Apocalypse Game

A/N: Last chapter of the First Series (yay!!!!!!!!!!!!) now I will finish this chapter and then give birth to Trial before Fire. So, leave me a review PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am begging you.

Chapter Twenty: The End of the Beginning of the End.

I crept silently along the hallway leading to Megatron's throne room, I was alone. Most of the people had either died or gone back to the continuum, Urd was still alive though she was being held captive somewhere by Fowl. Tiberius was dead, Calhoun had met the same fate as well, the Excalicon was in ruins and I was the last hope hence the name "Chosen One." I had my sword at the ready, I silently made my way into his throne room to find him not there, suspecting a trap I pulled out a couple of Smoke Bombs and Flash Bombs and threw them in as I came in. I heard coughing and cursing, (believe me it was bad) and pulling out one of my guns, (I didn't look and I should of because it was a pounder) blasted the door in (literally!) and hit something cause I heard an "ooof, boy that hurt!" I jumped in to find Megatron in his casket thingy and I noticed Fowl lying on the ground under the door. Slicing up the door I put the blade to Fowl's throat and introduced myself.

"So," I said a bit disdainfully, "The great Artemis Fowl can't even stand up to a door let alone little old me."

"You got lucky punk," he muttered trying to sit up, but noticing my blade gave up on dat idea. "I just wasn't prepared."

"Well," I said, "You hurt my fiancé and so I am gonna hurt you!"

I swung the blade up to killing level and prepared to swing when a voice called out "Holodeck end Program, go to blank setting (original)."

"Awe come on Calhoun," I said, "I was just about to win!"

"Yeah and you'd of been dead in five nano-seconds flat," he said a bit haughtily, "Besides you weren't watching all the angles."

"What do you mean?" I asked a bit grumpily, "I watched all the angles."

"No you didn't," said Calhoun holding a remote which activated a play back feature that monitored the trainer's ability, "You were being watched the whole time by him."

I looked up to see Meg's Diagnostic Drone hovering five feet above me with a rocket launcher pointed at me and I then realized that I hadn't covered all the angles.

"Point taken," I said, "Okay, so I guess training isn't an option we just have to go through this making it up and hoping we can win."

"Yeah," said Calhoun a bit annoyed, "Something like that."

"Captain Calhoun and Chosen One to the Bridge," came a voice, "We've got a problem and it's big."

"Right," I said, "let's go."

We teleported up to the bridge and saw that a giant Temporal Worm Hole had opened right near Megatron's Fortress of Doom (Hey, if can do it so can I) and a few figures appeared that seemed familiar.

"Crud," I said, "Computer magnify image to full screen."

The image resolution magnified to the fullest and it showed me the few people whom I never would have guessed joining Megatron in his quest for Multiversal Domination.

"Tenchi Masaki?" I quipped, "What the heck is that loser doing here with his people and why is he helping out Meg's, since he's one of the Good Guys?"

"Well," said Si Cwan rather preemptively, "No one can truly be considered a Good Guy unless they volunteer to help fight along side us and since we didn't send any emissaries to them, Meg's came to them since we took out his Aero-Drones."

"True," I stated, "But that was only a small force and I thought he wouldn't miss them."

"The Aero's were one of his better Vehicon creations," said Zak looking at tech specs, "At least they weren't so mindless as the other's, course being aerials you need brains."

I gave Kebron a rather glowering look and turned to Morgan and stuck my tongue out at her and then left the Bridge to go get drunk.

"Well that went well," muttered Burgy, "I thought he might go ballistic and do something drastic."

"He's just mad that his training session went bad," muttered Calhoun.

I headed as Calhoun had predicted down to the Lounge and got the server on duty to get me a big pint of something, then I sat there for half an hour not drinking anything and just stewing in my anger; half an hour later Siegel, Banpei, Mara, and Urd came in and sat down at the table next to me, Siegel finally came up and sat across from me and poured what was left of the Whiskey into her own glass and then started talking to me about something, I wasn't really listening until she mentioned something rather important.

"….You can't let your training get to you," she said, "You did your best, but remember that was a simulation and Sims are really quite different from the real thing."

"Yeah," said Banpei walking over as he signaled for another glass and a strong beer, "You're pushing yourself to hard, you seem to think that if none of us are guarded then we're automatically gonna get our keester's kicked."

"John," said Mara looking up from tech sheet of some kind, "I've been reviewing your diagnostic workout from all Five workouts, the first one was the best one by far and the reason was because…."

"It was because I was doing my best to have all of you protected," I said interrupting her a bit defensively, "I know, but there isn't any other way and I know cause I tried and all the sims end up with either me dead or you all dead and I ending up dead as soon as I enter the citadel."

"What if you didn't protect any of us?" said a new voice, "What if you just went in and left us to our own devices?"

I looked up to see Cable entering the conversation with a beer glass in tow and one for Banpei, he looked at me like I was acting like a child and I should be spanked, "You seem to care a lot about these people," he stated, "What if you let them try and defend themselves while you go in and take out Megatron?"

"I didn't try that," I said, "Because…."

He interrupted me saying, "…Because you thought that by doing that they'd die a more swifter death," he mused looking over Mara's shoulder, "Goldwood, training back at the mansion that's how we did it, we didn't protect each other and we got through the mission training with 90.5 completed, and that's rather good; you on the other hand the best you've gotten is 49.99 and that was your first one where you got to the Citadel doors and died cause of Biker Drone's ambushing you, if you had, had protection you'd of gotten through and reached the inner citadel at maybe 60, but the way you operate is childish and puny!"

I stood up at that moment and pulled out my sword, I was extremely angry for him telling me that and I was about to chop him down to size when Urd spoke up, "John….Nathan stop acting so childish," she scolded, "Try and understand each other a lot more and that might help you."

We both glared at each other, then I realized that maybe Urd was right and that the old man and I should work together in order for things to happen.

Just then a big "Kaboom" hit the ship and the ship started spiraling downwards.

"This is Captain Calhoun to all personnel," he bellowed, "Megatron has attacked the ship causing great damage, and everyone get to the escape pods and other assortment of craft and get the hell outa here!!"

We all rushed to the nearest escape pods, which for the section we were in were right by the entrance (Author's Prerogative and whatnot) and Mara, Urd, Siegel, and Banpei and I all crammed into one small escape pod, I then noticed that we were host to Morgan as she had been down here as well doing who knew what and had decided that she didn't need to die another day (So I use James Bond quotes…Bite me!!) We all headed for the biggest landing spot that we could find (Cybertropolis, but that's gonna be revealed in Trial by Fire.) and landed with a great bang.

Thus ends the First of Many Chronicles of Apocalypse Game, tune in next time for Apocalypse Game: Trial by Fire as our hero and fiancé join together with the Maximals and other nuanced and neurotic Characters.