Author's Note:

I don't know how many years later this is. Not too many, but more than 1. Here is the epilogue though, I hope you enjoy it!

Epilogue

A few years later…

Kai POV

Change doesn't happen overnight. It happens slowly and takes years. What we did though, what Razan started, it did change things. He wasn't right in his actions, but it did point out the issues in our society. Zyra's new leadership of Nature's Guardians is working to help the Outerlands and prevent someone like Razan from ever having a reason to come to power again. They were going to appoint someone else as the leader, but Zyra was so well-liked that they actually left her as the leader. I don't think anyone (except for Nevin probably) really expected her to do that well. Zyra and Preston talk often and they've formed a strange sort of friendship no one really understands, not even them.

I still spend my time doing recreational hacking, um, I mean, I spend my time working for the Guardian Force! I still have the old bar maid job, though I had to change bars because I got fired from my last one. It wasn't my fault I had to keep taking time off to save the city from a crazy man! Of course I couldn't explain all this to my boss. What a jerk. I may have hacked his computer to play obnoxious music every time it turns on. I admit to nothing.

I haven't kept in touch with everyone. Blake I see pretty often now since he joined the Guardian Force. Wolf is still here of course. He still asks questions about basically everything and makes me want to slap him. So, in other words, he's still Wolf. Even if he does remember his childhood now.

Preston is still the head of the Pokésoul division. Word is he's being considered for the Head Guardian position. He's a bit dubious about it, mostly because he thinks they're only considering him because he happens to know both the influential figures in Nature's Guardians. He and Scarlet have a son now, Vaughn. Vaughn is adorable, but for some reason they don't trust me to babysit. It's very insulting! I would be an amazing babysitter! It may have something to do with the time I almost burned by house down because I was so distracted by my computer I forgot the oven was on, but that was one time! ...Anyway, Wyvrn is his same glorious self, though I think he's actually become a lot less abrasive over time. Or I just got used to him. He and Gina are pretty good friends apparently. I don't know how she can stand him, but everyone has their own preferences I suppose. We see her around pretty often as the ambassador to the Mage's Guild. She's been learning more from Scarlet too. They currently are trying to use their magic to help people, hoping that it will gradually get people used to it. I don't know if it's working or not.

Christopher helps out sometimes, but he still lives in Celadon. I don't know if he's still homeless or not, he's pretty secretive. It's possible he just doesn't want me going to his house. Shaw works with the Guardian Force now. It was that or jail, he chose wisely. He's not actually all that bad, despite his past. Wyvrn hates him of course, but warching the two of them argue brings a lot of entertainment to my day.

Mira has gone back to her dancing career. Funnily enough her being involved in this whole mess has skyrocketed her popularity and she's actually a bit of a celebrity now. None of the rest of us are of course. Sure we're vaguely known, but no one ever comes up on the street and asks for my picture. We're all just grouped together as 'the people who took down Razan' plus Mira! Anyway, Mira, right. She's gone back to dancing but she's branching out into modelling and acting sometimes too. She's even thinking about writing an autobiography, which, actually would probably be pretty interesting.

The new and improved Nature's Guardians seems to be going well. It's still pretty disconnected from the Guardian Force and Zyra tends to just do what she wants. She and Preston talk though and they seem to be agreeing mostly about things. Mostly what Zyra wants to do is take out raiders and protect the environment so she hasn't required much managing. Nevin is there of course, he's one of Zyra's advisors. I really don't talk to him much at all, but I've heard he's doing well there. Mostly he is used to pacify people at crime scenes with his friendly nature.

Christina POV

I'm working as Kai's apprentice right now. I'm not technically employed by the Guardian Force, but I think I'll end up there pretty soon. I don't like hacking nearly as much as Kai does, but I like helping people. Helping the Guardian Force just feels right.

