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Pandora: Fire and Ice (2025)

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Pandora: Fire and Ice (2025)

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Survey 1, conditions

nominal for descent.

You are right on target.

Survey 2, thank you

for mapping the topography.

Course officer Johan,

you're the finest line item

every approved by

MCORP accountants.

Don't feel too bad.

I got the same thing

for launch prep.

I don't know which

red tape is worse,

ours or the government council.

Well, on the upside,

Geo-Recon is reading that

this moon near Saturn

may contain one trillion dollars

in the Neo-Lithium.

Radioactivity detected.

They must not be lying.

They left a backup

supply of plutonium,

enough for mass refueling.

Looks like the rumors of us

getting a new space port

must be true.

Approaching

coordinates 34.4, 198,

vector 70,

Saturn Moon PX1.

It's like deja vu.

What's that, Officer Johan?

34.4, 198, it's...

Ever since we took off,

it's like...

Those coordinates

sound so familiar,

but I just can't place it.

If I remember correctly,

that's from the

training simulator

we used to use years ago.

34.4, 198.

That's right!

But in that simulator,

weren't those the coordinates

for a hypothetical moon

with hostile alien life?

Sure, but I'm sure

they're grabbing

from real coordinates

like this one.

No access to brief in

the orbital perimeter.

Still looking clear,

Survey One.

Oh, so no aliens.

Afraid not.

Touchdown in 300 feet.

200.

And...

Touchdown.

Oh, looks like I got good news.

We got a level 5 reading

on the electromagnetic scan.

Okay.

That does mean our odds

of this rock

having a ton of Neo-lithium

just went up by 5%.

Oh...

Geo-Recon showed our landing

strip as solid rock,

but the ship is listing.

Cyrus, the leveling system says

there's a 1.2 grade increase

in the port-side strut.

Is the ground unstable or

is our strut damaged?

We didn't fly here just

to tip over.

Ground instability negligible.

Strut is optimal.

However, the ship has now

listed 1.3%,

increasing at a rate

of 0.01% per minute.

We should initiate sample

extraction immediately.

If we wait too long,

the anomaly

may become too

hazardous to address.

Thank you, Cyrus. Perform

the extraction immediately.

Cyrus...

In MCORP simulator logs,

what are the coordinates

of the Pandora incident?

Beth, what are you doing?

MCORP forbids use of

the name "Pandora"

in its simulator log.

Gene, the threat example used

in our simulator logs

is identical to Pandora.

I think MCORP leadership

used the same coordinates

in their simulators.

So you think this moon...

Moon PX-1 is actually Pandora?

Mission control would

have told us that.

Not if they

were ordered not to.

Cyrus, what are

PX-1's coordinates?

34.4, 198 vector 70.

Cyrus, as a matter of

historical reference,

what are the coordinates

of the Pandora incident?

As an historical

reference, the incident

occurred at 34.4, 198 vector

70, 100 years ago.

MCORP renamed the moon,

because its pilots

refuse to fly there.

We need to get out of here.

I'm cutting

the extraction short.

Gene, start heading

to Earth now.

Put space between

you and Pandora.

Cyrus, prepare to launch.

Launch sequence initiated.

Beth!

Officer Erin Black.

Report to Hanger 7 for

combat training assessment.

Officer Black,

hanger 7 for assessment.

Hey Black!

Come on, you're up.

Six straight hours of drills

and here she comes

for combat review.

So what do you think, man?

You gonna pass her this time?

No. No way, man.

Morales, this is

her third time.

Hey, Lieutenant,

I heard Nova Force

have strict standards,

but if Erin Black

can't get in,

almost makes me glad

I'm still a combat pilot.

See?

Character and consistency.

Even Quint here knows

hard work when he sees it.

Hey, Lieutenant, so I

gotta head to Hanger 11.

MCORP ship, emergency landing.

Molten plasma

on the outside core.

That doesn't make any sense.

MCORP's port is 6 miles away,

why would they come here?

Yeah, they probably

just melted

through the outer thrust casing.

She broke protocol during

the Battle on Titan, man.

We're Nova Force.

We follow protocol

and obey orders.

If she wants to run fast

and loose, just let her

play with

the regular Space Force.

Did you forget what

she did on Titan, huh?

She was bleeding out.

Still managed

to hold off the enemy.

I know, I know.

While rescuing two of our men.

Hey, hey, hey. You were

one of those two soldiers.

-Don't you forget that.

-That doesn't matter, okay?

Flemming put in lead position

that day instead of her.

That militia would have been

dealt with in five minutes.

You know, you

keep saying that.

Do you realize the reason

she broke formation

was to draw

fire away from us?

We both know exactly why

she even made Nova Force

in the first place, okay?

Her grandfather is Greg Black.

She keeps making

waves to the DoD, man,

over upgrading

our bioweapons defense.

Just let her go back

to research, man.

She's one of the

best in the world.

No, no, no, no.

She is the best in the world.

The best.

And yet she still chose

to come back here

and go into combat with us.

Okay, sure.

But she even modified

some of the inflight

drones on her ships

because she thought

they weren't good enough?

I mean, come on, man.

Those drones are some of

the best that we've ever had.

Look, Morales, Flemming is

going to approve her,

and unless she does

something really, really sloppy

or messes up bad, so am I.

She makes waves, man.

This is her third and

last chance at readmittance.

If she doesn't make

it this time, she is done.

Fine.

If she gets close

to beating Flemming

in hand-to-hand combat,

she has my vote. Okay?

All right.

I'm gonna hold you to that.

Help me with this sh*t.

Woo!

And that completes

our third review.

Excuse me, sir. Is this some

device from the medical team?

It's called a flash drive, sir.

It's also called contraband.

It was willed to me

by my grandfather. I--

I wear it for good luck.

Keep it in the safe

in your barracks then.

We've had enough trouble today.

Quint from Hangar 11

told me an MCORP pilot

just received an

unknown three-pulse signal

from Saturn Moon PX1

after landing here.

I guess your reflexes

are intact.

Lieutenant, what's

your assessment?

Per S.O.P., they need

both my vote and yours.

Officer Black,

you were bleeding out

on Titan under hellfire

from a rogue planetary nation.

We all saw what

you did that day.

Seems like you recovered

from your injuries as well.

So for me it's

an absolute yes, sir.

That makes two of us.

Morales?

Morales?

No.

Lieutenant, why is that?

She broke protocol,

got herself injured, along--

They had us

pinned down, Morales.

I had to draw them away.

If I didn't, then every

single person on that fleet

would have been dead.

We all know exactly

why she was even put on

Nova Force in the first place.

Morales, stand down.

Officer Black, continue.

If you think that

I was fast tracked

because my grandfather

is Gregory Black, fine.

I don't care.

But I don't think any of

this is about protocol.

What is it then?

