Me and Stikky stared each other down, both confused about what to say after putting each other through hell in:
Let's See How Far We've Come! Recap!
It's The End Of The World As I Barely Knew It! Part 29!
Here I am, Losing my Election! Part 30!
What's Dove Got to Do With It? Part 31!
Say it Aint Joe! I Will Not Go! Part 32!
Alive With The Glory of Dove! Part 33!
I See A Bad Doom Arising! Part 34!
Doctor, Doctor! I'm Not With the News! Part 35!
SEX! Now that I've got your attention here's the next Micky Instalment! Part 36!
You're so vain! You probably think this blog is about you! Part 37!
Hey Micky, Look What You're Doing to Me! Part 38!
Dove is in the Air! Part 39!
His Story 2! Part 40!
Tell Me That I'll Open My Eyes! Part 41!
I Wanna Know! Have You Ever Seen The Brain? Part 42!
Enemy and Irony! Part 43!
I Ain't Sayin' he a Gravedigger! Part 44!
Prisoner of Society (Redux)! Part 45!
Their Story! Part 46!
The Witch is Back! Part 47!
The Roof is on Fire! Part 48!
I'm Dreaming of an Alright Christmas! Part 49!
Don't Waste Your Time on Me, You're Already the Vision Inside my Head! Part 50!
Dove Shack! Baby, Dove Shack! Part 51!
Just Don't Bite it! Don't Bite it! If You Don't Know What it is! Part 52!
Her Story 3! Part 53!
When Darkness Turns to Light, It Ends Tonight! Part 54!
They've been Struck by some Smooth Criminals! Part 55!
You have a boyfriend that looks like a girlfriend that I had last year! Part 56!
And I Will Always Dove You! Part 57!
Where is the Dove? Part 58!
And the Shadow of the Day will erase the world in grey! Part 59!
Finally I opened with something witty. "This is insane" I said.
"Oh really?' Stikky retorted.
'Yeah, really" I contributed to the conversation.
'And what exactly is insane about it?'
'The fact that it's crazy... You know, I'm getting this weird feeling of déjà vu"
"I don't care" Stikky said.
"Just think" I instructed. "I know that's hard for you to do and everything but just think. Who's pulling the strings here? Who told you to do this?"
"I'm the leader of the Society, it was my idea"
"No, it wasn't. You want to rule the world, not destroy it"
"Who said anything about destroying it?"
"It's New Years Eve, and that countdown over there is going to destroy the world"
"Nothing's that powerful. And besides, I have a trusty informant who told me how this mind control device will work"
"Mind control device? How gullible are you? Jimbo has really screwed you up in the head. You know, more so"
"How do you know Jimbo?"
"That's a long story, but you've never seen him face to face. You don't know what he's capable of"
"I know what he's capable of, he's been helping me for some weeks to perform the most tricky of tasks, and I consider him an ally, and the fact that you have something against him just proves my opinion of him"
"Tsk tsk" A voice came from the corner and I spun around to stare me right in the face.
"Oh crap" I said.
"Who the hell are you?" Stikky asked.
"I'm your ally" Jimbo pulled out a gun and blasted Stikky across the room. "Trust is for the weak"
"Crap, I should have seen that coming" I said, then slapped my forehead. "I did see that coming!" The vision I'd been trying to stop coming true was now happening exactly like before.
"Now" Jimbo said. "Time to get down to business"
"Why are you doing this?" I asked.
Jimbo just shrugged. "It seems like a good idea, people annoy me"
I stared at the computer screen as the countdown started to beep and I realised the clock was down to one minute. There was darkness in the room, now that the sun had disappeared, and the only light was glowing from the computers.
"What did you do with Alana?" I insisted.
"Don't worry, she's safe. Well, at least for the next 50 seconds"
Without thinking, I shoved the Dove into my neck and slammed forward, throwing Jimbo across the room.
I rushed towards the computer and began looking for what it was connected to. Then Kemp spoke through the earpiece.
"It's the Pail. The Pail is the bomb!"
I concluded that he was talking about the Pail destroying the world, rather than being awesome in rap lingo. I sprinted towards the door, but suddenly got a dizzy spell.
"Oh crap, not now" I said in dismay, and with that, I fell to the floor and slipped into a vision, with five seconds left on the countdown.
***
The Holy Pail, in all its glory stood in the Society's yard when out of the blue, a spark flew off the Pail and engulfed the whole mansion. I was thrown up and out of the Earth's atmosphere to see the whole world blow up.
***
Just as quickly as the vision started, I snapped out of it and went for one final attempt to save the world in the two seconds left on the countdown.
With energy soaring through me, I sprinted at light speed, thanks to the Dove, charged through a wall so I was outside and rushed to the Pail, slamming straight into the Holy Pail just as it was scheduled to blow up. That's the last thing I remembered before the blackout.
Is this really how it ends for Micky and the gang? Did the Dove prevent the Pail explosion, or was Micky's final attempt to save the world in vain? Will this be the final paragraph of rhetorical questions to ever appear on the series? Or is there one final twist that ties everything up in a nice little package? Find out in the last ever Rebellion instalment in the Epilogue, next week.