but can you take care of Marlene a bit longer?
Elmyra: Yes, I don't mind.
Barret: This place is dangerous now. You better go somewhere else.
Elmyra: You're right. But promise me that you'll come back to her. Don't get yourself killed.
Harry's group goes outside. Outside of Sector 6...
Hermione: How do we get to the Malfoy building?
Malfoy's building was in the top of London's Plate, enabling a view over the entire citadel.
Barret: There ain't no train that goes up there anymore...
Hermione: ......Well, let's just go to Wall Market. We might be able to find something there.
As they head to the Wall Market, they head to the shop.
Clerk: You goin' up to the plate? You better have a Battery.
Harry: You're gonna sell me something you just found?
Clerk: Hey, you knew? But I repaired it, so it's all right.
Harry: Why do I need a battery to climb up to the plate?
Clerk: You'll find out when you get there. How 'bout 100 penny for each?
Harry: ......All right, I'll take them.
Harry bought Batteries. Harry heads to a wire that connected with the upper plate.
Kid: Everyone climbed up this Looks scary...... Brrr.
Hermione: Can we climb it?
Kid: Yeah. It leads to the Upper World.
Barret: Awright! We'll climb this wire!
Harry: There's no way we can do this. You know how far it goes up?
Barret: This IS away! Look! What's that look like?
Harry: Just a normal wire.
Barret: Oh yeah? Well to me it looks like a golden shiny wire of hope.
Hermione: You're right. This is the only way to save Ginny...
Harry: Ok, that was a bad analogy (^_^), but, Barret, I understand how you feel. Let's go!
Harry's group climbed up, he used the Batteries to create platforms to get up to the Malfoy Headquarters. They got there...
Barret: Hey, you oughta know this building well.
Harry: ...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 Ginny. The security's pretty light now. Awright, let's go!!
Hermione: 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 Malfoy butt and......
Hermione: That's not going to work! We've got to find another way...
Barret: Ain't gonna be no other way! If we keep wastin' time like this, Ginny'll...
Hermione: I know that! But if we get caught here... Hey, Harry. ...What should we do?
Harry: Let's sneak in quietly.
Hermione: See? Let's be careful and find a different route!
While inside.
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!!
People: Yaagghh! Who do they think they are? Y, You don't think that's AVALANCHE?
Guards: Intruders! Seize them!!
Harry's group fights Grenade Combatants and eventually defeated them without much efforts.
Barret: Let's go to the top!
Harry's group goes up the elevator.
Hermione: ......What's wrong?
Harry: I didn't want to start a ruckus till we saved Ginny. I should have known that was impossible though...
Barret: Heh, heh, heh.
Harry: What is it? You're giving me the chills.
Barret: So there are times when even you fight for other people. I am impressed.
Harry: Who cares if you're impressed...?
Barret: Y'know, I ain't so good at sayin' this, but... Sorry... for lots of things. Wh, what the!?
The elevator's gone berserk(se mueve por su cuenta).
Hermione: look!
Barret: DA-MN...! I don't care where, Harry! Just stop it!
Floor after floor they fight a bunch of soldiers. After a long(but easy) fight, they made it to the 59th floor. Harry's group proceeds to the other elevator door.
Guard: Destroy the intruders!
After Harry's group killed the guards, they got a Keycard 60. They head to the elevator and reached the 60th floor. We watch a movie of a guard slumbering in a surveillance room, not noticing Harry was caught on camera. Harry and the group got out of the elevator.
Barret: Look at that, all them guards is runnin' around. Harry, you go on ahead and signal us when it's safe to come.
After Harry gets Barret and Hermione to safety, they made it to the staircase.
Barret: Ok! We gonna rock!
Hermione: Remember, we're here to save Ginny.
Barret: Hell, I know that!
They went up to the 66th floor. They found a restroom and climbed up a duct. They look at the other cage and watches a meeting with the Malfoy's.
Barret: (to Hermione and Harry) Geez--! That's a lot of suits!
Malfoy's Meeting
Dean: We have the damage estimates for Sector 7. Considering those factories we already set up and all the investments, the damage is estimated cost to rebuild Sector 7 is...
President Malfoy: We're not rebuilding.