I think it's because

I bothered the DoD so much

about our bioweapons defense

that you think

it'll hurt your career.

Officer Black,

Lieutenant Dean here

is Nova Force's top

bioweapons specialist, okay?

With plenty of years

under his--

Hey, hey, hey.

She is the best, Morales.

You know that.

I could have lived

a cushy life as a contractor.

Instead, I joined Nova Force

because I saw where

things were heading.

The DoD is acting like Pandora

could never happen again.

And somebody needs

to press them about

upgrading

their bioweapons defense.

It can't just be about

fighting rogue nations.

No matter what you

think of me,

I will always think of you

and the rest of Nova Force,

my brothers.

Nothing that you can say

will ever change that.

That's not incoming.

That's a code green alarm.

Wait. We're being hit

by a biological attack?

Nova Force, that's a code green.

Let's go.

-Let's go.

-Let's move.

Lieutenant, this pilot

refused decompression and

started waving that g*n around.

Hey, Gene, Gene.

Easy, easy.

Why don't you just

put the g*n down?

-No!

-Get back! Get back!

No!

Get a rapid-seal body

bag and tranquilizer.

Get him to alpha-level

quarantine now!

On it.

No!

Oh my God!

One load should

have put him down!

Hit him again!

Again, hit him again!

-Hit him again!

-Come on. Get down!

Down!

We have to get

him to quarantine before

he suffocates inside that bag.

Okay, let's do it now.

Black, give the order.

All units, all units.

All personnel are in lockdown.

MPs are to proceed

in hazmat protocol.

Immediate arrest of any officers

displaying erratic behavior.

One, two, three.

All right, Black,

let's take him to med bay.

If we see any more infected,

I say we hit him

with cyto-propofol.

No. If there are

others infected,

let's have EMTs hit

them with two doses of

gamma-thorazine and

take them to quarantine bay.

Copy that.

Okay. His vitals are clear.

The source of

that three-pulse signal

is definitely not pulmonary.

-Any signs of nanotech?

-Negative.

General Watts.

Captain Flemming.

We received an alert

of an advanced bioweapon

attack at Space Force

in New Mexico.

Do we have a lead on what

it is and who's responsible?

Potentially, yes, but we need

to confirm the structure and

biomechanics of this before

we begin countermeasures.

We do have some intel though.

A three-pulse energy

signature from PX1

and from this

individual officer, sir.

General, Flight

Officer Quint also

reported a molten substance

on the outside of his ship.

- ETA?

- An hour, sir.

For a prelim. No, sir.

Fifteen minutes

and then I'll have some leads.

Then we can determine

scale of response.

But for now it seems like

it's confined to this base.

Well, we've been in touch

with the MCORP CEO, Ian Mather.

He confirmed one of the two

mining ships went missing.

The pilot who landed

at your base

never reported the issue.

Mather is en route now from

New York to help provide intel.

General, if he

could provide us with

a complete elemental

index of PX1,

it'll help us to determine

the organism's weakness

and if that substance

on the hull

of his ship was organic.

-I'll make sure he does.

-Thank you.

We're syncing the MCORP

data cloud with ours

as a precaution to get

real time exchange.

You'll see enhanced tech in

your space flight display.

We just received

word that the pilot,

he was communicating clearly

during his return from PX1,

but he gave no indication

there was a problem.

He managed to convince

your tower

he needed an emergency landing.

Copy that, sir.

Do any of our

bioweapon think tanks

at Beijing, Oxford,

or MIT have any leads?

Yes. They told me all I needed

was to consult with Erin Black.

Proceed, Captain.

Wait. MCORP ships run on

a nuclear drive like ours.

He could have

crash landed here

and blown this whole

place to dust.

Yeah, but he didn't.

He went out of his way to

encounter us face to face.

He's coding!

Clear the scanner.

Morales, defibrillate.

Clear.

No response.

We got it back.

I apologize, Officer Black.

I should have put you back

on the team immediately.

We're all good.

I've got your six.

Fifteen minutes.

How is that possible?

It's about access points.

A bioweapon is like a ship.

If you can't sever

the fuel line,

sever the power line.

If the power line is sealed,

cut the steering column.

What did we get?

The residue in this

g*n looks like it has

traces of crypto-cytosine

fulgurite and some neo-lithium.

So whatever's on that g*n had

to be some superheated plasma.

Fulgurite only occurs

when lightning strikes.

And a plasma carrying

an electric pulse like

this one is consistent with

an electrically charged bubble.

-Like-- like a lightning ball.

-Mm-hmm.

We had a cargo ship that

was struck by lightning once.

The charge literally

turned the air

into a floating molten blob,

and blew out

the end of the hull.

That's right. And that tracks

with the burn on his hand

and the molten substance

on the hull of his ship.

Mm-hmm.

But that also means it

could travel as an aerosol.

Wait. That means there's

a chance we're all infected.

If it's aerosolized, yes.

But there's a separate

neural signal

out of phase with Morris's.

It's-- it's tapped into

his nervous system.

That tracks with a charged

particle, but a unique one.

One that can transmit

information electrically.

Crypto-cytosine is

a rare proto-form.

Okay. Give me the worst

case rapid-spread scenario.

The DoD needs to be ready.

We need to evacuate all

humans in a six-mile area.

After that,

it becomes a statewide

then nationwide emergency.

That may not be enough.

I mean, the only other time

that a life form possessed

a crypto-cytosine base

was from the Pandora incident.

Yeah, but that

doesn't make any sense

because cytosine is a protein

that is in most

species on Earth.

No. Crypto-cytosine.

It's the base of life forms

with a decentralized

consciousness,

or a mind that lives

among multiple bodies.

Like the life form from Pandora.

Gene...

Morris deceived us to land here.

MCORP pilots have

spotless records.

And he, or it, rather,

wanted to infect

the nearest military base

and weaken our defenses first.

I am starting to think that PX1

used to go by a different name.

Well, then we do what

your grandfather did.

We hit it with massive

doses of sodium chloride.

Wait. You're okay, Gene.

You have awakened us.

-Soon you will be defenseless.

-It's locked!

Our power grows,

and you will see how

it turns your world

to fire and ashes.

Soon you will see.

Soon you...

He's gone.

Level 9! Level 9!

Scramble all fleets!

Incoming North/Northeast!

UAPs inbound!

Let's go.

Let's get to the tarmac.

Scramble the fighters.

We'll hit the armory

on the way out.

We need high-capacity r*fles

and grenades to atomize

any other plasma spheres.

Go, go!

Black, get to the ship!

Use it to take out

as many as you can.

Okay.

You two, with me, let's go.

Ah!

Morales!

Get up, soldier.

Come on, get up.

Make sure the squad

hasn't taken off yet.

They'll be wheels up

in less than a minute.

Hey. Incoming!

-I'm out of a*mo!

