Quick side note: I may have forgotten to mention what happened to Ellie's switchblade so let's just say she dropped it somewhere near the desert where she woke up from, that's about it now on with the story.
Chapter 8
Dante, Elizabeth, Desmond and Faith
"Never Surrender"
The Living Weapon-also known as Alex Mercer, known to his world as Zeus, mostly referred to The Control as number 5-stood there motionless and expressionless as claws formed from both of his arms, waiting for a command to be said, his blue eyes seemed hypnotized as he stared down his opponent who is Dante. Dante stared back at the Living Weapon curiously, he walked up closer to him with his Rebellion over his shoulder and waved his hand in front of the Living Weapon's face.
"Hello? Anybody home?" Dante asked, no response or even a reaction was made. "Well I hope you would at least put up a good fight."
"Arrogant much?" Dr. Harred commented and looked to Alex, "Number 5-" He was about to give an order until Dante cut him off.
"Let me guess, your trying to get this guy to 'subdue' me," Dante guessed. Dr. Harred simply rolled his eyes.
"Actually, I was going to have him beat you into submission until you are in the brink of death," Dr. Harred explained, with that said, the Living Weapon raised his claws and attempted to rip Dante's face off but was intercepted by Dante's Rebellion.
"Arrogant much?" Dante mocked with a smile, he backed away in time before Alex used his other claw to slash Dante, and so the battle between Alex Mercer and the nephilim Dante begins.
Dante charged toward Alex with rebellion at hand and did a series of slashes with his sword but all were intercepted by Mercer's claws, seeing how he isn't getting a hit at Mercer, Dante ran by Mercer's side with incredible speed and attempted to slash him on his side, however, Mercer arms began to change again, not knowing what was happening, Dante swung his sword but a hard surface blocked his attacked and had him backed off, he looked up to see that Alex's claws were gone and what's there is a Shield on one arm.
"Looks like you got a lot more up in your sleeves," Dante said as he rested his Rebellion over his shoulder again, Alex then transformed his arms from his shield to his Claws again and ran up to Dante, "Let's see if I can bring them all out!" Dante pulled out Ebony and Ivory and aimed at Mercer's face.
As the battle between the two goes on, the Big Daddy was getting closer to where Faith, Desmond, and Elizabeth was.
"Easy there big guy," Desmond said to the Big Daddy even though he had no clue if the monster could even understand English, not that it would matter since it's objective is to capture him and other two.
"Elizabeth," Faith called out, "Do you have any idea how we can deal with this guy?" She asked. Elizabeth, though was frighten at the oncoming beast, gave a thoughtful look and felt her neck where the steel collar used to be.
"That collar around its neck might have something to do with it," Elizabeth suggested.
"That thing has a neck?" Desmond said.
Faith studied the Big Daddy, sure enough, the monster had a wide steel collar around where she would guess the neck is, she wasn't entirely sure if it even had a neck and doubted any normal neck would ever support its massive head.
"It's mind is being manipulated because of that collar, if we could remove it, it could turn against its master," Elizabeth explained.
"Could?" Desmond questioned, he wasn't very fond of the chances that might not work.
"It's the best chance we got," Elizabeth said. She glances quickly Alex who was able to land a hit on Dante. "That man, Mercer I think, is also wearing that collar, we need to tell Dante to get it off as well."
"Yeah well let's try and focus on the big guy that's heading towards us!" Faith said as she moved out of the way or else she would be grabbed by the Big Daddy.
Elizabeth had to do something other than just stand there, she looked around the room to see if there's anything she could use as a weapon, and that's when she saw the guardsman that her saviors knocked out unconscious holding a medium sized gun, she ran towards it but Dr. Harred saw what she was attempting to do.
"Men! Stop her tracks but do not kill her!" he ordered and the guardsmen complied as they fire, their bullets only aiming near Elizabeth's feet which she stopped her heard what the scientist said and looked to see the guardsmen aiming their weapons at Elizabeth, she then looked back at the Big Daddy and thought of a way to help Elizabeth despite her and Desmond being at a disadvantage by strength alone. After all, if you don't know what to do on a situation you're not used to, improvise.
"Hey Desmond, I have an idea, just follow my lead," Faith said.
"What are we doing?" Desmond didn't get an answer as Faith just ran up and jumped on the Big Daddy, she mentally told herself not to look directly into its many eyes as she climbed, two of its eyes had its lights off thanks to the punk hybrid himself. Faith made it on top on the Big Daddy's head as the monster was twisting and turning, trying to get her off.
Desmond was stunned as he witness Faith's attempt but he gathered his senses and his courage to follow Faith's example.
"This is crazy, this is crazy!" he yelled as he mimicked what Faith did, now both of them were on top of the head of the very irritated Big Daddy. Sensing it's distress, Desmond patted its helmet as he desperately clings on to its head,"Yeah, I don't like me being on top of your head either!" he said.
The Big Daddy kept shaking around until he stopped, at first Faith and Desmond didn't know why it suddenly stopped until they realized that it was looking at the walls, if it couldn't shake Faith and Desmond off then it could always try crushing them. The Big Daddy then proceeded to charge towards the wall.
"Get behind its head, now!" The two managed to move just in time before the Big Daddy banged its head against the wall and leaving a large round dent in the wall, the trauma of the hit left it moving around wobbly, not the smartest action it realized but what can it do when its head is being under someone's influence.
"Hold on tight to something!" Desmond did what Faith said as she held on to the Big Daddy's collar and started to lean back, having its senses shaken the Big Daddy started to move towards the direction Faith was leaning to. Elizabeth was surprised to see the monster suddenly in front of her not to capture her but looking like it was defending her.
Elizabeth then understood on what was happening and did what she was trying to do, Dr. Harred shouted out orders to shoot but not directly at Elizabeth but the guardsmen aim was blocked by the Big Daddy, the scientist said it didn't matter where the creature was shot or not he just said to fire. Faith and Desmond had to jump off before they would be hit, the bullets then instead went directly to the Big Daddy who cried out from the new wounds he was receiving.
With the Big Daddy as her shield, Elizabeth went for the rifle on the ground next the unconscious guardsmen, "Faith!" she shouted, "Catch!" she threw the rifle and Faith caught it. Faith nodded as a thank you and pointed the rifle at the Big Daddy who was recovery from the hits, while Faith is much better using hand to hand combat than she is with a weapon, she could at least get a good aim when she's up close.
The Big Daddy turned around, its head still feeling numb and its body ached from the bullets shots but managed to think straight to continue its mission, he was backed off however when he received even more shots of bullets in its face now coming from Faith. The Big Daddy raised its drill and aimed it at Faith, when she rolled away in time just to look back, Faith was able to see that a small hatch on the collar of the Big Daddy was open, possibly due to the damaged it received had it opened, and revealing a small key hole. "I wonder if the key I have fits into that."
