We were gathered in the bridge the moment we left chrono-drive. Takuto tapped away on the positions of the allied fleet, centering around the planet EDEN. "Analysis from Alma confirms that the Khans will be reinforcing the Order for the rear. While the Angels attack from the east. Luscious' main fleet is going to attack from the front."

The odds were stacked against us. We all breathed patiently. "There is a way to balance the odds.," Coco put on a beret, "The Rune Angel troupe's Emblem Frames are on EDEN. We can head there and re-activate them."

"They've been dormant for several years, is that possible?"

"It's worth a shot."

"Alright, tell Seldom to cover you. We need all the help we can."

Kazuya and Nano-Nano approach the door, but Vanilla blocks them. "Mom," Nano paused. "It's good to see you again, Nano-Nano," she pat her on the head. Making her wave her tail and pur. "Be careful out there."

She nods and exits the room.

In the hangar Creta tapped me on the shoulder, "Mori, we added the finishing touches to all the emblem frames. All Edenian modules are installed into the fighters."

"Thanks."

"Good luck, out there."

Saito and Chitose stood opposite each other, face to face. They bowed humbly like old friends. "You're getting along?"

"Yes, Mori. We're ready to fight," Chitose smiles. Saito wraps his arms around his back and leans, "It wasn't easy. But thanks. We'll be able to provide accurate fire from afar.

-This is Seldom- the PA blasted in our ears. -We are ready along with, ambassador Ranpha.-

"This is it, the last battle against Luscious."

"Hard to believe, no?" Fleur shuffles a deck of cards, "He's brought all his cards to the game. It's all or nothing now."

"Will we win?"

Milfuelle appears on the screen, "Testing, testing.."

"We have all the luck in the universe. We will prevail."

Normad rolled along the floor on roller skates, "Mori, Mori. I want to help."

"It's better if you stay out of this battle. It's only dangerous."

"But you don't understand, I decypted some leftover data on my chip and found out the enemy is using the same technology and communications! I can interfere with their network."

I look around, "How would I-"

"Just install me into the Alexander. She's been waiting probably."

"She? You talk like she's a person," I pick him up, "Alright, let's get you inside."

I gaze into space and see Seldom's mothership, a citadel in space. "I wonder what it must be like to fight your own brother.."

Seldorian Bridge

Seldom waves for his comrades to prepare the cannons on the city walls. "For years now, we've been beaten back into these city walls. On the run. Fighting and abandoning planet after planet... Not today. I should have ended this a long time ago."

"It wouldn't have been the right thing to do..."

"I know. What's done is done. He has yet to change his mind. Force is his weapon, and peace is mine."

Eden

WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH

The flash of three massive tunnels spawned before us and the hulking barges of spaceships flew into position with their 30 foot shields lined against each other. The lancer fighter-craft stood in front while sharpshooters were littered across the line.

"Seldorian fleet, the saint angel troupe will protect the front as support. In the meantime, the imperial fleet sent to reinforce us should be here.. Hopefully. The Vindictus steers around to face, a horde of commercial liners decked with makeshift javelins and turrets.

Eonia appeared on my screen. He looked worried, "There's time to flee this battle, Mori. He will spare your life."

"I've already chosen to defend the Empire, Eonia. Unlike you."

"I'm no traitor, I am still serving in its interest. Listen to me, Luscious is a merciful man. Surrender and he will spare you. All he asks is submission."

"No."

"Mori! What do you think the empire will do after this victory? Simply let you continue fighting alongside, Takuto?"

"They may not trust me now, but they will after what's said and done here. Why do you care so much anyway?"

"Your mother wouldn't forgive me if I let you do this."

"Mother, what do you know about my mother?"

A laster streaked by me.

"Dammit," Eonia screamed, "Who ordered that shot?!"

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I jumped into action. Lasers ricocheted throughout space at break neck speeds as I cruised through a squadron of imperial pilots.

"This is, Takuto. Hold the line until Sigurd's imperial fleet appears. Did you hear that, Moon Angel troupe?"

"I heard ya, Takuto." Forte poured fire into a wall, exposing an opening for fighters to exploit. And boy did they exploit it. They sprayed revolvers into the wall making it wilt slowly away.

"Fatal arrow!" Chitose breathed and landed several bolts through the wall, causing it to crumble. The Phalanx ships pulled back, while the lancers covered them. "Close corner combat. Manny, Fleur, you know what to do!"

Milfie launched a few heat seekers to support while they ran into the fray and hacked and slashed away in the mosh pits.

"Kazuya, here. We're almost there." THWACK. "Hurry up already," Anise roared.

Normad was still computing random beeps and numbers. "How's the decrypting?"