-Keep firing.

I'm out.

Zero damage.

Let's hit it with grenades!

Three, two, one!

Damn it.

Oh. Let's go, let's go!

Move it!

Launch sequence initiated.

Okay.

Here we go.

Black, we're out of a*mo!

Get to launch pad west, now!

Okay. I'm on my way.

Lieutenant Briggs,

what's the status report on

our Space Force in New Mexico?

We've lost all contact, sir.

Their last transmission

reported flaming spheres

with lethal force attacking

their grounded spacecraft.

Satellites show one launch pad

remaining on the western side.

General Watts,

our laser a*tillery

is tracking

an unidentified craft

at 100,000 feet,

40 degrees northwest

and descending rapidly

on the Septagon.

Has our reconnaissance

craft made contact?

Yes, sir. They're identical

to the ones in New Mexico.

They just fired on our craft.

Okay, prioritize neutralizing

objects below the mesosphere.

If we don't erase this threat,

D.C. will be next.

Yes, sir.

Orbital intel, render all

objects below 200,000 feet.

General, lidar volumetrics

show that the objects

have almost no mass,

but carry a powerful

electrical charge.

Set the laser cannons

to full capacity.

Scramble all assets

in New Mexico

to defend the

Space Force base, now.

-Yes, sir.

-Sir, incoming.

30,000 feet headed

directly to us.

Fifty objects, tight formations,

spherical shape and

extremely bright signatures.

Open fire!

Maximum power!

Engage!

Zone 2, Delta 1-9, and...

Fire.

Direct hits for 4, 9, 20.

Every k*ll accounted for, sir.

We got all of them.

Good deal.

Hit it. Hit it.

Flemming, I just encountered

a massive power fluctuation.

Do you have any visual on

what could have caused it?

The com on my

uniform almost blew out.

No visual.

Black, they're closing in!

You gotta be quick!

Kira, what was

that power surge?

European alliance reports

they tracked a powerful

radio signal

from coordinates

34.4, 198, Vector 70,

near Saturn, directly

to Space Force New Mexico.

That can't be right.

Those are coordinates

for the moon Pandora.

That moon is a no-fly zone.

Negative, sir.

They're coordinates to PX1.

That surge nearly took down

all of our power grids.

Our testing with MCORP

data cloud showed it would

accelerate our capacity,

not slow it down.

Is our sync to MCORP data

cloud holding?

Yes, sir.

The data is consistent.

PX1 was the departure

point of the MCORP ship

that landed in New Mexico today.

Something's off.

Make sure there

are no disruptions

to communication

to our forces in the field.

And compare those coordinates

to Pandora's.

Sir, EU's orbital

observatories

report unusual activity

on PX1's surface.

A protrusion has emerged

on the solar facing side.

What is Ian Mather's ETA?

His drone just

touched down, sir.

He says him and his team

are streaming

a diagnostic of PX1

as we speak.

Sir, New Delhi reports

spherical objects entering

the atmosphere like the ones

in New Mexico today.

We also have sightings in

Egypt, Tokyo, and Reykjavik.

This is a global threat now.

Sir, should we pull back

to Doomsday Bunker Zero?

No. Retreating to the bunker

is our very last resort.

Briggs, a Level 5

Doomsday protocol.

We remain here fighting

until we have no choice.

For now, you tell them

evac the President to

the bunker as a precaution.

Come on, let's go!

There's one trying

to engulf the ship.

It's literally eating

through the windshield.

Come on!

Find a way to repel it.

The de-icing agent,

it has sodium chloride in it.

sh**t. No effect.

They're closing in on us!

I'm gonna override the de-icing

pump to explode the container.

Windshield's clear.

I see you.

General Watts, apologies.

My flight was, to say

the least, harrowing.

Our bioweapons specialist

is pinned down under

heavy fire in New Mexico.

I'm sorry to hear that.

We streamed in the real-time

diagnostics for you, sir.

And there are glitches in

the data sync that did not occur

when you and I

visited there last week.

Sir, an additional swarm

of orbs

just joined the others

in the airspace.

Copy, Lieutenant Kira.

Have the Pacific

Carriers scramble

added air support immediately.

My team will run a trace.

We'll correct those glitches

immediately, General.

Look. The EU's orbital

observatories

report swelling

on PX1's solar side.

That was moments after

a powerful radio signal

transmitted from PX1

to a New Mexico base.

We haven't encountered

anything like that

in our mining operations.

Sir, all nuclear

capable countries

are requesting

we coordinate a nuclear strike.

On the ground or in orbit?

On PX1, sir.

Sir, before you consider

a nuclear strike,

I'd like to show you

our topology report.

Go ahead.

Bring it up.

So, right now the protrusion

has a base

of five square miles and

an elevation of 1600 meters.

And it's expanding at a rate

of 120 cubic meters per hour.

So pressure is building

up inside of the mass.

Exactly. And it's pointing

directly at Earth.

So we don't know what a nuclear

expl*si*n might trigger.

Briggs, tell them

to hold their fire.

There may be catastrophic

collateral damage.

Yes, sir.

-Kira.

-Sir.

Kira, direct all

Nova forecast craft

from our other

bases to a position

above PX1, escorted by

half the Space Force, okay?

Have them use their

cloaking devices.

But before they depart,

have commandos bring the

Septagon's biolab equipment

to the lead ship.

Yes, sir.

I suspect Erin Black

will need it.

Show me the element profile.

We have conducted

a comprehensive

element profile free

of the data cloud, sir.

And that should be

transmitted momentarily

to all military units.

Okay, what's the status of

our signal to the Armed Forces?

The electrical surge disrupted

the data cloud to all units.

Army, Air Force and Navy

are back online,

but we're still working

on Space Force, sir.

Get it done.

We need Erin Black's input.

Better late than never, Black.

Did you think

I'd leave you behind?

Let's go, Captain.

I'm opening the underside hatch.

The hatch is damaged.

It's not opening all the way!

I'm revving the servos,

but they won't budge.

I think I can see

the manual override. Stand by.

Go.

Come on!

Come on, come on.

Okay.

The servos are shorting out.

You're gonna have to hold

it open to get them inside.

Morales, let's go.

It's not opening.

Go. I'll cover you.

Get up there.

We've been hit.

I'm trying to hold it steady,

but you might have to jump.

-Dean, let's go!

-Dean, come on!

-Come on, Dean.

-Dean, run.

-Jump! Come on. You got this.

-Let's go. Let's go. Move it.

Come on.

Ah!

Let's go! Run!

-Come on!

-Come on!

Come on.

Go!

-Let's go!

-Dean, come on!

Come on!

Ah!

No, Dean! Dean!

No, Dean!

Black. Come in.

Flemming.

Get us outta here.

No!

You'll get the rest

of us k*lled!

Hey, keep it shut!

