3. Staffel : Life after death	1

(transcription by Ramona Deininger ( http://www.crowwings.com) - autum 2003)

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3.10 - Battle

The two planets are moving around each other. 
And Kai is still singing his song while the balloons are approaching the Garden city.
It is night. Kai is definitely ready to end his existence. By the way, Kai's face is covered by dust and pretty dirty.
Stan is sleeping the sleep of the just, then he wakes up by a noise. He is not sure if he really heard something
Stan: „Lyekka?"
Stan is getting up and searching for her. He gets to the parked moth at the edge of the Garden city. But still, there is no Lyekka.
Stan: „Kai?"
He hears him singing and follows the song. Just the second Stan is leaving the moth parking place the intruders are entering the place. Stan gets to the coffin of Kai.
Stan: „Kai, Kai, I can't find Lyekka anywhere. And I think, we are being attacked."
Kai: „By whom?"
Stan: „I don't know, does that matter? Look, Kai, I hate to break the news to you, but you are not a plant, - you are a Brunnen-G warrior and then you became an assassin for the divine Order, you are not meant to rot in a garden. So get up out of there and kill!"
Actually, Kai's face is moving in a strange way, he is not to appreciating, what Stan is saying. Especially the kill-parts.
Stan: „Oh."
After all this long speech Stan takes some action and moves Kai up in a sitting position. Kai is not exactly helping him but also not too resisted. He is not moved at all, so he needs Stan's motivation. And Stan's motivation is, that Kai is protecting him and Xev against the intruders.
Meanwhile the intruders get to the sleeping Xev in her sleeping chamber right in the middle of Garden, and they get her, shut her mouth by violence.
One of the intruders from Fire gets to the moth but before he can do any damage, Kai gets him from behind. Now his body and face is clean again, no trace of any dirt - how can that be? Fast self-cleaning of the fabrics? It was mentioned in season 4 'Halley's Comet'.
Kai: „May I help you?"
Some people still in the balloons are detecting Kai and attaching him with arrows, but only manage to kill the own man. Kai instead is throwing away the arrows that hit him in the chest, of course, they don't stop him. And he moves, very fast and forceful (it looks somehow motivated), first to a little gong that is supposed to warn all the inhabitants of the Garden city of this attack. After hitting the gong, there's nobody approaching or hurrying to defend this city, though Kai is waiting for that to happen. But there's no gardener left.
Xev is fighting for her life but is overwhelmed by the force of the many intruders, who try to bind and bond her feet and put her in a sack. Even over her head. She cannot scream.
Stan is running to the place where the gong is hanging. And where Kai is still waiting for a response of the inhabitants.
Stan: „What's happening?"
Kai: „We are being attacked."
Stan: „I know, but by who?"
Kai: „Balloons."
Stan: „From Fire?"
Kai: „Likely."
Lyekka is approaching the two in a hurry.
Stan: „Lyekka."
Lyekka: „Stan."
She hugs Stan, but only then he sees all the arrows sticking from her back. She's hit many times. She is dying in his arms.
Stan: „Oh, no."
Lyekka: „I just wanted to make you happy, Stan."
Stan: „Yes, you do. Lyekka, are you OK?"
Lyekka: „I didn't see them coming. - Stan?"
Stan: „Yes."
Lyekka: „I have to say 'goodbye' now."
Stan: „No, no, no, no... we can take you back to the Lexx, we can fix you up."
Lyekka: „You make me happy. I'll always be in your heart."
Stan is starting to cry.
Lyekka: „If you cry, you loose the memory of our love."
And then they are kissing each other for the very first time in a very real way. And Lyekka dies. Kai is checking her pulse at her neck. I wonder, if a plant in the shape of a human being really has a pulse.
Stan: „Oh, no."
Kai: „She is dead."
Stan: „No."
Kai: „Yes, and, Stanley, you are in danger. - I can protect you, but I cannot protect you and the moth and Xev at the same time, - unless you stay together."
Stan: „He yeah, I guess, you are right."
Stan lets Lyekka sink to the ground.
Stan: „Where is Xev? - Xev!"
Kai is observing the surrounding area, somebody is watching. And right in that moment the intruders are entering the moth and trying to steal it.
Stan: „They got the moth."
The moth is taking off and Stan and Kai reach Xev's sleeping place, nobody's there.
Stan: „Xev?"
Kai approaches the landing place of the moth, and aims on the flying insects with his brace.
Stan: „Can you reach it?"
Kai: „Yes. I can."
Stan: „Kai?"
Kai: „Yes?"
Stan: „I come with you."
Kai: „Hang on."
And Stan embraces Kai, who gives him a lift. The brace hits the moth and Stan appears on one of the windows. The pilot tries to get rid of him by an arrow bow, but from the other side Kai is entering the moth and throwing the pilot out of the moth. The man on the way down to the ground screams loudly.
Kai is taking the right side and Stan the left side of the front seats of the moth. There is a human shaped sack in the trunk of the moth, it looks like they have rescued Xev?
Stan: „Xev? Kai, you fly, I help Xev. Xev, is that you?"
Stan is touching the breasts of the human shape through the sack.
Stan: „It is Xev. Xev? Xev. You'll be OK!"
Then he opens the sack and tries to free Xev, while Kai is directing the moth in the direction of one of the balloons in front of them.
There is no Xev inside the sack but a metal chest.
Stan: „I don't get it."
The metal breasts are moving, looks dangerous. A stick sticks out. It starts to take fire.
Kai: „Let's go."
Stan: „Where?"
Kai: „Out."
Kai is acting very fast and throws Stan out of the moth and jumps just behind him. Grapping him closely. Stan is screaming on the way down.

