Chapter One: Echoes of Defeat

  As the sentinels leave the failed planet of Illusionara on their ship they are still facing defeat from the hands of Dr. Tomoko. The sentinels leave the planet facing fact they failed and don't know how to move on, each sentinals facing defeat and even a sense of pride that they must get better and even some still facing visions that aren't really there because of the gas from Dr. Tomoko.

  Each of the sentinels on the ship Alaura who is a master in robotics she is began to build a body suit that can make sure she never faces defeat ever again. As she builds in a private lab on the ship she strips out of her clothes that she faced defeat in which was her so called her suit and she is now wearing black tights with a black tank top and she sits down for a minute on a stool at one of her lab tables and puts her elbows on it and her fists under her chin and begins to think of all the different ways this could have gone and she cant tell the difference between if this is distorted reality or if this is how far her brain has gone from reality. She begins to feel a single tear roll down her cheek and she begins to build a suit that is self conscious and she believes is the next step to reality as she hopes to never face defeat ever again. She builds the mind of the being and there is a halogram of it in the middle of the lab and she communicates with it by saying "Hello" in a voice that is hesitant and the voice comes back by saying "hello i am vulan at your service" and when she hears that a small optimistic smile comes to her face.

  She begins to play with it as and touch the A.I holographic mind and begins to vent to it saying shes never faced defeat like this before and she doesn't know how to move on. Vulan replies in a robotic type of voice and says "the only logical thing that can be concluded her is you should return to what makes you feel whole". Alaura then thinks to herself what makes her feel whole and of course it's robots and building but she looks deeper and she goes past family and friends but that was never much of an option because she doesn't have much friends of those due to her building and building and never seeing a stop. So the conclusion she draws to herself that she should be a part-time member of the sentinels but the drawback she faces is she doesn't know how to tell Elias and if she does become a part-time member she won't get to see the stars and what lays beyond and she won't get to serve the justice she thinks she thinks is for the better.

  She then decides to build her a new hero suit that is more comfortable and wont allow her to face defeat anytime soon as she is building the AI assistant vulan is assisting her in becoming more powerful.

  Somewhere else on the ship trapped away from facing the monster he'd had become jaded garden who is there meditating. As he sits there with his eyes closed Chris crossed apple sauce in the darkness his blade that has drawn blood not only people but from his soul it feels like as his eyes are closed he sees visions of himself facing defeat and that is something he'd never done before. His blade begins to float around him as the blade feels his tension and his visions. Next as he is there meditating he heard the door open and he hears footsteps come into the room and jaded garden opens his eyes slowly as the light from the outside of the room enters the dark room and it is Max and he standing there looking gruff and he leans against the wall with his arms folded and he looks down at jaded as he slowly opens. As they both are in the room their eyes meet and it's almost an unspoken words that know what must be done and how they should move on. Max first speaks as he says in a gruff voice "trying to run away from that monster that you were becoming out of defeat?" He says with a smirk and jaded garden composes himself and says "monster? I am solely loosing myself as I have never been defeated like that ever in my life but hey in order to grow you must be cut down eh?" He says trying to replenish his faith and state of mind next max laughs as he reminds jaded garden of all the times he been cut down and wasn't able to regrow and he gets reminded of the times he killed innocent folks and not so innocent folks. Jaded garden slowly returns to his meditative state as he begins to tell Max that there is a way to escape to escape all of that emotional turmoil and max says "me? Escape from what I've done? Please when you've killed as many people as I've have there is no coming back...there is no saving....there is no redemption" he pauses and takes a look at jaded garden as he returns to his meditative state and closes his eyes and he justs leaves and jaded garden returns to his meditative state and closes his eyes and he explores the different visions that he is encountering as his eyes are closed in the dark room and he sees a vision of himself that has been corrupted and has gone mad from defeat and he decides to communicate with it and hold it the blade close to his neck and decides to question it and says "you aren't me!" And before jaded has a chance to finish the dark version of him in his visions says "I am you and you know there is a better way and it's time you stop playing savior and you turn and begin to play with the evil inside" suddenly jaded garden wakes from the vision and as he wakes he wakes in a sweat and he is breathing heavily and the blade drops and he stares at it.

  As jaded garden begins to wake in a sweat he takes his robe off and goes to shower but in a way he is washing the defeat off of him.

