Shulk
Dickson!

Dickson
Kept me waiting a while, Shulk!

Shulk
Waiting for us to fight you?

Dickson
Yeah. That's what it's come to.
Or will you just shut up and let me kill you?

Shulk
We'll never do that.

Dickson
Just as I expected.

[Dickson shrugs.]

Dickson
Wouldn't have it any other way.

[Dickson enters a battle stance.]

Dickson
I've been working for Lord Zanza
since the beginning.
I raised you purely so he could live on.

Shulk
I know.
And I must thank you for
granting me such power.
It's all down to you that I'm
standing here ready for you now.

Dickson
Enough talk, boy!

[Dickson roars as he mutates into a terrible form, that of a Giant. He swings a
massive blade in the direction of Shulk's party.]

Shulk
Dickson!
If you're so determined to stop us,
then we will kill you!

[Shulk and his friends draw their weapons, ready to take Dickson on.]

[By the end of the battle, however, the party members lie on the ground before
Disciple Dickson, near their wits' end.]

Dickson
This is getting boring.
You worms are no match for me!

[Dickson dashes forward to finish them off, but Fiora leaps in the way, using
her twin blades to block Dickson's attack. He is momentarily taken aback as
their blades lock.]

Dickson
I see you've inherited Meyneth's power.

Fiora
Not her power.

[Dickson makes a questioning sound.]

Fiora
I've inherited her memories.
That's why I fight you!

[Shulk, now on his feet, comes up alongside Fiora.]

Shulk
Fiora!

[Fiora shoves her blades off of Dickson's.]

Dickson
Memories, huh?
And what good are those meant to be?
Can't use memories to kill anyone!

Fiora
Why are you fighting?
You're helping Zanza to create
a world where nothing exists.
What could you possibly hope to get out of it?!

[Dickson gives Fiora a derisive laugh.]

Dickson
Only those with power have
the right to decide such things!

Fiora
You're wrong!

Dickson
Zanza just tells me where to fight, and I fight.
And that's how I like it!

Fiora
Is that your reason?
For fighting?

Dickson
It's the only reason!

Fiora
Meyneth wished for a world where
the peoples of Bionis and Mechonis
could live hand-in-hand.

[Behind Fiora, the remaining party members begin to get to their feet.]

Fiora
You will never get away with this!

Dickson
Is that right?

[Dickson morphs his blade into a cannon.]

Dickson
Then what are you gonna do
about it in that feeble body?!

[Dickson fires off shots at Fiora, which she struggles to block with her
blades. The force of the attacks knocks Fiora to the ground as she loses her
grip on one of the blades. Shulk runs over to her; Dickson cackles.]

Dickson
That body doesn't have a Monado anymore.
Who knows how much life it's got in it?
Better say your goodbyes!

[Dickson changes his cannon back into a sword again. Shulk cradles Fiora's head
in his lap.]

Shulk
It can't be!

Fiora
I'm fine.

[Breathing heavily, Fiora staggers back to her feet.]

Fiora
I'll carry on fighting beside you
until the very end.

Shulk
Fiora!

Dickson
Well then, we'd better make this quick!

[Dickson leaps high into the air, then brings his sword down on the pair. Shulk
blocks with the Replica Monado, but the force of the attack makes him slide
backwards; Fiora is knocked to the ground behind him. Shulk's and Dickson's
blades lock.]

Dickson
What's that?
Little boy lost his Monado and
can't do a thing without it?!

Fiora
Be careful!

Dickson
Well you can't!
It's time to learn your place!

[Dickson rears back again, but Melia shoots him with a blast of ether energy
right to the face. Dickson recoils, nursing his hurting face.]

Fiora
Melia!

[Melia hobbles forward, leaning on her staff.]

Melia
Stand up, Fiora!
Did you not say that you
wanted to be with Shulk?!
Do not throw your life away for this scoundrel!

Sharla
She's right!
You have to take what you want!
There's no point in dying!

[Sharla takes aim with her rifle and fires on Dickson, who takes the shot on
his raised forearm.]

Dickson
You're nothing!