And Prince is watching them from one of the balloons by his binocular-glasses.
He is watching the moth flying without a straight direction and without control and after a while it explodes.
Prince: "The moth, - it does go BOOM." 
He says to one of his guys on his side and he gives the binocular back to him.

Free falling: Kai looks up, aims and catches one of the balloon gondolas with his brace and is entering it, throwing the enemy men overboard.

Prince in the meanwhile goes to the caught and bond Xev, still bond and still with her in a sack covered face. Prince frees her of the sack, so that she can take a look around.
Prince: „Look, a moth, it does descend. Kai and Stanley assumed, that you would be in the moth, exactly as I anticipated."
She sees the debris of the former moth.
Priest: „It was an excellent plan."
Prince: „Clever"
Priest: „Brave"
Prince: „Insightful"
Priest: „Genius"
Xev: „Stupid."
Prince's talking to a guy that looks pretty much like President Priest of the fourth season with a beart.
Prince: „Stupid? Do you doubt me, Xev?"
Xev: „Kai can't be killed, he is already dead."
Prince: „But Stanley can and Kai does not float, correct?"
(How does he know? there was no such mentioning in his presents yet, this is just a hint, that there is a different order of episodes released than originally planned!)
Xev looks pretty angry.
Priest: „My Prince thinks of everything."
Prince: „So we have you and Stanley and your dead man right out of the picture. Isn't that excellent?"
Priest: „Wonderful."
Prince: „Satisfying."
Priest: „Exciting."
Prince: „Inevitable."
Xev: „Evil."
Prince: „I don't disagree with that."
He walks around Xev. And Priest and Prince are taking her in the center.
Priest: „That's all we do."
Prince: „But bad."
Priest: „That is our job."
Prince: „Our lives."
Priest: „Our commitment."
Prince: „As the opposite of good."
Priest: „Anything but..."
Prince: „That's what Fire is all about, it is the repositary of all that is not good."
Priest: „Precisely."
Xev: „Don't you have a mind of your own?"
Priest: „Uh, no."
Prince: „Am I beautiful?"
Priest: „The most."
Prince: „Witted"
Priest „The sharpest."
Prince: „You love me?"
Priest: „Completely."
Prince: „Die for me!"
Priest: „In an instant."
Xev: „Any of you are going to be sick!"
Prince: „Priest lives on Fire and I am his ruler. And he knows, at least until his demands begin, what would mean an immediate return to incredible pain and suffering. And as you know, I'm very good with pain."
He is stroking Xev's bonded arm pit and even kissing it.
Prince: „However, as he is my Priest, he does not suffer much, for now at least."
Priest is getting the binocular-glass again.
Priest: „My Prince, we have a problem."
Prince is taking the binocular and looking up to another balloon, where Stan and Kai are inside the gondola.

