Guest Author - The Futile Existence

Legato is in a giant plant, talking to Knives. Meanwhile. Vash talks about the 3 demons being up on the orbiting spaceship. The demons easily destroy the innocent shapeship inhabitants. Vash and Wolfwood go on a spree killing all the robots. The doctor says that the bad guys are going against the power plant and that it could crash the ship.

Wolfwood takes on a giant finger-shooting demon while Vash and Brad try to get to the power plant. Vash gets down there and finds all of his dear friends dead. Hopper shows up - the Third gung-ho gun.

Back to Wolfwood who realizes that Grey the Nine Lives is who he is facing. He and Grey end up in Plant #1. Meanwhile Hopper says that he only knows 3 words - attack, trample and destroy. Hopper says that this is what Vash has been doing for the past few years anyway.

Wolfwood manages to acidify Grey and reveal his robotic inside. Meanwhile Vash pleads with Hopper to stop harming the ship. Vash rigs up a remote gun and kills Hopper, but the plant has been damaged in the process. Wolfwood watches as the remnants of Grey fires on the other plant.

Back on Earth, Meryl and Millie and the cat are clinging for safety after the typhoon. They look up to see the spaceship floating past. Up on the spaceship the cat is on the main ship. Vash talks to the plant - he closes his eyes and hears a heartbeat. You see that within the plant is a person. Brad says that "it's one of those who live outside of time". Unfortunately Hopper wakes up and blasts the plant open, and the spaceship crash-lands.

Wolfwood finds Jessica tied up - and realizes the girls they saved was ...

Everybody yells at Vash as the person who causes the crash. Brad yells at everybody and tells them that they all ignored the future this whole time - and that Vash saved them from certain death. Wolfwood yells down with the real Jessica, and the fake one shoots Brad many times in the back.

The Puppet Master says that he failed, and Wolfwood finds him and shoots him. Meanwhile Legato laughs that Vash is crying about Brad. Millie and Meryl show up to find Vash crying over Brad. Brad says that Vash is one of those who live Outside of Time and dies.