At Archly Gate, Beatrix and Margaret are sneaking around in the trenches to attempt to take down the Condemned catapults, before Beatrix manages to get a lock.
Beatrix: Yeah...we're going to use the nuke launcher. Take all these bastards out with one shot.
Margaret loads up the nuke missile as Beatrix aims at the Condemned catapults.
Beatrix: I need one clean shot.
Just as Beatrix gets a clean shot and prepares to fire, however, an explosive arrow hits the wall behind them.
Margaret: Fuck!
The arrow explodes, knocking Margaret and Beatrix down. As the two women recover, a small Manticore arm attacks, using their tentacles as Margaret and Beatrix narrowly dodge and avoid the tentacles. Margaret manages to enter the trenches, but before Beatrix can, a tentacle crushes her foot. Beatrix grunts in pain.
Margaret: Beatrix!
Beatrix: Go, kid! Run! I'm dead!
Two Manticores then grab Beatrix and rip her in half as Margaret watches in horror, before arming the nuke grenade and tossing it into the trenches. The nuke grenade explodes, killing the attacking Manticores as Margaret escapes, sealing the trench exit to avoid the explosion. In the gates of Archly Gate, Condemned troops begin swarming in and killing most of the A.O.W forces as well as Manticores grabbing and ripping the soldiers apart. At Perseus, Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah enter a hotel lobby.
James: Hey, Kyle....if it's cool, can I ask....ask how...uhm....
Kyle: how the machine's going to work? I thought my Dad told you.
James: No.....Jake.....I just-I'm just curious.
A short pause.
Kyle: He saved our lives.
James: Yeah, but how?
Shawn: James!
James: I'm sorry, but....
Kyle: When we get through this, I'll tell you.
Kyle and Sarah walk ahead as Shawn berates James.
Shawn: Dude, what the fuck? Why'd you ask him that? It's his brother for Christs Sakes'!
James: I'm sorry, dude! Jesus. Don't mean to sound like a dick, but....I'm just curious.
Shawn: Yeah, well, they say curiosity killed the cat.
Shawn walks ahead as James concurs for a moment.
James: Never did get that saying til now.
Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah follow the hotel alley leading to a fancy hotel lobby.
Shawn: Holy fucking shit.
Kyle: Best putting it likely.
Sarah scoffs and laughs in disbelief.
Sarah: Look at this place. All this fancy rich shit.....look at it! I really thought I knew Pierce for the war hero he was. It makes me sick to think he had this fucking billion dollar bunker all these years to himself while we were out there starving, killing each other and dying!
Kyle: But yet, Pierce chose to stay with us, fighting the Condemned....doesn't make sense...
Sarah: Ashley would've been safe here....alive....
Kyle: Yes, she would've.....so could've Jake.....Mitchell....Alexandria....Walter....everyone else we couldn't save out there, but what matters is we not lose ourselves to make sure that we have a future.
Sarah: We could've had a future here....as a family....not just Ashley, but Nathan, Nora, my Dad....maybe they'd still be alive if Pierce had just let us know about all this...maybe not.
A short pause.
Kyle: We still can have a future as a family.....that's what my Dad's doing....making sure we have a future....humanity....and to be honest, I wouldn't want Ashley or Jake living in a poisonous dream like this.....because it didn't last for the people living here.
Sarah: Yeah, I guess you're right.
Aboard the U.S. Wolf, Woody parks the submarine into the docking bay of the ship, before approaching Caleb, Marcus and Cassandra.
Woody: Caleb! Cassandra! You two made it!
Caleb: Woody! Good to see you!
Woody: You too, boy! Where's Kyle and Sarah?!
Cassandra: They're with James and Shawn.....they're going to deploy the weapon.
Aboard the U.S. Wolf, Woody parks the submarine into the docking bay of the ship, before approaching Caleb, Marcus, Jenny and Cassandra.
Jenny: Daddy!
Jenny runs up and hugs Woody, who then turns to Caleb, Marcus and Cassandra.