As the three tries to come closer in unlocking the collar and not get captured knowing very well that they were no match for the Big Daddy's strength, Dante is having trouble in fighting Alex, well its more like he's losing.
"Damn it, for someone who looks pretty mindf**ked, this guy's good," Dante thought to himself as he dodged the Alex's whip like attack. "Where the hell did those ass**les put my other weapons," Dante raised his blade in order to block Alex's own blade but the strength of Alex was incredible as it nearly made Dante kneel. The only thing that went through Dante's mind was that being almost powerless sucks.
Wanting to get the upper hand, Dante pushed Alex's blade up with his own and impaled Alex through his heart before he could bring down the blade and slice Dante's head off. Dante then pushed the blade even further by ramming into the Living Weapon, he pulled his Rebellion out and kicked Alex a couple of feet away.
Alex fell on to the floor and tried to get up but his chest was stomped on by Dante as he aimed his Ebony and Ivory at the Living Weapons head.
"Say goodnight ass*****!" Dante pulled the trigger and kept firing until Alex's head was completely gone, when Dante seized his firing all that's left was a big bloody mess. Seeing that Alex's body stopped moving, Dante putted away his pistols and had his back turned knowing he won, even though Dr. Harred the scientist who was sitting on the sidelines remained calm.
"You should change your name from 'The Living Weapon' to a dead one," Dante said to the corpse, he looked up to see the other three, Faith, Desmond and the woman named Elizabeth doing surprisingly well in not being captured by the Big Daddy. "Hey!" he called out as he started to walk towards them.
"You guys need any help?"
Faith just groaned out of irritation at Dante who isn't helping them in an instant. "Do you HAVE to ask!" she yelled.
Dante just shrugged, "Thought I be polite, and by the looks of it you guys are handling it pretty well," he said just before the Big Daddy's drill nearly impaled Desmond. Dante saw that as a time to stop fooling around, "Alright, I'll handle Tiny while you guys-"
"Dante! Behind you!" Elizabeth warned. Dante didn't know what she was talking about but he didn't ask as he reached for his rebellion, but just has he was pulling out, his right shoulder was impaled by Alex's Blade and would sliced Dante's arm off if he hadn't halted the attack with his Rebellion in time, he pushed the blade off of his shoulder and faced the Living Weapon whose head was back on his shoulders, Dante caught a glimpse of the smaller tentacles appearing the side of Alex's face, a open wound shown and in a matter of seconds the small tentacles formed inside the wound and it was healed just like that. It was something Dante did not expect, standing there was the same monster that Dante impaled his heart, shot his head multiple times, and within a minute looked as healthy as Dante when Dante saw him for the first time.
"Okay, I'll admit, that surprised me," Dante breathed out, his wound not healing as fast as it should be.
"Dante, you have try and get that man's collar off!" Elizabeth yelled out.
"Why?" Dante asked as he kept his eye on Alex.
"It's what's controlling him!" Elizabeth explained. Dante then dodged the whip that was aiming to grab him.
"Oh, so he is mindf**ked," he mused, while Dante continues the fight against Alex, one guardsman went up to Dr. Harred.
"Sir, permission to fight alongside number 5?" One guardsmen asked, Dr. Harred shook his head.
"That won't be necessary," the scientist answered.
"But sir, as long as we're here, we can help take down the nephilim much quicker," said another guardsman.
Dr. Harred remained expressionless, "There is a reason for all of you to be here," he raised his index finger, "One, to make sure none of these rats escapes, which is actually unnecessary," he raised another finger, "And Two, to provide number 5 resource," he explained.
The guardsmen had a confused expression behind their headgear, "Sir?"
The Living Weapon crashed into the wall next to where Dr. Harred and the guardsman are, the armored men raised their weapons and aimed at Dante whose head was bleeding slightly and his shoulder not looking any better. The hypnotized Mercer struggled getting back up.
"Not so tough now, are you?" Dante taunted while ignoring the pain in his shoulder, the guardsmen were about to fire at the Nephilim when they heard Dr. Harred making a command, but the command wasn't for them.
"Number 5, heal yourself by consuming these men," he directed his hand towards the guardsmen who behind their headgear were utterly shock.
"Sir?!"
Alex heard the command and with his whip fist, grabbed one guard and then the other, pulling both of them towards him, Dante had no idea what was happening but by instinct fired with his two pistols at Alex but they seemed to barely now affect the Living Weapon, all he could do was watch as the two guardsmen were dragged towards the monster, black substance surrounded the two who were screaming in terror and their figures seems to merge with Alex, the remaining guardsman fired at the Living Weapon out of panic but his weapon ended up being grabbed by the Whip Fist with him as well. Within minute, all the guardsmen just vanished, and Alex who just a moment ago actually looked hurt now is standing up straight with all the damage Dante managed to make gone.
"The f**k did I just watch," Dante thought to himself.
Dr. Harred read the expression on Dante and answered the question that was in the Nephilim's mind.
"Number 5 here is able to heal every wound he had received by capturing any weakling nearby and consuming them, I knew you were going to be a trouble one considering how powerful you are and so I had Alex to come here," Dr. Harred explained, he then studied Dante's shoulder, "But it seems that after your escape, you've gradually became weaker, if I have known I would of brought in another subject that was lower in power compare to Number 5," he then shrugged, "Oh well, this has been a good progress anyway, I had to find out just how willingly number 5 is able to follow my orders, these men has served their purpose."
Dante frowned and glared in disgust at the scientist, "How your mother still manage to love a bastard like you is beyond me."
Dr. Harred smirked, "How your mother could ever give birth to a delinquent like you is beyond me as well," Dante's frown deepen, "It must of been a blessing to choose death over raising you."
Dante fired Ebony at the scientist but his shot was blocked by Alex's shield who came to his "Master's" aid, Dante began to shoot multiple times at Alex but his shots weren't hindering the Living Weapon one bit.
Alex changed his shield to a blade and ran up to Dante and Dante pulled his Rebellion out and their blades clashed once again but this time Dante couldn't take the force like before and his feet slid across the floor and having him backing away.
Alex came at him again and his blade hit Dante's sword again, backing him up some more, The Living Weapon attempted to hit Dante's rebellion again but Dante managed to dodge just in time, he was surprised to witness The Living Weapon regaining his strength while he himself was only beginning to slow down.
Dante would never admit it, even in his mind he told himself to keep fighting, but somewhere deep within him, he knew he was f**ked.
Dante didn't register just how fast Alex is as the Living Weapon came at the powerless Nephilim again, this time Alex managed to hit the sword again and that had Dante fall back and crashing to the wall.
Dante staggered when he stood back up, and when he looked at his opponent, he gave a exasperated look as soon as he saw Alex's arms transform into a new weapon, tendrils wrapped itself around the Living Weapon's fist which expanded as well did its muscles, making it look like Dante's weapon Eryx.
