Final Push

Operations School pushes for a final end to the battle.

Andrew arrived at the Long Island Sound. He was not too far from the 
crash and so signaled for Alex over the radio.
"Alex it's Andrew, pop some smoke so I can find you." Andrew said.
Almost Immediately Andrew saw Red smoke rising from a cliff edge. 
Andrew flew over and saw the whole group on the ground. He landed and 
got out.
"What’s up?" Andrew asked.
MacTavish walked Over and began to explain, "We reactivates and 
consulted Alpha-Bias on the Inner workings of the ship. Apparently, 
their is a large generator that powers the whole ship. It is in the 
center of the Ship and should still be intact."
"Your suggesting we blow it up, aren't you?
"Alpha-Bias claims that The Arc is attempting to rebuild their 
communication systems in order to contact the home world and order a 
full scale invasion. Destroy the core should destroy the entire ship 
as well as the communications."
"How are we going to do this?"
"That’s where I come in." John Boyd said, stepping up to the center.
"Wasn't expecting you." Andrew said.
"No one was." Parker added.
Without missing a beat John began, "LJ, Tim, Brutus, Adrian, Eli, and 
Nicole are going to head into the ship and begin the assault on the 
core. Me and Charlie are going to take Snipers and kill anyone we can. 
You and Slosheey are going to go in there and insure the Patriarch 
dies. Everyone else is going to participate in a dog fight in the 
Skies." John said.
"You ready." MacTavish Asked.

Andrew walked to the center of the Circle, "Everyone-"
"Hey you weren't going to start party without me were you?" Andrew 
heard from behind him. A large Russian man carrying an RPG-7 walked up 
to the group. "Nikolai!" Tim shouted running up and giving him a hug. 
Andrew shook his hand, "Welcome tote group Nikolai. As I was saying, 
Everyone Hands in."
Andrew, Alex, Nicole, Tim, Payay, Slosheey, Brutus, Zatooma, 
MacTavish, Cortana, Delta, Eli, Hex, Adrian, Johnson, Parker, LJ, 
Nikolai, John Boyd, Charlie, and even Alpha-Bias all put their hands in.
"On Three, Operation School."
"One."
"Two."
"Three!"
"Operation School!" Everyone shouted unanimously.
Everyone ran off to their assigned locations. Andrew called Eli over.
"This belongs to you."
Eli looked at the storage unit, "Is it-"
"Yes, yes it is."

Tim began to sing, what could be his final rap.
"Here we come
You ain't got no chance
Their ain't no chains
Holdin us back
We gonna spin you round
Make you hit the ground
You goin look like a clown
As we go up you go down
I came for revenge
Andrew for duty
Now we both here
To make you cry out for mommy
We got LJ, Slosheey
John Boyd too
Were all here together
Makin a stand against you
You won't even compare
When we all go there
You've already lost
You just don't understand the cost
I know we'll win
There no doubtin'
But I just don't know
If I'll see the end."
"You've improved allot since we last saw each other." LJ said.
"Yeah well I had to, it was how I made a living, how have you been 
doing without Michael and Marcus."
"Fine just fine."
Eli walked up to them, "You guys ready to go? Nicole got a chopper 
waiting for us."
"Yeah let's go." LJ said.

Andrew and Slosheey Were flown out to the ship by MacTavish. "You guys 
no what you have to do right?"
"Yes, yes we do." Slosheey said.
"I wish you both good luck, be safe."
"We can't guarantee that." Andrew said, preparing to jump out of the 
Helicopter.
"Hey Andrew just one thing." Cortana started to say.
"Yeah?"
"Prepare to Drop."
"Three months and I still don't find it funny."
"I know." Cortana said. She sounded as if she was suppressing a laugh.

Andrew and Slosheey jumped onto the ship. This was it, this was the 
end. It was finally going to be all over. They climbed in through a 
hole in the hull.

Inside was a mess. The doors were all broken, the emergency lights 
were only on in a few places. There were loose wires everywhere, and 
everything seemed burned.
"Wow" Andrew said, "Can't believe this thing once flew through space."
"Its a mess isn't it?" Slosheey said.
"Ya, I can't believe it." Andrew said, as the two began to walk the 
halls.
"Delta where is he?" Slosheey said.
"Scanning...
Council Chamber, it's like he never left."
"Lets go." Andrew said.

The walk through the ship was a relatively easy one. Despite having to 
jump over trenches filled with water on occasion and hearing 
explosions and bullets firing over head, the walk was easy. It seemed 
as if every door was open for them and the ship was completely 
deserted. If they didn't die in the crash, they were out fighting 
right now. Most likely they were trying to defend the core.

