Phase 40: Onward Towards the End
It wasn't fair but it was life, this is what he told himself as he and Alicesia sat together in the hangars of the ORB military base, watching as very soon they would be leaving. She wanted to go with them, so that she could go with Kiran but she could not because she was a part of the ORB military, ever since she had made the decision to become so she had sealed their fate in this matter. They would be separated as he was loyal to the Clyne faction over ORB, even though it meant he would no longer pilot the courage; it was something that he would have to give up.
"We can call every once in awhile," Kiran said, "but it's dangerous because we don't want them to track us. It also seems like I have no mobile suit at all, so it's back to the bridge for me but I'm hoping something else works out." He didn't want to be demoted to the bridge but he knew even that was worth more than not fighting at all.
"You'll do great Kiran," she responded, "and I'm sure you will all come back. I just know that I will want to be up there with you, but I understand why I can't. You know we'll hold the fort down here and that we'll keep everyone in our thoughts." He smiled at this. They were best friends and comrades now. He would have never expected their friendship to grow so much on the first day he met her but they had become very close and they had faced quite a few fears together. They fought alongside each other against the STING and again when they fought to get the Minerva back to ORB.
"Well this is for now," Kiran said, "but who knows, we may be fighting alongside each other again, or even better we may be standing alongside each other when peace and the defeat of ROW is announced to the world. The odds are against us but we have Meiko Virea now." She smiled back at him as he flashed his goofy grin. There was no getting him down; even in the face of danger he was optimistic about their chances.
"Yeah," she looked down, "but even then you have to be careful. No one is invincible."
"No one except me that is," Kiran replied with a large smile before laughing a little causing her to laugh. "I'm serious Alicesia, just watch, I'm invincible." She laughed a little more, she would miss this part about him. He always knew how to lighten a mood and make her laugh again.
They stood in a line now. The Clyne faction leaders along with the Redemption leadership. There were pilots there as well all standing as the ORB embassy bowed before them in thanks for their help. The group would be departing now very soon. Meiko Virea hovered nearby in the Phoenix, unwilling to stand in the group even though ORB asked her to be there. She would rather not take an honored place in the line that belonged to heros. Her road was one where she would never be like them, she was too marred by blood to even try but she accepted that. She was a person who would do what she had to now to get the job done.
There were no news stations covering the affair, as no one in the world was to be aware as to what was taking place. To them the Redemption ships were leaving alone, there was no mention that Lacus Clyne or Kira Yamato were ever in ORB and thus were not departing into space with the odd faction that had suddenly appeared now to suddenly leave. No one knew that the Dreamer was leaving with them either, that information was kept under wraps.
Meiko's arms were crossed as she watched from above, listening as well to Cagalli give a final word of respect to those who were leaving. It must be hard for her to watch people who defended her nation as well as people who were family to her board ships bound for space and a mission that was not certain. There was a blank cold expression on Meiko's face as her eyes glanced out the windows toward the cliffs and in the distance the school that she had attended while undercover here. She had not visited it again since being here. Such dark memories were very distant from her and she knew that she had come to terms with the things that she had been forced to do. The difference now was finding a way to get other things done. She sighed, they were moving onward toward the end and she had no idea what that end was but she knew that she was ready to face anything; even death.
The plan for now was as follows, head into space and meet up with the Clyne faction. Once there the leaders would meet and discuss what actions to take next. They would need a battle strategy and they would need to asses their troops. They would be given a day to do so according to the plan laid out for Milady, they then would immediately set out for Mars. That part of the trip would take a bit of travel but once they arrived at the base Meiko had no fear that they would win whatever battle was ahed.
Not long now. She saw that Lacus Clyne was moving forward to hug Cagalli and so was Kira Yamato.
"It's going to be alright," words that were spoken to her once by someone in the nation. "I know so much more now." She smiled as she wasn't sure if these voices were real or her imagination, but any memory of Uzumi Zala was welcome.
"Forward Forever," Meiko spoke out as she saw the officials boarding the shuttle and she smiled now, "onward toward the end."
"And you will make it such an end, to be remembered in the halls of men forever," the voice spoke again. Meiko smiled once again. Of course he would be right.
Into space she went.
