The End((Music, for your consideration.))
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYMwwL4rCG8The EscapeesYou all grab onto the ladder, and hold tight as it retracts back into the ship. You watch as the city you used to call home rushes away underneath you, seeing mutants swarm the mecha and the rubble of the apartment settle at a distance. It all feels so far away, now, as if it were another lifetime ago that you were sitting at home, enjoying life in its rhythms and simplicity. The grumble of the ship's rockets grows loud and then suddenly goes quiet as you're enveloped by the lower deck of the drop ship, and the hatch slides shut underneath you.
Your eyes adjust quickly to the darkness, and it reveals itself to be an automated sickbay. Two tables sit on either side of the room and robotic sets of surgical tools hang idly from the ceiling. A first aid box is mounted on the far wall, and to the right of that is a door labeled [STAIRWELL]. Behind you is the winch that was pulling the ladder upwards.
You three are beaten, battered, and bloody, but you've made it. Through mutants, explosion, bullets, and laser fire you've pushed yourself far enough to make it to salvation.
The AI takes a moment to run a scanner over the interior room, and sees that Vae is aboard. With that, the ship's engines rotate and pull full throttle and you all rocket away from the planet and to the stars.