Chapter Twenty-Four/Doomsday Brigade:
The year is 2025, and the entire East Coast has become a war zone. A militia by the name of The Exterminators has taken control of the entire state of California. There is no law, there is no justice, there is only those who rule and those who answer to them. Any who try to interfere end up being killed. This story begins in a holding cell in Sacramento, where the Exterminators have been holding a prisoner there for months. The guard in the cell goes to his post to relieve the other guy and takes control of the post. He looks up to the prisoner locked up, who of which is Noah Roan the last of the Celts, and decides to tease him. He takes his baton and taps it against Noah's head. Noah struggled but then resisted as his wrists start sizzling.
"Poor mick, can't break from the gold." The guard teases.
Noah growled at the guard. Suddenly, the light goes out. The guard begins to panic, and grabs his walkie.
"All units please respond, what the hell is going on?" The guard asked.
Sadly, nothing but static. Then, there was a constant banging sound against the door. Soon enough, the door gets knocked down and from it stands three masked intruders who immediately attacked the guard. He never stood a chance. After taking care of the guard, they let Noah loose. However, Noah isn't too quick to trust these guys, they could still be trouble.
"Who are you and why did you save me?" Noah asked.
The three removed their masks, and revealed to be the three Seville brothers Alvin, Simon and Theodore. Noah immediately smiled.
"Guys, you're alive!" Noah said hugging his surrogate brothers.
"We're glad you're still alive, we need you to come back with us." Theodore said.
"Holy shit, Alvin what happened to you cheek?" Noah asked.
Alvin had a large sized scar on his left cheek.
"War buddy, it's a rough thing." He said in a faux tough guy voice.
"Pfft, please. He tripped on a brick and landed on a twig." Simon said.
Noah snickered and Alvin sneered at Simon.
"Let's just get the hell out of here." Alvin said.
Soon, they exit the holding cell, and make their way to an underground hide out established by the three brothers. Noah arrived and saw a large group of people in this hide out.
"Who are these people?" Noah asked.
"People who managed to get away from the Exterminators." Simon said.
"Noah?"
Noah turned his head to see a familiar dirty blonde haired chipmunk.
"Austin!" Noah said excitedly.
The two hugged.
"Wait, where's.." Noah said.
"Me?" Said a familiar brown haired heavy set chipmunk.
"David!"
The three brothers hugged.
Alvin, Simon and Theodore bring the three reunited munk brothers into a corner of the hideout to talk about the situation.
"These guys are bad news. They can destabilize an entire state, as we have clearly seen, but they won't stop with California. The only thing we know about these Exterminators is that they're taking orders from this guy..." Simon explained.
He held up a street cam photo of a man who's face was hidden by a cloak.
"The only name this guy goes by is The Malefactor and he has powers, or some people say. Basically he's the turning cog in the clock and we need to take him down. The question is how." Alvin said.
The three sat and thought.
"Well if he has powers let me and Austin go after him. Problem solved." Noah said.
"We fear it might not be that easy Noah. This guy has supposedly destroyed powerful beings from other planets, those of which would seem like gods to us, just to find Earth. If a fraction of that's true, you and Austin could easily be screwed. If we're gonna snipe this guy, it has to be in a way he won't see coming." Theodore said.
"Well first we need to figure out where he is. His base is hidden from the satellite readings found from the FBI archives." Simon said.
"We'd need someone who can covertly hack into his radio transmission and triangulate the position of his broadcasts." Austin said.
The six of them thought, until Noah spoke up.
"Wait, David where is Cicely?" Noah asked.
David seemed distraught, he didn't answer.
"David... don't tell me she..." Austin said.
"I don't know where she is." David said.
Noah looked somewhat confused.
"But you're her..."
"No I'm not. Sometime before the massacre, we broke up. It's nobody's fault, we just drifted apart. We went our separate ways and I haven't seen her since." David explained.
Noah put his hand on David's shoulder.
"Do you know if she's still alive?" Noah asked.
David shook his head.
"And I don't know how to find out." David said.
Simon thought for a second.
"Hold on." Simon said. He reached into a pocket in his battle suit and pulled out a tiny box and in that box was a small necklace with a torn amethyst stone on the end.
