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Chapter 11: Boom
"It's too late," muttered Tifa sadly as she looked around the sewer, looking for a path.
"For what?" asked Cloud.
"Marlene, Barret, and the people of the slums." She put her head down.
"Don't give up," Aerith assured. "Never give up hope. It's not easy to destroy the pillar, right?"
"Yeah, you're right!" Tifa agreed. "We still have time."
What she wouldn't say was that she also felt it was too late for her and Cloud. She had waited too long to tell him how she felt. And now, he was with Aerith. She would never reveal it, but she was heartbroken.
ABOARD THE URCHIN...
Meanwhile, Bestla stepped off the elevator and onto the bridge of the Urchin.
"No go," she announced.
"He wouldn't listen?" asked Nara.
Bestla shook her head. "I didn't think he would."
"Did you blackmail him?" Nara asked.
"There was nothing to blackmail him about," Bestla replied.
"What about that time he went to Nibelheim and raped that girl? I heard it was secretly caught on tape. Not to mention in the DNA of our old friend."
"That was twenty-two years ago," Bestla replied. "Well beyond any legal statute of limitations."
"Then what are we going to do?" asked Nara.
"We'll wait," Bestla replied.
"Wait?!" exclaimed Nara. "We don't have forever!"
"He'll get what he has coming to him," Bestla explained. "And when he does, his successor will listen."
SOMEWHERE ELSE...
Meanwhile, Cloud, Tifa, and Aerith had made their way through the sewer. They had surfaced at the train graveyard, with everything looking intact.
"We beat 'em!" Tifa exclaimed triumphantly. And then she realized. "We still need to get to the pillar. It's right up ahead."
Cloud turned to Aerith, realizing the danger she was now in. "I got you mixed up in all of this."
"Don't tell me to go home," Aerith warned. "You'll sound like a broken record."
"Let's see," Tifa continued. "If we can just get past the trains that are lit up, we should be able to get out of here."
The three of them made their way though the trains until they reached the tower. It stood, tall and proud. There was no evidence of any damage.
"We made it!" Tifa exclaimed joyously. "The pillar's standing!"
"Wait!" cautioned Cloud. "You hear something above us?"
The three listened carefully. Gunfire filled the whole area. And it was coming from above.
"Gunfire?" whispered Aerith as she gazed up at the pillar. She could see flashing lights at the top, which could only be machine guns firing. She couldn't tell who was up there, but she knew they were running out of time. And then, to her horror, she saw a human body fall from the tower. She covered her mouth and began to scream.
The body hit the ground hard. Cloud quickly ran over, and recognized who it was. "Wedge! You all right?" It was a dumb question; blood was coming from his mouth, and it almost looked as if every bone in his body was broken.
"Can't….feel…anything…"
"Hang in there, Wedge!" Cloud tried to assure, even though it was all to obvious he had only seconds to live.
"Cloud," Wedge continued, "You remembered...my name! Forget…me…Barret's up top...help him...sorry I wasn't any help…."
"You were!" Cloud insisted. "You did more than I did!"
His open ears might have heard the compliment, but his memory and mind were gone. All Cloud could do was quietly close his gazing eyes.
Aerith closed her own eyes. It was the second death she had seen in person, and the first was still haunting her.
Without further ado, Cloud made his decision. "I'm going up!" he announced.
"Me too!" Tifa said. Then she realized what wasn't out of danger. She turned to Aerith.
"Aerith, do me a favor," she requested. "I have a bar called Seventh Heaven in this neighborhood. There's a little girl named Marlene there."
"Don't worry," Aerith promised. "I'll put her somewhere safe."
Tifa then realized the residents were beginning to congregate around the situation. "It's dangerous here!" she warned. "Everyone get away from the pillar, quickly! Everyone get out of Sector Seven!"
The crowd fled as Cloud and Tifa began to climb the stairs. Halfway to the top, Tifa saw something else she had been dreading.
"Biggs!" Tifa exclaimed. "Are you okay?"
"I can't feel my legs!" Biggs cried, in a somewhat frightened tone of voice. He was suspended on the railing, with his feet above the catwalk and his head far above the ground. He was obviously paralyzed. And then, his attention turned toward Tifa's companion. "Cloud," he began, "so you don't care...what happens...to the...planet?"
"Nope," Cloud replied. "Not interested."
"You…haven't changed…" Biggs sighed.
"And that's because you're wounded!" Cloud said.
Biggs tried to smile, but he couldn't. "Thanks, Cloud...don't worry about me... Barret's...fighting up there. Go help him.…"
Those were his last words. But both Cloud and Tifa knew there was no time to grieve. Countless lives were on the line. All they could do was continue the climb. And, when they had nearly reached the top, they saw not what they had been dreading, but what they had, by this point, been expecting.
