Lissa clutches her lower stomach where bullets had impacted with her bullet proof vest. Beside her, she can hear Toll's unsteady breathing while he lays unconscious. Fairview's large group of mercenaries for hire certainly have an advantage over them. She keeps her head low while looking up to see Fairview and two of the biggest mercenaries heading to the subway entrance. With things taking a turn for the worst quick, Billy and Yin never make it to the sniper post. Instead Barney calls them back to provide back-up on the ground. With Fairview and the men heading for the subway, they must not know that The Expendables got the subway shut down. While it will help decrease the amount of people infected, the subway tunnels are a perfect way for the virus to spread throughout the city instead of being contained to one area.
She can't let that briefcase go off somewhere in the open, it needs to be contained till the CDC can arrive to deal with it. A flash of light catches her attention and she spots Barney hunched behind a flipped over table from the nearby food truck. His lucky skull ring glimmers in the sunlight. Without speaking a word she both knows they are agreeing on the same thing. Lissa grabs a hold of metal dinning tray, also from the food truck, and then looks to Barney holding up three fingers.
When she's done counting down the two charge at Fairview and his two men. Lissa uses the food tray to block bullets from hitting her head. When she's close enough she tosses the tray to Barney to use as a weapon and tackles Fairview. Her momentum sends them both flying down the stairs to the subway platform, the exact thing she didn't want.
Lissa's head spins and her body aches in multiple places from where the stairs impacted with her body. Part of her screams for her to stay down and wait for help, but the other knows it's not an option. She forces herself up to her feet at the same time Fairview does. "You're not getting away with this." Lissa tells him. She freezes when she spots the gun in his hand that's pointing right at her.
"Times running out, dear. I think I will. Hands behind your head, now Miss. Hollis." Fairview tells her and taps the barrel of the gun on the top of the briefcase where the timer is counting down the minutes till the canister instead sprays the Spanish flu virus into the air. "Though I'm so glad I have these few minutes, before your death of course. Ever since Mr. Timmon's betrayed me for you, I've been oh so curious to meet the woman worth dying for."
Lissa complies with Fairview, putting her hands at the back of her neck. "What a coincidence because I'm been waiting to meet you too." She tells him, letting her anger seep into her tone. She keeps her eyes locked on Fairview as she lets her fingers feel out the clasp to her compass necklace. "Of course my reasons are very different than yours."
Fairview lets out a small laugh, "I can see why he loves you. So headstrong, so determined, but for the wrong things. A woman like you Miss. Hollis could have a very profitable future working for the right people, like me."
"My loyalties are to The Expendables, not the highest bidder." Lissa sneers at Fairview and then grins as the necklace comes unhooked. "You know how you said you wanted to meet the woman Billy would die for? She's also the same woman that's going to kill you." With that she pulls the compass necklace free from her neck and with one quick motion throws it at Fairview, hitting him in the face. It stuns him for only a few seconds but it's enough to let her close in on him and deliver blow after blow.
Beaten and bloody, Fairview falls to the ground landing on his back. He looks up to Lissa with a panicked look on his face and holds his free hand up in surrender. "Killing me won't stop this from going off. And when it goes off it will travel all through the station and to the next and the next. You can try to drag me to the subway car but I'll fight the whole way you'll never make it." He taunts her.
Lissa glares at Fairview and then begins looking around the station to size up her options. Just a couple of feet behind Fairview there's an emergency axe in a glass case to be used in the event of a fire. The thought of what she'll have to do next makes her stomach flip, but walks over to the case anyways.
Fairview must catch onto her plan because he begins to scoot away on the floor. "You won't do it Miss. Hollis. I know all about you. You didn't kill the man who gave you that scar on your hand or the man who ordered it to be done."
Lissa smashes an elbow through the safety glass and pulls the axe free just as the fire alarm begins to sound in the subway platform. "Just like the scene in the Titanic," Lissa coaches herself under her breath as she approaches Fairview, "But instead of breaking Leo free you're saving the world." She swings the axe up resting it on her shoulder.
"You won't! You don't kill in cold blood Alyssa!" Fairview protests with desperation coming through his tone, "This isn't who you are."
"When you nearly killed the person I love, this is the person I've become." Lissa tells him and pulls Fairview's discarded gun from the back waist band of her pants and fires a single shot into his head. She then drops the gun to the ground before putting her attention on the axe. The blade swings down, hitting his wrist. It takes three swings before the briefcases is fully free from the Fairview, the whole time she's thankful for the noise of the fire alarm which keeps her from hearing things she knows would make her sick.
"Lissa!" Barney shouts as he starts taking the stairs two at a time. Gunnar is beside him, holding a gunshot wound to his stomach and Billy is behind them, watching their backs with an arm raised. "How long?" He shouts, "Maggie is working on a way to shut the timer down. She needs another few minutes."
Lissa looks down at the timer, twenty three seconds left. "Twenty three." She tells Barney. A chill runs through her bones as she realizes there's no time to stop the Spanish flu from being released. Maggie can't shut it down this quick and the CDC is too far away. Containment is on them. She finds herself looking past Barney and to Gunnar. While Gunnar might be a madman, he does understand the consequences of the flu being released into the world.
Gunnar must have the same realization because a grave look forms on his face. There's a flash of sorrow in his eyes and then he nods to her. "Go." He shouts and then shoves Barney backwards onto the stairs, knocking him from his feet. He moves to block Billy next.
Lissa catches a flash of Billy's face before she grabs ahold of the briefcase. "I'm sorry." She whispers feeling tears in her eyes and then runs for the open doors of the empty subway car which was left behind when the station was evacuated.
"Lissa no!" Billy screams in protest. While she can hear Billy and Barney fighting against Gunnar, Lissa doesn't look back. Once inside the subway car she places the briefcase down on the center of the floor and pulls the emergency handles above one of the doors. All three doors to the car slam shut, locking Lissa in. Without an emergency access key, the doors can't be opened from the outside. Which means Barney, Billy, Gunnar and the rest of the world will be safe from the Spanish flu.
As a few tears roll down her cheeks, Lissa goes to clasp her hand around her compass necklace but then remembers it's somewhere on the subway platform. Her hand bumps against the breast pocket of her vest and she realizes something is inside. She opens the pocket up, finding the high powered lighter Cesar gave her the day she was waiting outside Billy's hotel room to see how he was. Barney and Billy are banging against the doors of the car, trying to break in, which only makes the tears fall more.
Lissa clutches a hand around the lighter and closes her eyes, trying to find some peace in the situation. The people she loves and millions of others will live because of her. Thousands of bodies won't be mass cremated to avoid the Spanish flu spreading from the body of the deceased. She'll die a hero, an Expendable.