"Sh**," was all Dante could say before Alex raised both of his fists and started beating him down, Dante still managed to block some attacks with his Rebellion but he was too damaged and so knew he can not do this for long, and his lack of healing himself was what makes this battle four times as hard, so he had no other choice but to defend with the last bit of his strength remaining, but it was over much more quickly than he expected, Alex managed to land a strong hit right at Dante's jaw and had him flying across the other side of the room and crashing into the wall. He simply lay there, pain coursing through his entire body and most of the pain was to his jaw.
"Man, did that f***ing hurt," Dante said.
Back with Elizabeth, Faith and Desmond, The Big Daddy was shaking around in trying to get the runner off of him before she could get the chance to insert the key into the keyhole that could unlock the collar. Although she was starting get sick by just how much The Big Daddy was moving around, she managed to pull the key she has out, from her view there was a small green light bulb indicating that the collar that was controlling the Big Daddy's mind was active.
Dr. Harred saw what Faith was holding and his eyes widen, "What is she...that couldn't be, could it?!" The scientist man thought, he then yelled at the Big Daddy, "MB5, remove and immobilize Subject Number 12 at once!"
The Big Daddy growled and reached his hand out behind his back, just when Faith inserted the key, she felt her arm being grabbed by a huge hand, the strength from it was incredible and Faith couldn't help but yelp when it almost felt like her arm could be crushed at any moment.
The Big Daddy held Faith by her arm and had her facing it and for the first time in her life, Faith was terrified when the Big Daddy's eyes glowed red and roared at her face, the roaring changed to a painful grunt when it felt a sharp pain its shoulder.
"Dammit, let her go!" Desmond said as he deepened his hidden blade into the shoulder, the Big Daddy who was surprised by the attack, instinctively letting go of Faith's arm and was now reaching for Desmond.
Desmond held on tight behind the Big Daddy's back as to avoid confronting the very angry of monster, he noticed the small key that was inserted in the keyhole, seeing his opportunity he reached for the key but he was unable to twist it when Big Daddy managed to grab him and threw Desmond off of it.
Desmond who grabbed on to the key accidentally pulled it out of the keyhole of the Big Daddy's collar, "Sh**!" He cursed and landed hard on the floor.
The key then fell out of his grip and to somewhere he didn't get a chance to see before the Big Daddy raised the side of its drill, aiming to hit and not impale, Desmond eyes widen in fear over the oncoming attack but Faith was able to push him out of the way, but that left her in taking the attack instead of Desmond, the only thing that crossed her mind was "This is going to hurt", Faith prepared herself and the impact came and she fled across the room, hitting Desmond as well, Desmond hit the wall on his back and had Faith in front of him, though only enduring a bit of pain, he knows very well that Faith was in a much worse shape than he was.
But before he could check on Faith, he felt the shaky footsteps and looked up to the Big Daddy coming closer to them.
"Oh sh**," Desmond looked to where Dante was only to see the 'demon' sitting with his back on the wall, battered and very much beaten up. "Oh sh**!"
Dr. Harred walked up to them, "It's over," he then looked towards to Alex, "Number 5, be sure to have Number 7 unconscious, break his legs and arms while your at it too," he ordered. The Living Weapon briefly glanced at Dr. Harred and focused his attention back to Dante who had a challenging look on him.
Sh**, Sh**, SH**, I have to do something!" Desmond thought to himself.
"There's nothing you can do," Dr. Harred started as if he was reading Desmond's mind, "And besides, what good can you do, your ability inherited from your ancestors are too far behind in advancement compare to what you had just faced."
Dante pulled Ivory and Ebony out and started firing at Alex but every shot was blocked by Alex's shield and the Living Weapon just kept walking closer to him.
"Look, I don't know who you are or if your working for the Templars or not, but just what the hell are you even doing all of this for?!" Desmond said as he starts to get up but the haunting growl from the Big Daddy in front of him had him stop moving another inch.
"Aah, those Templars," Dr. Harred said, "They've been especially useful in this, though we might need to eradicate them soon, after all, an alliance between certain groups such as The Templars and The Control can only last so long, but in the end only one must come on top."
Alex kept coming closer and Dante kept firing, and just when Alex was about to change his arm into a blade and before could Dante pull out his Rebellion, Elizabeth jumped on Alex's back and that caused Alex to halt his attack and stumbled back and away from Dante.
Dr. Harred had a panic look on him when he saw what was happening, Elizabeth held the small key she managed to find and saw the key hole that was on the collar Alex had around its neck, she quickly inserted the key into the keyhole and twisted it before Dr. Harred could say a command. Alex grabbed Elizabeth's arm but he seized a movements right when a sound of a ding was heard.
Elizabeth could see up close that there was a small green light on the collar and when the sound of a ding was made, the green light died out, and the collar unlocked itself and fell to the floor along with the Living Weapon. Elizabeth let go of Alex and took a step back, she looked up to where Dante is and ran up to him.
Meanwhile, Dr. Harred was in complete panic, "MB5, go to Number 5 and have him be kept down!" the Big Daddy followed his command and went towards Alex, this gave Desmond the chance to get up and bring Faith along with him, pulling her up in which she forced herself to walk but has trouble in walking.
The two were able to meet Elizabeth who was checking up on Dante, "Mr. Dante, are you alright?" Elizabeth asked in concern.
Dante let out a grunt, "Yeah, I'm okay, that bastard just had a lucky shot," He then noticed Desmond who had Faith's arm around him.
"Holy sh**, you holding up okay Red?" Dante asked, Faith gave a nod.
"I'll live," she managed to say.
Desmond saw that the Big Daddy is getting closer to the Alex whose faced down on the ground, "Uh, guys, that thing's getting closer to blade guy over there," everyone looked up to see and just when Dante attempted to force himself to stand up with the thought of getting payback to the Big Daddy and Alex, Elizabeth held her hands up and stopped him.
"It's alright, that man there is going to do the rest for us," she explained. She looked back to where Alex was, ignoring the questioning looks from the other three, since the day she was brought here, she's heard stories of those who were captured here, there were stories about a man with the power to control and become electricity, a soldier in green armor from outer space, and then there were stories of a man who is not only the one saved humanity from near destruction, but was also the same man who nearly sent humanity into extinction, Alex Mercer was that man, if you could even call him that.
Elizabeth watched as The Living Weapon slowly starts to get up, using his arms for support, by the time he was on his knee The Big Daddy was on top of him, it raised its drill and aimed to impale Alex knowing that he would survive it, he brought his drill down, but the attack was halted when Alex, with his head down and his hood hiding his face, raised his arm that formed into a shield, defending himself from the attack.
