As you may have guessed from the title, LoT is ending fairly soon. Sad, I know. But soon I will have school to contend with, and I will need all of my free time for homework. So, I won't be writing very often. So, I decided that this story has lived a full, if short, life. It's time to finish this and be done with everything.

Disclaimer- I still don't own Pokemon, only the OCs presented in this story.

Chapter 11: Finale part I

"The subject is showing increased signs of mental strain, mental instability, and physical stress. Sir, this subject is not as strong as the last one! We need to stop this madness!"

"That's enough out of you! We will keep doing this until we get it right, regardless of the high mortality rate!"

"You monster! We can't replicate Project U-90 with this inferior test subject!"

"Regardless of whether or not we can, we will! You aren't here as my advisor, you are here as a scientist! Do your job, not mine."

"Sir, the subject's adrenaline levels are rising. Wait, what? Sir! Report from ground team! Someone is in the complex!"

I smiled as word spread through the base of my arrival. They knew, and they would fear me before I had left. Rose had decided to accompany me after all, after hearing of her sister. The sister she never knew, apparently. That triviality was not my concern. What mattered was not giving Infinus anything it can use.

I strode confidently down the hallway, not bothering to attack the majority of the scientists who littered the place. Many were in charge of creating medicines for the people of the East, many more were computer technicians. I only dealt with the bio-geneticists, the guards, and anyone who had any involvement with the experimentation on my kind. I left the rest to Kengou and his people.

I read the door windows as I passed each one, looking for the right containment area. I-25, I-26, I-27… None of them the one I wanted. Rose was getting impatient, flying off ahead. Still invisible, but still. Human imaging technology had taken an astounding leap forward when they learned how to utilise infrared waves. And Pokémon generally had higher body temperatures than humans, making them easier to detect.

I growled in annoyance as she flew off again, using my psychic abilities to drag her back. "Your sister will be there when we get there! Calm down, and be careful! I can't protect you if you fly ahead, and they have things here that could take me on, let alone you." She nodded, but the look in her eyes told me she hadn't heard what I was saying. To her, it might as well have been 'Keep running off!'

I rolled my eyes as she once again flew out of my line of sight, but then I heard her shriek. The sound of a huge weapon going off reaches my ears a split second later. "Shit!" I yell, starting to run.

I spun around a corner, my eyes lighting up in preparation to unleash hell. And nothing was wrong, anymore. Rose was floating, unharmed, next to a man with what appeared to be a shotgun wound on his upper torso. Another man, who had a shotgun in his hand, was standing there as well.

The man turned to me, holding the shotgun sideways, away from both of us. "Corporal E. Jones, Bosnian militia. I was sent as reinforcements for Alice and Jack. Could you point me towards them?"

Walking past the human, I motioned to Rose. "Outside, just head towards the gigantic dragon in the sky." I said with mild contempt. I heard a slight chinking noise, and a knife buried itself in the floor right in front of my nose. "Now, now, there's no need to be so rude."

Rolling my eyes, I sent the knife careening into the wall. "Don't try me, human!" He held up his hands in mock surrender, still holding the gun. Rose followed me past him, warily watching the corpse.

Alice

"Can't…breath!" This Wraith guy was strong, cutting off my oxygen in a matter of seconds. I was completely incapable of fighting back. I could feel my body weakening, and my vision started to ting black. And then I felt release.

Wraith had pushed me away, letting me breath. Unfortunately, he pushed me right onto my pin mine. "Fuc-" My curse was cut off by the explosion, which hurled me shoulder first into a wall.

Thanks to my involvement in the HM3 project, my reinforced skeleton took the hit without breaking. But more than a few nerves were damaged, and my arm hung limply at my side. Luckily, my firing arm was fine, and I grabbed my gun from where it had fallen.

Spinning, I fired the remainder of the gun's clip in Wraith's general direction. Using the most catlike reflexes I had ever seen, he avoided every bullet. Cursing again, I threw the gun away, berating myself for not bringing an extra clip.

Ethan

The high voltage electricity felt like a thousand mosquitoes, bouncing harmlessly off my scales, but annoying me tremendously. "You realize that isn't working, right?" I asked the witch angrily.

I gazed down at her, gauging her reaction. I winced as she screamed, and a burst of light flashed through the air. The rest of the four flinched at the light, and I took that as a warning.

