After Rex and co finished speaking to the Architect they make there way towards the final elevator. After going up it the group circled the final corridor while fighting a hoard of colossal artifices which although a challenge were nothing compared to what was coming up.
As the group makes it to the final corridor before the final fight Rex decides to give a speech to his friends as a way to speak his mind.
"Hold on everyone before we go into this final battle I have a something I want to say to everyone."
Everyone stops in place and looks at Rex. Rex walks ahead and faces them all.
"I want you all to know how greatful I am to you all for accompanying me on this adventure. Without all of you I'd probably still be a salvager. I got to see so many new places, meet so many new people, we've had some laughs, we've had some tears, we've had highs and lows. And through it all you all stood by my side even though I had no experience in being a driver. I've learned what it means to BE a driver from Nia, from Morag, from Zeke,... and especially from Vandam. May his soul rest in peace. I just want to let you all know that I love you guys. You're the closest thing to family I've had in a very VERY long time. I hope this is our final fight but not our FINAL fight, you know what I mean? I hope we can go on some more adventures after this, but next time under less serious conditions. But to wrap this up I'll finish with saying this: Let's go in there, kick Malos' ass, and save Alrest!"
Everyone is moved by Rex's speech. After that the group walks down the final corridor where a door is locked. Mythra transforms into Pnema and opens up the door. Inside the group sees Malos waiting for them.
"Well I'll be damned. You actually survived this long. However this is the end of the road for you boy."
"Malos why are you still doing this? Amalthus is already dead, you don't need to fight anymore."
"What did you actually think that fool had any influence on me? Hah! I'm called the end bringer kid what makes you think HE would influence me?"
"So then why do you keep going?"
"To fulfill my destiny as the end bringer. Now show me boy what makes you keep going!"
Malos then fuses into Artifice Aion and the fight begins.
The fight is grueling on everyone and Aion feels like a foe that cannot be topped by them. Luckily for them Nia keeps healing all of them and Pnema is giving it everything she's got. Finally the group is able to create a chink in Aion's armor and everyone throws in there strongest possible attacks all at the same time.
"Dark Maelstrom!"
"Quantum Judgement!"
"Azure III: Soulfire!"
"Sonic Thunderslash!"
"Divine Sword!"
"Infinity Blade!"
The attacks all hit the small weak point on Aion and Aion shuts down. With Aion shutting down Malos falls out of Aion onto the ground.
"Gaaahhhh, Uhhhhkkk. Not bad kid."
"Malos..."
"Don't look at me like that. I'm your enemy idiot. Thank you Rex, that's the most fun... I've had in 500 years..."
"You... just said my name."
"Yeah so? I guess this is the end... of Malos the end bringer. I wonder... how things would've gone... if you were my driver... I guess I'll never... know..."
Malos has passed away.
As Malos' body fades to ether the world tree begins to shake violently and Pnema immediately pulls up the main frame of the world tree.
"The world tree is falling apart."
"What do you mean?"
"It seems that after we defeated Malos, the conduit disappeared from existence which was the only thing keeping the world tree together. As we speak right now the ring that was holding this chunck of the world tree up is now falling apart. Which means the world tree is imploding on itself and the outer ring is falling as well. If we don't do anything to stop it the outer ring will fall on the planet and destroy all of Alrest."
"There has to be a way to stop this from happening."
Pnema thinks about it for a moment and thinks of something.
"There is a station down below with ultra boosters that may be able to shoot the velocity of the outer ring into space but we'll have to hurry."
"Alright everybody let's go."
Pnema holds Poppi and Azurda back to tell them something but Rex is too focused on the task at hand to listen.
When the group arrives at the 'ultra boosters' Rex comes to the the grim discovery that there was no ultra boosters. They were escape pods.
"Pnema... these aren't ultra boosters..."
As Rex turns around he sees Pnema at the other side of the bridge.
"I'm sorry Rex."
The bridge between them collapses and the helplessness of the situation sinks in.
"That's the first lie I ever told you. There is no such thing as ultra boosters. The only way to prevent the world tree from destroying Alrest is by using the rest of Artifice Aions power to obliterate the world tree."
"What?! N-no this can't be... Pnema let me help."
"No Rex, you'd only be wasting your own life. Rex, Alrest needs you right now to be there symbol of hope. Don't waste it dying in a place like this."
"But... but what about you?"
"I have lived a long and fulfilling life, I have come to acceptance with these terms. You on the other hand, your life has just begun."
Rex feels very uneasy about all this but he comes to terms with this.
"Pnema, Pyra, Myhtra... thank you... for everything."
Soft tears roll down Rex's face and that breaks everyone's hearts seeing him have to bear as his first blade goes out to save the world.
"You're very welcome Rex. I hope to see you in the next life, although don't take too long to get there. Oh and before I forget take this."
Pnema gives Rex her core crystal. Rex holds a tight grasp on it.
"A little something so you never forget me."
"Thank you. Goodbye Pnema, Pyra, Mythra."
"Goodbye Rex."
Rex and co and Pnema split ways. Rex and co desperately scramble to find an escape pod that is open. Tora finds one that is open and the entire group gets inside. They come to the tragic discovery that the escape pod they're in doesn't have any fuel in it. Suddenly the fuel tank fills up and Rex and co know who did that. As the escape pod is launching off they see a humongous wave of green ether sweep the entire world tree as Rex looks back and sees the destruction of the world tree.
Pyra, Mythra, Pnema have passed away.
As Rex looks at the explosion with tears rolling down his face he doesn't realize the damage the escape pod has taken from reentering the planets atmosphere. The escape pod tears open like a tin can and everyone flies out of the escape pod. As everyone is falling Azurda transforms back into his original titan form and catches everyone.
"Gramps, you're back to your old self."
"Yes my boy I am and it's all thanks to Pnema."
"Wait a second... where is everything?"
Suddenly everyone else looks around and sees that there is no more cloud sea. Just an ocean that seems to stretch forever.
"Everything is gone."
But Rex does not believe that for one second.
"Gramps keep flying. I have a feeling there has to be something around here."
"If you say so my boy."
After flying for about fifteen minutes they stumble upon something that takes all of there breaths away. A colossal mass of land has appeared which looks dozens of times bigger than any titan they've ever seen. They also notice that all of the nations titans are merging into this mainland.
"Guys I think we finally found it."
"Found what?"
Rex turns his head towards the rest of his group.
"Elysium. We found Elysium."
The End...
...of part 1
Authors Notes: I am so happy to have finally finished part 1 to this story. I originally began writing this story because I noticed there wasn't that many fanfictions of my personal favorite ship so I decided to make one of my own. Throughout this nearly three month period I've enjoyed writing 'almost' every chapter in this story of mine. The only chapter I didn't like writing was chapter 12 and that's because writing about Indol was very boring to me. I decided to add chapter 18 because I wanted QTπ to be in the story but I had to do it earlier because it makes no sense from a story standpoint to go from the Land of Morytha all the way back to Gormott so I decided to do that section earlier than it originally happened in game. I also chose to exclude the entire Roc side mission in the original story because it does absolutely nothing to effect the plot later on so I just scrapped it all together. But anyways that was more of a tangent on what I changed from the original story. I cannot wait to begin writing the next arc into this story and I hope you will all stick around for that. But anyways thank you for the support I've gotten from this story, it really means a lot to me to know that people have actually read and enjoyed my story. I'd like to know in the comments what you all thought of the first part to this story and any questions you might have about my story in general. Also should I do authors notes more often or should I just save them for special occasions? But anyways Thank You all so much for reading my work and I hope to see you all in the next chapter. Exile Mansion signing off.