'Happy thoughts. No more bad memories of playing Dead Space 3 with Jimmy.' Carly thought. Only this wasn't a video game.
''Boss won't be happy. I lost track of the girl.'' Carly hears someone say.
"Ivory will not stop looking. Keep searching, she cannot have left the building." Another voice said. They sound flat, in one tone and croaky.
One walks past her, stopping before turning around to look at her, raising an arm with some sort of electrical emitter mounted to it, sparks and tiny lightning bolts generating at it's end.
"Identify yourself!" The metal coated skeleton ordered. Carly had no clue about alien or future technology but knew the thing on the metal man's arm was a gun.
''Sam De Santa.'' Carly says, hoping that the metal man believes her. The metal man lowers the gun before relaying the information to his friend.
Outside, Sam and Ivory were stood with about ten metal men.
"Everyone, run!" Sam shouted. Nobody did. Instead, people were getting out their phones, snapping pictures of these metal people.
"Photos with the big metal men, one dollar each." Ivory says, putting down a hat for people to throw dollars in. Of course, the social media, the LifeInvader. Everyone wanting to look cool with a big metal person that moved.
''No, it's a trap! They'll kill you!'' Sam shouts.
''Dear Sam, they won't hurt anyone just like I won't hurt little Carly.'' Ivory says.
'Bullshit!' Sam thought.
Meanwhile, inside Two W.
"Well, where do I start? I ran the Space Docker across the country, took on a hundred cops at once, destroyed most of the A.O.D, died and came back, killed the one who raped me... need I go on?" Carly says to the three metal men in front of her.
"This is not proof, we demand proof!" A metal man says. The space between the shaped lips lights up red in time with it's speech.
"How about my reason for recreating the space docker?" Carly asked.
"Explain!" The metal person demanded.
"Well come on, only I know that." Carly says as a fourth metal man approaches.
"Incorrect. You are Carly Klebitz, you are pregnant, Sam is not." The new arrival says.
"God, why don't you ever listen? Look I'm Sam, I am not pregnant and your scanners are broken!" Carly says.
"It's... a boy." The new arrival says, giving Carly a confused look before he fired a small dart from the gun on it's wrist.
"The order was not given." One metal person says.
"Correct." The one that just knocked Carly out replies.
"You are not on the central net!" The other three said.
The new arrival instantly raised its arm, firing at and destroying the three other metal men.
"Correct." The new arrival says before picking Carly up. ''Sorry I had to do that.'' He says before walking off with her in his arms.
''He's okay. Both of you are.'' Carly hears a familiar voice say as she opens her eyes.
''Dave?'' Carly says. Sitting right next to her was recently retired Agent Norton.
"Carly... do you want the bad news or the worse news first?" Dave asked.
''Dave, if the tranquilizer hurt my son...'' Carly says, panicking before Dave gently brushes his hand against her hair.
''He's okay. He's strong, like you.'' Dave says.
''Then what are you talking about?'' Carly asks.
''Ivory's alive.'' Dave says.
Carly went completely pale, snatching her hand away from Dave's when he tries to hold it in an attempt to comfort her.
"But that's not the bad news I was talking about. The president and other leaders have worked out that this rain you re seeing, turns the dead, every single dead human, into those metal beings." Dave explained.
"And the worse news?" Carly asked.
"We're in a cemetery." Dave said. Almost as if on cue, a metal hand shot out of the grave in front of them, grabbing the grass before slowly pulling the metal man out of the ground.
Dave put himself in front of Carly as the metal man approaches them. It's voice was electronic but Carly recognized it.
"You are Dave Norton." Johnny says, his single tone croaky electronic voice not sounding of any emotion.
"Y... yes." Dave replies. Johnny raised his arm.
"You caused trouble for Carly and Michael, you took all glory for the fake death of Townley, you must be destroyed." Johnny says, charging his wrist gun with energy.
''Johnny, no!'' Carly screams. The second Johnny looked at Carly, he stopped charging the gun and lowered it.
''C... Carly?'' Johnny says, the electronic voice fading back into his normal one.
''The emotion blocker that Smith installed isn't working.'' Dave says.
Carly couldn't believe what she was hearing or seeing. She closes her eyes, hoping that it was all just a bad dream.
"Carly, as Dave just said, my emotional inhibitor isn't working. I want you to turn it on. Johnny says. Carly couldn t believe what she was hearing. Johnny just basically asked her to kill him.
''I... I can't.'' Carly says, tears running down her face as she opens her eyes.
''I knew that you wouldn't be able to. Those hormones have messed with your brain.'' They hear and turn around, seeing Ivory.
