In the aftermath of the explosion, Shawn, James, Cassandra and Marcus stumble to shore in the wreckage of the U.S. Cassidy.
Marcus: Somethin tells me you killed it, James. Nice work. Real fuckin nice work.
James: Hey, we still have our heads, hands and feet.....that counts for something.
Shawn: Yeah, running on fumes.
Shawn stands up and talks into radio.
Shawn: Kyle? You there? Jake, speak to me, brother. Where are you guys?
Marcus looks ahead.
Marcus: Uh....guys.....that's not search and rescue!
Marcus points out a Goliath en-route to what's left of the U.S.S Cassidy.
Shawn: C'mon! We gotta move! We need to get to the ship, before that crowd of uglies do!
Elsewhere, on the wasteland beach, Sarah and Caleb stumble upon shore, before noticing the destroyed U.S. Cassidy.
Caleb: Goddamn it...
Sarah: Where's Kyle and Jake?
Caleb: I'm sure they're around here somewhere.....are you alright?
Sarah: I'm fine.....
Sarah notices Pierce, lying face down in the sea water.
Sarah: Pierce!
Sarah and Caleb run over to Pierce and turn him over, only to notice a fatal chest wound that Pierce has inflicted during the crash. Meanwhile, Shawn, James, Cassandra and Marcus look out to the exploding and destroyed U.S. Cassidy.
Shawn: Poor Cassidy. She was beautiful.
Shawn turns his head to notice Kyle and Jake unconscious.
Shawn: Hey, it's them!
Shawn, James, Cassandra and Marcus rush over to aid Kyle and Jake, who is being resuscitated by Cassandra and Marcus. Kyle coughs up water as he is being aided.
Shawn: Cough it out, man! That's it!
Kyle groans.
Kyle: My brother....is he alright?!
Cassandra: C'mon! Jake! Breath, goddamn it!
Jake awakens and coughs.
Jake: Fuck! Oh, god!
Cassandra: He's alive. Thank god.
Kyle talks into his radio.
Kyle: Sarah! Caleb! Respond! Come in! Come on, damn it! Answer me, now!
Sarah talks through Kyle's radio.
Sarah: Kyle, thank god! I'm with Caleb, but I need help with Pierce! He's hurt bad and he won't make it!
Shawn: I heard Pierce. Tell me that's just my concussion.
James: "Pierce"? As in Chairman Pierce?
Kyle: What is this? Repeat an assholes' name day?! Short version; Pierce is back. Hughes is dead and my dad's alive.
Kyle talks into his radio.
Kyle: Sarah, we're coming to get you.
Sarah: Maya and Margaret are helping the wounded ashore. We need someone to help them get the lifeboats in check. They're beached just east of the ship.
Kyle turns to Marcus and Cassandra.
Kyle: You two go help your sisters out.
Cassandra and Marcus depart to help Margaret and Maya tend to the wounded, before suddenly, a small mine that can dig underground pops out and explodes near Kyle, Jake, Shawn and James as Condemned forces attack, initiating a fire fight.
James: Dude, that's disgusting!
Shawn: Those little bastards can dig under cover!
Kyle: C'mon! We gotta get through em!
Kyle, Jake, Shawn and James fight through the Condemned forces to later discover a catapult like machine, where Condemned hold Larry, a former U.S. Cassidy passenger, hostage.
James: Whoa! That's a huge ass catapult!
Jake: What the hell are they doing with Larry?
Larry is hauled into the catapult and brutally constructed down into a human made ball.
James: Fuck! They turn him and anyone else they've captured into a catapult ball. Dude, that is twisted and looked painful!
Shawn: Take em out, before they destroy what's left of the ship!
Kyle, Jake, Shawn and James dispose of the catapult crew, before Kyle uses it.
Kyle: I feel bad we have to use our crews bodies, but.....desperate times.
Using the Catapult, Kyle launches the human balls into the other two Catapult machines, before a Goliath appears.
Jake: Goliath!
After some hits from the catapult, Kyle manages to kill the Goliath, before the four continue.
Kyle: We gotta keep moving, guys! I need Pierce alive!
James: All this shit going on and we're worried about Pierce?
Jake: Pierce knows where our father is.
James: Oh, that's going to be a kick in the head.
Kyle: Save your strength, James. I'm going to need you to decode a message for me.
Elsewhere, Sarah and Caleb are fighting off Condemned forces, before Kyle, Jake, Shawn and James arrive to aid them.
Jake: Damn, that boy's got some balls! We're comin, Caleb!
Caleb laughs.
Caleb: Hey, that Calvary is here!
Working together, Kyle, Jake, Shawn, James, Sarah and Caleb take out the rest of the Condemned forces, before finally tending to the wounded and dying Pierce.
Sarah: Oh, god....anyone have any hemistich dressing? I'm out.
James: Yeah, here.
James hands Sarah a bandage.
Sarah: Jake, help me. Press down here and hold.
Jake presses down onto Pierces' wound, before Sarah speaks to Kyle.
Kyle: How is he?
Sarah: Two or three minutes. A shard sliced his chest cavity open and one lung is broken.
Kyle approaches the dying Pierce.
Kyle: You still alive?
Pierce: I'm still alive, son. So.....is it time to have that talk you promised me?
Kyle: Where the fuck is my goddamn father?
Pierce: The disk....
Pierce coughs up blood.
Pierce: Perseus.
Kyle: And just what the hell is "Perseus"?
James: Fun fact; Perseus is actually the son of Zeus in Greek times. See; he was born from a human mother and—
Jake: James, that's very fascinating, but I don't think Pierce is talking about a fucking half god.
Jake turns to Pierce.
Jake: What is Perseus?
Pierce: It's....it's a research facility....he's been working there...She-she captured it days ago.