Woody: Caleb! Cassandra! You two made it!
Caleb: Woody! Good to see you!
Woody: You too, boy! Where's Kyle and Sarah?!
Cassandra: They're with James and Shawn.....they're going to deploy the weapon.
Suddenly,the Krens launch an attack on the U.S. Wolf and the rest of the U.S. Ships withcasualties mounting as Woody, Cassandra, Caleb, Jenny and Marcus along withWolf soldiers engage the Krens forces.
Suddenly, the Krens launch an attack on the U.S Wolf and the rest of the U.S. Ships with casualties mounting as Woody, Cassandra, Caleb, Marcus and Jenny along with Wolf soldiers engage the Krens forces. Back on Perseus, Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah wait for an elevator.
James: So the Doc says we're all infected with this Krens shit?
Sarah: Every living thing on the planet. Radioactive fluid is a parasite. It's alive.
James: You're fuckin kidding me. That explains why the Python virus Dr. Fenix developed spread so fast.....Jesus...Can he really kill it without killing us?
Shawn: Hey, we came all this way for Kyles' dad. How bout showing some faith, boy.
The elevator arrives as Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah enter.
James: Well, at least I completed "getting laid with a beautiful girl and telling my beautiful girlfriend I love her" on my bucket list.
Kyle: James, you're not going to die, man. No one else is going to die.
James: Has he tested this thing out?
Kyle: I don't know, James.
The recording of the Perseus welcome is heard through the radio.
James: How can you be so sure it works?
Kyle: Can we knock it off with the fucking noise?!
James pulls out his pistol and shoots out the elevator radio.
James: So.....faith....got it.
The elevator stops on the top floor of the tower lobby as Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah look up to examine the tower.
Shawn: Damn.....and I thought the old Kronos facility had a high tower, but this, this is goddamned unbelievable.
Suddenly, a Condemned guard with a mortar launcher shoots.
Kyle: Mortars! Move!
Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah manage to avoid the mortars as Condemned forces engage.
Kyle: Professor, we've made it to the tower and we're right now in a firefight.
In his office, Andrew listens to the gunfight outside the tower.
Andrew: I can hear it, son....Mina's tracking you. Watch your ass.
Kyle: She's been on our asses the whole damn way.....
Suddenly, a stray round hits wall behind Kyles' head.
Kyle: Dad, I'm going to have to get back to you.
Avoiding the mortar rounds, Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah fight their way to the tower entrance as Shawn shoots and kills the Condemned guard launching mortars. Shawn attempts to open the tower door entrance.
Shawn: Of course, they locked it.
James: Good thing I fixed Jax.
Shawn: okay, don't get cocky, man. Just get it to fix the fucking door.
Mr. Jax decloaks and attempts to rip the door lock as Krens stalks arrive in the battle.
Sarah: We've got stalks! Jax, rip the door while we hold them off!
Kyle: And fast!
Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah engage the Krens drones emerging from the stalks as well as two Blubbers.
James: Oh, man! More of those fucking fat Krens!
Shawn: James, you got any more explosive arrows?!
James: I don't have enough scrap or explosives.
Kyle: Then we've improvise!
Kyle hops out of cover and slices the throat of a Condemned, using its' corpse as a meat shield, before Shawn does the same to another Condemned. The Blubber attacks both Kyle and Shawn, but only doing minor damage to the dead Condemned as they equip grenades to the dead Condemned and push them towards the Blubbers. Kyle and Shawn duck as the grenades on the Condemned explode, destroying the Blubbers in the process.
Shawn: I can't believe that worked.
Kyle: That's the last of em.
Kyle talks into the radio.
Kyle: Professor, we're on our way up.
Kyle turns to Shawn, James and Sarah.
Kyle: C'mon! Get inside and barricade the doors!
James: Look, if we've all got a Krens cell, isn't the docs' bomb going to affect us too- you know, in fatal matter?
Kyle: What makes you think he would risk that?!
Andrew talks through the radio.