The Big Daddy raised his drill and brought it down again but Alex managed to dodge it, he was able to get behind the Big Daddy quickly and before the monster could turn around and face his opponent Alex's arm changed again and into a Blade, he jumped on the Big Daddy's back and impaled the creature, the Big Daddy roared in pain but it wasn't as loud as before, due to the immense damaged it had already received, he try to shake Alex off but his movement was slower now.
Alex pulled his blade out and once more he repeated his attack, and by the third time he did it, Alex jumped off, when he landed his legs lost their support and Alex ended up falling to his knees and holding himself up with his hand on floor. The Big Daddy turned but very slowly, he saw Alex and walked towards him with the pacing of a snail, the creature only made halfway closer to Alex before his knees gave out, his arm reaching out for Alex, his mind still under the influence to continue its mission, but it didn't even get the chance to touch Alex before it fell face front(If it even has a face), its haunting whale sounds was heard for a minute before the sound completely died out, along with the lights of its many eyes.
Despite attempting to capture all of them and even injuring some of them, Elizabeth couldn't help but feel sad for the creature, it's mind was under someone's control and thus having it be forced to that person's bidding, it could of been living a normal life wherever-that may be- until the people of The Control came and just made this creature into their servant, not caring that it is a living being. Elizabeth pity the creature, and yet the longer she stared it, she couldn't help but feel like its about to get up and come after her with its drill, she couldn't get rid of this feeling and she didn't know why.
"Alright, looks like we have the advantage," Desmond started, "Now that we got another good guy on our side," he looked at Elizabeth and saw what he did not want to see, a look of unsure."Uh...He is a good guy, right?" Desmond asked. Elizabeth didn't respond for a minute, but when she did, she decided to be honest in her response.
"I actually haven't heard anything about him that's...good."
They watched as Alex slowly rises to his feet, his breathing was heavy and his ears were ringing, he was free from the Control's grasp, he was free to think for himself, to feel emotions for himself, and there were only a few words that can describe how he feels now that he's been set free.
He. Was. Pissed.
Alex's vision was so blurry it was almost blinding, so he activated his Hunter's Vision, five people were in the room, two caught his attention, one was a huge creature with a drill for a hand laying dead on the ground, and the other was the doctor he recognized.
Upon seeing The Living Weapon's collar fallen off, Dr. Harred tried to leave by heading through the open door but Alex reached out to him and entangle him with his Whip Fist, he then started pulling the scientist in.
"Well if it isn't the good doctor himself," Alex said, his sarcasm had a hint of venom in it.
Dr. Harred tried to speak but his voice was cut off by Alex's Whip Fist wrapping around his neck, cutting off his vocals.
"What's the matter? Not even a hello to your old subject?" Alex brought Harred close enough where he placed his foot in the scientist's face, "Well it doesn't matter if you say anything or not, because I know you're going to tell me everything," he let Harred go from his Whip Fist but Alex didn't stop there, he grabbed Harred by the shirt and a pair of hazel colored eyes that had fear in them met with cold blue eyes with the intention to kill, but what Alex said speaks otherwise.
"In a little bit, but right now."
Alex threw Harred across the room and into the wall, his Whip Fist took hold of Harred's foot and started to swing him around, hitting the walls and the floor repeatedly, at one point, he took out his blade, bringing Harred close to him and stabbed Harred deep into his shoulder where the tip of the blade came out the other side, but Alex didn't want to slice Harreds arm off, that part comes later.
No, on second thought, Alex decided to slice off his arm right there.
Elizabeth looked at this in utter horror while the others flinched, such torment seems too much even for people who deserved it like her captors.
"Holy sh**," Desmond said as he watched Alex slice Dr. Harred's arm with ease, Elizabeth couldn't agree more.
"Just what did they do to him?" Elizabeth thought.
Just when Alex was about to slice Dr. Harred's other arm off, someone fired a weapon and shot Mercer in the back of his head, he siezes all attacks and turns around to see who fired the weapon, it wasn't Dante for he didn't have Ebony or Ivory in his hands, but it was a newly came guardsman along with twenty other guardsmen that just came into the room, the shot Alex received instantly healed.
"I don't like getting shot in the head," he said in an annoyed tone.
Elizabeth saw that among the twenty guardsmen, one stood out the most, it was a woman with brown hair that was braided into two, she had green doll like eyes and she wore a maid outfit of all things, but Elizabeth recognized her in an instant, after all, she was one of the first people Elizabeth met when she first arrived in this facility.
"Maria," Elizabeth said in a hushed tone, the woman who looked more like a maid bowed her head slightly, as if greeting an old friend even though Elizabeth's expression spoke otherwise.
"It's nice to see you again, Lady Elizabeth," she then focused her attention to the rest of the party. "I'm very sorry," she said as she bowed, "But I must have all of you in restraints at once, if you resist, it will only make things worse."
Alex walked up, his arms changing into claws, "I have a better idea, how about I kill everyone of you and tear this whole facility apart," he said coldly, Maria looked up to with those expressionless eyes.
"Foster Care," she said, at first Alex didn't know what she was talking about until she said "Since 1989."
Alex felt a sharp pain in his head and his ears were ringing. He grabbed his head in pain and knelt to the floor, flashes of what he thought to be lost memories of him when he was ten years old surround his mind.
The guardsmen saw this as an opportunity to move in, Elizabeth stepped back in shock, "No."
Ten guards surrounded Alex while ten other guards went after Elizabeth and her saviors, "No, we were so close," she thought to herself.
Dante attempted to stand up but finds himself sitting back down, his injuries was worse than he thought, the same goes to Faith whose entire body still felt sore from the attack by the Big Daddy, Desmond made sure to have his hidden blade ready, he wasn't going back to that insane shock therapy, there's no way in hell that he's just going give up without a fight.
Elizabeth looked over to see her rescuers determined faces even though the odds were clear, she looked back at Alex who was now about to have a new collar strapped sound his neck, Elizabeth clenched her fist, "This can't end now," blue sparks began to form around Elizabeth's hands, "I can't allow this to happen."
Maria started walking towards the group, "If you wish to continue to resist, I have no chose but to have you all-" she stopped when she finally noticed the power Elizabeth was beginning to form as the blue sparks in her hands began to grower stronger, everyone looked at her in wary save for Alex who was panting heavily, not realizing what was going on.
"Elizabeth?" Desmond called out, her eyes began to glow slightly and all the guards began to back off and aim their weapons at Elizabeth.
"I won't let you..." The sparks on Elizabeth's hands started to grow more intense, "Take their freedom..." she raises one hand all while everyone looks at her in shock.
"EVER AGAIN!" A bright light filled the home room forcing every guardsmen to shield their eyes, and when the light dim, Elizabeth, Faith, Desmond, Dante, and Alex disappeared.
Ellie and Jack ran back inside the house as soon as gunshots were heard coming from the men in uniforms, Jack shut the door as Ellie ran to get her backpack from the room she slept in.