Dean: What?
President Malfoy: We're leaving Sector 7 as it is. And restarting the Neo- London plan.
Dean: ...then the Ancients ?
President Malfoy: The Promised Land will soon be ours. I want you to raise the Mako rates 15% in every area.
Goyle: Rate hike! Rate hike! Tra, la, la! And please include our Space Program in the budget!
President Malfoy: Dean and Umbridge will divide the extra income from the rate increase.
Goyle: Oh man!
Dean: Sir. If you raise the rates, the people will lose confidence...
President Malfoy: It'll be all right. The ignorant citizens won't lose confidence, they'll trust Malfoy, Inc. even more.
Heidegger: Ha ha ha! After all, we're the ones who saved Sector 7 from AVALANCHE!
Barret: (talking from the duct quietly) That dirty *$#@.
President Malfoy: Chang. How's the girl?
Chang: As a specimen, she is inferior to her mother. I'm still in the process of comparing her to her mother, Molly, but for now the difference is 18%.
President Malfoy: How long will the research take?
Chang: Probably 120 years. It's probably impossible to finish in our life time. Or in the lifetime of the specimen too, for that matter. That's why we're thinking of breeding her. Then we could create one that could withstand our
research for a long time.
President Malfoy: What about the Promised Land? Won't it hinder our plans?
Chang: That's what I need to plan. The mother is strong... and yet has her weaknesses.
President Malfoy:: (to his folks) That concludes our meeting.
After everyone left.
Umbridge: (puzzled) Something stinks...
Back to the duct where Harry was.
Harry: They were talking about Ginny... right?
Barret: I dunno.
Hermione: Probably.
Harry: Let's follow 'em.
Harry goes out of the duct and down to the bathroom. Harry's group goes to the staircase that leads to the 67th floor.
Harry: Chang... huh...?
At the 67th floor...
Barret: I remembered him. That Chang guy. He's in charge of the Malfoy's Science Department. Harry, don't know him?
Harry: This is the first time I've actually ever seen him. So... that's what he looks like... hope he has nothing to do with an old friend of mine...
Hermione: ...sigh
Harry's folks move on. They hide in a room filled with boxes and some sort of capsule with a strange wolf like animal in it.
Man: Is this today's specimen?
Chang: Yes. We're starting right away. Raise it to the upper level. My precious specimen... (looking at a specimen)
Chang left. After that...
Hermione: Precious specimen...? Is it going to be used for a biological experiment?
Harry: (looking at another specimen's tank) Jenova...
Harry starts to flip out (reacting from Jenova). He recovered his sense.
Harry: Jenova... Sephiroth's... So... they've brought it here.
Hermione: Harry, be strong!
Harry: Did you see it?
Barret: See what?
Harry: It's moving... ...still alive?
Barret approached Jenova's specimen, whose head was not in the body.
Barret: Where's its #%$*#&$ head? This whole thing's stupid. Let's keep goin'.
Harry's group takes the elevator to the 68th floor. At that floor...
Harry: Ginny!!
Chang: Ginny? Oh, is that her name? What do you want?
Harry: We're taking Ginny back.
Chang: Outsiders......
Barret: Shoulda noticed it earlier, you...
Chang: There's so many frivolous things in this world. (Barret point's his gun- arm at him) Are you going to kill me? I don't think you should. The equipment here is extremely delicate. Without me, who could operate it? Hmm?
Harry: Ugh.
Chang: That's right. I recommend you think things out logically before you make any rash moves. Now bring in the Specimen!
The man brought up a red four-legged beast near Ginny.
Ginny: Harry, help!
Harry: What do you think you're doing?
Chang: Lending a helping hand to an endangered species... Both of them are on the brink of extinction... If I don't help, all these animals will disappear.
Hermione:...animal? That's terrible! Ginny is a human being!(literally, isn't it Paty? ^_^ lol)
Barret: You're gonna pay!
Harry: Barret! Can't you do anything?
Barret: Awright!! Step back!
Chang: Stop!!!
Barret shoots at the glass door.
Chang: Wh...what are you do-- Oh! My precious specimens...
The door opened. The red four-legged beast came out and ...attack Chang?.