Andrew: It will work. I'm sure of it.....and trust me, Mr. Burton-I have tested my machine.
Mr. Jax rips the front entrance door open as Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah enter.
Kyle: C'mon! Block the door!
James: You think that's going to keep the Krens out! It'll just piss them off!
Kyle: Then we go with pissing them off.
Kyle talks into the radio.
Kyle: Dad, we're in. Where's your lab?
Andrew: On the top floor. Watch out for Queen Mina. She's very desperate to stop you.
At Archly Gate, Maya is scurrying around the battle in the fire and ruins of the grenade blast while on the gate, Bowers is using a Valkyrie machine gun to gun down attacking Manticores and Condemned forces.
A.O.W Soldier: Miss! Miss!
Two A.O.W Soldiers approach Maya.
A.O.W Soldier: It's not safe here! You have to-
Suddenly, a Condemned Sergeant attacks, impaling the first A.O.W Soldier with his blade, before decapitating the second A.O.W Soldier. Maya crawls away in fear as the Condemned Sergeant grabs her leg and attempts to pull her in a struggle. However, she manages to grab one of the dead A.O.W soldiers' rifle and shoot the Condemned Sergeant dead.
Maya: Holy shit!
At the entrance of the gate, Bowers continues to make his stand as Maya, yielding an A.O.W Assault Rifle, approaches Bowers to aid him.
Bowers: Get out of here, kid!
Maya: I can help you!
Bowers: This ain't no place for kids, girl!
Maya: Please, Bowers! Let me help you! You can't do this shit alone!
As Bowers and Maya argue, the Condemned forces attack, before Bowers pushes Maya out of the way and opens fire on the attacking Condemned forces. A Condemned with a blade sneaks up on Bowers, but Maya shoots down the Condemned.
Bowers: I stand corrected, girl.
However, a Condemned Grenadier shoots a grenade launcher at Bowers, knocking both himself and Maya down into the courtyard. After the explosion, Maya recovers to find that Bowers has been fatally impaled in the chest by sharpened debris.
Maya: Oh, my god...Bowers....
Bowers: (dying) You did good, kid.....I was wrong about you.....you-you're strong.....you have to protect the people here...you can do it....
Maya: Bowers....I'm not a soldier.
Bowers: No.....you're a goddamned survivor.
Bowers dies to his wounds as Maya mourns. In Perseus, Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah enter the front tower lobby, where the bodies of advanced A.O.W soldiers are noticed.
Kyle: Dad, what's Mina up to? In your message, you said that she fails to realize you can't save the Condemned.
Andrew: This is the last stand for the Condemned too, Kyle. My machine will kill the radioactive fluid-no question, but it will also harm the Condemned. I understand that they were men before.....they were Zeus Corps....
James: I'm not seeing the downside here, Professor.
Andrew: Goddamn it.....I needed time....just like with Kronos....just like with Mina.
Kyle: Yeah, we'll talk about that....stand by.
A short pause as James and Shawn share a look of concern.
James: "Kronos"? What the fuck is he talking about?
Shawn: Don't think we wanna know, man.
Up ahead, in the elevator lobby, Kyle locates Condemned forces.
Kyle: Quiet! Enemies up ahead!
Shawn: Kyle, we're going to sneak past em, are we?
A short pause.
Shawn: C'mon, man.....we've got scores to settle with our fallen brothers and sisters.
Kyle: Yeah, we do....but let's-
Shawn: Surprise, motherfuckers!
Kyle: I wasn't confirming that we should-oh, fuck it! Open fire!
Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah open fire at the Condemned forces, fighting to the upper level.
Sarah: The Krens are going to get through the doors soon, Kyle!
Kyle: One problem at a time!
Just as Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah finish off the rest of the Condemned forces, a Manticore bursts through the hotel lobby window.
Kyle: Shit! Look out! Manticore!
The Manticore opens fire, before Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah take cover. After a brief moment of staying in cover, Sarah equips a grenade and tosses it as it explodes, killing the Manticore in the explosion as well.
