Okay guys, here it is... these are the final chapters that everyone has waited for so long. Sadly the others will not be helping me any more, as one of the writers has... left... so to speak.

All right guys, here goes. Please review and give constructive critisism for this story!

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We managed to find a large cropping of mountains which Dark Jade decided to land the cruiser in. After that, she started showing me how to work the ship, how to control the ship, and how to fire the weapons. The boys had no idea what to do or what we were doing, so instead they worked to try and pry Fred away from the body of the poor girl.

Which worked well for my evil twin and I. It meant we could plan faster. We knew we couldn't stay still for long, but a little time was all we would need.

"So, are you going to tell us what you're up to?" Erik came in the room we were in, looking at the map we were both studying. We were standing in the confrence room, across from each other at the table, which had a small 3d version of the earth and some of the space surrounding earth. There were blue and red and some green dots around it.

Jade looked at me, and I looked right back at her. She knew what I would say.

"We're trying to figure out where to go next. The red is mostly where Yeerk ships and that are" I pointed "The green is the bases, and the blue was the former safe areas"

He looked at the map, studying it like we were. Not long after, Pilot came in rubbing his head.

"What's wrong?" I went over him, putting a hand on his arm but he pulled away. It stung a little.

"Fred. Stubbourn asshole wont move! He's got... its wrapped in blankets, monitors and all that. He won't give up and I can't do a damn thing to-"

"Hey, we know you tried your best, you too Erik" I smiled at him, and he smiled weakly back at me. Both looked exhausted.

"Why don't you boys go lay down for a while. Maybe Fred will come out in his own time" Dark Jade offered, shrugging slightly.

"I doubt it" Erik muttered "He is like a demon possessed"

"I think... I think I will go lay down" Pilot looked at me, sighing, before kissing my cheek and leaving the room. Erik followed, suddenly looking flustered.

Dark Jade chuckled, and I looked at her.

"Sticky situation you're in"

I shook my head, going back to the map "Didn't ask for it. But it seems both like playing I like you I don't like you game"

"Robert used to do that" A smile crossed her face, but her eyes were dark and distant.

I went over to her, putting an arm around her shoulders.

"Don't worry, we're doing this for him. For both Roberts"

She looked at me, her eyes now alight, nodding at me.

"You couldn't be more right"

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I sat at the controls, looking at all the doodlies and bebops, knowing what most of them were by now. Dark Jade sat next to me, her stomach still covered in black fur. She smiled as she took the guns.

"Are you ready sister?"

I nodded, grabbing the controls and flipping the switches she showed me over and over to flip. This was it. We were going in.

All or nothing.

"They might try and stop us"

"Let them try" I muttered, lifting us off the ground. Another day had passed, and we were ready. Pilot and Erik were no where to be seen, but I knew the feel of the ship lifting would get their attention.

"What's going on?" Muttered a very sleepy sounding Pilot.

"Jade- Jades, what is going on?" Erik's voice had a suspicious tone in it. I knew he would catch on, but by then it would be too late.

"We may have been discovered. We need to get out of here before they get close" Dark Jade said as I started to move us forward, slowly at first, then faster.

"I didn't hear any alarms"

Dammit.

"We saw some scouts, and managed to shoot them before they got too close" I jumped in, almost too quickly as I discreetly set our co-ordinates, following the path on my screen as I did.

"So where we going" Pilot asked nonchalantly, going and standing between the two of us, looking out the window to the quick moving landscape.

"Another safe area, or what we hope is a safe area" Dark Jade replied, and he looked from me to her. I felt my cheeks flush, but that was soon gone as I saw our first targets.

"What the hell?!"

"Brace yourselves, this is going to get ugly" Dark Jade muttered as the group of what looked like Yeerk and Chanaiben fighters came at us, and I pulled back on the control, taking us up and towards the sky.

TSSSEEEEW! TSSEEEEW!

I manage to dodge the first, the second hitting our shields, and the boys felt the impact. Pilot tried to grab onto the chairs we were in, but completely missed and I heard him thump backwards into Erik, who made and oof sound before they both went skidding.

I saw Dark Jade looking at her moniter, and was sure she was aiming at the ones who had just shot at us.

"You need to keep it steady, so-"

TSSSSEEEW! TSSSEEEW!

BOOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!

She managed to get two of the fighters, and I saw one of those crash into another fighter coming upwards at us in my monitors.

"Nice work"

"Takes practice" Her eyes were set on her instruments, firing madly as I took us upwards and out of the atmosphere.

"Keep up the speed, this baby hasn't been out in space for a while, she needs a good push"

"On it" I pushed this girl for all she was worth, feeling everything shuddering as we went upwards, hitting the atmosphere and starting to punch a hole up and into space.

TSSSEEEW! TSSEEEWTSSEEEW!

KABOOOM!

"What was that?!" Erik cried from somewhere on the floor.

"Another cruiser. I managed to get a good shot in"

Suddenly we were in space, and for a brief moment everything that had happened in the last week or so seemed like a dream. The stars sparkled brightly in front of me, and I couldn't help but smile.

