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Asshole - Still a fucking clown, "Hello children, it's me !  Asshole the Clown, with my fabled fucking sidekick, Fistey !

Fistey - Still a sock, "Greetings, tiny descendants of plebeian worms !  Today we're going to learn a valuable lesson."

Asshole - "Oh God."

Fistey - To the clown, "I'll fucking kill you in your sleep."

Asshole - "I know."  Takes a drink.  "Over and over again inside, whenever I close my eyes ... "

Fistey - "That's right."  Back to the camera, "And that valuable lesson, comes today in the form of ... "

Asshole - "A bucket of water."

Fistey - "And the shape of ... "

Asshole - "A fucking bird to carry the water."

Both together - "Wonderclown powers, activate."  

The fists connect to a fast glowing glare to the sound of an eagle and some sloshing water fading out.

Diver Deep the First

The diving bell parked behind a suburban home by a trampoline, Felicia eats breakfast at the table.  Suspicious stares between family members ...

Dad - "So ... where were you last night ?"

Felicia - "Out."

Dad - "Out doing ... "

Felicia - "Stuff."

Brother - Giggle snorts over cereal, "You were on the TV screen."

Mom looks at the spray paint on Felicia's fingers ... Felicia stares back, tapping them on the table.  Mom returns to her eggs ...

Dad - "Yeah.  So ... we're going to have to ground you, Felicia.  You're not going to grandma great's birthday this year.  We saw the news."
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Felicia laughs maniacally in front over a burning police station, protestor cheers.
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Felicia - "That wasn't last night.  That was last month."

Dad - "Well ... we saw it last night."

Felicia - "News much ?"

...

Mom - "Oh for fuck's sake Felicia !  You are grounded and you are not going to the party until you Improve !  Your !  Attitude !"  She storms from the table, followed by placating dad, dirty looks behind given to argument in the kitchen.
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Felicia - Watches the over packed minivan screech away, "Mission accomplished."

Meanwhile ... what the hell happened at the Nibiru Ring !?

As the end of The Maiden's Tale, in the Nibiru ring, Nocturne (Eastern), No-Queen Shumi and Timepiece, the bodies are strewn ... Timepiece sets the explosives control, Leans over the push handled igniter

Nocturne - "No."

She kicks the plunger aside as the No Queens flips back the switch and wraps Timepiece in flock.

The No Queen tightens grip, leaning over Timepiece's shoulder.  She kisses her cheek and grins to Nocturne.  Nocturne works the controls, preparing gate control to another on/off hot-switch.  Waiting ...

Timepiece - "Another traitor ... not you too ... "

Nocturne - Watching the monitor ... "No.  Not me too."

Nocturne flips the switch.


~ The Continuing Adventures of Diver Deep ~

A decorous flagship's nose works through slowly, flanked by ships far smaller yet clearly of a prime fleet.  Through the fore glass of the flagship, a human appearing fore-gunner sits a bit too excited, a cross armed alien stands behind her.

She gives a thumbs up.  A neon flicker ~ 'the bad guy'

The alien shakes his head and leaves ...

Neon flicker ~ (daddy owns the universe)

The flanking warships start appearing through the gate alongside the flag while inside Timepiece struggles watching Nocturne over the monitor and switch.

Open crescendo of the song, Hector and Sally exit the gate pursued by fighters, bombarded by the greater fleet.  Nocturne hits the switch, slicing the flagship at the fore, falling it.

Shumi releases Timepiece and flutters in birds down the hall toward the ring's breach while Nocturne walks behind, fading away (shot very much like the prologue alleyway). 

Timepiece watches Nocturne disappear, a thought (at the sliced and falling flagship fore, the gunner slams face first into the glass).  She slams the plunger down hard.

Hector and Sally port away, the ring's destruction behind.

On Earth, inside the quiet home in a suburban neighborhood, with a golf course behind it (a shlep hits a ball and watches it fly ...).  A beacon lights inside the bell suit and begins flashing (sticky-note says ... 'beacon').

Felicia orders the same set of dishes online with her mother's credit card.

Hector and Sally port back over the Earth.  The rest shot on their re-entry on beacon track mixed through with protest footage (skirmish) while Felicia dances destructively around the house, headphones on.

More internet replacements on mom's credit card.

