End of the Line

At the Kronos Facility, one of the younger Zeus Corps Pilot runs to the chopper. He attempts to start the engine but is startled with a pistol is pressed against his temple.

James: Turn off the engine and step out of the chopper. Do it slowly with your hands up.

Zeus Corps Pilot: okay, please, don't kill me....

Billy, Walter and Nathan aim their guns at the pilot as Ashley, Nora and Sarah appear.

James: Give the gun to my friend here. Do it slowly. Billy! Start the chopper!

The Pilot pulls the pistol out of his holster.

Zeus Corps Pilot: here, you go....

The young Zeus Corps pilot then holds it in front of Nathan to offer it to him. Suddenly, as he hands the pistol over, Nathan shoots the pilot in the head. The gunshot startles James, Billy, Walter, Nora, Ashley and Sarah. As the pilot falls lifelessly on the ground, the others give Nathan a shocking look.

Nora: Nathan!

Sarah: Jesus! What did you do?!

Walter: What the fuck was that?!

Billy: What the fuck, Nathan?!

Nathan: how many of our people died? I don't think he felt any sympathy...

James: No, he was just a kid! He was scared!

Nathan: You would have done that same thing!

James: No! I wouldn't!

Walter: What did you do, boy?

Ashley: What did you do, Nathan?!

Nathan: I couldn't take the chance.... he's just like them.

James: Guys! We don't have time for this! We have to help Dante and Kyle!

Nathan enters the chopper, as Ashley nods. Sarah looks at James then enters the chopper. Nora gives a discomforting look as she and Walter enter the helicopter. Billy enters the pilots' seat.

Billy: All right, let's see if I remember how to pilot a helicopter.

Billy pilots the helicopter and lifts off, as James looks out the passenger window.

James: I hope we're not too late.

The helicopter begins to take off. Meanwhile, on the train, Barnes pins Kyle to the floor and begins to pummel him. Barnes then begins to strangle Kyle.

Barnes: You're not going to stop this, kid. The Oasis will launch and a age of superhumans under my command will begin.

Suddenly, Dante appears and tackles Barnes, saving Kyle. Dante punches Barnes repeatedly.

Dante: You fucker! You made me kill my son! I'm gonna kill you!

Barnes maneuvers and kicks Dante off, before punching Dante across the floor.

Barnes: I made your boy into a survivor! Into a killer! You should thank me!

As Barnes closes in, he is suddenly shot by Walter, who is on the helicopter, manning the gun turret.

Walter: Come on, you motherfucker!

Barnes opens fire onto the helicopter, giving Dante and Kyle regroup and come up with a plan.

Kyle: There's the Oasis! We gotta shut it down! Any plans?!

A moment.

Dante: I'll go for the Oasis chamber! You get it open!

Kyle: What?!

Dante: You heard what my brother said; the only for someone to shut it down is to get into that radiation core and shut it down while someone's on the controls out here.

Kyle: Dante, that's too dangerous!

Dante: Kyle....please....I need to do this.

A brief moment, before Kyle finally complies.

Kyle: Okay; go.

Kyle goes to the controls of the Oasis and opens the chamber as Dante enters the radioactive chamber and is immediately affected. Walter continues opening fire as Barnes returns fire to the chopper, forcing the Cratersville Survivors to duck. A stray bullet hits Nora in the shoulder.

Nathan: Nora!

Nathan tends to Nora, before shooting back at Barnes, who notices Kyle at the Oasis Chamber. Barnes shoots at Kyle, who takes cover. Dante continues Kyle travelling through the heavily irradiated chamber of the Oasis.

Dante: Keep going, Dante....

Barnes kicks Kyle in the face, before Kyle pulls out a blade and stabs Barnes in the stomach. Barnes, unfazed, pulls Kyle closer, before grabbing him by the throat and tossing him into a wall that falls onto the train tracks with Kyle barely hanging on.

Sarah: Kyle!

