So...it's finally come to this.

Chapter 20.

Aww yiss.

Even as this story evolved and took me away from its original concepts, this has always been ch 20, and I'm so glad to finally be able to write it for you lovely readers.

This may be shorter than the others, this may be less action packed...but this is the one that matters.

Oh, and prepare yourselves, because if ch 10 and 15 were bad, then this is a real doozy

Disclaimer: Disney owns Sugar Rush, SEGA owns Sonic the Fighters (WHY IS THIS GAME SO INCONSISTENT WITH ITS MATERIAL), Activision owns DJ Hero 2, and Bolt Creative owns Pocket God

Choko's POV

The alarm came when Choko was loitering around the Royal Racetrack with Vanellope-heika. Everyone froze then scrambled to their positions, Taffyta yelling as she clamored into her cart, "But it's only 6 in the morning! We don't open until 9!"

"Well whatever's going on, just calm down and look pretty!" Vanellope-heika quickly shrugged on her frilly mint dress, and Choko looked out of the screen from her position in the back. Mr. Litwak-sama was leading in four young adults, one male and three females, and she gasped as Vanellope-heika murmured from the podium, "That explains some things."

Choko had never seen the famous Toby Litwak-sama and his entourage in person before, as she was kinda deleted for all the previous visits. But she saw how Mr. Litwak-sama seemed so proud to show the younger adults his arcade, and it was very sweet if not nerve-wracking.

Toby-sama was a lanky, freckled pale boy with messy brown hair falling over his bespectacled green eyes. His nose was impressively large and he constantly fiddled and adjusted his respectable long-sleeved button up white shirt, but he and his uncle had the same easy-going posture and they sounded the same to her ears; Skrillex-kun probably could analyze the similarities there. He went off to play Fix-It Felix, Jr., and his mild, somewhat...sarcastic expression melted into pure joy.

The bishoujo currently manning the Street Fighter II console had the darkest skin of the three girls, her even darker brown eyes narrow with intensity. Her lavender tunic and green cargo shorts were stained with what looked like paint and charcoal marks, and Choko spied a notepad and pencil hooked to the woman's waist. Toby-sama called her Adia, and as she looked back to yell over to him with a slight swish of brunette hair, Choko found Adia-sama to be quite pretty in the arcade light.

Choko could tell that the shortest girl was at least half Japanese, that understanding came from within her coding. Her prim black bob shook as she destroyed masses of cy-bugs at Hero's Duty, and she was...she was singing to the soundtrack; the girl must've been a Skrillex fan, Skrillex-kun would be proud. Her clothing was pure casual lolita, blue skirts and floating lace, and Choko recognized the girl with a fizzle of code and a large gasp. She was Miyoko Tobigawa-Martinez, the girl whose father ran Tobikomi and personally oversaw the Sugar Rush series! Choko was glad Miyoko-ojou was playing another game, because Choko would simply die if she played the game more or less made for her!

The final young woman was the tallest of the three, around the height of Toby-sama with her own pink glasses, and Choko admired how her curly brown hair formed a fabulous afro/bob to frame her face. She skipped up to Sugar Rush, wearing a Princess Peach shirt and high waisted white skirt, and she grinned with mischievous honey brown eyes, "Let's see how my childhood holds up in the modern age."

Choko was selected, and she hid her squeal of enthusiasm under her revving engine. Once the race started she was boosted into the lead, and not even Vanellope-heika's teleportation could touch her hold on first place. Choko dominated all the beginning cups and moderate challenges, and she hardly noticed the time flying since she too was flying over the racetrack, in arcade Nirvana. By the time the girl was done thrashing Sugar Rush, Choko was floating on cotton candy clouds; she approved of Toby-sama's lady friends, oh yes she did.

"DeeDee, we're heading out!" DeeDee-sama quickly scampered off, and Choko slid out of her cart as the four followed Mr. Litwak-sama into his personal office. Yuni-san declared the arcade closed again, and Choko watched with just a bit of glee that Taffyta was completely in shock.

But before she could fangirl over their early morning surprise, her Action Replay went off. Choko frowned lightly; that couldn't be good. "Hello?"

"Hey babydoll!" Skrillex-kun's voice seemed upbeat and lacking of end-times stress, so that was a good sign. "Surge is complaining about proper quarantines of games since Leia was fixing up Frogger when Mr. Toby and the Arcade Pixies showed up. Do you think you can come down here and help me calm his electronic tits?"