No! I could have

saved him, Captain.

I know, soldier.

I know. I know.

I could've saved him.

It's okay.

It's okay.

Hey. Nova Force.

Hey, hey!

We don't stop.

We don't surrender.

We don't quit. Right?

Say it back.

We don't stop. We don't--

We don't surrender, and we--

We don't quit.

That's right.

That's right.

Captain, what's the status

on the evac?

We lost Dean.

Oh my God.

I'm so sorry.

We don't quit, Black.

We don't surrender.

We don't stop.

Hey.

I have a dispatch alert.

General Watts,

go for Erin Black.

Officer Black, I see the base

is taking heavy casualties.

It's a relief

to see you airborne.

What's the status update?

General, this life

form is nearly identical

to the one from

the Pandora incident.

However, this time

sodium chloride seems

to have no effect.

We do have some

tactical intel, however.

The MCORP pilot warned

of a growing force

that they were going to

use to blow up the Earth.

He also mentioned

that they were going

to render us defenseless

before that happens.

If this enemy is as

sentient as you described,

then their strategy is clear.

They say break our defenses

so we're helpless

against a larger weapon.

That's all there is to it.

Hello, Officer Black,

this is Ian Mather of MCORP.

Can you tell me

how this lifeform

is almost identical

to Pandora's?

Yeah. It has

a crypto-cytosine base,

but this is an evolved variant.

I need time to figure

out its weakness.

Officer Black,

the situation has escalated

exponentially since

the attack began.

It is now worldwide.

Our latest intel may shed some

light on the pilot's warning.

His warning was there's

a dangerous anomaly

forming on the surface

of that moon.

Something that could pose

a threat to the Earth. Ian?

You should see it on

your flight consoles now.

It's a pressurized mass

underneath the surface,

really like a volcano.

I see its element profile here,

but it certainly isn't magma.

This is an organic composition

matching the composition

that infected the pilot

and the same one

from the Pandora incident.

This isn't a volcano, General.

It's forming a giant

fully conscious spore.

I'm sorry. I--

General, my ship's system

is malfunctioning.

Negative. Our sync with

MCORP data cloud was

delayed by the power surge,

but it's now complete.

Hello, Officer Black,

General Watts.

Oh, that's Cyrus.

That's our AI.

Part of Space Force Systems now.

It does everything.

Navigation, threat matrices,

even the ship's repair drone.

Well, we generally

reserve network wide AIs

for unmanned combat crafts,

but thank you.

Cyrus, I need a projected

completion time for a bioweapon

that will wipe out all

traces of this life form.

Given the element

profile and your expertise,

in ideal conditions, it should

take precisely four hours.

Four hours, okay.

We could be to Saturn

in 30 minutes

given our nuclear engines.

We could save half an hour

if we do it while we drive.

Cyrus, how much energy

is stored in this anomaly?

12 million megatons,

with surface elasticity

of 92 giga-pascals.

General, MCORP shows

the spore expanding

at 120 cubic meters per hour.

At that rate,

it will erupt in three hours.

And when it does,

it will fire

a superheated membrane

at the Earth.

A membrane?

What will it do?

Suffocate us.

Eat us.

Basically k*ll us all.

This membrane?

It's all one organism.

One hungry alien.

Can we attack from the air?

Every part of this is sentient.

Even the spores.

Come on, that's impossible.

So if we attempt

an orbital strike,

the spore might erupt at

the Earth in self defense?

Am I right about that?

I think that's correct.

And once we reach PX1,

a swarm of plasma spheres

will very likely attack

us if we're detected.

This bioweapon needs

to be delivered

in a stealth mission

on the ground.

And you're certain of this?

Because our fastest option

is to strike from the Earth

or from the moon's orbit.

If we learned anything from what

happened before on Pandora,

we know that this lifeforce

will defend itself

with every part of its being.

But its interconnectedness

is both a strength

and its greatest weakness.

Right now,

it's putting the majority

of its energy into that spore.

You're making a really

big assumption here.

So if you destroy that spore,

then you destroy the rest

of the life form,

no matter where it is.

Am I right about that?

Yeah. My grandfather

did it before, General.

I can do it again.

A covert ground

strike it is then.

Officer Black, do whatever

you have to do

to develop your bioweapon.

The Nova Force fleet was ordered

to make a cloaked approach

to evade detection.

The Septagon's bioweapons will

also be there when you arrive.

MCORP also has a stash

of plutonium substrate

left over if you need any

additional fuel, okay?

We'll send a team to the

surface ahead of your arrival

to shield

you at all costs.

-Are you with me?

-Yes.

General Watts,

Officer Black, I am telling you,

do not neutralize that spore.

This is a living volcano

about to spray

a planet-sized amoeba

that will destroy the Earth.

What is wrong with you?

Sir, four surviving

Nova Force craft

and 380 Space Force

just arrived,

cloaked in orbit inside of

a debris field near PX1.

Okay, good. What about the rest

of Space Force defending Earth?

We lost 61 percent

our fleet, sir.

General, I compared

coordinates for PX1

and Pandora multiple times.

PX1's coordinates and

Pandora's are identical,

but Pandora has been scrubbed

from the system, sir.

Why has Pandora been replaced

by a moon called PX1?

General, do not attempt to

destroy anything on that moon.

I'm telling you.

Mr. Mather,

we are detaining you in

the doomsday bunker right now.

Get him out of here.

-Why? For trying to save--

-Get him out of here.

General!

Erin Black, you have three hours

and the DoD's full resources

to reach Pandora and

destroy this enemy

without triggering the spores

expl*si*n in the process.

Earth's survival depends on it.

The wounds are.

superficial.

No harm to arteries,

internal organs.

Captain, I told you,

it's just shrapnel.

The sphere exploded, making

contact with the shrapnel.

The shrapnel pierced your skin

so you could be infected,

and we just don't know it.

But thankfully you're not

displaying any outward symptoms.

Secure your suit

and put your helmet on

to limit our exposure,

okay?

Cyrus, what's our

damage assessment?

Payload remaining,

40 percent. Fuel, 89 percent.

Damaged underside hatch

with a minor leak.

We are losing O2 at a rate

of .4 psi per minute.

There is also a small breach

in the proton filtration line

in the c*ck.

Release the repair drone

and have it seal the door,

and then have it seal

the filtration line.

That drone is not accessible

to me, Officer Black.

It has been modified and

now considered contraband.

Cyrus, direct all

reserve power to

hold the door closed

as tightly as possible.

Directing reserve power.

We better check

that filtration line.

We're messing with some

highly radioactive stuff.

There's a Geiger counter

in the slot

on the left side of the drone.

-Will you hand it to me?

-Mm-hmm.

Thank you.

80 cpm. Radioactive,

but nothing that'll hurt us.

So you modified another

in-flight drone.

That's why the AI

didn't recognize it.