Kirtus went to fix up the power plant after everything. He wanted to go back to the people he remembers. He ended up making quite a name for himself there with his inventive solutions and when they finished the repairs he opened his own store where he sells gadgets he makes. Volke and he exchange ideas sometimes, possibly the strangest friendship I've ever seen.

Nevin POV

Zyra is still leading the new Nature's Guardians, and doing an amazing job! We help all kinds of people and the raider attacks have gone down significantly. The city doesn't help much, but we are officially a part of the Guardian Force, for whatever that's worth.

Alex showed up oneck, said, "Sorry about before and I'm glad you recovered." Then while I was staring in surprise he took off. I told Zyra but she didn't think it was important to go after him. I agree, bad people don't apologize for the bad things they do, so Alex can't actually be all that bad. He must've been confused like the others.

I'm one of the upper level members, but I'm still no good at fighting. I mostly handle recruiting, apparently I look really trustworthy. Zyra has trouble being patient enough to answer people's questions.

Liliana is working here as well and has been a great worker. I hear that she still talks with Blake and Scarlet pretty frequently, so sometimes I get news about our friends in the city through her. She's a bit prickly, but in her heart she's a super nice person!

Eclipse is pretty similar to Liliana, except I still haven't gotten through to his nice side yet. I'm sure I will eventually, I just have to work at it! He and Starlight joined over a year after we brought down Razan. They'd gone back to Starlight's home town originally, Starlight because she wanted to take care of Millennium and Eclipse followed for some reason. I assumed it was because he liked her but he kept mentioning he had a problem he needed help with. When Zyra joked it was his broken heart he attacked at her, so I'm careful not to say things like that. Although they are together now, so Zyra was probably right anyway.

Starlight POV

Millennium is mostly alright now. She still has lapses into Altair, but they're more controlled now. I think Victini being around helped more than anything I did really. So did Sunny and Luna. My parents were a bit uncomfortable around her, but I think they're getting better now. I was planning to stay there to help, but Millennium insisted I should go do what I wanted to do. And I did want to join Nature's Guardians. I never really wanted to leave my village before all this, but now that I know what's out there, what the world faces, I really want to be a part of it. I've taken over the majority of the negotiations with the city as Zyra is not very good at them. She usually starts off complaining about how ugly the city is. The government doesn't recognize the Outerlands as having a representative, but that's basically what I am now. It's not what I ever pictured myself doing, but now that I am I find I really like it.

Eclipse and I are still working on fixing his injured bond with Zoroark. It's getting better, but it's going to take a while yet to fix all the damage, if that's even possible. I guess that means we're stuck together for a while, good thing I don't mind that! He doesn't seem to either hehe.

Yunyi jouned Nature's Guardians with us and I've basically adopted her as a new little sister. She doesn't do much for the Nature's Guardians yet, but she's going to be a great agent for us one day. I know it. She's already better at most things than a lot of people and she's still so young. I can't complain about the whole Razan incident, after all I got a piece of my old family back and I started a new one as well.

Pecha POV

I always had this vague sort of dream. Continue my father's work, whatever that meant. I just knew I couldn't do that in Cornflower. There was this address written in his journal and I always thought, what if I could go there? Of course it turned out to be a dusty old lab with a bunch of stuff I didn't understand in it, not the pristine picture in my head, but things in life rarely turn out as we expect.

I've gotten the lab cleaned out and Nami offered to teach me how to use all the different technology, which I've mostly gotten the hang of at this point. Sometimes I miss the simplicity of the Outerlands, but I love my new life. I'm finally continuing my father's research into Pokésouls, so I suppose I accomplished what I set out to do.

Nami's actually helping me out in the lab as well. Since she was helping me understand all the computers and things she ended up helping me with my research in the beginning, then decided she actually liked doing it and kept helping.

Lucinda POV

Pecha's been holding up her end of the deal. The scientists she hired have made significant progress and they believe they can cure the disease before too long. I can't wait to see Ewan's face when I tell him about the cure. For now, I'm continuing my work with Sky. After they complete the cure though? Well, I guess I'll figure that out when it happens.

