FINAL CHAPTER

Lien-da's red mech, it's boosters devastated from the aftershock of Kragok's destruction angled towards the mobius atmosphere, beginning the reentry that would most certainly burn the mech to a crisp.

"Rotor!" shouted Princess Sally, "we have to grab that robot! Angle the ship for intercept!"

Rotor looked at the controls for the Royal Spacecraft and shook his head.

"Nicole says the angle is too steep! She's falling too fast for us to stop her!"

"Correct," said Nicole without any emotion, "attempting to rescue her now would be impossible."

Julie-Su rushed to the front of the spacecraft and grabbed the communications sensor.

"Lien-da!"

There was no answer.

"Lien-da, answer me! There's something I have to know! Why? Why do you hate my mother so much? She saved you! She saved your life!"

The radio crackled. "Shut up! Let me die in peace."

"What the hell is your problem, Lien? Why do you hate me so much?"

Silence. And then a scream.

"Because you were given life!"

"What?" Julie-Su couldn't understand what her half-sister was talking about. Lien had been the grandmistress, the leader of the Dark Legion, while Julie-Su had been reduced to a slave, her mother dead, her memory and foster parents taken away from her.

"From the day I was born, I wasn't given a choice. My life was to be dedicated to the cause. I wasn't taught. I was trained."

Brief sobs came in between each sentence.

"Kragok understood. He was the only one who could."

"Understood what?" asked Julie-Su.

"Though we called ourselves the leaders of the Dark Legion, we were actually slaves. Slaves to a lost cause. Father understood too. That's why he ran. Like a coward, he ran, and left us in the chains. We weren't evil. We had our ways, and you had yours."

The mech was now bright orange from the flame of the atmosphere. It was breaking up. Flames licked the metal. No one onboard Acorn 11 said a thing.

"Sometimes, I dreamt that me, and my brother, and our mother… and she was still alive, and there wasn't any war, and Kragok was fine, and we were a family. That was my wish. It was Kragok's too. All Kragok and I wanted was to be free."

A brief silence settled upon the intercom. Then, a whisper.

"How did you defeat me? Why did Aurora bless you, and not my brother? It's not fair. It's not fair!" The once collected voice now was becoming jaunted and hysterical. The sobbing was uncontrollable now.

Suddenly, the intercom gave out, and all the Freedom Fighters could hear was static, as they watched the mech turn to dust.

AN

This is Metalguru. I'm sorry to say that due to a personal decision, I am hereby quitting This is the final chapter I will ever post. If you have any questions, please read my profile or check out my forum, where I will answer any questions you might have.