~ two

Arriving back with supplies and a wave looming too close over, it's clearly time to go.  Unfortunately, Lord Charon and Lady Styx are in the way with an army, and Selene with an apple instead.

They look across the field of them too many to think.

Charon - "You would fight this fate ?"  He turns to the wave ... back to them.

Shaw - "We would and will Lord Charon, if you would let us pass."

Charon - Loudly as to call to them, but turns to Selene, "And how would you fight the end of all things, he looks over his shoulder to them, "If you fear the king of the dead."

...

Timepiece - "Please, we're almost out of ... "

Carson - Roars his frustration "! Aaaaaaaaaaah !"

They all look ... Charon even a bit thrown off his stoic ride, Styx examines him like the slot in an old asylum door.  
 
Selene - A bite, "Hm."

Carson - "Prattling demons are called aliens now !  Pale, the god-man has no horse !  Planets today are animal bones a-crackin', this fair lady a river to be crossed ... broad field of tasty morsels, my buffet of fools ... I DoNotFearDEATH !"

Another roar as one by one he flexes out of the straps that bind him, dropping from the mechanism, crouched ... a breath ...

Carson - "My sword."

Zelda - "Um.  Yeah !  Here !  I ... kept it really sharp for you !"

Carson - A fast look to her, a smile.  "I know that you did."




They Brotherhood fills in before Charon as Carson charges the line, cutting his way through using the massive blade's weight to mow the lawn, while the rest open fire.

(3:04)

He reaches Charon in a field of dead, a sword locks to gunblade with death and madness sharing their grins, circling as the sky grows dark with the impending wave.

More close in behind, Carson slide the blade from Charon's and spins backward through on that gunblade's pressure back, then a leap back two, blade to blade again.

While Styx watches Selene ... walk to her in a world of calm, she looks up.

Styx - "I'm so sorry my child."  She draws one of her two pistols ... watches the fight back to her, "The truth is ... I loved you the moment I saw your tiny eyes peeping from that temple rubble."
 
She smiles with a tear ... throws the pistol down to her.

Styx - "But love makes me want to vomit.  Always remember, that we face our ends with truth.  Fare thee well, at the end of all time.  Beloved daughter." 

...

Selene - "I ... love you too."

Styx  - Convulses reflexively like vomit in the mouth.  A recovering nod before she turns to the fight and clears her throat of the filth and then swallows.  "Enough !"

With a gust everyone stops for a reason which they do not understand, a moment's confusion but for Charon who knows.

Styx - Looks to the aberration now spread across the sky as that wind rises deeper with a rage, To Selene, "We will give you what advantage we can."

Charon - Blade still locked, as death with madness itself.  "Protect her."

Carson - "With what's left of my soul."  The mechanism retakes him dropping the sword, to looming over Charon.





As the remaining Brotherhood gather with their Lord and Lady, Selene boards the ship pistol in hand, passing the repaired motorcycle.  It immediately rears. 

In the approaching close Caldera is close enough to be seen, spider dancing and kicking its legs behind her.  The Brotherhood roars opening fire as Charon and Styx crackle their storms into the rift.

Desperately Selene pulls off panels, reaching to understand these new tools until into the mind's core, she sees the gyroscope she tinkered with.  A tearful hug for the motorcycle, a mechanical forearm over her shoulder.

The rest of the crew runs past to station, Zelda dragging Carson's blade.

The ancestors and fallen rise from their bodies living and dead to join, swarming Caldera into a blind, spider still dancing behind while he ship launches leaving a dirty blast to her face.





After the ship's fire passes she sees Charon leaping through the storm, she raises her wand and gun blocking the blade, but weight pushes through across her face, a bullet from Styx shatters her gun.

The ship jumps away as the wave takes them all. 

Credits through the music as the Decibel glides through slipstream, the storm following fast behind yet ever so slightly more distantly by the end.

PS ~ Zack Snyder's a thieving bitch.