Lacus Clyne walked alongside Kira and Andrew Waltfeld. The ships had just met up with the Clyne faction at the rendezvous point that Milady had sent to the Clyne faction and Lacus had transferred herself and her family to the Eternal immediately. She had spoken with some of her officers that seemed skeptical but she had assured them that she knew what she was doing in her position. She wasn't sure what it was that caused everyone to be so fearful of attacking ROW full force; they had strong allies that were going with them and most importantly they were strong enough to handle this. They had stood against the STING and now from what information they got, Liene was vulnerable.
"I'm still surprised that Meiko Virea survived, super seed or not," Waltfeld had been brought up to date with the things that had taken place on earth as well as the shocking news that had brought Meiko back to them. They had done their best to explain but he was still shaking his head over it.
"She's a resilient person," Kira sighed, "but you would never know it from speaking to her. On the battlefield she is so centered and focused yet in person she's still a child. It's easy for me to see how the men are very concerned with what we are doing. She was a ROW agent and is thus deemed unpredictable but she is also very different than she was then."
"She reminds me of you," Waltfeld said with a smile, "It was very difficult to picture you as a mobile suit pilot when I first met you and even harder to see you as a strong enough threat just by looking at you but that's what you are. I don't think we should worry about Meiko's loyalties, yours were in the right place in the end and even though it took awhile to get Athrun on board he choose the right path in the end and so did Shinn. Just look at the history of who we have fought. Those who's desires were in the right place eventually joined up with us, the same goes for Meiko. I believe she want's peace that that's why she destroyed the STING and that's why she's back again with us."
"I believe that as well," Lacus spoke up, "Besides, there is something about Meiko that makes me trust her. She's here to help us, not to harm us and I believe that in the end she could prove to be the tip in the balance that gives us the upper hand. Kira, you fight well with her too and between the two of you I think ROW's lost." Kira liked hearing this from Lacus but he also knew that things could be vastly different the moment they stepped out on the battlefield. One mistake could cost anyone their lives and he had just lost the fear of it all enough to not loose his nerve. He knew many pilots that he had tried to train that once they realized what the battlefield was really like within a mobile suit they moved onto something else. Such moves were the right ones to make, he was glad that they did. Some people just didn't belong on the battlefield
"I don't know about that Lacus," Kira sighed, "the task ahead will require all of us."
"That is true," Waltfeld said with a laugh, "but hey, it's just like old times. Remember when we went in to take on the PLANTs in the days of Chairman Zala? No one would have predicted that we would come out on top. Our battled are based on impossible odds, but we have right on our side."
"And the seed," Lacus replied to that, "for I guess it's always been with us in those darkest moments, giving us strength when we need it the most. We are powerful and strong enough to win this, and we will fight toward that goal."
"You're doing nothing wrong if I am here," Meiko said shaking her head. Leyas and Trey had been wanting to talk to each other and apparently they weren't allowed to be alone together so Trey had asked Meiko to come speak with him and he had subsequently relayed the message to Leyas to come as well. Once there they two seemed very nervous that they were going to be caught by Leyas's parents and Meiko was just upset to be dragged into everything. This was not something she understood how to handle herself around. She had just learned of Trey's inappropriate relationship with Leyas and she had decided she was on Kira and Lacus's side. Leyas was still very young and though Trey was a good guy, he had to see that the younger a girl was the more unpredictable she was.
"But what if my father get's angry?" Leyas asked Trey, ignoring Meiko's comments. She wasn't very happy about having Meiko there. In truth Meiko sensed that Leyas didn't like her very much. It probably had to do with everything that went down with Uzumi. Meiko didn't blame her for it all, but she was a little upset with the dynamic.
"Then you deserve it," Meiko spoke up a little louder now, she didn't have time for this, "next time ask Kayla to be your third person." With that she left the room. Trey almost laughed at what had just happened but Leyas's face stopped him. She seemed very distressed by everything.
"Hey it will be alright," he assured her, "I will wait for you, and in that process I will fight to figure out what I can do to prove to your father that I really do love you."
"I know you will," she replied, "I just really miss you." He hugged her.
"I miss you too but it's not forever," he whispered, "three years will go by before you know it and then this whole thing will change." She knew she would have to hold onto that. Time would go by quickly for him, but she was not so sure it would go by fast enough for her.