"Oh, shit" Came Pilot's voice, and it was then I saw what he was looking at.

Bug fighters, Andalite ships, Chanaiben cruisers, Blade ships...countless more were hovering in space.

And then we saw it. It shadowed over the other ships, making them look like little toys. I felt my blood turn to ice.

The Yeerk Mother ship.

"What do we do now?" Erik muttered.

"Ah fuck" Was Pilots answer.

I looked at Dark Jade, and she looked at me, a smile now in her eyes. She knew.

"I don't think I can-"

"You can do it. I'm on the guns, and I'm a good shot" A smile suddenly graced her face, and I knew this was it.

I turned back to the screen, taking a deep breath in and closed my eyes.

3...2...1...

"FIIIIIIIREE!" I screamed, throwing the cruiser forward, to where the ships were only now starting to power up...they weren't prepared.

Which meant we had the advantage.

TSSSEEEEWWWW!

A brilliant blue flash went out, hitting ship after ship as we rocketed forwards, pushing the cruiser for all it was worth.

"Are you both freaking mad?!" Pilot yelped as he grabbed onto my chair, coming back up between us.

"I knew they were planning something" Erik snapped, sounding pissed.

No time to feel remorse now. We were in the fight of our lives.

Perhaps the last...

"What the hell made you two think this was a good idea" Pilot screeched from beside us, holding on desperately as Dark Jade fired and fired, and I swerved to avoid hitting any ships that were in our way.

"This is the only way! If we win here, we win the war! If we don't..."

"We can't live hiding and fighting to survive anymore. I can't see anyone else die" Dark Jade's voice cracked a little, but here eyes remained steady.

"What exactly do you plan to do!" Erik was now beside Dark Jade, holding onto the side as she shot over and over, and all we heard were explosions all around us.

"Take out the mother ship" Was my answer.

"But..."

"Why the hell couldn't you tell us!"

"Becaus-" She was cut off when something hit the side of our ship, making it shudder and fall off course.

"Jade-"

"Keep going! We're close!"

BOOOOM!

An explosion from the side of our ship sent the boys spinning, and both of us girls had to hold onto our seats.

"We keep getting hit!"

"Keep going! I'll take care of it!"

I pushed the controls forward once more, starting to right us as Dark Jade took another shot-

"We've got damage!Oh god... "

"What?"

"Fred was in there!"

"No time for that!"

"Oh shit, this is a Kamikaze mission, isn't it?"

"There's no other way boys, I'm sorry but... we have to win at all costs!" Dark Jade yelled as we were hit again. The Mother ship was now looming in front of us as I kept us going forward, but now our ship was limping.

I saw it coming on the monitor, and so did Dark Jade and the boys.

"AAHHHHHHHHHHH!"'

"NO! DON'T DO-"

"JADE DON'T STOP-"

KABOOM!

Inspite of my best efforts, the shot hit, and something exploded.

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When I woke up, I was on the floor. I remembered the impact throwing me, and then nothing. I tried to move, but found there was a sharp pain in my side, realising I'd proably broken something. I grabbed my side, feeling my body had been burnt. I couldn't believe the pain I was in, struggling to get up. I looked around, seeing what was left of the bridge portion of the ship. Fires were burning and electrical wires had come loose, snapping dangerously close to what I could now see was Erik. His face...

I tried not to gag at the sight. He must have been too close to the final blast, taking a large chunk of his face with him. One good eye was staring up, lifeless.

I managed to get up, leaning on the chair I had been in, looking over to see Dark Jade had been impaled by something from behind. Her lap, and in fact the entire chair, was covered in her blood. She would never get up from that chair...

"Pie" I managed to get out in a horse whisper, looking around and coughing as the smoke entered my lungs.

"All you chicks are friggen suicidal" Came a mutter, and I looked down to see him on the floor not far from where I had been, in front of the chairs, on his side and struggling to get up.

I went over him as best I could, grabbing his arms and trying to get him up, only managing to get him into the chair I had been in. He coughed violently, and I leaned beside him on the chair, putting my head on my arm.

"We failed..."

"Either way we're dead. We're right in Yeerk space in a ship that's clearly about to be shot at, all because of two stupid fuckin-"

He stopped when the screen lit up, and we both looked up to see a face I think neither of us thought we would see again...

"Jake?" Pilot managed to cough out. But...no, it wasn't Jake. Not the Jake... or Jakes... we had known in our own universes.

"I don't know who you are, but you, Jade" He turned to me with eyes that could make even Robert's coldest stare seem warm.

"What about me?" I coughed, feeling liquid in my mouth, knowing it was blood, spitting it out beside me.

"You snivelling little bitch, I want to watch you squirm"

"Couldn't have said it better, although, I think I'll be seeing you squim first" I managed to sit down on the arm of the chair Pilot was sitting on him, seeing him cough again as I reached over and started to flip switches.

Pilot moved just enough to let me sit down, watching intently what I was doing as I pulled up a small monitor on the screen beside Jake's head.

Jake laughed then "What? With that ruined ship of yours? Your dead friends? Or will you throw that pathetic excuse for a male at me?

