Your party runs into Kitana

While you and Jade are busy with Tanya

Cloud: This is suicide

Tifa: Oh, shut up, we have no choice. They slowly walk up the stairs and open the door connecting the prison to the palace

Tifa pokes her head out of the door and immediately sees a guard looking at her

Tifa: AH SHIT

Palace Guard: Who the fuck are you

Tifa: New staff member

Palace Guard: Oh really, what's today's password? All members of staff should know it

Tifa: All hail Empress Sindel

Palace Guard: Very funny

He grabs his sword and tries to cut Tifa's head off, but she dodges and jumps back, which makes the guard see everyone

Palace guard: Oh, for fuck sake

Aerith: Don't throw your life away, you can't fight us all

Palace guard: Maybe not, but you have prisoners and those infected with the Tarkat virus among you, there would only be one reason you came through that door. The entrance through the sewers is blocked

Byleth: I guess the guards aren't stupid

Scarlet: You can thank that uptight bitch Li Mei for that

Palace Guard: That's Constable Li Mei for you, she trained us to be always prepared

Scarlet: And yet you're in here instead of out there helping her

Palace Guard: I have my duties, and I will not fail

Skarlet: You don't know who I am don't you

Palace guard: Should I

Skarlet: You must be quite new

Skarlet makes a cut on her hand and shoots a tiny blood spear through the guard's eye, killing him in the process

Skarlet: I'm the royal Sorcerer

Aerith: Now let's be careful

Skarlet: LOOK OUT

Skarlet tackles Aerith to the ground as a bladed fan comes at them, which just misses Aerith's neck as it flies back to Kitana

Kitana: You have some nerve to sneak into my mother's palace. I didn't know what to expect when Shoa attacked, but I wasn't expecting this

Tifa: What the hell are you talking about? We don't even know Shoa

Kitana: Don't play dumb, You and Shoa have always been on good terms and wanted the same extreme action for the future of this empire, or am I wrong, Skarlet

Aerith: let go of me

Aerith pushes Skarlet off of her

Skarlet: you're welcome, by the way

Skarlet: you're right princess. Shoa and I agree on many things, but I'm no longer working with him

Kitana: Right, so it's a coincidence that you arrive with the adventurers we haven't been able to locate around the same time Shoa began his attack

Skarlet: It does sound suspicious when you say it like that

Kitana: You're not as smart as I thought

Aerith: How did you even find us, we we're queit

Kitana: How dumb do you think we are? Do you think we didn't have any security measures on someone as special as him? Those chains around him were enhanced, we knew the moment you freed him

Baraka moves forward

Baraka: Please, we need him as much as your sister does

Kitana: I am sorry that you guys have been affected by the curse, but I will not allow my sister to lose her mind, or for her condition to become public knowledge

Reiko: And you don't care how many people you destroy in the process

Reiko makes his presence known

Kitana: Reiko, is that you

Reiko: What's left of me, after Mileena infected me

Kitana: You tried to kill her

Reiko: I was only doing as was expected of me, and don't try to act noble. I saw it with my own eyes, you almost killed her too

Kitana: Because I thought she was lost to the curse

Reiko: Yeah, but you were able to save her thanks to his blood, we all deserve that, not just her

Kitana: it's not that simple, you wouldn't understand

Reiko: Look at me, I got blamed as the cursed Tarkatan for all of the civilians that Mileena killed in her rampage, and then Shoa tried to kill me

Kitana: So you're really not working with him

Reiko: No, we're not. We got what we wanted, so we're gonna get out of here, even if we have to go through you

Kitana: So be it

Kitana gets in fighting position

Jessie: You can't fight all of us

Kitana: I'm confident in my abilities to hold you guys here until the palace guards get here. Every guard that's not guarding the gate will soon be here

Mash: You were just buying time

Kitana: Pretty much, the guards don't have the ability to teleport as my sister and I can

Sonya: Can we help

Tifa: No, stay behind us, we got his, right

Aerith: we can't let Aiden down, let's do this