Klaxons blared throughout the facility in an endless frenzy.

Beneath us, crushed under debris, were the remains of Silences and Warhorses.

Gunshots echoed down the corridors, and screams of the many soon accompanied moments before those shots went quiet. Nekkra spread throughout the facility.

"Damn it..." Firebright hopped off the debris and looked back at us. "I was hoping the Cetera didn't get here first. Sound off, everyone."

With a simple mental command, all went silent. I nodded and hopped down beside her after. Then the others.

Firefly was back on his hooves, but he was still in a bad condition. He was moving a lot slower with whatever new injuries he had. With one of his hooves favoring his side, I had a good idea where he was hit.

As for my injury, my foreleg was getting more numb as time went on. I had hoped he got the same treatment.

We had crashed through the control complex that held the orbital platform. Unfortunately, we had to target the lower floors, as the sentry guns along the tower would have shot us down if we passed a certain height.

We were gonna have to climb, and it went without saying that I really hoped we didn't run across any trouble. But the chance of that was extremely slim, even with Firebright's Nekkra roaming the planet and towers. We had to steal a ship, as per Firebright's order. If getting there with no resistance wasn't impossible, than stealing a ship under the same concern was.

While the others walked, I limped. But we were all going the same pace. As it appeared, we hadn't been detected yet. With a new threat running around, our enemies were preoccupied.

Blood of many stained the walls and floor. More blood than bodies...

The ones that were shot down were the lucky ones, in this case.

The ground trembled softly beneath our hooves. The lot of us stopped and looked at one another, and then our very limited surroundings. Something had to have blown up nearby to cause that. Below, judging by the buzz under our hooves.

Firebright waved a hoof over to her before continuing her cautious advance for the stairwell ahead. We followed in her steps.

Upon reaching the stairwell, Firebright hit her thrusters and hovered over the drop in the center, looking back at us for a moment, before Flame, Polarity, and I did the same, almost simultaneously. Firefly was the last to join us.

Firebright raced up the levels hastily with us in tow. It seemed avoiding conflict here wasn't so impossible after all. The Nekkra had been clearing the entire vicinity of our route. Within a few minutes, we had already reached the main platform... which appeared to us as void of any life, hostile or otherwise. There was a fight here. A brutal one, between machines, slaves, and two hive minds.

The lift wasn't on our level, but that didn't seem to be a problem for us. Looking up the colossal shaft, our path looked clear.

Two buzzes on my shoulder had me look at Firebright, who tapped her ear a few times.

I disabled the soundproofing to discover the screaming had stopped. At least, here it did. I was certain the whole planet had an infestation now.

Alarms roared with the company of the red spinning lights overhead.

"No stalling." Firebright shoved me. "I fucking mean it. Get your head in the game. Do not hesitate to kill whatever is up there, because they sure won't."

With a sigh, I nodded. "Okay..."

Firebright backed off and stared up the shaft.

"Aren't you worried about your army getting turned by the Cetera?" Firefly asked worriedly, looking around at all the exits and entrances.

"Nope." Firebright replied simply before looking at him. "They can't hear. So they can't turn. The worst the Cetera can do to them is rip them apart or shoot them down with the mechs, but any organic life they took over would be Nekkra territory again before that happened. This is an entire planet against a panicking corporation and a sound. We have the advantage." She looked up at the shaft again. "It seems they put the stations in orbit under lockdown for fear of the invasion reaching them. I'm certain there's quite a bit waiting up there for us. Tread carefully. Don't be a hero."

"Copy." Flame said with a salute. He seemed to be enjoying all this..

They all did, to an extent.

I didn't feel like a monster killing Cetera and expiring machines. But I did feel... like less than a pony for not being able to save the others. It was... a weird feeling... not feeling like myself...

But...

Something...

Hit me...

I've never bothered trying to save any subject from termination, rapings, or beatings. Otherwise I was going to receive the same treatment. I realized it was selfish of me... I put myself before others... With that epiphany, I did feel like a monster...

But what could I, one pony, do against gun wielding, 900 plus pound armor plated machines?

Still, with that fact, my mind still berated me. I did nothing. I never did anything.

So... why was this any different?

...

... I knew the answer, right as I asked the question to myself.

The slaves finally had a chance for a better life. Like us. But it was kept out of reach, and they were to die here, or get assimilated by the Cetera's song.