"Who the f**k are those people!?" Ellie yelled as she tries to find ammo for her pistol, she panicked when she found out that she's all out of ammo from the day she came back from killing that bear yesterday, she also still couldn't find her switchblade, she felt braver when she had it, not to mention that it belonged to her mother once. Jack looked out the window and was able to see who was shooting at John and Uncle, he was shock to see it was soldiers coming.
"Those men, they're from the government," Jack said, not believing what he's seeing. Ellie came back and looked out the window, she then looked at Jack who is in distress.
"I...I don't get it, Pa helped them out, they said they would leave us alone, so why are they after Pa?!"
Ellie looked back at the window. "Looks like these f***ers can't keep a promise," she said, she then heard Abigail coming from the back door, after shutting the door behind her she ran up to Jack and Ellie.
"Jack! Ellie! You two alright?!" Abigail asked. Jack had to snap out of his shock
"We're fine Ma, it's those government men," Jack quickly explained.
"They're like dozens of them out there, John and your Uncle are still outside," Ellie added in, Abigail was in a mixed between shock and furious.
"What is that stupid man doing, thinking he can take them on by himself?!" Abigail fumed, Ellie could see that Abigail had a point, John maybe a good shooter, and who knows what Uncle can do(if he can do anything) but letting two men go against an army is suicide. "You guys have weapons in this house?" Ellie asked.
Jack nodded, "We do, I'll go get them," as soon as Jack left to a different room, Abigail gave Ellie a questioning look.
"You thinking about going out there?" She asked as Ellie crafted something what looked like a can with nails sticking out.
"I'm thinking about saving your husband again and your Uncle, maybe I can get a thanks from that lazy ass," Ellie said, Abigail chuckled.
"I knew there was something I liked about you." As soon as she said that, Jack came back and brought two Winchester Repeater.
"It's pretty big," Jack said, "Can you even handle it?" Ellie held the Winchester with both of her hands, it was similar to a rifle only it has a shorter distance and can fire two shots, after finding a good hold on the weapon she over hears Abigail talking to Jack.
"You are not going out there!" Abigail strictly said.
"But Ma, Pa needs me!" he talked back which became a big mistake as Abigail grabbed Jack's ears and started pulling.
"I'm not letting my son get himself killed again, and don't talk back to your mother!" Ellie did her best to try and hold back a laugh at the scene before her, she forced herself to stop smiling by remembering the dire situation they were in and was ready to head out.
"But why does Ellie get to go? I'm taller!" he pointed at Ellie who was heading out the front door.
"You've been a reckless boy so consider this you being grounded," Abigail looked back up at Ellie with concern, "You sure you want to do this?"
Ellie turned her head to them while holding the door knob, giving both Abigail and Jack a reassuring smile, "No worries, I've been through worse." she said and opened the door, after closing the door behind her, she crouched down and quickly made her way towards the nearest tree that was in front of the Marston's house.
She could hear dozens of horses being ridden by the government soldiers coming, but when she looked around the tree it turns out there were more coming from a distant, "Holy sh**, so many soldiers, all just for one guy?" Ellie said to herself, John Marston must of been one hell of a bandit back then for the government to send in an army. Ellie aimed the Winchester Repeater at one soldier that was coming close to the house and pulled the trigger, the power of the gunshot made Ellie fallback, "Holy sh**, that's got a lot more kicks than what I'm used to," nevertheless, Ellie got back up and aimed the Winchester Repeater again.
When John saw one soldier fall out of the horse he thought it was Uncle who shot at him, but when he sees another soldier being knocked out of his horse and Uncle was shooting at the other way he realizes that they had an extra shooter, John hoped that it wasn't his pig headed son and when he looked over to where the other shooter was he was relieved it wasn't Jack, it was Ellie which didn't make it any better.
"That crazy little..." he muttered to himself, he ducked down behind the wooden cart just in time before he could get shot. "Old man, cover me!" He told Uncle, Uncle looked at him in wonder than saw in the corner of his eye a certain dark red hair girl and immediately understood. As soon as Uncle was able to take down a couple of soldiers with Ellie helping out, John was able to ran up and crouched down to Ellie height.
"And what do you think you're doing out here?" John asked, he stood up and fired at another oncoming soldier then crouched back down to hear Ellie's answer.
"Well since three's a crowd, how about we use that tactic to handle a f**king army!" Ellie aimed her Winchester Repeater and fired, the force once again had Ellie fall back with John there to catch her.
"Not used to that weapon, are you?" John said as if stating the fact, Ellie frowned and reloaded her Winchester Repeater.
"I can managed," Ellie argued.
"Well you're not managing it right," John argued back, he then grabbed the weapon out of Ellie's hand.
"Hey what the-" "Just hear me out, alright," John stopped Ellie from protesting, he gave her the repeater back only this time he was helping her in how to handle it better.
"Now just listen to my instructions, got it?" John said, Ellie stared at John for a moment before nodding.
"Okay, now in your case, you need to stand up just to get a better footing so that you won't end up falling back again," John explained, he and Ellie both got up, "Now, make sure you have the end of the gun at your shoulder, not over it," Ellie followed what John said, this was beginning to remind her of when Joel taught her how to shoot a sniper rifle, "Good, now aim carefully and only fire when they are close enough but not to close just for them to get the chance to shoot you first," as John instructed, Ellie made sure to wait at the right moment to shoot, she closed one eye to have a better view with her other eye and took a deep breath, when one soldier came just close enough and was about to reach for his gun, Ellie fired and the rider fell out of the horse and lay there on the ground dead.
This time she didn't fall back and let out a breath, satisfied of the results, she looked back up at John, "Thanks," she said to him, John tipped his hat slightly.
"My pleasure, now let's get the rest of them," John said, Ellie nodded and both she and John aimed their Winchester Repeater and fired at the oncoming soldiers with John shooting high and over Ellie and Ellie shooting low just because she had no other angle to shoot from.
Ellie, John and Uncle kept the shootout going in order to defend the Marston's home, at one point, the army of soldier on horses changed direction and were now coming from the other way, John had to move at a different location to get a better chance in shooting more riders and so leaving Ellie on her own for now, which she was doing very well, "Joel would of been proud," Ellie thought to herself, "Well, first he would of been like "where the hell have you've been?"" Ellie attempted an impression of Joel.
When no more soldiers were coming, John called out to Ellie and Uncle to come to the house, saying that more is still coming, Ellie paled when she heard that, "Are you serious, what's it going to take to get it through their heads to leave you guys alone?!" Ellie said, John looked just as irritated.
"Well, for them to stop, they got to make sure that I'm dead," John answered grimly, Ellie didn't like the grim he had in his tone, it almost sounded like he was going to give them what they want for his family's sake.
"Well," Ellie started, "I doubt that your wife and Jack would want that," John looked at her.
