Episode 10: Live Together Die Alone (Part 1: Nazi Hunters)

Sayid was packing up the boat carefully as Santana and Jin walked over to him. 'I'm sorry if what I said was confusing, but I asked Jin to come.'

'You need somebody to translate.' Said Santana, 'And you need at least two people who know how to sail.'

'Shayna managed on her own.' Sayid said.

'And look where she ended up?' Santana said climbing aboard followed by Jin.

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They started to sail around the island a short way into the journey Jin walked up to Santana. 'There's something you should see.' He spoke to her in Korean and then led her to Sayid who was staring through some binoculars at the island. Jin pointed to the island where there was a statue but it was just a foot. Sayid handed the binoculars to Santana who looked through the eagerly.

'I don't know what's more worrying; that the rest of the statue is missing.' Sayid said. 'Or that is has four toes.' He said and as Santana looked at her she realised that it did indeed only have four toes.

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Mr. Eko was sat in the hatch just beside the computer when he heard a weird noise coming from one of the speakers. He left the room to listen to it when he realised it was counting down. As he rushed back to the room the blast doors came down enclosing the room leaving him on the other side of it. Locke and Shayna sat in the computer room thinking what to do next. 'John!' Mr. Eko banged on the door.

'Are you sure about this?' Shayna asked Locke trying to hide her worry.

'More sure than anything before.' Locke said.

'Alright then.' She said sitting down. 'We wait.'

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A loud siren beeped and Shayna opened her eyes. She hopped out of bed as the siren continued. 'Kelvin?' She said looking around. She had now been in the hatch for two years and had still not gone outside. Kelvin was nowhere to be seen so she quickly ran to the computer typing in the numbers '4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.' And the counter ticked back to 108. Shayna heard a noise from below the computer room and saw a small metal grate open. She jumped down into it and found Kelvin he was holding a key above a small key slot.

'I couldn't do it.' He said looking disappointed at himself.

'What is this?' Shayna said crawling closer to him and see a lid to the key slot which said 'System Termination' on it.

'This is the only other way out partner.' Kelvin said looking at the key.

'What are you talking about?'

'Fail safe.' he said grabbing the key tightly. 'Just turn this key and this all goes away. Boom.' He made an explosion gesture with his hands.

'What's behind that wall Kelvin? What's the incident?' Shayna asked eager to know the answer.

'Electro magnetism, geologically unique. The incident, it was a leak so now the charge builds up and every time we push the button it discharges it, before it gets too big.' He said in a matter of fact tone.

'Why make us do it, push the button? If we just..'

'The question is Shayna do you have the courage to stop and blow the whole thing up instead?'

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A cool breeze blew through the jungle as the group carried on walking. 'So these other's you think they're left over of those Dharma folk?' Sawyer asked Michael.

'I don't know, man.' Michael said.

'What do you think sweetheart?' Sawyer said turning around and asking Rachel.

'Just keep walking we're being followed.' She said not turning around and speaking in a hushed tone.

'What.'

'Just keep smiling.' She said stopping and tying her lace. 'There's at least two of them across the river.' Sawyer pulled out his gun and started shooting at The Others. The Others shot back so Rachel pulled out her gun shooting at them too. One of Sawyer's shots hit and the man fell down the ridge towards them but the other ran away. Slowly they made their way towards him, Michael taking his time. 'He's dead. We'll have to find the other one.' Rachel said running forwards.

'No.' Jack said looking down at the man.

'Jack we can catch up to him.'

'I said no!'

'What are you crazy they'll know we're coming!' Sawyer shouted at him.

'It doesn't matter if we catch him now,' Jack said turning around to Michael. 'They've already been warned. Why don't you tell them Michael?' Jack said taking a step towards him.

'I don't know what you're talking about.'

'STOP LYING!' Jack shouted angrier than ever. They all stepped down towards him 'Tell them the truth.' Jack grabbed him.

'It was the only way.' Michael said. 'They gave me a list.'

'What list?'

'It had your names on it.' Jack let go of him. 'They said I had to bring you four or I'd never see my son again.' Rachel was horrified at the news and felt more scared than she ever had on the island. Why did they want her?

'You let Henry go?' Rachel said angry and upset. Michael nodded slowly looking as if he was going to cry.

'Did you kill them, Ana Lucia and Emma?' Hurley said looking up at Michael. Michael didn't answer trying not to look at Hurley. 'Did you?' Said Hurley angrier.

'I had to.' Michael said not looking at him. 'I couldn't find any other way and ... and Emma was a mistake.' He looked around at them. 'I'm sorry ... I am sorry. He's my ... he's my son.' He said trying to get someone to understand.

'I'm going back.' Hurley said standing up.

