Scene begins with a sky view that gradually pans over many ravines and canyons, eventually revealing a single twisting and curving railway track with a several car train traveling along it.
Voice Over - Vanille: The thirteen days after we awoke were the beginning of the end.
Scene fades out to black then fades in to inside the train, revealing people in white robes and hoods lining either side of the compartment. Their faces are covered by hoods and their hands appeared to be shackled by some kind of wrist restraints.
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| Purge Deportees |
Scene fades out then back in while panning over the many occupants.
Scene once again returns to an outside view, showing the train racing along the railway towards an unknown location.
Scene fades to black as the game logo appears.
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| FINAL FANTASY XIII |
Scene snaps back to inside of the train. The door opens to reveal a fully armored soldier with glowing orange eyes and carrying an assault rifle with a red laser sight.
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| Opening Scene |
He walks into the room, glancing towards his right and then to his left. He points his weapon at one of the robed figures, switching briefly to the virtual display of his helmet.
Scene shifts momentarily to an outside view, showing that the train has left the ravine and entered a dark cave.
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| Lightning and Sazh |
Scene snaps back to inside the train compartment, the focus revealing the soft features of a woman's face.
Sazh: You serious?
Lightning: Be quiet.
Scene snaps over to the face of the man that had spoken, revealing that he had brown skin and dark eyes. He glances towards the soldier before looking back down.
Sazh: Best of luck.
Scene briefly returns to an outside view, showing the rail tracks passing swiftly. Camera pans up to reveal some type of light barrier that switches from a pale purple to deep rose pink. The train crashes through this barrier.
Scene returns to inside the train compartment as the soldier staggers forward. One of the robed figures stands up and flips over the soldier, knocking him backwards and making him drop some type of small handheld device. The robed figure smashes the heel of her foot into the device, making it spark wildly. The wrist restraints once binding the people on the train fall off.
Sazh: She did it.
Two more soldiers appear, raising their weapons.
Soldier 1: Hands high!
Soldier 2: Freeze!
They begin to fire at the first robed figure. She flips out of the robe and lands on her feet. She's wearing a variation of the standard Guardian Corps uniform. The green metallic pauldron over her left shoulder bearing yellow stripes that denotes her previous rank as a sergeant. She carries her gun blade in a black case which hangs off her belt, and is wearing a necklace with a lightning bolt pendant.
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| Lightning Farron |
She swings her right leg towards them, knocking them to the ground. One goes down, but the other stays up. She grabs the weapon, pointing it down. Then back hands the soldier.
Scene shifts to the rose haired woman running up to a door and holding up a gun. She runs through the open door way and begins shooting. A soldier runs out at the gunfire and begins to fire, but she swiftly kicks him back. He tries to rise back up, but she shoots him, a ghost of a smile on her face.
Scene shifts back to another compartment as the man that had talked to the woman is revealed without his robe. He is a dark skinned man with an afro. He's wearing an olive coat over khaki trousers, a white buttoned down shirt, black buckled engineering boots, and black fingerless gloves.
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| Sazh Katzroy |
He kneels in front of a small blond haired boy, placing his hand on the boy's left shoulder.
Sazh: You alright?
The boy looks up and the scene changes to a facial view of Sazh. The dark skinned man smiled reassuringly.
Sazh: I'm not a l'Cie.
Camera pans up to Sazh's hair to reveal a small yellow chick, a baby chocobo.
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| Chocobo Chick |
It pops out of the afro and kweh's cutely at the boy. The blond haired boy is initially surprised, but then smiles.
Scene snaps back to the rose haired woman as she snaps her fingers, an electric blue static like energy covering her body. She then flips backwards and collides with a soldier that had been behind her, pinning him there.
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| Antimatter Manipulation |
She then jumps off of the soldier, using him as a spring board, and shoots through the compartment to the other side, turning so that her feet collided with another soldier.
While still mid air, she turns and fires her weapon at other soldiers. She then flips while still mid air and plants her feet on the ceiling before taking aim at another soldier.
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| Antimatter Manipulation |
Scene shifts briefly to the virtual readout of a soldier's helmet as she fires, cracking the helmet. Scene then switches back to normal as Sazh appears carrying several guns on his back and one in his hands. He was being followed by several other passengers who were now holding guns.
Sazh: So far, so good.
View switches back to Lightning as Sazh and the others join her.
Sazh: They all want to fight.
Lightning: (pulls out her gun blade and holds it both hands) Good for them.
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| Lightning and Sazh |
Scene shifts back to an outside view as it shows the train entering an expansive area with many bridges, rail way tracks, what appears to be floating buildings, and several flying machines. Smoke is billowing up from several places, along with many fires.
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| The Hanging Edge |
Scene slides over to a view of the rose haired woman leaning out to survey the surroundings from an open door way. She turns as the camera approaches her, giving us a closer look at her face and her pale blue eyes.
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| Lightning at Hanging Edge |
Scene then shifts to several flying machines that begin to open fire on the train. The camera follows one craft in particular as it flies around before revealing the train once more.
Scene snaps back to Lightning and Sazh.
Lightning: (grabbing some type of launcher from Sazh) Give me that.
She holds it up and takes aim at one of the flying ships. She then fires the launcher and the missile shoots through the air, colliding with its intended target and exploding. She fires a second time and misses, hitting an archway. A winged creature shoots lightning from its mouth, colliding with the railway and gradually getting closer to the train until finally it hits it, causing the back car to disconnect and derail completely.
Scene shifts to one of the bridges to reveal that several civilians were firing guns and soldiers were firing back.
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| PSICOM |
Camera pans over to one soldier in particular that is pressing buttons on a wrist device, a glowing circular gate just above him. Several hound likes creatures materialized from the gate. The gate then expanded as a white, bipedal behemoth emerged, swinging its weapon around before roaring into the air.
Scene switches to an aerial view as a white flying machine with a long moving tail comes into view. It makes directly for the damaged train that is still barreling down the tracks. It lands on the train forcing it to come to a stop. It slaps its tail against the train, trying to break it open.
Scene snaps into the inside of the train compartment as Lightning and Sazh covered their heads. The rose haired woman then stands up.
Sazh: Run!
Lightning runs forward as Sazh tries to return to his feet.
Sazh: I meant away!
Lightning jumps up the debris and out of the hole in the train's roof.
End of Opening Cut Scene
Ch. 1: Fields of War
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