No, it doesn't recognize

it because I was forced

to use old spare parts.

But I did add

a new Geiger counter

and a pathogen detector, so--

That's impressive, Black.

Captain, can you place

this sample inside

the temperature-controlled

compartment on the side?

You can press the red button,

it'll give reading.

Okay.

I think there's

already one in here.

Oh, let me see.

That slime mold is destroyed.

I should have

updated my specimens.

Looks just like a dead leaf.

-Should we just throw it out?

-No. No, don't waste it.

Captain, can you put in

the other specimen port?

Mm-hmm.

I still don't get it.

So, on the initial

incident on Pandora,

this thing controlled water.

Right?

Now it controls fire.

So are we dealing with a

completely different life form?

Not exactly.

Here, watch this.

See that? Bubbles in water.

That's gas trapped

inside liquid.

A simple membrane of sorts.

But now watch this.

See, it's not just a membrane.

It's alive. Self healing.

And inside this

membrane, plasma.

An energized bubble of matter,

normally wild and

uncontrollable, is held stable,

exhibiting unprecedented

level of confinement

unlike anything we've ever seen.

It's like a living

trap for fire.

Exactly.

Both the water-controlling life

and the fire-controlling life

use this membrane.

A living container built on

that same crypto-cytosine base.

It adapts to whole

different states.

Gas bubbles in water,

plasma bubbles in air,

but it's basically

the same principle.

So it's not the element

that defines the life form,

it's the membrane

controlling it.

Right. The membrane

is the key.

That's what lets these creatures

survive and manipulate

radically different forces,

because it's alive.

It's flexible and powerful.

T-minus six minutes.

I thought I said in the

safe in the barracks, Black.

When on earth would

I have been able to do that?

Anything we could use on it?

No. I just wish

I could access it.

It's a century old.

I've taken it to multiple tech

departments over the years

and no one can read it.

Command's coordinates

have the fleet staged

in the debris field inside

Saturn's outermost ring.

Okay. We have two hours

and 29 minutes

before the spore explodes.

Any progress on the weapon?

Possibly, but I can't

test any hypotheses

until we're on the bio lab

at the Nova Force Base.

I do know we're going to

need to deliver it

close range on the surface,

leaving almost no

margin for error.

But if we pierce it, wouldn't

that just cause an eruption?

It will, but the

bioweapon will disperse it

instead of the spore

preemptively exploding at us.

And the blast radius should

only be about a half mile or so.

So once we fire the m*ssile--

We are going to need

to evac instantly.

-Roger that.

-Mm-hmm.

Then that's

what'll happen, then.

Sooner it's done,

the sooner we can go home.

My sister's due any day now

and I want

to meet my new nephew.

No way, Captain.

Soon we're gonna have to

call you Uncle Flemming.

Yeah, I got a son and

daughter back home.

Okay, hold on.

How is this the first time

I'm hearing about this?

Officer Black, what about you?

I want this bioweapon finished.

Hey, Black, I'm curious.

Why did you want to

join Nova Force so badly?

My grandfather wanted to join,

but he was k*lled.

My mother used to always quote

him when I was growing up.

"Don't judge surface appearance

unless it's a protein."

He and my mom wanted to make

Nova Force more than anything,

but they were k*lled in

battle after I was born.

So I thought maybe

I'd be the one, you know?

Yeah. Yeah, I know.

-I got your six, Black.

-Thank you.

Okay, we're about

to join the fleet.

I'm going to send

a non-euclidean post

to the Septagon

confirming our arrival.

It's non-radio signal,

so it should just be read

as background noise

for the enemy.

Cyrus, can you give me

a summary of Nova Force

in orbit near Pandora?

There are three craft

from D .C.

Destroyer 21 is in orbit

with two Nova Force aboard.

Destroyer 4 has already

landed on the surface

carrying three Nova Force

and Septagon's bioweapons lab.

Okay. So we're down

from 30 Nova Force to eight.

That means we lost five in D.C.,

seven in New Mexico, ten in--

I guess God knows where.

At least we still have--

We still have expl*sive ops,

plasma, infantry and bioweapons.

Hopefully.

T-minus five minutes

to PX1 orbital zone.

Cyrus, initiate cloaking device.

Electromagnetic and

thermal exhaust, silent.

Ambient radiation, silent,

and retrograde

thrusters 20 percent.

20 percent, copy.

And entering the debris field.

Okay. I'm pinging

the Septagon now.

Non-euclidean transmission

and initiating

cloaked communication.

Destroyer 21,

this is Captain Flemming.

Come in 21.

Destroyer 21, this

is Captain Flemming.

Come in 21.

Is the pulse blocking

your communication?

Incoming message from

Captain Grieger,

21, Nova Force.

He says "welcome to the party."

Grieger, any new intel

from the DoD?

He says forces

from the other countries

have been wiped out.

Either that or they mutinied.

It's just us now, Captain.

Mm-hmm. What about the

situation on the ground?

He says Nova Force commandos

are on the surface,

maximum stealth,

two miles east of the target.

So, if we wanna

defuse this b*mb

bioweapons is tip of the spear.

Well, Officer Erin Black

will be joining the rest

of us on the team.

He says, "Also check out

what's casing us port side,

83 degrees, negative Y."

No way, Captain.

They're waiting for us.

They're literally

guarding the perimeter.

Normally,

I'd say just go for it

with the amount of

firepower we have,

but after what we just

dealt with on Earth,

and with the team so

vulnerable down there,

I don't want to provoke

another attack.

Paris has fallen, sir.

Tokyo has fallen.

Berlin has fallen.

No response from

Moscow or Mexico City.

Briggs, can you establish

an independent firewall

in the sync

between MCORP's intel stream

and our own?

Negative, sir.

MCORP has orbital satellites

throughout the solar system.

If we put up

a firewall screening,

their intel will

slow our reaction.

Don't put up a firewall.

Not yet.

Time remaining for eruption?

Two hours, 18 minutes, sir.

I made the mistake of

sacrificing accuracy

for efficiency, Lieutenant.

Trust for verification.

Yes, sir.

We use their satellites

but in the meantime,

keep scanning MCORP's entire

network for inconsistencies.

There's bound to be many.

You're gonna be traveling

fast and light.

These contain shrapnel grenades

and EMP pulse charges.

Both of these can be fired long

distance with a propulsion g*n.

Captain, these are

all fully loaded.

Message from

Captain Grieger.

Something's coming up

from the moon, and it's big.

It has metallic coating.

It's looking for us.

The entire fleet

arrived cloaked.

Transmissions, exteriors,

networking, everything.

Well, then...

something made

it start searching.

It opened fire!

Evasive maneuvers!

They're anticipating

our every move.

Something's wrong.

Officer Black,

our ship must be destroyed.

Grab your helmets

and give me a hand.