When the light faded, a nineteen year old girl, complete with a midriff revealing outfit, had replaced the HAZMAT soldier I had been fighting before. The suit was in tatters around her. She had electric blue eyes and chestnut hair, which fell straight down her back, reaching her hips. And she was holding a railgun.

Just before she fired, I decided I would have to minimize my target profile. In a flash, I was back in my human form, twenty or so feet of the ground. "Oh, shiiiiiii-" My freefall, and curse word, was cut off abruptly as the girl tackled me when I was just inches off the ground.

We tumbled to the ground, ending up with her on top of me, pinning my arms. She was looking at me smugly, and I noticed she had unimaginably pale skin. "I wasn't kidding before. You're pretty awesome."

I rolled my eyes, kicking her off of me. "Sorry, but I'm taken." I said, settling into a combat stance. She shrugged, kneeling to grab her fallen railgun. She stood, spreading her legs to hold the weight of the enormous gun. It was by far larger than she was.

Suddenly, she froze, dropping the railgun. She grasped her head, bending over, screaming. She fell, kicking up a dust cloud. She continued to thrash for quite a while, before curling up into a ball.

I watched her for a moment, suspecting a trap. When she remained on the ground, I decided she needed mental help, and went to get her off the ground. She uncurled as I approached, managing to sit back. "Where am I?"

Alice

Wraith was far to fast for me to beat with just a knife. Even if I had armour, he would just stab me a few times and leave. My gun and pin mine were my only advantages I had had, and I had used both of them. Nothing short of a miracle could help me now.

A scream rippled through the square, and I caught a flash of light out of the corner of my eye. Wraith flinched, and I pressed the attack. I ran at him, knife in hand. He simply vanished again, reappearing behind me.

I spun, just in time to block a well aimed kick to the face. I tried to counter, but he twisted away, kicking my ribs in the process. I stumbled back, holding my side. He advanced on me, flashing his knife disrespectfully in front of me.

I was ready to die at that moment, ready to give my life to my cause. But, just then, I heard what may have been the most glorious sound in the world. The explosive whump of a shotgun firing.

Wraith disappeared moments before the contents of the shell managed to pass through the space he had occupied. I looked up, and saw my new favourite person. Corporal E. Jones, one of Bosnia's top soldiers, and currently the best shooter in the world.

He nodded at me, throwing me a rifle of some kind. I grabbed it out of the air, saluted, and turned back to my opponent.

Ethan

"So, I did all this?" The girl waved her hands around the square. I muffled a laugh. "No, that was me." She looked unconvinced. "How could you have done all this?" She waved again at the scope of the destruction. I just shook my head.

I find it strange how I could talk so calmly with the girl who had nearly killed me five years before. She was a completely different person now. The transformation was unnerving, yet at the same time, I could accept it. Tal had undergone much the same thing, except in reverse.

She seemed like any other teenaged girl now, insecure, childish. Perhaps she wasn't what we had thought she was. Maybe she could be an ally in disguise.

Tal

Sneaking around was definitely not my strong suit. Why should it be, when I cannot be beaten? Flawless mentality was my strong suit. Well, actually…

"This looks like the place." I said loudly, startling the Latias beside me. The door I had indicated had no markings of any kind on it, and Rose picked up on that. "And you know this, how?" She asked, somewhat disbelieving.

I rolled my eyes, forcing the door open with a stray thought. I mentally groaned as my psychic abilities went more and more out of control. Eventually, something very, very bad is going to happen.

Inside the room, there was a Latias with a mysterious ink coloured hide, indicating that this was in fact the correct room. She was strapped to an operating table, and it looked as if she had been sedated. And she was not alone.

Next to the table was a man in a strange, black, form fitting combat suit. He had what had to be the biggest gun in existence in his hands, and enormous railgun. It was nearly twice the size of the one used by Volt, and from the looks of it the thing weighed half a ton.

Next to that man was another in what looked like the ruins of a tuxedo. He had discarded the jacket completely, and the shirt and pants had been shredded by very large claws. The man himself was unhurt, however.

As the door opened, the man with the railgun swung his weapon forward, immediately charging the beast up. I had doubts as to whether I should have risked getting fired at, as the rounds fired by the gun would have a devastating effect on my body, and I wasn't sure I could stop the bullet in such an enclosed space.

