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Flipped another destiny point from dark to light


Zo's fists make contact with the soldiers' faceplates with a cacophonous noise that startles him and Eldrith as the two armored men fall to the metal sheets of the street. Then, the real cause of the sound becomes apparent: a third explosion, at the spaceport, substantially bigger than the last two, with a mushroom-shaped fireball turning to smoke as it rises into the sky and flames now visible licking into the air. The color of the smoke and flames matches that of burning starship fuel.

Yijz, meanwhile, is shaken by another blast, which causes him to lose his balance and fall back into the dumpster, but the automated lid rises to its open position with him no longer holding it. The dumpster hits the wall of the building again, jarring him. Even from inside of the dumpster, Yijz can see the fireball turning from flame into smoke. On the other side of the wall, inside of the compound, Yijz can then hear a vehicle engine whirring up, not just one of those speeder bikes, and more shouting. They're not shouting for him, though - they have bigger things to worry about right now.

Suddenly, ominously, there are two beeps from the communicators that Eldrith and Yijz, respectively, have...