The house shakes from their unseen landing, pictures fall from walls, sculptures of idiots go down (pick 'em).  Upon Hector's vertical landing, the back wall of the house falls over with a crash, the end of the house filling with smoke, doored off.
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A ring at the doorbell.

Felicia - Opens the door (brushing her teeth), sees federal looking suits.  "What."

Agent Geneva "It's about ... why are you even making me say it kid.  A missing space shuttle and a giant god damn rocket in your backyard."

Their view shows the looming rocket in the backyard and massive parked shuttle, nose over the crushed garage.

~ Her view shows out to calm streets, gathering people (birds).

...

Felicia - To the crowd, "Get the HELL off my lawn !"  Turns to the fed, "You mean the earthquake ?"

Geneva - "No.  I mean the giant ass rocket.  I've never seen anything like it."

Felicia - "Describe it."

...

Agent Geneva and crowd all look up, looking for words, she takes a picture with her phone.  Talking into it, "Hang on, let me get back to you."  She slams the door.

 

a voice from the crowd behind the door ~ "looks kinds like a ... gum-ball-machine ..."  Agreements.

Felicia goes to the backroom, the entire wall blown out and scored to the outdoors, charred ground, the rocket's base.

Felicia - "Huh."

Turns and goes back through the house and out the side door to the garage ... no garage, a space shuttle over rubble.  "I see."  She closes the door.

Felicia - Opens the front door to the crowd, "Must be a science project."

Geneva - "Science project."

Felicia - "I mean seriously.  What else could it be."

Random - Sad, "I thought it might be a moo-veee ..."

Felicia - "See any movie cameras ?"  She takes a picture of his confused look.  Looks at the agent, "So what was your theory ?"  She points the phone cam.

He looks at her suspiciously, then back to the crowd all staring back at him ...

Geneva - "Science project.  We'll be in touch."

Felicia - "Mm hm !"  She slams the door.
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(The 'car bobbing thing' is a bunch of people off camera with planks under the car, lifting back and forth to the music.  Green screen behind, black and white stock war footage, travel documentary, old horror and giant monster randoms while they take pictures)

The over packed minivan bobs side to side, Dad driving, Mom in the passenger, Brother in the back seat, Dog on the other side.  All bobbing side to side with the motion and music, occasionally snapping a picture.

The phone rings ~

Dad - "Hello ! ... Sooo ... you called us.  What's wrong.  Do I smell paint ?"

Felicia - Looking up at the rocket with a can of spray paint ... "Nothing !  Just ... checking to make sure ... you're having fun !  How's the trip !?"

Dad - "Oh you know ..." (mom gives him a side eye ...) "Too bad you'll be missing your Grandma Great's birthday though.  ...  Being good ?"

Felicia - "What !?  Of course not !  Why would you even ask me that !?  ...  You do know you can't drive to Italy, right ?"

Dad - (pirate battles and WWII sea warfare footage out the windows) "Really ?  Hang on I'm gonna give you to mom."  He hands the phone over to Mom and pulls out a map, blocking him from the windshield view.

Mom - Takes a deep breath ... "Hi honey.  What's on fire today."

Felicia - Holding a fire extinguisher over the barbecue, "Nothing !  What is wrong with you people !?"

Mom - "We're not people we're your parents.  G-Great's going to be very disappointed you're not at her birthday party.  She's going to be a hundred.  That's really old you know.  She could kick at any time and ... this could be her last.  You'll make grandma great cry this year."

Felicia - "She turned 100 last year."

Mom - "She's been turning 100 since before you were born, and we accept that.

Felicia - Extinguishing, "Mm hm.  Accepted.  So anyway just checking in have fun tell grandma great I say happy birthday and I love you and Byeeeee." 

Pockets the phone and heads to the picnic table, laptop open.  She sits in front of it, a sigh. 

Felicia - "They don't know a thing.  But I am really sorry I won't be there."

Maiden - (Extremely old with an old man in the background, nearly ancient with a walker across the screen behind, he pulls and shoots, continues off-screen) - "Who wants to be.  We'll swing by on the way back to Mexico, you can give me my present then.  I want cash."

Man - (background) "Gold !"

Maiden - "Kids don't carry gold anymore, papa !  Only cash and cigarettes."

Man - "Phah !"

Felicia - "I don't think that's my generation you're thinking of ..."

Maiden - "Of course it is.  As for the parents ... of course they don't know, dearie.  They never do !  But it does mean your 'G-Man' has a plan ... you may have to shoot him."