-Normad says he's almost done-

"Good work you two."

-The Khans... They're boarding us!-

The rusty liners abutted into imperial friagtes and boarded with angry hordes of scimitar.

"Repel them as best you can!"

Carraway's Atlantean ships duplicated and cast a shield over them. "This should hold them off. But hurry and repel them. The shield won't last forever."

Takuto frantically ran back and forth between the controls, "How are we holding up?"

"Not so good, Takuto."

"Direct all batteries on the Khans!"

The Seldorian citadel cannons roared and crackled before exploding into pieces of shrapnel. The wall was pulling further and further back.

"We can hold them off! Don't retreat!" the Seldorian ships advanced.

"I knew this would happen," Luscious sighs. Vishnu, is playing pick up sticks with the elder angel, "This isn't as fun as I thought it would be."

"The angels will be here, soon."

-PZZZT... T-this is Eden!-

Takuto opens his eyes wide and siezes the comm, "Kazuya-"

-The city is glowing. I can't believe this-

"What's the situation there, officer? Where are the rune angel tro-"

The man on the other end let out a bloodcurdling scream. The lights sparked from the planet Eden and a colossal ray zipped through them. Everything within its range was incinerated into ash, including most of the allied ships.

I fell back in my seat, the blood rushed to my head. I saw visions of my mother and Luscious together. They wore some strange robes and Eonia was there, except he was. A toddler.. What's going on?

"Keep the child safe. She is a prophet, the day will come when the universe needs her."

"Yes, father."

Eonia looks away. "Eonia," she waves for him to come closer. "This is your sister." They both held hands and walked away. "This will be the last time you see her."

"Where is she going?"

"..To a friend, but don't worry. You will see her again.."

The scene then flashed a violent crimson. I saw Eonia kneeling before the king, "Please, don't dismiss my mother..." He shook his head, "She's a fine women but her treachery to the empire is evident with that mad prophet Luscious."

Eonia croaked, "Urgh, no. No he isn't mad. We are not the only empire in the universe, we have to defend ourselves, expand to the frontier and find the technology of our forefathers!"

"You're mad. Just like my wife." The guards raised their spears against him. "Farewell, son."

and I saw the ruins of the Transbaal palace. Eonia stood over the palace breathing heavily and his brows fluctuating with pain. He clenched his fists, "You bastard...," he held up a picture of his mother and held it tightly. "I will save the empire from the apocalypse!"

I woke up, "What was that-"

-I seemed to have activated some sort of log, sorry about that.-

"Eonia," I looked around. There was nothing but wrecks of ships littered about. The fight was still going on. Chitose and saito had parked their emblem frames in front of me and were firing. Fleur and Manny roared past me, while Baron and Forte laid down covering fire.

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A black-hole swirled over EDEN. Where the angels circled around it, patiently waiting. "Brother, you've gone too far. Shut that gate before-"

"No, the time of man's reckoning is now. Only through dedication and the fully armed technology of the old gods can we save this domain."

"But at what cost?"

"The banishment of the Val-fask, the judgment of heretic angels."

"Is there no way to reason with you?"

"What is there to say, you've abandoned the code of arms to speak with these blasphemers."

"And found harmony, a way to live with them!"

The shield wall clumsily lumbered into one another. "Where are we going? "What's going on?"

Normad beeped, "I managed to disrupt their communication."

"Alright, we can push forward!"

Seldom stood by, shaking his head. Eonia shared a similiar expression. But the battle continued regardless.

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Milfuelle's battleship crashed into the flank, while Mint's flier drones annihilated the right flank. The Seldorian fleet then came tumbling into the middle with the full might of their battery cannons.

Chitose picked off whatever stragglers we could find. With the enemy exposed, the numerous squadrons rushed in.

Normad beeped, "I found more information. It's a log from Eonia."

"Play it," I said without hesitation.

The Magician fleet relinquished their shield and advanced, detonating the Khans into oblivion. But they fought back, latching onto the hulls and rappeling into the bridge.

I hear on the log a coronation of some sort. The one Natsumi told me about. "Luscious, do you solemnly swear, to uphold the values of the dynasty."

"I do."

BOOM. PEW PEW PEW. Rockets roared from above while my fighter strafed through the debris.

"Do you swear to serve the interests of your people?"

"I swear it."

The Ark lodged itself inside the blackhole and fused with the cross. The Phalanx created a circle around him. Angels flew on top of the canopies of nearby fighters and plunged their swords inside. Blood splattered all over the cockpit and they spiraled out of control.

The tape skipped, and announced a date, 416.

"Seldom."

"I regret to inform you, brother, you are no longer welcome on Seldor for your crusade against the Val-fask."

