[Comprehensive English and American] Ripples in time and space

It is not uncommon for the soul to wrestle with itself. Many people have similar struggles in their hearts when they face a dilemma.But, perhaps never before has this struggle been so clearly manifested like Kelly's—the black mist twisting and twisting around her body, dragging her back and running like a rope, and is almost bound by these patterns. Kelly, who was standing in front of her, stiffened her heels and remained motionless.She was like a horse resisting being pulled back by the rein.If it wasn't for the soul not being able to sweat, Kelly would have been sweating heavily when Fenuo walked in front of her.

Fei Nuo walked up and looked at Kelly, who was holding on for a step, and there seemed to be a little approval in her eyes.Without saying a word, he stretched out his hand and grabbed the velvet pouch from Kelly's hand. With a flick of his fingers, he untied the silk rope at the mouth of the pouch.A shiny diamond slipped into his palm.

Kelly almost screamed.As soon as the Silmarillion fell out, it was almost as if the albino had suddenly been exposed to the midday sun.The black mist on her body rolled and twisted violently, as if it had evaporated under the scorching sun, and every place that was entwined by the black pattern felt a deep pain.But after experiencing her soul being sacrificed alive, this pain was not enough to overwhelm her. She shook violently, staggered half a step backwards, and slowly stood up again.

"That's right." Feanor said, "You can stand still under the light of the Silmaril. With this kind of perseverance, it means that there is still hope. Has Gandalf told you how to do it?"

Kelly shook her head.Fenuo clicked his tongue impatiently: "Okay. Briefly, I will use the power of the diamond to eliminate the part of your soul polluted by darkness and help your soul recover. This will be a painful and long process. The process, if you dare not bear it, shrink back and escape, the darkness will immediately erode those parts that have not yet regrown, and all previous efforts will be wasted. For the sake of saving my grandson, I can help you try until you have Enough courage to recover, but it will be more difficult as you go later. So, make up your mind to come back.”

Standing in front of him until now, Kelly has slowly gotten used to the pain and pressure.She stretched out her hand with difficulty, and slowly turned the ring on her left hand half a circle, so that the gem was facing inside, so that when she clenched her fist, the edges and corners of the gem would pierce her palm, making her understand clearly. Feel it, it's there.After completing this action, she nodded slowly: "I'm ready."

Fenuo looked at her sternly with penetrating eyes, and Kelly resisted the trembling and fear of the black lines on her body, and looked at him firmly.Fei Nuo nodded: "Very good. Don't stand still, you won't be able to hold on."

Kelly didn't refute it - it was the truth.Also, standing will make escaping easier.She slowly bent one leg and knelt down in front of Fei Nuo.Feanor took a step forward, and without warning, he pressed the Silmaril tightly between her eyebrows—the point where the black lines gathered.

This time Kelly might actually scream.She couldn't be sure, she couldn't feel it at all.Unimaginable fear and pain engulfed her completely - a level of fear that no one could be "prepared for" at all!This is the fear inspired by the instinctive desire to survive deep in the soul. Even when she was chased by Death Eaters in Harry Potter, she had never felt such fear before!This feeling is even worse than sacrificing her soul. After all, although she had to sacrifice her own soul at that time, she could obtain powerful magic for her to use, and there were still a lot of things to consider. To protect—but now she has nothing, nothing exists, only this pain and fear that she is about to be destroyed!

Her first instinct was to jump up and run away.But after all, the inconvenient escape from the kneeling position is still good - when she just twisted her body, her hands had unconsciously clenched into fists, and the jewel stuck between her fingers made her regain a little sanity, and then, She forcefully suppressed the impulse again.

Kelly still has this kind of perseverance to control herself not to move.But such a situation of mixed pain and fear is indeed beyond the tolerance of ordinary people.If it were an ordinary person, under such an emotional impact, he would have gone crazy right now.Even Kelly, as time went on, gradually found it unbearable.

Thinking of something...why didn't she feel so much pain the previous time?Because something else happened that time?think about other things...

