Her boots hitting the floor as she ran was all she could hear. She veered around object and pieces galore as she found each girl one by one. Telling them they needed to finish up elsewhere, and she had a plan.
"What's the deal Chloe?" Marie asked, aiming the gun at a group of men.
"Trust me." she replied, looking back at Juliet's map.
"With Winter still roaming around Vlad and Lukas can't get here darling, we have to get down there." Juliet said, "What are you trying to do? We have to get the others."
"Just shush!" she shouted seeing her target, "There!"
Taking off again, the girls followed closely as they found a decorative hall. It was as if they had entered the grand CEO office or even elected officials wing as the rich cherry wood shined against the exotic green wall paper. She moved forward, her mind set on what to do as she finally found the room in question.
"Chloe!" Brie whispered as she pulled her arm, "I don't know what you are thinking but it will get us killed if we don't use caution."
"We're setting a trap for Doss." she told them.
All the girl looked at her, a glint of excitement and determination glittered in their eyes. It was it. Doss was all that was left of personifications of Genesis, and when he was gone, so was the war.
"He's at his end." she said, "He will have a last stand but before that he will go with a bang or at least attempt to. This office here has all the controls and we are going to wait for him."
"Now she speaks a good fight." Lily smiled.
Pushing the door open, Amber and Marie swept the room of dangers and people, just to nod its clearance. Rushing in, they all gathered papers of other locations of settlements and whom oversaw them. The amounts of military and civilians, to the weaponry and mass of the land and space. She even found the codes to the bombs they had in their hands, ready to hit their targets.
"This is fucking gold." Juliet said as she grabbed more.
"With all of this, we can truly end this, yes?" Harper asked as she skimmed through a book.
"I believe that is the thought." Nora replied, "As the boys are busy, we are taking knowledge and placing it where it truly belongs."
The boys. Her mind went to Feli and how he destroyed Alpha. A rage and power she had never seen before in her life from him. Even when he told Alpha not her, his voice was deeper, darker, more powerful than anything she could have thought of. There was something in him that opened, and it was her that opened it.
"Thinking there darling?" Juliet asked.
"A little."
"They're fine sweetie." Amber assured her.
"Oh, I know they are." she smiled, "I saw Feli cave Alpha's head in, I know they're ok."
Silence befell the room as the women stared at her in awe, "What?"
"Feli?" they all said.
"Yea. Hey, the bastard was trying to rape and kill me. Something in Feli snapped. It was like a whole different man came..." she paused, "No. No I saw him once. Rome is what someone called him, but he looked like a Roman soldier."
"The Roman Empire." Brie said. "You saw Feli's grandfather."
"You are saying Feli channeled the Roman Empire to kill Alpha?" Lily questioned.
"Why not?" Brie replied. "I believe our husbands can channel past selves or once empires and bring them forth when need be. Seeing Francis take off that one soldiers head with one swipe is enough for me to believe it."
"If that is the case, then why did they surrender?" Nora asked.
"I think this is why." Harper replied placing a file down.
Looking within were letters addressed to the nations with complete details of them and their children. Everyday actions and lives. Threats of torturing cities and capitals lacing the papers as they kidnapped so many within that week. Then below in bold letters was the agreement. To surrender to them or have their wives and children tortured and killed as they bent the will of the governments to eradicate the cities and capitals. The true way to destroy them.
"They surrendered to save us." Chloe sighed.
They were silence as the truth laid before them. Now they understood and accepted the fact of why. Now it was their turn. To change the fate around and make it stare Doss in the face as the cold, harsh reality kicked him down.
"Footsteps." Marie whispered as she nodded at the door.
Moving around the room, they all hid away slightly as Lily quietly spoke aloud, a cool chill filling the air and disappearing just for the room to go dark. With a forceful bang, the door swung open and the light came on. There was Doss. Bleeding and clutching his side as he went for the box upon the desk. Chloe could see Nora smiling as Harper watched in question.
"No." he spoke out, "No, it can't be."
He lifted the knobs and wires out, seeing it cut and destroyed. Slamming the piece down, he shuffled along his desk, in search of other things.
"What are you looking for?" Chloe spoke as she came out of hiding.
The man turned on his heels sharply as his eyes burned daggers into her, "Well, you're a brave one being up here all by yourself."
"Who said I'm alone?" she smiled at him, "Now Doss, you made a very big mistake."
"That you did." Harper said next, "You messed with the world, creating a false life and belief for people."
"And in doing that, practically making mass chaos." Nora joined.
"Yet you also went farther and started WWIII with the nations of the world as well." Marie added.
"Plus, you took the Axis and Allies and pinned the strongest war nations against themselves and the livelihood they knew." Juliet noted, "And in war dear, that's cheating."
"And cheating is the dirty way out of thing." Amber spoke up, "Which brings up something very important to us women."
"You messed with our cities and capitals." Lily smiled at him, "Which in this case means you fucked with us and our children."
"And the biggest thing you did," Brie said, placing the swords tip to his throat, "You messed with the nations. The fathers of our children and our husbands. And that we cannot accept."
He laughed at them, "Do you really think you scare me?"
Doss pushed the sword away, walking around Brie as he went to the wall. "You girls are so naive. It's what makes you great in having as soldiers and as, well, birthing cattle. You will make babies and not argue with a man. You're obedient. It's what you were designed to do."
Chloe watched as he went towards the side door, attempting to make an escape yet all it did was make her smile as the door quietly came open.
