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Chapter 25
The Hangar

Ross, Ashton, Dan, Phil, Michael and Calum wound up bumping into Courtney and Luke, in a cross-road in the hallway, who looked like they were running for their lives. "What's wrong?" Ross asked.

"Mariah, Abasi, Isaac and Oakley are here – we had a run in with them in the vaults. We managed to take care of Mariah, we didn't kill her, but we don't know where the other three are." Luke said.

Seconds later, Rocky and Rydel made an appearance with Renzo, Ashley, Nate and Landon. "Hey! You're all alright!" Ashton said.

"Yeah, almost." Rocky said.

"What do you mean by 'almost'?" Dan asked.

Rocky turned to Ashley and Landon "Do you two wanna explain or should I?" He asked, even though it was obvious by their facial expressions that they didn't want to explain. "Long story short, they were dangling from the warehouse roof and fell – Ashley was literally inches away from dying 'cause she only just landed on the empty boxes in there." Rocky said.

"Why were you dangling from the ceiling?" Luke asked.

"Landon decided to hide on one of the beams on the roof of the warehouse to hide from a guard and I knew he would fall so I attached myself to one of the chains dangling from the roof with a rope and swung to catch him – I caught him above the empty boxes 'cause that's where the chain stopped swinging. After that I had to cut us both down." Ashley explained.

"Are you insane? Those chains are old – they could have snapped the moment you decided to swing on them." Ashton said.

"Yeah, I know... I figured when the screws started to come loose in the ceiling and started to break as we were dangling."

"Wait, where's Bailey, Ryan and the other two?" Ross asked.

"They've been kidnapped by Priscilla, Maxwell and Harvey – at least that's what they all think." Rocky said.

"GUYS! CASPAR'S BEEN TAKEN!" Joe shouted, coming from another direction.

Everyone turned to him. "What?" Phil asked.

"One minute he was there and then I got into the silo to disarm the warhead and when I got out he was gone." Joe said.

Rydel looked around at everyone who was there when she noticed something "Hang on... Where's Brad and Samara?" Rydel asked.

"Wasn't Samara disarming her warheads too?" Ross asked.

"I can explain where Brad is." Ashton said.

"Where?" Rocky asked.

Ashton handed him and Luke the letter Dan gave him to read "Skip the beginning and just read the middle."

Rocky held the letter and Luke looked over his shoulder to read it. "I knew he was up to something!" Rocky said.

"Did you really?" Luke asked.

Rocky nodded "Yeah, the moment Brad framed Samara back in 2037 for being the traitor – claiming that he caught her. She was with us the whole time and never snuck away once – she couldn't have with the noise the Epoch door makes. Not to mention he couldn't have caught her in the night because his room was nowhere near hers and I was next to her room – I woke up every time I heard her walking around and leave the room. She never once went anywhere near the front door of the base."

"Well why didn't you say anything?!"

"'Cause... I was hoping I was wrong about him..." Rocky said, looking a little bit saddened by this.

Ross wiped his face and ran his hands through his hair, clearly not knowing what to do or make of this new situation they had. Rocky shook his head, getting away from those thoughts "Are all the warheads disarmed?" Rocky asked.

"No." Phil said.

"Us four went to the Hangar but there were too many guards in there for us to fight in order for us to get to the planes." Michael said.

"Well, there's enough now so come on. We may as well get this over and done with." Ross said.

A guard stood by himself pacing up and down next to a small stack of boxes when Renzo looked over a little and ducked every time the guard turned round and came back in that direction. When the guard walked passed the stacks so that he had his back turned to Renzo, he got up from behind the boxes and jumped onto his back, covering his mouth and stabbing him in the throat with a knife he had been given.

Ross then popped up from behind the same stack Renzo was behind, looking suspicious yet impressed "Have you been teaching yourself new tricks whilst I've been gone?" Ross asked, quietly and because he had never taught Renzo how to do that when training him.

Renzo shrugged "I had to find some way of how to defend myself."

"Tr—Watch out!" Ross shouted, as there was a guard behind Renzo, sneaking up on him.

Renzo immediately turned round and swiped the guard in the ankles by kicking him and once he was on the floor, he stabbed him in the chest.

"You know what, I think I'm just gonna leave you to it..." Ross said, going away from the stacks to take care of other guards as Renzo clearly didn't need Ross protecting him.

