Chapter Twenty-Eight: Heavenly Descent
Shane leaned against the wall as the headache from before began to get worse. She felt sick, not from the Elsa's sudden takeoff, but from the nervousness of her disappearing. She looked to Shion as she pressed the intercom button with tears in her eyes. "Captain, please go back!" She yelled. "KOS-MOS is still inside!" "Are you crazy?!" He replied. "You wanna get caught in that?! We're leaving, now!"
"You can't…!" KOS-MOS, she's still inside...
Don't be afraid, Shion… Everything will be all right… See with your heart, Nephilim's voice told her, echoing in the brown-haired woman's mind. "See…with my heart…" Shion closed her eyes, placing a hand over her heart. She gasped as she saw a partial image of KOS-MOS running towards the the cargo ship. She placed her hand on the intercom button again. "Captain! The wall! 400 meters to the port side! Take her in close!"
"What?!" The captain exclaimed.
"Trust me, hurry!"
"What do you mean, hurry?"
"Shion! Port side, 400 meters, right?!" Tony yelled back at her. "Tony!" "Huh? Tony?!" The blonde pilot moved the cargo ship 400 meters to the port side as the wall burst, KOS-MOS jumping out of the wall. "KOS-MOS!!'' Shane and Shion yelled. The brown-haired woman reached over, grabbing KOS-MOS' right arm as she tried to hold as tight as she can. The android's arm was slipping from her hands. ''No...KOS-MOS! Shane, help me!'' The girl stood up and ran over to Shion, grabbing onto KOS-MOS' arm. Just as the two women lost their gripping on the android's arm, Ziggy ran over to them and grabbed KOS-MOS' right arm and held onto it tight.
"Ziggy?!'' The two women exclaimed. He looked to them then pulled KOS-MOS into the Elsa as the ship took off and flew away. Shane laid on her back, breathing heavily. ''Geez, KOS-MOS...'' Shion looked to the blue-haired android and smiled, a few tears in her eyes. "KOS-MOS…I really ought to put you on a diet!" She said as she looked at her without a word.
"Thank goodness…" Shion hugged KOS-MOS lovingly who looked at the wall.
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The cargo ship flew at high speeds towards the escape tunnel while in the next tunnel, several amounts of debris were crashing down on them. Captain Matthews looked to Tony with a frantic look on his face. "Tony!'' The blonde pilot increased the speed. ''I'm going for it!'' He yelled, dodging the debris and finally escaped from Proto Merkabah. Outside in outer space, the ship began to act up. Inside, all the areas were lit up with red lights.
''Huh?'' Shane looked up at the lights. "Something's wrong,'' Ziggy said to the girls. "…Let's get to the bridge."
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As the cyborg and the 3 women came onto the bridge, everyone was in a panic. Alarms were going off loudly which made Shane cover her ears. "What was that?! I can't hear you!" The captain said in a loud voice. "Like I said, the angle of approach is too steep!"
"Well, can't you adjust it?!" Tony shook his head, looking back at the captain. "It's no use! The controls aren't responding!" "That can't be! All control functions are in the green!" Hammer exclaimed typing hurriedly at the console. "The apogee and reentry balancers were damaged by the debris! We can't adjust the Logical Drive angle any further than this!"
"Ya moron! Stop whining and do something about it! You wanna be vaporized?!" Matthews yelled at them in a worried voice. Outside, the Elsa decended down to Second Miltia uncontrollably..
Chapter 28: End
Sorry if the next 2 chapters seem short...my bad.