Chapter XIV *Finale*

Tori and Jake woke up to cheers resounding in the hall. Jake got up and quickly got dressed and Tori followed his example. As they raced down the hall to see what had caused the commotion, to see Cid talking to a plethora of colonists. Behind him, was a strange machine that neither of them had seen before, through the window, they could hear Cid saying "….With this we can send someone into the past and stop the disease that the U.S. had made as a bio-weapon, and close down the corporations that allowed it to be processed and made. We can make it so that our children and children's children, can live in peace knowing that all is safe, I have made a vaccine though sparse right now. All we need is a volunteer to go back into the past to do this heroic deed. WHO WILL DO IT!?!" Cid exclaimed.

"That damned fool." Tori muttered under her breath.

"Tori, I'm sorry." Jake said to her.

"For what?" she asked

"I'm going, I won't let another go not knowing that they won't come back, it's not fair on them or their loved ones."

"What about me!?!" she exclaimed, with this all Jake did was avert his eyes, refusing to see her eyes.

"I have to do this, I love you Tori." He kissed her before he stuck her right below her solar plexus, knocking the wind out of her, and then dashed down the hall till he reached the courtyard where Cid was still looking for a volunteer. "I'll do it." Jake said as he reached the stage Cid was at.

"Alright, Jake, come on up." Leaning down to give Jake a hand he pulled him up onto the stage into the strange contraption that looked like an Iron Maiden minus the spikes that kill the person on the inside. "Just so you know Jake you appearance will change."

"Whatever just send me where I have to go."

"Alright." With that, Cid walked to the controls and started pushing buttons; suddenly Jake saw a white light then all he saw was nothing but pure void….....

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When Jake awoke he heard cars driving by, he was wearing all black and had long black hair. upon noticing this all he thought was "No fucking way." He started down the alley he was in until he realized that he was in a military barracks. With no time to think, he started forward, moving faster than humanly possible "It changed more than my appearance," he thought. Once he got to his target location, he pushed his way in, and moved secretly into the lower levels where whatever disease Cid was talking about was located. As he got lower, he ran into a guard who had his back turned, Jake took advantage of this, and broke the guard's neck, and took his weapon. As he did this the alarm started to sound in the building, hearing this he rushed forward towards the final door. Inside, he saw what he dreaded. The scientists inside were eating each other tearing the flesh off of each other, chewing on muscle and bone. Jake rushed in and emptied bullets into the heads of each scientist five in all. Only to realize that all the capsules were broken and thus, making him fail his only and most important mission. Since the capsules were broken, it meant that the pathogen was in the air and spreading throughout the base. Not wanting his younger self to die before he had a chance to live, he thought about how to get out, when he saw another flash of white light. Shaking away vertigo, he saw he was inside his old school's gymnasium storage room. He found himself on the floor next to a very young and innocent Tori. He walked to himself and said, "You need to find a way out of this mess, for if someone was bit, this room is perfect for infection, don't you think." Jake said.

"Yea you're right." Younger Jake said as he started to stand, feeling sick to his stomach, wondering if there was a way out.

"Heh, don't worry you will get used to this feeling you're having, trust me." Jake said.

"How----" Young Jake started only to be the cutoff by Jake's hand.

"Names are unimportant just know that I've gone through this before, I came back to try to stop this from happening but I have failed my mission. Shit, I think I'm the reason it happened." Jake said to his younger self not wishing to explain, with that he saw another flash of light and he was on top of a hill.

He saw a horde of them. He looked around his surroundings and saw a sword lying in the grass, bloodied and worn. He picked it up and looked at the horde, knowing that he wouldn't survive a head on onslaught; smiling to himself, he thought, "Hell, might as well go out with a bang. He rushed forward, lopping of heads and pushing his way into the heart of the horde, that's when he noticed that the sword had broken; As the horde descended on him with a vengeance tearing off his flesh, as he screamed, the last thought in his head was Tori, then he died. Eaten alive by the very things he had brought to an unprepared world.