"What's that?" Austin asked.
"Cicely gave me this Christmas' ago. It's torn, and if she's still alive, she'll have the other half." Simon said.
"How do you know?" Noah asked.
"Just a gut feeling." Simon said.
"Well if we do find this malefactor guy, we'll need to get weapons because something tells me this guy packs a punch." Alvin said.
Austin had a look on his face.
"I know someone who can help with that. On the other side of town, he raided the gun shops around the state and saved all the ammo." Austin said.
"Lastly, we need to figure out what he's planning. That's the easy part because we have an inside source." Alvin said.
"Someone who investigated closely with the Exterminators. They expect me to meet up with them at the museum, but I'd rather not go alone." Theodore said.
"I'll go with you buddy." Noah said.
"Alright, so Simon if you can, track down Cicely and take David to find her, I'll go with Austin to find his weapon man, and Noah will go with Theodore to find our 'ally'." Alvin said.
Everyone nodded.
Simon is at his computer with David, hopefully looking for a match for the stone on his necklace. Thankfully, there was a pattern match. It traced the stone to an abandoned physics lab downtown.
"That's gotta be her." David said.
"Let's go." Simon said.
Simon and David silently make their way to the abandoned physics lab, but as soon as they got there a sentry gun went off. Simon and David hid behind rubble.
"STAY AWAY EXTERMINATOR PRICKS!"
David froze.
"I know that voice." David said.
He stood up.
"Cicely?!" David shouted.
Eventually, from the lab she came. She saw him and disabled the sentry gun.
"David? Thank goodness you're alive." Cicely said.
Simon also came out from the rubble.
"Simon?" Cicely asked in surprise.
"Hey Cici, good to see you again." Simon said.
"What are you guys doing here?" Cicely asked.
"We need your help to find someone." David said.
Cicely looked at both of them.
"Come with me." Cicely said.
She took them to the main room of the lab, and find yet another familiar face. Their friend Jo.
"Oh my gosh, David! Simon! You're alive!" Jo said excitedly.
"So far." David said.
"So who are you looking for?" Cicely asked.
"The guy behind the exterminators, this malefactor guy." Simon said.
Cicely shuddered.
"I don't think you guys want to find him. He seems like trouble, even for Noah and Austin." Cicely said.
"We know, but we're gonna stop him anyway. Better to die trying than not trying at all." David said.
"Well, thankfully we do have access to all radio transmissions in the city. We just need to track the right one." Jo said.
Cicely and Jo turn on the radio tracking device and listen closely. Suddenly, they heard his voice.
YOU LET THE CELT ESCAPE?! AGGGHH! Now they'll find us. We need to push the backup plan ahead of schedule! I don't care what it takes!
"That's the one." Jo said.
"That voice still creeps me out. So deep and spooky." Cicely said.
They triangulated the transmission to the center of California.
"That's where it came from. You might want to hurry, just in case he moves again." Jo said.
"Thanks guys." Simon said.
"Wait. David, I found someone you might want to meet again." Cicely said.
She went to a door in the room and knocked on it. It opened and from it came J.J. Morris.
"J.J.?" David asked.
"David?"
She ran to hug him. They were both happy to see each other.
"I want to go with you." J.J. said.
"No, I need you to stay here where you'll be safe." David said.
"David, right now, nowhere is safe. If I'm gonna die, I want it to be next to you." J.J. said.
David eventually agreed.
"Okay. Let's go. Oh Cicely, hold on to this walkie in case we need to communicate." David said.
"Thanks. Good luck David." Cicely said.
Guys, we found Cicely and found out the malefactor is in the center of the state. We'll send you the coordinates, meet us there at 18:00.
"Got it Simon." Alvin said.
Austin made his way with Alvin to meet up with the guy hoarding the weapons. There was a big metal door with a slide on the other end. Austin knocked on the door, and the slide opens and two green eyes peep through.
"Password."
"Lightyear." Austin said.
The slide closed, and the door opened. Drommy was on the other side.
"Hey old friends, good to see you still standing." Drommy said.
"Drommy, I realize I'm asking a lot of you, but me and Alvin are gonna need a few of your weapons." Austin said.
Drommy looked at both of them and smiled.