Luckily, the man with the shredded clothes held up his hand, and the soldier let the charge fade before lowering the gun. Both men eyed us warily. In the corner, I heard a muffled screech from a scientist working on a data terminal of some kind.

The man with the destroyed tuxedo stepped forward, between us and the railgun. "So, Tal, you finally decided to join us." As he spoke, the Latias on the table convulsed, jerking awake. One of her eyes swept around to me. She had black irises.

"I have to say, I wasn't expecting you to come alone." As he said that, I realised Rose had been invisible when I opened the door. I was glad she had stayed in that state. "A bold move, even for you."

I shrugged the comment off, still examining the Latias on the table. She continued to stare at me with a look I could identify as longing. Turning back to the man, I growled. "What the hell have you done?"

He simply snapped his fingers. All the lights in the room and hallway went out. I heard a series of clanking noises, along with a miniature explosion. After that, some ultra powerful, physical attack sent me hurtling back into the hallway, and through a door at the other end.

I spun, losing all track of direction in the darkness. I heard the door explode off its hinges and I instinctively rolled to the side. Deciding I needed light, I willed my oddly dulled out rings to blink on. And I was very surprised with what I saw.

Ethan

"Take this!" I covered my ears as the girl, whose name I had learned to be Emma, fired off a random round from the railgun she carried. It sailed right over a surprised Jack's head, just missing the helmet of the massive armoured figure he was fighting.

As if that was a signal, all the fighting in the square stopped. The man in silver nodded to the robotic suit, and the robed man, before leaping atop a large building and disappearing from sight.

The robed man ran out, jumping on top of the man in armour, grasping both sides of the helmet. In a puff of black smoke, they vanished.

"Well, that was easy."

Tal

It was the Latias who had slammed into me, and I was astonished to find that I couldn't read her mind, nor could I detect her with my psychic abilities. I could only hope she didn't have any over the top abilities like myself. While I didn't fear a fair fight, I didn't want to chance Rose's life. I had no doubt that she would be found.

My rings, though luminous, failed to completely illuminate the room. The Latias took advantage of that fact and hid in the shadows. Due to her black hide, I was having trouble spotting her. I could only hope that whatever had affected her coat had disabled her down as well.

I was surprised at how silent the floating apparition was; even my hyper sensitive ears couldn't hear her. So, I was forced to turn around blindly and constantly to keep from getting hit in the back. It never occurred to me that she may have left the room.

That turned out to be the truth, as after I got impatient I sent an electric shock through the walls. The lights, now powered, flickered on. The room was empty. And through the destroyed doorway, I could see a receding black form.

As I noticed that, several explosions rocked the underground base.

Silver

"They retreated to their underground research facility. It seems that The Four Horsemen have decided to work with Infinus after all. Unfortunate, but not entirely disastrous." Beside me, Ethan nodded. "Two birds with one stone, eh?"

I turned away. "Even with Emma's help, those three will cause us no end of trouble. We need them out of the way." A huge column of smoke appeared almost out of nowhere, in the general direction I had seen Tal run off to.

I pointed. "That's where we'll find everyone else. And maybe some answers."

Tal

If nothing else, the Latias was fast. Faster than me by far. I quickly lost track of her, even with the lights on. In the end, I decided to return to where I had found her. I knew that the man with the tattered tuxedo had answers for me, along with another chance at vengeance.

He was still where I had left him, except he had decided to change into a more suitable, if less dramatic, lab coat. And then it clicked.

"Jonathan…" I muttered, surprised. It had been a long, long time since I had seen him last, yet he looked almost the same. My eyes clouded, anger bubbling to the surface of my being. "You used me!"

It should have been obvious. Test after test after test, the escapes, taking out the Infinus base. All a well orchestrated lie. In a way. He had even used the procedure tested and perfected on me to give himself cell repair.

A massive bid for power. A scam. And he had pulled the wool over my eyes, and the eyes of Kengou's squad. He had wanted the Director out of the way so that he could rise in rank. My actions had been guided without my knowing it.

He nodded slowly, motioning his partner over. The man with the railgun took aim, and a charge built up near the handle. I studied the railgun for a moment, realizing that it had been specifically designed to take me out.