However, in such a situation where her soul was seriously disturbed, there were not many memories she could recall.There are only bits and pieces, very fragmented memories, and sometimes even only one name, one concept.Hogwarts, the Enterprise, who told her she was going to be an astronaut, there was a little girl in a beautiful grass green dress, was that Roxie or Elizabeth?Mutants, Dr. Erskine, brain-reading superpowers, the parameters on the blueprints are 68cm, engagement rings, Eggsy's birthday is coming... Somewhere in the memory, there is a huge golden lion walking on the soft grass Come, kiss her forehead lightly.It was one of the truest pieces of memory.Kelly didn't know whether it was because the memories related to the gods were not easy to be corroded, or when she really got a little blessing from Aslan.But after that kiss, things seemed a little easier.

She didn't know how long it had been.Maybe months, maybe years.Every second seems like a century in chaotic and painful situations.But gradually, things began to improve—her fears and painful emotions didn't abate, but intensified, but Kelly could recall more and more things, which meant that there were more and more distractions for her.She thought for a while that Bucky knelt down on one knee to propose to her, and Elizabeth, who was seven or eight years old, giggled and fell into her arms from upstairs with soft arms around her neck. Professor McGonagall used it at her wedding A plaid handkerchief wiped away tears.Then I thought for a while how to set up the company's new prosthetics, maybe the development of exoskeleton products should be put on the agenda, and whether the stability of nerve connections can be improved by replacing new materials.This process has been going on for a long, long time, extremely long, maybe it really took years and years.The time is long enough for Kelly to count every time she has experienced in her life one by one in her soul, playing and rewinding all her experiences in front of her eyes.

Kelly's first life established what she was.The three worlds of Harry Potter, Dragon Age, and The Chronicles of Narnia taught her the essence of magic.Captain America allowed her to strengthen her beliefs and establish a sense of responsibility, and the ace agent helped her improve her strength.The parallel world of the Winter Soldier taught her how to cherish the people in front of her.The world of Star Trek gave her the vision and technology to look into the future.The X-Men is the future she will continue to bear.All the people she met along the way, some are better than her, some are not as good as her in some aspects, but they all help her to become a better self to a certain extent.

It would be a betrayal of all this help if she backed down at this point.

She could no longer feel the passage of time.Until one day the feelings surrounding her soul suddenly changed.Pain, fear, and all negative emotions suddenly disappeared, replaced by warm gentleness.That is the feeling of being healed, of being bathed in holy water surrounded by the Holy Light.That is almost the concretization of the word "happiness".Unfortunately, this feeling did not last long.After only a short moment, suddenly there was a force pushing her back, and Kelly fell backwards involuntarily.She opened her eyes suddenly, took a staggered step, and realized that she had returned to the standing body.

But this time is different.She could vaguely see those spirits, although not as clearly and specifically as she could see in the spirit state.Most of the souls were so transparent that they were barely visible, save for a phantom, but they were smiling encouragingly at her.The two souls in front of her - Feanor and another elf, were the most solid, but they looked only translucent.Fei Nuo rubbed the jewel in his hand a few times, stuffed it into the velvet bag, and threw it away, Kelly quickly reached out to catch it.She saw the back of her hand as white as jade: all traces of dark erosion had disappeared.

"Very good, it's rare for humans to have a soul like you." Feanor praised, but his voice was still serious, "You can go out and bring the diamond to Elendil."

Without saying anything more, he nodded to her, then turned around and made a gesture of leaving.The elf behind him, who had been half blocked by Fenuo at first, took a step forward and nodded to Kelly with a smile.

"I also want to thank you for saving my grandson." He smiled and saluted.Kylie hurriedly returned the gift, only to realize that he was probably Fingolfin, the second High King of the Noldor.Feynolds folded his arms and waited for Fingolfin to finish his sentence before the two left together. Perhaps after death, the half-brothers finally reached a reconciliation.

All this was still a little unreal to her.Kelly watched their backs go away, and then turned to look at the other souls around: "Excuse me, how do I get out?"

"None of us can go out yet." An elf who was closer answered, his voice was more ethereal compared to Fenor's, "So we can't guide you. You just need to think in your heart' Go out', you will naturally find your exit."

"In other words, in this maze, where to go is actually not very important?"

"it is not important."

Kelly nodded to him in thanks, turned and walked in the direction she had come from.Indeed, she had only just turned a corner when she saw the door at the end of the passage.Viewed from inside the temple, the gate does not reveal any scenery outside the gate, only a shimmering light.Kelly walked forward, stepped over the threshold, and her eyes suddenly opened up.The scene outside was still the same as when she came. Gandalf, Fingon, and Elendil were chatting below. When the three heard Kelly's footsteps, they turned their heads together.

