The Storm marches on, undeterred as nature and Rachel will it. It blots out the skies under its black clouds, issuing its manifesto of uncontainable malice for all to see.

As Rachel stares down the House in her way, she sees someone coming. She catches the projectile person and sees who they are. "Reverend Fischer? What brings you here?"

Lisbeth, dazed out of her mind, tells Rachel everything: "Master! She knows you're coming! She's going to try and fight you!"

Rachel shrugs her shoulders before waving her hand along the Storm she is commandeering. "Calm down. We both know how this will go: despite her efforts, Victoria will fall. I mean, just look at what happened in Wet-Dry World."

"Yeah, speaking of, uh… she's defeated the Sunken."

Rachel huffs in surprise. "None at all left in her mind?"

Lisbeth nods her head, a cross look on her face. She's surprised by the proud laugh Rachel lets out, and even more so when she is tossed aside seconds later so as to not distract from the imminent death and destruction.

"Then this should make things interesting!"

And she marches on…

The Brothers hop down the stairs, ready for battle with the front door right in their line of sight. Mario cheerfully exclaims, "Let's-a go!"

From the living room, Alex slides in front of them and shakes her head. "Sorry, Brothers. This battle is for Victoria to fight." She sighs, worried for this perfect stranger whom the Black Goat trusts. "… Alone."

Both Brothers mumble to each other over this, accepting Alex's word. Luigi asks, "Is-a the Chimera going to-a help her at least?"

Alex looks away, knowing their role and what it will do to Victoria. "Later. But worse comes to worse, you two and Jessica are in charge of evac."

Victoria stretches her arms, hoping to get some good use out of them when she gets to knocking Rachel's teeth in. That Storm's looking like a good place to start.

With a pep in her step, she focuses her mental magic, crafting a tool that will deal with the approaching tornado. She lays her eyes on the giant golden slingshot she used to fling Fischer away and imagines something else in its stead…

The slingshot transforms into an electric fan, filled with the charge to blow Rachel away, and the switch to control it lands in Victoria's hands. She cranks the power up to eleven and the winds begin howling.

From within the vortex, Rachel feels the pushback as the breeze turns against her, and she grins as she spots Victoria. With the closing of her fist, the ground under the fan crumbles, knocking it over and aiming it right at her enemy.

As Victoria is sent flying, a glider manifests onto her back and she soars upwards into the air. Now flying high, she flies the glider in Rachel's direction and imagines a missile on it as the cherry on top. Once she's close enough, Victoria ejects from the glider and imagines a parachute on her back before steering herself away from the tornado.

The explosive rocks the tornado, loosening it up and sending Rachel into an uncontrollable spin. She works quickly to regain her composure, setting her sights back on the House.

Victoria lands at the House and sees the Storm growing more violent, no doubt a mirror into Rachel's status. Now knowing that she's controlling the tornado, Victoria summons a weapon from the heavens in the form of an anvil aiming for Rachel's pretty little head.

It manages to catch Rachel astoundingly off-guard, sending her plummeting down the vortex. Enraged, she grabs hold of the anvil and tosses it back at Victoria.

With some quick thinking, Victoria manages to summon another giant slingshot, catching the anvil and sending it flying right back at Rachel, knocking her out of the tornado completely.

Without a host, the tornado begins to lose steam. Rachel notices this and slows herself down so that she can leap back into the vortex, though she's still descending too fast to properly slow herself down.

Within seconds, the tornado begins to grow still and fray away, much to Rachel's dismay. She screams in rage at the dismantling of her plot before falling into the ground.

Peering through a spyglass, Victoria watches and wonders Rachel's next move. Suddenly, she almost hits her in the guise of a fist made out of rocks jumping out at her, though she manages to jump away from the attack in time.

The fist shifts, turning back into Rachel's human form. Her hands catch aflame and shoot at Victoria, who blocks the attack with a golden shield.

The fires are strong, but Victoria is stronger. She pushes against the flames, inching closer each second. Once she's within arm's reach, she summons a golden baton in her free hand and slams it down onto Rachel's head.

Rachel screeches as she grabs Victoria by the throat and leaps into the House with her. They land in the living room through the front window, and now they have an audience. With fire in her eyes, she screams at her enemy, "I'm going to kill you, Victoria!"

Mario and Luigi leap into action, landing their boots on Rachel's head. She lets go of Victoria and roars at the Brothers, her face distorting into something disturbingly non-human. Her anger isn't soothed when Luigi decides to throw a punch at her face.

Seeing that she's distracted, Victoria summons a golden knife and plunges it into Rachel's back. "It's me you want, you bitch." She hops onto Rachel, now manic and deranged, and starts riding her like a horse through the Living Room, up the stairs, and down the second floor hallway. Jesus, are these people in for a shoooooow!

