The story continues from the previous render... Miho called me again over the comms. She had changed her mind. She told me to go to where the ship was stuck and use the non-lethal weapons to knock out the people on the ship too and then directly mag lift the vehicles and bring them next to the ship. She said she would directly drive to the ship and see how to get it out of here. I told her I will take care of all the vehicles and groups and bring them there. So I headed to the ship. The people and the vehicles below were not going anywhere and it would be easier for Miho if everyone on the ship were already knocked out. The ship was very near the shore stuck in the shallow water due to the storm that had pushed them into this mysterious island. I could see a ramp that they had used to transport the vehicles from the ship to the shore. No one was around. I guessed they were all inside the ship probably working on the engine and other repairs. Just to be sure I turned on the deep scan to see where the people were. All looks good. I then pressed the button and hit them with the same sound wave that I had used on the other group. I could see in my screen that one by one they all fell to the floor. That done, I went back to pick up the vehicles and the people in them from the different locations. I had already brought back most of the vehicles when Miho drove in the truck. She and the wolf got down. I told her only the vehicles and people in the first clearing where left. As I took off again, Miho and the wolf stood there looking at me. What a sight she was. It was good to see a smile on her finally. Soon we could wrap things up here and head home and snuggle up and get some rest. That thought energized me. Below Miho had already started to get into the vehicles and drive them up the ramp into the ship. One by one she drove all the vehicles into the ship. Some of them had to be towed but that was not a problem for Miho. She could easily pull them by herself. But there were 2 persons she did not put in the ship. One was the leader of the killer / protection squad and the other was the board member. She had other plans for those two. After I got the final load of vehicles, Miho got into the hyperplane and dumped the two of them in the rear. They were still unconscious. She then picked up the memory wiping device and said she will be back. She went into the ship and wiped everyone's memory for the past 24 hours. Minutes later she was back and said we needed to modify the mag lift equipment. I asked what for ? I thought we had done with its use for now. She said she was going to use that to pull the ship out of the shallow water and tow it out into the open ocean. I was a bit overwhelmed by the thought of it but if Miho said she could modify the equipment I knew she could. Miho went about taking the mag lift equipment apart and when she reassembled the mag lift with parts borrowed from other equipments it was around 1000x more powerful. More than enough to pull the ship. I had no clue what she had done but knew we will be able to pull the ship away from this mysterious island. The ship did not have power to sail on her own. The damage to its engine had been severe. With everything set and with me and the wolf besides her, Miho took control of the hyper plane and engaged the mag lift and slowly inch by inch pulled the huge ship out into the open waters. Once in open water she increased the speed and we were off to wherever Miho decided to anchor the ship. Once we reached the spot she dialed a number from the console. I knew who she was calling. That guy always got a shock when Miho called his ever changing secret phone number that no one other than a handful of people were supposed to know. The guy - Who is this ?" Miho - "Have another present for you at location xxxxxx xxxxxx." The guy - "What the... ? How do you keep getting my ever changing number ?" Miho - "I see a carrier group near there. Ask one of the destroyers to pay a visit to that location. They will find all the info you need in the bridge. I have left you a usb drive (She had typed in all the information and saved in the usb stick she had found when she had gone into the ship to wipe everyone's memory). You will also find 3 members of your black team who have been moonlighting as security for The Corporation." The guy - "Wait... wait... How do you know all this and for heaven's sake, who are you ? You have never tol......" Miho cut the line. To that guy, Miho's voice was mechanical devoid of all emotion. She was using an encoder. He could not even figure out whether he was talking to a guy or a girl. It was time to go back to the island and see Kenta once to say our goodbyes to him and tell him it was safe once again for them to go back to their villages. So still in the invisible mode we flew back to the island. Miho called Kenta over the comms she had given her on her first visit. She told Kenta that we had taken care of all the people who had come onto the island and had removed all of them from the island. She told him to come and meet us near the top of the mountain. Kenta told his kind that it was safe to go back to the village and as they started to move back, Kenta made his way to us. We left the hyperplane hovering just off the cliff and jumped onto the ledge. It was giving me vertigo. I knelled down next to the wolf. Kenta came up from the edge of the cliff. Miho knew he was a good climber. It was such a beautiful place with a breathtaking view. Miho gave Kenta a hug and they started chatting. Kenta suddenly asked Miho - "So where is your world ?" looking all around. Miho pointed to a direction and said it was that way. Kenta only smiled. To him there was nothing behind the horizon. He had not know of this world away from his world until he had met Miho. He said to Miho that he would love to come and see her world. Miho smiled and told him she will come back soon to take him to her world. Finally Kenta gave a pat to the wolf and gave me a hug and once again knelled down and said "My queen, you have saved all of my kind and I will forever be grateful to you". Miho just lifted him up to him feet and gave him another hug and said she will always be there whenever he or his kind needed her help. Then Kenta climbed down the cliff to catch up with the rest of his kind going back to their villages. We three got back on the hyperplane and took off. It was time to get back to our world...Things had been hectic. Finally it was done....

I had fallen sick last week. Was down with flu for the whole week. Finally felt a little better over the weekend and thought I finish this current story. Still not 100%. I will catch up on commenting in a day or two. Have caught up with half of it. Another 12 plus pages to go. I was again wondering what to render to end this current story. If I was doing a single image, I think it would have been harder to come up with a scene. But ever since I started doing this multiple panels it has helped to tell the different parts of the story. I specially wanted to show the shuttlestar pulling the ship out into the ocean and that POV showed how pristine the ocean was here near that mysterious island. Also as that scene was quite empty, I added two whales to the scene. For the water I just used a specular material with medium set (to create volume). This time I let it render without clicking the fake shadows to get some caustic effect. It takes a fair bit longer but the different color hues on the water looks good. The water is just a plane primitive where I used a turbulence node to create the unevenness of the surface. The foam is a separate prop that I resized to fit around the ship. I also re-textured the ship. The original textures were very crappy. I also wanted to do a last scene with the Orc. So once I had created the ocean scene, I decided to use that with a cliff prop and create a scene with all four of us on the cliff edge looking at the ocean around us. That I think was a appropriate scene to end this story on with both Miho and the orc smiling. I am using another texture on Miho. At least this one has more even color tone from head to toe. I had to tweak my custom shader a bit for this texture. Overall I like how it looks though it still needs a bit of work. Finally I can go and change Miho's cloths and hair now that the story has ended. I think this was a longest one till date. Need to figure out what to do next... which is a pain... in a good way ;).