A/N: Here it is, the final chapter! Sorry it's been such a long and windy road, and thank you to the two people who reviewed the last chapter. Hardly anyone reads this it seems like, but if you do, please review this so that I know where I can improve and so I am motivated to write more! Even if you hate my writing, tell me! I'm desperate here, people! *sobs*
Anyways, as for a sequel, there might be one. It depends. Because of my schedule next year, I can only write this summer. And I won't start the sequel to this until I finish my other opened fics. So I might start a sequel this summer, it may be next summer, or it may be nonexistent, who knows.
Thank you to all who read and reviewed this story . Now, sit back, relax, and enjoy the finale of Big Time Revenge:
XI
Camille sat down on a chair in her father's office. She ruined it. This was her one and only chance to redeem herself with her father, and she screwed it all up.
She went through all of the trouble of turning all of her friends and fellow Palmwoods residents against Big Time Rush. It took so much convincing to get them to believe that they were working for Hawk. She even had to kidnap them and take them to an empty warehouse where they were slowly tortured to the point where they had so much hate that they needed to direct it at someone. And that was when Camille told them that it was Big Time Rush were the ones holding them captive. By that point, they were brain dead. They would do anything to get out of that place. So they agreed to the plan.
It wasn't easy getting Hawk to do the dirty work either. It was surprisingly hard that night when she visited him in prison to convince him to go along with her plan. It took hours of persuasion. Then she gave him the schematics for the bomb and informed him of the rest of the plan. And after that, he was her father's complete and total puppet.
To be honest, Camille was always vying for her father's attention. She slowly drew Logan in and pretended time after time to be in love with him, just so she could kill him. WAs that what she had been reduced to? A bounty hunter for her father?
Everything had been a conspiracy. Since the very minute she was born. Gustavo Rocque was merely an agent of her father's, telling people that they were talented just to bring them closer. The palmwoods was nothing more than a set, a fake home that relaxed his targets so that they hadn't seen it coming.
Big Time Rush had just been his latest target. And Hawk was just a random, unfortunate person that had gotten in the way of her father's plan. He became jealous of Gustavo's fake fame, and he got wound up in the plan. He probably would've been safe in prison. But it was just to perfect that Big Time Rush had an enemy that could do the dirty work for her father.
And once her father was done with him, he killed him. Because he was no longer needed.
All of it, all of the planning, all of the killing, had no reason behind it. That was the worst part. Her father was what you could call crazy. He had…'visions' in which he would see who he had to kill next. And in each vision, there would be a reward waiting for him. And he always got that reward.
Except for one time. One mistake. One flaw in the system. Once he had a vision to kill Camille's mom, his wife, and in return, he would rule the world.
And so he did it. But did he get to rule the world? No.
That's when he lost it, really. That's when he became evil. From then on out, he killed just to kill. He had an undying fire in him.
Then he came up with a plan. A plan to get what he had done so much wrong for. A plan to rule the world.
It involved creating a celebrity force so popular, then killing them off. Then framing the government. And all of the fans of the celebrity force would rise up and topple the government. Leading the uprising would be her father. Soon after that he would rule the United States. And soon after that, the world.
But it kept failing. And with each failure, her father became less and less human.
All of the current palmwoods residents were options for the celebrity force. And then when one rose out amongst the others in fame, in this case Big Time Rush, the others would be manipulated into helping kill them. But it always failed. And then all of the palmwoods residents would be cleared out, and a new batch would come in.
That's how it always went.
That time that her father threatened to leave if Camille didn't have an acting part, was really because ehe wanted to try it in a different place. Los Angeles wasn't working. But then when he discovered Big Time Rush was making a music video, he thought that maybe, that time it would work.
The details of the plan never escaped because they never knew that her father was the one who was really in charge. There was always a puppet, in this case Hawk. And people were always too stupid to connect the dots of it happening over.
And over.
And over.
Camille let out a small whimper. A tear slipped from her eyes and onto her father's desk, where there was messy handwriting on several sheets of paper.
She gasped and quickly tried to dry the paper, hoping it wouldn't smear; her father would go insane if it did.
But as she was drying it she couldn't help but read what was on the paper.
It looked like it was a journal entry or something…
She flipped to the first page and read the title, "How I Dominated The World."
So her father really was crazy.
Slowly she read through it, getting more scared the more she read. Finally, when she reached the last page, she gasped and dropped the paper.
"Oh no." she squeaked out.
He was changing his plans.
And this time he would succeed.
Kendall, James, Mama Knight, and Katie all hurried into a doorway near where they had fought everyone. The rushed down several corridors and turned many corners until they finally stopped to talk. They were now standing by an elevator waiting for it to arrive.
"What is going on?" James asked.
"Why would our friends do that stuff?" Kendall said.
"It doesn't matter now. All that matters is that we get out of here alive. Obviously it is going to be harder than we thought." Mama Knight responded.