The explosive kinetic power of a railgun round was more than an equivalent amount of high-explosives, meaning that they could manufacture and supply many of them at a low cost. The force the gun exerted made the round hard to stop with telekinesis, while the round itself could easily tear apart the best armour.

If one of the rounds hit me, I would either be killed or stuck in a bed for months. And the nature of the gun itself made it difficult to avoid the round. But I wouldn't fool myself into thinking they would dispose of that horrific weapon when they were finished with me. Those things could take out tanks in only one shot.

"I'll be frank, Tal. Yes, I used you. And yes, I no longer have need of you." The railgun whined menacingly at that point. "You have served your purpose quite well, in fact. Unfortunately for you, Infinus has finally promoted me."

"You and Kengou were used. Tools, nothing more. I had you destroy the base in the mainland, along with the director. I would rather have had you destroy it in a less environmentally destructive way, but I suppose that you had to break a few eggs."

"And now, as your final objective, you are to destroy The Four Horsemen." Just as he said that, the wall behind me exploded.

Ethan

We had sprinted in the direction of the fire, trying to catch up with Kengou before he could reach the base. Emma had proven to be very fit, more so than me and Silver. Evan the benefits of our lifestyles had failed to raise our physical fitness enough to outrun her.

Whenever we stopped to catch our breaths, she would stand there impatiently, bouncing on the balls of her feet. I was astounded with her endurance, not to mention the fact that she ran faster than I did.

And she was still carrying the railgun. To be able to hold it at all took amazing strength, but being able to run with it faster and longer than a man in his prime bordered on mystical.

The man that Alice and Jack referred to as 'E' had been following us, showing similarly high endurance. Not quite on the same level as Emma, but high non the less. I was starting to feel inferior with all these super soldiers surrounding me.

"This isn't much of a camp…" I mused. Way to big. Alice, beside me, had a similar opinion. "Too big to be considered a camp, to small to be a city. In all technicality, it is a settlement. A war zone."

We round a corner, and I ran smack into a floating red blob. Falling back, I hit the ground hard. Above me, Rose was staring down at me.

Tal

Behind me, three very irritated super soldiers. In front of me, two lab technicians with no combat training and a single soldier of unknown skill. The odds were very much for me. A bloodbath would ensue.

I had contacted Kengou as his squad entered the Infinus base, and had been relaying my conversation with Jonathon to him. We had decided on a temporary truce, during which neither of us would attack the other.

Rose had left the complex, and I had told her to make sure that Ethan and the others stayed away. I was going to destroy this complex as well, and I didn't want them caught in the crossfire.

Jonathon was about to find out just how wrong the best laid plans can go.

Ethan

"Ethan! Go back! Stay as far away from that base as possible!" Rose was frantic, using everything she had to pull me away. We were close to the base's entrance, and everyone was preparing for a fight.

Emma was shifting uneasily, fidgeting. Her head snapped up, and she turned towards me. "Go! My team is going to destroy the base! If you go in, you won't be coming out again!" Her voice had the same desperation as Rose'.

"Tal is down there! And I will not leave him behind!" Doing that would make my various attempts to save him essentially worthless. Aside from that, he was one of my best friends, and I don't abandon my friends.

Emma shook her head. "I'll go, just get away. The explosion is going to be big." She seemed depressed. "I have unfinished business down there."

After a moments thought, I agreed.

Tal

The two had proved to be more capable opponents than I had originally thought. Jonathon had proved immune to psychic attacks; my efforts to force a premature expiration date on him had failed. So, he got a throwing knife between the eyes instead.

The railgun had fired the moment Jonathon was killed. I heard the screech of the massive projectile as it left the elongated barrel of the gun, and I heard a crash as it hit something and released its kinetic energy upon all of us.

I felt an overwhelming pain all over my body, and I blacked out.

My old friend the cliffhanger has returned for the last time. Can you believe that? This is the last cliffhanger I will ever be putting in this story. But don't worry, many more will be present in the sequal, Lynx Academy. Many of my own and some of your favorite OCs will be in that story as well, along with some new faces.

The next chapter I post will be the final chapter LoT will see. However, in my infinite wisdom, I have decided to add an Epilogue after that. One big ass monologue, coming up!

Oh, and if the second part of the finale is too short, i.e less than 3,000 words, I will simply mold it into this one. The Epilogue will be seperate no matter what, however.

Once again, this is WEAPON, signing off.