Chapter 35 – The Final Showdown
Back in the missile silo area, the General was still being the twat that he was and was continuing to talk to the four boys; who remained tied down to the chairs that they were sat on.
"I should have expected that four Americans would be against this. For all these years, you Americans have thought that your ways were best; that our ideas were idiotic and pointless. You were always the ones that forced others to think like you and do whatever you did. Well not anymore! In only 15 minutes, these seven missiles will soon change all that and then your fat little country will be controlled by a country smaller than your own."
"You won't succeed in this you mindless bastard!" Stan shouted. "He'll come and stop you and you know it!"
"Oh here we go again! Don't tell me you still believe that your friend Marcus is gunna magically come back and stop me! If you use your tiny penny-sized brains, you'll remember that we killed him."
"Yeh, well there's something you should learn asshole…" Kyle replied. "In situations like this, a hero always comes back no matter what's happened before and he always stops the stupid evil asshole like you from succeeding and doing whatever s--- they plan to do!"
"Dude, you're calling Marcus a hero?"
"Dude, I couldn't come up with any other word so I just thought up of the word 'hero'"
"HA! Well EVEN IF Marcus was somehow alive, he'd still have to get past all my elite guards and troopers outside; including my right-hand man Jones and he's an expert at firearms."
Suddenly, the General's communicator started beeping. "Yeh, what is it?"
"SIR, IT'S HIM…HE'S BACK! IT'S……oh no, please don't…ARGHHHH!" There were sounds of shooting and troopers' voices where they yelled in pain. The communication call went silenced and as the General turned it back off and looked back at the four boys, the two front metal doors in the room crashed open and in the doorframe was Marcus holding a sword with a tight grip. As he walked forward, Sergeant Jones who had both his feet chopped off fired a bullet at Marcus. But Marcus sensed it and quickly placed his sword behind himself; deflecting the bullet and sending it right back onto Jones' body and instantly killing him.
"Hi, I'm back!" Marcus spoke.
"Marcus!" Kyle spoke with an excited and happy tone in his voice as all four boys smiled at the sight of Marcus alive again.
"YOU! But that's impossible, we killed you!"
"Well it seems that I got a little…'outside support'." Marcus smiled and pointed his sword at the General. "And now I think it's time I put an end to these f---ing ridiculous plans of yours."
The General smiled and started laughing. "So I guess you killed your brother in order to get this far. But it doesn't matter now! Y'know, it seems so funny."
"What's so funny?"
"Oh well……it's just I forgot to tell you something that I had been keeping secret for quite a while now. Something………unique!" He pulled out a small bottle of liquid from out of his jacket and showed it.
"What the hell's that?"
"This is a special synthetic energy liquid that contains the energy of all four Core Units. And with this drink…I'll be able to get rid of you using the power that I'll now possess thanks to this." He opened the cap and drank the liquid. Throwing the glass bottle onto the ground, he started making strange noises as if something was building up in his body. Soon the muscles on his arms, chest and legs grew incredibly big and most of his clothes started to rip because of it. His voice was becoming slightly lower toned and he grew slightly in size. But apart from that, the General had turned into a monster. "Now you'll see just what power I really have; both politically AND PHYSICALLY!"
Although slightly shocked and scared, Marcus charged forward and tried to kick the General. But the General easily grabbed hold of Marcus' foot with his now larger and mutated hand; flinging Marcus over onto a metal wall. Marcus crashed to the ground; hitting his head and back on the metal wall. The General started to walk over to where Marcus was lying to rough him up even more.
"I would have gotten away with this easily if it weren't for you Marcus you meddling kid! Now you have to suffer this punishment the hard way!"
"Dude, out of everything f---ed up we've ever seen in our lives, this is the biggest thing that I have to say is pretty f---ed up right here!" Stan spoke.
Marcus tried to pick himself up but he couldn't. The impact from hitting the wall had hurt him. He looked towards the four boys and then at the missile silo in the distance and came up with an idea. He picked up his sword that had landed just next to him and aimed it at the four boys.
"Woah dude, don't throw that f---ing sword at us!"
"Relax guys; I know what I'm doing……YARGHH!" Marcus flung his sword so that it hit the backs of all four chairs. The precise contact of Marcus' sword broke through each rope and all four boys were free from being tied up. "Boys, you need to get over there and de-activate that missile silo…NOW!"
"But dude, what about you?"
"DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME! I'll distract this guy long enough for you to get over there. Just find a way to de-activate it quickly."
The four boys ran as fast as they could towards the missile silo.
"OH NO YOU DON'T!" The General punched the ground; sending a shockwave through the platform. The boys fell over but Kenny had tripped so that he was hanging off the edge. His right hand was tightly gripped to a part of the platform while he was screaming for his life under his orange parker jacket.
"KENNY!" Kyle shouted.
"Don't worry dude, we're not gunna let you die; we'll help you up!"
"Not gunna let me die? You let me die every other f---ing time I've died."
"Yeh, but that was different dude. This is serious."
As Stan, Kyle and Cartman helped Kenny back up onto the platform, the General watched from only about twenty feet away.
"HA, what a perfect opportunity to get rid of all four of you!" He slowly began to walk towards the four boys; planning on pushing them all off the platform that hung above the bottomless black pit below. But just as he started walking, a huge lump of rock and dirt hit him on the back of his head. As he rubbed the back of his head after feeling a sting of pain, he turned back around with an angered look on his face. And Marcus stood there; breathing slightly heavily having thrown the large lump of rock and dirt.
"If you want to hurt them……then you're gunna have to go through me first…you f---ing twat!"
The General fully turned back around and smiled. "Born British……and now will die British. How cute!" The General charged forward; yelling at the top of his low-toned voice and slammed Marcus against a metal wall; gripping hold of both his arms. He started head-butting him which was followed by a dozen quick punches to Marcus' chest. Marcus was yelling quick cries of pain and after the General had finished, he grabbed hold of Marcus by his neck and threw him over to another part of the large metal platform. Rolling on the floor and crashing back down onto the ground, Marcus spat out a bit of blood from his mouth and wiped the blood off his face. He slowly stood back up.
"Is that the best you've f---ing got General?" Marcus yelled; causing the General to charge at him again. However before he could reach him, Marcus front flipped over the General, quickly turned around and kicked his leg with a huge swing of his own leg. But this time, Marcus was the one who started feeling pain again as the General's leg was as hard as stone. The General picked up Marcus by his neck and started punching him in the stomach. Marcus was yelling in short pain after every blow.
Meanwhile, the four boys had finally made it over to the control panel of the silo.
"Dude, what do we do?"
"I dunno, we best ask Marcus for some help. MARCUS……MARCUS! What do we do to de-activate it!"
After crashing to the ground again, Marcus looked up at where the boys were and shouted in his loudest voice.
"Alright, listen to me very carefully! Open up the control box on the panel and you'll see a set of wires. Take out all the wires that they're connected to and connect these wires: the red wire connected to the……yellow wire, the blue wire connected to the……green wire and the white wire connected to the……ARGHHH…..connect it to the……black wire! THAT SHOULD OVERWRITE THE SILO'S PROGRAMS!"
The boys got under way in safely disconnecting and connecting back up the wires just like Marcus had said. Kenny stayed well away from it as he was scared he was going to get electrocuted.
"Alright that's done, but the clock's still ticking on the panel. What do we do?"
"MARCUS……MARCUS!"
But Marcus couldn't hear them. He was too dizzy and weak after all the attacks that the General had gave him and was lying on the floor; right in the centre of the large platform. The General; standing near the edge of the platform, picked up Marcus' sword and started to walk slowly towards him; ready to deliver the final blow to Marcus.
"I must say Marcus, you've done pretty good to last this long."
"Yeh well……I do a lot of press-ups at home." Marcus sarcastically spoke.
"Enough of your arrogant jokes, it's time for you to die!"
And as the General gripped hold of the sword with both hands and swung back, Marcus closed his eyes; fearing the worst. But just as the sword touched Marcus' body, the sound of a gun being fired was heard and the General stopped. Looking down he noticed that there was a bullet hole in his body. His mouth wide open and eyes widened to the maximum, he along with Marcus and the four boys looked to the left where there was a hole in the cave's wall. And just like everyone else, Marcus was both surprised and glad to see both Liam and Daniel standing in that hole. Liam had just fired a powerful magnum bullet out of a magnum revolver.
"You didn't really think we wouldn't help you out on this did you?"
"LAIM, DANIEL! Thank God you guys came here."