"Wait, what about Logan and Carlos?" James questioned frantically.
"We don't have time to find them. We'll have to get help and come back for them." Mama Knight said.
"No! We have to find them! We can't leave them behind!" Kendall protested.
"Honey, I know that you want to save your friends, but you can't do that if you are dead."
"They aren't my friends, they are my brothers, and I won't leave them behind! I would rather die than know that I let them die just so I could live!" Kendall said.
His mom took this in for a moment, until the elevator finally made a ding sound and the doors slowly slid open. Mama Knight glanced at it warily before gulping and saying, "Fine, but we have to make it quick."
"Thank you." Kendall said and gave his mom a quick hug. "But where could they be?"
"They must have slipped away when we went down that path after we saw the window and stuff." Katie said.
"Oh…yeah, they must have gone down the other way!" James exclaimed.
Without a word they all ran back the way they came.
"Let's just hope we aren't too late…" Kendall said.
"What? What do you mean Hawk is dead?' Carlos asked Logan.
"Do you not see him dead right there?" Logan said.
"Well, yeah, I do, but how could he be dead? Who killed him?"
"I don't know, Carlos. But it's clear that more is going on here than we previously knew about. Things are getting dangerous. And we may not make it out of here alive. Just know Carlos, that whatever happens, I love you. You are my brother and you always will be, and no matter how annoyed I ever got with you, I have always loved you."
"Logan, don't say that, we are going to make it out of here fine!" Carlos said, tearing up.
"We might not, Carlos. Just be prepared. Things are deeper than we thought they were. Something is going on that we don't know about. I have a feeling that someone…sinister is behind all of this. And the path back to our normal lives, the path back to safety and peace, might be a long one. And we will fight whatever bad gets in our way. But this isn't a fairytale Carlos. Things may turn out horrible. And I just want you to be prepared."
"But, Logan…" Carlos started to say, but he was interrupted by a loud banging on the door.
"Logan! Carlos! Are you guys in there?" someone was yelling.
They both ran over to the door. "Yeah, we're in here," Logan yelled back.
"Oh thank God. We thought we lost you." Another voice said. Logan tried to open the door, but it wouldn't budge.
"Um, guys, we have a problem." Logan said.
"What?"
"The door's locked."
Logan heard rattling from the other side, but the door stayed still. "Anyone have any ideas?" he heard from the other side.
"Here, I think If I can observe the metal long enough, then maybe I can know where the pressure points are, and…" Logan started to say.
He was interrupted though by a loud, "AAAAAAAAHHHHH!" from Carlos as he ran forward and threw a fire hydrant against the handle. It fell off and he slowly pushed the door open.
"Or we could just do that." Logan said.
They found the other group and everyone took their turns hugging each other, until Katie spoke up, saying, "Um, guys? Escaping? Remember?"
"Oh yeah," a few of them remarked and then they began their way back down the hallway.
"Wait, guys!" Logan said, and everyone stopped and looked at him.
"In…in that room, Carlos and I found something. Well, the thing is…that…Hawk is dead."
Everyone sat in silence for a few moments, taking in the news.
"We don't have time to think about it now." Mama Knight finally spoke. "Getting out of this death hole is our first priority."
Everyone silently agreed and made their way back to the elevator. The halls were strangely quiet, and so was the first floor once they descended to it in the elevator.
"It is strangely empty in here…." Kendall pointed out.
"Yeah…I suppose that's a good thing, though." Logan said.
"It seems kinda….suspicious." Katie replied.
By this point they were all standing by the exit to the building, which was just a simple set of doors.
They didn't hesitate to push through it, and they all sighed when they felt the cool night air and their skin.
"Finally, we're out of that place." Carlos said. He was the last out of the building.
"I don't think it's over yet, Carlos." Logan spoke.
"What do you mean?" Carlos said, but then he looked up and saw what Logan meant.
Standing in a blockade in front of the building were all of the 'henchhawks' that they hadn't already fought.
Simultaneously, they all rushed forward, trying to fight their way out, but it was useless.
What happened next was a blur for Carlos:
There was screaming all around him, and the noise of commotion. He was being attacked by several of the traitors at once, and he was lost in a sea of black and beaks. Then someone pressed something weird smelling and cold to his face, and all he could see was white.
After the smell and the white were gone, the world around Carlos started to distort. A middle aged man stepped in front of the now-captured group, and Carlos swore he looked like Camille's dad. He didn't really know what was real right now though. The world was funny.
His vision began to blur out, but almost slow motion like, in a very low voice, the man said, "Oh, you guys aren't going anywhere. You're going to be here for a long time.
Carlos was thrown onto the sidewalk on his back and he could feel himself being tied up.
The last thing he saw before he blacked out were the bright stars above him that let him know he was far away from the city.
They grew more and more blurry, and the screams of protest began to grow quieter as Carlos sliped away.
And in that moment, he wondered if he'd ever see those stars again.
….To be Continued?
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