Hello Everyone! It is finally here! I present to you...the final chapter of Project Phoenix! I really want to thank all of my hardcore fans that have been reading this story since I started it 4 years ago. Your emails and comments really pushed me to finish the series. It has been a long time coming, but the story of Mitch and Dex needed to have a proper ending. And you guys deserved a hell of a final chapter after such a long wait. I hope I haven't disappointed you. Thank you for reading! And as always, comments and suggestions are more than welcome!
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FSC Prudential Helm and Control Room
"Fuck" Mitch whispered as that voice echoed throughout the empty control room.
Mitch didn't turn around. He needed to finish putting in the override codes to initiate the electo-wave. He moved his hands very slowly, putting in the final 15 digit authorization override and watched as the screen blinked twice and a 90 second countdown appeared on the screen.
"90 seconds till electro-wave activation." INES said over the coms.
"I'd get away from that control panel if I were you" Sten said, raising a laser cutter up.
"I can't do that." Mitch said calmly. This wasn't good. Mitch was too weak and way too pregnant to take Sten on face to face. He needed to get some space between them; give him time to think. He snatched the detachable control e-pad off of the unit and slowly started to inch himself to the left trying to put the Captain's Chair between him and Sten.
"You don't have a choice." Sten followed Mitch's path. "And look at that belly! Gods! I don't know why I ever wanted to screw you. Ha! No one will after you have that thing inside you." Sten let out a loud laugh, Mitch clenched his teeth hard while fury lit up his eyes.
"What the fuck do you want, Sten? Our men, NF soldiers, are dying out there. We need to help them." Mitch kept inching around the Captain's Chair with Sten following, a measured merry-go-round.
"Those fuckers can die out there. I could care less. If I had my way that little red head ex-companion of mine would get it first. Hell, I'd kill him myself if he was here. Now give me that e-pad and stop the initiation sequence."
"You're sick! He's pregnant you know! With YOUR child! And you'd just kill him? You're just going to watch all those people die out there? What is the matter with you?" Mitch was furious. How could someone who called himself a soldier allow his brothers to die? Mitch had, had enough! In lightning speed, Mitch accessed the Emergency Fire Protocol on the e-pad and activated the fire retardant foam hoses in the ceiling and the walls.
The white, rubber substance sprayed down on them both. Fog and mist engulfed the Control Room and Sten's Laser cutter fizzled out. Mitch new the Control Room pretty well so while Sten was wildly thrashing around, screaming in rage, Mitch walked/ran around the Captain's Chair and ran to the control screen. 20 seconds! Almost most there.
With the force of a MACK truck Sten slammed into Mitch knocking him sideways onto the control unit. His abdomen slammed sideways into the heavy metal. Mitched screamed out in pain and collapsed onto the floor. He fell onto his back and holding his belly with two hands he tried to use his legs to push himself backwards away from Sten. But Mitch's movements were awkward and the new weight of a 9 month old baby inside of him didn't allow him that much range of motion.
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU, YOU FUCKING TEASE!" Sten bellowed out and charged at Mitch.
Mitch rolled over onto his stomach as best he could and dragged himself under the Captains Command Chair and through the other side.
"You
really
need to get over that!" Mitch shouted back as he heaved himself up off the floor.
The Emergency sirens were going off and white smoke rushed and swirled all around. The fire-retardant foam started to cover everything in a thick mass of white goo, flashing blue lights flickered frantically.
Sten couldn't see a thing. He hollered in frustration and indiscriminately attacked objects and shapes in the mist while Mitch headed towards Dex's sleeping quarters.
He reached the wall and laid his head next to the keypad. His whole body was in pain, sweat was streaming down his face and his breathing came in short gasps of air. He entered his clearance number and nearly fell into the room. The light from the inside illuminated the Helm and the Control Room.
Sten's eyes shot madly to that light. His eyes and body movements were more like a rampant beast than a man.