Kyle: Well, that could've gone worse.
Shawn: Looks like the only way is up, guys.
Kyle: Where the hell are goddamned elevator cars?
Sarah: Up there.
Sarah points to the elevator cars on the top of hotel lobby.
Kyle: Huh.
Shawn admires the luxurious hotel lobby.
Shawn: Shit....who the fuck is this crap built for anyway? The President?
James: It's like we're in that Disney Castle.....except more darker. Thank god I'm way past the age of paying taxes.
Shawn: In Zeus Corps, I still had to pay taxes so please don't remind me.
Kyle presses the elevator button as the elevator cars are malfunctioning.
James: Fuck.
Kyle: Shit. James, can you fix this?
James: I'm on it.
Andrew: Kyle, are, you need to know; I'm responsible for so many deaths of innocent lives out there. This-this is a chance that I can make it right.
Kyle: Look, Dad, you didn't destroy the world and you didn't start this war either.
Andrew: You sound like an old friend of Dr. Fenix ....even though he and I thought we could talk our way out of a diplomatic war....men like Jason Ryder saw different.
James talks into his radio.
James: Uh....what's going to happen when you set off your Krens killer, doc? The humans, as in us, we're not going to feel anything, are we?
Andrew: That depends on how far the radioactive fluid has infected your cells, boy. Are you currently sick? Do you have a fever? Illness? Muscle pain? Nausea? Is your urine fine when you pee?
James: Uh....no to the rest and my piss is still yellow last time I checked....wait, are you saying you can have glowing pee?
Andrew: No, but you should be fine.
James sighs.
James: Well, at least, I'm not fucked.
Suddenly, the Krens stalks burst into the front tower lobby.
Sarah: No, now we're fucked.
As Krens Drones and Brutes burst out of the stalk pods, Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah open fire.
Kyle: Goddamn it!
Kyle turns to James.
Kyle: James, did you fix the elevator?!
James: I tried my best. Jax is taking care of the rest.
Kyle: Well, what the fuck is taking him so long?
Shawn: Taking their own sweet time getting down here, man.
James: If it's slow coming down, it's going to be slow going up too.
Sarah: James, you're not helping the situation.
James: Just saying.
Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah hold off the Krens forces as long as they can.
Kyle: Damn it! I'm almost out of ammo!
After a long gunfight against the Krens forces, the elevator lifts finally arrive.
Sarah: Hey, the elevators are here! Let's go!
Kyle: C'mon! Split up just in case!
Kyle and Sarah enter the elevator on the right, while Shawn and James enter the elevator on the left, before the elevators ascend.
James: Hey, you know where all this fancy art and sculpture crap came from?
Kyle: I'm sure you're going to tell us.
James: The Museums of Paris...the White House.....look, I literally can see Leonard Davinchi's autograph of half these portraits. Pierce saved art instead of lives; the fucker.
Kyle: Nice to feel important, don't it?
Suddenly, Condemned Guards are using their grappling hooks to hook onto the side of the elevators as someone is climbing up.
Kyle: Shit! We got grapplers on the elevators! Get em off!
A Condemned Guard climbs on the elevator carrying Shawn and James, before Shawn manages to kick it off.
Shawn: No free rides, bitch!
Sarah stabs one of the guards in the head, before Kyle stabs a guard with his Zeus Corps Machete. Suddenly, the Manticores bursts through the window.
Sarah: Too late to turn back now.
Kyle: Why the hell didn't we take the stairs?
A Manticore shoots out the wires carrying of the elevator carrying Kyle and Sarah, causing one of the wires' to drift.
Sarah: Hold on!
The drifting wire causes Kyle and Sarahs' elevator to smash into Shawn and James' elevator.
Kyle: Get out!
Kyle manages to jump onto the roof of Shawn and James' elevator as the damaged one falls, but Sarah manages to cling on with one hand. Sarahs' grip slips, before Kyle manages to catch her, saving her from falling.
