Hello. Hello. Surprise. Surprise. I am back. Only for a short while though.

I wrote an alternate ending of how Link to the Past could've went as I was writing the original ending & I wanted to share it with you guys. I didn't want to make this the original ending for the fine fact there's aspects of it that are just too crazy & plus... I was already gonna be a little satan and kill off Brad, Ashton & Dan... I didn't wanna be a satan anymore haha.

This chapter is picking up from Chapter 28 or 29 in the original LTP (I Can't remember haha)

Anyways, I hope you guys enjoy this alternate ending! It is a few chapters long so there is a bit more to come.

Enjoy!


Disclaimer: I do not own R5, Bradley Simpson from The Vamps, 5 Seconds of Summer, Dan Howell (danisnotonfire), Joe Sugg (ThatcherJoe), Caspar Lee or Phil Lester (AmazingPhil) - all rights go to Hollywood Records, Virgin EMI/Mercury/Universal Records, Capitol Records & YouTube!


Chapter 28
It's Over

Luke and Ashton were in the security unit after searching around for someone but there had been nobody at all. "Where the hell could everyone be? It's not like there's an unlimited amount of places where they can hide." Luke said.

As they walked down the hallway, there was a flash of blue light which almost blinded the pair as they were that close to it – when they looked, after the flash had disappeared, Ross appeared in a sitting position but soon fell flat on the floor because there was obviously nothing for him to sit on. "Ahh! What the fuck?!" Ross raised his voice in confusion, scrambling up from the floor and onto his knees.

"What's wrong?" Ashton asked.

Next, Caspar appeared screaming with his eyes closed. But his scream slowly faded as he opened his eyes, seeing he was in the base with Luke and Ashton stood in front of him and Ross knelt on the floor next to him. "What?!" Caspar asked, his voice high in pitch and obviously confused – which was making Luke and Ashton confused as to why they were confused and had appeared out of nowhere.

"WHY AREN'T WE DEAD?! Not that I'm complaining…" Ross shouted, soon quietening his voice and still being on the floor.

"What do you mean why aren't you dead? What's happened?" Luke asked, getting a little frustrated at how nobody was telling him anything.

"Wait, where's Brad and Joe?" Ross asked, getting up from the floor and looking at Caspar, their eyes widened "No…" He said, realising that they were both more than likely dead.

Another flash of blue light came out from nowhere seconds later with Joe and Brad making an appearance shortly after it – with Brad holding onto the back of Joe's t-shirt, both with their eyes shut tightly and screaming at the top of their lungs in fear.

"BRAD! JOE!" Caspar shouted, to get them to stop screaming.

They stopped screaming and opened their eyes. "What?!" Joe asked.

"Will someone explain what happened?!" Ashton asked, raising his voice.

"There was a plane that set off in the Hangar with a warhead on ready to detonate so me, Caspar and Brad chased it with another plane – we caught up to the plane and Brad used his wrist-epoch to get onto the plane with the warhead on in the hope to take down the pilot and whoever else was on board and fly the plane back to here. But it didn't happen 'cause Brad accidentally set the warhead to detonate 'cause he got knocked to the floor by someone on the plane he killed and as he fell he tried to grab hold of the warhead." Ross explained.

"I didn't try to grab hold of it, my hand hit it as I fell!" Brad protested, as he was seeing the looks he was getting off Luke and Ashton.

"Whatever," Ross cut him off before he could continue "anyway, he started begging for one of you two to come and disarm the warhead—"

"No I never!"

"Yeah you did," Ross said, holding his hand out to make sure he didn't say another word "anyway, back to where I was. After that, I sent Caspar back here with his wrist-epoch to come find one of you two or Joe – whoever he found first – to come back and disarm it, only having seven minutes. He got him back on our plane with like fifteen seconds to spare, Joe transported onto the plane Brad was on and the next we know, we see the plane blow up – bearing in mind the backlash is coming towards us too ready to wipe us out but the then the next thing we know we disappear and are back here. Why aren't you two dead?" Ross asked, turning to Brad and Joe "more importantly, how the hell did we get back here?!"

