12:42:04, back at the Tour Bus, Snowden, Nick, Jake and Coach had to come out and assist Francis and Rochelle kill the large horde. Once the shooting is done, the Army Ranger gets jittery because the Left 4 Dead 3 Survivors have not returned yet.
Snowden: Come on, come on, come on. Please come out of that blizzard all present and accounted for.
Jake: I don't see or hear anymore zombies in the park. What's taking them so long?
Snowden: I swear to God, Marc, you better have not left them to fend for themselves.
Coach: Easy, Matthew. Try to have an open mind. Maybe Marc isn't as bad as you think.
Snowden: *sighs* Hope you're right, but I think there's only one way to find out for sure. Team, if we don't come back in fifteen minutes, don't wait around, drive straight to Southwest Waterfront Park and get the hell out of here.
Francis: Wait, we ca—
Snowden: That's an order, Francis, guys. Be free, be safe.
Despite his teammates being left speechless by the order, Snowden proceeds to Floral Park in search of Keith, Charmaine, Marc and Vel. However, it turns out the CEDA PR Head and the Actress were just about to leave with their Chinese friends when the Army Ranger started calling out.
Vel: Shit! It's Snowden.
Marc: Stay calm and get on top of the mobile command center, I'll take care of this. Major, I need you to help her up and your men to come with me discreetly.
Foreign Hostile 4: Will do, Marc. (Chinese) The four of you, go with Marc, quietly.
So Marc, Vel and the foreign hostiles devise a plan to kill or capture him.
Snowden: KEITH! CHARMAINE! MARC! VEL! CALL OUT!
Marc: Over here, Snow'! Come on. Where are the others?
Snowden: I hoped you would know.
Marc: Wha— What do you mean?
Snowden: I don't see Keith, Charmaine and Vel with you, so I hoped you'd know where they are.
Marc: Shit, right. We got separated and last I heard of them were screams. I don't think they made it. Sorry man, I know you and Charmaine were close.
Snowden: Any idea where their remains could be?
Marc: Does it matter? They're dead.
Snowden: If they are, we can't just leave their bodies there. I can't.
Marc: They're probably minced meat at this point. And why are you standing far away from me anyway?
Snowden: Wh— How does that matter? I'll do you one better. Why are you more jittery than usual?
Marc: *stammering* Come on, man. You already know why I get so nervous. H— How long have we known each other?
Snowden: Not. Long. Enough. Now, where is Keith, Charmaine and Vel?
Marc: VEL KI—
[Bullpup Rifle fire]
Marc: Ahhh! Argh!
[Sniper Rifle fire]
Snowden: Argh!
The moment Marc tried to call out Vel to probably kill Keith and Charmaine, Snowden quickdrew him with his Bullpup Rifle. In response, the Chinese Major double-taps him in the chest.
Foreign Hostile 4: Are you hurt?
Marc: Close but not close enough, thanks to your vest.
[Bullpup Rifle fire]
[Stealth Pistol fire]
Snowden: Ah!
Marc: Shit! KILL HIM! KILL THEM! KILL THEM ALL!
[Silenced Submachine Gun fire]
[Pump Shotgun fire]
Foreign Hostile 4: RUUUN!
[Sniper Rifle fire]
Marc: VEL, SCREW THE AMBUSH! YOU DON'T HAVE A CHANCE! GET OUTTA THERE BEFORE THEY KILL YOU TOO!
Vel: OKAY, I'M MOVING!
A foreign hostile with an AK-47 tries to finish off the Army Ranger but he ends up getting shot in the leg and then the head. In response, Marc returns fire and tells the rest of his Chinese friends to kill Snowden and the others in the Tour Bus.
Luckily, Nick, Francis and Jake disobeyed orders and saved their team leader from the enemy backup. After taking his Stim Shot, the Army Ranger quickly gives the situation.
Nick: What the hell happened?!
Snowden: Marc and Vel have made a deal with the God damn Devil! I think they have Keith and Charmaine hostage!
Francis: Shit! What do we do, Captain America?!
Snowden: We go after them! They could lead us to them! Stay behind me!
[Scout Rifle fire]
Jake: Got him!
Nick: We got your back!
Francis: And we're not leaving without them!
Together, they follow Marc and the Chinese Major to the CEDA mobile command center. Where Keith is about to be tortured and Charmaine is about to be raped.
Foreign Hostile 5: Your friends told me you are quite an exotic British slut.
Keith: LET GO OF HER!
Foreign Hostile 6: Ah, ah, ah. One wrong move and you will be gutted, white trash.
Charmaine: LEAVE HIM ALONE, YOU VILE BASTARD!
Foreign Hostile 5: If you want to save your inbred friend, open wide.
[door opening]
Foreign Hostile 6: (Chinese) Shit.
What the foreign hostiles did not expect is Snowden surviving the planned ambush with reinforcements of his own and opening the trailer from the outside. So they hold the Team Leader Mechanic and the Police Sergeant in headlocks, but the Army Ranger successfully dispatches them.