Man - "Shoot him !"

Felicia - "I'm not going to shoot him."

Man - "Shoot him !"

Felicia - "Hm.  Then I suppose he'll have to find a way to make himself useful."

Man - "Shoooooot !  Hiiiiiim !" (starts shooting wildly)

Maiden - "Love ya.  See you soon." 
________

Evil Lady - Watching their call end on her monitor.  "Yes ... And I too shall see you soon ... 'Felicia with a grand ... mommy ma' ... "

Man with a pipe from 'Juliet Firebird' - Surprising her, "Who the hell are you ?"

Evil - "The thirteenth daughter of Lord K'Terlu.  Ruler of this universe.  Your god and king."

Pipesmoke - "Yeah ?"  He looks around at the battlefield waste ... "You don't anything look like him."

Evil - "Minion.  I was born from an egg after he experimented with a female of your species in a manga horror tale.  It was hideous.  The female I mean.  No idea how I turned out so well."  She pulls her pistol, "Now who the hell are you."

Pipesmoke - "Doesn't work or you'd have shot me on sight."  Walking away away around the severed nosecone, "Ship's broke."  The cracked pistol flies over his shoulder.

Two aliens walk up behind her carrying salvage ...

Alien 1 - "Who the hell was that ?"

~ two

On the golf course, Sally's tail extrudes from the forest into the fare.  Hit with a ball.  A laser cannon pops out, shoots once.

... returns slowly ...
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Doorbell ~

Felicia - "It's you."

G-Man - "It's me.  We have things to discuss."

Felicia - "Like what ?"

...

Felicia - "No really.  Where the hell to begin."

...

G-man - "Okay ... what are they ?"

Felicia - "No idea.  They just landed the other night.  I'm assuming."

G-Man - "That's what we got too.  What about the exo-suit."

Felicia - "What exo-suit.  What's an exo-suit ?  Is that like an Exo-Tale ?"

G-Man - "It is nothing like an Exo-Tale, you're a terrible liar, and I don't watch cartoons."

Felicia - "I do."

...

G-Man - "Okay ... can I see them ?"

Felicia - "Got a warrant ?"

G-Man - "Several."

Felicia - "Fuck !"

G-Man - "Indeed.  And a whole lot of back-up too."

...

They both quick-draw their cellphones.
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Alien 2 - "You want us to turn the fore-cannon into a ... 'space' ...' ship'."

Evil - Clears her throat.

Alien 2 - "Your highness."

She looks at him.

Alien 2 - "Your ... holiness ?"

She cocks her head and glares ...

Alien 1 - Drops a rocket, "Hang on hang on, I got this.  Your excellent most graceful and glorious ...

Alien 2 - "Most beautiful egg-daughter in all the universes ..."

Alien 1 - "Absolutely and most royal of all highnessesesses ... ?"

Her eyes go wide in rage ...

...

Alien 2 - "Please ...?"

Beyond rage.

Evil - "! GET IT DONE !"

It echoes across the land, the pipe smoking man laughs at the last sound while walking into his shanty.  The door bangs shut.  From outside heard the sound of heavy steel grinding before the slam sound of a vaulted door.

Auto - (heard from outside the shanty door) "... sneaking ... ?"

Pipesmoke - (heard) "I don't think we're in this one."

View out to the Decibel with it's fore stashed into the mountainside, a tarp sitting over the tip of the high tail, a tiny prop-set shanty facade standing in front of it.

Auto - "Aw ..."

...

Strophius - "I might be in this one."
____________

Staring at the empty backyard, trampoline, crushed everything where Hector was, bushes and woods behind crushed in the perfect shape of a shuttle.

Agent - "So ... where are they kid ?  Because we're about to get serious,  Hang on.  We got tracking."  Pulls his phone, she twitches for hers ... puts it away.

Agent - "So they left in the middle of the night."

Felicia - "Um."

Agent - "And you didn't hear, and don't know a thing."

Felicia - "Um."

... 

__

A shot over her sleeping peacefully smiling with her head phones on, the house shaking to the player with 'Fuck the Police' playing on loop ...

__

Agent - "Um ?"

Felicia - "I don't know anything !  I sleep with my headphones !  The dogs !  Always !  The Barking !  And the spaceships were here and I loved them now they're gone and I don't !  I don't fucking know !"

He stares calculating the response ...

Agent - "And the suit ?"

