The world was silent. No one moved, no one even dared to breath. The slightest sound felt like an avalanche of noise to anyone on the team. The Ragnorak was positioned in a field outside of Esthar, and right by the ship was a hologram keeping a display of Neos, sound asleep. Zell, Selphie, and Rinoa were outside of the ship, acting as if they had recently crashed. At points, they would even "interact" with the hologram, just in case Harket should come by. Surrounding the ship, hidden in by foliage, were members of SeeD, ready to jump at any time. Snipers were atop the Ragnarok, covered with camouflage that made them undetectable. Everyone was prepared, but there was one problem.
Harket hadn't shown. It had been two hours since he was estimated to appear, and he still hadn't shown up. Nothing had come, not even a team. Squall looked from his vantage point in the cockpit of the ship.
-Could we have been wrong? Is he not in Esthar?-
That's when the radio blared to life, and Squall heard a deep voice emanate, "Leonheart. What are you doing in Esthar?"
Squall stared blankly at the radio, "Who is this?"
"Who do you think? Y'know, it was a nice idea, but I've studied my history way too much to fall for that dumb trick. You really ought to stop taking lessons from your father. The man was an idiot. Oh, and you really are predictable. Sending the child to space? Come on now! It is of no importance, we shall have him soon enough. Now stop making a fool of yourself and get out of here!"
Squall opened his mouth, but the radio flipped off.
-SHIT! Why is he always one step ahead?-
***
Lee looked at his watch, "Come on! How long does it take?"
"Hey," Laguna said, "This takes a little while, y'know?"
"Yeah, but I'll feel a lot better once I get you two out of here."
The P.A. came to life, "President Loire, Neos is secure, and ready for departure."
Laguna yelled back, "Great! Get a pod ready for me!"
Then they heard it. First it was a small noise, then it became louder, and soon, it was a deafening rumbling sound. Lee motioned for everyone to stay back, and ran into the lobby, where he plainly saw a squad of tanks, and a substantial amount of soldiers, heading right for them.
He backed into the preparation room, "Guys, move, now!"
He shoved Laguna into the pod, and the machines quickly began. The P.A. came to life
again, "Okay, all set, preparing to launch."
Lee yelled, "NO! Wait! Two more!"
The tech stared at him through the glass, and Lee motioned an explosion with his hands. The tech nodded, and another pod appeared.
"Veronica! Go!"
She shook her head, "I'm staying with you!"
"Don't be like this! They can only take one at a time, I'll be a second behind you!"
The doors blew open in the lobby.
"Lee…"
He grabbed her and shoved her in, "I'll be right behind you!"
The pod locked and loaded, and another quickly appeared, just as the doors came open and soldiers poured in. Lee leaped inside the pod, the door shut, and he felt himself drift off to sleep.
He was still asleep as the pods were launched into space, and he heard, nor saw, the Lunar Launch Base's destruction.
***
Space. Lee had never been in space, but he had heard fantastic stories about the first explorations, as well as the later trips. The reconstructed Lunar Base was a sight to see, twice as large as the last one, but with a similar architecture. He finally awoke in a dull, orange-colored room. There was a flash of light, a loud sound, and suddenly, he could move (more or less) again.
He was free floating. He could see Laguna, and Veronica, and Neos, floating alongside him. Then he heard a distant voice say something about gravity, and he fell like a rock into one of the walls.
Or is it the floor?
He pushed himself up, and was greeted by a friendly technician, "Hi! Welcome to Lunar Base II. I was told there would only be two of you."
Laguna nodded, "Situation changed on us. Is Lunar Launch Base alright?"
The technician shook his head, "It's been destroyed. Right after your departure, actually."
The group was in shock for a moment. Finally, the technician smiled at Neos, "You wanna see the control room?"
The child's eyes brightened up, and he followed the Tech. The others exited the room, and stood out in the hall.
Lee shook his head, "Sorry bout the trouble, Laguna."
"Don't worry about it, you two make yourselves comfortable, we'll be here for a while."
Lee nodded, "Actually, if you don't mind, I wanna see the control room too."
Veronica gave a small giggle, "You boys never grow up, do you?"
"Nope, flashing lights still get me all giddy."
Lee dashed, as best as he could in low-g, towards the control room. Laguna watched him, and then turned to Veronica, "Are you alright?"