Kyle: Got you!
Kyle pulls Sarah up onto the roof of the elevator as the two catch their breath.
Sarah: God! Nearly missed it....
Shawn: You two okay up there?!
Kyle: Yeah, we're good.....
A short pause as Kyle and Sarah look into each other's eyes.
Kyle: What?
Sarah: That's the one thing I love about being married...there's always someone to catch you.
Kyle: Well, it's a husbands' job to keep his wife and
Kyle touches Sarahs' lower stomach.
Kyle: seed alive...
Kyle and Sarah share a moment, before Sarah places her hand on top of his.
James: (quietly) I'm going to take a quiet guess and go with they're passionately making out.
Shawn: Dude, wh-
The elevator stops on the floor, before Kyle and Sarah exit on the floor above Shawn and James as they are engaged by Condemned forces.
Kyle: Shawn, we're on the floor above you!
Shawn: We're coming, Kyle!
James: Shawn, take the stairs over there!
Shortly after regroup, Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah continue fighting through Condemned forces as they progress through each other lobby floors.
Kyle: Dad, we're still a few floors below you!
Andrew: I can hear the Condemned right outside my door. It might be a trap.
Kyle: Yeah, a trap for them.
Sarah: Kyle, do you hear that?
After a short pause, Mina and her Queen Wasp come bursting in.
Mina: Kyle Desipich. What a good man to stay loyal to your blood, but your father cannot leave yet.
Mina attacks the group with her Queen Wasps' high beams, causing Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah to take cover behind furniture.
James: You know what; I thought Mina would have to same goal as us with wanting to kill the Krens, but yeah, we can fuck all that shit.
Kyle: Come on! Keep moving upstairs! Avoid the beam!
As Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah move upstairs to another floor, the Queen Wasp blocks their path, attacking with the beam.
Mina: Kyle, your father had twenty-seven years to deal with radioactive fluid, before it mutated. He will complete it, but not the cost of my people.
Kyle: "People"?! Lady, these people are monsters!
Mina: They're monsters because you sent them out to the wasteland, where they were captured and transformed into monsters....most of these delusional wastelanders call you a hero for doing that, but you, Kyle Desipich, are not a hero.
Kyle: I don't think of myself as one.
Mina: I can see Jake is no longer with you...is he dead? Tell me; did he ever tell you about who I was before he died?
With Kyle and Mina talking, James uses the opportunity to create a incendiary grenade
Kyle: As far as I can tell, you're just some crazy bitch who has sympathy for monsters!
James tosses the grenade as the fire spreads around the Queen Wasp, causing it to retreat.
James: "Twenty-seven years"? That was before the world ended, right?
Kyle: Don't listen to a damn thing that crazy bitch says. She's just trying to fuck with us. Come on!
The Queen Wasp returns and continues attacking.
Kyle: Shit! Split up! We need covering fire!
Kyle and Sarah stick to the right of the upstairs lobby while Shawn and James stick to the left with both keeping each other covering fire.
Shawn: Fuck, man! I feel like a steak in a frying pan.
Kyle: Okay, run for it! Head upstairs!
The group finally reaches the upstairs lobby, before Mina and the Queen Wasp returns.
Mina: Listen to me, boy and listen well! The world is dying! It's been killing itself for over many years! I won't let my people die! Humanity has ran its course! We have the only right to this world in ruins! Your father will complete his mission!
Kyle: Finally, we agree on something!
James: Hey, Kyle, look up there!
James points to a chandelier hanging right above Mina and the Queen Wasp.
James: Drop that and crush the bug.
Shawn: You want to bring the whole fucking roof down, James?
James: No, no, no, just the counterweight. That chandeliers connected to the cables.
Kyle: Good call, James. C'mon. They've gotta be anchored around here somewhere.
James: Wait, we cut those down and the building will be unstable.
Kyle: It's either that or get barbequed.
