This story has two parts, the first is about how Angel got to the Hatch and his time there, the second, is about what is currently going on in the island. hope your liking it so far, and if you think that things are getting too wierd to keep up, don't worry, I have a plan and I know exactly where the story is going, Like JJ Abrahms (my hero) always says about the real lost, I'm not making it up as I go.
We also have a few new characters appearing today, mostly just in name and not physically, you'll know them if you've seen a movie called "The Core".
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"We have to keep looking!" Chloe yelled angrily, night had fallen and they were back in the main beach camp, "We lost Alex and Billy! Whatever those things were, they were left by the others for us, we walked straight in to their trap, and found nothing; no maps, no clues to where they could have taken them, nothing!" Sayid responded then turned around and left, not wanting to argue any longer.
"Sayid is right Chloe! We don't have any clue as how to find them!" Lock spoke from a nearby campfire and Chloe sat down next to him, "I guess, but we can't just sit here and wait for something to happen!" Lock smiled at her, "I said we didn't find any clues, not that we couldn't try and find them" Chloe looked at him puzzled, "but how will we look for them?" Lock smiled again, "Oh, I think we'll find a way"
Meanwhile Angel was sitting quietly staring at the fire in front of him, ignoring his companion's conversation, and remembering how his life had come to this.
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He remembered loosing his human soul in Sunnydale, fighting Buffy, Willow restoring his soul, Buffy sacrificing him to stop Acathala, a demon that he had brought to the world, after that he only felt hate, torment and pain, he was sure he was in Hell, or a place much like it, he couldn't see, everything was dark but he could still feel flames burning through his soul, he lost track of time until suddenly, the heat from the flames didn't seem so harsh, he began hearing a faint and distant sound, he could feel something rough under his hands; he forced his eyes open and saw what he least expected, a clear blue sky, he lifted his head and saw that he was laying on a sandy beach, but passed out before he could completely realize what had happened.
When he woke up again, he was laying on a bed, he was in a bedroom, he heard music coming from an adjacent room and got up, he walked in to what looked like a kitchen, "I see you're up!" a man was dancing and cooking behind a counter, "Dr. Josh Keyes, Geologist and specialist in Electromagnetism" the man introduced himself and held out his hand, "Angel" he answered as he shook the man's hand, "Where…where are we?" he said as he entered a big room with a computer in the center.
"This, this is the Swann"
"The Swann? What is it? How did I get here?"
"I found you unconscious out on the beach, that's why I gave you this" the man ran to a shelf, grabbed a box and opened it in front of Angel, revealing several test tubes filled with a yellow liquid, "It's a vaccine! The air out there is…well, let's just say it's not good, you were out there a long time so I don't know if it'll work, as to what I do here…"
"Tic…Tic…Tic…"
"Sorry, duty calls!" Dr. Keyes ran to the computer and Angel followed slowly, Josh started typing in number in to the computer then pressed execute and a timer on a wall rolled it's numbers to 108, "What was that?"
Dr. Keyes smiled, "Just saving the world!" he stared a while at Angel's puzzled face, "Here let me show you something!" Dr. Keyes walked back toward the bookshelf and took out a projector, you should see this"
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"It's been almost six months since I got here and you still haven't told me anything about your partner, the man that was supposed to take care of the button with you"
Josh looked up from the book he was reading, "You really want to know what happened to Zimsky?" Angel nodded, "Well, Conrad wasn't the kind of person that can trust in other people, he was good at our job here at first, but after the replacements didn't arrive he began getting paranoid, he seemed to believe that I was going to stab him the second he turned his back on me, then he started taking trips out in to the island, each time more often and for longer periods of time, but one day he came back acting stranger than usual, he started writing and drawing gibberish and nonsense on a notebook, then one morning I woke up when I heard a loud bang coming from this room, I ran over here and saw him laying dead on the floor, he had finally reached the edge of his insanity, he took out one of the shotguns and placed it under his jaw" Josh placed his hand in a gun shaped manner under his jaw to mimic what Zimsky had done, "Now that's the only thing I have to remember Zimsky" he pointed up on to the ceiling, "a stain on the ceiling!"
