Chapter 26 Snitch

Max

April 22, 2014

8:15 PM

Portland, Oregon

Paramount Hotel

Our mission was a bust. Chloe and I took a cab back to the hotel to change clothes and meet Joyce and David there. As well as Rachel and Frank in the parking garage. I still couldn't believe they did that to Alyssa. First I save her from a football being thrown at her, then toilet paper, then a puddle splashed from a passing car, then from falling into a pool at the Vortex Club party, then from a platform during the storm if that ever happened, and now from taking bullet at the expo. Such irony between me and her. I really must be her everyday hero like I am to everyone else.

We got back to the hotel and changed clothes before our meeting in the garage. I changed back to my hipster being and Chloe changed back to her rebellious-ware. The two of us exit the hotel and straight to our meeting destination with Frank and Rachel.

"I can't believe we let those commie assholes get away with this," said Chloe. "We just walks right up there like idiots thinking it'll be cakewalk, but it wasn't. Wasn't it?"

"We knew it wouldn't be a cakewalk from the start, Chloe," I said. "That Ranikov bastard and his Neo-Chrysalis troopers only made matters worse. There was nothing else we could've done. We're just lucky it didn't cost Alyssa's life. That way I wouldn't have another bullet plunged corpse on my conscience. Like what happened with Frank that one time before I rewound."

"And your also luck my bullet riddled corpse isn't on your conscience either. Hope you didn't have to rewind to stop that from happening."

"Only my time shield, Chloe. Nothing more. Still don't believe what they did with Dr. Sorenson. I first met him in Crosby's office during my first visit to HQ. He seemed like a decent man. You first saw him back at the trial when he took the stand. Don't believe they killed him in front of everyone. Can't imagine what Blackwell has to go through with their spoiled field trip."

"Let's just get up to the garage to meet with Rachel and Frank. I'm already exhausted with this shit."

We walk out way up to the third lot of the parking garage using the stairs. That's were we were supposed to meet with Rachel and her boyfriend. When we got up to the third floor and started walking through rows of parked vehicles, Rachel and Frank were nowhere to be seen. Unless we got here first and they were late. Something about this was feeling hinky. We didn't even see Frank's RV in the lot. Even if we had, they'd be standing somewhere by there mobile vehicle. Which they weren't. Were left on our own now.

"Great, there not here," said Chloe. "We just barely made it out of a massacre alive and they don't even arrive first. How typical."

"Let's wait for them, Chloe," I say. "They'll be here eventually."

Before talking another step in the garage, we see a car turning over a corner with it's headlights on shining towards us. The both of us freeze frame as the vehicle a approaches. Now something didn't feel right. The headlights on the slowly approaching car was an insignia of a trap we may have just walks right into. My heart was now racing. It was happening again, wasn't it? I can't move. We just stand there waiting for what was about to happen next as the lights on the car were lit on us.

"Chloe, stay behind me," I tell her.

Suddenly, a van rapidly backed out behind us. We both gasp while the other vehicle rushed it's was out of the lot blocking our path. We were now trapped between two vehicles. Then suddenly, goons with mask hop out of the sliding door from the van, seize us by the arms, and cover our mouths with white toxic rags. I struggle and whimper though an awfully sweet smell on the rag. Chloe does the same.

I raise my hand to rewind, but my powers malfunction. I now realize that I'm being drugged with chloroform. I'm going down in the same state I was when Jefferson had drugged me. We were both being kidnapped by Neo-Chrysalis bastards. I could see Chloe struggling against her chloroform uselessly. My body was now faltering against my attacker. My vision and hear goes dim and eventually my whole body goes limp as I'm completely knocked out. Then Chloe gets knocked unconscious too and were both thrown inside the van. Taken away successfully by our kidnappers.

A bald headed man in a dark leather suit and shades sits on a desk at a Neo-Chrysalis outpost. On the desk in front of him are evidence of his action that involve him and between Chloe and I alone. The evidence on the desk is the butterfly photo I had torn on that cliff side, a dark room binder of Rachel, all the evidence collected against Prescott and Neo-Chrysalis, and so much more. The man was revealed to be none other than my once trusted father figured I should've never have gone willing. Derrick Crosby.