Kyle: Who?
Pierce: Mina...
Kyle: Son of a-where is it?
Pierce: It's-
Pierce gives a dying cough.
Kyle: Hey! Hey!
Kyle grabs Pierce.
Kyle: Stay with me!
Kyle backhands Pierce.
James: Whoa! Kyle!
Kyle: Don't you fuckin die on me yet, you bastard! Tell me where it is!
Jake: Kyle....
Sarah: Kyle, come on...
Jake: Look, man. I want to find Dad as much as you do but beating a man that's already dying isn't going to get us anywhere.
Pierce: En-
Kyle: What?
Pierce: Encryption card.
Pierce hands Kyle an encryption card, then laughs.
Kyle: What's so funny?
Pierce: That son of a bitch.....he's....going to be.....angry.
Pierce dies.
Kyle: Pierce?! Pierce?!
Sarah: He's gone.
Sarah closes Pierces' eyes.
Sarah: Maybe, there's something else in your Dad's message. We just need a data reader.
Jake: What son of a bitch was he talking about?
James: Bowers.....the son of a bitch is Bowers.
Kyle: You got something you wanna tell me, James?
James: Look, man. Bowers has been keeping that data disk he stole from Pierce back at Midtown Manhattan. All those fucking months and years I spent trying to crack it and we still didn't have a goddamned clue what we were doing or what was on it. Well, I bet it's the data on Perseus and that encryption card could be our key. We gotta get it to Bowers and crack that encryption.
Sarah: He's at Archly Gate which is a helluva long journey through the wasteland, Kyle.
Shawn: Oh, shit! Hey, guys! We got company!
A large army of Condemned attack as Kyle, Jake, Shawn, James, Sarah and Caleb fight them off, before a few minutes later, Cassandra, Marcus, Maya and Margaret join the fight.
Kyle: I thought I told you guys to help with the lifeboats!
Marcus: they're fine! We thought you guys could use a hand!
Margaret: I'll keep them off us with the sniper!
Jake: Hell yeah! That's what I'm talking about!
Kyle: Alright! Stay low in cover! Hold the line and stand together!
Making a valiant stand against the Condemned horde, the Midtown Manhattan survivors successfully win the battle when suddenly, a Goliath arrives on the battlefield.
Jake: Uh.....
Shawn: Shit! Fall back! Fall back!
The Goliath opens fire on the Midtown Manhattan fighters, forcing them to take cover.
Jake: Now, what?!
James: We don't have any fuckin explosives!
Kyle spots a fuel tank strapped on the Goliath's back.
Kyle: Hey, Jake! Jake!
Jake: What?!
Kyle: Big boy's got a highly explosive fuel tank strapped on its back!
Shawn: Yeah?! You got a plan?!
Kyle: James, you and Cassandra construct an explosive arrow! Aim for its fuel tank!
James: Got it!
James turns to Cassandra.
James: Cassandra, I need an arrow!
Kyle: You two work on that arrow! Sarah! Margaret! Maya! You guys provide us fire from the hills! Everyone else distract it!
Sarah: The hills?! Kyle....
Kyle: Sarah, please.....for the baby and your sakes', please!
A short pause.
Sarah: Alright!
Kyle: Ready? Now!
Jake: Covering fire!
Kyle, Jake, Shawn and Marcus attract the Goliath's gunfire, while Sarah, Margaret and Maya rush to the hills to provide covering fire as James and Cassandra attempt to construct an explosive arrow.
Shawn: I think we're just pissing this thing off!
The Goliath stomps down, knocking down Jake and Marcus.
Kyle: Jake! Marcus!
The Goliath prepares to stomp down, before Shawn manages to get the Goliath's attention as Kyle pushes Jake and Marcus out of the Goliath's foot path.
Marcus: That was too close!
Jake: Thanks, little brother!
James and Cassandra finally construct the explosive arrow.
James: Got it!
Cassandra equips the explosive arrow into the bow, before aiming it at the Goliath.
Cassandra: Kyle, get the Goliath to turn around!
Kyle shoots the Goliath in the face, causing to expose it's fuel tank to Cassandra, who shoots the explosive arrow into the tank, creating an explosion that kills the Goliath.
James: Dude, that was nasty.
Kyle: Alright, let's move out.
Shortly afterwards, Kyle, Jake, Shawn, James, Sarah and Cassandra are overlooking the message from Andrew.
Andrew: Focus on-focus on....
James finally decodes the message.
James: There! Finally got it.
Andrew: Focus on the radioactive fluid counter measure that's all the matters. I've been held prisoner here at Perseus ever since Axel Pierce had me kidnapped. Focus on the radioactive fluid counter measure that's all the matters. I've been held prisoner here at Perseus ever since Axel Pierce had me kidnapped. (repeating) Pierce had me kidnapped. Pierce had me kidnapped.
Kyle: Fucking Pierce! Goddamn him! Hope that cocksucker rots in hell!
Kyle, enraged, smashes the message, disabling it.
Jake: No comment.....
James: So now what?
Kyle: Now we go see Bowers.
Kyle turns to Margaret.
Kyle: Margaret, you and Marcus were raised in Archly Gate, right? What's the quickest route?
Margaret: Across the deadland. It's gonna be hell, but I can get you straight there.
Kyle: Just give us directions, Margaret. You, Cassandra and Sarah stay here with Caleb and Marcus salvage whatever you can from the Cassidy. Help Maya supervise the wounded. James is coming with us.
Sarah: Kyle, we'll catch up when we have everything under control.....I love you.
Kyle: I love you too.
Kyle kisses Sarah, before James hugs Cassandra.
James: Stay safe.
Cassandra: That's my line, genius.
James kisses Cassandra, before Kyle, Jake, Shawn and James depart and begin their journey to Archly Gate.