Author's Note: This is the final chapter to the war to end all wars. Well not really, but I certainly had fun writing it. All three chapters worth of it. I hope you guys had fun reading it as well. Now while the story is technically over, there is still an epilogue that I'll be writing. You may remember that there was a certain proposal that happened some chapters ago... It didn't feel right putting it into this chapter so it'll be in the epilogue. All the characters you love will be there, there will be some funny bits, some laughter, it'll tie the remainder of the storyline together.

There is one line of trigedasleng but it's a commonly said phrase so you should be able to figure it out. If not: ai gonplei ste odon = my fight is over.

Happy Reading.


Chapter 39

ALIE, Jaha and Titus walked closer to the compound finding a constructed fence some distance from the compound with no way around it. "What is this?" ALIE questioned aloud.

"It looks like a fence, which is odd because it appears that they have a strong door inside of it. It is unclear what the purpose would be for such a fence," Jaha pondered as he could not determine the purpose of the fence.

"No matter, nothing will stand in our way," ALIE commanded. She didn't care what the fence was, or how it would affect them, she just had one goal on her mind.

"Continue on!" Jaha shouted standing with ALIE and Titus, as their warriors continued on past them.

As the warriors, or drones, walked up to the fence and touched it, they received a shock and fell backwards.

"Interesting, they have built it to electrify my chips. You are a curious species," ALIE wondered, curious to know what other tricks they had under their sleeves. "Tell the warriors to continue until they either get through or the fence loses its power."

The warriors didn't need to be told however, as they continued to try to get through the fence. As each one touched the fence, they'd drop, creating a pile of bodies. At one point all of the unconscious bodies fell in a way that kept them connected to the fence creating a constant source of electricity.

At this point, the warriors didn't need to even touch the fence and they were losing consciousness.

"YES! It's working," Happy exclaimed, excited that her idea was actually working. "Now that enough have touched and fallen to the ground, it's created a constant charge."

"If it stays like this, we might just have to wait for everyone to hit the fence," Yuki added to the conversation.

"Well that is if it keeps its charge," Happy pointed out the error in Yuki's statement.

"What do you mean?" Anya asked, wanting to understand what Happy was saying because at this moment it sure seemed like Yuki was right.

"While it appears to be working right now, there is no guarantee that all of the additional power it's producing will stay at full force. Not only that, look at what they are doing over there," Happy pointed to the far side of the fence. "There are enough of them stacking that they may try to jump the fence altogether."

"Archers! If you see someone get over the fence, shoot them," Anya shouted to the archers in the area.

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Meanwhile, Clarke and Lexa had just arrived on the island where the lighthouse was after a warrior brought them in a boat. They were off in the right direction before the warrior could even direct them because Becca was leading them.

"Clarke, I need you to know something," Lexa stopped abruptly in one of the hallways leading to the room where Raven was.

Clarke looked at Lexa confused, "Can't you tell me this after we save everyone? We're almost there, we'll put the flame into the computer and then you can tell me what you need to tell me."

Lexa shook her head, "I cannot do that."

"Why not?" Clarke asked, getting worried about what Lexa might be about to say.

"I do not know what is going to happen in there. I just want you to know that you changed my life for the better. I am so happy that you walked into my tent all those weeks ago determined to change my mind about killing your people. And even though these last couple of weeks have been hell for both of us, we came out of it for the better," Lexa said, holding onto Clarke's hands as she did. She wanted to feel grounded as she confessed such love for Clarke.

Clarke couldn't help the smile that appeared on her face, "Nothing is going to happen, and you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives… together."

"Just in case," Lexa pulled Clarke's attention back to her before she pulled her in for a kiss. She wanted the moment to last as long as it could. She wanted to burn this moment into her memory just in case.

She didn't know what was going to happen. If she removed the flame and it destroyed ALIE, would she be able to put it back in? Would the code be altered so much that it wouldn't work properly? Or would she have to survive without it? Could she survive without it, after having it in for so long? These were the questions that made her want to express her love for Clarke before walking into that room. If this was the last time she truly saw Clarke, she wanted to remember it.

Clarke was right, life was about more than just surviving.

Lexa hoped that Clarke was right, that everything was going to be fine and that they'd walk out of this room. It was just one more war that they were a part of together. One more that would save another group of people from torment. This was what they were here for. They were here to bring peace amongst the people of Earth.

Lexa pulled back, green eyes connecting with blue, "You are the one I have been searching for. The girl from the sky falling in love with the leader of the ground. If anyone is going to survive this, it is going to be us. I love you."

"I love you too, Lexa," Clarke reciprocated. "Now let's kill ALIE."

Lexa nodded, before they walked into the laboratory that Raven was in.