At the party celebrating the defeat of Razan

On the weekend of an anniversary of the defeat of Razan, the city of Lumiose threw a celebratory party. Of course, it had to be set during the day so that the Outerlanders being honored didn't have to be arrested for being in the city after dark. Something which peeved Zyra, but Starlight convinced her to go along with it.

Pecha uncomfortably smoothed her dress down, unused to the fancy clothing. "I feel like a doll," she complained. She was wearing a long, dark green dress and her blue hair had been styled into some sort of complicated bun Pecha was already dreading trying to take out. The worst was the shoes of course, evil death heels. This was the last time she went shopping with Kai and Mira.

"You get used to it," Nami assured. She was wearing her outfit with much more grace than Pecha. Her dress fell to her shins and was a pale blue touched with darker blue spots. Her regular ice gem necklace hung around her neck, but it seemed fancier with her outfit. Yuki floated around Nami's head and appeared rather bored. Zap hadn't even been let in and the Luxray was keeping up a continuous grumble of complaints in Pecha's mind. She was fairly used to this though and easily tuned out her partner.

"I'm excited to see Zyra," Nami said.

Pecha tried to stifle a laugh and mostly failed. "Did they get her in a dress too?" Pecha wondered.

"Last I heard Kai was going to meet her, so probably."

"Pecha! Nami!" Kai greeted, running towards them despite her attire. She was wearing a deep red dress that was very similar to her normal clothing. Pecha wasn't sure it wasn't her normal outfit actually, but it didn't look out of place in the formal atmosphere. "You two look so nice!"

"So do you," Nami said politely.

"I hate my shoes," Pecha complained.

"But they look nice," Kai countered. Pecha gave her an unimpressed look "I suppose you could always take them off and throw them at Preston. It's always fun to see what expression he makes when something completely ridiculous happens."

"I think I'll wait until more people are drunk before I do that," Pecha said.

Kai sighed theatrically. "You're boring. Have you seen Zyra yet?"

"Not yet," Nami replied. "Have you?"

Kai grinned hugely. "You should get excited."

At those words Pecha saw the person in question. Zyra's expression was twisted into obscene unhappiness and she was carrying a pair of strappy heels in her hands. Her dress fell to just above her knees and was a dark brown color. Her feet were bare (presumably she'd been wearing the shoes earlier) and it was clear someone had tried to fix her hair. Tried, and failed. It was now sticking up in a few different directions and looked about as angry as Zyra herself did.

Pecha immediately started laughing and tried to stifle it with her hand. Nami hid her grin more successfully and Kai's Cheshire Cat smile somehow became even larger. "That makes wearing this worth it," Pecha gasped out between laughs.

Zyra stormed over to them and glared at Pecha, who hadn't quite stopped laughing yet. "Something funny?" Zyra demanded.

"Kai told us a funny joke," Pecha replied.

"Right," Zyra said disbelieving. "What was the joke?"

"It's not funny now," Pecha said.

"Zyra!" Nevin exclaimed, narrowly avoiding tripping over people as he got to them. "You ran off!" He accused. Nevin looked much older in the suit he was wearing, though he didn't quite get rid of the innocent atmosphere that always surrounded him.

"Sorry, I had to pick a fight with Pecha," Zyra replied. Nevin walked over to her side and put his arm around her.

"You're fighting with Pecha?" Nevin said in confusion.

"It's not a real fight," Pecha assured. "And if it's any consolation, I feel like you look," Pecha offered to Zyra.

"It's been such a long time since we've seen each other," Nami said. "I'm glad you're looking well. How have you been?"

Zyra shrugged. "Not what I ever thought I'd be doing with my life, but hunting raiders and protecting nature is something I care about."

"Zyra's doing an amazing job!" Nevin exclaimed.

"And you're not biased at all," Pecha replied.

"Well. I mean, uh," Nevin stuttered.

"That's adorable," Kai laughed. "You've been dating for a few years now!"