And we had to let it happen so we could escape...

We were fucking monsters.

It was as it always had been. The robots were doing their job. Secure order. I was doing my job. To stay alive, no matter what it took. And I fucking hated myself for that... Sacrificing the lives of others to save mine...

A hoof to my shoulder brought me back to reality. I swung my head to Firebright as she regarded me behind her black visor. Her hoof wrapped lightly around the back of my neck as she spoke in a more consoling manner.

"I know you want to save them... I know it's hard... I've been right where you are now... and I'm sorry... but you must understand... you're a part of a plan. Something big. Your survival is vital to that whole operation. Saving the ponies here is not how you'll be a hero."

Screams started at the volume of a whisper off in the distance, far down the tram bridges. Growing louder as second's passed by.

Fear and pain of a physical manifestation mixed in with dread and mental anguish I was already feeling.

"We should get moving..." Flame said in a deep tone as he backed up toward us, keeping an eye on the sky bridge where the screams were coming from. Deeper than his natural voice. "More are coming..."

Firebright nodded. "Keep your sound on. I may need to give orders during this. If the screaming gets too bad, then mute it if you have to."

With that, she kicked off the ground and looked down at us, hovering over where the orbital platform should have been.

We all followed her action, and at once, she darted up into the massive widespread shaft, only for us to follow close behind.

The screams rapidly decreased the further up we got. It was satisfying to know we were already losing them... again.

The facility below rumbled once more as we pushed through the thick, black clouds that sought to get in. That explosion was a lot bigger than the others... and the screams were catching up to us.

We reached the clearing, and far up above was a carrier class vessel, hanging near orbit. Upon our sighting of it, the batteries, which just finished turning to the tower we ascended, started to glow a bright blue. Electricity ventured around the massive barrels as the inside of the guns warmed up.

Far off in the distance, one of the other shafts of the orbital platform to another complex collapsed to gravity's will, having already been sliced clean in several parts of its body.

"MOVE!" I screamed, pushing forward as fast as my suit was able. This time, I was in the lead, while the others followed.

The steel beams that supported the tower in the distance groaned as they bent and twisted, overlapping the scream of the Cetera behind us. A brief glance to the right showed it was leaning in our direction, getting ready to collide.

Beams of bright blue light shot out from the ship's batteries and swept across various sections of the structure, cutting clean through. The lot of us came to a halt as a laser swept in front of our path, moments before shutting off. We all looked at one another while the Cetera closed in.

Then the structural integrity began to cry out...

Cracks traveled across glass like a lightning storm frozen in time the moment it struck. Steel began to melt and bend. Fractured tower struggled to stand... and all it needed was a push from another.

We pushed forward again, racing against time as the shaft gradually distorted.

The neighboring tower split off into chunks, increasing speed against us. There was no way we were gonna get through this safely. But pushing forward was our only chance, despite the heavy risk.

The sliced columns began to slide to the left, picking up speed the further they went.

The first of the chunks of the neighboring structure crashed against ours, one at a time. Starting from further up, and trailing down with each impact. Metal and glass began to rain down on us as we pushed for our very lives.

At once, Fire clung tight to me from behind.

"What the hell are you-" I started to blurt, before she interrupted.

"Everyone grab a hold!"

Without question, they did just that, clinging tight to Fire and I. It was then I realized what was happening. We were going to combine our thruster speed collectively.

And as Firefly grabbed a hold of my front end, still avoiding looking at me, we propelled up with a sudden jolt of power running through our back and hooves.

Upon turning to the right, as steel and glass crashed down on us, one of the massive fragments of structure closed in on our location.

We bolted to the side as one unit, inches from striking a steel bar that would have hindered our advance greatly, if not flat out kill us.

The collision of the two fragments of tower sent ours further down the slope it had already been sliding down, and was now beginning to tilt for a dive to lower ground.

"Hang on!" Fire screamed. "Everyone, stay on full power!"

"We're not gonna make it!" Polarity shouted.

"Not with that attitude, we won't! Full thrusters! NOW!"

"We already are!" I screamed defensively.

The way to the top of the fragment we were in was already closed, however. It was too late for that opportunity. However... a new one arose.

As the fragment began its plummet to the planet's surface, the right wall became our new ceiling, caving in hard and fast on us. With one desperate, collective effort, we pushed up against it...

