"We made a huge mistake." The last remaining officer serving under Moxan's command said to his men.
8 soldiers stood around him, in the scorched control centre.
"Moxan is dead. Everyone else is dead. And look at this place."
Smoke lingered in the air, rising slowly to the ceiling.
"We should never have challenged Scorpius." the officer said.
"What am I hearing?" a slightly distorted female voice spoke.
"Is that cowardice I sense in your voice, officer Trennik? Or doubt?"
"I do not doubt the decisions of the High Council. And I do not fear Scorpius."
"Then why do I hear you saying you're retreating?"
"Look at this place!" Officer Trennik hollered at the view-screen.
"It is in tatters. A ruin. A graveyard. This once proud and glorious place is now nothing more then a memory."
"That is Scorpius's fault." The woman said.
"No, it is ours."
"I do not tolerate this kind of talk, officer Trennik." The woman replied fiercely.
"Tolerate whatever you like, but I'm not sending anymore men to their deaths.
Too many Sebaceans have died already today."
"The High Council demands it from you, officer Trennik."
"No, Commandant." Officer Trennik spoke to Grayza,
"Any Peacekeeper who neglects his duties, and who refuses to obey the High Council's wishes, will be executed, do you understand me, officer Trennik?"
"I understand you perfectly. But you understand this: the High Council is not here."
"I doubt it, officer Trennik." Grayza said.
Rifles were aimed at the officer.
His own men turned on him.
"What are you doing? Don't you understand anything I've just said? They're sending you into your deaths!"
The soldiers did not respond.
They only pointed their rifles at their former commander.
"Put those weapons down." Officer Trennik ordered needlessly. "Now!"
But the soldiers did not obey.
"By order of the Peacekeeper High Council," Grayza spoke. "I order your life to be terminated."
"Do not listen to her! Do not..."
But the soldiers already fired, killing their commander with only a few shots.
"You did well." Grayza said.
"Now, I order you to go after Scorpius."
"Kill him?" one of the soldiers asked.
"No." Grayza said. "I want him alive."
"Prime the weapon." Scorpius said.
He stood on the Command Deck of his Command Carrier, which lead the Peacekeeper Armada into war against the Scarrans.
This was another Scorpius.
One out of many.
And many out of one.
The scientists who manned the consoles on the Command Deck obeyed his commands and entered the final sequences which would activate the most devastating weapon of all.
Jack's face was emotionless and cold as he stared out the window.
An large battle took place not far from their position.
"Hide in the asteroid-field!" Aeryn said to Crais. "It's best if we do not get ourselves involved..."
But it was already too late.
Their presence was already noticed by both Peacekeeper and Scarrans.
"There's a ship coming out of the asteroid-field!" one of Scorpius's scientists reported as he observed the results of the sensor-sweep.
"Sensors say it's a Peacekeeper ship, however I've never seen a Peacekeeper ship like this before."
Scorpius approached the scientist and looked at his console.
Talyn appeared from the asteroid field with a reckless attitude.
Scorpius did not recognise it.
This Scorpius had never seen the Leviathan gun-ship before.
"Ignore it." Scorpius said, as his mind worked on top speed. "It is of no importance. Focus on the main line."
Prowlers left the battle area as Scorpius's Command Carrier moved forward in preparation for the attack.
"The vessel is behind our ranks, sir!" the scientist said as Scorpius moved away.
"It can easily outflank our capital ships and weaken our defences against the Scarran fleet!"
A sudden Stryker attack on the Command Carrier created a little turbulence on the Command Deck.
"Send a Prowler Squad to intercept the vessel." Scorpius said. "Destroy it."
"Wait!" Scorpius's sub-officer said as he looked at the screen.
"I recognise that ship."
Scarran Strykers attacked Talyn unexpected, soaring over them as they fired salvo after salvo.
Talyn was still a little bit dazed by the effect of the wormhole, and did not expect an attack so soon.
The blasts caused severe damage, and a console exploded on Talyn's Command Deck.
Crais pulled Aeryn down before she would be caught in the explosion.
But Jack wasn't unaffected by the attack.