"Where's Sam?!" Carly demanded.
Above them, Sam was flying a helicopter. She'd been taught the basics by Trevor, now they came to use. Sam checked she had her gun before opening the door, jumping out. She slowed her descent as she reached the cemetery before hitting the ground, knocking the wind out of her and breaking all of her ribs.
''Don't even try it! Just because you're pregnant doesn't mean that I won't shoot you!'' Ivory says, aiming a gun at Carly. "Oh Johnny. You came separate from the net. Maybe I should just end you." Ivory pointed his gun at Johnny, slowly moving his finger towards himself.
The sound of a gun slot being pulled was heard as, against the pain, Sam stood up and pointed her gun at Ivory.
"Choose your enemy well, Sam." Ivory says, dropping his gun.
"Sam, kill him and you could have this army!" Johnny shouted. Sam turned around, the gun aimed at Johnny.
''Sam...'' Carly says.
''Now I remember what I want to give to you... after all, it is your birthday, Carly.'' Ivory says.
In all of the chaos, Carly had forgotten that it was her birthday. Sam lowers the gun, looking at Carly, then at Johnny, Dave and Ivory.
"Happy forgotten birthday, Mrs Klebitz." Ivory says, throwing a wristband to Carly. Ivory was also wearing one. "Metal dears, look at daddy."
Instantly, every metal man turned, looking at Ivory.
"Now raise your right arm. Lower it. Raise your left. Lower your left." Ivory ordered, all metal men following every move.
"Point to the sky, now to the floor. Exits are there, the south, maybe the sky The metal men all pointed simultaneously to the exit gates. You see Carly, a whole army at your command. Struggled with A.O.D? Go and wipe them out! Too many bad guys, go bring the good guys back!" Ivory says.
Carly looks right at Ivory... before tossing the wristband to Sam.
''I don't need them. All I need... is you gone, Ivory.'' Carly says.
"Metal minions, follow auntie's actions!" Sam ordered before pointing her gun back at Ivory, all ten thousand metal men doing the same. Ivory realised that for the first time, with over ten thousand guns pointing at him, it was time to give up.
"Well then give the order." Ivory says, raising his arms to his sides.
Nothing happened.
"You never could, you coward!" Ivory growls.
The guns turned on none other than Carly. None of the metal men could bring themselves to shoot her and lower their guns, infuriating Ivory.
''Traitors!'' Ivory shouts as the metal men once again point their guns at him.
Only one fired.
The one that fired was, like all of them, exactly the same. Sam instantly gave an order into the wristband before taking it off, putting it in her pocket and walking to the one that just shot Ivory.
Ivory had just disintegrated, evaporating into a blue mist before it disappeared. He wasn t coming back ever again.
"Hello. It's okay, I know it's you nan." Sam said. With heavy shock, everyone realised that this metal one was Trevor s mother.
My own granddaughter Maybe there is something left to be happy about in that father of yours. Trevor s mother said before Sam, much to everyone s surprise, moved forward, hugging her.
I never met any other family aside from mum and Trevor. Sam says. Slowly, her nan brings her arms down too.
Carly looks right at them. She didn't really remember meeting Trevor's mother when she was little but Mrs Philips remembered Carly the second she looked at her.
"Is that little Carly?" Mrs Philips asks. Her emotion blocker wasn't working either. At once, Sam got the wristband back from her pocket.
"All units. Disable emotional inhibitors." Sam ordered, all metal men and women following her demand. At once, they were all looking around, wondering what the hell was going on and why they were like they were.
''No! Sam, why?!'' Carly yells, tears falling down her face. She was immediately assuming that Sam killed each and every one of them.
"Carly look at them. They're human again, feeling emotions and looking for their phones to call home. A new race of metal humans. Who knows? Some may never die, some may be accepted back into normal life but all are alive!" Sam says, pointing out to the metal humans, all acting human again.
Carly felt Johnny's hand on her shoulder, beginning to calm down.
"And if we can get to Area 69, where this all started, I can save Johnny here from an eternity inside metal. I'll just have to ask someone to dig up his grave and retrieve his body." Sam says.
''Ok... Okay.'' Carly manages to say, brushing her tears away. She knew that no one else was going to believe this.
Carly felt horrible digging up the grave even though it was to save Johnny so a couple of the restored metal people took over, letting Carly take in and have a break after what just happened.
She kept looking over her shoulder, thinking that Ivory was still there.
He wasn't... and Carly started to calm down. Ivory Smith could never terrorize anyone else again.