Kai and Stan are directing the gondola. Stan is looking down to the other balloons. The enemy.
Stan: „The sky is full of balloons, they are everywhere. - They are all around us."
Kai: „And one of them likely contains Xev."
Kai shouts: „Xev, can you hear us?"
Xev from one of the lower gondolas: „Kai!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
But then her mouth is shut up again by force by Priest.
Stan: „That was Xev, did you hear that?"
But he is not able to see her!
Stan: „We can hear you, Xev, where are you?"

Xev tries to scream, but is forced by Priest, not to. She struggles, but of no use.
Prince: „Now the game will become more interesting."
Priest: „A chase."
Prince: „A test."
Priest: „Contest."
Prince: „The battle."
Priest: „We defeat."
Prince: „We defeat?"
Priest: „For them, actual for us."
Prince: „Precisely. - You see, Xev…"
He sits down in opposite of her.
Priest (echoing): „…flying a balloon…"
Prince: „Flying a balloon is not science, it is not a lock. There is a lot of luck involved. Sometimes you get an updraft."
Priest: „Sometimes you don't."
Prince: „You never know, but if you have a lot of balloons… "
Priest: „…as we do…"
Prince: „Than you more likely get a favorable wind, as if you have only one. It is a simple matter of mathematics. In order to destroy their balloon, our balloons must rise higher."
Priest nods: „Or at least one of them must."
Priest looks at Prince with the gaze of a victim.
Prince: „What?"
Priest: „To rise above all the others…"
Prince: „For rise we have to shed weight."
Priest: „Her?"
Prince: „No."
Priest is throwing one on the other men just passing by over the edge.
Prince is grinning, getting up and gazing at his last man on the gondola. The guy is pretty smart and prefers to jump himself instead of getting thrown.
Prince: „Thank you. - (and to Xev) - We need you more, then we need them. You could be useful."
The sun is finally rising.

Stan: „We got to make it to another one of those cities."
Kai: „Don't you wanna rescue Xev?"
Stan: „Well, yeah, Kai, but we wanna get some help first."
Kai: „I have observed, that the residents of the very cities on Water suffer from, or perhaps benefit from a certain complacency in relation of potential danger they face."
Stan: „Yeah."
Kai: „They seem to live for the minute. They seem to live in a kind of continuum and will likely show no interest in our problem."
Stan: „OK, so what are you suggesting?"
Kai: „Engaging the other balloons in battle to save Xev now, - on our own."
Stan: „What? How? Look, they are all on us, how can we attack them all?"
Kai: „We don't have to attack them, they seem to be organizing themselves to attack us."
Stan: „Oh, come on, there is no way. They are gonna beat us."
Kai: „Likely you are correct."
Stan: „OK. If I am correct, what are we gonna do?"
Kai: „Whatever we can."
Stan: „You know, Kai, that is easy for you to say, because you are an assassin."
Kai seems to be touched, but in a negative way.
Stan: „I am a security guard class 4 - formally a system deputy backup courier, you know, to win battles is not part of my nature."
Kai: „You are captain of the Lexx, the mightiest weapon in the two universes, what is left of them. - And have been so for the last 4000 years."
Stan seems to be thinking about that. He is moved.

All the other gondolas are throwing their useless ballasts also down, means men. Stan and Kai are watching them fall down and screaming. Stan starts pumping the paddles.
Kai: „They seek advantage by rising above us. So they are shedding weight to gain altitude."
Stan: „I am pumping this thing as hard as I can."
The other gondola guys are pumping with several different men and a few of them are approaching Kai and Stan's balloon now, fetching their arrows and start attack them by a sign of Prince.
Stan ducks. Kai is just watching the arrows flying around, making sure, that Stan is not hit but get hit himself. He sighs quiet. Then he pulls the shaft out of his chest.
Stan: „Did they hit us?"
Kai: „Not where it matters. They don't try to get to the gondola, their strategy is to puncture our balloon and make us descend."
Kai makes his brace ready to fire back, while Stan starts pumping again, but the enemy keeps out of range. 

