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Subs: charoplet
We've detected a large energy surge in the center of the ruins. Another unknown device has appeared.
Did the device appear along with Atlas?
If Atlas is a weapon built by humans, they must've designed a way to stop it.
And that machine showing up is no coincidence.
Right!
Two choices.
We try that new device and hope it controls Atlas, or do it the old-fashioned way, and fight him head-on.
No regrets, no looking back.
Hey, Noel. Is Atlas used in some war that happens in the future?
Hmm, let me think...
Yeah, I remember this.
Are you forgetting stuff?
My...memories are unreliable.
There are events I should remember, but my memory is hazy. Like I'm seeing them through fogged glass.
But not this time. I remember this one.
There was a war hundreds of years before I was born. That's when Cocoon crashed into Pulse.
When does that happen?
About halfway between your present and mine. So, not for centuries yet.
If we travel to the future, maybe we can stop it.
Who's to say what's possible? That could be the reason we're here in the first place.
Where are we?
A time labyrinth, kupo.
I think we're inside the paradox.
Oh, no.
We have to figure out the labyrinth and its puzzles before we can get out, kupo!
The machine's working!
Let's see what it does, yeah?
Let's.
Hope this actually lets us control Atlas...
All we can do is pray.
Please work!
So, how'd we do?
We did it!
Noel!
I'm on it.
Oof! Hey!
What the...?
How did we get here?
Noel, look out!
Move!
I think I found his weak spot!
Ready?
Do it!
Wait for it...!
Now!
Whoa! Now what!?
The paradox is dissipating!
I wonder what caused the paradox effect.
This is just a theory, but I think there might be someone out there derailing history and bending the timeline.
That's why Atlas and these gates are appearing out of nowhere.
Could this 'someone' be responsible for Lightning disappearing?
Could be. You remember your sister coming home, right? You have memories from before everything got twisted.
But why only me?
That's the question. We'll keep looking for an answer.
There's an epitaph.
"Here lie the innocent victims of chance, cast out and cast down. May their souls find the path that leads them home."
Cast out... These must be victims of the Purge.
This is it! This is the place!
I thought I might be... But that's not my name.
Then, whose is it?
It's my friend's. She died here. Running from the Purge.
And me? I'm one of those who survived.
Five years ago, the entire town of Bodhum - it was wiped out by the army.
I was there, visiting my friend. Then everything went to hell.
We ran and hid with the other fugitives. But just as the troops were pulling out... That's when the ceiling of our hiding place collapsed.
Ever since then, I've had the same dream. I'm trapped under rubble. It's dark, I'm in pain, and I can barely breathe.
The next thing I know, I rise out of my body, and I'm standing before this grave.
And the name written on the stone... It's mine.
After seeing that image so many times, I started to think that maybe I did die back then.
And the life I'm living now is just an illusion.
Alyssa, you feel that way too?
Well... you seem real to me.
Real enough, I guess.
Even if they all forget...
I never will.
And neither will I. I can never forget.
The events that scarred Alyssa were started by l'Cie.
If I had never become a l'Cie... If I had never made those mistakes...
Then the Purge... well, it may never have happened.
Lightning. Is there any way to make up for the suffering we've caused?
Can we ever give back what we've taken?
Okay then. I think that wraps things up for Alyssa.
Now for our little quest. Let's find an artefact, and open a gate.
So, where should we look?
Now we've cleared up the paradox effect, it's possible those sneaky artefacts have come out of hiding.
Let's try searching those areas we couldn't reach.
Time for some moogle magic. Kupo!
Mog, you can help? You're a lifesaver!
Kupo, kupo!
Yes, it worked!
Serah? Are you okay?
It's nothing. I'm fine, really. Just tired, I guess.
Hm, right. Somehow, I kinda doubt it's "nothing."
We unraveled the paradox, and continued on to another time, another place.
But why had these gates appeared?
Who had tangled the timelines, and for what purpose, we still didn't know.
Why am I able to fix these temporal anomalies? Bend monsters to my will? Why do I have this power at all?
I'll keep traveling with Noel, knowing that we'll find you eventually.
So, Lightning? If you're watching, do what you can to guide us to your side.
I hope we land right in the place where Lightning is waiting.
Where do you think we'll end up this time? The future? The past?
I have no idea. With all this jumping back and forth, I'm not sure I know which is which anymore.
But, the past is what makes us who we are, defines us as people.
The future that we're aiming for, that's the thing we can change.
No matter how bad things have been, without that past, I wouldn't be who I am now.
That makes sense.
So Serah, you shouldn't feel like you're wasting your time.
Even if we don't arrive in Valhalla, there's still value in every path we take.
Yeah, I guess you're right.
But hey, I won't complain if we do end up there. All this running around is exhausting.
Hey, make up your mind!
Just be honest with yourself. If you are, you'll be sure to arrive in the future you want.
Serah. Forgive me. That was a past you never should have had to deal with.
But now, because of your courage, the timelines have one less knot to unravel.
If I could, I would thank you for what you have accomplished. But I can't. Not just yet.
Okay, that did it!
Serah? Don't tell me you're having visions...
Oh, no. Just staring into space!
Oh. Okay then. Let's get going.