"His note book, do you still have it?" Josh nodded, "Yeah, I think it's in the bookshelf, why?"
"I'd like to read it, see what his last thoughts were, did you ever read it?"
"No, I only looked through the pages, saw it was all full of nonsense and put it back on the shelf.
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"You should put that down, you've looked through it for two months now; I told you, Zimsky was insane, he lost it, there's nothing on that notebook!"
Angel kept on reading, "I'm not so sure, there some interesting things in here, listen" angel got up and began reading out loud, "Today I saw him again, this time it was close the black pearl, Braz is still angry that I stole his part of our research and took the patents for my self, he keeps haunting me and I fear that next time I encounter him he might try to take my life.
I haven't seen Braz in a week, but the immortal primate led me to one of the Cerberus vents, I barely managed to escape when I was confronted by another dragon, he ripped my suit for what I fear I might have been contaminated.
The quarantine is fake, I've been doing my expeditions with out the suit and I have still to see any signs of an illness, I spotted a pirate ship out in the sea today, it seemed to be leaving the island, I wish they would have taken me with them.
Another month has gone by and I haven't seen any other ships, it seems that the only thing I can think about lately is leaving this Hell hole."
Dr. Keyes smiled, "see, nothing but the words of a mad man, Braz is a scientist that died years ago, he speaks of Ghosts, Cerberus, immortals, dragons and pirates!"
"Still, some of this could be true, maybe there isn't anything out there, maybe there is no quarantine, and maybe we can find a boat out of this island!"
"Yeah? And what about the button? Who's gonna press it if we leave?" Josh began getting pissed at the where the conversation was going, "we could use the fail safe key! You said that in case something were to go wrong, we'd be able to use it to stop the…"
"But we don't know what could happen! It's never been tested! We could end up doing what we're trying to stop!"
"I doubt that such a thing would happen, besides, Zimsky designed it and you said he was a great scientist before…" Angel made his finger turn in circles around his ear.
"I thought you'd be different!" Josh ran angrily in to the armory, "I should have known, you're just like him, only thinking about how to get out of here!" he took out a handgun and pointed it at Angel, "Josh what are you doing? This isn't funny!"
"Do you know what it was like? To have to spend five years locked up in this…this…Hell?"
"Josh! Put the gun down! You're talking crazy!"
"Crazy? Guess this was how Zimsky felt right? Funny, I didn't expect me to end up like this! This wasn't how it was supposed to be!"
Angel walked slowly towards Dr.Keyes, "It doesn't have to be, just put the gun down!"
"Now it's your turn to see what I've been through, to carry the fate of the world on your shoulders!" Josh raised the gun up to his head and shot before Angel could stop him.
"No! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" he got down on his knees, "Why? Why did you have to do this?"
Then he remembered Josh's words, "Do you know what it was like? To have to spend five years locked up in this…this…Hell? Now it's your turn to see what I've been through, to carry the fate of the world on your shoulders!" and he finally realized, this WAS Hell and now he was going to have to pay for every evil thing he had ever done.
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Angel was sitting alone in the jungle looking at a patch of dirt where he had buried Josh's body, he stared at it for several minutes, suddenly he got up and looked at his watch and begun running, soon he came to a pair of iron doors, he opened them as quickly as possible, inside he could already seen the now very familiar tic from the computer.
"Tic…Tic…Tic…"
By the time he reached the computer the countdown had already reached zero and strange hieroglyphs appeared on the timer, he started punching in the numbers, "four…eight…fifteen…" the room began to shake and several objects begun to swing or fly across the room, "Sixteen…twenty three…forty two…execute!"
Slowly everything calmed down until the room was completely silent ad the timer rolled back to 108"
This was his Hell and Angel was willing to pay penitence for as long as it was required"
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Morning came and Clark was getting ready for another exciting day in danger island, he had heard Chloe talking to Lock about looking for the others again, and had wondered why she hadn't said anything to him, still he was getting ready, he was going to go weather Chloe wanted him there or not, he was washing his teeth when out of the corner of his eye he saw something moving in the jungle, it was a small monkey, playing with something.
