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Chapter 25 - Desolation

On the U.S. Wolf, Caleb, Cassandra, Jenny and Woody are aiding the Wolf sailors fight off the Krens forces, but just barely as many Wolf sailors are killed with Woody taking a bullet to the shoulder.

Caleb: Woody!

Jenny: Daddy!

At Archly Gate, the Condemned have breached the gates and are killing any A.O.W wounded while other Condemned Brutes, Sergeants and Guards are attempting the sealed door with other humans baring their backs against the cornered civilians including Margaret and Maya.

Margaret: This is really it.....This is really it. We're gonna die here.

Maya: No.....no, we are still alive and that says something. We're survivors.....there's a lot we should've died from before today, but we are still here fighting the fight. We can't lose hope yet...

Margaret sighs. The Condemned continue attempting to break the door down.

Margaret: Kyle, if you're still alive, you better do something quick and do it now....cause we're out of time.

At Perseus, on the rooftop of the Tower where the machine is held, the elevator stops as Kyle, Shawn, James, Sarah and Andrew exit, entering a fight between Condemned and Krens forces.

Andrew: It's going to take a few minutes to activate the machine.

Kyle: Don't worry. We'll give you enough time!

Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah engage the Condemned and Krens forces while Andrew manages to sneak his way into the control room of the device.

Andrew: C'mon! C'mon!

After a few long minutes in the battle, Marcus, in a Chimera, arrives to aid Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah.

Marcus: What's up, guys?! I got your back!

Shawn: Hey, it's Marcus!

Marcus: Can't start the show without me now, can you?!

Marcus opens fire with the turret, gunning down many Krens drones and Condemned guards.

Marcus: Boom! Right out of the fuckin park! You see that?! I'm on fire, baby! Yeah!

With the help of Marcus on the Chimera, Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah are finally able to secure the rooftop as Andrew begins to active the machine.

Andrew: Cover me! I need to make sure the machine's fully powered!

After a short pause, Mina and her Queen Wasp burst out from the rooftop floor.

Sarah: Shit! It's Mina!

Mina: No! I will not allow this to happen! Stop this! Now!

The Chimera closes in on the Queen Wasp.

Marcus: Eat shit and die, fuck-face!

Marcus uses the turret to open fire on the Queen Wasp, but with little damage.

Marcus: Yeah, you like that?! Huh?! Take that, you evil fucking cunt!

The Queen Wasp attacks with its beam, hitting the rotor tail of the Chimera, causing it to spin out of control.

Marcus: Oh, shit! Fuck me! We're on fire! Goddamn it!

The Chimera crashes below, apparently killing Marcus.

Kyle: No, Marcus! Everyone! Take her down! Now!

Shawn: God-fucking-damn it, man! I thought we took care of that bitch!

Kyle: Dad, how long is that going to take?!

Andrew: I must increase the power by a few stages I installed! It's going to take a while!

The Queen Wasp attacks with her high-powered beam, but Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah manage to shoot enough rounds in the beam that it takes down the Queen Wasp temporarily.

Kyle: It's down!

Andrew manages to activate the accelerator of the machine as it starts spinning around to power up.

Andrew: The accelerator's primed and ready. Kyle! The system's online and powering up! Grab the Gods' Fist Weapon!

Andrew presses a button that presents the Gods' Fist weapon outside the machine.

Shawn: you want to use a nuclear weapon?!

Kyle grabs Gods' Fist Weapon.

Kyle: What choice do we have?!

Andrew: It's the only way to kill that monster!

Kyle aims the beam at the Queen Wasp as the Gods' Fist beam reigns down, severely damaging the beast as it retreats. Suddenly, Condemned guards using grappling hooks enter the battle.

Shawn: We got company!

Kyle: Hold them off!

Shawn, James and Sarah engage the Condemned guards, before the Queen Wasp returns and attacks while hanging on the side of the rooftop. The Queen Wasp then levitates in the air, continuing its attack.

Mina: Andrew-I'm warning you one last time, goddamn it!

Andrew: Mina-this has to end! We can't survive like this anymore!

Mina: No! Shut the machine down or I will kill the boy!

Andrew: you're willing to kill your own son?!

Mina: If I have to kill my own flesh and blood to ensure a better species survives, so be it!

Kyle: (sarcastically) Yeah, love you too, "Mom"!

Kyle shoots at the Queen Wasp's exposed beam.

Kyle: Ignore her, Dad. Keep going!

After killing the Condemned Guards, Shawn, James and Sarah join the fight against Mina and the Queen Wasp, taking the beast down once again.

Sarah: It's down again! Strike it with the Fist!

Kyle aims the Gods' Fist beam at the Queen Wasp, before the high-powered satellite beam reigns down on the Queen Wasp again as it once again retreats.

Sarah: That hurt it!

Shawn: He's gotta hurry up with that fucking machine! We can't keep this up!

Kyle: We'll buy him enough time!

James: Look out! It's attacking from the side!

The Queen Wasp continues attacking with latched to the side of the rooftop. Andrew continues working on the machine as it powers up.

Andrew: It's reaching target speed, Kyle! We almost got it!

Suddenly, a energetic blue beam is launched into the sky. During the fight on the U.S.S Wolf, the beam is seen by Caleb, Cassandra and Woody. On Perseus, the Tower, Mina and the Queen Wasp directly attack the machine.

Mina: Fuck it! You leave no choice!

The Queen Wasp begins to attack the machine chamber.

Kyle: Shit!

Andrew: Kyle! Get her off! She'll destroy the whole chamber!

Mina: Andrew, this ends now!

Shawn: I got it!