"My friends, there's nothing I wouldn't do for you. Though I feel like the effort is pointless. There's no going back from this war zone we've got ourselves caught in." Drommy said.
"Not the way we see it, we can and will succeed, but we need your help." Alvin said.
"Ah, come with me." Drommy said.
He lead them to the arsenal room where all the weapons were stocked, and also a familiar face was testing out these weapons.
"Hey Drommy, my aim is getting better. Watch." Dan said.
He shot at a test dummy and shot right at it's nuts.
"Yes, much better." Drommy said nonchalantly.
"Hey Alvin, hey Austin. Kicking butt?" Dan asked.
"Yeah. I gotta say Dan, you don't seem all that concerned about what's going on outside." Austin said.
"That's because I'm in here." Dan said.
"So yeah, take what you need and good luck my friends. I hope these will help with the robot." Drommy said.
Austin and Alvin froze for a second.
"Whoa, what robot?" Alvin asked.
"This malefactor guy has been developing a threat neutralizing robot for months and he's almost done. So yeah, best to go big in weaponry." Drommy said.
Alvin and Austin gulped.
Guys, we found Cicely and found out the malefactor is in the center of the state. We'll send you the coordinates, meet us there at 18:00.
Even better news, Austin found his weapon guy, and now we're locked and loaded. We're on our way to the meet up site. See you guys there.
"Aye captain." Theodore said.
Theodore and Noah were on their way to meet this ally who knew about this malefactor person. Theodore and Noah entered the museum, and waiting for the signal Theodore was promised. Suddenly, an arrow was shot from one end of the room to the next. Soon, a young brunette chipette came from the darkness.
"Rosa, I'm here. And I brought Noah." Theodore said.
"I'm glad you guys are safe. Follow me, my partner will be glad to see you Noah." Rosa said.
"Partner?" Noah asked.
They came to a room with desks and chairs across the room. Noah immediately spotted a familiar chipette.
"Noah?"
" Mo Thiarna, Jeanette." Noah said shocked.
The two hugged each other tightly.
"I'm glad you're free from those monsters. How did you escape?" Jeanette asked.
"Theodore and his brothers got me out. How did you get here?" Noah asked.
"Rosa saved me and brought me here. We've been learning a lot about these guys and their leader." Jeanette explained.
"So is it true that this guy has powers that could render me and Austin pretty much useless?" Noah asked.
"Yup." Rosa said.
"Okay, then what's his end game?" Theodore asked.
"So as the story goes, this guy is from a different world then ours. Take that for what you will, because I have no idea what it means. He crossed planet after planet and killed tyrants in power, kings of worlds just to find Earth, and when he got here, he established the Exterminators and promised to take back what belongs to him. Whatever that means." Rosa explained.
"Something we do know is that he's built some kind of device. Something he says will fix the muck of this planet." Jeanette said.
Theodore and Noah looked at each other in terror.
"So we need to disable that device." Noah said.
"Yeah. I mean if you guys can find him." Rosa said.
"We got that taken care of." Theodore said.
"So what now?" Jeanette asked.
"Now we attack, we have to meet up with the others soon so we need to go." Noah said.
"Noah wait, let me go with you." Jeanette said.
"Oh no, I can't lose you. Not like this. Please stay here with Rosa." Noah said.
Jeanette frowned. Noah placed his finger on his chin.
"I promise you, I will return." Noah said.
Jeanette didn't agree with this, but she knew he couldn't lie.
"Okay." Jeanette said.
"Go save the city you two." Rosa said.
Theodore and Noah bolted.
It's 18:00. All groups have banded together. Some noticed a new face.
"J.J.? What are you doing here?" Alvin asked.
"Long story, I'll tell you once we eff this guy up." David said.
All seven of the munks quietly searched through the surprisingly unguarded base. Simon was getting a funny feeling from this.
"This doesn't feel right. He has an army, why not post guards in your base?" Simon asked.
BECAUSE SIMON SEVILLE, I'D RATHER FACE YOU TRAITORS IN PERSON.
A booming voice coming from speakers across the room, but the being was nowhere to be seen.
"Are you this malefactor guy?" Alvin asked.
I AM.
"Look, I'm sure we can come to some sort of agreement." Austin said.
