A/N: I hope everybody's excited, because the fifth and final part of Life is Abominable Episode Two is finally here! I've decided that Episode Three will be titled "Departure", and part 1 will be coming soon. I'm happy that everyone who's reading has stuck with and followed this story so far, and I promise to keep delivering on great content and many things to look forward to in future episodes. Also, by this time the final episode of Life is Strange 2 has been released, and I know, David, Max and Chloe were the only survivors of the storm according to the episode. But, we're choosing to ignore that for the sake of this story because Episode One implied there were more survivors. Now, let's conclude episode two right now! Enjoy!

Previously on Life is Abominable...

After Yi helps mask Everest from the prying eyes of Burnish's helicopter, Max and Chloe enlist her help in carrying out their plan to get Everest out of Shanghai and start their long journey to the Himalayas. Max has also discovered some new features to her rewind, such as having certain objects go backwards in time instead of the entire area around her. Yi also opens up to Max about why she avoids spending time with her mother and grandmother, Nai Nai, and takes comfort in Max listening and telling her how she relates to what she's going through. As the two prepare the truck to depart for the port, Max and Yi see Everest has stolen the AC unit belonging to Yi's apartment, which only delays the plan and now they must see what Everest is doing...

Shanghai, China. 7:51 PM

Max and Yi had just gotten up to the roof to see Everest had indeed stolen the air conditioner. He was lying on his back and holding it above his head with his feet, letting the cool air blow into his face. Chloe was scolding the Yeti and trying to make him give it up.

"Everest! No! You don't take things that don't belong to you! That's very bad!" Max said out loud instead of her thoughts.

"What are you doing out here!? Someone's gonna see you!" Yi piped in as she ran over and tried helping Max to pull the AC box out of Everest's feet, but he was way too strong and their effort was all for nothing. Chloe then saw the extension cord and ran over to it, taking it into her hands and tugging at it as hard as she could.

"Let go! Everest, that is NOT a toy!" Chloe scolded as she kept tugging at the cord. Yi then climbed on top of Everest's face to try and grab the air conditioner from the front, but it still didn't work. Everest's grip on it was more powerful than all three girls were anticipating. Little did they know that as they were occupied trying to get Everest to let the metal box go, Jin and Peng were coming up to the roof.

"It does not make sense. Why would they take it to the roof?" Jin asked Peng before they watched in horror as Max, Chloe, and Yi were struggling to deal with the curious Yeti. Peng let out a girlish scream that someone would only let out in a horror movie when they stumbled upon the killer's lair or a murder scene. The scream was so loud, everybody had their eyes on Jin and Peng, including Everest.

"Oh, hey Peng. You uh... wanna go down and shoot some hoops?" Chloe asked sheepishly, trying to pretend like they weren't seeing what it was they were indeed seeing.

"Guys! What are you doing up here?" Yi asked in a casual tone of voice. Max clenched her fist tightly, ready to rewind time if she felt it to be necessary.

"Hey! Get away from them!" Jin shouted as he pulled his phone out of his back pocket and began dialing the number for the Shanghai Police Department.

"Okay, I'm calling the police!" he added, his thumb dangerously close to the 'Call' button below the keypad on the screen. Max tried swiping the phone away, but Jin kept on dodging Max's hand.

"He's not going to hurt you. I promise" Max said as she tried to stop Jin from calling the cops. Jin was now holding up a wooden chair that was kept in Yi's travel shrine like a lion tamer would as Everest approached him. Everest's response to this was to roar loudly in his face.

"Look at him! He's a Yeti! And Max can communicate to him with telepathy" Yi said. Peng peeked his head out from behind Jin, his look of horror replaced with a look of amazement and awe.

"Cool!" he said.

"What? No! Yetis don't exist! Neither does telepathy or any other kind of superpowers like that!" Jin shouted.

"Well how the Hell do you explain him standing in front of you right now? And it's not just telepathy, Max can rewind time too" Chloe said, seeing how there was no point in hiding anything now that the cat was officially out of the bag.

"I'm calling the cops and that's that!" Jin said as he was about to slam his index finger on the call button.

"NO!" Max shouted as she held out her right hand and opened up her palm to face Jin. What Max did next was completely unintentional, she accidentally twisted her wrist to the right and instead of rewinding time, Jin froze where he stood. Peng, Yi, and Chloe's jaws dropped in disbelief.

"Max, did you just do that?" asked Yi as she stared at Jin who was absolutely still.

