Inside Hyane’s Mind, Husk and Hyane are locked in their places

  Hyane: I don’t like your methods, Husk?

  Husk: Well, our memories were coming back, so you were too, I’m the accumulation of the life we’ve lived after the accident

  Hyane: I understand that well enough, but you’ve sullied our reputation. People see us as a cannibalistic monster, one who kills and maims people, one who claims the lives of innocents.

  Husk: But we’re not just that, we’re a helpful member of The Century Corps, we’re a friend to people like Indica and Gladian, we’ve helped save the world

  Hyane: But still…we’re…

  Husk: You don’t understand, our friends before still remember us as Hyane as well, they cherish both Husk and Hyane the same, even if they don’t act like it sometimes…

  Hyane: Then what do we do…

  Husk: It’s obvious, you can’t live without me…

  Hyane: I see…then we’ll become one

  Husk: We’ll no longer be a Husk?

  Hyane: Yes, Hyane will be back, but all the memories you made, all the promises you made, all the tragedies you’ve made will be a part of me too, I will bear the responsibility for all I have done

  Husk: I’m glad we could finally agree on something, but we’ve got work to do if we want to make up for everything we’ve done

  Hyane: I’m so glad you feel the same.

  Husk: Let’s wake up, we’ve got a witch to stop and a world to save.

  Hyane moves off of the bench he was put on

  Hyane: I feel complete again…

  Hyane sees smoke coming from District 2…

  Hyane: Oh no…Am I too late?

  Hyane runs over to District 2 at a fast pace

  Meanwhile, The Century Corps building is a cobbled mess of bricks, and Indica’s group is going back and forth

  Cosma: I have no idea if we can really defeat Optica in a head on attack?

  Viridian: Well we have to try something, if we try nothing, Optica wins.

  Iseri: Well we’ve cleary done a number on her plans, The White World appears to be fading away

  Indica: Xen’s sacrifice destroyed the anchor, so it seems like it’s power is broken

  Cosma: Yeah, but what now?

  Juni: Uh, fight Optica head on?

  Atlantic: Not gonna work for reasons already listed.

  Hudson: Maybe we could find a way to permanently seal The White World?

  Zaylee: Would be good, but we might not have the time

  Falconer: Why don’t you look up

  Zaylee: That’s not a plan!

  Falconer: No seriously, look up!

  Pieces of The Tower of Fate begin raining into the city below

  Atlantic: Out of all the crazy things I’ve seen today…this tops the list…

  Iseri: The White World…is raining bricks?

  Indica: Alright guys, maybe this is a secret tool that can help us later?

  Atlantic: I have no idea why this is happening?

  Suddenly, an astral basket with a glider on it descends down and lands on the ground near the smoking guild

  Cosma: Hey wait a minute I know those projections

  Gladian’s group comes out of the basket

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  Zkn: Hey guys, erm why is the guild on fire?

  Indica: Optica was using a room here as her anchor to this world, so we had to break it

  Gladian: That makes sense?

  Indica: Yeah..but Xen had to sacrifice himself to really do damage to it

  Atlantic: So that makes two no longer with us?

  Hudson: Did something happen on your end?

  Olivia: Yes

  The rest of The Party looks somewhat surprised to see Olivia there

  Olivia (Introducing herself to the rest of The Party) : Hi, My name is Olivia, I’m with them

  Indica: Ok, proceed…

  Ehl: We went into the White World to fight this fellow named Ophallacean

  Viridian: Oh hey we fought him too

  Vendil: We fought him when he tried to take Olivia away because she was linked to Optica, then we chased him into the White World, killed him, went to jump Optica cause we were already there, we jumped her, Optica kicked our asses, Beline sacrificed herself to destroy the tower so we could escape.

  Falconer: That’s a lot…

  Juni: So head on assault is out of the question?

  Iseri: Well, I don’t have a plan

  Cosma: Me neither

  Gladian: Same here

  Zkn: I have a plan….

  Vendil: Are you talking about Time Travel?

  Cosma: Time travel!!

  Zkn: If Vendil and Ehl worked together, they could open a time portal and we could use Time Travel to our advantage

  Cosma: Hmm, we could send Optica to a different time period, one where she’d have no influence and she’d be trapped there

  Olivia: How about the very end of the universe, we could trap her there for all eternity and she’d never be able to go back because the forward passage of time would dictate that the universe would end before she could do anything?

