Elle Perrault/Arcade

* **Elle**: Well, since you went easy on me during the fight… I suppose I’ll have to forgive you, just like Cinderella did in *le conte de fées original* (the original fairy tale) with her wicked stepsisters for their meanness.
* **Aurora**: (Speaking of *Märchen* (fairy tales)… Are you familiar with *Die Geschwister der Märchentradition* (The Siblings of Fairy Tale Lore)?)
* **Elle**: *Non. Pourquoi le demandes-tu?* (No. Why do you ask?)
* **Aurora**: (From what *meine drei Tanten* (my three aunts) told me when I was just a small child, *Die Geschwister* was formed long ago by a small group of people who each wished to represent a specific *Märchen*, and they all shared one thing in common: the aim to preserve the lore of their respective stories. And, as more *Märchen* were written, the group expanded to include additional representatives of the tales and survived all the way to *die heutige Tag* (the present day), where they chose me because they knew I was born to be *Dornröschen* (Sleeping Beauty). Furthermore, judging by the circumstances you’ve been through with your step-family, you would make a perfect fit for Cinderella. I trust you will get your *glücklich bis ans Lebensende* (happily ever after), just as I await mine?)
* **Elle**: You could never be more right.

*(A ring of fire appears around Elle, at her feet, and drags her screaming into it. Four seconds later, we see her in a Satanic temple where Mephisto's acolytes are seen kneeling around a glowing, orange-hot pentagram, performing a ritual of demonic nature. All of them wear sleeveless black leather longcoats with red gothic designs on the front, as well as black arm bands, dark gray pants, and black shoes.)*

* **Acolytes**: *(chanting in a demonic language)* *Gont Haeng Mephisto, esaeu qae s'aez la'm xael aeun sleves, la'm yozz esaeu iaiae yiz laenhg.* (Dark Lord Mephisto, you to whom we bow ourselves, we summon you into this world.)
* **Elle**: I think I must have turned up at the wrong place for a *fin d'un compte de fée* (fairytale ending).

*(Cain, one of the acolytes, stands up to face Elle.)*

* **Cain**: So, you dare interrupt my ritual, girl with fairytale delusions?
* **Elle**: Deluded, am I? *Le pot appelle la bouilloire noire* (the pot calls the kettle black).
* **Cain**: Foolish young woman, you misunderstand. This ritual to bring Mephisto into this world to create a living Hell in it is irrefutably inexorable.
* **Elle**: After I'm finished with your boss and you, the *heureux pour toujours* (happily ever after) I've dreamed of from childhood will be mine to achieve, and nothing can stop me.
* **Cain**: Do you honestly expect me to believe needless Disney lies like yours? I will put it in a short and simple way that only the children who listen to your foolish stories before bedtime can understand. There is no such thing as happily ever after!
* **Elle**: Oh, is that so? Well, then... *(goes into her fighting stance)* I guess you'll have to take your cynical claims elsewhere.
* **Cain**: You wish to test me, do you? If you fail, you will be sacrificed to my Lord. *(chanting alongside the other acolytes to continue their ritual before going into his fighting stance)* *Rael, yaeza, aeun Haeng! Niza! Niza, yoq ya minali aem sazz zoes xunr yiz laenhg gaelr uaiihk's yabbia apiedli raeyirdh liv'ake chmq aewabbi mnaez uq'n!* (Now, come, our Lord! Rise! Rise, that the fires of Hell may burn this world down until there exists nothing living left over from it!)

### Final Boss Battle - vs. Mephisto

*(After the fight, a badly-beaten Cain is down on one knee and one hand.)*

* **Cain**: Goddamn you... I never expected to be defeated... by a scullery maid such as yourself. But no matter how hard you try... You cannot stop my lord, Mephisto's arrival... into this world. My ritual... has already begun!
* **Elle**: It seems to me that you’re one of the only people I don’t want to forgive for their meanness. And so, *la marionnette de l'enfer* (Hell’s puppet) died sadly ever after. *La fin!* (The end!) *(breaks the toes off her glass slippers in her hands and jams the broken glass points into his eyes, killing him, then, after she takes her broken shoes, which then magically piece themselves back together once they leave his eyes, out of him, the now-dead acolyte falls to the floor in a pool of his own blood)*

*(Then, a ring of fire bursts from the glowing pentagram in the middle of the temple in front of Elle, and from it emerges Mephisto.)*

