At Red Base, the Reds watch as the sky literally splits open like a seam, revealing the inside of a room.

Sarge: Double rainbow? What is that?

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

Donut: Repent, repent, the end is here!

Slade: God be merciful to us all! More so to me if possible!

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. Adios.

More tremors happen as the sky splits open further. At Blue Base, Epsilon, Tex, and Rho watch.

Tex: I guess this is it.

Rho: And I never got to say to Travis that he was my brother. The REAL Travis, I mean. And Delta, and Theta....

Epsilon: 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.

Epsilon: 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 o' 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?"

Epsilon: 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.

Epsilon and Rho turn and see Tex has disappeared, leaving the two male AIs alone on the base.

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

Rho: (wraps an arm around Epsilon's shoulders) Whatever happens, you're brother too Epsilon.

All of a sudden, a voice speaks from the void, echoing.

RW Caboose (Real World): It's opening! It's working!

Epsilon: What the fuck was that?

Rho: It sounded like-

Up in the sky, real world Caboose is looking down through the crack.

RW Caboose: U- I see them! I see them, they're in there. They're okay!

The Reds look up at Caboose.

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.

Slade: You mean to tell me that HE is the Creator of everything? .....Okay, the Big Bang is starting to look pretty believable right about now....

Sarge: Well, that's just great. Caboose is God. I guess that makes me the first person in the history of the Universe that doesn't wanna go to Heaven. Hhgh, great job Blue Team. You find a way to make everything suck.

Up in the sky, a giant, real world Sarge is shoving Caboose out of the way.

RW Sarge: What? Let me see, moron. It's just a bunch o' circuits.

RW Caboose: Yeah, but they're glowing. They're 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!

Rho: Holy shit, it's....

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

RW Sarge: Well get 'em outta there.

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

Rho: Speak for yourself!

Epsilon and Rho vanish from inside the memory unit.

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~Flashback to Freelancer~

Carolina stands in front of the leaderboard with her head down and helmet in hand.

Director: Our next phase is ready to begin, Carolina. We will be asking you to do a great, many things.

Carolina: I'm ready, sir.

Director: Some of these things might be... questionable.

Carolina: I'll do whatever it takes. You've given me everything. I would do anything for you.

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Back to the present day, Caboose and Sarge were standing over the memory unit, as Epsilon and Rho appear in six-foot hologram form.

Epsilon: No, no, dammit! Whyhyhy? Why did you do it?

Rho: (looks around) Where are we?

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 Blue. We helped you get your shiny blue buddy out, so that makes us-

Epsilon: What're you doing here?

Caboose: U- saving you. Y-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.

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

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

Grif: (outside) Hey, we're taking fire out here!

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

Sarge: Put you back? Buddy, we just fought through an entire military base to reach you. And now you wanna go back?

Epsilon: YES!

Rho: Oh, quit being such a bitch already!

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

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

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

Rho: New lady?

A door slides open, with a teal figure entering the scene.

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

Epsilon/Rho: Oh no./Oh, fuck.

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.

(AND THAT'S SEASON 9 WRAPPED UP! I MAY OR MAY NOT DO THE MINI SERIES "MIA" and "WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A WALL", COMMENT AND VOTE FOR YES AND NO ON THEM! SEASON 10'S GONNA BE WACKO!)