9. Till Death Do Us Part

Complete story — includes the ending

Examining the strange flashes the moon is giving off, Cochise realizes that it is the Espheni power core that the Volm have been looking for. As destroying it will wipe out all Espheni technology on Earth, Tom decides to unearth the crashed Beamer and lead a strike against the power core. To expedite matters, Tom decides to lead a small team consisting of himself, Anne, Matt, Weaver and Cochise to a Volm supply cache after learning the location from Cochise, believing that it may hold explosives that will speed up the process. When they arrive, Mira arrives and tells them that she had escaped from the Espheni camp and that she had waited for someone to appear. Tom is suspicious, believing it to be too convenient that she had appeared near to a Volm supply cache and decides to tie her up. As the air is toxic to breathe, they wear gas masks and begin to unearth the weapons. Mira however attempts to appeal to Matt telling him that she's okay and that the rope is hurting her arms. Feeling sorry for her, Matt decides to untie her but when she blows a whistle that can alert Beamers to her location, he chases after her and brings her to Tom and tells him what she had done. But before they can react Kent Matthews appears and attacks the group, Mira uses the opportunity to escape once again and is followed by Matt. Anne immediately comes to Tom's aid and distracts Matthews, to buy Tom the time to shoot him dead. Meanwhile Matt is rescued by Weaver and Cochise when he is incapacitated by some of the camp's children. The team takes out the collaborators, but a Beamer strike destroys the supply cache before they can get the explosives. With the group reunited, they decide to return to Chinatown. In Chinatown, Ben aids Maggie in adjusting to her new powers and they kiss while Pope and Sara fight and Sara leaves. That night, Tom proposes to Anne and they are married by Weaver the next morning. Shaq, having been studying Mira's whistle, is able to modify it to safely engage the buried Beamer's engines, causing it to fly itself out of the rubble.