"Finally, you guys are here. Let's go, I found where I believe we need to enter the flame," Raven announced, moving the chair out of the way so that the USB port could be seen. "I'm not entirely sure how it will work, but there it is."

Lexa looked at the computer, waiting for direction, "That's not it."

Raven looked at Lexa, and Clarke confused, "What do you mean? How do you know?"

Lexa looked like she was looking off into space as though she was listening to something.

So Clarke did, "Becca has been giving her instructions since we left The Horizon."

Raven nodded, "Gotcha."

"She says that there is a direct line to the coding somewhere here," Lexa answered the question finally. "Pramheda says that using the computer would have been too obvious, so she created a direct line to the code for this function. There is something that should be in the shape of the flame."

"I have been here for over an hour, and haven't seen anything like that," Raven pointed out, not sure how they were going to find something even she didn't see.

"Pramheda says there is a secret panel somewhere," Lexa answered, not clear on what that entirely meant. "We have to find a switch somewhere and it'll open."

Raven dropped her head in defeat for a moment, "Damn it. Okay, RIKU!" She shouted for him.

Riku appeared in the doorway, "What is it?"

"We need to find a switch of some sort to open a secret panel for the flame," Raven explained briefly to him.

"Okay, I'm on it," Riku came into the room to help them look for a secret panel.

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Back at The Horizon.

"Damn it!" Happy quickly maneuvered to the power breaker she had connected the electrified fence to. "This is not good."

"What is it?" Anya asked, pretty sure she knew the answer she was about to get.

Happy clicked some of the breakers turning them off, then on, off then on, "It's dead."

Yuki watched as the warriors were able to get past the fence now with ease, "We have another problem!" He jumped down the ladder that Anya and Happy had gone down to look at the breaker.

"What is it now?" Anya asked. Until it hit her, "Why am I not hearing any explosions?"

"That's the problem. It looks like the warriors still have some memory of themselves and know how to avoid the mines," Yuki explained quickly. "That means they are going to get to the gate in about-"

BANG! BANG!

"Now," Yuki said as they all looked at the gate that was between them and an army of drones.

"Yuki, Happy, with me, we need to get to your controls. If they break through the gate, we can use it on them, stopping them for at least a little while," Anya commanded.

They all ran over to the controls behind where the shielding was faced outward.

"You know I had an idea, Commander," Happy turned to the both of them. "What if we just opened the gate?"

"Are you insane?" Yuki asked, legitimately concerned that Happy was currently losing it.

"Right now we are waiting on them, we don't know how fast they are going to get in, or at what rate they will get in," Happy started to explain.

"Get to the point!" Anya demanded.

"If we charge this thing to max power, then let them all in, we control the situation, and could affect more than we think. If we wait, we might not get to max power, and then we might only affect some of them," Happy continued her train of thought.

"Do it!" Anya commanded.

So they did, they turned the shielding on so that it would pull in as much energy as possible from the power in their facility. From the power that was required for this to work, they would only have one shot at it.

"Open the gate!" Anya shouted when Happy gave her a thumbs up.

The door opened, and people slowly walked into the facility. One by one, one after the other, they walked into the facility.

Happy stood by watching as the area filled up with people, waiting for the right moment… "Wait for it."

The people were getting closer to where they were, but before they reached them Happy shouted, "NOW!"

An energy shot through the facility, knocking out people as the wave went through them all, even got a few of them outside as a couple of mines started going off from the energy.

"It worked!" Yuki jumped up excited that their plan actually worked for once.

"Oh no," Happy said, saddened as people started coming again.

"If we have to fight, we have to fight," Anya said, pulling out her sword, as the other two picked up a pipe and a wrench.

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Clarke pulled at the books on the shelves, pulling from a movie she'd watched, hoping that would open a secret panel. Nothing happened.

Raven was looking around the area of the computer, and whiteboards, moving things around, pulling pictures off the walls. She even tried running her fingers over the flat surfaces just in case it was touch sensitive. Still nothing.

Riku was by the servers, thinking that it was a literal sense, the chip went right into the mainframe of the lighthouse circuitry. That also produced nothing.

Lexa stood in the middle of the room trying to understand what Pramheda was saying to her. She wasn't sure she was understanding what the first commander was saying to her. "A symbol that will unite everyone together," She whispered to herself, which caused her to look around looking for something that would bring them together.

Their symbol, the sacred symbol was an infinity symbol, so what could this mean. What symbol could she be looking for. Then she saw something, on one of the walls across from where the computer was. She walked over to it, letting her fingers run over the etched in symbol. It was faded, but it had what looked like a symbol of the Earth, and what looked like a star coming to the ground. "A star would reach the Earth to meet the ground…" She spoke aloud without realizing it, dropping her hand.