"They pillaged technology from EDEN!"

"That does not justify the destruction of a civilian transport."

-400 km-

Takuto steadied the Vindictus and the fleet. They could see the flagship of the Order's fleet not far away. A bright wall of feathers blocked the way, Vishnu rose from the flagship standing beside her elder. "Justice, it's almost time."

"Yes, it is."

The feathers flutter away. They're all gone. The black hole glows red and howls a loud moan and wail as if thousands of souls were trapped inside, echoing from the tunnel.

"He's summoning the monster," Vanilla warned, "Mori, Takuto, we need to intervene as soon as possible."

"Monster?"

"I was inside that tunnel for three years. During an expedition for lost technology it sucked me in."

"Vanilla, what's inside?"

She didn't say anything, "We need to get rid of it now."

"Uh, but how?" Takuto frantically searches the database scanning the beast.

"There is one way to get rid of it," Seldom spoke briefly. "The shields are too strong for us to punch through, we need to use a warhead of similar tech. Hopefully when the shield is down, we can advance."

"Warhead, but the only one who can do that is-" I turn to Normad. His beeping had stopped. A missile on my HUD flashed red. "Normad, what are you doing?"

"It's the only choice. Sorry, Mori."

"But Normad-"

"I was designed for this. It is my fate."

"But what about being.. Not just a weapon."

"I'm more than that. I'm a friend of EDEN and the Galaxy Angels."

BEEP.

WHOOOOSH

The missile flew from my payload into the force-field and shattered it in one fell swoop.

"The Khans have been repelled, this is Carraway's Magician fleet reporting, the Khans have been repelled."

"Good, we can mount an assault," I notice that the ships were on fire. "We're in no condition to fight on.."

"That coward, Sigurd.. Where is he?" Takuto growled.

I focus on the planet EDEN. We lost their signal a long time ago.

"Pzzt...pzztt.." a call from EDEN. "Pzzt...pzzt...This is Kazuya."

"Kazuya! What happened?"

The Rune Emblem frames soared into view. Takuto lets out a loud laugh of joy and snaps his fingers, "Let's put an end to this.., Mori," Kazuya softly said, grabbing on to his turret. "We'll move forward, all fleets still functioning, advance. Vanilla repair the damaged vessels."

"Roger."

She sent out a ripple of repair waves and we floated toward the flagship. The cannon from the ark protruded from the portal like a massive gun. My eye flashed, "Huh.." All the weak points were marked. "Alexander.. If you can see this, send the coordinates to Chitose and Saito."

A minute later, bullets smacked deep into the armor. Forte landed missiles inside, piercing the hull and exploded everything inside. "We're almost there!"

The Ark dislodged from Luscious' flagship. Vindictus opened the sides of its deck to reveal dual chrono break cannons. "Let's finish it off!"

"Right!" we all pulled out of the way and watched the wall of a beam rip through the surface.

"Is it over?"

The wreckage of the holy cross glazed in the reflections of the sun. The portal was still standing. "Beaten... already?" Luscious gasped. Eonia's ark roared to life and maneuvered forward to cover him. He did not fire.

"After all that I've done. After all that I've sacrificed. WHY?!" The screen showed him bleeding on the floor illuminated. He crawled desperately back on to his throne, "I followed the code of arms, the beliefs of our forefathers-"

"You were motivated by violence, brother. It's a vicious cycle, kill and be killed. This is why I chose not to fight and let the dynasty decline peacefully."

"No.. I will not let it end here.. The Gods, have not abandoned me. Answer me, Gods! Answer me!" he fruitlessly shouted."

"Of course, sweet prophet," a voice called from the void.

What? I motioned back to fighting, but our emblem frames turned off. "What's going on, Alexander?"

"Mori, what's happened to the Emblem Frames!? Fire!"

"I-I can't."

A set of mechanical tentacles 100 feet long waved into the air and wrapped around the cross. It was being eaten alive.

"What's going on? Takuto!"

Noah ran inside the bridge and took the communication from Takuto. Shatoyarn was there, panicked. "Mori, everyone get out of there!"

"What? Why?"

A blue moon crawled out, covered in flesh and bones. It chewed on the cross slowly before sucking Luscious inside with a satisfied slurp. "Brother.. Brother!"

"It's just as I feared, Shatoyarn."

"The Twilight moon."

A massive vortex rushed through the vast space. It was sucking us in!

Bridge- Vindictus

The alarm blared repeatedly. The roof and walls fell over to the side causing furniture and everyone else to collapse on one another. Takuto held on to a catwalk still sticking out. Static burst from the generators and light bulbs exploded. They were in darkness and could hear glass breaking.

