HAPPY NEW YEAR, it is now 2026! A quarter of the 21st century has gone by!

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Flasheart led the group down the red lit corridor to the left hand side of the ship, ignoring the sparks flying off the wall at several points, several Weren crew running down the corridor and past them without a glance, bringing them up to a yellow and black striped door. "Here it is, the airlock." Flasheart explained to the others, as he turned leftwards to look at the others. "Are you sure about this?" Sara asked, with a hint of nervousness in her voice. "Just do as I tell you, and you'll be fine." Flasheart responded before he looked leftwards, held out his left arm and pressed a button by the airlock and the door opened upwards, two lights by the top sides of the door lighting bright white.

Back on Earth, the volcanoes were getting dangerously close to Eruption. Radio communications were also getting more static filled, making it even harder to coordinate. In many countries, martial law was being declared as things were getting hard, particularly with the storms and dropping temperatures, even reaching breaking point. In the US, many eyes were the Yellowstone Caldera which was showing a worrying amount of activity. In Iceland, where the President was still grounded at the Embassy, the many volcanoes there were in danger of eruption, so his staff dragged him into the basement in the hopes he will be even just a tiny bit safer. In London, the heavy rain which had caused flooding, and the temperature was dropping rapidly, leading to fears of the floodwater freezing, so the PM was getting taken down into the tunnels and to the Pindar bunker at the Ministry of Defence. "Do you think history will forgive us?/do you think people will forgive us?" Both leaders asked the nearest person as they moved. "Under the circumstances, nobody could've made things happen differently, sir./Nobody's thinking of blame now, sir. Just surviving." Both people replied back. The Pacific ring of fire was in danger of eruption, and the tsunami's, roaring wind and a surprising geological activity which they were struggling to figure out at the moment, were not helping with the of evacuation, causing the situation, especially on the many smaller islands, becoming a case of every man for himself.

The airlock door opened, a light coming on inside the chamber, revealing a white room with a white door with a Weren word in red at the end, dark grey boxes with a circle in the middle hanging on compact shelves on the left hand side. On the right hand side were several drawers. Flasheart stepped inside and grabbed one of the boxes with both hands, turned leftwards to face the others. "Where are the suits?" Jai asked as looked left and right at the walls. "Here." Flasheart replied with a grin. "Step forwards, Paul." Flasheart ordered, Paul hesitantly taking a step forwards and Flasheart walked over to him. "Hold still a second." Flasheart said as held the box in his hands up to Paul's mask, placing the hole in the box by the tip of his mask, a whirring sound coming from the mask. "It's now programmed for human atmospherics." Flasheart explained bluntly as he then walked past his left and stood by his back, the others watching as he placed the box he held on Paul's back, placed it firmly against him, saw a blinking white button pop up on the top, then pressed it, and then a dark grey substance began growing out of the rims of the box, forming tightly around Paul's body and clothes, until it formed a suit, with a smooth grey helmet with a black see through visor. Paul's eyes widened and his mouth gaped open as he looked downwards at him, bright his forearms up and moved his hands around, noticing a button on the bottom of his left index finger, which his thumb could press, the suit not being restrictive at all. "That button fires the thrusters on your suit." Flasheart explained as Paul was about to press it. "That came from that?" Harry asked in confusion and shock. "Weren Nanotechnology." Freddy explained with pride, as Flasheart brought down another box and held it up to Sara.