The two were nearing the council chamber. They were in the hallway it 
branched off of, but weren't quite there yet. They heard footsteps 
behind them.
"Freeze!" Andrew shouted, spinning around.
He and Slosheey saw a young boy wearing armor.
"Who are you?" Andrew asked.
"My names Anthony. My helicopter crashed nearby yesterday. I decided 
to work my way over and do a suicide run and kill the Patriarch."
"Same idea we had. And it's a good thing we found you." Andrew said.
"Why?"
"We are blowing the ship up. You’re going to travel with us."
"Okay." Anthony said, taking his pistol out of its holster.

The group arrived in the council chamber. The Patriarch was guarded by 
two soldiers, both of which were quickly dispatched by Andrew. The 
Patriarch sat on the floor, weak and seemingly unable to protect himself.
"Slosheey, four months ago, you stood in here with me." The Patriarch 
began. "You swore to fight for the betterment of the Arc, no matter 
what your orders are. Now look at you. You stand here in this crashed 
ship. The dead are everywhere, the chamber is destroyed, your father 
is dead. And nonetheless, by that boys hands!" The Patriarch turned 
around and pointed at Andrew. "He killed your father, murder him in 
front of your own eyes! And what did you do when the time came to 
choose The Arc or Humans? You choose Humans! And now here you are with 
that boy, intent on killing me. You used to have promise! Now, Now you 
have nothing!"
"My father would believe in me!"
"He would do no such thing! He would kill you in seconds for what you 
had done!"
"Aaaaghhhh!" Slosheey shouted he lifted the Patriarch by the neck and 
threw him to the floor.
"Though I would love to kill you, right here right now, it is not my 
job. You have hurt Andrew not me. You don't deserve the title of 
Patriarch. You will forever be known by the word the exemplifies you 
the most, Hatred! So now, in your final hours Hatred, let it be known 
that you died by the hands of the boy you betrayed and you died a 
disgraced ship master and leader of the Arc.
Despite knowing Andrew had his own sword, Slosheey passed him his, 
"Kill Him." He said.
Andrew activated the sword, he looked down into Hatreds eyes. They 
were dark and hollow. Andrew brought down the sword into Hatreds body, 
and felt a sharp pain in his stomach. Hatred looked at Andrew and 
collapsed, Andrew looked down. Hatred had taken Andrews sword and 
shoved it through Andrews’s body. Andrew collapsed and everything went 
black. The last thing he heard was Slosheey screaming.

John and Charlie took up sniping position on a cliff edge. "So we just 
pick them off when we see them?" John asked.
"That’s the plan." Charlie said.
A few minutes past and Charlie finally said, "I can't believe I'm 
working with you."
"What do you mean?"
"22 years ago you betrayed me. I got sent to juvenile hall while you 
came back to America and created a legal program that was almost the 
exact same thing I was a part of."
"Well I made it so..."
"So you could have your own personal army? Thought so!" Charlie said, 
disgusted.
John stepped back, "Well if that's how you feel." He shot Charlie in 
the back.
"Aghh!" Charlie let out a quick shout, John shot him two more times.
"I’m sorry, but you just can't get in the way." He said.
He kicked the still living Charlie off the cliff edge. When he heard 
the clunk on the water, he knew he was dead.

LJ, Tim, Brutus, Nicole, Eli, and Adrian moved quickly through the 
ship. They were fighting their way through as the last loyalist forces 
were attempting to stop them. Nikolai had given them all guns so they 
were pretty much set to get to the core, but the Loyalists were 
being a problem.

"We have to break their line!" Nicole shouted.
Eli through a grenade, killing most of them and distracting others. 
This allowed the group to continue fighting back, killing the enemy 
squads and reaching the core.
"Finally, set it to self-destruct."
Adrian began to fumble around with the controls, as he was working, 
something sparked.
"I can't, the self-destruct sequence won't initiate. Someone has to do 
it manually."
"Well then do it manually man!" LJ said.
"It will explode immediately, we will all die. Someone’s going to have to 
stay behind, blow the core themselves."
Everyone looked at each other Nervous, then someone said "I'll do it "
LJ walked up to Adrian.
"No LJ!" Tim shouted.
LJ brought Tim close to him "Remember when I promised to protect you? 
This is me fulfilling that promise. You go out and live your life. My 
life is over, it ends today."
Tim began to cry, "Don't cry man... Just go." LJ said "I'll give you 
guys ten minutes to get out, go."
LJ opened a maintenance shaft, one that led straight outside. Everyone 
climbed in but Tim was the last to go, he looked back. But then he 
kept pushing forward.

Ten minutes later LJ activated the sequence.

Tim barley was able to jump out of the ship and into the water in time. 
He stayed underwater and swam as far away as possible, never looking 
back.

They had won.

Andrew woke up in the infirmary. Slosheey was waiting for him.
"So how did it go?"
"We won. But LJ and Charlie are dead, and we almost lost you."
"Sad." Andrew said, looking down.
"Yes, but these things happen, all we can do is keep pushing forward."
"Slosheey."
"Yes?"
"I haven't rested voluntarily in three months, I'm going back to sleep."
Slosheey seemed to smile, "Goodnight Andrew."
"Good night."
And with that he was out.