Harry: Now's our chance to get Ginny!!
Ginny: Thanks, Harry.
Hermione: Harry... what's wrong?
Harry: ...The elevator is moving.
Chang: This is no ordinary specimen. This is a very ferocious specimen!
Specimen: He's rather strong. I'll help you all out.
Hermione: It talked!?
Specimen: I'll talk as much as you want later, Miss.
Harry: We'll take care of that monster. Somebody take Ginny somewhere safe... Hermione, I'm countin' on you! (to the specimen) What's your name?
Red XIII: Chang has named me, Red XIII. A name with no meaning whatsoever to me, my real name's Nanaki though.
Nanaki is a four-legged beast with fire-red fur. He's 48 years old, has a comb on his head as his weapon to attack with his body, a tattoo on his left body that says XIII, has lots of earrings on both ears, and lost sight in his left eye. He fights with his physical tackle.
Harry: Come on!
Harry's group fight some strange Specimen like plan...
Nanaki: It's plant attribute , use Fire against it!!
Harry: Damn, I can't control the fire yet!
Barret: Let's just blow it with our weapons!
Harry and Barret attacked with their better weapon strikes, while Nanaki was up to something...
Nanaki: Step aside!!
Harry: Huh??
Nanaki: NOW!!!
Harry and Barret jumped at time...just when the giant Burning Rage was about to burn them to ashes... Burning Rage is Nanaki's Limit Break skill, that calls a huge fire wave that burns everything on it's way... the monster was no exception, it was incinerated.
Barret: #$%&, that was close!
Harry: Ginny, you all right?
Hermione: She seems all right, ...in many ways.
Nanaki: I have a right to choose, too. I don't like two-legged things.
Barret: What are you?
Nanaki: An informed question. But difficult to answer. I am what you see. ...You must have many questions, but first, let's get out of here. I'll lead the way.
Ginny: Harry... so you did come for me.
Nanaki: I apologize for what happened back there. I was merely acting to throw Chang off guard......
Barret: Now we've saved Ginny, ain't no need to be is this buildin'! So let's get the hell outta here!
Harry: If all five of us together, we'll be noticed. Let's break up in two groups.
Harry chose Barret and Hermione to go with him.
Ginny: I'll see you later!! We'll be waiting at the 66th floor Elevator.
Nanaki: Don't be late. Do you know where the Elevator is? The 66th Floor!
Harry's group proceeds to the elevator, before he can even press the elevator button.
Harry: H, hey! What is it?
Tseng and another man in black suit step in the elevator with the group.
Rude: Would you press 'Up' please?
Harry: Turks? Must be a trap...
Tseng: It must have been a real thrill for you... Did you enjoy it?
Harry: Ggh...
Later, Harry's group was seized and they arrived at the President's office handcuffed behind their backs.
Harry: (to his folks) You all got caught, too? Where is Ginny!?
President Malfoy: In a safe place. She's the last surviving Ancient... Don't you know? They called themselves the Cetra, and lived thousands of years ago. Now they are just a forgotten page in history.
Nanaki: Cetra... That girl, is she a survivor of the Cetra?
President Malfoy: Cetra, or the Ancients will show us the way to the "Promised Land". I'm expecting a lot out of her.
Nanaki: The Promised Land? Isn't that just a legend?
President Malfoy: Even so, it's just too appealing to not to pursue. It's been said the Promised Land is very fertile. ...If the land is fertile...
Barret: Then there's gotta be Mako!
President Malfoy: Exactly. That is why our money sucking Mako Reactor is necessary. The abundant Mako will just come out on its own. That is where Neo-London will be built. Malfoy's new glory...
Barret: #$*$#! Quit dreamin'!
President Malfoy: Oh really, don't you know? These days all it takes for your dreams to come true is money and power. Well, that is all for our meeting.
Rude: (to Barret) Come on! Outta his way!
Barret: (to the president) Hold it! I got a lot I wanna say to you!
Rude pushed Barret away and everyone including Harry were sent to the cells.
President Malfoy: If you need something else... talk to my secretary.
Harry's group is then locked up in their cells.
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Barret: ...What did you say? But, aren't you her mother?