Prince is watching everything with his binocular.
Prince: „Make sure, they all stay out of range of his weapon."
Priest: „Excellent plan."
Prince is offering Xev a little bit of his water from his bottle. 
Prince: „Would you care for a drink?"
She seems to be attracted and is very thirsty, but refuses though.
Prince: „Very well, - I won't bother to offer you again."
He gets around her and stops walking at her back. He drinks of his own water.

All the enemies' balloons are rising fast around Kai and Stan's gondola. It looks bad for them.
Stan: „They are rising above us."
Kai: „Correct."
Stan: „What can we do?"
Kai: „We can wait."
Stan: „Wait for what?"
Kai: „For them to make a mistake."
Stan: „For them to...that is our entire plan?"
Kai: „Yes."
(That is the model for the 4. season episode: the Game.)
Stan: „What if they don't make a mistake?"
Kai: „Then they will succeed and we will fail."
Stan: „Oh, what does that mean?"
Kai: „That means, that you will die. - And I will sink to the center of this planet."
Stan realizes this situation he's in, and he gets very angry and starts pumping even faster and even more desperate. 
Stan: „Why do I all the pumping and you do all the standing around?"
The enemy is starting to fire arrows again and Kai, on the watch, catches one just milli-seconds before it hits Stan fatally.
Kai: „I will pump, if you request. But then I will not be able to stop darts"
Stan: „That is OK, I like pumping. Did they hit the balloon?"
Kai is watching for holes in the balloons skin.
Kai: „Not yet, close."
One arrow is very close to Stan hitting the gondola.

Priest is pumping on Prince's gondola while his Prince is still talking into Xev.
Prince: „You seem so far away from me now. And we used to be so close."
Xev: „We were never close."
Prince: „I remember your kisses well. They were warm and close."
Prince is stroking her waistline. Gripping her breasts.
Xev: „It was wrong - and you took advantage of me. There was nothing real."
Prince: „Oh, I see hate in your eyes. You should be one of mine, you should be with me. If you can hate me, you should be able to hate others. It is the small step for you to take. - Take it, Xev. Be mine."
And he kisses her on her neck and cheek.
Xev: „No."
Prince: „No?"
Xev: „Why do you to this?"
He walks a few steps away from Xev and turning his back on her.
Prince: „I tempt those, who can be tempted. And I punish those, who deserve to be punished. That is my function, my occupation, my job, my joy. What is wrong with that? And I also punish some, who have done nothing wrong. Who slipped to the cracks. - No system is perfect."
He kisses Xev's arm again.
Prince: „You may not understand, why I do, what I do, but even less do I understand, why you make the choices, that you do... ah, I can see into you, Xev. I can see things inside you. - That even you do not consciously remember. - You have every reason to hate."
He connects to her head and forehead and there comes a vision:

Her female teacher on the TV screen in her baby box, where she was raised:
Teacher: „Good baby, good baby."
Mechanical arms are stroking her as a baby.
Teacher: „Good baby, good baby. Zev of B3K."
The mechanical arms are giving her some toys and something to eat.
Teacher: „Good food, good food. Good food, baby. Zev of B3K."

Prince: „Do you remember that?"
He let's her head go. 
Prince: „- Your childhood, Xev of B3K."
Xev: „No."
Prince: „But you were raised in a box."
Xev: „I was raised in the wife bank of B3K, yes. I really don't remember much of that."
Prince: „There's not much about it to remember."
He is stroking her hair.

The enemy is finally rising above Kai and Stan's balloon. And another attack of arrows is successful and punching their balloon's skin.
Stan: „We have been hit."
They are both watching the hole.
Stan: „We are losing altitude."
Stan tries to pump even harder.

