Author's Note: Here's the last chap of 'The Purge'! :D Like I said, it's pretty short. Maybe one note: I listened to 'Adagio for Tron' while writing this cause it supports atmosphere and displays the feelings of the characters.

One little mindfuck before you read: The next chap will be the last of the story. BAM! xD but don't worry, you'll like the end ;) well at least I hope so

And now ENJOY and PLEASE REVIEW! :)

END OF LINE

/The Purge (pt 4)/

They didn't move until the sentry's light cycle was out of hearing.
As they were falling down the chasm the white one had fired a light cable that had clung to a ledge like a grappling hook. Susan had just been able to catch the cable, just above the hand of the white one. He had signaled her to be silent, since the sentry couldn't see them from the ledge.
So they froze in total silence and their own weight tore at their arms. Susan pressed her lids together and ground her teeth. All her muscles were tensed to the worst and it hurt incredibly bad.
The sound of the sentry light cycle had faded away fully now. The white one pressed a button and slowly they got pulled up. They heaved themselves on the ledge, lay on the back and panted of exhaustion.
Susan's helmet had formed back, but she kept her eyes closed. Her limbs felt like pudding, especially her arms, and an uncomfortable tingling pain lingered in her entire body.
"Is everything all right?", came an electronic voice next to her.
She slowly opened her eyes. The white one kneeled beside her.
"Yeah..." Susan coughed and leant onto her elbows. "Yeah, I'm okay. Thanks... I wouldn't have made it without you..."
He laughed mechanically. "Like I said..." His helmet formed back and uncovered the smiling pale face with the silver eyes. "I won't leave you alone."
"Zuse!", Susan gasped. "What the...? How did you...? I'm..." She was so taken by surprise that she couldn't even form a real sentence.
All of those cycles she had admired this white rider, had even hated him at first for destroying her bike, and now it turned out to be one of her confidants, to be exactly that one, who she had never expected anything like this from. Zuse had always been just the playful club owner to her, elegant and peaceful. That he now turned out to be a master of light cycle - riding, totally distbured her picture of him and stunned her so much that she could just stare at him speechlessly.
He bit his bottom lip lightly smiling. "I wanted to tell you before..."
Suddenly something came to her mind. "The ISOs! Have you been to the Towers?"
He sighed sadly. "Unfortunately the streets to the Towers were cordoned off everywhere and the solar sailers were in abeyance. I was just looking for a way to the Towers through the Outlands, when I found you. Luckily..."
She stood up. "Alright. That means we have to find a way to the ISO Towers as fast as possible. Where's your light cycle?"
He seperated the two parts of the white baton in his hand and white streams of light formed his light cycle, but they were twitching while doing so. Then they sprung back into the baton.
"It is damaged... We cannot count on it now."
Susan felt panic rise inside her. "But we have to go there! Quorra and I..."
"Quorra?", he asked wonderingly.
"Yes, I met her shortly after we've seperated. We overheard a speech by CLU, wherein he announced that every ISO should get erased, that the Grid should get purged from them!"
Zuse's jaw dropped. "All of them?"
She nodded. "I helped Quorra out of the city. I told her to fly to the Towers with an airship and warn them, but now that this has been a mistake and that I just sent her into the lion's den..." Her voice became so shaky at the end, that she couldn't go on speaking. She was so frightened. CLU must not carry out his threat. He had to be stopped.
Zuse gently put his hands on her shoulders. "Quorra certainly managed to warn them, but I would say, we go there nonetheless. And we must hurry."
"But how?"
"On foot."
"But this could take us an eternity!"
"Well, we have to be quick. And now don't waste time and come!"
He ran off and she followed him.
They ran over the uneven terrain of the Outlands for a long time, had to climb up big rocks sometimes, and soon they were out of breath, but that didn't matter. They could not stop. When they reached the top of a hill, Susan and Zuse took heart at the sight of the ISO Towers.
"Look! We almost made it!"
There something caught Susan's eye. Around the huge gleaming Towers there were orange lights everywhere.
Susan's heart dropped. "CLU..."
Suddenly hundreds of airships shot at the Towers and they were slowly losing their hold. It didn't take long and the ISO Towers collapsed with a loud crash.
"No...", Susan breathed.
Over the crash of the collapsing Towers they could hear thousands of ISOs screech.
Susan began to cry and desperately buried her hands in her hair. Panicking, she looked at Zuse, seeking for help, but he was just thunderstruck staring straightforward, where CLU's army kept firing at full blast.
She looked forward again and screamed. She screamed all her frustration from her soul, while she could only watch how more and more ISOs were being murdured.
Her cheeks were soaking wet from all those tears that ran over her face. Still crying, she felt how all strength escaped her body. Her legs gave way to her body's weight. Kneeling she kept whining and stretched her arms out to the ISOs.
They were dead. All of them were dead. The miracle. There was none left.
Above her she could hear the rumbling of thunder, and the first raindrops fell down as if the Grid's sky was crying with her.