Elmyra: ...Not her real mother. Oh... it must have been 10 years ago... ...during the war. My husband was sent to the front. Some far away place called Wutai.
In Elmyra's memory...
Elmyra: One day, I went to the station because I got a letter saying my husband was coming home on leave. My husband never came back. I wonder if something happened to him? No, I'm sure his leave was just canceled... I went to the station everyday... Then, one day.........I saw a pretty young woman with a child at his side... the woman ...it looked like she was in the verge of the death... You used to see this sort of thing a lot during the war. Her last words were, "Please take Ginny somewhere safe." My
husband never came back. I had no child. I was probably lonely. So I decided to take her home with me. Ginny and I became close very quickly. That child loved to talk. She used to talk to me about everything. She told me she escaped from some kind of research laboratory somewhere. And that her mother had already returned to the planet, so she wasn't lonely... and many other things.
End of Memory.
Barret: Returned to the planet?
Elmyra: I didn't know what she meant. I asked if she meant a star in the sky, but she said it was this planet... She was a mysterious child in many ways.
In Elmyra's memory when Ginny was young...
Ginny: Mom. Please don't cry.
Elmyra: (talks about her memory) Ginny just blurted(añadió) that out all of a sudden. When I asked her if something happened...
Ginny: Someone dear to you has just died. His spirit was coming to see you, but he already "returned to the planet".
Elmyra: At that time I didn't believe her. But... Several days later... We received a notice saying my husband died... ...and that's how it was. A lot had happened, but we were happy. Until one day...
Tseng: We want you to return Ginny to us. We've been searching for her for a long time.
Ginny: No! Never!
Tseng: Ginny, you're a very special child. you are of special blood. Your real mother was an Ancient.
Elmyra: (talks about her memory) Of course I heard it. That she was an Ancient.
Tseng: The Ancients will lead us to a land of supreme happiness. Ginny will be able to bring happiness to all those in the slums. That is why Malfoy would like Ginny's cooperation......
Ginny: He's wrong! I'm not an Ancient! I'm not!
Tseng: But Ginny, surely you hear voices sometimes when you're all alone?
Ginny: No, I don't!
Elmyra: (about her memory) But I knew. I knew about her mysterious powers... She tried so hard to hide it, so I acted as though I never noticed.
The memory ended.
Harry: It's amazing how she's avoided the Malfoy for all these years...
Elmyra: The Malfoy needed her, so I guess they wouldn't harm her.
Hermione: But why now......
Elmyra: She brought a little girl here with her. On the way here, Tseng found them. She probably couldn't get away fast enough. She decided to go to the Malfoy in exchange for the little girl's safety.
Harry: Must be Marlene.
Barret: Marlene!! Ginny was caught because of Marlene!? I'm sorry. Marlene's my daughter. I'm ...really...sorry...
Elmyra: You're her father!? How in the world could you ever leave a child alone like that!?
Barret: ...please don't start with that. I think about it all the time. What would happen to Marlene, if I... But you gotta understand something... I don't got an answer. I wanna be with Marlene... But I gotta fight. 'Cause if I don't... the planet's gonna die. So I'm gonna keep fightin'! But, I'm worried about Marlene. I really just wanna be with her... always. See? I'm goin' in circles, now.
Elmyra: ...I think I understand what you're saying... She's upstairs asleep, why don't you go and see her.
Harry went upstairs with Barret. In the room with Barret and Marlene.
Barret: I'm so glad...... I'm so glad you're all right...
Marlene: Daddy, don't cry. Your whiskers hurt!
Barret: (to Harry) Harry! You gonna go help Ginny, right? She's done so much for me... If it's the Malfoy you're dealin' with, I can't just sit here! I'm comin' too!
Marlene: (to Harry) Guess what? Guess what? Ginny was asking me lots of questions. Like what kind of person Harry is. I bet she likes you, Harry!
Harry: ...
Marlene: I won't tell Hermione.
Before Harry could leave Ginny's house...
Hermione: You're going after Ginny, right?
Harry: Yeah.
Hermione: I'm coming with you.
Harry: We're going right to Malfoy Headquarters. ...You gotta be prepared for the worst.
Hermione: I know. Right now, I feel I have to push myself to the limit. If I stayed here... I'll go crazy.
