Battle

"Unlike you, John.. I care for my comrades. She'll be fine." -Raina

The group wakes and prepares for the battle they know is coming. Plans are discarded as it turns out that their allies have, for the most part, backed out of the fight. Not to be deterred, the group decides to make a stand anyway. They head out to Galaxy City to get set for the battle. The group waits for John and his to appear. As she scouts, Raina runs across Antoine, one of John's snipers. She questions him on his loyalty and eventually ends up attacking him to send him back to base to keep him out of the fight for that day.

Returning to her comrades, Raina goes inside to warn the people working in the building of the immanent attack. John's forces arrive soon afterwords and the fight begins. As most battles are, it quickly dissolves into chaos. Eventually, the Havens fighters are forced to pull back (OOCly, we'd had enough of the insanity) and retreat to their base. Watching the news shows them that John's attempt to bomb the building was unsuccessful due to the building's strong architecture.

The group begins to recover when Raina discovers over the comm that Ashley remained behind, determined to stop John. Panicking, Raina headed back out after they heard what sounded like an explosion over the comm. She quickly found and retrieved Ashley, who looked like she had been caught up in the explosion of a bomb. She got her back to base and the medbay as John called her frantically over the comm, begging Raina to save his sister. Raina responds that she cares for her comrades and will ensure Ashley's well being.

Leaving Ashley in the care of the medbay things, Raina goes to join Jack. The two share a moment together, ensuring that the other is safe. Jack presents Raina with an unset cut diamond. While delighted in the present, she senses something troubling Jack. Raina questions and presses him on it. Jack admits that he hates having to put off their happiness until John's threat is ended. Unsure what he means, Raina states that while she agrees that having children right now is a bad idea, she sees no reason for them to delay anything else. Jack responds that he does not want to give John another weakness to use against them. "We're already eachother's weakness, Jack.. and eachother's strength. In our lives.. we can't wait for happiness, we have to take it where we find it."

Agreeing, Jack proposes to her and Raina gleefully accepts. The two then go to the training room where Grim, Kalius, Shadow, and Rusty are. They walk in on an experiment taking place in the training ring. As they waited for them to finish, Raina and Jack informed Kal and Grim of their happy news. The newly engaged couple are congratulated but the happy moment is interrupted when Rusty explodes. Panic ensues and the group rushes the ring to recollect Rusty's parts. Confusion takes hold when Grim is only able to find a small part of Rusty's brain. However, it is soon discovered that Rusty himself has turned into energy and is now bound to his armor itself.

A rule is made that there will be no more explosions allowed in the training area. It is also likely that Shadow will never live down "blowing up a teammate". The group disperses to their respective beds and prepares for another day.