She nodded, patting her stomach, "I'm fine, thank you. I could use a nice bed though."
Laguna smiled, "Right in that room."
She looked at the door, "The infirmary?"
"Hey, it's a bed."
She smiled, "Thank you, Laguna."
***
Laguna walked into the control room, to see Neos silently watching the technicians go about their jobs. Lee on the other hand, was running wildly around the room, asking what each button did.
Laguna shook his head, "At least one of you has some intelligence."
Lee smiled, "Hey, this is cool stuff! Neos is the grandson of a President; he sees stuff like this all the time! I don't get to see this very often. Let me have my moment."
Laguna grinned, then his grin quickly faded as he stared out the view screen. Lee stared at Laguna, "What is it?"
Laguna continued to stare, and Lee noticed that everyone was staring, so Lee turned and took a look outside. A very large, red object was heading right for the station.
Lee shook his head, if I didn't know any better, I'd say that's …
A technician voiced the thought, "The Ragnorak!"
Lee looked at him, "Impossible, it's planetside, in control of SeeD!"
Laguna shook his head, "There are three. The other two were in Esthar."
Lee whirled around, "What? That means…"
Laguna nodded, "That's right, Harket is on that thing. All personnel prepare for a boarding. I don't know how many."
A technician looked up, "Sir, sensors pick up about twelve life forms on board."
"Okay then."
"What do we do?"
"Prepare for evacuation. I'll handle this."
Lee grabbed Laguna, "You can't. Twelve to one!"
"They want my grandson, they come through me, and only me. No one else, and that's an order!"
The Ragnarok II filled the viewscreen, and everyone could hear the sounds of airlocks locking together, and opening. Laguna did an about-face, and moved out of the control room.
Lee jumped, "Laguna, where are you going?"
Laguna grinned, "The weapons room."
Neos ran after his grandfather. Lee cursed, and followed behind the pair.
***
Lee entered the weapons stock room, and was greeted with a sight that would have made a gun freak faint. Hundreds of weapons were all over the room, each shiny and new. Laguna turned around, with a machine gun that was easily up to his waist, and jammed the cartridge into it. He looked at Lee.
"Do you know how to use a gun? You won't get close enough to hit him."
Lee looked around, "No, but I know how to use one of these…"
His eyes fell on a gunblade in the corner.
***
The trio entered the airlock. Laguna and Lee held their weapons up. Laguna's aiming at the doorway, while Lee gripped the handle with both hands and held the blade to the ground. Neos stood behind them. The door opened, and the first three poured in, downed quickly by Laguna's gunfire.
The others waited smartly in the Ragnorak's bay. There was a moment of obscure silence, until a small metallic object bounced into the room. Laguna cursed, and grabbed Neos. The three ran outside of the room and leaped as far as they could before an explosion sounded from the airlock room. Laguna left Neos on the ground, then flipped back around.
"What are you? Idiots? This is a space station!"
He was answered by gunfire.
"Oh shit!"
He ducked to one side of the door, while Lee was on the other. Laguna nodded to the younger man, who acknowledged. Laguna braced himself to the wall, and started shooting into the airlock room. As he finished, Lee ran in with the gunblade, with a ferocious battle cry.
Laguna hopped in behind him, and started firing off into the bay, then the two moved to invade the Ragnorak itself
"Harket!"
The man stopped midway on the ladder, and looked at Laguna. He grinned, and the gun flew off to the corner. Neos ran up, and Laguna stopped him with a hand.
"President Loire, what an honor to meet you. Now, I'm afraid we must dispose of pleasantries rather quickly. Give me the boy. I asked you nicely last time, this is the final time you'll hear me ask."
Laguna stood firm, "No."
"Very well."
Harket motioned with his hand, and Laguna lifted from the ground, and flew into the wall, by the gun. Harket moved towards Neos, and Lee jumped into action, swinging the gunblade towards Harket's face. Harket raised his hand in front of the blade, and the weapon bounced uselessly off of an energy shield. Lee twirled around, and tried swinging at the back, once again being blocked. He pulled up and around, with the same result. He attempted a flurry of assaults, but none succeeded. Finally, Harket stared him straight in the eye, "I tire of this game."
Lee felt a slam to his stomach, and collapsed to the ground. Harket smiled at the two, turned, and moved to the station.