"So I guess it's either us or them," Ellie said, even if it had just been one day since she met this family, the Marstons weren't bad people, sure they may have done bad things in the past with only Jack as an exception, but they didn't deserve to be shot down for what they did after trying to escape the past and to get the chance to live without that past coming back constantly, these government men were the ones who kept bringing the past back to the Marstons.
"You know, this isn't your fight," John reminded Ellie who just shrugged.
"Yeah, well now it is, you and your family helped me even if I could of been some outlaw, you never really asked that other than the trouble I was in, I really want to repay for you saving me back then too, and you have no idea how...weird the spot I'm in, but I'm still thankful for you trying to help me anyway," Ellie rubbed the back of her neck, feeling flustered. John stared at her for a moment and then chuckled, Ellie looked up at him in confusion.
"What's so funny?" she asked.
"As if you could of been an outlaw," John said, did he just turned deaf to everything Ellie just said?
"Hey you wouldn't know that!" Ellie said, John shrugged.
"No I wouldn't, and I wouldn't just help anybody, even though by some sort of habit I end up meeting basically anybody that's got either some quirk or are just not right in the head, I guess it's in my nature now to help those who can't even help themselves," John said. Ellie was genuinely surprised at the cowboy, when he chooses the right path, he's a pretty decent guy, but whatever road he crossed, no one can deny that he love his family and will do what ever it takes to protect them, that's one other reason for Ellie to help John.
"If you two are done talking, then get your asses over here, here they come!" Uncle yelled out from the porch of the house, Ellie and John looked over to the fields to see that there are indeed more soldiers coming, the two ran up to the porch of the house and by the time they got there, Jack walked out of the house with a Winchester Repeater of his own in his hands, "Pa, Uncle, Ellie, are you guys alright!?" Jack asked in concern, John however was more worried as to why Jack is outside.
"We're fine but Jack you got to get back inside and look after your mother!" John told him but Jack wasn't moving.
"I told Ma that if I didn't help, then you, Uncle and Ellie would of been in trouble, I want to help Pa!" Jack pleaded, John at first didn't like the idea of his son being in danger and was about to order him back inside the house when Ellie called the two out of their discussion.
"Guys, you better take cover, they're getting closer!" Ellie told the Father and Son, John looked over the oncoming army and sighed, they are going to need an extra shooter to fight all of them off, he looked back at Jack.
"Alright, just keep your head down and be careful!" John said to Jack, Jack nodded and crouched beside the fence that was on the porch.
"Here they come," John said, "Get ready!"
When the army of soldiers on horses came close, John, Ellie, Uncle, and Jack started firing and with their decent marksmanship were able to mow down the first row of soldiers, they kept firing as well as ducking to avoid getting shot, Ellie hadn't have her ears ringing from so many loud gunshots since the explosion from the house she and Joel along with some other men occur, but she kept shooting her Winchester Repeater, it was getting chaotic, who knows how many men were shot dead or how many more are still coming, Ellie didn't want to count or even guess, this all just seemed too intense over just one guy with his family, it was getting ridiculous.
Ellie's train of thought stopped when Uncle was shot in the chest.
"UNCLE!" Jack screamed in shock over the old man, Uncle covered the wound with his hand and sat down, his back on the fence. Jack immediately ran over to Uncle's side, Ellie looked to see how fast Uncle was bleeding.
"Oh sh**!" Ellie cussed but still kept firing.
"Ellie!" John called out, "Check on Uncle, I'll handle from here!" Ellie listened to what John said and went to check on Uncle who was getting paler by the minute.
Uncle coughed, "Hey, red head," He called out to Ellie, while Ellie was a little annoyed as to how he doesn't even remember her name, she pushed out all sort of ill thoughts for the wounded old man.
"It's Ellie, and what is it?" She asked him
The old man cough, "I don't know where you...came from exactly, I doubt...that you're even from around here," Ellie's eyes widen as Uncle kept talking, "But, I just...want to say...I may have gotten the wrong impression from you," Ellie's eyes widen even more, is he trying to compliment her?
Oh God, he is dying.
John was able to finish off the last remaining soldier and after he finished, he went over to Uncle, "Uncle," John started but Uncle beat him to it.
"Now don't you start giving me...them sad speeches alright, I ain't giving one neither," Uncle said, John let out a small smile, stubborn until the end he thought.
"Thank you Uncle, for sticking by with us, for the whole family," John said
Uncle's breathing began to slow down, "You got to...take Jack and Abigail...and this girl you got...away from here," with his last remaining strength, he gave John his Winchester Repeater, "Get going, I ain't...telling you twice," and with that said, Uncle fell back, his body went limp and his breathing stopped completely and his eyes lost all sort of life in them.
Ellie got up slowly, absolutely shocked by the sudden death of Uncle, this lazy old man was stubborn until the very end, she can admire that. John stated quiet while Jack was overwhelmed with grief.
"Oh my God, they killed him!" Jack said, "They've killed Uncle!"
John stayed silent for a minute, paying his respects over the old man despite all the time John was irritated by Uncle, he then got up, with Uncle's Repeater in his hand.
"Jack, go get your mother," John said calmly, Jack at first couldn't move due to still being in shock over Uncle's death but he managed to gain his senses and did what John told Jack to do.
Ellie and John were soon alone on the porch, with Uncle lying dead beside them.
"John," Ellie started, John didn't look but he was listening, "I'm...really sorry," she said, John nodded, he started to whisper something to himself, hoping for Ellie not to hear but Ellie's ears were sharp, she was able to catch him saying...
"If this keeps up, they'll be after Jack and Abigail," he whispered to himself sadly, Ellie looked at him strangely, what is he thinking she wondered.
John then told Ellie to stay out on the porch to watch for any more soldiers coming while he gets inside the house to talk with Abigail and Jack. After a minute, John came back with Jack and Abigail who saw what happened to Uncle, Abigail knelt down held Uncle's hand and she began to cry. After a moment of silence, Abigail got back up and soon followed John alongside with Ellie and Jack. John told the three to head for the farm house, but as they were heading towards it, another army of soldiers came.
"John!" Ellie called out, John aimed his weapon and started firing at the soldiers with Ellie shooting by his side, they kept shooting until Jack and Abigail entered to barn house safely, once they were inside, John and Ellie went in as well. Upon entering the barn house, with Goldie Locks the blonde mane horse inside panicking, John closed the large door while Ellie checks on Jack and Ellie.
"You guys holding up okay?" she asked, Abigail and Jack nodded.
"We're fine, don't worry, but what are we going to do now?!" Abigail said. For a moment, John didn't looked back as he stared at the door in thought, when John didn't say a word, Abigail looked at him in concern.
"John?" Abigail said, John turned around and walked up to Goldie Locks.
"We're getting out of here," he said, he had the horse come closer to where Abigail, Jack, and Ellie is and ushered his two family members to get on the horse, they did as John told them to do but Ellie realized that there isn't enough room for John to get on.