"Oh Sonny-kun, so vulgar!" Choko pouted as a near by Gloyd-kun and Snowanna-chan giggled at Skrillex-kun's obscenity. Honestly, it was like she was the only one with proper social values around here! Shrugging off those dour thoughts, she responded that she'd be there in a few shakes and turned to Vanellope-heika. "I must go and help my Codebusters, I'll be back shortly."

"Make sure you don't get lost again, Miss Pockystix!" Vanellope waved, violet eyes sparkling deviously. "You still owe me laps for that Minecraft drama!"

With that painful reminded Choko quickly sped to the exit, forgoing her Codemobile for time. Using the cord carts to enter GCS, she found Skrillex-kun and Honey-chan yawning as the Blue Codebuster core (Choko found it clever how Leia-hime and her teams' uniforms had blue Cs instead of red, it made the cores just that more distinct) conversed with the Surge Protector. "Ohaiyo gozaimasu!"

"Good morning to you too." Honey-chan stretched a bit, new headband sparkling against her dark hair. "And what a morning today's been. I got played for a good bit, I'm surprised I'm still tired after beating in Dr. Robotnik's face."

"To be fair it is too early for this, fun or otherwise." Skrillex-kun motioned at his hair, which still had...Choko giggled into her palms as he pulled out a baby pink curler. "And the guys will never let me live this down, I can promise you."

While her friends watched the Surge Protector grill the sleepy Blue core about stuff that went in Choko's left ear and flew out the left, she looked around at the quiet GCS. Everyone must've been sleeping or trying to sneak out of games they got stuck in red-handed, from Tappers to Burger Time to... "Ah, what's this?" Choko walked up to a port she swore was empty the last time she checked, but here it was, cheerfully beckoning her inside. She hesitated , but walked into the mysterious port.

The inside was a stark, beautiful white compared to the worn green and beige of the other game ports. Wires glowed like her game's tunnel to the code well, and she walked down the rather thin cord to whatever game was waiting on the other side. A gloved hand suddenly caught her wrist, and Choko squeaked as Honey-chan scolded, "And what kind of Leeroy Jenkins are you pulling, Choko?"

Skrillex-kun laughed as Honey-chan tore her a new lesson of waiting for her friends to go exploring new and potentially lethal rabbit holes, Choko bowing her head in shame. But...but they needed to see this game anyway; perhaps Toby-sama brought a new game in before the arcade opened! Honey-chan stopped, then nodded thoughtfully. "That would explain why the Surge is so agitated about quarantines; new game procedure and everything."

"Then let's go welcome the new guys before the Surge Man yells at us for not following those dumb procedures." Skrillex-kun walked further down the cord, and it was incredibly short, they could already see the light on the other side! They stepped into the game and titled their heads, Skrillex-kun adding, "Huh, I've never seen a game like this before."

They were in a small island where little pygmies were fishing, warming their hands by a fire, and generally being rather adorable. One of them looked over, and Choko smiled, "Ohaiyo gozaimasu, new friends! Welcome to Litwak's Arcade!"

The pygmy gasped, eyes filled with horror. "You-You gotta get out of here! Before Madam Misha comes—"

Suddenly an earthquake rocked the island, causing them all to balance awkwardly on one leg. Choko saw the light from the tunnel disappear behind them, and the sky turned into a large screen where Miyoko-ojou's mighty finger began to kill the pygmies in variously hilarious ways. Choko trembled as her friends dragged her behind the outhouse, and she watched the world behind the screen shift from behind down on the floor to up in the air, Sugar Rush becoming smaller and smaller as Miyoko-ojou left the arcade.

"Mina-san...I don't think we're going to make opening hours today."

Honey's POV

Honey was not freaking out, thank you very much. Not even when Misha caused a tsunami that swept them all under the ocean and summoned a laser shark. And not even when after eating and murdering all the pygmies, she spawned them all on a new island where she flicked the newly regenerated pygmies into a volcano. Nope, Honey was calm and cool and not on fire because that would be very bad.

