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Oh, welcome back. Hey,

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Jane?

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Jane? Jane?

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Jane? Jane?

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Jane? Jane?

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Jane?

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Jane? Jane?

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Jane? Hey, Jane. Jane?

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Well, you're old. Uh,

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down. You calm down. Who are you? Ow.

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It's me. No, really, just future me. stopped

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counting somewhere in the double digits. There was

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a in the number last time I added

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it all up, if that helps.

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And why do I hurt? Mmm, best

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I can tell, a couple broken ribs, and

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it seems like you're bleeding Ugh,

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that all? James...

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Later,

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they harnessed them, and then they

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vanished. I mean,

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that was millennia ago, and in the end,

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my dad was only ever able to find one artifact

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with any trace of Chrysalis in it.

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And with that one tiny artifact, he

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managed to wreak havoc until we stopped him. Okay,

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so that artifact is how

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he was? Shifted my own reality around

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me? Yeah, probably.

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Okay, so where did your father find the Chrysalis?

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He put in the Odyssey's path. In

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everywhere, anytime. Okay,

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but I thought he needed you to bond with the Guardian

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that came from the Chrysalis to get into everywhere

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anytime. Yeah, he did.

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And so that's the thing

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about time loops. You've

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said that already. Help me up.

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He did it from the past.

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Your dad gets the Chrysalis by coming to

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everywhere anytime from the future,

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snatching basically what we should be calling

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a dragon egg. I mean, honestly,

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and exits to the past to leave

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said Dragonade in your path, tangentially.

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I see. You

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understand? No, not at all. You're

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in a time loop, Ryan. Cause

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and effect works different. Or

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not at all. Or backwards. I,

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you know, again, I didn't get like a degree

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in temporal mechanics or anything, basically

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just a crash course from you. And honestly,

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the sound of your voice Just makes me

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drift away. Way.

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So, I'm doing

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the best I can here, given how little

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I pay attention. All right? To

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find the source code, you said we'd

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have to find-

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No, no. No. No,

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I'm not going to the source code. Take me to my

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father. What? Why? Future

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you says the only way- Is to stop my

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father. The source code is too

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much power for one person. But if you alter

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your reality so he never steals the Chrysalis,

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you'll never bond with a dragon and-

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Like a hollow emitter! And

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I didn't need any deposed brother or sister

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to procure one for me. Ta-da!

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Oh man, hey again. See

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you got another body. Well that went so

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well the last time we tried that.

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What's up? Where are we? Where's

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the source code? You've been briefed on all this? I helped you

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develop this plan. Well, future, you.

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Well, plans changed. Oh no. Oh

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yes. So, what are we doing

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now? Getting into the chrysalises

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is... yeah, I'm gonna go with that.

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Cavern. Mmm.

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Cave. Cave urn? What's the word I should

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be using for this thing? Temple? Why are

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we going in there? Mmm, to kill Ryan's dad.

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No. Well then, this calls

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for... ooh, uh, what do you think? Aladium-powered

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plasma rifles? No. Do

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you have the Mark IV? Do I

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have the Mark IV?

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Please tell me those are holographic guns. Nope.

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They are stored inside a new matter-slash-energy

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converter built into the tonosphere. Pretty

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cool, huh? Guess how many

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organic lifeforms they can kill on a single

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battery charge.

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I don't like the way you say organic

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lifeforms. You're all so

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delicate. Alright,

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let's go bag us an admiral. Oh, that's

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another sentence I never thought I'd hear again. And

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that's not even a time loop joke. I

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really had to bag an admiral once. Oh, it's

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a funny story really.

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Jane, write a book. You, hollow

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girl, no killing. You

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sound just like future Ryan. My plan

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is to stop him, not kill him. Fine.

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But we still can't just waltz

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in there without any cover. Oh, uh,

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how about this? A

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multi-phasic stun grenade.

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Designed it myself. Stun grenade.

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Okay. am! Yes! Let's

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get closer quietly.

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Yeah, I know that's why I'm

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gonna send you to the source not that

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source the source of the chrysalis size

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this is good you think one

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of us would have looked up how to say that so just

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Don't go getting any ideas

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You're gonna open a gateway Yeah,

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yeah, I am I'm sending

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you to everywhere anytime Congrats,

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Dad. That's what you've always wanted.

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I

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sent you here to steal the chrysalis? Yeah.

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And then I was supposed to drop it off so Odyssey will

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run into it. Oh, and this

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part was a late-breaking instruction. I'm supposed

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to save your asses at an auction

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in the void. Now, how am I to

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do that? Oh, lying to us worked

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out really well. Mm, she's not wrong.