Looking forward, the end of the hall's growing closer and closer. Victoria braces for impact as Rachel crashes through the wall, sending them both flying out of the House. The two land outside, clearly tired. Unfortunately, Victoria doesn't have years of being an astral being on her side, meaning that Rachel has the upper hand.

Rachel rises to her feet quickly while Victoria struggles to get back up, swearing under her breath. Her hand turns into water and sharpens into a blade. Seeing that Victoria's still down, she doesn't hesitate to kick her in the gut while she can.

Victoria laughs, even as Rachel pushes her over and grabs her by the throat. She asks with a mocking smile on her face, "Is that the best you've got?"

"Goodbye, Victoria." She raises the sword…

… and an arrow plunges into her shoulder, sending her stumbling backwards. Victoria looks up at the sender and sighs in relief once she sees her.

Max flies in with blue butterfly wings on her back, and a bow in her hands. "Let's take her on, Vic!", she triumphantly declares as she kicks Rachel in the face with her landing. "You alright?"

Victoria gets up and tells her, "I've been through worse." Thank you, Max…

Max charges into battle while Victoria… doesn't, as her feet have been buried into the dirt by Rachel. She quickly struggles to pull herself out while Max strikes Rachel with the bow over and over again.

As another strike is about to land, Rachel grabs the bow and rips it out of Max's grip.

Max raises her hand to rewind and do over, but it is impaled with the bow by Rachel almost immediately. While she is busy doubling over in agony, Rachel punches her in the face and lifts her into the air in a bubble of wind. Knowing her presumed fate, Max taunts her: "Go on, kill me."

"So you can jump into another clone body?" Rachel laughs in Max's face as she brings the bubble closer. "Yeah. I've watched 'Hardcore Henry' too. Real clever; an extra out in addition to your time travel. Only problem is you're so sloppy with them." Max remembers the two bodies she left behind at the Hospital and in the Wet-Dry World. Rachel slams her against the House and cackles, enjoying the fear she can feel in her heart. "I was thinking of using the corpses you left behind as husks for the Sunken… Maybe sleeper cells to grab more people back on Earth?"

Victoria slams her golden shield against the back of Rachel's head and pushes her away from Max. "You talk too much!", she remarks, "Run, Max! I've got this!"

Before Max can respond, a triangular portal opens beneath her feet, sending her falling back into the waking world.

Victoria sets her sights back on Rachel and cracks her knuckles.

"Enough horseplay, you bitch! Time to DIE!" A black antler - only one due to Max's bow attacks - sprouts from Rachel's skull and aims for Victoria.

This time however, she's ready. She grabs the antlers and holds them away from her face. Still, she struggles as the antler pushes onward. It's getting closer…

Rachel starts grinning from ear to ear as she feels Victoria slipping. "Yield."

"No!" With a sudden burst of strength, the antler snaps in Victoria's grip, bringing Rachel a great deal of pain. As the villain recoils in agony, Victoria rushes Rachel and plunges the antler into her heart. "NEVER!"

Rachel looks down at the antler piercing her heart and shakes. She looks back up at Victoria in disbelief before falling over. Coughing up black blood, she spits, "Fine. You win…"

"Good.", Victoria says as she lifts Rachel up to her knees and cuffs her hands behind her back. Despite her wounds, it seems like she'll live. I guess I have to do everything myself.

As she stands out of Rachel's sight, she feels a cold metal growing in her hand. It's a gun made of gold, meant to kill. Quietly, carefully, she raises the gun up to the back of her head. It'd be so easy , Victoria tells herself. For all the people you've murdered…

Her hands are shaking, her finger's on the trigger… but she can't do it. This wouldn't be right. She sighs and the gun melts away, like ice on a hot summer's day.

Instead, she pulls Rachel up to her feet and demands, "Get up!" This is how it has to be. There has to be justice.

As the heroes rally together back in Seattle, Max falls out of a portal in the sky. She lands in Chloe's arms, and the two look at each other all lovey-dovey.

"What happened?", Chloe asks.

Max answers, "Victoria's fighting Rachel. We need to get back in there."

"How would we go about that?", Chloe asks. She looks around at her fellow heroes and asks, "Does anyone here know how to open portals to the Astral Plane? Anyone?" The silence and confused looks tell her: "Nobody?"

"You don't have to worry about that anymore." A triangular portal opens and Victoria stands in the center of it. By her sides and on their knees are Rachel Amber and Lisbeth Fischer, both defeated and in cuffs.

Lisbeth is pushed out to the Waking World first, where she looks back at Victoria and screams, "Heathen! You will bring forth the end of days, for you have sided with the false deity and SINNED-"

Two soldiers shove her along, telling her, "Get a move on!"