[Dickson swoops in to attack Sharla with his blade, but Reyn blocks him with
his shield.]

Reyn
Shulk! Show him what you're made of!
Come on, man!
You don't need the Monado to
take down this piece of scum!

[Reyn dashes out of the way of a follow-up attack from Dickson. Riki then runs
up to Shulk.]

Riki
Riki know!
Riki know Shulk brave!
Riki want to see the old Shulk!
Shulk is real Heropon!

[Dunban leaps in front of Shulk, Fiora and Riki.]

Dunban
Shulk!

[Dunban proceeds to block a sword attack by Dickson meant for the other three.]

Dunban
Real power comes from within!
Believe in your own true strength, Shulk!

Shulk
Everyone...

[Dickson fights off Dunban, then has to deal with Reyn attacking from behind.]

Fiora
Shulk.
It's time, Shulk.
Let's finish this.

[Fiora's chest component begins to glow red with power.]

Shulk
I will not fail.
With your faith in me,
and our strength combined...

[Shulk rises.]

Shulk
We can do this.

Dickson
You ever gonna make this worth my while?

[Dickson turns from the five party members he's just fought down to face Fiora,
glowing red with the power of Meyneth's Monado, and Shulk, glowing blue with
the power of Zanza's Monado. The pair steadily approach Dickson.]

Dickson
Can't be.
That power?!

[Dickson shakes off the thought, then springs at Shulk and Fiora.]

[The last battle does not avail Zanza's disciple. With Fiora levitating above
Shulk in her Mechon armour, she powers up her Monado as Shulk charges. A ring
of powerful energy goes out from Fiora, and Shulk's sword is charged with light
as he leaps into the air. Both shout battle cries, but Dickson screams as
Shulk's Replica Monado carves a glowing green gash across his chest. Dickson
falls over backwards.]

Dickson
How is it possible without the Monado?

Shulk
Face me.
Stand and fight!

Dickson
Still got some fight in ya then?

[Dickson stands.]

Dickson
I'm done.
I'm going home.

[Dickson starts reverting back to his familiar Homs form.]

Shulk
Dickson!

[Dickson begins walking off.]

Dickson
I just wanted the power of a god.
This martyr stuff's not for me.

[Shulk's party watch Dickson in disbelief.]

Dickson
Go.
I ain't gonna risk my life to stop you.

Reyn
Get back here!
You expect us to let you go?!

[Shulk puts a hand on Reyn's chest.]

Reyn
What?

Shulk
Enough.
It's Zanza we're after. Not him.

[Fiora walks up behind Reyn and gives him a look.]

Reyn
OK...

[A transporter has appeared behind the heroes. They turn to walk towards it,
Dunban being the last to do so. Dickson sits down against the back wall of the
terrace and lights up a cigar as he watches them go. He takes a final puff.]

Dickson
Damn.
How'd that kid get so strong?
I ain't gonna let you see me die.
I won't give you the satisfaction of victory.
See ya, kid.

[Momentary flashback to Shulk asleep as a child at Ose Tower.]

Dickson
Looks like the student finally
surpassed the teacher.

[Shulk and Fiora walk up to the transporter that will take them to Zanza.]

Fiora
Shulk, his wounds...

[Shulk, head bowed, closes his eyes. Behind them, on the opposite side of
Prison Terrace, Dickson's head slumps forward and the cigar falls out of his
mouth onto the stone floor. Shulk seems to shed a tear as the view closes in on
Dickson's dead body, and the screen fades to white.]

[Meanwhile in Memory Space, where Alvis previously met with Shulk, Zanza now
meditates, still holding both Monados. The god sees visions.]

[In one vision, the Telethia continue their assault on Colony 6.]

[Another vision shows a Telethia hunting down and killing a colony resident.]

[The next vision shows the Bionis alone in the endless sea, seeming to wait.]

[The last vision shows Zanza being confronted by Shulk and his companions. In
this vision, Zanza slashes forward with his Monado, creating a maelstrom of
light that closes in on the party members. Before he can see if this light
consumes them or not, the vision is abruptly cut off.]

