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I woke up from someone shaking me lightly. I opened my eyes. It was pitch black, but after a while I managed to make out the silhouette of Mordecai's face. He was sitting beside me, still trying to wake me up.

"What...? Mordy, what's going on?" I asked groggily.

"Come on, you gotta see this." he said excitedly. I sat up slowly, wondering what the hell he was on about at that time of night.

"What is it?" I wanted to know as he pulled me up and towards the small, dirty window of our apartment.

"Something's up with Helios." he said.

"Something's up with Helios? What's that mean?" I asked and rubbed my eyes. It was the middle of the night and I was still really sleepy. I squinted out of the window and at the moon and it looked like it was actually raining parts from Helios. There were bits falling off the space station and burning up in the atmosphere of Pandora. What the hell? This was really weird.

"Did you tell Lilith about this?" I wanted to know.

"No, I told you first. Couldn't sleep and when I looked out of the window there were small bits and pieces falling of Helios and burning up in the atmosphere. Thought I'd wake you first." Mordecai said.

"Man, Lil's gonna be so pissed if Helios blows up and she didn't get to do it." I mumbled and laughed.

"Oh shit. Didn't even think about that. You gonna let her know or should I?"

"I'll do it."

I kept staring out of the window for a little longer. Looked like there were tiny little space crafts being released from the station. It was only a few for now, but there were more and more all the time.

"Lil, you better wake up and look out your window, because there is something going on." I said into my ECHO device, hoping Lilith would wake up.

"Let's go outside and get a better view of that." I said to Mordecai.

"Sounds like a plan. You wanna stop by HQ and wake Lil?" he asked. I shook my head. That would take too long. I wanted to see this go down.

"Nah, she'll wake up. I'm gonna try and get to her again. She'll hear Helios in her sleep and she'll be wide awake." I answered. Mordecai grinned at me.

"Let's go then." he said, grabbed my hand and dragged me out of the apartment. I had just enough time to grab a scarf, so I wouldn't be freezing cold out there. On the way I sent Lilith another message.

"Lil, you better wake up right now, it looks like something's happening with Helios."

Mordecai and I quickly made our way to the edge of the city where we had questioned Athena just a few days ago. We had a great view of Helios there. And we weren't alone. There were a good few Raiders and the odd civilian standing there already, staring up at Helios.

"What are you on about, Nova? What's happening?" I heard Lilith's voice through my ECHO device.

"Just... just get here. You'll see." I said to her as we watched some bigger pieces of debris falling down and burning up in the atmosphere. This was... How did this happen? What was happening? Surely, Helios Station wasn't just falling apart for no reason. The pods coming down into the atmosphere had to be escape pods and that had to mean that something went wrong up there.

"What the hell? Who of you blew up that space station without me?" I heard Lilith shouting from behind me. I turned around and there she was, in her pyjamas, blanket wrapped around her shoulders, hair a mess and dark circles under her eyes. I knew she'd be pissed seeing this.

"No idea. I have no clue what's happening up there. But something's happening. I'd reckon the little pods are escape pods. Looks like they're evacuating the space station and we'll have a bunch of Hyperion folk down here soon." I said.

"If the station really goes down, they won't be much of a threat. I'd say half of them won't even survive the first week." Mordecai commented.

Lilith walked up to us and watched as some bigger pieces broke off the station. It looked like the whole thing was just crumbling up and falling out of the sky. What the hell had they been doing up there? I wondered if Saul was okay. I mean, it wasn't like we were friends or anything, especially not after he had aimed a gun at my head, but I was still wondering. We did know each other, after all.

"None of you had anything to do with that?" Lilith asked.

"Not that I'd know." I answered. I turned back, as more and more people gathered in front of Scooter's workshop to see what was happening. I was surprised Scooter wasn't coming out to see what was going on, but then again he was probably still in Hollowpoint, handing over his workshop.

"Oh my God, oh my God, I can't believe it's actually happeniiiiiiiiiing!" I heard Tina scream, as she came running towards us, Brick following her.