Priest with the binocular: „We have punctured their balloon. They are going down. Soon they will be in the water and we can shoot at them at will."
Prince: „We do not want that."
Priest: „So, what do we do?"
Prince: „We wait."
He gets back to her and touches her face and her head firmly, she is resisting, but of course, bond as she is, she can do nothing to stop him gripping her head again. 
Zev in the box, now she's a fat teenager still with some baby outfits in pink. There is a big divine shadow sign over her belly.
Zev: „Good morning, major."
The TV teacher again: „Good morning, Zev of B3K. Lesson 736. Your husband asks: do you think I am fat? What is the correct answer? 1.) 'No.' 2.) 'It is not what you look on the outside but the man on the inside that matters to me.' 3.) 'I like a man with a lot of meat on his bones. Can we get naked now and ride the tower of power?'"
Zev: „It is not what you look on the outside but the man on the inside that matters to me?"
Teacher: „Wrong! The correct answer is: I like a man with a lot of meat on his bones. Can we get naked and ride the tower of power. Zev of B3K, always flatter your man. Never admit his feelings and use any occasion to please him in bed! Zev of B3K, at this rate you will not graduate from the wife bank for 5.9 years."
Zev: „I will try to do better in the future, major."

Now Xev is crying silent tears.
Prince: „Do you remember that?"
Xev: „It's always hard to remember exactly. But also hard to forget."
Prince: „So much pain. So?"
Xev: „No."
Prince seems to be a little bit disappointed, but Xev is certain.
He returns to his man Priest, who kept watching the enemy's balloon.
Priest: „We should fire everything at them now."
Prince: „Firing everything on them will have no effect on the dead man. It is now time to change our strategy."
Priest: „The right thing to do."
Prince: „You should have come over to me, Xev."
Xev: „Never."
Prince: „I once gave you the chance to let Stanley Tweedle destroy this planet. But you refused my chance because you were a good person. Which means you are my enemy, which means you have to die. - (to Priest) -Throw her over the side."
Priest is letting Xev down from her fixed position, bonds her with the rope, so that she can not even move with her feet a little bit. She knows what is waiting for her: she is expecting her death.
Priest is taking her to the edge of the gondola, bond like a Rollmops. Ready to throw her over.
Prince: „But... we will attach a piece of string to her to improve our negotiating position."

Stan is still pumping like hell, but then there comes a long scream from Xev: she was thrown over the edge of the gondola, but fixed with a long rope, so that she falls not very far down. A little bungee jump actually.
Stan: „What was that?"
They are both looking up
Kai: „Xev."
Prince shouts down to Stan and Kai: „The time has come for you to make a deal."
Stan: „He wants to make a deal, what now?"
Kai: „We wait for him to make a mistake."
Stan: „Well, he hasn't been making too many so far, see Kai, why don't you do the assassination thing with your brace and get this over with."
Kai: „I would if my brace would be full functioning, but it is not."
That is news, and another hint that this episode is supposed to be one in a wrong order and should be before the K-Town EP!
Stan: „What, what, what's the deal?"
Prince: „The dead man will jump over the side and sink into the sea."
Xev is crying desperately.
Prince: „Unless he does that in the next ten seconds, Priest will cut the cord of Xev and SHE will sink into the sea.... 10."
Xev: „No!"
Prince: „9, 8..."
Kai is thinking about a solution, he looks very serious.
Prince: „7, 6..."
Xev: „No, don't do it, Kai!"
Kai moves to the edge.
Prince: „5,4..."
Xev: „Don't, Kai!"
Stan: „No! Kai, don't do it! - You are her only hope!"
Prince: „3, 2..."
But Kai is already standing on the edge and ready to jump. Without any emotions. Kai takes the last look up to Prince and Xev.
Prince: „Look, he is climbing over the side for you! Isn't that sweet?"
Kai is getting ready. He is putting his arms up.
Stan: „Wait!"
Xev: „No, Kai!"
Stan: „No, Kai!"
But Kai jumps. Right at that second Priest is cutting the cord of Xev. Right when Kai is firing his brace and catching Stan's gondola again. And she is falling down to the far away surface of the ocean just like Kai. She's screaming.
But she survives hitting the surface, barely, and tries to stay up ... paddling hard.

