A/N: Wow, I did a good job! Ten chapters in all! Yes, this is the last chapter. :( Boo hoo, I know.
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The Grand Finale
Tarrant watched as Ali slowly woke up, and sat up.
She wiped her eyes, and walked over to her computer console.
He turned away, and smiled, knowing that she was alright.
Ali sat down in front of the computer, and typed in the word 'WAR' into the Basic dictionary out of curiosity.
She paused, then pressed 'enter'.
Her eyes widened in horror as the screen flashed endless pictures of blood, and bombs, homeless families, and horrible wounds.
She finally started to cry softly as the screen stopped at a horrifying image of a hydrogen bomb explosion.
She wiped her eyes, but the tears kept coming.
She thought as her tears kept coming, "How can I fight to defend such an awful culture? How can I defend these humans who do nothing but destroy, and wage war?"
She hugged her knees to her chest, and cried the whole way to the temple.
Hamish lept from his hiding place inside the escape pod, scaring everyone inside.
He said, "You did get the stones, right? You got the stones?"
Ali looked up sleepily, her eyes still red, and nodded.
Tarrant swung around, and said in his heavy Scottish brogue, "What're yah doin' 'ere?!"
Hamish pulled out a long, slender key, and said, "You need this to get inside the temple!"
Ali grabbed the key, and tucked her hand back underneath her body as she fell asleep again.
Tarrant landed the spacecraft outside the large, dusty temple, and opened the doors.
Already in the Outlands, a large sandstorm was ripping through the dunes.
Ruby said, "Uh, Tarrant, we better get moving, 'cause it looks like this Jabberwocky-thingy is getting closer..."
Tarrant just nodded, and said, "Come on, get inside the temple!"
Ali, Ruby, and Hamish all filed out of the escape pod, and followed Tarrant inside the temple.
Ali felt a strong pull deep inside her, and ran deep inside the inter-workings of the temple.
She beckoned for the rest of them to follow her, and then ran straight into an empty chamber.
She walked straight up to a flat wall, and took out the key.
She stuck the key into a small hole in the wall, and stood back as the wall slid away, revealing a much larger chamber behind it.
They all ran into the chamber, and Tarrant took the stones out of his bag.
Hamish said, "And now, we've got to get them to open."
Ruby said shakily, "How do we do that?"
Hamish said, "All I know is that it has something to do with the individual elements engraved on each stone."
Ali nodded, then collapsed to the floor.
She held her leg, and moaned.
Tarrant turned to Ruby, and said, "You did apply the salve every hour?"
Ruby frowned, and said, "I didn't know, I swear."
Tarrant ran to Ali, and said, "No, no, stay awake."
Ali's eyes opened sleepily, and she said softly, "Water... falls... Fire burns... Earth... *cough cough cough* "
The last bit of her words were drowned out by coughs.
She tried to say, "Wind blows..."
Hamish held his stone, and said, "Oh, this is pointless. We're going to die." then let out a small breath of air.
At the small gust of air, the stone opened a fraction.
Tarrant ran over, and said, "What did you do?"
Hamish said, "I just... blew on it!"
Tarrant turned to Ruby, and said, "That's it! Wind opens the wind stone, and I bet the same principle works for every one!"
Ruby said, "Okay, I'll open one, there's one for every one of us, even for Ali, but she's kinda out of it right now, I guess..."
Tarrant grabbed the fire stone, and pulled out a small packet of matches. He struck a match close to the stone, and it opened, revealing a small piece of the sword.
Hamish blew on his stone until he nearly fell over, revealing another piece.
Ruby poured a bit of dirt from the floor onto his stone, and grabbed the piece of the stone as it fell out.
Ali dabbed her finger in her mouth, and rubbed her saliva onto the top of her stone, revealing the last piece of the sword; the hilt.
Tarrant grabbed all of the pieces, and tried to put them all together, but to no avail.
When Ali saw that nothing was working, she stretched over to the pieces, and touched the hilt with her outstretched fingertips.
The sword glowed, and slowly fused together.
Tarrant smiled, and said in his lisp, "Good work."
Ali smiled a weak smile, and tried to stand up as the ground around them shook.
Ali frowned, and looked up.
The Jabberwocky was slowly breaking its way through the ceiling, into the chamber.
Tarrant handed Ali the sword, and said, "Ali, you have to kill it."
Ali turned to him, and said, "Why? Everything is so full of evil."
Tarrant said, "Well, there are still things worth fighting for."
Ali said with a few tears pouring down her face, "What?"
Tarrant thought for a second, "Well, there's love."
Ali frowned, and said, "Love?"
Tarrant said, "Yes."
But the Jabberwocky nearly broke all the way through the ceiling, and Ali grabbed the sword.
She said, "For love?"
Then lunged forward at the Jabberwocky as it broke through the ceiling completely.
Tarrant screamed as the ceiling collapsed around him, Ruby, and Hamish, and almost completely covered Ali and the Jabberwocky.
Tarrant woke up a few minutes later, and the recent memories flashed into his head.
He stood up hurriedly, and screamed, "ALI! ALI, WHERE ARE YOU?"
A small pile of rubble shifted as he searched, and he ran over to it, pulling rocks and beams of wood off of her.
Ali gave him a smile as she climbed out of the rubble, and said, "It's dead. I killed it with my sword."
Tarrant beamed, and took her quickly into his arms.
Ali was a bit stunned, but then she dropped the sword, and hugged him back.
Hamish and Ruby climbed out of the rubble, and saw Tarrant and Ali hugging in the middle of the wreckage.
Hamish smiled, but Ruby said loudly, "What am I still doin' here? This is a warzone!"
Tarrant smiled, and, out of pure love of the moment, quickly kissed Ali on her mouth.
Ali, again, was a bit stunned, and almost threw Tarrant off of her, but she accepted it, and hung her arms around his neck.
Ali and Tarrant were awarded medals of honor for saving, well, humanity, and Hamish and Ruby were given recognitions for contributing.
Tarrant eventually asked Ali to be his wife, and Ali had to look up what a wife was, but after she knew what it was, she accepted.
The ceremony was, well, interesting, but what do you expect of a wedding ceremony between a perfect being and a Hatter?
(Ruby attended and televised it all on his show, which received critical acclaims from all over Wonderland, and eventually exploded Ruby into super-stardom.)
Hamish quit his job for Absolem, and opened his own book store.
The White Queen, after a whole load of therapy, eventually got over the mass destruction of the White Rabbit, and moved on with her life.
Bishop got married to Rook, and they had three healthy, beautiful little Pawns.
And I know it sounds incredibly clichéd, but everyone lived happily ever after. (Except the Jabberwocky, whose meat was able to feed orphans all over Wonderland for three years.)
A/N: Well, everyone, that's my version of Fifth Element. Any likes, reviews, or requests for future stories can and will be appreciated. Now, remember to tip your waitresses, review on the stories you read, and stop feeding those animals at the zoo, even though the sign clearly says 'Don't Feed the Animals'. Hey, we all did it once.