In the aftermath of the firefight, Darrow questions Kavax, who confirms Mustang’s claim that Orion is alive and the destroyer Pax is safe. Victra nurses a severe arm wound while Sevro and Clown remark on Fury Moira’s death. Darrow confronts Sevro for cutting his coms and risking Mustang, but Sevro denies knowing she would be present.

Searching the wreckage, Clown locates Quicksilver alive, pinned beneath a fallen pillar near the viewport. Victra detects a hidden door behind the pillar with Obsidian bodyguards cutting through, revealing that luck accidentally saved them. They free Quicksilver, his legs broken. With Pebble barely functional and multiple prisoners—Matteo and Kavax—Sevro moves to execute Kavax for speed, but Darrow shoves his aim aside, nearly hitting Matteo, and insists Kavax is vital leverage, provoking a bitter argument about mercy and war.

As Screwface reports over a hundred security personnel inbound, Darrow seizes command. He orders Holiday to stage one kilometer beyond the glass and has the team rig for a vacuum extraction: grab data if possible, cover the hall, tie everyone together, masks on the unconscious, jammers on. Sevro, stung and doubtful, lays charges but yields to Darrow’s plan.

Sun Industries security chief Alec ti Yamato demands surrender, then spikes the artificial gravity, pinning the Howlers while a glossy, illegal combat drone rolls in and targets Sevro. Darrow orders Ragnar to fire on the viewport. Straining under crushing gravity, Ragnar charges his pulseFist and blasts the glass; the pane splinters and gives way, and vacuum rips the room open. Bodies and debris torrent into space as Victra and Darrow snag Sevro.

Facing the void, Darrow masters his fear and howls Omnis vir lupus. Ragnar, Pebble, Clown, and Victra join, and their bravado steadies the team. Sevro stays silent. Bound together by Victra’s line, the Howlers are vented into the abyss, gambling everything on Holiday’s speed to pluck them from space.