- Chapter 22 - Epilogue

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It was the beginning of another sunny day, Charles knocked the sheets off of himself and tumbled his way towards the bathroom still half asleep. He reaches for the cold tap handle and lightly turns it on, allowing a stream of water to flow downwards in a regulated manner. Charles cups both of his hands under the running stream, allowing the water to come in contact with his hands as they trap a small amount of water in it's grasp. Lifting up his hands after there's enough water in them he splashes his face with it, hissing due to the cold water softly hugging his face. The sensation causes him to be wide awake in a matter of seconds as he looks at himself in the mirror feeling a weird feeling that he can't exactly pinpoint the cause of. Regardless of what it may be, Charles starts making his way towards the shower and proceeds to turn the water on.

After more than half an hour Charles leaves the bathroom, heading to the kitchen but stopping by his bedroom to grab his trusty red headset as well as get properly dressed. In the kitchen Charles starts preparing his breakfast, grabbing a couple of ingredients out of the fridge to make an omelette. Charles breaks two eggs and adds them to an empty bowl, adding milk as well as a pinch of salt and a bit more of pepper than salt. He starts to mix the whole thing with a fork in circual motions, occasionally stopping because of his wrist that was cramping from the repetetive motion.

After considering the mixture to have been stirred around well enough Charles places down the bowl and heads towards the stove. Grabbing a pan, he turns on the stovetop and places the pan on top of the lit gas plate. While waiting for the pan to heat up Charles picks out a few vegetables as well as ham to slice or chop up into pieces for the omelette. Finally, the pan was warm enough for him to put a one quarter of a stick of butter into it, waiting patiently for it to melt before pouring in the eggs he mixed earlier. After a while Charles flips it, now adding the ham slices on top of the already cooked side of the omelette.

Two minutes go by and Charles turns off the cooker, taking the omelette off the pan with a spatula and placing it down on a plate before adding various chopped up vegetables into it and folding it in half. He proceeds to eat his simple breakfast over a full glass of water, before putting on his combat shoes to head to the Government base on foot.

Charles enjoys every walk he takes to it, even if the landscape may be the same every time that he walks there, but this time he couldn't focus, something felt wrong but he couldn't understand what it was. The walk took around 41 minutes, upon making it to his destination he was greeted by none other than General Hubert Galeforce.

"Good morning Charlie. Good to have you here today," - Started the General as Charles waved to him, explaining how his helicopter flying skills are needed for a mission, "think you can do that?"

Charles smiles brightly, "Of course, you can count on me, General! I'll always be happy to help." - Galeforce chuckles, sometimes Charles' cheerfulness is really contageous.

Charles makes his way towards a helicopter the General mentioned earlier, sitting behind the steering wheel while waiting for the people who were supposed to join him in the mission. After what could've felt like forever Charles felt a soft shift on the helicopter's weight followed by some shuffling, "Go ahead, Charlie." - Charles turned on the helicopter and flew into the air, directing the helicopter towards the last known location of the Toppat airship.

It took a good while before they were able to stop the airship and get close enough to it. As Charles was about to announce that they were already near the airship he got a strong feeling of déjà vu which felt even more strange to him. Although, all of that weird and strange feelings started to connect to eachother once Charles heared the name Henry Stickmin.

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