Victoria rolls her eyes and continues. "Now behold, at long last: the Storm from Nowhere A.K.A. Rachel Amber."

Rachel shrugs her shoulders with a smug look on her face. "Guilty as charged.", she says as she is pushed forward by Victoria.

"WAIT!", Max raises her hand and shouts before Rachel can step out of the portal.

Victoria pulls her back and away from the portal and asks, "Huh, what?"

"Don't let her out!" Max shakes her head and explains: "She's an astral being; if she's let out, she'll be out of our grasp, DON'T let her out!"

Rachel sucks her tongue, disappointed. "You didn't have to ruin the surprise, Maxine."

The heroes in the Waking World converse with one another, asking what can be done. Victoria herself asks the question, "Now what?"

Max looks down, trying to come up with a solution. "I don't know."

"Well, we're definitely not letting her go."

Rachel looks back at Victoria and suggests, "You might have to. I promise I'll be a good-"

"Shut up.", Victoria grumbles as she smacks Rachel in the back of the head. Bitch…

Suddenly, another voice speaks behind Victoria: "We're ready." She looks back and sees the Chimera, together as one.

A confused look crosses Victoria's face. She looks at them and asks, "Ready for what?"

The Chimera points at Rachel and explains, "Her essence is loose. She needs us to keep her grounded in the Waking World."

"What does… Oh God."

The Chimera nod their head sadly. "This means goodbye, Vic."

Panic starts to fill Victoria's heart as she frantically shakes her head. "No. No, not again. You can't do this! I won't-" Her breathing grows hitched as tears form in her eyes. It's happening again. No no no no no.

The Chimera holds Victoria's cheek, knowing her pain. "We may be apparitions, but we're still a part of you. Based on your love alone, we will be strong enough to stabilize Rachel. At least until she can be given a body to take residence in."

"But you… you can't."

The Chimera sigh as they hold Victoria in a hug. "There is no other way. Besides, we're already dead." They step away from the hug and tell her, "Look around, Victoria. Look at the people you have in your life. Look at all you've been able to accomplish without us." Jessica. Max, Chloe, Kate, Dana. The House. The Astral Plane. This life… "Everything's going to be okay."

Victoria crosses her arms in a bid to keep herself together. This is how it has to be. "Okay. Do it. Before I freak out here, just do it."

The Chimera approach Rachel from behind and plant their hands - all four of them - on her forehead. They close their eyes and embrace the end as their essence transfers into Rachel. The antler in her heart melts and her aura grows fuller. Once their hands vanish, she knows it is done.

And suddenly, it hits her: the atrocities she's committed, the lives she's taken, the consequence of it all. And she starts sobbing as the voices of the dead - the victims of the Storm - speak to her at once, ringing around her skull. "No! I'm sorry! I didn't mean for this! I didn't wish for any of this!"

Victoria couldn't give less of a damn. Harshly, she shoves Rachel out of the portal and tells the heroes outside, "Get her out of my sight." Quickly, they comply.

Chloe steps into view, still holding Max in her arms despite her good health. "I, uh, have a feeling Rose is gonna be hella confused once we let her know her daughter's back from the dead." The three women laugh together, happy that this has all turned out fine.

"Thanks, Victoria."

Victoria nods her head with a smirk on her face. "Sure thing, Max."

Max's laugh grows more nervous as she remembers what Victoria went through because of Rachel. "Look, about what you saw-"

"Your choice at the Lighthouse?" Victoria shrugs her shoulders, she's not too upset. "Can't say I blame you. I mean, literally, it was Rachel all along… You could've tried to save more people."

Max sighs, knowing how right she is. "I know."

"But I get it. It wasn't your fault, Max. I seriously mean that." The two smile at one another, happy to have reached an understanding. There's been enough fighting as it is. "You two take care… Take care of everyone."

Chloe raises her eyebrows and asks, "You're not coming back?"

"No. Uh, not yet… I dunno. If anyone here wants to go, they're free to do so, I'll let them know. But I'm staying. There are people here who need my help… I need to be at this place. I hope you can understand."

Chloe tries to wrap her head around that, knowing what her higher-ups want out of her. "I mean, some people back at the Bureau are gonna have some questions for you."

"Can they mail it to me?"

Chloe chuckles and tells her, "We'll see what we can have them do."

Max waves Victoria goodbye, wishing her well with that smile on her face. "Take care, Victoria!" The two lovers walk away, happy to report the mission a success… Wait, did they take care of that Old Man yet?

"You too." Victoria looks back at the waking world, pain still in her heart, as her friends roll out and the portal slowly closes.