***
Neos was huddled in the corner when Harket walked in. The older man looked at the child, and smiled.
"Hello, Neos." He extended a hand, "Come. We should go now."
Neos shook his head.
Harket feigned shock and hurt, "You don't want to come with me?"
Neos continued to shake his head, "No. You're a bad man."
"Oh you believe those lies your parents have told you?"
"My mom and dad would never lie to me!"
"Oh really?"
"Yes."
Harket shook his head, "Fine. I'll take you by force."
Harket reached to grab the child, and Neos responded by biting the man's hand.
"Ow! You little son of a bitch!"
Neos picked up and ran into the infirmary. Harket shook his hand for a moment, then moved in to follow.
***
Laguna winced and opened his eyes, rolling over on his back and pushing himself up. He looked over at Lee, who was struggling to do the same. After a moment, they both stood, and gave a quick nod to each other. Then, they ran out to the station.
***
The infirmary was a bad place to run to. Neos found himself trapped, with nowhere to run, as Harket walked slowly over to him.
"Don't be afraid, child, this is your destiny!"
Neos screamed, "No!"
Veronica, meanwhile, was awoken by the sudden commotion, and found herself watching the situation, defenseless. She ran to the door, attempting to alert someone, when the door came open, and in a very heroic fashion, Laguna and Lee entered. Lee moved to Veronica, and checked if she was all right, while Laguna walked over to Harket.
Harket grimly smiled, "Loire, you're too old for this."
Laguna grinned, "Maybe, but you've forgotten one thing Harket."
He smiled and turned, holding his hand up, "What is that?"
"Infirmaries have magic barriers you stupid son of a bitch."
Laguna swung the machine gun across Harket's face, knocking the younger man to the floor. Lee quickly grabbed Neos and pulled him out of the room. Laguna raised the gun up to fire, but Harket rolled out of the way, jumped up, and swung a punch which Laguna easily dodged, and countered by hitting Harket in the gut with the gun barrel. Harket fell back, and then pushed himself up again. He cursed and spat out some blood, then rammed into Laguna, knocking the weapon to the ground. Laguna shook it off and stood up throwing an uppercut into Harket's face. Harket backed up a few steps, but stood strong, then kicked Laguna square in the gut, followed by a devastating jab to the face. Laguna collapsed back to the ground as Harket made for the door. As it opened, he exited.
And was quickly greeted by the side of a gunblade.
Harket fell backwards and back into the infirmary, as Lee stood tall over him.
"Hey jackass." Lee lifted the weapon over his head, but Harket rolled to the side, just in time to avoid the blade hitting the ground. As Harket rolled, he grabbed Laguna's machine gun and raised it to shoot at Lee, who cursed and dove across the room, dodging the first round.
Harket just walked around the table and looked at Lee, who was pushing himself up. Harket took careful aim, as the horrified Lee looked on, helpless.
"Who's the jackass now, Reist?"
Harket fingered the trigger, then felt a dull pain on his head, right before he collapsed to the ground. He managed to flip around, where Laguna stood with a small rubber mallet, grinning like an idiot.
"Damn you."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Laguna picked up his gun from the ground, "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you where you lie."
Harket kicked his feet outwards, smashing into Laguna's legs, and knocking the older man down to the ground again. The gun fell harmlessly to the side, and Harket stood over Laguna now, pulling out a small pistol from his coat, "Goodbye, Mr. President."
One shot. Two shots. Three shots.
Harket collapsed, and Laguna blinked in astonishment to see a proud Lee Reist standing over the body. Laguna gave a small grin as Veronica walked over, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah," Laguna said, "I think we'll all be alright."
Harket groaned, and everyone focused on him, as his finger pointed at Veronica, then collapsed back down. The body jerked for a second, then a sheer blast of light filled the room. Everyone covered their eyes, and when they opened them, everything was in bad condition.
Alarms blared throughout the space station, reporting sudden malfunction of the entire complex. Laguna cursed and yelled, "Let's get out of here!"
Lee grabbed Veronica by the wrist, and they ran through the space station to the escape pods. Neos, Laguna, Veronica, and Lee squeezed into one, and Laguna hit the launch switch. The pod screamed off away from the station, following behind a cluster of pods, which carried the space staff. None of them could look behind them and watch as the space station's structure blew a hole, and the atmosphere slowly vented out. A small spark caught, and caused a group of flames to vent, then slowly die with the lack of oxygen. The station tilted off of its axis, and began a slow, lazy spin away from the planet, off into the endlessness of space.