Ashton, Ashley, Dan and Nate were hidden on either side of the door frame to the entrance of the Hangar. Dan and Nate were on one side and Ashton and Ashley were on the other.

There were two guards on the opposite side, inside the Hangar, with someone who worked here and wasn't on Priscilla, Maxwell and Harvey's side. They were begging for their life as the guards were about to kill him. Ashton was about to quickly jump out and attack the guard who was about to kill the guy but it was too late as a gun fired and he heard a body hit the floor – obviously that person was now dead.

"Come on, lets go check for anybody else snooping around here." One of the guards said.

The pair went to walk out of the entrance when in perfect sync, Ashton and Dan flew both their fists out as hard and as fast as they could and punched the two guards in the face so that they hit the floor. The guard that Ashton had hit got up from the floor and lunged at him but Ashton kicked him straight in the face so he fell back onto the ground.

"Can I finish him off?" Ashley asked.

Ashton looked at Ashley, being unsure about letting her do so. He went to protest but heard Dan struggling as the guard he had knocked onto the floor had got up and started attacking him. "Knock yourself out." Ashton said, going to help Dan and letting Ashley get on with finishing off their guard.

Ashton grabbed the guard tightly by the neck and dug his finger nails in so he ended up turning around where Ashton began to continuously punch the guard in the face until he drew blood. The guard became that dizzy from the punches, Ashton gave him one last punch in the gut and threw him onto the floor.

Ashton handed his gun to Dan "I'll let you do it – seen as though I've done 95% of the work here."

Dan took the gun from him and fired it at the guard without looking, and continued to look at Ashton. Himself, Ashton and Nate looked at the guard afterwards where they seen that Dan got a perfect shot in the guards head straight between his eyes – making Ashton shocked that he had done so.

"You're forgetting who taught you all your tricks." Dan said, handing him back his gun. When Ashton started here, Dan was his mentor and he taught him everything he needed to know about fighting and using weapons etc.

"Clearly." Ashton said.

The three boys turned around as they heard a commotion going on behind them, only to see Ashley having the other guard on his knees and punching and kicking the living daylights out of him. She grabbed him by the scruff of his top and pulled him up a little "Can I have that gun, Ashton?" Ashley asked.

Ashton didn't argue with her and he threw it to her.

She caught the gun and put the muzzle of it in the guards mouth with her finger on the trigger "How does it feel to have been beaten by a sixteen, almost seventeen, year old girl?" Ashley asked.

The guard didn't say anything, he just shook his head in panic, obviously not wanting to die.

Ashley then pulled the trigger – making Dan have to look away and Nate gag. Dan looked at Ashton who had watched that happen without so much as flinching, almost as though it was nothing, even though he was grimacing a little. "How did you watch that?" Dan asked, unable to understand how he could watch such a gory thing so calmly.

"I've seen worse." Ashton said.

"How?!"

"I work with Rocky."

Dan breathed deeply, shaking a little "Awe, man... Did you teach her to do that?" Dan asked.

"What? No. I taught her how to fire a gun, I didn't teach her how to blow someone's brains out like that!"

"WATCH OU!" Luke shouted to Landon as there was a guard behind.

Luke rushed to his rescue and sparked the guard out. "Thank you." Landon said.

Luke turned round to face him where he seen yet another guard behind him but before Luke could even tell him, Landon spun round and tackled the guard to the floor before booting him in the head, taking his gun and shooting him several times in the gut.

Phil jumped on a guards back with his arms wrapped round his neck tightly so that he choked and wound up on the floor unconscious. And just to make sure he was unconscious, Phil kicked him in the face – but he missed and wound up kicking him in the neck which more than likely killed the guard.

"In a way, you can tell he trained you." Rydel said to Rocky, watching Phil but turned round and quickly kicked the guard behind her in the chest and punched him under the nose and he collapsed to the floor dead (1).

Rocky grabbed the arm of a guard and threw him over his shoulder, shooting him in the head.

Eventually, the whole Hangar became empty with only Ross, Rocky, Ashton, Luke, Dan, Phil, Michael, Calum, Joe, Rydel, Ashley, Landon, Renzo and Nate – and of course the bodies of the dead or unconscious guards. The group met in the middle of the Hangar.

