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Chapter 8

Kira Mercer stood in front of King Charles. She held an evil grin on her face, "You have a choice, hand control of the commonwealth to me or your Grandson will be turned into Predator food."

Sighing, Charles replied, "I don't have much choice do I?"

"Oh Charles" Camilla breathed. She knew how Charles loved his position of king, but she also knew how much he loved George. Looking at the options though, he didn't have choice.

Looking at Mercer, Charles heaved a sigh. Slowly he said the words he promised he would never say, "I surrender the throne to you."

A broad grin spread across the ARC International leaders face, before saying "Brilliant."

Lester was growing tired of being tied to a chair while Mercer did whatever she wanted, deciding to break the heavy silence he asked, "What am I doing here?"

"I wanted you to see your team fail" Mercer replied mater-of-fact voice.

Lester wanted to say something else but was interrupted by one of the Special Opts soldiers burst through the door, kicking the Prime Minister to the ground.

"Ah, thanks Kendall" Mercer smiled.

"Ma'am" Kendall replied, closing the door and before binding the prime ministers wrists.

Concerned for his minister, Charles asked "Mr Walker, are you alright?"

Kendall tied the man's wrists before levelling his EMD with the four hostages.

Sighing, the minister replied, "Yes I'm fine your highness." He was lying, the fall had injured his back, and he was in quite a bit of discomfort.

Lester looked down at the man next to him. He had served many Prime Ministers, but Chris Walker was one of the worst. The two of them didn't like each other and that was obvious. Deciding to acknowledge the man, Lester simply announced "Chris."

"James" Chris replied through gritted teeth. Usually he would have engaged in a sarcastic insult match, but he could barely speak let alone insult Lester.

Grinning at the scene in front of her Mercer smiled before saying, "Once I take the commonwealth, and replace Walker with Kendall, it won't take long before I can wipe out humanity and finally save this planet."

Lester raised an eyebrow before retorting, "This reminds me of when I found one of Connors comic books."

Before Mercer or Kendall could react, the door fell to the ground. Connor and Abby Temple stormed into the room, both holding a special opts EMD. Before Kendall could fire, two EMD shots rang out before the Major fell to the ground.

Mercer growled before kicking Kendall, "On your feet!"

Abby laughed, "He won't be up for a while."

"As you know" Connor interrupted, "The voltage on these EMD's is too much for your special armour to handle." He smiled proudly as explained. He loved using a plan that worked. Abby elbowed him, signalling part two of the plan. Nodding he and Abby jumped to the side.

"Fire!" Max shouted as he and Thomas fired their EMD's, knocking Mercer to the ground.

"YES!" Thomas shouted, as the friends high-fived each other.

Pushing past the celebrating teenagers, Michelle untied the royals, "Your highnesses are you alright?"

Rubbing his wrists as he stood up, Charles replied "We're fine."

Connor untied Lester, while his wife untied Chris. Turning to his boss he said, "Who are feeling Lester?"

Looking at his former flat mate, Lester shook his head, "What an idiotic question, I've just been held hostage by my insane boss. How do you think I'm feeling?"

"Better for seeing us?" Abby smiled, once again rescuing her husband from their boss' insults.

Lester nodded, before seeing Michelle helping the royals out of the room and Max and Thomas helping Chris to follow them. Feeling relieved that Mercer's reign over the ARC had ended, Lester and followed the Temples out of the room that had been used as a prison.

Sarah stood next to Nick at the main console in the menagerie. Nick was typing furiously at the screen. Not sure her boyfriend knew what he was doing, she decided to ask, "Do you know what you're doing?"

"Not really" Nick replied as he rapidly hit the touch screen, "But I've seen enough Star Wars films to be able to guess."

Danny and Mac re-entered the room, in front of them was Dr Truman. They walked towards the console, pushing the Doctor between Sarah and Nick.

"Nick out of the way" Mac nodded.

Nick nodded back and moved away. Sarah quickly joined him around to his side.

Danny dug a special opts EMD, which he found in the armoury, into Truman's back "Call the creatures off!"

"Fine" Truman sighed, pressing a few keys on the screen before pressing a red button.

"Creatures returned! Creatures returned!" The computer announced.

"Done" Truman shrugged. Honestly she was going to send them back in a minute anyway, when Mac and Danny found her, she was headed to the menagerie. So to be told to do it, was a relief because if Mercer found out she could shift the blame to these two.

Sarah thought she did that to quick, "How'd you do that so quickly?"

Shaking her head, Truman replied "I wrote the code for the failsafe, so I just put in my password and the creatures vanished."

"Why would you do that?" Nick asked. This, like everything today, didn't make sense.

Letting out a sigh Truman explained "I agreed to work for Mercer on this project before I found out what it was. When I was told, I made sure I could install a failsafe. For example, I gave the two of you two separate mind control devices, the neural clamp injection and the application in your control pad; because I knew the two would cancel each other out."

"That makes sense, I think" Mac sighed. In truth he didn't really follow what she was saying.

Picking up a case from the side of the computer, Truman passed it to Danny "Kendall was using it to get the Predators to move."

Frowning, Danny opened the case. His face of confusion turned to joy. He took the object out. It was the familiar stick that had saved Danny's life on more than one occasion. Handing back the case, Danny smiled before twirling Moly the Stick between his fingers "Still got it."

Pressing two more keys, Truman smiled, "I've left a surprise for you back at the palace, go stop Mercer"

"Wait what?" Nick panicked, as silver light engulfed them.

Evan and Dylan Cross stood at the door of the Command Centre. Evan spotted a Predator running towards him, "Dylan!"

"Oh no!" Jess panicked, the memory of the 2011 Predator invasion of the ARC still clear.

"Fire!" Dylan shouted nervously, as she and Evan fired their EMD's, completely missing the deadly creature.

"NO!" Toby screamed, as the creature jumped into the Command Centre.

At that moment the predator froze, as its neural clamp shut down. Evan fired his EMD at the creatures head, and it fell to the floor.

"What happened?" Toby asked, totally confused.

"I don't know" Evan sighed, like most people he'd given up trying to figure out what as going on today.

"Guys, all the creatures are vanishing" Jess announced, as she checked the CCTV.

"What?" Dylan asked, checking the screen. One by one all the creatures vanished in a flash of golden light, leaving only their neural clamps behind.

"How?" Evan asked.

Back at the Elizabeth fountain, a golden ball of light materialised.

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