... and with our velocity against the structure's, punctured through the reinforced glass like a bullet to flesh. Had it not been severely damaged already, the force of the impact and the tumbling break off of the party told me we wouldn't have been so lucky.

I quickly recovered and rushed to Firefly, grabbing a hold of him so as to stop his disoriented flight pattern.

Firebright, Flame, and Polarity swept in and clung tight to us shortly after, just as another fragment crashed down over us; this one leaning to the right, only by a little.

Within a second of banding back together, we were inside the structure's failing interior. Much to our fortune, the damage to the glass in this area was worse. There were no more windows on this end, and the other side was starting to look the same.

We flew together at an angle that matched the fragment's as we bolted through its descent. Out from the other end of that was a gap of open air, seconds before another tunnel consumed us; this one more straight than the former, thankfully.

Save for the rain of the resources they spent to fulfill their empire coming down on our heads, and the occasional dodge of a metal support beam, the ride through this section was relatively smooth.

Once we reached the end, we were free from that obstacle course, and just entering the fabric of space. The rest of the shaft here was still intact, so that was our entry point.

One of the many features of this armor was a steady oxygen supply, as it turned out. I kind of figured that was the case though. Firebright wouldn't have sent us up here without something like that, I didn't think.

Firebright squeezed us tightly, and then Flame and Polarity as we raced for the orbital platform that kept us out. We weren't slowing down...

I clung even tighter to Firefly, wincing behind the flaring pain in my shoulder.

As we advanced, the front end of my suit began to buzz softly. It grew in volume, and gradually spread to my shoulders.

In one impact, we drilled through the thick, steel platform. The strike slowed us drastically, and all around us, as we were broken off from each other, were Wars, Silences, Taurus', Sentries, and even Humans, dressed in armor.

They didn't have a second left for them to react before the puncture became a pocket for the vacuum of space.

The lot of us hit our thrusters again, but even at full power, we were slowly being dragged down.

Machines and Humans alike congested at the breach, crumpling up like tinfoil into each other to the will of space, before launching out into the void. Only then, did a new wave of clustered machines and flesh get compressed to each other.

Having my former masters scream in agony the way they did as blood and mashed organs seeped out through their armor sparked something deep inside me...

I enjoyed it.

I lusted for more...

After the third cluster, the main hub of the station became weightless and silent.

Some of us, myself included, struck the ceiling from the lack of warning, but it wasn't a problem. Our armor had dealt with much worse.

We recovered, taking a gander at one another. Firebright pointed a hoof down an empty corridor, then gently made her way in that same direction, to which we respectively followed.

We reached a door at the far end, and as Firebright opened it, more mechs and Humans were thrown out. It wasn't the Humans that were a problem, seeing as they relied on oxygen that was flushed out.

The machines, however...

Flechettes, pulse rounds, and bodies swept past, many of which struck us. Fire was the first to get hit by a lethal round - being a pulse. She staggered for a moment as we laid down a suppressing fire. She joined the fight with very little effort, and within second's of doing so, the assault ceased. Thankfully, on our part, there weren't many there.

We pushed in, to which Firebright closed the door behind us. Gravity began to restore, and with it, sound. Air hissed through the ventilation as our hooves touched the ground. Fire tampered with the door controls momentarily before putting a round in it, frying the circuitry.

She turned to us and nodded down the other end of the corridor, before moving in the same direction.

"Not gonna hold the Cetera off for long, but it'll buy us some time."

As we followed, she continued.

"There's a ship waiting for us on the third floor. The route has heavy resistance, but nothing we can't handle. Regardless, be ready. Try to avoid putting yourself in harm's way."

She proceeded to leap off the ground, her thrusters bursting to life. With a quick spin to us, she spoke in a cheerful voice.

"Race ya."

<>

"Pew! Pew!" Firebright blurted as she opened fire at the War units that guarded the airlock to the ship we sought. She quickly returned behind the cover of the crates with the rest of us, chuckling.

"How the fuck are you enjoying this?" I asked as flechettes and pulses curtained over us.

"How the fuck aren't you enjoying this?" She replied with a tap to my nose, before reaching a hoof around and firing another round as she screamed. "KERBLAM!"

"Stop that, it's giving me a headache!" Flame snapped.

"Never!" With a rapid fire, she recited. "Pew, pew, pew! Brrraaaat!"