Barret: (running downstairs talking to Elmyra) Sorry, but can you take care of Marlene a bit longer?
Elmyra: Yes, I don't mind.
Barret: This place is dangerous now. You better go somewhere else.
Elmyra: You're right. But promise me that you'll come back to her. Don't get yourself killed.
Harry's group goes outside. Outside of Sector 6...
Hermione: How do we get to the Malfoy building?
Malfoy's building was in the top of London's Plate, enabling a view over the entire citadel.
Barret: There ain't no train that goes up there anymore...
Hermione: ......Well, let's just go to Wall Market. We might be able to find something there.
As they head to the Wall Market, they head to the shop.
Clerk: You goin' up to the plate? You better have a Battery.
Harry: You're gonna sell me something you just found?
Clerk: Hey, you knew? But I repaired it, so it's all right.
Harry: Why do I need a battery to climb up to the plate?
Clerk: You'll find out when you get there. How 'bout 100 penny for each?
Harry: ......All right, I'll take them.
Harry bought Batteries. Harry heads to a wire that connected with the upper plate.
Kid: Everyone climbed up this Looks scary...... Brrr.
Hermione: Can we climb it?
Kid: Yeah. It leads to the Upper World.
Barret: Awright! We'll climb this wire!
Harry: There's no way we can do this. You know how far it goes up?
Barret: This IS away! Look! What's that look like?
Harry: Just a normal wire.
Barret: Oh yeah? Well to me it looks like a golden shiny wire of hope.
Hermione: You're right. This is the only way to save Ginny...
Harry: Ok, that was a bad analogy (^_^), but, Barret, I understand how you feel. Let's go!
Harry's group climbed up, he used the Batteries to create platforms to get up to the Malfoy Headquarters. They got there...
Barret: Hey, you oughta know this building well.
Harry: ...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 Ginny. The security's pretty light now. Awright, let's go!!
Hermione: 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 Malfoy butt and......
Hermione: That's not going to work! We've got to find another way...
Barret: Ain't gonna be no other way! If we keep wastin' time like this, Ginny'll...
Hermione: I know that! But if we get caught here... Hey, Harry. ...What should we do?
Harry: Let's sneak in quietly.
Hermione: See? Let's be careful and find a different route!
While inside.
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!!
People: Yaagghh! Who do they think they are? Y, You don't think that's AVALANCHE?
Guards: Intruders! Seize them!!
Harry's group fights Grenade Combatants and eventually defeated them without much efforts.
Barret: Let's go to the top!
Harry's group goes up the elevator.
Hermione: ......What's wrong?
Harry: I didn't want to start a ruckus till we saved Ginny. I should have known that was impossible though...
Barret: Heh, heh, heh.
Harry: What is it? You're giving me the chills.
Barret: So there are times when even you fight for other people. I am impressed.
Harry: Who cares if you're impressed...?
Barret: Y'know, I ain't so good at sayin' this, but... Sorry... for lots of things. Wh, what the!?
The elevator's gone berserk(se mueve por su cuenta).
Hermione: look!
Barret: DA-MN...! I don't care where, Harry! Just stop it!
Floor after floor they fight a bunch of soldiers. After a long(but easy) fight, they made it to the 59th floor. Harry's group proceeds to the other elevator door.
Guard: Destroy the intruders!
After Harry's group killed the guards, they got a Keycard 60. They head to the elevator and reached the 60th floor. We watch a movie of a guard slumbering in a surveillance room, not noticing Harry was caught on camera. Harry and the group got out of the elevator.
Barret: Look at that, all them guards is runnin' around. Harry, you go on ahead and signal us when it's safe to come.
After Harry gets Barret and Hermione to safety, they made it to the staircase.
Barret: Ok! We gonna rock!
Hermione: Remember, we're here to save Ginny.
Barret: Hell, I know that!
They went up to the 66th floor. They found a restroom and climbed up a duct. They look at the other cage and watches a meeting with the Malfoy's.
Barret: (to Hermione and Harry) Geez--! That's a lot of suits!
Malfoy's Meeting
Dean: We have the damage estimates for Sector 7. Considering those factories we already set up and all the investments, the damage is estimated cost to rebuild Sector 7 is...