Crais and Aeryn found his unconscious body lying on the floor as they looked up.
"Our sensors are reporting that one Command Carrier is leaving the main fleet and is charging up a weapon of some kind. The energy-signature is unknown."
As he said it, the Scarran officer looked at his leader.
Emperor Staleek sat silently but daunting in his Imperial chair in the centre of the Command Deck of his Imperial Dreadnought.
"Scorpius." he whispered.
The look on the Emperor's face as he saw the Command Carrier leave the main Peacekeeper fleet was intimidating.
His hand moved to his personal console, where he sent an encrypted and personal message to Scorpius.
Scorpius heard the incoming message at a frequency which was programmed so that only he could hear it.
"Scorpius." A dark and rumbling voice said.
Scorpius recognised it immediately as the Emperor.
"Stick with our plan, Scorpius. Do like we have agreed, and this war will soon be over..."
"This war will be over much sooner then you think." Scorpius said to himself as he abruptly terminated the transmission.
"Scorpius!" Staleek shouted as he found out Scorpius ended his transmission.
As the Command Carrier glided through space, aiming a abnormal weapon built with unknown alien wormhole-technology in their faces, Staleek knew he had been betrayed.
"All ships fire at that Carrier!" Staleek shouted at his men as he stood up from his chair.
He was tall for a Scarran, and because of this he looked even more intimidating.
"Destroy that vessel!"
Strykers rushed to intercept the Carrier, but would never make it in time.
Dreadnoughts fired salvo's that only scratched the surface of the Carrier when fired from such a distance.
Nothing could stop Scorpius's war machine.
The Carrier began to glow a strange blue light as it charged it's weaponry at full power.
"The weapon is ready, sir." the scientist said to Scorpius.
For a moment Scorpius looked into the air, seeming to absorb the atmosphere and seeming to taste victory on his lips.
"Fire at will."
"You will pay for this treason Scorpius!" Staleek said to himself as he watched the Carrier from his Imperial throne on his Dreadnought.
He knew that this would be his end.
The Carrier's weaponry all pointed in the same direction, and it fired two long, shiny blue beams at the front of the Carrier, where the beams seemed to merge into one perfect blue light.
After this, the beam shot into space, and hit the Imperial Dreadnought.
"What the frell?"
Aeryn still stared at the view-screen, but this time she saw something she had never seen before.
Even Crais was astonished by what happened next.
The beam hit the Dreadnought with incredible force, but instead of exploding, the Imperial Dreadnought imploded.
It was crushed into atoms as a large, blue and burning hole was ripped into space, pulling the other craft and the rest of the fleet along with it.
Everything burned and died.
Space itself was sucked into oblivion, until nothing existed at that point.
No life.
No time.
No reality.
Even nothing itself was sucked into the abyss, until only death remained.
"Perfection." Scorpius whispered.
"Finally I have my revenge. But it isn't over yet."
"Stop it!" The sub-officer said firmly to the scientist. "Shut it down. End it. Before we all go in there with them!"
"I can't sir." the scientist said. "It is not responding!"
The officer pushed him aside and took over his console.
With some smooth button-pushing the officer fired another blue beam, which entered the abyss and stopped the dying.
In the end, everything was silent.
On Yo'brakh, Scorpius and Bracca split into two groups in order to find Crichton, who they believed to be somewhere in the facility.
"The neural chip forces him to come back." Scorpius said to Bracca.
"Crichton will come to us."
Bracca understood what he said.
He was there at the Shadow Depository. He had seen Crichton and how he had been affected by the chip Scorpius placed in his mind.
But Crichton escaped, didn't he?
Bracca wandered through the debris of the facility, followed by the soldiers under his command.
As they walked through the facility, they found several Peacekeeper soldiers who served under Scorpius, and who laid wounded and unable to move on the floor.
"What's your name, soldier?" Bracca asked one of the two soldiers they saved.
The Peacekeeper uniform and gear hid his face from Bracca.
"My name's Lou, sir." the soldier said. "Lou Costello."
Crichton couldn't help but smile as he told that name to Bracca.