Felicia - "What the fuck.  I stashed it in the bushes with the rest of it.  I.  Don't.  Know.  Now leave me the alone.  I have to go to school."

He stares calculating the response ...

Agent - "It's not over."

Felicia - "I know."

He leaves through the open back of the house.
__

Her schoolbus arrives, the noise ... she slumps in.

 

The sun passes over the sky ~

The schoolbus arrives, she slumps her way out dragging backpack, around the side of the house over the garage concrete and into the backyard.  Past the charred barbecue, knocking it over and dragging a bit with the backpack, and into the bushes.

~ later that evening ~

Newshuman (always the same one) - Standing with an armored protestor with dreadlocks and a gas mask (based on a real human of unknown identity), "Hello !  Were here in the war zone tonight with anarchist superhero, 'Sexy Justice'."

SJ - "Yo."

Newshuman - "Now that the president has reinforced the police line with mercenaries, neo nazis, and klansmen, what plans ?!"

SJ - "Well ... you know me.  I was thinking about some ... (raised brow) Justice (sighs from off screen)

Explosions of gas in the background then a hail of fireworks before NH is hit with a pepper-ball across the shoulder from the police line.

Newshuman - "Oh you motherfucker."  Pulls a pistol and turns stomping the direction firing away, camera man 'oh shit' then cuts out.

The smoke drifts over the charging lines as the police are flanked by the suburban housewives charging with leaf blowers ... then a sonic boom from above.  All look up.

...

The bell-suit face plants and craters the street between the lines.
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(inside the fairly roomy yet not suit)

Gijo - "Short bursts."

Felicia - "Mm-hm.  Got it.  Short bursts."

The bell-suit springs to its feet, arm cannon powers up ... inside the sticky note says 'Shamus don't sue me gun'.

Gijo - "What the hell are you doing ?"

Felicia - "Umm ..."

The cannon stars to spin, the people start to back away ...

The police line charges knocking the suit back with shields, the protest line charges, knocking it forward.  The other arm fires flamethrower into the air.

Gijo - "This suit was made for incinerating bio-hazards.  We just got back from stopping yet another zombie apocalypse, started by the one this suit was intended for mind you, and not for this."

Felicia - "And ?"

Gijo - "Holy shit.  Are you a hero.  Or are you a villain.  Right fucking now."

The police line almost falls it back, the protest line almost forward.  Inside the police start marking as targets, a smoke grenade pings off the view.

Felicia - "What ?!"

Gijo - "Hero."

The police knock it back.

Gijo - "Or."

The protestors knock it forward as Felicia tries to grind control.

Gijo - "Villain."

Knocked to the side, caught by the extinguishing flame arm, a cannon shot to the air.  The crowd hesitates.

Gijo - "Because I need to know right now.  If you do this, you're on your own.  You can just keep the god-damn suit it's not even supposed to exist anyway, and if they find out I am Screwed !  So if you do this now I am OUT !"

...

The cannon charges again, a puff from the thrower, the lines all back away.

Gijo - "Hero or villain."

...

Felicia - "Hero."

The cannon pulls back in, the arms extend to the building corners ahead (switch marked with sicky note and stickers ... 'Diamond Hands'), knocking through a few cops flying off.  The hands grab bricks, as the suit pulls forward against the line, protestors pushing with.

~ The End ~

 

The protest continues through the credits in super slow, while a giant ass fore-cannon with a tiny little three seat cockpit slips through the stream toward Earth in real time. 

The time speed of the protest footage slowed relative to  the time it takes for the ship to travel, which is about the length of the song.

Interlude

Asshole (covered in feathers) - "Is this the kind of message we really want to be giving our children ?"

Fistey (wet) - "Absolutely, plebeian worm-spawn of ignorance."

Asshole - "Missing left sock."

Fistey - In shock ... "In your fucking sleep."

Asshole - "I know."  Drinks.  "But not tonight ... "

...

Fistey - "What ?"

Caldera's the worst

Fast footage of the crew running, the world around them falling apart as the wave takes the land, then silence in black.

"How long do we have ?"

"We have six hours."

The spider drones work their repairs around the inert motorcycle engine with headlights flickering sad, while Carson's mechanical life separates from the ship's.  They walk the land, amid Kashikoi's walking homes and dinosaurs.

~ Caldera ~

Carson a tall monstrosity of limbs and mechanism crawling along dangling him, arms still bound to his side and grinning like a gallows joke, on a leash of wires Auto holds with a rifle in the other.  