When the lights flashed back on he noticed, he was dangling over space. "Takuto.. We have a breach in the bridge. Sealing it now."

"Thank you...," he sighed with relief.

The Twilight moon drooled with satisfaction. Luscious looked on in horror. "What..what is this.."

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The arms wrapped around him. "What.. Stop. This is no God! Chaos, Vishnu-"

"The old Edenians are present, Luscious. You are the chosen one, no?"

"Yes, but-" he struggled. The arms penetrated the back of his head. "Accept your destiny, much like man itself must accept the end."

"Yes.."

I stared at the Twilight Moon for a few seconds. It jerked into motion. "Luscious," Seldom spoke. "Luscious is no more. The mortal's body didn't last the transfer."

"Who is this? What have you done to Luscious?"

The face of a child appeared, shrugging, "I've been waiting for ages and now, I'm free.. Millenia of plotting. My pawns, you have all done well."

"Pawns?"

"Hey, who are you calling Pawns?" Milfie whined.

"Don't you know who I am?" he shook his head, sighing. "Of course you don't." The tentacles spout fire that incinerated a row of ships to ash. "What the-"

"Takuto," Vanilla flew toward the capsized Vindictus.

"Back away, Vanilla..." he was bleeding and crippled.

"What are you doing, let me heal you!" she insisted.

"No. Just get everyone else out of here before it's too late...argh. Alma, plot a course into the belly of the beast."

"What," Vanilla was in tears, "Don't!" she shook her head.

"Sorry.. Vanilla. This is all the Vindictus can do."

The Vindictus rolled right into the mouth of the Twilight Moon. "Is the chrono-cannon ammo primed?"

Alma nodded and sat beside Takuto. "I wanted to retired with Lester when everything cooled down, shame."

"We can do that now."

"Yeah..," he laughed. Takuto pressed the detonator.

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BOOOM

An orange flame shrouded the entire moon. "Takuto!" I screamed.

"All angels land in the Citadel, immediately!"

We landed in the docks of Seldom Seldor's ship. He stood above us on the keep watching the bright explosion.

"Retreat to Transbaal," he ordered.

"Hey, wait!" I shouted, "What about EDEN! All those people down there! We can't abandon them."

"This system is lost. We better leave before we perish as well."

I wanted to argue with him, but my mouth was dry. Fine. We crowded inside a room quietly, solemnly.. waiting. "He's gone," Kazuya fiddled with his food unable to eat. While Anise and Apricot Sakuraba lay in the corner with Lily standing beside them.

My angel troupe all gathered by me, expectantly. "What are we going to do without him?"

"I don't know but we have to keep fighting."

"But how? Luscious controls all the lost technology on EDEN. Fighting him, is suicide."

"We have to find a way," I rose up, "We start by defending Transbaal, from there.. I don't know."

They understood and left the room. I walked into the courtyard where they tied up Eonia. He didn't turn his head to see me, "Hello, Mori."

"What was that, thing."

"The Twilight Moon."

I walked toward him, the guards notice and block me. "Let her go," Natsumi approached with Vanilla. They reluctantly do so with a groan.

I sit beside him, "I saw your past."

"I did what I had to. For the Empire. Mother was a religious women that brought me up to be much like what Shatoyarn is today," he clenched his fists with regret.

"She let Luscious teach you. And what did he do.."

"Deceived me! ...I am a fool. Died once only to come back to know everything I fought for was a lie."

"Who was my mother and why did she separate us?"

Shatoyarn and Noah walked in, breathing heavily, "My, my. We didn't need to request you to speak with him."

"What's the matter?"

"There is something dire, we must tell you-"

Eonia interrupted, "I cannot be forgived for my actions. But- I will try to make things right. Will you-"

"Forgive," I finished.

Silence, the guards rustle under the weight of their armor. "..Fine."

"Good... Then let me tell you what Luscious' grand plan was."

Shatoyarn untied him and we walked back to where we landed our Emblem frames. "Luscious talked about Edenian Gods, but who are they? Why haven't we heard of them before?"

"I'm not sure, where, Eonia?"

"A god is a sentient being that watches over everyone, Mori. Records from Eden indicate only one possible being that could fit this description."

Eonia raised his arm into the air and chanted, "Sic temper."

The Emblem frames shrunk. "Eonia, you-" Shatoyarn stopped me before I could give him a good punch, "Stop, there is soemthing you must see."

The emblem frames decreased to five feet tall, into the familiar shapes: arms, legs, a head.. When the light around them cleared I saw women in the robes of Goddesses with gold crowns. One of them approached me, a girl my age in bright green, "Mori, it's good to see you again."