President Malfoy: We're not rebuilding.
Dean: What?
President Malfoy: We're leaving Sector 7 as it is. And restarting the Neo- London plan.
Dean: ...then the Ancients ?
President Malfoy: The Promised Land will soon be ours. I want you to raise the Mako rates 15% in every area.
Goyle: Rate hike! Rate hike! Tra, la, la! And please include our Space Program in the budget!
President Malfoy: Dean and Umbridge will divide the extra income from the rate increase.
Goyle: Oh man!
Dean: Sir. If you raise the rates, the people will lose confidence...
President Malfoy: It'll be all right. The ignorant citizens won't lose confidence, they'll trust Malfoy, Inc. even more.
Heidegger: Ha ha ha! After all, we're the ones who saved Sector 7 from AVALANCHE!
Barret: (talking from the duct quietly) That dirty *$#@.
President Malfoy: Chang. How's the girl?
Chang: As a specimen, she is inferior to her mother. I'm still in the process of comparing her to her mother, Molly, but for now the difference is 18%.
President Malfoy: How long will the research take?
Chang: Probably 120 years. It's probably impossible to finish in our life time. Or in the lifetime of the specimen too, for that matter. That's why we're thinking of breeding her. Then we could create one that could withstand our
research for a long time.
President Malfoy: What about the Promised Land? Won't it hinder our plans?
Chang: That's what I need to plan. The mother is strong... and yet has her weaknesses.
President Malfoy:: (to his folks) That concludes our meeting.
After everyone left.
Umbridge: (puzzled) Something stinks...
Back to the duct where Harry was.
Harry: They were talking about Ginny... right?
Barret: I dunno.
Hermione: Probably.
Harry: Let's follow 'em.
Harry goes out of the duct and down to the bathroom. Harry's group goes to the staircase that leads to the 67th floor.
Harry: Chang... huh...?
At the 67th floor...
Barret: I remembered him. That Chang guy. He's in charge of the Malfoy's Science Department. Harry, don't know him?
Harry: This is the first time I've actually ever seen him. So... that's what he looks like... hope he has nothing to do with an old friend of mine...
Hermione: ...sigh
Harry's folks move on. They hide in a room filled with boxes and some sort of capsule with a strange wolf like animal in it.
Man: Is this today's specimen?
Chang: Yes. We're starting right away. Raise it to the upper level. My precious specimen... (looking at a specimen)
Chang left. After that...
Hermione: Precious specimen...? Is it going to be used for a biological experiment?
Harry: (looking at another specimen's tank) Jenova...
Harry starts to flip out (reacting from Jenova). He recovered his sense.
Harry: Jenova... Sephiroth's... So... they've brought it here.
Hermione: Harry, be strong!
Harry: Did you see it?
Barret: See what?
Harry: It's moving... ...still alive?
Barret approached Jenova's specimen, whose head was not in the body.
Barret: Where's its #%$*#&$ head? This whole thing's stupid. Let's keep goin'.
Harry's group takes the elevator to the 68th floor. At that floor...
Harry: Ginny!!
Chang: Ginny? Oh, is that her name? What do you want?
Harry: We're taking Ginny back.
Chang: Outsiders......
Barret: Shoulda noticed it earlier, you...
Chang: There's so many frivolous things in this world. (Barret point's his gun- arm at him) Are you going to kill me? I don't think you should. The equipment here is extremely delicate. Without me, who could operate it? Hmm?
Harry: Ugh.
Chang: That's right. I recommend you think things out logically before you make any rash moves. Now bring in the Specimen!
The man brought up a red four-legged beast near Ginny.
Ginny: Harry, help!
Harry: What do you think you're doing?
Chang: Lending a helping hand to an endangered species... Both of them are on the brink of extinction... If I don't help, all these animals will disappear.
Hermione:...animal? That's terrible! Ginny is a human being!(literally, isn't it Paty? ^_^ lol)
Barret: You're gonna pay!
Harry: Barret! Can't you do anything?
Barret: Awright!! Step back!
Chang: Stop!!!
Barret shoots at the glass door.
Chang: Wh...what are you do-- Oh! My precious specimens...