A few minutes later, all of them were wearing space suits, Flasheart now opened one of drawers on the right hand side and pulled out a grey metal string with grey circles with black dots in the middle. "Explosives." He spoke as he placed them around his right shoulder and arm, then stepped towards the button panel on the left hand side by the outer door. He pressed the top button, the inner door closing, a light blinking yellow as it did. Then he pressed the button below it, the sound of air hissing filling the room. "Depressurising." Flasheart explained as the sound stopped and the light above the button blinked green. Then he pressed the bottom most button and the door the slip upwards/downwards. Flasheart and Freddy stood calmly whist the humans stood at the other side of the airlock, rigid and with fear on their faces. "Uh, are you sure you need us?" Jai asked nervously. "Come on, you've come this far." Freddy said back with a smile as Flasheart turned around leftwards to face the others. "Ok, you have magnets on your feet and hands. Just keep your feet on the hull and you'll be safe. We have thrusters on our suits so it shouldn't be much of a problem. The visor adapt instantaneously to sunlight, so your eyes will be okay. You understand?" Flasheart asked. The others nodded their heads slightly, too scared to talk. "Ok. Then let's spacewalk." Flasheart spoke as he turned around rightwards and stepped towards the door. Jai then looked rightwards at the others then ahead, took a deep breath and stepped forwards after Flasheart at the edge of the airlock. He came upon Flasheart's left, who looked leftwards at him then smiled. "You go first." Flasheart beckoned with a gesture. Jai then moved to the tip of the hull, placing his left hand on the edge, looked ahead to see the Earth, slowly getting bigger every second, the blackness of space, all the stars, felt the fear in his body, but chose to purge the fear and get it over with. So he moved his hands out, around and pressed his hand firmly against the  upper sloped hull, moved himself forwards as he arm could move, then swung his arm and body leftwards, moved himself around 180 degrees, placed his right hand, and the tips of his feet against the hull, feeling himself firmly in place. He let out an exhale and let out a chuckle, then he looked leftwards to see Flasheart and Freddy also out, standing up with their feet on the hull.

Jai looked downwards at himself, then planted his feet firmly on the hull, then bent his legs a bit, then moved his body upwards standing, feeling weird as he stood up on the slipped hull, as if he were on the ground. He took two steps forwards, making sure there was always on foot on the hull as he stepped. "Ok. Simple enough." He muttered to him as he looked back at the airlock to see the rest of the others were now on the hull and standing up just as he had done. "Ok. What now?" Sara asked. "We use our thrusters to get to the main machine, plant the explosives, set the timer, and get a safe distance away, then get to the nearest ship." Flasheart ordered, before a laser blast suddenly flew past him. They all exclaimed in surprise as they looked in the direction the bolt had just gone, then looked at the angle it had come from, seeing Hotspur, Ric, and a few Weren soldiers standing at the edge of the level top of the ship, guns aiming at them. "What, did you really think it was going to be that easy, huh? Did you!?" Hotspur mocked. "Run!" Freddy yelled out as the firing began, the blasts just missing as he and the others running the other direction down the hull, one of them hitting Paul's suit box, nobody noticing, but then Harry and Jai ran across the hull towards the front of the ship, whilst he and the others came upon the edge, then ran down the opposite angled slope, towards the level bottom. "I thought you said Weren technology couldn't fire on Weren technology!" Sara yelled at Flasheart as they ran. "Well, I was stuck on Earth for years. And I guess Hotspue knew more about technology than I thought." Flasheart replied as they reached the bottom, and stopped to catch their breath. Then Freddy noticed sparks coming off the top of the Paul's suit box. "Paul, you've been hit!" He exclaimed as he pointed at it with his left hand out. Paul's eyes widened as Flasheart immediately ran over to Paul and looked at his back box for a few seconds, Paul beginning to hyperventilate. "Your thrusters are out, but your life support is undamaged. You'll be okay." Flasheart reassured, Paul and the others letting out a sign of relief, Paul's breathing starting to calm down. "Wait a minute, where's Harry and Jai?" Paul then asked once he'd calmed down enough as he looked at them, noticing they were two short. 

Meanwhile Jai and Harry came upon the half diamond shaped front, ducked past the edge of the slope and kept still. "You know, for an advanced civilisation, they are terrible shots." Jai panted. "I guess Hotspur here is stuck with worst ones, cause the ones who attacked my men were trained professionals." Harry replied. Then he lifted his head over the edge just a smidge, saw a Weren soldier standing on the slope a bit away from him, noticed Hotspur was after him, the soldier noticing him, then instantly raising his gun and firing a shot, luckily Harry moved his head back just before the blast came upon him, the blast flying. "You know, for such a primitive race, these Fangen are quite persistent." He and Jai heard Ric' voice. "Oh, you have no idea." He heard Hotspur replied back sharply. Meanwhile, at the bottom, the others looked around, hearing the Weren voices faintly."What are we going to do, Freddy?" Sara asked Freddy. He looked downwards for a few moments, thought about it and exhaled. "Ok,  we plan. We charge up the slope, fire up our thrusters and manoeuvre to the machines. Ok?" Freddy asked them all. "Only plan we got, so..." Sara shrugged. Meanwhile, the soldier who'd shot at Harry but missed was closing in. "What do we do?" Jai asked Harry nervously. "Get ready. We're gonna thruster out to the machines, just as the others intended.

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