Author's note: I'm finally done with school so woohoo! Went to see Doctor Strange 2, and Top Gun Maverick and got my braces out so I'm working on FanFiction stories now, but I'm doing a few at a time, since I'm working on the farm again and went to a family reunion. Also caught a different strain of COVID in July, but all better now! Also RIP to James Caan and Pat Carrol, you two will be missed so much :( So if anyone wants to know how this story will end (good or bad) please comment in the comment section below so enough of me. Let's start the chapter!

Author's note 2 on 2/26/2023: Just found out that Nate's mom is named Leslie, according to The Complete Big Nate 4, not Sara, sorry about that.

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Chapter 21: The Final Battle - Part 2

In Kansas, a young man is standing by the fence by himself grazing out at the field where the cattle were at, which they were mooing and eating grass, minding their own business. But this man has a word to look on his face, mainly because his brother has not reached out to him as of late. This young man happens to be Luke Matthews who is approximately 20 years old and the younger brother of Holden Matthews.

"Oh, where could he be?" Luke asked himself, wondering where his brother was and very worried, especially about their fallout.

"Hey, believe it or not. Our lives don't revolve around your every move, not that you can get past your own selfishness to realize that," Luke own voice rang in his head over and over on repeat.

Then he looked at his phone which happened to have a voicemail on it. Curious, Luke pressed his voicemail app on his phone, and played the voicemail, and that voice on the voicemail was none other than Holden's.

"Hey Luke it's me Holden. I'm sorry for everything that's happened as of late and this may be the last time I might see you, but I was in California now heading to Maine where PEACE headquarters is at, so listen closely is where their headquarters is at..." the voicemail began.

After the voicemail ended, Luke immediately got on the phone with Jeff McCardle who is now an inactive soldier.

"Hello?" said Jeff on the other end.

"Jeff? Hi it's me, Luke...I know where Holden is."

So Jeff managed to rent a helicopter, and gave Luke a ride and the two went to Maine together.

"Do you know how to get in?" Jeff asked, who has a scar on his right cheek.

"Not sure yet, but I hope he will be okay," Luke replied.

Meanwhile in California...

"How could they have disappeared on me like that?" Martin asked in shock and bewilderment. "Just how could they do that?"

Martin had just recovered from telepathy and searched the entire house for Nate only to find him long gone.

"I told you Nate will stop at nothing to save Ruby and his friends," Francis explained.

"But I told him he's not going and that was that," Martin said.

"So what are you going to do now?" Teddy asked.

Martin thought about this for a moment. Now he was really scared of losing Nate again just like the PS 38 school shooting. He knew what he said to me was pretty cowardly, but he wasn't going to sit out on the sidelines either. Martin shook his head for a bit knowing full well what he's going to have to do now to save his own son. So he did something.

"I made up my mind. I'm going to go out and save my own son," Martin declared.

Everyone in the room cheered.

"Do you want everyone to come with you?" Dee Dee asked. Martin thought about this for a moment. He wasn't sure if everyone could squeeze it into one helicopter.

Then…

"We'll have two helicopters, then yes everyone comes along."

The cheering went a little louder this time.

"Now I need is to find someone to get us there..." Martin thought to himself.

A knock on the door occurred. Martin went over there and open it there was a man standing on the front porch.

"Hello?" the man asked.

"Can I help you?" Martin asked.

"I'm Konstantin Vasiliev. I'm a father figure to Villanelle, is she here?"

"I'm afraid not," Martin frowned. "She and my son left and so did a few other people. Are you here to help?"

Konstantin nodded yes.

"Great," Martin smiled enthusiastically. "Do you mind getting us a helicopter or to please?"

"I certainly will. Do you know where they're at?" Konstantin asked.

"I do," Martin said.

And so Martin and Konstantin rented two helicopter and got pilots to take them to Maine.

While en route, Martin thought of all the memories (both good and bad) of his life and his family. From the day Martin invented the mud bowl. Then the day Ellen was born. Then to Nate was born. Then the day Leslie left him when Ellen and Nate were young. Then the day he nearly lost Nate to the PS38 shooting. Then the day he announced everyone would move to California. Then the day he found out about Villanelle's true identity.

Now Martin was making his way to Maine, extremely worried for Nate.

"Don't worry, Nate. Daddy's coming!"

Nate's eyes slowed opened and closed again. After getting to his senses, Nate looked around as if he is wondering how he got locked in a jail cell with Ruby in the first place. Then the events that happened not that long ago rolled around in his brain and caused him to fall into a deep depression.

Ruby noticed Nate was coming back then moved forward to Nate.

"You okay?" she asked in concern.

Nate shook his head no.

Ruby crawled over to Nate and wrapped her arms around him in a tight hug for comfort.

"It's okay. It's gonna be okay," she whispered soothingly.

"How? How can it be okay...when I'm facing death front and center now?" Nate shook his head again, his voice trembling with disbelief and worry.

"Nate's got a point!" Randy's voice called out from a few cells away.

"Like YOU were ANY help!" Carl's voice was next.

"I was doing my best!"

"Like giving that lackluster apology!"

"Wasn't sure if my apology wouldn't much of a difference, since PEACE would have kept us here either way, since they would think that the VERY thing we'll do is run straight for the authorities!"

"...Good point point to you to," Nate called out to Randy.

