Transcript:Dumbass
This page contains a transcript of "Dumbass", the seventh cutscene in Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown. This cutscene immediately plays before starting "Pipeline Destruction" during a campaign run.
Transcript
Avril (narrating): I had a chance to talk to one of the pilots that escaped back here. So, I took it. Apparently, two of our planes took the enemy on alone. They covered the allies, so they could retreat. The hell kind of idiot does a thing like that?! The last pilot to land back at the base... was that scrawny anarchist dude. He always had this dumb grin on his face, like he didn't give a damn about whatever he did to get thrown in here with the rest of us. Was he the one who went gung-ho? I bought 'im a drink later. After the usual small-talk, I turned the topic around to the mission. For an anarchist, he struck me as a bit weird. Nothing like what I expected. He talked a mile a minute and kept going on and on about library books. Not encyclopedias. Those cheesy adventure novels you read in high school. Nothing against those. I like a good story myself, once in a while. But I wasn't here to talk books.
Tabloid: Ah, I remember that day well. Amidst the swirling clouds, a fighter squadron was trying to help its allies reach safety.
Avril: He's pretty foolish, isn't he.
Tabloid: I thought so too. Suddenly a highly skilled enemy fighter squadron appeared and began picking them off at the edges. One by one, they fell right out of the sky.
Avril: Although, I guess there was nobody around that was even more foolish to go to their aid then. So you simply watched things unfold from a distance.
Tabloid: Yeah. I mean who would've ever thought that I'd just go and follow him straight into the enemy squadron like that.
Avril (narrating): After what felt like decades, I finally got to the info I was looking for. He wasn't the guy. He said he was just following his wingman's lead and managed not to die somehow. The hero on this mission was the new guy. The one that killed Harling.
Avril: How did you feel?
Tabloid: I'm still kinda shaken up, actually. But you know, I do feel a certain sense of pride, too.
Avril: He really is foolish, isn't he?
Tabloid: Yup, he sure is.
Avril (narrating): I went to the hangar to have myself a closer look at Trigger's plane. I knew that burnt smell. That's what happens when an engine's been driven to its limit. This pilot was a hot-dog. From now on, I was gonna keep my eye on this idiot. From a distance, though. I didn't want to get too tight with someone who was a better pilot than my dad. Even so, I decided to give this guy's plane a little bit of the ol' Avril magic touch. He needed all the help he could get.