It was over.
((Next Chapter: The wrap up, fade out))
Harket hadn't shown. It had been two hours since he was estimated to appear, and he still hadn't shown up. Nothing had come, not even a team. Squall looked from his vantage point in the cockpit of the ship.
-Could we have been wrong? Is he not in Esthar?-
That's when the radio blared to life, and Squall heard a deep voice emanate, "Leonheart. What are you doing in Esthar?"
Squall stared blankly at the radio, "Who is this?"
"Who do you think? Y'know, it was a nice idea, but I've studied my history way too much to fall for that dumb trick. You really ought to stop taking lessons from your father. The man was an idiot. Oh, and you really are predictable. Sending the child to space? Come on now! It is of no importance, we shall have him soon enough. Now stop making a fool of yourself and get out of here!"
Squall opened his mouth, but the radio flipped off.
-SHIT! Why is he always one step ahead?-
***
Lee looked at his watch, "Come on! How long does it take?"
"Hey," Laguna said, "This takes a little while, y'know?"
"Yeah, but I'll feel a lot better once I get you two out of here."
The P.A. came to life, "President Loire, Neos is secure, and ready for departure."
Laguna yelled back, "Great! Get a pod ready for me!"
Then they heard it. First it was a small noise, then it became louder, and soon, it was a deafening rumbling sound. Lee motioned for everyone to stay back, and ran into the lobby, where he plainly saw a squad of tanks, and a substantial amount of soldiers, heading right for them.
He backed into the preparation room, "Guys, move, now!"
He shoved Laguna into the pod, and the machines quickly began. The P.A. came to life
again, "Okay, all set, preparing to launch."
Lee yelled, "NO! Wait! Two more!"
The tech stared at him through the glass, and Lee motioned an explosion with his hands. The tech nodded, and another pod appeared.
"Veronica! Go!"
She shook her head, "I'm staying with you!"
"Don't be like this! They can only take one at a time, I'll be a second behind you!"
The doors blew open in the lobby.
"Lee…"
He grabbed her and shoved her in, "I'll be right behind you!"
The pod locked and loaded, and another quickly appeared, just as the doors came open and soldiers poured in. Lee leaped inside the pod, the door shut, and he felt himself drift off to sleep.
He was still asleep as the pods were launched into space, and he heard, nor saw, the Lunar Launch Base's destruction.
***
Space. Lee had never been in space, but he had heard fantastic stories about the first explorations, as well as the later trips. The reconstructed Lunar Base was a sight to see, twice as large as the last one, but with a similar architecture. He finally awoke in a dull, orange-colored room. There was a flash of light, a loud sound, and suddenly, he could move (more or less) again.
He was free floating. He could see Laguna, and Veronica, and Neos, floating alongside him. Then he heard a distant voice say something about gravity, and he fell like a rock into one of the walls.
Or is it the floor?
He pushed himself up, and was greeted by a friendly technician, "Hi! Welcome to Lunar Base II. I was told there would only be two of you."
Laguna nodded, "Situation changed on us. Is Lunar Launch Base alright?"
The technician shook his head, "It's been destroyed. Right after your departure, actually."
The group was in shock for a moment. Finally, the technician smiled at Neos, "You wanna see the control room?"
The child's eyes brightened up, and he followed the Tech. The others exited the room, and stood out in the hall.
Lee shook his head, "Sorry bout the trouble, Laguna."
"Don't worry about it, you two make yourselves comfortable, we'll be here for a while."
Lee nodded, "Actually, if you don't mind, I wanna see the control room too."
Veronica gave a small giggle, "You boys never grow up, do you?"
"Nope, flashing lights still get me all giddy."
Lee dashed, as best as he could in low-g, towards the control room. Laguna watched him, and then turned to Veronica, "Are you alright?"
She nodded, patting her stomach, "I'm fine, thank you. I could use a nice bed though."
Laguna smiled, "Right in that room."
She looked at the door, "The infirmary?"
"Hey, it's a bed."
She smiled, "Thank you, Laguna."