I'M AFRAID NOT, CALLAWAY.
"How do you know who we are?" David asked.
OH I KNOW ALL OF YOU FROM MEMORY. ESPECIALLY YOU, DAVID. YOU'RE THE SOLE REASON I DID ALL OF THIS.
"Gee, all for me. I'm touched, now knock it off!" David yelled.
I HAVE A BETTER IDEA...
Suddenly, a clanking sound continuously pounded the room, as if it was footsteps.
...INSTEAD, MEET MY FRIEND WHO'S DYING TO KILL YOU.
"Oh shit." Alvin said.
"What?" Noah asked.
"Robot." Alvin said.
Alvin's suspicion was correct. From the darkness emerged a robot twice the size of the seven munks, and somewhat resembled a chipmunk.
CHIPMUNKS, THIS IS WHERE YOU END. ONCE AND FOR ALL!
The robot scanned the area, and set all systems on the targets in front of it.
"Alvin, quickly we need a plan." Noah said frantically.
"Hey you're the Celt, you think of something." Alvin said.
"Alvin that thing is laced with gold from the inside, Noah can't attack that thing and I'm not strong enough to hold it back myself." Austin said.
Alvin reached for the weapons bag.
"Alright everybody, the plan is shoot the hell out of that thing before it crushes us." Alvin said.
Everyone arms themselves and shoots like hell. The robot took so little damage from the bombardment.
"This isn't working." Simon said.
"Oh for heavens sake." Austin said.
He levitated behind the robots head and tried to hold him back.
"Hurry! Shoot the neck!" Austin said struggling.
Everyone aimed for the neck, but still no outcome. Then Noah eyed something in the robots chest.
"Austin, the robots source of power is in the chest. Rip it out." Noah said.
Austin let go of the robot and used his powers to rip the power source out.
"Shoot it!" Austin said.
Everyone shot at the chest. Soon the power source was ripped out, and the robot was finished. He fell to his metallic knees. Then, a skylight opened up and revealed the Malefactor. Still disguised by his cloak so it was unclear who it was.
"So you destroyed my robot. I'll return the favor by destroying your world." Malefactor said.
"What are you talking about?" Simon asked.
"What's this device you've created?" Noah asked.
"It's a time device. Once activated, it will completely erase the past ten years of Earth's history, and the life created from it. That includes you." He said pointing at David. Before the could react, he flies down and swoops up J.J. from the ground.
"J.J.!" David shouted.
He flies away with her
"Noah, Austin, one of you track him." Alvin said.
"We can't, his powers are blocking us." Noah said.
"We can't let him get away! There's gotta be something! Anything!" David said frantically.
Nobody had anything, no ideas. David began to panic.
Back at the physics lab, Cicely and Jo waited hoping to hear something from the team. Suddenly, someone entered. They could hear footsteps.
"Shit, I forgot to reactivate the sentry gun." Cicely panicked.
They braced themselves for whoever was coming around the corner, until they saw a familiar face.
"Hey Ci."
"Gigi?" Cicely asked.
Gigi was covered in bruises and cuts, but still fighting.
"What happened to you?" Cicely asked.
"I was under the capture of that piece of shit Malefactor. I tried to fight him but his powers kept me at bay. I was his slave for months, until today when he came back with another girl. He beat me to a pulp, tossed me aside and said 'you're useless to me now'. I limped around begging for someone to help me, and here I am." Gigi said close to tears.
The sight of Gigi broken down like this infuriated the two girls.
"Gigi, I promise we're gonna find him and you'll get your revenge on that despicable motherf..." Cicely said until Gigi spoke up.
"I already did." Gigi said putting a piece of paper on the table. It had coordinates on it.
"What's this?" Jo asked.
"It's where he's going. I stole it from under his stupid fucking face. Tell the team, and hurry. I'm headed there too." Gigi said.
"Wait Gigi, you're hurt." Jo said.
"Never stopped me before, sure won't now. I'm taking that shit head down." Gigi said.
David, are you there?
"Cicely? What's going on?" David asked.
We had a stoke of good luck, we know where the douchebag's going.
"Oh thank goodness. Where?" David asked.
The edge of the Pacifica, California. Malefactor had set up his device and waited. He wanted the munks to see the end of everything they cared about.
