Chapter 48: End

Three days have gone by since the battle. The town now lies in ruins. Buildings were smashed up, boats had sunken in the bay, and homes were demolished. A little bit away from the town at the motel, Ronjad looked from the second floor balcony out onto the town in front of him. "Misty was found," said Kait to him, "The Coast Guard taken off this island to a safer place to treat her wounds. Melody had also sent Slowking from the ruins with them."

"I think it's time for all of us to leave this place," said Ronjad to her, "It has been 7 months I think since all of us arrived on this island. Is there any real reason left to stay? No. Too many lives are gone, the whole island is completely destroyed, the jail has sunk to the ground, and nobody left on this island is happy enough to stay here."

"There really is no reason left to stay here," said Kait, "I guess we all should go now. I'll tell everyone to start packing." He looked back towards the town and knew soon enough he would be leaving it.

"Happy birthday!" said Lovrina out of nowhere hugging him, "Happy 19th birthday Ronjad!"

"Whoa!" he said jumping a bit, "I totally forgotten today was it! With all the trouble and chaos, I really haven't notice."

"Be happy that I did!" she said smiling, "My 19th birthday was 3 days ago and you forgot. But it was during the hurricane and war between us and the hybrids so I'll allow that to pass."

"I'm so sorry I forgot!" he said to her.

"That's ok like I said before," she said with a blush and smile, "Now let's celebrate!"

"Actually we have to start packing," said Ronjad, "I decided that it is no longer required for us to stay on this island now that Joe is dead and all our friends are cured."

"I suppose so," she said looking at the town before her, "It's pretty much gone to the dumps since the battle for the island's control."

"Hmm," said Ash looking at Blusix's old island map tracker. Ash was packing his stuff together when he came across one of Blusix's old inventions and turned it on. It was for hacking into weather satellites and taking update to date pictures of the Orange Islands and the neighboring island chain, the Jewel Islands.

"What's that?" said Ash looking closer at one of the islands on the screen. He'd never seen it before on any map. He clicked on a button and zoomed in on the island. The more he zoomed in, the more it got blurry, but he could just make out a gigantic building covering the whole island.

"What are you looking at?" said Brock walking into the room and looking at the screen.

"Have you ever seen this island on your map before?" said Ash, "I never have seen it."

"Me neither," he said looking closer, "Maybe it's an uncharted island."

"But why is there a building built on it if it is uncharted?" Ash asked.

"Maybe we should all check it out," said Brock, "I'll go tell Ronjad about it right now."

Ash looked back the screen and just wondered what could be all the way out there in the middle of nowhere. Soon it would be clear to everyone what horror just lied out there.

"I can't be this boat was destroyed in the riot over by the pier," said Melody to Pan. Ronjad, Lovrina, Ash, Melody, Pan, Josh, Bianca, and Kait all went to the island to check it out. They found only one single boat still left floating around the pier area and Ronjad drove as Ash navigated the waters.

"The riot probably just never made it to the boat," said Pan looking into the sea, "But I'm more interested in what we all are going to find on this island."

"What do you think is all out there?" said Lovrina to Ronjad as he drove.

"Who knows," he said, "We better just check the place out before we decide to leave the chain of islands."

"Why did we bring weapons on this trip," said Ash to Ronjad, "We don't even know what's out there! As far as we know it'll be safe."

"Never go with out being prepared for anything," Ronjad replied, "If this job taught you anything, you can never just assume certain things will be ok. There it is." Everyone turned to the island appearing in front of them. It was huge, but the building was huger. Solid concrete walls and buildings were all connected to each other. Almost all of the land was covered by the huge building that stretch all over the island.

"Look!" said Josh pointing ahead of all of them, "It's a dock!" He was right, a concrete pier with barrels on it.

They parked the boat next to it and tied it up so it wouldn't float away. "Ok," said Ronjad to everyone, "This place is huge, I say we all split up into two teams and start looking around it. Lovrina, Pan, Bianca, and me will be one team and the rest of you will be the other team."