Zyra patted Nevin's hand on her shoulder. "His innocence is part of his charm," she said. "Have you guys done anything interesting? I mean, you haven't been fighting raiders so none of your stories will be as good as mine."

"If I told you my stories I'd have to kill you," Kai said mock-seriously.

Zyra scoffed. "Yeah, you could try."

"I've been thinking about holding some classes to teach Pokésouls to use their powers," Pecha said.

"Huh. Sounds boring," Zyra replied.

"Hey Kai!" Wolf greeted as he walked up to the group. He was in a suit, but his lazy demeanor and messy hair still somehow gave off an air of casualness. The girl on his arm, however, was the best dressed by far. Mira's green hair had been pulled up into a pattern of twisted braids and her dress was a mixture of swirling colors Pecha didn't quite understand but somehow looked amazing.

"Wolf, Mira," Kai greeted. "Mira you should make Wolf dress better. He's not fancy enough for your image."

"I like him the way he is," Mira replied with a smile.

"You look beautiful Mira," Nami complemented.

"Thanks," Mira replied. "You all look lovely as well."

"How did you get your hair to do that?" Wolf asked Zyra. Mira shot him a quelling look, but he just grinned unrepentant.

"I don't know," Zyra said. "It just ended up that way."

"It's very impressive."

"I heard that you're writing an autobiography," Nami interrupted. "How is that going?"

"It's not easy," Mira replied. "I'm really not a writer. Of course I have a lot of exciting events to write about so at least I don't have to worry about needing to come up with ideas."

"I've written some research papers, I doubt it's anything like writing an actual book but if you need some science terms I'd be glad to help," Pecha offered.

Mira chuckled. "Thanks, but I think anything you write might be a bit more than my intended audience can handle."

"Where's Blake?" Nevin wondered. "I figured he'd be with you." She directed this to Nami.

"We drove here together but he went to talk with Liliana." Nami pointed to where her brother was talking with the Outerlander.

"Oh right. They talk all the time don't they?" Nevin said.

"Yes they do," Nami said with an amused expression on her face.

"Blake should come out and join us," Zyra said. "Then they could talk face-to-face more often."

"He's happy where he is right now," Nami replied.

Zyra shrugged. "You could come."

"I'm happy where I am too," Nami replied.

"Which is working with Pecha?" Zyra said. "How can you stand that?" Pecha shot her an offended look.

"It's actually really interesting studying Pokésouls," Nami said. "There's so much I didn't know before, and so much I still don't."

"Yeah whatever," Zyra said. "I know what I need to know."

"Hey, is that Christina and Kirtus?" Kai asked. Everyone looked over and stared, not realizing this might seem weird.

"Are they together? Or...together?" Wolf asked.

"Nicely worded question," Kai replied dryly.

"You mean they might be dating?" Nevin said, eyes going wide.

"They've been mooning over each other for long enough. It's about time," Zyra said.

"You knew they liked each other? Why did you tell me?" Nevin demanded.

"I thought it was obvious," Zyra said with a shrug.

"I think they're cute together," Mira said. The couple in question had moved onto the dance floor and were fumbling their way through the fast paced dance. The tempo seemed a bit much for Kirtus's sleepy nature and he was a bit behind. Christina didn't seem to care and the two looked to be having fun.

"Want to dance?" Wolf asked Mira. She accepted with a smile and he swept her onto the dance floor.

"I want to dance," Kai complained. She looked at the group. "Hey Pecha, dance with me."

Pecha startled and said, "What?" But her protest was in vain as Kai had already dragged the girl onto the dance floor. Nami, Zyra and Nevin watched in bemusement as the enthusiastic hacker swung Pecha around in the dance.

"Pecha's actually not terrible," Zyra said in surprise.

"She probably watched a documentary," Nami commented.

"Nevin looked at Zyra, than at the dancers. "I'm not dancing," Zyra said.

"That's good, I don't know how," Nevin admitted.