"What about you Pa?" Jack asked, Ellie had the same question in her mind.
"Don't worry about me, I'll be fine," was John's answer, however, Ellie didn't look convince.
"What are you going to do?" Ellie asked, when she didn't get an answer, Ellie pulled John by the arm and dragged him away where his family wouldn't here.
"John, just what the hell are you planning to do?" Ellie asked this time in a more strict voice, John had a stern expression on him and was about to tell her to get on the horse as well when Ellie held her hand up.
"Look, I think I got the idea on what you're planning, and I'm not just going to let you do that," Ellie said, "You're not a bad guy, they can't see that but at least I can," John tried to speak but Ellie kept talking, "and if you think you can just go out there and give up, then I might as well stay and help you fight than just let you die," Ellie couldn't help but actually feel attached to John, he was like Joel with only a few differences, it didn't feel right for her to just leave John behind, "So you might as well just get used to it, because I'm not leaving!"
John stared at Ellie for the longest moment while Abigail and Jack can only watch, wondering what the two were whispering about, finally, John sighed, "You really are stubborn," he said.
"I said get used to it," Ellie said back, she then looked around and saw small window near the top of a barn, "Okay, maybe if I get up there, I could get a clear shot and-HEY!" before Ellie could even plan out how to help John, John picked up Ellie and brought it over to where Abigail and Jack is.
"Jack, hold on to Ellie and don't let her go!" he told his son, Jack wasn't expecting that but he did what his father told him to do.
"Hey, let me GO!" Ellie demanded, it was like trying to carry a wildcat, after John gave Ellie to Jack he looked to his son.
"Listen up Jack, I need you take your Mother and Ellie as far away from here as you can," John told his son.
"But Pa-" "Don't worry, I'll be fine," John stopped him, he then looked to his wife as Ellie continues to try and get out of Jack's hold.
"I'll meet up with you and Jack as soon as I can," John felt his heart nearly sink as he said his empty promise, what made it worse was that Abigail believed him.
"You stay out of trouble, you hear?" Abigail said to John who nodded.
"I will," even though no matter how many times he tried to stay out of trouble, trouble always managed to find him, John said his "I love you" as his goodbye and after John kissed Abigail, he slapped the back of the horse and Goldie Locks reacted and started heading out through the opening at the back of the barn.
"Just let me go-John!" Ellie called, John didn't look back, and instead stared at the door for a minute, he walked towards it, opening it only slightly to take a peak on what's outside, over twenty guards were outside, their weapons at hand and aiming at where John is, with a deep breath, and thinking over the memories he had with his family, and also hoping that his family would help Ellie, John Marston, Hero of the Old West, pushed the door open and into his final shootout.
Back with where Ellie, Jack, and Abigail riding on the golden mane horse, heading down a path to who knows where and the sky darkened showing that the sun set not too long ago, Ellie was giving all she got in setting herself free from Jack's arm, "Ellie, please, Pa told me to-ow!" Jack's wounded side got hit by Ellie's elbow.
"I know what he said but you don't have to keep carrying me around like this!" Ellie said back.
"Would you two knock it off, I know that if John was here he would of said the same-" Abigail was cut off when sounds of countless of gunshots were heard, Ellie stopped struggling as Jack and Abigail looked back to the sound.
"Did you hear that," Abigail said, "Jack, turn around, we have to go back and check on John."
Jack didn't argue, he turned the horse around and the three head back to the farm that they were already a mile away, while Jack and Abigail were worried about John and what happened to him, Ellie had a gut feeling on what happened, and she knew she wasn't going to enjoy it once they get closer to the ranch.
They went through the entrance, all the soldiers were gone which is a relief knowing at last that the government finally decided to leave the Marstons alone, but as they got closer to the front of the barn house, Ellie sadly figured out why they left, the government's job was done.
Jack stopped Goldie Locks as he, Abigail and Ellie got off the horse and ran towards the lifeless body of John Marston, utterly saddened by the death of her husband, Abigail fell to her knees and cried, Jack looked shocked, like he couldn't comprehend that his father was lying dead on the ground, he watched as his mother cried and crouched down next to her, gently pulling his mother into his arms.
Ellie could only just stand there and watch, John's body was covered in blood and bullet holes, it was like he was shot down like some kind of wild animal, that thought alone made Ellie feel disgusted by the harsh killing from the government of this world, she was mad at John at first for not letting her stay by him and help him, if she did, maybe she would of saved his life. But after pondering for a bit, she realized that if she would of stayed by John's side and considering the fact at how persistent the government is and willing to have many men be killed just to get to John, she would of been dead too. Ellie felt grateful to John since she can't die knowing that she still has to get back to Joel soon, even by this point Joel must of thought Ellie was dead.
The two remaining family member and Ellie sat there for who knows how long, the sky was filled with dark clouds indicating that it will be raining soon, and when the first rain drop fell and soon more rain drops started to pour, Jack took this as a sign to get inside but not without moving John.
"Ma," Jack said quietly to his mother, she nodded, knowing that they all had to get inside soon.
Abigail wiped away her tears, "I know, I know," she said meekly, she managed to stand up with Jack helping her.
"I can move Pa and Uncle, you just head inside, okay Ma?" Jack said to his mother, Abigail nodded in understanding and started walking towards the house but not before stopping to see Ellie.
"Come on, we should get inside," she said, Ellie can hear in her voice that she was fighting back any more tears.
"I..." Ellie began, "I can help Jack," she felt that she shouldn't intrude since this is something that has to be done with the relative, it's they're personal lose and not hers, but she still wants to help as much as she can.
"Thank you Ellie," Ellie looked towards Jack who spoke, "But, I would appreciate if you let me handle this, please," After hearing his plea, Ellie nodded and backed off. She and Abigail head back inside, and upon entering it, Abigail went to her room without uttering a word, leaving Ellie in the hallway, Ellie too did she went to the spare bedroom and even inside and despite the thunder she heard from outside, Ellie could still hear Abigail crying again from her room.
She walked towards the window to see Jack pulling John out of the rain, the sadness and a little bit of guilt was shown in the young man's face, after Jack took John inside the barn house, Jack heads towards the house and also started pulling Uncle towards the barn.
As Ellie watches, she caught a glimpse of something in Jack's eyes that somewhat startled her but it was also something she would of expect.
A desire for revenge.
Ellie stopped looking after feeling the sickness in her stomach and heads to bed, she lay on her back and stared at the cieling, "How the f**k did I end up in this mess," she said to herself.
"It's strange as to how many have asked how rather than why."
Ellie stood up quickly and reached for her Winchester Repeater she still has when she heard the familiar voice.
"Like John Marston whose a man that ask why rather than accepting the answer why not," Rosalind said to her brother.
"Ask the question why," Rosalind said
"And you shall know the answer to how," Robert finished.