***
Laguna walked into the control room, to see Neos silently watching the technicians go about their jobs. Lee on the other hand, was running wildly around the room, asking what each button did.
Laguna shook his head, "At least one of you has some intelligence."
Lee smiled, "Hey, this is cool stuff! Neos is the grandson of a President; he sees stuff like this all the time! I don't get to see this very often. Let me have my moment."
Laguna grinned, then his grin quickly faded as he stared out the view screen. Lee stared at Laguna, "What is it?"
Laguna continued to stare, and Lee noticed that everyone was staring, so Lee turned and took a look outside. A very large, red object was heading right for the station.
Lee shook his head, if I didn't know any better, I'd say that's …
A technician voiced the thought, "The Ragnorak!"
Lee looked at him, "Impossible, it's planetside, in control of SeeD!"
Laguna shook his head, "There are three. The other two were in Esthar."
Lee whirled around, "What? That means…"
Laguna nodded, "That's right, Harket is on that thing. All personnel prepare for a boarding. I don't know how many."
A technician looked up, "Sir, sensors pick up about twelve life forms on board."
"Okay then."
"What do we do?"
"Prepare for evacuation. I'll handle this."
Lee grabbed Laguna, "You can't. Twelve to one!"
"They want my grandson, they come through me, and only me. No one else, and that's an order!"
The Ragnarok II filled the viewscreen, and everyone could hear the sounds of airlocks locking together, and opening. Laguna did an about-face, and moved out of the control room.
Lee jumped, "Laguna, where are you going?"
Laguna grinned, "The weapons room."
Neos ran after his grandfather. Lee cursed, and followed behind the pair.
***
Lee entered the weapons stock room, and was greeted with a sight that would have made a gun freak faint. Hundreds of weapons were all over the room, each shiny and new. Laguna turned around, with a machine gun that was easily up to his waist, and jammed the cartridge into it. He looked at Lee.
"Do you know how to use a gun? You won't get close enough to hit him."
Lee looked around, "No, but I know how to use one of these…"
His eyes fell on a gunblade in the corner.
***
The trio entered the airlock. Laguna and Lee held their weapons up. Laguna's aiming at the doorway, while Lee gripped the handle with both hands and held the blade to the ground. Neos stood behind them. The door opened, and the first three poured in, downed quickly by Laguna's gunfire.
The others waited smartly in the Ragnorak's bay. There was a moment of obscure silence, until a small metallic object bounced into the room. Laguna cursed, and grabbed Neos. The three ran outside of the room and leaped as far as they could before an explosion sounded from the airlock room. Laguna left Neos on the ground, then flipped back around.
"What are you? Idiots? This is a space station!"
He was answered by gunfire.
"Oh shit!"
He ducked to one side of the door, while Lee was on the other. Laguna nodded to the younger man, who acknowledged. Laguna braced himself to the wall, and started shooting into the airlock room. As he finished, Lee ran in with the gunblade, with a ferocious battle cry.
Laguna hopped in behind him, and started firing off into the bay, then the two moved to invade the Ragnorak itself
"Harket!"
The man stopped midway on the ladder, and looked at Laguna. He grinned, and the gun flew off to the corner. Neos ran up, and Laguna stopped him with a hand.
"President Loire, what an honor to meet you. Now, I'm afraid we must dispose of pleasantries rather quickly. Give me the boy. I asked you nicely last time, this is the final time you'll hear me ask."
Laguna stood firm, "No."
"Very well."
Harket motioned with his hand, and Laguna lifted from the ground, and flew into the wall, by the gun. Harket moved towards Neos, and Lee jumped into action, swinging the gunblade towards Harket's face. Harket raised his hand in front of the blade, and the weapon bounced uselessly off of an energy shield. Lee twirled around, and tried swinging at the back, once again being blocked. He pulled up and around, with the same result. He attempted a flurry of assaults, but none succeeded. Finally, Harket stared him straight in the eye, "I tire of this game."
Lee felt a slam to his stomach, and collapsed to the ground. Harket smiled at the two, turned, and moved to the station.
***
Neos was huddled in the corner when Harket walked in. The older man looked at the child, and smiled.
"Hello, Neos." He extended a hand, "Come. We should go now."
Neos shook his head.
Harket feigned shock and hurt, "You don't want to come with me?"
Neos continued to shake his head, "No. You're a bad man."