"I... I think it is happening, Tina." I replied, as I saw one massive part falling away from the space station just before it collapsed completely and we were staring at the big volcanic crack on Elpis.

The debris from the space station was racing down to the surface of the planet and it was actually overtaking the small escape pods. Most of it burned up in the sky before it reached the surface, but there seemed to be a good few bigger pieces that survived. It was fascinating to watch, even though pretty much everything had already happened. It was just... I never thought the day would come when I would see that damned space station fall out of the sky. And here I was.

"Shit. I'm really pissed I didn't get to do that." Lilith mumbled, her voice still sounding groggy from just waking up.

"It's kinda... surreal." Mordecai said, shaking his head.

"Yeah. I mean, is that it? Does that mean, Hyperion lost? Or will they come back? What's gonna happen with all the people in the escape pods? They better not think they'll have it easy down here." I agreed.

"I doubt they will. I mean, they're not here voluntarily or anything." Mordecai replied, eyes still stuck to the sky.

"Damn. It's too early for that, but damn." Brick just commented. He was probably still half asleep and barely realized what was going on.

"I... guess that's the end of Hyperion terrorizing Pandora? At least for a while. They're not gonna build a new space station for a good few months. Hell, they probably have to completely regroup from scratch. Damn." Lilith mused. She pulled her blanket closer around her shoulders.

"So... what are we gonna do now?" Brick wanted to know.

"We PARTAYYY!" Tina shouted, doing a little dance around all of us. We all laughed, but if we were being honest, we were all clueless. This was like the time after we had finally killed Jack - we had no idea how to go on or what to do next. It was like we had a purpose as long as this space station was up in the sky and that purpose was to get rid of it. And now someone else had done it for us, whether they intended to or not. Now we were back at the start.

"I have no idea. I just know that I'm really, really tired." Lilith said, rubbing her eyes and yawning.

"You would have been way more pissed, if we hadn't told you." I replied. She'd have gone ballistic if she had missed Helios going down.

"That is correct. Doesn't mean I'm awake enough to discuss the future of... well, everything." she answered.

"Not everything. Just the Raiders and Sanctuary." Mordecai corrected.

"That kinda is everything, isn't it?" Lilith said. I suppose, Sanctuary and the Raiders were everything for Lilith. Especially after she lost Roland. If she was to lose all that, because someone blew up Helios prematurely... Oh dear.

"Well... I guess, we can focus on Vault Hunting for a while, if Helios is gone now, can't we? There's a lot of Vaults on that map we haven't found yet." Brick chimed in. Lilith just sighed, as the last bits of Helios disappeared from our view.

"Brick, we don't even know how to read that map. Those Vaults on there could be anywhere, really." she said.

"Lil is right, Brick. We can't just go to any planet and check if there's a Vault. We wouldn't even get half a galaxy done that way." Mordecai agreed.

"Yeah. We also don't know how this whole thing just happened. Maybe it was planned or something. Maybe Hyperion will be back. We'll have to find out why the space station crashed and what is happening with all those people in the escape pods. Then we can decide what we're gonna do with the Raiders and with Sanctuary and with that Vault map." I said.

"Yeah, well, how about we all go back to bed and sleep over it? I really just wanna go back to bed and I'm cold as fuck. So if you'll excuse me, I'm off." Lilith replied and turned around to go back to HQ.

"Man, that girl takes her beauty sleep seriously." Tina commented.

"Yeah, and so should you. It's time to get back to bed, Tina." Brick told her. She squinted at him, but actually seemed to be tired enough not to make a fuss over her bed time (which she only did with Brick anyway, because Brick just couldn't say no to her, but that was a story for another day).

"Sounds like a plan. Might be able to get some sleep now." Mordecai said to me. I smiled at him and started to walk back towards our apartment with him.

"You think whatever happened up there was planned by Hyperion?" I asked.

"I don't know. I wouldn't know why they'd wanna blow up their own space station. Then again, I have no idea how the hell Hyperion operates. Guess we'll have to wait and see. I'm sure we'll get some sort of info tomorrow. Someone usually is hacked into some communication system and spill the tea eventually."