Images of the past danced through her mind as she watched everyone's business in the Clyne Faction base's hanger. She saw memories of a forgotten identity and forgotten age, these were the memories she had tried so hard to forget; for the past was the place where her life had been darkest. So many events had driven her to madness and to choices that were more broken than anything. Her own mistakes had caused so much pain that it had separated her from everyone she knew at the time; she had become an enigma and had been forced into a life without her friends nor her family. Milady Redemption or someone more, she hated the fact that she was so distant from everything but it was like that long before she changed her name over and over. She had been searching for a purpose and for a meaning in life so she had buried herself so many times that it was still hard for her to sort through it all. It was near impossible for her to tread back into the maze of time but she had done it before and she had watched her life and her choices play before her; she had watched herself become a poison that had driven so many events.
She had found solace in forgetting and changing her identity, even inventing a new past but she could not erase the scars of all the darkness. For there was no solace in anything but her increasing need for redemption. No action that she did fulfilled the ache inside her soul so she pressed on still searching for that place where she would be renewed and freed. She watched from the window as her daughter walked with a confidence, her little girl had broken free of every guilt and Milady wanted to know how. How did someone just bury their past the way she did because no matter how much good she did she could not bury it. She could not break it, for it was there and it would always be there.
"You're still alive," she heard Yzak's voice as he entered the room she was in, "and you're strong. You can't just ignore anything anymore. Come clean and let it all be laid out there. You will never be free if you can't speak of the past and Meiko will be in danger if you do not." Tears rolled from Milady's eyes as he addressed everything that controlled her soul at this time. What he said was simple, but was it really that simple? Liene could not stop Meiko through mere words alone, the very soul of freedom and determination was present within her, no truths would change that.
"Meiko knows Liene is more of a liar than anything else,' Milady responded stubbornly, "she will not listen to him over the woman who gave her back her freedom, besides she knows better than to let him speak; for it is in his words that he has power." Yzak did not agree with Milady on this, Meiko knew Liene was a liar but she also knew him well enough to know when he was telling the truth and though Meiko could see through his motives; once a bond of trust is challenged then it is hard to reform. Milady of all people should realize this through all the things that she went through in her youth. If Liene could question Mieko's trust in Milady he could cause a breech between them no matter how strong Meiko was; the thought of betrayal, especially when backed by truth, was a hard one to excise once it had taken root in the mind of someone.
"And you know the things that could be used against you," Yzak pleaded, "you know the past better than anyone, and you can see the things that you did wrong. You haven't given Meiko or anyone else a real chance to forgive you because you have held back on everything. You know I forgave you, but you opened up to me and you confessed; but now you still bottle everything inside and it could cause more hurt now than ever before. Listen to me Milady, tell Meiko everything." She knew him to be a blunt and sometimes dry person, but he did know everything about the past. And in knowing everything he had tried so hard to help her but she was resistant.
"But if I do," Milady replied turning away, "it would give Meiko another option, and I am almost certain she would take it over me." Milady didn't want her daughter to choose any other path but one alongside her will but she knew that if Meiko knew the truth of everything she would choose the brighter road.
"You don't know that Milady!" Yzak protested, "You are afraid more of the opinions of the people around you! Listen to yourself! Do you really think Meiko is better off without the knowledge that she has more choices? What if something happens to you? Besides its better for her to hear everything from you than from him."
"He won't touch on that subject because it would strengthen the bonds in Meiko's heart to the Clyne faction," Milady snapped back, "because Liene want's to divide us! If he does speak to her and reveal anything he will twist it in such a way that it will be refutable," she suddenly realized this. There was no way Liene would say anything that could not potentially make Meiko stronger. If he said anything he would do so to divide Meiko from the others, and with the truth the only person Liene could really hurt now was Milady. So any choice was hers, this was what she believed.
"You can't believe that Milady!" Yzak protested, "We both know you're wrong now."
"No," Milady shook her head turning back to him, "I see so clearly now what Liene wants. He want's Meiko's blood yes, but he also want's to hurt me as much as he can. He wants me to pay for all I've done to him and he wants to exact his revenge. I now know what I must do." Yzak didn't understand but a solemn look came over Milady now, he then realized.
"I see," he responded a darkness filling his eyes. He didn't like it one bit, and though he knew what it was he didn't understand why it had to be this way.
"I will make sure that Meiko comes back alive," Milady said with determination in her eyes, "That is all I've ever wanted and now I will fight for that truth. You know Yzak, I am a coward in so many ways but when it comes to my little girl I would face an army of millions rather than to watch her fall."
