Author Note: This is the last chapter of MW2: Predated. Not very long in comparison to the rest of the story, but almost everything happened in the last chapter.
-09:14-
Predator shook his head to try and clear the blurriness, but it didn't really work. At least he could stand and walk in a straight line. And shoot.
The mall suddenly rocked, causing some more things to fall over and clatter.
"Uh oh." Price whispered.
"Uh oh what?" Soap snapped. He didn't need any more problems on his plate.
"Some one shot the detonator I was holding. Ruby Mall's coming down!"
-09:15-
Hollow blinked and looked at Alien. They were both shocked into silence.
"Alien, you did not just shoot the fucking detonator like I thought you did." Hollow said, astounded.
Alien mumbled something and dropped his rifle, cowering under Hollow's glare.
Hollow walked over to him, thrust his sword into Alien and threw his corpse over the edge of the railings. Hollow used Alien's body to cushion his fall as he dropped down to the ground floor, the platform he had been on collapsing behind him. Hollow unstrapped his grenade launcher from his back.
-09:16-
Another cascade of falling stone nearly crushed Predator as he ran for the exit. Soap and Aqua darted through the hole, and Predator wasn't far behind when Hollow grabbed him by the back of his shirt and hurled him at a cracked pillar. He crashed into it, slumping to the floor next to Alien's body. He couldn't move with the constant pain in his head and arms and legs. He could only watch as Hollow aimed his gun at the back of and unknowing Soap's head.
Predator was reminded strongly of something that had happened several days ago. He saw Sheperd standing in the entrance of a helicopter, shooting Roach and Ghost while he was powerless, knocked down by a mortar.
It wouldn't happen again.
Predator yelled with pain as he forced himself off the ground, sliding the sword out of Alien's ribs as he went. Propelling himself off a lump of fallen masonry into the air he landed behind Hollow and rammed the sword into the man's evil heart.
The ceiling came down, and past Hollow's falling body he could see Soap yelling at him to get out. Then a large stone blocked the exit and the rest of the mall came down at Predator.
-09:18-
Finally all Soap could see was rubble. He pulled away as much as he could with Price's help until their hands were bleeding. They couldn't find Predator. That man deserved a medal he would never get.
Soap took a few deep breaths, sitting on a lump of stone.
"Going to that prison doesn't even seem worth the effort now." Soap said.
"We had to try." Nikolai argued.
"And Hollow was killed." Price pointed out. "He would've kept hunting us, and without him, we'll start dropping off the wanted list."
Soap tilted his head. He hadn't thought of that.
Nikolai picked up the bag of supplies they had managed to scavenge from the ruined mall.
"Where's Aqua?" Soap asked, suddenly noticing her absence.
"Somewhere that way." Nikolai said, pointing.
They found her on the edge of the car park. By tying two bits of wood together she had made a cross, using her knife to carve a name into it.
"For Roach." She explained sadly, stabbing it into the sand.
Soap nodded understandingly and after a while the four of them had made crosses for Roach, Worm, Liquid, Angel, Viktor, Jackal and Predator.
When they had done, Aqua threw her firearms into the sand next to the graves and set off down the road, alone. Soap didn't try to stop her. He knew she'd survive.
"I found Hollow's helicopter." Nikolai told them. Price and Soap followed him to it, and they got in.
As the helicopter ascended into the sky, Soap threw a handful of wanted posters with her face on it out of the window where they floated in the air.
-10:14 -
Darkness. Claustrophobia. Pain.
Then finally bright light and a feeling of victory as Predator finally dislodged some rocks and made his way out into open air. The sun dazzled him, and he coughed on the dust from the rubble. But he realized, as he scrambled onto the hot tarmac, he was alive.
He stood up and brushed himself off, noting his new scars. This was going to ache later. After a while wandering around, he realized everyone was gone. A clock on an abandoned car's dashboard told him he had been in there for nearly an hour.
He paid his respects at the graves, pausing to dislodge his one from the sand. Then Predator walked over to the old rusty coach Nikolai had been trying to fix. He fired it up but it stalled. He tried again and the engine groaned into life. He drove down the road at a steady speed, but stopped to pick up a hitchhiker.
"…Hello Bell Cloud, I'm your driver. Call me Andy Gatson…"
-The End-
Author Note: Sorry the story is so short, only 6 chapters! If anyone is interested in me writing another story about Aqua, set before and after Predated, just mention it in that review I'm sure you're just about to write *hint hint*