"I didn't mean to, I swear. I tried rewinding so I could lock the door and stop him and Peng from coming up here but instead I just... froze him in time" Max explained. Peng just stared in awe.

"This is so cool! Yetis and superpowers? This is something out of a comic book or something!" Peng exclaimed happily. Everyone's faces went pale when they heard the sound of a dial tone. They turned to Jin to see that his finger had pressed the call button just as Max accidentally paused him.

"Uh oh" Yi said.

"Hella not good" Chloe added. They then heard the sound of a female police officer on the other end of the phone. After a few seconds of silence and hearing the female officer asking if anybody was there, they said they were pinpointing their location through the phone signal. Chloe then ran over to the travel shrine and grabbed her backpack and placed it over her shoulder.

"Max, we have to go! Screw the truck we have to leave before the cops show up and get to the port before that ship leaves!" Chloe said. Max nodded in agreement and she held her left arm up again, but this time she turned her wrist to the left, which un-paused Jin and he began moving normally through time again. Jin began taking deep breaths in and out and there was a look on his face similar to the face he made when Chloe rejected him and Yi took the picture.

"What was that? I couldn't move, I couldn't speak, I couldn't... I COULDN'T DO ANYTHING! WHAT DID YOU DO ME!?" Jin shouted as he was freaking out about being paused where he was in time. Before Max could say anything, a helicopter appeared in the sky and had a spotlight shining down over the roof. The wind that was created by the helicopter's propeller caused the photos attached to the wooden board on Yi's travel shrine to come loose. Yi began to panic and say 'No' on repeat as she snatched up the photos and placed them in the same case her violin was kept in.

"Attention! We have you surrounded! Surrender the Yeti and no harm will come to you!" a voice said on the helicopter's megaphone. The minute they said that, Max immediately knew something was up.

"Chloe, those aren't the cops! It's one of Burnish's goons!" Max said as she picked up her bag Chloe had packed for her.

"That means Burnish somehow managed to bribe some dirty cops into working for him! We have to reach that ship before it's too late!" The blue-haired girl said. Max nodded before Everest grabbed her, Chloe, and Yi before placing them up onto his back and jumped off the edge of the roof and landing safely on the roof of a corner store.

"Hang on tight, girls. We're in for a hella bumpy ride!" Chloe said as Everest kept moving forward from roof to roof with the helicopter still hot on their trail. As they were riding, Max looked out into the distance and saw the port come into view. She noticed the ship that was scheduled to leave soon was there. She knew it was getting close to the actual departure time the more they kept this chase going, so she had to convince Everest to move over to the port.

"Everest, we have to get to the port. We need to board that ship if we're going to get you home. Make your way to the port" Max said in her thoughts. Everest looked up to Max by moving his eyes upwards and nodded in agreement only once before jumping across the street to another roof.

"Hang on, I told him we need to go to the port. He's taking us there now!" Max said as Everest began picking up the pace on his running. The helicopter was still following them but it was further behind them now that Everest had begun running faster. Yi then got an idea and tapped on Max's shoulder.

"Tell him to go over to the Oriental Pearl Tower. At eight o'clock there's a light show every night! We can lose them in the flashes of light that come from the tower!" Yi explained. Chloe nodded at Max in agreement, she liked the plan and was on board with him. Max then began using her telepathy again on Everest.

"Go to the big tower with the large ball on top. It's the only way we're going to lose them. Once it starts flashing lights, make your way to the port" Max said in her mind. Everest understood but didn't nod and began making his way up the higher building roofs as they made their way up to the tower. When Everest hopped through a construction site and began climbing the steel support beams, as well as the cable of a crane, they finally got to the Oriental Pearl Tower and Everest clung to the metal ring in the very center of the glass orb at the very top of the tower itself.

"Guys! Look!" Yi exclaimed, pointing over to the distance. Max and Chloe saw the ship, it was almost time for it to leave.

"We have to get to that boat before it leaves the city!" Max said to the others.

"I know, but we need to wait until the light show to lose those Burnish creeps!" Chloe replied. The Burnish helicopter had eventually caught up with them and turned to the side to reveal a man carrying a sniper rifle. Max saw the weapon and gasped when she knew that the bullet that was just loaded into that rifle was meant for Everest. But she wasn't going to let that happen, she swore to protect Everest and that's what she was doing to do. Max remembered how she restored the flower to life and froze Jin in time using her powers, if she could do what she did before, she could use it to save Everest from being shot and help them escape unharmed.

