This story takes place after the events of the Chorus Trilogy.
The Reds and Blues stand at the ready as Hargrove's troops continue to break down the door. Epsilon makes his grand speech and deconstructs into many AI fragments, powering the Meta Suit donned by Tucker. Speech is over and the room goes eerily silent for a while. A few moments later, an explosion sends the door flying directly towards Tucker. In the eyes of Tucker and his acquired time-manipulation ability, he was startled to see the door approaching so slowly, so gracefully. Instantly captivated by the slo-mo explosion, he thought to himself how awesome all of that was. With the voice of Epsilon-Gamma guiding him, he managed to rewind time, pushing the relevant people out of the way before re-engaging the incoming door and enemies. Door embedding itself into the wall behind the team, the shooting begins. Being the trained soldiers that they are, they managed to hold their ground against the basic-level henchmen.
When the first wave of enemies has been cleared out, Tucker instructs the rest to get out of the room and follow his lead. They make their way into the wide and tall corridors of the compound. Not long after they make their first left turn, a Mantis comes bursting through the outer wall. And then another. And another. However, these weren't just regular Manti, for they were clad in black metallic armour with neon blue decals around. Must be the elite class, running on their own servers. Now they are faced with 3 overpowered Manti aiming their weapons at the Reds and Blues. With a confident "I got this", Tucker gestures the rest to back off and proceeds to test out his new powers. Immediately, he turns invisible, heading towards the nearest wall to the closest Mantis. He ran up the wall and jumps off with great force, delivering a powerful punch to the side of the first Mantis, still confused as to where he has gone. Underestimating the true power of his super strength, the Mantis explodes in a ball of fire, sending Tucker flying through the wall he was just on. With a quick time reversal, Tucker adjusts his trajectory such that the blast propels him towards the Mantis at the back, decimating it in the process. However, the third Mantis turns its attention to face the rest of the Reds and Blues. Seeing this move long beforehand, the second Mantis' explosion propels him towards the Reds and Blues. Using his future-sight again, whilst he is still in the air, he releases a bubble shield at the right moment and before the Mantis got to finish its clip, it had already been uppercut into an incendiary mess.
That was the end of it. The gang eventually get picked up by Carolina and Wash in a Pelican and they all proceed to clear up the rest of Hargrove's troops. Once that is done, they say their goodbyes to the relevant folk on Chorus, with Kimball being the only person who knows where they are going. After returning to raid some loot from the treasure room, the crew head off in the Pelican, with prospects of a peaceful life on a desolate planet, free from the chaos of war. With Carolina behind the wheel and the rest of the crew in the passenger bay, they head towards an uninhabited planet. Tucker places the Meta suit in sitting position in one of the right row seats, all the way at the back. He proceeds to don his regular Spartan suit. And so Grif sits on the floor eating food as always. Wash, Tucker, Simmons, Donut and Sarge discuss their next course of action. Meanwhile, Caboose sits at the back of the Pelican facing the Meta suit, replaying Epsilon's final message over and over again. He still can't believe Church is gone for good this time.
As tears begin to well up in his eyes again, the Meta suit begins blinking bright red and beeping non-stop.