"How will we all be in contact with the other team?" said Ash to him.

"Radios!" Ronjad replied handing out one to everyone, "So we can keep contact with the other teams or incase one gets lost from their team. We all return here in one hour." Everyone nodded and split up, Ronjad's team headed up the hill to the main building's entrance while Ash's team started to explore the outside of the building.

Ronjad and his team came up to the door and opened it up. The door instead just fell over crashed to the ground in front of them. "That was easier than I thought it would be," said Pan raising his flashlight and turning it on to look into the room.

It was the lobby of the building. The floor was concrete like the rest of the building. There was a desk in the center with 2 doors behind it, a staircase between them that led to two more doors, and two elevators on the right and left side of the walls. "This place reminds me of a prison," said Lovrina looking around herself.

"That's because it is one," said Bianca looking behind them above the door they just entered, "Take a look at that!" They said the sign above the door, Umbrella Prisoner Hold and… the rest of the title was unreadable.

"I wondered what they held here," said Ronjad looking back to the front of the lobby, "This place has been abandon for quiet some time now by judging this place's conditions."

"It's giving me the creeps," said Lovrina looking around, "Ever get the feeling you are being watched?"

"All the time by the US Army Satellites taking pictures of me," said Pan looking at the top of the staircase. He thought he saw something looking out the door window at the top of the staircase, but when he flashed his light at it, he saw nothing.

"So what do you think this place is?" said Ash as his team walked along the side of building, "I'm guessing it used to be an old prison by the looks of this place."

"It seems so familiar," said Josh, "I just can't think of where I seen this place before at all!"

"It'll come to you sooner or later," said Melody, "But for now, let's keep looking around this place." They kept moving until they reached a huge hole in the wall of the building. It was more than 50 ft wide and 20 ft high.

"Well is this place was a prison I can see why the place was shut down," said Kait, "How did this huge gap get here in the wall?"

"Check that out!" said Melody rushing through the wall and onto the courtyard on the other side, "Looks like something crashed into the ground and kept moving along for a while." A huge impact crater was at the end of the long dirt trial it had carved from the crashing into the Earth.

"This thing must have been hugged," said Ash once they reached the crater, "I wondered what hit and crashed all the way out here?"

"Then whatever it was where did it go then?" said Josh, "No matter how big it was when it landed and stopped, it didn't just move away by itself."

"Whoever moved it left that behind in the hole," said Kait pointing out something in the hole, "What the heck is that?"

Everyone jumped into the hole and looked a silver shiny piece of metal laid on the ground. "What do you think it is?" said Melody picking it up and looking at it.

"Hmm team," said Ash looking up and around him, "I think we are in trouble here." Melody, Kait, and Josh looked up and saw what he was seeing. 10 people holding rifles were around them and aiming at their heads.

"Look at that!" said Ronjad to everyone entering another room in the basement they entered, "Holy crap what is it?" A huge giant silver ball constantly changing shape was floating in the center of the room. Tons of machines were hooked up to it and were still going.

"That's it!" said Pan stepping horrified, "Its alien space ship form all those months ago that unleashed the signal!"

"You're joking!" said Ash looking at it, "But then again, let's still get out of here."

"Not so fast," said a voice. They all turned to the catwalk above them, a woman with long blond hair and hazel eyes stared at them from her spot. 4 other guys with rifles were aiming their guns at them."

"Who are you?" said Lovrina stepping backwards.

"My name Elle Smith a top employee of Umbrella," she said to them, "You are trespassing on private grounds, and you are not allowed to be here."

"She must be the E. Smith from Riche's note he found back on the Umbrella cruise ship," whispered Ronjad to Lovrina, "I wonder what she is doing here."

"We are sorry for trespassing on the grounds of your lab and jail," said Bianca sincerely, "We'll just leave you now to your work with the UFO."

"UFO?" said Ellen suspicious at her comment, "I guess you figured what this thing is."

"You idiot!" said Pan slapping the back of her head, "You never tell the bad guys that you know what they are up to! That's just suicide!"

