The robot shuts down in front of Kagetsuki and the others.
“It seems…we’ve been had.” Ronin says to Kagetsuki. Kagetsuki just runs over to HIME without replying to Ronin. He grabs HIME from Lessa’s arms. HIME is in very bad state. Her wounds did not stop bleeding but she can still open her eyes and look at Kagetsuki.
“Listen….you have to stay with me…you know there is a way to save the others….but….” Kagetsuki’s voice rings in HIME’s head even though he didn’t move his mouth. HIME smiles and stretches out her hand and touch Kagetsuki in the face. She still tries to get up but everything she tries, she falls back down. Then, she coughs up even more blood.
“Do not go helpless at the last minute…..there is still one thing we can do for them.”
“That’s enough!! She cannot take anymore of this! Please…stop. She had suffered enough….let her rest abit…let us help her out of this.” Fluffy says to Kagetsuki.
At this moment, Fluffy, Lessa, Starcommand, and Sparky are gathered around Kagetuski and the wounded HIME. Stump fell into despair when he heard about they are all going to be blown to pieces. He is just kneeling somewhere in the corner. Scythe and Tricky find no reason to do any harm to Stump because it is not worth it anymore. Tricky just walk to the walls and start swinging his blade. Scythe, Trace, and some others are looking for ways to make an exit. Fluffy and the others still trying to discuss to blow a way out of this mess. Then again, they do not have enough bombs and what not to blow up this place. Shin looks at the now deactivated robot. He goes towards the arms and attempts to activate the sabers on the arms. Scythe then goes helps Shin and move the Robot towards the walls and use the sabers to burn a hole big enough for everyone to get out. Starcommand sees what they are doing then he stops them. He worries that if they just randomly put a hole on the walls on the power core room it may hit one of the wires that leads to the sensors. If that sensor fails to function, then the group is in the middle of a huge fire works in space earlier than expected. Scythe and Shin take a grasp when they hear Starcommand’s explanation.
“Well…this way is not going work…that way is not going to work…we might as well just sit there and die!! And I cannot believe I am going to die with the half breed.” Stump screams. No one pays any attention to that. Kagetsuki is telling HIME to hold on. Sparky, Lessa, Ronin…and some others are watching HIME’s condition. They are all frustrated because they cannot do a thing. Fluffy then switch on the transmitter.
“HEY RAVEN! You copy? We are coming back momentary. Please send a message to the head of the medical team. Ask her to prepare critical care units on stand by.”
“Sure thing Fluff….what’s taking you people so long? EvilIvy just got a message from the Special Space Strike Force. Newsie and Phoenix are both waiting at the hanger bay waiting for all of you. We also got Nintendo with us…he is in really bad condition. Don’t worry..…we already put him in the status tube. ”
“I see, how’s his condition?” Ronin asks.
“Very bad, he is on the verge of death. You guys need to come back here quick. We do not know how long he can last.”
“Copy that…we will be here as soon as we can.” Fluffy answers.
“HIME…..please…if you truly care for your friends…..we need to do this together.” Kagetsuki voice reaches into HIME.
“Will you walk with me? Will you walk with me all the way?”
“Yes….because you are here….because there will be a tomorrow for everyone….We will fight for them….this time…we will…together.”
“Then stand up. For the sake of everyone’s future….rise. Rise for their sake.”
HIME once again tries to rise but then her wound is just too deep for her to endure. Not only she cannot stand but she also lost a lot of blood, which is not good news to her body as well.
“HIME stop! You are not fit to do this! Let us handle this….just once…...let us handle it.” Lessa walks up to HIME and give her support. Scythe and Tricky also come to help. At that moment HIME put her left hand on Lessa and her right hand on Tricky. In front of Lessa’s eyes, HIME’s hair is turning white again and the two felt their force powers are being drained away. Tricky tries to stop HIME but he gets knock out by Kagetsuki. The three fall on to the ground. Lessa and Scythe look up and they see HIME in white hair. HIME kneels down towards them and stares at them with a smiling face. It seems her condition is not as bad as before.
“I am sorry for this. It has been fun knowing you all. Now is the time for us to say good-bye. I will miss all of you.”
“What do you mean by that? Didn’t you make me promise you that I do not go somewhere that you cannot follow? Are you going back on your words?” Ronin asks. The others are about to ask the same questions when they feel a Sudden pressure on their back. They look and see both Kagetsuki and HIME are staring at them with blood red eyes. HIME pushes Lessa towards Sparky.
“Now…before this I need to say a few words or else I never have the chance of saying it. Lessa, you have been a great friend. Every since the day I was awaken, you are the one who protected and supported me till now. Sparky, you have been out for sometime and you have experience some hard times. Time is going to be different from now on. I will leave Lessa to your care. Ronin, I only made you to fulfill that promise. I didn’t promise you anything…so go cry me a river. Even though I maybe going somewhere you cannot follow for now, but we will meet again someday. Thank you for all your support and wisdom. Fluffy, please take care of this bunch from now on. It’s been great even though we have not got the chance to work together much. Scythe and Tricky, my favorite students. It may be true that I may perish today but you know I will be in your hearts, always. I will continue to live on in your memories. Scythe, take good care of Silvercloud. Tricky, you need more experience in the outside world and stop being so creepy. Starcommand and Stealth, you are my very good friends. Remember our adventures from time to time. Kane, please don’t throw your life away that easily. There are chances when people will actually kill you. I am going to miss you all; and thank you for everything.”
