Elspeth: Well, it’s the last chapter. I guess we should get our guest MSTers back, now.
Jadali: That’s right. Come on, move it! (opens hammerspace door)
Max: We thought you’d forgotten about us.
Zack: Correction: we were hoping you’d forgotten us.
Max: Quit being an ass.
Jadali: I’m assuming you’ve both familiarised yourselves with the text in question.
Logan: Yes.
Elspeth: What the –? Where do you keep coming from?!
Logan: I don’t rightly know. But I was laughing so hard at Zack being sappy that I nearly puked, so I thought I’d come along for the final ride.
Max: Zack nearly puked too.
Zack: For entirely different reasons.
Jadali: Alright! Enough. Let’s get this over with.
Epilogue: Saying Good-bye
Elspeth: Aw, how sweet. I’ll bet the bimbo is dead.
Max: I see your dead bimbo and I’ll raise you offspring.
FIFTEEN YEARS LATER
Logan: I was kind of thinking that myself. Will you get on with it, please?
Zack watched as his two kids ran around in the yard fourteen years since Manticore was destroyed.
Max: Scores!
Scot his son only thirteen years old was the oldest by three years always taking special care of his ten year old sister no one not even Zack even looked at her wrong or they’d have to deal with Scot.
Jadali: Great. You bred a paranoid anklebiter.
Zack: …Not in this lifetime.
Jadali: And I might add, didn’t Renfro once say that all attempts to cross X5s rendered any offspring imbeciles?
Elspeth: Maybe that’s where the author came from.
In a way that pleased Zack he was proud of his sons love toward his sister even prouder Scot could kick the butt of an X-5. Scot and Tinga were faster then any X-5 stronger to,
All: Too.
Zack smiled when he thought of how Harmony had argued with him about what she wanted their child named if it turned out to be a girl safe to say Harmony had won.
Jadali: (doing the happy dance of evildom) Zack gave in to a gi-irl! Zack gave in to a gi-irl!
Zack: *sweatdrop*
But then again she always did, thinking of his wife brought pain to Zack’s heart Harmony had died having Tinga she never did live to see her beautiful daughter grow up.
All: Boo-freaking-hoo.
Harmony would have been proud she swore Scot looked so much like Zack it was scary but looking at Tinga made Zack shiver she looked like a clone of Harmony oh how he missed her. He was brought out of his thoughts however by a small mass of blond hair and giggles flying at him he caught Tinga in his arms and waited a smile on his face while she tried to stop giggling.
Logan: (eyes Zack suspiciously) You can smile? I didn’t know you had teeth.
Max: Well sure you did. He bares them at you.
Logan: Oh, yeah. That.
"Daddy me and Scot want to go inside and watch movies you want to come to" she asked her big eyes pleading with him to say yes he only nodded his head and she giggled again and ran off to be with her brother.
Jadali: (confused) but if ‘daddy, her and Scot’ want to go watch movies, wouldn’t that imply he’s going anyway?
Elspeth: *shrug* I dunno.
Zack got up and opened the door *Good-bye Harmony I love you and miss you but don’t worry I’ll be with you just as soon as the kids are grown because I can’t leave them now until then okay* he thought to heaven as he stepped through the door.
Zack: Me? Do away with myself because of pathetic sentimentalism? I don’t think so.
(Jadali, Elspeth and Logan look from Zack to Max and back again)
Zack: Hey! That’s completely different! That was martyrdom!
All: Yeah. Sure.
THE END
All: YAY!
for now at least
All: D’oh!
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Sorry it had to end like that but hey at least I finally finished it sorry also it took so long I couldn’t stop crying long enough to finish it fast enough
Jadali: You made me cry, too. Tears of relief that it’s all over and your avatar is cactus.
Elspeth: See what crazy fangirls will do the instant you turn your back?
Zack: (scowling) Never, ever try to make me do this again.
Both: (gulp) Yessir.
Bye
All: Good riddance!
Elspeth: So, you do realise your fortune-telling career is over, right?
Jadali: Hey, I wasn’t that far off. I got the catfight, the leaving, the being followed, the invisible battle and the declaration of undying affection.
Max: But you did miss the whole ‘dead avatar of author’ thing.
Jadali: You win some, you lose some. And I would have gotten away with it, too…
Elspeth: If it hadn’t been for a clichéd plot ending in a clichéd epilogue.
Jadali: At least it wasn’t happily ever after, though.
Zack: I would have lost my lunch if it had been.
Jadali: Well, it’s over and done with, unless of course I develop a taste for the sequel.
(All others run for the nearest exit)
Jadali: Guys? Guys! Where’d you go? Hel-lo…anybody there? Hmph. Deserters.