"What! Are you still here?" Kelly asked in surprise.She trotted down the steps, and thanked Elendil, returning the Silmaril.

"Still here? It's been less than half an hour since you went in." Gandalf laughed.

"Half an hour?" Kelly said in shock, "I thought a few years had passed."

"I told you that the time of the soul is different from the time of the body." Gandalf said with a smile, "By the way, the color of your hair has changed, do you know that?"

Kelly froze for a moment, then quickly pointed to the air, and took out a mirror. She looked at herself in the mirror, and she found that her appearance was completely different—the patterns on her body disappeared completely, and her face and pupils returned to their previous appearance, but her The hair was no longer the light brown it used to be, it had become a shimmering blond that fell down to her waist and glowed beautifully in the light.This golden color is very similar to Galadriel's blond hair - Galadriel was once praised, saying that her hair was shining with the light of the Two Holy Trees, but now it seems that Kelly borrowed the Silmarillion to restore her soul , actually had an impact on this.

She stretched out her hand to disperse the mirror, only to find that her magic power was also different from the past.The magic power is no longer the light blue it used to be, but pure white, and at her disposal, small white balls of light soon gathered at her fingertips.Kelly flipped her fingers forward: "Call God to protect you!"

The small white light ball quickly stretched and deformed, and a tall silver stag rushed out from it.Kelly watched it disappear into the distant sea, didn't laugh or cry, just breathed a sigh of relief.

Kelly, who was eager to return home, only stayed in Amanzhou for less than a day.

She asked Gandalf if there was anything she could do to repay it, after all, it was as much as a saving grace, or even more, but Gandalf said no.Kylie asked about other gods living on the island, but the Valar all avoided seeing her, even Mandos she had never seen.Kelly guessed that this might have something to do with their beliefs, after all, she came from another universe, not the creation of Iluvita.So she didn't stay any longer, and immediately withdrew from the world after bidding farewell to Gandalf.

This time, she finally said to 323 what she had been thinking for decades: "Quit the experiment, and choose the world that will eventually settle down as Captain America's world!"

Taking a last look at the familiar but false space around her, Kelly left without the slightest bit of nostalgia.In a blink of an eye, she appeared in a narrow cabin.The people sitting in the cabin originally had expressions of horror on their faces, but when they saw her, their expressions suddenly changed into blank blanks of shock.Kelly looked around and smiled: "Why, don't you recognize me?"

"Mother...?" Elizabeth trembled.Hank, who was flying the plane, glanced back, his hand shook suddenly, and the plane rolled in the air for a week.Kelly, who was not wearing a seat belt, was startled and laughed, and with an oops, she suspended herself in mid-air: "What's the matter, why are you so scared?"

"Kelly...?" Bucky called her cautiously.

"Yeah." Kelly looked back at him tenderly and sweetly, and softly called him, "Bucky."

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The author has something to say: It's finally over.

In the last volume, the plot may jump a little too fast, and there is no way to introduce many characters in detail one by one.But there is no way, the world view of Mr. Tuo is too big, and I have to kneel at the end of the writing|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

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This day is just another ordinary and boring working day for countless people.Because Christmas is just around the corner, many people don't have the energy to come to work, preoccupied with the upcoming holiday season.In the Stark Tower, a group of employees huddled in line at the elevator door was looking around boredly, and suddenly saw a tall, beautiful blonde girl walking towards an elevator in the corner of the hall.

There was no one waiting at the door of the elevator door, because it was a special elevator for Mr. Stark's family, their relatives, friends and guests.A few well-meaning employees were going to remind the blonde girl, but before they could say anything, they were surprised to see the elevator door automatically opened, waited for the blonde girl to enter, and then closed automatically.

"I don't know which supermodel Mr. Stark slept with..." A female employee muttered in a low voice, and the colleagues next to her nodded in agreement.

In the elevator, Kelly raised her head and smiled slightly at the surveillance camera in the corner: "Good morning, Jarvis. I'm here to find Tony."

"Good morning, Ms. Cosmo. Sir is in the studio now."

