It is now dusk and the air is cool, they head to Magnus's office hoping that she would be in there but she is nowhere to be found. Declan decides to text Will to see where he might be in the hopes that Magnus might be close by as well. Alex also pulls out her phone and sends a text to Henry letting him know that they are not in the building and to turn the EM shield back on. He replies quickly saying he is in his office and that he has turned the shield back on, and he adds that nothing has happened yet. She hears Declan's phone go off and looks up at him to see what he has found out.
"Will and Magnus are on the roof, he told us to pick up two ear coms from your mother's desk and to turn them on. " Declan explains seeming to be waiting to see if she is going to share her messaging conversation.
" Alright, I guess we should head down to the communications room. " Alex explains ignoring his look of intrigue.
As they are walking they suddenly hear a siren and the lights dim, it stops them dead in their tracks putting them on the offensive. Alex reaches into her holster and pulls out her gun, Declan does the same and they slowly make their way down the hall.
On the roof, Will receives a phone call that sounds like an old dial up computer connecting to the internet. Magnus throws it off the roof and yells in frustration as the two of them head off inside reaching out to Henry as they do s.
" Henry what's going on?" Magnus asks hurriedly.
" There was some sort of remote hack and we lost all connections to our external network.. This is bad Doc.." Henry replies.
"And the Em Shield?" She adds.
" It's still.. DAMN! It just went down.. " Henry exclaims. " Druitt's the EM Shield is down." Henry adds notifying the two capable of teleportation they are free to fly if needed.
"Ten Four." Alex offers whispering.
Magnus makes it to her office to retrieve the Big Gun Tesla had finished just in time for her, that she has hidden under her desk. Will heads off in the other direction gun in hand, although he is fully aware that there is little it will do to help against the clones.
Down in the locked med ward, Big Guy hears the alarms going off and looks over at the antidote that has been left by Magnus, deciding whether or not he should take it. He picks it up laying back down staring at the syringe and takes a deep breath. Should he take it and break his species rules and save his family or not take it and regret it later and probably die?
John and Tesla are in the the main hallway as a couple of clones appear in front of them. They take one look at each other and smile, Tesla bearing his teeth and claws. They stalk towards the clones eager for another round, wanting to come out the victors this time. Each takes a clone, John taking advantage of his teleportation trying to gain the up hand, even though the clone can teleport too.
Helen goes to leave her office as a clone appears in the doorway, she points the charged gun at the clone and fires and it dissipates. She takes the opportunity to head off down to the communications bay hoping to have better luck luring more clones down there. On her way down she uses her com to check in with Henry.
" Henry what is our status with the security systems and EM Shield?" Magnus asks as she hurries down the hall.
" Well the virus got past our defenses jamming our countermeasures, I am headed to the main frame to fix what i can. " Henry explains.
Will heads off to help him and a clone stops him near the elevator. He aims his gun to fire as the clone approaches, but the Big Guy pummels it and it teleports out. Will smiles happy to see him and they take the elevator together down to the basement to help Henry.
Alex and Declan meet up with John as he is battling with one of the clones, he tells Alex to hurry to the communications room as that is where her mother is headed and Declan decides to stay back with John as he takes the butt of his gun to the clones head. Alex teleports to where she hopes to find her mother but the room is empty. Ashley pops up behind her and punches her in the back, this slows Alexandria down for a moment but she teleports away from her now seemingly mindless sister. Not fast enough tho and Ashley is beside her again wrapping her arm around her throat choking her. Alex teleports again but when she comes back she loses her balance and falls to the ground. Ashley runs up to her kicking her head hard into the floor knocking her older sister out cold.
Dr. Helen Magnus comes running into the extra large room at all the commotion and sees Alex laying on the ground. She points the big gun at her younger daughter as she approaches, trying to split her gaze to focus on both her daughters so as not to let Ashley out of her sight and make sure that Alex is still breathing, which thank god she is.
"Ashley please, don't do this.." Helen pleads as she gets within arms reach of Ashley.
Ashley says nothing staring her mother down, not blinking. As Helen reaches out to her, she lashes out and slashes her with her now vampiric claws and knocking her to the ground near Alex. A couple of tears fall down Helen's cheeks as she sets aside the big gun and tries to reason with her brass yet caring youngest child.
" Ashley do you remember when you were little?" Helen starts.
Alex comes to but doesn't get up, her head is throbbing and it hurts to open her eyes, she lays there listening to her mother plead for Ashley to come around and shake off whatever the Kaleb has her under. As Ashley steps closer there is a sudden giant boom and smoke fills the room, From one corner entrance, Kate Freelander has launched a small rocket like bullet into Ashley sending her into pieces. It makes Alexandria jump up to see what is going on, sitting up next to her mother and grabbing her arm.
Ashley only stays gone a moment but returns with one of the other clones a few feet away from the two woman on the floor. They just sit there not sure of what to do next Magnus refuses to pick up Tesla's gun still hopeful there is a little piece of her daughter left inside the Kabals monster creation. They hear Henry warn that he has gotten the EM shield back up and to no longer teleport, as the other clone comes towards them. Ashley stops her by grabbing her arm tightly, she looks at her family on the ground and a single tear falls from her cheek as she teleports them both into a puff of fiery smoke.
Helen breaks out in sobs and pulls Alex into a hug to hide her face, Alex allows a few tears to fall down her own cheeks silently squeezing her mother tight. There is no way her sister would have survived that, but she did sacrifice herself in order to save her family. Something neither of them will forget, ever.