"You see, I will stand again. I'm still standing to be honest." he sneered, "And next time. I'll make sure you eight are the first to be under me as I make your men watch what I do to you and your children."
"Good luck with that." Chloe smiled.
"Why's that, red?" he chuckled, "Going to kill me?"
"Not us." she pointed to the door, "They are."
A set of arms wrapped around Doss as Ivan and Ludwig came to view. Feli and Arthur entered their side as the two men dragged Doss into the room as the other men waited patiently for them. Feli looked over at her and nodded as he and Arthur went to the door.
"Girls, the holding chambers are below and ready for you to get the others out of her." Feli stated.
"As of now," Arthur gave a wicked grin, "We will be a little preoccupied with something."
The door shut as they made their way down to the chambers, ready to save the others as a torturous, dying scream echoed the halls.
"Come on sweetie, you're alright." Chloe clung to Zehra as she followed Harper who was holding up Olivia.
"We're almost there everyone." she heard Brie yell as the light of the tunnel gave hope.
The door came open as the cold winds hit them, the sight of outside and amazing thing as ships came into view. Nation's calling down to them as some came off the boats and made their way towards them.
"Rainer?" she heard someone yell.
"Roderich, here!" Marie called to him as the little boy in her arms began to cry and try to run.
"Vati!" the boy shouted finally running into his father's arms.
Chloe watched as he gathered him up in his arms, his own knees collapsing into the snow as he clung onto his little boy. She saw his mother running for them, her cries heard in the air as she finally got to them both. Holding onto him as she sobbed with her husband. She saw families slowly being united one by one. Tears of happiness and thankfulness shed as each one held the other. Harper veered off towards a small vessel as a man leaped off the thing a bee-lined it for Harper and Olivia.
"Zehra?" she heard Sadiq shout.
"Sadiq!" Chloe called out, seeing the man as he made his way towards her.
"Baba!" Zehra said as she saw him running towards them, "Baba!"
Chloe let her down as she ran for him, her arms out for him as he grabbed her, pulling her tightly to his chest as he cried against her as she to him. Chloe smiled at the reunion between capitals and cities with nations. A sudden whirl behind her made her jump.
Turning around, she found Lukas and Vlad bringing more cities and capitals out from within.
"Those were the last." Lukas said as the girls gathered around him and Vlad.
"Glad to see you are doing ok, Vlad." Harper nodded to him.
"It was just a flesh wound." he smiled at her, those strange teeth poking out before her.
"Here boys." Juliet handed them the mass of papers and books within the bag, "This is everything that pertains Genesis. All locations of people and military and the weapons of mass destruction as well."
Both nodded at her as Lukas took the bag, "This will be the last tie of them then. Once we remove the sights and do what's needed. Genesis will be a threat no more if the four personifications are gone.
"Kiku killed Thales a while back."
"Winter destroyed Sayer."
"Feli smashed in Alpha's head."
"And the boys are dealing with Doss as we speak." Amber nodded to them.
"Good." they spoke, just to vanish before them.
"I don't care how many times I see that, I will never get used to it." Nora stated.
"One day you will." Juliet teased.
They all stood there, watching everything come together for them as the new dawn rose to greet them, the start of a new time and moment. WWIII was now officially over.
"We did it girls." Brie said. "We did it."
"Hard to believe that not long ago we were nothing but average women." Amber sighed.
"Now look at us." Marie stated.
They all laughed as it sank in. Chloe could have smiled wider even if she tried. There really wasn't any more worries around them. Genesis was gone and the war was over.
"Nora?" she heard Yao call from behind.
They all turned to see the men coming out of the building, all relieved that it was over, only having scrapes and nicks upon their bodies as they tried to wipe the blood off them from Doss. She knew they wouldn't stay where they were, she couldn't either as Feli came into view. She flew down to him, his bright happy smile shined only for her at that moment as she leaped into his arms. He twirled her around as he kissed her neck, cheeks and lips.
Happiness. That's what it was. Pure happiness. She looked over to see Yao wrap his one arm around Nora as the other caressed her belly; Francis held Brie to him as he stared down into her eyes as she looked up in his, smiling and not needing words to know what the other thought as Marie and Ludwig just leaned on one another, hands gripped tightly with the others. Arthur laid his head in Juliet's lap as he asked how she performed the magic spells and she teased him by ignoring him. Alfred gathered Amber on his back, as he ran towards the one ship his brother had waiting as Ivan hoisted Lily in the air, saying he was ready to go home. Yep, everything was great.
"So, what did we miss as we were in captivity?" he asked.
An excited shout echoed the place as Kiku twirled Harper around as her own happy giggled left her. He let out a rush of Japanese as his face was lit in pure joy, holding the little white stick in his hand. Harper nodded to him again, just to see him drop to his knees and hug her belly.
"Oh, Kiku's going to be a daddy." she told him, feeling him grin in her hair.
He let her down as the rest of the group collected themselves to board the ships. She wrapped her arm around his waist as his rested on her shoulders.
"You know Chloe, you look good in my old jacket." he smiled at her.
"I know, I'm hot in it." she teased, gaining a chuckle out of him, "So Feli, want to know what I want to do next?"
"Sure."
"I want to go home and have pasta now." she told him, watching him get excited at her words.
"That's my girl!" he shouted, picking her up and carrying her towards the ships in wait.
She laughed at him as the day began. The new beginning of a free world and all that it came with. She couldn't help but wonder what else would be in store for her but at that time, she was just ready to go home and be who she was meant to be.
His wife. Rome.