Part 96: Measures

Chapter 95 - Measures




Last time we found out Cait Sith is Reeve.



Cait Sith: "...We can't stop it."



Understandable. Desperate times, desperate measures.





Cid: "Why? Can't you just shut off the valves?"

Cait Sith: "Yeah, it's easy to shut off the reactor's pipe valves... but the reactor made a path for the energy to escape from below."

Cait Sith: "Once you open that, it'll be impossible to close it until everything blasts out... and we can't try to stop the energy from gushing out..."

Barret: "An explosion!!"




Seems like we're caught between a space rock and a very hard place.



We must stop Hojo, at all costs. Dude's pretty much the reason everything is this messed up, and we now have just cause for a direct attack.



It's amusing to see a Shinra member telling them not to interfere with our business but, alas, being reasonable with these two is a bad move.





Heidegger: "The President is dead! Now I'm doing things my way! Gha ha ha ha ha!"



Seriously, fuck these guys.



I bet it'll be more junk we'll smash in one limit break.



Seriously, fuck these guys.



Farewell gentle Reeve. You were a triple agent too good for this world.




Of course we'll go, you crazy furry puppetmaster businessman.



Our pilot is all grown up .




This is a pretty big moment. The moment we get to officially return to Midgar. And now we're its only hope. Pretty crazy of a 180.

Lots of strange things to think about. Rufus is dead, and he died while doing something actually useful to the world. Sephiroth ended up being such a big threat that some of the major players ended up allying together to take him down.

Shinra is almost done for. Hojo has gone rogue. The last two big league members, Heidegger and Scarlett, are way out of their depth. With Rufus gone, AVALANCHE's goal to defeat Shinra is for all intents and purposes, reached.

And it's such a small victory right now that no one sees fit to celebrate it.




Floating above this post-Weapon crater is the Ultimate Weapon. Unlike Diamond, we can crash the Highwind into it to initiate the battle, but we're not doing it right now.



Barret: "But I got a debt to all them back in Midgar that I can't never repay..."



Tifa: "You're here, everyone's all together..."





He's of course referring to the Highwind's paintjob. Stay classy, Cid.



FOR SCIENCE!



Sometimes science is more art than science, Nanaki. Lot of people don't get that.



Something we can agree on, crazy old vampire.



It's, in fact, bizarre that someone like Hojo actually got an important job.



Yea, well, Lucrecia's in eternal damnation, Gast is dead, and ironically his daughter is dead thanks to Lucrecia's devil child. Good job.



Aw Cait, you're a great feller. Except when you kidnapped Barret's daughter and blackmailed us.



Yes, Yuffie, we're going to Midgar.



Oh, you pukey ninja. Don't worry, you're gonna love Midgar, you'll even get your own cinematic in it with Vincent someday.



Well thanks.



MOVE IT!


NEXT TIME:

Side-quests! Just kidding. Midgar!