R(WBY)ed vs Blue: New Colors

Chapter 41: Hate To Say Goodbye

Three Months Later...
Blood Gulch

Church was down to his last iteration. The Epsilon unit was failing, with him and Tex in it. Because it was failing, earthquakes became more frequent, and all of Blue Team's Epsilon doubles got on a tank and left, except for Church and Tex. The sky literally splits open like a seam, revealing the inside of a room.

Red Base

Sarge: Double rainbow? What is that?

Simmons: Some kinda crack. The atmosphere must be breaking apart!

Donut: Repent, repent, the end is here!

Grif: Well, I'll be in my bunk. Gonna catch some Z's. See you guys.

Grif walks off.

Simmons: You're choosing to die while taking a nap.

Grif: It's how I lived, Simmons. It's how I lived.

Sarge: You know, in some weird way, I actually respect that. Adios, dirtbag.

More tremors, and the sky splits open further.

Blue Base

Tex: I guess this is it.

Church: Hey Tex, there's something I need to tell you. I think it's important that I say this.

Tex: Wait a second. Look, I can take the whole 'at peace with the world' thing, and I can even stomach all the 'accept your fate' stuff. But... just do me a favor, okay? Don't say goodbye. I hate goodbyes. I mean, we are space warriors, right? We should try to maintain some level of credibility.

Church: No, no, no, Tex, no. I think I just figured out what the Director couldn't. And Alpha either. It was you, Tex, all along. See I thought- I thought we, made you. The Director, and the fragments... but that's not the case. You made us. When the Alpha was created, you just kinda came along for the ride. You gave the Director the idea that he could make something more. That he could split the Alpha up. Don't you get it? You were the memory. You were the key. You were so strong, you made a whole other person. God. He always wanted to find you. You know, to get you right. To just see you one last time. And he wanted me to be able to do the same. To find you in here or... just, go down another iteration. Figure out this little Tex problem. Figure out how to do it right. But now I know. I know how to fix all of this. How to end it once and for all. It was so simple all along. I just had to tell you three words. Three words I wasn't capable of telling you before.

Tex: Oh, okay, wait a minute... are you gonna say 'I love you?'

Church: No Tex, no, I'm not gonna say I love you... I'm gonna say I forget you... I forget you. I'm letting you go...

Church turns to his side to see Tex no longer there.

Church: ...Okay world, do your fucking worst! 'Cause I sure as hell just did mine.

All of a sudden, a voice from the void, full of echo, as if answering his request.

Real World Caboose: It's opening! It's working!

Church: ...What the fuck was that?

A giant Caboose is looking down through the crack.

Real World Caboose: I see him! I see him, he's in there. He's okay!

Red Base

Sarge: Is that Caboose?

Simmons: Is Caboose... God? I mean, I can kinda see it now that I think about it. Sure would explain the fuck outta the platypus.

Back outside the void, you appear.

Real World (L/N): He is? Oh, yeah, I see him too!

Sarge: Well, that's just great! Both Caboose and (L/N) are God. Or Gods?
Oh, who cares, that still makes me the first person in the history of the universe that doesn't wanna go to heaven. Great job Blue Team. You find a way to make everything suck.

Real World Sarge shoves you and Caboose out of the way.

Real world Sarge: What? Let me see, morons. It's just a bunch o' circuits.

Real world Caboose: Yeah but they're glowing. He's alive!

Simmons: Um, Sarge? What're you doing up there?

Sarge: What? Is that me? And more importantly, why am I talking with a Blue? Attention enormous version of myself! I order you to attack!

Blue Base

Church: No. NO! The memory unit isn't dying! This isn't the end of the world! It's a fucking rescue mission! NO!

Penny appears besides you.

Real world (L/N): Penny, get him out of there!

Penny: On it!

Penny pulls Church out.

Church: No, no, stop! Stop it, leave me here!

Church vanishes from inside the memory unit. Back to the room with the real world everyone is in, standing over the memory unit, as ghost Church fades into being.

Church: No, no, damn it! Whyhyhy? Why did you do it?

Caboose: Church, you're alive! See-I knew it. See I told them! And she was right! We could get you out!

Sarge: Alright then, we're square Blues. We helped you get your shiny Blue buddy out, so that makes us-

Church: What're you doing here?

Penny: We're saving you!

Caboose: Yeah! We found you in the place where they were keeping you and we traveled a really really long way to come to this place, and fought a bunch of people, and then fought a bunch of more people, and then we got you and took you and saved you, the end.

Church: But why would you do that? Why?!

Sarge: Well, clearly it wasn't to hear 'thank you'.

Bullets can be heard outside.

Ruby: Hey, we're taking fire out here!

Church: Thank you? You fucked everything up! I was at peace - I had it figured out, it was over! Put me back!

(L/N): Put you back? We just fought through an entire military base to reach you, and now you wanna go back?

Church: YES!

Penny: She said we need you. She was the one who knew how to get you out.

Church: She? Who're you- who're you talking about, Tex? The real Tex?

Caboose: Tex? No, no not Tex. The new lady.

Church: New lady?

As a door slides open, Penny disappears. The door opens fully revealing a figure wearing a teal Rogue helmet, with teal
Recon shoulders and chest piece. It was her. Agent Carolina.

Carolina: Hey there, Alpha. Been looking for you for a long time.

Church: Oh no.

Carolina: Now that I've found you, you're gonna help me do what I should have done years ago: you're gonna help me kill the Director.

~ Jeff Williams - Can't Trust Anybody Now ~