'No Hurley.' Jack said shaking his head. 'Hurley you can't. I'm sorry I didn't say anything, but you have to know I would not bring you out of here if I didn't have a plan!' Jack said looking at Rachel and Sawyer.

'What plan?' Sawyer said looking at him.

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'Can I ask you a question?' Shayna turned to Locke who had just been looking at the timer it was down to 33 minutes.

'Of course.' He said sitting down.

'Is the reason you're letting that counter run down to the very last tick because you need to look down the barrel of a gun and find out what you really believe John?'

'I looked down the barrel of a gun and I believed I thought it was my destiny to for me to get into this ... place. And ... and somebody died, cause he was stupid enough to believe I knew what I was talking about. And on the night that he died for nothing, I was sitting right up there all alone. Beating my hand bloody against the door. Screaming to the heavens asking what I should do, and then a light went on. I thought it was a sign, but it wasn't a sign.' He said shaking his head. 'Probably just you going to the bathroom.'

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They continued to trek through the jungle 'Hey Jack, what did you say Sayid's signal was going to be?' Sawyer said looking into the distance where a large column of black smoke was rising from the ground.

'That means he found them.' Jack turned around pulling out his gun facing Michael. 'Where are you taking us? Why aren't you taking us to the beach?'

'We are headed to the beach.'

'We're nowhere near the beach!' Jack shouted.

'I had to.'

'What!' Jack said as he heard some whispers and they all turned around brandishing their guns. Something was shot into Sawyer's neck and he collapsed to the floor writhing in agony. Rachel walked up to him worried. Jack turned around shouting 'RUN!' and grabbed Rachel running along with her. Hurley and Michael stayed behind looking both scared and confused. A dart was shot into Rachel's shoulder and she too collapsed. Jack picked her up and started running again before he too was shot with a dart and collapsed unconscious.

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The time had ticked its way down to 21 minutes. 'Tell me about this other station you found, the Pearl.' Shayna said looking at him.

'The Pearl is a psychological station filled with TV monitors. And two men sat watching them and filled note books about what was happening in each station. So they could evaluate us, as an experiment.'

'What if you've got it backwards?'

'Backwards?'

'What if the experiment wasn't on the two men in here but the two men in there? Was there anything there a computer?'

'Yeah there was a computer.'

'What did it do?'

'Nothing! Just printed out numbers, lots of numbers.'

'Where is it?' Shayna said looking worried.

'Here!' He said pulling it out of his pocket and shoving it at her. She studied the long list reading through it quickly.

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'Bye Shayna.' Kelvin appeared at the bathroom door again in the large yellow suit walking away slowly.

'Goodbye?' Shayna wondered.

'Yeah goodbye, see you in a couple of hours.' He said pulling on a gas mask and his hood. Shayna watched him carefully seeing a large tear in one of the legs of the suit, however Kelvin didn't seem to realise. Kelvin left and Shayna quickly followed in pursuit. She watched carefully as he removed his protective gear and Shayna breathed the air slowly. Why had Kelvin told her it was dangerous outside and that's why they were quarantined inside?

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She followed him across the island as he lead her to a small bay. The waves crashed up along the rocks as she chased after him but once she walked round the last corner she couldn't see him. But what she could see docked in the sea not too far from the rocks was her boat, the one Emma had given her. 'Well gosh I didn't think you'd have the stomach to come after me.' Kelvin said from behind Shayna.

'What are you doing with my boat?' She said worriedly.

'I'm fixing it.'

'You were leaving?'

'Ahh not yet, she's still about a week away. What do you think, come with me?'

'Come where?' Shayna said her anger rising. 'What about the button?'

'Screw the button man, who even knows if it's real.'

'That's not what you said when you were going on about fail safes!' She said still angry. 'Why did you lie to me?'

'I had to lie to you because I need a sucker to save the world after I left.' He shouted at her.

'You lied to me, what else did you lie to me about? What else?' She said grabbing him and throwing him to the ground. They both fell over Kelvin hitting his head hard on the rock and falling still. Shayna stood up looking down at him seeing a small pool of blood around his head. She took the fail safe key from around his neck and ran as fast as she could back to the hatch. By the time she got back the timer had clicked past 0 and was showing some weird symbols. She typed in the code as fast as she could whilst a siren shouted 'System Failure' over and over again. The whole hatch was shaking and she quickly pressed the execute button. As soon as she pressed it the shaking stopped and silence fell before the timer ticker back to 108. She sighed scared for her life but relaxed seeing that everything had returned to normal.

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Shayna was still searching the printout for something. Checking dates and words each date next to it read 'accepted'. Then she found what she was looking for 'When did you come here?' She said looking up at Locke.

'What?'

'The island, when did you come here?'

'September 22nd, why?' said Locke looking anxious. Shayna looked at the sheet which read '9/22/2004 SYSTEM FAILURE'

'I think I crashed your plane.' She said looking up at him.