"That last one didn't even correlate with your actions!" Firefly chided, before peeking over the top of the crate and firing a few shots. "Bang! Bang! Bang!" He returned to cover when the rounds of the War units were directed at him, to which he looked back at Fire.

"See? Bang works better. Makes more sense."

She chuckled again, shaking her head as she pat him on the head. "Maybe in certain, heh... situations. But now? Fuck that." She spoke in amusement before poking her head out from the side and blasting away. "Bam! Bam! Bam! Kaboom! Gun sounds!"

Firefly shook his head disapprovingly as he rose up and aided her in combat.

"Bang! Bang!"

"Boom! Bam!"

"Will both of you stop that!?" Flame spat, firing a few more rounds. "It's distracting!"

"NEVER!" Firebright roared through the firefight. "More gun sounds! Kerbam! Ping! Pew! Boo-AGH!"

She recoiled, holding a hoof over her armored chest, breathing heavily.

"Those motherfuckers!"

Before Polarity or I could reach out to her, she rolled back onto her hooves and growled.

An explosion rocked the station from below, and briefly, through the firefight, I could hear the screaming of a collective...

"It. Is. ON!"

With that, Firebright jumped out into the open, standing on her hind legs and peppering the machines with Tungstian.

"Fire!" I screamed, peeking around for retaliation.

"That's what I'm doing!" She said behind a cheeky laugh as flechettes and pulses riddled her, knocking her back one step at a time. Yet through all this, she laughed. Maniacally. The pulses were hurting her, but still, she laughed...

We, as a team, blasted relentlessly at the overwhelming odds. We didn't have much time left before the Cetera got here... They were already on their way.

"Taurus, stop listening!" Fire screamed as her back pressed against the wall.

Immediately, without a second to spare, she started spouting the weirdest shit as she laid down a heavy fire. I could tell in her voice she was on her last legs.

"If you try to fail and succeed, which have you done!? I am the wisest mare alive, for I know one thing! And that is that I know nothing! It's weird to not be weird! Ugh... F-Fuckers! Procrastinate now, don't put it off! He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears!"

Her armor began to glow bright red, melting over the symbol on her chest. The icon she adored... She screamed in tears.

"Fire, what are you doing!?" Flame shouted back.

"Stay behind cover! Fighting for peace is like fucking for chastity! Nobody comes here anymore, it's too crowded! I never said most of the things I said!"

She collapsed against the wall, ceasing fire as she pressed her back to it.

"I'm already dead!" She rasped. "I just learned to live with it..."

Immediately, everything went quiet. No more guns. No more buzzing in the suit, except a subtle one from behind that gradually grew more intense.

The hammer and wrench on Fire's chest was molten metal at that point... I was heartbroken about that. It was all in her memory, but it meant the world to her... I felt that.

We cautiously peeked over the riddled crates to find the remaining units were standing, but... they were offline. Their visors were blank, and smoke rose from their bodies.

Firebright chuckled, before coughing in a rasp, to which we turned back to her.

"How funny..." She shook her head and coughed again before taking her helmet off and tossing it aside. "The overload went into effect at such a poetic moment..."

"Firebright..." Polarity stepped forward. "What did you just do?"

"Paradoxes." She smiled faintly. "Contradictory statements to disrupt the AI's process. These ones were pretty advanced. Took a lot more energy than I thought it would bypassing their processor."

"You couldn't have done that behind cover?" Flame chided.

"It ain't fun if it ain't a risk... Which..." She paused, looking down as she ran her hoof over the back of her head. "... Leads to our next course of action."

She laid on her side for a moment before the back of her armor opened. She slipped out, coughing behind a rasp as she grabbed Taurus off the suit's back. Feebly, she stood up and stumbled over to me specifically, smiling wanly. The screams were still far away enough to not be too much of a problem, but my head was starting to hurt...

Her body looked pretty beaten, but she was regenerating. A feature I learned Nekkra were known for.

She reached Taurus out to me, pressing it lightly to my chest.

"Seeing as you're a certified part time engineer, I'll let you do the honors of hooking him up to the ship's systems. He'll do the rest of the work from there, on your command."

"My command?" The helmet around my head began to subtract itself. Then the rest of the suit.

The others followed. She was out of her armor, so I guessed it was safe for now. She didn't protest either, so that really helped confirm it.

She tapped me on the shoulder after I grabbed Taurus with my wings.

