Chapter 26: Puppet Master Pt. 2
A/n: This will finish up the events leading up to the betrayal. Then the main story will come to a close.
(Third Person POV):
White Mask Grunt:"Sir." The terrorist saluted Alistair.
The White Mask grunt approached Alistair and handed him a large case. Alistair opened the case to see samples of the parasite found in Operation Outbreak.
Alistair:"Hmm...what do you have to report on Reaper?" He questioned and pushed away the case without interest.
White Mask Grunt:"He goes by the name, Phoenix, now. Even with all those injuries from his prior battle, he still fights with great ease." He reported. Alistair nodded with a pleased expression.
Alistair:'That means the serum is working. However, I want better.' He thought to himself and dismissed the grunt. Alistair then dialed a number on his phone. Someone picked up.
Thanatos:"Sir?" He greeted.
Alistair:"Monitor him closely. Observe who he spends time most with." He ordered.
Thanatos:"Yes sir." He confirmed, and Alistair hung up. The White Mask leader then exited the room. A familiar male was leaning against the wall with his arms crossed. Except this time, his body was covered in burn marks and seemed to have a hole in his head.
Alistair:"Syrius, just the man I was looking for." He greeted. Syrius nodded and took a puff from his inhaler.
Alistair:"How would you like to be responsible for one of the worst terrorist attacks since our introduction at the university, and get revenge on (Y/n) at the same time?" He offered. Syrius began to smirk sadistically.
Syrius:"Just tell me when and where boss." He stated excitedly. Alistair pulled out a ticket and a Nintendo tower tour brochure.
Alistair:"Japan."
Timeskip...
It's been months of preparation for the attack in Tokyo. The plan seemed fool-proof, but Alistair thought otherwise. With Syrius failing twice with all the odds on his side, Alistair was sure that Syrius will fail a third time. It was a matter if it was going to be his last time failing.
Alistair:"Begin with dose on subject 793." He said on the intercom. In a metal room was a White Mask soldier strapped down to a metal table. A person in a lab coat walked up to the soldier with a syringe filled with blue liquid. The same on that was injected into (Y/n).
Alistair watched observantly, as the scientist finished administering the dose. Suddenly, the White Mask grunt began to cry out in agony. He spasmed and struggled to break free of his restraints. After a few seconds of screaming in immense pain, he stopped moving and succumbed to Death's grasp.
Alistair:"Subject 793 failed. That's all for today." He announced and stepped away from the control console. Standing nearby was Kyle. He had a smirk plastered on his face.
Kyle:"Told you it wouldn't work. You can't go over 1% of the serum without them dying." He reminded. Alistair nodded.
Alistair:"It only works on (Y/n) so far. What am I missing?" He questioned in deep thought. Only one solution came to mind, but it wasn't enough for Alistair's wants.
Alistair:"Prepare the juggernauts and get ready for infiltration." He ordered. This made Kyle surprised.
Kyle:"Are you sure? This won't make my brother happy." He questioned. Alistair nodded.
Alistair:"Yes. You're brother is too much of a soldier. Eventually, that will come back to bite him. He doesn't have what it takes to make his own decisions." He explained. There had been several times where Thantos refused to kill White Mask grunts and nearly blew his cover. Kyle nodded.
Kyle:"Okay. Just don't come crying to me if I have to take him out." He reminded and picked up Team Rainbow recruitment papers before leaving.
Timeskip...
Alistair was reviewing video footage from Nintendo Tower. It showed (Y/n)'s strong reactions to Ash and IQ's supposed death. He was about to watch it again when he received a phone call.
Alistair:"Report." He answered the call.
Thanatos:"One positive. The other negative." He replied. Alistair began to grow excited. His plans were moving forward better than he expected.
Alistair:"Good. Now replace them with fake samples, and keep monitoring the key targets." He responded before accepting another call.
Alistair:"Thank you, I'll take care of your men, comrade." He thanked in Russian and looked up from his desk.
Out the window, in the hanger, were men dressed in standard Spetznaz gear. Instead of attacking the White Mask soldiers on site, they greeted them as regular comrades. Same with the other soldiers in uniforms from America, Britain, France, Germany, etc. They all were White Masks and military personnel.
Timeskip...
Scientist:"Help!" He screamed in desperation before having his head ripped off. Alistair stared at the sight from a room far above. Whatever just killed the scientist looked exactly like the other juggernauts except for their dead expressions.
Alistair:"Now clean up your mess." He ordered the mindless soldier. The juggernaut nodded blankly before carrying out its task.
Alistair looked at the data with test results. He had mixed the super serum with samples from Operation Outbreak. It allowed full doses on subjects without killing them, but at a price. The subjects would have no signs of human intelligence. Rarely would they respond to commands and just mindlessly kill anything within the vicinity.
Alistair:'I wonder...' He picked up an old photo of (Y/n). The male then mixed the updated serum with a blood sample from (Y/n). The results showed a perfect symbiotic relationship.
