Monoclay lashed out and kicked Xander's feet out from under him sending him crashing into the snow. Reaching out Xander grabbed Monoclay's foot and held onto him as he tried to crawl away. Without thinking of the repercussions Monoclay's foot kicked Xander full in the face and split Xander's lip as he fell back dazed for a moment. Clearing his head he looked up to see Monoclay swinging a tree branch towards his head and he rolled out of the way just in time. When Monoclay raised his arms again Xander kicked him in the stomach knocking him back a few steps allowing Xander time to get to his feet and defend himself better. Ducking under the swinging branch Xander grabbed Monoclay's arms and held them away as he pulled his knee up into Monoclay's stomach and pushed him away. Walking towards him Xander planted a foot in one spot and spun with the other foot out and hit Monoclay in the center of his chest sending him flying backwards barely paying attention to the gasp he heard.. Looking at Monoclay again Xander grimaced when he saw what happened. Monoclay had a tree branch sticking out his abdomen from the tree that the branch had broken off from. The tip on the branch was bloody and covered with a bit of gore from Monoclay as the snow under him was slowly died bright red. Slowly sighing he grabbed the key from around Monoclay's neck and yanked, breaking the chain and turned away from the body. Running back to the missile base he handed the key to Samine as she set her Sauer on the console.
"What can I do?" he asked as she slipped in the key and turned everything on.
"Right now pray," she said as she brought up the main screen and saw the progress of the missile on satellite.
"Can you turn it around or something?"
"Well I better hadn't I? I just have to hurry because the cavalry is going to be here soon with some big weapons," she mumbled and Xander looked at her.
"What do you mean big weapons?"
"I mean that I told Gibbons to come here and they should be arriving soon. And they saw the missile take off and have it on radar so they're going to assume that we failed and they're going to blow this place up to fucking high heaven to kill any left over bad guys. And I don't have my cell to call them off so we have to destroy the missile ourselves and hope they call off the air attack," she said quickly as she stared at the screen.
"Well hurry!"
"I'm trying. Damn it he has it protected by a password!"
"Can't you break it?"
"I can if I wasn't under this much pressure and I don't have the time to crack it," she snapped and hit the side panel with her fist.
The flimsy panel fell open and revealed a tangle of wires and computer chips. Samine stared at it for a second before her face lit up with an idea and she spun to look around the area. Turning she looked up to the top of the ramp where the missile had been and looked back at the screen.
"I've got an idea. I need a dish, some kind of radio dish to transmit something. Go and get the dish, the television dish will work," she said to Xander as she grabbed her pack and dumped all the shit out into the snow.
Xander ran to the cabin and started to pull the cords attached to the small dish at the window. Grabbing the dish and wires he ran back to Samine who was slamming her hand held set against the console.
"What are you doing?"
"I need one of the circuit boards out of here and this is the quickest way," she said pulling apart the plastic pieces.
"What do you want me to do with the dish?"
"Take the dish and climb to the top of the missile ramp and put it up there. Trail the wire down here when you're done," she said pointing to the top of the ramp.
He dropped the coiled wire at her feet and started climbing up the launcher to the top of the ramp moving as quickly as he could. Reaching as high as he could he positioned the satellite as best as he could and started to climb down.
"Okay what now?" he asked standing next to Samine as she scribbled some numbers on the palm of her hand.
"Now I'm going to take out that circuit board and replace it with this one and reconfigure everything. Then I'll transmit a message to the missile and redirect its path," she said pulling out a circuit board from the console panel.
"You can really do that?" he asked looking at her shocked.
"Yeah everyone can do it," she smiled as she slipped in the new circuit board.