[Back in the present, Zanza opens his eyes.]

Zanza
Why?
Why can I not see any further?
Now that I possess both Monados,
I should be at one with the passage of fate.
Why does the vision end here?

[Something, unseen, grabs Zanza's attention.]

Zanza
So Dickson has passed.
Lorithia too.
How can this be?
Are Telethia growing weak?
How could they be defeated
by such worthless mortals?

Meyneth [V.O.]
This world belongs to you all.
Create a world with no need for gods.

Zanza
A world that has no need for gods?
There is no world without a god.
This world belongs to me!

[At this, bright light surrounds Zanza, and he begins to change.]

[Meanwhile, Shulk's party have also arrived in this strange space, albeit a
distance away from Zanza yet. They don't seem to be standing on any visible
ground. Asteroids float past them in the vast star field.]

Reyn
Where are we?!

Riki
What happen?! It night-time!
Is Riki have bad dream?!

Fiora
Look down! Look at all the stars!

Shulk
We're not on Bionis any more.
There's no land or sea either.

[The party study the strange path ahead in Memory Space. A trail of red light
leads to a transporter of green light in the distance. The group's journey
takes them beyond Saturn, Jupiter, Mars and the Moon, as well as past the
Spirits of fallen foes. Finally, at Sentient Genesis, the party can see a
planet of green and blue.]

Fiora
It's beautiful.

Shulk
Is that a ball of water?

Alvis [V.O.]
So, you finally made it, Shulk.

[Shulk gasps and looks around.]

Shulk
It's you!

Fiora
What is it, Shulk?

Alvis [V.O.]
I cannot wait to see which path you choose.
Let us meet again after you
have made your choice.

[A light shimmers in the distance and transforms the space where the party
stand into what appears to be a fiery vortex. Into this place descends Zanza,
now clad in a helmet and battle armour reminiscent of Bionis, though elements
of Mechonis are also present. Zanza's Monado glows blue in his right hand,
while Meyneth's Monado glows red in his left hand.]

Zanza
Welcome, Shulk.

Shulk
That voice!
It's Zanza!

Fiora
But he looks different.

Zanza
I had planned to use the
body obtained from Shulk
as a vessel in which to dwell
for the next millennium.
However, I came to possess
a great and unexpected power.

Shulk
Meyneth's Monado.

Zanza
Correct.
In addition to my own Monado,
which you kept safe for me,
I was able to obtain a second weapon
which holds the power of creation.
Now I possess all I desire.

[Zanza swings Meyneth's Monado, sending out a shockwave towards the party.]

Zanza
There is no longer any need
for the life of Bionis.

[Shulk activates his Replica Monado as the rest of the party draw their weapons
as well.]

Zanza
I must thank you indeed, Shulk.
You were of more use to me
than any of my disciples.
Now that I have the Monados,
I can forgive you your betrayal.

[Reyn scoffs.]

Reyn
You gonna give him a reward?

Zanza
Precisely.
I will have him serve as my new disciple.
You will be granted eternal life
and unimaginable strength.
Death will be but a fleeting afterthought.

Melia
Are you so arrogant to believe
that the High Entia,
no, all life on Bionis, are nothing
but your playthings?!

Zanza
Playthings?

Melia
Yes.
You don't know how it feels
to have slain my brethren
after they had transformed into Telethia!

Zanza
What are you talking about?
A Telethia is a High Entia's true form.
I did not transform them, I returned them.
The Telethia are mere cells from my body.
I conferred intelligence upon
them on a mistaken whim,
creating a primitive life form - the High Entia.

[Melia scowls at Zanza.]

Zanza
They enjoyed a brief existence
as sentient beings.
For that they should be grateful.

Dunban
So this is the arrogance of a creator.

Zanza
As I planned,
the life of Bionis existed simply to
serve as my vessels and my food.
Bionis is nothing more than an accumulation
of their corpses and life energy.

Dunban
But though you feign omnipotence,
the High Entia still confined
you to Prison Island!
That is how limited you are.

Zanza
Confined me?
I was merely...
resting there for a while.