Choko, on the other hand, was hiding her face in Honey's back and she could see Skrillex's hands shaking. He was staring past the destruction out the screen, where Misha and her friends were riding in an old van and yelling over each other about the strangest things. How Toby needed to just ask some programming guru girl named Katarzyna out before they did for him, how Frozen better not be an official adaptation of The Snow Queen or DeeDee was going to flip a world's supply of tables, how Misha needed to get off her phone once they got to the airport because she was a total iJunkie...

The finger disappeared and the screen shut with an audible click. The pygmies were now freed from being in character, and they swarmed around Honey and her friends. "Dear Bolt in the sky, are you three ok?"

"Define ok." Choko slowly unclenched her fists in Honey's jumpsuit, and Honey stroked her pink hair. "We're all a little shaken up, and wondering where in Chaos we are."

One of the pygmies stepped forward. "Well...you're in Pocket God. It's a mobile game on Madam Misha's iTouch, she plugged us into your arcade's power strip and you must've..."

They all froze as the screen turned back on and their environment got dark as Misha filled with something just beyond their vantage point before brightening again. The pygmy nodded, "She's gone to a new app, probably Notepad to look up their travel plans." His eyes widened. "Oh Pocket God, their travel plans!"

Skrillex finally broke into the conversation, "What plans? We need to get back to the arcade as soon as possible!"

"We...Madam Misha and her friends aren't coming back to the arcade for a long time."

Honey forced herself to keep calm as Skrillex yelled and Choko gasped. They could...oh crap oh Chaos they were so screwed it wasn't even funny. Honey slapped herself to beat away the growing hysteria, then smiled sweetly at the pygmy. "Where exactly are we going, Mr..."

"Ooga, Ms. And I don't really quite know where we're going—Madam Misha writes everything in Japanese and I can't read her notes—but I do know we're going on a plane." Ooga, paused, then grabbed on to Honey's thumb. "Come on, we gotta get you to a safer part of the app; Madam Misha might come back and you can't afford to die outside your console."

They were led past the confines of the map to a sturdy hut in the middle of a plain, lacking obvious hazards like water, thunder clouds or ominous octopus idol statues. In the hut were various tables and soda machines bolted to the floors and walls, and a lack of anything pointy to impale themselves on. Honey smirked a little as she guided Choko to a seat; the ceiling looked like it was made of pillows, in case gravity stopped working. "You guys thought of everything."

"Thank you, but obviously not enough." Ooga began to pace, his face squished with pensive thought. "Madam Misha and her friends are drifters, and Master Toby joked to his uncle that they'll be around to the arcade once he got married. Which is funny because the idiot can't muscle up and ask out his soul mate, but it's also bad because in all seriousness...I don't know when we'll be back."

"Is there any way to send us back?" Choko's voice was little with clamped down fear, but she met their gazes evenly. "There's the Internet, no?"

"Not here; this is an iTouch, so we need a steady wifi connection before we can send you through the boom tubes." Boom tubes? "Our safest bet is to just wait it out until Madam Misha plugs us in somewhere to charge."

"Sounds like a plan, I guess." Skrillex smiled softly, placing a comforting hand on Choko's shoulder. "So what do floating programs do for fun in Miyoko Tobigawa-Martinez's mobile device?"

Ooga grinned. "All the eavesdropping you could ever wish for."

Honey laughed into Skrillex's shoulder as DeeDee explained exactly why Princess Daisy was a "scum sucking strumpet-Susie" who deserved to die in a ball of fire. The hut was crowded with pygmies and peoples from other apps listening to the "Fabalicious Four" rip into video game icons. Honestly, Honey never knew about the CD-I Zelda games, and she bet that her Ocarina friends back home didn't want to know.

"Ok, new question: Astro Boy, Rockman and Mighty No. 9 in a balls-to-the-walls beat down. Who wins?"

"Well we can throw Astro right out of the mix. I love the Mighty Atom and all, y'all know this already—"

"How could we forget Adia, since you spent that entire anime expo just drilling into that poor cosplayer for his crappy costume?"

"—but both Mega and Beck can copy attacks, and they just seem way more powerful in action. Like, Astro will end up getting his ass fed to him on a platter while the other two exchange violent brofists in the background."

"So Astro is out. Then I wanna say Megaman, if only because I adore the little blue bomber, but Beck's shaping up really nicely. Dee, what's your take?"

"Well, Mr. Inafune's official position is that Beck will beat the crap out of Mega Man, but Mega has Protoman—Blues for you, Misha—waiting in the wings to leverage anyone who beats on his little brother into the nearest volcano."

