#122

It's happening too fast, but even in what time there is, the two most important parties of this stage can act.

Madame Levingt, or Shekinah, or Asherah, Libertas, Venus, or Columbia releases You's soul from Your voodoo doll. This is the sum of the crafting room backup plan of Klaus and Doctor Kai.

Kurq'wes stops Mark's personal time-field, and enters the room to speak with him.

The resulting shock of the soul being released disables much of You's powers, for h̶i̶s̶ Your personal morals are now back in effect. The shame You feels over Your father, and the fear and hatred of the fuel that arises as such, induce mental blocks so that You can no longer properly use the armor and its fuel powers. The shock also releases a burst of electromagnetic force, unshackling You from the terraformer device. In that solitary second, however, Inspector Fox nearly manages to echo Susie's shouts. For part of You's soul is instantly siphoned into the machine, and a final command is issued.

All across its surface, Earth-Beta-3 begins to transform.

Crystal cities rise from the ocean. Rock plateaus never seen except for on Mars rise in central Europe. Deserts and jungles full of strange and beautiful monsters appear.

You's soul becomes the planet, and You has the soul of an adventurer. So You makes the world in Your image.

You's head fills with the chime of some sort of bell, but You drowns out such a noise with Your screams. At first, they're merely the screams of Your death, and now they become the cries of all the power flowing through You. You reaches up and removes Your mask, exposing Your grey face, possessing only color from the blood dripping out of Your eyes. As You does so, the fuel-flow stops, saving Your life.

Mark is set down even as he screams at the sight of Kurq'wes. Kurq'wes babbles on about how Mark must face his destiny, and while Mark can't hear him that destiny will happen when Mark wants it or not.

He changes Mark, and in that instant Mark becomes what he was created as at birth. He becomes Kurq'wes' Moonchild. He is now a magical god, and with Kurq'wes controlling him, he begins to reach out towards the fuel gathered on the Beta-2 and Beta-4 spires. Thus, he begins to draw this fuel into himself, screaming with pain, rage, and madness all the way.

Susie, Mina, Jacob, and Lefty are dropped, and Susie shouts You's name against the whirlwind before running to You. You looks up and clears the blood from Your eyes, the faceplate still in Your hand.

The joy You feels at seeing his friends alive is beyond all words. You thanks all the Gods at once, before You begins to sob uncontrollably. And in the midst of all of this, the others can't help themselves from such a thing either; not even Lefty, though he hides it with his irk.

Mark begins to glow with the crackling brown lightning of The Unscene; this act is getting him closer to that realm, and as such his mind begins to fall apart at the dawn of super-consciousness. But he's wielding that power. His hair burns away and his scleras turn yellow. As he drinks in the fuel, he also becomes a funnel for the power of Kul'ul. This time Fox gets a chance to scream.

And then it all snaps into focus. The whirlwind ceases and just becomes two men, one mortal, and one not, screaming their heads off.

Mina is about to ask what's even happening, because there is finally allowance for such a thing, but she is interrupted by Mark, who makes a simple request.

“I WANT TO GO HOME!!!”

Then, before the eyes of those present, Mark seems to collapse into a black hole. In reality, this is pretty close to what he is doing. Seconds later, this hole widens and drags everyone in; the kids, Lefty, Fox, everyone.

Then it erupts outward with a burst of silver light, millions of degrees hot; the terraformed island is destroyed, and the Blue Tower is launched somewhere near the proximity of Andromeda.

And then, over the sound of the gulf imploding over where the island once was, there's a certain lull that suggests a return to normalcy. And yet also, there's a voice that's everywhere at once, but is only heard by a handful of people.

“Now it's just getting started.”