Prince: „Why did you do that?"
Priest excuses: „The ten seconds were up. So I cut the cord like you said."
Prince: „I did not tell you to cut it."
Priest: „I am deeply sorry, my Prince, it will not happen again. But I do not know what I did wrong."
Prince: „You made a mistake. - Look."

Kai fired his brace just in time to catch the gondola again and now he is hanging on his brace there.
Stan: „Kai!"
Kai: „Bring me down to Xev."
Stan does as told and the gondola is descending. Xev is barely staying above. And then Kai approaches on his cord and catches her with his arm.

Prince is not amused.
Prince: „There is a faint possibility that your stupidity will lead to my opportunity. We certainly have the advantage of height now."

Kai moves the bonded Xev inside the gondola. Seems to be big a effort because Kai makes a funny noise pulling her over the edge. Mh, but he is suppose to be a STRONG assassin!
Xev: „Thanks."
Kai: „You are welcome."
Stan: „Are you OK, Xev?"
Stan puts her on her feet and Kai removes the ropes. But the enemy starts to fire arrows again and punctures the balloon even more.
Stan: „What if we just crash, down on the water?"
Kai: „In that case I would be fine. But you and Xev are very easy targets."
Kai goes to the front of the gondola and looks up and starts to think seriously. Stan starts to pump again.
Stan: „Kai, Kai, I hate to interrupt your meditation. But things are not looking very good for us here."
Kai: „Release the stages."
Stan: „Release the stages."
Kai: „Yes, we have to release the stage. And dispend the gondola from the balloon, now!"

Prince with the binocular: „Fire everything, we must kill them now before they get any higher."
Priest: „How can they get any higher? - (to their men) - Fire everything. We have to kill them NOW!!"
Prince is seriously worrying, that shows on his face.

Kai in the meanwhile gathers Xev and Stan at the wooden platform where the balloons join the gondola. Then Kai cuts the connection to the gondola and only the platform with his three people on rises, very fast above Prince's guys.
Stan: „Good move, Kai."
Kai: „Look."
The Lexx is right in the middle of the two planets now and it seems, that their balloon is rising right in its direction.
Prince watches Kai pointing up and he follows their gazes and also sees the Lexx.
Priest: „Shall I release our own stage?"
Prince: „Yes!"