"Sure thing Marcus, now watch out, let's take care of this guy for you." Liam started firing the remaining magnum bullets out of his gun; sending the General to shout out slight noises of pain as he fired multiple times in the chest. And just as his feet and body were right near the edge, Liam aimed for the General's head. "Take this you ugly motherf---er!" And as the final bullet out of Liam's revolver went into the General's head, the General lost balance and fell off the platform; crashing down into the darkness of the cave's bottomless pit. And with that, the General o MI6 was dead and defeated.
Liam and Daniel jumped down and helped Marcus to his feet.
"Now hang on guys, let me do this one thing." Daniel spoke as he prepared to fire a rocket at the missile silo to ensure that the destruction of both the missiles and the silo was official. Aiming through the launcher's scope, he fired directly into the centre of the silo; causing both the missiles and the silo to escape. Daniel smiled but Liam and Marcus both looked at him with annoyed faces.
"Daniel did you even check if the four boys had even made it back over here yet!"
"Ummmmm, yeh of course I did."
"Yer' didn't did yer'?"
"No, sorry."
"Well thank God they're here."
As the four boys rushed over to Marcus, a beeper on Daniel's belt went off.
"Hey dude, what's that thing beeping!" Stan asked.
"Oh well…eh-heh…before we came here and helped you out…we had been…like y'know…setting and placing bombs all over the caves and stronghold so that this whole place would explode and be destroyed!"
"WHAT?" Both Marcus and the four boys shouted.
"But don't worry, here, I'll give you this key. This key will give you a ride out of this stronghold and out of the caves below. But you better be quick, you've only got 3 minutes to get out of here before all the bombs explode. Just follow that other corridor down there and you should get to it within about ten seconds."
"Wait a minute, aren't yer gunna tell us about why you're here and how you got here."
"Ummmm, yeh, well see the thing about…that is that…errrrr…ummmmm…………BYE!" Liam and Daniel sprinted off back out of the silo room and won the corridor that Marcus had appeared from.
Already the stronghold and caves were shaking and pieces of the stronghold were falling down and breaking.
"We best get out of here fast! Guys, follow me!" The five lads sprinted off down the corridor that Daniel had told them to go down. Ten seconds later, they found themselves next to a downstream river that led down back into the caves. And waiting right next to them in the water was a speedboat. "Oh Jesus Christ, not one of these."
"Do you know who to work one of these things Marcus?"
"Well I haven't had much practice, but under the circumstances, I guess I have no choice but to try." The five lads jumped into the speedboat and sat down in their seats. Marcus placed the key in the boat's ignition and began to drive the boat down the river. The stream was quite steep going downhill and Marcus found himself having to dodge boulders and bits of the cave that were falling into the water after breaking off from the ceiling. The water behind them was building up and was becoming like a tidal wave. Marcus increased the speed while the four boys held on for their lives.
And just as it looked like that they weren't going to make it, the speedboat jumped out of a hole in the caves and into an open lake back outside; followed by a wave of water that crashed out into the lake. As Marcus drove the boat out into a safe distance into the lake, he turned the boat around so that the five of them could see the explosions go off. And it wasn't long before the huge bang had gone off at which the explosion engulfed the caves and the stronghold. The boys started jumping up in celebration at the sight of it.
"Marcus, you did it dude!" Stan shouted in absolute delight.
"No Stan…WE DID IT!"
After ten minutes of watching the explosions go off, Marcus drove the boat out of the lake and down a wide river which soon connected to the outside open ocean.
"So…Marcus, what was that General guy on about when he said that 'you killed your brother'?"
"Huh? Oh that……ummmm…well, it's just…y'know…an old British expression; it's nothing too interesting."
"Oh right…well I'm so glad that everything is back to normal and everything's alright again."
"Well…not quite. I still have to get you boys home safe remember? But first, let's get to my home first. I believe you've still got a flight back to South Park to catch. Now then, next stop…my home; Great Britain." Marcus pressed down on the accelerator a bit more slightly and the boat speeded off into the horizon with the sun setting on the opposite horizon. Marcus looked back at the island and still saw the smoke from the destroyed stronghold and caves billowing and floating up. He smiled and looked back; saying something to himself in his head. "It may have not beaten all the others, but seeing that whole thing end is the best birthday present I've ever been given. Happy Birthday Marcus, Happy Birthday!"
It was indeed Marcus' Birthday on that very day, November 5th; meaning that he was now 17 years old. And as he said, succeeding through all this was the best birthday present that he could ever wish for.