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CHAPTER 14
The end? Or...it it a new beginning?
the newly arrived Dark Falz faded into a mist and disappeared, the evil creatures the other Falz had spawned upon its destruction also vanishing.
Sean hooked the SwordRifle to the back of Temjin, then ducked down and scooped up his family in one hand, and his friends in the other, and braced his VR for the impact he knew would be coming.
The could see people running in terror for shelters. He could see the planet rush up to greet the ship.
The next few minutes were a wild ride of terror to the extreme.
Sean Could see the ship break the wall of atmosphere and rush up to an unnamed ocean, the ship plunged into the sea, and vanished beneath the waves.
Something about the way the nose of the ship was shaped caused the Pioneer 2 to slowly level with the planet, causing the ship to slowly lose momentum and eventually float to the surface of the ocean.
Sean opened his cockpit and opened the hands of his VR, to let them out, and himself in the proccess. "You all ok there?" he asked his family and friends. Several various gestures and verbal confirmations resulted, signifing that they were ok.
"I have to check something real quick, I will be right back." He told them all, setting them down on a nearby buildings flat roof, then walking toward the ruin of the command tower.
As he got to the tower, he could see what was left of the command staff....he got out of his VR and ran to the Principal of Pioneer 2.
The man was pinned beneath a large metal bar, and was hurt badly, the others never even lasted to see the crash of the Pioneer 2. However, the Pricipal's pulse was very faint, as Sean found out when he checked. The man looked up at him, the broken shell of Tyrel looking at him with lost and sadened eyes. "I never even got to see her again....Rico..." He said before he went limp. Sean checked for a pulse again and found that Tyrel was unconcious. "Why...why did this have to happen? Dark Force......I will destroy you for what you have done to the people of Pioneer 1 AND 2!" Sean vowed.
He grasped the unconcious form of Tyrel and carried it into his VR, then sat on the downfolded hatch and walked his Temjin back to where some of the survivors had gathered, with his family and friends.....
Hours later.........
The Command infastructure was discovered to have ben pretty much totaled by the attacks, and the susequent crash of Pioneer 2.
Somewhere on Gal-Da-Val Island, within a mile of the crash site of Pioneer 2....
Squall and Adus watched in shock as Pioneer 2 came rocketing through the sky, and plunged into the sea.
They watched with some relief as the ship bobed to the suface again. "What the hell happened?" Squall said, to no one in particular.
Somewhere, in a deadzone....
Rico Tyrel watched as her father's ship, his dream, crashed into the sea. What hurt most was that she could do NOTHING to help them....the others of Pioneer 1 watched helplessly as their families and friends aboard Pioneer 2 fell from the sky.
Heathcliff Flowen watched the ship fall, at Rico's side the entire time. She looked away, and he put a hand on her shoulder. "They will be alright. They HAVE to be." He told her, in his grave and formal voice.
The people of Pioneer 1 had watched helplessly as Rico had fought Dalk Falz, and watched as she had been thrown into this place with them, they had watched as four Hunters came and fought Dark Falz, defeating it, but not realizing that they had only killed ONE. Something worse lurked within the core of Ragol itself, waiting....
They had watched as those four Hunters then fought the infested form of Flowen himself, and watched as he was sealed within the deadzone where they were as well.
The people of Pioneer 1 had endured much, during the last 30-odd years of their time on Ragol.
They were wearly of being trapped in a place where they could not even die, the only escape route that they could see....and even that was beyond them. Noone had aged a milisecond beyond their physical age after ending up in this accurssed place.
Rico knew that there was one out there that could release them....she had been watching this one for some time now. The one thing they could do was watch...and she had been watching VERY closely.....
