My apologies for taking so long, I am very busy :P

A/N: The text is different because I kind of tinkered with it so my apologies if it bugs some of you :D ENJOY

Chapter 5: Requiem

"Well, where would you like me to start?" asked Connor in a sarcastic tone. He prepared himself for a bombardment of questions.

"First off, who are you?" asked the 2nd Connor through the mask. "Are you my long lost brother, my clone, what?" Connor sighed.

"You don't recognize yourself? Well that's just sad." His younger self's eyes widened.

"Your me!" he cried. "But how?"

"I think you know very well." The first Connor replied. The 2nd Connor looked around and then at him, and his eyes widened even more.

"You're me from the future." he said incredulously.

"Your making me see how completely blind us was then." Connor replied. His younger self glared at him. "Sorry, sorry, didn't mean to offend me." They both smiled at this. But then Connor remembered his mission and regained his seriousness.

The other Connor looked around him. "Wait does this mean..."he tried to say but was too stunned.

"Yes, this is the Future." Connor said.

"But what happened to it? I remember it having more life." the other Connor asked.

" Well," said Connor "That comes back to the reason I infiltrated the A.R.C. and kidnapped you."

"How?"

"I think you know very well how."

The other stared at Connor for a second before widening his eyes so much they could have burst. "No.." he breathed.

"Yes." Connor replied solemnly.

"No!" the other Connor yelled before falling down and sobbing. "But how?" he cried. "How could I have done this?"

Connor sighed. What he was about to do was going to be extremely painful, for both of them. Then he recounted everything that had happened, from when the anomalies began to become more unstable to when he kidnapped him. After it was all done, there was silence, barely a single sound besides the gases in the distance.

"So you see, I had to do this." Connor said to his younger self. The other him just stared.

"Abby." the other him whispered, "Oh, Abby..." He the began to sob. Then he suddenly, he stopped. He got up and looked at him. "I will stop this." he said.
"How?" Connor asked.

"I think you know how." Now the other him was just being a smart ass. Then it hit him, of course.

"You are going to kill Philip Burton, aren't you?"

"Yes." the other him replied. Connor stared at him.

"You are mental." Connor said.

"Correction, we are mental." They both smiled. They then discussed the plan of action for killing Burton. After a little bit longer, they settled on a plan.

"Let's do this." the other him said. Connor then opened the anomaly. Then, they went through.

In the next two chapters will be the finale….. It'll be up soon