Barnes moves in for the kill, but James shoots an explosive arrow into Barnes' armor as it explodes. After the explosion, Barnes, whose face is partially blown apart from the explosion, recovers, before removing his damaged armor and laughing. As his face immediately begins healing, Barnes shoots at the helicopter, causing James to drop the crossbow onto the train before Kyle manages to climb back up onto the train before the detachable wall snaps. Barnes grabs Kyle by the throat and tosses him

Kyle: Whoa! Too close.....Too fuckin close!

Dante finally reaches the center core of the Oasis and begins to hack at the giant cord connecting to the missile. Eventually, his machete blade breaks off.

Dante: Fuck!

Dante is forced to use his bare hands to pry through the cord of the missile.

Dante: Come on!

Barnes strangles Kyle, who is struggling to breath.

Barnes: That's it, Desipich. Take it all in. You've lost. I've won, because you don't have what it takes to be a soldier.

Kyle activates his Zeus Corps machete and stabs Barnes in the neck, activating his electric feature and shocking him, apparently killing the insane Zeus Corps Commander.

Kyle: Says the fucker who just got barbequed.

Dante finally rips apart the cord connecting to the core of the Oasis, shutting it down. Dante then exits the Oasis Chamber, before Kyle runs to him.

Dante: No. Stay back. I'm....I'm too irradiated....fuck....

Kyle: Well, once we get out of here, we'll find some fresh blood for you and get you patched up!

Kyle yells to the chopper.

Kyle: Lower to repelling lines on the chopper!

Sarah and James lower down the repel lines to the chopper as Barnes begins to recover. He then rams into Dante and backhands Kyle, before he smashes the Oasis controls, igniting the emergency nuclear detonation.

Barnes: This is my win!

Dante grabs the crossbow and shoots Barnes with three explosive arrows. One into his neck. The explosive arrows explode, blowing apart Barnes' body, finally killing him.

Dante: Heal from that, fucker.....

Dante and Kyle run to the Oasis.

Dante: What'd he do?

Kyle: Shit! He activated the emergency detonation sequence! I can't shut it down! This thing's gonna blow!

Dante: Kyle, this thing blows, the chopper won't make it past the blast radius. This missile is gigantic!

Kyle: We'll figure it out!

Kyle hooks himself to the repel line.

Kyle: Dante, hook yourself up! Come on! We gotta go! Dante!

Dante looks at Kyle, who gives a look of concern. Dante nods, before approaching Kyle, touching his shoulder.

Dante: Billy, take off!

Kyle: What?!

Dante: Survive out there, kid.

Billy pulls up the chopper and takes off, lifting Kyle off the ground through his repel line as well.

Kyle: No! Dante! Dante!

James and Walter pull Kyle in.

Nathan: Where's Dante?

Kyle nods.

Kyle: Fuck....

Dante runs to the train controls. Dante gains control of the train and presses the lever up, accelerating its' speed before he notices the train approaching the destroyed bridge as the Oasis self-destruction countdown stops. Dante looks back and reminisces memories of himself, Amanda and Harry, before the Oasis missile explodes, causing a nuclear explosion that destroys most of the surface in a massive blast. Meanwhile, the survivors in the chopper look at the explosion in the distance with sadness at the loss of Dante. Hours later, the chopper is en-route on an unknown path.

Kyle: .....Damn it.....Where are we headed?

Nathan: Well from what I heard....California and Washington are fucked....Right now, they're saying West.....New Mexico's safe...has a Fort there....Fort Warren....safe...populated....full of good people...heavily armed....but we have to make a few stops for gas.

Kyle: All right.

Kyle walks over to James and sits in front of him. James is sitting down confused.

James: Why'd Dante do it? I mean we could've saved him...

Kyle: Because he made a choice...he made the choice of saving us...or killing us...That's the one thing that we don't have much left in this world....A choice.

James looks out the window as the helicopter is flying toward the sun, while below is the Apocalyptic ruins.