Stan: „The balloons are losing air. How can we make it to the Lexx?"
Kai: „We have to be very lucky."
Xev: „We are already slowing down."
Kai: „And soon we start to drop. Rapidly. -  We must shed weight."
Xev: „What weight?"
Kai is looking at Stan, does he think about dropping Stan?
Stan: „Oh no. No."
Xev: „Look!"
Priest is copying the action of Kai and Stan and tries to remove the gondola from the stage of their own balloon.
Prince: „Are you ready?"
Priest: „Nearly."
Priest is still fumbling on the few connecting cables left.
Prince: „Hurry, I am losing time. - What are you doing?"
Priest tries to climb up to the platform.
Priest: „I have to release the main stage from up here. Where else? Or we are going down with the gondola."
Priest tries to climb to the platform, but Prince has other plans.
Prince: „You are going down with the gondola."
Priest: „I'm sorry, I am not clear."
Prince: „I have no further use for you. You are dead weight. Now please fall to death with the gondola and don't waste any more time about it. Is that now clear enough for you?"
Priest: „Very clear, you are my Prince."
Prince: „You always take reward in my opportunity. Their balloon is losing air, ours is not. It will be easy to rise above them and pick them off. 
Priest: „You are my Prince."
Prince: „Now get on with it!"
Priest (shouts): „I will get on with it."
Priest is climbing up while Prince looks up to his enemies and Priest hits Prince with his knife and injures him fatally. Prince falls down to the gondola and Priest stays on the platform.
Prince: „You, you fool, what do you think you will gain?"
Priest: „What else would you expect? Now I will rise to the top."
Prince is laughing. What an illusion!
Prince: „No."
Priest: „And I will rule this planet."
Prince: „You will suffer."
Priest cuts the very last junction of the gondola and his platform rises, when Prince is falling down with the gondola. But Prince still has an arrow bow. And he aims on Priest who is laughing out loud. Almost hysterical. But Prince shoots Priest to death. And Prince is happyily grinning as well, while dying.
Their platform is rising on its own, straight in that direction of the platform of our three heroes.
Stan: „We're not gonna making it our way."
Kai: „No, our balloon is losing too much air."
Stan: „What, what now?"
Xev: „Look there."
The other platform is approaching them.
Stan: „Oh no no no no. You are not actually suggesting that I like going throw myself down there and, when I'm incredible lucky, I will be landing on Prince's balloon, are you?"
Kai: „No."
Stan: „No, that is good, because I wouldn't die, after I missed the balloon, because my heart has stopped long before that."
Xev: „We have to jump, Stan." 
Stan: „No, Xev, I am informing you right now, that I am in no way could for a jump like that, you know, my fingers won't respond to the instruction of my brain to let go."
Xev is watching Kai instead of listening to Stan's rambling.
Stan: „My brain would not even produce an instruction like that."
Kai: „I will jump. And then I will bring you over."
Stan: „How?"
Kai shows his brace arm without any further words.
Stan: „No no no no, your brace is not working right, remember?"
Kai is touched.
Kai: „Hopefully you will be still close enough. I think, I must pick up Stan first. - and then I will grab you."
Xev nods.
Then Kai jumps. He tries to direct this fall by waving his arms and legs. He falls on one of the full balloons and is able to stop falling down the satin, and he slowly descends to the platform. Success. He looks up to the other platform. And aiming with his brace arm while passing the two of them. Kai shoots his brace and gets a grip on Stanley.
Stan: „Oh, I am not ready for this, Xev. You go."
Xev: „Captains first"
Stan starts his long, long way to Kai's platform. He is screaming like hell.
He is caught by Kai while arriving.
Stan: „My heart is still working. I don't believe it."
But Xev's balloons get hit again and she looses altitude very fast now!
Stan: „Xev's balloon is out of control. Fire your brace now! Fire now!"
Xev's balloon is torkling like hell. She descends very fast!
Kai: „She is out of range."
Stan: „We have to go down and get her."
Kai: „We will, but in a moth."
They are approaching the Lexx now, only a few miles away.
Stan: „A moth? We don't have time! The other balloons will get to her first!"
Kai: „We are now in the divide between the altitude of the two planets, - Xev will land on Fire. We will reach her in a moth before the other balloons."
Kai is firing his brace and getting connected with Lexx.

Xev fights the turbulences between the two planets. But she is strong so she holds tight on the ropes. After that she is descend to the surface of Fire.

790 is driving his circles around the bridge.
790: „All night by the Kai, Kai, all night by his corpse I did mourn, I dreamed he was tweaking my circuits while I was tasting his bone."

While Xev is descending even faster, this will be a hard landing, Stan and Kai reach the moth chamber and enter a just ready built moth. They are surrounded by active moth breeders, who do not take any notice of their appearance. 
Stan: „Don't those moth breeders ever stop?"
Kai: „No."
They take off.

790 still alone on the bridge, mourning to himself.
790: „All night without Kai, Kai, I am lonely, I am blue and I am sick, I dream of his frozen kisses and fumbling his frozen..."
Than 790 hears the moth starts taking off.
790: „Kai, you'll come back to me, come here, you dark and delicious one... Kai?"
790 moves his board closer to the edge of the bridge but he's falling into the pit in the middle of the bridge blossom instead. He looses his board.
790: „Kai. I'm here. Come back. Come back!...Oh no....you'll come back, you'll need me. You're just in an awful big hurry. It's OK. No, really, it is OK!"
He starts crying: „It is not OK! It is not OK! I love you, Kai."