Foreign Hostile 5: GET BACK! I SAY AG—
[Bullpup Rifle fire]
Charmaine: SNOWDEN! GUYS!
Snowden: I got Charmaine. Francis, help Keith.
Francis: On it.
Snowden: Did they hurt you two?
Charmaine: No, you made it just in time. Okay, we got our guns but they took our supplies.
Snowden: We got spares back in the Tour Bus, don't worry. Now stay behind us, we're leaving.
Keith: Ready.
After some escorting without anymore resistance, Keith and Charmaine are saved.
Snowden: Jake, get back on the wheel and get us to Southwest Waterfront Park fast!
Jake: You got it!
Snowden: Everyone, listen up! As of right now, Marc and Vel are no longer our friends. They've made a deal with the Devil and tried to kill us.
Charmaine: Chinese devils, in fact.
Snowden: You recognized them?
Charmaine: Every since I saw their faces and heard their voices. I conducted patrols near a Chinese neighborhood in London.
Zoey: So Marc and Vel are with the Chinese?
Snowden: That's right.
Coach: Oh, no. Hey, I'm sorry I tried to remove your doubts about Marc.
Snowden: It's not your fault, Coach. There's no way you could've known. Alright, remember, if you see Marc, Vel, or well-trained, heavily-armed men in vests and dark hoodies, don't hesitate. Kill them.
13:45:12, now less than a mile away from Southwest Waterfront Park, Snowden spots a cruise ship docked in The Wharf with lots of movement. With that, he tells Jake to hide the Tour Bus behind the tallest building that is just a street away from the docks.
Snowden: That's a lot of movement for a cruise ship in a zombie apocalypse.
Jake: I got a bad feeling about this. What do we do?
Snowden: *points* Drive behind that tall building, the one with the claw marks.
Jake: You sure?
Snowden: If the people in the ship are who we think they are and are expecting company, this could be the last place they'd go looking.
Jake: Okay.
As much as he does not want to, he has to know what is going on by reconning the boat from the tallest building. But the rest of the survivors understand and support him all the way.
Snowden: I hate to stop here because our enemies could be right around the corner, but... but...
Charmaine: Hey, it's okay. We know what has to be done. Besides, if someone doesn't piece it together, who will? We're right behind you, Captain America.
Zoey: Go get 'em, Captain America.
Coach: Hell yeah, Captain America!
Jake: Let's do it, Captain America!
Nick: We got your back, Captain America.
Snowden: *smiles* *sniffles* Thank you, ladies, gentlemen. Okay, okay. *controls breathing* Nick, Charmaine, Jake, you come with me. We're taking the rooftop of this building to get a better look at that cruise ship. I think I spotted movement there. The rest of you, stay here and guard our ride. Anyone can take whatever position they want. Just keep the engine running.
Upon reaching the rooftop of the tallest building, Snowden, Nick, Charmaine and Jake learn that it used to be a safe house. Aside from the breached safe room door, they also find dead, badly eviscerated U.S. Special Operations personnel, a deceased hog and huge claw marks.
Charmaine: Oh, no. Do you recognize these troops, Snowden?
Snowden: I think. Some look like me, some are in civilian clothes, but all of them have maps, recon equipment and a lot of radios. The only spec ops units I know that have this kind of complexity are the Regimental Reconnaissance Company and the Intelligence Support Activity. Best to assume they're from both.
Nick: Look at that thing. Is that a hog?
Jake: Look at all these claw marks. That Witch must've been super pissed.
Nick: Did you see what a Witch can do? No, Jake, these are not a Witch's work. Could be something worse.
It is not just the carcass of a new Special Infected that they have found. They also find two more sets of drawings of two new zombies, one big and one small.
Snowden: No, f'ing way. Drawings of two more new Specials? "Massive claws." "Highly intelligent."
Charmaine: "Hellhogs." "Great trackers." "Better killers." "Backup for the Hellhounds." Do they mean the zombie dogs you showed me, Matthew?
Snowden: Yeah, your guess could be right Sophia. Let's gather everything.
After collecting the special ops team's sketches, the Army Ranger stumbles upon a perfect view of the cruise ship. Which makes him pull out the Visitor Center's camera and take pictures of it and its inhabitants' activities.
Which include relaxing in spite the situation, fire guard, and the taming and releasing of Common Infected, Uncommon Infected and Special Infected. Then, next to the Army Ranger is a working long-range radio, a U.S. Navy alpha strike, also known as strike package, and an AN/PEQ-1 SOFLAM (Special Operations Forces Laser Acquisition Marker), also known as Ground Laser Target Designator.
Charmaine: Look at all this tech. What are they?
Snowden: Those are some long-range comms. That's a Ground Laser Target Designator, which should come with... *looks around* Yes! A Navy strike package. With all this, we can call in an airstrike on that Green Flu-spreading boat.
Nick: Just what we need.