"Are all the warheads in the vaults disarmed?" Rydel asked.

"I don't know we only disarmed the ones we were told to. And some of them were already disarmed." Ashton said.

"Really?" Calum said, confused as nobody else could have done it as nobody knew about the warheads except for them up until now "who could have done it?" Calum asked.

"Us," Ashley said, where everyone looked at her, Landon, Renzo and Nate "me, Landon and Kyle disarmed them because Dan sent us a video message telling us to disarm certain ones. That way it'd be easier and you wouldn't fail."

Dan became confused "I didn't send you any video message."

"Yeah we know... You do it today because on that video message you sent us you guys did everything you were supposed to but it went wrong somewhere." Renzo said.

"W-well, should I go record it now?" Dan asked, not being sure if now was the right moment.

And if now wasn't the right moment to do so... when was it?

"No, wait till we're completely finished with doing this job." Rocky said.

Where then, Luke, Ashton, Ashley, Landon, Joe, Rydel, Calum and Michael ran to a plane each in the Hangar – even though there was only about five or six – and began to disarm the warheads that were inside them with the others standing by in case some guards came in to stop them.

It took a short while but they finished disarming the warheads on the planes and gathered back in the middle – which was when Brad came into the Hangar and an awkward atmosphere grew. "Hey, did you do it?" Brad asked.

Rocky lunged at him but Ashton stopped him, which made Brad begin to wonder why he had done so – he didn't ask, he just flinched when Rocky came at him before Ashton stopped him. "We know, Brad." Ashton said.

Brad looked at him confused "Know what?"

"Oh, don't act confused, you know what." Ross snapped.

"No... I genuinely don't have a clue about what you're talking about."

"You're not on our side and never have been."

"Ohhhhh... riiiiiight... That... See, I was kinda wondering how long it would take for you to catch on."

Ross broke in that moment and did the same as Rocky, he lunged for him but – the same as Ashton – Luke stopped him. "Why?!" Ross asked, raising his voice.

"Damn, take a chill pill, I can explain! I have a reason." Brad said.

"Yeah, well, I don't wanna hear it."

"Dude, make up your mind. You ask me why and then say you don't wanna know... Confusing."

Ross shook his head, looking at him in disappointment, heartbreak and some sort of disgust "You know... I really thought you'd changed since that day... I guess I was wrong. We all were." Ross said, turning away from him.

"No, Ross, you're not wrong – just let me explain!"

"No I don't wanna hear it! I hate you and I wish that we never found out about Luke and Ashton being your parents 'cause then you'd never have existed and we wouldn't have this problem!" Ross shouted, walking away.

"Ross!" Ashton scolded.

Even though Brad does deserve to be hated a little, he obviously does have an explanation otherwise he wouldn't be trying so hard to explain it – but what Ross said was way too harsh. Ashton turned and faced Brad who looked devastated and he guessed heartbroken 'cause it looked like he could cry.

Michael stepped in "Look guys, can we just forget about that for now? You're not realising something... We've done it... We've disarmed ALL the warheads – there's none left! We did it, we saved the world!"

Everyone looked around and noticed before either shouting "YES!" or some relieved cheer before giving the person next to them some sort of hug – except for Brad who felt left out and like an outcast now.

Luke turned around and faced the Hangar exit where the planes exit where he seen a plane in the middle of the runway that nobody had touched yet "Guys, there's still one more plane left," Luke said, where everyone looked at it "it's alright, I'll go do it quickly." He said, running towards it.

As Luke ran off, Ross' smile fell from his face as he realised something. "What's wrong?" Joe asked, noticing his facial expression.

"Guys..." Ross said, getting their attention "was it me... or was that way too easy..?"

Everyone else began to think about that too and it suddenly dawned on them...

Ashton thought about it too and he turned round, looking at Luke who was going to the plane outside and his eyes widened:

"LUKE! NO, STOP! COME BACK!"

Next: Thank You

There's only 3 chapters left of this story wtf. wtf. wtf. wtf. WTF. W.T.F.

Also, the title of the next chapter is just temporary bc I didn't have one for it when I first wrote the chapter plot & I literally just came up with it on the spot before I wrote this chapter.

(1) I got told that if you punch someone under the nose/on the nose, the bone in your nose (or whatevers in there) moves up which can kill you. Or something to that effect.