* **Mephisto**: *(looking down at Cain's corpse)* No... *(turning to face Elle)* How dare my most trusted servant be slain at your hands?(spreads out his arms, obliterating the whole temple into ashes, which then burn away, and turning everything around him into a Hell-like area with flames erupting around him and Fiona and a glowing red pentagram in the middle of the area) I suppose I will have to face you myself!
* **Elle**: Mephisto, I’ve come to put an end to you before you put an end to my *fin d'un compte de fée*.
* **Mephisto**: Hahahahaha… Foolish girl, you fail to understand. You believe too much in a concept that is so overly whimsical and idealistic in nature that it is completely nonexistent for me to take you seriously.
* **Elle**: *Non, vous vous trompez.* (No, you’re wrong.) *Contes de fées* (fairy tales) are real, and nothing can change that fact.
* **Mephisto**: Oh, *really*? Says who?
* **Elle**: A girl who claims to be the reincarnation of *La Belle au bois dormant* (Sleeping Beauty). She thinks I should join this deep-guess-wished-her-something-or-other society of hers, as she believes me to be suitable in every aspect for the part of *Cendrillon* (Cinderella).
* **Mephisto**: And you believe HER? All her foolish little society is is nothing more than bedtime-story nonsense! And, once you never walk the Earth again, your Stepmother Dearest will probably have to cut the toes and heels off your stepsisters so that their feet can fit in those soon-to-be broken shards that you carry in your hands.
* **Elle**: If you think you can change the ending to my story with your plans of creating *Enfer sur Terre* (Hell on Earth), I wouldn’t call you any better than her. And if I’m not home before le minuit... *(goes into her fighting stance)* she’ll probably do to me what I must now do to you.
* **Mephisto**: If this is how you wish it to be, then so be it. *(going into his fighting stance as well)* May you burn into ashes in the endless inferno!

### Hidden Boss Battle - vs. Tobin

*To fight Tobin in Arcade Mode before the sub-boss and final boss battles (this can be done on any difficulty level), the following criteria must be met:*

* Elle must be, and remain, your chosen character for the duration of the Arcade run.
* Don't lose any matches, and don't continue even once.
* Land five first attacks.
* Get at least one perfect victory.
* Win at least three or more rounds with a Nightmare Inducer.
* Win at least three times with an Ultimate Nightmare.

*(See SUB-BOSS BATTLE - vs. Cain for the post-rival battle cutscene, which plays before the hidden boss battle instead of the sub-boss battle if the conditions to fight Tobin in Arcade Mode are met.)*

*(After the rival battle, two black-robed men in pig masks with long, black wigs attached to said masks show up out of nowhere to take Elle by one arm each and drag her away, then we cut to black. Three seconds later, she wakes up in the hidden boss stage, the abandoned public washroom.)*

* **Tobin**: *(appearing in front of Elle)* Hello, Elle. I want to play a game.
* **Elle**: I don't know who you are, but this is not how *l'histoire de Cendrillon* (the story of Cinderella) is supposed to end.
* **Tobin**: As a twist to this little "bedtime story" of yours, I have arranged to show you that the pain of being so constantly abused at the hands of your own stepmother and stepsisters is like that of walking on what will soon be the shards of the glass slippers that you hold in your hands. Only then will you realize that life is no fairy tale and that you don't get a happy ending.
* **Elle**: If I don't deserve a *fin heureuse* (happy ending)... *(goes into her fighting stance)* then I'm afraid neither will you.
* **Tobin**: Then so be it. *(going into his fighting stance)* Fight me or die. Make your choice.

### After winning against Tobin

*(After the fight, a badly-beaten Tobin is down on one knee and one hand.)*

* **Tobin**: Congratulations... on winning my game. Most people are so ungrateful to be alive... But not you. *(passes out onto the bathroom floor)*
* **Elle**: You should have known better than to try to take my *heureux pour toujours* away from me. Now, if you'll excuse me... *(walks out of the area)* I only have a few more hours before the clock strikes twelve.

### Ending

*(Elle hurriedly runs up the stairway to Hell, carrying a glass slipper in each hand.)*

**Elle**: *(narrating)* Although I had defeated Mephisto and brought an end to *la menace de son mal* (the threat of his evil), my joy over *cette victoire* (this victory) was very short-lived, for the clock had already struck midnight, and as per my fairy godmother's stipulation, I had to be home by then! Otherwise, my stepmother would kill me. Then, afterwards, she'd flay the flesh from me to make into a nice chair and have my head mounted on a wall.

*(Back at the Perrault mansion, Elle stands before Vivienne, who, arms folded, gives her a displeased look. The older woman then snatches the glass slippers from her stepdaughter's hands and throws them down onto the floor, breaking them, and some of the shards fly up and graphically embed in her arms, heart, lower jaw, and brain, killing her, much to the horror of Elle's two stepsisters, who wanted to try on the slippers. Afterwards, Elle walks out of the mansion, away from Vivienne's heavily stab-wounded corpse, which lies in the distance in a pool of her own blood, with the doors opening behind her, and her glass slippers magically repair themselves and return to her hands.)*

**Elle**: *(narrating)* When I got home, Vivienne wanted to know where I'd been. When I couldn't answer, she took the glass slippers from my hands and smashed them to the mansion floor, which devastated my stepsisters, who wanted to try them on. But, the shards embedded in her body, killing her in an instant, before magically piecing themselves back together and returning to me. I've made my own *heureux pour toujours* (happily ever after). *Je ne serai plus son esclave!* (I will no longer be her slave!)

*(Cut to pre-credits roll, where the first 3 minutes and 43 seconds of "I.V" by X Japan start playing as we are treated to waist-up renders of all the characters, tinted red, with the names of their voice actors/actresses in Face Your Fears text on their left or right on a black screen. Afterwards, the credits start rolling, during which a different song, Thom Yorke's "Unmade," can be heard playing.)*