Sarah and James provide covering fire while Kyle, after activating his flame mode on his Zeus Corps machete, severs one of the counterweight cables and Shawn severs another, causing the chandelier to drop slightly.
Sarah: Thank Kronos and A.O.W for their "perfect" shit.
Kyle: Okay, we've got one more!
Shawn: then we can kiss her whore ass goodbye! You hear that, bug bitch?! You're going to go splat!
James: Shawn!
The Queen Wasp attacks Shawn with her beam, knocking him down.
Shawn: Whoa! Too fuckin close!
James: See what you get for being a smart ass?!
Mina notices Kyle severing the final cable, but before she can use the Queen Wasp to attack, the chandelier falls right on top of the Queen Wasp. Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah look down over the railing to confirm her death.
Kyle: Did we get her?! Anyone see Mina?!
Sarah: I can see!
Suddenly, the Krens stalks burst through the window.
Kyle: Fuck it! Get to the lift now! Move!
Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah retreat into the elevator lift as it begins ascending.
Andrew: Guys, are you alright?! What happened?!
Kyle: Yeah, we're good. We ran into Mina. She's been taken care of. We're on our way up.
In his office, Andrew gives a concerned look.
Andrew: "Taken care of"? You mean dead?
Kyle: That was what I was trying to say. Yeah.
Andrew: (sympathetic) Oh.....well....
Kyle: Don't feel sorry for her. She brought it on herself.
In the wrecked hotel lobby, after the chandelier falling, the Queen Wasp recovers as does Mina. In the elevator lift, the battle between the fleet and Krens are seen outside.
James: Oh, god. Cassandra. I hope they can hold out.
Sarah: She can...they all will.
Kyle: Dad, are the Condemned still outside your office?
In his office, Andrew looks at the camera, noticing Condemned drones and brutes guarding his office door as well as preparing an ambush at the elevator.
Andrew: Yes, they're covering the elevators too, boy. Find an alternative route. There's a service hatch in the shift somewhere.
Kyle: We're looking.
Kyle turns to Jax.
Kyle: Jax, slow down the elevator.
Mr. Jax hacks into the elevator and slows it down, revealing the service hatch.
Shawn: Bingo!
Kyle: That's it, Jax. Stop the lift.
Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah enter the service with Jax providing light to guide them through.
James: Okay, I really am curious about what Mina was talking about. She knew Andrew before the world went to hell. How? I mean, she looks human. She is human. Did one of the Condemned give her one-night stand or something?
Shawn: The bitch was just jerkin his dick, James.
Sarah: Shawn, don't ever say that in front of me again.
Shawn: My bad.
Kyle: Maybe she was....maybe she wasn't....I mean-I don't know if she was fucking with us or not.
Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah approach the entrance of the top floor lobby.
Kyle: The Condemned are waiting for elevator B.....so, we wait til we hear the gunshots.
In the hotel lobby, the elevator stops on the top floor lobby as the doors open, before Condemned drones and brutes open fire, revealing to be an empty elevator.
Condemned Brute: Huh?
Kyle: Now!
Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah open the service hatch door and open fire on the Condemned Drones and brutes.
Shawn: Knock-knock, motherfuckers!
Condemned Drone: Behind us!
Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah quickly dispose of the Condemned guarding the elevator.
Kyle: Dad's in here somewhere.
Kyle talks into his radio.
Kyle: Dad, we're on your floor.
Andrew: I see you on the camera! Look for the door at the end of the hall with external powered lasers.
James: Lasers?! Jesus, they really don't want us reaching him, do they?!
Kyle: Alright! Hang on! This is going to get messy!
Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah fight their way through the Condemned drones in the top floor lobby, before noticing Andrew's office guarding with lasers and a machine gun post as the Condemned on the machine gun opens fire.
Kyle: Dad, they've got a damn turret outside your lab! Get down and hide behind something!
James constructs an electric arrow and hands it to Shawn, before he uses to shoot down Condemned on the turret. After the gunfight, Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah approach the door guarded by laser wires.