"Hello Zyra," Preston greeted. "Anything I need to know?"

"We're at a party. No business," Scarlet chided.

"Right. Good to see you guys," Preston corrected.

"Hi Preston, Scarlet," Zyra replied.

"I haven't seen most of you in a while," Scarlet commented. "How have you all been?"

"Everything's great!" Nevin replied.

"I have no complaints," Nami said. "How is Vaughn?"

Scarlet's face lit up in the way a mother's face does and she began gushing about her beloved son.

Zyra tuned out Scarlet and turned to Preston. "I heard you might be becoming Head Guardian ."

"I might," he replied. "There's nothing official yet."

"Doesn't matter to me anyway," Zyra replied. "But if you do get it, don't think you can boss me around."

"I'd never think that."

"Hey, it's Christopher!" Nevin exclaimed, pointing at their informant friend. His suit was clearly a rental, and a fairly cheap one at that. The girl hanging off his arm was the bigger surprise. "Is that... Opal?!" Zyra boggled. Christopher was indeed with Opal, of Opal and Onyx the weirdo twins.

"When did that happen?" Preston wondered, his normally stoic face twisted in surprise.

"So I'm not the only one surprised by this one?" Nevin asked.

"Definitely not," Zyra assured. Christopher and Opal made their way over and he gave them a casual smile.

"Hi there," he greeted.

"Hello," Opal said politely.

Preston, Zyra, and Nevin all returned the greeting somewhat robotically. "Are you and Opal..." Preston cut off the question.

"Christopher helped my brother and I find information on our missing father," Opal replied. "We got to know each other during the investigation." She was one of the people who had been brainwashed, but once it had worn off, she and her brother turned out to still be completely weird. Her tone was still rather robotic, though the lack of her brother made her a bit more palatable.

"Your father?" Nevin repeated. "What happened to him?"

"He was the reason we had joined Nature's Guardians," Opal explained. "He disappeared and they said they would kill him if we didn't join."

"Turns out their father disappearing was unrelated," Christopher said. "They just used the timing to make it sound like they had him."

"When we discovered this we tried to leave."

"And were brainwashed," Preston concluded.

Opal nodded. "It is good to see you," Opal said to Zyra. "My brother and I were hoping we could rejoin Nature's Guardians."

"Really? Well yeah, that's fine with me," Zyra replied. "You may not see Christopher much."

Christopher shrugged, clearly unbothered. "We're not very serious right now," Opal said.

"Is Onyx here?" Nami wondered.

"Over there," Opal said. Nami followed the gesture and saw Opal's twin standing awkwardly by the punch bowl. "I should probably join him," Opal said. Christopher went with them, sending a jaunty wave behind him. Scarlet had apparently stopped gushing and Nami looked slightly dazed at all the stories she'd been told.

"We should probably be going," Preston said. "We don't want to leave Vaughn for too long."

"It was nice catching up with you!" Scarlet exclaimed. "Let's keep in touch!" Zyra shrugged, but Nami and Nevin said that they would sincerely. The couple left. Pecha and Kai had apparently left the dance floor and were now speaking with Christina and Kirtus.

Christina had felt uncomfortable in dresses the first time she'd worn one, but Kai had taught her the ways of undercover work and gotten her comfortable wearing all kinds of different styles of clothes. She was always the most comfortable in her practical clothing, but she could at least fake ease.

Her current dress was actually pretty comfortable and she felt that the vibrant green color really brought out her eyes. "You two are so cute together," Kai said. Christina fought down the instinctive blush.

Kirtus smiled lazily and said, "I know we are. Anyone caught your eye yet?"

"Well, I just forced Pecha to dance with me, but other than that no."

"I'm not dancing with anyone else," Pecha said quickly. "My feet can't take it."

"You need to practice," Kai replied.

"For the very few times I'll need the skill in my life?" Pecha asked.

"It's an important skill! Right Christina?"