HIME then smiles. It is her brightest smile towards her friends. She then turn her back on her friends and holds Kagetsuki’s hand.
“You ready?”
“Yes….let’s get this over with. I cannot stand for long.”
The two then stretch out their hands; the combined force manages to rip out a big hole through the steel walls and they push all the other out the wall. Once the group got themselves thrown outside the wall, they feel the pressure is gone. Lessa and Sparky get up and try to rush back inside to get HIME and Kagetsuki out. The hole HIME and Kagetsuki ripped out immediately closes in front of them. Before the hole was fully close, Lessa sees HIME collapsed in Kagetsuki’s arms and she threw her own saber hilt to Lessa. She was smiling to Lessa even though she is in that state, then the hole closed up. That is the last time Lessa sees HIME. Lessa, Scythe, Tricky, and Ronin pull up their fists and beat on the steel.
“HIME! What are you doing? HIME! HIME!! NO!! Please….this is not happening!”
“We need to go….NOW! We do not have much time!” Sparky says. Then he puts his arms around Lessa and carries her on his shoulder then run. Scythe and Tricky don’t want to leave HIME either. Ronin has no choice but to knock them out and drag them along. Lessa is still screaming HIME’s name on their way back. They all get back to Raven’s ship. Once Fluffy tells Raven that she can take off, The Black Bird wastes no time and flies off the mother ship. As Tricky and Scythe come to, they find themselves inside Raven’s ship. Everyone other than the pilot, the co-pilot, and Stump is all looking out the window. They are hoping that something will fly out before the mother ship blows up. As Raven pulling the ship out of range, the mother ship exploded in front of everyone’s eyes. Lessa screams in sorrow and fainted in Sparky’s arms. Tricky and Scythe are speechless. Ronin keep telling himself this is not happening. Fluffy just sit in a corner and stares into the empty space. Sparky looks out at the window and sees a faint line of blue light dashes out from the explosion.
“I must be seeing things.”
Raven is trying her best to stay focus on task to bring her people back to the planet. Once they arrived, the group is being welcomed by Silvercloud and her medical team. The first thing they do is to move the still unconscious people to intensive care. The one who has the worst condition is Nintendo. Silvercloud grasps as she sees the wound on Nintendo’s body.
“We need to move fast. We are losing him.” Silvercloud orders her team.
“Come on stay with me. We are not going to lose another member like this.” Raven says to Nintendo, who is in the status tube at the moment.
“Where am I? What is this place?” Nintendo finds himself in a place that is unknown to him. There is nothing but lights. It is bright enough for Nintendo to see the place. It is nothing but plains. He is walking towards then light when he sees a figure stands somewhere close to him. It is still a bit far for Nintendo to see who that person is.
“Might as well ask this person for directions.”
He approaches that person when suddenly the person turns around and Nintendo manages to get a clearer look at the person. It turns out to be a human female with pale skin as white as snow and long black hair to her waist. She smiles at Nintendo.
“What?...HOW….what’s going on?” Nintendo asks. The girl just holds up her hand and waves and Nintendo.
“Thanks for everything…..this is the only thing I can do …… for you and for everyone. You have to go back to where your friends are.” The girl says to Nintendo.
“But…what…why are here? Are you HIME?” Nintendo is totally bewildered. The girl just smile at Nintendo and stretch out her hand and pushes Nintendo backwards. At the same time, an earthquake appears and opens a huge crack behind Nintendo then he falls into the crack.
“Go….back to where you belongs….there is still lots of things that needs your attention. Old man.”
“WAIT…………..”
“Hey he opens his eyes! Nintendo!! Welcome back to us……we thought we lost you!!”
Silvercloud’s voice comes into Nintendo’s ears as he wakes up. He finds himself in the intensive healing chamber. The girl that looks like HIME is nowhere to be found. He sees Lessa, Silvercloud, Scythe, Tricky, Kane, and some others are standing around the chamber. He tries to look a bit further and he sees HIME is leaning on the wall near the exit of the medical center. She looks up to Nintendo and has a playful smile to him.
“Hey….I am not that old!” Nintendo screams out. But HIME’s figure seems to vanish in front of Nintendo’s eyes.
“What are you screaming for Nintendo?” Lessa asks.
“Well….HIME is just over there laughing at me again for being old and all! But she got lucky this time. She uses force speed to run away before I can catch her!”
“Oh……about HIME……..”Sparky says as Lessa and others look away.
On another space ship, Spike and Gotenks are going back to their home planet.
“This time…….urrggg.” Gotenks grunts. He then walks over to see how Justin is doing.
Spike just stands on the Commander observing deck. He knows the war is soon to be over with the destruction of his flagship.
“There will be other times…..there will be…….” He says to himself.
The war between force and non force users ends with the destruction of “the Banisher”. Both sides have high casualties. The two sides sign a peace treaty to end the war. Some force users such as Chantelle, Shin decides that they need to go and help rebuilt various cities in other planets; therefore they go on their own path. Tricky leaves the group because he wants to see the outside world more. Plus, the pain of losing his master is too great for him to handle.
The reminding Force users decided to join forces together to rebuild the balance of the force. Since there is no lines drawn for being Jedi or Sith. They feel they are all being reborn within the force to help build a greater future for the next generation. With new managements and all. There is a bright future ahead of all of them.
Thus, the KNIGHTS REBORN WAS BORN.