Shawn: Damn it. How the hell do we get past this?
James: Shawn, is that rhetorical question or did you not look down?
Shawn: I'm going to go with I didn't look down.....wait, why did I not look down?
James: Look!
James points out the two security panel cable wires.
Kyle: Alright. Let's sever them.
James: Hold on! Hold on! You can't! Severing them might cause some destructive discharge that could blow the door and possible destroy the lab, along with the doc.
Sarah: He's right....we have to play it safe.
Kyle: Okay then. Safe we play it. James, you and Shawn got the left door. Sarah and I got the right.
Kyle and Sarah enter the right door entrance as they disable the security panel laser, before Shawn and James disable the security panel on their side. As Kyle and Sarah return to the office door, Kyle stops for a moment.
Sarah: Kyle, is everything okay?
Kyle: Yeah, it's just...I'm a bit nervous now.....I'm about to look my Dad in the eyes for the first time since I was a kid....what if I'm not what he expects? What if he's going to be ashamed of how I've survived? What if-
Sarah touches Kyle's face.
Sarah: Kyle, stop....okay....you're a good man.....and he'll know that....now, c'mon.
Regaining confidence, Kyle and Sarah regroup with Shawn and James before entering Andrews' office at first finding it empty.
Kyle: Dad? Dad??
A noise is heard as Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah turn and aim their weapons toward a desk, before cautiously approaching. After a short pause, Andrew pokes his head out.
Andrew: Kyle....my son....my boy....it's so good to see you...I never thought I would..
Andrew approaches Kyle, Sarah, Shawn and James.
Andrew: Shawn Burton....you were just a boy when I last saw you. I'm sorry about your father. He was a dear good friend of mine....and I'm so sorry about Jake.
Kyle: I don't know where to start, Dad.
Andrew: Yes, I know....I always wondered what I would say to you and your brother if I ever saw you again...but time is luxury that we just don't have anymore....but it's best not to waste it alone.
Andrew walks over to the laptop and grabs his command keys.
Andrew: Just the insurance. The machine won't work without command keys. The same failsafe I put into the God's Fist. I'm some man who contributes to destruction, aren't I? I can't tell I've had so many years to think things over. Kyle, all of you promise me that when this is all over, you start something and never look back. Never regret.
Kyle: We will, Dad. We really need to get going.
Andrew: If the radioactive fluid hadn't reached a critical stage, I maybe could've found a way to save the Condemned as well, maybe turn them back into their human forms. Get them back from underground.
Kyle: You don't feel sorry for them, do you? After all Kronos has done?
Andrew: Responsible, not sorry. It's my fault this all happened. I failed to stop the radioactive fluid from spreading all those years ago. It dug too deep within the crust of the Earth and then once the Condemned were created, they went underground. It drove the Condemned out of their tunnels. I tried to persuade Mina to keep her people underground as long as they could, but they couldn't so then-
James: Wait, wait! Slow the fuck down! The government knew the radioactive fluid wasn't safe and they still allowed Fenix to create a goddamned serum out of it?! You didn't let any of us know? Prepare?!
Andrew: No, just me, son. Even Pierce didn't know until years later. I had so many ideas to change the world and save lives but had so little time.
Kyle: Dad, please....stop this.
James: Whoa, hang on....what else don't we know?
Andrew: You're a smart boy, young man.
Andrew hands James' data disk.
Andrew: Look at this later and try to understand what I wanted to do and what I had to do.
Outside the office, in the top floor lobby, the Krens stalks burst out the window as Krens drones pop out of the pods.
Shawn: Uh....guys, I hate to be the one the break up the family reunion, but we have company!
Kyle: Dad, you know how to use a gun?
Andrew: Yeah.....
Kyle hands Andrew a pistol, before the two along with Shawn, James and Sarah exit the office and entering cover, before engaging the Krens.
Shawn: Stalks!
Andrew: Jesus.....the Krens have become so evolved since I last saw them. What's the radioactive fluid done to them?
Kyle: Dad, just keep your head down please!
