Chapter 27
"AUSTIN?! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING?!!"
It was rather unexpected when Austin came out of his room the next morning and started shooting rounds at both Illkune and Snidva, mainly Snidva. Bobby was awake instantly, but by that time, Snidva had been hit twice in the leg, thirteen times in the chest, and her ear had been shot.
But she was sitting on the fucking ceiling, and she was moving faster than ever. Bobby was about to shred Austin, but Elizabeth calmly stopped him.
"No, look. She's fighting."
Snidva had picked up a chair and had hurled it in Austin's general direction. He fired some more rounds at Illkune, who had been dodging them the entire time, but then he aimed perfectly and shot one at her again.
"No, Austin!"
Bobby tried to get in the way when he saw where KO was aiming.
"NO, AUSTIN! NOT HER HEAD!"
He raked his talons across Austin's back as he fired the gun, but the bullet hit its target. Snidva hit the wall, and Illkune was on Austin in an instant. She slowly slid down the wallpaper leaving a red trail with a weak smile on her face. Austin was being punched in the face by Bobby, but Elizabeth scared him off. Bobby retreated next to Snidva and started crying, sobbing against her bloody body, her white clothes ruined. As Bobby got off, Illkune got on, and Austin aimed his gun straight at the man's chest before he moved away.
"She will HEAL, damn you both!" he gasped.
"YOU KILLED HER!"
"SHE WILL HEAL! LOOK AT THE WOUNDS ON HER BODY!"
Bobby dug around in her shirt and saw no bullet holes, then when he looked back at her head where the dark red hole was closing up quickly. She lay against him after it closed for a few minutes, but then she groaned and coughed up blood. She looked up at Bobby then sat bolt upright.
"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!" she screeched, jumping up and kicking Austin straight in the stomach. "WHAT THE FUCK DID I EVER DO TO YOU, YOU SORRY PIECE OF...?!"
Austin just grinned as she came to the realization that she remembered the many times he shot her her in their hole of a home.
"Austin...?"
"I...knew that...would work...now if you please...hospital..."
Of course, that's what happened. Austin was sent to the hospital to be treated for a broken cheek bone, numerous broken ribs, and lots of fractured bones. Mimic rubbed her eyes and focused on the outside.
"It...ugh..."
She fell onto the floor, staining the carpet and wood. Bobby crawled on the floor next to her.
"Everything...Oh god...it's all there."
The laboratory with all its machines and sounds. The bars, the blood. The tests. The kills. Murder. Blood. Death. Element...dead. Illkune killed her. The lab, escaping. Being caught again. Escaping. Cerebro...
The computer...
Bobby smiled and hugged her.
"Cerebro is dead..."
"It's all over..."
And she promptly fainted.
"Hey, Jim. The father's progressing very well. He should be due sometime in the next year as well, so I'll keep you updated."
"Junian, what destroyed Atlantis?"
There was a deep silence.
"Supposedly," he began. "Time repeats itself ever so often. During the first Apocolypse, Atlantis was destroyed by a bright light that flashed over the city and vaporized it. That's what the old records say. I wasn't alive during the time of the ancients, but that's what was written. Atlantis was rebuilt later, during Plato's age. Because of the corruption of so many people due to the outside world, Atlantis was drawn beneath the ocean, leaving the corrupted behind to die."
"What do you mean time repeats itself so open?"
"It is written. The Apocolypse has happened already once. It will happen again. Everything repeats itself."
"That still makes no sense!"
"Time repeats itself. Whatever destroyed the world during the first Apocolypse will happen again."
"What are you suggesting?"
"The Mimics are the most powerful weapons that will be known to man for the next four millenia. There are no specifics for the first Apocolypse except for the bright light, but in the Mimic's time, the world was destroyed by a bright light. That light was created by the Mimics' disable ability. All electricity except for that put into protective storage for the time, was vanquished. The world slowly slipped to anarchy, and Atlantis ruled supreme in a time of hardship."
"Are you saying that the Mimics are what destroyed the world during the first Apocolypse...?"
"They destroyed the world during this time, and it is said that your time is destroyed, then rebuilt. It is entirely possible that the Mimics' we know now are reincarnations or part of the reason that the world was destroyed the first time."
"Okay, okay, okay. You knew this, and you're making ANOTHER one?!"
"The father will be properly restrained."
"What proof do you have, Junian! The Mimics are supposedly invincible! How can you contain another one!"
"I have the technology, Jim!"
There was a simple answer. "No, you don't."
Click.
"Well, what do you want me to do?! Destroy it!?
"Jim...?"