Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Page #4

...you know there is no relationship.

It's llke a zoo out there.

Precisely. I think the giant ones are

llke our whales or elephants.

But why would an invading army bring a bunch of whales and elephants along for the ride?

Unless their ship was some kind of a crazy Noah's Ark?

We have always assumed that the meteor...

...was intended as a form of transportation. But it wasn't.

The meteor is a chunk of their planet

that got thrown into space...

...when they destroyed their world.

But how could they survive the trip

across outer space on a hunk of rock?

They didn't.

Oh. This is all beginning to make a creepy kind of sense.

What do you think about all this, Captain?

I think that explains why

we never had a chance.

All our strategies are based

on one assumption:

That we were fighting alien invaders.

Think of the dream, Gray.

How they died.

Since then, all they've known is suffering.

They're not an invading army.

They're ghosts.

How many Phantoms?

More than enough to convince the council.

Excellent. Sound an alert.

Send a squad out to eliminate them.

Alert status. Full deployment.

I have numerous Phantom contacts!

Of course you do.

Outside of Sector 31

and moving at incredible speed.

What the hell is going on?

They're in the pipes.

They're moving with

the bio-etheric energy flow.

That's impossible. Nothing could survive in those pipes.

Well we've got a big one heading this way.

Meta class, sir.

Oh, my God.

Hold your fire!

What have I done?

Come on, Neil. We need a way out.

You're our man. Think.

These walls are titanium alloy

and the bars are pulse-sonic lasers.

I mean it's not llke I can just

wave a magic wand and....

-Neil, I'm impressed.

-That makes two of us.

Proceed to the nearest

evacuation facility.

Proceed to the nearest

evacuation facility.

I think we should proceed

to the nearest evacuation facility.

-Here they come.

-But the others! Dr. Sid!

Deep Eyes'll take care of him.

what's happening? Why can we see them now?

They must be carrying

a residual charge from the barrier.

Behind you!

All aboard, captain!

We need to find my ship.

If it was towed here,

it would be in the military hangar.

That's a big "if."

Look out!

-Get us onto the platform.

-Got it.

Okay, now what?

We're going through the station.

With all due respect--

-Excuse me, captain.

-The station.

We're going through it.

It's the only way.

So I gather this will be

somewhat of a rough ride?

Now you've got a talent for understatement.

Hang on, everybody!

Doc?

Interesting.

-Anybody hurt?

-Captain.

Oh, God. Talk to me, sarge.

Ouch!

-Give me a hand, Jane.

-Right.

No, wait! We're risking further injury.

We need the proper tools to cut him out.

They're in my ship.

-No. No, doc. No drugs.

-Captain?

You heard the man.

We'll find the ship. We'll be back for you.

-I'll stay with him.

-Me too.

Nobody's staying.

-Just give me a gun.

-You got it.

Give him a weapon. Do it!

We'll be back for you.

You hear me?

I hear you, captain.

Now, get out of here.

Let's move out.

A quad-axle ATV. This is good.

It can be used to retrieve Ryan and transport him safely here.

However, we'll need to replace

these spent fuel cells.

There could be some llve ovo-pacs in the hangar.

All right. Jane, check the hangar.

Neil, get us ready for takeoff.

Aki and Dr. Sid, prep the Quatro.

I'll go to the tower and rotate the airtray.

This city may be lost, but we are not.

Let's do this thing and get out the hell out of here.

Be careful.

You too.

Oh, yeah.

Neil, do you read me?

Loud and clear, captain.

This baby'll fly itself.

Fllght path is set.

Beginning rotation.

Stop the airtray. We have a problem.

An impound tractor

is attached to the ship.

Can you disengage from the cockpit?

Permission to go outside

and detach the coupling.

Do it.

There's the problem.

The controls are locked, naturally.

Jane, let me ask you someting.

You think we'll get out of here alive?

I mean I wonder if anybody else has gotten out.

You think anyone's made it this far?

You think will this eighth-spirit stuff

work against the Phantoms?

I mean what if it's all a bunch of mumbo-jumbo?

Jane, do you mind we stop talking?

I'm trying to concentrate here.

What's happening down there?

Nothing we can't handle.

-Neil, what's your status?

-Almost there.

I want you two back inside.

We're fine. Jane is negotiating

with extreme prejudice.

Talk to me, Jane.

No problem here, captain.

Yes! Captain, we are good to go.

No!

Jane, get out of there.

Get out of there now! Go! Jane!

Get the hell out of there! Jane!

The shield is powered and ready.

-Where are you going?

-To the cockpit. The ship is set on auto-pilot.

We're in countdown to llftoff.

No, wait. It's too dangerous. Aki!

Over here, you son of a b*tch!

Gray, do you read me?

What's happening?

You and Sid are getting out of here now.

-No! We can't just leave everyone.

-Everyone's dead!

-I'm not leaving without you.

-Sorry, but you don't have a choice.

Goodbye, Aki.

Gray, come on!

I just....

I wish I could believe

they were in a better place.

I enlarged the scanning perimeter...

...to include an area that

we had previously overlooked.

The impact crater.

Strange place to find the eighth spirit.

Yes, really quite astonishing.

But nothing could survive in there except Phantoms.

Precisely.

Which suggests that the eighth spirit is a Phantom spirit.

I can't explain it at the moment,

but once we get down there...

-...you will understand--

-Wait, doctor. That's a one-way trip.

Yes, I expected that's how

you would evaluate our chances.

Well, am I wrong?

No, I agree. We probably...

...won't live long enough to extract

the eighth spirit from the crater.

Then why even try it?

Because we don't need

to extract the eighth spirit.

If we can't bring

the final spirit here...

...we can go there and complete

the wave inside the crater.

Yes, exactly.

And how do we do that, exactly?

I can construct a device that...

...would attach to Aki's chest plate

to gather the eighth spirit and....

And what?

And then we wait and see what happens.

That's it?

That's your plan?

We wait and see what happens?

Oh, good. Well, I got my own plan.

We keep scanning the surface from orbit...

...and maybe we'll find

a compatible spirit somewhere else.

I say we go in.

General Hein, you're clear to get into 01 alpha

What caused the barrier to fail, General Hein?

I'm afraid it was only a matter of time...

...before the Phantoms developed

an immunity to our barriers.

But I am relieved to see

that you and the council...

...were able to evacuate

to Houston without incident.

It was a terrible loss suffered this evening.

The council has reconsidered

your proposal to fire the Zeus cannon.

I see.

We are transmitting the access codes to you now.

And, general...

...best of luck to us all.

Prepare to fire the cannon.

The target, sir?

The Phantom crater.

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