This promises to be a bit longer and
potentially more interesting than the last couple.
So, once we've got Bahamut along for
the ride, it's back to good old Earth, where we find that we're too
late to stop the Giant of Bab-Il from coming back to life. Like I
said before, this really wouldn't have mattered. It would have
happened anyway because it's what happens next in the story even if
we don't get Bahamut.
So let's just get into this, shall we?
As soon as we get back to Earth, the
Giant of Bab-Il shows up and starts blowing the hell out of
everything in sight. FoSoYa says you're too late to prevent the
attack, but like I said an issue or two ago, this would have happened
even if we'd come straight here instead of going after Bahamut first.
But at least we can stop the attack.
Doing exactly that is made much easier
with help from the Dwarves, who somehow managed to get Yang out of
the Sylph Cave and then bring their tanks out of the Underground, and
from Cid and a fleet of Airships, who also has Edward, the Mysidian
Elder and Palom and Porum, who the Elder somehow got the
petrification off of, on various ships. Cid comes down and takes the
party to the Giant's mouth so they can go on in and take out the
Giant's main computer.
Along the way, there are a few
interesting things that happen. One is that instead of having the
standard B1-B2-B3 floor structure that most dungeons do, this one has
the levels named after various body parts, as in Mouth, Neck, et
cetera on down to Stomach, I believe.
Perhaps one of my favorite guarded
chests of all time is in this dungeon. There's one on one of the
later levels that has an Elixer in it. The monster guarding it is
called the Last Arm. This is the only one of these in the game, and
if you attack it in just the right way, it does a rather unique
counter attack called Fission. Yeah, as in the technical name for
the splitting of atoms in nuclear reactions. If FoSoYa, or Ryidia if
she has it, uses the Nuke spell on it, it'll do Fission. Sure, it'll
damage the entire party, but it'll also be the end of the Last Arm.
Not long after, it's the last battle
against the Four Fiends of Elements. They tell you that Zemus
brought them back to life so they could stop you for him. This fight
is one that's always been about fifty-fifty for me. There's a save
point on the level above where the Fiends are, but I never use it
just in case I need to build up my levels on the moon before I go in
and work my way to this point. Fortunately, this time around I made
it through with no trouble, so I went and saved before I went on to
the main boss battle here, against the Giant's CPU.
The CPU is made up of three orbs.
One's an attacker, one's a defender, and the third and largest is the
CPU. Kinda gotta be careful here and just take out the defender
first, avoiding the attack orb as much as possible. Take them both
out, and the main one will hit you with something called Globe199.
That attack can take out any one of the party members it hits in one
shot, and there's no defense against it. The maser hits of the
attacker are far more bearable, and the lower damage is easier to
fix. The only downside for me is that the main CPU part of this boss
casts Wall on itself so that it's protected against magic attacks.
Worse yet, it seemed to recast it's wall spell just as I used a Black
Magic spell on it, so I wound up blasting my own guys a few times
instead.
But eventually, I did beat the thing.
After the main core of the robot explodes, Golbez shows up again,
cursing the party for ending his plan. Granted, this is supposed to
be a face turn here, but it makes Golbez look like a real moron.
We're supposed to think his plan was to take over the world, not
destroy it.
FoSoYa does some kind of magic on
Golbez, breaking him free of that Zemus guy we heard about on the
moon. Golbez then remembers his dad's name, thereby revealing that
he's Cecil's brother. Golbez and FuSoYa go running off to the moon
so that the former can get revenge. The Giant begins to collapse and
Kain shows up to lead the party back out.
Back on the Big Whale, Kain rejoins the
party and says that Edge can kill him if Kain falls under Zemus'
control again.
Once all that's decided, Cecil decides
it's time for the party to head off to the moon, too. He tells Rosa
and Rydia to get off the ship because he wants them to be safe. Edge
takes the opportunity to be a dick to Rydia. Not much of a spoiler
here, Edge has a crush on Rydia.
The ladies begrudgingly get off the
ship, or at least they seem to, and the men go to the moon to stir up
the final fight. When they get there, the men find a surprise.
Seems Rosa and Rydia didn't get off the
ship, and Rosa sweet talks the pair back onto the team because she
actually loves Cecil enough that she can't stand to be without him.
I could go right on to the last part of
the story here, but there are a few last side items I want to take
care of first, so we'll get to those in issue 21: Excalibur Side
Items.
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