Ryan and Fox arrived at the intersection where the rest of the pack was waiting. Cheetah looked up at them.
"You're…back…" he wheezed.
"Yep," said Ryan as he put Fox down and looked at his watch which read 1:45pm, "and with enough time to get there."
"Where's Hawk?" Eagle asked.
Ryan didn't speak, but Eagle understood. She began to cry.
"What about Snake?" HQ asked.
"He held the aliens back while we escaped, I think they broke free."
Just then they could hear the alien hoard coming down the road. The screaming of at least two hundred aliens echoed through the streets. They were getting closer at an alarming rate.
"HQ, Eagle! Cover our backs!" Ryan yelled. "Let's go!"
He helped Cheetah up and slung him over his shoulder. The pack took off with Eagle and HQ running backwards shooting at the oncoming aliens. In the middle of the hoard was the Queen, she towered above the rest but she charged just as fast. Eagle gunned down six aliens in a horizontal sweep with her pulse rifle. HQ must have been trained with the Desert Eagle as he was shooting fast with every shot hitting square in the face.
The pack rounded corner after corner, the Novotel building suddenly was just up ahead. Ryan's spirits lifted, almost there he thought. Suddenly Cheetah convulsed on his shoulder. Ryan looked at him, he convulsed again.
"Wolf..." he wheezed "I can feel it…"
Oh no! He hasn't had an injection!
"We're almost there!" Ryan said.
"No…you go…I'll hold them…back…"
"There's too many of them!" Ryan said.
Cheetah slid off Ryan's shoulder. He landed on his feet and drew his staff and his spear.
"I'm dead anyway…no go!" he said.
"No…"
"…go!" he gasped.
Ryan had no choice, the aliens were to close to argue. He ran after the others at full speed.
Cheetah started slicing aliens left and right. It didn't do much good, the aliens just ran around him. Cheetah convulsed in the middle of striking but still kept on fighting. He fought and fought as the alien dug its way through hi chest. As he felt it break a few ribs, he became enraged and jumped into the centre of the oncoming aliens and attacked the Queen. He landed on one of her arms and sliced it off. The huge arm crushed many aliens and the Queen screamed in fury. She tried to bite Cheetah but he ducked it as the baby alien broke some more ribs. He cried out in pain, but didn't let it stop him. He jumped up onto the Queen's chest and flipped up onto her head. The Queen shook herself, trying to throw him off. But Cheetah lay on his stomach on top of her head and held on tight. Then he felt his last rib break.
He shut his eyes and screamed in desperation. The baby alien came shooting out his chest, stopping the screaming, and charged straight into the Queen's head and tore into her brain. The gigantic Queen fell to the ground though she slid a bit from the momentum of her running. She flattened aliens as she hit the ground and Cheetah's body was flung off her head and hit the ground hard, dead.
The remaining members of the pack ran into the Novotel building and barricaded the doors with chairs and anything they could find. Ryan checked his watch; it was 1:55pm. Five more minutes till evac.
"Let's keep moving." he said.
They ran through the main foyer and found the lifts. They piled into one and hit the top floor, the lift began to rise up the shaft towards the roof. It arrived and they ran out and up the stairs to the roof. They charged into the open air, the orange sky hovered above them.
"Where are they?" Ryan asked.
They looked around the sky.
"There!" Fox yelled.
Coming towards the building was an open sided, black helicopter. Ryan felt a relief flow through him. We're saved! he thought. Fox hugged him, Eagle cheered. Ryan let go of Fox and looked back at the helicopter, his eyes widened. It was flying away.
"No!" he shouted "NO!"
"Why's it leaving?" Eagle yelled.
"I could have a guess." HQ said.
He was looking down the side of the building. The others came over and looked down. The aliens were flooding up the sides of the building towards them.
"No! Come back you bastards!" Ryan screamed "We're here! Come back you son of a bitch!"
Fox touched him lightly on the arm. Ryan stopped yelling and looked at her. Her eyes were pleading, she wanted him to stop.
"It's over Ryan." she said.
"I know." he replied.
She stepped forward and kissed him. It was one that gave Ryan a feeling that told him this was it. It was over. Suddenly they could hear the aliens scrambling up the building. They parted and Fox looked Ryan dead in the eyes.
"This is the end." she said.
"Yep." Ryan said.
He gave her one final, quick kiss. He then drew his sword and staff, Fox turned around. Ryan did the same, he turned to face his doom…