"Oh you believe those lies your parents have told you?"
"My mom and dad would never lie to me!"
"Oh really?"
"Yes."
Harket shook his head, "Fine. I'll take you by force."
Harket reached to grab the child, and Neos responded by biting the man's hand.
"Ow! You little son of a bitch!"
Neos picked up and ran into the infirmary. Harket shook his hand for a moment, then moved in to follow.
***
Laguna winced and opened his eyes, rolling over on his back and pushing himself up. He looked over at Lee, who was struggling to do the same. After a moment, they both stood, and gave a quick nod to each other. Then, they ran out to the station.
***
The infirmary was a bad place to run to. Neos found himself trapped, with nowhere to run, as Harket walked slowly over to him.
"Don't be afraid, child, this is your destiny!"
Neos screamed, "No!"
Veronica, meanwhile, was awoken by the sudden commotion, and found herself watching the situation, defenseless. She ran to the door, attempting to alert someone, when the door came open, and in a very heroic fashion, Laguna and Lee entered. Lee moved to Veronica, and checked if she was all right, while Laguna walked over to Harket.
Harket grimly smiled, "Loire, you're too old for this."
Laguna grinned, "Maybe, but you've forgotten one thing Harket."
He smiled and turned, holding his hand up, "What is that?"
"Infirmaries have magic barriers you stupid son of a bitch."
Laguna swung the machine gun across Harket's face, knocking the younger man to the floor. Lee quickly grabbed Neos and pulled him out of the room. Laguna raised the gun up to fire, but Harket rolled out of the way, jumped up, and swung a punch which Laguna easily dodged, and countered by hitting Harket in the gut with the gun barrel. Harket fell back, and then pushed himself up again. He cursed and spat out some blood, then rammed into Laguna, knocking the weapon to the ground. Laguna shook it off and stood up throwing an uppercut into Harket's face. Harket backed up a few steps, but stood strong, then kicked Laguna square in the gut, followed by a devastating jab to the face. Laguna collapsed back to the ground as Harket made for the door. As it opened, he exited.
And was quickly greeted by the side of a gunblade.
Harket fell backwards and back into the infirmary, as Lee stood tall over him.
"Hey jackass." Lee lifted the weapon over his head, but Harket rolled to the side, just in time to avoid the blade hitting the ground. As Harket rolled, he grabbed Laguna's machine gun and raised it to shoot at Lee, who cursed and dove across the room, dodging the first round.
Harket just walked around the table and looked at Lee, who was pushing himself up. Harket took careful aim, as the horrified Lee looked on, helpless.
"Who's the jackass now, Reist?"
Harket fingered the trigger, then felt a dull pain on his head, right before he collapsed to the ground. He managed to flip around, where Laguna stood with a small rubber mallet, grinning like an idiot.
"Damn you."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Laguna picked up his gun from the ground, "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill you where you lie."
Harket kicked his feet outwards, smashing into Laguna's legs, and knocking the older man down to the ground again. The gun fell harmlessly to the side, and Harket stood over Laguna now, pulling out a small pistol from his coat, "Goodbye, Mr. President."
One shot. Two shots. Three shots.
Harket collapsed, and Laguna blinked in astonishment to see a proud Lee Reist standing over the body. Laguna gave a small grin as Veronica walked over, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah," Laguna said, "I think we'll all be alright."
Harket groaned, and everyone focused on him, as his finger pointed at Veronica, then collapsed back down. The body jerked for a second, then a sheer blast of light filled the room. Everyone covered their eyes, and when they opened them, everything was in bad condition.
Alarms blared throughout the space station, reporting sudden malfunction of the entire complex. Laguna cursed and yelled, "Let's get out of here!"
Lee grabbed Veronica by the wrist, and they ran through the space station to the escape pods. Neos, Laguna, Veronica, and Lee squeezed into one, and Laguna hit the launch switch. The pod screamed off away from the station, following behind a cluster of pods, which carried the space staff. None of them could look behind them and watch as the space station's structure blew a hole, and the atmosphere slowly vented out. A small spark caught, and caused a group of flames to vent, then slowly die with the lack of oxygen. The station tilted off of its axis, and began a slow, lazy spin away from the planet, off into the endlessness of space.
It was over.
((Next Chapter: The wrap up, fade out))