"Ah, good point. But maybe Call can be Beck's Blues, since she's his partner instead of his homebody sister like Roll."

"Speaking of which—Toby, my buddy, are you finished with the patch you're making for Uncle Stan's arcade? I wanna play Roll in the Power Battle, not just see her ambiguously aged sprite in the endings. Jeez, it's like the Ruby-Sears cartoon with them, they look so old..."

"I'll finish it once you post a new chapter, Dei-dre."

"Ouch, that's cold, To-bi-as."

Honey looked over to see Choko fiercely defending Megaman's honor to Ooga's friends Klik and Dooby, and drowned in lemon-lime soda. Skrillex was being used as a ramp by the baby birds from Tiny Wings, Misha was leading her friends in singing the theme to Pokémon, and Honey relaxed just a little bit more. It was just a little bit like home.

But then car doors opened and Honey could hear them start saying goodbye to Mr. Litwak over the traffic at the airport. The conversation was muffled as Misha was palming the stereo receiver, but the hut was shaking ever so slightly and a thrill of danger went up her spine. Skrillex met her wide eyed gaze, and another pygmy came running in, screaming at the top of his lungs, "SHE'S GONNA TURN OFF THE ITOUCH!"

Skrillex's POV

The hub of the iTouch was stark white and sparkling clean, just as he imagined the insides of his Mac would be. But he could hardly appreciate it, because his untimely death was looming over him like a final stretch of chords.

Misha was turning off her iTouch once they got on the plane to who knew where, and they only had so much time before they could get through security. Honey and Choko were looking at him with terrible expressions, and he realized that out of the mass of programs scurrying through the hub, they were the ones who understood what kind of Void was waiting for them.

No more Codebusting, no more friends, no more making music...no more anything because they were stupid and followed a rabbit hole to the bottom of a well and found out that they couldn't swim. Skrillex clenched his Action Replay tight enough to cut into his hands and bleed on the pristine white floor; he'd gladly tear himself to pieces if it meant that Honey and Choko got to go home safely.

He turned towards Ooga. "So there's no wifi and no chance of stopping to plug the iTouch in anywhere?"

"None at all; this is an airport, Madam Misha distrusts them after a crazy fan stalked her father to one, so she won't be stopping until the plane." Ooga bowed his head. "I...I can't think of anything. I'm so sorry."

No. No no no no no this couldn't happen because Honey had a date with C. Sonic coming up and Choko was holding a sleepover soon and he couldn't watch his friends die like this.

He grabbed on to his hair, breathing heavily as the air seemed to disappear. He needed to get a foking grip, he couldn't lose it, he needed to figure out how to save them. He was a Codebuster, he was Sonny freaking Moore and he knew more about computers than he'd ever like to know so he knew how they were going to die. The electricity would go out, depixelating the playing field until the deresolution caught up to them. They would come apart in a swirl and race towards the end of the tunnel towards the light, hit the end—

And die.

Skrillex let himself be led to a nice corner in the hub by Honey, but he couldn't make his mouth form a thank you. Choko was sitting with her knees to her chest, Honey was smiling this really sad smile like recess was over and it was time to go back inside, and Skrillex couldn't bear to look at them.

Skrillex pulled out his Action Replay, his reflection distorted in the glossy, glowing surface. Tracing a bloodied finger across its surface, he felt code sparkle beneath his tongue, begging to be used and bend the world to his whim. But this wasn't a game, he couldn't cheat death...his blood sparked a new connection and he gasped.

Like the trance after an intense buildup, his mind was filled with stars. Each one contained knowledge beyond that which a normal arcade game program should ever know, but he was hardly normal. After all, normal programs didn't know that iTouches, iObjects in general, were just fancy portable hard drives. Normal programs didn't know that being in one's game didn't make you safe, but your connection to your code—and it's backed up saved data—did.

Normal programs didn't have an Action Replay, and normal programs didn't have their loved ones counting on them to use it. "OOGA!"

"Wha-What?!"

Skrillex's eyes began to glow bright blue as he fell deeper into the secret stars of his Action Replay. "Take me to the Notepad!" Honey and Choko were in his face, but he couldn't hear them, not when he was so synced to the ethereal noise of electricity. "Everyone follow him, I know what to do!"