[Flashback to the ancient duel between the Bionis and the Mechonis.]

Zanza
I was wounded in the battle
with Meyneth's vessel.

[Flashback to Zanza, in Arglas' body, shackled at Prison Island.]

Zanza
I simply awaited the day when a new vessel,
revealed to me in a vision, would be born.

[Back to the present.]

Shulk
Until
I was born.

Zanza
Precisely.
I intended to inhabit your body and
once again do battle with Meyneth.
However, I had no idea that
I would defeat her so easily.

Fiora
Meyneth...

[Zanza suddenly stretches out his Monado, pointing it in Shulk's face.]

Zanza
You did a great deed in
granting me a new Monado.
I will gladly take you as my new disciple,
Shulk.

Shulk
Never!
I don't wanna be your vessel
or your disciple!

[Shulk extends the Replica Monado, now pointing it in Zanza's face.]

Shulk
I just want to live my life as a Homs.
In a world without you!

Zanza
That is most regrettable.
You could have entrusted all
to me and attained peace.
But perhaps the vision
of mortals will ever remain
limited.
Using one's power to change the world.
That is a right possessed only by gods.

Shulk
Is that why you laid waste to Mechonis?!

Zanza
Of course.
Along with the beings called Machina,
who followed Meyneth.
They had evolved and become
insolent under her protection.

Reyn
So you're saying us Homs are next in line, eh?

Zanza
You are correct.
You yourselves have proven that
Homs are a dangerous species.
How unfortunate.
I had a desire for friendship.
But granting intelligence to the
lives I created was a mistake.
A god should not long for friendship.

Shulk
You're wrong!

[Shulk slashes Zanza's Monado out of his way.]

Shulk
Meyneth chose to exist alongside us!
She grew to consider us her friends.
You should have accepted that!
But
what you were hoping for was not friendship.
You wanted worthless slaves.
Our lives as food!

Zanza
Just as I suspected.
It appears that I was mistaken to grant free will.
However, all will soon be over.
The Telethia will exterminate
all life on Bionis.
I will then create a new world!
Just as I have done many times before!

[Zanza makes a grand gesture of slashing both Monados outwards.]

Shulk
We will not allow it!
We cannot!
We will stop you!

[Shulk's party engage in battle with their creator.]

[When his creations refuse to die, Zanza halts the battle.]

Zanza
You mere vessels dare to
oppose the will of a god?!
Then I shall obliterate everything
with my unimaginable power!

[Zanza brings together both Monados, and the screen fades to white with the
ensuing transformation. Zanza soon emerges in a massive new battle armour,
appearing as the complete fusion of both Bionis and Mechonis. Both Monados have
likewise grown in power.]

Zanza
Now, behold the true form of a united world!

[Battle is enjoined again.]

[Again, Zanza is unable to get the better of Shulk and his friends.]

Zanza
How?
How can you have visions?!
You no longer possess the Monado!

[Shulk and Fiora charge at Zanza, the former speaking as they attack.]

Shulk
I don't know.
It comes from the bottom of my heart.
It shows me my enemy.
It reveals the future I must change!

[Zanza furiously fights off the pair.]

Fiora
The future we see is not set in stone.
There are infinite possibilities
based on the paths we choose.
You should be well aware of this notion.
For that is how you have always existed!

Zanza
That is a right for gods and gods only!

[Zanza makes a mighty double slash at Fiora, but she leaps out of the way.
Shulk leaps in to attack Zanza from behind.]

Shulk
Why should we care?!

[Shulk's Back Slash connects, causing Zanza to rear back in pain and throw
Shulk off; Shulk roars a battle cry and does not initially land.]

Shulk
What's important isn't whether
you can see the future or not.
It's the will to make a choice,
and the strength to seize your destiny!
Our time has come.
Our destiny is our own!

[Shulk's eyes light up, and he receives power from Fiora's chest component,
Dunban's sword, Reyn's driver, Melia's staff, Sharla's rifle, Riki's biter -
five beams of blue light converge with Fiora's red beam to power up Shulk in
their centre, high above the group. Shulk lands wielding a wholly new weapon -
the True Monado.]