Dan and Phil had the wrist-epoch's and were giving them to everyone as they already had theirs. Dan got to Joe and gave him his, tying it round his wrist. After, they looked at one another and Dan could see the fear/nervousness in Joe's eyes, so he smiled at him a little and nodded as if to say "you'll do fine". Joe gave him an unsure smile back.

Someone tapped Joe on his shoulder and he turned round to see Michael. "Hey, can I just look at your wrist-epoch for a second? I need to make sure something's right on it." He said.

"Why? Is it broke?" Joe asked, getting even more nervous than he was.

Michael shook his head "Oh, no, no, no, don't worry it's fine, I've had to do it with Caspar, Ross and Brad's too so you're not the only one."

"Oh, okay."

There we go.

Rydel, Michael and Calum and their subtle ways of telling you 'you're life is going to be in danger and you may die, so we're going to save it on the sly without you knowing'.

"It froze on one for about five seconds and then it restarted again and went to zero, and as we heard it rumble, ready to explode, we disappeared too." Joe said.

"These past fifteen minutes have not been good for my heart," Brad said, having a hand on his heart and looking sort of traumatised from the experience. He looked at a door and through the glass on it, he groaned "Nooo! Not again! There's a bomb!"

Everyone looked through the door and seen the bomb. "Rocky and Rydel put it there earlier to blow up this part of the base in case we didn't succeed in getting rid of all the guards. And me and Michael put two up in HQ as well." Luke said.

"I'm sensing that's not needed any more 'cause the guards have disappeared. Maybe you should go disarm it." Ross said.

"Yeah, will do. What about the one in HQ?" Luke asked.

"I think we should leave that one just in case Priscilla, Maxwell and Harvey find their way back up there."

"Maxwell's dead. We killed him." Ashton said.

"Oh… Well there's a nice surprise." Brad said, becoming happy instead of scared.

"How did he die?" Caspar asked.

"I gave him a friendly push off the roof." Luke said.

"Lovely."

Joe handed Luke the pocket knife he used to cut the wires on the warhead he disarmed so that he could disarm the bomb in the room. "You two get yourselves back to the basement. Ross, Brad, go look for Priscilla, Harvey, Isaac or Mariah. We'll sort this bomb situation out." Ashton said.

"Alright." Ross said.

The six boys all then split off – Luke and Ashton went in the room where the bomb was to disarm it, Ross and Brad went off to go find Priscilla or Harvey or both and Joe and Caspar made their way back to the basement.

Luke and Ashton finished disarming the bomb in the security unit and left to try either catch up to Ross and Brad or find Rocky.

Dan sat in the basement with Phil, Mia and Courtney, and pretty much everyone who worked at the base apart from the people who had found a different place to hide for safety in the basement. He was nervous and had been it ever since Caspar took Joe to disarm the warhead. He shook his head, getting up "I've gotta go back up there." Dan said.

"What? Why?" Phil asked.

"I promised Joe I'd make sure he'd stay alive for the sake of his daughter growing up without any parents – and he's up there now."

"No, he's on a plane disarming a bomb but you don't know where that plane is." Courtney said, trying to talk him out of going up so Dan himself was safe.

"It shouldn't have took him that long to. I need to go up there and see if he's back." Dan said, making his way towards the door of the basement.

"Dan!" Phil said, getting up. Dan stopped and faced him. Phil went to go say something in the hope to stop him but he knew fine well that he wasn't, so he shook his head and sighed "Be careful."

"I will." Dan went to the door and someone thankfully unlocked it for him and they let him out, locking it after him.

Courtney stood up from where she sat "You're going after him aren't you?" She asked.

Phil turned to her "I wouldn't be a good friend otherwise."

"Alright but we're coming with you." Mia said.

"You don't have to."

"No, we want to. Nobody should be alone at any point during this." Courtney said, where then, the three left the basement and proceeded to follow Dan.

Calum started moving around and making groaning noises which caught the attention of Samara, Rydel and Michael!Brad. They turned to him and seen that he had woken up, looking confused. "Are you alright?" Rydel asked.

Calum nodded "Y-yeah… I'm fine… How… I thought I was fighting Isaac..?" He asked, being slightly confused.

"You were but you were starting to phase out of existence so we had to carry you to find Ross and Brad, but then a grenade went off so that didn't help matters."