"Alas, I got something to do here." She chuckled again. "It's gonna be legendary. So get ready to record it through the ship's blackbox. You and many others will wanna relive it." With a cocky, yet tired, sharp toothed grin, she winked.

"Firebright... You'll die here..."

"I'm already dead, remember? I just learned to live with it." She leaned in and wrapped her fores around me in a caring embrace. I slipped Taurus on my back and returned her affection, closing my eyes.

As she pulled away, she pressed her lips to my cheek lightly and regarded me behind a gentle smile.

"I love you..." She whispered, seconds before glancing at the others. "I love all of you. You're the only family I've got left..." She put her hoof to her forehead in a salute. "It's an honor dying for your safety... For your freedom... I know that whatever you do with your life, you'll make me proud."

"What are you going to do...?" Flame asked in a near whisper, to which her smile widened only by a little as tears lingered in her eyes.

"I'm gonna be putting in my one way ticket for the ride home..."

Confusion set in the faces of my friends, but I knew what that meant...

I had her memories... Nekkra Death... The Everafter she was promised... Her native world...

... Her last moment with Charger...

Someday...

She nodded to the airlock.

"Go on. Get going. I gotta prepare the party favors, and you better be on your way out of the universe by the time I start it up."

"Thank you, Firebright..." Flame saluted to her before turning around and walking for the door, passing glances at the units that stood in still silence.

"I'll never forget you..." Firefly said softly.

Her eyes glistened with tears as she smiled happily at him.

"Damn right, you won't. Especially after what I'm about to do."

He went in for a momentary hug and moved for the airlock.

Polarity stepped forward and nodded once, holding a hoof out.

"May the Afterdeath grant you peace..."

Fire and I both winced at that word simultaneously, which threw Polarity in a visually confused state.

"Let's start calling it the Everafter. It sounds nicer..." I chuckled nervously.

"Oh." She cracked a smile. "May you live happily ever after in the Everafter, then."

Firebright smiled and shook her hoof. And then there were two.

"Take care of our kid, Phoenix."

"Of course." A nod of my head. "Do you have a name you want for them?"

"Once, I did... But now..." Her eyes lingered on mine. "... I want you to name them."

Quietly, I nodded once more. "Take care, Firebright."

I turned and began to walk...

"One more thing."

Stopping, I turned back to her to find she was smiling again. Sincerely.

"The kid you and Flame had together. I don't know where he is, but I know he's alive, and not in this universe. Where you're going... ask for help to track him down. The people I'm sending you to are good at keeping track of things. A lot of them are Human, but... they're good folk. Most of 'em, anyways..." With a reassured nod, she finished off with, "You'll be in good hands."

I cracked a smile back, and our contact concluded with such.

"Thank you, Firebright..."

<>

The ship rocked violently at another blast to her rear.

The lot of us sat in separate seats as we raced through the void. Several red dots with lines above, below, and center were displayed on a holographic projection over the panel to the right hand side of the pilot's seat, which was occupied by a severed head of a T4URU5 unit.

"Shields below 60 percent!" Firefly blurted; his eyes fixated on the screen before him.

"Taurus, evade better!" I screamed as I unleashed laser fire against the incoming projectiles from the massive fleet of carriers, battleships, and frigates on our tail. Flame and Polarity were on the same task as me, but even then, we were just one ship. Against an entire armada of a pissed off slaver corporation.

"Hello?" Firebright's voice boomed over... wait, that wasn't the sound recognition module. That was outside! In space! And holy hell, she was loud!

There was a tapping sound against what sounded like glass, before she spoke again. It seemed the pursuers had stopped firing as well.

Suddenly, a trumpet began to play. Rising in higher pitches as a song began to intensify.

"Helloooo? This thing on? Ah, good! Ahem... Behold..."

I spun my battery around frantically, trying to find out just what was happening here. Drums beat rhythmically in the fabric of space - something that shouldn't have been possible! What the fuck was happening!?

More trumpets joined in...

And then, panning left in the turret's view, I saw it...

A rift in space and time that covered one side of the entire universe like a wall, just as the music grew in volume and intensity for a conclusion...

"The vagina of the universe!" She exclaimed as such was revealed without shame...

She swayed her hips left and right...

By the stars... Firebright, you magnificent bastard...

"It's beautiful..." Polarity said as her gaze lingered on our creator's... pussy...