Zanza
Can it be?
A Monado?!

Fiora
It is not only you that has the right.
Every living thing has the freedom
to choose the path they walk.
And that is the future!

Zanza
A third Monado has appeared.
How can this have happened?!
You are mere mortals!

[Thus the party engage Zanza in their final battle.]

[At the end, Zanza's armour is torn asunder and he bleeds ether.]

Zanza
How?
The power of a god cannot be overcome.

Alvis [V.O.]
Zanza.
This is the providence of the world.

[Zanza's Monado lights up, followed by Meyneth's Monado.]

Alvis [V.O.]
Even gods are merely beings restricted to
the limited power determined by providence.
That power, although great, is not unlimited.

[As Alvis speaks, Shulk's True Monado lights up as well, and a line of light
forms from it, connecting first to Meyneth's Monado, then to Zanza's Monado.
All three Monados are linked, forming a triangle connecting Shulk and Zanza.]

Shulk
That voice!

Zanza
Alvis?!
How dare you disobey me?!

[Zanza shouts into the void.]

Alvis [V.O.]
I am Monado.
I was here at the beginning.
And I will proclaim the end.

Zanza
But that...
that's impossible!

Alvis [V.O.]
Shulk, it is time for you to choose.
Does this world belong to Zanza?
Or does it belong to you?

Shulk
That is something I decided long ago!

[Shulk raises the True Monado with a battle cry. In a burst of brilliant light,
a new symbol appears on Shulk's Monado.]

Zanza
That symbol!

Shulk
Today, we use our power to fell a god,
and then seize our destiny!

[Shulk charges and leaps at Zanza, shouting as the True Monado slices through
the god from top to bottom. Light bursts forth from Zanza's dying form.]

Zanza
All that I am is fading.
The memory of a god's existence,
born from the chaos of creation.
It is vanishing.

[The screen fades to white.]

[In the aftermath, Shulk finds himself gazing at a space station in orbit
around Planet Earth. A green light materialises next to him.]

Shulk
Where am I?

Alvis
This is my home.

[Shulk looks over to the green light, Alvis' incorporeal form.]

Shulk
Your home?

[Shulk hears a familiar voice from inside the facility.]

Zanza [O.C.]
Let's begin the experiment!

Shulk
Whose voice was that?

Alvis
It is Zanza.
Before he became a god.
When he was simply a man of flesh and blood.

[Shulk can hear another familiar voice within the facility.]

Meyneth [O.C.]
No!
The results have not been confirmed!

[Inside the experiment facility, a wide window shows Earth. Crew members in
white lab coats are working at consoles.]

Meyneth
It's too dangerous!

[Meyneth runs up to Zanza at the main console; they are both human scientists
wearing the same white lab coats as the rest of the crew.]

Shulk [V.O.]
And that voice.
It's Meyneth!

[Meyneth grabs Zanza's arm.]

Zanza
Ridiculous. It's perfectly safe.

[Meyneth attempts to pull Zanza away, but he shoves her to the floor.]

Zanza
We are about to bear witness
to the birth of a universe.

[Zanza returns to the console and begins inputting a code.]

Zanza
Once, only a god could perform such a miracle.
But today, mankind moves
one step closer to the divine!

Meyneth
Stop! Klaus!

[But it is too late. Klaus, who would later become known as Zanza, presses the
activation key. A ball of blue light shoots along the ring encircling the
planet below. Earth becomes covered in a great blue light, which first implodes
into nothing, then expands outward, covering the universe in white light.]

Alvis
It was simple curiosity.
The curiosity of a single man
that destroyed the universe
and created a new one.

[As the light dissipates, Shulk finds himself on an endless sea cloaked in a
boundless sky.]

Alvis
A new universe, your world, was born.

[The two titans, the Bionis and the Mechonis, emerge from the sea.]

Alvis
And so, two gods came into existence.

[On Bionis, Homs rise out of the green fields. Birds fly overhead.]

Alvis
Zanza and Meyneth were lonely.
So they created life in their own image.