It was him. All this time since the week of the storm until now, Mr. Crosby was all behind everything. The dark room, the storm, the end of time, everything. Crosby picked up the torn butterfly photo with his gloved fingers to look at. He had thought back to when he first found it in Arcadia Bay.

Crosby walked down the street of the derelict Arcadia Bay and saw a torn photo on the ground. He picked it to see is was a photo of the butterfly spirit that gave me the power of the butterfly effect. He thought back to when we first met in the principle's office and when he showed me the torn Polaroid in my dorm room.

Crosby burnt the torn Polaroid into a tin garbage can of dumpster fire. Where he would burn the rest of the evidence with it. He picked up Rachel's dark room binder and opened it to stare at the pedophilic pictures taken by Mark Jefferson. Crosby flashed back to his meetings with Jefferson at the Prescott where they had set up the dark room themselves.

Crosby was in the dark room analyzing the place himself with Jefferson. While Jefferson himself had been taking shots of Rachel unconscious. After that, they had shook hands together for their success on the dark room project. In the reality where Jefferson kidnapped me to the dark room and shot Chloe dead in the head, Crosby was there with him when that happened. After injecting me and shooting Chloe, Jefferson stood there overlooking me go limp with my phone light illuminating his face. And Crosby was with him. Standing next to him in light when it all happened.

The man burns the red binder. Burning all of the chiaroscuric pictures of Rachel unconscious into a crispy cream. Then he took hold of the files of Nathan Prescott and all his records of the test they had ran on him for chronon sensitivity. Flashing back to when Nathan had to be dealt with.

Crosby, Jefferson, and Nathan all met in the American Rust junkyard the night I was kidnapped. Jefferson shot Nathan at point blank range without thinking twice. Ending the poor soul for good as Crosby watched him die. Crosby was also there during his funeral. He sat inside his limousine observing the funeral with his binoculars. Pretending to feel bad for the sins of the son. The blood that was on his hands. The man also watch Prescott get arrested by Chrysalis soldiers as he watched him get shoved into a prisoner truck and stared at him through the window from a distance. Prescott stared back angrily as the truck departed. Knowing he had been ratted out by his co-founder of his own company he ran with him.

Like the other two pieces of evidence, Crosby tossed all of Nathan's files into the fire in the tin and cremated them. And then, the man picked up the Project Cyclone disc. The project that was conducted for the storm to wipe Arcadia Bay off the map. He then flashed back to when the storm was unleashed.

There he was. Overwatching the tornado slowly approaching the bay on a hilltop away from town. Embracing the inevitable destruction of my beautiful home town. The terror than had been Crosby's all along. And then, he flashed back to when Chloe and I visit Seattle to see my parents. He sat there in the car he was riding in and was actually controlling the time stutter me and Chloe were stuck in. That's right. Crosby had time powers just like mine too. He was able to unfreeze the stutter we were caught in as well. He raised his hand releasing all the chronon energy to unfreeze time.

And then, he burnt the disc into the trash fire where it belonged. Crosby got a text message from Ranikov on his phone.

Alexei: We have them. On our way.

Derrick: Great. I'll meet you when you deliver them to me.

Alexei: Da. Understood.

Crosby got of his desk, put on his leather trench coat and shades, and walked his up to where the van was to arrive.

The goons in the van restrain our wrists together with duct tape while we lye down next them unconscious from the chloroform they dosed us with. The van approaches the outpost located in the Tillamook forest. Twenty miles from Portland. Neo-Chrysalis had set up an outpost at saw mill in the Tillamook where Crosby was waiting for us. The van parks by the gate to the saw mill where Crosby stands. The mercs toss us out of the van like a bunch of Barbie dolls and we fall on the ground unconscious with our hands tapped together.

