- Shantotto: They forgot that, since I'm on your team... we'll foil their crude scheme!
- Ultimecia: You think to keep the gate from being prised open?
- Shantotto: You've both the garb of a jester and the wit of one! I could laugh at you for days before being done. Now be good boys and girls and lay your heads down to rest. Leave opening the gate to one who can do it with zest.
- Ultimecia: You wish to swoop in and steal our thunder?
- Shantotto: I'm saying I've made it my mission, to bring your failed plan to fruition.
- Ultimecia: You're so full of yourself, you're bursting at the seams. It's no wonder everyone gives you a wide berth.
- Shantotto: Confusing yourself with others now, are we? I can't fathom how wretched your life must be.
- Ultimecia: My condolences on the loss of your hearing, but such is old age.
- Shantotto: More like your mind is so infantile, that even listening proves a trial.
- Ultimecia: Is that so... Now I want those cavalier lips of yours kissing dirt.
- Shantotto: In due time you shall come to rue, biting off more than you can chew.
- Ultimecia: Or you will rue misjudging me.
- Sephiroth: [Approaching Terra Branford] So sorry. Wouldn't want you dying too soon.
- [Terra charges an attack]
- Sephiroth: Good. You have some life left in you.
- Zidane Tribal: Terra!
- The Emperor: [Stepping on Zidane] There is no one to help you now.
- Kuja: It would seem that is my cue.
- The Emperor: Traitor!
- The Emperor: Your pluck is admirable, but alas, once we have what we seek, we shall dispose of you.
- Zidane Tribal: You're free to try, but good luck. They're on our side.
- The Emperor: Feckless bleating.
- Lightning: [after rescuing Noctis from a Manikin] You okay?
- [Approaches Noctis, who takes a defensive stance]
- Lightning: Wait.
- Noctis Lucis Caelum: You real?
- Lightning: What's it look like?
- [Indicating the defeated Manikin]
- Lightning: I'm sure you can figure it out.
- Noctis Lucis Caelum: ...I gotta be dreaming.
- Lightning: Sorry, but you're wide awake. First-timer, huh?
- Noctis Lucis Caelum: So then, you're from around here?
- Lightning: [Shakes head] However, others like us should be here.
- Sephiroth: [Approaching Cloud Strife, back-to-back against Bartz] So, Cloud, we meet again.
- Bartz Klauser: [to Cloud] Cloud, what the blazes- Wait, that is your name, right? Cloud? Like puffs in the sky?
- Shantotto: [Activating communication between Materia's and Spiritus's realms] Don't waste the last drops of our precious time gawking; the situation demands we begin talking!
- Warrior of Light: [to Noctis] Gawking? Was I gawking?
- Noctis Lucis Caelum: What're you asking me for?
- Kefka Palazzo: [defeated] It's not enough... Destroy more... Have got to destroy more!
- Terra Branford: Just stop! None of this makes any sense.
- Kefka Palazzo: Destruction isn't supposed to make sense! It's only fun when it's senseless! Why create, when it will only be destroyed? Why cling to life, knowing that you have to die? None of it will have meant anything once you do!
- Terra Branford: We live to protect what we hold dear. As long as you have that, you can find the meaning on your own.
- Kefka Palazzo: Meaning, shmeaning! The whole world's going bye-bye! You included! Life... dreams... hope... Where do they come from? And where do they go? None of that junk is enough to fulfill your hearts! Destruction! Destruction is what makes life worth living! Destroy! Destroy! Destroy! Let's destroy everything!
- [Kefka's body explodes into a ball of lightning, his sorrowful laughter lingering in the air]
- Terra Branford: It was your broken heart... you were trying to fill it with destruction.
- [bows her head solemnly]
- Terra Branford: This misery must not be repeated - ever. I must keep moving forward.