[On Mechonis, Machina walk about in Agniratha.]

Shulk
And that was how we were born.

Alvis
As the world advanced to
each further stage,

[Aerial view of Colony 9.]

Alvis
it was inherited by generations
of different life forms.

[Aerial view of Agniratha.]

Alvis
But over time, awareness of Zanza faded.
Zanza feared this.

[View of Alcamoth over Eryth Sea.]

Alvis
In order to escape his own annihilation,

[Aerial view of Alcamoth proper.]

Alvis
he wished for a world in a perpetual
cycle of destruction and recreation.

[Aerial view of Frontier Village.]

Shulk
Bionis being filled with life,
and the Telethia coming to wipe it out.

[View of a flock birds flying above the Bionis' Shoulder, who are then attacked
by Telethia.]

Shulk
It was all the will of Zanza.

Alvis
It was.
But the truth of the matter is
that he longed for friendship.

[The Mechonis' sword cuts into the Bionis' side. Shulk and Alvis watch the
titans' ancient duel on the sea.]

Shulk
His future and our future.
It might have been possible
for them to coexist.

Alvis
Correct.
However, that time has passed.

[The Bionis in the present, now alone on the sea, recoils in its death throes,
as light consumes it from within.]

Alvis
The old god was defeated by the
new god that he himself created.

Shulk
New god?!

Alvis
Yes.
That is why I appeared before you, Shulk.

[Shulk turns to the green glowing light.]

Shulk
Alvis, what are you?

Alvis
I am the administrative computer of
a phase transition experiment facility.
But that will mean little to you.
To you, I am a machine.
That is my original form.

Shulk
Alvis?

[Pieces of the Bionis fall off the titan as it begins to crumble.]

Alvis
This world is stagnant.
It has expired.
Therefore I will ask you, its new god.
What is your wish?
Will you allow the world to
continue to stagnate?
Or will you allow it to evolve to the next level?
The choice is yours to make.

Shulk
I don't know.
All I wanted to do was stop Zanza
having his way. That's all.
I cannot be a god!

Reyn [O.C.]
Too right!

[Reyn comes up from behind and wraps an arm around Shulk.]

Reyn
You're great 'n' all, but there's
no way you're a god.

[The rest of Shulk's party come to him, walking on the sea.]

Shulk
Everyone!

Fiora
Look, don't worry, Shulk.
None of us want to be gods anyway.
And I don't really know what the future holds.
But we just want to live our life as it comes.

Reyn
Eating grub, sleeping, laughing, crying.
Sometimes arguing.
Sounds all right!

Sharla
Yes. He's right.
And being with the ones we love.
That's enough.

Melia
Even so, we change little by little.
Every day is a little different from the last.
We do not know what the future will hold.

Riki
More fun not knowing!
Riki want to have fun!

Fiora
Life's little surprises are what makes it great.
We don't know what's going to happen.
It's worrying sometimes, but it's also exciting.
Don't you think?

Dunban
Yeah.
Isn't that called progress? Aren't
we all continuously evolving?
I'm not sure we need a more
dramatic change than that.

Shulk
Yeah.
You're right.
Little by little.
Each day as it comes.
That's how we should live.
That's our world.

[Light appears around Shulk, and so does the Monado in his hand.]

Alvis
Forgive my presumptuousness.
But I recreated their personalities
from your consciousness.

[Around Alvis' original form rotate both Zanza's and Meyneth's Monados.]

Shulk
Alvis...
It sounds like you don't think
I can make my own decisions.
I'm supposed to be the god!

Alvis
Apologies.
However, I have good reason.
This world has little time remaining
if left in this state.
Have you made your decision?
The choice is yours, Creator.

[Shulk nods.]

Alvis
Tell me your decision for
the future of this world.

Shulk
I won't decide.
The future should be decided by
each and every person in the world.
And so, what I...
No, what we wish for is...

[Shulk throws the True Monado upwards to the other two Monados.]

Shulk
A world with no gods!