"We got a sniper on our hands!" Chloe exclaimed when she saw the weapon. When the man took the shot, Max held up her right arm and opened up her palm. The bullet froze in mid-air and then fell to the street below when Max put her arm down. The sniper was befuddled at what he just saw, and loaded another bullet to try and shoot down Everest a second time.

"He's reloading it!" Yi shouted while pointing at the sniper. Max looked down at her phone to see it was a minute to eight o'clock. But she still needed to stop the bullet before they could make their grand exit and lose the helicopter. The brown-haired girl got an idea and looked down at her left hand before her eyes focused back on the sniper with a serious look on her face. The minute she saw the sniper take the shot, Max held her left arm up and did a focused rewind on the bullet, making it go back into the gun it was fired from. The minute the bullet went back inside the chamber, the entire weapon exploded in the sniper's arms and rendered him unconscious on the helicopter floor.

"Max... did you do that!?" Chloe asked in astonishment.

"We'll talk about this later! Right now we need to get out of here!" Max replied. Chloe looked down to see a black SUV park at the bottom of the tower with a Zara getting out of the vehicle holding up a pair of binoculars.

"Zara" Chloe snarled, she hated that woman with a passion and swore she'd take revenge on her for Rachel. The sound of electronics charging up caught everyone's ears and startled Everest slightly. It was now eight o'clock and the light show was about to begin. The entire Oriental Pearl lit up with multiple different colors and the pilot of the helicopter became disoriented and tilted the vehicle to the side. Now that the lights were blinding the helicopter, Everest hopped off the tower down to one of the lower buildings and began running closer and closer towards the port. After three roofs, Everest finally landed safely on the ground.

"Yes, we made it!" Chloe said as she hopped off Everest's back with Max and Yi following. The four then began running over towards the ship. The minute they got there, Max and Chloe stopped to face Yi.

"Thanks for helping us get this far, Yi. We really owe you" Max said.

"No problem. Now what are we gonna do?" Yi asked.

"Chloe and I need to help Everest get back home, so we'll be getting on that ship with him" Max told her. She looked behind her to see Chloe and Everest jumping aboard the ship and Chloe was urging Max to hurry up and get on board with them. Max nodded and then gave Yi a quick hug goodbye before running over and jumping on board the boat.

"Glad to see you could join us, Super-Max" Chloe said. Max just chuckled and nudged the blue-haired girl's shoulder playfully.

"Shut up" said Max. Their eyes went wide when they heard the sound of feet landing on the ship's concrete surface. The three of them saw it was Yi who had just hopped off the dock and onto the ship.

"Yi, what are you doing?" asked Chloe.

"What does it look like? I'm coming with you guys" Yi answered. Max then was the next one to speak.

"Yi, this journey could be very dangerous. I don't want you to get hurt" Max said calmly.

"Everest needs help getting home, right? You two are gonna need all the help you guys can get. That's why I'm going with you" Yi explained. Max looked over to Everest who nodded happily with a smile on his face, letting Max know he wanted Yi to come along with them.

"Alright, but you have to be careful. We don't know what this trip will bring our way" said Max.

"I understand. Don't worry about me, I'll be fine" the Chinese teen replied.

"Yi!" A voice called out. Everest, Max, Chloe, and Yi turned their heads to face the dock to see Jin standing at the edge looking like he was about to have a stroke. Max, Chloe, Yi, and Everest watched as Jin was shouting out to them as the boat got further and further away from the port.

"Yi, are you crazy!?" Jin asked loudly. They then saw Peng come up behind them wearing a motorcycle helmet with a unicorn design on it (ears, horn, and mane included).

"Hey! Wait for me!" Peng shouted out as he excitedly ran over to the ship his friends were on. He almost missed the edge and fell into the water, but Everest grabbed him in time just before he could. Jin was now even more furious than before.

"Nice catch, Everest" Max said with her thoughts and gave Everest a pat on the shoulder.

"Welcome aboard, Peng. You're now an official member of Captain Blue-Beard's pirate crew alongside her first mate, Long-Max Silver" Chloe said, making Max and Everest let out a chuckle of amusement. Max hadn't heard Chloe use those nicknames since they played pirates as kids.

"Peng! I'm responsible for you!" shouted Jin before he just let out a loud groan and ran over to get on board the ship with the others.

"Urgh! Your mom's gonna kill me!" Jin shouted before landing in a puddle of oil that was resting on the ship's floor. Everest, Peng, and Chloe began laughing at how Jin's shoes (his babies) got soaked in the black goo and was complaining about how much he hated this.

"No! No! No! You think this is funny!? Do you even know how much I paid for these!?" Jin exclaimed in outrage as Everest and Peng laughed at him.

