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Callsito6 3.12: Endgame

Deep breathes and booming heartbeats

Consistently in your ears, as you face down these monsters

Every permutation, every choice, every decision.

Has led to this final fight, not only for yourselves, But for every universe

You feel the pain, in every movement.

Pushing yourselves to the limit.

But you can’t fall here, you won’t fall here.

Not with everything you’ve already given.

Victory is the only acceptable outcome.

Luma

I stare down into Duke’s lifeless eyes, and up into Kylen’s vacant expression.

“No” A single whisper, a single defiance against death.

I revive her, get her out of this place. Stand before death incarnate

And smile for I know It’s demise.

Encourage and protect my family, my love.

Know, that we will be victorious.

Know, no more young people will have to die.

Not while we’re

The Callisto6.

Anton

A few seconds staring into the face of death,

A month or two for everyone else, and I’m back. Back with a vengeance.

I wail on It’s body, on the entity that took me from my family.

Prevent it from taking them from me again.

And as I stare into each of their faces, I smile.

I’ll never leave them again, No more dimensional portals for me.

I’m back where I belong, Back with

The Callisto6.

Hopps

Tears stream down my face, as I see Anton return.

And I know then, we will be victorious.

I stare into the face that terrorized me before, and even though I fall

Again. Twice. I rise, and stare it down. Knowing It has no power.

No power to stop us, no power here or in any universe.

“I am the Storm” I whisper again

Watch the portal close, and smile.

You were defeated, destroyed, by

The Callisto6.

As the battle reaches its conclusion

And you look around at each other.

Beaten, bloody, but still alive

Still here with each other, not a single causality.

You can’t help but laugh.

It all seemed impossible. Such a powerful being

But It’s power, was nothing to your friendship

Your family, your hope and your love.

Something, It could never understand.

Cass

I look into the eyes of Kylen, and destroy It’s vessel.

But I feel no joy at the demise of the corporations. He was just a man

Created, manipulated, and a manipulator.

But still just a man.

I let my anger fade, replace it with dreaming of a future.

No need to fight, to destroy, I can rebuild.

Rebuild the city I love, build a future with a new family, a new future.

I’ve gained so much with you by my side

The Callisto6.

Oya

It wasn’t over, and I couldn’t let it be over.

We couldn’t be the only ones who succeeded.

Join hands with every iteration of myself, and we create anew

Twist space-time to conform to what we wish, and send forth peace.

I see it all, every universe, every possibility, and I want to explore.

Nothing is impossible to me now.

But I can see, we’ll always be together.

No matter what, we’re

The Callisto6.

Lacy

I was holding on as tight as I could to this body.

Knowing we had to defeat Vun’kuss first.

But now It’s gone, It’s defeated, and I breathe

Breathe my last breath and ascend. Leave behind my old body

No need for it now, for I am everywhere.

I am the data and code, and it is beautiful.

And even though I now span galaxies.

I still keep an “eye”

An ever watchful eye, on

The Callisto6

And it’s strange, going back

Going back to your mundane lives.

After all the marvels you’ve seen

All the lives you have touched.

But you know it’s not the end

Not the end of helping people

Not  the end of your family.

Not even the end of the story.

For you’ll always be, The Callisto6.

Callsito6 3.11: Rally the Troops

There are those moments, that you take

Before a massive plunge into the unknown

To re-center yourself, remember what you’re doing this for.

Who you’re doing this for

But you can’t put it off any longer

The Endgame is here, everyone is all in

Hinging the fate of the Universe

On a hope, and on a prayer.

Lacy

I gaze into the eternity of the depths

Quiet, except for the machine hum of us

Questions of morality and humanity, fade to the background

As we remember, the beauty we’re protecting

—

And I scream in agony, as I rip open another portal

Scream as I watch my family fight It.

Scream as It dares to try and claim Moonlight as It’s own.

And I remember those depths, the peace and calm.

No more, it ends here.

No more.

Luma

I laugh as I make jokes about Lacy’s cooking.

Remember the night I spent with Cass.

The look in her eyes, I never want to forget.

Distracting myself from our final fight, from what may yet come.  

—

I try to remember that laugher, standing over Duke’s body

Realizing this may be the end for us…. No.

I remember that laughter, that look, as Cass smashes into Vun’kauss

Gaze at the data pad in my hands.

Not again, we’re not repeating this again.

Not again.

Oya  

The smell of freshly brewed coffee,

Of jokes cracked with Cass, at another family gathering

Welcoming Luma into my family. Reminds me

Of what I’m doing this all for, of whom I am doing this for; It strengthens my resolve.

—

That resolve flickers, as I watch my friends surround me.

Putting their lives in front of mine, of Anton’s. But I won’t let it be for nothing

Let the smell of coffee centre me, bring me back those memories.

Concentrate to bring back Anton to me, to us.

It will finish here, no rewinding time again.

It will finish here.

And suddenly the final battle is upon you

All those decisions, leading up to this point.

All doubts and questions fading away

As you fight for the fate of this universe

You may wonder, if you made the right choices

Brought together, the right variables

That this time you will succeed.

It is impossible to know, as the fight continues.

Cass

The joy of destruction for nothing but destructions sake

Lying in the aftermath of that moment, and more

No longer driven by anger, or fury. Finding peace

Finally finding peace, among this. A chosen family

—

And that righteous anger comes flooding back.

He doesn’t get to use people, then toss them away like Duke

Like his fucking “claim” on Moonlight. He doesn’t get this.

He will not take this away from us, from me.

I’ve only just found what I was looking for. I won’t lose it.

I won’t lose this.

Hopps

I stare at Anton’s bed, at the indent of his head

Trail my fingers across his books. Everything as he left it.

Funnel all my hope and anger, inside myself.

Boiling it up, for a single moment. “Time to come home” I whisper

—

“Time to come home” I whisper, as I spit out a mouthful of blood

I’ve hit It, again and again, and still we need more time.

“Marshmallow, Marsh….no, I am storm” I scream.

Let all that hope and anger come flooding out.  Rise into the air

We’re going to bring him home, to kill you, to end this.

Yes, It’s time to end this.

There are those moments, when time pauses

Stretched out thin, watching all the decisions

All the “what ifs” stretch out and warp

All those small steps you’ve taken, to reach this point

There is the possibility it will all begin again

The possibility, it will all end. In victory?

In defeat? No, not with the friends beside you

Not with, The Callisto6. No. Only victory Is possible.

Only Victory.