Hello everyone!
I am back with the alternate ending to Vault Warriors and Silent Soldiers. I just appreciate all the support you people have given me for the past few months, giving me advice, reviews, suggestions, etc.
Before I continue with the story, I will address something with this chapter:
1. This will NOT BE CANNON with the original story.
2. This will have other characters from other universes
3. This will NOT be a full rewrite. It will only contain select scenes from the Finale chapter (kind of like a blooper reel).
If you want to understand the true ending, please read the previous chapter before reading this one.
Anyways, on with the story!
Lilith
Handsome Jack's Makeshift base
Lilith ran down each corridor with relative swiftness, keeping her eyes peeled for Jack's minions. She stopped at an intersection and scanned the two hallways presented before her. One had a simple look, but seemed to lead into the base, while the other looked very bloody and debris-filled. However, it seemed to lead to the outside world.
'Too classic, Jack' Lilith thought boringly.
A loud banging on a door ended her thoughts. She turned around to find a door in the corridor from which she had just emerged. It seemed to be the same color as the wall of the corridor, a stupid option by Lilith's standards. She approached the door as another barrage of knocks echoed down the hall.
She decided to have some fun.
"What's the password." she mused, deepening her voice in attempt to disguise her voice.
"Password?" a voice piped up from the other side, "What password?"
"Password! They gave it out at the staff meeting fifteen minutes ago!"
"Meeting? What meeting? I was in here taking a nap!"
"Not supposed to let anyone out without it."
"If I wasn't at the meeting, how am I supposed to know the fucking password? Open up! I need ammo and there's a psycho in here!"
She paused for a second, "Does it know the password?"
"IT WASN'T AT THE MEETING EITHER!" the person yelled.
'Ok, time to split.' Lilith thought quickly as the owner of the voice began pounding on the door once more.
Lilith
Uplift Reserve Plaza
"It ends here, Jack. Give up." Lilith commanded to the former militaristic tyrant.
He stood menacingly in front of Lilith, probably plotting something. The Rook and his friends all stood around, aiming their weapons at Jack, along with Maya and Brick.
Jack began to chuckle and said, "Oh, you think that I'm done. You think that I will just flop over and die. No, I will not go silently into the abyss of death. I have made my legacy known, and I will not allow that legacy to diminish. For I AM THE GOD DAMN HERO AND YOU ARE THE BANDIT!"
He spun on his heels and a bright blue pulse emerged from his wrist, knocking everyone on their asses. Out of his coat, he produced a remote that Lilith could not see from her point of view.
"Now, you will be punished for the fate of my daughter, and I will see it through."
He pressed a button on the device and a bright, green portal appeared in behind Jack. However, nothing would prepare Lilith for what happened next. As Jack's face morphed into a spark of pride, an orange-armored solder flew out of the portal, squishing Jack in an instant. Lilith was stuck in between emotions of laughter and absolute horror. Laughter in the fact that Jack got squashed by his own plan, and horrified in the quickness that the event happened.
The two figures on the ground in front of Lilith struggled for a minute before Jack successfully pushed the orange person off him. The orange figure had much larger armor compared to anyone else in the area, a golden visor, and a…
…traffic cone?
Lilith almost couldn't contain her laughter.
"Whoa, where am I?" the orange guy asked. "Does anyone have Oreos?"
Nobody could answer him as another figure came crashing into the orange figure. The orange one stumbled once more to the ground, while the new figure landed with relative grace. This figure had the same type of armor as the orange one, but it was black instead of orange, and had a shotgun in it's hands. The black figure scanned left and right before a third portal opened. As it glowed, the black figure swung the shotgun, golf-club style, into the orange one's groin. The orange one flew through the portal with incredible speed, faster than Lilith's eyes could track. The black figure then gave one last glance of the area before following the orange figure through the portal.
Nobody spoke for a solid few minutes as everyone attempted to gather his or her bearings.
"Did anyone else just…" Maya began.
"Yea…" Rook answered for her.
Everyone got to their feet and gazed around. Nobody was even sure if this was a dream or real life anymore.
"Uh… Where were we?" Jack asked calmly.
"We are the bandits and you are the hero." Lilith answered.
"Oh, right." Jack replied sheepishly before clearing his throat.
"Alas, I am the hero, and you are the bandit." Jack said, not putting much effort into his statement.
He pressed a button on his remote and the ground began to rumble. Jack smiled in glee as everyone else looked around fearfully.
"What's going-" Rook questioned before he was cut off by an earsplitting crackle.
A bright orange portal sprang in the sky, and the one other thing that Lilith did not want to see at the time appeared in the New Mombasa skyline above: Helios.
"AT LAST! I HAVE THE TRUE POWER TO ELIMINATE THE EVIL THAT CLAIMS MY LIFE!" Jack exclaimed.
"Uh, I don't think that using that is a good idea." Buck called.
"Oh and why not." Jack sarcastically called.
"Because there is an entire Covenant fleet in orbit, each ship capable of turning dirt to hot glass." Buck casually called back.
"Wait, what?"
Jack did not get his answer as another ear-splitting thunderclap echoed across the sky. Five, bulbous Covenant ships entered Lilith's vision above the sky next to Helios. All across the ships, Lilith could spot various blue glows as balls of plasma were hurdled at the station.
"Lilith, get into the Phantom, NOW!" Rook yelled over all the commotion.
Lilith did not need to be told twice. She booked it toward the Phantom drop ship, firing wildly back at Jack so he would not follow. Luckily, he was not paying attention as a shot from Lilith's rifle hit him in the leg.
Lilith could hear Jack scream in agony as she ran, the Phantom increasing in size as she approached its underside gravity lift. Stepping in the lift, she felt a brief moment of nausea as she ascended into the ship. Landing in the troop bay, she could tell that it wasn't going to be a comfortable ride; Brick was practically slouching under the ship's low roof.
"Ok Mickey, get us out of here!" Buck called up to the drop ship's pilot.
"On it Gunny!" he called back.
Lilith
Orbital Station above Earth
1 month later
"Hey Rook?" Lilith called to the former silent solder.
He turned to face her, "What do you need? I don't have much time to talk; I have to be at the debriefing in a minute."
She ran a hand through her short, red hair. "Maya found a way for us to return home, I just want to say goodbye before we leave."
"Oh." he replied. "Well, I guess this will be the last time we will see each other then, huh?"
"Yea."
He reached into his pocket and produced a silent pistol like the one she had been given all those days ago, "Here, I want to keep this. You deserved it."
She took the pistol gingerly in her hands and examined it, it looked like the normal version she was given on the street but had a slightly cleaner finish to it.
"Thanks." she replied as she holstered the weapon.
To be entirely honest, she didn't really need the pistol. She already had the BR55 rifle she took from Jack's makeshift armory. However, she did not want to be rude.
Rook turned to leave, but then, "Hey!"
She decided to run up to him to perform her next action: she kissed the solder. She could not remember much from it, but she did remember the surprised look on his face as her lips planted on his.
After a few minutes, she backed away and strolled toward her comrades.
"You ready to go?" Maya asked.
Lilith turned one more time to find Rook walking away before replying, "Yea, let's get home."
Thank you guys for reading and enjoying my content. In addition, with the power of the beard of the red-haired engineer from the Polar Express, I would like to wish everyone a very, merry Christmas and a happy New Year.
See you guys later!
RNG OUT!