"IM GOING TO KILL YOU!" Sten ran full speed towards Mitch who was struggling to lean against the wall inside of the room.
"Not today you're not!" Mitch yelled back and slammed his hand down on the keypad. The nano door rippled and in an instant was as solid as granite.
Sten had built up so much momentum that he couldn't slow himself down and ran directly into the nano wall, full speed, and knocked himself unconscious.
Yolarian Plains
"Captain" said Watts, leader of the ERDS Team. He was standing over Dex. The orb hadn't directly hit Dex, but the blast was able to throw him some 20 feet and blister the side of his face. His uniform was smoking slightly.
"You should have never came here." Said Watts. "There's nothing for you here. This is MY planet and I'm not going to let any NF flunky take it from me."
Watts un-holstered a rapid laser gun from his hip and aimed it directly at Dex's head.
"Time to die, fag." He went to pull the trigger.
Just as Watts' finger squeezed the trigger a bright and overwhelming green light shot forth from the FSC Prudential and fanned out encompassing the entire Yolarian Plain. Instantaneously, every single electrical or laser operated weapon shut down and stopped firing.
The Ningini didn't stop their attack and while the ERDS members stood staring dumbstruck at their now useless weapons the Ningini pounced and attacked with full force. The loud war cries of the alien race awakened everyone from their stupor and the soldiers from the Prudential, with their mostly makeshift weapons, joined the fray and started to gain the upper hand.
Watts repeatedly pulled the trigger on his weapon, never noticing that Dex had regain his awareness and was slowly reaching out to grab a torn shard of shrapnel from a downed hovercraft.
It was too late when Watts realized what Dex was up too. Suddenly, Dex brought his left knee up hard hitting Watts right in the balls. Watts let out a yelp and collapsed. Dex rolled out of the way to the left and quickly got to his feet holding the sharp piece of metal in his hand. Watts stood up and turned his angry eyes to Dex, one hand still on his crotch. Watts saw a piece of a broken Ningini staff near his foot; he bent and picked it up.
The two men faced each other and stared into the other's eyes. One of them was going to die.
"You and your people," Watts stretched out his arms wide gesturing to the war zone around them, "all fighting to become lab rats for the Federation? The Federation doesn't give a shit about you! The only thing the Federation cares about is self-preservation; retaining the power to rule over people lives. That power doesn't exist here. WE make our decisions! WE HAVE THE POWER!" Watts screamed out and rushed at Dex.
Dex sidestepped and dodged the first stabbing jab and elbowed him as he hurled past. Watts grunted and spun around, broken staff in his right hand, aiming for the side of Dex's head. Dex threw himself back barely avoiding the blow. They faced each other again and this time Dex made the first move. He took one step towards Watts and dropped to the grown, stretching his leg out and swiping it across the ground, hitting the Watts in the legs and knocking him down. Dex pounced on him and angled the shrapnel blade at Watts' throat.
Watts grabbed the blade with his left hand making his hand bleed. He tried to bring his right hand up to stab Dex, but Dex backed off and rolled onto his side trapping Watts' arm under him. Dex dropped the shrapnel and started to pound Watts in his chest with his right shoulder while slamming Watts' hand that held the staff repeatedly into the ground.
Watts reached up and grabbed Dex's hair and pulled, he clawed desperately at Dex. Dex finally knocked the weapon out of his hand. Watts tried to bring an overhand punch, but Dex blocked it and slammed his own fist down hard onto Watts' throat. He let out a chocking, gurgling sound and clutched at his neck with his free hand. Dex watched as Watts started to cough up blood and stopped fighting in order to try and breathe. Dex stood up and retrieved the piece of shrapnel from the ground and stood over Watts.
Breathing heavily, Dex said, "We are not fighting for the Federation. We are fighting for the people that we love. For our companions and our friends. Something that you would never understand. You're no better than the Federation that you despise. You're just as power hungry and cruel....but that ends now."