Shawn tosses an incendiary grenade at the Queen Wasp back, forcing it to fly off. The Queen Wasp then drops onto the ground of the rooftop, directly attacking Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah. Sarah is knocked down.

Kyle: Sarah!

The Queen Wasp knocks away Shawn and James, as Kyle aims the Gods' Fist at the Queen Wasp, but before he can align the beam, a damaged pillar falls and knocks Kyle down. The Queen Wasp moves in to kill Kyle, who attempts to grab the Gods' Fist, but the Queen Wasp uses one it's legs to stab Kyle in the shoulder, before bringing him up to Mina's level.

Mina: Andrew!

Andrew turns to notice the Queen Wasp restraining Kyle, before running out to the rooftop.

Andrew: No! Mina! Don't!

Mina: Oh, Andrew, it's too late.....you wasted your life...you are a great scientist....but you are a terrible husband and terrible father....obsessing over your research.

Andrew: Mina. Please.....don't do this.

A short tense pause.

Mina: You feel that, Kyle? That is pain.....pain your father has caused you and me.....

Andrew: Goddamn it, Mina....don't.

Mina: He is my child.....my blood....(pulls out knife) so I am going to show you how much of a failure you as a parent while I kill your son.

Before Mina can kill Kyle, she is suddenly shot in the shoulder by Sarah, causing the Queen Wasp to drop Kyle.

Sarah: Get your fucking hands off him! You don't deserve a son as brave as yours!

Mina: The wife! You fight for him?!

Sarah: Willing to die for him too, bitch.

Mina yells out, before charging at Sarah with the Queen Wasp. Suddenly, the Queen Wasp is shot in the eye with an explosive arrow by Shawn as it detonates, destroying the whole left face of the Queen Wasp and severely damaging Mina. Kyle grabs the Gods' Fist Weapon and aims the beam at the Queen Wasp as it attacks. In slow motion, the Gods' Fist beam reigns down on the Queen Wasp, severely burning it as it crashes into the machine chamber.

Shawn: This time, bitch, stay the fuck dead!

The Queen Wasp finally dies as Kyle, Shawn, James, Sarah and Andrew regroup. Suddenly, Krens stalks begin emerging from the ground of the rooftop.

Shawn: Shit!

The device begins to power up all its energy.

Andrew: It will be at full power soon.

James: Professor, you said you tested this thing, right? How?

Andrew: The only way I could, James. 

Andrew lifts up lower shirt clothing to reveal radioactive fluid injection.

Andrew: On myself. I had to see how the radioactive fluid developed over its life cycle, so I injected myself with it to alter its' acceleration.

Sarah: Jesus.

Kyle: Dad, we saw what it did to humans in Kingsmen and Union City.

Krens Drones begin to emerge from the pods as they approach Kyle, Shawn, James, Sarah and Andrew.

Shawn: Damn it!

James: Guys, we do not have the ammo for another fight!

Kyle: Then we use what we got left.

Suddenly, the machine fully activates, releasing a blue energetic wave that ultimately kills the Krens forces including the stalks while Andrew begins to feel weak.

Andrew: It's happening.

Kyle: Dad, we have to move. This tower's becoming too unstable.

Andrew: Forgive me, son. I-I'm not going to make it.

Kyle tosses his assault rifle to the ground.

Kyle: It's going to be okay! I can carry you!

Andrew: Kyle, you don't understand! The radioactive fluid developed so much faster in me, because I used force! I had to understand how it reproduced in order to kill it, but I knew there'd be a cost.

Kyle: "Cost" Wha-what are you talking about?

Another blue energy wave from the machine disperses, turning the Krens drones into ash as radioactive fluid veins begin expose in Andrews' body.

Shawn: Holy shit, man.

Kyle: No! You're not going to fucking die like this.

Andrew: It's too late, Kyle. Every radioactive cell along with mine is being destroyed....and this is what will happen to every infected being on Earth. This is how it has to end.

Kyle becomes tearful.

Kyle: No, goddamn it! I just got you back! I'm not losing you again. I can't fucking lose you, too!

Andrew: I'm sorry I wasn't to see you and your brother turn into the great men you are, but I'm happy to know that one of my children is alive.....now you promise me....that you will live....for yourself.....for your wife....for your child.....for me....

Kyle: Dad...

A short pause, before Andrew touches Kyles' face.

Andrew: My boy...my son...

Another blue energy wave disperses as Andrew's entire body turns into ash, before Kyle kneels in shock and mourn while Shawn and James are saddened.

Sarah: (tearful) Oh, my god! No!

Kyle: (crying) Dad! Dad! Please! No!

Kyle grabs the necklace that Andrew had around his neck and looks down. Suddenly, Mina, severely burned, erupts from the dead Queen Wasp corpse as Kyle, who gives an angered look, Shawn, James and Sarah notice this. Mina spits out blood.

Mina: A coward!

James and Shawn prepare to shoot, but Kyle raises his hand.

Kyle: Don't shoot her.

Mina walks towards Kyle.

Mina: Ah! So weak and emotional....even in death!

Kyle: Is that you think of him?! Of me?

Mina: Your father always though he had to answers to everything, but he was nothing and had nothing-nothing but perfect ways to fuck up the world! The Gods' Fist.....Python.....Midtown Manhattan....and now this machine. And his own creation finally killed him...but the one abomination was the one thing growing inside my own womb.....his blasphemous creation, out all his work, was your brother and YOU!!!

Kyle, appalled, pulls out Jakes' knife and stabs Mina in the heart.

Kyle: You feel that, don't you? That's called pain.....it's also from my brother.....and Ashley....and everyone else you have taken from me...you're not my mother.....my mother's dead.

Kyle pulls out knife as Mina dies, falling to the floor dead. Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah stare down at Minas' corpse.

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