And there he was. Like Jefferson, the mentor who has betrayed me. The man who had played me just like Jefferson. The second time in a lifetime I encounter another deceiving mentor of mine. The man in the latex approaches our knocked out bodies while some mercs step out of the van with us. He removes his shades uncover his eyes and revealing the face of betrayal.

Derrick Crosby was the man. The criminal master mind of my setup. The maniac behind the fracture in time. The man behind our snitch and abduction. And now the man ready to set the world on fire and bring about the end of time as we knew it. Prepared to destroy the world. That...he was doing.

Next time on Life is Strange...

I fly in a Chrysalis helicopter with Chloe and some soldiers. Prepared for the battle of Portland. As John Connor say in the Terminator franchise, the fight is not set in the future. It begins here, tonight.

We fight and struggle against Neo-Chrysalis and Fallen from Elysium. Fighting our way to the Chrysalis tower releasing the portal in the sky unleashing Elysium.

During our fight with Crosby, Chloe I get sucked into the portal to Elysium. Now imminently entrapped on the other side.

"Imagine yourself in a frozen forest," said Chronos.

End of Episode 5!

Note: Ha ha ha! I bet you all didn't see that coming now did you?! If any of you were actually suspecting Crosby to be set up as the antagonist in this story, just like Jefferson, good for you. I don't blame you for distrusting the man if you ever did.

Will Max and Chloe stop the end of time? Will they exploit the evil scheme of the now villainous Derrick Crosby and Neo-Chrysalis? Stay tuned on June 1 for the premiere of Call of Duty Quantum Warfare to find *ahem* I'm sorry, I meant Life is Strange Season 2 Episode 6 Frozen Forest. The season finale of my fiction! Whoop whoop!

Yeah, folks. Just for a little head up, Episode 6 will contain more action then ever before in my ficture! Making it the most highly action packed episode with a Call of Duty vibe to it. Everything I've been forshadowing, everything I've been setting up since episode 1 all comes down to this! I've waited so long to do this episode. It's been a year now. I'd like to thank everyone who's been following me on this incredible journey together for holding tight until this point. There's only one episode left that is the finale. The finale will premiere on June 1. I'll be taking a week's break to other things from writing. Until then, enjoy the last episode when it premiere's the first of June. It's gonna be epic y'all! Eeee!

Until next time, keep the hype train rolling and stay golden!

You Are A Memory - Message To Bears

Life is Strange After the Storm

Episode 5 Project Elysium

Voice Cast

Max Caulfield... ...Hannah Telle

Chloe Price... ...Ashly Burch

Rachel Amber... ...Erin Yvette

Warren Graham... ...Carlos Luna

Nathan Prescott... ...Nik Shriner

Kate Marsh... ...Dayeanne Hutton

Victoria Chase... ...Dani Knights

Joyce Price... ...Cissy Jones

David Madsen... ...Don McManus

Vanessa Caulfield... ...Misty Lee

Ryan Caulfield... ...Adam Harrington

Frank Bowers... ...Daniel Bonjour

Mark Jefferson... ...Derek Phillips

Derrick Crosby... ...Peter Jessop

Sean Prescott... ...Keith Szarabajka

Raymond Wells... ...Eric Morgan Stuart

Clayton Cage... ...Chris Fries

Kristine Prescott... ...Laura Bailey

Sebian Sorenson... ...Dwight Schultz

Michelle Grant... ...PaSean Wilson

Judge Gareth... ...Stephen Russell

Alexei Ranikov... ...Keyth Farley

Chronos... ...Keith Szarabajka

Written and Edited by

WickDaLine

Based on the Characters by

Christian Divine

Music by

Jonathan Morali

Soundtrack

Fire in the Flood - Vance Joy

My Number - Foals

Wake Me Up - Avicii

Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes

Walls - Anadel

Black Balloons - Local Natives

To the Top - Twin Shadow

You Are A Memory - Message To Bears

Special Thanks

Dontnod

Michel Koch

Luc Baghadoust

Christian Divine

Hannah Telle

Ashly Burch

Xemtlenc

tur1823

and you!

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