"Wait, so… I'm now created and Brad's carrying me?"

Samara shook her head "No, I'm carrying you 'cause if Brad was he'd either hurt you, himself or have a miscarriage due to all the fighting and stress you're all under."

"Oh, okay. Well… What's going on now?" Calum asked.

"The last we heard, everyone but Brad, Ross, Rocky, Luke, Ashton and Caspar had gone to the basement for safety, all that was left was Priscilla, Maxwell, Harvey, Mariah and Isaac. I don't think that'll take long if all five of them are still alive. We're just sat in here now waiting for someone to come tell us it's all over and the worlds safe." Rydel explained.

Calum nodded "Cool. Er… What happened to Abasi, then?"

"I killed him after he made me bounce through time trying to tell me something that you both wouldn't." Michael!Brad said.

Calum glanced at Rydel. "He knows and remembers everything." Rydel said.

"Oh… Sorry…" Calum said.

"Yeah, save that speech, Rydel's already given me it." Michael!Brad said, cutting Calum off before he could continue on.

"How are you feeling?" Calum asked, after a short silence as he didn't really know what to say to him.

"Eh, I'm fine, I guess."

"You guess?" Samara questioned, and he just shrugged.

"What's wrong?" Rydel asked.

"It's just erm… We've managed to dodge everything that we were trying to, to create a whole new future. Everything. Now all it is, is just a matter of waiting for the others to kill Priscilla, Maxwell and Harvey."

"Right?" Rydel said, not seeing how there was a problem as Michael!Brad was making out there was by the look on his face.

"Then why do I still look like this? Because the only reason I look like this is because of the events that happened that we've avoided. If we'd have avoided it all, I should look how Brad—well me—looks now, but I don't." He said, being concerned about that, where then a a thoughtful look washed over Samara's face as though some sort of realisation had hit her.

"You're just a version of yourself that could've happened now, it doesn't mean it's still going to happen. Once Priscilla, Maxwell and Harvey die you won't look like that anymore, you may even phase out of existence like me and Rydel – the only difference is we're going to be born soon but you're already born. It just means you get to avoid what you went through the first time this all happened." Calum explained/reassured.

"I hope so." Michael!Brad said, not being entirely convinced.

Michael!Brad glanced at Samara and noticed the look upon her face "What's wrong?"

"N-Nothing… I was just thinking that's all…" Samara said, looking shaken and very concerned all of a sudden.

"About?" Rydel asked.

"Why did you bring us all together? Luke, me, Dan, Luke etc." Samara asked.

"To save the world and to stop the future that we live in from happening…" Calum said, not being sure why she was questioning this now or why she was acting the way she was. In fact, it was unnerving him too.

Samara nodded "Right okay… And what happens when we save the world?"

"What are you talking about? It's saved. All that's left to do is to kill Priscilla, Harvey, Mariah and Isaac – and that's not going to take a lot." Rydel said.

Samara nodded again "Yeah, I know. It's just er… I have worked in the science unit, but not much with time travel, so I'm no expert in it but… Do correct me if I'm wrong, but… if the world is saved and your future no longer exists… That means you three were never born – at least not yet – and shouldn't be here… Which leads me to ask… Why are you still here? Shouldn't you guys have phased out of existence if that was the case?"

And at that moment, realisation hit every single person in the room and they became filled with horror as they slowly rose up from their seats.

"And don't you find it weird how we sent Alex, Nate and Kyle to go into the vaults where the Nuclear Warheads are kept to make sure that none of them were set to detonate, yet… they haven't returned with an answer?" Samara continued.

"No… We worked so hard…" Rydel said, being completely horrified that there was now a massive chance that they had not saved the world.

Calum shook his head "No, don't panic. We can still fix this! We can still save the world! We've just got to go find Brad, Ross, Rocky, Luke and Ashton and check the vaults for Nate and them! Maybe after they checked they went straight to the basement!"

"How about we stop discussing it and just go!" Michael!Brad said before they all burst out the room to go find everyone before it was too late.

Ross and Brad were nearing HQ where they seen Priscilla came out of, coming face to face with them – but she was a fair distance away from them. "What should we do?" Ross asked.