"Jin, no offense but I hella don't care" Chloe replied.

"Ooh, burn" Peng shouted out before resuming his laughing fit alongside Everest. Max just chuckled at this before looking to see they were now miles away from Shanghai and saw Yi standing at the ship's edge staring out at the beautifully illuminated city. Max smiled and took out her Polaroid, taking a picture of it.

"This will make a pretty good artistic shot" said Max to herself quietly before the film printed out and she shook it in her hands before placing it back in her bag. Max then walked over to Yi and stood right next to her as she stared at the city.

(Start Playing 'Mt. Washington' by Local Natives as you read this next part of the story until it says to stop)

"It's beautiful isn't it?" asked Max, wanting to catch Yi's attention.

"Yeah. I guess I didn't realize how beautiful the city looked like this until now" Yi answered.

"Arcadia Bay used to look as beautiful as this before that massive storm hit us. It feels like I'm back up at the lighthouse with Chloe, watching the sun set over the ocean again" Max told her.

"Sounds really pretty. Do you miss Arcadia Bay? The way things used to be?" Yi asked. Max took a deep breath before answering her friend's question.

"Every day, Yi. I miss it every day. But I still have the memory of it, and as long as I have the memory... Arcadia Bay's still standing. In my heart" Max said with her hand over her chest where her heart was.

"So what are we gonna do once we get to South China?" asked Yi.

"We still got a lot of planning to do. We need to find the best route to take if we're going to be walking to the Himalayas. I have a feeling we won't be driving or flying there once we get to the next port" said Max.

"Yeah. Good point, but just know this..." Yi paused in mid-sentence before placing a hand on her friend's shoulder.

"...I'll be there to help you and Chloe figure everything out. Everest is my friend too, and it's important I help get him home alongside you guys" Yi continued and gave a determined smile as she finished her sentence. Max smiled back and gave Yi a hug in response to this.

"Thanks Yi. The more players on our team we have, the better" said Max. The two friends broke their hug to see Jin standing there with his arms crossed and tapping his foot.

"Alright, now that we got the friendship stuff out of the way, I think we're owed an explanation, Max" said Jin.

"Explanation? For what?" Yi asked.

"For how she can do the things she just did" Jin replied sternly. Max then walked up to Jin and opened her mouth to speak.

"You do deserve answers, Jin. You all do. Just sit down and I'll tell everyone the story" Max replied before guiding Yi and Jin back to where Chloe, Peng, and Everest were. She sat them all down in a circle and began telling everyone the story of how she first discovered her rewind and how it lead her to discover the dark secrets her hometown was keeping, as well as the storm she had caused that destroyed it. The full story took about six minutes to tell, but it was enough to leave her new friends in absolute shock.

"Woah, that's... insane" Peng said as Max finished the story.

"I can't believe you went through all that. That's just, awful" Yi added. Everest let out a sad grunt and nodded in agreement with what Yi had said.

"Honestly, I'd say you guys were crazy, but after seeing Max use her time powers like that... I'd say I don't know what's normal anymore" Jin had said. Everest then let out a loud yawn, signalling it was time for bed. So everyone picked an area on the ship to sleep for the night, but Max decided to sleep with Everest again tonight. Everest took Max into his arms and hugged her close to him. Max was now cuddling into Everest's white fur which felt so warm and comforting to her, allowing sleep to take over before whispering something in her mind.

"Goodnight, Everest" she said using her telepathy. Before Max could fully fall asleep, she swore she heard something echo inside her mind, it was a voice she wasn't familiar with and never heard before.

"Goodnight, mama" it said inside Max's head. This made Max smile and her heart warm. She knew now that Everest was only a child and wanted only to get back home to his family. The fact that Everest looked to Max like a mother figure made her feel so honored and flattered at the same time. Max then closed her eyes and allowed sleep to take over as both she and Everest drifted off into a peaceful slumber. Max knew that it was going to be a long journey, but that was fine with her. She knew she would help Everest get back to his home no matter the cost.

(You Can Stop Playing The Song Now)

-This Action Will Have Consequences-

End of Episode Two: Breakout

A/N: There you have it everyone! Episode Two is finally completed! Episode Three will be coming soon, and the journey to help Everest get back to the Himalayas has officially begun. And yes, I wanted to expand on Max's time powers, like how she can do more things with her rewind the more she uses it, and these new features are going to be helpful to her throughout her journey. More to come in the next update and the beginning of Episode Three. Please review, thanks!