"Hey, I heard about you, you were the one who led Rogue and Buffy to one of those hatch things aren't you?" the monkey ignored Clark and continued playing with something, "What's that?" Clark pulled the small object with which the monkey was playing.
His eyes widened with joy at the sight of the thing he had been searching for, the octagon shaped plate that Jor-El had given him, he was about to scream with joy when the monkey suddenly jumped on to his arm, took the disc out of his hand and ran into the jungle, "Hey! Comeback you little thief!" Clark shouted as he ran through the jungle.
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"You ready Chloe? Where's Clark? I thought he'd be joining us"
Chloe sighed, "I couldn't find him"
Lock picked up his backpack, "Then we're going to have to leave without him, it's getting late and we need to make as much use of daylight as possible" he said as he walked in to the jungle followed by Angel, Jake, and Chloe.
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"Here monkey! Here monkey! Come out come out where ever you are!" Suddenly Clark turned around just in time to see the monkey run past him over a branch, and he quickly began chasing it again, suddenly the terrain began getting steep he tripped and begun rolling downhill until he splashed in to a puddle of muddy water, "Great!" he shouted as he spit out dirty water from his mouth, "What are you looking at?" he shouted when he turned around and saw the little monkey sitting on a branch, staring at him and waving the metal plate in the air.
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"So how do we know which way to go?" Chloe said as she hurried trying to keep up with Lock, "We don't!" Lock smiled, "Yet" he sat down and begun looking through his backpack, "I'm only going to have to ask you something, what is it you want most right now?"
Chloe was puzzled by his question, "Why?"
"Just answer the question" Chloe sighed, "fine; to find Dawson and the others" Lock smiled again, "Perfect, now do me a favor will you? Take this compass, hold it straight and tell me, which way is north?"
Chloe did as she was told and held out the compass; the arrow started spinning then stopped, pointing to Chloe's right, "Well, the compass says that way, but…"
"Then that's the way we have to go!" Lock picked up his back pack and begun walking again, "But north is that way! The compass is wrong!" Chloe yelled pointing in another direction, "I know!" Lock took the compass from Chloe's hands and placed it in his pocket, "But this is the way we have to go!"
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Clark was using a root to help himself out of the puddle when the root suddenly broke and he splashed down again, "Son of a…"
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…Beach?" Sayid said angrily, "you really thought you could leave me behind on the beach?" Chloe tried to explain herself but Lock intervened, "You were so hotheaded we thought it best to give you some time"
"Well I've had enough time, I'm coming with you" he said as he walked past the others to indicate that they should continue walking, "by the way, where's Clark?"
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Clark was laying on the ground catching his breath, "arg! That monkey's going to pay for this!" he slowly begun getting up when he felt something strange on his arm, he lifted it and saw three black and slimy strips on it, "Leeches!" he shouted angrily and shoved them off.
"Now where are you?"
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"Why are we going in this direction? Following a compass that doesn't work" Sayid said when the path begun getting unfamiliar, "Because it's the right way!" Lock answered happily.
"Fine, I won't ask about why, but at least tell me what you are planning to do when we find them?"
"We'll lay low, see what we're up against, if we think we can handle it, we get them out, If there's too many of them, we turn back, wait till we have a better plan!"
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Clark walked in to a clearing where he saw the little monkey in the middle, standing on a rock and playing with the metallic plate, he was about to charge at him but then decided to calm down, he walked slowly towards the ape and when he was almost at arm's reach he took his hand in to his pocket, "Hey little guy, I have something berry special for you!" he slowly began taking out his hand, the ape stared at him calmly, "here boy, you want this?" Clark extended his hand and begun shaking a keychain, and the monkey began trying to grab it, "I'll give it to you if you give me what you have" he said as if he were talking to a child, the monkey dropped the disk and held on to the key chain with both hands, Clark quickly let go of the keys and grabbed the metal plate, placed it in his pocket then turned around to leave, "Geez, I wish I had a shower!"
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Hope your liking the story, Mery Christmas, and lease post your comments. : )