While they were talking, the elevator had started to run smoothly, and the mirror on the side reflected a young and beautiful face with blond hair, blue eyes, red lips and white teeth.When she came back for the last time, Kelly adjusted her physical age to be the same age as Bucky. Now she is more than eighty years old in terms of real age, and even her granddaughter has started college.But the powerful magic and the super serum have jointly delayed the aging of the body. Now she looks like she is only in her thirties, and she is still in her prime.Bucky, Steve, and others were not much older than her, only Howard had always refused to inject any serum developed later, and he was now a gray-haired old man.Kelly knew that he was always guilty of what happened back then, and tried to persuade him repeatedly but failed, so she had no choice but to give up.

The elevator was running very fast, and from a distance, Kelly heard the loud rock music coming from Tony's studio.As she stepped out of the elevator, she said, "Jarvis, mute."

The music stopped abruptly.Tony exclaimed angrily, "What's going on, Jarvis—"

"Good morning, Tony," Kelly said, "I guess you forgot I said I was coming today?"

Startled, Tony jumped up and hurriedly stuffed a bunch of empty coffee cups behind the tool, turning his head to look at her: "Uh, Kelly! Yeah, I forgot, work Gotta get a little too involved. You know that Auto-ID center at MIT? The RFID one? They've got an interesting project lately—”

"No matter how interesting the subject, you can't stay up all night. You haven't had a serum, Tony."

"Yeah, when it comes to serums, I've never really understood. Are you that old in everyone's mind? Obviously you often appear on TV and media news, even if you always have brown hair when you appear in public, why do you Change back to blond hair and make-up and no one will recognize you, it's so—"

"Don't try to change the subject." Kelly frowned half reproachfully, half distressed, and stepped forward to flick his forehead with her fingers.With the movement of her fingers, a soft white light sank into the center of Tony's eyebrows at the same time.Tony suddenly lifted his spirits and laughed: "Isn't there still you here?"

"You can't always ignore your body just because I know magic." Kelly frowned, "How many times have Steve and Bucky told you—"

"Don't-so-not-value-your-your-body-health-" Tony drawled, imitating Steve's tone.Kelly was finally amused by him, and she didn't continue to persevere. After all, she herself had the experience of doing experiments without sleep for dozens of hours because of her physical fitness. She knew that sometimes inspiration was difficult to interrupt. .So she shrugged and let the topic go: "So, were you busy with the MIT project? Do you have time to discuss work with me?"

"Of course!" Tony said immediately.Normally he hated signing official documents, but Kelly always came to him to talk about the most advanced topics in technology.Kelly nodded, and inserted/inserted a small USB flash drive into the next computer port, and soon the screen lit up: "First of all, as a matter of routine, as the chairman of the Erskine branch, I should report the company's basic Quarterly results..."

Erskine Company has now become a large company involved in medicine, prosthetics, medical equipment, precision medical instruments, etc., and its scale is almost enough to rival the Stark Group.But the relationship between the chairmen of the two groups is extremely close, and Kelly and Tony have never been too fussy about this part of the content, just passing it by.Then her face became serious, and she talked about the main point: "About the research and development of prosthetics. This is the key point I came to discuss with you-I plan to completely transform Erskine's research and development direction, completely cut off the research and development direction of exoskeletons, and turn to research and development as much as possible. possible biomimicry and restoration."

"It's not necessary." Tony leaned closer to the screen, arguing, "Although the exoskeleton is not very good-looking, in terms of practical functions, it far exceeds the bionic prosthetics in many cases-for example, for paralyzed patients, wrapping from the waist down An exoskeleton on the legs could provide enough power to walk on its own, as we have the technology to do it now; but a prosthetic limb that transmits signals through neural connections cannot-"

"I don't understand these things?" Kelly said, "But I still need to cut off the research on exoskeleton in advance. I'm not boasting, Erskine's R&D department is now too advanced in technology, and it is the most advanced R&D institution in the world." One. If we keep working on exoskeletons, you know—"

Before she finished speaking, Tony immediately understood, "Military! Armor! Those imaginations in science fiction—can they really be done?"

He didn't even wait for Kelly to answer, he immediately snatched the mouse, and muttered while flipping through various data on the computer screen.Kelly waited, occasionally pointing out a few key points.After Tony quickly went through several of the most important technical documents, she continued: "So, I want to cut off the research in this direction, which has already been confirmed. However, I hope that if you are interested in , able to take over research in this area.”

"What?" Tony looked at her in surprise, but his eyes sparkled, obviously interested, "But you can do it yourself!"

