Chapter II Act 7 Finale

Gorilla Soldier:  What about the pony?

Captain Ursus:  Tell the good Doctor that she's been taken care of as well.

Cut to closeup as he turns to observe the remains of his work.

Ursus:  Never did like shooting horses anyway..

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The spaceship continues down the hole with the grappling hooks still dangling from its tail section.  We again see the Congregation of Mutated Humans singing chords from their rendition of "all things bright and wonderful."

All creatures great and small..

All things wise and wonderful..

As the ship goes past the hole in the back of their underground cathedral one of the hooks catches onto the raised base of the bomb.  With cartoon swiftness it is carried into the hole after the spaceship.  Cut to closeup of Lyra's equally cartoonish reaction as she sees the ship's new attachment.

The good bomb made us all

Cut to tracking shot from the front.  The chords of the mutants hymn are still audible in the background as the ship propels forward with the nuclear bomb wavering back and forth behind it.

He gave us eyes to se-E wiith,

and lips that we might teell..

Lyra opens a hatch near one of the chains attached to the outside of the ship and grapples down to the attached bomb.  She tries kicking the bomb off the hook until she notices a sign underneath the bomb:

Nuclear weapon  --  No smoking

She retreats in alarm.  Then she comes back and gently pats the bomb where she was kicking it a moment earlier, then retreats again.

Lyra runs to the rear of the space ship and begins pounding on the door trying to open it.  Then, suddenly, the door opens throwing her back.

Emerging from the hibernation room which has been locked and unexplored until now  :P  emerges a figure in a white jumpsuit.  An American flag decal embossed on the left pocket of his white jumpsuit.

Taylor:  What the HELL is going on out here?

He looks through squinted eyes scratching his head, his teeth set in a customary clench.

Lyra:  Do you know how to pilot this ship?

Taylor;  You can talk?

Lyra tries to activate her magic again but her horn only lights up faintly

Lyra:  ..and not much else at the moment..  But enough that you should listen..  There's a bomb attached to the back of this ship and we need to get it off..

Taylor:  (sitting at the ship's controls, still waking up)  Where..  are we?

Lyra:  Right now I think we're half way to the center of my world.

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The Icarus emerges from the hole in Upper Yakistan and ascends straight up towards center-space.

Taylor:  If we dislodge it now it will still blow up the planet, even this far from the surface.

Lyra's horn begins lighting up and her magic returns.

Lyra: Keep Going!   I think I know a place where we can release it.

The ship continues headed up past the inner moon towards the middle cosmosphere.

Taylor:  The ship's instruments are detecting a very strong magnetic field

Lyra:  I was told that it might be some kind of dimensional rupture or rift.  Get us as close as you think you can without getting us sucked in.

As the Icarus passes Lyra uses her magic to break the coupling and push the bomb in the direction of the central sphere.

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The explosion of the bomb dislodges boulders and debris from the sides of the tunnel as the ship continues to waver its way down.

Cut back to the mutant chapel.  The sound of the explosion stops the choir and the force shakes the cathedral dislodging minor debris.  The Chaplain then observes:

Mutant Pastor:  Amen

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Taylor:  I'd still like to know how I wound up here..

Cut to closeup of one of the control switches on the ship's dashboard clearly labelled for modes of flight.  The top two are marked 'Manual' and 'Autopilot'.  The switch is flipped to the Third setting:  'Round Trip'.

Taylor:  "DAMN!!     I allways do that.."

Rainbow Dash laughs, making a dismissive gesture at him with one of her hooves..

Dash:  Ah' eh-heh, tssh.  That is Soo Amateur..

*Please see horrible, awful & completely degenerate Author's Note regards this part of the story  :(

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Lyra:  One pony can change the world, but only if that world is willing to listen

Fade to a bedroom in ape city.  A young girl is writing, " and the green horse said, 'We are all born to be free.  No one can own another's thoughts or'.."    A hand comes in from the left and swipes the scroll up.  It is her father.  He paces as he reads.

Father:  Have you seen this dear?

He exclaims to an ape standing offscreen,

Father:  This is heresy, Heresy!

at  the girl

Father:  Do you know what would happen if the council found out about this?

Father:  That's enough writing for You, Zyra.

Zyra:  But fathe..

Taking the papers away.

Father:  NO         Arguments..

The camera follows him stage left as he walks out of her room.

Father:  From now on, you stick to your animals..

We see a wall covered in animal cages.  Each cage contains one animal.  Each animal different.  Each container slightly bigger than the animal itself.  The camera closes in on them.

Then,

Cut to black.