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Panic, that was the mood. Foundation and company were running…they had no choice…the island was lost. Yet, they did accomplish one thing, the Ice king and co were actually working with them. They had also seen the writing on the wall with Voyager and thanks to Jones constant nagging Foundation reluctantly agreed to work with the Ice King. “Hurry, the busses are just over this ridge!” Jones yelled over the noise of the particle accelerator straining. The group along with dozens of loopers made it over the hill to see 5 battle busses waiting. “I thought we were meant to have more Jones?” Foundation asked. “Well the Voyager didn’t exactly give me the time to do that now didn’t he.” Foundation then sighed and motioned everyone to get on.
When everyone was on the busses Jones gave the signal to the drivers who started the engines and lit the bluglo flames. One by one they rose into the sky as Jones and foundation finally got on the last bus with the Order, Hope, and some other loopers. However, the bus only rose half way to the designated altitude. “umm, I think now now would be a great time to get higher.” Hope said. “the flame isn’t hot enough!” the bus driver panicked. “There’s a manual heat enhancer on the outside.” Jones said. “I’ll get it.” Foundation then stood up, “I’ll watch your back Jones.” Jonesy gave a thumbs up as he opened the rear door leading to a rush of wind. “Be careful out there Jones” Hope said. “I’m always care-SLAM!” Jones was knocked out of the bus by a passing drone. Foundation then ran out the back door and flew out. He then spotted Jones free falling towards the ground and quickly grabbed him under his arm and flew back towards the bus. “heh…Thanks again?” Jones said nervously. Foundation grumbled when suddenly his proximity alarm went off warning of incoming drones. “Grab on as soon as you can.” Foundation said. “Wait, grab onto what?” Jones asked but was quickly interrupted when he was launched further into the air. Jones screamed wildly as everyone in the bus watched him soar into the air with Carina snapping a quick photo.
Jones the slammed into the side of the bus nearly falling off but quickly managing to scramble up onto the roof. He glanced over to see the foundation punching wave after wave of drones out of the sky. He quickly shook his head and ran towards the Bluglo flame. “Alright Jones you’ve been in a similar situation before. You just have to open the Vindertech logo up and turn the dial to max.” Jones then took the Vindertech logo off and placed it nearby. After looking at a few buttons he found the knob to turn and was about to turn it when WHAM, he was knocked over and nearly tossed off the bus. He quickly scrambled to his knees and was looking at…Lynx?! “Didn’t you used to work for the Order?” Jones asked. “I did, but Voyager offered me something much better then what Midas or the Order ever promised me…Power.” Lynx then lunged at Jones as he quickly rolled to the side. Lynx nearly skidded off but used her claws to stop herself. Jones then quickly bent down to look into the side windows. “uhh I could use some help up here!” Jones panicked as he was quickly dragged back up to the roof by Lynx. “Im on it.” Order said as she activated her helmet and ran out the door flipping herself onto the roof. She looked over to see the foundation still dealing with drones when she heard punching and saw Jones getting wailed on. She quickly ran over and tossed Lynx off of Jones. “Weren’t you the one I locked up for my master?” Lynx asked. “Impressive memory for a fake feline” Order quip'd. “Well let’s see if you remember this.” Lynx said as she scratched towards Order. She quickly deflected the blow. Lynx scowled under her helmet and the fight continued. Jones quickly stood up and ran back to the panel while Lynx was distracted and turned the knob quickly causing the bus to rise further. “Enough!” Lynx yelled as she head butted Order and pulled out a pistol with a silencer on it as she shot towards Jones. He quickly raised the Vindertech logo from earlier deflecting the bullet but causing it to shoot into the exposed panel. The panel sparked and fizzled as the bus slowly started to rotate on an axis.
Lynx seeing an opportunity dodged a spinning back kick from Order. This exposed her jetpack and lynx shot it. Lynx then took the opportunity and quickly grabbed Order in a choke hold before she could run for Jones. “That’s far enough Jones!” Lynx yelled. One more move and she gets it!” Lynx then deactivated orders helmet and pointed a the gun at her exposed head. “and if you don’t do anything, well at least we’ll all die together anyways.” The bus then titled further to the right. Then, Jones quickly saw something right behind Lynx. Visitor was peaking out off the back of the bus. Visitor then motioned to Jones to let Order know. Jones nodded and he did a signal with his hands to Order which meant Visitor was nearby. Jones then decided to distract Lynx while visitor made his way behind Lynx slowly. So Jones asked the first thing that came out of his head “So are you and Voyager…a thing or something?” Visitor paused and glanced at Jones in what could be described as confusion while Order mouthed “really?!”. What do you mean by…a thing?” Lynx inquired. “Well you know dating or I don’t know Visiting EACH OTHER!” Jones yelled. Just as Lynx sensed and was about to turn towards Visitor, Order slammed her heeled foot into Lynx’s foot. She staggered back as she let go of Order and dropped her pistol. Visitor then shot Lynx in the back with his own pistol causing her to shout in pain and stagger forwards towards Jones who picked up lynx’s pistol and shot her in the chest. She staggered back holding her heart as res energy was leaking. She then staggered far enough that she fell off the bus as she disembodied into multiple blue cubes.