It wasn't, but Christina was enjoying the argument. "Very important," Christina agreed.

"Has anyone seen Volke yet?" Kirtus asked. "I was looking forward to talking with him."

"But you two talk all the time," Christina pointed out.

"Not in person."

"Video calls are almost the same thing."

"I fall asleep less often when I'm talking to them in person," Kirtus said.

"I think you're the only person with that problem," Christina replied.

"I think that's him there," Pecha said pointing at a foreboding figure. Volke hadn't even bothered to put a suit on and was wearing his normal dark coat. River was dressed nicely and the dichotomy was rather entertaining. The two were speaking with Gina and Wyvrn. Christina's group wandered over to talk.

"Hi Volke," Kirtus greeted.

"What's up River?" Kai asked. "It's been a while!"

"We're inviting everyone to our wedding!" River exclaimed.

"You're not married already?" Kai wondered. "You sure act married."

"You're not invited," Volke said.

"What?" Kai yelled. "I have to go!"

"Am I invited?" Christina wondered.

"You're Kirtus's girlfriend. You're invited," Volke replied.

"He's invited and I'm not? River fix this!"

River shrugged helplessly. "I don't want us to have a fight right before our wedding," she said jokingly. "I can't invite someone he doesn't want there."

"What about them?" Kai demanded, pointing at Gina and Wyvrn. "Are they invited?"

Volke looked them over, then nodded. "Yeah, you two can come."

"As if I'd want to go to a wedding," Wyvrn groaned.

"I'm going," Gina said. "Weddings are so beautiful!"

"...Maybe I'll go," Wyvrn relented.

"Am I invited?" Pecha wondered.

"Yeah, you can come Pecha," River said. "If you see Nami and Blake before I do you can invite them as well."

"Alright. I'm looking forward to it," Pecha replied with a smile. "I'm not wearing these shoes to it though."

"I can't believe this," Kai said dejectedly. "I'm the only one not allowed to go."

River gave Volke a look and he sighed but nodded. "Alright, you can come if you really want to," River said.

"Yes!" Kai exclaimed, jumping in excitement. Some of the others around gave her an odd look, but Kai ignored them. "It's going to be great!"

Kai began planning their wedding, Volke pointedly ignoring her, and River nodding indulgently. Volke and Kirtus began to talk about their different gadget ideas and Christina struck up a conversation with Gina and Wyvrn. Pecha drifted away to find Zyra and Nami again and found them talking with Blake and Liliana.

"Hi Pecha," Blake said when he saw her.

"Hey," she replied. "Nice to see you Liliana." Liliana gave her a wave. She was wearing black dress pants and a nice purple top. Her headphones were missing for once.

"I've been told to tell you that you're invited to Volke and River's wedding," Pecha announced.

"They're not already married?" Zyra asked. "Huh, I really thought they were."

"I knew about that one," Nevin said proudly.

"You truly are a wonderful detective," Blake said sarcastically.

"Do I have to wear a dress to the wedding?" Zyra asked.

"Well, it'll probably be in the Outerlands so I doubt it," Pecha replied. "All these fancy dresses and things are mostly a city thing."

"But I will have to wear one to Wolf and Mira's wedding?" Zyra wondered. "What about mine? Do I have to wear a dress? If so I may never get married."

"I don't care if you wear a dress," Nevin said quickly.

"You don't even have to have a ceremony if you don't want," Pecha reassured. "There are traditions, but you don't have to follow them for it to be official."

"Oh good," Zyra said relieved. "I'm hoping that this will be the only time I ever have to wear a dress."

"Well I doubt that, but you can avoid it in some situations," Pecha replied.

"I'm not even wearing a dress now," Liliana pointed out.

"I wasn't told that was a choice!" Zyra complained.

"Volke didn't even bother to wear a different coat," Blake remarked.

Zyra growled in annoyance and tossed her shoes in the air where they would've hit Blake were it not for his skilled dodging.

