ffbe_script | FFBE Script part 87: Shining Purple Lightning

Previously...

ZOLDAAD EMPIRE - SHINING PURPLE LIGHTNING - MAGITEK WEAPONS FACTORY OPENING

Jake: This is the placed. Ladies and gentlemen, the weapons factory.

Lid: Looks like the guards have already been taken care of, huh?

(Indeed, the guards lay unconscious on the floor.)

Nichol: Veritas must have already come through here. We should hurry.

Rain: So, Jake. How exactly do you plan to destroy this place?

Jake: There's no need to bring down the building or anything. We only have to destroy the cable they use to extract energy from the crystal. If we can do that, this whole place will shut down.

Rain: Thus putting a stop to their plans to wage war on Grandshelt.

(A robot enters from the west!)

ALLIES OF INTRUDER DETECTED! EXTERMINATE AT ONCE!

Lid: Hey! We ain't no allies of no Veritas, see? Get your facts straight!

Nichol: There's no point in trying to correct them. Focus on defeating them instead!

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ZOLDAAD EMPIRE - SHINING PURPLE LIGHTNING - MAGITEK WEAPON FACTORY 1

Rain: All right, let's go!

(The party starts to head on. Lasswell gets a ! over his head, and steps in the path of the robot, blocking a laser bolt that would have hit Rain.)

Lasswell: Rain!

(Lasswell falls to his knees, his face flushed.)

Lasswell: Rain? Are you all right?

Rain: That's what I was going to ask! You're not hurt or anything?

Lasswell: (...)

(He stands.)

Lasswell: I'm fine... It hardly even grazed me. What happened to the monster?

Rain: It stopped. It seems like that was the last line of defense.

Lasswell: Well, let us hope so. Come, let's move on.

Rain: Y-yeah...

(Lasswell begins to walk on, but he's walking slow.)

Lasswell(...): (Damn it...) (It hit me in the gut...) (I may have fooled Rain, but... the bleeding won't stop. This wound... might really be the end of me....)

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ZOLDAAD EMPIRE - SHINING PURPLE LIGHTNING - MAGITEK WEAPON FACTORY 2

Rain: Lasswell, I'm sorry about before. I was careless...

Lasswell: Don't worry about it.

Rain: Are you sure? Didn't you get injured?

Lasswell: We've no time for you to worry about me... Rain, ready your sword.

(Wave 1 of battle commences, and leads to wave 2.)

Lasswell: Nngh. This isn't the time to be stopping for a snack..

Lid: Lasswell, you're sweating so badly. Are you alright?

Fina: Why don't we rest a little?

Lasswell: It's okay, I'm fine. I can't afford to rest at a time like this.

(Wave 2 commences. There is no further dialogue.)

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ZOLDAAD EMPIRE - SHINING PURPLE LIGHTNING - MAGITEK WEAPON FACTORY ENDING

Rain: We destroyed the cable that was feeding energy to the factory. Now Grandshelt should be safe.

Lid: Yeah. Now we just gotta find Veritas.

Fina: Lasswell? What's wrong?

(Lasswell bows his head.)

Lasswell: I'm just... a little tired.... You go on ahead. I will catch up to you presently.

Fina: O-okay... If you insist...

(The others walk on. Lasswell falls to his knees again, his face flushed.)

Lasswell: ugh... Everything... is spinning... Have I lost that much blood? I guess... this is it... for me... But I suppose I fulfilled my goal.. Giving my life to keep Rain safe... My only regret... is that...

(He collapses. Purple Lightning begins to glow.)

Lasswell: Purple Lightning? Are you telling me that I should not die yet?

(He gets up on his knees.)

Lasswell: You're right.... There's still something I have to tell Rain...

(He stands.)

Lasswell: Until I tell him... I can't die...

(He walks slowly onward.)

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