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All right. Why didn't

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I just come to do all this myself? Why send

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you? Ooh ooh ooh, I know this one. Uh, something

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paradox this, paradox that. Ryan,

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you're just a little chatterbox, and if I let

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you, you'll just talk and talk and talk and talk

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and talk. Alright, you're saying

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I am the one who did all this? Why? Because this

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starts the time loop, Ryan. You

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put yourself in it so you had a chance to save EOS X. Um,

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uh, buh buh

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buh. Save EOS

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X. Oh. Oh,

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okay, so you didn't tell him about that. Hey,

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it's not my fault. I was gonna get to

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that. I had a whole speech planned on the way to

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the source code and he was all like, no,

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stop the Admiral blah blah blah. It's

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a long story. I had a lot to cover and

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I was interrupted. What

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happened to the station? It

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was destroyed, Ryan. Before

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we ever even got out of the void, all hands

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lost.

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One arm. He realized the pieces

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of the Guardian's chrysalis were still on the station,

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and after he destroyed the silent storm,

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he went back for them.

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took them completely by surprise,

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formed a raiding party, and when Captain

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Leota realized

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the

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statue in my honor yet. Ooh, I had

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the one offer from the Xanadu people

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on Nettle 2, but they were like, yeah,

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it's gonna be brass. Can you believe

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that? I mean, honestly, I was like, thank

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you, but no, thank you, such a way. Jane.

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I am going.

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I'm going to be here.

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Approaching the coordinates. There's

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absolutely nothing here. Trust me

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on this. Don't I always? All these

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years you've just been telling me this is coming? I

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just... Never thought it would. Detecting

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a massive surge in techeon radiation. Dead

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ahead. There's my boy.

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Hey, tell him not to nudge the ship. I just had

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Xander detail it. It's okay. He's excited

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too. He's good. He's not gonna kill

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us. Certainly not me.

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Ugh! Still loud. We

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need your help, my friend. We need you to take us back to

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everywhere anytime. What's

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that mean? Does that mean yes? I...

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I... Should we hold on to something?

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Oh shit! Another radiation

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surge? Oh shit! We're

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caught in the portal's gravity while we are going

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in! Firing rear thrusters, attempting

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to level our descent. Nope,

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nope, that is not gonna work!

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Brace, brace, brace!

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Very, very

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lame trick. You think I'm

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stupid?

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I've lost an arm, not a brain. It's no

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trick. It's all yours. You just leave

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the station in one piece. Agreed.

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Sosa, have the shell loaded

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into a torpedo casing and placed in Torpedo Launcher 16.

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What are you doing? Wait, you didn't think we were gonna just let

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you board the station, did you? We're

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sending the chrysalis, as promised. What

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say you, Captain?

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I say do as the man says, Sosa.

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Already on it, Captain. Dalius? Loaded.

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I think the honors should be yours, Commander.

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Fire.

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DALIUS!

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Target is destroyed. A

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subspace rift has form in the debris field.

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It's growing rapidly.

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The station is caught in its gravity well.

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We're being pulled in. I'm

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detecting a surge in tachyon radiation between

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us and the rift. There he

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is. Some kind of portal has opened.

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It's massive. My

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sensors are overloading. I

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think I'm detecting a life form.

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It's the xenomorph. The

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rift is falling inside the portal. And

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they're gone. The portal's

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closed.

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Geez!

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Damn it, Ryan! Get it off the windows!

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Hey! Down boy! Down!

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We'll have to work on that trick. He doesn't seem to know that one yet. Get

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that dragon off my windows, Ryan! Ryan?

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Yes ma'am. Uh, Downboy! Down!

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I mean, you know what he's like.

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the

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Pula of Doom? Oh,

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how about the dinner party from the

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Jane and Levi mystery series? That's my favorite

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one. Tell me the

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fantastic voyage.

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Fantastic voyage? I've told you

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all about the fantastic voyage a thousand

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and three times. That's okay.

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It's always different every time you

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tell it.

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It always ends the same, doesn't it?

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Not the time with the dragon. Hm,

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come on, under the covers. Lay

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down your sweet head and I'll tell you a tale.

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There once was a ship in the bloodstream

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that sailed. Prepared me

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to die when a virus

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attacked. I'm not gonna lie,

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I thought it was wax.

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Scoop-a-doop-a-doop-a-doop-a-doop-a-dick. Opening

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number. Mama?

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Yeah?

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I think the dramatic structure is better

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served starting a few beats earlier in

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the infirmary. Also, you

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were a little flat. How dare you! The

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infirmary's my favorite part! Ugh,

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everyone's a critic. Don't confuse

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personal taste with artistry. Wow,

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you've been hanging around your Uncle Xander too

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much. What was it like on the space

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station?

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Ugh, it was...fantastic.

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Start there.

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Thank you. ES-10

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