"Cloud, I'm glad I could talk with you one last time," greeted Jessie.
"Don't say 'last,'" replied Cloud. And yet, he knew it was.
She was injured, laying on the stairs. "That's all right. Because of our actions many people died; this probably is our punishment."
Cloud and Tifa wanted to stay longer, but they both knew where they were needed. After two more flights of stairs, they had reached the top. Barret was up there, having just gunned down the last Shinra soldier.
"Tifa! Cloud! You came!" he exclaimed. "Be careful! They're attacking from the helicopter."
"Look!" cried Tifa.
The helicopter came to hover above them, but this time, only one individual emerged.
Reno.
"You again!" Cloud exclaimed.
Without responding, Reno ran to the pillar and quickly placed a bomb on the side. "You're too late, obviously," he announced. "Once I push this button…" Without finishing verbally, he did so. "That's all, folks! Mission accomplished! Oh, and don't bother trying to pull that off the pillar. It'll automatically blow up in your face."
"We have to disarm it!" Tifa exclaimed. " Cloud! Barret! Please!"
"I can't have you do that, either," Reno said. "No one gets in the way of Reno and the Turks.
"Not until now!" shouted Tifa. With that, she literally charged at him. Before he had time to react, she punched him in the nose.
"You bitch!" he exclaimed as he grabbed his nose.
"Big mistake!" Tifa announced as she punched Reno on his side torso. As she did, she felt a crack. She had broken his rib.
"You inhuman cunt!" Reno shouted as he staggered back. "I'll get you for this! It's time!"
And then, he had staggered back too far. Reno disappeared over the edge of the tower.
"Good riddance, ginger asshole!" Barret shouted.
Tifa's attention was focused elsewhere. "Cloud!" she exclaimed. "I don't know how to stop this! Try it!"
"It's not a normal time bomb," Cloud replied. "I haven't seen one like this."
"That's right. You'll have a hard time disarming that one," announced an unfamiliar voice. Cloud and Tifa turned to see that the helicopter had returned. Outside was a man dressed similar to Reno, only he had a buttoned-up shirt and tie. "It'll blow the second some stupid terrorist touches it."
"Please, stop it!" Tifa pleaded. "Innocent men, women, and children are going to die!"
The Turk laughed. "Only a Shinra executive can set up or disarm the Emergency Plate Release System."
Inside the helicopter, Tifa could see Reno, still nursing his wounds. "Listen to Tseng. Not even we can do it."
"Shut yer hole!" shouted Barret as he aimed his gun-arm.
"I wouldn't try that," warned Tseng. "You just might make me injure our special guest."
The three outside turned their attention to yet another figure inside the helicopter. She was wearing a familiar pink dress and red jacket. And she was handcuffed.
"Aerith!" shouted Tifa.
"Oh, you know each other?" observed Tseng. "How nice you could see each other one last time. You should thank me."
"What are you gonna do with Aerith?" Cloud demanded.
"I haven't decided," Tseng said. "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."
"Tifa, don't worry!" called Aerith. "She's all right!"
In response, Tseng smacked her in the face, hard enough to draw tears from her eyes.
"Aerith!" shouted Tifa.
"Hurry and get out!" Aerith sobbed.
"Well, it should be starting right about now," Tseng laughed. "Think you can escape in time?"
The helicopter began moving away. With her last glimpse, Tifa could see Aerith sobbing, Tseng laughing, and Reno giving her the finger.
Then, the three of them heard a rumbling. The steel from the pillar was beginning to hurl to the ground. It was the beginning of the end.
"Once that plate starts coming down it's too late," said Tifa. "We gotta hurry!"
Cloud and Barret began to look around for an escape route. Cloud found it hopeless. Barret, meanwhile, spotted a hanging wire.
"Yo," shouted Barret as he grabbed the wire. "We can use this wire to get out!"
Cloud and Tifa grabbed a hold of Barret's shoulders.
"Hang on!" he ordered.
The three hopped off the pillar just as it exploded. Barret could see the plate coming down as he passed through the doorway to Sector Six.
He was smiling.
He knew Marlene was okay.
ELSEWHERE...
President Shinra watched the destruction from the Shinra tower. Satisfied, he turned to a prostitute standing near the sofa. She was topless, wearing only a pink thong. She was his favorite; he said she had perfect tens.
"This is the Creation," President Shinra informed her, referring to the music playing on the stereo. "By Franz Joseph Haydn."
"Did you see him do it live?" she asked.
The president chuckled. "He died many, many centuries ago. This music is his legacy."
"Oh…"
"This company," he continued, "is my legacy. It's what I leave behind, many centuries after I'm gone. And nothing, by any means, can get in the way."
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