"What do you mean?" Brad asked, confused. Wasn't it obvious already? Catch her? Kill her? Take her to the others and decide what to do with her there? One or the other.

"Well, she's a girl."

"And?"

"Isn't it wrong for guys to hit girls?"

"Well… We don't necessarily need to hit her… just maybe… shoot her a few times or grab her."

"Speak louder I don't think I heard you properly." Priscilla said, sarcastically before she turned round and ran off to get away from them both.

"AFTER HER!" Ross shouted, running after her but Brad stayed where he was.

"I'll go this way 'cause that way we'll ambush her when she goes down the stairs!" Brad said, going in the opposite direction.

Joe and Caspar were still making their way down to the basement when they heard a commotion going on as they started to pass the garages. They glanced at each other, wondering what it was and if they should go inside to investigate.

"Joe!" Dan called, coming towards them "you're back! What's up? Why are you here?"

"We were making our way back to the basement but there's noises coming from inside the garages…" Joe said, finding it weird 'cause he's pretty sure nobody came down here to hide.

"What is it?"

"I don't know… Should we go look?"

"I don't know… Should we..?" Caspar asked, being unsure about it and not getting a nice feeling from it what so ever if the three of them were to walk through that door.

"It might be Brad, Ross, Rocky, Luke or Ashton struggling and needing help, you never know." Joe said.

The three boys all glanced at each other before they decided to go in and look.

Calum had got to the vaults where the warheads were whilst Rydel, Michael!Brad and Samara had gone to find the others. "Nate! Kyle! Alex!" Calum shouted as he entered the vaults, his voice echoing throughout.

The door to the explosives room, which lead to the vaults, was already open which meant that the three boys had to be down there somewhere still. Calum continued to call out their names but there was no response so he continued walking along, looking at the warheads to double check but none of them were set to detonate thankfully. But as he walked by there were some big gaps between the warheads which made it look like some were missing – but the only reason some were missing was because some had been taken to the Hangar to be loaded onto planes.

He hopes.

"Guys!" Calum called one last time.

He wondered round a little more until he turned and corner and seen Alex laid on the floor out cold next to another gap where the warheads usually are – or where one should be. He ran over and shook him "Alex…" Calum said, kneeling next to him and he began to stir, not being fully awake, but dazed "are you alright? What happened?"

"I-I don't know… One minute me, Kyle and Nate were t-together and the next… We went off individually to see if any warheads were set to detonate. I found one that was… I was about to disarm it and then… something hit me over the head. Next thing, I hear something rumbling as if it's taking off and everything went black and well… here I am…" Alex explained, dazed to the point where he wasn't sure himself if he was awake.

"W-what..?" Calum asked, but Alex never responded so he slapped him as hard as he could to wake him up properly and it worked. Alex knelt to the floor and Calum stood up.

Alex began looking around, being frantic "Hold on…"

"What?"

"There was a warhead there before…"

At that moment Calum felt his heart sink all the way to the pit of his stomach "What..?"

Alex nodded "Yeah… It was set to detonate too!" He said, standing up.

Kyle came round the corner with Nate who also looked dazed "GUYS! We have a problem! There was a couple warheads set to detonate but someone knocked us both out and when we woke up they were gone! I think they've been let off!"

Alex looked at Calum who was staring out into space, looking sad and his eyes were beginning to glisten with tears. "Well, what now? Do we go find the others and tell them?" Alex asked, and they all looked at Calum for a response.

"No…" Calum said.

"Why not?" Nate asked, finally coming back to reality.

"I-it's… It's over…"

"The worlds saved?" Kyle asked.

Calum shook his head "No… We lost…"

Because of the missing warheads, it was obvious. They had been let off and by the time he and the other three boys found Brad, Ross, Rocky, Luke and Ashton, it'll be too late – they wouldn't be able to stop the warheads 'cause they would've arrived and destroyed their set location. That… and they don't know where those warheads were meant to be going. They wouldn't be able to find them.

This was it.

It was the end.

They failed to save the world.

Next: End of the Road


Oh how I have missed writing BRRAL & everyone else.

I hope you guys liked it & the next few chapters!

Please review to let me know what you think etc. & if you would like to see the rest of the alternate ending.