Skrillex was hardly present, in the hub or otherwise. Desperate connections and theories were being built up and torn down as he abused every loophole he could compute. Only Honey and Choko's hands on his arms kept him from exploding, his mind was reeling with data he just barely had a grip on. "We're here, Mr. Sonny."

"Everyone." Skrillex was beyond data-mode, he was in the Action Replay, and it was a thrilling sort of terrible beauty. "Bring out your cartridges." He felt them do so, two warm lights matching the center of the new cosmos in his soul. "Prick your fingers against the surface." The warm lights flared into brilliance. "And repeat after me..."

He didn't consciously know what tumbled from his lips, but it made sense in his grand scheme. Honey and Choko followed after him with no mistakes, faster and faster as their minds slipped into their Action Replays and bled blue. Soon he could feel them in his mind, connected in ways he'd explore later, and he whispered in the glorious electric static that they were going to back up their code to the iTouch.

But that was insane, Honey countered, they were still programmed to their respective home consoles. To cut themselves away would probably corrupt their entire data.

Skrillex knew that, but they didn't have a choice. Three Notepad notes were at their disposal, ready to them to pour their entire beings into static text, and Skrillex reminded them that it was now or never.

Choko trusted him completely, and added that either they died here or died in a minute. There was no way to lose this messed up game, no reason not to try.

Honey agreed, and in unison they backed themselves up to the notes.

It was disturbing to see their code translated into text, their souls printed on electronic paper. Skrillex sank to his knees and searched for relief; it was like bleeding to death, destruction in inches. Gritting his teeth, he pasted everything—abilities, preferences, memories—that made Skrillex Sonny Moore into the backup. And when their ties to their home consoles were cut as the backup process completed, Skrillex burst into tears.

They were alive, they weren't corrupted and Ooga saved the notes to the hard drive of the iTouch. They were just...alone, unsure if the shut down wouldn't just tear them apart where they stood, and Skrillex ignored the throbbing agony in his hands as gripped on to his Action Replay for dear life. The glow in their eyes faded with the tears spilling down to splatter like spilled code on the floor, and Skrillex felt so incredibly lost; Honey gently loosened his tortured grip and enclosed his hands in hers and Choko's. "It's done guys; there's no going back. A-All that's left is to wait out the end."

Choko's POV

They were sitting in their corner, listening to Miyoko-ojou laugh with her friends. Ooga-kun had bid them farewell—he could survive outside his app when the iTouch shut down, but he gave them their space. Choko would miss him, one way or another.

And that was her motto for the day: missing people she'd just seen hours before. She was so certain of her decision to back her data up before, but now she was coming to terms with her actions, and they burned in her throat. Her game would think that she'd been deleted again—would it regenerate a new Choko Pockystix for the battles and races, would it make a new her to fill the void she left behind? Or would her absence break Sugar Rush after they spent so much pain trying to fix it again, all because she was stupid enough to enter a foreign game plug?

Choko trembled and Honey-chan wrapped an arm around her shoulder as Skrillex-kun shielded them from the too bright lights. Choko didn't want to die again, not after she made so many loved ones. She could see their faces just beyond reach, too far away for her to say goodbye.

The Prince-hiko and Megaman-sama. Xiao-chan and Alisa-chan. Namine-chan, Saria-chan and the rest of her Thrusday night sleepover girls. Roll-chan and Mee Mee-chan. Pollipop-chan, Lemonetta-chan, Bubblebetty-chan, Marzipanne-chan, Minty-chan and Sour-Apple-chan.

Vanellope-heika. Sora-kun, Leia-hime, and Bob-kun.

Honey-chan and Skrillex-kun

Neesan and Niisan.

Choko smiled when Honey-neesan and Skrillex-niisan brought her into a hug. They were so warm, and they were here for her to hold, and she'd never give them up for anything. They were more than just friends...they were her family, her siblings in a strange and fantastic world.

They were her fellow Codebusters, and this might be their final mission together.

"Did you know that you have two voice actresses, Choko?"

Choko looked up to see Skrillex-niisan smiling, glasses fogged up from earlier. "What?"

"Well, it might not be obvious to you, but it's an interesting story to me." They slid down to sit in their corner, Skrillex-niisan pulling out his laptop and setting it to the side. "You see, your speaking voice is from Azumi Inoue, which is why it's so light and clear. But your singing voice—remember when you told me that you sing your boss theme?—is by Salia.