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They were walked down a long wooden pier hoods pulled over all their faces bar Michaels. They pushed them down so they were on their knees and pulled off their hoods. A small fishing boat came into view as it drove up stopping off just at the pier. A tall blonde woman with blonde hair came out and walked towards them. Rachel's eyes were blinded by the sun as the woman walked swiftly to them. The woman walked closer and her head came out of the sun and Rachel knew who she was scared and confused Rachel watched her carefully. 'Hello again Rachel.' Sue Sylvester said as she looked at her. She then looked at the others and turned to Michael. 'Ok let's take care of business shall we?'

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'We need to push the button.' Said Shayna as the time ticked down from 4 minutes.

'No we don't!' Locke said still refusing.

'Did you not hear me, I crashed your plane!'

'How did you manage to do that?' Locke said.

'On that day those number turned to hieroglyphics and as soon as that last one changed this whole place shook. That screen filled up with 'System failure'.' Shayna indicated the sheet. 'System failure! It's all real so push that damn button!'

'It's not real, I know what I saw it's all a lie!'

'You don't wanna push the button, then I will.' Shayna said rushing over to it but Locke picked up the computer chucking it to the floor. 'You killed us, you killed us all.' Shayna said raising her hands to her head.

'No I just saved as all.' Said Locke as Shayna ran to the electric box and unlocked the blast doors. She ran out grabbing the fail safe key opening up the grate below the computer room and jumping in. 'No!' Locke said trying to stop her, 'Nothings going to happen.' He said as the timer ticked down past 10 seconds.

'I've gotta go. And you've gotta get as far away from here as possible.'

'Go where? Stop!'

'I'm going to blow it up John. I'm sorry for whatever happened to you to make you stop believing. But it's all real. And now I've gotta go and make it all go away.' She said jumping down into the small corridor below. 'SYSTEM FAILURE' filled the air again as the speakers spoke it over and over again as the electro magnetism grew and everything and anything metal flew towards the wall which it hid behind. Locke walked out of the room as Shayna crawled closer to the key slot. Mr. Eko walked towards Locke and all Locke did was stare at him bewildered.

'I was wrong.' Locke said looking at him.

Shayna lifted up the lid of the key slot putting the key in waiting to turn it. 'I love you Ben.' She said and she turned the key.

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Back at the p'ier a bright light filled the air and a loud humming noise too. Everyone shielded their eyes as the sky turned white. The vibrations and light were felt all over the island as Santana, Jin and Sayid covered their ears closing their eyes tightly. And as suddenly as it began it stopped. Back on the beach they saw something flying through the air and as it crashed into the sand they saw the top of the hatch door which had 'Quarantine' branded on it. Finn hugged Quinn tightly scared and confused what was happening but still so happy to be ok.

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'I'm not happy about the arrangement that was set up with you.' Sue said walking a short way down the pier with Michael. 'You lived up to your word Michael. We live up to our word too. You're lucky cause to be honest your boy was a bit too much. Almost too much to handle then Will Schuester.' She said but Michael just looked confused. 'Do you know how to drive a boat?' she asked.

'Yeah I know how to drive a boat.'

'Ok then you're going to take this boat and follow a bearing of 325 exactly and you and your son will find rescue.'

'What that's it?' Michael said. 'I follow the bearing and me and my son get rescued?'

'Yes.'

'How do you know I won't tell people about where I was?'

'My hunch is you won't be telling anybody, cause then people will find out what you did to get your son back.' She said looking at him.

'My friends,' Michael said looking at them 'I was promised you wouldn't hurt them.'

'A deals a deal.' Sue said.

'Who are you people?'

'We're the good guys Michael.' She said with a smile.

'Where's my son?'

'Walt's inside the boat.' Sue said stepping aside.

Michael jumped into the boat shouting Walt and he appeared. He jumped up and gave his dad a big hug. Sue walked back up the pier to the others. One of her people untied Hurley standing him up. 'Hugo, you can go back to your camp.' She said.

'What?' said Hurley turning around.

'Go back, your job is to tell your people they can never come here.'

'But what about my friends.'

'Your friends are coming home with us.' Sue said with a smile. Hurley wandered off back down the pier slowly as Michael drove off in the boat. They stood Rachel, Jack and Sawyer up again pulling bags over their heads.

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Somewhere in the North Pole two men were in a snow bunker playing chess. They saw a red flashing light on a machine and started getting scared and angry. The men ran around and one of them shouted to the other 'MAKE THE CALL!' one of the men quickly picked up the phone. The phone started to ring and the man turned on the light. On the bedside table sat a picture this picture was of Shayna with a man. 'Mr Widmore it's us.'

'Yes.' Said the man. It was the same man as in the picture. Ben Widmore was breathing heavily knowing what this call must mean.

'I think we've found it.'

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