Doesn't that operate the hatch?

Yep. Hold on to these.

Officer Black, there is

nothing you can do to stop us.

Why didn't that work?

Officer Black, you cannot

override the system--

What are you doing?

Hold on to something.

Sorry, Cyrus.

We'll clean this up later.

Captain, most of

the fleet's gone.

The rest are just covered in

those orbs, controlled by them.

We're the last ones left.

No, we still have

a team on the surface.

They were ordered to

execute stealth protocol.

The ship's probably

powered down.

I don't think they're gonna

move until we get there.

Black, good call on taking

the AI offline

and powering down the ship.

They're gonna find

us again, though.

Eventually.

Yeah. I also don't

like the fact

we're starting to burn

through oxygen so early.

That organism took control of

Morris's electrochemistry,

and now it took control of

our electrical network.

But how do we know

that it wasn't

Mather's AI Programming

that took control of the ship

and that instead,

it was the organism?

His entire livelihood depends

on Earth still existing.

So, regardless, we need to

keep that AI powered down.

And our job gets a lot

harder if we don't make it

to that bioweapons lab.

Okay, we need to know

how it detected our fleet.

You said its consciousness

is decentralized.

But if someone's

nervous system

is infected by the enemy,

does it know what

the infected person knows?

Yes.

Yeah, that's what happened

on the Pandora incident,

and with Morris.

It tapped into his knowledge

of our protocol

to convince the tower

to let him land.

But Morris was patient zero.

And the only people to deal

with him were us and Quint.

And he was k*lled.

So then there's

a chance that one of us

is still infected

with nanoparticles

that's drawing

the organism to us.

-Morales.

-Don't look at me like that.

My pupils look

nothing like his.

Yeah, but we have no idea

how long this organism

takes to infect

the nervous system.

But-- no.

No outward symptoms.

What's the ETA on the eruption?

One hour and 58 minutes.

Until what?

Well, until containment fails

and that organism

either explodes

or it triggers the event.

-Eruptions and earthquakes?

-All of it.

End of our world.

End of the Earth.

Okay.

So we can't stay here.

Those spheres will

find us eventually.

We can't do a

crash landing

because it's just going

to k*ll us on impact.

Pandora's gravity

is only about

80 percent of Earth's moon.

So crash landing is

a better option than falling

and only protected

by spacesuits.

It's the better of

two bad options.

We need a third option.

I mean, this ship is full of

trace organics, fuel, missiles.

Officer Black, if you're

thinking about

attacking from up here

with purely analog weapons,

we're gonna be dead in no time.

No, no, no, not at all.

But if we are

stranded up here

and we can't get down there,

we need to

figure out something to do,

anything, to either stop

that thing

or at least slow it down.

And I still don't like that

we're burning

the oxygen in our suits.

Yeah.

-I'm at 84 percent.

Good.

My grandfather knew

what something like this

was made of and

how to destroy it.

I mean, he k*lled it with

something as simple

as sodium chloride,

table salt.

They're still patrolling.

We're just a floating piece

of debris for them now,

but we're gonna have

to keep it that way.

I thought you used

a saline solution earlier.

The deicing agent from the ship

that had zero effect.

Yeah, but I think

that whatever we use

to destroy this could

be just as simple.

Uh-huh.

The only way to access

that drive

is to have it interface

with other technology.

Morales, there's

absolutely no way

we are turning that AI back on.

It literally just steered us

directly into enemy fire.

I understand, but that

technology is the only way

we can access that drive.

We're in a firefight

on the edge of a cliff,

and the only thing we can

do is fight or jump.

What's the ETA on the eruption?

One hour, 42 minutes, sir.

Sir, we lost all communication

to Space Force Fleet.

Our observatory reports

radio silence

from our surface team

and Erin Black's team.

All right, Kira,

get me a diagnostic.

I can't, sir.

The entire system is

flooded with broken code.

Sir, the malevolent code

is locking the system

and taking over portions

of our network.

It could completely paralyze

our operations, sir.

General Watts,

you have awakened us.

You should not have

awakened us.

Our main ventilation. Sir, the

enemy redirected our exhaust

from the building's

power plant down

into our primary air supply.

Kira, k*ll the circuit

in the command center.

Literally cut the wire!

The box just locked itself

in high security mode.

Do not attempt to interfere.

Soon your world will be blown

to fire and ash.

Here, pry it open with this.

Kira, cover these vents.

You have awakened us.

You should not

have awakened us.

Sir, we're cut off from all

global communication now.

All other systems are

still under Cyrus's control.

No, the base isn't

under the AI's control.

The AI is under

life form's control.

Sir, we could

isolate communications

via analog signal.

I can go to the tech storage

and retrieve old ham radios.

I believe that tech R&D

modified them.

Do it.

In the meantime,

let's devise a way to

access our database

without dealing with the AI.

Briggs, shut down that tablet.

Sir, look at this.

The system on my

tablet is still intact.

No glitches, no broken code.

It must have tapped out of

our network without a problem.

Or something kept it from

being compromised.

-Did you modify it?

-No, sir.

I had that smoke

detector on top of it.

Okay. Crack open

the smoke detector.

See if there's any insulating

material in there we can use,

something that

repelled the attack.

I don't think our radio signals

were enough to draw them here.

Something's off.

Morales.

What? You still

think I'm infected?

We had a full fleet

that arrived untouched

and cloaked!

They were using basic

contact for hours!

Soon as we arrive,

we have one person

who has an open wound

from the enemy.

-That's you.

-But look at my pupils!

Guys, we are literally

in a floating coffin

if we do not evac

this ship now.

How strong is

the drone's propulsion?

Not strong enough to get

us all the way down,

but if we get closer,

it could break our fall.

So to get closer, we just pop

a fuel cell and light it up.

It'll push us in

the right direction, right?

No, that is way too risky.

It will spray fuel all over

the ship and blow us up.

Flemming's right. We need

to get out of here fast.

We need a strong propulsion.

Wait.

Cyrus reported that we had

40 percent

of our payload left, right?

Uh-huh.

So what about

the ship's missiles?

We can't use them to fire

on the spheres, okay?

Without them,

we're just locked in place.

Wait, wait.

Guys, guys.

We're facing dead center

at the moon.

We can use the missiles to

propel us a bit closer

and then bail out the side

before impact.

We'll be there in 30 seconds.

Captain?

-Captain?

-Grab the drone.

Let's get to

the m*ssile chamber.

There's a firing pin

that triggers the ignition.

We need to remove the safety

and release them all at once.

Or else the ship is gonna

spin out of control.

-Ready?

-Ready.

Okay. Three, Two...

Pop the hatch.

Okay. Wait for

the next rotation.

There it is!

Go!

Black?

Black!

Black, Black, Black.

Hey, hey, hey.

Hey, look at me.

Look at me, Black.