  Somewhere else on the ship he sits the leader Elias Vance he sits and in the cockpit he is in a vision of himself playing with the magic that he swore to never dig into that he holds onto but he doesn't give in. He returns from the vision and as he is there looking into the space and all the stars and planets then takes the poem from his pocket that his deceased friend from childhood gave him that states "there is always room for more and room for change" for a second he tries to put the poem into perspective and how it fits into this role of life. Then the door opens from behind and it is Luna, Elias turns around and he still has the poem in hand and Luna takes a quick glance at it before elias puts it in his pocket and he says to Luna as she enters and takes a seat "id thought you'd be more inconspicuous given your spy background" Luna chuckles as she says "there's many things you think about me but isn't true eh?" Max enters the room and he marches forward to the Elias and says "he take us back to that planet I have a war to settle and it has to be settled now. Luna says "i have to give this one to Elias as we are not even close to prepared as we thought we were. Both Elias and Max look at Luna with a look of uncertainty as they both can't believe what she just said Luna then says "yeah that's right you heard me given the fact I have done the things I've done it's time to keep a low profile and play our cards right. Elias agrees and max takes a breath and a seat and begins to clutch his fist as getting the revenge for the defeat he's faced is more important than any thought process.

  Somewhere on the ship in a isolated room sits Fizz and he is the most impacted by the toxic gas and he is sitting in a chair with his toolbox blaster and he talks to it in a way like he has never talked to anyone before and he talks to it as if it's a real person.

  Zara walks into the room and she sees Fizz taking to the toolbox as if it's a real person and she hugs him in a that comforts him and he is snapped back to reality immediately and he is breathing heavily. Next he leans into Zara and she knows what she has to do and that is go into the battle with a state of mind with a game plan.

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  Chapter Two: Cosmic Threads Unravel

  Zara walks to the cockpit and says I'll be back as she volunteers to scout deep space for the source She tells Elias as she says that she takes her solor beast and travels into space and travels into cosmic territory alone.

  As he does that Max who sitting there clutching his fists and watching Zara tell Elias she is going to go alone he gets a jitter to go alone as well and he asks and requests that he leaves and goes on a recovery mission by himself and reclaim the pride as he is only capable of doing.

  He drops out of the ship and he lands on a broken planet and he lands on a desert and he makes his way to the streets and he is feeling angry after what was done to his team and for the first time he feels union as he makes his way through the streets he sees the destroyed buildings and the cracked streets as the dead is buried beneath. He makes his way underground as he feels the defeat crawling back over him but he refuses to accept as it as his and he goes into the lab and sees the toxic gas that has him and his team under and it is a brown gas and the lights turn on and he sees Dr. Tomoko lined up with many clones of not just himself but people from all across the space.

  As he discovers this he puts some of the capsules into his pocket and he instantly gets beamed back onto the ship and Max is confused.

  As max is beamed back onto the ship he is surrounded by the rest of the sentinels.

  "How did that happen?" Max says in a confused tone but also agressive Elias says "not sure".

  Elias is the one who beamed him back onto the ship as he wants put together a game plan.

  Chapter Three: The Broken Temple of Varthos

  As Zara goes through space on her solor beast she then goes to a planet of and she wants to reclaim her lose and she fights some ghostlike clones and she uses her sword to take them down.

  She then finds a link to a world that says something along the lines of Tharions world is the only way she gets curious and she then uses her memory to remember who that is and where it is. She then hops on her solor beast and she justs rides to tharions world.

  She lands and she lands on the golden streets and she sees the golden high Castles and the wizards, sorcerers and knights.

  She hopes off the solar beasts and she walks along the golden Streets and she has her name in her side and she is still holding the golden ancient symbol in her in her hand and she is waking along the streets and she gets a hold of a knights who says "you seem unfamiliar is there a message you'd like to send to lord Tharion and Zara says "yeah I do"

  The knight walks her to Tharion as he is sitting and feasting in a golden palace and surrounded by everyone he knows.

  She approaches and the room goes quiet and she looks around as the people in the room look at her and Tharion says in a voice that is commanding "who is thee?" Zara says I am "Zara a star sentinals but most of all I am a warrior" Tharion who is eating laughs and says tell me more about these sentinals?" Zara raises an eyebrow and says we are a team of diverse individuals and we explore and our leader is Elias Vance"

  Tharion chokes on his food "Vance?!" And he says to one of the warrior knights who is on the side along the table with him "where have I hear that name before?" The knight says "you remember we fought alongside that war general in the Battle of patitsital"

  Tharion says "well it seems we have some common ground and we have fought alongside the Vance bloodline

  Tharions invites Zara to eat with them.