"It's interesting, because I actually have one of Salia's songs, and it fits you." He and Honey-neesan shared a look, and Choko didn't understand until he turned on the speakers and music lilted through their corner. Then she blushed heavily as Skrillex-niisan laughed, "Shouldn't this be your theme song?"

"You're not as funny as you think, niichan!" Choko flipped his hair back, prompting him to shove her into Honey-neesan, and they started fighting as they always did, laughing away the depression that came on flaming wings.

Then Choko heard Miyoko-ojou call out, "Ok, ok, I'll turn it off now; is tickling me really necessary, Toby?!"

They calmed down and sat in their corner of safety, and Choko smiled; listening to the music was like listening to herself in the shower. Grasping on to her loved ones' hands, she sang out against the darkness creeping at the edges of the hub, "Kowareta toki o koete...ikiru shinjitsu ga aru nara..." Overcome broken time...if there is truth in living...

The lights began to dim down to gray, and it was getting harder to breath, but Choko sang louder, "Todokanu omoi himete, hiza o kakaeta mama ja lonely girl." Hide your unreaching thoughts, keep hugging your knees, you'll be a lonely girl.

Honey-neesan's hands squeezed harder against her hands as Skrillex-niisan's arms held them together. "Kitto bokura mo tadoritsukeru sa, harukana utopia..." We will surely reach it too, that distant utopia...

Choko could hardly see anymore, the darkness was so powerful, and her hair began to swirl as air rushed towards a growing circle of light across the hub. "Tatoeba kimi no sono ude ga kusari ni tsunagaretemo..." Even if those arms of yours were be bound in chains...

Faces flashed briefly before her eyes as silky bands of wind tried to drag her into the tunnel, but Choko held fast. "Tatoeba itsuka kono sora ga moetsukite shimau doushitemo, kibou dake wa shinjite!" Even if someday this sky were to burn up completely, you must believe in hope!

Choko could taste herself depixelating under her tongue, her fingertips derezzing into the whipping wind with the rest of her legs. She belted out the lyrics to herself, to her family, to anyone who cared to listen, "Tatoeba kimi ga kanashimi ni kuzuresou ni nattemo! Tatoeba boku no kono mune ga dakitomeru chikara ni nareba..." Even if you are about to be crushed from the sadness!

If this chest of mine can become the strength to catch you...

They were flying, flying faster than she could ever remember racing in her own cart. Neesan niisan neesan niisan they were still holding on to her, her original Codebusters., and Choko finished the song, "Asu mo kitto we can survive!" Tomorrow surely we can survive!

Choko wanted to say something else before the iTouch shut down completely, anything at all, but she simply closed her eyes and was happy, because—

Miyoko's iTouch shut down and she slid it into her purse.

-ojou: means young lady. Often used for daughters of wealthy, high class families, Choko is giving Miyoko much respect here as she is the daughter of the Tobikomi president and inadvertently began to Sugar Rush series; Matsuo Tobigawa wanted a game that appealed to both gamers and young children like his daughter, so he and co-founder Shinjiro Komida created one of their biggest sellers.

Neesan/neechan and niisan/niichan: terms for older sister and older brother. As Choko came to see Honey and Skrillex like family, her internal honorific system upgraded them to these. In speech she can refer to them as neechan and niichan instead of Honey-neesan and Skrillex-niisan.

So...yeah. I just killed the Codebusters.

OH YEAH I JUST WENT THERE I FREAKING LOVE THIS CHAPTER UGH I CAN DIE HAPPY NOW BECAUSE CHAPTER 20

The thing about Choko's voice actresses and her "theme" (it's Trust by Salia, go listen to it) comes from me finding the similarities between the song's lyrics and Choko's state of mind too perfect to leave out. Her regular voice actress sings the theme from My Neighbor Totoro, and just listen to the beginning song, it's the closest thing I have to a real version of her voice.

But that's not really important because I JUST KILLED THE CODEBUSTERS. And for all the work they did backing themselves up, they could seriously just not regenerate. For all their power as Codebusters...can they really cheat death?

That's the question now, isn't it? Because in the words of M. Sonic: if you die outside your game, you don't regenerate, ever. Game over.

So maybe this is the end...or maybe this is something else entirely...