Hey!

Hey.

Hey, come on, look at me.

We gotta get Flemming.

Come on, get up.

Why is your hand shaking?

Hey, don't worry about it, okay?

I'm fine, I'm fine.

Are you, you good?

How's the head injury?

Look at me.

As long as I do not

throw up in my helmet,

I'm going to be okay.

I've been knocked out before.

Combat training?

No, some guy in a bar,

goofy looking like you.

Give me a hand.

Yeah.

Come on. You're fine.

Ooh... Okay.

How much time do we have?

One hour and 17 minutes.

Ugh... I think they're gone.

All right. Come on, Black.

Flemming, on three.

You ready? One, two, three.

Again, again, again.

One, two, three.

I'm going back on ship.

I'm getting a welding torch.

No. This thing could

explode at any moment.

We gotta get him out of here.

No. I already lost Dean.

I'm not losing Flemming.

We gotta take that

damn thing out

before it gets possessed

like our ship.

No, no, no.

Do you remember what Cyrus said?

It couldn't read it because

it saw it as contraband.

So the drone is safe, I think.

Plus this thing

has a cutting torch.

Oh, God. I'm sorry

I doubted you, Black.

You should be.

Wow, Black.

This place is actually

kind of beautiful.

I mean, despite

our current situation.

Yeah. Imagine what it

must have looked like

before the mining company

started clear cutting.

Yeah.

Damage assessment?

We got a cracked camera lens.

The radio messaging

system shorted out,

but other than that,

we are all good.

This thing is remotely operated,

but we can't risk

them seeing us.

So we might as well put

the information in manually.

Doesn't even matter, Black.

Sooner or later

those things

are gonna find our

burning ship, and then us.

You armed it too?

Just in case of emergencies.

God, why did I doubt you, Black?

I'm gonna check your suit

for any damage.

It's self-healing.

It's nanopolymer.

Oh--

I think my ribs are broken.

I think it's

a compound fracture.

Hold on.

I'm gonna give you a

full dose of this, okay?

Zonoepinephrine.

Looks like Uncle Flemming won't

be feeling anything for a month.

Where's our

search-and-rescue detail?

That's a good point.

A fleet of Nova Force commandos

should have met us

when we crashed.

Captain Grieger reported...

...that they landed two

miles east of the target.

The dried up riverbed

runs east to west

so if we follow

that we should be able

to find their landing zone.

Let's go.

Look, there's a part

of the destroyer.

Where's the rest of it?

You remember those

new metallic looking orbs

-that shot up from Pandora?

-Mm-hmm.

You think it's possible

that they--

That they, like, melted

down the entire ship,

using it as some

giant metallic ore?

I mean, we've seen them

engulf an entire ship,

vaporizing them, so--

Okay. So, no bio lab.

And we still don't know where

the rest of the team are.

Think it's clear.

Maybe if we radio

the Septagon there's a way.

No. We can't reach out

to the DoD, okay?

What-- what if

the enemy detects us?

Maybe there's a way we can

rig an analog system...

out of the crash site.

Yeah, and double back?

Great idea, Captain.

Let's just waste more time.

Hey, stand down, Morales.

Black, time,

resources, abilities.

We have 56 minutes.

We keep moving toward the spore.

If we don't destroy it,

then Earth is done for.

I'll scavenge compounds

from the missing ship.

Hydrogen canisters, coolant,

whatever we can find.

Okay, let's keep moving forward.

Yes, sir.

We're gonna stick

to the tree lines.

And if we run into the rest of

the fleet, it's only gonna help.

Briggs, what have

you found so far?

Aside from its log,

network circuitry,

the detector trips once

this tiny chip overloads.

What's in the chip?

Actinium D5, sir.

That's radioactive.

The organism is repelled

by radioactivity.

But aren't our ships

powered by uranium, sir?

How could the spheres

attack them?

Because we coat our fuel

cells in lead.

We need to relay this to

the team on Pandora ASAP.

Where is Kira with those radios?

What's happening?

-General.

-Briggs?

Briggs, help me cut the power.

General, I have a

diplomatic solution,

not a military solution.

It involves allowing

this organism to flourish,

even at great cost.

General, your defenses

here have been eliminated.

We will leave your

world in ashes.

These spheres will cut

through this facility

like a scythe through grass.

We need to get to

Doomsday Bunker Zero now.

Do you hear me?

Back up.

Whoa.

Look at that fleet.

Look at their trajectory.

They're headed

straight to Earth.

Something must have

called them back.

Maybe this time they won't

be as nice as Morris's ship.

Instead of infecting everyone,

they could just use them

as guided missiles.

There's at least

500 million megatons

of nuclear power

in those fleets.

And if those

spheres still trying

to neutralize Earth's defenses,

it's gonna cut

their time in half.

General Watts is ready

for a spore strike.

But by the time that

any kind of observatory

were to pick up

a nuclear strike,

it's gonna be too late even

if we do stop that spore.

I know we're running out

of time here,

but we need to buy them

time back on Earth.

100 percent.

We need to find some

transmitters now.

What about the drone?

I told you,

it shorted out on impact.

Doesn't even matter.

If we send that signal,

they're gonna find

us right after.

Since we can't use

the drone as a weapon,

maybe we can use it

as a distraction.

We'll alert General Watts

that we no longer

have any bioweapons.

And see if he can send a ship,

any ship, with any type

of bioweapon, ASAP.

Okay, let's grab any comtech we

can salvage from the Destroyer.

Let's go.

Found a satellite dish.

I found a signal repeater.

That's literally blasted

to smithereens.

-Okay, keep looking.

-I found half a m*ssile.

Then there's a

navigation system in this.

Okay.

I'm gonna go look for

a radio transmitter.

Wait, wait. Right here.

No. That barely has five watts.

We're gonna need

a nuclear power plant

if we want to

send a clear signal to Earth.

Okay, what about an EMP?

Smart.

All right, you set the charge,

put the message

to text and loop it.

Okay, then we let

that signal fly

and get as far away as possible.

It's gonna reach Earth

in a few minutes.

Let's do it.

Set.

Shield detect on

your suit as you go.

Still have telemetry?

Yeah, I'm all good.

It looks like it short

circuited my wrist console.

But I'm still intact.

Okay.

We gotta keep moving.

Let's go.

Get up there.

We have total control

of your weapons systems,

General Watts.

Lieutenant Briggs,

General Watts, sit down.

Briggs, don't sit.

You need to release

my lieutenant

before this gets much,

much worse for you, pal.

If you hurt her, you will not

be leaving this bunker alive.

Yeah. And if they don't

k*ll you, I will.

I know you're pissed.

I know you're doing what

you swore an oath to do.

But this is going to be better.

Better for the world!

You let her go,

and I might let you live.

Do it now.

Do you even know what

neo-lithium is capable of?