"You horrible person." J.J. said.
"You didn't always think that way of me." He said.
"I've never met you in my life." J.J. said.
He walked closer to her, caressed her cheek.
"Yes you have." He whispered.
Suddenly, a dagger hit his hand.
"Touch her again, and I'll peel your skin off." David said.
Malefactor saw him and all the other munks huddled behind him. He quickly pressed a button on a remote he had and metal claws trapped Austin.
"Can't have you disabling my device." Malefactor said.
"You forgot about me, dipshit." Noah said. His powers however weren't having an effect on the device.
"Did I?" Malefactor said.
"Dammit, gold." Noah said.
"Any of you come near me, and she gets it. This is where it ends." Malefactor said.
"Then why don't you show your face, coward?" David asked.
Malefactor chuckled and pulled his cloak's hood back. There was a collective gasp from everyone but David, who was dead silent. Malefactor... was David. But of a different kind.
"T-This doesn't make sense. How..." David stuttered.
"I'm from another dimension. A dimension you all destroyed years ago. I am the only survivor and I will cause you the same pain you caused me." Malefactor said.
He reached for the button of his device, but his arm was being pulled back by David.
"Don't... don't do this. We can... still find a way." David said struggling.
"There is no other way!" Malefactor shouted.
He elbowed David in the face and then...
"NOOOOO!" Everyone shouted in unison.
*click*
The device was activated, and Malefactor turned to his foes as he was the first to fade away.
"See you all in hell." He said as he drifted into dust.
The others started drifting away. Theodore's body disintegrated along with Alvin.
"Guys." Simon said.
He then started fading away.
"Oh shit." He said.
"Simon!" Austin cried.
Noah hugged his surrogate brother, but they too started drifitng away.
"David?"
David turned his head to see J.J. drifting away too.
"No no no no no!" David said balling tears.
But it was too late she was gone.
"David? What happened?"
He turned and saw Gigi.
"Where are the others?" Gigi asked.
David could hardly get the words out.
"We lost." David said.
At the physics lab, Cicely and Jo started fading.
"Oh no." Jo said.
They soon were gone.
In the weaponry hideout, Drommy and Dan were fading.
"Oh shit." Dan said.
"Farewell my friends." Drommy said.
They too were gone.
In the museum, Rosa and Jeanette were hugging each other as they began to fade.
"See you in heaven, Noah." Jeanette said crying.
They faded away.
Gigi looked at David, who was laying on the ground sobbing.
"How did this happen?" Gigi asked.
"I wasn't quick enough. It's all my fault. This is just like my nightmare." David said.
Then David looked up in a horrific realization. He saw Gigi fade away.
"This IS my nightmare." David said.
He saw as the landscapes were fading away into nothing. Everything around him was disappearing, and he went with it. The past ten years of Earth's history has officially never happened.
The year is 2015. Our story ends in the Seville household. The three brothers were sitting on the couch watching TV when Dave enters.
"Boys, hurry up and get ready, you'll be late for school." Dave said.
The boys get their school supplies together, and go outside to wait for the bus. Simon looks over to the right of their house and sees the next door house is no longer for sale.
"Hmm, someone moved in. We've got new neighbors boys." Simon said.
"I just hope they're not boring." Alvin said.
"Maybe I can cook with them someday, or even swap recipes." Theodore said.
Just then, the bus arrived.
Later at school, the boys were sitting in class talking about their upcoming spring trip to Hawaii with Dave.
"Come on Simon, we're not doing it without you." Alvin said in anger.
"Alvin, I'm not joining you and Theodore in the annual hula competition." Simon replied.
Their conversation was interrupted when the teacher came in.
"Students, I'm pleased to introduce our new student, Jeanette Miller." She said.
Simon couldn't believe his eyes when he gazed upon the most beautiful woman to ever walk upon this earth. His heart was beating so fast, he couldn't keep up with it. She took the seat next to him; He thought this would be the perfect opportunity to get to know her.
"Hi, I'm Simon Seville." She looked back at him through those purple glasses and brown eyes.
"I'm Jeanette Miller, nice to meet you." She said. Her voice was angelic, like nothing he ever heard.
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