"Bet mine is bigger" Came Pilots response. I would have smiled, had this been any other time.

Right now I knew what to do, and I knew I had to do it. I think Pilot knew too, but he wasn't going to stop me this time.

"What does that mean?" Jake looked at him almost comically.

"It means-"

"Pilot" I turned to him, knowing it was as ready as it was going to get. Dark Jade had expected something like this, and taught me what to do.

"What do you-"He stopped when I kissed him hard, holding tight as he kissed me back. I felt a lump form in my throat, and a tear slide down my cheek, as I pulled away.

"I'm going to miss you" I looked into his eyes, those grey eyes that I had fallen in love with, and he understood, fear going through them for only a moment before his brow narrowed, and he nodded.

"I'll miss you too Jade. Love you as much as any man can right now"

"I...love you too" I whispered, stroking his cheek before turning back to the screen, where Jake was both angry and dumbfounded. Or...the Yeerk in Jake's head was.

"What the... you will-"

"Hey Jake? Guess what?"

Now he was even more confused, as my fingers hovered over the buttons. I think then he realised...

"SURPRISE BITCH!" I yelled, slamming my hand down, and the ship lurched forward.

"NO! BUG FIGHTERS! GET-"

That was the last thing I heard as the cruiser slammed head first into the unprotected mother ship, crashing right through.

I saw the wall fire and metal coming at me. And I felt it all.

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"JADE! JADE! WAKE UP!"

I felt someone slapping my cheeks, and I groaned involuntarily. Then I realised I was laying on my back, and my eyes sprung open.

The first thing I saw was blond curls, and big brown eyes looking worriedly down at me. Around her the sun was shining, and there were trees rising up to meet the light.

I almost sprung up, realising my body wasn't broken or bleeding, slapping around to make sure. My clothes weren't tattered or torn, and I looked up at the face that was in front of me, my head suddenly spinning.

"Whoa! Easy there" Came a familiar voice as I almost fell, catching me under the arms as I started to topple.

I sprung up again, turning around to see Jake, grabbing his face and looking closely into his eyes.

"Jad, wha go-"He tried to say, but I knew it was him, and then I was being spun around and arms wrapped themselves tightly around me, relief in the beautiful voice I now realised was Amandas.

"Jade you're all right! I was sure you... after you-"

I blinked, pulling back and grabbing Amanda by the arms. I looked into her eyes...those sweet, brown, innocent eyes. Not the cold black ones I'd looked into some days before...

"Amanda? Is that-" I stopped, looking at my surroundings. The tall trees that surrounded us, our friends around us...

"Oh god! I'm..." Tears filled my eyes, and I grabbed Amanda, pulling her close and sobbing openly onto her shoulder.

"Jade, what-"

"Shes trembling. What in the world happened..." There was a comforting hand on my back then, but I couldn't stop.

I had seen and felt my own death. I had seen my friends die one by one, I had seen the destruction of earth.

And I was terrified this was a dream.

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Weeks past, and Erek the Chi filled in for me while I got myself back together. Ithiell believed I had finally cracked, that war had become too much for me at that point and I had just lost it. Jake, Rtaia and Ax found my story somewhat shocking, but believable. Cassie, Rachel and Amanda were given the duty of helping me get through my "ordeal", although they couldn't quite believe I had gone through so much in only a few minutes.

According to them I'd hit my head, and had fallen out of the fighters hatch.

If they could only see what I had seen...

"You sure you're up for this?" Marco asked as him and Cassie walked down the street with me, towards school. I nodded, knowing if I didn't start doing the things I used to before my...adventure... I would never get back to normal.

Or... as normal as my life could be.

"I'm sure Marco" I nodded at him, and he offered an arm which I took gratefully, managing a cheeky smile as we skipped down the street comically, with Cassie trying to keep up.

Marco had been a big part of me getting somewhere. He had been the conduit for all my fear, my hate, and even my hurt. He'd sat there and taken it all the Marco way. It had been good to let go and get it out, and I knew he didn't mind. Cassie had been worried I'd go into complete shock and never come out, but I was starting.

"Follow the yellow brick road, follow the yellow brick road" Marco pulled a voice that was hilarious, and I couldn't help but let out a laugh, closing my eyes-

THUMP! CRASH!

"Hey!"

Marco and I both stumbled back, ending in a heap on the ground, almost getting Cassie in our pile.

"Watch where you're going!" Came an annoyed female voice, and I scrambled up, helping Marco up as the four of us converged on the side walk.

I looked up-

And my whole world came tumbling down. The red head of hair next to the little white blonde-

"Erik? Damara?"

From the looks on their faces, I wasn't alone.

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I'm so sorry this was so long! I didn't plan the chapters properly.

I hope you enjoyed the long awaited end of The Parallel. I know it has been years since the last chapter, but circumstances changed and one of the writers dissapeared. So I decided to finish this myself. Please leave a comment if you enjoyed, and if you didn't please let me know!

Thank you so much for all you dedicated readers, and a very special thank you goes out to Karona Sakura and GPShaw for co writing this with me. Thanks guys, you were amazing and I could not have come this far without you! Hugs to all!