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Irriatated and incredibly fed up by this point, the Hypers again withdrew into their tech-based work in the bunker. They managed to get the last sealed door open via their usual MacGuyver methods and were rewarded with yet another door that would not and apparently could not be opened by any means the Snowbos had at their disposal. They withdrew even further but were called out publically by Robert Miller, who showed up to be an asshole and rub their failures in their faces. According to him, there was no way through the door, they were all going to die of radiation poisoning or starvation in the bunker, and the only out was to allow Miller to make enough anomaly copies of the citizens to sustain the Administrator's population quota and end ten thousand years of cyclical death.

This was, of course, absolutely crushing, and everyone feared that this was finally the end. No answers, no freedom, nothing.

But then Winter came back. With a plan. A plan that would destroy her for good this time, but one that would allow the characters through that goddamn door. Using code from Andromeda's galaxy key app, a tablet was turned into a bomb that blasted through the door. With that, they were through and Winter was gone. Gone but to never be forgotten.

Past the door was Town Hall, and in Town Hall they found Robert Miller's long-dead corpse and a huge supercomputer -- the Admin. Who, as it turned out, was not at all sapient, at least according to her -- <i>it</i>. Despite the joy of having their powers/abilities returned to them and getting a working portal to the multiverse open, this hurt Rhys and Angel especially. They'd always believed in her, stuck up for her, treated her like a person and it... was all for nothing. For a glorified chatbot with a single purpose and no real love for her citizens. Though... Rhys retained a bit of hope that some part of her was alive. He always will hang onto that. Otherwise, they were always and forever alone in that snowhell.

And distressingly, Rhys had figured that going back to his version of Pandora was a given, but Beckett wasn't particularly enthused by that plan. This meant that on top of losing people he cared about -- hell, he was even sad to see Gregory House go -- he had to choose between going home to his friends from before this nightmare started and going with Beckett and Enoch to a version of Beckett's homeworld, one without the hellish apocalypse that destroyed it. It took some coaxing, but he (admittedly reluctantly) left Pandora behind and went through with his found family.

Only to end up in the Meadous instead.