  Chapter Four: The Realm Beyond the Stars

  Elias Vance who is putting together a game plan and he then decides to go back to his home planet as he does this his heart is heavy because growing up his father and him weren't very close.

  He lands and as he steps out onto the wartorn planet that has seen battles and wars he lands on his father's front yard and he sees his father sitting on the front porch and he is greying and Elias looks around and he sees children running around and he thinks who's children are these.

  As the sentinels go off the ship they look around to the unfamiliar territory and Luna who looks at the kids she stares as she is reminded of all the things she did as a kid like forced to kill Max comes behind her and says "you are reminded as well" Luna says "yeah"

  Elias approaches his father on the porch and he hugs him but it is broken and that's when it feels the most put together. Keal Elias father says "you just faced defeat didn't you" and Elias nods his head and he changes the subject and says "who are these kids around?" Keal says "they are my trainees for battle" next Elias puts his hands in his pockets and he invites Elias and the rest of his sentinals to a cookout.

  The sentinels sit in a circle and in the backyard on log seats and keal begins to share war stories of him fighting gods and things like that and jaded garden is enthralled and Luna is inspired to become more of a better person and max as the stories are being shared he says to himself I could do all of this if i wanted to.

  Zara comes to the meeting on her solor beast and keal who is retired thinks to himself it's been a while since I've seen those.

  Elias says "well where have you been?" Zara nods at keal and says I've been on Tharions planet

  Keal who is sipping alcohol says "Tharion? I've heard that name before"

  Zara says yeah he mentioned you

  The other sentinals sit confused and max says "cut to the chase"

  As he says that Zara says "well Tharion says he battled alongside and mentioned how much he respected you and would like to meet this new generation of Vance"

  A cloud comes it has lightning and it's grey and the sentinels get beamed onto the planet of Golden streets and knights and sorcerers.

  Chapter Five: A Council of Sorcery

  As the sentinels are beamed into the sky and onto this planet they are faced with a man who is in gold plated armor and is holding a spear and he then has "I am Tharion son of the all watcher"

  He then steps down long steps and he looks at each of the sentinels and as he comes closer to Elias Vance his spear glows knowing his spear had been in battle with him before.

  Tharion then asks Elias "I sense each of you just faced defeat"

  Elias wears the defeat on his face and each then does as well.

  Elias then explains then defeat and he then sense that tharion is the perfect one for help.

  Tharion then expressed how he has to ask the all watcher for permission for to fight in the Battle and he does and he gets on one knee and he gets permission from the all watcher.

  Chapter Six: When Gods Fall

  Tharion and the sentinels goes into the planet of Illusionara and they see the high broken towards and they are faced with cosmic distortion released from the clone labs and tharion charges his spear and he kills the clones of each sentinals and he Luna uses her blaster to kill some and alaura uses some half her robot and destroys some some the solor beast that Zara was riding radiants some cosmic heat and she they get destroyed and Elias uses his sorcery that he never wanted to use but uses it because he shall not be defeated easily and fizz uses his toolbox blaster and uses his ability and max uses his cat like agility and slices there head off.

  The sentinels and Tharion stands there getting ready for the final battle until they are transported to Varthos with golden Streets and high towers.

  Max is pissed he didn't get to get revenge on Dr. Tomoko and he kicks a wall and uncharacteristically jaded garden is angry but decides not to shows it.

  Chapter Seven: Dawnfall

  Tharions walks onto the highest temple and walks amongst the golden Streets and steps until he meets his father who sits in a throne and he is holding his spear and he justs asks his father the all watcher "can he become a star sentential?"

  His father says "thee sentinals seem unfamiliar but they have proven themselves useful to the stars"

  And the crowd cheers

  And each sentinals thinking this can be game changing as they have a literal god on their team.

  Epilogue: beneath the underground

  Cut down to the underground and there is still is a dr. Tomoko who lays in his tube of golden containment and he is hooked to alien tech getting stronger and smarter.

  The pod reads "one year left"

  Dr. Tomoko smiles and says as he in the tube "good let the stars mourn before they understand"