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Chapter 19 - Maintenance Required

At the shipping yard, in the second docking bay, Kyle, Sarah, Cassandra, Caleb and Woody locate a submarine.

Woody: Well, there's our sub!

Caleb: Damn! Is that it?! I thought we'd have sub the size of a fuckin football field, man.

Woody: But this is the type of sub we need, boy. A larger sub would give away our position and a small one like this could easily get us to Perseus undetected.

Kyle, Sarah, Cassandra and Caleb approach the submarine while Woody climbs on top of the sub to inspect it.

Woody: Don't mind me, darlin. Just lookin over ya to see if you're fit for the job...hmm....

Kyle: Well?

Woody: Kyle, she's in rough shape. She'll need some parts. The damn rotor's cracked....and then she's empty of fuel. She needs both if we're going to have any chance of making it to Perseus.

Cassandra: Time to collect the goods then.

Sarah: So what's first?

Woody: I recommend the fuel first. That way I can get her fueled up by the time y'all get the rotor.

Kyle: Sounds like a plan to me.

In Harriet City, Shawn and James exit the coffee shop and into the city.

James: where is everyone?

Shawn: Fighting each other or Krens.....either way, I don't care. Give us the advantage to sneak out of here alive. C'mon, let's keep moving.

James stops and looks at a billboard poster of "Up".

James: This movie looks...animated...

Shawn: Yeah, this movie came out a couple months before the outbreak.

James: How the hell do you know that? You were just a baby by then. This movie came out in 2009. Two years after you were born.....

Shawn: and in Disney Digital 3D? What the hell is 3D?

James: It's third dimension. How they filmed it is a little hard to explain to a mind like yours.

Shawn: Oh, well, fuck you too.

James: Eh....I try.

Shawn and James climb on top of a damaged bus.

James: There's the bridge.

James: Hey. What are we scavenging for?

James: Gas. Ammo. Weapons. Anything of use.....hopefully, people who want to fight against the Condemned.

James: We should of wrote a list of groceries.

James: Technically speaking, we should have.

Back at the shipping yard, Kyle, Sarah, Cassandra and Caleb locate a giant fuel tank for the submarine, which is on a cargo ship.

Cassandra: I think we've found our fuel.

Kyle: Yeah, but the brow's off a little. We just have to move the brow into position.

Caleb: The what?

Kyle: The brow. That brow's off the entrance of the cargo ship and we have to move it into position.

Caleb: The fuck is the brow?

Kyle: Oh, my god...the ramp. It's the ramp!

Caleb: Dude, just call it a ramp! How hard is that?!

After entering the cargo ship, Kyle uses the cargo ship controls to transfer the fuel to the sub cargo bay. However, a small army of Condemned attack.

Caleb: Shit!

Sarah: Condemned!

Kyle: They're going to blow up the fuel! Take em out!

Kyle, Sarah, Cassandra and Caleb engage in a shoot-out with the Condemned. After a brief gunfight, the Condemned squad is defeated, before Kyle, Sarah, Cassandra and Caleb leave the cargo ship area through a door and into a storage area.

Cassandra: Kyle, are you okay?

Kyle: A few minor cuts, scrapes and burns. Nothing that won't heal.

Cassandra: That's not what I-

Kyle: Yeah, I know what you meant and to answer your question, no. I'm not alright.....and neither are you.

Cassandra: Yeah....we were pretty close too.

A short pause.

Kyle: I'm sorry, Cassandra. I-I know you mean well.

Cassandra: I know...He was there after I lost my Mom.....he kind of reminded me of Blake....we'll keep going.....for him.

After returning to Woody, the fuel is inserted into the submarine as Woody continues his maintenance on the submarine.

Woody: Should have her filled up in no time. Now, all we need is that damned rotor. You know you're looking for right, Kyle?

Kyle: Yeah; big metal round thingy with fan blades? Shouldn't be too hard to find.

After fighting through Condemned, Kyle, Sarah, Cassandra and Caleb manage to locate a rotor.

Caleb: That's a big fucking rotor.

Kyle: Yeah, it's going to take a whole lot of muscle to carry this.

Sarah: Well, there are two bruiting muscle with us.

Kyle and Caleb exchange looks before Sarah and Cassandra smile at each other. Kyle and Caleb carrying the heavy rotor to the cargo bay while Sarah and Cassandra escort the two.

Sarah: You boys doing okay back there?

Kyle: Yeah, yeah...just keep watching our asses.

Caleb: This is fuckin bullshit, dude.

Kyle: Oh, man, please. This ain't nothing compared to the fucking heavy bomb Jake and I carried through that damned Zeus Corps outpost.

Caleb: You mean the same outpost where you found out that the Condemned are the same Zeus Corps and Kronos staff you banished.

A short pause.