Another ship gone, and one less defense for the base. What was happening around him didn't make sense as there seemed to be a general calm over the atmosphere, but he felt an undercurrent of something else; there was fear around him and for the first time in a long time he felt as if he was not being filled in. Liene was uncharacteristically silent about everything and he was focused on one thing, moving the supply of the crystals they had harvested from Mars. He had simply said he is taking a precaution in case the base and the mines were attacked again as they were before. Mike knew that this had something to do with Redemption's appearance on the global stage. The organization was out of the shadows now and he wondered how Milady was able to fulfill her plans now.
Mike had spent a lot of time thinking back to the days before everything changed; thinking back to the time when he was just Meiko's teacher. She was dead now, gone forever along with all the hope he had for the defeat of the world. He had joined with Jayley and had been feeding her information but he wasn't even sure of himself in that. How could someone like Jayley defeat ROW when even Meiko's best efforts failed? His other question was how could redemption win without some champion to fight for them? He knew that Milady had taken the other child from Liene's lab but he also knew that she wouldn't do the same thing Liene did; Milady was too good for that, she would find a home for the child and in that case she would not have that resort. No Milady's plans fringed on Meiko's wavering, and when Meiko did waver it was in too dire of a situation and she was too late to do anything else but die. How could anyone believe in anything else after having their one hope destroyed? Meiko was Mike's one hope for the future of the world. She was to be his redemption and he had cared for her as a daughter but when it really mattered he was powerless to help her. Guilt had eaten at him for so long and he couldn't escape that.
He couldn't understand what there was to do now. What fight did he have? He could try to leave ROW, but here he was at least giving information to Jayley and he wondered how long he could keep that up. Liene was growing more and more distant and it seemed he didn't trust Mike anymore. Mike wasn't afraid of this though because he knew if Liene knew what he had done he would have killed him already and he hadn't. There must be a reason he was still alive.
"So we need to make sure whatever we do the attack is not fronted by Meiko," Milady spoke now. Lacus, Kira, Andrew Waltfed, Dearka Elsman and a few other officials sat together discussing the coming battle plan. The Clyne faction had compiled a list of it's forces and due to recent upgrades they were quite ready to face the enemy at hand. Milady's people had hacked a mainframe and gotten a layout of the Mars base, thus giving them a layout of what they were up against. It seemed defenses were low but it made everyone wary to the idea that they would be up against much more than they had initially planned. Milady was saying that Meiko would lead the attack and they all knew that she was saying this because Meiko was not under any military authority, but rather a one man army that would not pay attention to battle plans.
"I am sure that Yaro could front the battle credibly," Andrew Waltfeld said, "the kid has reached a very high level of combat, he was one of the main reasons ORB was not overtaken and I believe that he is strong enough for this."
"No," Kira responded, "He is strong enough but it's too risky, he's more emotional when it comes to this battle. I believe that I should front the forces." Milady was partial to both ideas, Yaro was strong enough but Kira was right, he was emotional. She then thought more about it; who's to say Kira wasn't emotional about this? After all ROW had done a lot to hurt and threaten his family. EIther one of them might be a bad idea at this point.
"But you're emotional about this as well," Milady spoke up, her authority shining, "think about it Yamato; they have hurt your family and you are angry about that, You can't deny it. You're angry about what they have done to your family and in truth we are all angry at them when it comes to something. We can't solve this by looking at the emotions of individuals. We need a strong front line yes, but we also need to someone to carry up the back end of the forces. I say that we should send Yzak in the front along with Shinn Auska and Lunamaria Hawke. That is as strong a frontline as we can get, next we launch Yaro with the next wave of forces and have you take the back end of the forces. If we calculate the times of the waves correctly and with speed we can take out the main towers and get the forces in line perfectly to defend our main attack force. Meiko I suspect will do all she can to help but she is very much like me. Her tactics depend on speed." They all listened to Milady's basic plan and it did sound very strong. None of them could deny that it sounded very strong.
"You're right about us all being emotional this time around," Lacus responded to the plan, "and I think you are correct in saying that we have strong enough lines with your plan. It's the timing that is going to be the most tricky part and with Meiko Virea's strength I wish we could get her into the plans, but I understand why we can not. I think we should consult our technical experts for timing. We also need to know how many gun towers the base has. We need a complete weapons readout if we are going to be prepared, in that case when we get close we should have Kira and Kiran hack the bases mainframe." Milady nodded, this was a good plan. The father and son were both very quick to think through the algorithms and defenses of the mainframe.
