The vision came again; only everyone was there this time… telling me I was weak… that I should end it. The gun was in my mouth, my finger on the trigger.

"He needs you!" My grandma called.

"I need you!" A man's voice called at the same time. "Come back to me." The gun dropped from my hand and everything melted to silver once more.

I felt the hard thud as my feet hit the ground, and strong arms wrapped around my shoulders.

"I gotcha." John said as he moved me away from the Ark and over to a wall.

There were dead bodies all over. Everyone had a hole in their head…

Even some who hadn't changed.

What the fuck was going on?

"Stay here." John told me. Yeah, like I was fucking going anywhere.

My sight was starting to get fuzzy around the edges… like my eyes were dilating. I blinked several times, trying to clear it.

"You don't have to kill all of them." I heard Sam tell Sarge. "I don't think everyone is infected, or even capable of being infected." Her gaze shifted over to me slightly. I sure hope she was right… the last thing I wanted was for Sarge to put a round in my head.

"We have orders to contain this threat by any means necessary."

"So let's evacuated the uninfected…" John walked over to Sarge from where he had set me down. "And blow this place to hell."

I second that idea…

But no one listens to the dieing.

"And we have orders to protect this facility."

"We don't have orders to kill innocent people." John growled at him.

Fuck, this wasn't good… this was fucking bad.

'We have to stop anything from getting to the surface… by… any… means… necessary." Damn, that fucker can be scary as hell when he wanted to be.

I hoped John wouldn't give in.

"Found this little chicken shit hiding under a pile of dead bodies." Leave it to Duke to break the tension, I could just kiss him!

Or maybe I should leave that to Sam.

"Am I glad to see you guys." The dickless wonder gimp said as he rolled his non-existent ass into view. "That… thing cut right through the door. I tried to use the grenade but it came at me too fast. Followed me through the Ark and started to kill everybody." Sam checked his neck for any wounds. "It was horrible."

Pussy.

"There's no wound on his neck. He's clean." Sam said as she stalked back to Sarge.

"I say who's clean…" Sarge cocked his gun, "and who's not."

"I mean, it wasn't my fault." Pinky started begging. "Hey, I'm not a soldier." Sarge aimed his gun at Pinky. He was going to shoot an unarmed civilian! He couldn't do that! That wasn't the Marine way, damn it! "You shouldn't have left me--"

"Sarge." Thank God for the Kid showing up when he did. "There's a storeroom to the south. It's got, like, twenty people holed up inside of it. We gotta do something."

"Your orders were to clear that sector."

Sarge had lost his fucking mind! They're fucking people, not insurgents!

"Is it cleared?"

"No," the Kid looked confused. "I told them to stay put. They're okay. They're just scared shitless."

The Kid would make a great Marine one day… I was proud of him.

"We kill them all." Sarge ordered. "Let God sort them out."

"This is wrong. I think--"

"Son, you don't think. That's an order. We're in the field, soldier."

"Sarge, if nothing's found them--"

"You will obey the direct order… of your commanding officer."

Their voices were starting to sound like echoes… this wasn't a good sign.

The Kid shook his head.

"No." Good boy.

"Now."

"Go to hell." Gunfire.

NO!

"No!" John yelled, voicing my thoughts.

The bullet hit the Kid in the throat… he fell…

He never got back up.

Not the Kid too… please!

But my silent pleas fell on deaf ears…

He was gone.

"Mutinous insurrection is punishable… by death." Fucking bastard! I hate him! I hope he died for what he did to the Kid…

He was just a kid!

"It was his first mission!"

"And it's not going to be my last!" Selfish fucking bastard! "I need soldiers. I don't need anybody else but soldiers."

John closed the Kid's eyes.

He stood up and pointed his gun at Sarge… Sarge pointed his gun at John…

It was a Mexican standoff.

"Drop the weapons!" Pinky shouted, holding up a gun. "I mean it! I have no intention of being killed by a madman. Drop the weapons."

Something moved behind the gimp…

He's a dead man.

"Ah, there's something behind me, isn't there?" Seconds later the demon grabbed Pinky by the head. He threw him into a table, then into a tank of some sort hitting Reaper in the process and knocking the senses out of him. Sarge started to fire at the demon as it dragged Pinky off down the hall.