Okay, I had to admit... this was beautiful.

The song came to a finish, and she spun around to face the rift.

"So!" She started. "Let's get down to it! Who am I?" She grinned. "Well, my previous statement might already have some ideas running around in your head. But let me break it down for you. I am no Goddess. I am no queen. None of that nonsense. I am simply an entire universe of trouble coming down on your heads. You stole my planet, you stole my people, and you stole my resources! But here's the absolute kick in the teeth for all of you nasty little Humans! You fell into MY trap. I planned all this, see." Her grin widened as she looked around through the tear. "Now, you ask, why would I sacrifice my people to you? Did I deceive them? No! I made sure they all knew of your arrival far before you showed up, and by the stars, we planned for it. We had to make the fight look real. They saw the greater good. The ones that didn't want to participate, I gave them a new home. Far away from here. Someplace you'll never - and I mean NEVER - find! Your empire falls here! You won only because we LET you win! It was all one giant stage performance! The beacon we launched in space was the bait, and you took it! We pulled you in with the promise of great riches, and you just couldn't resist. Next question!" Her grin got more vengeful.

"Why didn't I destroy you all the moment you took over? You were all an ingredient to something magnificent. You silly Humans think you're all that, that you're the top dog, but you never even suspected it. You made your own worst nightmare a reality. You conquered an entire Nekkra civilization, dumbass! And with all the raping going on, that means you're infected, too! Not only that, but you let them evolve to their surroundings. I gave you just enough resources to keep them safe in your towers, to keep you invested. I thank you, really. Because now the Nekkra strain is resistant to fire. A thought that terrified you all to the core. And sure, you could end it all right here. But that means ending yourselves and your empire. Killing off all the slaves? You have no more revenue." She then raised a brow.

"Oh, what? You don't believe me? Watch this! Bam! Five trillion Tungstian fuel tanks just disintegrated in each depot you made here! By a simple wish! Where ya gonna go now!?" She burst into laughter. "I'm screaming in space through a giant tear in reality, and you're all hearing it! What more do I have to do to prove to you the truth!?" She paused for a moment, smiling satisfactorily. "That's better... Now... think of this like a letter of resignation. And think of the following events like a going away party. It's funny, really... how comfortable you all got living here. Thinking there'd be no consequences." Her eyes lit up with a new idea in her head.

"Wait, hold on... I got something perfect for this." She left the scene really quick, and at once, a song of triumph began to play. She came back.

"I had a lot of time to think through all th-"

The music cut out, and she groaned. "Damn it... You seriously cut off the fucking internet on me? You guys suck! Alright, fine! I had a backup plan in place... Guess we're gonna bootleg it..." She left the scene again momentarily, before coming back with the same song... but it was all in her vocals... Everything.

"Now! I had a lot of time to think through all this. Found this on a show, by the way. Loved it. Er... not this version, the real version... Anyways! Had a lot of time on my hooves to fuck around. And now I'm finally free. And I'm feeling wacky. I'm feeling dangerous. So come on!" She screamed. "Come at me! I'm right here at Equus! I'm all you got now! But regardless of your actions, know this! You kill me, you kill yourselves. You hurt any of my subjects one more time, so much as even make an attempt at their life, YOU! WILL! FALL! Most of your tech is made by ME! You do one little thing out of place of my desires, and it all goes away! Let me people go! OR! ELSE! IT'S ME YOU WANT! SO GIVE ME YOUR BEST! I'M ALL YOU GOT NOW! THE SUN IS A GIANT DISCO BALL, AND THE UNIVERSE IS THE DANCE FLOOR! SO LET'S FUCKING DANCE!"

I spun the battery around to the fleet in pursuit of us, and after seconds of staring, they began to turn back to Equus. Holy shit, it was working...

I also caught sight of the sun changing... Into a ball of glitter...

Firebright laughed, and confetti burst from the air, raining down as if tethered by gravity. Lights danced and flashed like strobes across the infinite, in sequence with the 'music.'

She backed away from the rift, still staring through with intent. Determination for what was to come washed over her.

"Good dog..." She grinned mischievously. "Charger... I made you a love letter. Before I die... I want you to know... That roses are red, violets are blue. You're my lil' bro, and I fucked you." With a wink and salute, she grinned. "Firebright, signing off."

Author's Note

All that's left is the epilogue.
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