Timepiece preps her pistols, Zelda drags the massive blade Carson once stalked her with.  The Thunderbird soars overhead, taking a beast from the herd ahead.

The marketplace beyond this sight, the woods to the left and right stalking their walk until far ahead where the woods grow bent and scorched from an asteroid strike we already know.
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Shaw - Waiting at the gate with guard, "Great !  More newcomers.  That is definitely and without a doubt, exactly what the fuck we need right now."  

Looks to Carson grinning back, just excited to be here really ...

Shaw - "What the hell is that ?"

Carson - Leaning forward into his eyes so much as he can in his contraption, "I am the one who sucks tiny layers of flesh from your fingers and toes while you sleep, dreaming of sugary pixie sticks.  Robert Carson."  

A bow as the leg-works comply.

...

Shaw - "Nice."  Looking to each, "Cyborg lady, robot with an abomination on a leash and thank you very much for that, crazy lady with oversized sword."

Zelda - "Hey !"

Shaw - "So then tell me what the fuck, is that ?"  Points to the aberration in the sky.

Timepiece - Worst actor ever, "Why would we know anything about that ?"

Shaw - "Came in on your precise trajectory."

Zelda - "Crazy."

Carson - "Cra ... zee."

Auto - "I was once an autopilot."

Timepiece - A sigh.  "It's the destruction of all space and time working it's way backwards in a wave.  What you see in the sky is the burning away of the anti-time particles the process sheds.

Shaw - "For the record I understood that."

Timepiece - "Of course you did.  You were their navigator."

"We only have the time we do because of the combined relativity of the planet, solar system and galaxy nears the speed of light, making it the last to go."

...

Shaw - Looks at the sky, "I don't like the sense you kids are making.  That would mean we only have until the orbit's arc away from that overall relative velocity."

Timepiece - "Around four and a half hours before the planet runs into it.  Again.  Simultaneously with all iterations in time on a similar relativistic trajectory."

Shaw - "Swell.  So what do you propose we do ?"

Timepiece - A broken laugh.  "What can we ?  We've been running ... we just came to town for supplies while our ship repairs itself."

Carson - "Dreaming ... of pixie sticks."

The guards take their weapons, they enter the marketplace together.  

It sprawls it's action before them, a sullen mood as all seem to know nothing good can come of the approaching cloud.  Vendors vend hopelessly, discounting while their ships are prepped.

Even as they are, mechanics look up in fear.

Shaw - "I was that navigator.  Finding this world for my people was a blessing, and a blessing we were welcomed by those already here.  But how did you know ?"

Timepiece - "Because we need one.  There's a pattern to this.  No family ?"

Shaw - Reserved ... "No."

Timepiece - "Of course not, because we wouldn't have room."

...

Shaw - "I will not join you unless your plan is to fight."

Zelda - "Fight how !?"

Shaw - "If what you say is true, I will show you how to outrun time.  How to buy time.  Until we figure out how, and maybe even got some help.  Maybe." 

Music continues over their walk as shadows depart the alleyway.
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Lady Styx - Entering the circle around thrones with the Hecate behind, "A temple ship, but heavily modified.  Its keepers apparent are certainly not of the temple."

Lord Charon looks over to Selene as she tinkers in the ashes with her new robot, broken from the husk of a mine, he looks closer as she works the inner guidance system.

He looks up and watches the Thunderbird fly over, its massive prey in claw with a proud call for all potential mates to see, three follow to feed.  Before the wave in the sky hovering over his love, to whom he smiles that feeling.

Charon - "So bandits and thieves arrive, from this aberration in the sky which comes for us all and all things you and I, my darkest love and only lover."  He leans forward with a grin, "What ever shall we do ?"

She smile her evils right back before they look to their daughter.  

Selene - Looks up as a spring pops out of the works, "What ?"

~ 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 Do.  Not.  Fear.  DEATH !"

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.

Close

...

Fistey - "Did you watch that movie ?"

Asshole - "I didn't watch that movie no."

Fistey - "Fuck."

Asshole - "Why is the lady a river ?"

Fistey - "I think the river is a lady."

Asshole - "Huh.  So is that today's lesson ?"

Fistey - "Sure !"  Looking behind the clown, "So is that a chainsaw ?"

...

Asshole - "No."  Drinks.