Kyle, Shawn, James, Sarah and Andrew manage to finish the Krens forces, before making their way to the elevator.
Andrew: We have to take the elevator up. The machine's right outside on the roof.
Shawn presses the elevator button.
Andrew: So, Kyle, you said Mina is dead?
Kyle: Yep....taken care of.
Andrew: I thought you'd be more upset.
Kyle: Why should I? She tried to kill us.
Andrew: Well, I guess it's for the best...your mother was a persistent woman.
Kyle gives a confused look.
Kyle: "My mother"?
A short pause as Kyle, Shawn, James and Sarah give confused and concerning looks. Andrew turns to Kyle.
Andrew: Jake never told you before he died, did he?
Kyle: Tell me what?
Andrew: Mina.....she's-she's your mother.
James: Whoa....
Shawn: Holy shit.
Kyle laughs in disbelief.
Kyle: Dad.....please....please tell me that you just got drunk one night and accidently knocked her up. I'll be okay with that. That psychopathic bitch is my--
Andrew: Son.....it's more complicated than that. Just listen...
Kyle: What do you mean?
Andrew: Before the world ended, your Mom....Mina...she had cancer...she was dying....so I created a serum from the radioactive fluid that completely healed her.....it worked.....but then years after, when you were just a baby, we were out on a run.....she was bitten by an infected....and I couldn't kill her but I couldn't bring her back with me...I couldn't violate the safety of the outpost we stayed and my sons...so I left her.....I left her to die out in the wasteland.....but she never turned...I should've realized it, then....but I was so concerned with you and your brother's safety....the bond between her cancer cells and the radioactive fluid created something inside her....it made her immune to the bite....the horrors she encountered out there, before her capture....it's why she's like that. She wasn't always like this.....she just-she's angry.....mostly with me.
Kyle glares at Andrew.
Kyle: You left her out in the wasteland to die all because you couldn't kill her your goddamned self!
Andrew: I know. I realized that it was a mistake, son...but you need to understand....if I had brought her back with me, if I had smuggled an infected person into a Kronos outpost, I would've been trialed for treason....I would've been executed along with your mother and you and your brother would've been taken away or left out into the wasteland.....I had to continue making this cure....I had to shed some good to my name for all the pain that I've created.
Shawn: Kyle, Jake had his reasons, man.....he may have been just trying to protect you.
Kyle: Well, I've been in that position before of keeping secrets from those I'm trying to protect. Guess it's a family thing.
A short pause, before the elevator arrives.
Kyle: I get it.....I don't like it, but I get it.
Andrew: We have to activate the machine.
Kyle: Okay, Dad.
Kyle, Shawn, James, Sarah and Andrew enter the elevator as it ascends.
Kyle: Yeah, also, seeing as how you told me about Mina, you should know it's my fault about the Condemned....
Andrew: What do you mean?
Kyle: Five years ago, I led an assault on Kronos Industries Prime.....I killed Ryder and sent most of the staff out into the wasteland, where they were captured and experimented on....mutated....into the Condemned..... Well, you're going to get the chance to be a part of me and Sarah's' family.
Andrew: What do you mean?
Kyle: You're going to be a grandfather.
Andrew, shocked, smiles and hugs Sarah.
Andrew: A new chapter starts for the Desipich family! I'm happy for you both. So young! You two are the future. Your brother would've been proud of you, son.
A short pause.
Andrew: So did Jake ever have that talk with you?
Kyle: What talk?
Andrew: The safety talk.
Kyle: You mean the safety on a gun? Yeah.
Andrew: No, I mean "safety".....I'm asking; was the pregnancy intended?
Kyle: Uh....
Sarah: Well.....
Kyle: We are married....
Andrew: I take it you didn't use a condom.
Kyle: Dad. Dad. This is not a good time to have this conversation, especially around friends.
Shawn: Dude, we've heard worse "talk" conversations.
James: Dude, no we didn't.
Shawn: Dude, shut up.