Alistair:"It only works on him, but he won't compromise with me. That leaves..." He trailed off and remembered what was to come for IQ. She was expecting soon.
Timeskip...
Alistair:"I gave Six a special mission for Reaper. He was on the opposite side of the globe with Kyle keeping him away from base. How did you fail to extract IQ?" He asked with anger. Thanatos lied on the ground with his face bloodied up.
Thanatos:"I-I had to protect my comrades." He admitted. This answer displeased Alistair at first, but then his expression grew soft.
Alistair:"At least you brought me the secondary objective. This will have to do for now. So don't fail me again." He responded before walking away. Alistair reached a private room and opened the door.
Inside the room was Ash. She was dangling from chains. Right now, the woman was unconscious, but she was going to face something worse than she ever could imagine.
Alistair pulled in a cart full of various torture devices. Many of which he had used to teach Syrius and break Thanatos. However, his most powerful tool was in a flash drive. It contained the recording of the UN attack conducted by (Y/n).
Ash:"You..." She muttered weakly. This caught Alistair by surprise.
Alistair:"Oh? You're awake." He was surprised by Ash and walked over to her.
Alistair:"Have you considered my offer?" He asked kindly. Ash spat blood on the males face.
Alistair:"I'll take that as a no." He said in disappointment and wiped his face. Ash glared at him with pure hatred.
Ash:"I would never betray (Y/n) or my comrades! You're insane that I would give up my child to you!" She snapped. Alistair shook his head and picked up a familiar power drill.
Alistair:"Have you ever wondered what (Y/n) had to endure for your safety?" He asked Ash. This piqued Ash's curiosity.
Alistair:"Well, I'm about to give you a taste of it. Then I'll show you something that will definitely make you consider my offer." He said sadistically and closed the door. Ash's screams echoed throughout the base for several nights before going silent.
Timeskip...
In a helicopter sat four people. They were IQ, Ash, Kyle, and Alistair. IQ was curled up and sobbing. She had been doing so the entire trip. Kyle was grinning smugly, while Ash avoided everyone's gaze. A guilty and confused expression was plastered on the redhead's. Then there was Alistair. He had a blank stare, as he observed the fellow passengers. Suddenly, IQ stopped sobbing and glared at Ash with her red, swollen eyes.
IQ:"How could you?" She questioned with pure hatred. Ash didn't respond and this pushed IQ over the edge.
IQ:"HOW COULD YOU?!?!" She screamed in pure rage. The blonde tried to lash out at Ash, but Kyle restrained her.
Kyle:"Whoah there! Wouldn't want to put stress on the baby, wouldn't we?" He warned. However, IQ kept struggling. A tear rolled down Ash's face before she replied.
Ash:"I-I had to..." She stuttered. IQ stopped fighting and looked at who she considered a sister with bewilderment.
IQ:"What?" She questioned. Ash rubbed her arm in discomfort and cowered away. While Ash tugged at her sleeve, IQ noticed recent scars that were not supposed to be there.
IQ:"What happened?" She questioned, but Alistair answered.
Alistair:"Let's just say I offered her a deal she couldn't refuse." He suddenly spoke. IQ turned her attention to Alistair.
IQ:"Who are you?" She demanded in a hostile tone.
Alistair:"My name is Alistair. Leader of the White Masks. A pleasure to meet you." He introduced. IQ looked at him with a stunned expression. She quickly shook it off.
IQ:"What do want so desperately with us?" She questioned his intentions. Alistair just pointed at her growing belly.
Alistair:"Simple. I want (Y/n)'s child." He answered honestly.
IQ:"Why?" She questioned, and made Alistair sigh tiredly.
Alistair:"It sounds all science fiction, but I assure you its true. (Y/n) is a super soldier. The last of his kind, and that's why I am doing this. There's no way that boy will follow my ambitions, that's why I must start anew." He explained. IQ couldn't believe what she was hearing. She thought he was crazy.
IQ:"All this for a super soldier?" She questioned. Alistair shook his head.
Alistair:"No. To change the world. Rid it of false politics. Bring us back to when everything was real. No lies of peace, war crimes will be punished, poverty will cease to exist. I will bring about revolution." He corrected. IQ defensively wrapped her arms around her expected child.
IQ:"I will never let you have our child." She growled. Alistair shrugged.
Alistair:"I doubt you have much of a choice. Besides, it's no longer 'our'." He reminded. IQ flinched at the reminder and closed her eyes, as tears fell once more.
IQ:'(Y/n)...' She thought about her love in despair. Meanwhile, Ash was contemplating about her actions. However, her broken mind could not come up with any justified reason.
Meanwhile...
In a dark hallway lined with prison cells was a single male. He was dressed in a suit and looked to be in his sixties. The man had just arrived after his interview about the UN attack. However, he was now here to deal with a far greater threat.
Foley:"Open up!" He shouted and waved to the security cameras. Multiple loud buzzers went off before the metal gate in front of him began to open.
