-Final Chapter II: Last Man Standing-

At last Mordecai entered the war-torn town of Taylortown. Limbs, blood and shrapnel laid everywhere and there wasn't a bandit in sight, other than dead bandits. The bandits who had survived the chaos earlier were staying inside, away from Mordecai. If they didn't start on him maybe he wouldn't harm them. These bandits were nothing more than an obstacle in Mordecai's way, his target was Taylor Kobb and no-one else. Several Rakk flew overhead, clearly attracted to the smell of fresh blood. This gave Mordecai hope; he was fascinated with birds and any other form of predatory animal. They circled over Taylortown waiting for their time to fly down. They waited until the threat was clear. They were hungry; they didn't want to risk themselves for food if there was trouble below. Mordecai walked through the courtyard with ease, his sniper rifle resting in his hands with his finger barely touching the trigger. Mordecai could see blurred faces through the windows in the nearby buildings. The bandits wanted to escape Taylortown when the coast was clear. Mordecai knew this and decided to leave them be. He was doing them a favour. When Mordecai reached the wooden wall at the end of the courtyard which divided Taylor's building at the very end, Mordecai looked over his shoulder and watched as the bandits fled Taylortown for good. Taylor's short-lived reign of power was over.

Mordecai walked through the gap in the wall and stopped in his tracks to look at the sight of what looked like a small fortress. Taylor kicked open the door with the roaster resting on his shoulder. Mordecai raised his sniper rifle and took a shot at Taylor which was deflected off of Taylor before it even hit him. Taylor pointed his finger towards his head and tapped it several times to gesture he has planned for everything Mordecai can throw at him. Taylor had an invisible shield installed to protect him on the front porch. Taylor pulled out a remote control which was the shutter controls for the two steel shutters beneath the two turrets on either side of Taylor. He pressed both buttons and the two steel shutters rattled open. Mordecai began to edge his way closer to the large rock in the centre of the area and prepared to take cover. Out of the shutters, two behemoths of bandit bruisers walked out clutching their assault rifles. They began to relentlessly fire their shock elemental effect assault rifles at the rock which Mordecai had dived behind. Mordecai was surrounded; the bruisers were making their way slowly around the large rock where Mordecai was hiding behind. Mordecai blind-fired with his sniper rifle, he fired off three rounds. One of them misfired badly into the sky, another fired directly at Taylor's shield bouncing off smacking into the wooden wall behind Mordecai. The third tore its way through the neck of the bruiser to Mordecai's left. The bruiser fell back a few paces from the impact and felt the wound. It was nothing to worry about. But, this gave Mordecai the opening he needed to jump out of cover and swing himself around the back of the wounded bruiser. The bruiser tried to shake off Mordecai but Mordecai slammed his knife into the back of the bruiser's neck and held on. The bruiser yelled out in pain, blood started to seep through the wound but as the knife sunk in deeper the bruiser's yells began to fall silent. The bruiser was dead. Mordecai jumped off of the bruiser's back and dived behind a fridge which was leaning diagonally against the tall fence. The last bruiser started yelling out insults with anger and frustration at Mordecai. The bruiser clan of the bandits were stupid as they were strong. Mordecai could easily lure them into traps ordinary bandits wouldn't fall for. Taylor watched on with a smile on his face, he wasn't scared at all by any of this. It was entertaining. The bruiser kept on walking towards Mordecai behind the fridge while unloading his assault rifle at the fridge. The electricity crackled off of the fridge exploding with energy. Mordecai quickly looked around the fridge and judged his timing. A few seconds more would be enough. The time was right; he kicked the fridge into the bruiser who bounced backwards from the impact. Mordecai leaped on top of the bruiser and jammed his knife into the bruiser's neck planting him there. Always attack where the animal is most vulnerable was what Mordecai always did. Mordecai unhinged his knife and holstered it and equipped his sniper rifle.

Taylor pushed another button but this time the control panel was stuck on the wall next to him. The two turrets either side of Taylor activated and started firing rounds at Mordecai. Mordecai ran to his right and kept on going. He was running directly at the tall fence on the left side of Taylor's building. Mordecai leapt onto the fence and scrambled over the top with the turret gunfire trailing behind him and dropped below out of sight. Taylor couldn't work out what had happened. The turrets stopped firing and remained idle, surveying the area continuously. Taylor deactivated his shield and walked down the steps onto the battleground. Mordecai had disappeared. Taylor approached the tall fence where Mordecai had jumped over and tried to look as far down to the swamp below as he could. There was nobody there. Meanwhile, behind Taylor's building, Mordecai was climbing the wall to reach the rooftop where he could drop down where Taylor was standing before between the two turrets. Mordecai remained as silent as possible. There was no way he could drop down without attracting attention to himself. Mordecai purposely slipped away from his grip and landed where Taylor stood before and immediately punched the button to activate the shield. As Mordecai predicted, Taylor had heard the sound of Mordecai landing on the ground. Taylor instinctively spun around and fired a rocket directly at Mordecai which exploded as it struck the shield. The incendiary elemental effect created splash damage to the two turrets beside Mordecai. The turrets began to burn and frazzle as the mechanisms inside them burnt away. Now, Mordecai was safe behind the shield and Taylor was out in the open. Mordecai couldn't deactivate the shield because Taylor would instantly kill him with the roaster and Taylor couldn't harm Mordecai because he was behind the shield. Mordecai walked inside the building and closed the door behind him. He didn't have long; Taylor probably had another way of getting inside so Mordecai looked around him for an escape. He smashed open the window with his elbow and looked at the swamp down below. Mordecai crawled through and jumped onto the roof again where he remained flat on his front. Taylor had no idea where Mordecai was going, he couldn't even see him. Taylor paced back and forth in front of the shield waiting for something to happen. Mordecai noticed that Taylor was right below him. Mordecai looked ahead and noticed the weapon that Taylor had on display on top of the Dahl container. The meat grinder was on Mordecai's mind because Mordecai had lost his sniper rifle when he jumped over the fence. Mordecai stood up and jumped as far as he could from the rooftop. Mordecai's shadow swept over Taylor who saw this awe-inspiring feat of athleticism. Mordecai landed and rolled through absorbing the impact and dived for the meat grinder. He grabbed hold of it with both hands, spun round and unloaded the entire clip into Taylor Kobb.

Taylor dropped the roaster and stood as he burnt alive. He was standing with his hands reaching out either side of him like a cross. His head leaning back looking at the sky high above. As the flames licked higher embracing his entire body he began to scream but his screams were almost as if they were silent. The sound of the roaring flames and sizzling of burning skin and bones drowned it out. Mordecai rested sat down against the Dahl container watching the awful sight of Taylor Kobb finally burning to the ground with ashes laying to rest beneath him.

(Later that evening)

The wild wind howled through Taylortown as the night covered the planet. Mordecai had reached the Trash Coast discovering there was no barricade, only a hacked Claptrap who gave him insults again and again before granting him access with the key card Mordecai acquired when he killed Jaynis. Mordecai realized that he didn't even need to kill Taylor, but what was done was done. Taylor and Jaynis fought and died over nothing fuelled by a sibling rivalry which made legendary status throughout Pandora. Jaynis wasn't the last man standing but if anything, he was the hero out of the two. The Refuge remained empty with the memories of what happened. Their story ended on Day 33.