  Viridian: Huh, that’s a pretty solid plan

  Gladian: But we’d need someone to play the role of decoy? Like bait of somekind

  Olivia: I’ll do it

  Atoll: But the risk for you is really high

  Olivia: I don’t care, her spell over me will be broken at last, I can’t give up when I can’t be free until we finally win

  Iseri: I have just one question for the time portal plan?

  Zkn: Shoot

  Iseri: Where is it gonna go?

  Zkn: Huh I never thought about that?

  Falconer: How about Calvert Tower, big building, lots of space

  Cosma: That could work

  Iseri: Alright let’s set out

  Suddenly a group of Light Monsters appear to finish off Gladian’s Team from the Tower of Fate

  Gladian: Alright guys get-

  Just as suddenly, Hyane jumps in front the monsters and cuts them down with his void daggers

  Falconer: Oh hey Husk is back?

  Gladian: He left?

  Husk?: Hey, but Husk is not my name, It’s Hyane

  Cosma: Woah you got your memories back?

  Husk/Hyane: Yeah

  Juni: Woah our friend is really back

  Zaylee: I can’t believe it…

  Falconer: Man…you’re really back….

  Husk/Hyane: You better believe it

  Indica: Alright, nice reunion, now let’s go to Calvert Tower

  Juni: Oh yeah Hyane, the plan is to trap Optica at the end of the universe

  Husk/Hyane: Got it

  Iseri: Alright, let’s go

  The Party sets out to Calvert Tower

  When you are 1/8th of the way there

  Gladian: I remember the last time we set off to Calvert Tower

  Viridian: Our group was smaller

  Atoll: And Zenial was with us

  Indica: Good times…

  Iseri: Now, we’ll go there together

  Atoll: Honestly, it feels good when we’re all in a group

  Resume

  When you are 2/8th of the way there

  Juni: So you really have your memories back?

  Husk/Hyane: Yeah, it feels good, I feel complete again

  Zaylee: Are you still gonna violently kill and eat people?

  Husk/Hyane: Are you volunteering?

  Zaylee: Nope, proceed as you are…

  Resume

  When you are 3/8th of the way there

  Vendil: Hey Ehl, I never imagined we’d ever team up together

  Ehl: Why’s that?

  Vendil: Well let’s just say it’s ancient history, you’ve actually become a good friend to me with all that has happened…

  Ehl: Thanks Vendil..I know people had their doubts about me due to the circumstances I was created during, and I’m glad to have become your friend..

  Resume

  When you are 4/8th of the way there

  Atlantic: Sometimes..I really do feel like maybe we shouldn’t be exposed to the line of fire so regularly, but then I remember, that I don’t really have anywhere else to go

  Atoll: Well where else would you want to go?

  Atlantic: Well nowhere, if I’m being honest

  Atoll: You wanna stay here?

  Atlantic: Even though death is always a possibility in the line of duty, there’s nowhere else I’d rather be…

  Iseri: Nowhere else you’d rather be huh…

  Resume

  When you are 5/8th of the way there

  Cosma: Hey Viridian, the world doesn’t end, I think I want us to get married?

  Viridian: What??

  Cosma: Well yeah..in times after tragedies, it’s important to remember that we also have the capacity for grief along with the capacity for love…

  Viridian: Well…I guess that makes sense…but..this is so sudden…

  Cosma: No time like the present am I right?

  Falconer: Huh, I never thought of it like that…

  Resume

  When you are 6/8th of the way there

  Husk/Hyane: I may have caused a lot of suffering to befall people, but I also helped people, am I good person or a bad person?

  Falconer: I don’t believe in morality when everything is subjective

  Husk/Hyane: Huh

  Juni: Dude we literally watched you eat the face off of a guy in plain view

  Husk/Hyane: Oh yeah…well ok I see your point

  Resume

  When you are 7/8th of the way there

  Hudson: What happens if the plan fails?

  Zkn: Well we’ll all die so it won’t matter

  Hudson: Yeah fair enough

  Vendil: We go to face the end nearly every time we do this, we’ve looked into the abyss so many times

  Ehl: We can’t blink now

  Hudson: Fair enough

  Husk/Hyane: No more joy or sadness, if we fail..

  Resume

  When you get to Calvert Tower

  Zkn: We’re here, alright everyone take position.

  Cosma: Zkn, Vendil, Ehl, Olivia and myself will go to Floor 21, while the rest of you go to floor 20, we’ll lay our trap and spring it so the final battle can begin

  Gladian: You got it

  Husk/Hyane: A final battle…

  Everyone begins racing up the stairs, taking position so the plan can begin