[The three Monados fuse, and the Bionis and the sea around it are consumed in a
brilliant light. Cracks then appear in the fabric of the world, and so the
current universe implodes. From it comes a Big Bang, scattering stars outward.
Galaxies come into being.]

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EPILOGUE
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[A long time later, in what appears to be Colony 9, we see from the viewpoint
of one walking through the colony. In addition to Homs, there are also many
High Entia, Nopon and Machina about. A Homs woman takes her two children by
either hand. A Machina couple passes by, one of them waving at us as they go.
At a shop, a customer attempts to barter with a shopkeeper.]

Shop
What are you talking about?

Colony 9 Resident
Well, can I have it any cheaper?

[A Homs woman greets us as we continue through the Commercial District.]

Colony 9 Resident
Hi, how are you?

[Down the street, near an inert mobile artillery, Colonel Vangarre yells at a
hapless soldier.]

Vangarre
You idiot!
Are you tryin' to kill me?!

Defence Force Soldier
I'm really sorry, Colonel!

Vangarre
Sorry? What do you mean, sorry?!

[Nearby, a team of four Nopon carry a beam of wood up the street as Chief Dunga
and others continue to watch the scene in front of them unfold.]

Vangarre
Squat jumps around the entire colony!
Fifty laps! Now!

Defence Force Soldier
Please! Colonel!

[From our point of view, we approach Dunban in the midst of preparations.]

Dunban
Ah, yes. That's excellent.
So, you can take the materials to District Four?

[After an Ardun passes out of our view, we can see Dunban in talks with
Otharon, Miqol and Vanea near the Ether Light.]

Otharon
The restoration's coming along nicely.

Dunban
Thanks to Melia and Vanea.
The High Entia and Machina
have some amazing technology.

Vanea
We are happy to help.
To live alongside one another
in harmony.
After all, I have no doubt.
This is what Lady Meyneth
and Egil would have wanted.

Dunban
Hear, hear.
And may it last forever.

Fiora [O.C.]
Dunban?

[Dunban turns to us, and so revealing that we've been seeing this trip from
Fiora's perspective.]

Dunban
Fiora! What is it?

Fiora [O.C.]
Have you seen Shulk?

Dunban
He just left.
I don't know where he's gone, but
he was with Reyn and the others.

Fiora [O.C.]
OK. Thank you.

[We see as Fiora turns to leave.]

Dunban
Fiora!

[The view shifts back to Dunban and the others as Fiora turns her head again.]

Fiora [O.C.]
Yes?

[Dunban hesitates.]

Dunban
It's nothing. Good luck!

[Next, we see as Fiora arrives at Outlook Park. There, she finds Melia alone,
looking out across Colony 9. Instead of being on a lake in the midst of a
canyon as before, the colony now sits on a sea, across from which a range of
mountains can be seen.]

Melia
If you're looking for Shulk, he is not here.

[Melia then turns to face us.]

Fiora [O.C.]
Amazing.
It's like you've got eyes
in the back of your head.
What were you looking at?
The sea?

Melia
I wasn't looking at anything in particular.

[Melia turns back to her view.]

Melia
If anything, Fiora, I was thinking.
Thinking about the future that awaits us all.

Fiora [O.C.]
Wow.
You're so much more thoughtful than me.

[We see Melia's side profile as Fiora comes up alongside her.]

Melia
Really?
I don't think so. I was just
answering your question.

[The view goes up and down as Fiora nods.]

Fiora [O.C.]
But I know what you mean.
You're right. We've been through a lot.

Melia
Yes.
We have.

[We get a view of the colony as Fiora looks out at it.]

Melia
I am grateful to all of you.

[We turn back to Melia.]

Melia
It is because I met you that
I experienced so much.
And it is the reason I am here now.

Fiora [O.C.]
Yes.

[More nodding from Fiora.]

Fiora [O.C.]
We're happy you're here too.
Thanks, Melia. For everything.
I'm glad I met you.

[Melia gives a curt nod.]

Melia
And I you.

[Melia looks to the sky, and so does Fiora.]

[Soon, we arrive with Fiora near a pier on the shore, where Reyn attempts to
reel in a fish as Sharla, Juju and Riki look on.]

