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Yeul said that changing the future will also change the past.
Is this what she meant? The eclipse doesn't happen because we solved the paradox in the future?
Maybe. But... we can't be sure.
But I don't get it.
I can see how the past can affect the future. But how does it work in reverse? Makes no sense at all.
Yeah, well. Damned if I know.
Maybe Hope or Alyssa can tell us.
Welcome home.
How did you...?
Yeul...
Did you come through the gate, too?
The one you met was a different Yeul, a Yeul from the future.
So, you don't know me, either?
I know about you. I've been watching you both.
You can see the future, can't you?
I can trace the timeline. I see the future, and lead others along the correct path.
I came here to confirm something I already know.
You and I are the same.
What do you mean?
You, too, can show others the way.
Wait. I don't get it. How are we the same?
It looks like Yeul lives in this time, too.
Noel, are you okay?
Yeah. It was just so... unexpected. Threw me for a loop.
She said I was the same as her. I wonder what she meant by that.
She also said you can "show others the way."
It sounded like I'm supposed to do something. Like a mission or a destiny.
Maybe your job is to show us the true timeline.
You mean like what I'm doing now? Changing the future and all that?
We journeyed through time, solved the paradox and met two girls who looked exactly the same.
And now, at last, we've found our way back to Hope's Oracle Drive. He'll be waiting for us. Or perhaps he won't.
Maybe after all this time... Hope has forgotten us.
In a world where the paradox was solved, the eclipse never darkened the sky in the first place.
No one remembered that Noel and I had been here. But even so, Hope was there, waiting for us.
Of course, his memories had changed.
We had our ten-year reunion all over again, as if our last meeting had never happened.
When we explained his memories had changed because the paradox had been dissolved...
...Hope believed us without question. And then...
I have something I want to show you.
It is Lightning.
This is a recording of the future.
We're unable to identify the location or circumstances. There is one thing we are sure about, however.
And remember, we don't know what era this is.
Lightning is alive in that place.
In my memory, Lightning disappeared after the battle with Orphan.
But she's living somewhere in the future.
So it's not just a dream, is it?
She's out there.
Then I'm going to find her.
And you will find her, Serah. After all, you traveled through time and found me.
Many years of research have finally borne fruit.
It all began with the Oracle Drive. We excavated it from ruins many centuries old...
...yet it recorded an image of Cocoon supported on a pillar of crystal.
It was an impossibility, an enigma.
Impossible... but a reality nonetheless. This is when I learned what I must do.
If it was possible to journey through time and look into the future...
...then it must also be possible to travel backwards and change the past.
I wanted to change history, make things better.
Not just bring Lightning back. But Vanille, and Fang...
...and my mother.
So that's what your research was about.
Chasing the impossible, you might say. But, you've made me realize something.
It's clear to me now we are not the only ones who are intervening in history. The past has already been changed.
Serah, you are the only one who remembers a time when Lightning survived the fall of Cocoon...
Director!
Caius!
What happened? Did the prophecy get rewritten?
Not necessarily rewritten. It could be the original prophecy, restored as it once was.
Perhaps a continuation of the first recording.
If this is showing us the future, then someday Cocoon will fall.
Noel, you told me in your time, Cocoon didn't exist like it does now.
Yeah. It came to ground long before I was born.
After it happened, the whole world just fell apart pretty much.
But who made it fall? Could it have been Caius?
No. He couldn't do that.
When is Cocoon supposed to fall? How many years? Is it soon?
No. Not for a couple of centuries.
Oh, that's a long time from now. I mean, none of us'll even be alive to see it.
But others will.
Cocoon will fall into Gran Pulse. Imagine the catastrophe. Think how many lives will be destroyed.
Right. That's the future I lived in.
It doesn't have to happen. Noel, we can change the future.
We can stop Cocoon from falling, and make your world a better place.
Yeah, but how? You think you can go to the time when it falls and hold it up yourselves?
Do you even have a gate to take you there?
Well, we...
It might not be necessary to travel to the specific time and place.
How so?
The future depends on what we do now, right?
Yes, there is a chance Cocoon will fall, but we can start working now to prevent it from happening.
Right.
But what if you can't, Hope?
We can at least work to mitigate the damage. If we begin our research now, we have time.
Then, should Cocoon indeed fall, we can help protect the planet and save the victims.
Okay, let's do it. We can try to solve things at the other end, in the future...
While you start preparing in the here and now.
Yes. Let's change the future.
If you change the future...
If you change the future, you change the past.
Serah?
It's nothing. Hope, thank you for the help.
Time will separate us, but we'll share a common goal.
Hope dreamed of changing the past. The weight of history drove him forward.
But now, he's turning to face the future, a future even more frightening than the past.
Serah, do you believe, too? Do you believe in your own past?
Noel. You know, I started this journey hoping to find my sister.
But now, I want more. I want to save the future.
So do I, Serah.
So do I. Time to travel again.
Find the gate and the key, kupo!
Lightning was fighting in Valhalla. That's where I met her, and that's when she told me to come and find Serah.
I see. Valhalla... otherwise known as the Unseen World.
I think Lightning wants us to fix the timeline. Put it back how it was.
Maybe that's why she gave me the power to travel through time and control monsters.
She was unable to do anything on her own, so she turned to the one person she trusted more than anyone.
Yes, it is possible. Although the idea raises even more questions.
One thing I've been wondering... How do we know the gates actually go to the future?
Maybe they're portals to other worlds, different to our own.
Yeah. Maybe we just moved between two parallel worlds, one that had an eclipse, and one that didn't.
Namely, in another world, a different Alyssa and I are still experiencing that eclipse.
And if such is the case, the gates cannot be used to travel to our own future.
The people of Paddra believed that there was only one true history.
They taught that the goddess could grant life to a limited number of people.
If true, this precludes the possibility of countless alternate worlds, populated by infinite numbers of people.
So there's no other world but this one, and only one real history. Right?
Yes, I believe so. The gates are portals to the future. Noel came from our future, not another world.
Noel, we can change the future, can't we?
We can, and we will. Then we can go back to homes that we've made safe.
Lightning, thanks to Hope, I can see light at the end of the tunnel.
He told us that if we solve the paradox, we can save the future.
Meanwhile, in his own way and in his own time, Hope is working toward the same goal.
Together, we can keep Cocoon safe. And if we do, then I know...
...I'll be able to bring you home. I believe this with all my heart.
Yeul...
How many times must I see this?
Is this where I think it is?
What? You mean Valhalla?
Could Lightning be here?
No. Something's different.
This isn't Valhalla. It looks like it, sure. But it's not the same.
This is the rift between gate and gate. It's the Void Beyond, kupo!
So, are you saying we're lost?
I need a break.
Finding my sister isn't gonna be easy.
We had a legend back home, about a goddess...
We hunters passed the story down, from father to son. It gave us strength when times were tough.
What was it?
"Never give up, for the goddess Etro watches always, and helps those who help themselves."
It's not much of a legend really, is it? It sounds more like common sense to me.
Yeah. But when the going gets rough, you don't need anything complicated, just a reminder to stick things out.
Let's just keep telling ourselves that every time we go through a gate, we're getting closer to Lightning. Sounds good?
Sounds good.