"On me!" Sarge ordered. Duke ran after him and John followed once he cleared his head, the earlier conflict forgotten and the training kicking in again.

"Get Sam!" I heard John order Duke.

"Wait here." He told Sam after he took her to the nanowall.

I heard shots… I heard yelling. They ran back through the nanowall, Sarge hit the close button so hard it broke…

The wall wouldn't close…

We were fucked…

Course, I was fucked already.

"Fuck! The wall's not closing!"

I heard Duke grunt, looking over I saw two demon arms reach up through the grate and attach to his ankles. He looked at Sam as she screamed.

Not another one…

Fuck this place!

It pulled Duke through the grate, blood poured from his mouth as took one last look at Sam… then he was gone.

I turned and look at Sarge as he fell to the ground.

"I'm not supposed to die." He said just as he was pulled through the wall.

John kept shooting until the wall closed. He groaned and jumped backwards.

Everything started to get blurry… like a film was covering my eyes.

"Let's go!" I heard John yelled to Sam. He grabbed her and they ran towards me. He shot in the grate that Duke had been pulled down through.

"Come on!" He yelled to Sam as he slid to a halt next to me. He went to pick me up.

"No." I breathed to him, using the last bit of strength that I had to reach for his arm. My vision cleared slightly and I was able to see his face.

"We have to move, now!" He told me.

"No," I gulped… it was almost impossible to breath now. "It's too late John… go."

"I'm not leaving without you!"

"Go; get Sam and yourself out of here!" I ordered him… not that it came out as strong as I wanted it to… more like a breathy plea.

"You're coming with us."

"Fuck, John… you don't… have time… for this." I was suffocating. "I'm dying John… nothing can save… me now."

"I won't leave you. We're the last of the team… we have to stick together." I used everything in me to push his arm away.

"Go, John! Go. Save Sam. Save her." He shook his head…

I felt death coming. "I… l-love… you." I whispered to him as my eyes closed of their own accord.

"No!" I felt him grab my head. "Don't leave me."

No air was moving through my lungs.

"I need you! I--" I never heard the end…

I fell away into nothingness.

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The End?

Lamminator: Just tying up loose ends in the last chapter. So, does this make up for the last chapter?

Hotarunokoishi: Glad you like he way I incorporated the C24, Yeah, well I who wouldn't want to have John carry them to bed… course he didn't stay the night, but oh well. ;)

Vana: Yeah, it was short, but like I said, just tying up those loose ends. Hope you liked this one!

EnyoGraeae: Glad to have you back! Okay, so to your reviews:

Glad you still like the sarcasm, it's in my blood line… my entire family is filled with smartasses. Yeah, she needed a father figure and Goat seemed to be the best one for it. I think the cutting is horrible but it does add to his intensity. I wanted to show how different Sam is from Reaper so I decided to try and make her a little softer. The forest fire, yeah… I was thinking about writing a short about that, it could be a lot of fun! As many guesses as you want but I think you'll only need one! I hated that Goat died in the movie, but it was essential to the story line.

Yeah, Destroyer had the best fight scene in the whole movie, next to Reaper that is. Oh yeah, I loved the way he just kinda tossed Portman on the table like a sack of grain. I've done that when I was in trouble and getting yelled at as a kid, sometimes you just have to do that when it comes to those idiotic questions. Sarcasm makes the world go 'round! Deep down, past that Marine exterior, he's just a big teddy bear! The book has Reaper's experience of going through the ark in it, and it isn't pleasant at all, so I took the idea and added it to her experience. See, it does pay off to wait to read stories for a while! laughs

Yep, that's how cowboy gets it. Not a pleasant way to go, either. When she can she does wear it all the time. Like that line did ya? It's one of my favorites in the entire story! She may die yet! And turn into one of those… thingies.

I could end it all now… still debating that. Would be a good to stop right here. Yup, all those loose end are now gone. If she survives she still might be one of those things, you never know, the next chapter is still in the works and I haven't decided yet! Yup, Reaps is a bit sweet on her, and he's her "guardian angel". Okay, now all the reviews you left have been answered. I'm glad you still like this; I hope you keep on reading!

I haven't decided on the last chapter yet, whether she's okay, turns into one of those demons, or I should just do a prolog and have it end here. Any suggestions?

Amanda