"That sounds good so far, what about escape routes?" Dearka asked, "we need to know what to do should things take a turn for the worst. We are strong but there are always unpredictable factors in battles such as these."
"You're right of course," Milady said holding up a map, "but in that case there are craters on the surface of Mars that stretch out of the range of the main guns. In a case of a bad situation getting the ships down into these sheltered areas should be easy and flying through them should lead us into a good escape place."
"What about Liene?" Kira spoke up now, "there is a possibility he could use the same tactic to get out, if he is still there. There is also the possibility that he has that area defended just in case of the use of that tactic."
"Liene is intelligent and he knows how to plan battles in his favor," Milady replied, "but he has no imagination when it comes to things like this. He see's us as the type that will fight and fight and fight. He would never expect from knowing me that we have an escape plan. Besides that if he is in the base we will be surrounding it as best we can to cut off all his escape routes." Kira took this as a good answer to his question. The conversation continued on as the covered all areas of concern and interest. Some of them still couldn't believe what they were about to undertake. The outcome of this battle would be critical. It could make or break the work whatever they accomplished here.
They all felt the weight of it the day they had decided to participate in it and they all knew that here the had a chance to end everything. The question was would they actually end it? They had strength on their side and the truth of justice, but was that enough? Milady also knew that this was a turning point for Meiko. She would have to fight against the organization that had both raised her and broken her to their will for so long. Uzumi wasn't with them this time to help her, and Yaro was too broken himself to really encourage her. Milady was trying her best but it was going to be interesting for sure. The battle ahead was sure to change everything and they all prayed it was the last one they would have to fight. Kira had the sinking feeling that this was only the beginning of the end. If this was so what exactly was ahead for them? Would they all come out alive?
The sweat felt sticky on her skin as she leaped into the air again intent on landing the stunt to get away from her opponent when she realized she would be within reach of another. She raised her arms in defense the moment she landed blocking the man's punch with her metal arm. He cried out in pain as she realized she had once again rolled her ankle wrong. Angrily she jumped forward fighting off the other four with a series of complex movements and well laid punches.
Yaro watched from the side of the ring where he was working on adapting the Dreamer's OS to the conditions of the environment on Mars. Ever since they arrived at the rendezvous point with the Clyne faction she had been off and on sparring with Redemption's martial artists. She was apparently the top in the world for assassinations and martial arts as well as many other forms of hand to hand combat when in ROW; it all made sense since she was trained as a weapon for her entire life. Recently she seemed worried about being in the same shape she was in before destruction of the STING and the Pain. She looked like she was doing great to him, but then again he had only seen her fight once before the accident, and that was against a less than worthy opponent.
He heard her yell out in rage and turned to see her in the air with her foot slamming into the head of one of the men she was fighting, but he then realized why she had yelled. She was unable to get out of the stunt and she hit the ground hard on her side. He jumped up before seeing her leap off the ground to get back into the action, but her movements were no longer fluent as before. She stumbled into a punch and tripped out of a flip. He saw anger on her face as she jumped into the air higher than she had before to knock into one of the few opponents still in the match. Once again she made the hit but was unable to land on her feet and she crashed into the side of the ring.
He disliked watching her hurt herself over this. She wanted to be the best again and he saw that she was angry that she kept making mistakes, and her scores were apparently lower than they had been in ROW. He turned away back to his work when he heard her cry out and this time it sounded like she was in pain and all the fighting noise ceased.
"Meiko?" he spoke her name loudly as he turned to see her gripping her shoulder and sitting on the ground as the two men that still remained were both at her side asking what was wrong. He jumped up toward the ring and was quickly by her side as he saw the pain on her face. He wondered what move she had done wrong this time. It made him uneasy that everything in her landings and precision seemed off; she was so strong that it was very odd to see that strength turned against her as she was unable to trust her own muscles and strength. She seemed to read his concern and she did not welcome it. She was stronger than almost anyone in the world physically, she was just trying to adjust to the changes in muscle formation as a result of her injuries. Her timing and muscle memory had changed so she made more mistakes than normal, but she was still strong.
