Again I forgot about Yuffie. She knew where the prison was, and I really don't think she wanted to go with the Turks, so she tagged along with us.
     "So which was is it?" I asked Yuffie.
     "I'll tells ya what way it bes," came the all to familiar voice above us. A hatch in the air duct opened up and Marlene came falling through it. Apparently she didn't know how far it was from the ground when she jumped because she fell a good fifteen feet, landing face flat on the floor with a sickening thwack. Behind her, Barret crawled out of the air duct and hopped down to the floor, landing on his feet.
     "Hey Seph," he said. "Ya don' hafta worry 'bout us. Let's jus' get out o' here. Oh, and don' worry 'bout Marlene. She'll be fine."
     "Well that saves us some time," Aeris said. "Now we just have to worry about getting our asses out of here unburned."
     After Aeris spoke, Marlene's head shot up and looked straight at Barret.
     "Yo Marlene, you say a goddam thing and I'll leave ya to burn. Trust me, you'll be darker than I am now."
     "Hey! Niggapapa! Stop stealin' my lines!" Marlene stood up unharmed.
     "So Seph, where's Dyne at?" Barret asked.
     "Oh, he's with the Turks. Come on, let's head to the emergency elevator."
     We headed to the elevator. Along the way, I explained the Turks' situation to Barret. It was probably for the best since we found the Turks and Dyne waiting for the same elevator as us.
     Hey everyone! How's it going?
     The elevator door slid open, and we all crammed into the elevator. The doors closed and the little red light for the maximum weight exceeded went on.
     "Oh crap," Tseng said. "Some of us will have to wait."
     "In a burning building!?" Yuffie yelled. "There's not enough time."
     "Well I can fly," I said. "I'll just jump."
     "Just you won't take enough weight off," Tseng said. "You'll need to take like, three other people with you."
     Don't worry. I got this all worked out.
     "Mother? Where are you?" I said looking around the elevator. She wasn't anywhere I could see, until I saw the hatch on the top of the elevator swinging open. "Mother? What're you planning?"
     Well, we're going down aren't we? I'm just cutting this pesky wire that's holding us on the up side.
     "No- wait!"
     It was too late. She went all out trying to get the elevator to fall. She cut the cables and blew out the emergency brakes, and now we were in a plummeting elevator of doom.
     Don't worry. Just jump when we're at the bottom. We'll be fine.
     The elevator numbers were rolling back extremely fast. 65-61-56-49.
     "Yo!" Barret yelled. "I got this. Somebody peel up some floor so I can get my gunarm under dis elevator."
     The Turks went to work pulling up a lower floor panel. 41-32-25. They finally pulled the metal panel up off the ground. Green lights shot up around Barret in that dreadful limit break style. As opposed as I am to using those things, if he has a plan, then I'm good with it. 18-12-5. Barret stuck his gunarm in the hole and began his infamous 'Catastrophe' limit break. The gunarm shot out a bunch of smoke and steam and other stuff, fighting the force of the falling elevator and slowing our decent. 4-3-2.
     Jump!
     The elevator stopped right at the first floor. Dyne forced the doors open, and everybody slowly left.
     "Yo! Y'all better hurry," Barret said. "Don't you know what happens after this?"
     Oh shit, he's right. That was just the charge up for his most powerful attack. Now we were all panicked and rushing out of the elevator. All except Mother that is. She was cheering for her jump plan that saved the day. I grabbed her by the head and yanked her out of the elevator.
     Whee!
     After we got out of the elevator and ran halfway across the room, Barret shot off a giant blast, destroying the elevator shaft and a good portion of the room. The wall to the outside fell, and once Barret was done, we all left through the opening. When we stepped outside; however, we encountered a pack of twenty machine gun-toting Cait Siths.