Kyle: Yeah...that same outpost.

Cassandra: Caleb....

Caleb: What?! What?! It's true.

After reaching the cargo bay, Kyle and Caleb drop the heavy rotor as Woody approaches the group.

Woody: Yes, that'll do nicely. Should have this installed in a very short time.

Back at the shipping yard, Woody is seen preparing the submarine to descend into the ocean, while Kyle, Sarah, Cassandra and Caleb are checking out the flooding dock, before an armored Condemned Priest launches an attack on the group.

Kyle: Shit!

Sarah: Take cover!

Kyle, Sarah, Cassandra and Caleb engage the Condemned forces as Caleb opens fire on the armored Condemned priest, but the rounds bounce off his armor.

Caleb: Fuck! The rounds bounce off its armor!

Cassandra: Try another strategy!

Caleb: Like what?!

Kyle: Explosives!

Kyle manages to plant a grenade on the armored Condemned priests armor, before it explodes, killing the armored Condemned priest. More Condemned reinforcements pour in as Kyle, Sarah, Cassandra and Caleb continue to fight valiantly.

Kyle: Keep holding them off!

Cassandra: They're pushing everything they got! They really want to stop us from reaching your Dad, Kyle!

Sarah: Gotta be one helluva weapon he's built!

After a long gun battle with the Condemned, Kyle, Sarah, Cassandra and Caleb emerge victorious.

Kyle: Okay, let's flood the dock and then everyone into the sub.

Caleb: Agreed. Let's get the hell out of here.

The group floods the dock, before preparing to enter the submarine. Shawn manages to contact the group, before Sarah answers her radio.

Shawn talks through Sarahs' radio.

Shawn: Kyle! This is Shawn! Does anyone copy? Over. Guys! You out there?

In Harriet City, Shawn picks up his radio. Sarah talks to Shawn through her radio.

Sarah: Sarah to Shawn, over.

Shawn: Shawn here. Thank god. We were starting to worry. What's your status?

Sarah: We've got the submarine.

Shawn: A sub? Shit-sniffer here loves subs, but wait til you here what we found!

Sarah: (sadly) Shawn, please.....I'm not in a mood jokes.

Shawn frowns.

Shawn: Sarah, you okay? Is everything all right? Is everyone else all right?

Marcus turns to Shawn.

Marcus: Shawn! We're about to blow up the building. Come on!

Jenny: Shawn!

Sarah: Yeah, we're all here.....Kyle.....Caleb....Cassandra....Woody.....(hesitantly) Jake....we're all right. We're getting ready to leave now. We're on our way to Perseus. Hopefully, we'll see you there.

Shawn, James, Marcus, Margaret, Jenny and Maya take cover and prepare to blow up the building.

Shawn: Oh, you'll see us...with some back-up too!

At the shipping yard, after the talk, Sarah lets out a big sigh.

Sarah: fuck..... I hate lying to people.....

Cassandra: Don't worry, Sarah. I'll break it to them.

Kyle: No, you won't.....he was my brother. I'll tell them.

Kyle, Sarah, Cassandra, Caleb and Woody enter the submarine as it leaves the docking area. In Harriet City, James presses the detonator as the charges explode, but the building does not fall down.

Shawn: Oh, for fucks sake!

Marcus: You better call Sarah back.

Shawn: Fuck that. You call her back.

Maya: Goddamn it....this is just pointless.

James looks up and spots a anchor on the rooftop and in front of the carrier, steep buildings.

James: Okay....new plan.

Shawn, James, Marcus, Margaret, Jenny and Maya travel to the rooftop, leading to a restaurant.

Jenny: James, what the hell are we doing up here?

James: We need to find a gasline....cut through the restaurant.

Shawn: I hope you know what you're doing, shit-sniffer.

James: When have I not?

Shawn: Is that a trick question?

Shawn, James, Marcus, Margaret, Jenny and Maya cut through the restaurant and manage to make it to a cable car station with the gas line. James grabs a grenade as Shawn grabs his arm.

Shawn: Do you have any idea what you're doing?

James: No, not really.

James runs to another entrance, before he ushers everyone else over to the cables.

James: Alright, come on! Let's go!

Maya: What?!

Margaret: Are you fucking insane?

Shawn: Finally getting over your fear of heights, huh?

James: No....just desperate times call for desperate measures...

Shawn: Well, shit....

Jenny: Hey, do or die, right? 

James tosses the grenade, before he, Shawn, Marcus, Margaret and Maya use a cable car to slide down. The explosion destroys the building that the U.S. Carrier is on, causing it to the topple onto the steep building as it slides down into the ocean flooded ocean. 

Marcus: Hell yeah! Look at her go!

Shawn, James, Marcus, Margaret, Jenny and Maya jump down onto the building.

James: Okay, who knows how to steer a ship?

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