"I'm alright," she said to him as he helped her stand. He was uneasy about the expression on her face and the words coming from her mouth. It was then that Yzak entered the ring with a small thing of ice and handed to her. She took it and held it close to her shoulder, leaning on Yaro as she did. He wondered exactly what she did and there were whisperers among those she had been sparring with.
"The Doctor's told you not to push it," Yzak spoke in an irritated tone, "and you know Milady would not be happy with this."
"What exactly happened," Yaro finally spoke up.
"This," Meiko took the ice from her shoulder and tried to lift it with a pained expression on her face and a gasp as it fell limp, "it's the shoulder Liene shot. The muscles have healed but they're much weaker than they have ever been in my life because of the down time and the healing process. On top of that they have to carry this prosthetic hand which is heavier than the other. The doctors said to watch out when working it and not to lean to much on it but it's my dominate hand." Yaro hadn't expected that much information but she gave it. He had not even thought back to that day, when Liene had shot her. He had forgotten about that as it had been overshadowed by the pain of loosing her entirely.
"Which is why hours of sparring is not something you should be doing," they turned to see Milady enter with Kira and Laucs, "you need to rest Meiko. You will get everything back in time, you've already progressed so much but you shouldn't strain yourself." Meiko understood this, in time she would have everything back but she was impatient to be at the same balance level as before. Her weight, her dexterity, and everything else had changed enough to get her off track and it was her nature to fight for what she wanted so she was fighting to get back everything she had before and in the process she was reversing progress.
"Don't worry Meiko," Yaro said to her, "you'll get it."
"I know," Meiko spoke defensively now as she moved out of his grasp on her and moved toward Milady when she realized she was floating, so someone must have turned off the gravity in the room after she got hurt. The room was able to simulate gravity so that people could train better but it took a lot of power so they turned it off every once in awhile.
"We have the mission plan," Kira spoke up now.
"Yes that is why we came," Milady responded holding something out for Meiko, "as you are our ally, and your own army we decided not to place you under any command. Just be careful out there and understand the actions that we are taking." Meiko nodded. She turned back to see Yaro was right beside her once again and she let out a small smile at that when she noticed the worry on his face.
"Don't worry about me," Meiko spoke firmly, "I can fight out there, I just can't do my complicated movement for hours on end. I'm fine and strong enough to fight." She turned back to Yzak, Milady, Kira and Lacus to see them all still very serious so she rolled her eyes and floated toward the door.
"Wait Meiko," Yaro launched after her, following her out the door. This caused Lacus to look at Kira in concern when she noticed a strange look on Kira's face.
"What is it?" Lacus asked him.
"I don't know," he replied as he thought of the sinking feeling he had. Something was off and he didn't know what it was. He had a feeling growing in him for awhile that he was missing something but he didn't really express it nor pay it much heed till he realized that it was growing now. He knew he was missing something and he had no idea what it was nor how he would figure it out.
"The base is almost completely evacuated and the robotics are ready," Gilligan said as he floated alongside Liene down the halls of the Mars base, "your ship is ready, we await your orders." He did not understand what Liene was planning but it seemed that the base was heavily armed with non human entities and programed surprises. It was almost as if he was expecting an attack and did not want to sustain any human losses. He had also ordered a ship with extra defenses on standby and had employed some very interesting back up technology. It didn't make sense what he was planning and the idea that there was going to be an attack still seemed very odd.
"Keep the standby order," Liene said with a smile, "we are almost ready. I am sure that things will come about very soon and if I am right then everything will go according to my plan. Get the recording set up and order Mike to standby on the mainframe wire action. We need to make sure we are ready for anything but there is no stopping us." Gilligan didn't understand everything but he obeyed. Liene smiled twistedly. Everything was falling into place and everything was in order. This was truly the beginning of the end of Lacus Clyne's ideals, the Yamato family, ORB, Redemption and Meiko Virea. He had the upper hand in this battle and in the the hours to come he knew that the moves he made would shape the world. Everything that he had done came down to this battle and the one to follow. It was all falling into place perfectly.
I know, I know. It's not a good idea for me to go randomly MIA but this chapter was surprisingly very hard to write. I stress the very hard. We are getting so close to the end. Now we are in the final ten. Next chapter will be shocking, I am sure.
So be prepared for incredible things.
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