In the time it took to split up from Sydney and Nadia, and to finding the power outlet to the Rabamldi machine, Michael and Julian fought off close to twenty zombies just to get there. Michael wasn't the least bit surprised that the power outlet was underneath the island. He thought perhaps that Irina never would have thought that they would have looked under the city. But as Julian had pointed out…it made the most the sense. Michael wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at what was in front of them. Complicated wiring hooked up on the islands main city outlet. Michael set his machine gun down and kneeled in front of the wires. Carefully looking at them, between the green, blue, white, red, black and yellow wires, he cut the green, blue and black, and sighed slowly when the lights didn't go out.
"Hurry up," Julian urged him.
Michael looked at Julian angrily. "You know, if you were actually at the meeting, you could be of some help."
"I was missing, remember?"
Michael scoffed. "Yeah right," he muttered.
Julian turned around to Michael. "What was that?"
"Can you just keep watch please?" Michael snapped. "I prefer to work without someone taking a chuck out of my arm."
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The second Sydney stepped into the building, she suddenly felt cold. It was as if the air shifted and the moment she walked into the building, so clear and so sure, now she wasn't. All the confidence that was once in her was replaced by doubt. Nadia stepped forward and laid her hand in Sydney's shoulder, giving her strength and assurance. Sydney smiled at her, and walked further into the building.
From up above, watching Sydney and Nadia, Irina smiled
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Michael grunted struggling to pull down the lever, without success. "Dammit."
"What?" Julian asked, walking up to him.
"It's stuck," Michael answered. "Wielded shut."
Julian put down his gun and walked in front of Julian, straining as well to pull it down.
Michael rolled his eyes. "It's going to work. It's probably been this way for years." Julian sighed, giving up and picked up his weapon. "Okay then. We have to find another way to shut it down."
"Destroy it," Michael said simply.
"If it were that easy," Julian said. "Don't you think we would have just done that to begin with?"
Michael raised his eyebrow.
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As Sydney and Nadia entered the city hall of the island, Sydney came to halt, stopping Nadia as well. Sydney's eyes narrowed at her mother standing directly in front of the machine holding the huge red ball.
"So," Irina began. "I assume you came to stop me?"
"It's over," Sydney said.
Irina smiled at them. "Ah. My two only daughters came to kill their mother."
Nadia gasped and looked from Irina to Sydney and back. "Excuse me?" Sydney choked out.
Irina giggled like a little school girl. "Oh that's right…Jack didn't get the chance to tell you."
"Dad knew?"
Irina shrugged. "Oh yes, I told him everything he wanted to know." Sydney looked at Nadia then down at the ground digesting all the new news. "So I know that four of you landed on the Island," Irina went on. "And since the two of you are here in front of me, I assume that Agent Vaughn and Sark are trying to diffuse the weapon." Irina smiled at Sydney's stern and determined look as Nadia tensed as several zombies smashed through glass. "Too bad it can't be diffused."
Sydney and Nadia slowly began to back away and raised their weapons at the zombies, unleashing hundreds of bullets in a fury. As their clips emptied and Irina watched the last zombie fall to the ground, she smiled at them. Sydney turned to Nadia. "You need to go and find Julian and Michael."
"But…"
Sydney shook her head sternly. "No listen. There has to be a way to shut her down. You need to find them and make sure they are okay, all right?"
Nadia reluctantly nodded and after looking at Sydney for awhile, turned and ran out praying that Sydney knew exactly what she was doing.
Sydney turned back towards her mother to find that she wasn't there anymore. Sydney's senses kicked into high gear as Sydney slowly walked further into the hall, her eyes looking all around her. Sydney felt a sharp pain in her head as an object hit her skull with such an impact, Sydney fell to her knees gasping for breath and holding her head, squinting. Blinking several times to clear her vision she heard a metal object hit the floor then someone grab her by her hair and throw her into the wall. Sydney painfully hit the floor after and forced herself back up to confront her mother once more. "You lied to me," Sydney growled. "You almost killed me, and ruined my life."
Irina looked at her daughter painfully. "It was just my job."
"Having a daughter was your job?" Sydney shot back.
Irina shook her head. "No…that was just unfortunate."
Sydney's face fell. "Unfortunate," she echoed.
"Sydney…do not try to understand something that you cannot. The truth takes time, and you are not ready to learn the truth."
"I already know the truth," Sydney informed her. "I know what you and Sloane were planning. I know all about Rabamldi and his 'visions'. His prophecies and what part I played in them."
Irina blinked. "How…?"
Sydney shrugged. "The letter," was all she said.
Sloane sat at his desk and held his head in his hand while writing. 'Sydney. If you are to receive this letter, it is because I either wished it, or I am dead. I never intended to harm you in anyway. You must know that. You were like a daughter to me, and I loved you as one. Rabamldi however; has become a fascination of mine. You my never fully understand, Sydney, what Rabamldi means and what he discovered. He discovered a means to no ends. Power and promise. A life no other can give, or take. Yes, Irina Derevko is your mother. And yes, SD-6 is a fugitive branch with no connection to the CIA. I never wanted you to become a part of this. The complicated situation though proved to be to difficult to cover up, so you had to learn the truth. And that is, you ARE the Chosen One. If you are to defeat us, the key is to destroy immortal fountain. Destroy the machine by killing the monster.'
Sloane slowly put down his pen and folded the letter up, shoving it in his pocket. He stood up slowly and looked out the window, his face the mask of pain and fear.
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Irina shook her head. "Sloane was weak."
"Sloane is a monster and a coward," Sydney said. "But in the end, even he saw through you. He knew you would betray him."
Irina nodded. "Of course I would have. So would he. Why share the power when I can have it all? Even now Sydney, you think you've won, but you haven't."
"No, you're wrong…I have."
Irina nodded. "Perhaps. But only at the expensive of your friends lives."
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"We have to find Sydney," Michael muttered. "Where is the damn exit?"
"Aren't you listening?" Julian snapped. "We need to get back to the plane. Sydney doesn't want us to interfere. For all we know, she's back at the plane."
"Well, I'm not taking that chance. She needs to know that the ball is dangerous."
"She knows that!"
Michael stopped walking and turned to Julian. "What?"
"I told Sydney, before we left," Julian said. "She knows."
Michael shook his head. "When we get back, you and I have to have a serious talk about when and where you see Sydney."
"Guys!" They heard. Michael turned as Nadia ran up to them.
"Nadia," Michael said. "Where's Sydney?"
"In the City Hall with Irina and the machine," Nadia answered. "We have to get to the plane…now."
"But Sydney…"
"She'll be fine," Nadia assured him. "She said to get to the plane."
Just as they began to walk towards the exit, Julian heard a soft beeping. "Hey," he stopped the others. "Do you hear that?"
Meters away, a timer begins to count down with several barrels of C-4 next to it. Julian follows the sound and when he finds it, his eyes widened. "I don't think we're gonna make it to the plane."
Michael and Nadia look over his shoulder and begin running just as the bomb goes off, collapsing the walls around them.
