A.N.: Thank you everyone for seeing this chapter in the story through with me. Don't worry, this is far from the end, but I'm glad for everyone that has helped me get this far. And, trust me, the next book will be out as soon as I can get the first few chapters done.

Epilogue

"We now have control of the entirety of Skull Island," Tauros said. The personality matrix, now without a body, moved the empty Kane armor across the room. "It's only a matter of time before we are at full strength."

"Thank you for stating the obvious, Tauros." Flint took a sip from the glass of yum he held in his hand. "Jinx, how is Kristen doing?" The buccaneer lifted herself up from her perch.

"Her arm will be better in a few days. When she's back at full strength, we'll head out to secure our new outposts." Jillian went to the balcony, and let the wind flow through her brown and purple hair. "With your permission, I'd like to take our new ally with us when we begin our search afterwards."

"I'll think about it." Flint heard a door open and a black cloaked figure entered the room. "Cole, you're back."

"I swear, if I had to stay with those insufferable pirates for another hour, I was going to lose it." Cole slumped on the couch. "Adam is broken. Severed limbs and a damaged memory. He doesn't remember anything after he met with the council."

"Good," Flint sighed, "But you need to go back."

"What?"

"Not for much longer. I need you to make sure the odds stay in our favor until we find him. As long as he's out there, we can be stopped." Cole slammed his fist in anger.

"Find who?"

"Blaze," Lenora acknowledged, "What do you need?" Blaze closed the door to the captain's cabin.

"I need to talk to you." The privateer sat down in a chair, opposite Lenora. "It's about the clockworks."

"They were easy to beat before, it'll be easy now."

"No, it won't." Blaze raised his golden arm and a holographic display of a golden clockwork appeared. "These are the schematics of the golden clockworks." Sagittarius appeared and studied the schematics.

"Are they really indestructible?"

"No, but they're still difficult to take down." Blaze shut off the display. "That's beside the point. The thing that makes them different is they run on a separate intelligence network as the other clockworks."

"A different hive mind," Sagittarius stated, "And with Tauros controlling the Kane armor, they all follow him and Flint."

"Wait," Lenora interrupted, "So you're saying that if we want to defeat Flint, we need to take out Tauros and Kane?"

"Not at all," Blaze corrected, "I'm saying we need to divide and conquer." Blaze projected another image on the table. "What do you notice about this clockwork?" The clockwork looked a lot like the Kane armor, but the frown held by the Kane armor was replaced by what seemed like a contemplative grin. The figure had twin swords on its hips with knight-like secondary armor like that of a dragoon.

"Who is this?" Lenora had a million questions, but this was the most important.

"When I created the clockworks, I went through trial and error until I had two perfect soldiers. Each mind had great leadership capabilities and exceptional knowledge of combat. When I finally took over, after the Polarian Wars, Kane destroyed itself willingly, giving me command, but the other was stronger. He resisted until I had him and his clockwork followers in a corner. I deactivated him and hid his body. He's still there, waiting to be reactivated." Blaze shut off the hologram. "Like I said, this clockwork is stronger than the Kane armor and commanded more loyalty from my creations than even me. We get him and we heavily disrupt the clockwork forces, weaken Flint's army, and gain more soldiers with one move than we could through months of fighting." Lenora knew this was an opportunity they couldn't pass up.

"You know where this clockwork is and what he can do. That's good enough for me. But, we need to get our strength up before we do something so risky. We wait a month. Until then, we can do our best to throw Flint's forces into disarray."

"Sounds like a plan." Blaze stood up to leave before he was stopped by Lenora.

"You never said what this clockwork's name was."

"I'd have thought it'd be obvious." Blaze turned back to face her. "It's one of the oldest stories in the bible. Though, both his and Kane's names are spelled differently than the ones in the book." Lenora nodded. She remembered the story.

"Able."