The Battle of Aundura

## Battle of Aundura

Paul Falzone is plugged into the Ether machine, suddenly a portal opened, a DSO capital ship emerges underneath Aundura, Tutorra Fleet of Endurance's capital class titan. The cannons begin to rip through Aunduren defenses, tearing down the already destroyed nations. Paul Falzone begins to have a seizure as a result of the DSO's control over the Ether. Paul begins to exist between the universe, and the Ather. As a result, he has a mist emitting from him. Paul, eventually ejected from the Phalanx's bridge landed on the DSO ship. An apparition appears in front of Paul Falzone just moments before he destroys the DSO ship. This Avatar grabs ahold of Paul Falzone's wrist, and Paul is transported to a DSO world where Avalon is destroying an entire planet. Through the eyes of the avatar, Paul sees a family murdered in cold blood, with one survivor, a young girl, 5 years old to be exact. Holding her teddy bear, she is shot and turned into paste on the floor, however, something happens with the young girls blood. The young girls blood starts to evaporate as a white mist. Paul coming back to, raises his arm in defense to being slammed into the capital ship, just as Paul was slammed into the ship he was transported to a grey room. Paul begins to fight the shadow entity, however he is losing, but a computer monitor connects to the secondary bridge where Celestine was at. On this screen Celestine notices a gold fog start to fill the grey void as Paul is being attacked. Celestine then orders all of the Sigmarians on board to start praying to Sigmar. In the grey void the Golden fog starts to take form as Sigmar, Sigmar then rips the shadow entity off of Paul Falzone, and begins engaging the entity. Paul, barely able to hold onto both worlds is able to summon an alternate version of Jhon Anderson Hinkleberry. This version of Hinkleberry helps Paul up, and they all engage the avatar together, however it has split into 3. Paul, Sigmar and Jhon each fight a version of the Ether's avatar. Paul yells "Why do you have to be such a fucking dick!?" after decideing to go on the defense. The shadow entity then passes through Sigmar and Jhon, remerge with the entity charging at Paul, Paul materialized a Morrowindian shield and is nocked back into reality and is fighting on top of the Phalanx, over all the praying Sigmonians and Morrowindians. Paul notices the Miyazaki Spirit pan, using the gravity augmentations pulls it back to him and wile yelling "This is for Rick, this is for my kids, this is for my wife, and this!" tightening his grip on the pan "Is for Morrowind!" smacks the entity now clad in heavy armor back into the black mist. Paul and Celestine make eye contact, they salute and Paul destroys the DSO ship in a single swing, unable to hold onto his current incarnation, both in, and out of this universe, has to decide if he wants to go back to his normal form, or if he wants to let go and rest…
Paul, now resolute in his choices, his actions, his courage, his strength, fades into a glowing white smoke.

## At the Avalonian capital ship, The Broken Endurance

Jhon Anderson Hinkleberry looks outward to his fleet, but instead of his reflection he sees Paul Falzone stareing back at him, he rubs his eyes and sees Paul, still there. In a fit of rage he asks "Does anybody see that!?", with a brief moment of silence an officer on the deck responds "See what sir?", Jhon roars at everyone "Out!-Now!-Everyone get out!", looking down, clasping his face leaning over the observation portion of the bridge, looks back up, only to see an empty reflection of himself. An officer walks into the bridge with information containing the whereabouts of the hunted Morrowindians, Sigmonians and Heshlo. Jhon asks "Are you the only person who knows about this?", to which the commander responds, "Yes, I have not shared this information with anyone", Jhon takes the data pad and purges the neural link of the officer, then orders him to cease all search activities related to Morrowind and their allies. Jhon, looks down at himself again, and looks out, feeling nothing as he looks out at the fleet he created, saying softly to himself whilst welling up "At what cost…", acknowledging his sacrifices, stands up, hangs a photo of him, Paul, and Westly and continues about his duties.