"Do you think I'm omnipotent?" Kelly laughed. "I only have 24 hours in a day. I just hope that if someone invented this armor first, it would be you. Because I can at least make sure you don't It will be used for evil, and once we know the specific capabilities and weaknesses of this armor, we can also make targeted defenses against possible future threats."

"You sounded like Peggy that last sentence," Tony muttered. "Okay, of course!"

With that settled, Kelly has nothing else to do.So she and Tony chatted about MIT's new topic - the Internet of Things technology that will be popularized in the future.The technology is far from perfect today, but Tony got inspiration from it and wondered if it could be embedded in the functional modules of his AI Jarvis.Except for Howard, few people can follow his train of thought, so he got excited when he grabbed Kelly. The two talked for a whole morning without knowing it, until suddenly a silver-white antelope ran briskly into the room. Only temporarily stopped.

"Roxie and I are already home!" Elizabeth's voice said cheerfully. She also aged very slowly. She seems to be only 30 years old now, and her voice is also very young. Come back, but Christine and I are already home. We are setting up the room. By the way, don't forget to pick up Dad, he hasn't come home yet."

Winnie and Christine are Kelly's grandchildren, both girls are Elizabeth's children, and Roxie has no interest in procreation.Kelly waved her hand lightly and sent a silver stag back to her, only to realize that it was already noon.She stood up: "Let's continue tomorrow, I have to go first."

Tony was interrupted in the middle of the chat, and curled his lips reluctantly: "Where are you going?"

"Going to NASA to pick up Bucky," Kelly said. "The Columbia spaceflight project he is leading is in progress. It is difficult to ask for leave, especially since everyone wants to go home for Christmas. So we will celebrate Christmas a day earlier. "

She said goodbye to Tony and directly apparated near the NASA building.The employees inside were already familiar with her blond hair, and they all nodded in greeting.As she expected, Bucky was still sitting in the studio, working on the computer with other NASA scientists.For the sake of confidentiality and other factors, Kelly did not enter the house, but knocked on the door outside, leaned against the door frame and waited for Bucky to come out, and complained half-jokingly: "I thought you had already gone home. Hasn't your vacation already started for half a day? When did you become such a workaholic?"

"You know I've always attached great importance to this project." Bucky said lightly, and gave her a look at the same time.The two have known each other for decades, and they have long been able to read each other's meaning from a glance - Bucky's eyes clearly read "Isn't it you who reminded me?"

The Columbia wreck is one of America's most shocking tragedies, and Kelly did bring it up with Bucky earlier.She had nothing to say, so she shrugged helplessly: "Okay. Then you can go back with me now for Christmas, right?"

"Of course." Bucky smiled and kissed her, "Sorry honey."

When the two apparated to the house, the inside had been transformed by Elizabeth with the space expansion spell.Roxie and Alex rushed to the door to meet them, and Roxie was holding a young boy who looked very at a loss.The sound of arguing came from the back room, and Kelly raised her eyebrows: "Liz and Christine are arguing again?"

"Yeah." Alex shrugged helplessly, and pulled the boy over to introduce Kelly and Bucky: "This is Stan, he is Christine's fourth... or fifth boyfriend."

"The sixth term." The boy said nervously, his eyes glanced worriedly into the back room from time to time.Standing at the door, Kelly was able to hear the quarrel inside clearly:

"You can't keep making boyfriends and dumping them like this!"

"Why can't I? I didn't deceive their feelings, mom! Each of them broke up peacefully. We love each other, what's the matter with you?"

"Because it shows that you haven't taken any relationship seriously at all—"

"Grandmother is more enlightened than you! The fact that I broke up with them quickly proves that I am not serious? Why do you say that? Do you still think that I have to be widowed by my boyfriend to be serious?"

"You're misrepresenting me, Christine!"

Kelly and Bucky sighed together. "Ignore them." Bucky patted Stan on the shoulder to comfort him, "The two of them have always been like this, arguing non-stop, but the relationship between mother and daughter is particularly good."

"Yeah, it's really not that bad this time." Alex smiled mischievously, "I still remember that time when two people got into a fight and had a magic riot, which ended up blowing up the whole house."

"What, what?" the boy stammered, looking more nervous.Roxie gently pushed Alex and comforted him: "Don't worry, that time was just an accident. Besides, with mom here, she can suppress the magic riot of one more person."