It revealed twenty more twelve inch thick, steel gates. In between each gate was a corridor. On the left and right concrete walls were automated machine guns set to kill any prisoner outside of their cell without authorization. On the ceiling were vents small enough to pump fresh air and poison if necessary.
Foley continued to the end of the hall and reached a single cell. The final buzzer went off, and the last metal gate opened. It revealed a large plexi glass barrier with a single door. Foley walked up to the door and swiped his ID. The door hissed and popped open. The thirty cameras all trained on Foley approached the only piece of furniture in the room.
Foley sat down at the table and peered ahead. There was another plexi glass screen that divided the table into two. Suddenly, a light turned on on the opposite side of Foley. There sat a single figure bound with too many restrictions to count. They only part that wasn't bound was their mouth.
Foley:"This is kind of dejá vu, huh?" He broke the silence, but the person sitting across from him resumed it. Foley sighed in defeat and looked at the male sternly.
Foley:"Look. Everything is turning into chaos. We're about to have a third world war on our hands. Bodies of special forces from different nations were found all over the globe. This has invasion written all over it. Now everyone is pointing fingers because they linked this back to the stunt you pulled in the UN meeting." He began to explain and hoped for a response from his audience, but received none.
Foley:"I know you don't want to do anything after what happened, but I have something to tell you....I'm the reason you're in this mess." He admitted. This earned a slight reaction from the new information.
Foley:"I used to be your parent's leader in a task force, but things went wrong in a certain operation. Following that, I had them participate in a classified super soldier program, but that wasn't what was important. It was the other person who did it as well." He told the male sitting in front and set down a photo of Alistair.
Foley:"His name is Alistair Garrison. He was a soldier that questioned every single one of my motives and was right to do so. However, I didn't realize my horrible actions until it was too late. Now the man is responsible for executing what has transpired." He explained in regret. Then Foley looked at the male in the eyes.
Foley:"There's not enough apologies I can give to make up for what you had to go through. For what happened to (F/n) and (M/n)." He muttered guiltily. The male sitting across from Foley began to tremble with rage.
Foley:"Look, I'll fully accept what's coming for me after all of this, but please. Billions of innocent lives are at stake. There doesn't need to be a third world war, but that will happen if Alistair proceeds with what he has planned." He pleaded desperately.
Foley:"The man has nuclear launch codes for multiple countries. All he needs to do is clear security for governments he's claimed positions for, then we'll have an apocalypse." He continued, but the imprisoned person still remained silent.
Foley:"Please-"
???:"Are they alive?" The male suddenly spoke. He tilted his head up, so the light hit his face. It was (Y/n) with a look of torment. Foley nodded.
Foley:"If you're talking about your friends, yes. They are just locked up because of Team Rainbow's link to the attack on the UN. However, for operators Ash and IQ, I cannot say." He regretfully informed. (Y/n) stared at Foley blankly before the old man spoke again.
Foley:"However, if there's any chance of finding them and Alistair. Our satellites tracked his helicopter to here." He pulled out a photo of a map. It was Somolia. The location of where everything started for Alistair and (Y/n).
Foley:"We could not make a move during tensions this high otherwise we would have ignited the fuse. That is why I need you. You're not anyone's soldier." (Y/n) stared at the map in silence.
Foley:"However, if you do this, you would be branded as a war criminal that has tried to escape." He informed. (Y/n) stared at the map in thought. He thought about IQ. His baby. Ash. His parents. The world. Alistair. Why does he still fight? Was it revenge? Was it for the people he cared about? The innocent people he didn't want to share the same experience?
(Y/n):"Can you guarantee immunity for all of Team Rainbow?" He questioned abruptly.
Foley:"Yes, but-"
(Y/n):"Can you?" He interrupted. The man was not taking a no for an answer. Foley sighed and looked at (Y/n) seriously.
Foley:"Yes." He answered honestly. (Y/n) stared at the man. Searching for any hints of lie and could not find any. He was desperate to save the world from its impending doom.
Foley:"So you'll do it?" He asked for confirmation. Sounds of metal creaking slowly grew louder until the metal restraints holding (Y/n) snapped. So did the Kevlar rope and zip ties.
(Y/n):"I'm going to need my guns." He stated sternly. Foley nodded.
Foley:"I'll have someone bring you to the armory-"
(Y/n):"My guns." He emphasized sternly. Foley nodded in understanding. He stood up and nodded at the male with thanks.
Foley:"Your father's weapon is in the seventh locker." He said before leaving the room.
(Y/n) was escorted to the armory. He put on his gear and loaded up with necessary weaponry. The male then reassembled his father's pistol. He holstered it before looking at the picture of who he needed to kill. Alistair, the man who killed his parents, his comrades, took away the women he loved, and ruined his life. Now it was time to pay.
(Y/n):"I'm coming for you, Alistair."
A/n: Thank you for reading this chapter! The story is coming to a close soon, so please stay tuned.
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