It was true. Nate and his friends would've been held here, apology or no. Whilst sitting by himself (with Ruby at his side), Nate begin to muse over the events that happened not that long ago, and now deeply regretting his decision to go, defying his dad's direct orders. Now Nate wondered what may be going through his dad's head, since Nate and the group left for Maine, knowing he'll sound the alarms in Martin's head. What was even MORE heartbreaking was that Nate made a bunch of regrets he wished he could have taken back by this point, such as pushing his friends and Ruby away (even though Dee Dee was to blame for the calm down situation), not standing up and telling the truth when Gina was being dragged away by the principal, and for all the victims that suffered under Gina's wrath when she attacked and murdered many students and staff. None of this would have happened had Nate told the truth the first time around.

Nate silently began to weep for his role in Gina's downfall, and Ruby, seeing her own true love so devastated for what happened up to this point, allowed Nate to bury his face and head into Ruby's chest and let him cry all he wanted. It was game over for everyone until...

Holden thought of what to do next while sitting in a cell with Carl. He kept looking for a way out of their current situation, but no avail. That's when he came up with the idea of time travel.

"Hey Nate! Remember when you brought up time travel?"

"Yeah?" Nate's broken voice called out due to sobbing.

"I think I can transport you back in time in some way or another!"

"Really? Awesome!"

"But I will acknowledge now that I can't any absolute points in time."

"Which ones?"

"Gina's downfall and you moving to California."

Nate winced at the thought of Gina still turning into a supervillain. But would that prevent the PS 38 school shooting? Hopefully that can be changed...

"Is this it?" Martin asked as everyone spotted the PEACE headquarters from afar.

"That's it," Konstantin replied.

And as soon as the helicopters landed, everyone began getting out quickly and quietly, not to be loud and spotted.

"What's the plan?" Teddy asked.

"How we went over it," Francis said quietly.

"Nice to know, Einstein."

"Will they now know we are on to them since we have just landed?" Martin asked to Konstantin.

"They will, and it's only a matter of time before they start-"

BANG!

Before Konstantin can finish his sentence, a gunshot has struck him in the stomach.

"Oh NO! How will we cope?" Dee Dee cried in despair.

"You okay?" Martin asked as he quickly tended to Konstantin and his wound.

"F...find Villanelle...find...your son...S...stop Puh...PEACE..." Konstantin spoke weakly. Then he breathing ceased and his body stopped moving.

"No..." Before Martin could even react, PEACE members were now coming in different directions.

That's when Martin gave the VSHE- the Very Scary Hairy Eyeball.

Then came the fighting.

Gina was preparing to torture Nate by revealing what he did, then will kill him.

All of the sudden, the alarms went off.

"What's going on?" Gina demanded.

"Intruders!" Alfred replied back.

"What?"

Gina pulled up a visual and saw what was happening: Martin and the rest of the gang were fighting with the PEACE members with what they had and what gain from the PEACE members.

"Where's my boy?" Martin demanded in the visual. "Show me to him!"

"We gave orders that no one was brought here but our demanded individuals. You think someone may have followed discreetly?" Alfred asked to Gina in a slight worried tone, seeing some of his members go down.

"Maybe...but I need time so send all you have," she replied.

Alfred nodded and sent more members to kill Martin.

Little did PEACE know that Nate and his friends weren't actually in their cells...

"There's more coming!" Ellen cried out.

"I see them!" Martin responded, knocking down a PEACE member with a gun he snatched a little bit ago.

More PEACE members came pouring out and firing their bullets, but none of them hit the crew as all the bullets stopped midair.

Everyone was confused, but gave Martin the opportunity to fire back, hitting several PEACE members and injuring a few in the process.

Alfre was looking on in shock, seeing all his army suddenly being toppled by very few people they were fighting against.

"Impossible..."

"Gonna go out and fight them?" Gina asked.

"Yes, I will avenge my brother now and you can have your sweet nectar of revenge, and if I don't return, this organization is yours."

"Thank you...thanks for everything," Gina bid farewell sadly as Alfred got his weapon ready and gave a nod back and ran for the door.

"We are gaining the upper hand here!" Martin cried to everybody.

"KEEP GOING!" Ellen cried back.

As Martin took down the last PEACE member, the door flung open.

"DAMN PESTS!" Alfred roared, pulling out his machine gun and began firing insanely to the heroes.

"LOOK OUT!" Chad cried, ducking in the process.

"WHY. WON'T. YOU. DIE?" Alfred roared, loading more bullets, whilst giving Martin the opportunity to attack and a fist fight ensued. Martin and Alfred were on both winning and losing sides of the fight. And Martin was winning by this point.

"YOU WILL NEVER EVER LAY ANOTHER FINGER OVER MY FAMILY AGAIN!" Martin roared giving Alfred quite the punch that would be every bad guy fall to their doom in every action show.

But this caused Martin to suddenly lose his balance and nearly caused HIM to fall to his doom too.

But someone saved him.

"Who was it? WHO WAS IT?" Piggy demanded so hard she ended up breaking the computer screen.

"Great, now we'll never know who saved Martin," Rizzo groaned.

"Don't worry, Rizzo. I'll get a new computer," Kermit replied.

"Good. Because I need a intermission." Rowlf replied.

"And so does Cooper."

Author's note: I made it!...again. Worth every moment getting chapter done. Thanks AppalledWriter for more ideas. I couldn't have done this without you :) Anyway, what's the next chapter going to be for our characters? Review too, it would mean a lot to me. Peace out everyone!