Before I start the story, I'd like to say thank you to Hedgehog of Time for recommending that I make a sequel! I thought it was a great idea, so here we go!

I was on my hands and knees, sobbing. Maria was actually dead. Gone forever. "I'm so sorry..." I cried, "I love you!" I could've sworn I felt something touch me, but when I got up and looked around, I was definitely the only inhabitant of the escape pod. I could see flames all around me on the outside of the capsule, casting an orange glow on my quills. Then I felt it again. A warm, soft breeze. It was welcoming, and kind. Maria? I quickly brushed it off. That would be ridiculous. She's dead. I reminded myself mentally.

"I promise you. REVENGE!" I threw my head back and laughed maniacally, imagining mutilating humans the way I did on the ARK when they tried to kill us. But then my laughter ceased as I remembered the soldier who shot Maria. Just once, in the stomach. I carried her to the central control room and locked the door. I tried to help her, but there wasn't much I could do. She was bleeding out.

She begged me to put her out of her misery. She didn't want me to remember her like that; pitiful, slowly bleeding out painfully until her death. She wanted me to remember her as the amazing girlfriend that she was. So I took the 9mm gun from a dead soldier's hand, and I shot her as the capsule counted down to take off. I remembered putting a bullet through her head and slamming the escape pod door shut right as it began accelerate into space.

And then I was up to the current point. It hadn't even been a full five minutes since I had last seen her alive. It hadn't even been a full hour before she was in walking condition. It hadn't even been a full six months since I had met her. I wished I could have known her for longer before she was gone.

I would have continued the thought, but the capsule began to shake violently and I knew I was about to land. I tried my best to see around the flames, and from what I could tell I was headed straight for the middle of the ocean. Great. Slowly, small land formations began to come into my range of vision. I was pretty sure Maria called them islands and isles.

Rapidly, I grew closer and closer, features like trees getting bigger and bigger, until BOOM! I hit an island head-on, losing consciousness on impact.

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I woke up who knows how many hours later, and immediately felt a splitting headache. I tried to grab my head, but then I realized that my hands and feet were pinned down by rubble. I lifted my head slightly and looked around, realizing that I must have hit something on my way down, because none of the Professor's inventions would normally malfunction this much. Then I looked up and saw something that amazed me. Trees towered over me, these giant bushels of green that grew into the sky, and beyond that, endless shades of blue. I had to squint because the sun was so bright, and some kind of animal pack was flying in the sky. Then, just slightly behind a cloud but still visible, I could see the Space Colony ARK, where Maria's body was probably still laying.

A tear ran down my face, but I tried to remain strong, because I needed to get out from under this debris. With a grunt, I pulled my hands free and sat up, beginning to pull the metal off of my legs. It took a minute, but it was times like this that I was really glad to be the Ultimate Life Form. Once getting up and dusting myself off, I began to walk and walk and walk. I wandered aimlessly for hours, without a sense of direction. I just wanted to find some sign of civilization at this point, even if it meant having to face those pathetic humans.

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After a while, I saw something come into the distance. It looked like a giant building of some sort, with security cameras lining the fences and barbed wire shrouding it in mystery. "hmm..." I mumbled to myself, "I guess there could be humans here, but what an odd-looking place..."

Suddenly, I heard an adult male yell, "Hey! There he is!"

Before I could fully understand what was happening, a bunch of humans dressed in GUN outfits came charging toward me. I held up my right hand and a crackling green Chaos Spear solidified, but that only made them pull their guns on me. The Chaos Spear dissipated and faded to nothing in my hand as I looked down at myself, seeing the now ripped and dirty bandages that had been put on me not too long ago for a gunshot wound.

Deciding I didn't want to get shot twice, I asked them, "What do you want from me?"

"We want you dead!" One replied, cocking his gun and aiming it at me again, "You made a bad decision, escaping from the ARK."

"Why? What have I done that was so wrong?"

"You're a threat to humanity!" One yelled, "You're too dangerous!"

"I'm too dangerous? This is coming from the species that overpopulated the earth, killed off many other animals to extinction, and is currently causing global warming, and I'm the dangerous one?" I was getting this completely out of the books that Maria used to read to me. In fact, I knew so much about Earth, just by hanging around her, that I probably knew more than someone who had been living there for a lifetime. Unfortunately, what I didn't realize was that talking to me was just giving another soldier the chance to sneak up behind me and hit me in the head with his gun. "Ugh!" I yelled, falling to the ground, unconscious again.