It is unclear as to whether the final operation was a failure or not, though it most likely was.

  The implosion of the gateway had sucked her in, hurtling her violently across time and space. Having already exhausted her strength and incurring wounds throughout that day, she accepts her fate. Her people do not expect neither her, nor her brother to have made it out of the mission alive.

  Unreality swarms and morphs around her, warping at the edges, biting and tearing, threatening to rip apart her molecular structure. It was an indescribably painful experience as though every individual nerve was shot, even with the suit protecting her. Yet somehow, her physical integrity held on.

  Etched into her mind still remained her baby brother’s dying vitals signs as he had struggled on the planet below. They now show a disconnection error from within her helmet.

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  As suddenly as it had come, she returns back to realspace, three moons hurtling past her before entering the atmosphere of a planet. So too, in the distance, did her gunship manage to survive, a burning star flying off to a different region of the world.

  A crimson beam through the sky, she crashes clear through a mountain, bouncing a few times across multiple miles before finally cratering in the middle of a wooded forest.

  For a moment, she lies there soundless, face down and unconscious.

  In the next few seconds, she regains consciousness, and immediately stands back up, as though a machine started upon command.

  Lym Alzie-Rugen begins taking in the surroundings of the foreign world.