Jake: How do we do that?
Snowden: We make a call. Any station, this is Oscar-3-Sierra. Do you copy, over?
[static]
Snowden: Any station, this is Oscar-3-Sierra. Do you copy, over?
[static]
Brianna: (flashback) *screams* (echoing) HELP ME, CAPTAIN!!!
Snowden: *gasps* *breathes heavily*
Charmaine: Hey, are you alright?
Snowden: Yeah, yeah, I just gotta control it. *controls breathing* Any station, this is Oscar-3-Sierra! Do you copy, over?!
Papa Gator: Oscar-3-Sierra, this is Papa Gator. Good copy, over.
Nick: HELL YEAH!
Charmaine: YES!
Jake: ALRIGHT!
Snowden: We have a priority fire mission. We've located a foreign cruise ship that is releasing The Green Flu and The Infection onto Washington D.C. Grid coordinates: 38.8771 degrees north, 77.0218 degrees west. We will be lasing. Code 1-2-0, over.
Papa Gator: Roger that, standby.
[three second pause]
[static]
Papa Gator: Jesus Christ, it's the Chinese cruise ship in The Wharf! Oscar-3-Sierra, is there a joint special ops team in your AO (Area of Operations), over?
Snowden: Affirmative, Papa Gator. They're KIA, but I can finish their mission for them. May they rest in peace. Be advised: I will also need an extraction for thirteen civilians in Southwest Waterfront Park. We are all immune and I have the Anti-Carrier Luminal Agents to prove it, over.
Papa Gator: Evac in Southwest Waterfront Park is confirmed. Just get there. Be advised, alpha strike is inbound. TOT (Time on Target): 30 minutes, over.
Snowden: Roger, 30 minutes. Interrogative: Can the airstrike hit the ship any sooner, over?
Papa Gator: Negative, we need to get visual confirmation via Predator before we can call in the strike package. I wish we can hit it right away too, Oscar-3-Sierra. Over.
Snowden: Understood, Papa Gator. I'll do whatever I can to keep the target in The Wharf. Make it a danger close fire mission. Just hit it with everything the F-18s have got. Oscar-3-Sierra, out.
Papa Gator: Affirmative, Oscar-3-Sierra. God be with you. Papa Gator, out.
After turning on and aiming the AN/PEQ-1 SOFLAM at the Chinese cruise ship and regrouping with the others, Snowden gets organized with the weapons, supplies and duffel bags on the roof, the escape plan, everything in his Hazard 4 Switchback, and the reality of the situation.
Charmaine: Snowden, you know that's a one-way trip.
Snowden: We can't take any chances. Someone on the ship will notice that Laser Designator eventually, unless I get their attention first. Hey, don't worry, everything's going to be alright. This is what I signed up for, but you guys didn't. *smiles* *puts right hand on Charmaine's left cheek* Thank you, Charmaine Sophia Langford. Being together was a gift. *gives dog tags to Charmaine*
Charmaine: *cries* You're welcome, Matthew Snowden. Thank you, too. I'll never forget you, even if our time together is short.
Snowden: Life has always been that way. *kisses Charmaine's forehead* Jake, get everyone to Southwest Waterfront Park. You know how close you all are now.
Jake: I won't let you down, Captain Snowden.
Snowden: I know you won't. Nick, if CEDA is around, don't let anyone take this bag or anything in it away until each and every one of you is 100% free and safe.
Nick: You got it, Snow'. And thank you. It's been an honor.
Snowden: Honor's mine, Nick. Everyone, listen up! This long nightmare is almost over. Evac in Southwest Waterfront Park has been confirmed by the U.S. Military. I also called an airstrike on that cruise ship, but someone has to keep it from leaving. And that's gonna be me and me alone. I'm glad I can save all of your lives. Be free, be safe.
Zoey: No wait, Snowden! It doesn't have to be this way. We can do this, together.
Snowden: That's very brave of you, *puts Dark Blue Ops-Core FAST Carbon High Cut Helmet on Zoey* but you don't have to. My mission is you, always has been. *smiles* Jake, move out!
[Tour Bus door closes]
Zoey: NOOOO! SNOWDEN! SNOOWDEEEEN!
Ellis: It's okay, Zoey. He'll be fine.
Zoey: *crying*
After sending the only family he has left away, the Army Ranger returns to the roof to snipe the Chinese Special Forces and Chinese Intelligence guards on the boat with a Barrett M107. Once that is done, he sees two UH-60 Black Hawks with six AH-64D Apache Longbow escorts flying away.
[Barrett M107 fire]
[distant helicopter engine]
Snowden: *smiles* *cries* I love you all. Be free. Be safe. *exhales*
Then he goes straight to The Wharf and subsequently the Chinese cruise ship itself to fight and kill Marc, Vel and their entire zombie army. The CEDA PR Head and the Actress respond in the bulletproof bridge by opening the cargo hold and unleashing the worst The Infection has to offer.