"What?" Clarke turned from the couch she was pulling cushions from. "What did you say… Wait, did you find something, Lexa?" She left the cushions on the ground and walked over to where Lexa was standing. "What is that?"

"The prophecy," Lexa said, realizing there was more to the prophecy than she'd ever thought. She thought it was just about her and Clarke, but now she was realizing that there was more to it than just that.

Clarke reached up and touched the symbol but nothing happened, she pressed it, and still nothing happened. "I think we have to do it together." She said looking over at Lexa.

Lexa lifted her hand, but looked to Clarke, "For those that we've lost…" She waited for Clarke to finish it off.

"And for those that we shall soon find," Clarke finished off the sentence.

They both touched the symbol at the same time, and about a meter to their right a panel opened, revealing a perfect shape of the flame. Above the panel was their sacred symbol.

"It worked," Raven said, before anyone else could get the words out.

Lexa turned her back to Clarke, moving her hair out of the way, "Do it."

"Quia nunc vale," Clarke spoke the latin phrase that ALIE had told them to say, and just like the last time the flame came out of Lexa's neck, closing up. "So weird." She exclaimed, walking over to the panel. "Here goes nothing." She placed the flame into the cut out in the panel, at which point it lit up in a bright white. "Whoa…"

"Say the activation," Raven directed.

"Right, ascende superius," As soon as Clarke said the words, the flame started to glow a bright blue color, which caused the walls around the panel to produce blueish black veins. "Whoa!"

Even with her neck bleeding, Lexa wrapped her free arm around Clarke to protect her if it was required in the moment.

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Anya who'd killed a couple of the warriors trying to get to the mainframe, was bloodied from the battle, she'd injured her other hand from punching a few of them unconscious. When she tried to swing her sword again, one had pushed her down to the ground, she could see the weapon coming closer, this was the end again, she closed her eyes, "Ai gonplei ste odon."

Nothing happened.

She opened her eyes, and the warrior was staring at her stunned.

"You're alive," The warrior said as tears started to roll down her cheeks.

"It worked…" Anya was stunned. She picked up the radio that had fallen from her belt, "Commander, come in."

A warrior came over the radio, "They are in the bunker, I can relay the information to them."

"Tell them, they can come home, it worked," Anya told them, as she was helped onto her feet by the warrior that had almost killed her.

"I am so sorry Anya," The warrior's voice broke at the thought of almost killing one of her friends she thought was dead.

"You have nothing to apologize for," Anya stopped the warrior from apologizing. "You didn't have control."

"How are you alive?" The warrior asked.

"That is a story for another time, let us find out how many need our help first," Anya suggested.

The warrior gave a nod before they all walked away.

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The warrior that Anya had spoken to arrived in the bunker a few minutes later, "I just got word from the Commander. Whatever you did, it worked."

Clarke turned the rest of the way in Lexa's arms and wrapped her own arms around Lexa, "You did it."

"Clarke, we did it," Lexa corrected Clarke. "If not for the both of us, we might not have been able to do this."

Clarke shook her head, "No, Lexa this was all you. You might have needed me to get the panel open, but without you this wouldn't have been possible. ALIE would have arrived, and killed everyone we love if you didn't have the flame in your head telling you what to do."

Raven walked over, "I agree with Clarke. The ALIE at The Horizon didn't say anything about the flame needing to access a specific panel, without you, we might not have found this."

Just then the panel powered down, the light from the activation dissipating. Clarke turned to face the panel, and reached for the flame, picking it up without a problem.

"Hm… it must have a function that tells it to deactivate once the program is complete," Raven surmised witnessing the flame coming out of the panel with ease.

Clarke turned to face Lexa, "So, do you want me to put it back in?"

Lexa looked at Clarke unsure at first but inevitably nodded, "Yes." She answered, turning around moving her hair out of the way for Clarke.

Clarke held it over Lexa's neck, "Ascende superius."

The flame broke open with tentacle-like arms reaching out into the open wound of Lexa's neck, latching onto her brain stem. Lexa dropped to her knees as she yelled out in pain involuntarily, "AHHHH!" Once the flame was inserted again, instead of standing back up like she had before, she fell onto her side unconscious.

"LEXA!" Clarke shouted, dropping down to her knees next to Lexa.

"Well well well, the great commander of the blood has returned to us again. We thought you were dead." A voice could be heard in the distance. "How I would have enjoyed seeing you in here forever."

Lexa shook her head trying to rid the voice from her mind. She knew the voice, she knew what it meant, but she wasn't going to give in. "What am I doing here?"

"You destroyed some of the coding for the flame," Becca arrived in the mindspace.

"I thought you said it would be safe," Lexa questioned.

Becca nodded, "And it was safe, for all of you but not for the flame. You see it was built to be a power to enhance the human brain, but by using it as a weapon, it can only handle so much."

