Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Page #4

This was your idea?

We're just helping the captain out.

Where's your sense of romance?

You've seen how

the captain looks at her.

It's amore, baby.

What's going on?

It's probably just a glitch.

-Listen, Aki--

-I'm still mad at you.

-You're mad?

-Leaving your helmet on.

Not telling me who you were.

That doesn't seem a little childish?

I was upset when you left for

the Zeus Station without a word.

-Now you know what was going on.

-Yeah.

My operation had

to be done in zero grav.

Fine.

I was there on a job

and you wouldn't even see me.

I was probably helping Dr. Sid collect

spirit waves.

-Now I know.

-I'm sorry!

Well, me too! We're both sorry.

Will you tell me about them?

About what?

About the spirits you've collected.

I was infected by a Phantom

during an experiment.

-Normally, no one could have survived.

-How did you?

Dr. Sid created a membrane around

the infection, keeping me alive.

So the first spirit wave was me.

The second was a fish.

A fish?

The third was a deer I found

in a wildlife preserve outside Moscow.

The fourth was a bird.

Ever tried to track a sparrow

from outer space? It's no fun.

-You'd probably love that.

-Right, I probably would.

And then there was that plant

I collected from Times Square.

-I thought that was number six.

-What?

You skipped one.

The fifth was a llttle girl dying

in a hospital emergency room.

I retrieved the sample

in time, but she....

I told her everything had a spirit:

Dogs, cats, trees, llttle girls.

Even the Earth.

I told her she wasn't dying,

but returning to the Earth's spirit...

...to Gaia.

She told me that she was ready to die.

She said I didn't have to make up

stories to make her feel better.

Only 7 years old and ready to die.

I'm sorry.

I have work to do. I have to find

the seventh and eighth spirits.

Don't, please.

You don't believe any of this, do you?

I just don't know, Aki.

Is this why you shut me out?

You should have told me.

I don't know

how much time I have left.

Who does?

I'd better get back to scanning.

Captain Edwards...

...you extracted a Dr. Ross from

Old New York several days ago?

-Yes, sir.

-What were your impressions of her?

She seemed very capable

and determined, sir.

You and the Deep Eyes are being

temporarily reassigned.

You will guard Dr. Ross

when she reenters the wasteland.

Understood, sir.

You don't understand yet, captain.

Report any aberrant behavior

in Dr. Ross to the major immediately.

Aberrant behavior?

The woman carries an alien infestation.

We don't know what it may be doing to her.

Alien presence might affect her judgment.

It may be manipulating the doctor for their very own purpose.

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