The teenager didn't seem to be completely relieved, and kept glancing inside from time to time, while Kelly, Bucky, and Roxie sat down on the sofa together, listening to the two of them tell some interesting stories about the mutant school.

It wasn't until lunchtime that Elizabeth and Christine walked out arm in arm and very intimately as if nothing had happened, that Stan was relieved.The family sat down around the table—Kristen had just started working, Roxie and Elizabeth, the twin sisters, looked like they were in their thirties, and Kelly looked like the same age. It's like a family of brothers and sisters.

After lunch, Elizabeth and her daughter could no longer see that they had quarreled before.The family chatted and laughed while preparing for the Christmas dinner, and Winnie, who finished her exam a few hours later, Apparated back and joined their chat.

Now Roxie and Alex are at mutant school; Kelly, Elizabeth, and Christine are in New York; Bucky works at NASA in Washington; Individuals can apparate, and it is rare to get together like this.After having dinner together, everyone chatted and laughed until midnight before going back to their rooms.The two had already changed into their pajamas and were about to go to bed when Bucky suddenly exclaimed: "Oh, there is a piece of data - I planned to change it at noon, but I forgot! Can you accompany me to NASA again?" huh, Kelly?"

Kelly glanced at him silently.Bucky smiled and kissed her very apologetically: "I'm sorry, but this is really important - I can't go back and change it tomorrow, but if there are people who work overtime tonight, the data is wrong, which means they A whole night's worth of wasting. Will you, Kelly?"

"Okay, okay." Kelly sighed and sat up, flicked her hands, casually transformed the two into a daily attire, and then stretched out her hand to Bucky: "Anyway, I'm not experimenting once or twice. If you spend the night in the room, I will take it as revenge."

Within a second, they were at the NASA building in Washington.In the middle of the night, Kelly didn't bother to go through the main entrance, so she simply apparated directly into a lounge on the upper floor of the building.This lounge has huge floor-to-ceiling windows, showing the flickering lights of the city in the distance. Even the lights were dimmed.Kelly pushed Bucky: "Go, I'll wait for you here."

The dark environment didn't affect her and Bucky's vision at all, and Kelly didn't bother to turn on the light, so she walked directly to the window and looked out the window. Ten minutes later, Bucky came back in a hurry. When he opened the door, he saw Kelly touching the glass with her fingertips and pointing to the sky. saint.Outside the window, the impact of the city's light and air pollution is gradually weakening, and the clear and brilliant starry sky slowly unfolds.

Even Bucky couldn't help taking a breath: "Kelly, have you been able to do this?"

"Actually, it's not such an exaggeration." Kelly turned her head, put her hands down and smiled, "It's just temporarily 'concealing' these influencing factors, rather than 'eliminating' them. The duration is about 2 minutes, and the longest will not exceed 5 minutes." It's been a minute—it's my whim, it won't affect your work, will it?"

"That's not true. At most, they wonder why they suddenly have such a good vision." Bucky laughed.He walked over to Kelly and stood shoulder to shoulder.Kelly suddenly said: "Remember when we were sixteen or seventeen, you took me to the top of an abandoned building to look at the stars for the first time? I think that's when I fell in love with you."

"How could I forget?" Bucky said, "You've been so beautiful all these years, and even more radiant than ever before." He tilted his head and pressed a kiss on Kelly's blond hair.

Kelly smiled: "Over the years, your ability to coax girls has not weakened at all."

The two of them stood together for about a minute, quietly watching the starry sky unfolding in the distance.The spell worked a little better than Kelly had expected, and the sky remained a clear, velvety blue-black.Bucky suddenly said: "In Star Trek, the first contact between the Earth and extraterrestrial civilizations was in 1 - if there is no accident, we should still be alive at that time. Tell me, do we also have Vulcans, Romulans, Klingon civilizations?"

"Who knows?" Kelly said, "I just hope our world doesn't go through a world war like that one—but I hope our world ends up going toward Go in the direction of the Star Alliance."

"We can push it in the direction of the Federation," Bucky said.

Kelly paused, turned her head to stare at Bucky, and smiled: "Yes. We can push it in that peaceful direction."

They kissed in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, the stars were shining overhead, and the lights of thousands of houses were outside the windows.

The author has something to say: It is completely over~(≧▽≦)/~