It can power anything

without being refined.

It converts into medicine.

It converts easily,

effortlessly,

into raw materials.

And do you know what produces

one million metric tons

of neo-lithium per day

of its own free will?

The life form on

Pandora, General.

So we must surrender now.

We must show them

we're acting in good faith.

You want us to negotiate

with a seemingly

unstoppable force

that wants to k*ll all of us?

Is that what you want?

Maybe a million people

will die today

so a billion people can

live in paradise tomorrow.

Which billions?

Your kind, or ours?

Take that, b*tch.

General, we have

confirmation from

a holdout force

in New Washington.

We have a sighting on

incoming Space Force Fleet

armed to the teeth.

Okay. Have them

contact the fleet

and direct it to attack

any incoming spheres

around the Septagon.

That's what we need.

I have the old ham radios.

I believe that we can

hardwire them

to the building's main repeater

and transmit them

to Pandora.

Kira, wire up the radios.

Briggs, use that

tablet to contact

all assets around

the world still fighting.

They need to fire on our fleet

before it can reach the Earth.

Guys, look.

It's the drone.

Seems like it hasn't been

completely destroyed by the EMP.

Nice.

Officer Black,

radiation repels the organism.

Repeat. Radiation

repels the organism.

I guess they received

our transmission, then.

Radiation.

Yeah, radiation repels it.

That's an access point.

I mean, I still need to be able

to turn that into a k*ll shot.

General, we just received

a delayed message

from the team on Pandora.

"Enemy has our ships

as guided nukes inbound.

"Will destroy Earth.

Bio Lab gone.

Black needs any ship anywhere

to bring bioweapons."

We are facing nuclear

annihilation.

They've commandeered

our Space Force ships and

used our AI

to cr*pple our defenses.

Even a fraction of that fleet

has millions of megatons.

They'll k*ll everything

on the planet before

the Pandora team

can even stop them.

Recall the rest of

the fleet and have them

combat the ships in our orbit.

Do you understand?

I can't, sir.

Our last satellite recon

shows that the entire fleet

is either controlled

by the enemy

or it's completely wiped out.

It's the spore. It's erupting.

How much time do we have?

Thirty-three minutes.

It's the diagnostic on

your blood work, Morales.

My wounds were superficial.

Easy, Morales.

Captain, I'm okay.

Get down on the ground, Morales.

I said I'm fine.

Put the weapon down, Morales.

Guys, guys, guys.

We're on the same team, okay?

I was fighting

against them just--

Put your weapon on

the ground, Morales.

Drop it.

Hey, we have bigger

fish to fry, okay?

That alert means we're

all running out of CO2.

I'm at 19 percent. You?

Yeah, I'm at 19 percent, too.

The spheres are attacking.

Open fire.

I don't have eyes.

Me either.

You got eyes?

Over there!

Come on. Let's move!

All right.

He's around here somewhere.

-Okay, keep your eyes peeled.

-Okay.

Morales, stand down.

I'm okay. I'm okay.

Black... Black.

Erin. I'm losing control, okay?

-It's okay.

-But-- but I can--

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,

whoa, whoa.

Morales, I'm going to

put the g*n down, okay?

-Captain--

-I put the g*n down.

You put the knife down.

I can't. I--

I can't do that, Captain.

Have you got that, Lieutenant?

Simple.

Nice and easy.

g*n down.

Knife down.

Captain...

Okay. Wait, wait,

wait, wait, wait.

I'm losing control. Captain,

I can't.

Morales, Lieutenant,

that's an order.

I've got a clear shot.

Okay. No, no, no, stop.

Stand down. That's an order.

Morales, you gotta

fight this thing, okay?

No!

I'm sorry, Captain.

I'm sorry.

He almost had me, Black.

I keep losing...

When they reach that door,

do not stop firing.

No. No, Morales.

Throw that knife away.

You know, it's actually--

it's actually not that bad,

Black.

It's actually...

kind of peaceful.

Stay with me a

little bit longer.

Throw that knife away.

Black.

Watch as your world

turns to fire and ash.

You soon will have the same

fate as your grandfather.

I'm sorry, Captain.

You want to k*ll me?

Then fine.

Here I am.

Come k*ll me.

You should not have awakened us.

Well, then go back to sleep.

Ah!

General, there's

too many of them.

Keep firing!

Oh, no.

No, it's all right.

You're still here.

You're still here.

You're still here.

You're still here.

No way.

No way.

I mean, I knew the parts

to build you were old,

but not that old.

This is Captain Black.

This message is for my daughter

and perhaps a future grandchild.

You need to know the truth.

When we returned from Pandora,

powerful forces

aligned against us,

trying to revive

that moon's lethal alien life.

By now you may have heard

that I was the one

that saved the Earth.

That is a lie.

The real hero is a woman

named Dr. Jennifer Ryan,

who was forced into hiding by

corporate mercenaries.

Presented as a false hero

and a scientific genius,

I acted as a decoy,

drawing them away from her.

She entrusted me with

the knowledge

that this life form can

adhere to any state of matter.

As she often said,

never judge anything by

its surface

unless it's a protein.

The membrane can be crystallized

at the atomic level.

But she just

couldn't figure out--

They found me.

Whatever you do,

don't let them--

No!

This slime mold isn't dried up.

It's crystallized

from the radiation.

It's an access point.

No, no, no.

No.

No, no!

No!

We are Nova Force.

We don't stop.

We don't quit.

Come on.

Come on, Black.

Okay.

Okay.

Four minutes. Four minutes.

All right, let's go.

Fourteen seconds. Okay.

They did it?

General, they did it.

All the spaceships and

missiles are blowing apart.

They're shattering like ice.

It's like they crystallized.

Commander, you're

never gonna believe this.

Every single invader

is blowing apart!

The whole area is blown out!

She did it.

Do we have any

messages from Pandora?

Sir, our last observatory

tells us that the moon

on Pandora has exploded.

There's no trace of

it above Saturn, sir.

Then we lost her.

We owe her a debt of gratitude.

I wish I could have told her.

Told her what, sir?

That she is the most

elite among them.

The most courageous soldier

to ever be a part of the Force.

Ever.

Sir, wait.

Incoming over the Atlantic,

there's a soldier

free falling to earth,

encased in some crystal.

It's her.

It's Erin Black!

Erin...

Captain Erin Black,

the world owes you

a debt of gratitude

that can never

be truly repaid.

Your sense of honor,

duty and commitment

and unmatched courage have

shaken this solar system

and brought great dignity

to all of humankind.

Humanity has never seen a day

as fine as this one, Captain.

And we'd be honored if you'd

accept this recognition

of all that you've done for us.

Thank you, sir.

I accept this for my

mother and father.

And for my grandfather who

made the ultimate sacrifice.

I'm the one

who's grateful, General.

I truly am grateful.