The door opened. The red four-legged beast came out and ...attack Chang?.
Harry: Now's our chance to get Ginny!!
Ginny: Thanks, Harry.
Hermione: Harry... what's wrong?
Harry: ...The elevator is moving.
Chang: This is no ordinary specimen. This is a very ferocious specimen!
Specimen: He's rather strong. I'll help you all out.
Hermione: It talked!?
Specimen: I'll talk as much as you want later, Miss.
Harry: We'll take care of that monster. Somebody take Ginny somewhere safe... Hermione, I'm countin' on you! (to the specimen) What's your name?
Red XIII: Chang has named me, Red XIII. A name with no meaning whatsoever to me, my real name's Nanaki though.
Nanaki is a four-legged beast with fire-red fur. He's 48 years old, has a comb on his head as his weapon to attack with his body, a tattoo on his left body that says XIII, has lots of earrings on both ears, and lost sight in his left eye. He fights with his physical tackle.
Harry: Come on!
Harry's group fight some strange Specimen like plan...
Nanaki: It's plant attribute , use Fire against it!!
Harry: Damn, I can't control the fire yet!
Barret: Let's just blow it with our weapons!
Harry and Barret attacked with their better weapon strikes, while Nanaki was up to something...
Nanaki: Step aside!!
Harry: Huh??
Nanaki: NOW!!!
Harry and Barret jumped at time...just when the giant Burning Rage was about to burn them to ashes... Burning Rage is Nanaki's Limit Break skill, that calls a huge fire wave that burns everything on it's way... the monster was no exception, it was incinerated.
Barret: #$%&, that was close!
Harry: Ginny, you all right?
Hermione: She seems all right, ...in many ways.
Nanaki: I have a right to choose, too. I don't like two-legged things.
Barret: What are you?
Nanaki: An informed question. But difficult to answer. I am what you see. ...You must have many questions, but first, let's get out of here. I'll lead the way.
Ginny: Harry... so you did come for me.
Nanaki: I apologize for what happened back there. I was merely acting to throw Chang off guard......
Barret: Now we've saved Ginny, ain't no need to be is this buildin'! So let's get the hell outta here!
Harry: If all five of us together, we'll be noticed. Let's break up in two groups.
Harry chose Barret and Hermione to go with him.
Ginny: I'll see you later!! We'll be waiting at the 66th floor Elevator.
Nanaki: Don't be late. Do you know where the Elevator is? The 66th Floor!
Harry's group proceeds to the elevator, before he can even press the elevator button.
Harry: H, hey! What is it?
Tseng and another man in black suit step in the elevator with the group.
Rude: Would you press 'Up' please?
Harry: Turks? Must be a trap...
Tseng: It must have been a real thrill for you... Did you enjoy it?
Harry: Ggh...
Later, Harry's group was seized and they arrived at the President's office handcuffed behind their backs.
Harry: (to his folks) You all got caught, too? Where is Ginny!?
President Malfoy: In a safe place. She's the last surviving Ancient... Don't you know? They called themselves the Cetra, and lived thousands of years ago. Now they are just a forgotten page in history.
Nanaki: Cetra... That girl, is she a survivor of the Cetra?
President Malfoy: Cetra, or the Ancients will show us the way to the "Promised Land". I'm expecting a lot out of her.
Nanaki: The Promised Land? Isn't that just a legend?
President Malfoy: Even so, it's just too appealing to not to pursue. It's been said the Promised Land is very fertile. ...If the land is fertile...
Barret: Then there's gotta be Mako!
President Malfoy: Exactly. That is why our money sucking Mako Reactor is necessary. The abundant Mako will just come out on its own. That is where Neo-London will be built. Malfoy's new glory...
Barret: #$*$#! Quit dreamin'!
President Malfoy: Oh really, don't you know? These days all it takes for your dreams to come true is money and power. Well, that is all for our meeting.
Rude: (to Barret) Come on! Outta his way!
Barret: (to the president) Hold it! I got a lot I wanna say to you!
Rude pushed Barret away and everyone including Harry were sent to the cells.
President Malfoy: If you need something else... talk to my secretary.
Harry's group is then locked up in their cells.
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