Lexa nodded, "I understand."

"You will still have all of the abilities that come with having the flame, there may just be some vulnerabilities," Becca explained. "Unfortunately, I do not know what those would be as I wasn't able to test it before I was burned at the stake. Just know that you need to be careful from this point on."

"I understand," Lexa gave a swift nod, and when she opened her eyes she was met with blue eyes.

"Lexa? Are you okay? What happened?" Clarke asked, worried that the flame hurt Lexa.

Lexa slowly sat up, "Yes, Clarke. I am fine. Pramheda wanted to warn me that the flame may be vulnerable now that it was damaged from destroying ALIE."

"Vulnerable? In what way?" Raven asked, curious to understand what exactly Lexa might be referring too.

Lexa shrugged her shoulders, "I have no idea."

"How do you feel? Can you stand?" Clarke asked, wanting to ensure she was fine before getting back up.

Lexa nodded, "I feel fine."

Clarke stood up putting her arm out to help Lexa up onto her feet, which she did when Lexa accepted the help.

"We should get back to The Horizon to help with the wounded," Lexa suggested, hoping that none of their friends were injured during the battle.

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It took a couple hours, but as Riku, Raven, Clarke and Lexa arrived, the warriors that had left to get materials were helping to dismantle the electric fence. As they arrived inside the gate, they found that all of the wounded had been brought into The Horizon.

"Clarke!" Abby shouted, getting the attention of her daughter as she and Lexa got off of their horse.

"Mom," Clarke was overwhelmed with emotion, at the realization that her mom had survived another war. She pulled her mom into a tight hug relishing in the feel of her mom in her arms.

"Since you are here, would you be able to help me triage?" Abby asked, in hopes that her daughter would be open to the idea.

Clarke nodded, wiping at the tears that had formed in her eyes, "Sure. Yeah. I can help you."

Lexa looked over to Clarke, "I am going to find Anya, will you be okay?"

"Yes, go find Anya," Clarke ushered Lexa away.

"Where is Happy and Yuki?" Riku asked Abby, hoping that they were okay.

"Uh, last I heard they were in Happy's machine shop. I'd check there first," Abby suggested, as she wasn't entirely sure where they might be. It had been at least an hour since she'd last seen them.

Rike turned to Raven, "Want to come with me?"

Raven nodded, "Yes. I want to know what they did." They turned and walked away.

Lexa left as well, walking toward the building in hopes she'd find Anya in operations. As she did, she could hear Clarke explaining everything that went down to Abby as they worked.

It took a few minutes, but Lexa eventually found Anya. She wasn't in operations like she'd hoped, instead she was in medical. "Anya, are you okay?" Lexa asked, semi concerned when she found Anya laying on a bed.

Anya looked at Lexa annoyed, "Of course."

"Then why-"

"She is here because I am trying to set her wrist," A female warrior came into view with what looked to be some sort of plaster.

Lexa held back her laughter at the side of her trainer, "I commend you for being able to hold her down."

"Anya and I go way back, she kind of owes me this one," The warrior looked over at Lexa. "The name is Shay," She put out her right hand to shake.

Lexa took it, before responding, "Shay, yes, Anya did mention you from time to time."

"Oh it's nice to know that I am remembered. Did she also not tell you that she was alive," Shay asked, looking at Lexa as she started putting the plaster on Anya's arm.

Lexa nodded, "She kept that secret to herself."

Shay shook her head. "Please tell me you are going to banish her?"

"I am certainly thinking about it," Lexa answered with a smile. If looks could kill, Lexa would be dead from the look Anya was giving her.

"What took you so long?" Anya asked, finally speaking.

"Finding a way to destroy an AI without having any prior knowledge is difficult," Lexa answered without really answering the sarcastic question. She knew Anya well enough to know that she was just playing around.

"Seriously though, what happened?" Anya asked, wanting to know everything.

So she did, she told Anya about it all. From the fact that she was able to have in-depth conversations with the previous commanders to a point of the first commander being able to talk to her even while not meditating. To the fact that there was a prophecy that was lost over time, and how accurate it was to everything.

She even went into detail of everything before, from the challenge, to falling off a cliff, which she knew about, how she fell in love. Everything. She had wanted her friend to feel like she'd been there for it all, even if she hadn't been. It didn't matter that so much time had passed. They were together now. Their people united as one.

Though the last several weeks had been filled with a lot of bloodshed, the one thing that came out of it was Clarke. She helped Lexa see the light in everything. Whether they were destined to meet or not, Lexa was glad that she was able to meet the leader from the sky.

Loving her might have been a bloodsport, but it was one she'd do all over again if it meant falling in love all over again.

THE END