In the meanwhile the moth is flying through the air lock out into space, trying to follow Xev's balloon which is a very close to the surface now. But Xev is not alone. There is a left behind moth breeder in the desert and it is somehow walking in the same direction as her balloon flies. Before she hits the ground, she decides to jump on her own. The balloon flies a little bit further down the desert, and Xev watches it, but then the moth breeder gets to her. It is almost spent by the heat. And it faults down, exhausted and dying.
Xev kneels beside it.
Xev: „What are you doing here?"
Breeder: „I must build more moths."
Xev: „Are you one of the moth breeders, who were taken to Duketown?"
Breeder: „I must build more moths."
She takes his head, soft and carefully.
Xev: „I know, this probably doesn't mean anything to you, but like me you were a prisoner on the cluster. ...And they turn you into what you are now. But you were once a real person. A real person that lived a real life."
She strokes his cheeks. - All that she is saying here, is also affecting Kai's situation.
Xev: „Can you understand that? Even a little? - You were a real person!"
Breeder: „Must build more moths!"
The moth breeders is breathing very hard now, and then he dies in Xev's arm.
Xev: „Poor you."
After taking a long glance around her, nothing besides heat and sand and dunes.
Xev: „Poor me."
She gets up and starts to walk, but there is no city close to her. Dunes after dunes. A fantastic landscape. Wind is playing with the yellow sand. Then suddenly at the foot of a one very large dune there comes a familiar creature towards Xev. All dressed in black.
Xev: „You again."
Prince: „Me again."
Xev: „How did you get here?"
Prince: „I died."
Xev: „You don't look dead."
Prince: „I am not. I died, but now I have been reawakened here."
Xev: „Why?"
Prince: „I want to be with you, when you die. I have never seen anyone die for the first time." - Mh, als 'der Tod' müßte er das aber schon öfter mal gesehen haben!
Xev: „What makes you think that I am going to die?"
Prince: „You are on the surface of the planet Fire, the sun is up. You can't last the hour."
Xev: „And you?"
Prince: „Oh, I also will die."
Xev: „How sad."
Prince: „Not for me. I'm used to it. But it will not be so used for you. Also your friends will miss you."
She approaches him.
Xev: „Do you know what a cluster lizard is?"
Prince: „Not really."
Xev: „A cluster lizard is a very nasty animal. But I think he originally came from a very hot place."
Prince: „How does that matter?"
Xev: „You will see."
Prince: „When?"
And Xev passes Prince and lets him behind her. But he is following her of course.
Xev: „In less than an hour."
Prince is confused.

In the meanwhile the moth is searching for Xev.
Stan: „We'll never find her."
Kai: „Then we search for the balloon."
But they can't see and find anything.

Prince is out of breath now climbing up a dune, but Xev is pretty fine and a long way ahead of Prince. Prince gives up.
Prince: „How are you going?"
She looks behind her, - down to Prince.
Xev: „Fine.Thank you."
Prince: „I'm not. I am hot. I have to stop. Why aren't you dying?"
Xev: „I'm very good with heat."
Prince: „Ironically I am not. - How is it, that you are not dying?"
Xev: „I am not all human." - BUT he knows that already from the episodes: "May" and "Gondola"!
She returns to him and sits beside him down on the sand.
Xev: „Can you still find, whatever memory you want? With your hand? Like you did before?"
She's playing with his hand and licks his finger.
Prince: „Yes."
Xev: „Think 'cluster lizard'."
And she puts his hand on her head.
And she shows him the ugly mouth of a hungry cluster lizard. Prince is shocked. At least for a second. Then he is laughing.
Xev is retreating from him. And getting up, ready to leave.
Prince: „Then I guess, you get to see me die. - Do you still feel anything for me?"
Xev: „A little."
Prince: „You shouldn't."
Xev: „I agree. - Well, I didn't admit it before, but I am hot, too. Really hot."
And she leaves Prince behind, who is just fading in front of her. She continues her whole walk.

The moth is still searching. Stan and Kai watching the desert.
Stan: „Look, look, do you see it?"
Stan points to the lonely balloon, that is still moving over the sand.
Kai: „Yes."
Stan: „She is not in it."
Kai: „She may be somewhere up wind."
Stan: „We hope."
Kai: „The dead do not hope."
Stan: „Yeah, well, Kai, the living certainly do."
Kai is moved somehow, he might not feel anything, but he is somehow uncomfortable. The moth is passing the abandoned balloon.

And Xev still walks over endless dunes, into the direction where the other planet Water hangs on the sky. It is beautiful!