"It's Starlight and Eclipse!" Nevin exclaimed, pointing at the two. Starlight was flitting around sociable while Eclipse followed behind her, glaring at any man that stared at her for too long. He actually wasn't wearing his eyepatch for once though the eye it normally covered was a strange amber color.

Starlight saw Nevin waving and came over. "Hello everyone!" She greeted.

Her greeting was returned. A younger girl walked up beside Starlight and Pecha looked at her confused. Then she abruptly realized who it was.

"Yunyi?" Pecha asked.

Yunyi nodded shyly. "Hello."

"You're so much taller!"

"Oh, I didn't recognize you!" Nami exclaimed. "You've grown so much."

"Yep, our little Yunyi, all grown up," Starlight said, throwing an arm around the smaller girl.

"Did you hear about Christopher and Opal?" Nevin demanded.

"Christopher and Opal what?" Starlight asked.

"They're dating," Zyra said.

"They're what?" Starlight said. "Christopher and Opal?"

"That was basically my reaction," Zyra said.

"Christopher and Opal?" Blake said in surprise.

"That's a surprise," Liliana said.

There was a series of dings and silence fell over the room. Their attention was drawn to the presentation of the day.

The presentation went on for far longer than Eclipse would have liked and he left a Starlight to go be bored in the hallway. He didn't want to bother her with his fidgeting. In the hallway, he found two others had done the same.

"Eclipse," Wyvrn greeted. Volke gave him a nod.

"You got bored too?" Eclipse asked.

"That was dull," Volke replied. "Is it still going?"

"With no signs of slowing down."

"Gina and Christina actually seemed interested," Wyvrn said in horror.

"So did everyone I was with," Eclipse said. "Well, not Zyra."

"I think Kai anew River were trying to hack something. If they succeed it may be worth seeing," Volke said.

"How have you been?" Eclipse asked. He wasn't one for small talk, but it was better than being bored out of his mind inside.

"River and I are getting married," Volke said.

"You weren't already married?" Eclipse said in surprise.

"Everyone keeps saying that," Volke muttered.

"I assume Starlight will want to go," Eclipse said. "So I guess I'll be there."

"I will probably be going as well," Wyvrn said.

"What have you been doing?" Eclipse wondered. "I don't hear about you much."

"Beating up criminals," Wyvrn replied.

Eclipse nodded. "I beat up raiders." The two shared a look of camaraderie.

The doors behind them opened and people began to spill out. The trio backed up to the wall so that they wouldn't be swept away and waited for their friends to come out. Starlight latched onto Eclipse's arm as soon as she saw him. "Have fun?" She asked. He shrugged. The others all crowded around them and soon everyone except for Preston and Scarlet were there. And Lucinda and Sky of course, even if someone had wanted to invite a mercenary and an assassin they wouldn't have been able to find them.

"Anyone want to give a speech?" Kai joked.

"I can talk about how we need to crush all the raiders," Zyra offered.

"Not really the mood I was going for," Kai replied. They talked for a few minutes, but they all had to go their separate ways soon enough.

They made a very strange group. A group of people who by all rights shouldn't have even met, but here they were. Maybe they weren't all friends, but they were all bound by fate. They would go their separate ways again after tonight, but it wouldn't be the last time they all saw each other. Fate still had things for them to do.

On a building across the way Sky watched the people leaving. "I can't believe we weren't invited," she complained.

"If we were it would have been a trap," Lucinda pointed out.

"It's still hurtful," Sky replied. "We helped!"

"You also blew a hole in their wall."

"They don't know that." They watched as the people dispersed and Sky straightened up. "I guess the show's over. Back to work?"

"As long as we get paid."

Final Note:

Thanks so much to everyone who reviewed this whole time, you're support really kept me going! Thanks as well to everyone who created all these wonderful characters, I really love them :) I loved writing this story and I hope you all enjoyed it! This was really fun for me and I'm actually kind of proud of it. Thanks for all your support and I love you all! :D

The sequel is up now!