A cloud of acid rain bubbles over Palestra. The many people die while wondering what their lives would be like if they were crabs, or if they had crabs. The acid erodes their skin until they are nothing but piles of bones. The buildings disintegrate. The cloud goes over to the ocean and fades away while Palestra is left in ruins. Jerry Bennett, president was out of town at the time. When he returned, he fell into the ashes of the people of town and dies.

Thus, the end of Palestra.