Reyn
Almost got it!

Riki
Go Reyn! Go Reyn!
Riki really hungry!

Sharla
Go on! Put your back into it, Reyn!

[But Reyn pulls too hard, loses the fish, and then he, Juju and Riki fall into
the water.]

Sharla
Are you OK?!

[Reyn comes up coughing and sputtering. The three wade to the shore, where
Sharla meets them.]

Reyn
It's salty!
What's up with the water being so salty?!

Juju
Reyn, you're terrible at this!
When was the last time you fished?

[Sharla just laughs.]

Riki
Reyn bad fisherman!
Riki want eat big fish!

Reyn
Give us a break.
You try next time, furball!

Riki
Fishing is Reyn's job! Riki's job is eating!

[Reyn groans.]

Reyn
Hang on a sec.
Isn't Oka gonna have a massive go at you
if you don't go back to her with
14 fish to feed all your littlepon?

[Riki yelps in realisation.]

Riki
Riki forgot!
Wifeypon very angry if not catch more fish!

Reyn
It ain't me she's gonna be angry with.

Riki
Reyn catch fish!

[Riki leaps on Reyn's head.]

Riki
Catch fish now! Fish! Fish!

[Reyn and Riki fall back into the water, with Sharla giving them a push. Then
our perspective moves as Fiora looks up the shore, to see Shulk standing alone.
She walks up to him on the sand.]

Fiora [O.C.]
Here you are!

[Shulk turns to face us, a slight wind ruffling his hair.]

Fiora [O.C.]
The breeze feels so good.

[Shulk turns back to the sea and nods.]

Shulk
It does.

[At last, the view pans out, and we see Fiora for the first time, now back in
her original Homs body and clothing. She looks just the same as she did before,
except she's retained her short hair length from her time in the Mechon body.
Fiora and Shulk stand side by side; he gives her a once-over.]

Fiora
What is it?

[Shulk stammers.]

Shulk
That hairstyle.
It looks good on you. That's all. Yeah.

Fiora
Really?
I was thinking about growing it out, but...
Hey, which do you prefer?

Shulk
Both, of course.

Fiora
Come on.

[Fiora sits down on the sand.]

Fiora
What am I supposed to say to that?

Shulk
Sorry.

[Shulk sits down next to her.]

Shulk
OK. It's great like that.
Don't change it.

[Fiora sighs.]

Fiora
I'd forgotten what it feels like to do this.

[The view shifts to Sharla, Juju, Reyn and Riki talking on the beach.]

Fiora
I wonder what the future has in store for us.

Shulk
Who knows.

[The view returns to Shulk and Fiora.]

Shulk
I'm sure it will be full of ups and downs.

Fiora
Ups and downs?

[Now Juju casts a line as the three with him watch.]

Shulk
I don't know what the future holds.
But that means I can
imagine the possibilities.
We can achieve anything we put our minds to.

[Juju catches a fish and his companions react to the catch as the view returns
to Shulk and Fiora again.]

Fiora
Yeah.
You're right!

Shulk
Do you remember what the Monado,
I mean Alvis,
said to us the last time we saw him?

Fiora
Yes. Of course.

[Flashback to Alvis, in his appearance as a Homs.]

Alvis
Shulk.
This new world is boundless.
It is home to not only you,
but many forms of life.
I can see it.

[The view zooms in on Alvis' right eye, inside of the pupil of which can be
glimpsed the cosmos.]

Alvis
In this world, all life will
walk towards the future
hand in hand.

[Back in the present, Shulk shields his eyes from the sun as he looks up.]

Shulk
One day I hope I can meet them all.
The people of this endless world.

Fiora
Me too.
We will. I know it.

[Shulk nods and stands up.]

Shulk
We'll meet them.

[Fiora stands to join him.]

Shulk
And whatever happens, we'll
face our future together.

[The view zooms out, high above Shulk and Fiora, Reyn and the others, and all
of Colony 9, to show the mountains across the water, which are the remains of
the Bionis, whose head and five digits are all that are visible above the
surface of the sea.]