Ellie aimed her weapon at the Lutece twins, "How the f**k did you get in here?!" Ellie demanded an answer.
"You left the door open," Robert answered.
"Unlike the many other doors that are being forced to open and burglarize their home," Rosalind said.
"Taking very important items that are impossible to replace," Robert said.
"What are the chances to find another item that can help hold their homes together so that it would not fall apart?" Rosalind asked, to who Ellie doesn't know.
"My guess is a very slim chance, unless you can break into another home and take in their things to fit into your home," Robert answered.
"But that would make them no better as a thief," Rosalind argued.
"Not unless its thrown away," Robert said. Ellie had enough of this.
"Just shut up would you," Ellie groaned out, "I have no idea what either of you guys are even talking about, just what do you want?"
The twins looked among each other then back Ellie, "What we would like," Robert started.
"Is for you to listen to us," Rosalind finished.
Ellie was still very suspicious about the two and so she still aimed her weapon at them but she told them to talk , and so the twins did their explanation, and with every minute they talked, Ellie lowered her weapon and looked at the two in bafflement.
"What?" Ellie said.
"Allow me to explain it much more simpler," Rosalind offered, "As you may have already know, you are in an entirely different world,"
"And how you got here is because the reason why," Robert joined in, "There are these people they called themselves the Control, and they are after those with outstanding abilities from different worlds, be it either mentally, physically or power in general."
"They're even after us but we're not so easy to catch," Rosalind said, "Even if its only a matter of time."
Ellie watched as Robert rolled his eyes and started to talk as well, "As long as we keep moving, they may never get to us, but they managed to capture and imprisoned those from other worlds and they still are even as we speak."
"They know about you, Ellie, and they know about your immunity to a certain virus," Robert continued, "And they most certainly would of captured you."
"If Elizabeth hadn't sent you into another world right before they would of captured you," Rosalind finished for Robert.
"Elizabeth huh," was all Ellie could say as she thought for a minute, this was too surreal for Ellie to even comprehend, the only thing she got that people are being kidnapped, Ellie's eyes suddenly widen she remembered what happened back at Armadillo, those bandits that were after John were also after Ellie too, it actually made sense now that she thought about it, even though her mind still can't handle the fact that there are literally endless of worlds out there, "Wait, so, they come after whoever they decide?" Ellie asked, before either of the Lutece could answer Ellie spoke in panic, "Then, what about Joel, did they get Joel too?!"
"Not likely," Robert answered.
"Though your friend Joel is an interesting character, they were only after you," Rosalind said, "However, it is possible for them to be after Joel next if they are unable to retrieve you."
"But, I'm the one they're after right, so why would they be after Joel too?" Ellie questioned.
"The Control's action can be unpredictable, even from us," Rosalind explained.
"And that's only due to the fact that they're basically destroying the worlds they keep barging into at this moment," Robert said.
Ellie's head was beginning to hurt, this was just too much and even beyond the point of unbelievable, there's was no mistaking it however, if Ellie's in danger, so is Joel.
"Look, this is all too weird for me to handle," Ellie took a deep breath, "But if Joel's in danger, then tell me what I got to do."
The twins looked satisfied at how Ellie is willing to believe them, but then Ellie spoke up again, "Also, in case we're going somewhere, let me do one more thing."
After Jack covered the corpse of his Father and Uncle, he went back inside completely drenched, he walked towards to his parents-which would be his mother's room now-he peeked inside the room to see his mother was in bed, whether she was asleep or awake he didn't want to bother her unless she absolutely needs it, but right now, Jack wants to be by himself for a moment, he walks to the living room, thinking that Ellie is already asleep in bed, sat on the couch and before he knew it, he drifted into sleep.
When morning came, he felt somebody shrugging his shoulder, opening his eyes he sees his mother sitting right next to him, "Ma," Jack said, Abigail tried her best to put on a smile but sadness was still shown in her expression.
Abigail looked directly into his son's eyes, "I know, how hard your life must of been, because of what your daddy did back then," Abigail started as Jack listen intently, "But I hope that you know, that because he loved you so much, he was willing to die just so that we can be safe," her voice cracked a little but her smile was genuine.
Jack nodded and hugged his mother who hugged him back, "I know Ma," he said, when he pulled back, he noticed that Abigail had something else in her mind.
"Ma, what is it?" Jack asked.
"Ellie left a note," Abigail started, at first Jack didn't know what his mother meant until she explained it clearer when she pulled out a note, "I can't read the stupid thing but my guess, since I haven't seen her around this morning, it's her farewell note"
Jack was surprised to hear that and reached for the note, Abigail stood up, "I'll be making breakfast, in the afternoon, we'll bury your father and uncle, okay?" Jack nodded and Abigail went to the kitchen.
He looked down on the note and started reading.
"Abigail and Jack, I'm sorry for having to leave in a hurry like this, but I'm mostly sorry for what happened to John, he didn't deserve what happened but it happened, and none of us can change that, but I just know that now you guys are going to be okay, thanks for everything, and I'm thanking John too, I honestly don't know if there is such a thing as the afterlife, but getting to know John even if it was just only for a few days, I think there's a good place for him," Jack let out a smile, he never really thought much on religion but it was nice for Ellie to say it just to be considerate, Jack kept reading.
"Thanks again, for all of you trying to help me, but I'll be fine on my own, and if you can do me a favor, can Jack only read this part?" Jack was surprised when he read this part but also let out a chuckle, as if his mother could even read the first sentence.
"Jack, I get the feeling that when your basically old enough, your going after the guys who killed John," Jack again was surprised when he read this part, was it that obvious?
"Well I'm not judging, just don't do it in a hurry, I know your mom would definitely go crazy if you just go now," Jack would agree, he wasn't that stupid, he knew his mother still needs him, and he wasn't just going to abandoned her.
"So, all I'm saying, is that if your planning to go after them and once you find them, leave an extra bullet for me," he read the final sentence that was signed as a goodbye from the dark red hair little girl.
"See ya later- Ellie."
Jack stared at the note for a minute, wondering if Ellie "was" going to be alright, then he folded the letter.
"Well Ellie, once I do find them," Jack said to himself, "I'll be sure to leave more than just one bullet."
This chapter took way too long for me to work with but at least I had fun while I did it, and Schools Out so I got all the time in the world to update as much as I can! :D
Next time on The Last of Hope...
Elizabeth, Dante, Desmond, and Faith managed to escape from the Facility and are now in the unfamiliar yet familiar world alongside with Alex, as they tried to reason with each other-and by that meaning to stop Dante and Alex from trying to kill each other- the five escapees came across a little girl with dark red hair and later will they meet a certain cowboy whose all grown up. Want to know what else happens? Well the only hint I can give you is that we will be meeting someone Dante is very familiar with, want to know who is it? Find out in the next chapter coming soon.
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