Foundation then landed on the bus slightly battered with his jets damaged. “I’ve dealt with the drones for now but they’ll be coming back soon.” Foundation said. “Is everyone alright?” “Besides my Jetpack being fried…I’m fine.” Order stated. “Everyone, get on the bus.” Foundation said. “I’ll get below the bus to get it on an even angle.” “Yes sir.” Visitor stated.he then lead Order towards the back door as they hung onto each other swinging in. Just as Jonesy was going to follow he noticed Foundation limping and his suit seemingly struggling. “Let me help.” Jones stated. “No Jones, you need to stay in the bus and prepare for the rift jump.” Foundation said. Jones just stood there confidently. Foundation sighed. “Your not going to leave me, aren’t you?” “Nope” Jones said confidently. Foundation stared for a bit then he reluctantly gave in. “Check the other panel for a way to realign the bus. When I say when move the knob” “Got it!”Jones said as Foundation flew as much as he could as silent alarms were going off in his suit.
Hope looked over to see Order and Visitor come into the bus. “wheres Jones?” She asked. “He was right behind us.” Order said. “he might be helping the foundation.
Meanwhile, Foundation was at the bottom of the bus. His jets were leaking fuel and his suit was nearly out of energy. “Jones, is the panel ready?” “Almost…Got it!” Jones said excitedly. “Then on my mark turn the nob in three, two, one, Now!” Foundation said. He then pushed up on the bus while Jones rotated the knob. Eventually the bus leveled out.
Foundation was about to confirm to Jones when suddenly a proximity alarm in his suit sounded. Foundation grumbled “Jones we have a big problem, prepare the rifts.”
Meanwhile, over in dark domain. Voyager was overlooking assembly of the zero point. “We need more power, Turn up the accelerator turbines to 100%” Voyager said. The trespassers then followed with no question. Multiple warning lights lit up. “Don’t push back, we must achieve perfection!” Voyager yelled. Suddenly a tresspasser came up behind him “Sir, we have some news, Lynx is dead." "I don't care anymore, just get back to work." Voyager said. We also have an incoming transmission from…The Nothing…” the Tresspasser stated nervously. Voyager paused “Put it through.” Voyager then went to his private chambers and kneeled just as a hologram appeared made of yellow cubes clustered together. “My master, what is the meaning of this?” “Your failure, you have not only delayed this operation but you are risking the Zero Point. I have also been most concerned with your growing power.” The Nothing stated. “Master, I beg you that I have made great process in reforming the Zero Point and I am so close to conti…” “ENOUGH!” it yelled. “Expect my arrival very shortly.” The Nothing then cut off the transmission. A tresspasser then chimed into his helmet. “Sir, multiple objects have rifted into orbit.”
As the buses reached beyond orbit, three motherships with golden lights rifted in and shortly after the Cube Cradle rifted in dwarfing everything in the vicinity. “What is that…” Jones asked nervously. “The last reality’s base of operations.” Foundation stated. “I take it we don’t want to stick around for this thing?” Hope asked. “Nope” everyone else said in unison. Jones then quickly punched in reality coordinates for the bus driver as all the buses turned away and rifted.
On board the cube cradle multiple trespassers were working on the main command post, the golden coast on the viewscreen. The main tresspasser in charge then neurally connected to the nothing. “My lord, we’ve reached the coordinates and we’ve spotted the zero point in sight along with voyager” it said in it’s head. “good, send an abductor to destroy the harvester and extract the Zero Point, then, you may fire when ready.” The Nothing said. “Yes my lord.” The Tresspasser responded.
Voyager was in front of the Zero Point desperately trying to get it to combine in time when suddenly the Dark Harvester above blew up. An abductor appeared as debris rained down. As quickly as the harvester blew up did the Zero point combine and suddenly the abductor grabbed it and hauled it to the center of its tractor beam. “NO!” Voyager yelled. Suddenly he noticed it in the sky… “No…Please.” The cube cradle main cannon then charged up to full power. “Sir” a tresspasser in the cradle command center said “the canon is at full power, Permission to fire? The main tresspasser looked on at the view screen before turning around. “fire.” The beam fully charged and instantly fired a large yellow beam right at Dark Domain. It instantly vaporized everything in a hundred meters as the explosion slowly expanded to include the whole island…the golden coast was gone, and the Zero Point in the last realities hand…for now.