"We'll just be leaving now," said Ronjad backing away with his team, but being stopped by a bunch of guards behind them.

"Sorry," she said to them, "This place has too many secrets that we cannot afford to lose. You'll be staying here for a long time."

Everyone, but Ronjad was put and tossed into the same jail cell. Ronjad was thrown into one of the jail cells with bars on the left wing of the building instead of everyone else on the right wing. "You can't keep me here forever!" said Ronjad, "People already know I'm out here and will send help to come and get me!"

He then saw a girl 20 years old walking by him. She had long red hair, green eyes, and was wearing a lab coat. On her nametag, it read, "Jenny: Intern."

"This can work to my advantage, just got to play my cards right," thought Ronjad with a smile and then he said to her, "Excuse me. What's a cute thing like you doing here in a hostile building?"

"I'm an intern learning to be a member here," she said to him, "And I shouldn't be talking to a prisoner here. Leave me alone."

"I guess your right," said Ronjad, "But when do teenagers ever obey the rules anyways? Come on, I could use some company here."

"Fine," she said, "What do you want?"

"What do I want?" he said, "It's not what I want, it what you want. You don't want to be in this old smelly jail and lab I'm guessing."

"How do you know it's a lab?" said Jenny.

"You're wearing a lab coat for starters," said Ronjad, "And I saw the main experiment they are all working on downstairs. You know, Room 45 on basement floor 2?"

"They keep saying to me that it is just a storage room and I shouldn't go down there," she said to him, "So…what are they working on down there?"

"Would you believe a UFO?" said Ronjad to her. She stared at him for a while and then started to laugh.

"Now I get why they locked up!" she said laughing, "They didn't want insane person loose in the building!"

"I'm telling the truth!" he pleaded to her, "Let me out and I'll show you it! Then I'll leave you alone for the rest of our life! You ok with that?"

"Why?" she said.

"Don't you want to know the truth?" he kept saying, "The truth is out there!"

"Don't quote the X-Files," she said to him, "But fine! I'll let you out." She slid her keycard on the lock opening up the cell door along Ronjad to exit his cell.

"Oh crap!" she said to herself, "What have I done! I just let a prisoner loose! They'll use me as one of their experiments for sure now!"

"What?" said Ronjad confused.

"If any person working here disobeys the rules once they are used in our next test experiment!" she said to him scared, "And now I'm doomed!"

"Why are you even here if that is one of the rules?" said Ronjad, "I would have left once I heard them."

"After you learn what are working on in here a person can never leave until they are allowed to!" she said, "You got to get me out of here! Forgot the UFO or whatever is in there!"

"Great," said Ronjad rolling his eyes, "But first we have to rescue the rest of friends."

"The rest of your friends are probably in the right wing," she said to him, "That's where they keep all the prisoners they are going to test on."

"WHAT?" said Ronjad horrified, "Let's get moving!" He grabbed her arm and they started down towards the right wing.

Author Notice: Yep, time to leave you in some suspense. You'll just have to wait until the next chapter to find out what happens next.

Question to answer if you want to. How many of you have seen Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest yet? I have and if you didn't, I suggest you see it soon!

Still have a heat wave in my town. Man is it hot here! It's slowing down my typing and making me frustrated. But I'll get through this heat and try to bring my best work under these conditions.

This chapter was so far my most less thought out chapter. Why? This chapter was going to be based off the ending of Threshold, but it was cancelled so I didn't know how to write this chapter! Also, last chapter I put way too much thought into it leaving this chapter left out.

With only 2 chapters left, the final dangers are coming out. Ronjad and everyone have to escape the Umbrella Prison, nut it might get a little more difficult when some of their experiments start to get loose. Even in they make it back to Shamouti Island, they have to survive one last horrible thing that can destroy the island. As all of this is going on, May and Blusix decide to get some answers on electrical creatures in which Blusix breaks into a lab controlled by the US Government. Now with only 2 chapters left, will they all be able to escape and get their answers?

Next to Come: Chapter 49: Last Call

Date: 7/20/06

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